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| Charity Hospital, New Orleans. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Thursday, October 7, 1897.
YELLOW JACK'S GRASP.
Warm Weather Causes an Epidemic In New
Orleans.
DOCTORS REPORT FIVE DEATHS.
Over Two Hundred and Fifty Cases of the
Fever under Treatment—Death Rate Small in Proportion to the Number of Cases.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 7.—Even early yesterday
afternoon the day had proved a record breaker both as to the number of cases
and the number of deaths that had been reported. The increase of cases was not
unexpected.
The weather has been warm, and the large
territory which the board of health has to cover makes perfect scrutiny
impossible. While the number of cases under treatment today is in the
neighborhood of 250, there are many houses that have not yet been disinfected,
but in which the patients have been declared well.
Less restraint than usual is imposed on the
inmates of such premises and the result has been that the number of foci has
been increased. But the total death rate is still small in proportion to the
number of cases.
This is the death record:
Jean M. Coste, Isolation Hospital.
Emma Weil.
Adelino Rogora.
Robert Barry.
M. P. Brady.
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| Juan Guiteras, M. D. |
No Fever
at Galveston.
GALVESTON, Tex., Oct. 7.—Dr. Guiteras, yellow
fever expert of the Marine Hospital service who has been released from
quarantine at Houston, has arrived here and inspected local hospitals and
health conditions. He finds nothing in the remotest degree suspicious.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Inconsistent
and Unwise.
Many even of those who have sympathized with
the Cortland House convention and ticket are finding food for thought in the
attitude which some of the leaders of that movement are assuming towards the
plan of organization adopted by the regular Republican county committee. It
would seem, logically and consistently, that the Cortland House leaders ought
to be the first and most earnest to endorse and applaud a set of rules which must
appeal strongly to every Republican who wants fairer and cleaner politics in
this county. There is nothing in these rules which is open to valid objection,
and everything which is in the line of the very reforms for which the Cortland
House convention declared itself, and to further which authority was given the
chairman of their county committee to appoint a special committee to report a
plan of organization. Why has not this special committee reported? If the plan adopted
by the regular county committee is just and fair and wise, why has it not been
reported by this special committee and adopted by the Cortland House
county committee? Or, if a better one can be devised, why has not that been
reported? Why is nothing whatever being done in this direction by the Cortland
House leaders or committees?
It will not do to stand back and shy stones
at individual members of the regular county committee, and talk about its being
absurd for them to make rules to govern anybody. The rules have been made.
There they are. What are our Cortland House friends going to do about them? The
rules stand, like a tub on their own bottom and must be judged on their merits—not
on the merits or demerits of those who prepared or adopted them. If such bad
and incompetent men as are alleged to compose the regular county committee can
take such long steps in the right direction, let us see their critics do some
stepping along the same line.
It was freely charged that the regular county
committee would never adopt these rules,
but they did adopt them—as The STANDARD believed and said they would. Now it is
charged that they will undo, after election, what they have done before. This
implies that they would not only act the part of knaves but also of fools. Such
a course of action would be more ruinous to all engaged in, or favoring it,
than to have refused to take action in the direction of reform at the outset.
Furthermore, having once acted on the report of the organization committee, and
adopted it, the power given them by the county convention, so far as the report
submitted to them is concerned, is exhausted. They have no right or power to
undo what they have done. To have a secret understanding before election that such
a thing would be done after election, and then to carry it out, would make an
open shame and scandal which would carry a certainty of bitter retribution. He
would be a political idiot who would make such a barefaced confession of his
own shame and chicanery, and his punishment would be delayed only until the
people could get at him.
It does not look well when those who have
been clamoring for fair caucuses and fair representation for Cortland begin, as
soon as rules are made looking toward assuring such caucuses and
representation, to stir up prejudice against the rules and jealousy against
their own town.
Play square, gentlemen. Don't try to make
Republicans believe that they can't get registered unless some one chooses to let
them. Under our caucus laws the officers of political organizations are, to the
extent of performing their duties, public officers, and can be mandamused
[mandated by court] and compelled to place on the rolls the names of
Republicans entitled to be there under the rules of the organization, and can
also be compelled to allow them to vote at caucuses. One such case has already
come up in the state and been decided in favor of the applicant, and stands as
a precedent.
Don't misrepresent. Don't say that the
provision in the Cortland plan of organization is "similar to the one in
Onondaga county, which permitted the committee to purge the roll of all not of its
own faction," and which has "caused the great split in that county
which is now sought to be healed by a change of the rule."
