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| Maj. Gen. Elwell Stephen Otis. |
The Cortland Democrat, Friday, December 23, 1898.
PHlLIPPINE PROCLAMATlON.
Instructions to Be Sent to General Otis at Manila.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Instructions have been prepared to be sent to General Otis at Manila, which will be promulgated there as a proclamation by the president. These instructions are similar in import to those sent to our officers at Santiago upon the occupation of that city by United States troops. They assure the Filipinos that the United States assumes military control of the Philippine islands in a spirit of peace and friendship and that all civil rights and privileges that they hitherto have enjoyed will be continued and that it is the purpose of this government to relieve in all possible ways the unjust burdens they have borne and asks for the co-operation of all good citizens in maintaining order to the end that peace and prosperity may be restored. So far as is practicable all efficient civil officers will be retained in the official positions they now occupy and fair and impartial justice will be administered to all.
It has been decided not to give out the text of the instructions to General Otis till about the time of their arrival in Manila, which will be a month hence. The instructions also make temporary arrangements for coasting trade much as in the case of Cuba.
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| Cortland Hospital on North Main Street. |
HOSPITAL FUNCTION.
Mrs. Adah H. White Graduated Two Years Course as Nurse.
The graduation of a trained nurse from Cortland Hospital is always made a gala occasion and that of Mrs. Adah H. White Monday evening was no exception.
A supper was served at 6 o'clock at which nearly every member of the medical and surgical staffs and the board of managers, with the matron and nurses present. The diploma was presented by Dr. Higgins and afterward Dr. Sornberger read an appropriate poem. Remarks were made by Drs. Ver Nooy and Henry.
Mrs. White will spend another year in| the hospital and will go out on calls for skilled nurses. On Jan. 25, Mrs. Helen M. Waters will be entitled to a similar diploma. There are seven nurses in training at the hospital.
BROWN CONFIRMED.
SENATE ACTED UPON HIS NOMINATION ON TUESDAY.
George H. Kennedy Will be Deputy—This an Excellent Selection—Will Endeavor to Complete Preliminary Arrangements and Takes the Office on January 1.
On Tuesday the Senate confirmed the presidential nomination of Andrew S. Brown to be postmaster at Cortland. Thus ends a hitter fight which has been waged between Mr. Brown and Wm. H. Clark for nearly two years although it was practically ended two weeks ago when the president sent the name of Mr. Brown to the Senate and since that time the picture of Hon. Sereno E. Payne, and his long speeches have been conspicuous by their absence from the columns of the Cortland Standard.
While neither man would doubtless give Cortland an equally excellent administration of the office, the political reasons for Congressman Payne's selection of Mr. Brown are patent to all and the appointment is a just reward for faithful and continuous work for the [Republican] party. The handwriting on the wall is so plain to those who, as it were, sit on the party fence prepared to jump with the majority that "He who runs may read."
Mr. Brown has decided to name Mr. George H. Kennedy as deputy and this appointment cannot but give the best of satisfaction. Mr. Kennedy is a young man with a wide business experience and of a pleasing address and will make an admiral official.
Mr. Brown is so well known in this county that he needs no introduction to Uncle Sam's patrons.. For many years he successfully conducted a general store at Solon and was postmaster there for five years. He later entered the grocery business in Cortland in the store now occupied by Mills, the tailor. Having accumulated considerable property he, with T. E. Dye erected the cold storage warehouse near the Lehigh Valley depot and has since been extensively engaged in the egg and produce business. For three years previous to 1898 he was chairman of the Republican county committee.
Mr. Brown will make an effort to complete the signing and forwarding of his bonds, and other preliminaries in order to take the office on January 1, 1899.
LARGE IMPROVEMENTS.
Kennedy Bros. Preparing for 1899 Cycle Business.
