The
Cortland Democrat, Friday, November 20, 1896.
COMING VACANCIES.
Offices
Within the Gift of Gov.-Elect Black.
ALBANY, NOV. 13.—There is a great deal of
inquiry as to the appointments that Gov.-elect Black will have at his disposal
during his term of office beginning January 1, 1897, and ending December 31,
1998. The number of good places will not be large, as most of the best offices
have been filled during Gov. Morton's administration, so that the terms either
do not end until after the next Governor's term expires, or, being held by
Republicans, it is not likely that Mr. Black will care to disturb the
incumbents.
A carefully prepared list of the vacancies
that will occur during the next administration follows:
Superintendent of public works:
Superintendent, George W. Aldridge, Republican, salary, $6,000; serves during
the term of Governor appointing him or until his successor is named.
State board of health: Case Jones, M. D.,
Daniel Lewis, M. D., and Owen Cassidy, term three years; expenses allowed; term
expires January 15, 1898.
Insurance department: Superintendent, James
F. Pierce, Democrat, salary $7,000; term three years; expires February 27, 1897.
Railroad commission: A. C. Chapin, Democrat,
January 29, 1897; Samuel A. Beardsley, Democrat, January 29, 1897; Michael
Rickard, Democrat, January 29, 1898; all terms of five years and salary of each
$8,000.
Prisons department: Superintendent, Austin
Lathrop, Democrat, $6,000; five years; April 17, 1898; has the appointment of
the prison wardens.
Board of charities: William R. Stewart, May
31, 1898; W. P. Letchworth, April 16, 1897 , each gets $10 a day and expenses
while on duty; term of office, eight years.
Board of claims: Wilbur F. Porter, Democrat,
January 12, 1897; Hugh S. Reily, Democrat, December 31, 1897; George M. Beebe,
Democrat, December 31, 1899; term of office of each is six years and the salary
is $5,000 with $500 expense allowance.
Public buildings department: Superintendent,
Frederick Easton, Republican, $5,000, January 22, 1897; appointed by Governor,
lieutenant governor and speaker of the assembly.
Capitol commissioner: Isaac G. Perry, Democrat,
holds office during term of Governor; $7,500
Quarantine commission: Jacob M. Patterson,
April 18, 1898; Frederick H. Schroeder, May 23, 1898; Edmund J. Palmer, May 23,
1898; term, three years; salary $2,500.
Wardens of the port of New York: Thomas J.
Collaghan, May 1, 1898; John H. Gunner,
March 10, 1898; Wilbur W. Capron, March 16, 1898; Robert M. Johnston, March 30,
1898; William O'Connor, July 14, 1898; John H. Boland, December 5, 1898; Hiram
Calkins, March 15, 1897; Horace E. Buel, April 18, 1898; term, three years with
fees collected from ship owners.
Commission in lunacy: Henry A. Reeves, Democrat,
six years, April 9, 1897; $10 per day while on duty and $1,200 for expenses.
State geologist: James Hall, at the pleasure of the Governor; $2,250. State
botanist: Charles H. Peck, at the pleasure of the Governor, $2,000. State
entomologist: Joseph H. Lintner, at the pleasure of the Governor; $2,275.
Health officer, port of New York: Alvah H.
Doty, January 1, 1897, term two years; salary $12,500.
State assessors: Martin Hermance, Edward L.
Adams and Rollin L. Jenkins, three years; $2,500; November 20, 1898.
Board of mediation and arbitration: William
Purcell, term has expired; $3,000. Mr. Purcell is a Democrat and a Democrat must
be appointed to succeed him. There will be another vacancy in the board after January
1 next, as Charles L. Pulpps, one of the Republican members, has been elected
treasurer of Queens county.
Code revision commissioners: Charles Z.
Lincoln, William H. Johnson and A. Judd Northrup, at pleasure of the Governor; $3,000.
The following are the members of the Governor's
staff receiving salaries: Maj. Gen. Edwin A McAlpine, adjutant general, $4,000;
Brig. Gen. Frederick C. McLewee, inspector general, $2,500; Brig. Gen. Benjamin
M. Whitlock, inspector of rifle practice, $2,000; Col. Selden E. Marvin, jr.,
Military secretary, $2,000.
