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| William Jennings Bryan. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, November 3, 1900.
BRYAN IS SANGUINE.
Says Republican Campaign Has Been a Failure.
ROOSEVELT'S REMARKABLE TOUR.
Has Traveled 21,209 Miles, Made 673 Speeches and Spoke to 3,000,000 People in 24 States, Record Unbeaten in Present Campaign.
CHICAGO, Nov. 3.—Hon. W. J. Bryan, Democratic presidential candidate, last night gave out the following statement in the form of an interview:
"The Republican campaign has been a failure. The full dinner pail argument has been repudiated by the workingmen and the Republicans are compelled to confess that a large proportion of the labor vote will be cast for the Democratic ticket. Besides believing with the Democrats in the general doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none, the laboring men are against the trusts, the large army and the colonial policy. The laboring men are also drawn to the Democratic party by the fact that our party is opposed to government by injunction, to the blacklist and to Chinese immigration, and in favor of arbitration and of a cabinet officer selected to represent the wage earners.
"The Republicans are now hoping to hold their strength among the farmers, but they have no policy which will benefit the farmer. The man who makes his living on the farm is the victim of all the vicious legislation for which the Republican party is responsible, and receives none of the benefits conferred by special legislation upon corporations and syndicates. The farmer pays more than his share of the taxes and receives less than his share of the consideration of government. Republican policies have lessened the values of farm lands, increased the proportion of tenants and have driven the farmers' sons away from the farm, thus intensifying the struggle for existence in the cities. The farmers are almost unanimously opposed to the trusts and they can have no sympathy with the imperialistic policy of the Republican party with its attendant increase in the military establishment.
"I believe that the election will show that we have gained among the farmers as well as in the cities.
"The small business men and the professional men are also feeling the effect of the industrial despotism which has grown up with this administration.
"The poor are coming to the Democratic party because they want a chance in the race for life, and many of the well-to-do are coming because they realize that the Democratic party affords better protection to honest wealth than the Republican party.
"The Republican party is under the control of those who seek advantage through governmental favoritism and grow rich by the exploitation of citizens at home and subjects abroad. It is a fight between Democracy on the one side and plutocracy on the other, and Democracy appeals to the judgment and to the conscience of those who are willing to let live as well as to live."
Mr. Bryan's program in Chicago yesterday comprehended 12 speeches. The crowds that greeted him were greater than those of Thursday. The candidate began his itinerary at Handel hall, in the downtown business district, going from there to the public library, where he spoke to an outdoor gathering of workingmen. After luncheon he made two addresses in "Old Vienna" pavilion at Fiftieth street and Cottage Grove avenue, one to the crowd in the building and the other to the throng that was unable to get in. Here was the only semblance of disturbance manifest during the day. Two men in the audience asked almost simultaneously:
"How about North Carolina?"
Mr. Bryan was replying when one of the questioners insisted on asking a question concerning trusts, whereupon the crowd demanded that he be thrown out and threatened to lynch him. Mr. Bryan insisted upon answering, however, but could not do so for some time owing to the uproar made by the crowd in expressing its resentment toward the inquisitor. The latter was saved from violence only by police interference.
Mr. Bryan's night meetings were held on the north, west, southwest and south sides of the city, the closing speech being made at midnight at State and Thirty-first streets.
REMARKABLE CAMPAIGN
Roosevelt Has Traveled 21,209 Miles and Made 673 Speeches In Eight Weeks.
OWEGO, N. Y., Nov. 3.—Theodore Roosevelt, Republican candidate for vice president,, completed last night at this point one of the most remarkable campaigns ever made by a candidate of any party in the United States. In eight weeks he has visited 24 states of the Union, made 673 speeches, traveled 21,209 miles, visited 567 towns and cities and talked to what is estimated to be 3,000,000 people. This record includes more speeches, more miles traveled and more territory covered than that of all the other candidates for president and vice president of the United States of all other parties for the last 100 years, with the exception of the record made by William J. Bryan in 1896, and it exceeds Mr. Bryans' record, which was 599 speeches made and 19,000 miles covered.
