Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, October 30, 1900.
SHAMEFUL BEHAVIOR.
Roosevelt Insulted and Assaulted, Also Depew.
DISGRACEFUL SCENE AT ELMIRA.
Hoodlums Threw Eggs and Vegetables at Their Governor—Five Hundred Men Broke Up Depew's Meeting, Jeering and Acting Like Drunken Men.
ELMIRA, N. Y., Oct. 30.—For the first time in New York state, and in the home of the Democratic candidate for governor, Theodore Roosevelt was assaulted on the streets on his way to the places of meeting.
He was in a carriage with former Senator Fassett, and at several points along the route was pelted with eggs and vegetables, and greeted with the vilest of epithets.
He sat in dignified silence while the police looked on quiescently. The campaign club from Corning was also assaulted personally and a bitter fight ensued.
In the places of meeting the governor had no interruptions. After it was over he said: "It was nasty conduct, the conduct of hoodlums."
Six men from Corning were badly hurt, being severely cut and bruised.
"The fight at Victor," said Secretary Loeb of the governor's staff, "was not half so bad as that here tonight. At Victor no blood was shed, but here blood flowed quite freely."
At Ithaca the governor's reception was of a most friendly nature and he paid a pretty compliment to one of the college men, a son of Richard Croker, by refusing to do as he has generally done at other stops, make a personal attack on the Tammany leader. In his hour's speech he did not mention the name of Mr. Croker. At Van Etten he made a short address. His welcome in Elmira was the greatest political demonstration the city has witnessed in years. There was a big parade, in which were nearly 1,000 mounted Rough Riders, and the Lyceum and Tivoli theaters were crowded with people eager to hear the governor speak and overflow outdoor meetings were held. Fully 20,000 people were in town.
The governor at all three of his stops, and especially in Elmira devoted himself largely to a defense of the national administration, in addition to a brief exposition of the reasons why Mr. Odell should be elected as governor.
Students in Jumpers.
At Ithaca the greatest enthusiasm was manifested in the city and at the train. This was due partly to the presence of Cornell college students. A trolley car was in waiting at the depot and as it passed down the main streets towards the meeting place it had to go through lines of students exhibiting the wildest enthusiasm. One squad of students had dinner pails in their hands and wore blue jumpers in imitation of workingmen. The governor enjoyed the thing immensely. A parade was formed with three bands and a great crowd of students and citizens. The governor dwelt, as he had at Cortland, on the features of the McKinley administration. He said to one of the committee: "I shall answer all questions in a good natured manner."
In the crowd circulars had been distributed asking him his record as to assertions he was alleged to have made regarding farmers and laborers, and containing a piece of verse called "Ruffian Rider Roosevelt."
The governor began with a phrase calculated to put all the students in good humor, either Democrats or Republicans. He said:
"I am glad to be with you this afternoon, and I want to say on the 6th of November next I hope to see the Republican party win by a greater score than you whipped Dartmouth with last Saturday—22 to 6."
After saying this the speaker had to wait for fully five minutes before the tumult ceased, and he started it again by saying:
"I still keep up a serious study of football."
Questions Asked and Answered.
Answering a local Democratic paper that had credited a remark about Bryan to him, he said:
"I never made it and never thought it. Now I hope my Democratic friends will not think that is an evasive answer," and the audience shouted with laughter.
He then talked of the evasiveness of Mr. Bryan on the silver question and ridiculed his trust remedy of free trade as bad for everybody.
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| Chauncey M. Depew. |
DEPEW INSULTED.
Five Hundred Men at Cobleskill Broke Up His Meeting—Respectable Citizens
Express Regret.
CATSKILL, N. Y., Oct. 30.—Five hundred men undertook to break up Senator Depew's meeting here yesterday afternoon and partially succeeded. Mr. Bryan had spoken here in the morning at the fair grounds. When Senator Depew arrived he was conducted to a platform in the main street and faced 6,000 people.
The disturbing element manifested its intentions before the meeting began. One drunken man was hustled out of the crowd. Others in like condition resented this. Then there was a fight. Senator Krum, whose home is in this district, tried to speak and was howled down. Then he appealed to the disturbers to respect Senator Depew personally, if they did not respect his party. The ugly element jeered at this. Senator Depew started to talk, but hundreds of men hurrahed for Bryan, hissed McKinley's name and catcalled Senator Depew.
