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| William Jennings Bryan. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, May 11, 1900.
PEOPLES PARTY MEET.
Bryan Nominated For President at National Convention.
TOWNE FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
Both Nominations Made By Acclamation. Platform, Consisting of Long Series of Resolutions, Adopted—Middle-of-the-Road Faction Convenes.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., May 11.—While the day yesterday was full of events in the national Populist convention it began rather inauspiciously for the consummation of its work. There were three sessions during the day. The first of these was barren of results except in the way of supplying the machinery for the convention work.
The afternoon session was well under way before the resolutions were presented, and while waiting for them the convention gave attention to a number of addresses. Contrary to the expectation of some of the delegates the resolutions aroused no debate and, with these once adopted, the convention found itself face to face with the nomination of candidates.
Mr. Bryan's nomination was made by acclamation, and was accomplished with expedition and tact. There were not to exceed half a dozen speeches in Mr. Bryan's behalf. All of these were brief and pointed, while full of praise for the candidate.
Each mention of Mr. Bryan aroused enthusiasm, and when there was a call to rise in favor of a proposition to make his nomination unanimous, not only did every delegate rise in his seat, but arose with a shout and a hurrah and with a waving of hands. The scene was an animated and a hearty one, but it was not prolonged, and after a minute or two of demonstration the delegates sank back Into their seats.
Then towards the close of the afternoon session began the real contest of the convention. This was the fight over the vice presidency, or rather the fight over the proposition not to make any nomination for vice presidential office, but to refer the entire matter to a committee to be appointed to confer with the Democrats and Silver Republicans in their conventions at Kansas City. Both the propositions to nominate and to refer, and also various compromise suggestions were presented, and upon them was based a quite memorable debate, which not only developed a great deal of oratory, but came near culminating in fisticuffs.
Charles L. Towne was nominated by acclamation for vice president.
The platform consists of a preamble and a long series of resolutions. The preamble congratulates the People's Party on the marvelous growth of its principals during the last four years among people in all political parties. This condition, the platform continues, gives renewed hope and courage for the future, in the efforts of the party to avert the subversion of free institutions by corporate power, and to resist the evil purpose of the Republican party to establish a strongly centralized and imperial government.
The resolutions on imperialism and militarism deplore the conduct of the administration in the Spanish-American war and denounce its conduct in connection with the Philippines.
With reference, in this connection, to Porto Rico, it is declared that the declaration of independence, the constitution and the American flag are one and inseparable. It is also declared that the island of Porto Rico is a part of the territory of the United States, made so by our promises and the consent of the Porto Ricans themselves.
The increase of the standing army is denounced as wholly unwarranted by the conditions of the country and it is asserted that this tendency will inevitably result in an unnecessary burden on the tax-payers. There is a strong resolution of sympathy for the Boers, a declaration against the monopolizing of public lands for speculative purposes, a demand for a return to the original homestead policy, a declaration for the placing of all goods controlled by the trusts upon the free tariff list, a condemnation for the governor of Idaho and the federal government in connection with the Couer d'Alene [mining] troubles and the usual demand for the initiative and referendum.
Trusts are denounced and the Populist method for the control of public utilities such as the railroads and the telegraphs and of the issuance of money is recommended as the proper remedy to cope with the trust evil. It is said the people must act directly without the intervention of representatives who may be controlled or influenced, hence they demand direct legislation giving to the people the law-making and veto power under the initiative and referendum. A majority of the people, they assert, can never be corruptly influenced. The gold standard act of the present congress is denounced in strong terms, and it is asserted that "While barring out the money of the constitution, this law opens the printing mints of the treasury to the free coinage of paper money to enrich the few and impoverish the many."
The party is pledged anew "never to cease agitation until the financial conspiracy is blotted from the statute books, the Lincoln greenback restored and the bonds all paid and all corporation money forever retired."
