TWO PROPOSITIONS, REUNION OF THE 76TH REGIMENT, AND TEAM MISSING

 

J. P. Morgan.

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, October 14, 1902.

THE TWO PROPOSITIONS.

Very Little Difference Between that of Mitchell and the Operators.

   Washington, D. C., Oct. 14.— The office of the coal operators submitted to the president last night through the medium of J. P. Morgan [a proposition] regarded here as a practical surrender of Mr. Baer and his associates. There is very little difference between this offer and the one made by Mr. Mitchell at the conference in the president's office on Oct. 3, which was rejected at that time by the operators.

   Mr. Mitchell's offer was:

   Confident of our ability to demonstrate to any impartial tribunal the equity of our demand for higher wages and improved environments, we propose that the issues culminating in this strike shall be referred to you and a tribunal of your own selection, and agree to accept your award upon all or any of the questions involved.

   The operators presented:

   We suggest a commission be appointed by the president of the United States, to whom shall be referred all questions at issue between the respective companies and their employees, whether they belong to a union or not, and the decision of that commission shall be accepted by us.

   Attached to Mr. Mitchell's proposition was a promise of immediate resumption of work and the stipulation of an agreement on the basis of the Tribunals award for any period from one to five years.

   Attached to the operators’ present offer is a stipulation of immediate return to work without discrimination as between union and non-union men and a promise to be governed by the award of the president's commission for a term of at least three years.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

To Work or Not to Work.

   When in last July in the American Federationist, the official magazine of the American Federation of Labor, Mr. Samuel Gompers maintained the right of the anthracite miners to refuse from mining at their pleasure. The Sun unqualifiedly sustained his view. That the right of one man to not work was not as absolute as that of another to labor seemed to us monstrous in any aspect. Today a comment that raises the same issue, namely, Mr. John Mitchell's reply the recent appeal of President Roosevelt, reporting the refusal of the members of his union to begin mining again, is entitled to the same popular respect, particularly as temporary stress seems in some quarters to have overshadowed the principle of which for the moment Mr. Mitchell has become the champion. We quote here the essential points of his letter to the president:

   The National President, United Mine Workers of America.

   John Mitchell, National President; Second Vice-President American Federation of Labor.

   Hotel Hart, Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 8, 1902.

   To the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Washington. D C.:

   Dear Sir—We desire to assure you again that we feel keenly the responsibility of our position and the gravity of the situation and it would give us great pleasure to take any action which would bring this coal strike to an end in a manner that would safeguard the interests of our constituents.

   We respectfully decline to advise our people to return to work simply upon the hope that the coal operators might be induced or forced to comply with the recommendation of your commission. I am, respectfully,

   John Mitchell, President, United Mine Workers of America. 

   Fancy the condition of affairs in which, under pressure of laws that some impulsive people would establish, or of the public clamor which the same influences are now endeavoring to make imperative, John Mitchell and his associates should be unable to say "No" to the president's demand!

   Fancy putting it into the power of men's neighbors to force them to accept conditions of labor which they regard as unsatisfactory!

   Under those circumstances the cornerstone of the republic would be pulled out of its place, and liberty would be dead.

   Compulsion in its shadowy and incipient form was last week resisted by Mitchell and the operators in unison. Now Mitchell repudiates it again, and in so doing he and his former colleagues in independence are entitled to universal public support. It will be an unfortunate day when the American people sell their birthright, even for coal.—New York Sun.

 

Judge Henri C. St. Pierre.

REUNION OF THE 76TH

Veterans of the Fighting Regiment Meet Again.

JUDGE SAINT PIERRE'S ADDRESS.

The Reunion Was Held at Groton Saturday—An Enjoyable Occasion—Secretary Davis Makes Reports—Officers Elected—Will Meet at Montour Fails Next Year—Excellent Program.

   The thirty-fourth annual reunion of the Seventy-sixth Regiment of New York State Volunteers was held at Groton, N. Y., Oct. 11, in the Groton opera house.

   The meeting was called to order at 10:45 by the president, Mr. Amos Avery of Groton; Secretary Lucius Davis of Cortland read the minutes of the last meeting. He stated also that the treasurer, Aaron Sager, having died, the treasurer's books had been turned over to him, and that the duty of making the treasurer's report devolved upon him. Both reports were accepted. The next order of business was the choosing of a place to bold the meeting next year. Mr. U. A. Burnham moved to have the next meeting held at Worcester, Otsego county. Mr. Post of Montour Falls in a short speech stated that he had the assurance of some of his comrades that the next meeting should be held at Montour Falls. A vote was taken, and Montour Falls was chosen for the next reunion by a large majority. The next order of business was the choosing of officers for the ensuing year, which resulted as follows:

   President—George M. Post, Montour Falls.

