The Cortland Democrat, Friday, September
28, 1888.
A Matter of Record.
In the
second year of Harlow G. Borthwick's second term as Sheriff of Cortland county,
the following action was taken by a Grand Jury relating to certain of his official
acts:
"At
a term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer held in and for the County of
Cortland, at the Court House in the Village of
Cortland, commencing on Monday, the 4th day of February, 1884.
Present:
Hon. Celora E. Martin, Justice.
February
8.—The Grand Jury came into Court and presented five bills of indictment which
were immediately filed with the Clerk as follows, viz:
* * * * *
The Grand
Jury also presented the following with said Bills of Indictment which the Court
ordered filed with the Clerk, viz:
WHEREAS, It
has come to the knowledge of the Grand Jury that gross irregularities exist in
the conduct and management of our county jail in allowing prisoners, in the
custody of the Sheriff, access to the keys to the jail and allowing them the
freedom of the hall ways, about the Court House and even allowed them to go
upon the streets to the detriment of safety and good order, therefore
Resolved,
That the Sheriff is deserving of severe censure for the irregularities and
license shown to prisoners committed to his care, and the opportunities given
for their easy escape."
STATE OF NEW YORK,
CORTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,
I,
WILLIAM H. MORGAN, Clerk of said County, and of the Supreme and County Courts
therein, which are Courts of Record, do hereby certify that I have compared the
foregoing with the original [L. S.] now on file and recorded in said office,
and that it is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original
resolution adopted by the Grand Jury at the February Oyer and Terminer in the
year 1884.
In
testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said
County and Courts, at Cortland, this 13th day of September, 1888. W. H. MORGAN, Clerk.
Mr.
Borthwick is now asking for a third term as Sheriff.
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| James J. Belden |
J. J. Belden, The Liar.
(From the Albany Argus.)
The
record of James J. Belden, the member of the canal ring, is in the official
documents of the State of New York.
We submit
evidence against James J. Belden, the liar. In his speech accepting the
Republican nomination for Congress, reported in the Cortland Standard, Belden says:
"There never was a bigger fraud on God's earth
than the man who is vetoing the pension bills. A short time ago I received a letter
in regard to a pension for a poor widow. I went to the pension bureau and gave
it my personal attention. But it was rejected. I carried it to Congress where
it was opposed by Congressman Breckenridge. It finally passed the House of
Representatives, but President Cleveland vetoed it on the ground that it was
already allowed by the pension bureau, but such was not the fact. Think of it,
a man drawing $50,000 a year interesting himself so that poor soldiers shall
not get eight dollars a month. It is great business for a President to be fixing
up things with the clerks in the pension bureau so that he can have a soldier's
pension to veto."
The bill
referred to is H. R. Bill 9520, for the relief of Mary Fitzmorris. Her claim
was rejected by the Republican commissioner of pensions before Mr. Cleveland became
President. Gen. Black, the Democratic commissioner of pensions, reversed this
Republican decision and allowed Mary Fitzmorris, under the general law, the
pension desired, her certificate being No. 245,553. Besides that under the
general law, her certificate wan entitled to $1,975 arrears, in addition. That
sum she has received. Had the President signed Belden's bill she could not have
received the arrears of $1,975.
The bill
was passed without a word of dissent from Mr. Breckenridge or any other person,
every Democrat present voting for it. [See Congressional Record, page 6,000.] Belden
did not give the bill enough "personal attention" to be even on hand
to move its consideration. The bill was moved by Congressman Delano. [See same
page as above.] There is nothing to indicate that Belden even voted for it.
The veto
of President Cleveland saved to this poor woman almost $2,000. Belden lies
about the facts, because he thinks the voters in his district do not see the
Congressional Record and cannot ascertain the truth.
Belden
furnishes a fair sample of the kind of lies Republicans are now circulating
about the President’s vetoes of pension bills.
The Poor Man’s Tax Remains.
(New York Herald)
During
the war we were all taxed, rich and poor. We were all glad to be taxed, and
never a grumble or growl is heard. When the war ended the rich man's tax was
removed, but, oddly enough, the poor man's remained.
The tax
on income—paid by the person who had an income—that is, the tax on wealth, was
wiped out.
The tax
on railroads, another tax on wealth, was wiped out.
The tax
on bank deposits, another tax on wealth, disappeared.
So the
rich, who gave generously to save the Union, got rid of their taxes at the
earliest opportunity. That was right.
But the
poor man, who never had any income, never owned any part of a railroad, never
had any bank deposit—he is taxed today for the tools he works with, for nails, hammers,
saws, every shingle on his shanty, every pane of glass in his windows, every foot
of wood in his baby's crib. And we have a [federal] surplus we don't know what
to do with. That is wrong.
The
question to be settled by the campaign, therefore, is: Shall the poor man have
just as much fair play as the rich man in a country in which eight out of every
ten have to work for a living?
PAGE TWO/EDITORIALS.
The firm
of Borthwick & VanHoesen has had a monopoly of the office of Sheriff of
Cortland County for the last twelve years, and now the people are asked to
extend the term for three years longer. It may be all right, but it does seem
as though some other one of the 25,000 souls in the county might be allowed a
chance at the plum.
Last
Thursday the Trumansburg Catholic Church, which included Farmer
Village, held a picnic at Cayuga Lake Park. During
the day a vote was taken on the steamer T. D. Wilcox, with the following result:
CLEVELAND 201.
HARRISON 0.
A vote of
201 for Cleveland and nothing for Harrison, the Know-Nothing, shows that our
Irish American citizens are true to their convictions this year.—Ithaca Democrat.
General Harrison, the republican candidate
for President, is terribly disturbed about preserving our home market, and he is
in favor of making the tariff on all imports so high as to prevent the
possibility of foreign goods coining to this country. This is precisely the Chinese
doctrine, and it results in making the poor still poorer and the rich, richer.
If the village of Cortland could prevent farmers and tradesmen from selling
produce and goods in this place, they would preserve a home market. Farmers
would sell their produce in other towns and buy their supplies when they sold
their goods. But would this sort of protection protect Cortland? Cortland needs
the farmers as bad as the farmers need Cortland. Let us preserve the home
market for our wagon industries. How long would it take to wind up all of
Cortland's manufacturing concerns if they only supplied the home market? The
successful business man sells his wares where he can get the most for them and
buys where he can buy the cheapest. It is a law of trade as old as creation and
will continue as long as the world stands. The grocer who refuses to buy
hardware of his neighbor won’t sell that neighbor any of his goods. There must
be reciprocity among neighbors as well as among nations. Any community will
starve to death when it undertakes to feed upon itself. This country is no
longer an infant. It leads all others and those silly people who seem
determined to keep it in swaddling clothes, are being laughed at for their
verdancy. The country is abundantly able to take care of itself and has long
since shown that it has no use for a wet nurse. Give the United States a fair show
by reducing the Chinese wall that our republican friends built about them just
a little.
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