The system of issuing injunctions in case of dispute between employees and employers is under certain circumstances denounced as an evil and to remedy it legislation is demanded. The election of president, vice president and United States senators by direct vote of the people is also urged, as is also the government ownership of railroads and telegraph lines, home rule in the territories, the employment of the idle labor on public works in time of depression, and the payment of just pensions to disabled soldiers, and the establishment of postal savings banks.
MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROADERS.
Nominate Barker and Donnelly and Adopt Platform.
CINCINNATI, May 11.—The Middle-of-the-Road Populists at their national convention here yesterday nominated for president, Wharton Barker of Pennsylvania; for vice president, Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota.
The following is the platform of the Middle-of-the-Road Populists national convention:
The Peoples Party of the United States, assembled in national convention, this 10th day of May, 1900, affirming our unshaken belief in the cardinal tenets of the Peoples Party as set forth in the Omaha platform and pledging ourselves anew to continued advocacy of those grand principles of human liberty until right shall triumph over might and love over greed, do adopt and proclaim this declaration of faith:
1—We demand the initiative and referendum and the imperative mandate for such changes of existing fundamental and statute law as will enable the people in their sovereign capacity to propose and compel the enactment of such laws as they desire; to reject such as they deem injurious to their interests, and to recall unfaithful public servants.
2—We demand the public ownership and operation of those means of communication, transportation and production which the people may elect, such as railroads, telegraph and telephone lines, coal mines, etc.
3—The land, including all natural sources of wealth, is a heritage of the people and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien ownership of land should be prohibited. All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only.
4—A scientific and absolute paper money, based on the entire wealth and population of the nation not redeemable in any specific commodity, but made a full legal tender for all debts and receivable for all taxes and public dues and issued by the government only without the intervention of banks and in sufficient quantity to meet the demands of commerce, is the best currency that can be devised, but until such a financial system is secured, which we shall press for adoption, we favor the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the legal ratio of 16 to 1.
5—We demand the levy and collection of a graduated tax on incomes and inheritances and a constitutional amendment to secure the same if necessary.
6—We demand the election of president, vice president, federal judges and United States senators by direct vote of the people.
7—We are opposed to trusts and declare the contention between the old parties on the monopoly question is a sham battle, and that no solution of this mighty problem is possible without the adoption of the principles of public ownership of public utilities.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
A Missionary Problem.
What to do with the wives of polygamous converts to Christianity is a serious question which confronts Christian missionaries in countries where polygamy is an established custom? The question was one of the interesting problems under discussion at the recent ecumenical conference in New York, and widely divergent views were expressed. Mr. Sloan of London, secretary of the China inland mission, held that the church was not called upon to take an inflexible position on this subject. He argued that Abraham and David each had several wives, that they were not condemned or rebuked because of this fact and that God did not condemn the heathen in their darkness for doing what he permitted Abraham and David and other patriarchs to do. Mr. Laughlin, a Presbyterian missionary in China, took the same position and added that there is nothing in the New Testament to keep a polygamist out of the church if polygamy is in accord with the customs of the land. He reminded his hearers that polygamy was practiced in the Christian church in apostolic times.
On the other hand, Mr. Speer, secretary of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions, earnestly urged that "the door of the Christian church has never been built high enough to let in polygamists." He was in favor of letting the new converts come in, but they must leave their polygamy behind. In his opinion, the sufferings of the discarded wives and children did not weigh against the rights of the church. He said the question was a moral one—that polygamy flings itself against the foundations of the Christian faith—and that in its nature it could not be allowed under any pretext.
Other speakers assured Mr. Speer that if he had lived in polygamous countries and knew more about the conditions he would have more sympathy for the wives and children whom it would be necessary for converted polygamists to discard.
