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| Robert A. Van Wyck. |
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Political
cartoon from New York Herald 12/20/1897---"The new instrument Tammany will play
on after January 1."
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Cortland
Evening Standard, Wednesday, November 3, 1897.
TAMMANY
TRIUMPHANT.
Van Wyck
Chief Magistrate of Greater New York.
A HEAVY
VOTE POLLED.
Results
of the Bitter Battle That Had Raged for Weeks.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—Tammany's victory in the
first municipal election in Greater New York is a sweeping one. Robert A. Van Wyck has polled a vote which falls only about 40,000 under the combined vote of
Seth Low, Citizens' Union and General Tracy, Republican.
The total number of votes cast was about
half a million, Van Wyck receiving 335,181;
Low, 148,513; Tracy, 101,823 and George, 15,000, and a few thousand for
Gleason, Independent Democrat, Sanietl, Socialist, and Wardwell, Prohibitionist,
to swell the aggregate.
Whatever might have been the result had
Henry George survived the campaign, the returns indicate that the substitution
of the son for the father as the mayoralty candidate of the Thomas Jefferson
Democracy, has proved a failure from any but a sentimental point of view, as Charles
W. Dayton, who was nominated for comptroller on the George ticket, polled at
least half as many more votes as were given to Mr. George.
The legislative branch of the city
government is Tammany Democratic. It is a double-headed body, one branch being the
municipal council, consisting of the president and 28 members, and the other
the board of aldermen, comprising 60 members.
While the result in several wards is too close
to state positively the exact complexion of the board, the Democrats have a
good working majority in both houses, and will fill all county and borough
offices along with the municipal places.
The Van Wyck vote in New York county is
about the same as was cast for Bryan in 1896, which was 135,624. General Tracy
polled about 50,000 against McKinley's vote of 156,359, while Low, Citizens
Union, polled 77,000, and George, 12,000.
In Kings county, which includes Brooklyn,
the Bryan vote was 76,882, while Van Wyck's is about the same. General Tracy polls
35,000, while Low's vote is 65,000.
In these two counties the straight
Republican vote shows a falling off of nearly 175,000, or in excess of the
total vote for Seth Low, while the Tammany vote equals that cast for Bryan.
The polling came within about 50,000 of the
entire registration which, considering the weather conditions under which the election
proceeded, was all that could be expected.
The day was wet, foggy, "muggy" to
a degree. It was such a day as, in the years gone by, when voters lined up in
the streets to await their chance to cast their ballots to the judges inside,
was called "good Democratic weather."
Under the altered conditions, the voting being
done within doors, this characteristic cannot well apply. There was a general
suspension of business, and nearly everybody who was qualified had the opportunity
of voting. It was only in the outlying section that the exercise of the right
of franchise was attended with any inconvenience.
At night the whole city was alive to the occasion.
Bulletin boards, searchlights, newspaper extras, reading on the stage of scores
of theaters, told the story of the election.
Van Wyck's plurality will be 77,060. His
vote in all the boroughs is about 21,000 less than the combined votes of Tracy
and Low.
Judging by the vote in the presidential election
of last year the adherents of the Citizens' Union candidate were drawn, in the
main, from the Republican party.
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| Alton B. Parker. |
EMPIRE STATE.
Details
of the Battle Outside New York City.
A. B.
PARKER FOR JUDGE.
Heavy
Vote Cast All Through the State, Showing That Unusual Interest Was Taken in the
Election of Assemblymen—A Wet Election Day.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—Rain, which prevailed
generally all over the state, had the effect of keeping a great many of the country
voters away from the polls. The result is apparent in the reduced majorities
given in conceded Republican districts to William J. Wallace, the Republican
nominee for chief judge of the court of appeals, as compared with pluralities
by which the same districts were carried last year.
In many instances the pluralities of a year
ago are reduced nearly one-half and in few that have been reported is the
falling off less than 25 per cent.
Judge Parker, dem., has carried the state by
36,996.
The returns for assemblymen are entirely
lacking in the Greater New York districts owing to the large number of
candidates whose votes must he counted before the assembly nominees are reached
and the results here will probably not be known today.
Outside of Greater New York, with 13
districts to be heard from, dispatches show the election of 61 Republicans and
17 Democrats.
This, it is believed, insures the
continuance of Republican control of the assembly, whatever may be the result
in the Greater New York districts.
