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| Philippine Freedom Fighters. |
The Cortland Democrat, Friday, October 27, 1899.
Filipinos Again Seeking Peace.
Three Filipinos approached the American lines at Angeles and asked that a commission be allowed to proceed to Manila to visit General Otis to discuss peace terms and make arrangements for the exchange of American and Spanish prisoners for Filipinos. When they returned for their answer they were informed that their request could not be granted because the suggestions of the Filipinos were vague, indefinite and unmilitary.
The spectacle of the last Filipino officers who waited upon the American authorities at Manila displaying uniforms about the city encouraged the hostile element of the inhabitants. And, moreover, the persistent attempts of the various commissions previously sent to Manila to entrap the Americans into some sort of recognition of the Filipino government have exhausted the patience of the authorities.
In the meantime hostilities are being kept up but no serious fighting has taken place. General Lawton's column is establishing a base at San Isidro. Launches and cascoes navigate the shallow Rio Grande with considerable difficulty, but supplies have been landed in the vicinity and will be transported overland.
While a launch of General Lawton's expeditions was nearing San Isidro the rebels lay in ambush and fired on the vessel, killing Major Guy Howard, a son of General O. O. Howard, and wounding two other Americans.
Captain MacRae, with a battalion of the Third Infantry, and Captain Chinweth with a battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry, marched to the town of Jose Malinas for the purpose of dispersing a band of 300 insurgents under Juan Dicart, who had recently been annoying our outposts and travelers along the road from Santa Ana to Arayat. The insurgents fled in the direction of Magalang. The country between Angeles and Arayat is now reported clear.
The insurgents surprised a boat's crew of four men from the gunboat Mariveles who, under a white flag, were landing the non-combatants from a captured proa at Sicogon island. William Juraschka, boatswain's mate, first class, was captured. An armed crew of 10 men attempted to rescue him and four of them were wounded, one of them mortally. Two gunboats have been sent to punish the insurgents if possible.
Three now steamers nearing completion at New York, the Thomas, Meade and Logan, have been secured by the United States for transports. The Thomas will be ready to sail for the Philippines, Nov. 5, carrying the Forty-seventh volunteer infantry. The Meade will follow on Nov. 15 with the Forty-third volunteer infantry. The Logan will sail on Nov. 20 with the Forty-first volunteer infantry.
Hands Off.
The editor of the Tully Times recently received the following note of warning:
"Keep your hands off from your neighbor's wood piles and you won't have any trouble, because they are like Dewey's guns—they speak for themselves, they hit."
The editor's comments upon the epistle are as follows:
The above caution came to the editor of the Times by mail—no name attached to the communication. We have been accused, heretofore, of interfering in politics and nosing about in matters that—to the general public—appeared to be none of our business, but never before have we been cautioned not to steal stove wood. If things keep on in this way much longer, an editor will not be allowed any privileges worth speaking of. A subscriber may be in arrears from June to eternity and have a big pile of wood, and yet we cannot even up things by burning a few sticks of his woods, without facing a Dewey gun. Whither are we drifting?
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
News About Our Neighbors Told in Short Paragraphs.
Ithaca will vote by machinery Nov. 7.
B. T. Miner of Georgetown bought over six barrels of ginseng last week valued at over $1,200.
The new railroad bridge over South Cayuga-st., Ithaca, cost the Lackawanna railroad company over $8,000.
Over 500 barrels of cider per day are made at the Bouckville mills. 75 men are employed in the various departments.
Borden's Condensed Milk Co. are to build a plant at Norwich, which it is expected will be the largest in the world. The village is to furnish the site at a cost of $6,000.
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad company has decided to expend $25,000 in rebuilding and improving its coal shipping trestle at Oswego. The trestle has become weak and rotten, and the repairs will be made this winter. Fifty men will be given employment, but it is thought that only the structure can be renewed before the opening of navigation next spring.
The rumors occasionally in circulation to the effect that Sig. Sautelle intended to sell out at DeRuyter and go elsewhere are evidently without foundation. Instead of selling, he is buying more property and apparently preparing the whole for a permanent home for his magnificent circus. Last week Mr. Sautelle purchased William and L. S. Samson's farm of 102 acres, joining his 400 acres on Paradise Hill, which is a most desirable addition to his country estate. The buildings are commodious and in good condition, and can be fitted to accommodate nearly all of his fine horses.—Gleaner.
School Report.
