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JL W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME XVIII.
WHAT IT STANDS FOR
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS
IT IS TODAY.
£tnml* as It Has Always Stood, In
I’ower and Out of Power, for Equal
Eights to All and Special Privileges
to None.
The fundamental principles of the
Democratic party are best expressed
in the Declaration of Independence.
The Democracy stands for individual
freedom, for equality of rights and
opportunities, for political, religious
and industrial liberty. Its trend has
always been in the direction of popu
lar government, although more than
once its machinery has fallen into the
hands of the enemies of the people
and has been devoted to the interests
of special classes. This had happen
ed before the great-re-blrth of the par
ty of Thomas Jefferson in 1896. That
year witnessed a revolution in the par
ty and the beginning of a revolution
in the country. The Democracy again
took solid ground upon the great prin
ciples of the Declaration and it has
since held that ground with courage,
with zeal and with lofty determina
tion.
The Democratic platform in 1896 de
clared no new or strange doctrine. It
but rested and reaffirmed old truths for
which the party had stood in its best
days and under its greatest leader
ship. The spirit of it was long before
voiced in the philosophy of Thomas
Jefferson and in the heroic policy of
Andrew Jackson. It dealt with new
phases of old questions; and in es
sence it marked the revolt of the trib
ute-payers against the tribute-takers.
In 1900 the Democracy stands again
upon the old foundations. It is still
the champion of equal rights. It i3
still the evangel of liberty. It still
stands in solid phalanx against the
forces of privilege. In 1596 the appar
ent issue involved the question of
coinage; but the real issue was wheth
er this country should continue to be
governed by the people or whether it
should give up its old ideals and be
come the submissive appanage of a
grasping plutocracy.
The real issue is the same this year
that it was four years ago. New mani
festations have been developed, but it
is still a question whether a class for
a class shall control the country or
Whether it shall be controlled by the
people for the people. The ancient
war between Hamilton and Jefferson
is being fought again under the op
posing standards of McKinley and Bry
an. The latter stands aa Jefferson
stood for the principles of the Declar
ation of Independence. The former
stands as Hamilton stood for govern
ment of a class, by a class, for a class.
-The Democratic party believes that
governments were instituted among
men, not for the purpose of exploiting
the masses and the enrichment of fa
vorites, but for the purpose of securing
to all the.r inalienable right to life,
to liberty and to the pursuit of happi
ness. It believes that governments de
rive their just powers from the consent
pf the governed. It therefore stands
in unalterable and inflexible opposition
to imperialism, which is the denial of
the right of self-government. It holds
that we cannot hold a subject colony
without violating the fundamental
principle of the republic; and it con
demns as wicked and wanton a war
that is being waged without legal au
thority for the overthrow of free gov
ernment in a foreign land and the es
tablishment there of our soverignty
against the wishes and in defiance of
the rights of its inhabitants.
If the United States have a right to
overthrow the Filipino republic they
have the right to overthrow any other
republic or any other government th"y
may select for a victim. They may go
to Central America and to South Am
erica or to China or to Africa and un
der pretext of civilizing and Christian
izing the inhabitants they may destroy
their governments and institutions and
compel them to submit to American
rule. The pretense that we bought
from Spain the sovereignty of the Phil
ippines in no sense saves us from the
inherent wickedness of onr assault up
on the liberties of a foreign peo
ple. The latter had rights; and these
rights were not owned by Spain. Spain
therefore could not sell them, or
could we buy them. What Spain sold
was her outlawed claim to trample
upon those rights. What wo purchased
was this claim; and the Republican
party is asserting it with brute force
in defiance of moral 3 and law and the
foundation principles of our own free
Institutions.
