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| William J. Bryan. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, September 7, 1900.
BRYAN AND ROOSEVELT.
Former Finishes His West Virginia Tour at Wheeling.
TEDDY SCORED HIT AT DETROIT.
Democratic Candidate Had a Rough Journey Through a Mountainous Section. Both Had Large Audiences. Bryan Tells of the Peace Treaty Ratification.
WHEELING, W. Va., Sept. 7.—The tour of West Virginia, which was begun Tuesday last by Hon.W. J. Bryan, was concluded last night with a speech at this place. He traveled from Deer Park by the way of Clarksburg and Parkersburg, making three speeches of length and two or three other brief and informal talks at such places as St. Marys and Sistersville.
As the train on which Mr. Bryan came in arrived at 7:45 he was greeted by red bonfires and the firing of rockets in the suburbs and the railroad for squares was lined by a mass of humanity struggling to get a first glimpse of the candidate. The day's run covered about 300 miles of rough mountain railroading, which was in itself no small undertaking for hot weather. Mr. Bryan, however, held up well and he appeared quite fresh when he ascended the platform at last night's meeting and began to address the immense multitude which had assembled to hear him.
The crowds at Clarksburg and Parkersburg were both most respectable in number, while the meeting there was exceptionally large. At the Parkersburg meeting Mr. Bryan's speech was devoted almost exclusively to the question of imperialism. While not holding that this was the only issue, Mr. Bryan said he did contend that it was the question of paramount importance. This was true because this question involved the fundamental principles of our government. Discussing the title to the Philippine islands, Mr. Bryan asked, "Who says the Lord gave them to us?"
To this question a voice in the crowd responded, "Mark Hanna." This response elicited a shout and Mr. Bryan replied: "While I am not prepared to deny that God does speak through the human voice, I do think that when He gets ready to speak to the American people He will choose some other mouthpiece than Mr. Hanna."
He contended that under the Republican scheme for the control of the Philippines the people of those islands must necessarily become subjects as they could not be citizens under those plans and there was no place under a republican form of government for a subject. In this speech Mr. Bryan discussed more fully than before the charge that he had secured the ratification of the peace treaty with Spain. On this question he said:
"Republicans give me too much credit when they say I secured the ratification of the treaty. It seems to me that if I had to help the president secure the ratification of the treaty that closed the war the Republicans ought to feel more kindly toward me than they do. If your president and your party in authority in both houses could not get the treaty ratified without my help I am not such a bad man as you thought. No, my friends, I have not yet found a single senator who has publicly declared that he voted for the treaty because I wanted him to, but Senator Wellington has said that he voted for the treaty because the president asked him to and promised that the Philippines should not be held permanently if the treaty was ratified, so that if you attempt to prove that I am responsible for the treaty you cannot do it, but you can prove by Senator Wellington that the treaty would not have been ratified but for the promise of your president; but I will say that if the Republican party will not assume the responsibility for the ratification of the treaty I will do it myself. I favored the ratification of the treaty. I was not a senator and did not have a vote. I do not know that my voice changed one single vote, but I am willing to waive all that and I am willing to assume the responsibility for the ratification of the treaty but, Republicans, you must assume the responsibility for the making of the treaty and for everything that has happened since that treaty was ratified.
ROOSEVELT AT DETROIT.
Opens His Western Speechmaking Tour Before an Enormous Audience.
DETROIT, Sept. 7.—The initial meeting of Governor Roosevelt's western tour, which was held in the big assembly room of the Detroit Light Guard armory last night was all that the governor's most ardent partisans could have desired in point of attendance and enthusiasm.
The floor and galleries of the great hall were crowded. Many were on the outside unable to obtain seats or standing room within hearing distance. The vice presidential candidate received a tremendously enthusiastic greeting as he made his way up through one of the side aisles. A large proportion of the audience stood upon chairs and yelled frantically for "Teddy."
Homer Warren, chairman of the Republican city committee, called the gathering to order and Brigadier General Henry M. Duffield, who was introduced as another of the leaders in the Santiago campaign, presided. General Duffield, in a brief opening address, eulogistic of the speaker of the evening, remarked that it was evident that one general was absent, viz., "General Apathy."
When the governor arose to speak, the great crowd arose almost en masse and remained standing and shouting for some time.
The governor's speech occupied about an hour in delivery and was listened to throughout with thoughtful attention and the telling, sarcastic and witty points were quickly caught and applauded. Governor Roosevelt gave the audience an object lesson when he asserted that our soldiers in the Philippines had less to fear from any body of armed bandits in that country than they had to fear from the principles of the Kansas City platform and the success of the Democratic ticket. He said five members of the regular army were present, and he asked them to stand up that the audience might see their tyrants.
Five soldiers from the Fourteenth Infantry arose, and were applauded until their cheeks glowed with blushes.
