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ESTABLISHED 1887.
(TOM DON’T WRITE IT
Not Responsible For “No Watson, No
Bryan” Editorial
HE STATES HIS POSITION CLEARLY
He Is Not So Rampant as Some
Os His Party
A TEMPERATE LETTER TO THE WORLD
she Populist Vice rrcrsldential Nominee
*ays He Will < ontlnue to Give Hl# Loyal
Adherence to the St. Lou * Compromise
Ticket ami Will Make Any Sacrifice Not
r Involving Honor and Principle.
New York, Oct. 12. A special to The
World from Thomson, Ga., says:
New York pt iers have alluded to the
editorial, “No Watson, No Bryan,” which
appeared iu the People’s Party Paper of
Jast week and they attribute it to me.
This is erroneous. I resigned the editor
ship of the People's Party Paper just after
the campaign opened. Mr. James L. Sib
ley. the present editor, wrote the article
alluded to. Neither directly nor indi
rectly am I responsible for it. It repre
sented h's individual sentiments and he
had the right to express them. My own
position is different. From the beginning
■of the campaign I have given my loyal
adherence to the St. Louis compromise
ticket and shall continue to do so to the
end. I will make any per-onal sacrilic
not involving honor and pri icip'e to aid
Mr. Bryan regardless of the consequences
to my political fortunes. Mv protest
against fusion is not so much that it
pushes me off the ticket, but" that it com
pels Populists Jo vote for a man who does
not represent, their pritici ties and whom
their national convention rejecce f at St.
Lillis. Partly for that reason Populists
seeing this grew discontented and their
discontent threatens the success of Bryan.
Especially does the situation in Kansas
and Colorado endanger Bryan s success in
Os her states.
Th : fact thatthe Populist states have
I u. out no Populist ticket and the entire
electoral vote has been sold to the Demo
crats for local offices spreads indignation
amo g Populists in every state in the
Union. I have mingled among the people
in this campaign more informally than
any of the candidates and any of the man
agers and I know the Populists’ resent
ment at the manner in which their party
is being wrecked by mere placeliuntefs,
jeopardizing Mr. Bryan most seriously.
For the saKe of preserving our party or
“’ganization, insuring the success of party
principles and solidifying the Populist
vote for Bryan, I have repeatedly asked
that justice be done the Populist national
ticket in Kansas and Colorado. I have
also felt free to condemn the deal in North
by which Populist votes are ex
pected to give a majority in the electoral
•ccl >ge to Mr. Sewall. This arrangement
is dot only unjust, but may cause defeat
itself by disgusting the Populists. In
other words, it has seemed to me that the
very best way to assure to Mr. Bryan the
Populist votes that are necessary to his
election was to treat the Populists fair as
friends, comrades and allies, not mere po
litical Hessians who had been hired to
fight and who could be disposed of a« th"
whims and self interests of the hirers must
■dictate.
Ii) continually calling attention to this
weak point in our lines my purpose is to
help Mr. Bryan, not to hurt him. At no
time have I uttered the sentiment that
Mr. Bryan must lie defeated unless Wat
son could be ele ted. At no time have I
harbored such a feeling. At this time, as
.upon all other occasions, 1 have felt the
supreme importance of Mr. Bryan’s elec
tion regardless of what might h ppen to
■either Sewall or Watson and I have also
felt that in their stubborn unyielding
and insulting policy of trying to force the
Populists to vote for Sewall in these fu
sion deals, the Democratic managers were
•clearly making a sacrifice of Bryan iu the
intelests of Sewall.
k Thomas E. W a I son.
| MACEO IS AGAIN DEFEATED.
Win a Victory Over Cuban iu
> surge (i t*— Latter’s Lost Enwriniitii.
Havana, Oct. 12. Dispatches re
ceived here from an official source in the
province of Pinar del Rio «ay another
battle has been fought between the
.Spaniards and the insurgents under An
tonio Maceo, resulting iu another vic
tory for the former.
General Echague was in command of
the government troops and Maceo led
the enemy. The fighting took place at
“San Diego, and the insurgents are
alleged to have sustained enormous loss
The dispatches also say that the loss
•of the Spanish troops was considerable,
.and that the fighting cdEntiiwesand that
no details are at present obtainable.
