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ALLIES ARE ROUTED
Forces of the Powers Defeated at
Tien Tsin By General Ma.
LOSSES REPORTED AS HEAVY
All Kind* of Exciting Deports Are Sent
Out From Shanghai, But There I#
No Way to Verify Them.
According to advices received in
London, July 10th, the Chinese situa
tion presents an aspect more ominons
than ever. A dispatch from Tien Tsin
announces that after a heavy engage
ment the allied forces have been de
feated aud driven out of the eastern
arsenal by General Ma. This dispatch,
dated Friday and via Che Foo, is as
follows:
“General Ma has defeated the allied
troops and re-occupied the Chinese
eastern arsenal, after inflicting great
loss upon its defenders. The engage
ment lasted six hours and was fought
with great determination by both
sides.
“The Chinese were eventually able
to use tho effective guns of the fort
abutting on the city walls uear the
Taotai’s yamen, the allied troops suf
fering severely from lack of heavy
guns and cavalry.
“The Japauese commander sent an
urgent appeal to hurry re enforce
ments, as the allies were in imminent
dauger of a general defeat.”
Eighteen days ago Sir Robert Hart
dispatched his last message, declaring
that the situation was desperate, aud
since then no word has come from the
Europeans in Pekin.
According to The London Daily
Mail’s Shanghai correspondent, Lj
Hung Chang ha* received au emperial
decree ordering his immediate depart
ure for Pekin, presumably to break
the news of the Pekin tragedy to the
European powers and in his usual role
of negotiator with Europe in difficult
matters to endeavor to act as mediator
and avert the vengeauce of the pow
ers. To add to the grimness of this
suggestion, all Tien Tsin advices tend
to confirm the perilous condition of the
allied forces and belie the optimistic
Chinese rumors. Unless re-enforce
ments speedily reach Tien Tsin anoth
er disaster may be expected.
All kinds of stories come from Shang
hai, which it is impossible to verify.
It is stated that the boxers have mur
dered the chancellor of the Pekin uni
versity and sixty of the members of
his family nud retainers. A confiden
tial officer of General Yung Lu, dis
guised as a boxer, is reported to have
crept into Prince Tuan’s teut while
the prince was sloepiug, with the in
tention of stabbing him. He was
caught by the so the story
goes, and decapitated on the spot. His
head was sent with Prince Tuan’s
compliments to Yung Lu as a warning
to him to beware.
NAALK HAS DEATH TRAP.
Sixty Bodies In All Wore Uncovered From
That Vessel Atone.
Twenty-four bodies were recovered
from the hold of the burned steamship
Saale at Hoboken, N. J., Wednesday
afternoon, which makes the total num
ber dead taken from this ship alone,
sixty. Most of the bodies were eo
badly burned or mutilated that recog
nition was impossible, but several
were identified by initials or names on
articles taken from parts of clothing
that sometimes remained.
All of them appeared to be workmen
iu the holds of the steamer. Great
pumps were worked iu the Baale Wed
nesday and by 2 20 p. m. the vessel was
floated. Theship was nineor tenfeet in
mud, and wheu she finally freed her
self from this mud she seemed to jump
fully two feet out of the water.
The supply of coffins gave out after
eleven had beeu filled. Five more
bodies were laid upon the deck of au
after-cabin and ooverod with blankets.
This makes 168 bodies recovered from
the ship, river and the bay.
Removal Hearings Resumed.
Hearing in the proceedings for the
removal of B. D. Green and J. F , E.
T. and W. F. Gaynor to the jurisdic
tion of the Georgia federal courts, was
resumed in New York before Commis
sioner Shields Wednesday.
BLO KI Ft) N T KIN S K LKCT EI)
By Enginml an the Future Federal Cap
ital of Soutli Africa.
A special from Cape Town says:
It is understood that at the close of
the war in South Africa, Bloemfontein
will be the headquarters of the com
mander iu chief, the seat of the South
African court of appeals, aud event
ually the federal capital of South
Africa.
The British success at Bethlehem
has considerably improved the pros
pects for peace, it is said. The whole
of the government of President Steyn,
of the Orauge Free State, has sur
rendered except the president himself.
TOWNE VISITS BRYAN.
Chairman Jones Also Shows Up at
Lincoln and Conferences Were
Held—Result Kept Secret.
