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■VICTORY
B TAMMANY
■B of New Ycik City Elect
ljlll| Candidate for Mayor
H®mous plurality
■■ Fusion Candidate, Snowed
BSYikk Devery Was Total. 7
BHainaicd from Contest.
gHHi remarkable campaign, in
■■re was united against him
SljHiH of the newspapers and prac-
MNBjß'cry minister of religion in
■■o-erge B. Mr Clellan, son of
H|Hvnr general, was, on Tuesday,
mayor of New York over
fusii,nist, the p:v*.-.--nt may.
largo plurality or Td.OhO.
■■l M. Grout was elected comp-
HnHnd Charles V. Kornes presi
■Hh<- board of dddcrnr a. There
Hgjkjgß were originally on the fusion
■'! were indorsed by Taaimany,
H[Bm the fuslonists took their
[Hou the Imw ballot and nomi-
candidates. It was the
■Hon of Grout and Forties by
H) that caused Hugh McLaugh
■H veteran leader of the Kings
IHHomocracy, to bolt and declare
■■would not support men who
HHt democrats. In spite of this
however, McClellan, Grout
carried Kings county. The
of their campaign was
r> r by State Senator Patrick
Hamn, when McLaughlin re-
aid.
was the small vote for
S. I,'every, former chief of po-
ran on an independent ticket,
«Hwiis given practically no sup-
result, shows a tremendous
in public, sentiment since May-
BB’s election two years ago, when
Sfli by 31,&?r. Ai that time he
all the boroughs but Queens,
BBrailty in Manhattan and The
BHbeing 5,663, in Brooklyn 25,767
Richmond 763. In Queens,
democrat, had a pllurality of
|Bdny McClellan carried Manhat-
The Bronx by about 58,000, a
■f 64,000; Brooklyn by about 6.
■ gain of 31,000, and Queens by
a gain cf more than 4,000.
a total net gain for McClei
■ about 103,000. as compared
vote of two years ago.
carried only one borough, Rkh
■ by about 20 votes.
■ result was known early, and at
Mayor Low sent a tele
■nf congratulation to Colonel Mc-
IBn.
Hone) McClellan, who is at present
of congress, made the fol
|Bg statement:
■ini deeply grateful to r.iy fellow-
Hns for their confidence in me. I
the promise which I made be-
election.
go at once to Washington to
for the extraordinary session
Hs soon as the question of Cuban
is disposed of I shall turn
to the affairs of the city.
the co-operation of every
■l, whether ho supported me or
■nnl regardless of his political
■ in the advancement of the city's
the fall of darkness, till long
New York city was the
■of noisy revel. The vigorous hum
■ commenced as the first few bui
■ appeared, soon grew into the
|Htremendous liuman demonstT.a-
delirious joy that tne city has
ever seen.
Hm\'s sute is repislican.
■ state Ticket of the Partv Claimed
bv About 13,000 Plurality.
■>! upon returns from 115 voting
|H-ts outside of Lancaster cmriy
|Hlnt and Douglass county (Oiiia
■Hhe Nebraska republican stare
committee at midnight Tuos
|Hght made the claim of the elec-
BB the entire republican state tiek-
HB not less than 10,000 plurality.
|B'iaim :s considered conservative
returns tend to con-
BjMNER OLSSCN IS EXONERATED.
■t that He Insulted Flag of Confeder*
■ acv Was Ba*-e Falsehood.
■ e story sent out from Newport
Hs a few days ego relative to a
H between Gunner Andrew' Olsson,
H. N.. and Mayor Jones, of Hamp-
H proven incorrect, and an injustice
Hunner Olsscn.
■ was stated that the difficulty grew
I of an insult to the confederate
I on the part of Oisson and that
I aliened desecration. oT the confed-
Ite colors was resented by Jones,
the encounter was really caused by
other matter, altogether.
COLOMBIA IS BLUFFED.
Government is Convinced thAt insist
ance to Secessionists Would b:'
Hopeless Undertaking.
After a conference Thursday after
noon, Colonel Torres, commander of
the Colombian troops at Colon, seeing
that the situation was hopeless, agreed
to embark his soldiers on the Royal
mail steamer Orinoco, sailing for Car
tegena at 7:30 p. m. A special train
from Panama brought General Tovar,
who also sailed on the Orinoco. The
steamer carried twenty-eight officers,
435 men and thirty women.
The people of Colon are now jubi
lant. The flag of the new republic
now flies from the railway stations at
Gatun and Bahio Soldado, near Colon.
The municipal council of Colon has
notified the provisional government at
Panama of its adherence to the new
republic.
It was arranged Wednesday that the
government troops should withdraw to
the outskirts of the town and they did i
so during the night. Thursday morn
ing, however, Colonel Torres marched '
the troops to the center or the town,
w'hich caused a second lancing of
American blue jackets from the Nash- 1
ville.
Commander Hubbard does not think
the Colombian troops will venture to
attack the blue jackets, who are barri- 1
caded behind bales of cotton in front
of the bank and the railroad building.
About fifty rides were distributed to
private citizens, who, with the blue
jackets, are guarding the Barricades.
General Guiterez, one of Colombia’s
best generals, arrived at Colon during
the day from Cartagena on beard the
Austrian steamer Jenny. This has in
tensified the situation immensely.
Although Colon was pertectly quiet
Wednesday night, the foreign resi
dents continued to seek refuge 011 ,
board the ships in the. harbor or in the
buildings of the Panama, railroad, '
which, as an American concern, will
be protected by the forces of the Uni
ted States.
The United States auxiliary cruiser
Dixie arrived late Thursday, after
noon. *■
Rejoicing in Panama.
