MCKINLEY AND HOBART

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, November 4, 1896.

M'KINLEY AND HOBART.

Returns Show a Victory For the Republican Party.

LANDSLIDES IN EVIDENCE.

Close Vote Registered In Many States of the South, West and Middle West. Returns In Some Sections Slow on Account of Changes In the Ballot Laws.

Chairman Hanna's Predictions In Most Cases Verified—Clean Sweep In Illinois, [Governor] Altgeld Going Down In the General Crash—Indications Are That President McKinley Will Have a Congress Behind Him Which Will Carry Out the Mandates of the Republican Party. The Immense Vote Polled In All Localities Testifies Abundantly to the Great Interest Taken In the Contest by the People—Bitterness Evinced In Some Sections and Charges of Fraud Made In Others—Rioting In a Few Cases—General Gossip of the Election.

   CHICAGO, NOV. 4.—William McKinley has been elected president of the United States; Garret A. Hobart, vice president.

   The sovereign people have spoken. The money question, the paramount issue of the campaign, has been settled. The existing standard must be maintained until by an international agreement the leading nations of the world shall adopt the double standard.

   This, in effect, is what the election of the Republican candidates means. Besides this, it means the enactment of a tariff law which will provide greater revenue than is raised under the Wilson law.

   These are the most important promises made by the Republican platform and a majority of the voters of the United States have declared for them.

   The victory of the Republican party is a most notable one. Not in many years has such interest been manifested in national politics. The struggle has been a hard and even bitter one in many sections and the enormous vote polled in all localities shows the interest which has been evinced. And this interest has not been confined to this country. England, Germany, France and in fact all Europe having a vital interest in the question at stake and it may be said indeed, that during the past campaign the eyes of the world have been upon us.

   While the returns from some distant states are necessarily incomplete, and in other localities uncertainty still lingers, the returns now at hand are sufficient to leave no doubt of the one essential point, namely, that McKinley has been elected and that he will have behind him a congress with a working majority sufficient to carry out the policies enunciated in the platform upon which he was elected.

   For the triumph of the Republican party much of the credit will be conceded to the party's standard bearer and successful candidate, William McKinley. His efforts during the long and heated campaign have been untiring. For many hours of every day he has stood upon the now famous porch of his cottage at Canton, and extended the hand of welcome to thousands of pilgrims from all parts of the land, and expounded to them the doctrines of "sound currency" and a protective tariff. Hundreds of addresses were delivered by him to the visiting delegations, and to his personality is due more than to any one man the victory which the Republican party has gained.

Returns in Cortland County.

   We give in another place the election returns in Cortland county as reported to us by our own representatives in every district in the county. In previous years it has been customary for us to collect the returns in the same manner as this year, but to verify them before publication on the day following election at the county clerk's office where the law prescribed that the different returns should be filed.

   The change in the law this year requires the inspectors to enclose the official returns in a sealed package. This package is to be deposited at the clerk's office on the day following election, but the seal must not be broken or the package opened until the following Tuesday in the presence of the full board of supervisors assembled as a board of canvassers. Consequently our returns are not to-day official, but we believe that very few errors will be found in them as great care has been exercised in their preparation.

   Several reporters failed to send in a report of the vote on the amendment [lease Adirondack Park land], probably through an oversight or thinking it of little consequence, so that we are short on the report of that in five of the twenty-nine districts, but it is undoubtedly defeated, as the remaining districts give a majority against it of 1,330.

VICTORY IS OURS.

How the News Was Received in Cortland Last Night.

   Cortland took on a decidedly lurid hue last night in certain quarters. All that was not red was very blue. The contrast in the two shades grew more and more marked as the hours advanced. The blue which was largely centered around Taylor hall finally became so dark a tint that the lights went out and every one in that vicinity went home, but there was no sleep for them nor for any one else in town. The character of the returns was such as to infuse new life into the blood of the Republicans and all night long the celebration was kept up.