No News From tire
Jacksonville. Fla., On. 12 - Not
withstanding reports t > tne c mtrary,
mo actual information has be ■ i received
'here that the alleged tHibn.xr.eri iiy tug
Dauntless has su ,- ceede.l in landing its
cargo on Unoaii shores, although it has
diad time to do -so since it left Pai m
Beach last Friday night. The Daunt
less, when she left here, it is believed,
undoubtedly started on another tidbits
tering expedition and government offi
cials in Jacksonville s.iy they will make
it hot for the little boat when it returns.
•GORY DUEL WITH KNIVES.
Two Artcansas Lninb rman • mvvh Eccli
Ollier rill Both Fall to the G.on ,<L
Devil's Bluff. Ark , O-t. 1J A des
perate duel wita Knives between two
desperate men was fought at Henry
Clay’s lumber camp, five miles below
Devil's Bluff, on White river. Joe
Beard and Van James were the partici
pants, and the code duello was resorted
to minus the formality of writing and
•seconds.
Beard and Jones were at supper when
Beard threw a biscuit across the table,
■striking Jones iu the face. Jones threw
, nt back at Beard, which dnraged the lat-
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
ter. Beard challenged Jones to mortal
combat on the spot.
In au instant two gleaming knife
blades glistened in the light of thecamp
fire. The combatants clinched and be
gan cutting and slashing and carviug
each other out of human semblance.
The combat was kept up until the
men sank to the ground from loss of
blood. Jones received six or seven
wounds, but wih recover. Beard is lit
erally carved to pieces and will prob
ably die.
DIXIE’S COTTON CROP
Awrlcnltural Department Issu's its October
Report.
Washington, Oct. 12.—The return!
to the statistical division of the depart
ment of agriculture for October make
cotton show a decline of 3.5 points from
the September condition, which was
64.2 per cent against 60.7 for the pres
ent month.
The percentages by states are as fol
lows: Virginia, 58; North Carolina, 64;
South Carolina, 67; Georgia, 67; Flor
ida, 66; Alabama, 61; Mississippi, 60;
Louisiana, 67; Texas, 57; Arkansas, 58;
Tennessee, 69; Missouri, 79.
The department’s report as to the
condition of cotton last month is fully
sustained by the returns for the present
month. Iu all the states east of the
Mississippi river little or no top crop
will be made and the crop will all be
gathered by the middle of the month.
Damage is reported from Mississippi by
frosts on Sept. 28 and 29.
Caterpillars and rust are complained
of in the Sea Island districts of Florida;
slight improvement has been made in
some few Louisiana and Arkansas coun
ties, but the crop will be gathered before
the close of the month. There has been
a general deteriorated also in Texas.
In some sections the crop has been in
jured by worms, rust, frosts and heavy
rains during the last of September.
There will be a very small yield from
the top crop and the reports say the
crop will all be gathered by Nov. 1.
INGERSOLL IN ILLINOIS.
The Famous Agnostic Speaks at Galena.
Platform Falls With a Crash.
Galena, Ills., Oct. 12.—Colonel Rob
ert G. Ingersoll spoke to 8,000 people
here on “sound money,’’ and fully 3,000
more were deprived of hearing him by
the limitations of the tent in which he
spoke.
Just before Colonel Ingersoll arose to
make his address a section of the seats
gave way with a deafening crash and
200 persons were precipitated in a strug
gling mass to the ground, a distance of
five feet. Many were trampled upon in
the general effort to escape and 20 were
injured.
Those most seriously hurt are J. T.
Johns of Georgetown, Wis., and Mrs.
G. W. Robinson of Hannibal, Mo., in
ternally injured. The injuries of the
others are mostly ugly bruises.
The crush to hear Colonel Ingernoll
filled the mammoth tent early aud the
first seats were overloaded. The short
distance to the ground prevented more
serious results.
THE REV. W. K. BOGGS DEAD.
Passed Away at Waxhaw After a Most
Honorable and Useful Career.
Waxhaw, N. 0., Oct. 12.—The Rev.
W. K. Roggs died at his home here,
aged 46 years. He was a member of the
Mecklenburg Presbyterian Synod, North
Carolina, and a native of Pickens
county, S. C. He was ordained to the
ministry by South Carolina Presbytery
eight- years ago.