This wonderful campaign was finished by a two weeks' tour of the state of New York, during which the candidate traveled 2,253 miles through 37 counties and made 120 speeches, the majority of them from the rear platform of the train. Mr. Roosevelt finished this tour in excellent health and good spirits and, as he said last night, "with a slightly weakened voice, but able to go on with the campaign a couple of weeks more."
The last day of his campaign included eight stops between Jamestown in Chautauqua county and inclusive of Owego in Tioga county. The stops varied from two hours in duration in Olean to 10 minutes at other points. Governor Roosevelt finished at Owego, the home of United States Senator Thomas C. Platt.
Governor Roosevelt said last night that he would not speak at Brooklyn tonight. He will go direct to Oyster Bay and will not speak except to his neighbors there on Monday night.
"This is final," said the governor.
Urges Debs to Withdraw.
BOSTON, Nov. 3.—The Globe today prints an open letter to Eugene V. Debs, urging his withdrawal in favor of Bryan, the signers being Professor Frank Parsons, president of the National Public Ownership league; H. O. Flower, founder of the Arena; Eltwood Pomeroy, president of the National Direct legislation, and Dr. George W. Galvin, all personal friends of Mr. Debs. The signers are all believers in the co-operative commonwealth, but are of the opinion that its advent will be hastened by Bryan's election.
PENSION SYSTEM.
Pennsylvania Railroad Employes Will Reap the Benefits.
PITTSBURG, Nov. 3.—Official notices were posted yesterday of the inauguration of a pension system for the employes of the Pennsylvania lines. The new system will go into effect on Jan. 1, 1901.
Employes aged 70 years or more will be given the option of retiring from service on half pay. Another provision also stipulates that if an employe has been crippled in the service of the road he can retire at the age of 65 years.
The system has been in vogue on the Pennsylvania railroad for some time and it has met with the approval of the employes. It has been decided to extend it over the entire Pennsylvania lines.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Another Falsehood Nailed.
It may seem strange that any one would be foolhardy enough to charge, or deluded enough to believe, that either C. F. Wickwire, T. H. Wickwire or Curtis L. Kinney would vote for Bryan, free silver and financial ruin. But persons have been found equal to both of these undertakings. In fact, so persistently has the charge been made, and so many persons have been reported as crediting it, that the STANDARD resolved to disprove it so publicly and thoroughly that it would not again be repeated. We accordingly had a representative of the paper call on each of the gentlemen above named and obtained from them the following signed statements:
To The Editor of The Standard;
SIR—We are surprised to learn that the report has been widely circulated that one or both of us are expecting to vote the Democratic electoral ticket. We are not aware of having said or done anything which could furnish the slightest foundation for such a report. It is utterly and absolutely untrue. If there is a concern in this city which has every reason to desire most earnestly the election of McKinley and Roosevelt, it is the Wickwire Brothers company. Neither we, nor any member of this company, will vote otherwise than for the Republican presidential electors and for the continuance of the present business prosperity of the country.
Very truly yours, C. F. WICKWIRE, T. H. WICKWIRE.
To The Editor of The Standard:
SIR—I cannot imagine how a story should have been put in circulation that I had any idea of voting for any one other than McKinley and Roosevelt this year. I have voted for every Republican presidential candidate since I have been a voter, and I certainly see no reason to leave my party this year, and follow a candidate who favors fifty cent dollars. I am not aware that I have given any one any reason to think that I ever dreamed of such a thing. My business, along with all other business interests of this country, has prospered under the McKinley administration, and I am anxious to see these prosperous days continued where there is abundant work for every man who wants to work, and where our dollars are worth one hundred cents everywhere. I shall certainly vote for McKinley and Roosevelt, and give all my influence to aid in their election.
Very truly, C. L. KINNEY.
Astounding as such a report as that above referred to may appear, it la no more so than many a similar falsehoods set afloat in the interest of the Bryanite campaign of false pretenses.
A NEW SAWMILL
To be Operated by Peck Bros. at the Farmers' Exchange.
Four teams started out from Peck Bros.' Farmers' Exchange bright and early this morning for East Homer where this energetic firm has bought a sawmill which will be brought to Cortland and combined with another sawmill that has been purchased of parties north of McGraw, making one of the best equipped mills of its kind that has ever been operated in Cortland county.