A special from Panama says: Gen
eral Tovar and his staff have at last
been convinced of the uselessness or
their resistance to the provisional gov
ernment and have accepted tlie terms
offered by the junta. The arrange
ment to this end wa3 made through
the efforts cf Commander HuTToard,
of the United States gunboat Nash
ville; Superintendent Shaler and As
sistant Superintendent Prescott, ofi 1
the Panama railroad, who guarantee
that both parties will fulfill their
agreement.
There is great rejoicing all over the
city, because the stability of the re
public now seems assured. The fact
that troops were already moving to
ward the line probably decided Gen
eral Tovar and his staff to accept the
terms of the junta.
NEGROES RETURN FROM LI3ERJA.
Dont Like the People or the Climate of
West African Republic.
Among the passengers on the White
Star Line steamship Majestic, -which
arrived at New York Wednesday were
twelve negroes from the southern
states who went to Liberia, W'est Aff
rica, to experiment in cotton culture
v.'ith a view to colonization mom thi9
country.
They report that the experiments
have been a failure from tne start and
had les3 when they started home from
Africa than they had when they land
ed there. Without exception they say
that any talk of civilized American
negroes going to Africa with any ex
pectation of bettering their condition
is useless. One of them said after
landing from the steamer:
“I don't say that cotton won’t grow
in Liberia, but 1 do say I won't raise
it there, and it will be a l»ng time
before anybody will raise it. One of
the reasons is that you can’t get thise
wild Africans to work steady. Some
times you can get them to work on
a farm, but most of the time you can t
and anybody that knows anything
about cotton knows that if you want
to make a crop you must keep at it all
the time. When I started tor Africa 1
thought it would be a good thing if
there was a big immigration cf color
ed people from this country to Liberia,
but it didn't take me long to get rid
cf that idea. I did not like tl* pec-pie
nor the climate. The Unitea States is
good enough for me. I want to be
where I can see civilized folks and
hear civilized talk. I don't believe
they will ever raise cotton as good or
ss apeap in the heart of Africa, where
we have bee:-, as they can in Missis
sippi or Alabama.”
This view was Shared by other
members cf the party. They all ex
pect to start south early next week.
REVOLUTION
IS APPROVED
Uncle Sam Will Back Up the
Panama Secessionists
THROUGH RECOGNITION
Sccccss of New Government Will Mean
Building of Panama Canal With
out Further Hindrance.
“The isthmian canal will be built
by the United States and built at
Panama,” is the significant declaration
with great positiveness by a high ad
ministration official iu Washington
Thursday afternoon.
Coming from such a source, this i 3
taken as notice to those in congress
and out of it, who seek to take advan
tage of the present complications to
revive agitation in favor of the Nica
ragua route that President Rooseve't
has no intention of allowing him
self to be swerved from his determina
tion in favor of the Panama route. It
also means that the United States gov
ernment proposes to have peace on
the isthmus even at the cost of lend
ing its moral and actual support to the
newly declared republic of Panama.
To the representatives of ether gov
ernments who called upon Secretary
Hay Thursday to inquire concerning
the attitude of this government, thi3
was made clear.
Roosevelt Favors Revolution.
There can be no doubt tffat the
whole force of this administration is
favorable to the revolution and the
new' republic which the revolutionists
claim to have established.. The posi
tion of this government is that the
general good warrants sovereign meui
ods being employed. A high official
of the state department state!
that so far asi the present outlook
goes, the only possible solution in
sight are tnese:
1 — The Colombian government may
make terms with the revolutionary
party, which could only mean that the
independence of tho provinces of
Panama and Cauca would be recog
nized by Colombia.
2 The United States may recog
nize the independence of the isthmus.
3 The United States may deter
mine that the situation requiresi that
it establish sovereignty over the entire
Isthmus of Panama.
It will be seen that all of these con
ditions load to the rame thing—the
establishment of an independent gov
ernment on the isthmus with w r hieh
the United States can deal in its canal
negotiations without iurther dealings
with the Bogota authorities.
The Associated Press is enaoled to
state that this government will con
duct affairs with a firm hand in the
exploitation of the treaty of 1846. Or
ders have been sent to the various na
val commanders in the Caribean that
the isthmus is to be policed, the tran
sit kept open and also that bloodshed
must be prevented at any cost. This
is further than the United States ever
has gone heretofore, and in the opin
ion of the officials in Washington indi
cates that the establishment of the
new ogvernment at Panama, ff it
proves stable and orderly, wilUhave
the good wishes of the United States
and our ultimate recognition and co
operation in conducting an orderly and
permanent government on the isth
mus. Advocates of the construction
of the Panama carnal say this assures
I the exploitation of that project.
FRANCE IS BEING DEPOPULATED.
Remedies are Suggested to Put a Stop to
“Race Suicide.”
A falling off in the number of
French recruits this year by 24,000
draws attention to the depopulation ot
the country. An extra parliamentary
eosantission is advocating reforms cal
culated to lighten the burdens of the
par«*ts of large families, improved
sanitation in order to reduce infant
mortality, obligatory naturalization, to
gether with moral suasion and a prop
aganda to deter the peasantry from
flocking to the towns.
DIFFERENCES OF OP.NICN
Entertained By National Lew-Makers as to
Cuban Traaty Legisation.
A Washington dispatch says: There
were some interesting developments
Thursday as to the method of con
gressional proceedure on the Cuban
reciprocity treaty.
It has been generally supposed
that a resolution or bill approving the
treaty would be all that was necessa
ry, but members of the house and
some senators take an entirely differ
ent view. They say that a bill must
be passed reducing the duty cn the
products cf Cuba and that every pro
vision affecting duties must be enacted