His first work was in Abbeville
county, next Augusta, then Blackstock,
York county, where he served as an
evangelist for Bethel Presbytery. He
came from there here and accepted a pas
torate six miles from Waxhaw.
He was thoroughly consecrated to his
work. Everywhere he preached his la
bors were wonderfully blessed and his
ministerial life was a psalm of triumph.
A widow and seven children survive
him. The funeral took place as Lib
erty, S. C.
BRITISH PRIZES FOR SHIPS.
Big Subsidies Proposed Iu Order to Have
Auxiliary Cruisers Ready.
London, Oct. 12.—The first lord of
the admiralty, Mr. Goshen, has de
cided. it is said, to make a big increase
in the subsidies granted to private
steamship concerns on the condition
that they comply with certain regula
tions in regard to building and equip
ment, so that in an emergency their
vessels can then be used as transports or
auxiliary cruisers. Nine more large
steamships have already been enlisted
for this purpose.
In future greater efficiency iu man
ning aud equipping steamers will be re
quired. The admiralty will ask for at
least #400,000. compared with #195,000
in 1890 and #240,000 asked for last year.
Shot His Sweetheart and Killed Himself.
St. Louis, Oct. 12. —Phillip Zimmer,
aged 24. and a blacksmith, attempted to
kill his sister, shot bis sweetheart, Celia
Veitz, in the abdomea aud then put a
bullet through his own heart at the
Veitz girl’s home. His victim, who is
29 years old, was taken to the city hos
pital where it is thought she cannot live
long. Zimmer’s action can only be ac
counted for on the supposition that he
was insanely jealous of the girl he shot.
He has been going with her for
three years, and was madly in love.
Before the shooting, Zimmer asked Miss
Veitz to marry him and leave the city,
but she i«fu<ed to do so.
THE ROME TRIBUNE, ROME, GA., TUESDAY OCTOBEK 13, 1896.
FIRED THE TRESTLE
Attempts to Wreck a Night Pa sengera
Train
OH THE GEORGIA RAILROAD
The Engineer Saw a Big Red
Flame
AND.STOPPED HIS TRAIN TIMELY
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Detectives are at Work on the Case and are
Trying to Bring to Justice the Would Be
Ti aln Wreckers But as Yet Have Found
No Clew to th* Perpetrators of the
Dastardly Deed.
Grkensboro, Oct. 12.—Two at
tempts were made by an unknown in
cendiary to burn a trestle over Rich
land creek on the Georgia railroad
Friday morning. Both were ineffect
ual, as the fire was discovered and
extinguished each time before the
trestle had been swept away. As it
was, however, a considerable portion
of the woodwork was burned and had
to be replaced.
The Richland creek trestle is a few
miles from Greensboro. It spans the
creek at s considerable distance above
it and is a compact, well-built struc
ture.
The passenger train leaving Atlanta
about midnight on the Georgia road
passed over this trestle about 2 o’clock
Friday morning and at that time, it
was intact. At Greensboro, the pas
senger passed a freight train, north
bound. This freight train continued
on its way to Atlanta and as Richland
creek was approached the engineer
was startled to see a big red flame
shooting skyward. He quickly re
versed his lever and brought the train
to a standstill. The train crew at
once set about extinguishing the
blaze and succeeded in doing so be
fore it had done much damage after
which the train passed over the tres
tle in safety.
A few miles from Richland creek a sec
tion boss with a squad of hands was
found and was notified of fire. He at
once took a party of hands and went to
the trestle. He was astonised to find the
trestle again on tire.
After a hard tight the fire was extin
guished.
An examination revealed the fact that
the trestle had been fired exactly in the
middle, where it would burn toward both
ends and do the most possible damage.
The ties and a part of the support had
been burned for a distance of perhaps 15
or 20 feet. The damage was repaired
without delay. Detectives are at work
trying to discover the identity of the in
cendiary, but so far .as known have no
clue upon which to work.
Gold Speeches In North Carolina.
