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j* — ~ BILL ARP’S LETTER Bartow Man is Hot in Collar Over Bemarks of Boosevelt.' SAYS PRESIDENT BUST APOLOGIZE Declares Chief Executive Could be 'Prosecuted for Slandering Jeffer- 60n Davis, and Government Made to Foot the Bill. “Once more into the breach, good friends—once more." I would be to know about what time President Roosevelt is going to retract what be wrote about President Davis. It has now been proven by the official rec ords at Jackson, Miss., that Mr. DavlB was never governor, nor was he ever a member of the legislature of that State, and in a public address made' after the act of. repudiation, he de- -clared that he was opposed to It and the debt ought to be paid, and this am* ateur historian denounces him in his .booh as an arch traitor and repudla- tor. Mr. Davis fought in Mexico for the honor of the flag; won the victory at Buena Vista; was desperately wounded, and for five years walked with crutches; married General Tay lor’s daughter for his first wife and didn’t run away with her either; was secretary of war under Franklin Pierce, remodeled the curriculum at West Point and It stands to-day as he framed it; was a member of the • United ^States senate when his state seceded and, like General Lee, he went with his people. He did not eeek the presidency of the confederacy and in sisted that another be chosen. Now all this has long since been estab lished and if Mr. Roosevelt did' not know It, he could have known it. He certainly knows it now, and If ho Is a gentleman he will retract it and apol ogize to Mrs. Davis and the family and to the sainted shade of Miss Win nie end to the people of the south. He called him an arch traitor and compared him to Benedict Arnold and the slanderous libel is ' In print In a book of so-called history and has poi soned the minds of all the fools, fa natics and Idiots who hqvo read it. When-is .he going to retract? The International Cyclopedia, edit ed by distinguished professors of Co lumbia University and Dartmouth Col lege, says of Mr. Davis: "He was a ripe scholar, a vigorous writer, a splendid orator, a brave soldier, a true gentleman, an accomplished states man, a sturdy champion, a proud true patriot, a lover of liberty, a Christian hero—this Is the Jefferson Davis that .history will cherish.” General Lee was his bosom friend and confidant, and yet this so-called hUtorian, this rough rider and bear hunter, praises Lee while he defames his friend, a man infinitely his superior in every moral attribute and every noble emo tion. But maybe he will retract and apologize, though Tom Moore says: “But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast To‘some dear falsehood hugs It to the last” He had better retract, for some of our old soldiers are very mad about It They are talking about suing him for slander and garnlsheelng the government for his salary. Killing bears in the wilderness won’t save him nor will that little brush we had in Cuba. That Is perhaps the biggest little war we have ever had and every small politician and stump orator who wants an office Jumps up and says we are all brothers now. We fit and we fout and bled together at Ban Juan and Santiago and then we crossed the wide ocean to whip out some nlggerB and we will soon all be on the pension roll. An oid veteran said to me, “That little Spanish war reminds me of the fellow who was drowned at Johns town, and when he knocked at the gate St Peter didn’t recognize him and refused to let him in. ’Why, my dear sir,’ said he, ‘I am one of the Johnstown sufferers. I was drowned In that flood.’ So the good saint re lented and letjilm In. He wandered about heaven, looking at the beautiful things and after a while came across an old man and Bald, ‘Good morning, old gentleman; glad to see you. Beep here a long time, I reckon?’ The old man said nothing. ‘I am one of the Johnstown sufferers. I was drowned in that great flood.’ The old nian did not reply, but turned and walked slow ly away. So the fellow went to St . Peter and asked who that old man was. He would not speak to me,' said he, ’though I told him I was In the great flood a Johnstown.' And, St Peter replied. 'That old man, sir, 1* Noah-and he bad a flood of his own to think about"’ . - And now we read that all the hor tors of our civil war are being repeat v ed In the Philippines. In our war It was the white yanke'e who made war hell for us, but now they are making it hell for the negroes In the Philip pines. We are trying to smother what our people suffered, bqt they won't let us, and now boast that General Sher man found it the best way to 'shorten the war. No, we old men and women can’t forget, and I hope that our chil dren and grandchildren will learn I all in some southern history. The civ lllzed world has not forgotten Heroti nor Nero nor the duke of A'va nor tly massacre of St. Bartholomew where 30,000 Protestants were butchered in a night. But when will Teddy repent, retract and apologize? He has got to do it sooaer or later or go down In his tory as a malicious defamer of one whose shoes he was not worthy to un loose. He and Miles will get together some time and some where. Now. why does not Teddy consider the feel ings of our people in his appointments to southern offices? Why did he not give Savannah a'white man for a col lector? Appointments of negroes to be postmasters and revenue collectors are an Insult to us, and he knows it. .i- ue uas such affectionate regard for those negroes why not give them a .place at Washington or Albany or Boston or a consulship at Hayti or San Domingo? 