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| William Jennings Bryan. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Thursday, September 24, 1896.
BRYAN VISITS
BROOKLYN.
Addresses
Two Meetings in the City of Churches.
OTHER
SPEECHES IN NEW JERSEY.
An
Immense Outpouring of Laboring and Other People In Brooklyn—Unique Meeting
Under the Auspices of the Laboring Men.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Candidate William Jennings Bryan addressed two big meetings in Brooklyn, one in the Academy of
Music, the other in the Clermont rink. The Democratic leaders of Kings county
who stand by free silver had charge of the Academy meeting, and the
demonstration in the rink was held under the auspices of the labor
organizations.
Before 6 o'clock every entrance to the
Academy of Music was the battle ground of a howling, tumultuous mob, and when
the doors were flung open, a little past that hour, it took less than 10
minutes to fill the big building. The first note of the band was the signal for
somebody in the upper part of the house to scatter a great number of small
American flags, and a moment later the entire audience was on its feet wildly
waving the tiny emblems to the tune of "The Star Spangled Banner."
Fully 5,000 people were in the house. Among them were many of Brooklyn's
prominent Democrats, including St. Clair McKelway, Hugh McLaughlin, the local
leader, and the members of the county organization, some of them merely as spectators.
The meeting adopted resolutions presented by
the regular Democracy of Kings county. They recited that the election to be
held in November is of greater importance than any since the civil war,
denounced corporations and monopolies and complimented Mr. Bryan for the skill
with which he has thus far led the fight.
"We find our faith in him
strengthened," said the resolution, "by the abuse poured out upon him
by the enemies of the people, the defamers of the Democracy and the traitors to
the Democratic cause who, venturing to insult the intelligence of the American
people by using the Democratic name as a decoy flag, have at last found their
fitting home in the bosom of Republicanism, as it is typified by Quay of
Pennsylvania, Platt of New York and Mark Hanna, the arch labor crusher of
Ohio."
James D. Bell, chairman of the Kings County
Democracy, named as chairman of the meeting Judge William J. Gaynor of the
supreme court, whose name was greeted with tremendous applause.
Judge Gaynor, in part, said:
"I am not here to speak, but to
preside. I am here to preside because in the misrepresentations of this hour, in
the hour when we are being called by those whom we created here in the East
(cries of 'Down with them!') are calling us anarchists (a cry, 'Do we look
it?'), communists and this we are called for calmly and dispassionately
declaring our earnest convictions.
"I am here because I deemed it my duty to
come. Because the minds of the people of the East are being misled from the facts
and the real issue, it is the duty of every man to preserve the integrity of
his conscience, mind and honor, to come forward and declare his convictions if
there are only 10 to stand up with him.
"This is the hour for moral courage. In
this hour, when the men we have created are not coming forward, still leaders are
not wanting as they have never been wanting in the crises of American history.
That is all I have to say except that I do not speak for Senator Hill nor does
he speak for me." (Cries of "Give it to him.")
The judge nominated Senator Patrick H.
McCarron as secretary of the meeting and the senator read the resolutions.
As the candidate walked down the stage the
applause continued unabated for six minutes, at the end of which time Mr. Bryan's
raised hands brought about order.
Clermont rink held 8,000 men, women and
children, unmistakably an assemblage of laboring people, packing aisles and
corridors to suffocation.
The meeting was presided over entirely by
labor organizations, and the stage contained a representative from each local labor
organization.
The program was a unique one and devoid of
formalities. Instead of the formal introduction of a presiding officer, a man with
gray hair stepped to the front of the platform at 8 o'clock and said:
"Will the audience please take from their
seats the song that is there and join in singing it?" And they responded
with the refrain "You Shall Not Press the Crown of Thorns Upon the
Toiler's Brow" that rang against the unpainted rafters.
When messages of regret were read from Eugene
V. Debs and John W. Hayes, secretary of the Knights of Labor, there were vociferous
cheers. Debs said:
"The millions are with Bryan and will place
him in the chair Lincoln occupied in spite of British terrorism and corporation
coercion."
Resolutions were adopted commending the work
of the Chicago convention and proclaiming:
"We believe the present contest to be much
more than a struggle between the Democrats and so-called Republican parties, more
than silver against gold and is not a fight of the poor against the rich, nor
of labor against capital, nor of the farmers against the artisans or mechanics nor
the creditor against the debtor class; but when sifted and analyzed and
stripped from all sophistry, is a battle of the people against the oligarchy of
wealth, founded on special privileges; therefore, be it
"Resolved, That we pledge our services unreservedly
to the earnest and active support of the sole young tribune of the people,
William Jennings Bryan, for president of these United States, and we ask the
support and earnest co-operation of all the toilers."
