POLITICAL HAPPENINGS AND NEW YORK CITY POLICE HIRING

William J. Bryan.

William McKinley.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, October 2, 1896.

POLITICAL HAPPENINGS.

Campaign Events Here, There and Everywhere.

MR. BRYAN IN WEST VIRGINIA.

Speeches at Various Places—Unique Illustration of 16 to 1— Mr. McKinley Receives Thousands of Visitors at His Canton Home.

   CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Oct. 2.—Mr. Bryan reached this city on his southern tour and made two addresses, one from the balcony of the hotel and a second at the fair grounds. At both places he was greeted by large crowds. At the hotel he said:

   "Ladies and Gentlemen—I am not going to make a speech here, because I believe I have an appointment at the fair grounds and we must hasten out in order to catch the next train. We are running on time and trying to accomplish as much as possible because, owing to the fact that we have not a great many daily papers with us, we have to do more in the way of public meetings and then as the people are not in good financial condition it is not an easy thing for them to come all the way to Nebraska in special cars to call on me.

   "As they are not able to get out there, I am reversing the process and coming to see the people. (Applause.) As I go about from place to place, I find a great variety in the manner in which the receptions are arranged and today I find something new here.

   "I believe this is the first place where they have brought the 16 to 1 idea into use in arranging the horses for the procession. This 16 to 1 idea has been set forth today in the arrangements, so that we have 16 white horses and one yellow horse. That was all right, but what pleased me more was that the number of gold standard advocates seemed to be so small in this community that they had to get a silver man to act for the one gold man in the crowd. (Applause.)

   "Now 16 to 1 has come to be well understood. It used to be that people did not know what it meant, and they would ask if it meant that the government would coin 16 silver dollars for every dollar it coined in gold. Others would want to know whether it meant that the government would redeem every gold dollar with 16 silver dollars, and some gold standard people thought it meant the government would give 16 dollars to every one person. (Laughter.)

   "Well it did not mean any of these. Somebody thought it meant it would be 16 times as easy to get a dollar under free coinage as it is now. There is some truth in that. Then there are some who say that it means that every free silver man shall try to get 16 others to vote with him this fall. But I don't care how you define it as long as you understand that under free and unlimited coinage at 16 to 1, 16 ounces of silver shall equal one ounce of gold in the payment of debts and in the making of money, so that anybody that wants money can get gold or silver and have the bullion converted into coin and use that coin. We want, as the boy said, free silver and more of it."

   At the fair grounds, Mr. Bryan was introduced by ex-Representative John W. Alderson and said:

   "I desire to express my thanks to those who have so kindly presented me with this gavel, made from the wood of the house in which Stonewall Jackson was born. We are far enough removed from that war between two sections of this country to give to the general on the Southern side that credit for military genius which was denied in the bitterness of strife. I can rejoice that the valor shown on that side gives a guarantee that in any future struggle the North and South shall stand side by side, prepared to drive back any invader or to guard and carry forward the greatest country on earth." (Applause.)

   He then reverted to the subject of national currency upon which he spoke for some time.

DOINGS AT CANTON.

Major McKinley Receives a Number of Large Delegations.

   CANTON, O., Oct. 2.—Four trains brought a delegation from Portage county with greetings to Major McKinley. The first was a party from the southern part of the county coming over the Pennsylvania lines in regular trains. The other three were specials of nine coaches each, over the Big Four railway.

   No demonstration was made till the last arrived, when a parade was organized. After a short march a meeting was held in the Tabernacle. The introductory address was delivered by S. P. Wolcott, ex-state senator from the Kent (O.) district.

   A delegation from Springfield, O., arrived on a special train of seven coaches. It brought the "Heavy Weight" McKinley and Hobart club, other clubs and citizens generally under the caption, "The Clark County Brigade."

   After a short parade in the business portion of the city, the crowd assembled in the Tabernacle where addresses were made by Judge John C. Miller and Major McKinley. Mr. McKinley spoke in part as follows:

   "Mr. Chairman, Judge Miller and My Fellow Citizens—It gives me extreme pleasure to meet at my home today the representative citizens of Springfield and Clark county. I never stand before a Springfield audience without having come unbidden to my lips some of the precious names associated with that enterprising city," and here Mr. McKinley pronounced eulogiums upon Shellabarger, the distinguished lawyer; Judge White, J. Warren Keifer and Governor Bushnell.

   "Cyrus H. McCormick of Chicago," continued Mr. McKinley, "who is at the head of one of the great harvesting machine companies, the strength and integrity of which the country is familiar with, recently wrote as follows:

   "'We have never before been so at a loss to lay out our plans and work for the next season as we are at this time. If we thought that the country would go for the unlimited coinage of sliver we would not wish to run our shops for more than one-half their capacity.'

   "We have in that statement, my fellow citizens, a description of our business trouble and it teaches a striking lesson which must impress every thinking man. The manufacturer does not know how to stand for next year's business because of the financial uncertainty created by one of the great political parties of the country, combined with two smaller parties. If free silver is to be inaugurated in this country it will change all values, disarrange the relation of labor to production, of raw material to the finished product and unsettle all conditions of existing business and prosperity.

