Semi-Weekly Cortland Standard, Tuesday, October 30, 1900.
ROOSEVELT DAY.
TREMENDOUS DEMONSTRATION OF LOYAL REPUBLICANS.
The Governor Addresses an Audience of About Five Thousand in the Rink and a Larger Audience at an Overflow Meeting on Athletic Field—A Straight and Manly Talk—Other Speakers.
Monday was Roosevelt day in Cortland sure enough. The crowd that was in the city probably exceeded that at any other political gathering ever held here before. The original intention was to have the meeting in the old rink, but it early became apparent that that building, immense as it is, would accommodate but a fraction of the people who wished to see and hear the governor of the Empire state who is also the Republican vice-presidential candidate. The weather was all right too so that it was possible to have a meeting anywhere that a platform could be erected. The sky was bright and the air balmy, with mercury about up to 60 degrees. Athletic field was engaged and in these two places so close together two immense meetings were held.
The early trains poured a constant stream of visitors into the city. They continued to come with every mode of conveyance till the streets were full, and to express it in a single clause that means more than whole sentences—till one would think that it was circus day. Long before 11 o’clock, the appointed hour, the rink was full. Peck Brothers had moved out all their stock of goods and had thrown the whole building open to the public. The building is 220 by 80 feet in size and when it was packed like sardines in a box with standing people it was estimated that at least 4,000 people were inside. There were no seats except a few reserved in one corner for some special guests. The timbers and braces of the roof were full of men and boys all eager to get within the sound of the speaker’s voice. The roof was covered with people who stuck their heads in through the windows of the ventilators. At one time several panes of glass were broken out and the glass fell upon the heads and shoulders of the people below. But so far as could be learned no one was cut. One lady fainted in the crowd before the speaking began, and while the governor was speaking two more ladies were passed over the heads of the listeners and were taken out of the doors.
While waiting for the arrival of the speakers the Cortland City band in one corner of the rink played patriotic and national airs together with others of a more general character, while a drum corps from DeRuyter in the other corner did its share in entertaining.
It was a little after 11 o’clock when the special train arrived at the Lehigh Valley station, having been switched over from the D., L. & W. R. R. on the new switch below the junction. A line of march was then formed at once, the governor being in a carriage drawn by four black horses, the others of his company following in other carriages and the whole under the escort of about thirty mounted Rough Riders. The street was lined with people who could not get into the rink and who did not want to go to Athletic field till they had caught a glimpse of the governor, being afraid that something might prevent his coming there at all.
At about 11:30 o’clock the governor’s carriage drew up to the north door of the rink and amid a perfect whirlwind of cheers and while the band was playing “America” the party entered the building and the governor mounted the protest. Then it began to quiet down and just as he was about to open his mouth to speak the Normal [School] McKinley club amid the rafters and directly beneath gave the Normal McKinley yell.
“And it’s the football season too, and next Tuesday will make the score 16 to 0,” remarked the governor, whereupon the cheers were redoubled till the former efforts sounded faint indeed. Then Governor Roosevelt began again and spoke substantially as follows:
My Fellow Citizens—It would be a strange thing if I were not deeply impressed by this splendid gathering. I shall simply ask your attention this morning to one or two features of this campaign. If I were to talk for six hours I could not go over all of the issues. I should be glad to take up all of the issues. None of them wear thin in certain localities; they are the same all over the country. I am a gold standard man here and I am a gold standard man in Denver, Colo. I shall call your attention not to the threat of what Bryan would be as a president but to what President McKinley has done during the last four years. I ask you to go back with me through four years and to go through the work accomplished during those four years. He found our currency threatened with the terrible danger of free and unlimited coinage of silver. He leaves it now established as firmly as it can be established without legislative action. We have absolute confidence in the finances of the nation. We are not a debtor nation now. Nations abroad are borrowing money of us.
(At this time the sound of footsteps upon the tin roof above became almost deafening, as hundreds had mounted platform. Without any delay he was introduced in brief but pointed words by Nathan L. Miller, chairman of the county committee.
As the governor rose to speak he was greeted with prolonged cheers, which continued while he bowed repeatedly to the right and left till he raised his hands. [Those] on the roof hurried forward to the open windows in the ventilators and thrust their heads through leaning far down in an effort to hear. The speaker paused with the remark, “This is the first time I ever engaged in the practice of bringing down the roof. I wish the patriots up there would keep as quiet as possible.” An officer was dispatched to quiet the disturbance and the speech proceeded.)
