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| Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider, 1898. |
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| Assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt, 1883. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, November 9, 1898.
REPUBLICAN VICTORY.
Roosevelt Elected by a Large Plurality.
IT MAY REACH FULLY 21,537.
Republicans Claim a Majority in the Legislature.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—The campaign which has closed in the election of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as the next Governor of the Empire State has been a remarkable one in many respects, but chiefly on account of the many issues involved and the strong personalities of the principle candidates on both republican and democratic tickets. A careful analysis of the vote shows that the anticipated deflection of the republican vote in the cities did not materialize to any marked extent, while beautiful fall weather in every section of the state resulted in bringing out a very heavy republican ballot for an off year, and it was made manifest early in the evening to the crowds gathered around the bulletin boards that Judge Van Wyck had been defeated. While the exact plurality will not be known for several weeks, a large percentage of the soldiers' ballot not having arrived, it is safe to say that he has carried the state by 22,000, and that later returns will not affect these figures to any appreciable extent.
The total plurality of Judge Van Wyck in Greater New York will approximate 77,000, while the Republican plurality of the state at large, outside of Greater New York, approached 99,000. The night scenes in this city have never been equaled, not even in a presidential year, the crowds in Newspaper Row, where a score of bulletin boards were displayed, being simply indescribable, while the din of tin horns and other noise creating instruments was terrific. The crowds were good-natured and easily handled, the ardent supporters of Judge Van Wyck accepting his defeat and incidentally the exultation of the Colonels adherents with equanimity.
The total republican vote will probably show a falling off as compared with that for Governor Black in 1895 of about 14 per cent. In the municipality of New York the old-time Democratic majority was approximated, Van Wyck's vote being about 80,000 greater than that of the Republican candidate. This latter result was helped in some measure by the result in the borough of Brooklyn (Kings county) which in 1896 gave Black, Rep., a plurality of about 16,830. Brooklyn is the home of Judge Van Wyck but this fact does not wholly explain the practical reversal of pluralities, which it is possible is attributable to the lukewarmness of the friends of Jacob Worth, who was deposed of the chairmanship of the county committee as a consequence of his opposition to the plans of Senator Platt in the mayoralty contest last year.
ROOSEVELT CONGRATULATED.
The Successful Candidate Receives the Returns at His Home.
OYSTER BAY, L. I., Nov. 9.—Colonel Roosevelt was notified of his victory by a telegram from Chairman Odell of the Republican state committee saying he had been elected governor by from 30,000 to 40,000 plurality. Colonel Roosevelt was at his house in Cove Neck surrounded by his family and some friends. After arriving home during the afternoon from the city he spent the evening quietly waiting for the returns to come in. News reached the telephone office in Oyster Bay before the dispatches from New York were sent to Colonel Roosevelt's house.
A party of newspapermen as soon as the first information came that he had been elected drove to his house and informed him he was to be the next governor of New York state. Mr. Roosevelt was asked to make a statement outlining his future plans, but he laughingly replied that he wanted to be first sure that he had been elected and did not care to say much until he received the official news from the state committee that he was elected. Colonel Roosevelt was congratulated by those present and during the night there was a flood of congratulatory telegrams for the successful candidate.
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| Sereno E. Payne. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
A Glorious Victory.
Theodore Roosevelt is governor-elect of New York.
A legislature Republican in both houses is elected with him.
A large majority of the congressional delegation from New York is Republican.
This congressional and senatorial district re-elect Sereno E. Payne and Dr. Wm. E. Johnson, and Cortland county elects George S. Sands to the assembly.
Such in brief is the result of yesterday's voting in New York state. New York refuses to be Tammanyized. It refuses to make Richard Croker boss at Albany as well as in the great city. It rebukes the most insolent attempt that has been made by an irresponsible hall, since the Democracy of the state was Tweed, to grasp power in the state. It is not deceived by the cry of "canal frauds" by men who steal the result of elections, into restoring the latter to opportunity.
Negatively, it says to Croker and Hill and Murphy and Danforth and their kind: Stand back! Hands off.
Affirmatively, it reaches the glad hand of confidence to the courageous, the honest, the able, the incorruptible, the patriotic Roosevelt, and lifts him into the seat of power. Its citizens have seen him working in behalf of good government in the legislature; have seen him brave Tammany in its stronghold in behalf of lawfulness in execution of law; have seen him in the national field, and on the field of carnage, battling ever for the right, for the supremacy of law, for the honor of his country. They never saw a collar on his neck. They had confidence that as governor he would be what Theodore Roosevelt has been always, true to himself, to his high ideals of honor, to the best service of all the people.
The victory is the more glorious because of the shame and menace of Tammany government escaped, because of the message it bears to President McKinley that the Empire state approves and applauds his administration.
The apparent majority for Roosevelt is not so large as it should be, but a study of the figures will show that the people who have not voted the Republican ticket have not gone to the Tammany Democracy. They have simply refrained from voting, for what reason can only be conjectured. Probably about 80,000 Republicans who voted for Governor Black did not vote yesterday. But the Democratic vote increased very little comparatively over its very low ebb of 1896.