   "We must have stability in values and confidence in national and individual integrity before we can have real and permanent prosperity. We must have confidence that our legislation will supply adequate money for the public treasury and protect American labor and American interests in every part of the country. Alexander Hamilton once said: 'There is scarcely any point in the economy of national affairs of greater moment than the uniform preservation of the intrinsic value of the money unit. On this the security and steady value of property essentially depends.'"

"National Sound Money Ticket."

   LOUISVILLE, Oct. 2.—The National Democratic state central committee made application yesterday to the secretary of state for placing Palmer and Buckner electors on the official ballot. To avoid confusion the heading will be "National Sound Money ticket."

AN HONEST MAN.

Withdraws His Name and Will Vote For His Rival.

   ROCHESTER, Oct. 2.—F. H. Seymour of Randolph, Cattaraugus county, was recently nominated by the populists for school commissioner against a Miss Van Rennselaer, (regular Republican nominee and who has been endorsed by the Democrats.) Mr. Seymour is out with a letter in which he declines to run and says he is not qualified for that office; that he received the nomination because they could find no one in their ranks whom they thought better qualified and says they have shown themselves to be unworthy the party name. He ends his letter thus, "I am willing to fight through fire and water for the principles laid down by the People's party, but I can never consent to let my name go before the people as a candidate for any office in opposition to a person whom I consider better qualified for the office myself. Consequently I shall support Miss Van Rennselaer."

Theodore Roosevelt photographed in 1883.

OPPORTUNITY FOR MEN.

Good Pay on the New York Police Force—800 Young Men Wanted.

   The STANDARD has this morning received the following letter which offers an opening to intelligent young men of good moral character and promises excellent pay. Let all such read it. The application must be made at once:

POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,

300 MULBERRY STREET,

NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 1896.

To the Editor of The STANDARD:

   SIR—The Police board calls the attention of the public to its urgent need for new men. Nearly 800 patrolmen have been appointed within the last year, and 800 more must be appointed within the next four months. Appointments are made solely upon merit.

   Every hard-working industrious man of good character and good bodily development who can pass our examinations will be appointed wholly without regard to any influence he may or may not have, and without regard to his political or religious affiliations. He must be five feet, eight inches tall, between 21 and 30 years old, and a citizen of this state for one year, but whether he lives in New York or in the country does not make the slightest difference.

   The mental examination is such that any man who has been to the public schools until fourteen years old can pass it without the slightest difficulty.

   The salary of a policeman at the beginning is $1,000 a year, and within five years it rises to $1,400. Moreover, all the higher places, from that of roundsman to that of chief, which are over 400 in number, and which range in salary up to $6,000, are filled by promotion from the ranks. At the end of twenty-five years the officer is retired on a pension of half pay for life. No member of the force can be discharged except after trial and for good cause.

   No weakling, no man of bad moral character and imperfect physical development need apply. We need men of intelligence and sobriety, and for men who fill these requirements the chance is one such as rarely offers. Never before in the history of the city have so many appointments to the police force been open, and never before have these appointments been open to all citizens strictly on their merits. It is a chance such as does not offer itself once in a generation.

   All persons fitted for the service are earnestly desired to come forward at once as the appointments must be made within the next four months. All further information, and all application blanks, may be had by mail by addressing Civil Service Board, Police Headquarters, 300 Mulberry-st., New York City. Applicants need not apply in person.

   Absolute fairness is guaranteed, and of those that pass the examinations all are appointed save in the infrequent cases where subsequent investigation shows some moral short coming.

   I wish this could be published in your paper. Yours truly,

   THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President, Board of Police.

BREVITIES.

   —There will be a special meeting of the A. O. H. at 8 o'clock to-night.

   —New advertisements to-day are:  Bacon, Chappell & Co., autumn selections, page 5.

   —The Republican rally in Taylor hall to-morrow night is to be addressed by Col. Archie E. Baxter of Elmira.

   —Reader, if you don't read anything else in The STANDARD to-day, read

"What's the matter with Kansas," on our editorial page.

   —The high wind of Wednesday morning blew down the large watch suspended over the walk in front of Jewett's jewelry store, damaging it considerably.

   —The National Express company will continue to do business on this branch of the Lehigh Valley road till Nov. 1, after which time the United States Express company will do the business.

   —The Central school football team will play the Groton school team at Groton to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.

   —Franklin Pierce, Esq., of New York, formerly of Homer, spoke at a big massmeeting [sic] in Bridgeport, Ct., Wednesday night in the interest of Palmer and Buckner, the candidates of the gold Democrats.

   —One of the closed ears has already been substituted for an open car on the Cortland and Homer division of the electric road, and the other one will be put on in a few days just as quick at it can be made ready. No. 7 is now running on the crosstown line between the Copeland corner and River-st.

   —At a business meeting of the Presbyterian Church held after preparatory lecture last night Mr. H. F. Benton was elected an elder for four years to succeed himself, Mr. S. M. Ballard was elected an elder for four years to succeed Mr. J. W. Keese, who has been transferred to another church, and Mr. C. W. Collins was elected a deacon for four years to succeed himself.

   —Henry Yeaw of Blodgett Mills is celebrated for his famous pie pumpkins.

They are not large in size, and their exterior when ripe is green, but there is nothing green about their interior. They are sweet and make delicious pumpkin pies. Mr. Yeaw has favored us in the past with some of these pumpkins and has remembered us again this year.