Winston, N. 0., Oct. 12.—Ex-Senator
Blair of New Hampshire addressed
1,000 people, half of whom were negroes,
here. He spoke more than two hours,
discussing protection at length, more
briefly touching free coinage. Every
mention of Bryan’s name or 16 to 1
brought forth prolonged and loud ap
plause. The ex-senator is making sev
eral speeches in this state. Another
gold standard speech was made here by
Hon. Lindley Vinton of Indiana.
It Was Opium or Deatn.
Ossburg, Miss., Oct. 12. —E. A.
Strickland is a man of his word. Last
Tuesday evening he dropped a note out
of the window of the Jasper county jail,
where he was confined on a charge of
forgery, saying that if opium was not
brought to him forthwith he would
burn the jail. Saturday night he ke >t
his promise. He was burned to death,
and Mollie Daniels, a crazy negro
woman, with him. -
Discharged Because Tliev Favored Bryan.
St. Louis, Oct. 12.—Considerable of a
furore has been created in local political
circles over the discharge of 12 clerks of
Dugold Crawford, proprietor of the
large department store of the city, for
the reason, it is alleged, that they in
tend to vote for William J. Bryan.
Chairman Cook of the Democratic state
central committe has engaged ex-Gov
ernor Chanes P. Johnson, a noted crim
inal lawyer, to take the case up and
cause Mr. Crawford’s conviction under
section 8732 of the revised statutes of
Missouri, which makes his alleged of
tense a misdemeanor, punishable by im
prisonment
Hasse!tine Gets Twenty-One Months.
Columbia, S. 0., Oct. 12.—Ernest H.
Hasseltine pleaded guilty to breach of
trust with fraudulent intent, using
#4,000 of the Bank of Lancaster, of
which he was assistant cashier, and was
sentenced to 21 months iu the peniten
tiary. The embezzlement vas dicovered
two weeks ago. Hasseltine xs 19 years
of age.
Violated the Civil Service Rules.
Washington, Oct 12.—F. S. Ken
drick of Alabama, a clerk under the
board of labor employment at the Wash
ington navy yard, has been suspended
on a charge of violation of the civil ser
vice rules in improperly advancing
names on the list of eligibles.
ChiHS Deficit For the Current Year.
New York, Oct. 12.—A special to The
Herald from Valparaiso, Chili, says:
The finance minister confirms the state
ment that the deficit for the current
year in the public revenue will be 10,-
000,000 poses.
BAYARD BEARD FROM
Otr Minister to Great Britain Repudiatis
Bryan
COMES OUT FOR PALMER-BUCKNER
He Shows Little Sympathy For
the Democratic Sentiment
OF THE MAJORITY OF OUR PEOPLE
Urges All Democrats to Cast Their Ballots
For the Men Nominated at Indianapolis.
Writes a Letter to the Kditor of a Wil
mington Caper, Giving His Views uu the
Political Situation.
Wilmington, DeL, Oct. 12.—1 n a let
ter to Samuel Bancroft, editor of Every
Evening, the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard,
the United States minister to Great
Britain, repudiates the platform aud
nominees of the Democratic convention
held at Chicago and advises Democrats
to vote at the approaching presidential
election for Messrs. Palmer and Buck
ner, the nominees of the Indianapolis
convention. The letter is dated at Lon
don, Sept. 30, and is iu part as follows;
London, Sept. 30.
My Dear Mr. Bancroft —lt seems
scarcely possible that any one could lie in
doubt in relation to my personal opinion
upon the very serious issue now placed
before our countrymen by the machinery
of the several party organizations.
When a citizen preferring himself to lie
a Democrat is called upou by many or by
few to yield his convictions and give his
assent to a doctrine that congress has the
power and can rightfully exercise it by its
legislative fiat to create values, regardless
of their intrinsic or commercial value, to
invest one or the other of the earth’s met
als with an arbitrary power as money, and
override and altar at legislative will or
caprice, the ratio of the exchangeability
of such metal, regardless of the impair
ment of the obligation of contracts, his
answer should be that such a claim of
power is not consistent with a government
of limited powers as defined by our con
stitution, but contains the quintessence of
tyranny, dishonesty and absoluteism as is
destructive of that morality which is es
sential to peace and stability of civilized
society and calculated to destr. >y and
break down every local defense for its pro
tection.
