ROOSEVELT NOMINATED

 

Col. Theodore Roosevelt.

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, September 30, 1898.

ROOSEVELT NOMINATED.

He Secured 753 Votes to 218 For Black.

IT WAS MADE UNANIMOUS.

Timothy L. Woodruff For Lieutenant Governor.

   SARATOGA, N. Y., Sept. 28.—Lemual Ely Quigg of New York city moved that the convention proceed at once with the nominations. He said it was the desire of the delegates that the work of the convention be terminated as speedily as possible.

   The motion being carried, former Judge J. Rider Cady of Hudson, who nominated Governor Black two years ago, ascended to the platform and addressed the convention placing before it for re-nomination the name of Frank S. Black

   Judge Cady finished amidst tremendous applause. This finishing remark about Governor Black's faithfulness to the ticket no matter what it should be, calling forth the enthusiasm of the audience.

   Chauncey M. Depew then took the platform in behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, Senator White announcing him as Mr. Depew of America. For some minutes Dr. Depew could not begin his speech for the applause that ensued.

   Those portions of his speech relating to President McKinley were received with much applause and there was a vigorous reception of the tribute to Governor Black. When Mr. Depew told of the famous charge of the Rough Riders and mentioned the name of Roosevelt every man was on his feet cheering.

   When Mr. Depew had reached the point in his speech where he alluded to the non-effect of Mauser bullets two or three men rushed down the aisle bearing a big portrait of Colonel Roosevelt in Rough Rider uniform. There was a three minute interruption and the picture was taken to the stage and set up.

   Mr. Depew finished his speech amid applause that was almost pandemonium. When it had subsided Judge Charles T. Saxton of Wayne took the platform and seconded the nomination of Black.

   Assemblyman Wallace of Queens seconded the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt as a "resident of Queens and a neighbor of mine.''

   To the surprise of everybody Elihu Root, who had not been substituted as a delegate to the convention, was called to the platform by the chairman and made a statement as to the eligibility of Mr. Roosevelt to hold office. He said in part that Mr. Roosevelt had always voted in Oyster Bay and had merely removed personal property to Washington. He had always paid taxes in Oyster Bay and had merely refused to pay taxes on property he was using in New York, and by his affidavit he merely said that he was not a resident of New York [City]. He read a letter from Mr. Roosevelt saying that he paid his tax in Oyster Bay and that he should not be asked to pay it in New York also. The statement said that he had no domicile in New York city and that he was residing in Oyster Bay. It was a settled fact in law that a man could have two residences and that was especially true in the case of a Washington officeholder and the court had so declared.

   Secretary of state Palmer then moved a rollcall and the motion was received with applause. When the calling began there was applause at every vote, but pretty soon the anxiety to have the result soon accomplished prevailed, and the roll was called with rapidity. Before it got through the New York delegation it was evident that Mr. Roosevelt had a practical walkover, and soon enough of votes had been cast to nominate him.

   When the rollcall was completed the vote was announced as follows: Roosevelt 753; Black 218. Then the auditors and the delegates were in a great mass and cheered. Finally Mr. Lauterbach arose, but Judge Cady, who preceded him, got to the floor and moved to make the nomination unanimous. The nomination was made unanimous and the convention took a recess.

   Upon reassembling the chairman announced that the platform was ready and the ex-minister to Spain, amidst applause, took the platform and read the resolutions. The reading was frequently interspersed with applause, and when it was finished the resolutions were adopted unanimously.

   The following committee was appointed to be an advisory board for the state committee: Thomas G. Platt, Chauncey M. Depew, Frank Hiscock, Edward Lauterbach and Frank S. Witherbee.

   The old eagle emblem was readopted for the party.

   This resolution was adopted:

   Whereas, under the constitution no state officers are to be elected by the people in 1899; therefore,

   Resolved, that the Republican state convention is authorized to fill all vacancies that may occur in any office. The convention then adjourned sine die.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.

   The Democrats will have an easy time defeating a man who, though a good fighter, makes affidavit that he is a tax-dodger.

   An erroneous idea has circulated in some sections that Waiter A. Cook, Jr., will withdraw from the race for Member of Assembly, but such is not the case. He is in the right to stay and to win.

   Walter A. Cook, Jr., is a man who, if elected will represent the laboring man at Albany. He is foreman of the works of the Climax Road Machine Co. at Marathon, N. Y., and knows what it is to work for a living.

   Cortland county now presents a three cornered fight, but the result is not in doubt for Republicans cannot conscientiously vote a ticket which endorses the canal steal, and the Raines law and protects and fosters trusts and monopolies.

   While Americans are singing the praises of naval heroes and Great Britain is rejoicing over a splendid military victory in the Soudan, France is floundering in the mire of one of the nastiest scandals [Dreyfus Affair] that ever disgraced its government, judiciary and army.

