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| Antonio Maceo. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Thursday, October 29, 1896.
MACEO BREAKS THE TROCHA.
Wrecks the Town of Artemisa and Marches to
Join Gomez.
JACKSONVILLE,
Fla., Oct. 29.—A special from Key West says: Passengers by the Mascotte from
Havana report that General Antonio Maceo with 2,500 troops broke through the
trocha and that he is now in the Havana district. He went over to assist
General Gomez in his march to Havana. Maceo left General Rios in charge of his
troops in the province of Pinar del Rio with 10,000 men in the insurgent stronghold.
The
report that the Spanish troops had captured his camp was true, but it was the
place where the insurgents were awaiting a favorable opportunity to cross the trocha
and after Maceo had broken camp.
General
Munez of the Spanish army with 1,000 men made an attack on Antonio Maceo on the
hills known as Cacarajicaras. Maceo in the meantime retreated by the rear of
his camp with his forces and attacked the town of Artemisa, headquarters of the
trocha,
Maceo
sent word into the town for the women and children to leave before the bombardment,
but the Spanish general, Aroles, refused to allow them to leave, saying that
they should all perish together.
Maceo
then bombarded the town and passed
through the trocha to the province of Havana.
Munez
attacked the hill where he thought Maceo was and finally found a small
detachment of insurgents ordered to the hill to distract the Spanish general's attention
while Maceo attacked the trocha.
The town
of Artemisa was terribly wrecked and many people are reported killed.
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| Captain General Valeriano Weyler. |
News From the Island.
HAVANA,
Oct. 29.—Captain General Weyler has issued an order to the commanders of the
Spanish columns that the horses of captured insurgents shall be turned over to
the privates on the infantry companies, thus providing efficacious pursuit of
the insurgents and for the more expeditious dispersal of the armed bands of insurgents
in Matanzas and Havana provinces.
The
prosecutor has made application for the imposition of the death penalty in the courtmartial
of the insurgent leader Lopez Coloma, for a term of 14 years' imprisonment in
the case of Sotero Mendez and for a term of 10 years' imprisonment in the case
of Manuel Collazo.
Gonzales
Lanuza, an ex-magistrate of the supreme court, who had been sent to Chaffarinas, has been ordered to return to Havana
on account of his relations to the case of some dynamiters.
The
brothers Armand and Carlos Fernandez Alvarez have been shot at Matanzas.
CORNELL NOT DISHEARTENED.
Will Give Princeton Kickers a Stubborn Contest
Saturday.
ITHACA, N.
Y., Oct. 29.—Cornell is not at all disheartened at the defeat suffered at the
hands of Harvard last week, but is preparing to give Princeton a good stubborn contest
next Saturday at Princeton. The practice on Percy field is encouraging. The men
ran hard and fast. Lueder, however, met with an unfortunate accident in
tackling. He fell and broke his collar bone. This bars him from playing on
Saturday. Freeborn, captain of last spring's varsity crew, is being urged to come
out to take his old place at tackle and enter the game against the Tigers.
The
regular varsity fall meet will be held Saturday on Percy field. An agitation in
the navy is going on to arrange races on Cayuga lake between the sophomore, junior
and senior eights. Although Cornell has been so successful on the water, fall
practice has never obtained here, and it is thought that the proposed
inter-class regatta would be a desirable innovation.
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| William J. Bryan. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Mr.
Bryan Describes the Free Silver Dollar.
In the course of his speech delivered at Lincoln,
Ill., on Tuesday last William J. Bryan spoke as follows:
"You can count on selfish interests
always, and when you tell me that men will hoard money under free coinage I
tell you that I know they will not hoard money, because people never hoard
money when MONEY IS FALLING IN VALUE. They do not hoard wheat when wheat is
going down. You will find that when the prices begin to fall they begin to get
rid of the thing falling in price. Under free coinage there will be a larger
amount of money brought into circulation, and people understand that that means
the PURCHASING POWER OF THE DOLLAR WILL FALL, and when that commences, the
man who owns the dollar will be trying to GET RID OF THE DOLLAR and get hold of
something which is rising in its purchasing power."
Now what is it Bryan says?
First—That the proposed free silver dollar
will fall in purchasing power if the people elect him and a congress to support
him.
Second—That every man who comes into
possession of one of these dollars will be eager to get rid of it for fear
it will fall lower in price
and buy less while he is holding it.
Do any of our readers want that kind of
money for their labor or products?
Remember that it is the Popocratic candidate,
William Jennings Bryan, who declares from the stump that free silver dollars will
depreciate in purchasing power,
and that every holder will hasten to get rid of them.
This speech was made to farmers. To workingmen
and wage earners he preaches another doctrine, and then he declares that they
will not suffer from depreciated dollars—that free coinage will raise the price
of silver and the value of the dollar. Both of these propositions cannot be
true.
What can be thought of a candidate who
preaches these opposite doctrines?
AN
ADDRESS
To the
Electors of Cortland County.
Before the Democratic party was debauched by
the Chicago Convention, it had a record for well defined, distinct and stable
political principles, developed, elucidated and applied under the leadership of
Jefferson and other eminent Democratic statesmen and party leaders; during the
vicissitudes of victory and defeat; impressed upon the history of legislative, administrative
and judicial action in the United States for a period beginning with the
adoption of the constitution of our country; which had rendered the
significance and meaning of the terms "Democrat,"
"Democratic" and "Democracy" so explicit, so clear, so
complete and undeviating, us to defy further definition, exposition or elucidation.
So obvious and stable were these principles, that the duties and powers of
delegates to a Democratic convention were as strictly limited and defined
thereby as are the functions and powers of the factors in the multiplication table.
No body of men, however constituted, could make a radical and plain departure
from these principles and remain Democratic.
