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| William McKinley. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, May 11, 1901.
GRADUATES TO OBJECT.
Protest Against Making McKinley Doctor of Laws.
PETITION IS BEING CIRCULATED.
Action of Harvard College In Bestowing the Degree Seems to Have Aroused Opposition of Some—Petition Appears in Montreal For Signers.
MONTREAL, May 11.—Harvard graduates in this city received circulars urging them to sign a protest to the overseers against granting an honorary degree to President McKinley. The circular goes on to state that the large body of graduates of the university believe "that the degree should not be conferred on McKinley at this time, and that, as the recommendation has been promoted by the solicitation of others, we also are clearly entitled to be heard, as protestants, by the overseers.
"We, firstly, believe that general principle that honorary degrees should not be conferred merely in recognition of high political position or as prizes of political success.
"It is worthy of remark that Harvard college has already acted upon this principle with respect to the governor of Massachusetts. A former president of the United States who came to Cambridge recognized this principle and did not take the degree offered him.
"Further, we believe that, as there exists a sincere division of opinion concerning the national policy with which McKinley's name is associated, to confer the degree of doctor of laws upon him would work injustice and give needless pain to a considerable number of graduates by seeking to commit the university to a decision upon political policy, which decision is not the function of such an institution."
The form of the protest received is as follows:
"To the Board of Overseers, Harvard College:
"We, the undersigned, graduates of Harvard university, or holders of a degree conferred by it, respectfully request your honorable body not to confirm the nomination of William McKinley, president of the United States, for the honorary degree of doctor of laws.
"Some of us are, in general, supporters of the present national administration, but we hold that the honorary degree of LL. D. should not be conferred upon anyone because of his official position."
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| Sanford Ballard Dole. |
WANT DOLE REMOVED.
Hawaiian Legislature Preparing Memorial to President McKinley.
HONOLULU, May 11.—The territorial legislature has passed a resolution containing a memorial to President McKinley to remove Governor Dole. He is charged with obstructing legislation.
Students' Pranks at Syracuse.
SYRACUSE, May 11.—Moving up day was celebrated yesterday at Syracuse university and all classes are excused. In celebration of the event the freshmen worked all night decorating the campus. A lumber wagon was placed on the roof of the gymnasium building, mowing machines, ice water tanks, popcorn stands and other objects are strewn about the campus. After a celebration in chapel, which included speeches, singing, etc., the freshmen held a novel parade in which several members of the faculty and prominent college men were caricatured.
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| Clowns with Sautelle's Circus on parade. |
SAUTELLE'S CIRCUS.
Exhibiting to a Big Crowd on the Elm-st. Lot—Street Parade.
Sautelle's circus is in town [Cortland, N. Y.] today. It rained all of last night and the greater part of the forenoon and the weather seemed to be like anything rather than fit for a circus, but by noon it cleared up and the afternoon was fine. Quite a crowd gathered in the streets and kept increasing in size till the noon hour. Soon after 12 the parade appeared and a good appearance was made, though it was of necessity a rainy day parade. The wagons were all freshly painted, the costumes were bright and new, the people and horses not yet tired out with travel and the result was favorable from every point of view. There were a host of wagons, ponies and mules and the small boys followed the open snake wagon as though thoroughly charmed.
After the street parade had been concluded, a free show was given in front of the tent before the large crowd that had gathered. All of Sig. Sautelle's performances are first class and this one for a starter was no exception. The twirling of sticks, and the use of the sphere and stick by the old Indian warrior, were enjoyed by old and young, while the knife throwing was thrilling and blood curdling. A side show with many attractions interested the people till the opening of the main show.
The performance will be repeated tonight at 8 o'clock.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Mr. McKinley's Predecessors on the Rear Platform.
The fine texture of Mr. McKinley's short addresses to the people along the line of his travels has been observed by most Americans. When a president of the United States speaks on such occasions he speaks through the telegraph lines and the newspaper press to all the millions in every part of the land. There is a fierce light upon every part of every sentence he utters, down to the conjunctions and the semicolons; and it is undoubtedly true that his success or failure in giving pleasure to his hearers and readers, in stimulating thought on great questions without incurring reproach for partisan advocacy at an improper time, and generally in avoiding offense without resort to platitude, contributes vastly more to the popular idea of his individual quality than all the elaborate state papers he writes from the beginning to the end of his term of service.