The question is certainly a puzzling one, apparently involving fundamental principles on either side, with far-reaching consequences. If, as is not unlikely, it shall be decided that the Christian church can not admit to its membership polygamists, a grave injustice will evidently be done to thousands of women and children who are certainly innocent of intentional wrongdoing. Following the long established custom of the country polygamous marriages are contracted in good faith while the parties thereto are still in the heathen state. It is clearly the duty of the head of such families to provide for his plural wives and their children. They are dependent upon him for support, but they must be cast off and suffer in order that the husband and father may enter the Christian fold.
MILK PRODUCERS.
TRADE OF THE METROPOLIS IN ONE MAN'S HANDS.
Charles R. Flint & Co. Take Contracts for Five Years—Will Average Two and One-half Cents per Quart—Business to be Systematized.
NEW YORK, May 11.—Charles R. Flint is to control the milk trade of the Metropolis according to the New York World. Not only will he take charge of the wholesale trade, but he will buy up and establish retail milk routes. The deal by which the milk supply of the city passes into the hands of the man who is practically the rubber combine was made by the Five States Milk Producers' union, which controls 20,000 of the 30,000 cans that make up New York's daily milk supply. The union will sell all its milk to Charles R. Flint & Co., for five years. The contract has just gone into effect. The price to be paid the farmers for their milk will average 2 1/2 cents a quart, which is about half a cent more than they have received in recent years. Flint & Co. intend to organize the New York Dairy Product company with a capital of $12,500,000 to carry on the milk business. All the creamery men and dealers who had been receiving milk from members of the Five States Milk Producers' union have been notified that they must order their milk through William Graves Flint & Company's agent.
This deal will revolutionize the milk business of this city and take the power of fixing prices out of the hands of the Consolidated Milk exchange. The new company promises to systematize the business so that the cost of distribution, which is perhaps the heaviest item, will be reduced to the lowest figure.
CONTRACT FOR MILK
Product of Five States' Association to be Taken by C. K. Flint.
An Associated Press dispatch from Middletown under date of May 10 says: Information was received to-day that C. K. Flint and company of New York have contracted to take for five years commencing immediately all the milk produced by the Five States Milk Producers' association. The association claims to control 20,000 of the 30,000 cans required to supply the New York market.
INGERSOLL SENTENCED.
Defaulting Treasurer of Tompkins County—Prison and Fine.
ITHACA, May 11.—Justice Forbes in the supreme court here yesterday sentenced Charles Ingersoll, the defaulting treasurer of Tompkins county, to four years and six months' imprisonment at Auburn and to pay a fine of $5,000.
Ingersoll's counsel appeared in court and pleaded for leniency. District Attorney Blood asked the court to impose a sentence of at least five years.
In pronouncing sentence, Judge Forbes said he would not allow Ingersoll's last act, when he jumped his bail bond, to influence his decision, as he considered that the defendant was hardly responsible for his action at that time.
INGERSOLL AT AUBURN.
Affecting Scene When He Parted from His Son in Prison.
AUBURN, May 11.—Charles Ingersoll, the defaulting county treasurer of Tompkins county, was received at Auburn prison to-day. He was in the custody of Sheriff Charles S. Seaman and was accompanied by his son and his attorney, D. F. Van Vleet. The party entered a carriage at the Lehigh Valley station and was driven to the prison at once. There was an affecting scene when Ingersoll and his son parted. The latter broke down and cried and Ingersoll kissed him and told him to be brave, retaining his composure remarkably well. Ingersoll is convict No. 26,135 on the prison rolls and will probably be assigned to work in the shops soon.
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| Oil derrick and rock at Rock City near Olean, N. Y. |
TIOGA COUNTY OIL WELL
Flowing Rapidly—Well is Not Very Deep—Sunk for Water.
A driven well on the farm of Andrew J. Hunt of Lounsberry, Tioga county, is flowing oil at a great rate. The pipe is about four inches in diameter and sixteen feet deep.
The well was sunk several years ago for water but has never been considered fit for use owing to the peculiar taste of the liquid. It was noticed recently that oil was flowing with the water and it has steadily increased so that a large percentage of the flow is oil.