   First Vice-President—H. Saint Pierre, Montreal.

   Second Vice-President—U. A. Burnham, Worcester, N. Y.

   Third Vice-President—D. R. Montgomery.

   Fourth Vice-President—Alfred Follen.

   Secretary—Lucius Davis, Cortland.

   Treasurer—Martin Edgcomb, Cortland

   Comrade Saint Pierre was unanimously enrolled as a member of the association.

   Letters were read from Comrades C. W. Wiles of Delaware, O., Geo. D. Cutler of Ithaca, B. A. Foote of Highmore, S. D. and Daniel Van Wie of Canajoharie, N. Y.

   The secretary read the names of some of the comrades who had died within the past year. Among them being Aaron Sager of Cortland, who died Dec. 7, 1901, Chas. T. Fitts, Dryden, who died Jan. 8, 1901, Dr. W. J. Burr of Newark Valley who died in May, Oscar C. Fox, June 7, 1902, at Linden, Md., I. Knapp of Homer, who died Aug. 22, 1902, and Geo. F. Miller of Utica, who died in June.

   The members who were present at the reunion were: Orville Dickinson, Robert Davidson, Daniel Young, Almond M. Kibbe, Chas. W. Hutchings, George Thornton, Edwin Hulbert, B. Howard, Wm. J. Mantanye, U. A. Burnham, Geo. M. Post, Geo. Smith, E. H. Teeter, N. W. Smith, E. A. Meade, D. R. Montgomery. Amos Avery, Francis Brace, H. Zele, Martin Northrup, I. Bennett, C. M. Perrigo, Melvin H. Reade, Judge H. C. Saint Pierre, Benjamin Taylor, S. E. Sanders, Henry C. Stillson, Martin Edgcomb, Lucius Davis, D. C. MacGregor, Oren Button, Solomon Reneff, L. Stebbins.

The Afternoon Session.

   The afternoon session was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Burr of Groton. The first number on the program was a song by Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Moe of Groton which was well received. Capt. Wm. E. Mount gave the address of welcome for the citizens of Groton, in which he alluded to the early days of the regiment and of the association. Very effectively he spoke of the citizenship of the veterans. A quartet of young men gave the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" very acceptably.

   The address of the day and upon which the interest of the audience was centered was given by the newly adopted member and the first Vice- President Judge Henri C. Saint Pierre of Montreal.

Judge Saint Pierre's Address.

   Judge Saint Pierre spoke in part as follows:

   Commander, Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen—It would be difficult for me to express the emotion I experience on seeing my old companions in arms of the Seventy-Sixth New York Volunteers whom I now meet for the first time after a period of thirty-eight years. I have traveled three hundred miles to be here among you today, and yet when I left my home in Canada, I was in doubt whether a single comrade whom I would meet might be able to recognize me. For many weeks I have anticipated this meeting: I have carefully arranged my plans so as to be sure that I would not miss this opportunity of meeting with you. What was it then, which could give birth to such a desire on my part? What was the spell which would draw me so irresistibly towards you? That spell, that latent but deep seated power finds its expression, as well as its definition, in the magic word "Comrade." No matter whether any one of you would recognize my face or not, no matter whether I, on my part, could single out any one of you as comrade, I knew that the moment you heard my story, the moment you were satisfied that l had once been one of your old companions in arms, the moment you felt satisfied that in common with you, I had struggled and suffered whilst fighting under the same flag for the defense of the same holy cause, you would greet me as you would a long departed brother.

   Fortune has favored me almost beyond my expectation and I had scarcely come among you when Comrade Burton, my old Sergeant of Company F, came up to me and grasping my hand said: "Don't you recognize me? I know you well; you saved my life at Andersonville." The recollection of the incident referred to by Comrade Burton rushed vividly to my recollection and from that moment I was recognized by all of you as the young run away school boy who was once a corporal of Company F in the proud old Seventy-sixth.

His Military Experience.

   Judge Saint Pierre here gave a graphic and vivid description of his military experiences as a soldier in the regiment, describing his sensation under fire when he met the enemy for the first time at Thoroughfare Gap, the forced marches during the retreat of the army toward Centerville, his impressions on being named in the order of the day and appointed corporal, his capture at Mine Run after being twice wounded, his sufferings in the rebel prisons and finally his escape from Charleston's race ground and regaining his liberty on the day the city was evacuated.

