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| Estelle Reel. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Friday, August 28, 1896.
A WOMAN FOR GOVERNOR.
Miss
Reel of Wyoming a Candidate For the Republican Nomination.
The unusual spectacle of a woman candidate
for governor may be presented to the world when the Republicans of Wyoming
launch the campaign of 1898. As state superintendent of public instruction Miss Estelle Reel has demonstrated by a successful public record that she is quite
as capable of performing the duties of an executive office as her male
contemporaries in Wyoming politics. Now her friends are urging her claims as an
available candidate for the gubernatorial nomination by her party, which will
be made in 1898.
It is fortunate for Miss Reel that the election
does not come this year, for she is not quite 30 years old and therefore not
yet eligible to the office. She is an attractive young person, and one of the best
campaigners the state has ever known. While making the race for the office she
now fills three years ago, she practically visited every county in the state and
made over 500 political speeches. She covered hundreds of miles on horseback,
and at every night function at which the cowboys of the surrounding ranches
were present the political feast of reason was followed by a dance.
Every waltz, so it was calculated, was good
for three votes—that of her partner and two others he was sure to corral by his
eloquent description of the grace and ease with which she tripped the light
fantastic.
Should she be nominated for governor a
repetition of this campaign is considered certain and her election is by no means
improbable. She led the Republican ticket several thousand votes, and she can
be depended upon to lead her opponent a merry dance, at all events, both before
and after the state convention.
Wyoming is the state in which woman suffrage
practically had its official birthplace and has the honor of electing the first
woman justice of the peace in the country—Mother Morris, who held office 40
years ago and who had to sit in judgment on her husband before she had worn the
ermine one week, and he got the limit.
So it can be seen that of all states in the
Union Wyoming has a prior claim to a new woman governor.
SHE
COAXED THE DELEGATES.
Mrs. Weber
Acknowledged to Be a Power in Missouri Politics.
One of the most talked about women in
Missouri just now is Mrs. Jessie Brace-Weber. She has just won a signal victory
in politics, smashed a slate and completely routed the enemy. Mrs. Weber is not
in politics for herself. She is not a new woman and does not pretend to be a
rival of Mrs. Lease.
The reason she happened to be drawn into the
fight was because her father, Judge
Theodore Brace, was a candidate for nomination as judge of the supreme court.
Unfortunately, as it seemed for Judge Brace, he lived in the same county with
the man who was the candidate of both parties for state treasurer. Now, the
Missouri politicians have great regard for the geographical make up of their
tickets, and they all agreed that it would be disastrous to nominate two men
from the same county on the same ticket, and that Judge Brace would have to go.
Then Mrs. Weber came to the front. She
announced that she would manage her father's campaign, and that she would show
the politicians that what they said was impossible, not only could but should
be accomplished. Previous to this time most of her triumphs had been achieved
in the social world.
She had been before her marriage, a year or
two ago, the acknowledged belle of Jefferson City and her presence at brilliant
social affairs in Kansas City and other cities of the state had added life to
the occasions. She had also been many times referred to as "the handsomest
woman in Missouri." But Mrs. Weber sailed into politics to win.
She went to Jefferson City, established
headquarters in the principal hotel and sent out her aids to corral the
delegates. When the latter came, Mrs. Weber talked straight politics to them.
She smiled upon them and coaxed them, if she could not argue, into promising to
vote for her father. They surrendered. When the convention was held, Judge
Brace was renominated with many votes to spare, and Mrs. Weber retired to
private life, once more to enter the social swim.
As a politician she has proved a charming
success.
STEVENSON
MONUMENT.
Famous
Novelist to Be Honored by His Adirondack Friends.
The novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson, lived
at Saranac Lake, N. Y., for eight months just before he was ordered to Samoa by
Dr. Trudeau, chief of the Adirondack sanitarium.
While there Mr. Stevenson lived in the Baker
cottage, a picturesque dwelling overlooking the village and river. His
enthusiastic friends and admirers propose to erect a monument to his memory on
Baker mountain, a sharp peak near by and the favorite resort of the novelist.
Oftentimes on the coldest days of winter, wrapped in heavy furs and accompanied
by his favorite Irish setter, Mr. Stevenson would go to the top of Baker
mountain.
The author had many friends there, and the
movement is already promised strong financial backing.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
A Gold Bug Democrat's Views.
One of the most earnest, pronounced,
thorough-going of Cortland Democrats of the true blue Jeffersonian and
Jacksonian type is [lawyer, ex-Mayor of Cortland and] ex-District Attorney I.
H. Palmer. He is loyal to the faith once delivered by the above mentioned
apostles of Democracy to the saints of that party, he never makes a secret of
where he stands and always has the courage of his convictions, with a liberal
allowance of pugnacity in fighting for them added. We were not surprised,
therefore, to learn that he was out for McKinley and sound money, as against
Bryan, populism, socialism, anarchy, fiat money, and the other abominations for
which the Chicago platform stands. As Mr. Palmer is always interesting, breezy
and pungent in his declarations of belief, we asked the favor of an interview,
that we might lay his opinions before his fellow Democrats of this vicinity.