But the Democratic party stands for
freedom at home as well as for free
dom abroad. It Is therefore In favor of
trial by jury and against government
by injunction. Trial by jury for hun
dreds of years has been considered the
strongest defense of freemen. It is
now challenged by the Republican par
ty, and in the name of law and order
its overthrew is foreshadowed In ju
dicial usurpation—the worst of tyran
nies. Thomas Jefferson feared the en
croachments of the judiciary in his
time, and it was Marshall whose inter
pretation of the constitution was the
first great triumph of imperialism over
democracy. In later years the federal
government has steadily encroached
upon the liberties of the citizen; one
by one the safeguards of freedom have
been overborne, and now the common
people must face the threat of irre
sponsible power exercised by the fed
eral bench through the subtle enginery
of the injunction.
If men have a right to themselves
they have a right to use their own
powers; and if they have a right to
the use of their own powers, they have
a right to the use of those things
which they produce by the exercise of
their power*. They have the right'
to work; they have a right to the
things they make; and if this be so,
they have tile right to exchange the
results of their labor with their neigh
bors or with any one they please. In
other Words they have the right to
trade; they have a right to buy where
they can buy to the best advantage; to
sell where they can secure the most
for their product. The Republican par
ty denies this principle, tinder the
false name of protection it compels
workers to exchange the products of
their labor In a market artificially re
stricted; to purchase in a market
where free competition has been throt
tled by law for the benefit of certain
favored classes. The result is a rob
bery of labor; it is compelled to accept
the terms and conditions offered by
the beneficiaries of the restrictive
law.
The Democratic party stands for
free competition and for the right of
all men freely to exchange with each
other the results of their toil. It is
therefore opposed to trusts and to all
devices for the killing or even the re
striction of trade. A protective tariff
is a declaration of war against trade;
it is an invitation to combination and
monopoly; it puts a premium upon
engrossing and forestalling; it is the
handmaiden if not the mother of
trusts.
The appalling manifestation of mod
ern industrialism is the centralization
of wealth in the hands of the few. It
has come about in the last generation
and it is the shining product of Re
publican legislation. All the forces of
privilege have been centered on the
effort to secure larger privileges; and
the Republican policy has been that of
consistent favoritism, it has never
failed to give to those that had and to
take away from those that had not
even that which they had. It gave
boundless territory to favored rail
ways; it granted monopolies to iron
and coal and lumber and stone; it gave
bounties to sugar and protection from
esmpetition to mills and factories and
shipping; it has shut out foreign goods
while letting in foreign labor; it has
loaned its credit to favored hankers
and changed the terms of contracts for
the benefit of bond-holders; it has dis
credited silver in order to vest a mo
nopoly in the hands of owners of gold;
and in every instance it has enacted
laws and administered the government,
not for the common welfare, but for
the enrichment of special classes.
Democracy opposes all this. It wants
to strike the shackles from trade and
to relieve labor from the levies of
privilege. Its whole spirit runs in
the direction of freedom and its can
didates stand pledged by the platform
and by their own records to promote
the ends of liberty and of righteous
ness. The party makes appeal to the
heart and the conscience of the coun
try. It opposes foreign conquest both
because it is a wicked wrong to alien
peoples and because it is a direful
threat against our own rights. For
this country cannot be haif republic
and half empire. Imperialism will not
be satisfied with foreign subjugation;
it will hunger and thirst after the sub
jugation of those at homo from whom
tribute can be wrung. Already the
entrenched forces of imperialism are
levying tribute upon American labor;
labor’s opportunities have been nar
rowed to a choice of masters; armed
men in the service of plutocracy war
against the right of men to seek bet
ter conditions from those who have
cornered industrial chances; and if
McKinley shall win in the great fight
now in progress it will mean further
restriction, further narrowing of op
portunity, further aggressions of priv
ilege and still harsher exactions from
those who work for the aggrandize
ment of those who toil not. —Warren
Worth Bailey in Johnstown Democrat.
SLAVERY IN SULU.
Secretary Mdklcjohn*g Letter to Bryan
Evades the Issue.
Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn,
says a Washington dispatch, “has
written to Mr. Bryan,” denying the
truth of the iatter’s statement that
the McKinley administration has rec
ognized slavery in the Sulu islands.