Three clergymen of the town stood before the crowd and begged and asked for fair play. Senator Depew got started again and at last made himself heard. His voice was so distinct that the crowd became quiet for a moment. "Did Bryan leave orders today to break up this meeting?" he asked. Following this he continued: "No Republican crowd ever broke up a Democratic meeting; no Republican is afraid of free speech; are the Democrats who are engaged in this effort to break up this meeting afraid of truth? Is your leader, Bryan, afraid of free speech?"
This was followed by a renewal of the disturbance. There were hurrahs for Bryan and catcalls for McKinley. Senator Depew began his speech on the acquisition of the Philippines, but the uproar continued. "You remind me," said the speaker, "of the copperheads who used to come to the union meetings during the civil war." More noises and hurrahs for Bryan greeted this statement. Senator Depew cut his speech short and walked from the platform to his train, followed by nearly a thousand people who gathered about the tail-end of the car and cheered him. He talked to this crowd for a half hour and it gave him respectful attention.
Among other things he said: 'Tammany Hall, my friends, would never permit what you have witnessed in this meeting. Tammany Hall is the rock-rooted Democratic organization of this country, but it has always insisted upon free speech and it has always accorded to the party which opposes it the same privilege. If Mr. Bryan himself had witnessed what you saw at that meeting he would have been ashamed of it. And yet that disturbance is the result of the doctrine of class hatred preached by Mr. Bryan."
After Senator Depew went into the car he was waited on by a committee of citizens, composed of all parties, who assured him that the element which had created the trouble did not represent the town and that most of the disturbers did not belong there.
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| William Jennings Bryan. |
BRYAN'S 30 SPEECHES.
Establishes a Record That Eclipses Any Ever Made in a Campaign.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—"And I am feeling tolerably well, thank you." This was Colonel Bryan's response when told last night that he had made 30 speeches during the day and thus broken his own record for speech-making. As a rule the speeches were not so long as on most occasions, but they exceeded in number by 9 or 10 those of any previous day during the present campaign and by three the highest number made in the campaign in any one day in 1898.
Beginning at Bainbridge, at 9 a. m., he spoke in succession at Sydney, Unadilla, Oneonta, Otsego, Schnevus, Cobleskill, Voorheesville, Delaware, Ravena, Coxsackie, Catskill, Saugerties, Kingston, Highlands, Marlborough, Cornwall, Highland Falls, Haverstraw, West Nyack and Little Ferry. In New York city he made one speech, at Hamilton Fish park on the east side, and in Brooklyn during the night he made seven speeches, making 30 in all for the day and night.
The day's tour was first along the head waters of the Susquehanna river, and then back through the Catskills and down the Hudson on the west side of that river to Weehawken; thence across the river and across Manhattan island into Brooklyn. All the speeches except one were made in the state of New York, the exception being that of Little Ferry, in New Jersey.
Mrs. Bryan accompanied her husband during the day and she received almost as much applause as he did when she appeared before the crowds assembled to hear him. She was also presented during the day with many handsome bouquets of roses and chrysanthemums. Hon. Eliot F. Danforth and Mrs. Danforth were also aboard the train during the day. As a rule greater enthusiasm was manifest than at smaller places on Mr. Bryan's first tour of the state, and the crowds were generally large in proportion to the population. Of the day meetings Kingston was the longest, as it was one of the most enthusiastic. Haverstraw and West Nyack also received Mr. Bryan most cordially.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The Mayor—The Live Local Issue.
No sane Democrat really believes that William Jennings Bryan stands as much chance of being elected as he does of being struck by lightning or killed in a railroad accident. Without New York state he cannot be elected, and with bets in New York city offered at 5 on McKinley to 1 on Bryan, with no takers, the prospects of the apostle of anti-imperialism, free silver and class hatred in this state are more than frosty—they are icy.
The local Democratic leaders in Cortland are not blind to these facts in the national situation. They know that with the city of New York giving only a small majority for Bryan, as all indications point to its doing, the up-country districts can not be held responsible for much of a Democratic vote. The national issues, therefore, are being made secondary to local ones, and the Democratic nominee for mayor is having more push put into the effort for his election than is being wasted on the impossible Bryan.