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| Capt. Gen. Ramon Blanco. |
BLANCO
HOPEFUL.
Believes
Cuba Will Be Pacified Shortly—Blanco Inspires Confidence.
MADRID, Nov. 3.—Marshal Blanco, the new
Captain General of Cuba, has sent a cable message to the Spanish government
saying he has formed a favorable opinion regarding the prospects for the
pacification of Cuba.
A semi-official note was circulated giving a
more exact indication of the contents of the Spanish note, in reply to the
communication of the United States on the subject of Cuba, than has hitherto been
published.
It says the note of Spain consists of 28
pages. The first part of the reply is a paraphrase of the note of the United
States minister, General Stewart L.
Woodford,
and it concludes with the assurance that Spain is animated by the same friendly
feeling as expressed in behalf of the United States.
The second part of the reply goes into
elaborate details concerning the various filibustering expeditions, which are
said to have left the United States for Cuba, which details are based entirely
upon the report of Calderon Carlisle, the former counsellor of the Spanish
legation at Washington. Spain expresses hope that this phase of the situation
will be changed and that the United States will try to prevent further
violations of international law.
Replying to the offer of mediation made by
the United States, Spain says she hopes the United States will act loyally in
helping Spain to pacify Cuba, especially in view of the fact that such an
extended form of autonomist government is about to be sincerely granted.
The general feeling here is more hopeful of
a peaceful outcome of the situation, especially since Marshal Blanco's arrival
at Havana, as it is believed his presence will greatly further the solving of
the Cuban problem. At the same time it is pointed out that the submission of
the insurgents cannot be expected, "unless they are entirely abandoned by
the United States."
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
The
Result in [Cortland] County.
The result of the election in this county,
as shown in our returns, is not a surprise to those who have been in a position
rightly to observe the drift of public sentiment. The secret ballot is a quiet
but terribly effective instrument for the expression of the people's will, and
there has been but little chance for some time to mistake what this will was.
With the growth of the independent spirit in politics, regularity counts for
little against other considerations, and in this county this fall there have
been various considerations to which voters have chosen to give greater weight
than to the action of a regular Republican convention.
The growth of a bitter feeling began when
Republican caucuses were called before any call had been issued for a county
convention and one town after another was fought and carried in succession. The
Cortland caucus stirred this town as it had never been stirred before and,
though on the face of the returns it was not so clearly fraudulent as the
caucus in Cuyler, there were features of it which provoked far more intense and
determined indignation. As The STANDARD has already pointed out, both of these
caucuses, as well as the others whose fairness was questioned, were but the
natural results of a system of representation and organization which invited
and paid a premium on corruption and fraud.
Effect followed cause irresistibly, but it
is an occasion for sincere regret that excellent nominees, in no way
responsible for the abuses which had grown up in our politics, should suffer
the penalty of a popular indignation aroused against a system which the
regularly constituted party authorities had recognized as an evil, and had
abolished forever. The people, however, refused to accept pledges for the
future as condoning evils of the past, and struck at the individuals whom they
held responsible for them, though the blows worked the defeat of nominees who
would otherwise have been triumphantly elected.
Out of the unfortunate differences of this
fall has come a system of organization which promises purer politics and a
stronger and more harmonious party, and for this much all Republicans should be
profoundly grateful. But there will also remain, for how long a time no one can
tell—let us hope it may be short—the soreness and bitterness which always follow
a breach in the party ranks—a feeling on the part of deserving nominees and
their friends that they have been unjustly sacrificed, and a desire to strike
back at those whom they hold responsible for the defeat. If these feelings are
to be cherished, or a determination nursed on the other side to still further
punish those who have already suffered, there will be little hope of a united
party for some time to come.
The better and manlier way is for both
sides, forgetting the past, to take hold of the still unfinished work of party
reform, and perfect as thorough a system of party organization as can he devised,
under which the wishes of the party will have the fullest and fairest
expression, and no one not a Republican will have any voice in such expression,
and where it will be impossible for any one, with any show of reason, to assert
that the declarations of caucuses and conventions are not the voice of the
majority of the party. If this end be accomplished, even the bitterness of
present defeat will have its compensation.
Spain.
Certainly the worst thing Spain could do for
herself would be to even hint officially to the United States government her
belief that if it (our government) had taken proper measures to suppress filibustering
Spain would have been able before this time to put down the Cuban rebellion.
