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| Governor William A. Stone. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, October 11, 1902.
RIOTERS IN STOCKADE.
All Persons Arrested to Be Kept Under Military Guard.
BY ORDER OF GOVERNOR STONE.
Disappointment at Failure of Conference—Operators Will Try to Start Additional Collieries and In Case the Militia Cannot Give Protection Will Ask For Federal Troops.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Oct. 11.—Disappointment followed the news received from New York that the conference there for the purpose of settling the miners' strike had failed to reach an agreement.
It is feared in business circles that the struggle will continue for some weeks yet. The strike leaders will make every effort to hold their men in line, trusting to cold weather to bring the operators to terms.
The officers of the Third brigade, with headquarters in this city, made the announcement that the order of Governor Stone to place all persons arrested for rioting under a military guard will be strictly enforced. A stockade is being erected at West Side park where the Ninth regiment is in camp, and prisoners will be confined there.
The operators will make another determined effort to start up additional collieries next Monday and in case the militia cannot furnish the necessary protection for the men who want to go to work, and their families, a number of local operators will petition the governor as to the advisability of calling on the president for federal troops.
ANSWER OF COMPANY.
Counsel of Philadelphia and Reading Company Deny Combination.
Philadelphia, Oct. 11.—Counsel for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company have prepared an answer to the application of W. R. Hearst to the attorney general of New York for the institution of an action against the company under the anti-trust laws of the state.
The answer denies that the prices for coal sold and shipped by the respondent were ever determined by agreement, contract, combination or arrangement with the other corporations mentioned in the application or with any person whomsoever.
Having shown, the answer concludes, that it has not done or participated in any act contrary to the provisions of the New York laws, it submits that no further inquiry should be made into the allegations cited in the application.
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| President Theodore Roosevelt. |
NO FURTHER ACTION.
Administration Will Not Resort to Anti-Trust Law.
Washington, Oct. 11.—Close advisers of the president who have conferred with him over the coal situation said that in their opinion there was no further action the administration could take on its own initiative to bring the strike to an end, They say the administration is ready to do whatever is possible, but that it has taken all the action that is practical.
They scout the idea of a resort to the anti-trust law and say that no such step is contemplated, as action cannot be had under that measure against the interests involved in the strike. In official circles here it is suggested that the postponement of the conferences that have been in progress in New York may mean that Mr. Mitchell and the district labor presidents who were with him are going back to Pennsylvania to sound the miners on some proposition made during the meetings. This, it is pointed out, is a natural inference though made without an inside knowledge of the proceedings.
The executive council of the American Federation of Labor, which is in annual session here, is giving some time to a discussion of the coal situation, though most of the sessions are devoted to regular federation matters. It was expected that the council would adopt an address appealing to the public for assistance for the striking miners, but no action was taken. President Gompers is in occasional communication with Mr. Mitchell, but declines to discuss the situation.
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| Elihu Root. |
Secretary Root in New York.
New York, Oct. 11.—Secretary of War Root arrived here at 7 o'clock this morning. It is reported that he is here as an emissary from President Roosevelt and that he bears a message to J. P. Morgan, looking to the termination of the strike.
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| David B. Hill, |
PAGE THREE AND FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The Coal Plank.
David B. Hill's plank, in the Saratoga platform, declaring in favor of federal operation of the anthracite coal mines in Pennsylvania, is tearing the Democratic party asunder.
During the six years that he was out of power in the councils of the Democratic party, Hill devoted himself assiduously to playing the role of statesman. He discussed public questions with an open mind. Former United States Senator Hill appeared to be an entirely different person from Governor Hill, the cheap demagogue whose flagrant abuse of power drove his party out of power in disgrace in 1893.
His sapient but caustic criticism of the errors of his rivals in managing the Democratic campaigns of 1896, 1898 and 1900 led many Democrats to think that a mistake had been made in dropping Hill as state leader and little by little he worked back into power in the organization of the party. Today he is as much the dominant factor in the Democratic party as he was from 1888 to 1893.
Every man on the ticket named at Saratoga last week is Hill's man, every plank in the platform is Hill's plank.
But it is the coal plank more than any other that typifies Hill.
It embodies an attempt to turn a public calamity to partisan advantage.
The reading of the plank brings forcibly to mind the nickname given to Hill ten years ago by the Cleveland Democrats: "The peanut politician."
A Democrat of sufficient prominence to be known beyond the borders of this state said after reading the coal plank: ''That man Hill has the brain of a statesman and the soul of a ward politician. For the sake of a few votes he calmly proposes to overturn the whole social and industrial structure of this government. And then to cap it all he puts this picayune scheme of his forward as a sample of the "principles of Thomas Jefferson." He insults the Democrats of New York state, calling them by imputation a lot of ignoramuses. There isn't a boy in the state reared in the Democratic faith who does not know that the very last thing that Thomas Jefferson would advocate would be federal interference with the affairs of any state. Jefferson's utterance as vice-president, which is familiar to every school boy, gives the lie to Hill's claim that his two-penny coal plank is good Jeffersonian doctrine. In that memorable statement Jefferson said: "The true theory of our constitution is surely wisest and best; that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as to everything respecting foreign nations.