"Now," exclaimed Governor Roosevelt, "behold your tyrants."
The audience shouted with laughter. "There are here," continued the governor, "five soldiers to 4,000 people in this audience, which is a larger percentage of tyranny in this house than the percentage of the regular army bears to the whole number of the people of this country."
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| George S. Boutwell. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIAL.
Boutwell vs. Boutwell.
The action of ex-Governor George S. Boutwell of Massachusetts has given the Bryanites great comfort. It gratifies them that they can point to one man, at least, who has a good reputation behind him. But they do not stop to think that Mr. Boutwell is now between 80 and 90 years old, and that now in his dotage he forgets the knowledge and the wisdom he acquired in his prime. Now as the leader of the Anti-imperialists he joins with the Bryanites in denouncing the Republican view of the paramount power of congress over territory as a dangerous novelty. He has given his adhesion to the Calhoun doctrine of the retention of the constitution ex proprio vigore to the territories, and his eminent position as a former Republican has been quoted to show that the view adopted by congress in the Porto Rican legislation was a new and bastard Republicanism, unknown to the older generation of Republican leaders and only invented as a cloak for despotism.
But Mr. Boutwell did not always think this. Before his mind had become weakened and his judgment warped by prejudice he was in most complete accord with the views of the present administration. Representative Moody, of Massachusetts, has been studying Mr. Boutwell's papers, as published under his own authority in 1867, and at the Essex club dinner, recently, quoted Mr. Boutwell as an authority in favor of the Republican view. In Mr. Boutwell's published papers is an article written by him and printed in "The Springfield Republican" of 1858, on "Mr. Douglas: Popular Sovereignty." In it he dissects the Douglas and Calhoun doctrines then being put forth for the protection of slavery, and gives convincing arguments to prove the plenary power of congress to legislate for territories as outside the constitution just as it has done in the case of Porto Rico. Mr. Boutwell says: "It is quite plain that the constitution formed by the people of the United States, and its jurisdiction was limited to the United States;" that in truth the constitution of the United States, as a constitution, can never apply to the people of a territory until they have formed a constitution for their own government as a state, been admitted into the Union and accepted the terms of admission." In this paper, too, he reaches some fundamental conclusions concerning territory and the constitution, which he states as follows:
First—The right to acquire territory is inherent in every government; and in our own case it is not derived from the constitution of the United States.
Second—As the essence of a cession of territory is the transfer of jurisdiction, the United States necessarily acquires jurisdiction over all territory obtained by discovery, conquest or purchase.
Third—As jurisdiction is the right of governing or legislating, the right of the United States to govern the territories is legitimate.
Fourth—The constitution of the United States may be extended over a territory by the treaty of annexation, or by the law of congress, in which case it is only the authority of law; but the constitution by the force of its own provisions is limited to the people and the states of the American Union.
Could two views be more contrary? President McKinley and the Republican party of to-day uphold exactly the same constitutional principles which Mr. Boutwell upheld against the slaveholders. A man has an undoubted right to change his mind, and Mr. Boutwell is beyond criticism on that score. But his inconsistency is not the point at issue. What is proved by Mr. Boutwell's former utterances is that the present Republican position is not novel. Mr. Boutwell may think he has gained wisdom; that he is now right and the Republicans wrong; but, right or wrong, the Republicans are standing true to the principles of constitutional law which they held in the days of Fremont and Lincoln and which Benton and Webster so ably enunciated in opposition to Calhoun, while Mr. Boutwell has come to espouse the doctrines of the Dred Scott decision, which would have forced slavery into every territory brought under the American flag. There is nothing new, nothing revolutionary, nothing un-Republican, nothing un-American about the Republican party's policy of dealing with the new acquisitions as estates not yet brought under the constitution, and George S. Boutwell is a witness who proves that fact.
A COMPROMISE PROPOSED.
Lot Each Nation Withdraw Half of Its Troops from Pekin.
NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—What is believed to have been a cabinet meeting was held last night at the Country club in a suburb of Washington, says the Washington correspondent of The Herald, who continues:
"The dominant feature of the forthcoming note from Washington among the powers as to China will be the necessity for complete harmony. It is not intended to withdraw from Pekin but Russia's views are to be met half way. That is to say, the proposal will be considered and, in fact, it is hinted that a suggestion to the same effect was embodied in the reply of Germany—that each power reduce its force in Pekin to a limited number of men, the rest of the troops to be withdrawn to Tien Tsin. The American proposition will therefore be a compromise. The authorities are hopeful that it will suit Russia which desires entirely to withdraw and Germany, which does not propose to retire. In anti-German circles apprehension has been expressed that the arrival of Count Von Waldersee with 20,000 men at Pekin would mean the permanent occupation of the Chinese capital. By limiting the number of men to represent each nation cause for such apprehension would be obviated.
NORMAL GRADUATES WANTED.