It is a glorious victory!
The County.
In the count, the result is substantially as The STANDARD has believed it would be—only more so. We telegraphed the New York World several days since, in answer to their inquiry, that the county would go 1,500 for Roosevelt. It went 1,734. We had counted on Mr. Sands' election by from 400 to 500. His majority is 730. The last two days of the campaign his strength grew very rapidly. The final appeal sent out by the Democrats turned more than a few Republicans to Mr. Sands who had before intended to vote for Mr. Smith. The "$1,000 Reward" poster, which was sent out in Mr. Smith's interest on Monday afternoon, was also far more destructive at the breech than at the muzzle. But the cause which worked more powerfully than all others, and which would have elected Mr. Sands independently of everything else, was the United States senatorship issue, which was urged by The STANDARD with all the persistency and force at its command. Mr. Smith's endorsement by the Cortland Democrat as "numerically equivalent to half a Democrat," and the published guaranty of Democratic leaders that there would be results satisfactory to Democrats from his election, while they served to hold very few Democrats who would otherwise have voted for Mr. Sands, drove hundreds of Mr. Smith's personal friends—who at almost any other time would have been his supporters—to vote the straight Republican ticket.
No one could say aught against Mr. Smith personally. No one attempted to. And had those who put him in the field as an independent candidate made him their candidate in the regular Republican caucuses, he would probably have carried them. Mr. Sands certainly would not have stood in his way, and the fight within the Republican ranks this fall would have been avoided. But the United States senatorship was too important an issue with the vast majority of Cortland county Republicans to be affected by personal or factional feeling and, as The STANDARD put it: "Republicans have been showing a growing appreciation of the necessity of sending a man to Albany who has no associations with the Democratic party, and is under no obligations on account of Democratic support.''
Then again, Mr. Sands did not seek the nomination, and it was the outcome of the fairest caucus and convention ever held in the county.
Considering Mr. Smith's remarkably wide acquaintance and great popularity and the serious breach in the party ranks, Mr. Sands' election is something of which both he and all who supported him have special reason to be proud. And we believe that his course at Albany will be such as to do credit to himself, his party and his county.
Every true Republican will hope also, that Mr. Sands' election will mark the end of party discords, and that another fall may see Republicans united under the new plan of organization and apportionment of delegates, which does away forever with mob caucuses, gives the strong Republican towns more of a voice in nominating county officers, and makes it possible for Republicans to settle their differences where they ought to be settled—at fairly held caucuses and conventions. With the new Primary Election law extended to this village—as it ought to be—there should then be a time of honest and decent politics and of general acquiescence in the decision of party tribunals.
ECHOES OF THE WAR.
Military Notes and Items About the Recent Conflict.
There are over 10,000 applications for discharges on file in the war department at Washington, but very few are being granted.
Arrangements are being made by the war investigating commission to resume full sessions in Washington early next week. General Shafter will be one of the first witnesses examined.
The war department has chartered the steamer St. Paul from the Alaska Commercial company to sail from San Francisco to Manila, Nov. 17, carrying supplies for the army stationed in the Philippines.
The United States transport Panama from Santiago via Havana, arrived in New York with 90 officers and soldiers. The Panama brought 16 caskets, containing the bodies of United States soldiers who died at Santiago or were killed in battle.
The peace conference was postponed for a day at the request of the American commissioners who asked for further time for the translation of the reply of the United States to the latest Spanish propositions regarding the Philippine islands, which had just been received.
A two-funneled steamer has stranded on Cat island in the Watling group, about 50 miles from the point where the MariaTeresa was supposed to have foundered. The navy department has dispatched the Vulcan and the Potomac to render aid, thinking that it may be that vessel.
ELECTION IN CORTLAND.
It Passed Off Quietly With Good Republican Weather.
Election passed off very quietly in Cortland yesterday. The weather was fine and a large vote was polled. The country roads were not very good, but it did not prevent the people from getting to the polls.
At 5 o'clock the polls closed and the counting begun. Returns were received and read at Republican headquarters, at the Cortland House by the Democrats, at the Tioughnioga club, the Y. M. C. A. rooms and at a dozen or more places both public and private. Messenger boys were kept flying from the Western Union office and from the telephone office where general returns were received over the long distance telephone.
Before 9 o'clock the small boy and his older brother were out with born and drum and finally powder begun to burn to celebrate the victory of the hero of San Juan hill. Had the day been like today the plurality might have been smaller.
AN EFFICIENT OFFICER.
Thomas Howard Preserved Order in District No. 7 on Election Day.
To the Editor of The STANDARD:
SIR—District No. 7 of the village of Cortland on Election day had an officer in the person of Mr. Thomas Howard, who made a notable impression. He not only preserved order in the polling place, and would not allow electioneering or betting in the limits, but he ordered several prominent politicians outside of the limits for betting and threatened to arrest them. He was dressed in a fine regulation uniform and carried himself with dignity. Several amateur photographers took snap shots of him, and the reporter of a Syracuse daily is said to have made a half tone of his genial face on the spot for the next Sunday issue. The election board, regardless of politics or factions, gave him a unanimous vote of thanks, and recommend all future boards to appoint him to that responsible office. Thugs, repeaters and plug-uglies gave district No. 7 a wide berth. He was called to several other polling places by telephone to suppress disturbances which he did promptly, he having a carriage at his command. ***
PAVING MOVING ON.