   Dr. Halsey J. Ball of Scott, N. Y., is a thorough Democrat and a physician whose past success in his profession insures the faithful and efficient performance of the duties of coroner by him and the people of the county will turn in and elect him.

   While the Chicago platform is not included in that of the New York State [Democratic] convention, the men placed in nomination on the ticket are all those who stood unequivocally for silver in 1896. On the floor of the convention a question was raised by Mr. Pierce of Rochester as to the position of Mr. Conway, but many prominent silver delegates present asserted from personal knowledge that he was and is loyal to the Chicago platform. This ticket is one which there is no excuse for not voting and it will be a sure winner on November 8.

   Hon David W. Van Hoesen was the logical candidate of the Cortland county Democracy for member of assembly and in the face of his positive statement that he could not accept nomination for a second term, many thought that at the last minute be would do so. But when it became evident that he could not and it was certain that another man must be chosen, it was a happy choice which selected Walter A. Cook, Jr., of Marathon. While he is a comparatively new resident of the county having moved to Marathon from Albany in 1896, he is at the same time more than qualified for the office and he is not an entire stranger either, for his birthplace was Norwich in Chenango, a neighboring county and there he has spent most of his life. In Marathon he holds a responsible position with the Climax Machine company. Mr. Cook is a man 37 years of age and he stands firm on the Chicago platform. He is a fluent speaker and will look carefully after the interests of the laboring man as against the trusts and monopolies, being himself a laboring man. No better nomination could have been made.

 

Thomas Platt.

Political Notes.

   Col. Roosevelt's boomers said he would be elected Mayor of New York in 1886—but he wasn't. Col. Roosevelt's boomers say he will be elected Governor in 1898—but he won't.—Albany Argus.

   The theory on which Mr. Platt is asked to consent to the election of Col. Roosevelt to head the Republican ticket this fall is that the colonel has been out of the State while the party has been making its Black record. The idea is that he will serve admirably as an immense Red Cross political nurse for the scandal stricken party.—World.

   The only question with Platt just now is how to escape from the punishment plainly due and which the public are as plainly inclined to administer for the robberies and other rascalities which have marked his recent career. Roosevelt, he thinks, promises an avenue of escape, and for this reason he is for Teddy.—Brooklyn Citizen.

   The idea of Roosevelt associating with Platt is horrible, to Roosevelt—but the idea of running for governor without Mr. Platt’s aid is not to be entertained for a moment. Thomas C. Platt has been in politics since several weeks ago last Tuesday and expects to remain in politics until several moons shall have come and gone subsequent to next November.—Poughkeepsie News-Press.

   Notwithstanding the differences of opinion and the factions into which the party has been divided since the national convention in 1896, there is no room for reasonable doubt that the convention will produce the best possible results for the party and the people. Factions will be lost sight of, and personal differences will be forgotten, while the best men will be placed in nomination.—Dansville Express.

   If the Platt machine attempts to escape the canal issue by talking war in this State during the coming campaign with the hope of securing the votes of the soldiers who volunteered for service in the war with Spain it will be well to remember that when it was proposed by the assembly Democrats to give the New York volunteers $7 per month as State pay, as was done in several other States, the Republican majority voted "no" solidly and the proposition was lost solely through their vote.—Malone Gazette.

   That's the tune. Hurrah for Dewey! Hurrah for McKinley! Hurrah for everybody! Celebrate our easy victories over a fourth rate European power, and ignore the gross incompetency that cost so many lives and would have invited disaster if we had been pitted against a foe of equal strength. And if the President won't unload the incubus, deny that any incubus exists. Anything to make people forget till after the elections. But here in Western Massachusetts, where the cruel blunders of the war department have been brought home to so many households, people are not likely to forget.—Springfield Republican.

   Mark Hanna says "That no member of the administration is responsible for the starvation of our soldiers." He claims that he ought to know, "because he was at the war department almost all the time." We infer from this that Marcus had important business in the contract-looting line. He, in conformity to the natural logic of his reasoning, thinks that musty hard-tack, and maggoty meat [is] fine food for the soldier. That no clothes in the South and paper shoes at $2.50 per pair, 8,000 of which fell off the feet of the boys at Camp Alger in one day, is sufficient clothing for any man who was fool enough to offer his life for his country. These things force the government to buy more of the same kind, and the more the government buys the more money Hanna's friends make.—The Assaver.

 

HERE AND THERE.

   Butternuts and hickorynuts are reported plentiful.

   A epidemic of colds and coughs has just now a firm hold on the village.

   We have new correspondent in Homer and will have a weekly letter from there in future.

   The annual fair of the Binghamton Industrial exposition will he held Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7, 1898.

   We extend thanks for tickets to the Summer Hill fair and regret that we were unable to attend.

   The penny-in-the-slot gum machine in front of Chas. H. Price's store was stolen Wednesday night.

   We are now ready to receive about twenty cords of wood on subscription and allow market prices.