Mr. Meiklejohn "calls Mr. Bryan’s at
tention,” the dispatch goes on to say,
"to the fact that the president approv
ed General Bates’ agreement with the
Sulu sultan with rhe understanding
and reservation that this agreement
was not to he deemed in any way to
authorize or give the consent of the
United States to the existence of sla
very fn the Sulu Archipelago, a thing
made impossible by the thirteenth
amendment to the constitution of the
United States.”
That is all very well, Secretary
Meiklejohn. But the sultan and dolos
of Sulu continue to hold their slaves
and keep their harems just the same.
And the United States authorities in
the Philippines—arcting under the or
ders of President McKinley—have
made not the least attempt to inter
fere with either of these practices.;
The constitution declares that slavery
“shall not exist in any place subject to
the jurisdiction of the United States.
It does exist in the Sulus in direct vio
lation of the constitution, and Secre
tary Meiklejohn well knows it. And
he knows, too, that President McKin
ley, despite his paper disapproval—
which n.ay or may not have been com
municated to the polygamous slave
driving sultan—has made no attempt
to suppress it.
Toledo Bee; Everything that the
farmer or workingman consumes that
is controlled by a trust has been in
creased in price to the consumer, but
the price of the labor the workingman
has to sell and the products the farm
er lias to sell have not increased at
all. There’s something lopsided about
that kind of prosperity.
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Material aad Intcllectaal Advaneemeet of the Coaaty.
LOUISVILLE, GA„ THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1000.
WOULD-BEWRECKERS
* ♦
Caught In the Act of Displacing
Rails On Trestle.
DISASTER WAS NARROWLY AVERTED.
Officers Were On Watcliout For Miscreants
and Nabbed Them—A Lynching
Seemed Imminent.
An Atlanta special says: A dastard
ly attempt was made to wreck tbo
passenger train on the Seaboard Air
Line railroad, four miles from Law
renceville Saturday night, and the two
men engaged in the plot to plunge the
train with three hundred passengers
over a trestle have been arrested and
lodged in jail.
The men bad been suspected aud
watched, and were caught in the very
act of removing the bolts from the
rails.
But for the fact that the attempted
slaughter of many men, womon and
children occur red only four miles from
Lawenceville, the prisoners would un
doubtedly have been taken from the
officers by tho indignant passengers
and lynched. As tho train moved
along, bearing the miscreauts and
their intended victims, tho story of
the outrage spread through the crowd
ed coaches, and if there had been n
few more miles to go tbo prisoners
would have been left swinging on the
side of the road to telegraph poles.
The train which left Atlanta Satur
day evening at 8 o’clock had live
coaches, all crowded, many of the pas
sengers having boon to Atlanta to at
tend the fair. The two men who had
plotted to murder by tho wholesale
for the purpose of robbery must have
counted on this, and selected a time
when they believed there would be
many to fall into their grasp as they
lay dying at the bottom of the trestle.
The plan was to throw tho train over
the trestle at Yellow river, which is
four miles this side of LawreDccville.
Jf the plan had succeeded the derailed
train would have taken a frightful leap
into a chasm.
THE SHERIFF’S STORY.
The account given by Sheriff Has
lott is as follows:
“For several days myself, B. F.
Brubaker, of Raleigh, N. C., the chief
detective of the Seaboard Air Line
road, have been working on this mat
ter. It was reported to ns over a
week ago that an attempt would be
made to wreck the night train out of
Atlanta. We have been laying for
them, as it were, and last night we
succeeded in bagging our gamo.
“Just after dark, last night, J. T.
Byrd, John Oaks, the detective and
myself went out to the trestle, about
four miles from town, it having been
reported to us that the time for
wrecking the train had arriv-ed. We
stationed Byrd and Oaks on one side
of the river and the detective and my
self on the other. About half an hour
before the Atlanta train was due the
wreckers were heard coming down the
track and struck the trestle.
“The trestle is 450 feet long and 50
feet high. They walked on to the
trestle and stopped about 150 feet
from the side we were on and went to
work loosening bolts, etc.
“That was sufficient warning to us,
and we proceeded to close in on them.
