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| Antonio Canovas del Castillo. |
The
Cortland Democrat, Friday, Aug. 13, 1897.
WILL SPAIN FIGHT?
SPAIN'S
RELATIONS WITH US STRAINED BY CANOVAS' DEATH.
Foreign
War Alone Can Unite All Elements and Continue the Ascendency of Conservatives,
and Any Opportunity May be Seized.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—There is a feeling of
uneasiness as to how the death of Canovas will affect the future policy of
Spain with regard to Cuba, and particularly as to how the relations of Spain
and the United States may be affected thereby. The feeling has long prevailed
that Spanish statesmen are convinced that the struggle to suppress the
insurrection must result in failure, and that the Spanish Government would make
acknowledgment of the fact were it not for the apprehension that the
recognition of Cuban independence would lead to revolution in Spain, and
perhaps result in the overthrow of the monarchy.
The opinion is very generally expressed that
the assassination of Canovas, although the work of an Anarchist, was mainly
incited by a feeling of general discontent among the Spanish people, who are
rapidly reaching the conclusion, from the burden of taxation placed upon them,
that the Government cannot much longer continue the war in Cuba and that a
crisis in the affairs of the kingdom is likely to occur at any time. In this
state of public feeling in Spain, it is felt that the assassination of Canovas
may be the means of hastening a crisis.
For more than a year past the feeling has
prevailed at the State Department that the Spanish Government would be glad of
a pretext for abandoning the struggle in Cuba and engaging in war with the
United States, and for that reason President Cleveland and Secretary Olney were
especially careful to give Spain no good cause for irritation and no excuse for
bringing about a state of war between the two countries. To abandon Cuba would
invite revolution at home with reasonable certainty of the overthrow of the
present Government.
A foreign war would unite the Spanish people
and, while it would result in the loss of Cuba, the present dynasty would be
preserved. Senor Canovas succeeded in preventing a crisis of this character,
but it is feared if his party should be continued in power there may be a
disturbance of the friendly relations between Spain and the United States.
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| Politicians Buying Votes, Harper's Weekly. |
Last
Saturday's Caucus.
The Republican caucus of the town of
Cortlandville for all districts except No. 1, which was held in the Graham
building on Port Watson-st. last Saturday, does not seem to have been satisfactory
to all of our Republican friends. This is owing in part, no doubt, to an error
on the part of the town committee in calling the caucus, as the call was for a
Republican caucus, and it is asserted that a large number of Democrats
participated in and voted at the caucus.
It was undoubtedly the intention of the
committee to call an independent caucus, and had the call been so understood
probably a larger vote would have been polled. The defeated faction however,
insist that it was a Republican caucus, and charge that the proceedings were
arbitrary and corrupt beyond precedent.
Our Republican contemporary says that the
famous spring-bottom-hat caucus of 1882 is not to be compared with the methods
which obtained on Saturday. "That affair was quick, decisive and though
politically rotten, was otherwise clean and sober" says the Standard. Just
how a caucus that was politically rotten could at the same time have
been clean and sober, we do not understand, or how a caucus that was
clean and sober could have been politically rotten, is not quite clear to us,
but that is not strange as there always has been a wide difference of opinion between
Democrats and Republicans as to rottenness in politics.
It is also asserted that two Democratic
saloons ministered to thirsty Republicans who voted as they were ordered. Can
it be possible that the great Republican party, the party of great moral ideas,
the party which it is claimed stands for all that is good and pure in American
politics, numbers in its ranks those who get thirsty, those who can be bought
with Democratic whiskey to do as they are ordered? Can it be possible that the
gentlemen who are candidates for the various county offices this fall, would
stoop to such methods and practices in order to secure a nomination, and then
go before the people whose rights have been trampled upon and whose decency has
been insulted, and ask for their support at the polls?
If all of this can be true, and of the
Republican party and its representatives then, indeed, must the very foundations
of the Republic be slipping from beneath our feet. One statement, however, we
can easily understand. From all of the reports of Saturday's caucus which have
come to us, we feel sure that any Democrat who could have been induced to go in
there at all would need to be "braced up," and then if required to
swear that they, also, belonged to that crowd, it is not strange that
additional braces should have been necessary.
To be candid, however, there can be no doubt
but that the proceedings of last Saturday were fraudulent, corrupt and drunken
beyond precedent in this county; that the rights and privileges of the better
element of the Republican party were trampled under foot; that it was a display
of brute force and indecency in politics which should bring the blush of shame
to the cheek of every self respecting member of the party. But for the
experiences of the past we would expect that such methods would not only be
denounced, but rebuked at the polls and the men whose nominations had been
secured in such a manner, repudiated by the people. Experience has taught us,
however, that the sun of election morning soothes and heals the most gaping
wounds in the Republican party, draws the broken ranks together, "lays the
shepherd's crook beside the scepter,'' and all that is labeled Republican,
goes.