Mr. McKinley's mastery of the art of saying the right thing from the rear platform is not doubted now by any person. It may be interesting to compare his methods of wayside oratory with those of some of his predecessors who have attempted the same difficult and delicate job.
It is well known that "swinging around the circle" originated with Andrew Johnson, who during his stormy term made several journeys characterized by much rhetorical intercourse with his fellow citizens. It may not be so well known that in its original sense the phrase did not refer to the geographical progress and route of Mr. Johnson, but was employed by him in one of his speeches to describe his political career; he remarked to his audience that he had swung around the entire circle of offices, from alderman to president.
The principal "swing" of Andrew Johnson was in the late summer and early autumn of 1866, when he went to Chicago to attend the ceremonies at the laying of the cornerstone of a monument to Stephen A. Douglas, returning to Washington by way of Springfield, Ill., and St Louis. Everywhere that he spoke he discussed the leading measures of his administration and the action of congress, denouncing his Republican opponents in the senate and the house with a freedom and bitterness that were unexampled. We present as a specimen of Mr. Johnson's itinerant rhetoric part of the speech which he delivered on Aug. 30, 1866, at Albany:
"In being before you I do not appear in an official character. I appear—and thank God I can so state it!—as a fellow citizen and as a citizen of one of the United States. In standing before you tonight, I do so as an American citizen, claiming protection and respect as a citizen of the United States. I know, fellow citizens, that calumny and slander—the foul whelps of sin—and a mercenary and subsidized press have attempted to poison the public mind in advance of those who are coming among you and prepare the public mind for an unfavorable reception. Fellow citizens of the United States, what is it I have done thus to expose me? What crime have I committed?"
And so on. The specimen is sufficient.
For eight years under Grant, there was silence on the rear platform, and no swinging around the circle. Mr. Hayes had not been in office six months before he started off for New England upon an oratorical circuit. He made many speeches, distinguished about equally by poverty of thought and an affectation of condescending familiarity toward his auditors. The series was very flat. Perhaps as intellectual a speech as any of them was that which Mr. Hayes delivered at Wells River Junction on Aug. 20, 1877:
"It will be impossible for us to stay long enough for us to have a general shaking of hands, for the audience is too large and the distance to be travelled by us too great to admit of. You must be satisfied with having the same advantages that I have, that of seeing. You came here to see me, and I came to see you, and to use the expression of the late president Lincoln, 'I have to say that we have altogether the best of the bargain.' On making these acknowledgments it is not my purpose to enter into any political discussion. We are gathered here of all political parties, and while we may differ as to ways and means we shall all agree that the general government must and shall be administered for the common prosperity and common benefit of all the inhabitants in our country. We may make mistakes, but they will be from lack of judgment or knowledge, and I trust it will not be through or arise from lack of disposition. I must leave you now but I take great pleasure in introducing to you Judge Key, a man that has been greatly wrong in the past but is greatly right now."
The next aspirant was President Cleveland. In some respects his experience was the most remarkable of all. He had laboriously prepared a collection of ready-made impromptus in advance of his departure from Washington on his circular tour of 1887, and had employed, to an incautious extent, the assistance of the American Cyclopedia in the attempt to impart local color to his intended remarks. Mr. Cleveland's first two stopping places were Indianapolis and Terre Haute, and at these points he proceeded with great personal satisfaction to instruct the inhabitants about the early history and industrial resources of their respective towns. At Indianapolis, for example, he said:
"It seems to me that not the least cause for an Indianian's pride should be his state capital. First settled in 1819, one year thereafter its population numbered fifteen families. Chosen as the seat of the state government in 1821, it was about that time laid out as a town and given its present name, although it had no incorporation until 1836 and did not receive a city charter till 1847. Forty years' growth has given it a population of at least 100,000 and all the business activity that characterizes a prosperous American city."