Yet the Chicago convention perversely assumed
to forsake Democracy and adopt a platform antagonistic to every fundamental
principle of the Democratic party in its pristine purity, and before its
apostacy, and nominated candidates who approve and ratify this defection, and
now demand the support of Democrats for these odious heresies under pain of
their displeasure. This convention having renounced and repudiated Democracy in
adopting a Populistic platform, Democrats are now asked to sanction, ratify and
approve this recreancy to principle, consistency and common honesty.
No more complete betrayal of a sacred trust,
or more ignominious subversion of an organization and reversal of the purposes
for which it was created, is disclosed in all history.
No Democrat is bound by this action of the
Chicago convention, because it exceeded and abused its authority in adopting a
platform openly and notoriously antagonistic to Democracy, and nominated a
candidate for president who had distinctly and repeatedly rejected the
Democratic party and its principles.
Following fitly upon these acts of political
degeneracy, whereby the name, the prestige and the organization of the Democratic
party were enlisted as mercenaries in the service of Populism, were fusions of
all the radical, discordant, chaotic and criminal elements of society in
support of the candidate for president whose frenzied appeals to sectional and class
animosities were shamelessly employed to array the citizens of states against
those of other states, employees against employers, indigence against thrift,
and criminal degenerates of all sorts against those who uphold law and order.
It is therefore the duty of every true Democrat
to repudiate and resent this unauthorized subversion of the Democratic party as
a pernicious precedent and example of unmitigated political evil.
The proposed restriction and denial of the
right of the citizen to contract for payment in gold, of a certain weight and
quality, contained in the Chicago platform, is compounded of paternalism and
despotism.
The denial of the right of the Federal government
to suppress riots, organized to obstruct interstate commerce and the
transportation of the mails, is a union of nullification and anarchy.
The free and unlimited coinage of silver
into legal tender money at the ratio of 16 to 1, twice its commercial and intrinsic
value, is an attempt at once to regulate and fix values by legislation, which is
a perversion of the functions of government, combining paternalism of the most
odious sort with debasement of the nation's currency, the repudiation of obligations,
legalized robbery and infamous dishonesty.
The proposal to reverse, modify and distort
the decisions and adjudications of the supreme court by increasing or diminishing
the [number] of judges composing that tribunal, thereby destroying the bulwark
of constitutional liberty and subverting the rights and remedies of the
citizen, is revolutionary, treasonable and destructive of all constitutional
government and a menace to Republican institutions.
The proposition that the government shall
acquire, own and operate the railroads and means of transportation in this
country, is rank paternalism and centralization, fraught with corruption, an
enormous increase of the national debt and executive patronage, sure to retard
national development and prosperity and to hinder and discourage individual enterprise
and thrift.
The proposition that congress shall
authorize the issuing of an irredeemable paper currency, as a legitimate exercise
of its constitutional authority "to coin money,'' not only involves an
erroneous, unjustifiable and latitudinarian construction of the constitution—always
opposed by Democrats—but is a dangerous disregard of the plain lessons of
history, of human experience and of the laws governing finance and currency.
No true Democrat can or ought to support the
candidates or platform of such a party; but must, to be a conscientious and
consistent Democrat, uphold the platform of the National Democratic party and
vote for its candidates.
[Thus] do, and bravely perform a patriotic
duty. The candidates on our state ticket are especially entitled to support, for
reasons not connected with national politics.
CORTLAND COUNTY COMMITTEE,
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
BREVITIES.
—The Chautauqua Literary club will meet with
Mrs. J. O. Reid next Monday evening Nov. 2.
—Mr. W. F. Maltbie of Homer is putting in
electric call bells in thirty rooms in the Messenger House.
—Where army worms were gathered with the
crops they are said to have developed into moths. In some places the barns are
full of them.
—Bear in mind that Saturday is Flag day and
let every Republican hang out his banner in accordance with the request of the
national committee.
—The regular meeting of the Sons of Veterans
will be held to-morrow night and a full
attendance is desired as important business is to be considered.
—The Ladies' Guild of Grace church served
chicken pie to a large patronage at the home of Mrs. C. W. Saunders on North
Church-st. last night and a large sum was realized.
—In police court yesterday, the case of The
People against Abram Dennis, charged with petit larceny was called and, no one
appearing against him, Dennis was discharged.
—A. M. Jewett, the jeweler, has just
enclosed both of his show windows
in glass
which reaches to the ceiling and which makes them two of the best show windows
on the street.
—Remember that the ballots this year will be
handed to the voter folded in proper form as they were last fall. All the voter
has to do is to mark his ballot and refold the ballot in the same manner as it
was folded when he took it into the booth.
—The safe in the postoffice at Manlius was
cracked Wednesday morning and $500 in cash and $500 worth of postage stamps
stolen. The postofflce was in a store and the safe clear at the rear of the
store where burglars could work and not be seen from the street. A kit of tools
was left.
—County Clerk Palmer has received and
yesterday sent out to the various town clerks in the county extra tally sheets,
like the ones that will be used in the count on Election day. They are sent out
that the Inspector and poll clerks may thoroughly examine them before Election
day. Each sheet is eight feet long and nineteen inches wide and has ten columns
to be filled out, but in Cortland county only six columns will be used, as
there are no independent nominations.
LADIES
CAN POLL.
But One
Vote Apiece.
It is reported that ladies in the Postum vote
for president some times send in votes for their friends. The rule is, that but
one vote will be counted from any one lady. The postal card, however may be
used by two persons. Name the candidate and sign your own name with address,
giving banker or grocer's name in lower left hand corner, as reference of
validity. Mail to Postum Cereal Food Coffee Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
A statement of the vote by states will be
given in Wednesday and Saturday papers each week until election.
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