FROM
EVERYWHERE.
Oklahoma has produced seven foot corn in
fifty-three days, and this fact is used as an argument that Oklahoma should
become a State.
From 50,000 to 75,000 tons of iron are
exported monthly from New Orleans, and is produced in the Alabama region.
The fabulous profits of the Standard Oil
Company should be sufficient to pay nearly all our pensions if the petroleum
business were monopolized by the Government.
Trainmen on one of the railroads traversing
Indiana have been ordered to cease waving handkerchiefs at women along the line
and to desist from all flirtation.
Zenas Tarble of Afton is announced as a
candidate for the nomination of sheriff of Chenango county. Mr. Tarble is the
present supervisor of the town of Afton.
The officers of the Riverside Agricultural
society at Greene are busy perfecting arrangements for holding their fourteenth
annual exhibition, which will occur September 14-17, 1897.
Keep away from wire fences while thunder
storms are raging. A man in Westchester was leaning on a wire fence watching
the thunder clouds last week when he received a shock from lightning that
nearly killed him.
The Twenty-fifth United States infantry
bicycle corps reached St. Louis Saturday night, July 31, having completed their
1,900 mile ride from Fort Missoula, Mon., in forty days, thirty-five of which
were actually spent on the road.
Pineapple gardens planted two year ago at St.
Petersburg, Fla., have proved so successful that the acreage given to them has
been increased largely by different investors. Varieties of the pines have been
imported from the Azores for culture there.
The Franklin Dairyman is quite
confident that the Sidney-Franklin electric road will be built within the next
twelve months. It will run a distance of about 15 miles through the thickly
settled dairying district of the Ouleout and Susquehanna Valleys.
Farmers inform us that there is to be a good
supply of "after feed." Owing to drought last season there was no
feed of this kind for the cattle. "After feed" is quite an important
item with farmers as it increases their fall output of milk.—Greene
American.
W. F. Wall of DeRuyter recently received
from the Chicago police a satchel full of valuable papers, which he carelessly
left in the windy city at the time of the world's fair. It was found in a house
where it had been left by a man whose identity is not known.
Machinery has at last invaded the ancient domain
of the glass blower. It is announced that a large factory at Muncie, Ind.,
engaged in making fruit jars, will use glass blowing machines in the future. One
machine can blow as many jars as two blowers at one-fourth the expense.
An exchange says that during the recent hot
spell, Eli Perkins, the great American prevaricator who is spending the summer
near Eaton, strolled down to the village and solemnly stated that it was so hot
out on the farm that while his hired man was freezing ice cream, Eli threw a
chunk of ice at him, which melted and scalded the man's back.
The Mergenthaler Linotype Company, the
makers of the first successful typesetting and distributing machine, has won a
great pecuniary success. Its report on July 1st shows cash and convertible
assets amounting to $2,471,665 and liabilities of $12,223. The net gain from
October 1, 1896, is 11,236,650. The machines are mostly leased, and the annual
rentals amount to $710,525.
The Trumansburg Press says: One
afternoon we picked up on the sidewalk a pure white rose, freshly picked, and
on arriving at the office we stuck the stem into the first bottle that came
handy. The next morning we were surprised to find our rose instead of white a
beautiful pinkish red. It was in a bottle of red ink. This suggests the idea of
producing roses any color, blue, green, yellow and even black. Try it.
By a vote of the stockholders of the First
National bank of Morrisville it has been decided to reduce the capital stock from
$100,000 to $50,000, as it is thought that the reduced capital is sufficient
for the business of the locality and the officers will not now be obliged to
make foreign investments as in the past. The bank is in a very prosperous
condition, having a surplus equal to more than half its capital and paying a
semi-annual dividend of 34 per cent.
PAGE
FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The
Question of American Liberty.
The question of American liberty, freedom of
speech, right to meet in public assemblages as guaranteed to every citizen of
the United States by the constitution, may well engage the thoughts of the
people for a little at this time.
The coal miners of several states have now
been out on a strike for about six weeks, and during all of that time no
violence has occurred, no act been committed which has warranted the
interference of the law either state or national. Notwithstanding the peaceful
methods pursued, the perfectly orderly manner in which the striking miners have
conducted themselves, judges in two states, West Virginia and Pennsylvania,
have issued injunctions preventing the miners from marching in a perfectly
peaceable manner on any of the public highways in the vicinity of, or leading
to the mines in the districts where the injunctions have been issued. They are also
enjoined from holding public or private meetings, from discussing or agitating in
any way the question of the strike or attempting to influence miners who have remained
at work
If such an order from a United States court
is not in direct violation of the constitutional rights of American citizens,
then we have never understood the meaning of the constitution, and our much
vaunted American liberty is a myth. If the injunctions which have been issued
are in violation of the constitution, then there can be no surer way of
inciting the miners to acts of violence and bloodshed than by taking the
position that they have no rights which either the courts or corporations are
bound to respect, and that at the request of the corporations which have
reduced them to the verge of starvation, even their clearly defined
constitutional rights are to be trampled into the dust.