   His description of the scenes he witnessed at the moment when the southern troops were retreating from the town hotly pursued by our own boys in blue who had just landed was most realistic.

Some Lessons Learned.

   Referring to the moral lessons which he gathered from his contact with the boys of his regiment, the judge continued: I had joined the army attracted by the glittering charms of military glory; my ambition had been to return to my home carrying at my side the sword of a commissioned officer of the regular army of the United States, but Providence had decreed that I should consecrate my life to more peaceful occupations and soon after the war was over I became a member of the bar in my native province.

   My legal studios had been interrupted by the most adventurous and stirring events a young man could possibly go through, but those experiences have not been without impressing upon my mind some useful lessons. I have learned during my military career that there was something higher and nobler to fight for than the mere notion of gratifying personal ambition. I have learned that the cause I was engaged to fight for was a holy cause worthy even of all the sacrifices and sufferings which its defense entailed. I have been made to understand what priceless boon had been conferred not only upon this nation but upon humanity at large by the creation of that Republic for the preservation of which I was then fighting and to learn that the principle of the government by the people and for the people was one which was well worth the efforts which were then being made to save it from destruction. I also learned from those young American boys how a man should love his country. I have seen them suffer and die not by hundreds but by thousands without a murmur, and whenever any reference even in the hour of death escaped their lips it was in the form of a blessing to the country which had given them birth. It is because I have learned to appreciate all those noble and elevated sentiments that I felt desirous to meet you again and today when I was admitted a member of your association I felt as though I was enlisting for a second time in the proud ranks of the old fighting Seventy-Sixth.

   The young men sang very acceptably the old war song, "Tenting on the old Camp Ground."

Rev. W. A. Smith.

   The address which was prepared by Rev. Wm. A. Smith, who twenty-five years before had been made an honorary member of the association, owing to the lateness of the hour was given only in part and chiefly alluded to the former meeting in Groton when he first came to this country and the changes which had taken place since that date. His patriotic allusion to the country of his birth, Scotland, and the land of his adoption were enthusiastically received by the audience.

George B. Davis.

   Mr. George B. Davis of Ithaca followed with a short address in which be said that the crowning success of the American soldiers was due to their good citizenship.

   "The last roll call" a selection was given by one of the old veterans, Comrade Langdon, which was a most appropriate closing of the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the association. The benediction was pronounced by Rev. Mr. Andrews of Groton.

 

THE TEAM IS MISSING.

Liveryman Wright is Searching—A Lively Chase in the Dark.

   Liveryman E. R. Wright has been instituting a vigorous search for a pair of black mares that have been missing from his stables for the past few days. They were hitched to a sidespring top buggy with red running gears, and any information regarding them will be gladly received by the owner.

   Last Friday night Clare Knowles, 31 Woodruff-st., and another lad by the name of Latimer, went to the stables and hired this rig to go to Scott where, they said, they were going hunting. They engaged the rig for Friday and Saturday, and as they did not return Saturday night nor Sunday, Mr. Wright became worried about them, and a search was begun.

   Yesterday noon the lads drove back to Cortland, and when they reached the Latimer home on Fitz-ave., Mrs. Latimer told them that they had been looked for in Scott and other places. The boys then owned up that they had not been to Scott, but that they had gone to North Lansing. She then told them to return the rig at once to Mr. Wright, as he was worried about it. The Latimer boy got out, and the other was going to deliver the team. He drove out, and this is the last that has been seen of him or the rig.

   It is thought by the owner of the horses that the lad might have been afraid to return the horses and had left them at some barn or near the city.

   Today Chief of Police Barnes and the boy's father have gone to North Lansing and Locke to see if the horses were driven back to that locality. If they do not find the rig in these places they will go on to Swartwood where the lad has friends.

   The mares weigh about 1,050 pounds each. The rig can be easily identified, and any information regarding the whereabouts of the rig will be very acceptable to Mr. Wright.

   While waiting around the barn last night, thinking that the boy might return the rig after he was supposed to be in bed, Mr. Wright had an experience with a man, whom the alderman of the Second ward thinks was trying to break into his house.