Senator J. K. Jones, of Arkansas,
chairman of the Democratic national
committee, arrived at Lincoln, Neb.,
from Kansas City Hatuiday night and
later held an extended conference with
W. J. Bryan, Charles A. Towne and
George Fred Williams.
In talking about the vice presidential
situation, Senator Jones said he hoped
and believed that in case Mr. Towne
withdrew bis name as a Populist can
didate for the vice presidency, the
national committee of that party would
indorse the Democratic ticket.
“We are all independent,” contin
ued Senator Jones, “and like to carry
to successful conclusion our own plans.
But every one who is not with the Re
publicans should be against them,and
I cannot help thinking that evry man
who is in earnest for the success of W.
J. Bryan should unite with us. Of
course if Mr. Towne does not with
draw, fusion on the electorial tickets
of the various states should aud proba
bly will be arranged.”
No formal auuouncement will be
made by Charles A. Towne of his de
cision in regard to the Populist nomi
nation for the vice presidency until the
Populist committee gives him formal
notification of his nomination. This
will he in about ten days. Mr. Towne
said that he would make public bis de
cision at that time aud would issue an
address giving his reasons for the ac
tion ho takes. What that action will
be he refused to say.
“But my course is perfectly clear
now,” said Mr. Towne. “I have al
ready talked the matter over with sev
eral of the Populist leaders. The sub
ject will also probably come up,
though in an informal way, at the
meeting of the advisory committees.”
Mr. Towne spent nearly the entire
day Sunday with Mr. Bryan, taking
dinner with him, and later, in a party
which included ex-Congressman Hart
man, of Montana, and George Fred
Williams, of Massachusetts, driving
out to Mr. Bryan’s farm,
VICE-PKESI I>E NT IA L BA LLOT
A* Cant In the Democratic National Con-
Yention at Kansas City.
The ballot in the Democratic con
vention in Kansas City for nomination
of a vice president resulted as follows:
For Stevenson —Alabama, 3; Ar
kansas, 11; California, 15; Colorado,
8; Connecticut, 9; Delaware, 4; Flor
ida, 4; Georgia, 26; Illinois, 48; lowa,
26; Indiana, 28; Kansas, 20; Kentucky.
26; Maine, 10; Massachusetts, 6; Mi
chigan 23; Mississippi, 18; Missouri,
23; Montana, 2; Nebraska, 6; New
Hampshire, 8; Oregon, 5; Pennsylva
nia, 64; Rhode Island, 8; South Caro
lina, 18; South Dakota, 2; Texas, 30;
Utah, 6; Vermont, 8; Virginia, 24;
West Virginia, 12; Wisconsin, 21; Wy
oming, 6; Alaska, 6; Arizona, 5; In
dian Territory, 6; New Mexico, 5;
Oklahoma, 31; District of Columbia,
6. Total, 559 J.
For Towne—Arkausas, 5; Califor
nia, 3; Connecticut, 3; Idaho, 3; In
diana, 2; Maine, 2; Massachusetts, 11;
Michigan, 5; Minnesota, 18; Missouri,
3; Nebraska, 10; Nevada, 2; Oregon,
1; South Dakota, 6; Washington, 8;
Wisconsin, 3; Arizona, 1; New' Mexi
co, 1; Oklahoma, 21. Total, 89J.
For Patrick—Ohio, 46. Total, 46.
For Carr—Montana, 1; North Caro
lina, 22. Total, 23.
For Smith—Maryland, 16. Total, 16.
For Hogg—Missouri, 1. Total, 1.
For Danforth—Missouri, 1. Total,l.
For Hill —Alabama, 19; Delaware,
2, Florida, 4; Idaho, 3; Louisiana,l6;
Massachusetts, 13, Missouri, 6; Mon
tana, 3; Nevada, 4; New Jersey, 20;
New York, 72; North Dakota, 6; Ore
gon, 2; Tennessee, 24; Hawaii, 6.
Total, 200.
ALLEGED ASSASSINS ARRAIGNED.
Youtscy, Towers, Whittaker and Combs
Placed On Trial.
The trials of Henry Youtsey, Caleb
Powers, John Davis, Harlaud Whit
taker and Richard Combs (colored)
charged with being accessories to the
murder of William Goebel, were call
ed at the special term of the Soott cir
cuit court, at Georgetown, Ky., which
begun Monday. The eases were sent
to Scott county for trial ou change of
venue from Franklin county, where
the assassination occurred.