Such a subterfuge would be the last resort of a sinking nation, looking
desperately for some straw to catch at and impotently blaming another for its
own failures. There is little doubt that such an intimation to us from Spain
would cause the long suffering patience of even the American government to give
way. The United States has spent already $2,000,000 to suppress American
filibustering expeditions to Cuba.
The executive department of our government
has steadfastly refrained both under this and the former administration from
expressing one word of sympathy with struggling Cuba. Two presidents, Cleveland
and McKinley, have stood for Spain against the sympathies of the whole American
people.
President
McKinley has done this, although it is shrewdly suspected that his own private
sympathies are with the revolutionists of the beautiful island.
Even the governments of Europe, with their
jaundiced eyes toward everything American, acknowledge this. In an interview
with a correspondent of the Philadelphia Times an influential diplomat whose
name is not given did not hesitate to say:
The opinion is unanimous in the diplomatic corps
that ex-President Cleveland and President McKinley have done more to preserve peace
and to prevent filibustering, against public clamor, than any monarch would
have done. Your presidents are more independent of clamor than are any
sovereigns in international affairs. The gentlemen who occupy diplomatic
positions here have been surprised that ex-President Cleveland and President
McKinley should resist public opinion and congressional fulminations as they
have done.
Take Great Britain, for example. If the
parliament should pass resolutions expressive of public sentiment in a matter
of international moment in which all of the British people were interested, the
queen would feel it incumbent upon her to convey to the friendly nation an
expression of the opinion of her subjects. But your presidents have striven to maintain
friendly relations with Spain even at the risk of personal unpopularity.
You can also say that members of the
diplomatic corps are fully advised of the fact that your government has done its
utmost to prevent filibustering expeditions. The attitude of Spain in this
alleged note cannot be sustained. From my knowledge of the views of diplomats
here, I can assure you that Spain will not have the sympathy of any European government
except that of Austria in her allegation that your government has not done its
duty.
IN NEW YORK STATE
PLURALITIES
TURNED BACK TO DEMOCRATS.
Municipal
Contests and Local Bitterness Responsible—Many Cities Elect Democratic Mayors,
a Few Choose Republicans— Assembly is Safe and O'Grady Again Wants to be
Speaker.
ALBANY, Nov. 3.—The completed returns from
the state are coming in slowly during the early hours of the morning and
demonstrate that the Republican landslides of the past two years have been
reversed, if not by giving as large a majority for the Democrats, at least by
changing something like 240,000 votes. Governor Black's plurality in the state
last year was over 200,000. John Palmer, the Republican secretary of state, won
the year previous by over 100,000. The indications are that these enormous
pluralities have been swept away and a reverse plurality of between 30,000 and
50,000 is given.
The greatest surprises of the returns are
the great gains made in the assembly by the Democrats, many of them being in
counties and districts where there was no expectation on the part of Democratic
managers of winning.
Republicans explain these gains by attributing
them to the heated municipal campaigns and the trading of votes. It is evident
from the morning returns that the Republicans will still control the assembly, although
by a very largely decreased majority.
More surprising perhaps than the returns on
the state and assembly district tickets were the results of the municipal
campaigns in the large cities. New York, Buffalo, Rochester, Binghamton,
Syracuse, Utica, Albany, Troy and Schenectady elected Democratic mayors. In
Albany the conditions were very similar to those in New York. Two Republican
candidates split up the vote of that party and allowed the Democrat to win. The
combined Republican vote was 2,000 in excess of the Democratic vote. In Buffalo
and Rochester Republican success was almost assured prior to election, but the
results are foreign to the predictions.
Elon R. Brown, Republican, comes to the
senate from the district represented by the late Senator Mullin. Speaker Jas. M.
B. O'Grady of the last house comes back and will seek re-election as the
presiding officer, but the small majority of Republicans may give other members
a fighting chance for the speakership. Prior to election it was stated that
Senator Parsons of Rochester would take the place at the head of the finance committee
of the senate made vacant by the death of Senator Mullin, but the result of the
election may disarrange these schemes.
The following cities elected Democratic mayors:
New York. Albany, Syracuse, Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester, Amsterdam, Schenectady,
Troy, Kingston, Jamestown. Republicans carried these cities in the mayoralty
fight: Cohoes, Rensselaer, Yonkers, Newburg, Gloversville, Oswego, Utica. In
Albany the figures indicate that the regular Republican candidate polled five
more votes than did the Independent Republican candidate.