   From the barn he caught sight of a man who was just going into his woodshed through an open door. Mr. Wright went at once to the door and had him penned in. Pretty soon the man came skulking out and was met by the alderman, who demanded an explanation. The man at once began to ask for some one he thought might be living there, but this did not go down, and the liveryman grabbed for the intruder. A dodge on the part of the unknown man, however, placed him outside the door, and then a brisk race was begun out of the driveway to the pavement and toward Homer-ave. It was nip and tuck for a little while between the escaping skulker and the panting alderman, but the former proved to be the better winded, and so escaped.

   When Mr. Wright could run no further he paused and began to beat time upon the pavement to the measure of his departing running mate, the last he saw of him he was still making a hasty flight up the pavement.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Work was resumed yesterday morning on the brick-work of the new Tanner block on Main-st., Cortland.

   —The regular meeting of the Fortnightly club will be held at the home of Mrs. B. L. Webb., 25 Prospect-st., Wednesday afternoon.

   —The Standard is indebted to Mrs. H. L. Beebe, who has been spending several months in the state of Washington, for copies of Tacoma papers.

   —At the regular meeting of the A. O. U. W. this evening in Vesta lodge rooms, four candidates will be present for initiation. A large attendance is desired.

   —The Cortlandville grange will hold an open meeting at their rooms in O. A. H. hall on Friday evening with exercises appropriate to Ceres day. The remainder of the evening will be devoted to the enjoyment of a Sample social.

   The Vanderbilt hotel of Syracuse, which has been closed for a number of months, has been leased for a term of five years to John L. Barnett who proposes to make it one of the finest hotels between New York and Chicago. It will be ready for business by Dec. 1.

   —New display advertisements today are—A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 5; New York Store, Hosiery, page 4; McGraw & Elliott, Baking Powder, page 6; Opera House, "Quincy Adams Sawyer," page 5; C. F. Brown, Hot Water bottles, page 6.

 

NO COAL STRIKE DISORDER, OPERATORS IN CONFERENCE, A SELF-MADE MAN, REV. S. F. SANFORD, AND THE HORSE RAN AWAY

 

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, October 13, 1902.

NO STRIKE DISORDER.

Both Sides Preparing to Test Their Claims.

ANOTHER COLLIERY STARTS UP.

Not a Single Call For Any of Three Regiments to Deal With Disorder. Talk of Calling Federal Troops Discussed.

   Scranton, Pa., Oct. 13.—This is the beginning of a week which it is generally believed will put to a test the claim of the operators that they will be enabled to start up their collieries if given protection and the counterclaim of the United Mine Workers organization as expressed in Wednesday's resolutions that the strikers will not return to work without concessions even though the entire military force of the United States should be here to protect them.

   With a determination to prove their claim, the operators have been for the past week making a supreme effort to secure men. That they have succeeded to some extent is evidenced by announcements made with some positiveness that various collieries will resume operations in the course of a few days.

   The Delaware and Hudson company made a start this morning at the Bellevue. The Green Ridge Coal company will open up its Green Ridge colliery probably today or the next day but assuredly some day this week.

   Other companies say they are figuring on a resumption at certain collieries but decline to give their location. Claim is also made on the operators' side that forces at collieries already working are to be largely increased during the week.

   The United Mine Workers' leaders continue to assert that the military can do nothing towards inducing men to return to work and that all men who could be induced to go back to work without concessions are already back.

   Strike disorders are now almost wholly absent. During the past two days the soldiers have had nothing to do further than the regular patrol duty, not a single call having come to any of the three regiments in this county to deal with either disorder or threatened disorder.

 

J. P. Morgan.

No Settlement In Sight.

   New York, Oct. 13.—Deveiopments in the coal strike situation were lacking here. J. P. Morgan spent the day on board his yacht, the Corsair, lying in North river, and the visit of two men during the afternoon gave rise to the report that another conference was being held, but the identity of Mr. Morgan's visitors could not be discovered and it is not known if their presence had any connection with the coal strike. Mr. Morgan himself did not leave the yacht.

   Other than an interview with John Markle, the operators gave out nothing of moment and Mr. Markle simply reiterated that no settlement was in sight and there could be no settlement except by the miners going to work independently. "The situation is unchanged," he said, "except that conditions are improving in the coal regions."

   Mr. Markle would not comment on the visit of Secretary Root or on his own conference with Mr. Morgan. Other operators said they had assurances from the coal fields that large numbers of men were ready to go to work.

   In a number of the churches the sermons dwelt with different phases of the coal strike.

   Senator Platt declined to say anything bearing on the situation. Governor Odell spent the day at his home in Newburg. He is expect to return to New York today and will speak in Brooklyn at night.