Good Salaries Will be Paid for Contracts in Philippines.
WINONA, Minn., Sept. 7.—Prof. Atkinson, superintendent of instruction in the Philippines, has written to Secretary Sheppard of the National Educational association asking him to send Normal graduates as teachers for the Philippines. On three year contracts, primary and grammar grade teachers are offered $75 to $100 per month and superintendents $2,000 to $2,500 per year. In addition to salaries all expenses to Manila are to be paid.
TREE BLOWN DOWN
AND KILLED MRS. KETCHUM AND GRANDDAUGHTER.
Cyclone Descended upon the Whitney Point Fair Grounds—Many Took Refuge in Grove—Unfortunate Ones Trying to Escape to the Hall when Crushed by a Falling Tree.
A special dispatch from Whitney Point to the Binghamton Republican under date of Sept. 6 says:
The storm which passed over this village at 2 o'clock this afternoon resulted in the death of Mrs. George Ketchum and a child. Besides the casualties there were any number of trees blown down and other minor marks of destruction in the course of the terrific storm.
Shortly after 2 o'clock the heavens in the west began to grow dark and the first approach of the storm was in the shape of a smoky funnel-shaped cloud traveling due east and coming directly over the village. Within a few minutes a cloud of dust swept along and a terrific gale accompanied by torrents of rain began to fall. At this time the Broome county fair grounds were crowded with people, and according to the secretary of the association, more people passed through the gates than have been present in many years. In addition to the large attendance of people there was the unusually large number of farmers' carriages about the grounds and as usual the greater number of them were in the grove near the grandstand.
It is customary for those who attend the fair and come from the country to place their wagons close to the railing along the track and as the row near the rail, which is about five hundred feet long, is filled, those arriving later place their wagons in another row just back of these and so on until there are twenty rows and the grove is completely filled with equipages. The horses are unhitched before the wagons are thus placed and allowed to graze in the field that adjoins the grove.
When the storm struck the place, these wagons were filled with men, women and children watching the races and viewing the other features of the fair which take place on the track. Many of the people anticipating the severity of the rain had taken refuge in the various buildings and tents, while others who had covered wagons had raised the tops and proposed to stick it out through the storm.
Among this latter number was Mrs. George Ketchum of Castle Creek, who with her two year old grandchild Gladys Abbott of Lisle, was seated in the Abbott rig, her daughter and her daughter's husband being at the time in some of the buildings.
The storm had gotten considerable headway and Mrs. Ketchum, who is an invalid, started with her young granddaughter for one of the buildings, having left the carriage in which they had been watching the races. They had proceeded but a short distance when a strong gust of wind made the trees in the grove creak and crack. One gust followed another until a large pine tree fully a foot through bending in the wind broke off ten feet from the ground and crashed down among the wagons behind which they were passing. There was no word of warning, but in an instant the child and its grandmother were crushed to the ground and buried beneath the huge branches and foliage.
News of the accident spread rapidly through the crowd and in an instant a hundred men were engaged in helping to extricate the unfortunates from the maze of branches under which they were lying. It required considerable strength on the part of those who volunteered their services to get them out and when they finally did, the woman and child were bleeding and mangled.
Both were taken to a tent where Dr. G. N. Hall of Binghamton was summoned. He made a cursory examination of their injuries.
Mrs. Ketchum was the worse injured, having sustained many body bruises besides internal injuries. She died in a few minutes. The child was yet breathing, but unconscious, and despite the work of the physician died about an hour after the accident.
Mrs. Ketchum was well known in Binghamton and was a woman about fifty years of age. Mrs. Ketchum until last March lived with her husband in what was the old Keeley cure on the Southside, Binghamton. They then moved to their farm at Castle Creek where they resided.
Mrs. Ketchum was not living with her husband at the time, but resided with her daughter in Lisle.
The storm was otherwise disastrous in its effects. Wagon tops were blown off and everything that had any buoyancy to it was on the rise. The ice cream tent sailed away over the field and left the people who had taken refuge in it at the mercy of the storm and the—ice cream. The merry-go-round was a nary-go-round propelled by the wind. The tent covering it, though securely moored, was blown from its bearings and carried far away from its former position. The tops of buggies were the main object of the wind's wrath and the element cut a swath in a score of them.
It was reported on the grounds that a third person had been injured by the falling tree, but so far as had been ascertained, no one was hurt except those noted above. The tree, however, in falling smashed a number of wagons which happened to be in its pathway.
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THE BOLLES WILL CASE.
Examination of Witnesses Continued in Surrogate's Court.
The examination of witnesses in the Bolles will case was continued yesterday afternoon and is still in progress before Surrogate J. E. Eggleston to-day. Mr. G. T. Maxson and Mr. Henry Kennedy were the only witnesses sworn yesterday afternoon. Mr. Maxson testified in reference to business transactions with Mrs. Bolles, and Mr. Kennedy was questioned in reference to his acquaintance with the deceased whom he had known for many years.