Another very mistaken statement is that the
new plan of organization makes one test of the right to enrollment to be that
the elector voted for the Republican governor or presidential electors at the last
preceding election, and as this year no governor or president is to be voted for,
this test will not apply next year.
Still another erroneous statement is that
the committee has power, after a man is enrolled, to strike his name off if the
committee decides he is not a good Republican,
and that the committee is the sole judge, without appeal, and that if a man is
left off ever so arbitrarily he cannot vote.
Should any committee exercise arbitrarily
the power to take the name of
any known
Republican from the roll, they could be compelled by mandamus to put it back,
and such action on their part would, besides, discredit the committee and its
faction—if it was factional—with all fair-minded men, and work their defeat and
disgrace. The caucus and political organization laws are every year becoming
more stringent, and the courts will now step in to protect a voter's right at a
caucus as well as at the polls.
Perhaps the most glaring misrepresentation
which has been set afloat concerning the plan of organization is the following:
In all towns every Republican wishing to
vote in caucus must necessarily appear in person before the town committee,
which may be factional, to be sure whether he is registered or not. The
committee puts on the roll whoever it sees fit, and then appoints a day when all
must appear to be put on if not on the roll, or to see that they are not struck
off, otherwise their right to vote
is foreclosed, and if they are struck off by a factional committee there is no
appeal or remedy.
The provisions of the rules on this subject,
and the right of appeal to the courts, and their power to act in the premises
are referred to above.
As untrue as any of the assertions which
have already been referred to is the insinuation
that "the adoption of the rules has a string to it," and that
"they were adopted and referred back to the organization committee to be
adopted."
They were never referred back to that committee
to be adopted. They were referred back to be perfected by adding minor details
which the committee had not had time to work out, but the plan so far as
reported by the organization committee was adopted by the county
committee, and so stands; and it is not necessary that the rules should ''come
up again before they are rules." No county committee with brains enough to
keep it out of an asylum for the feeble-minded—to say nothing about common
decency—would adopt and commit itself to such a plan of organization as the
Republican committee of this county now stand pledged to before election, and
then, after election, venture to change its provisions in any material
respect—nor has the regular Republican county committee any authority to do so.
The plan of organization adopted is a pledge
by the county committee to Republicans of this county that they are to have
fair caucuses and conventions hereafter, to be held under the provisions of this
plan. On the strength of this pledge, as well as for other reasons, voters are
asked to support the regular Republican ticket. If this pledge should be broken,
or the attempt made to break it after election, there would be retribution swift
and sure on the heads of all who were implicated in the fraud.
As we have said above, the rules adopted by
the regular Republican county committee must be judged on their merits. It will
not do to make faces at them or at the men who voted for their adoption. Legitimate
criticism of the rules is all right, but misrepresentation and false statements
are not—especially from professed sympathizers with reform. If the supporters
of the Cortland House movement believe that these rules can be bettered, let
them frame and adopt better ones. If they think—as they ought—that the rules
are all right, but fear that they will not be carried out in good faith, let
them adopt these same rules and devote themselves to seeing that they are
carried out. Should the regular organization prove treacherous to them, it
would then very soon appear where public sympathy was, and which organization
was to control. The people are in earnest about this thing, however individual
politicians may feel about it.
The Cortland House convention supporters have
publicly announced in print that they favor rates and an apportionment, but
their special committee has neither reported any, nor has their county
committee adopted any. The regular Republican committees have done both, and we
believe that Republicans generally endorse what they have done. Is it not about
time for some of the Cortland House leaders to stop finding fault and "get
a gait on them" in the right direction? We shall be glad to report the
action of their committees on a plan of organization.
Prejudice is attempted to be excited against
the address issued by the regular Republican county committee by charging that
all the members of the committee whose names are signed to it were not present
when it was adopted. Has a single member whose name was signed to it repudiated
it? And will even Mr. Kirkup deny that he gave his consent by telephone to the
use of his name? We have taken some pains to ascertain the truth of this
matter, and are convinced that every person whose name is attached to the
address was either present and signed it, or personally consented that his name
be appended to it.
[William H. Clark was publisher and editor of
the Cortland Standard. He was a lawyer and a journalist. He exposed the fraudulent "spring bottom hat" Republican caucus of 1882, and he exposed the fraudulent
Republican town caucuses of 1897. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church
and an enrolled Republican.—CC editor.]
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| Aaron Sager. |
REGIMENTAL REUNION.
ARMY COMRADES
CLASP HANDS AT MORAVIA.
The
Seventy-Sixth New York Holds Its Twenty-Ninth Annual Reunion—Many Veterans
Present Hospitably Entertained—To Meet in Cortland in 1898.