I had them both handcuffed together
in a twinkling. They had a crowbar,
two blocks and two rocks that they
were using to throw the rails out of
line. There was two of them, John
Dalton, a young man about 22 years
old, and Tom Patterson, a man about
28 years old.
“Dalton lived on a farm about a
half mile from the trestle. He is an
uumarried man. Patterson is a mar
ried man with a family, and lives
about one mile from the trestle. The
detectivo asked them who they were
aud what they were doing. Patterson
replied that he was working on the
section and was fixing the trestle.
“It was not long until the train
came along. The detectivo waived it
down and wo all boarded the train for
Lawrencevillo. There were four
coaches full of people and the news of
our capture and the circumstances
spread like wildfire through the train
aud caused great excitement. I verily
believe that if the distance had been
ten miles, instead of four, toLawrenoo
ville thoro would have been a lynch
ing.
ADMINISTRATION NOT INDORSED,
Ncro of Tonnrssoo Go Against
rri'sldont McKinley.
At Saturday’s session of lire African
Methodist Episcopal conference of
Tennessee, in Chattanooga, the com
mittee on tho “state of the union” re
ported a resolution indorsing the na
tional administration, especially the
gold standard and the foreign policy
of the president. The resolution
raised a storm of objections and a
heated discussion followed. The trend
of the discussion was that tho negro
had nothing to gain from a further
affiliation with tho Republican or any
other party. The resolution was then
voted down by a decided majority.
NASHVILLE (JETS RELIC.
Secures Gun tlint Fired First Shot In
Spanish-American War.
The gnu from which the first shot
in the Spauish-Americah war was fired
has reached Nashville, Tenn., which is
to be its permanent home. It is a
Hotchkiss rapid fire one-pounder, and
comes from tho gunboat Nashville,
which sent a shot over the bow of the
Spanish merchant vessel Buena Ven
tura.
SHERMAN IS AT REST
Body of Illustrious Statesman En
tombed at Mansfield,
THE HOME OF HIS BOYHOOD DAYS
Funeral Services Both at Washington ttml
At Mansfield, Were beautifully Ap
propriate ami Simple.
In the Capitol of tho nation, whero
his life work had beon accomplished,
there gathered Wednesday represen
tative of every government department
and the representatives of many for
eign powors to pay homage to tho
memory of John Sherman. The fun
eral services were held at tho Sherman
home. A notable gathering of states
men, diplomats and officials filled the
hallways and parlors of tho residence.
The services were simple. They be
gan at 1 p. m., and were conducted by
Rev. Alexander Mackay Smith, rector
of St. John’s Episcopal church, assist
ed by Rev. E. M. Paddock, assistant
rector.
Concealed in the rear of tbo hallway
a quartet of St. John’s choir, accom
panied by the organist, sang in the in
tervals of the service. After the hymn,
“Bock of Ages,” Dr. Smith read the
simple, but impressive funeral service
of the Episcopal church. When the
reading of the service was finished
tho choir softly sang the hvran,
“Peace, Perfect Peace.” Tkero was
no funeral address and after a brief
prayer tho choir chanted tiro anthem,
“Lord, Let Me Know My Eud and tho
Number of My Days.”
The casket was thou lifted by the
bearers, with the honorary pallbearers
following, and carried from the house
whore a detachment of the Fifth cav
alry, under Colonel Rafferty, waited to
escort it to the depot.
The honorary pallbearers, who were
grouped about tho coffin during the
ceremony, wero Secretary Hay, Secre
tary Gage, Justice Harlan, of the su
preme court, Admiral Dewey, General
Nelsou A. Miles, ex-Senator Cameron,
of Pennsylvania; Senator Hawley, of
Connecticut; Judge Bancroft Davis,
Hon. J. A. Kasson, of tho state de
partment, aud Colonel M. M, Parker.
The funeral party left for Mansfield,
Ohio, on a special train over the Penn
sylvania railroad at 3:30 o’clock.
The train bearing the distinguished
dead and those who escorted the body
from the national capital arrived in
Mansfield at 10:15 Thursday morning.
