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| Police Chief William S. Devery. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, November 6, 1900.
BATTLING AT THE POLLS.
Tremendous Vote Is Being Recorded Everywhere.
DEVERY RETRACTS IN NEW YORK.
Rescinds His Former Order to the Police. Claims and Predictions Made on the Night Before Election by Leaders of Both Parties. Fraud Exposed.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Voting in Greater New York became brisk the moment the polls were opened and continues at a lively rate. From present indications it is certain that the greatest vote ever polled in this city will be registered when the count is made.
There were some few disturbances and altercations reported from various sections of the city but nothing of a serious nature happened. Toward nightfall the voting is expected to become even heavier. The police are plentifully scattered throughout the city and order is well preserved. Reports come from several districts of the arrest of persons who were not legally registered and who attempted to vote.
The most interesting development in this city on the eve of battle was the indictment found by the local grand jury against Chief of Police William S. Devery on the charge of interfering with the work of State Superintendent of Elections John McCullagh. Chief Devery's bail was fixed and arrangements have been made for hearing the case tomorrow.
The indictment has attracted a great deal of attention in political circles. The points involved appear to hinge upon the rights of men to swear in their votes when challenged by any of the deputies of the state superintendent of elections. The legal aspects of the case are interesting to Republican and Democratic leaders for the reason that it has been feared that a clash might occur at the polls between the 8,000 policemen and the 800 deputies.
At all the political headquarters, at the office of the chief of police and at the Democratic club the consensus of opinion seemed to be that the election would prove a quiet one despite the differences of opinion between the chief of police and the state superintendent unless the unexpected happened.
Everywhere confidence is expressed that a full vote will be polled and Republicans and Democrats alike agree that more than 600,000 citizens in Greater New York will deposit their ballots for the men of their choice. Indications are that the vote in the city will be at least 65,000 larger than ever before in the history of Greater New York.
Generally speaking, Republicans concede that Bryan will carry Greater New York. On the other hand Democrats admit that McKinley will carry the state if Greater New York is excluded. The differences of opinion arise on the question of the pluralities that the Democrats are conceded in the Metropolis and the Republicans are conceded in the up-state districts.
Democratic national headquarters were practically deserted yesterday. Chairman Frank Campbell of the state committee and Chairman of the State Executive Committee McGuire are at their respective homes and will not return until tomorrow. Secretary Mason declined to make any statement other than to repeat what the chairman had said, that Bryan's election was assured. Secretary Mason will receive and give out the returns at his party's headquarters in the St. James building this evening.
At Republican Headquarters.
At the Republican national headquarters Joseph H. Manley, Senator Scott of West Virginia and Frederick S. Gibbs of New York gave out the following statements respectively:
Mr. Manley—The national committeemen in this city after the receipt of telegrams from Chairman Hanna and various state committeemen have nothing to add to the statement made public in the morning except to emphasize it. I do not think with some that Indiana is entirely safe for us. But we have no doubt of Illinois. We shall certainly carry New York state by no less than 75,000 majority and I look for something over 100,000 majority. I anticipate no trouble in this city. I believe Superintendent of Police Devery means to give us a fair election, as he gave us a fair parade and as he gave us protection in our meetings in this city. I do not expect that we shall have any definite statement as to the result before 9:30 o'clock tonight.
Senator Scott of West Virginia repeated his former sanguine statement.
National Committeeman Gibbs said: "The election will be fair. I anticipate no trouble. The worst has been done and it is my opinion that McKinley will have not less than 259 votes in the electoral college. That I consider a conservative estimate."
Richard Croker claims that Bryan will carry Greater New York by between 60,000 and 90,000.
As a general thing Republican leaders will not admit that the borough of Manhattan will be carried for Bryan by more than 30,000 plurality. Both sides claim the borough of Brooklyn, the Republicans by 12,000, the Democrats by 8,000. The population in the Bronx, Queens and Richmond is relatively small. Democrats and Republicans claim all three boroughs, but the Democrats usually carry Queens and Richmond. As for the Bronx, the increase in population, owing to the uptown movement, has been so great that all estimates are worthless, the population in some districts having doubled. It will probably not give a decisive majority either way.
