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| Minister Wu Ting Fang. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, July 30, 1900.
SPIES HAVE BEEN SENT.
Every Effort Being Used to Get News From Pekin—Washington Is Still Hopeful.
WASHINGTON, July 30.— There is a growing expectation at the state department that news of the utmost importance may be forthcoming at any moment from Pekin. It was ever thought that something might be received yesterday, but this hope was doomed to disappointment. The few cablegrams that were received referred to minor matters and did not touch at all upon conditions in the Chinese capital. It is believed that the basis for this expectation is the knowledge on the part of the officials that certain machinery heretofore set in motion may result in the opening up of communication through some secret but reliable channels.
It is known that a second effort has been made by our own government to get another message from Mr. Conger and that nearly all of the powers also have resorted to private agencies in their own interests with a like object.
The fact has just been developed that one of the last acts of the late Colonel Liscum before his death at Tien Tsin was to undertake the dispatch of a spy to Pekin.
General Dorward, the British commanding officer at Tien Tsin, also sent out two messengers and it is believed that the Japanese did the same. Up to date not one of these messengers has returned to Tien Tsin, nor has there been a single word heard from any of them. This fact, however, has not caused the abandonment of hope, and this is true in particular of the message expected from Mr. Conger.
Minister Wu is perhaps the basis for this hope on our part and he maintains an unshaken confidence in his original assertion that the news when it does come will show that the legationers are alive. The message reported to have come through Missionary Wilder at Che Foo is regarded as most promising.
Wu Is Still Confident.
Minister Wu had no cablegram himself yesterday, nor had the state department any directly from China. Nothing further has been heard as to the date set for the beginning of the movement from Tien Tsin toward Pekin and it is said here that this is a detail that must be fixed by the military commanders on the spot.
A message came to the war department from the quartermaster on the Lenox, announcing the arrival of that ship, together with the Conemaugh, at Kobe, Japan. They have aboard the mounts for the Sixth cavalry and although they will start for Taku at once, not less than five days will be consumed in this last stage of the voyage. It is doubtful whether General Chaffee would care to leave Taku without horses for the Sixth cavalry particularly as, according to all reports, mounted cavalry is needed for successful operations in the flat country lying between Tien Tsin and Taku.
This fact alone may delay operations until late in the present week though at least a portion of the international column may start on the day fixed, namely, today. Assurances received here show that the Japanese government is doing all in its power to facilitate the international movement, and though the good will of the Japanese was never suspected as far as the United States is concerned, the knowledge is gratifying.
Secretary Long had a cable message from the commander of the Buffalo at Hong Kong stating that he had sailed for Taku. The Buffalo is taking out much needed relief men for the naval crews and also has a lot of stores aboard for the approaching campaign.
HELD AS HOSTAGES.
Belief That Chinese Hope to Prevent Advance on Pekin.
LONDON, July 30.—The latest news from the far East seems consistent with the theory that the Chinese government has the foreign ministers alive but means to treat them as hostages, while the stories of massacre relate to other members of the foreign colony in Pekin. Chinese officialdom, it is alleged, openly speaks of the ministers as hostages whose fate depends upon the decision of the powers in relation to the threatened advance on Pekin. Reports are multiplying that a number of foreigners were alive to a late date. Thus Rome reports that the Propaganda Fide has been assured of the safety of Bishop Favin, while a telegram from Nankin informs his family that Prince Caetani of the Italian legation is alive. There is no confirmation of the various favorable statements, however, forthcoming from really independent sources.
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| Emilio Aguinaldo. |
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| William McKinley. |
AMNESTY A FAILURE.
Two-day Celebration Icily Received by Filipinos.
PEOPLE NOT EVEN INTERESTED.
General Idea Is That Fiesta Was Premature—One Hundred and Eighty Insurgents Were Killed by Americans and Sixty Captured. Our Loss 24.
MANILA, July 30.—The two day's fiesta in Manila organized by Senor Paterno and his political followers to commemorate the amnesty, resulted in a fiasco. The people were passive, unenthusiastic, and not even interested.
Failing to perceive any tangible, effective results of amnesty they say they can see no reason for celebration.