Yesterday, the twenty-ninth annual reunion
of the seventy-sixth regiment N. Y. Vols., was held in the village of Moravia,
Cayuga county. A special car well filled, was attached to the 8:56 train at the
Lehigh Valley station in Cortland and went through to Moravia without change.
Several from McLean and from other stations along the Southern Central division
of the Lehigh Valley, joined the comrades on the train, which arrived in
Moravia about 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Others had come from the north, and
had driven in from surrounding towns. The Cortland members of the regiment, and
others were met at the station at Moravia by the president of the regimental association,
with a reception committee, and the Moravia brass band. The regiment fell in,
and marched up to the headquarters provided for them on Main-st., with old time
military form, although the step of the old soldiers was hardly as firm and
elastic as when the regiment marched to the front thirty-six years ago.
At the headquarters, the usual business meeting
was transacted and routine work disposed of and various committees appointed.
Upon the motion of Maj. A. Sager of Cortland, seconded by other members of the
regiment from the same place, it was unanimously voted to hold the next annual
reunion of the regiment in this village. The officers elected for the ensuing
year were:
President—Robert G. Davidson, McLean.
First Vice-President—Oscar P. Miner, Cortland.
Second Vice-President—Sylvanus S. Pierce, Colden.
Third Vice-President—D. R. Montgomery, Dryden.
Fourth Vice-President—B. F. Taylor, Cortland.
Secretary—Lucius Davis, Cortland.
Treasurer—A. Sager, Cortland.
Hon. Charles A. Sloan of Montour Falls, N.
Y., and C. A. Rounds of Moravia were elected honorary members of the regimental
association. The meeting then adjourned, and the members and their wives were
very hospitably entertained at dinner at the Goodrich House by the proprietor,
Pliny Grover, who was also an old soldier, and who made the greatest effort to
contribute to the comfort of his old comrades.
At 2 o'clock the regiment again fell in and
marched to the First Methodist church preceded by the band, where the public
afternoon exercises were held.
The meeting was opened by a selection by the
band, followed by prayer by Rev. John Taylor of Locke, an old army comrade. President
E. A. Meade then arose and remarked that "it was the custom for the
president to make a few opening remarks, and that he wished to be in line with
precedent, although it embarrassed him somewhat to make a speech, for he was
not accustomed to the business, and then proceeded to make a brief, but very
felicitous speech. This was followed by a solo, "Barbara Frietchie,"
by Miss Clara Cutler, a granddaughter of the president of the association.
Wing T. Parker of Moravia in very well
chosen words, delivered the address of welcome, which was responded to on
behalf of the regiment by Rowland L. Davis,
Esq., of Cortland, a son of the secretary of the regimental association. Then
followed an army song by a local male quartet.
As Judge Eggleston of Cortland, who was
expected to deliver the annual address, was unable to be present, President
Meade called on Comrade Lewis to make a few remarks. Then W. J. Mantanye of
Cortland delivered a memorial address on the death of Lieut. E. D. Van Slyke, which
occurred since the last annual reunion. George B. Davis, Esq., of Ithaca, was
expected to make the memorial address on the death of Hon. A. P. Smith, but was
unable to be present on account of illness. Mr. Davis and Judge Smith were very
close friends and associated together in the trial of many cases, but unfortunately
Mr. Davis was ill, and unable to be present, so he sent a very expressive letter,
touching on the character of Judge Smith as a lawyer and a man, which letter
was read by Dorr C. Smith of Cortland, and he added his own personal tribute to
the memory of Judge Smith. Maj. A. Sager and Comrade H. M. Kellogg of Cortland
both spoke in very feeling words of the death of Judge Smith, and it was the
unanimous sentiment of the survivors that in his death, the regiment had
suffered an irreparable loss. Other comrades who have passed away during the
past year are: Ralph W. Carrier, Sherburne; Charles Harty, B. F. Watrous of Red
Lands, Cal.; Charles A. Riggs, Covington, Ky.; Samuel Seamans and John Atkins.
At the close of the memorial addresses a
very touching recitation, Whispering Bill," was given by Miss Ethel Teed
of Moravia. The band then played several old inspiring army pieces, after which
Hon. C. D. Bouton of Ithaca, the chairman of the committee on resolutions, made
his report, expressing thanks to the citizens of Moravia and others, who had
contributed to the success of the reunion. Then Comrade McClenthen pronounced the
benediction and the twenty-ninth annual reunion was over.