Can the American people afford to let such measures
be enforced without a protest? In the present state of unrest which exists in
the ranks of labor is it wise to strain conditions still further, to see how
far labor will submit to being bound hand and foot, and that too in direct and
open violation of the rights and privileges which the people have always held
dear?
At a meeting of miners held on July 29th
at the McCrea school house in the Pittsburg district, Eugene V. Debs described the
condition of the miners as follows. While the
DEMOCRAT does not endorse much that Mr. Debs has done or said, who can dispute
the truth of the statements which he made when he said:
"What is the condition of the average
coal miner in this country? He is a life convict. There is no possible escape
for him except through suicide. There is no such thing as pardon for him.
"A miner is a human owl and has to work like
a machine. And now he has to live in a hovel, a hole which a respectable coyote
would not own. These are facts. I appeal
to you to do your own thinking. Your salvation depends upon it. Forty years ago
a black slave was worth anywhere from $800 to $4,000. What personal value do
you possess? You are much worse off than the slave. It is true that the owner of
the slave made him work for nothing, but he had an interest in keeping him in working
condition. Your master makes you work for nothing, but he has no interest in
keeping you in working condition. When you are tired out your master throws you
away and hires another slave. At present the politicians tell you [that] you
are sovereign citizens. Instead of that you are slaves. The railroads would
rather kill a brakeman than a hog. They have to pay for the hog."
At a meeting of miners held at Pittsburg
Thursday evening, August 5, where 4,000
miners were assembled at the Alleghany wharf, M P. Carrick, president of the Painters
and Decorators union said:
"The time has come to test the right of
free speech and public assemblage guaranteed by the constitution. These miners,
many marching barefoot, poorly clothed, hungry, are manifesting the spirit of
76. They are fighting the battle of humanity. The New York and Cleveland gas
coal company is responsible for the hungry condition of the wives of the thousands
of miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois."
At the same meeting Eugene V. Debs said:
"We came here as law abiding citizens, but
if the courts persist in perverting and twisting the law in favor of
corporations, then I am not a law abiding citizen. Now is the time to fight out
the question of human rights if it must be fought out. In West Virginia I have been
enjoined off the face of the earth and I see that Pennsylvania judges are
following the example set by West Virginia. In case of a contest I am perfectly
willing to go to jail and even to the gallows; I will continue to fight though
the stars may fall. Outside the judges there is no class that does not desire
to see the miners win. It is a pity that the impression has become prevalent
that our courts are in general swayed by the desires of corporations."
Is it not time that we, as a people, once
more take our bearings and see if possible whither we are drifting, before we
drive combined labor into an open revolt which may even shake the very
foundations of republican government.
NEIGHBORING
COUNTIES.
TOMPKINS—County Fair opens Aug. 31.
Ithaca has over thirty milk dealers.
Jacksonville is organizing a drum corps.
Seventy five people find employment at the
Ithaca Salt Works.
An Epworth League was recently organized at
Cornell University.
The steamer Ithaca will make her last trip
to East Varick, August 15.
New uniforms for the Newfield cornet band
are being made at Trumansburg.
A willow tree was recently cut in Ithaca
which measured four feet through at the butt.
The peach crop in Tompkins county between
Cayuga and Seneca lakes is reported to be very large this year. The grape crop
will also be a good one.
J. B. Todd, the well known Ithaca druggist,
was re-elected secretary of the State Pharmaceutical Association at its recent
meeting at Manhattan Beach.
The annual reunion of the Tarbell family will
be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Fish, Groton, Friday, August 27th.
All
relatives are cordially invited.
It is stated that Henry Sutton of South Lansing,
on Monday, August 3, threshed his wheat crop from seven acres, and got 230
bushels. A good yield, indeed.
The annual picnic of the Granges of Tompkins
county will be held at Renwick Park, Saturday, Aug. 28th. Preparations for a
big gathering are being made.
The annual reunion and picnic of the Bower
family will be held at the home of Henry Bower, one mile west of Lansingville,
on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1897. A cordial invitation is extended to all relatives.
It is the opinion of Captain Henry Garrett that
the present season along the lake is the dullest in twenty-seven years. He says
that not more than two-thirds of the cottages are occupied, and that twenty between
Baker's and Wolf's are vacant.—Ithaca Journal.