NEW ROAD FOR MACON.
Wsycrors Alr-I.lne To Be Extended to the
Central City.
It iu contemplated that Macon, Ga.,
Bhall have anew railroad. The Way
cross Air-Line Company has filed a
first mortgage iu Bibb superior court.
It is proposed that the road shall be
from Brunswick to Maeou via Way
cross. Forty miles of the track has
already beeu laid.
Four Companies Begin Journey.
Compauies A, B, C and D of the 15th
Infantry, under command of Col.
Meale, left Plattsburg, N.Y., barracks,
Tuesday, for Sau Francisco, where
they will sail for Nagasaki.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
Adopted By National Convention
Assembled In Kansas City.
Following are the essential features
of the Democratic platform as agreed
upou by the committee on resolutions
and adopted at the Kansas City con
vention:
“We, the representatives of the
Democratic party of the United States,
assembled in national convention on
the anniversary of the declaration of
independence, do reaffirm our faith in
that immortal proclamation of the in
alienable rights of man aud our alle
giance to the constitution framed in
harmony therewith by the fathers of
the republic. We declare again that
all governments instituted among men
derive their just powevs from the con
sent of the governed; that auy govern
ment not based upon the consent of
the governed is a tyranny; and that to
impose upon auy people a government
of force is to substitute the methods
of imperialism for those of a republic.
We hold that the constitution follows
the flag and denounce the doctrine
that au executive or congress deriving
their existence and their powers from
the constitution can exercise lawful
authority beyond it, or in violation of
it. We assert that no nation can long
endure half republic and half empire,
and we warn the American people tht
imperialism abroad will lead quickly
and inevitably to despotism at home.
Believing in these principles, we de
nounce the Porto Rico law, enacted by
a Republican congress against the pro
test aud opposition of the Democratic
minority, as a bold aud open violation
of the nation’s organic law and a fla
grant breach of good faith.
“We demand the prompt aud honest
fulfillment of our pledges to the Cuban
people and the world that the United
States has no disposition nor intention
to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or
control over the island of Cuba, except
for its pacification.
“We condemn and denounce the
Philippines policy of the present ad
ministration. It has involved the re
public unnecessarily in war, sacrificed
the lives of many of our noblest sons
and placed the United States, previ
ously known and applauded through
out the world as the champion of free
dom, iu the false and uu-Ameriean
position of crushing, with military
force, the efforts of our former allies
to achieve liberty and self government.
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.
‘ We are not opposed to territorial
expansion when it takes in desirable
territory which can be erected iuto
states in the union and whose people
are willing and fit to become American
citizens. We favor trade expansion
by every peaceful and legitimate
means, but we are unalterably oppos
ed to the seizing or purchasing of dis
tant islands to be governed outside the
constitution and whose people can
never become citizens. The impor
tance of other questions now pending
before the American people is in no
wise diminished and the Democratic
party takes no backward step from its
position ou them, hut the burning is
sue of imperialism, growing out of the
Spamsh war, involves the very exist
ence of the republic aud the destruc
tion of onr free institutions. AVe re
gard it as the paramount issue of the
campaign.
“We insist on the strict maintenance
of the Monroe doctrine and iu all its
integrity, both in letter and iu spirit.
OPPOSE LARGE STANDING ARMY.
“We oppose militarism. It means
conquest abroad and lutimidation at
home.
WARFARE ON TRUSTS.
“Private monopolies are indefensi
ble and intolerable. They destroy
competition, control the price of all
materials and of the finished product,
thus robbing both producer aud con
sumer. They lessen the employment
of labor and arbitrarily fix the terms
aud conditions thereof and deprive
individual energy aud small capital of
their opportunity for betterment.
“We pledge the Democratic party
to an unceasing warfare, in nation,
state aud city, against private monop
olies in any form. Existing laws
against trusts must be enforced and
more stringeut ones must be enacted.