Judge Taft and his colleagues of the commission felt constrained to decline to attend the banquet, as they had been informed that the speeches would favor independence under American protection and they could not passively lend their acquiescence by being present.
Senor Paterno, foreseeing the suspension of the banquet without the Americans, frantically appealed to them to attend, promising that there should be no speeches.
The provost's precautions were extreme. The guards were doubled both days and the authorities forbade the display of Filipino flags, and of pictures of President McKinley and Aguinaldo fraternally framed.
The fiesta is generally considered to have been premature and unfortunate.
During last week's scouting ten Americans were killed and 14 wounded. One hundred and eighty Filipinos were killed and sixty taken prisoners. Forty rifles were captured.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIAL.
"Democratic Party Mast Die and Be Born Again."
E. Ellery Anderson is a Democrat of the Hewitt, Whitney and Grace class in politics, commonly for distinction denominated as Gold Democrats. He gives his views on the present situation as follows:
"I find the solution of the difficulty quite simple. I shall support McKinley and Roosevelt. In my judgment, it is what all Democrats who have not been carried away by the insanity of 16 to 1, or by the fascination of a personality, ought to do. The paramount duty of the sane Democracy is to act and vote in the manner to crush and annihilate Bryanism, To help in making the Republican victory as overwhelming and humiliating as possible is the way to destroy that incubus.
"The party has become a chief of sinners. It must be made to realize the exceeding sinfulness of its sin; it must be brought to its knees with remorse; it must put on the sackcloth and ashes of repentance; it must die and be reborn, if it is ever again to live vigorously and worthily.
"All its true sons must strike and spare not for [very] love [sic].
"The movement to nominate a third ticket will but interfere with the directness and effectiveness of the imperative chastisement. It is ill-advised, for it is futile. It can accomplish no good purpose whatever. I am utterly opposed to it."
It appears that Mr. Anderson has been successful in impressing his views concerning a gold ticket upon those who feel as he does, for the decision has been made that no Gold Democratic ticket is to be nominated.
Mr. Anderson does not claim to be in harmony with the doctrine of the Republican party in detail. But he regards the present situation as a "condition" and not a ''theory," and the conditions are to be met practically. On the foreign question he continues:
"I am not in favor of halting in a task half-accomplished; of retreating precipitately from a position into which inexorable circumstances led us upon demand of a few armed revolutionaries. We have heard only from the few thousands of Aguinaldo's hot-head malcontents; the millions of the archipelago have had no opportunity to tell us what they want. Who can say, when the insurgents have been put down, the authority of the United States recognized, peace established throughout the islands, and American law and liberty tried, that the Filipinos would not vote by a vast majority to remain under the government and protection of the United States? Let us establish such conditions that all the Filipinos, and not a handful, may decide the destiny of the islands. Is not the rule of the majority a cardinal principle of our Democracy? Too rashly have some rabid Anti-Imperialists assumed that Aguinaldo is the Philippines.
"What Democrats should be thinking of is saving their country from the dishonor of financial legerdemain and dishonesty, and rebuking the maniacs who made and thrust upon them the Chicago and Kansas City platforms.
"I would say a word to Sound-Money democrats on the local situation. Never has there been a finer opportunity for the organization of a new Democracy which Mr. Hewitt, Mr. Grace, Mr. Whitney and myself were instrumental in organizing in 1880. If I were twenty years younger I should not ask for a more promising or more useful enterprise. Tammany Hall, by its adherence to Bryanism and by its local errors and misconduct, has opened, wide the door for the entry of a right-principled, vigorous young Democracy."
PROSPERITY OR RUIN.
Voters to Take Their Choice at the Polls November.
To the Editor of The Standard:
SIR—"Lest we forget." The people of this country should understand clearly the results of electoral action in November. The success of the Republican party will be attended with certain results; the success of the opposition will produce inevitable consequences of a radically different character.
The suffrages of the people are solicited by two great political parties—a party of progress and a party of retrogression. Each is known by its record, by the results attained in the exercise of administrative power. Let the records of the respective parties, and the success or failures attained by each, be placed side by side for the guidance of the electors.
"I have no light to guide my footsteps except the lamp of experience."—Patrick Henry.