We have passed a gold currency act that improves our financial condition, but it is not as lasting as it should have been or as it will be. There is no law, no matter how good it may be, which will completely and wholly prevent the assaults of those who would destroy it. The South American republics have constitutions like ours, but they fail to get such results as we do. Our country is not safe, our currency is not safe, if unsafe men are in control.
President McKinley began his administration with Cuba a perpetual source of menace and unrest to us upon the south. We fought to a brilliant conclusion in the short space of four months one of the most righteous wars which any one in this generation has ever seen at home or abroad. When we look back upon it from the standpoint of history all the unfavorable comments as to its details sink into insignificance. All this came about, it should be taken note of, after the president had exhausted every honorable means to avoid it. Upon April 19 war was declared, and on Aug. 4 it was all over, and Spain’s empire in the tropical seas of the orient and the occident had become a thing of the past. Any great feat means great responsibilities. These came to us with the victory. There can be no great deed without great responsibilities and vice versa. This is true in public and in private affairs. When a nation does a great task well it has another great task on hand as a result of the victory. After the civil war we had to bring order out of chaos. We had to build up that section and to bring it into harmony with the nation. Exactly the same thing had to be done after the war with Spain. President McKinley set himself to the new task with the same purpose, the same judgment and the same determination which he had manifested in so large a degree in carrying on the war with Spain. And not only that, but he had to face the fact that his political opponents would attack everything he did. They are all united now in denouncing us for having kept the Philippine Islands. Two years ago the Democratic conventions of Colorado and California demanded that these islands should be kept. Croker and Stanchfield demanded that they should be kept. Bryan himself came down to Washington to fight for the treaty which put us in possession of the Philippines. If then President McKinley had done what these men now say he ought to have done, they would have denounced him then. They were just as right then as they are now wrong.
Three separate problems faced us. Cuba we were to give independence. Cuba was the most advanced of the three, the most fit for the experiment. The president placed in command of Cuba as able a public servant as was ever found anywhere—Major General Leonard Wood. He was my colonel and I know him pretty well. Cuba has taken strides under his leadership that are marvelous.
Porto Rico was a small island. It had to be kept under the flag. Some revenue had to be raised for it somehow. We couldn't institute our methods of taxation there. The tariff which was decided upon has not interfered with its development and yet it has provided it with the needful resources. It is on the up grade, it is prospering as it never dreamed of.
The Philippine Islands presented the most serious problem of the three. A craven and a weakling would have done the easy thing, and that would have been basely dishonorable, would have been weakness and cowardice. To have done the easy thing would have inflicted a black stain forever on American history. Incidentally President McKinley in taking the easy way would have ruined himself and his party and honest money in this country. But he grasped the nettle and plucked it and now our affairs there are menaced by but one thing—Bryanism. Did you read the letter of Dean Worcester of the Philippine commission the other day in which he described how the islands were settling down till Bryan deliberately proceeded to use language which inflamed those Malay bandits who follow Bryan. A South Carolinian the other day wrote Senator McLaurin that over a thousand lives had been lost and the settlement of the difficulties had been hindered through Bryan’s candidacy. But our soldiers are holding on to what they have got and wherever the flag floats the wilderness blossoms as a rose, the islands are prosperous, order prevails and there is liberty for the individuals. Personal liberty is wholly unknown under Aguinaldo. Under the American flag liberty and order will be extended all over the islands, Bryan and Aguinaldo, can’t stop it, though they are doing their best.
I’ll tell you why they can’t stop it. I used to live out West in the cow country. A wise man from the East, an anti-imperialist from Boston went out there a short time ago. He met my foreman out there and asked him, “Why are you all expansionists out here?”
“I’ll tell you why,” he replied, “because all not women out here are men.”
Yes, we are going to stay there because we have a duty to perform there and if we are worth our salt we will do it.
I want to speak to you to-day upon our economic development. Four years ago we were down. We have been coming up for four years—the men in our factories, the owners, the foremen, the business men, the railroad men, the laborers. Our foreign trade has developed most wonderfully, our exports have exceeded all previous records, and are constantly increasing. The best argument I can give for the continuance of our present policy is Bryan’s speeches four years ago, unless it be his speeches this year. Bryan says these have been good years for crops. Yes, and they have been good years for weeds. I’ll join him in cutting out the weeds, but if he proposes a way which will cut out the crops with the weeds, I won’t be in that party. Your sewer is defective. You employ a plumber to repair it. I’ll join in such a movement, but if you burn down the house to destroy the effects of a defective sewer, I won’t consent to be an incendiary to help start the fire.