   Returns were received at the telegraph and telephone offices and were sent to the different places in town where people were assembled to hear them. From the outset the returns were favorable to the election of McKinley and the enthusiasm grew rapidly. It was expected that the gathering of the returns would be a slow progress, but instead they came with unusual speed and before 10 o'clock it was sure which way the election all over the country had gone.

   Then the boys took the celebration in hand. The City band came out and paraded at the head of a line. The Normal [School] Drum corps headed another line. Greek fire was freely burned. The Normals said that they had laid in a stock of twenty pounds of giant powder and the people who heard the reports easily believed it. A small cannon was fired again and again. Almost all night the celebration was kept up, but every one was glad to have a hand in it or to have it go on, for it was a glorious victory, and it proclaimed the coming of another era of prosperity and the triumph of national honor and of sound money.

CAUGHT IN A SHAFTING.

Charles Kelley, an employee at the Wickwire Mills, Badly Injured.

   Charles Kelly, an employee at the wire mills of Wickwire Brothers, suffered severe injuries from getting caught in a shafting in the basement of the main factory. The accident happened at about twenty minutes past 10 o'clock this morning. Mr. Kelly started to put a belt on a wheel near the ceiling when his left arm became caught in the shafting and he was drawn over with the wheel, which was running at the rate of nearly 200 revolutions per minute. He was whirled over the shafting at lightning speed and dashed to the floor. He was picked up unconscious, and taken to the hospital in Beard & Peck's ambulance and Dr. Higgins was called.

   On examination it was found that his left arm was broken in three places between the elbow and shoulder. Besides this the large artery that supplies the arm was destroyed. He suffered considerably from loss of blood, but that has been checked. Unless in some way blood can be got into the arm, it will have to be amputated. Kelly is about twenty-five years of age and lives on Railway-ave.

BREVITIES.

   —Regular meeting of Grover Post tonight at 7:30 o'clock.

   —The board of village trustees held a regular meeting Monday night and besides auditing a few bills did nothing but routine business.

   —There was a large crowd at the Y. M. C. A. rooms last night to listen to the returns. Refreshments were served by the Auxiliary and a pleasant evening was passed.

   —Delicious clam chowder and coffee were served under the direction of Mr. John O. Reid at the Tioughnioga club last evening, while the election returns were being received. Solos and choruses were sung along in the morning after McKinley's election was assured, and the rooms were kept open till the telegraph office closed. There was a large attendance of members, and a number of guests.

   —That stalwart Republican, Dr. Henry Champion Gazlay, anticipating the election of McKinley and the coming of a season of prosperity, took steps Monday toward increasing his domestic happiness along with his patriotic rejoicing and was married at 8 o'clock that afternoon at the home of the bride at McGrawville to Mrs. Martha Eliza White. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. J. Cowles. Many friends will tender congratulations.

   —The receiving of returns last night was greatly facilitated at the Western

Union office. Mr. Fred W. Keyes of New York took everything from the wire and as fast made a typewritten copy from which manifold copies were made and sent to different places about town. At the telephone office two expert typewriters took down the bulletins as fast as Manager Nolan called them off from the long distance telephone and manifold copies were sent out to the different places where returns were received.

   —November is here—the eleventh month of the year, the close of the presidential campaign and the period that brings us the first of the winter holidays. This morning the sun rose at 6:34 and will set at 4:53. When the month closes the sun will not rise till nine minutes after 7 o'clock, so we will lose thirty-six minutes of daylight in the morning in November. In the afternoon we will lose but twenty-four minutes, and therefore we will lose just an even hour of daylight during the month.—Ithaca Journal, Monday.

Vital Statistics.

   Health Officer W. J. Moore has the following vital statistics recorded for the month of October:

   Total deaths 9—males 3, females 6; social condition—single 5, married 2, widowed 2; nativity—United States 8, England 1; ages—under one year 2, between twenty and thirty 2, between thirty and forty 1, between fifty and sixty 1, between seventy and eighty 2, between eighty and ninety 1; causes of death—congestion 1, consumption 1, cancer 1, capillary bronchitis 1, Bright's disease 1, heart disease 2, fever 1, old age 1; births 3—males 3; marriages 4.