President John McKetchnie in announcing that
it would be 9:30 o'clock before Mr. Bryan would arrive said: "And we would
wait until morning to hear him, wouldn't we?" to which the audience
responded, "We will." He asked the audience what they thought of the
sign over the stage, "Sixteen workingmen to one banker," and they
shouted out, "That's all right."
The time before the arrival of Mr. Bryan was
whiled away by brief speeches, John Phillips, national secretary of the
Hatters' union, as chairman, leading.
John Brisben Walker, publisher of The
Cosmopolitan and ex-Representative Buchanan of New Jersey, spoke to the
Clermont rink audience while it was waiting for Bryan.
When the secretary read the telegrams he
grew facetious and said: "There isn't any from Grover Cleveland," and
there was a storm of hisses. "And," he continued, "that high
toned, gold-plated Roswell P. Flower."
Mr. Bryan spoke for an hour and 10 minutes
in the academy and then yielded the platform to Senator Blackburn of Kentucky.
The senator arraigned the bolting Democrats
mercilessly, declaring that New York Democrats were today confronted by a
spectacle that they had never before beheld. "From president to dog-petter,"
he cried, "the leaders of the party are sulking in the rear."
"Tell me," he demanded, "tell
me of what timber the New York Democracy is made," and the cry came from
all parts of the auditorium: "Rotten."
The police had hard work to force a passage
for the candidate into the Clermont rink.
After the meeting in the Academy of Music,
Mr. Bryan addressed the overflow meeting outside.
BRYAN IN
NEW JERSEY.
The
Democratic Candidate Speaks at Newark and Other Cities.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—At Washington, the home
of ex-Congressman Cornish, who was in the party, a stop of nearly an hour was
made. Mr. Bryan received an enthusiastic ovation and spoke from a stand erected
in the center of the town. Mayor C. B. Smith introduced the candidate who said:
"I want the interest you manifest in
the election to grow until the ballots are all in. I believe our cause will
grow because it is the truth and truth commends itself to those who think. Our
opponents tell us to open the mills. What is the use of opening the mills
unless the people can buy what the mills produce?
"You make pianos and organs here, but
you don't make them to play on in the factories. You make them for people to
play on in their homes. How can people buy pianos and organs unless they can
sell their farm products for more than enough to pay taxes and interest on
their debts? You can open all the factories you will, but until you put enough
money in farmers' pockets to buy products you might as well close your
factories.
"Nearly half the people of this country
are engaged in agriculture. You cannot destroy the property of those engaged in
agriculture and expect people to prosper. If you want prosperity in this
country you have got to begin at the bottom and let prosperity work up.
Prosperity never came down to the people from the money changers of any country
on the face of the earth. Have your taxes fallen any in the last 20 years? (A
voice: 'No, they are higher.') As a rule they are higher. If the price of your
products is cut in two you must work twice as hard to pay the same amount of
taxes as you used to. The gold standard means half time in the factories and
double time on the farms to make the same amount of money. It means half time
in the factories because there is not work enough for the people to be employed
full time, and it means double times on the farms to make a living. Make times
a little harder and instead of working three days out of the week you will be
glad to work two. Make them a little harder and instead of working two days you
will be fortunate if you get one. Make times a little harder and the purchasing
power of a dollar won't bother you because you won't have any dollars to
purchase with.
"They tell us to have confidence.
Business men have been living on confidence several years, and it is getting to
be a mighty thin diet. You can have just what kind of a dollar you want,
because dollars are made by law, and the laws are made by the people whenever
the syndicates let them. The syndicates will let them whenever the people make
up their minds they want to make the laws. Show me a man engaged in any
unlawful business, and I will show you a man who says he is opposed to my
election for fear I won't enforce the laws. (Voice: 'They are afraid you
will.') The people who have been using legislation as a means of private gain
are the ones who denounce anybody if he thinks the laws ought to be more just.
The people who used the law to strike down silver in 1873 are the ones who most
bitterly denounce anybody who wants to use the law to bring silver back and put
it on an equality with gold."
At Dover a few hundred people gathered about
the train which stopped but a moment. The crowd cheered the nominee
enthusiastically. He spoke a few moments, before the train pulled out, speaking
on the money question.
Morristown turned out in force to greet Mr.
Bryan. There were, however, feeble cheers for McKinley mixed in with the shouting
for the nominee.
The streets of Newark about the rear of the
train were packed with people to greet the candidate and long before the
station was reached the cheers could be heard by those on board the train. The
train stopped but a moment here, but in that time Mr. Bryan talked to those
whom he could make hear.
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| John Sherman. |
LETTER FROM
SHERMAN.
The Ohio
Senator Writes Concerning the "Crime of '73."
CINCINNATI, Sept. 24.—A local paper
publishes a signed article from Senator John Sherman, dated at Mansfield, in
which he replies to Mr. Bryan and others who refer to the "crime
of'73." Senator Sherman says that many pages of The Congressional Record
show indisputable proofs that the clause in the act of 1873 stopping the
coinage of the silver dollar was not surreptitiously passed through congress.
