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Cortland
Evening Standard, Wednesday, September 29, 1897.
CZAR'S NARROW ESCAPE.
Attempt
to Blow Him Up Nipped In the Bud.
CONSPIRATORS
UNDER ARREST.
Scheme
Was to Have Been Worked From a Tunnel Under the Roadway—Plot
Given
Out by Polish Masons Engaged to Brace It Up.
WARSAW, Sept. 29.—Though an official denial
will be forthcoming, it has leaked out from official circles in such a manner
as leaves no room for doubt, that there was a deliberate and determined plot
against Emperor Nicholas at the time of his recent visit to this city. Its
success was only frustrated by accident.
Several weeks before the arrival of the
imperial party a number of persons, supposed to belong to the German Socialist
party, undermined Norvy Sviat, the principal street in Warsaw, between the
governor general's palace and the royal castle.
As the tunnel which had been undertaken from
the cellar from a beer house approached completion, the conspirators became
apprehensive of a collapse of the roadway and called in several Polish masons
to build supports. The masons, whose suspicions were aroused, notified the
police, and 130 arrests followed.
Among those in custody are four disguised
German officers, either on leave or belonging
to the Landwehr, who had been active in the actual work of tunneling. A number
of merchants and manufacturers from the town of Lodzy, Poland, are also
implicated.
One
Death and Twenty-One New Cases at Edwards.
EDWARDS, Miss., Sept. 29.—Dr. Dunn of the
state board of health gives out the following statement: There has been one
death from yellow fever, that of W. T. Howie, and 21 new cases. The yellow
fever situation seems to grow worse daily. Five out of the six mentioned are
seriously ill have had repeated attacks of black vomit. The fever is fast
mowing down the white male population, and at the present rate a few immune
nurses and doctors will soon have complete control of the town.
One
Death at Mobile.
MOBILE, Sept. 29.—Brother Symphorian died of
yellow fever at the Industrial Garden and Boys' school. The number of new cases
is 10. The record to date is 64 cases, nine deaths, 30 recovered and 25 under
treatment. The ratio of deaths to cases is 14.
Fifteen
New Cases.
NEW
ORLEANS, Sept. 29.—The yellow fever record is two deaths, Louis Quisnell and
Miss Emma Fleetwood, and 15 new cases. There have been a total of 177 cases to
date and 21 deaths. A number of patients were discharged.
Canal
Bridge at Fulton.
ALBANY, Sept. 29.—Hon. George W. Aldridge,
superintendent of public works, awarded the contract for constructing a bridge
over the Oswego canal at First and Oneida streets in the village of Fulton, N.
Y., to the Rochester Bridge and Iron works of Rochester, the lowest bidders,
for $28,561.
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
The
Adoption of the Report.
The adoption yesterday by the Republican county
committee of the report of the organization committee is the greatest step in
political progress ever taken in this county; and the almost unanimous vote by
which the adoption was carried makes it all the more significant and emphatic.
Even the few members of the committee who voted against the adoption did it
solely on the question of apportionment of delegates among the several
towns—not because they failed to recognize and admit the justice and liberality
of the apportionment, but because they felt that the weight of sentiment among
Republicans of their towns was against it. Every regular Republican nominee was
also heartily in favor of it, with possibly a single exception, and he was not
opposed to it on principle or in practice, but feared that the feeling in his
town might not sustain him should he urge the adoption of the report. All
recognized that the change in representation [proportional vote by town
population--CC editor] must come sooner or later, and the overwhelming sentiment was that
there could be no better time than the present to do a just and wise act.
As to the other provisions of the
organization committee's report, there was not a dissenting voice. Nor was there
any difference of opinion as to the advisability of referring the report back
to the committee of organization, to perfect it by adding necessary minor
details, and thereby make it so complete that it could stand without further
material amendment for all time to come. This work, we think we can say without
hesitation, the organization committee will cheerfully do, and we believe it
will be so thoroughly done that it will leave no chance hereafter for either
side in any future contest within the party to challenge or dispute the result
of caucus or convention on the ground of fraud. The use of money and other
improper influences in primaries cannot be altogether prevented, and under the
new plan of organization this evil is checked as far as possible by making the acceptance
of money or any other consideration a ground for the challenge and exclusion of
votes offered at any caucus.
In its final work of perfecting details, the
organization committee will welcome and carefully consider any suggestions
which Republicans may have to make, and they invite the aid and co-operation of
every one who has at heart the interests of the party and of square and
honorable political methods.