Awaiting were Major Brown and a cit
izens’ committee of five, a squad of
police and company M, Eight infantry,
Ohio national guards, which did ser
vice in the Spanish war. Close by the
car which contain the catafalque, and
which was heavily draped, were forty
two members of General Sherman’s
brigade, all old men, gray and bent.
Without dirge or other sound of
mourning the body was transferred to
the hearse, the funeral cortege slowly
proceeding to the church. The body
was borne between two files of the
members of the Sherman brigade and
double files of Company M. Preceding
the hearse wore the carriages bearing
the party from Washington. In the
first were President McKinley, Secre
tary Root, Congressman Kerr,of Mans
field, and Secretary Cortelyon.
Mansfield did honor to her departed
foremost citizen. Every business
house was draped in mourning, every
church was open and the streets were
thronged with the sorrowing thous
ands, including delegations from
Washington, Cleveland and nearby
cities and towns.
The formal services at the church
began at 2:30 p. m. The altar was
decorated in white at the request of
the family, and the robe of the offi
ciating rector, the Rev. A. B. Putnam,
was of white also. As the rector
chanted a brief ritualistic rite, the
procession headed by Governor Nash
of Ohio, filed by and took a last look
at the deceased. The crowds came
and went with noiseless tread.
There was no formal sermon, the
officiating clergymen adhering closely
to the Episcopal ritual. At the con
clusion of the services the funeral traiu
proceeded to ths cemetery a mile dis
tant. At tho sepulchre the ceremonios
were of the simplest character, tho
casket was placed in the Sherman fam
ily vault and sealed aud the throng
retraced its way.
ISLANDS TOO COSTLY.
Unele Sam Will Hardly Fay Denmark
07,000,000 For Danish West Indies.
Relative to tho Enropenn reports of
the effort of the United States govern
ernment to purchase he Danish West
Indies, it is said in Washington that
there has been no change in the status
of the matter.
The United States government is
quietly awaiting developments in Den
mark. When the Danish government
is in position to make tho sale our
government will bo prepared to nego
tiate upon the subject afresh. Tho
impression, however, is conveyed that
tho figure as the price to be paid, $7,-
000,000, iB far beyond the mark.
CANTEEN LAW NOT OPPOSED.
Presbyterian Synod of Missouri Refuses
To Condemn President.
A resolution offered before the
Presbyterian synod of Missouri, bit
terly comdemning President McKin
ley and administration generally for
its attitude on the liquor question aB
expressed in the canteen law and en
joining tho voters of Missouri to vote
for the caudidate of the prohibition
party, was defeated by a vote of 26
to 13.
CANDLER SWORN !N
Georgia’s Governor Takes Oath of
Office For Second Term,
CEREMONIES BRIEF BUT IMPRESSIVE
limugu.tnl Address Short utM the Point.
Oath Was Administered By Chief
justice Simmonm.
In the presence of ttie general as
sembly of the state of Georgia, tlie
justices of the supremo court nnd state
officials, Governor Allen D. Candler
took the oath of office as chief execu
tive for the second time Saturday
morning. The ceremony of tho in
auguration was brief and interesting,
tho senate and house convening in the
ball of representatives in joint session
at noon for the purpose of hearing the
inaugural address aud witnessing the
ceremony.
Governor Candler spoke but fifteen
miuntes. He reviewed the pi ogress of
Georgia along industrial and govern
mental lines and referred to its great
ness not only in territory, but in the
integrity aud uprightness of its people.
He advised the general assembly to
deal tightly with that class of citizens
which had been impoverished by ro
ceut shrinkage in values. He would
not levy upon them a single dollar of
taxes not absolutely essential to the
running expenses of the state.
During the address and the inatigu
ration the gallery and floor of the
house were crowded with visitors and
Governor Cannier received an enthusi
astic reception as he came in tho hall
and later when introduced by Presi
dent Howell of the senate.
The president of the senate an
nounced that tlie resolution under
which the joint session had convened
would bo read.