The senator reviews the history of the legislation, showing that there was an
unusually long agitation, not only in both branches of congress, but also in
the committees of both houses and also in the treasury department, before the
bill was prepared. The senator says:
"I have never been able to see what
motive could have existed for secrecy in this matter. On April 25, 1870, when
the bill was sent to the committee on finance by the secretary of the treasury,
the silver dollar was worth $1.0312 in the markets of the world. Germany had
not yet sold her silver or adopted the gold standard. There was no indication
whatever of the fall of silver, and no one could foresee that it was destined
to rapidly decline in price. No one asked to have the dollar coined and no one
was opposed to its discontinuance.
"The bill was studied by many men
outside congress during the three years or more of its consideration and many
were given hearings by the committee. The secretary of the treasury in his
annual reports of '70, '71 and '72 called the special attention of congress to
his bill. In his report of 1872 the secretary of the treasury said:
"I suggest such alterations will prohibit
the coinage of the silver dollar for circulation in this country,' dwelling
upon his reasons therefore at length."
The senator concludes his article thus:
"There was not only nothing secret or
surreptitious in the passage of the act of 1873, but every stop accompanying
its origin, introduction, consideration and passage received as much publicity
as could be given to a bill.
"But the silver dollar was out of
circulation long before the law of 1873 was enacted. It was a thing of the
past; lost to sight; conceived by Hamilton in 1792, suspended by Jefferson in
1806, practically demonetized by Benton and the men of 1834 under Andrew
Jackson, ignored by two generations except as a convenience for the exportation
of silver bullion, and called back to the mind of the present generation only
because silver has fallen in price and is deemed more valuable as coin than as
bullion."
BREWERS
INDICTED.
Eight
Prominent Concerns Charged With Fostering a Trust.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 24.—Eight representatives
of local and foreign brewers, comprising the Brewers' Combine, were held to the
grand jury charged with violating the interstate commerce and conspiracy laws
in fostering a trust. The companies so held are the Val Blatz, W. J. Lemp, Schiltz,
Anheuser-Busch, Green Tree, Ferd Heim and Dick Bros.
Representatives of the Pabst, Rochester and
Meuhlbach breweries were discharged.
The combine has been under investigation for
the past week by United States Commissioner John Parry. The defendants are
Julian Bachman and John Helm, agents of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing company;
Albert Spaar of the Val Blatz company; W. J. Baer of the W. J. Lemp company; F.
W. Gutzmer of the Schlitz company; Edward Meyer of the Green Tree company; J.
J. Heim, president of the Heim company, and August Glasner and Jacob Barzen,
agents of the Dick Bros. company.
CUPID'S
COLUMN.
Two
Weddings in Cortland Last Night. One This Morning.
REEVE-BUELL.
A very pretty home wedding occurred at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Buell on Miller-st., Wednesday, Sept. 23, when
their daughter, Nellie Louise, was united in marriage with Mr. Gilbert Maltby
Reeve of Groton. The bridal party entered the parlor at 4:15 o'clock, P. M.,
led by Rev. Adelbert Chapman, pastor of the Baptist church, the officiating
clergyman, and Mr. and Mrs. Ross A. Lefever of Niles, N. Y.
The bride was very becomingly attired in a
gown of cadet blue and the groom wore the conventional black. After the
ceremony bountiful refreshments were served and a social season was enjoyed by
every one, the company breaking up at 8 o'clock. The bride and groom left for
Groton amid showers of rice and good wishes. Mr. Reeve is one of Groton's most
promising young men and Miss Buell is a popular young lady of Cortland.
There were about thirty friends present,
among those from out of town being Mr. and Mrs. Reeve of Groton, the groom's
parents, Mrs. N. J. Lefever and Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Lefever of Niles, N. Y., Miss
Marie Reeve of Groton, Mr. and Mrs. William Franklin of Chicago, Ill., and Mrs.
Charles Sherman of Dryden. The presents were both numerous and beautiful.
SPRINGER-SACHER.
The residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Felkel, 10
Clinton-ave., was the scene of a very pleasant wedding last evening. At 8
o'clock Mrs. Felkel's sister, Miss Fanny H.
Sacher, was united in marriage with Mr. Benjamin B. Springer of Cortland.
The ceremony was performed in the front parlor under an arch of cut flowers by
Rev. W. H. Pound, pastor of the Congregational church. The bride wore a gown of
white silk with light trimmings. They were attended by Miss Sabina Felkel and
Mr. John Felkel. The rooms were very beautifully decorated with cut flowers.
After the ceremony elaborate refreshments were served and dancing was engaged
in and continued until a late hour this morning. They were the recipients of many
very nice presents, some of which were from New York and Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs.