Peck Bros. have been handling lumber ever since they began business in their present commodious quarters, but their customers have been obliged to take the rough lumber to other places to have it dressed. This drove them to consider the sawmill idea, with the result that they will equip a first class establishment with all the machinery necessary for doing the best work in dressing and matching all kinds of lumber.
Hard wood lumber will also be handled in the mill. Previously the firm has been dealing in hard wood lumber, hiring it sawed as best they could. This has proved very unsatisfactory, but with the new equipment Peck Bros. will be prepared to do all of this work and every kind of custom work in the lumber line, which is an accommodation that the people of Cortland and vicinity have not known in years.
The two mills will be brought to Cortland from McGraw and East Homer and set at the rear of the exchange where a large building 80 by 80 feet will be erected. The plant will be ready for fall use. It will have a capacity of from 15,000 to 20,000 feet per day, and will be handled by five men. Mr. Arthur Holmes of Lafayette will have charge of setting the machinery and erecting the building. The mill will prove a great accommodation to farmers who have lumber that has been checked in its growth by the forest worms.
Private Kindergarten.
The second half-term of Mrs. Squires' private kindergarten, 44 Tompkins-st., begins Monday, Nov. 5. Thanksgiving work will commence, to be followed Dec. 3 by Xmas work. A few more children can be accommodated, and parents having children of kindergarten age are requested to consider the matter of entering them at this time. Children from 3 1/2 to 7 years are received. Conveyance to and from school free of extra charge. Parents and others interested are cordially invited to visit the school at any time. [Paid ad.]
SENATOR FRYE TO BRYAN.
OPEN LETTER CHARGING CANDIDATE WITH MISLEADING STATEMENT.
Allegation That He is not Dealing Frankly with the People—Instances of Evasion.
Senator William P. Frye of Maine has addressed an open letter to Candidate Bryan in which he says:
"The people of the United States have the right to expect a presidential candidate to meet the issues of the day with frankness and candor. Above all they desire that he shall not attempt to deceive them with false statements or with assertions which by stating half the facts and concealing the others give them a false impression. Many of them have not the time or the opportunity to learn from the public records the details of the questions under discussion, and it is only just to them that those who appeal for their support should tell them the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
"I have followed with great care the published accounts of your addresses since the campaign began, and, assuming that you are quoted with reasonable accuracy, I am forced to the belief that you are doing yourself a great injustice and creating the conviction that you are not dealing as frankly with the people as you have been accustomed to do in the past.
"I assume, of course, that you yourself know the facts and all the facts relating to the subjects which you attempt to discuss. They are entirely accessible, and as you have devoted your entire time to matters of this character since your entrance upon public life ten years ago, it is reasonable to assume that you are familiar with the subjects which you discuss.
"You have constantly criticized the course of the president in suppressing the insurrection in the Philippines; yet you know that the insurrection had been actually begun when the treaty with Spain was ratified by Democratic votes which were cast for it by your advice, and that by that very act you aided in placing this responsibility upon his shoulders.
ARMY INCREASE TEMPORARY.
"You criticize the size of the army. Yet you know that conditions in the Philippines were critical and the lives of our troops there in great danger when the temporary increase was asked by the president; and you also know that the act, which was supported by Democrats and Republicans alike, is but a temporary one, and itself provides that the additions to the force shall terminate on July 1 of next year.
"You talk of buying the Filipinos and of extending government over new territory without the consent of the governed, when you know that every foot of territory west of the Mississippi was acquired by your own party in precisely the same way, and the people temporarily governed by precisely the same methods and that the opportunities for local self-government which have been offered the Porto Ricans as vastly better than were given the inhabitants of the Louisiana Territory, Florida, and the territory obtained from Mexico.
"You talk about governing people without their consent, yet you know that your own party is governing millions of people in the southern states without permitting them the voice in their local or national government which the constitution and laws guarantee them; and when the matter is brought to your attention you have not one word of condemnation for it, but meet the issue with evasion worthy only of the merest pettifogger.