Democrats are inclined to concede the state outside greater New York to McKinley by 50,000. This is 100,000 less than the Republicans allow McKinley in the same territory. Odell is at his home at Newburg. He will receive returns at his home and will not return here until tomorrow. Before leaving he said he had nothing to add to his statement that McKinley would carry New York state by 100,000, Greater New York included.
Governor Roosevelt will remain at his home at Oyster Bay, Long Island, until after election. He wound up his campaign for the vice presidency last night with a brief speech and then visited with his old friends and neighbors.
The close of the campaign finds the betting that obtained during the last fortnight practically unchanged. Only comparatively small bets are being made, the ruling odds ranging anywhere from 4 to 1 to 5 to 1 in favor of McKinley and against Bryan.
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| Robert A. Van Wyck. |
DEVERY RETRACTS.
Roosevelt Wrote to Mayor Van Wyck, and Latter Forced Chief of Police to Issue New Orders.
OYSTER BAY, Nov. 6.—Governor Roosevelt last night sent the following communication to Hon. Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor, New York city:
"Sir—My attention has been called to the official order issued by Chief of Police Devery, in which he directs his subordinates to disregard the chief of state election bureau, John McCullagh, and his deputies.
"Unless you have already taken steps to secure the recall of this order it is necessary for me to point out that I shall be obliged to hold you responsible, as the head of the city government, for the action of chief of police if it should result in any breach of the peace and intimidation or any crime whatever against the election laws. The state and the authorities should work together.
"I will not fail to call to summary account either state or city authorities in the event of either being guilty of intimidation or connivance at fraud or failure to protect every legal voter in his rights.
"I, therefore, hereby notify you that in the event of any wrongdoing following upon the failure immediately to recall Chief Devery's order, or upon any action or inaction on the part of Chief Devery, I must necessarily call you to account, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
Governor Roosevelt's message to the mayor was delivered to Mr. Van Wyck at the Democratic club last night. The mayor at once took a cab and was driven to police headquarters, where he called upon Chief Devery. The mayor and the chief of police were closeted together for an hour.
At the conclusion of the conference Chief Devery announced that in accordance with the mayor's orders the order issued on Sunday to captains regarding the McCullagh deputies and voters would be rescinded. The order of the mayor read as follows:
"You will at once revoke the order issued from your office on the 4th inst. relative to the duties of the police force on election day, and you will issue immediately such further orders as will require your subordinates to co-operate with and assist in the execution and enforcement of the metropolitan election district law and amendments thereto."
Later Mayor Van Wyck made the following statement:
"There will be no intimidation or violence at the election. It will pass off as quietly as that of a country village. The chief of police will take charge of that and will preserve order. I have the utmost confidence in the chief. He knows his duties and is a perfectly efficient chief and understands how to maintain peace and order."
Chief Devery said that there would be no trouble at the polls and he would enforce the orders of the mayor to the letter.
FRAUDS EXPOSED.
Superintendent McCullagh Unearths a Plan to Bring Men From New Jersey to New York.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Superintendent McCullagh of the New York state bureau of elections last night gave out a detailed statement in which he announced that he had unearthed a plan to bring men from New Jersey to the borough of Manhattan for colonization purposes during the present election. He announced the arrest of Peter Friend, a saloonkeeper of Jersey City, and explained the manner in which it is claimed the men were to be used on election day. In part the statement is as follows:
"One team was to vote in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and 12th assembly districts. They were to leave certain places in Jersey City and be put in a building within a block and a half of police headquarters and [within] a block of this office at 587 Broadway. Other teams were to be brought over and distributed in other assembly districts in Manhattan. These men were organized by districts and known by numbers. The scheme was planned between certain people, one a liquor dealer and policy writer and men of that kind in Jersey City. They were assisted in the job by people doing business in the Bowery and in Fourteenth street. I will not say just where these places are."
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Germany and Venezuela.
The report which reached Washington a few days ago that there is a prospect of a deal between Germany and Venezuela, which will result in the transfer of a coaling station or naval base on the island of Margarita to Germany in satisfaction of certain claims which Germany holds over Venezuela, naturally arouses American interests, as it involves a possible invasion of the Monroe doctrine.