Ou the other hand we have the Repub
lican organization whose measures and
whose leaders have steadily created such
a ticket aud such propositions as were pre
sented at Chicago. It, was compelled to
recoil from the policy of compulsoy pur
chase and coinage of silver as unlimited
legal tender, yet it is insistently proposed
to employ and intensify the profound
powers of public taxation, to prohibit
commerce with other countries and
thereby prevent revenue from coming
into the treasury—to levy taxes, which
shall prevent the payment anil collection
of other taxes necessary for the support
of the government, whose powers are ex
erted directly aud personally upon each
individual citizen, and over every’ part of
land or water within its national bounda
ries.
Every constitutional Democrat ean truly
reply to such propositions that they are
fraught with such gross inequality be
tween man as is inconsistent with public
safety, because it employs the most far
reaching and sovereign power of govern
ment to impoverish the workingman and
the poorer members of society (who form
the great numerical majority) aud aggran
dize those already financially stronger.
Every Democrat, faithful to the princi
ples of his party, can properly refuse to
aid the election of candidates avowing the
principles and policies that have so plainly
led to our present dangers and which are
manifestly fatal to the welfare of our
country.
But, happily, there remains a citadel
and an asylum for the political conscience
for any niau honestly convinced that his
path of duty leads him to keep in view the
great purposes for which our forefathers
ordained the constitution of the United
States, for the formation of a more per
fect union, the establishment of justice,
the insurance of domestic tranquility,
provision for the common defense and the
promotion of the general welfare and the
security of liberty to ourselves and to our
posterity. Happily, candidates are pre
sented upon a clear and unambiguous
platform that secures safety to the na
tional honor of our country; to honest
transactions of all its citizens, without
discrimination to age, race or sex.
The personal reputation of the candi
dates of the national constitutional De
mocracy, Messrs. Palmer and Buckner,
is unsullied and guarantees their fidelity
to their pledges, and their election would
go far to re-establish the moral health of
our country. I hope and believe that in
every state of the Union an electoral and
congressional ticket will be placed before
the people and that every citizen will have
the opportunity of recording his vote ac
cording to his conscientious belief, aud iu
support of those principles essential to the
maintenance of our government, of our
birth and our dearest hopes. lam sin
cerely yours, T. F. Bayard.
SHOT TO DEATH BY A MOB.
Swift Justice Meted Out to One of the Slay
ers of Farmer Falls.
Birmingham, Ala., 0ct,12. —AtToad-
▼ine, a village 20 miles from here, Jim
Anderson, a negro, was shot to death by
a mob, after coufe sing that he was one
of two negroes who murdered aud
robbed Randolph Falls, a farmer, near
that place. In his confession Anderson
said he had struck the blow which killed
Falls. He begged for mercy, but there
was no mercy iu the crowd, and he was
quickly taken to a place in the woods a
short distance from the road, with his
hands tied. Allowing him a short time
in which to pray, the men leveled their
rifles and shotguns at him aud sent his
soul into eternity iu a jiffy.
Henry Oyral, another negro, was ar
rested by some of Falls' neighbors be
cause Audersotl had stated that Cvral
was his companion in the crime. Oyral
was taken to a justice of the peace netu
Falls’ home, where he was placed un
der guard to await a nreliminarv trial
Hundreds of people visited the sceue,
and rumors have just reached the city
that Oyral was taken to the woods and
treated in the same way as Anderson.
Mrs. Falls, wife of the murdered
farmer, made a speech to the citizens of
Toadvine, and it is said the-talk encour
aged them ii their aims to lynch ths
second negro.
Falls was well thought of around
Toadvine, and that ■ ntire section of the
county has been in a frenzied condition
since his murder.
CASTLE IS SUFFERING.
Beginning to Show the Effects of Hl. Con
iineuxent In an English Prison.
London, Oct. 12.—Walter M. Castle,
the wealthy merchant of San Francisco,
who with his wife is confined in Hol
loway jail on remand, charged with
stealing valuable furs, etc., from shops
in this city, showed signs of suffering
from his confinement in prison aud from
the worry incident to it.
A cousin of the Castles, who is at
present iu this city, said to a representa
tive of the Associated Press:
“The charge is absolutely ridiculous.
Why, two large packing cases full of
presents were sent to my house in Hyde
park, from the stores, where the goods
were bought. How could they be stolen?