"You talk of trusts and charge the Republican party with responsibility for them; yet you know that during your own term in congress you did nothing except introduce two bills which you permitted to die in the pigeon holes of your own ways and means committee. You also know that the Republican party enacted the only anti-trust law ever passed by congress and that your own party in the last session of congress defeated the only remaining remedy, a constitutional amendment, which was proposed and urged by the Republicans, and which required for its adoption a two-thirds vote.
"You complain of the existence of a duty on articles passing between Porto Rico and the United States, amounting to 15 per cent of the Dingley law rates, when you know that the real purpose of that was to declare the right to regulate matters of this character in regard to the Philippines and so protect our workingmen of the United States from the cheap labor of the Orient, and that every cent of the duty thus collected in this country as well as in Porto Rico, goes to the benefit of the suffering Porto Ricans for whom you profess so much sympathy. You know also that this duty is but temporary and that the present law requires absolute free trade with the island in less than seventeen months from this time.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS DID IT.
"You said at Milwaukee: 'Who says that we can buy sovereignty over human beings?' Yet you know that this is just what the greatest leaders of your party did in the case of Louisiana Territory, Florida, and the enormous territory obtained from Mexico, and what it tried to do in Cuba and the Hawaiian Islands; and you know when you recommended the ratification of the treaty with Spain that you were recommending this very action.
"At Indianapolis you complained that a Republican president could send a telegram of condolence when a king dies, but when two republics expire no Republican sheds a tear, referring of course to the South African republics; yet you know that the United States government did more than any other nation on earth to bring about a cessation of hostilities in South Africa, that it was the only government to tender its good offices as mediator and that it was impossible, under articles of The Hague Peace convention, for it to do more. The telegram of condolence upon the death of the Italian king, to which you sneeringly allude, requires no defense or explanation, as you must know that international courtesies of this kind are always observed and that the failure to observe them would justly have subjected this nation to criticism.
"You said at St. Louis that 'under the trust system the traveling men will not be needed;' yet you know that investigations by the department of labor show that the so-called trusts have increased instead of decreasing the number of traveling men and other employees, and that they have increased and not reduced the wages of their workingmen or salesmen, and you know from your constant traveling upon the railroads that the number of traveling men now employed, in what you consider an era of trusts, is greater than ever before, and that this is shown by the records of the railways and their sales of the class of tickets used by traveling salesmen.
"You constantly assert that the so-called trusts have advanced prices of the articles that farmers buy much more than the advance in the prices of farm products. From Oct. 1, 1899 to Oct. 1, 1900, the prices of many articles largely manufactured by so-called trusts fell greatly, while in the same time the products of the defenseless farmers show an advance; corn, from 40 cents to 48 cents per bushel; hogs, from $4.65 to $5.30 per hundred; cotton, from 7 3-16 cents to 10 7/8 cents per pound; wheat, from 76 cents to 79 cents per bushel; barley, from 46 cents to 59 cents per bushel; cottonseed, from $11 to $17.35 per ton; hay, from 77 cents to 95 cents per 100 pounds, and hops from 13 cents to 16 cents.
"You talk of the president sanctioning slavery and polygamy in the Sulu Archipelago by a treaty with the sultan, when you know that the only reference to either of those subjects in the agreement was a provision by which slaves might purchase their freedom. You also know from public records that the president, on receipt of the agreement, immediately instructed its framers to notify the sultan that it must not be considered as giving consent to slavery, which would be impossible under the constitution, and that steps were immediately taken looking to a recommendation to congress for obtaining their freedom.
"You are constantly talking about the so-called trusts as contributors to the Republican campaign fund, when you know that the sworn testimony submitted to congress shows that the sugar trust was a heavy contributor to the Democratic campaign fund, and that the chairman of your own national committee is the head of the most complete monopoly in the United States, the round cotton bale trust, while Mr. Croker and other leading Democratic managers who are now supplying your party with funds, organized the most oppressive trust known to the people, the Tammany ice trust.
THE EFFECT OF PROTECTION.
"You sneer at the 'full dinner pail' and say that the Republican party thinks the workingman is all stomach; yet you know that under the low tariff law which you helped to enact the workingmen of the country were reduced to greater suffering and want and reliance upon charity than at any other time in the remembrance of this generation, and that in a short three years under Republican protection they have been given more general employment and at higher wages than ever before, as shown by the official figures of the department of labor.