Springer will go to housekeeping at once at 11 Park-st.
About sixty invited guests were present,
those from out of town being Mrs. Reynolds and Mr. Dorr Reynolds of Auburn, Mr.
J. J. Clark of Whitney Point and Mr. and Mrs. Irving Price and daughters, Lena
and Anna of Virgil.
PAXTON-COLE.
A quiet wedding took place at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cole, 12 Reynolds-ave. at 8 o'clock this morning. Their daughter,
Miss Hattie E. Cole, was united in marriage with Elmer Grant Paxton, M. D., of
Columbus, O. Only the immediate relatives were present. Rev. J. L. Robertson,
pastor of the Presbyterian church, performed the ceremony.
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| Cortland hospital. |
THE
GOODRICH ROOM.
Just
Fitted Up by H. P. Goodrich at the Cortland Hospital.
When Mrs. H. P. Goodrich died a little over
a year ago she left in her will a bequest of $500 for the Cortland hospital. It
had been her idea for some time to furnish a room at the hospital in addition to
the bequest of the money, but just as she was about to undertake this she was taken
ill and never recovered sufficiently to accomplish her purpose.
After her death Mr. Goodrich decided to
carry out his wife's plans. He consulted with Mrs. Hyatt, the president of the
Hospital association and with Mrs. Banks, the matron, and learned that no more
sleeping rooms or wards were needed just now, but that it would be very
desirable to have a room furnished for a lecture room for the nurses and for a
general utility room.
A pleasant north room connecting with the
reception room on one side and with the operating room on the other was
selected and Mr. Goodrich has purchased handsome new furnishings. There are two
pretty rugs on the floor. A large and luxurious lounge stands in one corner. Three
easy chairs, a center table, pictures, shades and portieres give the room a very
pleasant appearance. Another addition which is indeed valuable and very thoughtful
on the part of the donor is a handsome bookcase, the shelves of which Mr.
Goodrich has filled with a fine selection of books from his own library. A pretty
jardiniere stands upon the center table and Mr. Goodrich has expressed his
desire to keep it filled with flowers in their season.
There are still some other things which Mr.
Goodrich contemplates doing on the room, but already it presents a very attractive
appearance, and forms a lasting memorial of the wife who had been his companion
for over fifty-two years.
BREVITIES.
—The STANDARD is indebted to Hon. Jas. H.
Tripp for copies of the St. Louis papers.
—James Malan paid a fine of five dollars in
police court this morning for public intoxication.
—New advertisements to-day are—A. S.
Burgess, dress suits, page 8; Stowell, 10 cent dish pan day, page 5.
—The first rhetoricals of the present term
at the Normal will be held in Normal hall to-morrow afternoon at 2:15 o'clock.
—The Loyal Circle of King's Daughters will
meet with Mrs. Lewis Bouton, 51 Union-st., on Friday, Sept. 25, 1896, at 2:30
P. M. sharp.
—The works of the Ellis Omnibus and Cab
company are closed this week for the putting down of new doors and putting in
steam heating apparatus.
—Two of the sealed indictments brought in by
the grand jury have been opened and Chester Grant of East Freetown and Charles
M. Scribner of Homer, are both in jail, each being charged with rape.
—A regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held Saturday afternoon at
3 o'clock. Consecration service will be conducted by Mrs. J. W.
Keese. A business meeting will follow and then a short program of
interest will be presented.
—The house and premises of Eleazer Dodge,
148 Port Watson-st., were sold this morning at the court house door on the
foreclosure of a mortgage owned by William M. Fleiss of New York City. The premises
were sold for $2,000 and John Courtney,
Jr., was the purchaser.
—Mr. John E. Peck died at the home of G. B.
Burgess, Blodgett Mills, Wednesday afternoon at 8 o'clock, aged 49 years. The
deceased was a brother of Mrs. G. B.
Burgess of Blodgett Mills, Mrs. M. A.
Bingham and T. Z. Peck of Cortland and W. S. Peck of Syracuse. The funeral
services will be held at the house Saturday at 11:30.
—Many people have to-day gone to the Dryden
fair. Over sixty tickets were sold by the Lehigh Valley railroad and the roads
are In such perfect condition and the air so fine that carryalls, livery teams
and private conveyances have been crowded. One party started off this morning
in an open hack with four horses driven by John B. Morris, his handsome black and
gray teams being mismatched.
—A farmer with a load of cabbage evidently desired
to be the first man to drive over the new brick pavement on Railroad-st. The
men were yesterday afternoon working about halfway between Main and Church-sts.
and the first they knew this man had dodged the obstructions on the street and
was nearly down to them. Some decidedly strong language followed, but it was
easier to permit him to drive through to Church-st. than to make him turn
around and back out.
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