The claims of Germany are old ones and, unfortunately, are continually accumulating. They represent the profits which the Venezuelan government guaranteed to German investors who provided the capital for the Trans-Andean railway, which has never paid. Negotiations have been undertaken in the past for a settlement of just this sort, but nothing ever came of them. Trouble might have developed between the two governments over the claims in 1895 had it not been for President Cleveland's firm stand in opposition to England's encroachments upon Venezuela, which made it inadvisable for Germany to press the matter at that time. The claims are undoubtedly embarrassing to Venezuela, but she should find some means of setting them other than by a territorial grant.
It is clear that this government, to be consistent, would be obliged to protest against Germany's acquisition of Venezuelan territory even if the latter government gave it up voluntarily and acting under no duress. There is ample precedent for such protest in connection with the Monroe doctrine. This government intervened between England and Venezuela to prevent British encroachments upon Venezuelan territory, and it has even prevented the pressing of claims by other powers upon South and Central American states to the point of territorial seizures or the grant of land indemnities.
While the matter has thus far apparently taken not much more definite form than a rumor, it is well enough for Germany to be given to understand that it is decidedly against the policy of this country to permit the alienation of territory by the states south of it to any European power or to allow any such power to Increase its military equipment in this hemisphere, especially in the vicinity of the approaches of the proposed Nicaragua canal.
ARMY STATISTICS.
Official Report Throughout the Union for the Month of September.
RECRUITING STATION, U. S. ARMY, 109 BASTABLE BUILDING, SYRACUSE, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1900.
To the Editor of the Standard:
SIR—The following information which has just been received at this station from the war department, concerning the number of enlistments made for service in the regular army during the month of September throughout the United States, Alaska and the Island possessions, is furnished for publication in your columns, in the interest of the public:
Total number of recruiting stations in cities, 96; total number of recruiting stations at military posts, 118; total number of recruiting stations in the field with troops, 29; total number of recruits enlisted in cities: white, foot service (infantry and artillery) 1,171; white, mounted (cavalry) 197; colored, foot service, 92; colored, mounted, 70; aggregate enlistments in cities, 1,530; aggregate rejections in cities, 6,147; total number recruits enlisted at military posts: white, foot service (infantry and artillery), 132; white, mounted service (cavalry) 32; colored, foot service, 11; colored, mounted service, 17; Indian scouts, none; aggregate enlistments at military posts, 192; aggregate rejections at military posts, 177; total number of recruits enlisted in the field: white, foot service (infantry and artillery) 40; white, mounted service (cavalry) 26; colored, mounted service, 10; colored, foot service, 3; Indian scouts, none; aggregate enlistments in the held, 70; aggregate rejections in the field, none; aggregate enlistments, all classes during September; white, 1598; deficiency compared with August, 688; colored, 203, excess compared with August, 11; Indian, none, deficiency compared with Aug., 1; total, 1,801; deficiency of enlistments compared with August, 678; aggregate rejections of all classes both white and colored, 6,324; deficiency of rejections, compared with August, 2,937.
Very respectfully,
JNO. R. FINLEY, Captain, Ninth Infantry, Recruiting Officer. H. H. J. D.
ELECTION DAY.
The Vote Going In Early—It Will Be a Very Heavy One.
To-day is Election day. From all over the country come dispatches of fair weather, a very heavy vote and the fact that the vote was going is very early. Cortland was no exception to the rule. For the first two or three hours this morning the ballots went in at each polling place faster than one a minute. At noon there were 1,834 votes cast out of a city registration of 2,639, leaving 805 votes for the afternoon. At 3 o'clock there were 2,403 votes cast, leaving on the registers only 236 names yet unvoted. At the time of going to press the indications are that nearly the whole city vote will be cast before the polls close.
Resolutions.
The following memorial resolutions on the death of the late Joseph I. Sayles have been adopted by the O. U. A. M:
WHEREAS, This council has been officially informed of the death of ex-State Councilor Joseph I. Sayles of Rome, N. Y., on Sept. 20, 1900, and
WHEREAS, This council desires to express in fitting terms its loss in the passing of our honored and beloved brother who, at the breaking out of the rebellion in April, 1861, was one of the first to offer his services, and to give his life, if necessary in defense of the old flag and his country. Honorably discharged from that service, he enrolled himself with his comrades in the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic, in which order he rapidly advanced to the front, becoming in 1885 the department commander of this state. It is not strange that one so patriotic should have been at once attracted by the principles of the Order of United American Mechanics, or that he should have joined, at once, this organization in which during the remainder of his life he labored with conspicuous ability to advance the grand principles of the order, "honesty, industry and sobriety." So faithfully did he work that his brethren of the order twice elected him to fill its highest office in this state.