“The failure of the present Repub
lican administration, with au absolute
control of all the branches of the na
tional government, to enact any legis
lation designed to provent or even cur
tail the absorbing power of trusts and
illegal combines, or to enforoe the
anti-trust laws already on the statute
books, prove the insincerity of the
high-sonnding phrases of the Republi
can platform. Corporations should be
protected in all their rights and their
legitimate interests should be respect
ed, but any attempt by corporations
to interfere with the pnblio a-ffairs of
the people, or to control the sovereign
ty which creates them, should be for
bidden under such penalties as will
make such attempts impossible.
“We condemn the Dingley tariff law
as a trust-breeding measure skillfully
devised to give the few favors which
they do not desire and place upon the
many burdents which they should not
bear.
FBEE COINAGE OF SILVER.
“We affirm and endorse the princi
ples of the national Democratic plat
form adopted in Chicago iu 1896, and
we reiterate the demand of that plat
form for an American financial system,
made by American people for them
selves, which shall restore and main
tain a bimetallic price level and as
part of such system the restoration of
the free aud unlimited coinage of sil
ver aud gold at the present legal ratio
of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid
or consent of auy other nation.
“We denounce the currency bill en
acted in the last session of congress as
a step forward in the Republican pol
icy, which aims to discredit the sov
ereign right of the national govern
ment to issue all money, whether coin
or paper, and to bestow upon national
banks the power to issue and control
the volume of paper money for their
own benefit. We are opposed to this
private corporation paper circulated as
money, but without legal tender qual
ities, and demand the retirement of
the national bank notes as fast as gov
ernment paper or Bilver certificates can
be substituted for them.
“We favor au amendment to the
federal constitution providing for the
election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people, and we favor
direct legislation wherever practicable.
“We are opposed to government by
injunction. We denounce the black
list and favor arbitration as a means of
settling disputes between corporations
and their employees.
“Ih the interest of American labor
and the uplifting of the workingman
as the cornerstone of the prosperity of
our country, we recommend that con
gress create a department of labor.
“We are proud of the courage aud
fidelity of the American soldiers and
sailors in all our wars; we favor liberal
pensions to them and their depen
dents, aud we reiterate the position
taken iu the Chicago platform iu 1896,
that the fact of eulistment and service
shall be deemed conclusive evidence
against disease aud disability before
enlistment.
“We favor the immediate construc
tion, o vnership and control of the
Nicaragua canal by the United States,
and w'e denounce the insincerity of the
plank in the national republican plat
form for an isthmian canal, iu the face
of the failure of the Republican ma
jority to pass the bill pending in con
gress. We condemn the Hay-Paunce
fote treaty as a surrender of American
rights and interests not to be tolerated
by the American people.
“We denounce the failure of the
Republican party to carry out its
pledges, to grant statehoods to the ter
ritories of Arizona, New Mexico and
Oklahoma, and we promise the people
of those territories immediate state
hood and home rule during their con
dition as territories, and we favor
home rule and territorial form of gov
ernment for Alaska and Porto Rico.
“We favor the continuance and
strict enforcement of the Chinese ex
clusion law aud its application to thu
same classes of all Asiatic races.
SYMPATHY FOR BOERS.
“Believing in the principles of self
govornment and rejecting, as did our
forefathers, the claim of monarchy, we
view with indignation the purpose of
England to overwhelm with force the
South Africau republics. Speaking, as
we do, for the entire American nation,
except its Republican office holders,
aud for all free men everywhere, we
extend our sympathies to the heroic
burghers iu their unequal struggle to
maintain their liberty and independ
ence.
“We denounce the lavish appropri
ations of recent Republican con
gresses, which have kept taxes high
aud which threaten the perpetuation
of oppressive war levies. We oppose
the accumulation of a surplus to be
squandered in such barefaced frauds
upon the tax payers as the shipping
subsidy bill, which, under the false
pretence of prospering American ship
building would put uuearned millions
into the pockets of favorite contribu
tors to the Republican campaign fund.
We favor the reduction aud speedy re
peal of the war taxes and a return to
the time-honored Democratic policy of
strict economy in governmental ex
penditures.
“Belivlng that onr most cherished
institutions are in great peril, that the
very existence of our constitutional re
public is at stake aud the decision to
he rendered will determine whether or
not our children are to enjoy those
blessed privileges of free government
which have made the United States
great, prosperous aud honored,we ear
nestly ask for the foregoing declaration
of principles, the hearty support of the
liberty loving people, regardless of
previous party affi iations.”
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