'These offices are the dearest of all to our people. The postofflee Is our try sting place, a kind of Mecca, and the postmaster our confidant. That officer should above all others be ac ceptable to the majority of the people. The col'ector has the command of a ‘city In his hands and under bis con trol, and that commerce Is all white— none of it comes from the negro race. What excuse can ho give for such appointments? None, and when Is he going to retract and apologize for that slander of Mr. Davis? Echo answers, when?—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Consti tution. SUPPRESSION OF FACTS Is Charged by Minority of Commltteo on Methodist War Claim. The feature of Tuesday's session of the Methodist conference at Dallas was the reading of a minority report of the commltteo on publishing inter ests of the last general conference, In which It Is stated that important facts regarding war claim money were sup pressed at that time, although that minority made every effort to get them before the general conference: BY OYEIllVHKL.H1XG VOTE Congress Passes BUI l-’or Relief or Martinique Island Miffitrers. The house Monday passed by an overwhelming vote a bill granting $200,000 for the relief of the sufferers in the great calamity In the West In dies. The bill was a substitute to the relief measure passed by the senate, which carried $100,000, thp Increase having followed the receipt of a mes sage from the president setting forth the magnitude of the calamity and urg ing an appropriation of $500,000. If you have something to aeii, lot tho people know It. An advertisement In this paper will do the work. NZWSY GLEANINGS; The Newfoundland sealing season las closed. A $100,000 oyster combine has been formed at Norfolk, Vo. Just twenty-one years ago was pro hibition Introduced Into Kansas. The American Tobacco Company, it Is suld, will attempt to capture the trade of Scotland. A New York syndicate has bought two gold mines and a copper mine in Mexico for $500,000. The Ancient Order of Hibernians line started a movement to stop stage cari cature of the Irish race. An international congress for the amelioration of the condition of the blind will meet at Brussels In August. It will be under the patronage of King Leopold. Tho French Government lias author ized tho transfer of the seat of Mada gascar's Government from Antanan arivo, an interior town, to Tamatava, on the east coast. The Naval Board of Awards Is con sidering the question of bestowing a medal on every officer and man who served In the West Indian naval cam paign of the Spanish-American War. An American company has pur chased the wrecks of the Spanish war ships Almlrante, Oquendo and Vizcaya for $1 a ton; the vessels will be broken np for scrap iron and sent to Philadel phia. > In the iron and steel trades In Scot land and the north of England produc tion has fallen off. considerably this year, as compared with 1000, writes United States Consul Rufus Fleming, Edinburgh, Scotland. Enough money has been subscribed to cover the cost of removing nearly 300. of the distressed Welsh settlers in Patagonia to Canada, and arrange ments are being made for a steamer to call at Cbubot to embark the tint batch of emigrants ready to nil. \ GEO-RGIA. { Brief Summary of Doings Throughout the State. Lewis After Judgeship. dray Lewis, solicitor general of the Oconee circuit, has tendered his resig nation to Governor Candler and made his formal announcement as candidate for the Judgeship which Is .now held by Judge John C. Hart. * • • Incendiaries Badly Wanted. A reward of $150 has been offered by Governor Candler for the arrest and conviction of the unknown party who set fire to the stores of J. Ludllm, J. J. Vickers and B. F. Summerlin, in Wlllacoochee, Coffee county, on the night of December 20, 1901. The citi zens of that place have supplemented the'offer of the governor with a re ward of $200. • • • Big Cattle Ranch for Lincoln. A cattle ranch embracing 11,000 acres of land will soon be established In Lincoln county, Near Clay Hill. Al ready 1,100 acres have been purchased by the parlies Interested and the gen eral manager and the secretary of the mammoth concern wpre in Atlanta the past week for the purpose of purchas ing the first car load of cattle with which the ranch ^111 be stocked. Druggists to Meet In Brunswick. The Georgia Pharmaceutical Asso ciation will hold Its annual meeting this year at Brunswick and the con vention promises to be one of the largest attended anid most successful yet held by the organization. Men of national reputation have been Invited to deliver addresses and read papers on important subjects and a number have accepted. Those having charge of the arrangements for the convention have prepared an un usually Interesting program. * * • Two New Mills for Hartwell. Application for charters for two oil mills at Hartwell have been made and the sites have been selected looking to the construction of these mills at an early date. One of the mills Is to oe built by local capital furnished by the business