Bryan said here in Cortland farmers had not had their share of prosperity. Four years ago he said there wouldn’t be any prosperity. The other day in New York he said there wasn’t very much prosperity after all. The statisticians show that the value of farm products have increased over 35 per cent during the last four years. If this share is less than the average share for those not farmers all of us not farmers must be way above that. How does Bryan reconcile this with his statement that there isn’t much prosperity anyway. Don’t take my statements for these matters. Take his statements and compare them with each other. They can’t both be true.
Bryan said his party was the party of the poor and the Republicans formed the party of the rich. This is false and was designed to do the greatest evil possible in arraying poor against rich. Look among your friends. You will note that the Republicans are those who think alike on the great questions of the day and the great policies of American honor. There is no such division as Bryan speaks of. We have in our ranks men from all classes of citizens, wage earners, laborers, railroad men, business men, every type of American. All that we ask is that men shall have common sense and patriotism. If a man has these qualities he will make a middling good Republican.
Now, then, I appeal to you Republicans, to you honest Democrats who believed in Jefferson and Jackson. Bryan quotes from Jefferson, but he associates with Croker and Croker says he is in polities for the benefit of his pocketbook. I am not slandering Croker in saying this, I am quoting him. Can you trust a man who talks about Jefferson and associates with Croker? We stand to-day for policies which have built up national prosperity and honor and built it up through honesty. We stand here almost on the threshold of the twentieth century on the principle that wherever the American flag has ever been hoisted in honor it shall never be hauled down in dishonor.
As the governor ceased his thirty minutes address Mr. Glenn Woodin of the Normal [School] McKinley club stepped forward and in behalf of his club presented him with a most beautiful bouquet of pink carnations. It was an immense bouquet and the governor was evidently delighted with the token of respect and loyalty and bowed his acknowledgment amid tremendous applause.
There was then a grand rush for Athletic field where Governor Roosevelt was to speak at the overflow meeting.
OVERFLOW MEETING AT ATHLETIC FIELD.
Long before the arrival of the Roosevelt train the throng upon the streets, at the rink and at the station was so great it became evident that it would be necessary to hold an overflow meeting in order that all might have an opportunity to hear the governor. Arrangements were accordingly made for such a meeting at athletic field. In the course of a few minutes the grandstand was packed with people and every available vantage point was taken.
From the grandstand a fine view could be obtained of the special train as it came from the junction up the Lehigh Valley tracks to the station, and cheer after cheer for McKinley and Roosevelt were given as the crowd watched the train pull in.
A delegation from the Roosevelt train, in charge of Rowland L. Davis, secretary of the Republican county committee, proceeded at once to Athletic field and while the principal meeting was going on in the rink an equally enthusiastic one was being held in the open air. The governor spoke at both places.
As the first speaker at the overflow meeting Mr. Davis introduced Hon. James S. Whipple, who spoke for fifteen minutes upon expansion, prosperity and the fallacies of the Democratic party. Mr. Whipple said in part:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—You act like expansionists to-day. Wherever we go we are met by demonstrations like this. The people believe in expansion, and we believe also that where the American flag has been raised in honor it shall not be taken down in dishonor. Bryan said when he was here that capital is crushing labor in America. Four years ago he said that wheat and silver were so dependent, one upon the other, that the price of one would be determined by the value of the other. His campaign was scarcely over when the price of wheat reached the highest mark in years and the value of a silver dollar at the ratio of 16 to 1 was 53 cents. There is no more vicious doctrine to- day than that capital is crushing labor. In the year ending July 1, 1900, labor received $1,000,000 more than for any corresponding period during Cleveland’s last term.
Our foreign trade is the largest in the history of our country. Since the beginning of the McKinley administration the volume of our foreign trade has passed the $2,000,000,000 mark for the first time since the Pilgrim fathers landed upon our shores.
There can be no just war between capital and labor. The two must go hand in hand on the farm, in the factory, upon the railroad and in the workshop. No doctrine is so vicious as that there are classes and masses.
The speaker pointed out the fallacies of Bryan on the silver question; that his attitude on expansion and the whole Philippine question was in opposition to the principles of Jefferson, the patron saint of the Democracy. “Bryan,” he said “should take some of the feathers from the wing of his fancy and put them in the tail of his judgment.”
McKinley took the reins of government four years ago when the country was at the lowest ebb of prosperity. Under his administration prosperity has reached its highest ebb. Do we want these conditions changed or shall we vote for McKinley and Roosevelt, and a continuation of these same conditions? (A voice from the crowd said vote for McKinley and Roosevelt.)
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Officers Elected.
At the meeting of the Cortland County Medical association held Saturday evening the following officers were elected:
President—Dr. H. S. Braman.