There are a few subordinate appointments not
classified by the civil service rules that will follow changes in commissions
and heads of departments, such as clerks, secretaries, etc.
The Governor has the power to reorganize the
civil service commission at any time. The present commissioners are George P.
Lord, Willard A. Cobb and Silas W. Burt. They receive a salary of $2,000 each.
To
Organize the Party.
The bolting gold Democrats announce their
intention to reorganize the Democratic party with themselves the
self-constituted leaders. Indeed, the Democratic party needs no reorganization,
it is already organized, and for the work of 1900. Never can a handful of
18,000 bolting Democrats in the State of New York, control over a half million
of loyal Democrats. It is too small a tail to wag so large a dog. The party
would rather suffer another such a defeat than follow again the leadership of
these men.
The doors are always wide open but you must
come in on the ground floor, and give up the idea of leadership. You are no
longer the Democratic party. The only trouble with the Democratic party is that
they have too long followed blindly these leaders, who in the recent contest
deserted and bolted. If they can get along without the Democratic party the
Democratic party can get along without them. The party will certainly refuse to
listen to their counsel and advice longer. Mark this prediction.
FROM
EVERYWHERE.
Cleveland went duck shooting down the Potomac
on election day.
The canals of this state will close Dec. 1,
unless sooner closed by ice.
The Philadelphia Locomotive Works will build
8 engines for China.
A recent Catholic church fair in Elmira netted
over three thousand dollars.
It is said that there are more suicides in
November than any other month in the year.
Five hundred and eighty tons of squashes have
been shipped from Seneca Falls this season.
A Bath, Me., woman who banked in her stocking
broke a garter and lost $56 in her efforts to catch a street car.
W. H. Jenkins of Sidney Center, is storing his
winter celery, and expects to put in 10,000 or 15,000 plants for winter.
The remains of Gregory, the Cornell student
who committed suicide recently, were buried in East Lawn cemetery.
At present there is more steel used in the
manufacture of pens than in all the sword and gun factories in the world.
It is asserted that to drink half a pint of
hot milk or hot water will have the effect of producing sleep in eight cases out
of ten.
The election tickets for Broome county on
account of a slight error had to be printed over again at an expense of about $1,000.
Loomis J. Campbell, one of the best known
students and literary men of the United
States, died at his home in Oneonta recently of apoplexy.
Hog cholera is prevailing to a considerable
extent in the town of Benton, Yates county. It is thought that the disease was brought
there by hogs from the West.
Mr. Lloyd, the proprietor of Lloyd's Newspaper,
and the London Chronicle, has bought 100 square miles of Norwegian
forest to make wood pulp for his paper.
Sherburne people raise cabbage, and hundreds
of tons of cabbage have been shipped from that village this fall. One man
shipped $1,800 worth of cabbage this season.
It is announced that the Cayuga Lake Salt
Company at Ludlowville have purchased fourteen acres of land adjoining their
works, for the purpose of doubling the capacity of their plant.
PAGE
FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Nerve.
(From
the N. Y. Journal.)
The address issued to the Democrats of New
York by the gentlemen who call themselves the "National Democracy" shows
what a warming and enlarging effect success has upon the human heart. These
gentlemen express a generous willingness to forgive erring brethren who supported
the platform and candidates of the Democratic National Convention which
nominated William Jennings Bryan. All the
culprits have to do in order to recover their standing is to acknowledge that
they were wrong, will never do it again, and will consent to the surrender of
the party organization to the authors of the inspiring address.
Not the Chicago platform, which was framed
by a convention regularly elected and representing the will of the majority of
the party throughout the country, but the Indianapolis platform is to be the
Democratic creed under the new regime— the Indianapolis platform drawn by the
convention which represented an insurrection against party authority and Jeffersonian
principles, and nominated candidates who were not to be voted for, but were
offered to help in the election of the Republican candidates.
It is an alluring invitation truly, but we
doubt if it will be accepted by any except persons who desire that the Democratic
party shall again become a humble imitator of the Republican party in seeking
the favor of the trusts. As all such persons may reasonably be supposed to be
already in the ranks of the "National Democracy," it is not clear where
accessions are to come from.