About fifty of the survivors of the regiment
were present, together with some honorary member, as follows: John Wilson, Scott;
M. M. Whitney. Washington D. C. P. McLane, McGrawville; E. R. Hulbert, Ithaca;
C. W. Hutchings, Homer; C. D. Bouton, Ithaca; I. M. Alexander, Cortland;
Nelson Brooks, Union; R. G. Davidson, McLean; Orville Dickinson, Newark Valley;
A. Harvey, McGrawville; Burdette Fuller, Union Valley; A. D. W. Decker, Newark
Valley; E. Burnham, East Homer; John L. Seeber, Magee Corner; W. J. Mantanye,
Cortland; A. Sager, Cortland; E. A. Mead, Moravia; Lucius Davis, Cortland; D.
C. Beers, Cortland; Burdette Newton, Groton; H. M. Kellogg, Cortland; Mortimer
Richey, Rexville; George O. Bowen, Groton; Samuel L. Palmer, Cortland; Philip
Beeber, Newark Valley; Rev. T. H. McClenthen, Spragueville; A. W. Miller,
Peruville; D. Young, Hunt Corners; W. W. Hadley, Hampshire; George W. Smith,
Marathon; Dr. George W. Post, Montour Falls; B. F. Taylor, Cortland; Dr. W. J.
Burr, Newark Valley; E. L. Patterson, Moravia; George Webb, Union; O. P. Miner,
Cortland; George D. Cutler, Ithaca: J. S. Knapp, Homer; Lester Judson, Otisco;
Sylvanus S. Pierce, Colden; D. P. Griswold. South Cortland; B. Howard, Newark
Valley; Martin Edgcomb, Cortland; Wm. R. Hill, Cortland; Andrew Lumree, Blodgett
Mills; Wm. Sweet, Homer; John Henry, East Homer; I. J. Bennett, Moravia; W. L.
Earle, Tully; Nelson W. Smith, McGrawville; D. B. Way, Ithaca; C. E. Kenyon, Newark
Valley; W. M. Bristol, Stanley.
Letters were read from the following members
of the regiment who were unable to be present: Geo. E. Watrous, Corry, Pa.; Henry
W. Lewis, Lyndonville; E. George Hall, New Berlin; Geo. S. Loomis, Sherburne; Harrison
Goldsmith, Hicks; L. Stebbins, Hancock; John E. Cook, New York; Wm. H. Pierce, Dundee; Jared
Van Vleet, Flint, Mich.; G. G. Bacon, DeRuyter; J. S. Ellsworth, Amenia; Oscar
C. Fox, Linden, N. D.; D. R. Montgomery, Dryden; John Putman, Batavia.
BREVITIES
—New display advertisements to-day are—A. S.
Burgess, Boots and Shops, page 8; C. F. Brown, The Babies, page 5.
—To-morrow is the first day of [voter] registration
in Cortland village, and Saturday is the first day in all the rest of the
county.
—In Justice Kelley's court this morning the
case of The People against J. D. Brown was
adjourned until Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.
—The regular meeting of the Sons of Veterans
occurs to-morrow night at
7:30
o'clock sharp, instead of 8 o'clock as during the summer months.
—It is estimated that the New York Central
railroad realized a profit of one million dollars on the passenger traffic incident
to the Grand Army encampment at Buffalo.
—At the recent reunion of the survivors of
the Twenty-third N. Y. Volunteers
held in Chemung, the secretary reported that there had been seventeen deaths
during the past year.
—The Y.M. C. A. has just received fourteen
volumes as an addition to its library from Mrs. E. F. Squires of Binghamton,
formerly of Cortland. Three new games have also been added to the gameroom.
—Rev. Fred L. Hiller, for the past eight
years pastor of the Presbyterian church at Dryden, has resigned, the
resignation to take effect Nov. 14. The resignation has been accepted and
complimentary resolutions have been passed by the church.
—When T. N. Leach, who has charge of the D.,
L. & W. lunch counter, was going to his business this morning at 5:30, he
found on the sidewalk on Railroad-ave. a large black satchel containing a
quantity of men's clothing, which he has at the station awaiting an owner.
Slipped
Down the Bank.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. James Dimmick, 83
years old, a resident of the
Woman's
Riverside home, returned from a trip to Homer and got off the electric car at
the park switch to go over to the Home. The conductor assisted her down from
the car very politely and the car moved on. Then Mrs. Dimmick attempted to
descend the bank by the track to get down to the walk. She slipped and fell
forward bruising herself quite badly, smashing her parasol and some packages in
her hand. She would have been unable to rise but for the assistance of a young
lady who had got off the car at the same place and who kindly helped her up and
assisted her home.
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