A lawyer of national reputation, a comrade and brother beloved by his associates, a citizen honored and respected by all. Therefore be it
Resolved, That it is with feelings of profound sorrow and personal loss that we receive the sad intelligence of his death. He had endeared himself to us by his cordial sympathy, wise counsel and friendly aid in building up Cortland council, in which, to the last, he took a deep fraternal interest.
Resolved, That while we bow, resignedly, to this dispensation of Providence, we mourn his loss, and deplore his departure. His place in our ranks cannot be filled.
To the surviving members of his family we tender our most sincere sympathy and condolence.
Resolved, That the charter be draped in mourning for sixty days.
Respectfully submitted,
H. M. KELLOGG, J. B. HUNT, Committee, Cortland, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1900.
GROTON-AVE. COMPLAINTS.
Board of Public Works Listened to Grievances Last Night.
The board of public works met last evening in regular monthly session and transacted but little business on the eve of election. Several residents of Groton-ave. came before the meeting with grievances concerning the grade on sidewalk distances on the street.
Mr. Delos Bugbee, who resides on the north side of the street above Homer-ave., wanted the sidewalk distance, which all along that side has been placed at five feet from the curb, lessened to four feet. He claimed that the five foot distance for walk would necessitate the cutting of nearly as many trees as would the four foot, and with four feet he would have a foot more of lawn in front of his residence.
Superintendent Becker showed that if the walks were placed five feet away from the curb not a single tree would have to be sacrificed, as the walks could be cut into a little in a few cases, and the rest of the trees would all fall in the space between the curb and walk.
The board was of the opinion that the engineer and superintendent, who fixed the distance, had a better knowledge of the conditions than did the board of public works itself, and refused to take action in the matter.
Mr. Joseph Bates and Miss Mina Bates of 40 Groton-ave. asked that measures be taken to re-establish a sidewalk grade in front of their premises. Their property would be greatly depreciated in value if the grade was kept where it now is. The board assured them that their interests would be protected.
BREVITIES.
—The W. C. T. U. coffee wagon arrived in town this morning.
—The Chicago Marine band arrived in Cortland via the Lehigh at 8:31 this morning.
—A Prohibition meeting was held in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium last night and was addressed by local speakers.
—The concert by the Brooke band this afternoon was a most excellent one and fully justified all the good things that have been said of it.
—The Republicans will receive election returns to-night at Taylor hall; the Democrats at headquarters on Railroad-st. and at the Messenger House.
—Elon encampment, No. 59, I. O. O. F., will confer the Royal Purple degree upon two candidates to-morrow, Wednesday evening. A full attendance is desired.
—At a meeting of the Cortland Cemetery association last night, Mr. R. B. Smith, Mr. Fred Conable and Mr. E. J. Warfield were re-elected trustees for full terms of three years each.
—The business meeting and social of the Christian Endeavor society of the First Baptist church, will be held at the home of Miss Amy Smith, 19 1/2 Clayton-ave., on Wednesday night at 7:30.
—Election returns will be received at the Y. M. C. A. parlors this evening. Both ladies and gentlemen will be cordially welcomed. The Woman's Auxiliary will serve sandwiches and coffee.
—New display advertisements to-day are—W. W. Bennett, Sterling ranges, page 6; M. A. Case, Cloaks, page 6; Hudson, Gray & Co., Crockery, page 7; F. Daehler, Top overcoats, page 8; W. J. Perkins, Dandruff cure, page 7; F. I. Graham, Cough Balsam, page 6; Tyler & Smith, Clothing, page 6.
Officers of City Hospital.
The following officers were elected last evening for the City hospital for the ensuing year:
President—Mrs. Julia E. Hyatt.
First Vice-President—Mrs. F. H. Cobb.
Second Vice-President—Mrs. S. N. Holden.
Secretary—Mrs. A. B. Buck.
Treasurer— Mrs. F. J. Doubleday.
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