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| Roswell Flower. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Friday, August 7, 1896.
POLITICAL GATHERINGS.
Gold Standard Democrats Meet at Watertown.
EX-GOVERNOR FLOWER'S SPEECH.
Detroit's
Famous "Potato Patch" Mayor Nominated For Governor of Michigan—Senator
Hill to Support Bryan and Sewall.
WATERTOWN, N. Y., Aug. 7.—The meeting of
gold Democrats in this city was largely attended. The commercial and
manufacturing interests were the most prominent industries represented. Earnestness
and enthusiasm prevailed throughout the meeting. The speech of ex-Governor Flower was cheered to the echo.
The names of over 100 of the best business
men in this city were signed to a petition asking for the formation of a Democratic
gold club.
Ex-Governor Flower, upon being introduced, said,
in part:
"I am glad to meet you here tonight, assembled
as you are, to protest against the nominations and the platform made at
Chicago. This and other expressions throughout the state and throughout the
Union prove conclusively to me that the true spirit of Democracy will survive
as long as the Union exists. Had the Chicago platform expressed the true
sentiments of Democracy as we have been taught them from Jefferson and from the
early fathers of the republic, this meeting would not have been called, nor
would this assemblage have been necessary.
"The Democratic party has always
opposed the concentration of power in the general government. This has always
been a Democratic tenet, but the Chicago convention says that they desire the
general government to issue treasury notes in lieu of the people issuing them
through banks. They say that the powers of the interstate commerce commission
should be enlarged, while the Populist convention, the twin sister of the
Democratic, comes out boldly and says that the government should buy all the
railroad and telegraph lines and operate them.
"The Democratic platform says that we
should have free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, without regard to
its intrinsic value. Jefferson said that the proportion of value between gold
and silver is a mercantile problem altogether, and further observes that wisdom
will lead us to disregard entirely legal proportions of value and inquire into
the market price of gold with the several countries with which we shall be
engaged in commerce.
"In the Chicago convention they refused
by more than a two-thirds vote to incorporate in the platform a resolution to
maintain the sacredness of existing contracts, and we are here tonight to
protest against that platform as undemocratic and as opposed to all the
principles of Democracy from the foundation of this government to the present
time and to form ourselves in a body protesting against the action of the
Chicago convention and ready to the utmost of our abilities to defeat its
nominee and the principles which he seeks to inculcate.
"Our silver friends, through 'Coin's
Financial School' and their nominee, Bryan, tell us that the ills of the
farmers can be cured by free silver and that the prices of wheat and corn have
declined because silver was demonetized in 1873. 1 answer, that that is no
explanation why property in the Eastern and Middle states has gone down in
value and that there is a natural solution of the cause of the fall or rise of
wheat, and that the demonetization of silver in 1873 has nothing to do with it.
"The cereals and cattle raised in the West
and Northwest being shipped to
England,
Germany and France have caused a loss to the English farmer in valuation of
land of £1,000,000,000), or $5,000,000,000, with Russia and Argentine republic
developing new country, and the 60,000,000 bushels of wheat of the latter
country being thrown on the markets of England, what wonder that farm products have
depreciated.
"Our silver friends forget that hay is
$15 per ton here today where it was $10 last year.
"The price of coffee today is 17 cents
per pound. In 1885 it was 7 cents. Do they ascribe these things to the
demonetization of silver in 1873? They might better any, and tell the truth,
that it is because there is a small crop of hay in the United States and a
small crop of coffee in the world. That is the true answer.
"It would be well for the farmers of
this state to inquire into the supply and demand of butter and cheese.
"The farmer is getting his turn at the
panic that we had in 1893. It has cut down the prices of all investment
securities; it has ruined many merchants, manufacturers and bankers, and they,
the farmers, are the last to feel its effect; and I believe that next year they
will be the first to experience the effects of the times on such a money basis.