"Hill's claim that his coal plank represents Jeffersonian principles is about on a par with all the rest of his platform. In that platform he denounces trusts but in his law practice, by which he makes his living, he is today engaged, as a legal representative of the largest corporations in the state, in fighting the franchise tax law in an effort to enable them to escape the payment of a tax that amounts in the aggregate to between $11,000,000 and $15,000,000. That is the kind of an anti-trust man he is. If he wins the case that he is now trying for these corporations they escape the payment of this tax and that amount of money will come out of the pockets of the individual tax payers of the state. So strong is the opposition to Hill's coal plank that within twenty-four hours after the platform was published, Hill's personal newspaper organ was forced to commence a defense of the plank.
CORTLAND BOARD OF HEALTH.
The Department Will Ask for $500 for Next Year.
At the adjourned meeting of the board of health last evening the estimates of the expenses of the department for next year were made and it was decided to ask the common council for $500 with which to maintain the department.
The expenses this year up to Oct. 1 were $249.80, and the expenses for the last three months of the year 1901 were $23.55. The board asked for and received $450 last year, but it has in mind a more extensive system of sanitary inspections and will need more money on this account.
The matter of asking for $2,500 for gathering garbage was discussed, but it was decided that this should not be done at present. The board was agreed, however, that the city should take hold of the garbage collections in the near future.
A DECIDED IMPROVEMENT.
The New Driveway in the Rear of the Grand Central Block.
The cement driveway in the alley back of the Grand Central block, the Cobb block and the Elk hotel on Railroad-st., is completed and is now being used. The new pavement makes a decided improvement both to the usefulness and cleanliness of the driveway.
The United States Express company, which has been maintaining an office at the Lackawanna station doing its billing at that place during the building of the new driveway, bas moved back to 15 Railroad-st., Cortland.
Book Wanted.
One of our subscribers is very anxious to find and read a copy of "Life of Mary Jemison, Captured by Indians at Cherry Valley." The book is one published many years since and is a thrilling narrative of Indian life and warfare. We shall be obliged if any of our readers will inform us where a copy of this book can be loaned or bought.
THE KING'S DAUGHTERS.
An Urgent Demand for Funds to Carry on the Work.
The King's Daughters of Cortland are in urgent and immediate need of funds for carrying on their work in this city. At a recent meeting plans were discussed and it was decided that instead of holding the annual supper, which has been one of the means employed for raising money, a direct appeal for funds should be made. Reports from the various branches of the work done by this organization showed that there never was more urgent need for efficient work in this city than there will be during the coming fall and winter.
The excellent work done by the King's Daughters in relieving the needy poor is too well known to let an appeal for the means of carrying on their work go unheeded. Money is needed as well as articles of food and clothing for which there is a constant demand.
To those who have been accustomed to contribute for this charitable work it will only be necessary to call attention to the fact that assistance is needed. To those who have never done anything along this line the present opportunity is presented for assisting in a worthy cause, and sustaining an organization which is doing a noble work. Solicitors will make a personal canvass during the next few days, but any one who may be omitted and who wishes to contribute may leave their contributions at 29 Greenbush-st.
BREVITIES.
—The annual reunion of the Seventy-sixth regiment, United States Volunteers, is being held in Groton today.
— Rev. D. D. King, the new pastor of the Homer-ave. M. E. church will occupy the pulpit at both services in that church tomorrow.
—Fifteen couples from Cortland attended a dancing party at Woodward's hall in Truxton last night and enjoyed the occasion very much. The Cortland orchestra furnished music.
—New display advertisements today are—W. W. Walters, Shoes, page 7; Opera House, Moving pictures, page 5; G. H. Ames, Shoes, page 7; Haight & Freese Co., Stocks, bonds, etc., page 7; Hollister Hardware Co., Hardware and supplies, page 6.
—The report in an out of town evening paper to the effect that farmers are receiving $4 a cord for wood, cut stove length, that they deliver in this city, is unfounded. Farmers are selling seasoned hard wood at $2.50 a cord, while poorer grades bring $2. A large amount of green hard wood is being contracted for at $2 a cord.
—We have loaned to some one a copy of "Menticulture" by Fletcher, which has been a long time coming back. We don't care particularly about reading it again immediately ourselves, but we should like to have it where we can enjoy the privilege of loaning it to some one else. Will the person who has it kindly favor us with its return?
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