It may be as well now to state frankly one
point which was brought up and considered at the meeting of the county
committee, and which raised in some minds a doubt as to the advisability of
adopting the organization report at this time. That point was that the action
of the committee, if the report were adopted, would be used by supporters of
the Cortland House convention ticket to excite prejudice and opposition in
towns outside of Cortland and Homer both against the committee and against the
regular nominees. But the committee rightly decided that they would be
criticized for political ends no matter what their action might be, and that
the wise and straight way was to go on and do a clearly just and proper thing,
believing that fair-minded Republicans in all the towns would, on reflection,
uphold and endorse them. They realized also that any plan of reform in party
organization which did not provide for election district caucuses in Cortland
and Homer, and a more equitable representation than at present, would be a sham
and a pretense.
Had the county committee refused to adopt
the report on organization, or postponed action thereon, they would at once
have been charged with bad faith, with sympathy, with fraud and with a desire
to continue the conditions which have produced fraud, and all that had been
done in the direction of reform would have been ridiculed as simply an attempt
to fool the voters and make political capital. Their action or failure to act
would also have been held up as justifying all the charges made against nominees
or their supporters during the canvass preceding the county convention. These
things certainly cannot now be said, and whatever wrongs or improprieties may
have characterized caucuses this fall, on either side, the county committee has
declared against and provided against their continuance.
It would seem very strange and inconsistent
if the Cortland House nominees or committee, or their supporters, who base
their action entirely on charges of unfairness in the caucuses and the
convention which resulted in the nomination of the regular ticket, should now
attack the regular Republican county committee for providing against any
possible repetition of such unfairness. It would seem doubly strange and doubly
inconsistent for them to take such a course when the Cortland House convention
adopted the same resolutions looking to reform adopted by the Taylor hall
convention, and appointed a similar committee on organization, for ostensibly
the same purpose—the prevention of fraud. It would be far more wise and far
more consistent for the Cortland House committee on organization to report the
same plan already reported by the Taylor hall committee on organization and
adopted by the county committee there appointed. If the Cortland House
committees are first and above every thing else devoted to the cause of
political and party reform, this is the best way and now is the proper time to
show it. To criticize or try to turn to factional advantage so fair a plan as
has now been adopted by the county committee declared by the State committee to
be regular, would be to raise as serious doubts as to the sincerity of the
Cortland House movement as would have been raised concerning the regular county
committee and candidates had they rejected or deferred action on the plan which
they have so promptly and emphatically adopted.
We believe there are too many well-meaning
men and too many shrewd and farsighted politicians among the supporters of the
Cortland House movement to allow of such an error. They must show by their actions
that they are willing to do as much for fair caucuses and conventions in the
future, and for justice to the Republican voters of Cortland and Homer, as
their opponents. In order to maintain their standing before the people, it
would be pleasant and full of the promise of better things to see both of the
county committees agreed, not only on the necessity of reform on the lines
indicated by the Taylor Hall organization committee, but also on the best
method for securing it. If this could be brought about, there would be abundant
compensation for all the strife and differences and charges and countercharges
of fraud which had led up to it.
It is hardly necessary for The STANDARD to
express its great pleasure and satisfaction that those reforms which it has
advocated for fifteen years are soon to be accomplished. The [1882]
spring-bottom-hat caucus, and the convention which followed it, and the defeat
of the county ticket which resulted, came from the absolute lack of
organization, which left caucuses wide open to tissue ballots and all kinds of
trickery, and made candidates responsible for the acts of reckless or corrupt
supporters. The STANDARD said then that the same state of affairs was liable to
occur again if the evils which produced it were not remedied. And our readers
will bear us out in stating that since that time we have never lost an
opportunity to urge this truth upon them. Republicans in other counties,
meanwhile, have gone on and perfected satisfactory organizations, and now
Cortland county wheels into line, convinced that the path of duty is the path
of safety. To have been able to contribute in any degree to bring about this
consummation is a satisfaction beyond all others that we have enjoyed during
twenty-one years of the editorship of this paper.
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It is very possible that her
sound beating by Japan may prove to be the making of China. Not till it had
measured its strength against even a semi-westernized nation could the Chinese
government find out how really rotten and weak it was. China has evidently
learned her lesson. On the resumption of peace she first cast about for means
of paying the indemnity awarded to Japan, and next she prepared to bring her
army, her railroads, her business methods and even her agriculture up in line with
modern methods. China moves slowly, but there is now reason to believe that she
is shaking off the deadening traditions of 4,000 years and modernizing herself.