men of Hartwell and the farmers generally of Hart county. The other mill is to be built with foreign capital. These two enterprises will add greatly to the business boom of the town, and the farmers of the coun ty are Jubilant over having a mill of their own, from which they are to re ceive so much benefit. • * ■ * Savannah Gets Next Meeting, After a spirited debate in the south ern Baptist convention at Ashevln«n N. C., Savannah was decided upon as the location for the next convention. Several other places were mentioned, but Waco, Tex., made the biggest fight. Mayor J. W. Riggins, of that city, con. Ing all the way to Asheville to Invite j the convention to Waco. Dr. B. H. Carroll, of Waco, also spoke for that place. Ex : Governor Northen, of At lanta, and Dr. Jordan, of Savannah, pleaded Savannah’s cause and succeed ed In winning out by a small majority when the matter was voted on. • * * Prison Commissioner Indignant. General Clement A. Evans, of the Georgia prison commission, Is indig nant over the card of Hon. Dupont Guerry in the Atlanta Journal regard ing the workings of the prison com mission. General Evans has written a letter to Mr. Gnerry expressing astonishment that he should make such charges, and before be finally makes up his mind as to whether he will support Mr. Guerry any longer or not he will wait for Mr. Guerry’s reply. As soon as the statement of Mr. Guerry’s In The Journal.was read by the members of the commission they promptly denounced 1L • • • Masons to Lay Cornerstone. The laying of tho cornerstofie of tho new public school building In Dublin May 27th promises to be a most Inter esting event. The Dublin lodge of Masons has charge of the ceremonies and they have Invited the Dublin lodge of Odd Fellows and tba Oconee Gem lodge of Knights of Pythias to assist. In addition all the Masonic lodges of Laurens county and the Masonic lodges of Eastman. Hawkinsvllle, Ten- nille, Wrightsvllle and’ other near places have been extended an Invita tion to participate. Grand Master Max Moyeihardt, of Rome, assisted by Past Grand Master W. A. Davis, of Macon, will have charge of the ceremonies. • • • Helm Gets Rome Poetoffice. The president has appointed Captain T. J. Helm postmaster at Rome. This ends a long fight so far .is the ap pointing power Is concerned. , There has been a great jjeal of talk about charges'being brought against Captain. Helm and It Is probable that confirmation will be held up for some time at least. So far as is known the charges are cf a general nature. At least if there Is any specific charges they have not yet been revealed. Willie E. Harp was also named far the office at Jackson. . * Two Gorglans-have been advanced to higher grade In the navy through the regular channel of promotion. Lletf. tenant Emory Wlnship, the most pop ular young officer in the navy, and Lieutenant George Li P. Stone, both from Georgia, were advanced by the president’s nomination from lieutenan cies of the junior grade to be full lieu tenants. ' >' * , • * Court Cases at Columbus. Judge W. T. Newman, of the United’ States district court, was occupied four days the past week In hearing cases at Columbus. The court had several Interesting' criminal cases beforo. lt. W. A. Walk er, former postmaster at Geneva, in Talbot county, was convicted of em bezzling postofflee funds, hut was not sentenced pending a motion for new trial. Postofflee Inspector James Wad dell, now of Philadelphia, but former ly of Atlanta, was the principal wit ness against Walker. The motion for new trial will be heard on June 9. Anderson Brewer, a negro, was con victed of cutting open a mail sack and was sentenced to serve three years !n the penitentiary. He was sent to Atlanta and will be confined In the new federal prison. Richard Hendricks was sentenced to spend three months in jail on convic tion of Illicit distilling. He will be confined in the Tower In Atlanta. - * * * A “Freeze-Out” Game, That the Ice combine in Atlanta is getting ready for the summer trade was evidenced the past week when the Atlanta Ice company applied to the superior court for an amendment to Its charter for the purpose of largely increasing Its capital stock and enlarg ing Its corporate powers. The Atlanta Ice company Is one of four similar concerns that have been secured by a new company In which Ernest Woodruff, former president of the Atlanta Railway and Power com pany Is largely Interested. The com- painy was originally chartered In 1887 with a capital stock of $25,000, and It asks the court for the privilege of increasing thlB amount to half a mil lion dollars. • • * Presbyterian College for Atlanta. Atlanta bids fair to have a Presbyte rian college fostered and endowed by the denomination In the state. This nay come by the consolidation of two well known Institutions of learning In adjoining states that have an ag gregate endowment of $600,000, which it Is proposed to locate there or as an entirely Independent Institution for which funds amounting fo $200,000 will bo raised for Its establishment. - The two colleges which, are suggest ed for consolidation are the South western Presbyterian university, of , Clarksville, Tennl, and the Columbian ' Theological seminary, Columbia, S. C. • • * New Railroad In 8lght. I A new railroad has been projected between Atlanta and Savannah. With- : In