The success of the Republican party will ensure the continuance and extension of prosperity with all its beneficial results, its blessings of plenty, peace and happiness. The success of the opposition will entail a certain and inevitable disaster, and ruin of industrial interests. The success of the Republican party assures a firm adherence to those wise, safe and conservative principles which are the basis of the party creed—the prime source of strength, and the continuance of that administrative policy which has generated and increased national prosperity. The success of the opposition will entail a complete and radical change of policy—the results of which neither prophet nor seer can forecast. Are the people ready to effect such a change of administrative policy? Are they willing to make so hazardous an experiment, and meet the inevitable consequences?
The results of the election this fall will not remain in equilibrium; the scales will not vacillate or balance. Both parties are earnest, aggressive and committed to certain policies. Each will act promptly, firmly and with great energy—and the results on either side will be swift, certain, inexorable. On the one hand there will be a firm and decisive adherence to a safe, well known and conservative policy; on the other a complete and radical change—a wild and aggressive revolution, a complete upheaval and overthrow of the existing order of things. The Republican party, if successful in November, will follow the broad, safe and well defined highway of experience guided by the electric rays of knowledge; the opposition, if entrusted with power, will rush madly and blindly into the dark and unexplored regions of [conjecture] and uncertainty, and will be guided by theory instead of knowledge, by experiment and not by well defined modes of action.
Let us not misunderstand the principles or motives, nor be deluded by the promises of the opposition. The success of the party is wholly dependent upon the correctness of certain theories that have never yet been subjected to the crucial test of practical experience. The mode of procedure of that party in carrying its theories into practical operation involves nothing less than a social and industrial earthquake, and complete overthrow of existing conditions—as thorough and effective as the extinction of Pharoah and his hosts in the Red Sea, and the rebuilding of a new structure of society and industrial enterprises upon an entirely new and different basis. Such is the concentrated essence of Bryanisim or communism.
The success of Bryanism must be grounded upon the ruins of existing social and industrial institutions. As a condition precedent to the success of this new movement, there must be a complete overthrow and leveling of the existing conditions—a clearing of the heavy virgin forests, by axes and fire, to prepare the soil for the process of cultivation. To carry out this great revolution, or the placing of the government on a silver basis, w e must submit to a system of national or general bankruptcy and a reorganization of all fiscal, industrial or commercial institutions upon a new and essentially different basis, and under radically different conditions. We must get down to a plane of equality before the success of the great movement inaugurated by Bryan can be predicated.
Let us not, therefore, be misled as to the true status and the importance of the present campaign.
The success of the Republican party assures a continuance of the existing order of things—of prosperity through the agencies of industrial activity and progress. The success of the opposition will bring certain and inevitable ruin—as a condition precedent to the reorganization of the government and the conduct of social and industrial institutions upon radically different lines. The success of Bryanism and Free Silver must be grounded upon the ruins of general bankruptcy.
Therefore, do not forget the vital issues of the campaign, nor the results of electoral action in November. In placing a cross upon your ballot, choose between the two circles:
O PROSPERITY. O RUIN.
George A. Benham.
CAME FROM NEW JERSEY.
The Crank Who Assassinated King Humbert of Italy.
LONDON, July 30.—A dispatch from Monza just received says that Bressi, the man who killed King Humbert, is from Paterson, N. J.
IT IS NOW ELMIRA.
Oswego Has Sold Its Baseball Franchise to Elmira.
SYRACUSE, July 30.—An Oswego dispatch says that President Farrell has formally transferred the Oswego State league franchise to Elmira, when John S. Carpenter, the new owner of the club, signed eight of the players and received assurance from two others that they will remain with the club. The players who refused to sign are said to be Cargo, Honeyman and Bannon. Cargo is wanted by five different teams. He says he expects to sign with Springfield. Bannon will also join that bunch, while Honeyman will probably go to Syracuse. President Farrell is urging Cargo to hang on a few days claiming that he can sell him to New York. The new Elmira team will play Binghamton at Elmira this afternoon.
Syracuse Newspaperman Dead.
SYRACUSE, July 30.—Edward Clark, an oldtime newspaper man, died yesterday. He was born in Philadelphia in 1837 but had been an editorial writer on Syracuse dailies for years.
YET UNCONSCIOUS.