Great preparations are being made at Trumansburg
for the reunion of present and former citizens of that place, to be held there
August 18 and 19. The hotels will make special rates to visitors. The reunion
committee have sent upward of 700 invitations, and have endeavored to miss no
one.
HERE AND
THERE.
L. R. Lewis of this place has recently been
granted a patent on a milk cooler.
Dancing at the park to the music of McDermott's
orchestra is free two nights a week.
Perkins, of the City Drug store, has
something interesting to say in his new advertisement in regard to baking
powder. He sells it.
Happy Bill Daniels opens his fall season of
Saturday night dances at the Armory tomorrow night. Full bill, 25 cents. Ladies
free.
Robert H. Clark, held for jumping a board
bill in McGrawville last week, pleaded guilty before Justice Dowd Tuesday and
was sentenced to three days in jail.
The remains of Mrs. Fred Price, who died in
Binghamton last Friday, were brought to Cortland, Monday morning, and the
funeral was held in St. Mary's church.
The 22nd annual reunion of the Hammond family
will be held at the home of Henry Hammond at McGrawville, Friday, Aug. 20th,
1897. The relatives and friends are cordially invited.
Mrs. Betsey J. Neff died at her home on Clinton-ave.
last Friday, aged 36 years. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon and the
remains were taken to Virgil, where she formerly resided, for burial.
About forty couples participated in the party
given by the St. Vitus club at the park on Friday evening of last week. McDermott
furnished the music as usual, and the next party will be on the evening of the
20th.
A large crowd of Cortland people took
advantage of the band concert and free dancing in the pavilion at the
park Saturday evening. The City band rendered a very fine programme, and
McDermott's orchestra furnished music for dancing.
Mattel Harry Hitchcock, who has gained
distinction as a juvenile trick bicycle rider, is in Amsterdam accompanied by
his father where he will join the Maud Hillman Co. for the season. The company
will make a tour of the
Eastern
States.
The large distributing tank of the Standard
Oil Co. is again upon our streets. It has been undergoing repairs and received a
fresh coat of paint at the works of the Ellis Omnibus and Cab Co. and looks
like new. The one in use in Ithaca will soon be brought here for the same
purpose.
Teachers' examinations for first, second and
third grade certificates and for admission to the Normal are held at the Normal
building in Cortland for the First commissioner district of this county and at
the academy in Homer for the second commissioner district Thursday and Friday
of this week.
A party consisting of Messrs. Harry and
Charles Wickwire and Misses Bessie Benedict and Anna Winchell, chaperoned by Mrs.
Hilton Rouse and Miss Helen Shay, left yesterday for Fair Haven on Skaneateles lake,
where the party will camp for a few days.
McGRAWVILLE.
McGRAWVILLE, Aug. 10. —Miss Belle Morse, of
Leistershire, is visiting friends in town.
C. F Davenport of Lake Como was in town
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Warren of Cortland called
at C. B. Warren's Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Merton Edwards are the happy
parents of a son, born Aug. 9th.
Mr. Charles Covey of New York is spending
his vacation with his father and sister.
Mr. Frank Diel of Syracuse was a guest of
the family of L. Lakin over Sunday.
Rev. and Mrs. N. S. Burd and Mr. and Mrs.
Will Martin are visiting friends in Hamilton.
Mrs. Will Burroughs and two children of
Minneapolis, Minn., are guests of her uncle, W. L. Pritchard.
The M. E. Sunday school of this place will
join the County grange excursion and picnic to Ithaca on Saturday, Aug 11.
F. W. Perrott, who has been a guest of the
family of G. H. Maricle for a few days, has returned to his home in Toronto, Canada.
The Standard quartet gave one of their popular
concerts at the opera house on Tuesday evening, which was well patronized and
gave perfect satisfaction.
Frank C. Topping and family left on Monday
for Norwich, N. Y., where they will make their future home. Mr. Topping will
run a lunch wagon there.
Josiah Young, with a gang of men, is driving
spikes at the Wellington bridge on the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. It is an assured fact that the long
looked for road will now be built and McGrawville will soon hear the snort of
the iron horse. Even the old doubters and pessimists are changing their tones.
Postmaster Burlingham has moved the office
into the rooms formerly occupied by C. A. Jones. The office is fitted up with an
entire new outfit of boxes, lock boxes and drawers. The woodwork is of oak, finished
up in the natural wood. The boxes are arranged in a V shape, at the left is a
door leading to the money order department where convenient desks are arranged
for those doing business in this department. On the right is a door leading to
the distributing office and the private office of the postmaster. The office
outfit is manufactured by John McLane of Milford, N. H. McGrawville can now
boast of one of the finest and most convenient post offices in New York State.
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