This astounding familiarity with the dates of early local history, and the rapid fire of facts and statistics from the rear platform which was temporarily Mr. Cleveland's pulpit, as the train hauled up for a few minutes to allow the president to speak, led to suspicion and investigation. His oratorical style was so much like that of a book of reference that there was little difficulty in tracing his eloquence to its source. It was discovered that Mr. Cleveland had borrowed not only his facts but also part of his phraseology from the cyclopedia. The early publication of the interesting circumstance broke up the entire oratorical scheme of that journey.
Gen. Harrison travelled and made rear platform speeches on several occasions during his four years in office. In these little addresses be touched many questions of intellectual and ethical interest. He seemed to like to depart from the beaten track of presidential rhetoric and to deliver brief essays on social or moral philosophy. All that be said was original, witty and sensible; and as an extemporaneous speaker he achieved a reputation which was in some respects unequalled by any of his predecessors. These small masterpieces are fresh in the memory of our readers.
It is a high compliment to President McKinley to say that the speeches he is now delivering are up to the level of Gen. Harrison's best, while entirely unlike them except in the qualities common to all orators of ready imagination, unfailing tact, and genius for felicitous expression.—New York Sun.
TRIBUTE TO J. W. CLARK.
Mark of Appreciation or His Courtesies by Cortland Shippers.
It has been a cause for keen regret among many business men and manufacturers of Cortland who have frequent business at the Lackawanna railroad station that Mr. J. W. Clark, the agent has tendered his resignation. He was always courteous and, while alert for the interests of his employers, was also obliging and helpful to patrons of the road to the extent of his power in any direction. Every one who had anything to do with the local station was sorry to see him go away. A few of the heaviest shippers of freight have joined together in the following letter of appreciation to Mr. Clark, and with the letter presented him with a New York draft of $65 as a substantial expression of their feelings:
CORTLAND, N. Y., May 6, 1901.
Mr. J. W. Clark, agent D., L. & W. R. R., Cortland, N. Y.:
DEAR SIR —We, the undersigned shippers using the D., L. & W. R. R., have heard with regret of your resignation. At this time, we wish to express our appreciation and commendation of your efficiency and ability as agent in this city. It has been very plain to us that so far as was within your power the shippers have been treated with greatest fairness and courtesy under most trying circumstances. We have appreciated that the wishes of the shippers and the ultimate best interests of the D., L. & W. R. R. have ever been first in your mind, night or day. We assure you of our high esteem, and regret your departure, but recognize that if this change be possibly for the best interests of yourself and the Lackawanna railroad we should have no criticisms.
Kindly accept the gift we present as a token of our appreciation of yourself as a man and railroad agent.
Yours truly,
CORTLAND WAGON CO.
F. H. COBB & CO.
E. DUFFEY, REC., C. & H. TRACTION CO.
ELLIS OMNIBUS & CAB CO.
CORTLAND CARRIAGE GOODS CO.
JNO. SEAGER.
B. F. TAYLOR, SUPT., CORTLAND WATERWORKS.
Police Court.
James Ray pleaded guilty to the charge of public intoxication in police court this morning and was given thirty days in county jail. Ray had been before Judge Davis before. Officer Day Baker arrested him.
Patrick Flanagan pleaded guilty to the same charge made by Sheriff A. R. Overton. He paid $3 for the offense.
Woman's Missionary Meeting.
The Woman's Foreign Mission circle of the First Baptist church met with Mrs. G. W. Bradford yesterday afternoon. Bible reading, subject "Prayer," was conducted by Mrs. Harmon, followed by the usual order of business, after which the literary program was presented as follows:
Singing.
Description of British India with Map, Mrs. Cleaves.
Mountain Ranges, Rivers, Climate, Resources, Miss Maud Smith.
Poem—The Consecrated Will, Mrs. Sornberger.
Current Topics, Mrs. Slafter and Miss Mary Walker.
Poem—He Calleth for Thee, Mrs. Bradford
Singing.
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| Cortland Opera House. |
THE BOY PHENOMENON
Attracts Another Big Crowd to the Opera House.