The farm is in Windham township, 3 miles southwest of Nichols. It is situated about a mile north of the Lackawanna track at Hoppers Valley and is about two miles distant from the Erie and Lehigh tracks at Smithboro.
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| Cortland Hospital on North Main Street. |
GIFT FOR HOSPITAL
by Mr. W. G. Hibbard of Chicago—Articles for Operating Room,
Mr. W. G. Hibbard of the great wholesale hardware firm of Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. of Chicago is very much interested in hospital work in that city and is constantly doing something to assist the hospital service. While spending a few days in Cortland, his native place, a few weeks ago he visited the city hospital. He manifested much interest in looking over the equipment of the operating room.
He gave no intimation before he left that he intended doing anything for the hospital, but there has been received at the hospital from Mr. Hibbard two steel frame, plate glass top dressing tables, one about 36 by 20 inches in size, and the other 12 by 15 inches in size; also sixteen pieces of white enameled steel dishes, such as pitchers, solution dishes, measuring cups, etc., the whole for use in the operating rooms and surgical wards and representing an outlay of about fifty dollars. These are all articles that the hospital has needed very much indeed, but has not thought it could afford yet, and the management appreciates the gift very much indeed. Mr. Hibbard once before presented the hospital with a valuable collection of paintings for the adornment of its walls, having picked these up on one of his trips to Europe, but he had forgotten all about this till his attention was called to them as his gift during his recent visit to the hospital.
It might be wished that others would take as much interest in the hospital as does Mr. Hibbard and would remember it now and then with useful articles.
THAT PAIL OF WATER.
Dakin Business School Boys Indulge in Throwing Water on Passers-by.
Four of the five boys who left Dakin's Business school yesterday are glad to be back again to-day in the institution and take up their work where they left off on Wednesday night. The fifth one is not back because Prof. Dakin was of the opinion that the school would be better off without the young man. The five boys did not report at the school yesterday probably because the professor saw fit to call them down for throwing a pail of water out of the cloakroom window on the third floor down on a passing pedestrian's head, as this unfortunate was making his way through the alley way by the Democrat building wherein this school is located.
It appears that this is not the first time water has been precipitated on the heads of people as they passed through the alley, and Mr. Dakin had his eye on the offender. As soon as this last ducking was administered and traced to the same source, the offender was promptly dismissed.
The other boys who left the school were reported as saying that they would not return till satisfactory arrangements were made. This, Mr. Dakin says, would appear to mean that they would not be back till they could throw all the water they cared to, which is far from the conditions upon which they returned.
THE SAUTELLE CIRCUS
Exhibiting on the Corner of Elm and Pomeroy-sts.
The Sautelle circus is this afternoon exhibiting at the corner of Pomeroy and Elm-sts. The show is a large one for one of the smaller class and its tents occupy that entire lot, between Elm and Railroad-sts. on Pomeroy-st. A very creditable street parade was made at noon and all were impressed with the difference between a show just starting out and one which had been on the road all summer. The faces of men and women all looked fresh and there was no evidence of "that tired feeling." The horses were fat and plump. The wagons were bright and clean and the costumes in their best condition. There were many horses, many cages, three bands, plenty of riders, several clowns and altogether a very satisfactory effect was produced.
The show at Homer yesterday was said to be very good, and there is surely a large crowd in attendance to-day, and probably there will be to-night.
The Traction company is running special cars to the show grounds.
To-morrow they show at Cincinnatus, N. Y.
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
Case of Mahan vs. Palmer on Trial—Grand Jury Reports.