"Our silver friends claim that free
coinage would benefit the laboring man. I have been at some little pains since
I have been here to consult the laboring men in regard to this proposition and
I am willing to trust this question with them. They will work it out for
themselves in their own way. Those with whom I have conversed
say they are getting more wages than they did 20 years ago and that their
dollars are all good now and of greater purchasing power than they have ever
been and they desire to keep them so.
"When this question is carefully
studied by them, by clerks with a fixed income and by the small savings bank
depositor you need have no fear of the result."
An address was delivered by George Sherman,
a large manufacturer of paper asking the laboring men to bolt the Chicago
platform for the sake of their homes and families.
Mr. Griffin was then introduced.
Mr. Griffin reviewed the situation at some
length and concluded by saying:
"We appeal to you to assist in saving
the Democratic party in New York from the disgrace of espousing a cause which, if
successful, must inevitably involve the country in the most harmful results and
the party in any event in irretrievable ruin. Every effort should be made to induce
our state convention to repudiate the platform and the candidates of the Chicago
convention and thus at least preserve in New York the principles of Democracy.
"Failing even in that, our duty does not
end; but we should by every effort in our power, even though we may incur the
honorable accusation of acting outside the party organization in such an
emergency, still seek to preserve a remnant of our party's honor."
On motion Mr. Griffin's recommendation for
the formation of a Democratic
Sound
Money club was adopted unanimously.
The meeting was adjourned subject to the
call of the chairman.
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| David Hill. |
HILL TO
SUPPORT BRYAN.
Statement
to That Effect to Be Made by the Senator.
NEW YORK, Aug. 7—In a column article headed
"Hill Will Help Bryan" today, The World says that Senator David B. Hill will support the nominees of the Chicago convention. A formal announcement
of his position, it is said, will be made public in a very few days. The facts,
The World says, were learned by Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic
national committee, on a visit to Senator Hill at Normandie-by-the-Sea Wednesday
night.
To a personal friend Senator Jones remarked
significantly, "Hill is all right." The
chairman, according to The World, had become somewhat anxious over the continued
silence of the senator from New York upon the presidential question. He desired
to find out exactly where the senator stood and how long he was going to stand
there.
Mr. Gardiner, it is said, made the arrangements
for Wednesday's visit at the instance of Senator Gorman.
Mr. Jones dined with Mr. Hill at the
Normandie and met State Chairman Hinkley and John B. Stanchfield.
The World's article continues:
"Mr. Hill expressed his feelings freely
about the Chicago convention and its platform and of the contest that had been
going on in his own mind as to his duty as a Democrat at this time. It is said
he told Senator Jones the New York state convention would in all probability
indorse the ticket named at Chicago and reaffirm its own platform adopted at
the last state convention. Mr. Hill, it is reported, told Senator Jones that he
would stand by the action of his own state convention and work loyally for its
nominee. That, he thought, is all that would be asked of him."
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
Money of
the Constitution.
The Chicago platform introduced the currency
question by calling attention to the fact "that the Federal constitution
names gold and silver together as the money metals of the United
States."
This statement has been reiterated in scores
of Democratic speeches and editorial articles. So frequent in fact have been
the references to what is called "the money of the constitution,"
says the Boston Journal, that it might almost be supposed that the coinage of
silver dollars at the ratio of sixteen to one was imbedded in that instrument.
The assertion that the Federal constitution
names gold and silver together as the money metals of the United States is false.
No section of the constitution can be cited which does that. There is but a single
place in the constitution where either gold or silver is mentioned, and that is
in the tenth section of the first article, which limits the powers of the
states, and among other things, says: "No state shall enter into any
treaty, alliance or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin
money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in
payment of debts," etc., etc.