Kennedy Bros.' cyclery has been a busy place the past season and they have sold all the wheels they could build. They are now preparing for the 1899 business and promise that the new models will be the [first][ in the market and have every improvement. They will build two hundred [frames] this winter and in preparation they have just put in a new 10-horse boiler and a large engine. They are also fitting up a complete nickling and enameling plant. A new dynamo has been ordered and they will have electricity for their own use and for lights and in addition will furnish lights for many of the business places near them and power to run the fans in Griffith's restaurant.
The Kennedy Bros. are hustlers and with their increased power and new machinery they will be prepared to do all kinds of machine work and if you want to be in the front rank next season, ride a Kennedy wheel.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Political Notes.
There are those who believe that Colonel Roosevelt is going to learn that being governor, under existing conditions in the Republican party, is no picnic.—Binghamton Leader.
Adjutant-Gen. Corbin's estimate that 81,000 soldiers will be required to garrison our colonies is rather disturbing to those who figure on a cheap or self-supporting "empire."—World.
In her efforts to expand our boundaries by knocking a few rocks off our coast line the battleship Massachusetts proved that the expansion policy is pretty, costly as well as dangerous.—Syracuse Courier.
Governor Black's idea seems to have been to fix it so that if anything comes of the canal prosecutions, he will get the credit, leaving to his successor the discredit of failures, if any.—Albany Argus.
With relation to the Platt machine, Colonel Roosevelt displays some of the outward symptoms of a woman who is about to announce that while it can never be, she will try to be a sister to him.—Albany Argus.
Now that the "tariff as a means of raising revenue is exhausted," remarks Charles Francis Adams of Massachusetts, "an income tax looms up in the largest possible proportions,'' that means may be provided to support an enlarged army and to pay pensions.
There are those that argue that this is not an Anglo-Saxon nation; but from the manner in which we have gathered in the Philippines and everything else we have captured in the late war, no one will deny that we possess to the fullest extent the Anglo-Saxon spirit of holding on to everything we lay our hands on.—Herkimer County News.
It is well to establish a naval station at Havana and keep some of our best vessels stationed there as a guaranty that public order will be maintained. If war vessels had been sent to Havana two years ago, it is possible that Spain might have had too good an opinion of the American navy to risk a conflict over Cuba. But the Maine went too late.—Buffalo Courier.
The smart but not wise young Governor [Black] up Albany way, who began his administration by "taking the starch out of civil service reform," closes it by directing his attorney-general to institute criminal proceedings against his superintendent of public works and his state engineer. There must be an instructive moral or two stowed away somewhere in this chapter of current political history.—Hartford Courant (Rep.)
John Y. McKane, ex-boss of Gravesend and ex-convict, says he expects to find in his Christmas stocking a notice of his restoration to citizenship by Governor Black. Instead of hiding his head in shame for his crookedness, this brazen Republican has the effrontery to believe that even Governor Black can ignore his record and rehabilitate him in the esteem of decent men. Johnny had better expatriate himself.—Syracuse Courier.
The arrangement by which Gen. Ludlow is to be military governor of the city of Havana, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee of the province of Havana, and Gen. Brooke of the whole island of Cuba, is cumbrous and multiplies offices unnecessarily. There is nothing in Gen. Brooke's record which indicates his fitness for supreme authority in Cuba, and there is certainly no reason for making him the superior of Fitzhugh Lee, who is an equally distinguished soldier, more of a statesman and diplomat, and far more familiar with the affairs of Cuba.—Buffalo Courier.
◘ The Syracuse Courier [Dem.] is no more. It has been merged with the new paper, the Evening Telegram, which recently came into existence and is issued from the Courier office. It is now the Evening Telegram and Courier and is sold for 1 cent. In politics it is independent.
◘ President McKinley is having a warm time in the south and probably thinks he is cementing the Union, but that was really done when the fight against Spain was begun. Nevertheless, we are glad the feeling is as it is.
HERE AND THERE.
The DEMOCRAT wishes you a very Merry Christmas.
The Presbyterian church is to be lighted by electricity.