Below will be found Truxton Union school honor list, placed there on account of superior scholarship, regular attendance and good conduct, during the first six weeks of the present term of the school: Bertha Crandall, Irene Muller, Katherine Davis, Porter Stearns, Elizabeth Leasonfelt, Irene MacDiarmid, Oscar Van Valkenburg, Isabelle Woodward, Bayard Schellinger, Fritz Keeler, Earnest Garner, Josephine Patrick, Frank Garner.
Reduced Registration.
The registration in the eight election districts in the village of Cortland is 273 less than in 1898, the number of names enrolled being 2,508 as against 2,781 last year. No. 6 is the only district which comes any where near the registration of 1898, the falling off being only five. The figures by districts are as follows:
Sad Death of Little Miss Bushby.
The death of Harriett Lucile, the 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. T. Bushby, Tuesday afternoon, has created deep sympathy for the bereaved parents and for the estimable grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Brownell. The little girl was an unusually bright child, and was the pride of the entire household.
Some time ago Mr. Bushby went to Binghamton to take charge of the United States Express company's office, and though his family had not moved to that place, they were stopping there temporarily when their daughter was taken ill. She was brought to Cortland, and the physician pronounced her sickness a case of scarlet fever.
On account of the nature of the disease no funeral services were held at the house, and interment was made Wednesday morning. Mrs. Bushby is ill with scarletina, and her many friends hope for her speedy recovery.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Roosevelt is now delivering campaign speeches in Maryland and is sent by the Republicans to any localities where Republican success is doubtful. Watch for small bills giving his dates in Cortland county.
Dr. James M. Milne has accepted the chairmanship of the Democratic county committee in place of Hugh Duffey, who last week resigned. Though beginning late, he is fast evolving an aggressive campaign.
You would not chose a man to run your business or farm because he were a good politician. How much less should a thorough "ring" politician be chosen to govern the schools in which your children are to receive instruction? The Republican nominees are ring men of the first water, while both Democratic nominees are teachers.
Keep politics out of the schools is the slogan often sounded. Good; we believe in it. Why not stand by that theory this year? The citizens of Cortland county have the privilege of saying on next election day whether politicians trained in the tricks of caucuses and conventions, or teachers taught in the practical needs of the schools, shall be school commissioners of Cortland county. Who shall say that a training in ring politics in Cortland county would fit a person for the high office of teacher? Should teachers be appointed in our schools through political favor? Certainly not. Then should school commissioners whose duties now-a-days require them to know and judge of the fitness of teachers, the needs and conditions of our schools, the supervision of the courses of study and the reporting of all such matter to the State Department of Public Instruction be less capable, leas ignorant of the needs and possibilities of the schools than the teacher? Are the judges in our courts chosen from the teaching, the medical or the legal profession? Why not apply in fairness the same principle to the schools where the coming citizens are trained for manhood and citizenship? Citizens of Cortland county, forget partisanship, remember the opportunities for citizenship and elect Mr. Luke J. McEvoy and Miss Katharine E. Cobb, the teacher candidates, for the office of school commissioners in this county.
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| Charles Rufus Skinner. |
Superintendent Skinner's Opinion.
The DEMOCRAT is waging a campaign to elect a woman, Katherine E. Cobb, as a school commissioner in the northern district of this county and has presented such arguments of its own as it could, but we have here an opinion from the highest and best authority on educational matters in the state, Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles R. Skinner. This opinion is unbiased, except for the good of the schools. In his report to the last legislature, XLI, the superintendent says:
"I am glad to add my personal testimony to the excellent work that women are now doing as state superintendents, teachers, school commissioners, members of boards of education and in many other lines of educational work. To good executive ability, they add an earnestness of purpose, and conscientious devotion to duty which may well be emulated by their brothers. It is my sincere desire to encourage the advancement of women to all positions to which their inclination and ability may direct."
Washington Letter.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—The man who has no weakness to yet unborn. Mr. McKinley's supporters have taken advantage of Admiral Dewey's only known weakness—fear for his health—to shut off the flow of Dewey enthusiasm, and thus as they think, lessen his availability as an anti-McKinley candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. They do not wish Dewey to attend any more big receptions because they keep him so prominently before the public, and although Dewey looks much better than he did when he first came to Washington, and has been going to the club or theatre in the evening and attending to his private business in the day time—he helped the committee select the house, which will this week be bought for him—in as active a manner as any other man of his years could do, he has been persuaded that his health is in great danger, and that he must absolutely avoid excitement of all kinds for some months. This was so firmly impressed upon him that he canceled his engagements to go to Atlanta and to Philadelphia, and announced that no would accept no more invitations until next Spring. And the McKinleyites think they have killed the Dewey boom.