 

OPERATORS IN CONFERENCE.

Meet Morgan and Discuss Prospects of Settlement.

   New York, Oct. 13. —Mr. Morgan and President Cassatt of the Pennsylvania [railroad] have been in consultation today and Mr. Baer has met Mr. Cassatt in the latter's office. John Markle, Chief of the independent operators, and President Underwood of the Erie also attended the conference. The operators adjourned a few minutes after 1 o'clock. David Wilcox, when asked for a statement said: "I have nothing to say about the meeting." Others are equally reticent. The operators parted after the conference and went to their various offices.

 

Morgan and Baer.

   New York. Oct. 13.—George F. Baer, president of the Reading and J. P. Morgan, spent a good part of yesterday aboard the latter's yacht Corsair, talking strike settlement.

   Mr. Baer returned to Philadelphia after the conference, arriving there early this morning.

 

William E. Werner.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

A Self-Made Man.

   The Republican state ticket, nominated last month at Saratoga, grows in favor with the voters as time goes along. It is well-balanced sectionally, giving a deserved recognition to almost every locality in the commonwealth. Again, it is well-balanced so far as the candidates themselves are concerned. They represent the strongest fibre in the state and are the leaders in business and among the professions. From Governor Odell with his immeasurable industry and keen business insight, all through the list, the names on the ticket are those of eminently successful men—men who have carved out their own fortunes.

   Judge William E. Werner of Rochester nominated for associate justice of the court of appeals, is a conspicuous example of the self-made man, and his career affords a thrilling inspiration to the young men of this state, as well as the country at large. It reads like a romance, yet its truth and reality bring home to every boy who wishes to push himself forward in the world the great fact that industry and determination can win mighty triumphs in the face of overwhelming obstacles.

   Judge Werner was left an orphan at the age of 14, when the average boy is getting ready to take up his college studies. He wanted the education but his alma mater must be in the prosaic field of everyday scramble for the very needs of existence.  So he fought poverty, entering a machine shop as a moulder. Even this occupation was denied to him, for a feeble physical frame refused to stand the arduous strain and herein is the hope of every one who labors that the willing hand may always find something to do. Young Werner became a clerk in a large wholesale firm in Buffalo and used his nights for self-improvement, taking advantage of the classes and library in the Mechanics' institute. Several years were spent in hard work and study until the early part of 1877 the young man went to Rochester where he became a law student. He had made many and heavy sacrifices but the bent of his mind was gratified and he felt his life's work was begun. His habits were extremely studious, but his quick and receptive mind gave him time to cultivate the social side of his nature and the young German law student was soon pointed out as one having a career before him. He came into political prominence even before entering the bar and was appointed clerk of the municipal court before he received his coveted sheep skin. Since then he has risen by successive steps through the county and state judiciary until he is now a member of the highest court in the state.

   All this has been accomplished by the hardest kind of work and the strictest application to the every day requirements of his profession and the judicial positions which he has occupied. He has always been ready when an opportunity presented itself and has never been afraid of unremitting toil. Although of an impulsive and generous disposition his early struggles have tempered his natural enthusiasm, giving him a mind especially well equipped for judicial labors. All classes may find in him a ready sympathizer since he has felt the sting of poverty, has always been a hard worker and also realizes what accumulated wealth means to any people.

   The advancement of Judge Werner, however, could have been utterly impossible had it not been for an exalted personal character which has always kept the highest ideals before him. His life has been pure and stainless, and he had nothing to fear in the past. This making one's record clean is a great source of power, and it proves a host to Judge Werner now when he is asking for the votes of the people of the state to keep him in the high office which he fills with such marked ability.

   Every young man can study the career of Judge Werner with great profit.

 

ONCE PREACHED IN HOMER.

Rev. S. F. Sanford Believed that Politics Had No Place in Church.

   Rev. S. F. Sanford, formerly a pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church of Homer, and for the past year pastor of the State-st. church in Ithaca will not return to his former pastorate for another year. Concerning his resignation and subsequent transfer the following from Ithaca was published in the Syracuse Sunday Herald. It will be read with interest by many in this vicinity:

   When the Methodist Episcopal conference held at Elmira appointed the Rev. S. F. Sanford last year's pastor of the State-st. Methodist church in Ithaca to the Seneca Castle church there closed a church quarrel so serious in its nature that the organization was shaken to its foundations.

   The Rev. S. F. Sanford is a Republican, and a majority of the official board of the State-st. church are Prohibitionists.