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It is really unfortunate that in
the mad rivalry of opposition transportation companies it is so hard to find
out the exact truth in regard to the Klondike and the Alaskan goldfields.
Whether the Skagguay pass is really so frightful in its morasses, precipices
and dead horses nobody can tell. That story is spread over the length and
breadth of the country by transportation companies interested in having
travelers go by other routes. One cannot even depend on the newspaper letters,
for the transportation companies have hired men to write for the newspapers,
just such information in regard to their own routes as they desire to be put
before the public. It is villainous. At the same time nothing is more certain
than that the truth will out finally and do damage to the very ones who have
endeavored to suppress it. Those who lie for their own advantage always come to
grief sooner or later. There is business enough in the immediate future for
every Alaskan transportation company now formed and three times as many more.
There is no occasion for any of the wholesale exaggerations and
misrepresentations that have been circulated with so lavish a spending of
printer's ink.
E. A. MCMlLLIN
RETIRES
From the Newspaper
Field and Goes to Manufacturing.
E. A. McMillin, formerly foreman of The
STANDARD office, but since 1884 editor and proprietor of the Hoosac Valley News
at North Adams, Mass., has sold his paper and will turn his attention
exclusively to the manufacturing of boxes, in which business he has for several
years past had an interest. The new firm will be Rice & McMillin. The
business was formerly managed by Mr. Rice, but it has grown so that it now
requires the attention of both the proprietors. The North Adams Transcript
says:
We chronicle to-day the retirement of a fellow
editor from the newspaper field. E. A. McMillan has sold his interests to the
Hoosac Valley News to E. E. Byam, and will give his attention to other
business. While we trust that we are not to lose Mr. McMillin from newspaperdom
for all time, yet it is not unfitting to say a word of the chapter of his
newspaper work now closed. That work has always been clean and never
sensational. Mr. McMillin has never used cheap methods nor catered to those who
delight in "yellow" journalism. The News under his direction has been
a means of good in the community and a conservative force. If all editors were
as conscientious and careful in their columns as Mr. McMillin has been, the
reading public would be a better public to-day with better newspaper tastes. In
the light of what Mr. McMillin has been in the local newspaper field, it is but
truth to say that his going out of it is a loss to this community and he will
be from a useful place.
We wish Mr. McMillin success in his present
occupation, and trust he may long remain a resident of North Adams.
New Livery in
Cortland.
Fred Maricle of McGrawville will tomorrow
morning take possession of the Cortland House livery, the old stand of T. H. Youngs. He is to-day purchasing horses and new
carriages with which the livery will be completely equipped. Mr. Maricle has
lived in McGrawville for the past fifteen years and comes to Cortland very
highly recommended. He intends that everything about his establishment shall be
first class and that his patrons will be well pleased.
SAVED THE YOUNG
MAN.
Commendable Action
on the Part of the District Attorney.
In the report of the proceedings of the county
court brief mention has been made of the fact that, on motion of John Courtney,
Jr., the indictment against Ernest Rittenhouse
for burglary to the third degree was dismissed. The statement did not begin to
tell the whole story. The young man was indicted in January, 1895, for an
offense alleged to have been committed in 1894. He was at that time a boy of 18
years and from all the circumstances in the case it was very evident that this
was a first offense, not only against law, but against general rules of good
order, and that he had been led away by older and evil disposed companions. He
was well connected, so far as his family was concerned.
District Attorney Burlingame was confident
that if the case was brought to trial he could secure a conviction, but if the
young man were sent to prison, the stigma of that fact would always hang about
him. He professed penitence and a desire to lead a different life. The district
attorney consulted with a number of citizens of the place and determined to
delay the prosecution of the case and give the boy a chance and see what he would
do, thinking that it would be for better to save him and to reform him, if
possible, than to send him to prison for pure punishment and have him come out
of prison doors to go to the bad. Prosecution was accordingly postponed from
one term of county court to another and the young man has been on probation, so
to speak. In the meantime his conduct has been most exemplary. He has been
industrious and active. He has had a place to work in one of the factories in
town and during the upwards of three years since the indictment was first
obtained he has hardly missed a day. His evenings have been spent at home and
good associations. He has been a regular attendant upon and is now a member of
one of the churches, and there is every reason to believe that his repentance
for the one slip is sincere and his reform complete.
Under these circumstances District Attorney Burlingame
united most heartily in the motion of Attorney Courtney to dismiss the
indictment and his action in so doing will be approved, not only by the friends
of the young man, but by all good citizens.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—A. S.
Burgess, Fall Opening, page 8; Kellogg & Curtis, Special Sale, page 4.