“It gives the chair great pleasure,”
said President Howell in presenting
the governor, “to introduce Governor
Allen D. Candler. Ho needs no pre
sentation to this assembly, for he was
known to tlio people of Gcorgin before
he was elevated to the chief magis
tracy of tho stato. His popularity
with tho people is attested by the
nearly 70,000 majority received by him
less than a month ago in his second
election to tho governorship. It gives
me great pleasure to present the gov
ernor-elect, Hon. Alleu D. Candler, of
Hall.”
The scone was an enthusiastic one
as Governor Candler rose to deliver
his inaugural address. At its conclu
sion the presiding officer announced
that the governor-elect w’oiild be sworn
in by the chief justice of the state.
Chief Justice Simmons, of tho supremo
court, stepped forward and in a clear
voice recited the oath under which the
governor agrees to defend the consti
tution of the United States.
Governor Candler then delivered to
Secretary of State Cook the great seal
of tho stato with the injunction: “I
commit the great seat of the state of
Georgia into your hands, feeling as
sured that its use will not be abused.”
This ended the ceremony and the joint
session of the assembly was dissolved.
POISONED IIY GAS.
Well Known Gporgln Lcslfllntor Found In
Dylnj; Condition at Hoarding llouso.
M. B. Walker, a representative in
the Georgia legislature from Crawford
county, was found in a dying condition
in his boarding house in Atlanta as
the result of gas poisoning. The well
known representative was found in his
room in an almost lifeless condition
and tho apartment filled with stifling
gas from a jet which had apparently
been turned on for hours. The ex
planation of how the gas was turned
on cannot be made clear, for no one
was with tho legislator when he re
tired.
The most natural presumption is
that Mr. Walker was unused to gas
light in his room and that he must
have blown the light out instead of
turning it off when he retired for the
night.
Republicans Parade in Chicago.
For six hours and a half Saturday
working men from every branch of in
dustry in Chicago, lawyers, merchants,
railroad men, financiers, marched
through the down town streets of the
city in the parade of Republican voters
which was planned ns the culmination
of the national compaign in Chicago.
CLEVELAND IS SLATED.
For Preddont of Washington and Deo
University to Succeed Wll*on.
According to a dispatch from Nor
folk, Ya., the presidency of Washing
ton and Lee university made vacant
by the death of William L. Wilson,
will be offered to ex-President Grover
Cleveland. A committee from the
university will, in a fow days, go to
Princeton and formally extend the
offer.
tlrynn Again In Gotlinin.
A New York special :nys: “William
Jetmings Bryan’s secoud coming to
this city was the occasion Saturday
night of one of tho greatest political
demonstrations of the campaigu.” .
Hobson Is at Homo.
Richmond Pearson Hobson is now
at. his homo in Greensboro, Ain., en
joying a vacation. His eyes are said
to be improving and ho fears no fur
ther trouble from them.
Roosevelt Takes a Rest.
Completing over 1,100 miles of
travel and having made over fifty
speeches, Governor Roosevelt finished
tljf first week of his New'York state
campaign in Binghampton Saturday
night.
BOXERS STILL ACTIVE
“Brivo Oat tin Foreign Divils,”
Ts Burtl n of Th ir Cry,
THEY DECREE WAR TO THE DEATH
Minisfor C’ovik< t Has I’.ocn Authorized IJ.v
Till* Government to Ho*; in Negotia
tions For Peace at Once,
According to a Washington speeia'
of Thursday Minister Conger has been
authorized by this government to be
gin negotiations at once with tho Chi
nese envoys on the basis of tho points
in the derma'll and French notes upon
which all the powers are agreed. Up
on these pointß where divergence of
views has been found to exist, the
government of the powers themselves
will negotiate with a view to reaching
a further understanding.
It is understood that the ministerial
representatives at Pekin of other pow
ers have similar instructions, but
whether they have or not, Mr. Conger
is not to be restrained. The Berlin
statement that Germany lias agreed to
Japan’s proposal that peace negotia
tions with China shall for the present
be entrusted to the foreign represent
stives at Pekin is regarded as an indi
cation that Germany lms taken similar
action on tho case of Minister Munmi
Yon Schwartzenstein.