Patrick Driscoll Took Liniment by Mistake and Is Very Low.
Mr. Patrick Driscoll of 80 Crandall-st., Cortland, who yesterday at about noon took rheumatism liniment through mistake, is yet in an unconscious condition and little hopes for his recovery are entertained. The liniment was made of equal parts of chloroform, camphor and laudanum and be took about a wine glass full of it. A stomach pump was used by Drs. Neary and Dana, but the chloroform and laudanum had nearly all been absorbed.
CORTLAND COUNTY FAIR.
Preparations Made for Making It a Booming Success.
The premium books of the Cortland county fair are being distributed with the characteristic bustle for which the managers are noted. The books contain a liberal patronage of advertisements of business houses which firmly believe in maintaining an agricultural fair that is second to none. Secure a copy, borrow it if more convenient, but get posted upon the numerous class and special premiums. See what the advertisers say and remember them when in need of goods in their several lines.
Furthermore do not delay in preparing a list of entries, whether stock, dairy, vegetables, fruit, floral, canned goods, etc., or a few of each and every class. Make it out, mail or bring it to W. J. Greenman, secretary, Cortland, soon after Aug. 10 or before if ready. Then the entry tags and exhibitor's ticket will be properly made out, placed in an envelope ready for instant use on the opening day of the fair. Citizens observing this plan will avoid delays and vexations that always are experienced where all wait until the day the fair opens and finds that hundreds of others have done likewise. Though overworked clerks do their best, it takes time to make the entries properly in the society books, compare record with original list and treat exhibitions fairly.
Exhibitors and members tickets cost $1, are good for four days and entitle the holder to admission (man, wife and children) and entry of articles in all classes. It has been decided to present to some holder of a $1 ticket an elegant upright Pease cabinet grand piano in handsome mahogany case valued at $350. Such a piano has been selected at the music house of A. Mahan, 9 and 11 Court-st., Cortland.
"Our Fair is Your Fair" and the management believes that fair treatment to the public makes a success of the fair. Success of the fair enables the [agricultural] society to cater to the public in a fair manner.
The special premiums are numerous again this year. The class premiums are extended and increased.
There will be 2:18, 2:25, 2:30, 2:40, free for all, named races and not the least important and interesting will be Beard & Peck's ladies' driving contest, details of which will be given later.
Buy a STANDARD and keep posted from now till fair time. The secretary will have his office in the Garrison building until the morning of Aug. 21, after which it will be upon the grounds during the fair.
THE DRYDEN FAIR.
How It Has Pulled Itself Out of Debt Since 1886.
The dates of the Dryden fair for this year are Sept. 18, 19 and 20. During all the years since 18S6 the society has had for its officers S. G. Lupton, president; J. B. Wilson, secretary; and D. T. Wheeler, treasurer. The vice-president has been changed a number of times. When these officers came into control there was a judgment of $1,700 against the society, and the premiums were unpaid for two years back. All the indebtedness was cleared off and each year now a fine profit is realized, all of which goes into enlarging the grounds, erecting new buildings or in some way adding to the value of the property. These officers will doubtless be re-elected as long as they will continue to serve. They are already planning for a fine fair this fall.
Delightful Thimble Bee.
Miss Grace Mead entertained about thirty-five ladies informally but most delightfully Saturday afternoon at her home, 33 Lincoln-ave., in honor of her guest Mrs. P. S. Knapp of Syracuse. The company included some accomplished musicians, and some of them kindly consented to sing and play while the others were busy with their needles. Mrs. T. C. Brogden rendered several solos upon the mandolin with rare artistic skill, accompanied at the piano by Miss Halbert, while Mrs. Knapp, Mrs. Edward Allen, Mrs. James Walsh, Mrs. Charlotte Nash-Head and Miss Elizabeth G. McGraw favored their friends most acceptably with vocal solos. Very fine refreshments were served.
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| Charles Holland Duell. |
COMMISSIONER DUELL TO RESIGN.
Will Abandon the Patent Office to Resume His Law Practice.
An Associated Press dispatch from Syracuse says: Commissioner of Patents Charles H. Duell, who has been for some time in Syracuse taking his vacation, contemplates resigning at an early day. It is said that Mr. Duell's plans are not entirely settled as to what time he will retire, but unless he changes his present plans, it will be within a short time.
