FRENZY BORN OF DESPAIR AND THE ALMSHOUSE LAW

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, October 22, 1897.

FRENZY BORN OF DESPAIR.

Effort to Disfranchise 1,200 Republican Voters.

   If the madness of the gods which precedes destruction, has not taken possession of the Duell-Brown-Saunders combination, then we do not know how to account for their insane efforts to disfranchise 1,200 Republicans of Cortland county. Their effort, so far, has been unsuccessful and it is probable will fail altogether; but it has made their defeat more sure, if that was possible.

   The independent Republicans, without protest, allowed the Saunders ticket to go on the official ballot as the regular Republican nominations, being content to have the Howes ticket appear as independent nominations, leaving the issue with the people where it belongs. Not content with this, the Saunders faction go before Judge Smith at Ithaca, and move for an order declaring the independent ticket void, and forbidding the County Clerk to have the ticket printed on the official ballot.

   If it were not for the Democratic love of fair play, and the belief that every citizen of Cortland county has a right to vote as he wishes to, whether for an independent ticket or regular, Democrats have every reason to wish them success in their efforts to knock out the independent ticket, as it only digs their grave the deeper.

   But what do the Republicans of Cortland county think of this effort to disfranchise them; this effort to rob them by force of the privilege of voting an independent ticket if they desired to? Happily this bandit policy cannot rob Republicans, not in sympathy with the ring, of the opportunity of expressing their opinion of such methods at the polls; they can and will vote a straight Democratic ticket, and bury their rotten and corrupt ring forever from the sight of an offended people.

   Just before going to press we learn that Judge Smith at Ithaca has sustained the decision of County Clerk Palmer that the Independent ticket was entitled to a place on the official ballot, and the Saunders faction have taken an appeal to the Appellate Division of Supreme Court which meets in Albany to-day.

Cortland County Poor Farm and Almshouse.

The Almshouse Law.

   Chapter 302 of the laws of 1896 is another bad law with which Mr. Saunders is identified, in having voted for it. It requires the keeper or manager of any almshouse, asylum or hospital, in the counties of Cortland, Madison, Onondaga and Oswego to turn over to any medical college in said counties, the remains of all persons who may die in their institutions. It requires the relatives or friends of any person who may die in a hospital or almshouse, to make an affidavit as to their identity, and give security for the expense of the interment. This law is not only cruel and inhuman, but is repulsive to every generous instinct; every person, high or low, rich or poor is entitled to a Christian burial.

   The stranger within our gates stricken down by some disease and taken to our hospital, in the event of death, must be shipped to the Syracuse university there to be dissected for the instruction of a class of medical students, regardless of his position in life, if friends could not be communicated with who could identify the remains and take charge of them. We understand that three bodies have already been sent from this county. They are put in pickle in a large vat, men, women and children together, and when a subject is needed for dissection they are fished out with a pole, and an arm, a leg or such member as is needed is cut off and the remains put back in pickle for a future occasion. It is a subject too repulsive for discussion, and it seems incredible that a body of law makers in this humane age could have passed such a law. Show your disapproval of this brutal law by voting against Frank P. Saunders.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.

   The muzzle applied to Mr. Justice Kelly of McGrawville seems to be effectual.

   The $2,000 sent here by the State machine to help elect Saunders won't save him.

   The Standard is still in the lead as the champion political acrobat for the year 1897.

   The ticket of the Republican faction represented by Saunders, Dowd, McVear, Overton and Frisbie is already beaten,

   Farmers are interested in and would be benefitted by good roads. Saunders opposed their having them in the interest of the railroads.

   The average tax rate of two dollars and eighteen cents ($2.18) under the administrations of Governors Hill and Flower has risen to an average of three dollars and twenty four cents ($3.24) under Morton and Black.

   Forty-eight dollars and sixty cents will purchase 486 drinks of whiskey and 972 of beer. That amount was expended at the caucus which the Standard characterized as ''corrupt and drunken.'' The Standard was right.

   Why should the unfortunate poor of the county of Cortland be put in pickle at Syracuse university, and in the counties of Broome, Tompkins and Chenango be given Christian burial at public expense? Because the honest and humane assemblymen from those counties opposed such a nefarious measure.

   The school census question has been giving the Saunders faction no end of trouble. It proved to be a very hot poker which they picked up, and they have been trying to lay it down ever since and with poor success. It is now arranged that the taking of the census shall only cost the village the sum originally agreed upon, $40. Who is going to pay the balance, the A. S. Brown Republican Committee?

   A Democrat is a man who votes the democratic ticket, and no Democrat can possibly think of voting the Duell-Brown-Saunders boodle and corruption ticket, and still consider himself a Democrat. Democrats are not paupers to be bought nor fools to be lured into casting complimentary votes for any such combination. If the Saunders people count on Democratic votes to help elect their ticket they will get left.

   The district attorney of a county is elected for the purpose of representing and defending the interests of the people. Do the people of Cortland county wish to see that important office filled by a product of the Duell-Brown-Saunders ring, backed by the ring and owned by the ring? Vote for a candidate who is not indebted to any ring or individual for his nomination. Edwin Duffey will represent the people.

   Elect the Saunders ticket November 2, and the following programme will be carried out in the near future. For State Senator 1898, Hon. Franklin P. Saunders; for Justice of the Supreme Court, Horace L. Bronson; for postmaster at Cortland, Andrew S. Brown; for deputy postmaster, Richard C. Duell; for under sheriff, "Tige" Fuller. The only sure way to defeat that program is to VOTE THE STRAIGHT TICKET.