Vice-President—Dr. S. J. Sornberger.
Secretary—Dr. Philip M. Neary.
Treasurer—Dr. F. W. Higgins.
Member of Executive Committee—Dr. F. D. Reese.
Purchased Ice Business.
Mr. A. A. Jennings who for the last five years has been with the Little York Ice Co. of this city has purchased the ice business of Homer, N. Y. Mr. Jennings has had a great deal of experience with the ice business, having formerly worked for the ice company of Auburn, N. Y., coming to this city five years ago. He will endeavor to conduct his business in Homer in a manner satisfactory to all of the old patrons and will doubtless be favored with the patronage of new ones.
INSURGENTS ACTIVE.
Two Attacks by Large Forces Are Reported.
REBELS LED BY A WHITE MAN.
Renegade Writes Letters to Men in Company of Which He Was a Member Threatening Them With Violence if They Become Prisoners.
MANILA, Oct. 29.—While scouting near Looe a detachment of the Twentieth and Twenty-eighth regiments, under Captain Beigler, were attacked by 400 insurgents armed with rifles, under the command of a white man whose nationality is unknown to the Americans. The insurgents for the most part were entrenched.
After an heroic fight Captain Beigler drove off the enemy, killing more than 75. The fight lasted for two hours. Captain Beigler and three privates were slightly wounded and two of the Americans were killed.
An engagement took place Oct. 24 between detachments of the Third cavalry and the Thirty-third Volunteer infantry, numbering 60 and a force of insurgents, including 400 riflemen and 1,000 bolomen. The fighting was desperate. Finally, under pressure of overwhelming numbers, the Americans were compelled to retire on Narvican.
Lieutenant George L. Febiger and four privates were killed, nine wounded and four are missing. Twenty-nine horses are missing. A number of teamsters were captured by the insurgents, but were subsequently released. The enemy's loss is estimated at 150.
A civilian launch towing a barge loaded with merchandise near Arayat was attacked by a force of 150 insurgents under David Fagin, a deserter from the Twenty-fourth-infantry. The American troops on hearing the firing turned out in force before the boat could be looted and recaptured it.
Fagin, who holds the rank of general among the insurgents, has sworn special enmity towards his former company. Of the 20 men he captured a month ago seven have returned. One was killed in a fight, his body being horribly mutilated. Fagin sends messages to his former comrades threatening them with violence if they become his prisoners. It was Fagin’s men who captured Lieutenant Frederick W. Alstaetter, who is still a prisoner.
General Hall’s expedition with a force of nearly 800 men through the mountains to Binangonan, province of Infanta, in pursuit of the insurgent General Cailles, although it discovered no trace of the enemy, encountered great hardships on the march. Twenty Chinese porters died and 40 men were sent into the hospitals. After stationing a garrison of 250 men in Binangonan and visiting Polillo island, off the coast of Infanta province, General Hall and the rest of his force embarked there on the transport Garonne.
Reports from General Young’s district show a daily increase of insurgents there, owing to the fact that recruits are going thither from the towns.
While a detail of the Thirty-third infantry was returning from Bangued on rafts, it was fired upon by insurgents, Sergeant Berdstaller being killed and two privates wounded.
The Philippine commission has decided to compile the revised Philippines customs tariff from its own investigations, assisted by the report of the army board. The result will be forwarded to the United States for publication and discussion among those interested in foreign commerce. When the details appear to be satisfactory and the draft has been approved by the secretary of war the commission will promulgate it as a law. The measure has taken on a new and international commercial interest and the course of this commission is heartily commended here.
Archbishop Chapelle, who recently left Manila accompanied by several Friars for the northern districts of Luzon, under conditions that aroused the suspicions of the Filipinos here that he intended to establish the Friars in parishes there, was warmly welcomed on his arrival at Dagpan. As two years have elapsed since an opportunity for baptism had been presented more than 2,500 persons have been baptized.
In view of the protest of the parish against the appointment of a Friar as parish priest Mgr. Chapelle did not attempt to make it.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
A Cunningly Devised Scheme Exposed.
The New York State Teachers’ association has been an important factor in shaping educational progress in the Empire state for more than half a century. During that time its conclusions have commanded the confidence and consideration of all great political parties, because in its action and in its management it has been entirely free from political partisanship. The honorable record bids fair to be broken by scheming politicians who parade as educators and who have obtained temporary control of the machinery of the State association. Through the manipulations of its president it is attempted to make the association an auxiliary of the Democratic party in the present political campaign.