The favor was readily granted and we give below the result:
What have you to say, we asked, in behalf of
the gold bug Democracy and in opposition to the candidacy of Bryan?
"I regard the Chicago platform and
nominations," replied Mr. Palmer, "as a wholesale apostacy from the
doctrines of the Democratic party, as exemplified by the speeches and writings
of the statesmen and leaders of the party by legislation and by history, during
the past century. As John Sherman showed in his speech at Columbus, the
Democratic party was the original gold standard party; and gold coins were designated
"Benton's Mint Drops." Horatio Seymour, as governor of this state in
1864 was the first to demand that the creditors of the state be paid in coin.
The Democratic party has always opposed the repudiation of debts and the
debasement of the currency, and has never favored the free coinage of any metal
at a nominal value in excess of its market value. It has always opposed fiat money;
and denied that congress had the power, under the constitution, to authorize the
issuing of any paper money whatever. While a majority of the members of the
supreme court of the United States were Democrats that court repeatedly held
this to be the law, and expressly held the law making greenbacks a legal tender
for the payment of all debts to be unconstitutional, in Bank vs. Supervisors, 7
Wallace 26, and again in Hepburn vs. Griswold, 8 Wall. 603, as late as 1869. In
I870 the Republicans increased the number of the judges and reversed these
cases, in what are known as ''the Legal Tender cases," reported in 12
Wallace 457, and 15 Wall. 195. These latter cases were the foundation upon
which the Greenback party was organized, and constitute the legal germ of all
that is rotten in the financial planks of the Populistic and Popocratic parties
[sic]."
Do you favor the nomination of a third
ticket, we asked.
"Yes. One cannot repudiate a platform
and support the candidate nominated upon it. Many of us may hold our noses and
shut our eyes and vote for McKinley, as individuals, in order to beat Bryan,
but as a party we shall antagonize the Republican candidate and oppose the
restoration of McKinleyism, if that shall be attempted. We shall do this to
defend ourselves against the charges of apostacy to Democratic principles, in
the eyes of those who do not discriminate; to resent the ignominious treatment
our delegates suffered at Chicago; to shield the name and reputation of the
Democratic party from the infamy of supporting the odious principles contained
in the Chicago platform, which is destined to be more lasting and baleful than
the stigma fixed upon it by secession and copperheadism. The salvation of the party
depends upon this separation and this protest, which are made more effectual by
organization than they could be by individual action. Besides, no one knows
that this is to be the last or the most severe contest with these new heresies
of the Chicago convention, nor how soon we may be called upon to fight
McKinleyism. We propose to organize and prepare for whatever service may be required
of us, as patriots and defenders of the institutions, principles and reputation
which the fathers of Democracy committed to our charge as a sacred trust, to
defend, propagate and maintain.
''The proposal to pack the supreme court to
sustain the validity of the income tax, declared by it to be unconstitutional,
is indefensible.
''The tirade contained in the Chicago
platform against the use of injunctions and the military power in the
suppression of riots organized to hinder the transportation of the mails and
merchandise and to obstruct travel, is closely akin to the doctrine that the
government had no right to suppress the rebellion [secession and civil war] by
coercion; carried to its legitimate conclusion it means anarchy.
''The operation of railroads on government
account means paternalism in its worst form. If to favor such measures has
become the test of Democracy, such a change has been wrought in it as leaves me
no longer a Democrat, and I shall seek party affiliations elsewhere.
''Parties make no issues, but issues do
necessarily make parties.
''Finally, a distinctly disloyal undertone
pervaded the proceedings of the Chicago convention, more violent, more
unpatriotic, and more treasonable than the utterances of the Southern fire-eaters
and secessionists. With such violent and dangerous factionists I have nothing
in common. I trust that many whose behavior was most reprehensible and
irrational in the Chicago convention, have since become ashamed of themselves.
I believe that the Western heart had been fired by strange tales of
conspiracies in Lombard-st, and Wall-st., which had no more foundation in fact
than the adventures of Munchausen. I have in my possession samples of
apochryphal circulars, sent to me by a private correspondent, which bear
incontestable evidence on their face of the wicked hand of preparation in their
fabrication to serve the satanic purpose of exciting sectional and class
prejudice and hate, to advance the interests and gratify the ambition of those
whose purposes were more infamous even than their words and conduct disclosed,
bad as those were.
''These and similar circulars appear to have
been published in western papers which rarely found their way east—where the
imposition would have been readily detected—and must have obtained general
credence among the ignorant and impulsive enthusiasts they were designed to
mislead and deceive, as the sequel proved.
''Those I have seen are poorly disguised
fakes, clumsy forgeries which could only deceive the ignorant and the
credulous. But it is evident that they produced the effect which their authors
intended.
''What has been called the "Senatorial
Clique'' or "Bimetallic League," or some of their numerous literary
bureaus I believe to have been the authors of these circulars. They were
undoubtedly instrumental in provoking the unreasoning rage so conspicuously
characteristic of the language and deportment of some of those who took part in
the proceedings of the Chicago convention. No feature of this convention was
more remarkable than the violent and unreasonable rage of these people. In my
opinion these spurious circulars and the agitation resulting therefrom were the
principal agencies by which this rage was produced.