At Kansas City you said: 'To-day the Government can take the son from his mother or the husband from his wife and stand them up before a gun, while in time of danger It cannot lay its hand upon wealth and make it bear its share of the late war with Spain and that in the expenses.' You know that every man who enters the military service of government does so voluntarily, and that in the Philippines the volunteers were vastly more than were required; while if you will examine the receipts of the government under the war tax you will see that the largest items of the tax collected are from the business classes.
"At Indianapolis and Minneapolis you said that the Republican party wants a standing army of 100,000 men for the purpose of establishing a fort near every large city and suppressing by force the discontent that ought to be cured by legislation. Yet you know that the act increasing the army to 100,000 men, which was passed by a Republican congress and signed by a Republican president, provides that the army shall drop back to less than 30,000 men on July 1 of next year, while you also know that Republican legislation in behalf of labor since the election of President McKinley has ended the discontent which existed as a result of the tariff legislation of your own party and in which you actively participated.
"You had a good deal to say to the people of Indiana and to the farmers everywhere about the wire nail trust and the iron and steel trust, and the standard oil trust, and the copper trust, and the tin plate trust, and asserted that they were controlling prices of the articles which the former must have. Yet how is it that if they are all powerful there has been a drop in the past year of from 10 to 35 per cent in the prices of iron and steel and wire nails, and lumber, and leather, and tin plates, and glass, and many other articles manufactured by trusts?
"You meet every reference to the Tammany ice trust with the evasive and inaccurate statement that the Republican governor of New York and candidate of his party for the vice-presidency has neglected and is neglecting to prosecute that trust, when you know from his own statement and must know from the public records that an action for its dissolution is now in progress and being fought at every step by the Democratic stockholders of that organization, who are meantime furnishing funds for the support of your campaign in New York and elsewhere.
"These are a few of the inconsistencies, evasions and misleading statements which you are every day repeating to the thousands of voters whom you address. The conclusion is irresistible that they are deceptive in fact, whatever may be their intent. As one who would not see the high honor of a presidential candidacy reduced to the level of demagogy and deception I respectfully urge that you exchange your present methods for the consistent and honorable course which characterized your discussions in congress and in 1896, and which gave you the respect of all men, no matter how much they might disagree with you in the principles you presented."
GOLDEN WEDDING
Of Mr. and Mrs. George McElheny Fittingly Observed.
Last evening about fifty of the friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. George McElheny invaded their home at 22 Cleveland-st., and took them by surprise, it being the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. A most enjoyable evening was spent in games and music, after which light refreshments were served. One feature of the evening was that their six children were all present. Before the guests departed, Mr. Van Duzor, in a very fitting manner, presented the couple with some tokens of remembrance. All went home feeling they had spent a pleasant evening and wishing Mr. and Mrs. McElheny many more happy years.
BREVITIES.
—The funeral of the late Andrew Filer will be held at the Homer-ave. M. E. church to-morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
—Messrs. Charles F. Brown and N. J. Peck have tendered their resignations as school commissioners of the city of Cortland.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Glann & Clark, Shoes, page 6; Mrs. J. T. Davern & Co., Millinery, page 6; J . W. Cudworth, Optical talks, page 8.
—A farmer near Canastota raised 7,000 bushels of onions on ten acres of land, which netted him $1,000, what the land cost him last spring, and left him a good sized bank account besides.—Norwich Sun.
—Rev. Robert Clements will on Sunday evening at 7 o'clock address the Christian Endeavor society of the Presbyterian church at McGraw. Rev. J. J. Cowles, the pastor of that church, will preach for Mr. Clements at the Presbyterian church in Cortland.
—The regular meeting of the board of managers of the Hospital association for November will be held at the hospital Monday afternoon next, Nov. 6, at 3 o'clock. Officers for the coming year are to be elected. A full attendance of the board is desired.
—A regular meeting of the Cortland Science club will be held this evening at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. H. L. Smith, 58 Prospect-st. The speaker will be Mr. Smith and his subject will be "Mushrooms." The address of two weeks ago will be reviewed by Mr. A. J. Murray.
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