The joy of the Indianapolis bolters
at the success of their bolt, as demonstrated in the defeat of the Democratic
and the triumph of the Republican party, has turned their heads a little. When
they cool down and realize their real position it will strike even their large
minds that treason to a party can hardly be considered a valid claim to
its leadership. The gold Democrats had an indefensible right as citizens to
vote as they chose, but as they chose to vote with the Republicans they are no
longer Democrats. They have taken their place with the Republican party, and
they should be content to stay with their new friends whose good will and
gratitude they have earned.
The Democratic party is all right. It has
taken its stand in behalf of the people's interests as against the interests
and privileges of the money power. Defeat in such a cause is far better, far
more honorable than would be victory won by the help of the plutocracy, and the
fruits of which would be appropriated by the plutocracy. This is the sort of
victory the "National Democracy" has assisted in achieving, and they
are welcome to it. If ever the real Democracy of New York or the United States
resolves to abandon Democratic principles and to reorganize on that high basis,
it would be preferable to call in Mr. Mark Hanna to superintend the
transformation rather than to summon such Republicans as the "National Democracy"
for the work. Mr. Hanna is at least no humbug, and none of the praises that are
now showered upon him are of the kind which reward persons who open the gates
to the enemy.
NEIGHBORING
COUNTIES.
TOMPKINS —No more football on Percy Field
this season.
Revival meetings are being held at Caroline
Center.
It is expected that the new Catholic church in
Ithaca will be ready to dedicate at Easter time.
School books and other articles of value
were recently stolen from the West Slaterville school house.
George B. Davis, Esq., last week received
another gift from Richard Barber, who is in prison, and whom Mr. Davis defended.
The gift was a most beautiful…work-box, containing 6,500 pieces of various
colored woods all put together by Mr. Barber. Mr. Barber has previously [sent]
Mr. Davis fine specimens of his work [but this] excels them all.— Ithaca Democrat.
HERE AND
THERE.
Thursday, November 20, is Thanksgiving day.
Grocer H. B. Hubbard has a seasonable
advertisement on this page.
Read the advertisement of Dr. S. Andral
Kilmer to be found in our local column.
The Turkey supper at the Presbyterian church
Wednesday evening netted over $55.
The Eureka dancing club held a very pleasant
party in John L. Lewis lodge rooms last Friday evening.
Richard Delamater was arrested Tuesday by
Chief Linderman charged with petit larceny by John Jones. Jones claims Delamater
owes him and demanded the check due Delamater at the milk station. Delamater
took half the amount of the check and left the balance for Jones. He pleaded
not guilty and was bailed to appear Nov 25.
The Loyal Circle of Kings' Daughters will
meet with Mrs. Kealsey, 11 Blodgett-st., Friday, November 19th, 1896, at 2:30
P. M.
[Village] Engineer Landreth is overseeing
the paving of the alley between the DEMOCRAT building and the adjoining blocks
on Main-st. It will be similar [brick] to that on Railroad-st [Central Avenue].
Lincoln J. Carter's company in "The Tornado"
pleased a large audience at the opera house Saturday evening. The mechanical
effects seem to place the beholder amid the most exciting scenes of real life.
The wagon and blacksmith shop of Mr. J. M.
Seacord at East Homer was burned to the ground early Wednesday morning. None of
the contents could be saved. There is a loss of about $5,000, which is nearly
covered by insurance.
Last Thursday afternoon Eugene Crosby, who
has been employed by the Jamestown Construction Co. in paving Railroad-st., fell
in a fit and striking on the back of his head on the pavement was seriously
injured. He was carried to his home on Clinton-ave. where he died the following
morning. He leaves a wife and two children. Mr. Crosby had been subject to fits
since childhood. The funeral services were held on Sunday.
The Cortland Athletic Association are in
their new quarters in Taylor hall. The hall will be fitted up for use for
private parties and the several theatrical entertainments which the association
propose to give this winter. The ante rooms and fourth floor will be used as
club rooms.
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