Church and Politics.

   Mr. Sanford believed that church matters and politics should be kept separate, that the Prohibition party is a party just as much as the Democratic or Republican, and that there is no such connection between the Prohibition party and the church as to entitle that political organization to favors which would be refused to others.

   It seems that the majority of the official board thought otherwise and since early last May there were frequent bickerings.

   The ill feeling between the Prohibitionist faction and the faction which supported Mr. Sanford increased until the matter culminated in the announcement by Mr. Sanford that under no consideration would he become a candidate for the pastorate at Ithaca again.

Once an Athlete.

   Other things besides politics perhaps added fuel to the flame. J. D. Crawford, a prominent dentist of Ithaca, led the faction which waged war upon the preacher. It is said that there were personal reasons for Mr. Crawford's opposition. The Rev. Mr. Sanford is a heavy man and well built. In his younger days he was something of an athlete, and resenting the conduct of Mr. Crawford on one occasion, it is said that he backed up his opinion by a threat of punishment.

End of Peace.

   Since that time there has been no peace between the two factions, although Mr. Sanford continued his work as pastor and the church records show that more new members joined during the year than during the pastorate of any previous minister.

   A sort of truce being patched up there was no open war until the local organization of the Woman's Christian Temperance union requested the privilege of holding their state convention in the church. They went before the local board and made the request. Mr. Sanford by virtue of his position was chairman of the official board. He made no objection to holding the convention, provided the affair did not take a political turn.

Opposed a Political Speech.

   When, however, he learned that the W. C. T. U. had invited the Prohibition candidate for governor to speak in the church at that time he at once made an objection. Mr. Crawford and his party were in the majority. They controlled the action of the official board and the Woman's Christian Temperance union obtained their request.

   In order to vindicate himself Mr. Sanford at once announced his intention to resign, and specifically stated that he couldn't become a candidate for a second year in Ithaca, although there was a strong party in the church which desired that he return.

   Rev. G. E. Campbell of Auburn, presiding elder of the district, was called to Ithaca to assist in soothing the difficulty, and it is said that he concurred in the belief that the interests of harmony demanded that Mr. Sanford should follow out his determination of resigning in spite of the earnest desire of his followers to ask of the conference as a vindication that he be returned to Ithaca.

   Mr. Sanford's views were approved by several members of the official board of the church who have also resigned. They are Eugene Corbin, Professor Norris, M. M. Dayton, Earl Winn, Charles Maybe and George Hewit.

 

W. C T. U. Meeting.

   A regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 2:45 p. m. Devotionals in charge of Mrs. Lucetta Hinman. Program:  "Report from State Convention."

 

Drew a Full House.

   A full house greeted "King Dodo" at the Opera House last Saturday night, and the company of sixty voices was enthusiastically received. Every detail of the production has been well looked after, and the opera as a whole was most enjoyable. The choruses and orchestra were particularly pleasing.

 

The Horse Ran Away.

   A horse belonging to Liveryman Frank A. Blair ran from Graham's watering trough to the stables last night. The wagon was left some distance out Clinton-ave., having come in contact with a telephone pole. The horse scattered a breast collar, a tug and a flynet along the road on its way.

   It is said that the horse was neglected by its driver and that its determination to get home was justifiable.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The "King Dodo'' company left this morning for Corning, N. Y.

   —The Cortland Lodge of Perfection will meet this evening at 8 o'clock.

   —The Wide Awake Literary club will meet at the home of Mrs. W. B. Schenck, 75 Hamlin-sl. Tuesday evening.

   —The Loyal circle of King's Daughters will meet with Mrs. J. O. Hammond, 150 Port Watson-st., Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 3 o'clock.

   —The regular monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held at the parlors this evening at 8 o'clock.

   —New display advertisements today are—S Simmons, Clothing, page 6; Warren, Tanner & Co., Curtains, etc., page 4; G. H. Wiltsie, Drygoods, page 6; Buck & Lane, Andes stoves, page 4.

   —Through the enterprise of Principal A. Wesley Armitage, the Cayuga school has become a regents' school.

   —American Education. Mr. Armitage is a graduate of the Cortland Normal in the class of '99, and after graduation taught at Freeville a year before going to Cayuga.

 

RIOTERS IN STOCKADE, NO FURTHER ACTION, THE COAL PLANK, CORTLAND BOARD OF HEALTH, BOOK WANTED, AND KING'S DAUGHTERS

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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?