—A "Weary Willie" was given
lodging in the police cells last evening and was this morning invited to take
up his quarters elsewhere.
—Mrs. R. H. Duell and her daughter Miss
Helen Peck have issued invitations to their lady friends for a reception at their
home, 12 Church-st., Friday afternoon.
—Flowers, fruit or delicacies for the sick from
the Fourth ward for the Kings Daughters may be left with Mrs. Relyea, 11
Blodgett-st. or Miss Hale, 99 Pendleton-st. on Thursday.
—The Cortland City band will accompany the
Cortland fire department to Homer to-morrow to attend the annual parade and
field day of the Homer fire department.
—There seems to have been a misapprehension in
regard to the dues for the choral society about to be organized under the
leadership of Prof. Adolph Dahm-Petersen. The dues will be 25 cents per month
for ladies and 50 cents per month for gentlemen.
—A telegram has been received from Wallace
& Gilmore at Oswego, managers of the Cortland Opera House, saying that the
advance agent of the "Me and Jack" company which was booked for
Cortland for next Monday night had not arrived and directed that the
advertisement be taken from the paper. We infer from this that the company will
not show in Cortland on the date assigned. If there is any further change in
the program The STANDARD will announce it.
—The First Presbyterian church of Utica, which
has been without a pastor for a year since Rev. Dr. Bachman resigned to go to
Knoxville, Tenn., last night voted to extend a call to Dr. Bachman to return to
the pastorate of the same church, at a salary of $3,000 and parsonage.
No candidate who has been heard during the year has been satisfactory as
measured by the standard of the pastorate of Dr. Bachman who had been with the
Utica church for many years.
CINCINNATUS.
CINCINNATUS, N. Y., Sept. 28.—Mrs. J. Q. Perry
visited in Plymouth recently.
N. J. and Ray Baldwin were in Oxford last
week.
Mr. and Mm. Jesse Jones and Mr. and Mrs.
Hammond of Binghamton are visiting relatives in this place and vicinity.
Mrs. Benjamin Kinyon and Miss Marguerite Morse
visited at Triangle Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. J. Kirk Smith and son Walter are in
Elmira where they were called by the death of her father.
Orr Harrington of Lincklaen was in town last
week. He leaves this week for Illinois where he
expects to remain for some time.
Samuel Bobier is in Syracuse.
Mrs. W. G. Fish and Miss Eva Harrington go to
Whitney Point to-day to visit friends.
George M. Harrington was in Binghamton last
week.
It is said the raccoon (procyon lotor) is
becoming quite numerous in this vicinity. They have been very destructive in several
corn fields and some of our sportsmen have hit upon some unique methods for
capturing them. Those who enjoy the exciting sport of a coon hunt should apply
to Charles Wildman at once that they may be enrolled for the next one.
Pearl Fish and Annie Wheeler were in
Marathon Friday trying teachers' examination.
Rhetorical exercises are to be held at our union
school an Friday afternoon of each week, commencing at 2:30, to which all
interested will be cordially welcomed. Those held last week at that time were
witnessed by quite a number of visitors and were very creditable to those who
took part as well as to the teachers who have instituted the new order of
affairs.
GERMAN.
GERMAN, N. Y., Sept. 27.—Mrs. Leona Wheaton
of Binghamton and Mrs. Carrie Johnson of Triangle are spending a few days at M.
L. Wightman's.
Mrs. Schellinger of Truxton was in this
vicinity buying butter last week.
Frank Keough, W. T. Hall and A. Beardsley were elected at
the Republican caucus held on Saturday evening as delegates to
represent the town in a county convention, which was held in Norwich on
Sept. 28.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Wightman visited in
Triangle on Wednesday.
A. Hall was in Willet on business Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Tice were callers at G.
F. Palmer's on Saturday evening.
Director G. F. Palmer attended the annual meeting
of the board of directors of the Chenango County Patrons' Fire Relief Insurance
association held in Norwich Sept. 28. We hope he may hold the same office for
the ensuing year.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Randall called on their
brother, G. F. Palmer, on Sunday.
Mrs. Hattie Whitcomb made her husband a
birthday surprise on Monday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fosgate of Norwich are
spending a few days with their mother Mrs. Hattie Whitcomb.
Mr. Lorenzo Leech and daughter Mattie were callers
at H. L. Bentley's on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Palmer attended the
birthday surprise of Miss Julia Skinner of Taylor on Friday evening and
reported a very pleasant time.
Mrs. R. C. Tice is spending a few days with
her sister, Mrs. Hannah Down, of Oxford.
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