a few days application will be made to Secretary of State Phil Cook i for a charter for the Atlanta and Sa- j vannah Air Line Railway company, which proposes to build a railroad In I almost a direct lino between Atlanta I and Savannab, a distance of 235 miles. ': A number of well known Atlantans are among those whose names are at tached to the petition for charter. The company proposes that Its prin cipal office shall be located In Atlanta | and that its capital stock shall not be less thhn $100,000 nor more than $5,- 000,000. It Is projected, to run through the- counties of Fulton, Henry, De- Kalb, Rockdale, Newton, Jasper, Put nam, Baldwin, Hancock Washington, Jefferson, Johnson, Bulloch, Effingham and Chatham. AMERICA TU AJD SUFFERERS. Cruiser Cincinnati Is Ordered to the Island of Martinique. The secretary of the navy, Moody, has cabled the commander of the cruis er Cincinnati, now at San Domingo City, to proceed to Martinique and ren der such aid as possible. The Secretary of the navy found, af ter consultation with Assistant Secre tary Hill, that it would be safe to take the Cincinnati away from San Domin go, as quiet now reigns at the latter place. Mr*. *nfftl UpI< Two Years. Mrs. Catherine Soffel, who released the Bldd!e brothers from the Allegheny county, Pa., jail last January, has been sentenced to two years'in the penltea- tlary for aiding and abetting in the escape of prisoners. BAILY OBJECTS TO EMBASSY EXPENSES Texan Says the President % Exceeded Authority. IT IS WRONG TO HONOR KING Policy of American People Forbid ••Slobbering” Over Foreign rionarchs and Puppets. A Washington special says: A lively debate occurred In the senate Satur day upon an amendment to the army appropriation bill offered by Mr. Daily of Texas, providing that no part of the' appropriation made by the measure should be used In derraylug the ex penses of the special embassy to the coronation of King Edward VII of Eng land. After considerable discussion the amendment was withdrawn and tho bill passed. Subsequently Mr. Bailey offered a resolution which will be considered later, covering tho point of his amend ment. Mr. Bailey's resolution fol lows: "That It is contrary to tho policy of the United States to accredit to any foreign government any embassador, minister of other diplomatic, officer or agent to especially represent the United States at the coronation of any hereditary prince or potentate.” “That no power exists In the pres ident of the United State.s to appoint any embassador or agent and accredit bim as the representative of the United States to any government ex cept by and with the advice and con sent of the senate, as prescribed In section 2, article 1, of the constitution of the United States'.” "If,” said Mr. Bailey, in discussing hlB amendment, “we are to send a special embassy to the coronation of this monarch In Great Britain, we must hereafter send an embassy to the coro- atlon of every monarch or else give an effrent to the nation concerned. "If It be true that we have sent embassadors to the coronation, of Eu ropean rulers, I ask If special embas sies have ever been sent to the Inau guration of the president of the United States? Are they entitled at our hands to what they do not give to us 7 "What I protest against," said the . Texas senator, "Is this: That the great est republic In the world shall perform for a monarchy what monarchies do not perform for us.” He said that, of course, if represen tatives of this government were to be sent to a cornatlon they ought not to pay their own expenses. It was pointed out by Mr. Lodge that the power of the president to send a special agent was established thor oughly by practice. It wfls clear that he had such authority. Mr. Money, of Mississippi, protested against the sending of a special em bassy to thh coronation of any king or .potentate, not approving of having a representative of the United States cool bis heels in the corridors of any monarchy. He thought It entirely unnecessary tp appoint an extraordi nary embassador In this instance when the United States already had an am bassador accredited to Great Britain. Mr. Hoar said he sympathized with the statement that the United States should not pay a tribute to any nation which that nation did not pay to us. Mr. Bailey explained that he was op posed to the assumption by the pres ident that he had authority to appoint ambassadors to any country without the consent of the senate. OBSTACLE TO COMBINE REMOVED. Cash Capital to Consolidate Yarn Mills Is Forthcoming. A View York dispatch says: The $60,000,000 combination of the South ern yarn mills Is now rapidly nearing completion. Saturday It was given out that the working cash capital had been provided, thus faking away all impedi ments to active formation. TWO KILLED BY AIR SHIP. Daring Aeronaut and Assistant Hurled to Death in Explosion. Severn, the aeronaut, and one of his assistants, were killed by the explo sion of Severo’s air ship In making a trial trip at Paris, France, Monday morning. When the skip was high In the air the spectators were horrified by a bright flash of light, followed by a loud explosion. The balloon fell rap idly, landing on tho roof of a house. The aeronaut fell into the street ahd was dashed to pieces. The engineer, who accompanied him, was burned .to death.