It is about time that Republicans were waking up to this fact and acting accordingly. The man who is the next mayor of this city will have more power than any of his successors. He will appoint more officers and will be in position to make his influence more effectively felt, not only upon the future of local politics in the city, but upon general politics, public order, good government and school administration. Every Democrat in the city is wide awake to these facts. The convention which nominated Mr. Taylor understood what it was about. He was selected because he was regarded as the most available and most popular man in the party, its best vote getter, and the man upon whom all its factions could most easily unite. And since his nomination the workers and heelers of his party, to a man, have had his button on their coats and been straining every nerve to button Republicans to his cause.
Whatever Mr. Taylor's merits may be, it would be hard to find even a Democrat who would claim that in any respect he is better fitted for the office than the Republican candidate. Not a word can truthfully be said to Mr. Brown's discredit. The Democratic party simply wants to control the appointing power in the next city government, and Mr. Taylor seems the most promising instrument for accomplishing this end.
One thing more. If Republicans can not elect such a man as Chas. F. Brown mayor of the city of Cortland in a presidential year, when can they expect to elect anybody? If they suffer him to be defeated this year, and allow the appointing power of the city government to he turned over to a Democrat, they might as well retire permanently from city politics. Mr. Taylor can only be elected by Republican votes. However personally friendly any Republican may be to the Democratic nominee—and the STANDARD proposes to make no attacks on him, nor say anything to his discredit—can any Republican give any valid reason why he should desert a regular Republican nominee of the character, standing and ability of Mr. Brown, and vote for his defeat? We don't believe that such a reason exists. The question as to who shall be the next mayor of the city of Cortland is not a merely personal one. It goes a great deal further and means a great deal more.
Cortland Voters, Remember!
Every voter of the city of Cortland when he comes to cast his ballot for mayor should bear in mind the following important facts:
First, That the next mayor appoints the entire school board.
Second, That he also appoints the new board of four fire and police commissioners, of which he will himself be, ex-officio, a member.
3d, That the first duty of the new fire and police commission will be to organize the police force of the city.
4th, That the present five-year contract between the city and the water company expires during the term of the next mayor.
A MONSTROUS PARADE.
CULMINATION OF ROOSEVELT DAY AN UNRIVALED SUCCESS.
Demonstration Eclipsed all Other Like Attempts in Cortland—Every Town in the County Represented by a Marching Club—Rough Riders in Force—Business Men in Line—All the Wards Fully Represented—Decorations and Ear Splitting and Eye Pleasing Fireworks—All Ending with a Huge Mass-Meeting at the Old Rink.
The parade last night, given in connection with the visit of Roosevelt to Cortland probably eclipsed every other like demonstration that Cortland has ever known. Over a thousand men by actual count were in line and the Rough Riders numbered more than a hundred. The business men and manufacturers were out in full force and each carried his lantern with evident pride. Each town in the county was represented and every ward in the city had a large delegation in line. Five brass bands and an equal number of drum corps were in different parts of the monster parade. Fireworks of all descriptions were used along the line of march, and 20,000 balls were fired into the air. The decorations of business places and residences along the line of march were beautifully set and were in accord with the spirit of the day.
The great parade was handled in fine shape by the officers in charge, as was also the mammoth crowd that flocked to the streets where the parade passed. Main-st., from below the Messenger House to a point far above the Cortland House was packed full, and it was difficult between these points to get room for the paraders to pass through. Fully twenty thousand people were upon the streets last night watching the progress of the biggest demonstration that this county ever saw during a political campaign. It took the splendid array of horsemen, musicians and citizens twenty minutes to pass a given point.
The parade was made up as follows: Grand Marshal Webster Young, the city drum corps, the Rough Riders, the Homer band and a large delegation from the Homer Republican club, the Onondaga Indian reservation band escorting the Tully club, the New Woodstock drum corps heading a large delegation, the DeRuyter band and club, the Scott drum corps and delegation and the other towns of the county, the McGrawville band and the McGrawville club, the Cortland City band heading the business men and manufacturers, the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth ward marching clubs, [and] the Normal [School] McKinley club.