This morning Dr. F. P. Howland, who was one of Mrs. Bolles' attending physicians during her last illness, was the first witness. He had known Mrs. Bolles since 1870. He testified in reference to Mrs. Bolles' physical condition. Said she had been suffering from stomach trouble for thirty years. Noted a change in her mental condition during her last illness and attributed it to her physical condition.
Mrs. Harriet Robinson of 4 Pearne-ave. was the next witness. She bad known Mrs. Bolles for a number of years, and at one time lived in one of the houses owned by her.
Grant Alger of Prospect-st. was called, and testified in reference to the actions and conversation of Mrs. Bolles upon various occasions when he had been at the house. Mrs. Alger, who was formerly Miss Maggie May, had worked for Mrs. Bolles before she was married and Mr. Alger had often been at the house, and after his marriage had some conversation with Mrs. Bolles in reference to buying a house of her. Mr. Alger's examination was still in progress as The STANDARD went to press.
Resignation of Prof. McEvoy.
Prof. Thomas J. McEvoy notified the Local Board of the Normal school yesterday that he should be compelled to decline remaining for the coming year in the principalship of the Intermediate department. The notification was a surprise to the board and will be generally regretted. Prof. McEvoy has been connected with the school as teacher for seven years, and previously as a student. He has made one of the most successful principals of the Intermediate department that the school has ever had. He goes to Brooklyn, where he has received a very desirable appointment.
Cortland Science Club.
The first regular meeting of the Cortland Science club will be held on Saturday evening, Sept. 8, at the Hatch library. The subject will be "Pollination," and the speaker Mr. F. E. Whitmore. Each member is requested to bring a reading glass.
Now Living in Detroit.
Cortland friends of the family of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Fitch, formerly of this place, will be glad to learn that they are now all living in Detroit, where their son, Mr. Frank R. Fitch has for several years had an excellent position with a prominent jewelry house. Mr. Fitch is the Detroit representatives of the Syracuse Solvay company. Miss May U. Fitch has a fine place as teacher in the public schools, while Miss Jennie Fitch is a special teacher of drawing in the Detroit schools. In this way the whole family is enabled to be united again. Their address is 221 Putnam-ave.
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Opens Monday—Large Attendance in Prospect— Improvements and Changes.
The Cortland Conservatory of Music, which has come to be recognized as one of the permanent institutions of Cortland, will open for the full term Monday, Sept. 10. The past year has been unusually successful in all departments and students are coming to recognize more and more the value of the conservatory course.
Since the close of the last term some important changes have been made. Miss Mattie Briggs will have charge of the department of modern languages and Mrs. Delia H. Whitcomb has been engaged for the department of painting and drawing. Messrs. Bowen, Darby and Bentley will have charge of their several departments as heretofore, Mr. Darby having in addition the banjo, mandolin and guitar instruction. The managers are also endeavoring to arrange with Mr. Patrick Conway, leader of the Ithaca band, to take charge of instruction in the band instrument department and if a sufficient number of pupils can be obtained the arrangements will probably be made.
Changes have been made in the arrangement of the different departments which will be found of advantage in carrying on the work. The office has been changed to the east side of the hall with entrance directly from the hall. Mr. Bowen's department has been transferred to the front room on the east side and Mr. Bentley will have the large room on the west side of the hall. This will also be used for a recital room. The art department will be back of these and is conveniently arranged.
Registration began to-day and already a large number of pupils have been to the office to make arrangements for the opening on Monday when regular class work and instruction will begin. The new catalogue which has just been issued giving full information in reference to equipment and courses of instruction will be furnished on application.
BREVITIES.
—The baseball players have sold nearly two hundred tickets for their benefit game next week Saturday.
—New display advertisements to-day are—M. A. Hudson, Saturday's specials, page 7; Mitchell & Strowbridge, Fresh fish, page 5.
—Those who were awarded premiums at the Cortland county fair can receive the same by calling at the office of G. J. Maycumber in the Schermerhorn block.
—Miss Susan Tompkins of Cortland, who has been spending a few days with Miss Lucy Marsh, went to Sheldrake today. Miss Tompkins will return to Ithaca to-morrow and leave Saturday for her home.—Ithaca Journal, Thursday.
—On Tuesday, Sept. 11, the Lehigh Valley passenger train on the Auburn division which leaves Freeville at 6:30 A. M. for Auburn and which leaves Auburn for Freeville at 4:30 P. M., will be withdrawn. All interested parties will take note of the change.
—Mr. Thomas Howard returned from Whitney Point last night where he had been performing the duties of a special officer. Thomas was an eye witness of the catastrophe in that place yesterday and reports that it is unnecessary to go West to see a genuine "blizzard."
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