What Arch-Bishop Chappelle, apostolic delegate to the Philippines, who has announced his intention to go to the Philippines to see about peace, which [Gen.] Otis has so signally failed to do, and Mr. McKinley said to each other during the long conference they held at the White House, while big politicians were kicking their heels in the secretary's office, is what all the newspaper men have been unsuccessfully trying to find out. That they talked of conditions in the Philippines is all that is positively known, although much more has been sent out by the imaginative newsmakers. The Archbishop seemed very pleased when he left the White House, and said that he would probably see Mr. McKinley again, before he left Washington for Manila, which he will do in a few days. The archbishop is well-known and popular in Washington, where he once had charge of a church.
The Washington Post, which has practically been a McKinley paper since his administration came into power, sounded a significant warning when it said at the close of an editorial full of praise of Mr. McKinley personally: "The President must usher in a new and healthier regime. If he cares for a political future, he must replace imbecility with brains and vigor. The people are worn out with failure, bewilderment, and disaster. Humanity demands a cessation of the murderous bungling in Luzon. Good faith and national honor require the pacification of Cuba and the political rehabilitation of the Cubans. This tragedy must end and end soon. Existing conditions projected into the coming year will put a conclusive end to Mr. McKinley's public life."
Col. N. M. Bell, who was prominently connected with the post office department during the first Cleveland administration, and who has been in private business in St. Louis for some years is visiting Washington. He says that people in the east have no idea of the intensity of the feeling against trusts in the west, and predicts that the trust issue will figure largely in next year's campaign. He also thinks that there is increasing hostility to militarism, one of the aliases of imperialism, and towards that sort of expansion involving the surrender of the Monroe Doctrine.
Notwithstanding the failure of the senate at the last session of Congress upon the batch of naval nominations which would have put Rear Admiral Simpson ahead of Rear Admiral Schley, and of the public calling down at Minneapolis of Secretary Long when he attempted to glorify Sampson for what Schley did, it is announced upon seemingly good authority to jump Sampson over Schley's head is to be again made by Mr. McKinley as soon as Congress meets. The unjust attitude of the administration towards Admiral Schley has so far only added to that gallant officer's reputation, and if it is persisted in, many believe that it will result in giving Schley the second place on next year's Democratic national ticket. Stranger things than that have happened. It may be said that Schley is not a Democrat, but that is no reason against it. Gen. Grant was not a Republican and he was nominated and elected President by that party. The army and navy officer who has enough political bias in his make up to become a member of a political party is an exception. As a rule, officers in neither branch of the service vote, even when they remain in one place long enough to acquire the right to do so.
HERE AND THERE.
Vesta lodge, I. O. O. F., will visit Dryden lodge next Monday evening.
The question of the hour: Who will be the next clerk of the board of supervisors?
The Alpha Delta society of the Normal school have recently purchased a new piano.
Another wise man now predicts a cold winter because horses have put on their winter coats of hair earlier than usual.
The remains of Mrs. Pope, wife of Rev. J. D. Pope, who died at Lee, Mass., last Friday, were brought to Cortland for burial.
The offices of the Erie & Central New York railroad company were moved yesterday to a building opposite the Lehigh Valley depot.
Although a police justice may cause fear and trembling to most people who approach him, still he cannot hold a candle to the dentist at this game.
F. H. Cobb has been afflicted with disease of bone in his hand for some time, and on Monday he consulted Dr. Jacobson of Syracuse, who performed an operation for it.
The state assessors find that while every county is commanded by law to assess at 100 per cent, no county is doing so. Three only are found to assess as high as 90 per cent, and one is rated down to 55, the average being under 70.
The Daughters of Rebekah will give one of their dime socials at John L. Lewis lodge rooms this evening at 8 o'clock. The entertainment will consist of progressive pedro and other games, music, and light refreshments will be served. All who desire to spend the evening in a delightful and cheerful way should attend.
While the Syracuse Sunday Herald now consists of 32 pages, comprising a 21 page news section and an 8-page half-tone supplement printed on book paper, it will, beginning with next Sunday, be accompanied regularly by a splendid colored picture supplement suitable for framing. This will put the Sunday Herald far in advance of anything else in the state outside of New York city.
It is the understanding along the Lackawanna line that a new time table will go into operation on that road soon. It also seems to be understood that several important changes will be made, but no authentic information is obtainable. One rumor is that the early train going north will not reach Cortland until after 7 o'clock, and that the afternoon accommodation train will not go north until in the evening.
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