The line of march was formed in three divisions. The first was formed on Port Watson-st., with the right wing resting on Main-st. The second was formed on Tompkins-st. with the right resting on Main-st., and the third was formed on South Main-st., with the right wing resting on Tompkins-st.
The line of march was up Main-st. to the hospital and counter march to Lincoln-ave.; up Lincoln-ave. to Homer-ave., and counter march to Main-st.; down Main-st. to Tompkins-st., along Tompkins-st. to Owego-st., and counter march to Main-st.; down Main-st. to the Lehigh Valley railroad and counter march on Main-st. till the head of the column was nearly up to the Cortland House. It was all on the pavement and never was pavement more appreciated. It was a great contrast to the marching in previous campaigns in Cortland.
When the column was halted on Main-st., the clubs were crowded together so that all were between the Cortland House and Messenger House. Then fireworks were distributed and for ten minutes the street was a perfect blaze of Roman candles and Greek fire, while the shriek of rockets was heard above the crackling of the candles and struck terror to the horses of such Rough Riders as had not yet left the street. It was a great demonstration.
At its close there was a general rush for the rink where the mass-meeting was held, the account of which appears elsewhere.
KILLED BY CARS.
WILLIS HAMMOND SLIPPED WHILE COUPLING CARS.
Train Passed Over Right Leg—Lived About a Half Hour, but did not Recover Consciousness—Conductor of Local Freight Train—Twenty Years on the Road—Leaves Wife, but no Children.
Willis Hammond, the conductor of north bound local freight train No. 932 on the D. L. & W. R. R., met his death in Cortland to-day while in the discharge of his duties. The train was at the south end of the yard and at about 12:50 o'clock near Blodgett-st., Conductor Hammond started to uncouple some cars. The track was wet and slippery from the rain and the man slipped and fell in front of the moving wheels which passed over his right leg close up to the body. He was dragged a couple of car lengths before the train could be stopped. When taken up he was unconscious, and did not recover his consciousness again. Dr. Reese, Dr. Sornberger and Dr. Didama [were] telephoned for, and responded promptly, but there was little that they could do, as the unfortunate man breathed his last within a half hour.
Scarcely had the word of the accident reached the railroad station when the 1:03 passenger train south bound arrived. The brakeman on this train was a brother of the freight conductor, and he at once hurried down to the scene of the fatality. His grief was pitiable.
Mr. Hammond was 36 years old and had been on this road for about twenty years. He was married and is survived by his wife, who lives in Syracuse. They have no children. Coroner Moore was summoned but decided that no inquest was necessary. The remains were taken to Beard & Peck's undertaking rooms where they are awaiting a telegram from Syracuse in regard to their disposition.
Election Returns and Music.
The directors of the Conservatory of Music who are managing the concert to be given by the Chicago Marine band at the Opera House on Election day, both afternoon and evening, have arranged to have the full and latest returns from election received by special wire and read during the evening concert. The band has provided a long program and as the returns will be read between the numbers the latest news from all parts of the country, may be had until a late hour, and at the same time one will be listening to strains of music from one of the finest musical organizations in the world. This is a rare opportunity of getting double the money's worth. This will be an excellent opportunity for the ladies to hear the news from election and wise men may well take the hint for next Tuesday night. Send in the name at once that one may get a seat at the subscriber's sale Friday morning. Regular sale open Saturday morning.
BREVITIES.
—The E. & C. N. Y. R. R. brought 382 passengers to Cortland yesterday on special Roosevelt tickets.
—The late dispatches and perhaps local will be found for a few days upon the second page Instead of on the fourth page.
—New display advertisements to-day are—A. S. Burgess, Men's clothing, page 8; M. A. Case, Drygoods, page 6; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 7; Tyler & Smith, Clothing, page 4; W. W. Bennett, Sterling ranges, page 4.
First Vote for Harrison.
David S. Severance of Truxton, N. Y., who was born 1810, cast his first vote for William Henry Harrison in 1840. He has voted for every Republican candidate and at every presidential election since that time. He will vote for McKinley this fall. He is in Cortland to-day to see Roosevelt. He has lived in his present home nearly fifty-nine years.
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