Asphalt Down as Far as Union-st.—Finishing up the Pieces.
Paving is moving steadily on. The asphalt is laid as far as Union-st., except a little spot at the crossing of Main-st. near the Messenger House and work was in progress there this afternoon till the rain put a stop to it. It will be completed very soon, however. The asphalt at the entrance to Argyle Place was laid yesterday and to-day scrapers and men were leveling down the dirt drawn there a month ago to bring up the grade to the required elevation. More dirt has been drawn in to-day and the first team to enter the street in about a month was seen there to-day. Grocery men, milkmen and butchers will be glad to have the opportunity of delivering their goods in some other way than by hand.
The dirt that was thrown up on the curb on Main-st. at the time of the excavation was drawn away in part to-day and there are really evidences that the end of the job is approaching.
Appreciate in Oswego.
Manager Wallace of the Cortland Opera House has to-day received the following message from Wallace & Gilmore of the Richardson theatre, Oswego, regarding the show "Tom Edson, the Electrician" which appears at the Opera House here to-night:
W. W. Wallace, Manager Opera House, Cortland, N. Y.:
Blaney's "Electrician" far stronger than his "Railroad Ticket." Last night's audience demands return date. People turned away here.
WALLACE & GILMORE.
ELECTION RETURNS.
Quickly and Accurately Gathered by The Standard's Efficient Helpers.
It is no slight task to gather the election returns from twenty-nine districts in a county scattered over a territory 25 miles long and 20 miles wide, especially when several of them are from five to six miles from telephone or telegraph stations and the messages have to be carried by special messengers over country roads to reach a wire. But The STANDARD by reason of its large corps of faithful and efficient helpers accomplished it last night in a very short time. Indeed the returns never came in so well and so quickly as this year. There was not a hitch anywhere. Manager Nolan of the central telephone office very kindly arranged a long distance telephone in the central office specially for The STANDARD which was more convenient for many reasons than to use our own long distance telephone in our own office. There in one corner by themselves The STANDARD men who were engaged in collecting and classifying the county returns carried on their work. Manager George of the Western Union office gave quick service from all districts where the telegraph was used.
The town of Harford made for itself a record some years ago of being the first district in the county to secure a count and report and it has broken it but once in five years, and then only by a narrow margin, Last night as usual it was first and the dispatch came from J. C. Jones reporting the vote on governor at 6:02. Within another half hour the entire vote of the district was counted and reported. Others followed in rapid succession. Before 9 o'clock all the districts in the county except three aside from those in the village of Cortland had reported in full. Some of those who reported so early had long drives to make too. Some of the Cortland districts were delayed a little by the size of the vote and the number of split ballots to count. At 10:30 the last returns were received in full and the county vote was complete. We wish at this time to publicly thank all of those who were instrumental in rushing the returns in to us so quickly and so satisfactorily. For the courtesy and kindness shown in making all the details of satisfactory telephoning so easy, including quick service, we have a special word of appreciation for Manager Nolan and his assistants.
At about 10 o'clock, during a little lull Mr. Nolan surprised everybody by producing a nice lunch, of which everybody present was invited to partake and to which all did full justice. Taken all in all the gathering of the returns last night was a very satisfactory operation, especially when the result was also taken into consideration.
Improvements on the E. & C. N. Y. R. R.
The two new watertanks for the E. & C. N. Y. R. R.—one in Cortland and the other at Cincinnatus—are completed and almost ready for use. Water will be pumped by a gasoline engine for the tank in Cortland, while at Cincinnatus it it will be furnished from a spring high on the hill 2,000 feet away. Though the tanks are finished the water has not yet been turned on, but will be in a few days. The new turntable at the junction is now set up and ready for use.
BREVITIES.
—The ladies of the Farther Lights society of the First Baptist church will meet for work at Miss Grace Stoker's, 13 Church-st., this evening at 8 o'clock.
—Mrs. G. J. Mager entertained a few lady friends at bid euchre last evening. Mrs. Wright, Miss Wright and Miss Carman of Georgia were among the guests who enjoyed the evening's entertainment.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Pope Mfg. Co., Bicycles, page 8; Peck, Fine Groceries, page 7; F. E. Brogden, Coupon Book, page 7; Warren, Tanner & Co., New Goods, page 6; McGraw & Osgood, Great Sale of Footwear, page 6; Opera House, "The Nancy Hanks," page 5.
—Attorney Edwin Duffey as referee in the case of the Williams & Clark Fertilizer company of New York against Price & Co. has handed down his decision, in which judgment for the plaintiff for $773.93 is rendered. B. A. Benedict was the plaintiff's attorney and W. C. Crombie represented the defendant.