Tho stato department received no
tiee Thursday from the British of the
terms of the arrangement reached be
tweou Gnat Britain and Germany as
to China. Now that both govern
ments have been heard from formally,
the state department will turn its at
tention to the preparation of the an
swer.
BOXERS TOST NOTICES.
A cable dispatch from Hong Kong
says: Advices from Lien Chau, on
North river, are to the effect that Amer
ican mission property there is threat
ened with destruction by boxers, who
have posted the following proolamn
mation:
“Wo have organized to protect- our
country and homes and we rely upon
one another to support the order to
drive out the foreigu devils. They
are mad. Their folly passes descrip
tion. They are usurpers of onr land.
They disturb oar borders.
“In all the provinces and jrefcc
tnres chapels have been opened;, and
our people are deceived, ripped open
and disembowled while the foreigners
grow fat on the revenues of China, in
sulting our officials and merchants,
aud seizing onr temples aud palaces.
“The emperor is indulgent aud per
mits this. Who can foretell the inten
tions of these foreigu devils. Day by
day they act more outrageously.
When we behold tho present condi
tions of affairs our hearts are bruised
with grief. Therefore we have organ
ized our strength to destroy the de
vouring wolf throughout the empire.”
The boxers took the American Pres
byterian mission buildings, but have
not destroyed them.
Rebellion is spreading along East
river and North river, in the prov
inces of Kwangsi. It is supposed to
be aimed at tho overthrow of the
Mauchu dynasty, but the reports are
so contradictory that it is next to im
possible to form a lucid impression.
In Canton the Chinese officials are
taking the insurrection so lightly that
foreigners believe it will be very diffi
cult to suppress.
The governor of .Hong Kong has
beeu informed that 4,000 villagers in
the Samtochuok-Kwhishin district
were attacked by rebels at Fengkok.
The villagers were defeated and 2,000
of them killed. The rebels,! who lost
400 killed, burned two villages con
taining 3,000 houses. A force of 2,000
troops went to the assistance, of the
villagers and engaged the ; rebels on
October 22d. No details of the result
have been received.
The Chinese officials have placarded
the Shetoin district, offering several
hundred dollars reward for the heads
of tho four foreigners who are sup
posed to be leading tho rebels.
The rice crop has failed in Kwangsi
gtovince and robbers are pillaging.
Rebellion and famine there are cer
tain.
AS A TRIBUTE TO SHERMAN
Republican Campaign Work In Ohio Wan
Stopped Thursday.
The Republican campaign in Ohio
was at a standstill Thursday as a trib
ute of respect to tho memory of Hon.
John Sherman, whose funeral occurred
at Mansfield in the afternoon.
The order of Secretary Dick, of the
Republican state executive committee
is regarded as unique in the political
annals of Ohio, but all meetings were
either declared off or postponed, and
the political opponents of the parly
had the field to themselves for the day.
The state offices in tho capitol build
ing were closed during the afternoon,
JURORS WERE BRIBED!
CliattnnnnßK Lawyer. Make rimrcea of n
Highly Sensational Nature,
A Bensation was sprung in the cir
cuit court at Chattanooga Wednesday
morning by attorneys charging that
they had proof ihat certain jurymen
had accepted bribes in certain cases
recently tried. These members of the
jury will ho openly charged with re
ceiving bribes for returning verdicts
in motions for setting unido verdicts
in two damage suits tried last week.
Selscriptiou : $l.OO in Advance.
NUMBER 48.
TO ACT CAUTIOUSLY
United States Wid Hold Anglo-
German Alliance In Abeyance
TO INVESTIGATE GROUND THOROUGHLY
Third Clause of Kntcntn Must Ho Fully
Fx|>l>iiitol—State Department Is Ad
vising With Ministor Conger*
A Washington special says: It is
not the purpose of the state depart
ment to act upon the suggestion con
tained in the British-German ’agree
ment respecting China and give its ad
herence for several days at least. The
subject is one of sufficient importance
to warrant careful consideration, nnd
especially is it desirable that some
further light bo shed upon the third
clause of the agreement beforo the
United States acts, though it is not
doubted that at least a qualified adher
ence will be given.