A special meeting of the A. O. H. will be held Wednesday evening, Dec. 28.
Our young winter has had quite a setback in the thaw of the last three days.
Anyone wishing to rent an excellent barn in the center of town should apply at this office.
The boys on Lincoln-ave. are having a nice time with a snow house in the yard of Dr. F. W. Higgins.
We are now ready to receive about twenty cords of wood on subscription and allow market prices.
The contractors who built the E. & C. N. Y. railroad have settled all the claims against them for ties, posts, poles, etc.
The rumpus in the Owen-Rose family was settled in police court by a severe reprimand to both from Justice Mellon.
The Y M. D. C. give a banquet at the Kremlin on Friday evening, Jan. 6, and Landlord Dibble is preparing a grand layout.
Mayor McQuire of Syracuse will give a big dinner and entertainment to the poor children of that city next week Saturday.
Alfred Miaco and an excellent company gave three good "Humpty Dumpty performances at the opera house Saturday and Monday.
A company of serenaders favored the people on Lincoln-ave. last Saturday evening with sweet music which all the hearers enjoyed.
Owing to a great press in our job rooms we are unable to set the many Christmas programs of churches and schools which have been handed in.
Attorney L. T. Hollenbeck has moved his office from the Moore block to the office formerly occupied by Dr. H. T. Dana over C. F. Brown's drug store.
Briggs Bros. of Homer had an attractive rig on our streets yesterday. A very [sad] looking "Old Santa" in an old-fashioned sleigh was driving a nice looking team.
About sixty of the alumni of the Cortland Normal enjoyed the first annual banquet of the alumni who are in and near New York city at the St. Denis hotel in New York last Friday evening. Dr. F. J. Cheney was present.
The provision requiring all applicants for positions as teachers in New York city to have taught one year is waived in regard to Normal graduates and those of the present class desiring those positions can have them if they wish.
A stage leaves the Dexter house Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 2:30 P. M. for Dryden via. McLean. Fare round trip 70 cents, one way 40 cents. G. F. Hulslander is the proprietor and the other three days of the week he runs from Dryden to Ithaca.
Webster Burgess, charged with illegal voting, was up for examination before Justice Dowd Monday. He was represented by Attorney C. V. Coon and waived examination. The case was sent to the grand jury and Burgess was released on $250 bail.
Agent W. T. Bushby of the United States Express company informs us that the express office will be open on Christmas day, Sunday, till 10 A. M., and that the wagons will make deliveries of all packages. This will be a great accommodation to the public.
Mr. A. D. Wallace has completed the repairs and remodeling of the Haynes property on North Main-st. which he recently purchased. It is now a most handsome and completely equipped residence and Dr. E. A. Didama has moved in. It will also be his office.
The Warren-Scharff Paving company will have some work relaying part of the brick next to the street car tracks in South Main-st. next spring. The frost has raised them but not badly. The way the water from the thawing of the recent large body of snow went off, is a pleasure to those doing business and traveling along Main-st.
Mr. H. E. Andrews has moved his grocery and meat market into the Stevenson block, corner of Elm and Pomeroy-st. The stores have been newly papered and painted and other improvements made which add much to the appearance of his place of business. Mr. Andrews has put in a large stock of fresh goods and is ready for the holiday trade.
Last Saturday Mr. Frank A. Dunn and Miss Anna Breed, both of Cortland, were married at the residence of the officiating clergyman, Rev. A. Chapman of the First Baptist church. They left Tuesday for Waterloo where Mr. Dunn, who is a printer, has a situation on the Observer.
A case that furnished much amusement was that in summary proceedings in Justice Dowd's court Saturday. Mary A. Knapp desired to evict a tenant, George Greene, from a house on Evergreen-st., the rent of which was $1.25 per month. It was claimed by plaintiff that nearly a year's rent was due and defendant alleged that his work in the building of a barn had liquidated the claim. The Justice decided in favor of plaintiff.
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