   The Republicans of Cortland county are tired of ring rule, they have made up their minds to smash the ring this fall and are ready to vote the Democratic ticket to accomplish that object. All that we need is the full Democratic vote, polled for the Democratic ticket to make our victory complete. Let every Democrat hustle from now until the polls close on election day, and help those who are ready to help us in electing the entire Democratic county ticket.

   Do the people of Cortland county want a member of assembly to represent them in the Legislature, or the railroads and corporations of the State? Frank P. Saunders is the representative of the rail road interests and corporations generally. He will work and vote for their interests first, and if he has any time left he will devote it to the affairs of the county. Vote for David W. Van Hoesen to represent the people, and let the railroads take care of themselves.

Hospital Donations.

   Acknowledgment is made of the following gifts received at the hospital in

September:

   Vegetables and flowers, a friend; bundle old linen, basket flowers, Mrs. Strong; basket pears, Mrs. C. Hitchcock, Homer; basket flowers, Junior Christian Union, Universalist church; 1 gallon oysters, Wallace & McKean; 8 bouquets for patients, Mrs. Lowell for W. C. T. U.; Cabbages, W. L. Bishop; 1 bushel pears, L. D. Garrison; jelly, vegetables, Mr. Benham; 5 cans fruit, Mrs. Beach; mattress cover, Ladies' Aid society, Universalist church; flowers, Mrs. Milk; basket pears, basket berries, Mrs. Hamilton; half bushel apples, 1 can catsup, Mrs. Geo. Smith; green corn, cabbage, M. Williams, Virgil; basket pears, Mrs. Dana; 5 gallons oil, Oil Supply Co.; discount on drug bill $4.23, W. J. Perkins.

REPORT OF PATIENTS IN CORTLAND HOSPITAL SEPTEMBER 1897.

   Patients in hospital Sept. 1, 4.

   Patients admitted during Sept., 12.

   Patients discharged during Sept., 8.

   No. of operations performed, 5.

   No. of births, 1.

   No. of patients remaining Sept. 30, 8.

HERE AND THERE.

   Grocer H. B. Hubbard has a new ad. this week.

   Vote the ticket headed by the star and vote it straight.

   This week Druggist C. F. Brown speaks of soap and other toilet articles in a new ad.

   Football at Ithaca to-morrow. Cornell vs. Princeton. Round trip on the Lehigh Valley only 60 cents.

   Kellogg & Curtis announce another special ten days sale elsewhere on this page. Look at their prices.

   Mothers' meeting, north, will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 27, at 3 P. M., at the home of Mrs. Sandwick on Madison-st.

   Charles Godfrey had his thumb badly mangled in the gear on a large ice cream freezer at M. B. Filsinger's confectionery store Monday.

   Perkins & Co. of the City drug store, want to sell you the material to paint the gutters on your house. If you need it, read their new advertisement on the opposite page.

   A very handsome iron fence is being placed on the coping around the soldiers' monument. This completes the improvements which were contemplated and the result is well worth the effort.

   In the glove contest held in C. A. A. hall last Monday evening, Eddie Daly of Baltimore was more than a match for his opponent, Tommy Kelly of Rochester. He got the decision in the fourth round.

   Judge Eggleston has issued orders committing Peter Dowd, an aged Cortland man, and Robert Oliver, a McGrawville lad, to the Binghamton state hospital after each had been examined and declared insane.

   We are indebted to Hon. Daniel O'Leary for a copy of the Factory Inspector's report for the year 1896. The report is very full and comprehensive, and will repay any one for the time necessary for a careful perusal.

   The farce, "The Bicyclers," which was given by the Gamma Sigma and Clionian fraternities in Normal hall two weeks ago, is to be repeated to-night, the Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. sharing in the proceeds. It is well worth 15 cents, the price of admission.

   The only record we have of subscription accounts is the red label on the papers as they reach each subscriber weekly. If at any time the date on such label disagrees with the payments made this office should be notified at once. It also indicates to delinquents the amount of arrearage.

   The annual report of the president of the hospital association and of the matron of the hospital will be found on our third page. The treasurer's report had to be omitted for lack of space until next week. All the reports show a large amount of good work done by the hospital the past year.

   Hospital day at the Cortland schools netted the hospital a large amount of supplies and some money. The children carried such donations as they made to their respective schools and the total of these small contributions made a large offering for which the hospital managers are very thankful.

FROM EVERYWHERE.

   Fishermen are now enjoying the best fishing at Sylvan Beach that has been known in years.

   Wolcott is the only town in Wayne county that can boast of a block having an elevator in it.

   Cooperstown recently witnessed the disgraceful spectacle of a woman lying in a hypnotic state for 22 hours on exhibition in a store window.

   Last year Ireland spent for intoxicants 12,806,841 pounds at the rate of 35,087 pounds every day. She spent for poor relief 1,049,704 pounds.

   The apple crop in Wayne county near Clyde and Savannah will be scarce, and inferior in quality. Most of the apples are fit only for evaporating purposes.

   A $25,000 fire in Jamestown resulted from the act of a factory engineer who swabbed out his boiler with crude oil and then stuck a lamp in to see how it was getting on.

   John J. Hallock of Syracuse secures the contract for constructing the sea wall along the shore of Owasco lake in the town of Owasco. His bid was $16,492. Work will begin at once.

   The new opera house at Newark has been declared the finest country theatre in Western New York. It seats 750 on ground floor and 450 in the gallery. A dance hall in connection is 35x50 feet, and there is a kitchen as well as complete dressing and toilet rooms.