FUMIGATING
LETTERS.
Steam
Used to Remove All Yellow Fever Germs.
Certain Cortland people have been receiving letters
from the yellow fever districts and some of them have been fumigated. The
Ithaca Journal tells how this is done:
The letter recently received in this city from
a yellow fever hospital in the South bore evidence of being fumigated.
The manner in which this fumigation is
accomplished is somewhat peculiar, and differs from what might be supposed by a
person not informed on the subject, to whom the word fumigate instantly brings
to the imagination the choking smell of burning sulphur or other disagreeable fumes.
In the first place the letters are arranged
in a bunch and the entire pack is then perforated by a set at hollow needle-like
implements. These needles, every one of which passes through all of the envelopes
as well as their contents, leave holes about as large as though the perforating
was done by a large knitting needle. These needles are in fact pieces of fine
tubing all connected to the same hollow base. They are fourteen in number, and are
arranged so that the holes that they punch are distributed over the envelope in
four rows of three and four holes in each row.
After they are in place in the bunch of letters,
dry superheated steam is forced through these needles into the pack of letters.
The steam is heated to about 600 degrees of Fahrenheit, and after being subjected
to this extreme heat for a short time any disease germs that the letters may
contain are so well cooked that these is no danger of their transmitting the
disease.
Much the same device, with longer needles
arranged in sets containing more of them, is used for fumigating the clothes of
immigrants, and other articles that such puncturing will not injure, that come
from a foreign port from which contagion is feared.
BREVITIES.
—The regular meeting of Grover post No. 98,
G. A. R., occurs to-night at 7:30.
—The regular monthly business meeting of
the Epworth league of the Homer-ave. M. E. church will be held this evening at
7:30 o'clock.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Dey
Bros., Carpets, page 7; T. P. Bristol,
Overcoats and Suits, page 6; A. S. Burgess, Overcoats and Suits, page 8.
—Rumor says that matrimonial congratulations will
soon be in order to be tendered to the junior member of the firm of Weyant &
Kingsbury of Dryden.
—George J. Sager, who was yesterday elected
alderman from the Thirteenth ward in Syracuse, is a brother of Major A. Sager of Cortland. Ernest I. Edgcomb, son
of Isaac Edgcomb of Cortland, was elected supervisor from the Eighth ward in
Syracuse. Both are Republicans.
—The Friday afternoon students' recital at the
Cortland Conservatory of
Music will
be omitted this week and instead will be given a students' concert on Friday
evening, Nov. 5, at the lecture room of the First Baptist church. An excellent
program will be given. Admission free. Concert begins at 8 o clock.
—In the midst of the news of the general
Democratic landslide a telegram was last night received from Eugene Burlingame,
saying that he had been reelected district attorney of Albany county by a majority
of 2,000. Mr. Burlingame is a Republican and former resident of Willet. He is a
brother of Miles E. and Ogden Burlingame of that town. We extend our
congratulations.
HOMER.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
HOMER, Nov. 3.—Mrs. P. F. Smith left for
Syracuse this morning where she will attend the funeral of Mrs. Richardson.
G. E. Priest, who has two studios, one in
Geneva and one here, has decided to k e charge of this gallery himself and has sent
Benjamin Sawyer, who has proved himself a competent artist, to take charge of
the large studio in Geneva. The many young friends of Mr. Sawyer regret very
much to learn of his sudden departure and hope that possibly he may be returned
to his old place in Homer again. Mr. Priest has secured the services of another
fine artist to do the operating g in the studio here who will arrive Thursday.
Mr. Sawyer left this morning on the early train for Geneva.
John J. Murray is confined to his home again
and was unable to come down and vote.
Bert Darrow and John Kelly, who have been acting
as guides in the Maine woods, returned home last evening. They have spent most
of the past season in the section of Moosehead lake and South Carey.
Mr. and Mrs. Krebs, who have been occupying
their cottage at Carpenter's
Point, Skaneateles
lake, for the past summer and have been the guests of Mr. Clark on
James-st. for a few days returned to their home in Binghamton this morning.
Mrs. H. C. Barton, who has been spending
some time at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Stevens on Elm-ave., left
for her home in Sackett's Harbor this morning.
The election made things in town very lively
yesterday.
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