Mr. Duell's purpose in resigning is said to be that he may be able to devote his entire time to his patent business. The salary of the commissioner of patents is $3,000 a year, but Mr. Duell's patent practice when he is able to give it his entire attention, is understood to be considerably above that figure, so that there is no financial consideration which would warrant him in retaining the office.
Notes from Assembly Park [Tully Lake].
ASSEMBLY PARK, Tully, July 29.—Rev. John H. Hector, the "Black Knight," will be present at the Assembly five days, a much longer time than previously announced. His first appearance will be on Aug. 14.
Prof. H. E. Cogswell has a large class in music and the teachers are enthusiastic over the work. Prof. Cogswell is not only a teacher, but a fisherman. Yesterday he caught fifteen large pickerel, said to be the finest catch of the season, the fish averaging a pound and a half each.
Prof. Thomas J. McEvoy of Cortland Normal school and Prof. John W. Wiseman of Hiram college visited the park and summer school yesterday.
A new well is being placed on the south of the E. L. Tanner cottage.
Rev. E. G. Minard and family of Poplar Ridge have engaged accommodations at Hotel Chautauqua during the Assembly. Other ministers who have thus far engaged accommodations for the Assembly are Rev. J. H. Zartman of Groton, Rev. E. C. Fry, Syracuse, Rev. J. H. McGahen, Chittenango, Rev. J. B. Knappenburger, Syracuse, Rev. Bidwell, North Syracuse, Rev. John Hector, York, Pa., Rev. W. T. S. Culp, Madison, O.
A family reunion took place at the Redhead cottage on Thursday. The host and hostess were Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Brooks of Syracuse who are occupying the cottage this summer. The persons present were: Mr. and Mrs. Earl Mack, J. W. Bowdish and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Bowdish, E. J. Bowdish and family of Marathon, J. E. Norwich and family of Cincinnatus, Emory Bowdish and family of Cortland, Charles Bowdish and son of Texas Valley and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bowdish of Little York. The party was delighted with the Assembly. They returned home on the evening train.
BREVITIES.
—There will be a meeting of Emerald Hose Co. this evening at 8 o'clock.
—Three traveling musicians were arrested at Norwich charged with housebreaking at Hamilton.
—The new moon this month is a wet one. The crescent stands up so nearly perpendicular that it won't bold a drop of water.
—About fifty people from Cortland took in the hop growers' picnic at Sylvan Beach Saturday going by way of the Lehigh Valley.
—Through the month of August the shoe dealers will close their places of business at 6 P. M., Monday and Saturday nights excepted.
—Cortland friends of Mrs. Elmer G. Frail, formerly Miss Mary E. Wheat of Cortland, will be interested in an item in our column of vital statistics to-day.
—Professor Adolph Dahm-Petersen who has classes in voice culture in this city and Cortland, is also organizing another in Schenectady.—Ithaca Journal.
Norwich has a haunted house and the police officials and nearby residents are puzzled to know what makes the disturbance there nights at frequent intervals.
—Mrs. Dunham, the mother of Rev. Samuel Dunham, pastor of the WestPresbyterian church of Binghamton, on Friday celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of her birth at Southington, Ct., where she has always lived.
—Seneca Howard and James Hickey were arrested to-day on complaint of Chas. H. Dunn for unlawful injury to property. They will be given a hearing to-morrow at 9 o'clock. Another pair is wanted for the same offense.
—The Sixth battery of Binghamton has made formal application to the adjutant general to be mustered into the service of the United States for service in the Philippines or in China or to replace troops in this country who are to be sent there.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Hudson, Crockery, page 7; Brogden, Root beer, page 4; Palmer & Co., shirt waist, page 8: C. F. Brown, Violet waters, page 6; W. J. Perkins, Drugs, page 6; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 8.
—The sidepath between Ithaca and McLean is nearly completed and is already ridable nearly the whole distance. A little more wear will make the path one of the best in this part of the state. It could be vastly improved, however, between Etna and Ithaca by mowing the weeds which nearly cover the path and, in places, force the wheelmen into the road.
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