The teachers of the state now understand why, despite their indignant protest, and contrary to all precedent the president of the association was re-nominated and re-elected in July last at the annual meeting held at Thousand Island park, through the packing of the meeting with members from the city of New York brought thither for that purpose. The plot of the conspirators is now revealed through the use of the official “Bulletin” of the association to urge teachers to support the Democratic ticket.
It will be obvious to thoughtful teachers that the re-election of the president, the reference in the “Bulletin” of August, 1900, concerning political platforms to be adopted by state conventions not yet held, the insertion of the plank in the Democratic state platform relating to tenure of office for teachers, and the partisan use of the official “Bulletin” published at the expense of the non-partisan association, are simply parts of a cunningly-devised scheme—a scheme so bald in its inception as to be nothing less than an insult to the intelligence of the teachers of the state, an insult that can be palliated only by assuming that its promoters judged the great body of teachers by their own standard of intelligence and their own low standard of professional ethics.
A paper read before the association of 1900 entitled “The Condition of the Teacher” is cunningly printed in the “Bulletin” immediately following the appeal to vote for Tenure of Office (?). This article contains a reference to recent educational legislation relating to the city of New York. The so-called Davis Bill is particularly mentioned. An analysis of this case is interesting. For many years the teachers of New York, oppressed by low political methods which so often prevail in that city, appealed in vain to the local authorities for relief and were at last forced to appeal to the legislation of the state. In the legislature of the present year the so-called Davis bill was introduced by Senator Davis, a Republican, considered favorably by Republican committees in senate and assembly, passed by a Republican legislature and when, according to constitutional provision it was submitted to the Tammany mayor of New York, received his prompt veto. It was then re-passed by the same legislature, and after a fair and full hearing on its merits, was signed by a Republican governor and became a law.
In which can thinking teachers best afford to place confidence—the evident political chicanery of the president of the State Teachers’ association and his fellow conspirators in connection with the specious plank of the Democratic platform, or the record of Republican legislatures which have enacted every law ameliorating the condition of teachers now included in the statutes of this state and which, despite the cry against increased state expenditure and the partisan temptation to keep the tax levy as low as possible, have increased the appropriation for the support of the public schools more than a million dollars per annum?
In the light of its record, the Republican party—through its legislature and its governor—can be safely trusted to discover the merits of the proposed tenure of office for teachers, and to act intelligently upon a question of interest to the teachers and to the commonwealth.
Died in Ithaca.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Cecelia Curtin died Monday morning at 7 o’clock at the home of her aunts, the Misses Ready, in Ithaca, of a complication of diseases, starting four months ago with typhoid fever. About four weeks ago she went for a visit to her aunts in Ithaca and the change was beneficial to her health, but a severe cold, contracted recently, hastened her death.
Miss Curtin was 21 years old and was particularly bright and accomplished. She graduated from the Central school and expected, had she regained her health, to become a sister. She leaves to mourn her loss her mother, Mrs. John Curtin, and a brother, J. Curtin, both of whom reside on Delaware-ave.
The funeral arrangements have not yet been made.
AN INTERESTING RELIC.
Reminiscent of the Fremont Campaign.
The interesting letter from our townsman Isaac Edgcomb in the Daily Standard of Oct. 18 brought him the following letter from Supervisor Bingham of Solon:
“FRIEND EDGCOMB—A man who has voted for every Republican president from John C. Fremont down to now deserves a Fremont medal. I send you one.”
Upon this medal was inscribed, on the reverse, “Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor and Eternal Progression;” on the obverse side, full bust of Fremont, with his name over same in bold type.
BREVITIES.
—The Normals defeated the Syracuse university second football team on Saturday at Syracuse 16 to 6.
—Superintendent of the Poor Mills G. Frisbie started Friday morning with two epileptics for Craig Colony, Sonyea, Livingston Co.
—Too much care cannot be exercised in putting up the stove for winter to see that chimney flues and pipes are secure and in proper place.
—Governor Roosevelt was in Auburn an hour and ten minutes Thursday and made three speeches to immense audiences during that time.
—Spurious silver dollars and half dollars, excellently counterfeited, together with a recent issue of a counterfeit $10 silver certificates are reported to be in circulation.
—McDermott’s orchestra of six pieces played an engagement in Groton last Friday night and in Tully Saturday night. This week Friday night the boys play again in Groton.
—Fifty pounds of fish was the catch reported by the party that went to North Fair Haven last Monday. Tuesday was the big day for them. Monday, on the contrary, was a bad day for angling and Mr. J. L. McKee got discouraged and came home, leaving Messrs. A. L. Gladding and C. R. Doolittle to do the catching.
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