The Castles have been abroad a year,
and had a large number of commissions
from society friends in San Francisco
and they had been large purchasers of
kuickknacks, etc.”
Evidence will be produced that some
time ago Mrs. Castle’s health was such
that Dr. Gambrell of this city was
called. He found her suffering from
pains iu the head.
THE TALBOT FOUNDERED?
-Rumored In Dorerport That the British
Cruiser Has Been Dost at Sea.
Doverport, England, Oct. 12. —A ru
mor is in circulation here that the Brit
ish cruiser Talbot, bound for the North
American station, foundered at sea dur
ing the recent gale.
The Talbot is a secondclass cruiser of
5,000 tons diplacement and carries a
crew of 433 officers and men. She is a
new vessel, bnilt here last year, carries
five 6-inch quick firing guns, six 7-inch
guns, eight 12-inch pounders aud several
guns of smaller calliber.
The Talbot belongs to what is known
as the Eclipse class of protected cruisers,
which includes the Diana, Dido. Doris,
Isis, Juno, Minerva, Venns and Eclipse.
Her registered speed is 19.5 knots, and
she carries 550 tons of coal.
Inquiries made at the admiralty show
that up contirmatiou has been received
there of the reported loss of the cruiser
Talbot.
KEANE’S SUCCESSOR,
New Head of th. Catholic University Will
Jle a Secular Priest.
Washington, Oct. 12.—0 n Oct. 21
the board of trustees of the Roman
Catholic university will meet in this
city to select three names to bo sub
mitted to Pope Leo XIII, who will
designate one of the three to be the suc
cessor to Bishop Keane, whose summary
romoval as rector of the university has
occasioned so much comment, and has
elicited so many expressions of sympa
thy and respect from Catholics and
protestants alike.
It is stated with much positiveness, and
as emanating indirectly from the new
papal delegate, Archbishop Martinelli,
that the pope's wish is that the new
rector of the miiv—sity should not be a
high dignitary f rhe church, but one
holding no hig er ecclesiastical office
than that of secuiar priest.
It is believed that the potent influence
of the papal delegation will be exerted
to secure this result, the object being to
step outside of all controversies between
the high dignitaries of the church now
menacing the progress of the university.
WATSON TO VISIT KANSAS.
The Vice Presidential Nominee Will Make
Forty Speeches While There.
Topeka, Oct. 12.—The “middle-of
the-road” Populist committee has ar
ranged an itinerary for Tom Watson,
who will spend four days in Kansas
commencing on Oct. 16. In all Mr.
Watson will make 40 speeches in the
state. Many of them will be short, but
the list of dates and places shows that a
great deal of territory will be covered.
Mr. Watson will be accompanied on
the entire trip by the following well
known “middle-of-the-road” Populists,
who will also participate in the speak
ing: Paul Vandervoort of Omaha, J.
F. Willets and M. V. B. Bennett of
JCansas aud Frank Bnrkett of Missis
sippi, the last named one of the best
campaigners in the Populist party.
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Burford Overton Handed at Harlau.
Middlesboro, Ky., Oct. 12.—Burford
Overton was executed at Harlan, Ky.,
for the murder, Jung 21, 1895. of Gus
tave and Julia Loeb, two Jewish ped
dlers. The scene of the hanging is 15
miles from a telegraph station, but the
latest advices say that great crowds
from all the surrounding country saw
the hanging, wjxxch was in public. No
effort was made by the condemned
man's friends to p event the execution,
but to guard against trouble Sheriff
Grant Smith had a large number of
deputies sworn in.
Atlanta, Oct. 13.—The Aragon Ho
tel company was placed in the hands of
a receiver, Frank Bell, the proprietor,
being appointed temporary receiver.
The hotel owes #25.000. It was not
closed and Mr. Bell states that he will
continue to ruu it. The principal cred
itors are Wash Collier, owner of the ho
tel, who has a claim for rent, and gro
cery and liquor houses which have
furnished supplies.
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ROSEBERY’S REMEDY
Retiring Liberal Leader Talks of the
Turkish Question
POWERS SHOULD ICT IN CONCERT
He Believes in A I Sharing in
the Work
OF BRINGING THE TURKSTO TERMS
Says Isolated Action by Great Britain For
Armenians Would Mean a Great War
and He Proposes to Fight Such a Poliey
Vigorously—He Does Not Agree With
Mr. Gladstone.