''Nothing worthy the name of argument has
been offered or can be offered in support of the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 by the United States alone. The only rational
motive that can be suggested for it is essentially dishonest, namely, to
increase the market price of silver, and enable producers of it to cheat the
people who purchase it, and the dishonest debtor to cheat his creditor by
paying him in a debased currency. But even these biters would be bitten and
find they had received more injury than benefit.
''One thing can be said in behalf of Bryan.
He is no better than his party.
The nation
is tired of those who are, or pretend to be so. He has not only affiliated with
the Populists for some time past, but has openly asserted that he was not a
Democrat. This goes without saying, for no Democrat could be a candidate on
such a platform. Platform and candidate are suited to each other, and ought to
go to the devil together, as they probably will.''
THROWN
TWENTY FEET.
John
Garrity's Narrow Escape From Serious Injury.
John Garrity very narrowly escaped serious
injuries in a runaway on Port Watson-st. this morning. He was driving his young
colt up Port Watson-st. at about 11 o'clock. When opposite Greenbush-st. the
colt became frightened at something and started on a dead run toward Main-st.
Mr. Garrity held hard upon the reins and managed to keep the horse clear from
obstructions until the steam mill was reached when the wagon struck a telephone
pole. Here the horse became free from the wagon, but Mr. Garrity pluckily held
the reins. He was jerked out of the wagon over the dashboard and struck flat on
the stone sidewalk twenty feet away. The horse continued on and up Main-st.
where it was caught in front of the Miller block.
Mr. Garrity was picked up in a dazed
condition. Mr. D. G. Corwin who was driving by with horse and buggy took him to
his home on North Main-st where he alighted and walked unassisted to the house.
Very fortunately he was not much injured beyond a severe shaking up. No bones
were broken, but the left limb below the knee was somewhat bruised.
BREVITIES.
—After Saturday, Aug. 29, the Cortland milkmen
will discontinue making their night trip.
—A large new orchestra stage has today been
built at the [former] armory for Daniels' orchestra.
—Pomona grange will meet with East Homer
grange on Tuesday, Sept. 1, at 10:30 A. M.
—A special meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Christian
work committee will be held at 7 o'clock sharp to-night.
—The State-st. nine defeated Harry Morris'
nine Wednesday by the score of 8 to 6, and the Maple-ave. nine yesterday
by the score of 14 to 12.
—Every Democrat and every Republican as
well, will be interested in reading the interview with ex-District Attorney
Irving H. Palmer on our second page.
—Miss Agnes E. Slack of England speaks at
the First M. E. church this evening at 7:45 o'clock upon "The Great Social
Problem of Great Britain and
America."
—Harrison Wells' mare Victory trotted a mile
in 2:26 1/2 at Hornellsville Tuesday, taking second place. She is entered in the
races at the state fair in Syracuse next week.
—Two prisoners faced Police Justice Mellon
in police court this morning and pleaded guilty to the charge of public
intoxication. One paid a fine of five dollars and the other three dollars.
—New advertisements to-day are—Bacon,
Chappell & Co., It's trueism, page 5; F. Daehler, suits at cost, page 5;
Wesson-Nivison Mfg. Co., legal, page 6; W. J. Perkins, knives, page 2,
—The Cortlands were defeated at Corning
yesterday in a good game by the score of 8 to 6. This afternoon they are playing
the Norwich team at the Driving Park. The two teams play another game tomorrow
afternoon.
—Dr. F. J. Cheney will speak at the First
Methodist Episcopal church on
Sunday
morning. Subject, "Some Essentials of Success." This will be a
discourse to young people, but a good thing for all. Young people are
especially invited.
—The Sunday school class of Mrs. H. B.
Greenman of the Presbyterian church spent yesterday afternoon at the park in a
very pleasant manner. Several friends of the class were also present to enjoy the
bountiful supper which had been provided.
—A panel of jury for the next term of the
supreme court was to have been drawn this morning at the clerk's office, but
owing to the absence from town of Judge Eggleston this had to be postponed until
to-morrow when a justice of the peace will officiate.
—The Cortland county delegation at the state
[Republican] convention voted for Saxton upon the first two ballots. Upon the third
ballot they split, two voting for Aldridge, two for Saxton and one for Odell.
On the fourth ballot the delegation voted solid for Black [for governor].
—The Galion, O., Inquirer of Aug. 26 in its
notice of an entertainment in that city of the Carrie Louis company said: "Master
Harry Hitchcock made his first appearance to a Galion audience. He is simply a
wonder considering his age, which is only 7 years."
—Our readers will find much to interest them
in the account of the flower show in the Homer letter. This exhibition will
continue only through this evening and the proceeds will go for the improvement
of the Homer green. Some very beautiful flowers and beautiful effects in flowers
are produced, and the exhibition is well worth a trip to Homer to-night.
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