   Burgess, the big clothier and shoe man, is making a drive on Dunlap hats. He has the genuine article.

   Registration days in this village Oct. 14 and 15 and 21 and 22. In the balance of the county Oct. 15 and 22.

   Barber Arch W. Stevens is now running three chairs, Mr. W. F. Potter, lately with Banks, being the third artist.

   Mr. T. J. Cronin of No. 5 Crandall-st. has lately gone into the egg business and is paying the highest market price for strictly fresh eggs.

   Messrs. Howard Meacham and Harry Masters are about to open a meat market at 25 North Main-st. W. A. Pierce will occupy No. 27 as a confectionery and news stand.

   The ninth annual convention of the societies for the prevention of cruelty will be held at Syracuse Oct. 5 and 6. Calvin P. Walrad of Cortland is one of the vice-presidents of the organization.

   The $1.50 Lehigh Valley excursion to Niagara Falls last Sunday carried about 400 Cortland people. Accommodations were much better this time and they reached home about 3 A. M. Monday.

   Dr. Jacobson of Syracuse performed an operation upon Miss Nellie Sweeney for appendicitis at the hospital Wednesday afternoon. The operation was successful, [and] the patient was reported very weak yesterday.

   Charles E. Blaney's "A Hired Girl" at the opera house to-morrow evening. This is another of those very funny entertainments and is presented by a company of twenty-five players. If you miss it you will regret it.

   Mr. Robert G. Bryant, who is home on a furlough, has sufficiently recovered from an attack of malaria fever so that he expects to leave on Monday next to join his company at Huntsville. Ala. Mr. Bryant's company will doubtless be sent to Cuba before the 1st of November.

   Lieut. Alexis Mahan returned to St. John's, Manlius, on the 17th of September. Since his return he has been made senior cadet officer with the rank of Major. St. John's school enters upon a remarkably prosperous year, nearly 125 cadets from many different states in attendance, making three companies.

   Prof. A. O. Palmer is proudly exhibiting a sacred Egyptian cucumber which he raised in his garden this season. It is a genuine novelty and a thing never before seen around here. He bought three seeds from an advertisement and the result is a crop of vegetables about the size of a very large cucumber but the surface is covered with projections like thorns only not as sharp. When opened it is full of a blood colored juice.

   Mrs. Martha M. Kinney, wife of D. E. Kinney, who resided just out of town on the Groton road, died last Friday afternoon, aged 42 years. She has for some time been a great sufferer from Bright's disease and death came to her as a blessing and one for which she was fully prepared. The funeral services Monday afternoon were conducted by Rev. John T. Stone whose church she had attended. Burial was in the Rural cemetery.

 

FROM EVERYWHERE.

   One of the largest, if not the largest, fish ever caught on the Fulton Chain, was taken by Edward Arnold, the veteran fisherman last week Friday, in Fourth lake. It was a salmon trout and weighed 27 1/4 pounds, being 4 feet, and 7 inches long.

   Thirty-five applicants for one vacancy in the civil engineer corps of the navy presented themselves for examination in Washington the other day. This proves that employment in the navy is much desired, or else that there are plenty of civil engineers with nothing to do.

   A new harvester has recently been perfected which cuts, threshes and bags the grain as it goes along. But two men are required to run the machine and four horses to draw it. Under favorable circumstances it is claimed that a harvester with six-foot cutting bar will cut fifteen acres in a day.

   One Middleville, Herkimer county, farmer lost eight cows, another seven and another two very mysteriously. A State expert investigated and found the deaths caused by the "black pest'' or a black bug, the larva of which is hatched in the ground. Its sting is deadly poisonous, the victim's body swelling, the flesh turning black and death resulting in a few hours.

   The wardens of the three prisons of the State have just filed with Superintendent Collins their reports of the convict population of the State under the new classification system. It is the purpose of the department to confine the best classes of prisoners in Sing Sing, the second class in Auburn, and the third and fourth classes which constitute the worst element of the convict population, in Clinton prison at Dannemora.

   At a recent school meeting in South Olean, N. Y., the ticket for trustees consisted entirely of women. The men of the district are dissatisfied and have petitioned State Superintendent Skinner to annul the election. The petition sets forth that the election was illegal, as it was done by acclamation, and also that the names of several men were placed in nomination but were ignored. The women claim that these men declined nominations, and they have retained an attorney to take care of their interests.

   The Rev. Madison C. Peters, pastor of the Reformed Bloomingdale church in New York city, has a peculiar plan for promoting temperance. In one of his recent sermons, he told his congregation: "Every man that feels that he must drink whiskey, ought to buy whiskey by the demijohn and keep it at home. Let his wife have the keys to the closet, and every time he wants a drink of whiskey, let him pay his wife 15 cents for the drink. In that way he will keep the profit on the whiskey in the family, and his wife will save up enough money to have a decent funeral when the head of the house reaches the stage where he is about to fill a drunkard's grave."