Edinburgh, Oct 12.—Speaking in this
city, Lord Rosebery, the ex-prime min
ister. discussed the remedies that had
been suggested for the settlement of
Turkish question. He adduced reasons
against nearly every one of the reme
dies. Regarding the proposal that Rus
sia should take possession of Constanti
nople, Lord Rosebery said that the late
government (his own) had been ex
tremely auxions to arrive at au entente
with Russia, and he was still in every
way hopeful that a satisfactory under
standing between Great Britain and
Russia on the Turkisu question, would
be reached. He urged the advocates of
the proposal, however, to remember the
treatment that had been accorded the
Poles by the Russians. Moreover, he
asked how is Great Britain to give to
Russia what is not hers?
Avowing veneration aud unaltered
friendship for Mr. Gladstone, Lord
Rosebery said that he could not agree
with the proposal made by the latter in
his Liverpool speech to withdraw the
British ambassador from Constantino
ple, or to threaten action which could
not be effected if the powers did not ap
prove. Such a course would lead to
humiliation. ,
Differs With Gladstone.
He differed with Mr. Gladstone in the
opinion that Great Britain was bound,
by the Cyprus convention to intervene
in Turkey. This convention had been
a dead letter ever since it had been,
signed. He did not desire especially the
retention of Cyprus and would willingly
give it to any power except Turkey, as
the price of a European concert.
Lord Rosebery further declared that
he was emphatically opposed to isolated
action by Great Britain on the Turkish
question, and would fight the proposal
that she act alone, tooth aud toenail.
Such action would mean an Euronean
war, the slaughter of hundreds of thou
sands, threaten the existence of Great
Britain, and, perhaps, precede the ex
termination of the Armenians. He could
conceive of nothing more futile, dan
gerous and disastrous than such a pol
icy. Any British minister incurring an
European war, except through the ne
cessity of interests distinctly British,
would be a criminal to his country and
to his position. He believed that any
just war would have the assistance of
the British colonies. He doubted that
a war in behalf of the Armenians would
elicit such assistance.
The panacea was concerted action by
the powers nearest interested. Th a
could not long be postponed.
Refer* to His Retirement.
Lord Rosebery then referred to his re
tirement from the leadership of the Lib
eral party, saying that the differences
of opinion on the eastern question was
only one of a series of incidents that
had induced him to resign the leader
ship.
He added that he had not received
the loyal Support that a premier needed
if he was to lead his party successfully.
His government in its early days had
been defeated by its own followers. The
policy he had suggested for the election
had not yet been adopted. Finally Mr.
Gladstone innocently ministered the
coup de grace.' The internal differences
in the party had been equal to the ex
ternal differences. His action had been
so hampered as to render his position
untenable. He had tendered his resig
nation to his colleagues after the elec
tion. Lord Rosebery in conclusion
thanked Messrs. Foller, Asquith, Bryce
aud Arnold Morley for their cordial sup
port.
The meeting unanimously adopted a
resolution expressing gratitude for the
manner in which Lora Rosebery had
led the Liberal party, deeply regretting
his retirement and earnestly hoping
that he would reconsider his action and
assume the leadership.
Lord Roseberry replied that his de
cision was the result of mature reflec
tion, and had been taken with the con
viction of its absolute necessity.
Mexican War Veteran Murdered.
Leavenworth, Kan., Oct. 12.—Al
fred Cummings, a veteran of the Mexi
can war, was murdered at his home
near Leavenworth city limits. He was
miserly and had considerable pension
money and lived alone iu a 1-room
house. Everything indicates that while
he was eating supper somebody slipped
up behind him and dealt him a blow on
the head with a hatchet. The blade
sunk into the brain.
Prominent Man Accidentally kills Him-elt
Newberry, S. 0., Oct 12.-Robert
Mocrman, a prominent man of this
section, was riding iu a doubleseated
buggy with two small sons on the front
driving. He had his gnu on the teat
beside him, having takeu it to his farm
on the chance of shooting something by
the way. The weapon was iu some
manner discharged, the load entering
th. neck and producing instant deatlu