The purpose of this section was not to define
the money metals which might be used by the Federal government. Gold and silver
were not named in the article as such money metals. What was aimed at was to
put a stop to the practice which several states had adopted of making their own
bills of credit legal tender. That was a practice which, if continued, must inevitably
confuse and debase the currency; and it was therefore provided that no state should
make anything but gold and silver coin legal tender. From these provisions as
to what states might do it is absurd to draw hasty conclusions as to what the
Federal government might or might not do. It is more than absurd, it is
dishonest, to base upon this incidental reference the pretense that the kind of
currency for which the Chicago platform declares is the "money of the constitution."
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| Cortland Park. |
ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION.
Cortland
Park One Year Old—Fireworks, Band Concert and Dances.
The Cortland Park is one year old this week.
The first car was run up there on Aug. 5,
1895. The Traction company [propose] to observe the anniversary by a grand
celebration Saturday night, to which every one is cordially invited. The Cortland
City band in full numbers will give one of their popular concerts, producing
for the first time several pieces of new music which have been practiced for
some weeks and which are meeting with much favor as played by other bands elsewhere.
There will also be the customary dance in the pavilion, McDermott's well-known
orchestra furnishing the music.
But a leading and unusual attraction will be
the grand display of fireworks, which have been procured at large expense. The
hillside near the upper grove is a most admirable place to set them off. They
can be seen from all sides, and the effect cannot fail of being very pretty indeed.
The combination of fine music and artistic
fireworks along with the cool breezes always to be found on the park hill
cannot fail of being very acceptable to every one. All the cars possessed by
the company will be turned out to transport the crowd if necessary, and reduced
rate round-trip tickets will be sold from Homer and McGrawville.
BREVITIES.
—An operation for appendicitis was to be
performed at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon at the hospital upon Miss Florence
Kane. A number of local physicians were to be present and assist. It had
not been determined at 3 o'clock this afternoon just which one would perform
the operation.
Rev.
Hiram Gee.
Rev. Hiram Gee of Ithaca died at his home in
that city Wednesday night, at the age of 70 years. He was born in Cincinnatus,
N. Y. April 29, 1820. His
father came to that town from Orange county ten years earlier. For ten years
Mr. Gee was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Ithaca and other places, but when
thirty years old was converted and the next year entered the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal church. His first charge was in Marathon. Subsequently he
was stationed at Greene, Oxford, Homer and Ithaca. He was then made presiding
elder of the Auburn district and served his term of four years. In 1872 his wife's
health failed and he was obliged to discontinue active work of the ministry,
though he has since preached as a supply in many places. His home since 1872
has been Ithaca.
Though his health has been failing for some
time, the immediate cause of his death was prostration caused by the heat of
the past few days.
The funeral will occur Saturday at 2 o'clock at the First M. E.
church of Ithaca.
CARD
HILL.
CARD HILL, Aug. 6.—Card Hill is noted throughout
the county for its surprise parties and neighborhood picnics. One of the most
successful picnics in the history of the neighborhood occurred last Saturday at
Mr. James Johnson's. It was a good day for the picnic in every respect. At noon
a crowd of one hundred five in number sat down to a bountiful and excellent
dinner. Conspicuous on the table were large old-fashioned pans of rice puddings
and beans; also about eighty quarts of excellent lemonade. After dinner the
elderly men amused themselves by playing quoits or with the women and children
enjoyed the one-sided ball game between the Miller and Olds factions. It was
decided in favor of the Olds faction by the score of 27 to 11.
At the annual school-meeting Tuesday night
the following officers were elected for Dist. No. 4:
Trustee—Julian Carr.
Collector—James Johnson.
Clerk—John Hinds.
Librarian—Thos. Hinds.
Wednesday the baseball nine of Card Hill
played its first game with the McGrawvilles. After the fourth inning the
visitors were unable to score. Had the battery consisted of Terry and Olds from
the start the visitors would probably have been shut out. Score:
1 2 8 4 5
6 7 8 9
Card Hill…
……0 3 0 2 4 3 0 4 *—16
McGrawvilles..
2 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0— 7
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