Supreme court resumed its session this morning and the case of A. Mahan vs. H. R. Palmer was called and has been on trial all day. This is an action for damages to recover $1,000 for alleged breach of contract on the part of the defendant in his failing to come to Cortland last September to conduct the music festival, according to agreement. Dr. Palmer desired Miss Bates of New York as an accompanist. Mr. Mahan had engaged another whom Dr. Palmer declared was incompetent, and would not be able to assist him in making the choir work of the festival a success. In fact, with her he claimed that it would be a failure. Mr. Mahan thought her abundantly competent and there were special reasons why he desired her, though he had nothing against Miss Bates. He felt bound by the contract he had made with his accompanist and declined to make the change Dr. Palmer desired. At last Dr. Palmer canceled the engagement and Mr. Mahan on a few days' notice had to secure another conductor. The announcement of the change was not made till the opening night of the festival. Many of the chorus were disappointed that Dr. Palmer was not to conduct and the choir was smaller than usual. There was also a falling off in the audience, and it was believed that this was due to the sudden change of conductor and the consequent result that the festival would not be as good as usual. As a result Mr. Mahon lost $446 on the festival, a thing which had never occurred before.
Mr. Mahan is represented in the trial by Dougherty & Miller, and Dr. Palmer by Van Fleet & Phillips.
At 3:10 P.M. the grand jury came in and reported three sealed indictments which were received by the court and filed by the clerk. After receiving the thanks of the court for prompt and efficient service they were discharged.
KETCHUM OF CORTLAND
Keeping up His Record in the Atlantic League—Other Cortland Flayers.
Wilkesbarre scribes are evidently very well pleased with the work of Fred Ketchum, the Cortland lad, now gamboling about in left field for that city's Atlantic league team. In speaking of Monday's game with Allentown, The Record has this to say:
The supreme feature of the contest was the work of fleet little Ketchum in left field. In the third inning he made a wonderful run in and caught a fly close to the ground from Joe Delehanty and by a quick snap throw doubled up Thomas Delehanty at second. He worked in another brilliant play and his home run drive was also a feature.
Further along in the same article, the paper says:
Messitt sacrificed Nyce and Burns up a peg. Owen walked on four wide ones, Nicol forced Owen, when the dashing Cortland boy, Fred Ketchum, had a whack coming. Ketchum took all that was coming to him, and thrashed a hit through the lines that rolled away in the superabundance of space behind Delehanty Jim and scored a homer by a beautiful display of sprinting activity.
The faithful guard was saturated with enthusiasm and the Barons were five runs to the good.
Conroy, who last season played short field for Cortland, is very much in evidence with Milwaukee in the American league this year. Two and three hits, seven and nine chances without errors and a couple stolen bases or so are the rule rather than the exception with this youngster.
Gilbert, Utica's 1899 second baseman, is doing remarkable work for the Syracuse stars, standing head and shoulders above the other Eastern league second basemen.
SENECA LAKE STEAMERS
To Begin Regular Trips on May 26—Two Steamers Each Way.
The Seneca Lake Navigation Co. will put two steamers in commission on Saturday, May 26, for the summer months. The steamers will leave Geneva at 8 A. M. and 1 P. M. each week day and Watkins at 7 A. M. and 3 P. M. The trip on the lake is a most delightful one, and the steamboat service is excellent.
BREVITIES.
—The first degree team of Vesta lodge will meet to-night to the parlors for drill.
—James H. Throop, for the last eight years police Justice of Norwich, has been nominated and confirmed as postmaster of that village.
—The drilling for oil or gas at Chenango Bridge by Binghamton capitalists is still continued, and the drill in now 3,300 feet below the surface.
—New display advertisements to-day are—J. W. Cudworth, Optical talks, page 7; Beard & Peck, Furniture and household supplies, page 4.
—In the program of the Ladies' Literary club which was published yesterday a paper upon "Heroes and Heroines" by Mrs. E. Mudge was inadvertently omitted.
—The State league baseball season opens to-day with Cortland playing in Utica. To-morrow they will play again in Utica, Monday and Tuesday they will meet Ramsey's men in Schenectady, and Wednesday the team will open up the season here and show the Senators a trick or two at the same time.
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