The Opera House was again last night crowded to the doors with an eager crowd to see the work of the "boy phenomenon," as he is called. Had the rain not fallen so steadily no doubt crowds would have been turned away from the doors. The front seats were filled with patients anxious to be healed and when an opportunity was given there was no delay, but eagerly the sufferers pushed forward to the stage.
At the outset, as on the previous night, Prof. Salisbury delivered a short lecture in which the character of the work was set forth, and the statement was made that no attempt would be made to do impossible things, but he claimed that there was a certain field where this magnetic work is effective and where it brings about permanent cures.
Nine patients were admitted to the stage and all seemed to go away relieved.
The first was Egbert S. Peek of 14 Hamlin-st., who had suffered from rheumatism for 37 years. After treatment by "the boy," he discarded his cane and walked back and forth across the stage with apparent ease.
The second subject was Captain Robert J. Leedam who said that he lived opposite the postoffice in Cortland. He was also a sufferer from rheumatism which he said had afflicted him for twenty-five years. He went off the stage feeling better, and expressing his wishes of "long life to this noble friend," and shaking hands with the "boy."
Mrs. Harriet Wiley of Homer said that she had had rheumatism for 10 years and tried every remedy. "We'll give her a sample bottle of the boy," said Prof. Salisbury. The sample proved effective, for after treatment she too expressed herself as helped, and she certainly walked better.
Then came D. J. Smith of 10 Squires-st., who had been deaf for six years. He was treated and reported that he heard whispers distinctly.
Edward Carty, a farmer living 1 1/2 miles east of Homer, was the most demonstrative in his joy at being relieved of eighteen years of rheumatism. He walked, ran and jumped and threw a chair up over his head when he felt that he had been helped.
Miss K. L. Shevalier of Messengerville, a sufferer from neuralgia and rheumatism expressed herself as being helped after a short treatment.
Lulu Dorr of 32 Crandall-st., a little girl, had carried a cane for six years, as a result of a diseased hip joint and of a stiffened ankle. She discarded her cane and walked with much greater ease. "The boy" announced that he would give her further treatment free and believed she could be cured.
Mrs. White of Monroe Heights, deaf thirty-five years, said she could hear better after treatment.
Mrs. Anna Welch of 66 Madison-st,, a middle aged woman, had bad rheumatism for ten years. After treatment she skipped across the stage with a very light step, led by Prof. Salisbury. A violin and piano had been playing softly throughout the evening, and the violinist, Francis La Fevre, with the spirit of mischief in him changed the air he was playing to a dance tune and the two on the stage took the opportunity for a little whirl while the audience applauded uproariously.
This ended the public demonstration. Prof. Salisbury declared that these reliefs would prove permanent cures. He argued that people do not question the permanency of cures with medicine. If magnetism can perform the same office as medicine, why should it also not be permanent? If such proves to be the case the work is truly marvelous.
BREVITIES.
—The board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. met on Monday evening at the association parlors at 8:15 o'clock.
—The regular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Auxiliary will be held in the Y. M. C. A. parlor Tuesday, May 14, at 3:30 o'clock.
—The Cortland Wonders left in a carryall this afternoon tor Freeville, where they will cross bats with the George Junior team.
—Mrs. Samuel Meldrim, who lives below Blodgett Mills, was brought to the Cortland hospital this morning in Beard & Peck's ambulance for treatment.
—A regular meeting of Cortland Lodge of Perfection, Scottish Rite Masonry, will be held next Monday evening to receive propositions for membership.
—The regular meeting of Tioughnioga chapter of D. A. R. will be held at the home of Mrs. Arthur F. Stilson at 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, May 13.
—New display advertisements today are—Mitch's Market, Meat, etc., page 5; A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 8; Boy Phenomenon, "Magnetic Healing," page 4.
—The baseball game that was to have been played on Athletic field this afternoon between the Normals and the Cornell university second nine was declared off this morning on account of threatening rain.
—Dr. James D. Phelps of Syracuse university will preach at the First M. E. church tomorrow morning, and make the annual address before the united Epworth leagues of First, and Homer-ave. M. E. churches at the First church at 7:30 P. M.
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