The department is in correspond
ence by mail with Mr. Conger, who is
advising it freely of the various propo
sitions that arise before the body of
ministers resident at Pekin who are
now, in conformitory of the terms of
the French note, consulting with the
object of beginning negotiations with
the Chiueso government. It cannot
be gathered, however, that any mark
ed progress lias been achieved so far.
MCE PLANTERS WILLING
To (loin Syndlnito For Font roll! i:/j Th<*lf
I'rod act It' Capitol In Sufficient.
A committee representing the syndi
cate organized in Louisiana .o control
tho rice crop will visit Savannah to
negotiate with the planters of Georgia
and Son'll Carolina for their output.
The delegation is headed Iv Paul
Pritchard, formerly of Savannah, and
now a leading rice broker in New Or
leans.
Tho committee will find the planters
ready to talk business provided the
syndicate has sufficient capital. Tho
majority of tlie planters, however,
look upon the scheme as impractica
ble, though they think it would be a
good thing for the planters if the syn
dicate is aide to do all that it promises
to do.
A guarantee for the fulfillment of
these promises is the first thing want
ed. It is not believed that the entire
crop of the country can be controlled
with the §7,000,000- which the syndi
cate claims to represent. As one-half the
Georgia mid Carolina crop has already
been marketed this year, it will not be
possible for the syndicate to control
three-fourths of it, as it has claimed it
will do.
BANKERS INSPECT THE S. A. L.
Tl|y Aro I,:irgly Intoiestcd In the Secu
rities of tho System.
A largo party of bankers from the
cities of the eastern and middle Atlan
tic states arrived in Jacksonville, Fla.,
Tuesday night in private cars over the
•Seaboard Air-Line. John Scott, of
Ladenburg, Thnlman & Cos., New Yorir,
is in direct charge of the party.
The firms of all the representatives
in this trip are interested in Seaboard
All-Line securities, aud the trip over
the system was arranged for them by
President John Skelton Williams,who
desired that they might see for them
selves the property.
THIRD RESPITE FOR RAKER.
Decision of Georgia S > • > :u< Court Fnvor
able’ to WHY Stay
The Georgia supreme court has
issued an order commanding and re
quiring Judge John B.’Candler, of the
Btone Mountain circuit, to certify the
Dill of exceptions in the Baker case.
This decision is a victory for the
friends of the condemned Fulton
county wife slayer, although it does
not mean that the trial on the ground
of insanity is to proceed without more
delay. In order that tho oase may go
before tho court of last resort it will
be necessary that another respite be
issued.
Florida Centenarian Dead.
Mrs. Charlotte A. Sanderson <1 iOjJ at
Sanford, Fla., Monday night, aged ofle
hundred years. She was a native of
New Hampshire and has lived in Flor
ida half a century and has accumulated
great property,
LI MAY BE LYING.
Hoi-mini Foreign Oaten Su.pecty That I>u
plicOy I. I’eiog I'racllcptd.
A Berlin dispatch says: Discussing
the preseut stage of the relation be
tween tho Chinese government and
the powers, a high official of the Ger
man foreign office has made the fol
lowing statement:
“Before Li Hung Chang can bo ac
cepted as a negotiator by the powers,
his credentials must, of course, be ex
amined, So far Earl Li on various
occasions has refused to exhibit them.
When Dr. Mumtn von Sell wart zeustieu
was in Shanghai ho requested Earl Li
to show them. The Chinese states
man replied evasively.”
EMIIEZZLKK UNDER Alt REST.
Memphis Cotton Firm Dope* Heavily
Through a Confidential Agent.
C. D. Snapp, confidental agent for
Caldwell & Smith, cotton brokers of
Memphis, Tonn., was arrested in
Chicago Thursday, charged with the
embezzlement of $32,000. Later in
tho day he was turned over to Deputy
J. F. Alexander, of Memphis, who,
with Bolton Smith, a member of the
firm, had gone to Chicago to effect the
arrest, and started for Memphis.