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. BOSTON WAS ENLIGHTENED On Race Question By Ex-Governor Worthen, of Georgia, in a Great Speech. ADDRESS IS MADE SEBJECT OF MUCH COMMENT. Leading Papers of the “Hub” Show Conservatism and Sy m pathy- - Boston Was Made to Wince. Fifteen hundred members and friends of the Congregational gathered in Tremont Temple at ton, Mass., Sunday night to listen to a moat unusual discussion between ex-Governor Northen and Bishop Ben jamin W. Arnett on “The Present Sit uation ns to the Colored People of the South.” It is doubtful if such a scene was ever witnessed before on any platform in this country. The gray-haired ex governor pleaded the cause of “the white man’s burden” in the section from which he came, while the vener able colored bishop pleaded the cause of “Abe black man’s burden." Both were unable to say all they in tended to, owing to lack of time. Ex Governor Northern delivered only about one-half of his carefully prepar ed speech, and oven then occupied two hours, leaving barely twonty min utes to the bishop in which to reply. In the beginning of his speech ex Governor Northern said: “I am not here to apologize for the south. The south has her ills, her sins and her crimes. What section has not? The south has had and will have violent shocks to her civilization. What section has not? The south has had her sorrows, God knows they have been grievous and hard to be en dured. “Whenover the south finds an idea! government without sin: a people per fect in law and perfect in its enforce ment, the south will do its respectful obeisance and ask to be led into its broader civilization mid its better power. shall ’Till stand then, abreast and not of ’till all then, other j we sections, claiming as broad a civiliza tion as any, and challenging those without sin to cast the first stone at us.” Bouton \Vn» Stlrrml. Monday’s dispatches states that th people of Boston are showing deep in terest in the address of former Gov ernor Northen, and it is tho general verdict that tho citizens have never before had such an exhaustive state ment of the attitude of the sonth on the negro. Koine few of Ex-Gover nor Nothen’s statements did not meet with the approval of his audi ence, especially those with reference to “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The gen eral favor with which his statements were received was shown by an expres sion from the floor when the speaker, prompted by the chairman, was about to close, by a person who moved “that the gentleman bo permitted to deliver the whole of his address if it takes all night.” The motion was greeted with ap plause and the speaker continued for another half hour. Although necessarily restricted as to time, Bishop Arnett, who was to speak for the negro, held the close at tention of the audience and as ho closed was given a hearty handshake by ex-Governor Northen. Several prominent clergymen of Bos ton discussed the address Monday, among them being Rev. Dr. J. A. Hamilton, of the Congregational house, who said: “The ex-govornor evidently tried to give the impression that the colored man is the only offender; that he has a monopoly of the heinous forms of crime which is nt. the bottom of the greater part of the lyncliings. If that is the idea he desires to convey I stamp it as false. I had occasion to visit the south a short time since and 1 truth fully say that the black man has more ground for complaint on this score than the southern white man.” Rev. Dr. Edward A. Horton said: “I think that ex-Governor Northen has greatly exaggerated the true sen timent iu the south. I believe, how ever, that the judges and these true ■white citizens of the south deplore tho lynching methods.” HAY DREW l’LAN. Of Proposed Government For the Philip* pines Inland*. The written proposition submitted to the Filipinos at, Manila by the American committee was framed in Washington by Secretary Hay. The only error in the printed report of its contents is tho omission of the qnalifi catiou “principal” in the statement of the jnuges to be appointed by the president. It is the intention to give the Fili pinos, just as the president had prom ised, as large a measure of self-goveru meut as they seem able to exercise with safety to themselves and due re gard to the welfare of other nations. IN ATLANTA NEXT YEfK. Georgia Capital Secure* Next Fr©»byte rian General Assembly. The general assembly of the Presby terian church iu session at Richmond decided by a vote of 94 to 83 to meet next year in Atlanta. The matter aroused great interest in the assembly, aud the tight between Atlanta and Marstau, Mo., was quite spirited. The claims of the former were ably set forth by Rev. Drs. Bull and Rice, JPrown Comment* In commenting on the speech the Boston Journal says: “Thocaseof the negro never lacks recognition in Bos ton and in Massachusetts and it was well that the Congregational club, lis tening Sunday night to tho speech of Ex-Governor Northcn, of Georgia, on the lyneniug evil, heard the other side. For tbore are emphatically two sides to this question. Nothing could be more unjust and unfortunate than indiscriminate criticism of the south for a form of lawlessness which its least ami soundest public sentiment deplores as profoundly as the north does. To a very large degree Ex Governor Northen was justified in his complaint last night that the policy of the press of the north in condemning simply the lynching® while they main tain an ominous and painful silence about the crimes that, provoke them, is incendiary in the extreme, as it eu courages negroes to a repetition. “Besides the long list of political murders, there aro scores of instances of tho lynching of black men for theft or for using profane language con strued us disrespectful. There are not lucking examples of the slaying of negroes becauso they were obnoxious on general principles. In so far as ex-Governor Nor then’s speech fails to meet this point, it fails of its complete purpose. Nevertheless, it is fortunate for all concerned that he has come here and has spoken. He has given us the southern side of this acute question, and say what it will we must never forget that the whole southern people are our friends and brethren born of our bone and flesh. Wo have no right to chide them in a pharisaical spirit, and we can accomplish nothing by attempting it. Tho problem which they have is a terribly grave one, and they deserve not our condemnation, but our sympathetic co-operation, and they must have it.” Mtulo Boston Wince. Special dispatches from New York say that ex-Govornor Northen made Boston wince in his speech before the Congressional club in Tremont Tem ple. He lashed the negro sympathizers well, and practically pronounced “Un cle Tom’s Cabin” a tissue of lies. The New York Press of Monday morning, the most anti-southern paper published anywhere in the north, hns this to say on Governor Northen’s speech: “The the address de importance of livered in Boston was doubly signifi cant. That city was tho parent of the anti-slavery agitation. It was in New England that the fires against the practice were fanned into white heat by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book,‘Un cle Tom’s Cabin.’ It was there that William Loyd Garrison, Wendell Phil lips and others first made the fight, which eventually resulted in civil war. Boston, a typical northern city, always has been the center of agitation in fa vor of the negro. ‘Since the burning of Sara Hose at the stake, ianumeraolc local organiza tions and societies have sent out pro tests and condemnations of the south, and Georgia iu particular. speeclieshave Many of the resolutions and been as intemperate as the wildest imagina tions of those in tho south. Therefore the speech of ex-Governor Northen answering these criticisms was so sig nificant that it attracted the attention of all advanced thinkers. “Some of the points mado by the southern speaker in his augumenta tivo and impassioned speech caused his hearers to wince. Critical Boston does not like to be criticised, and when the speaker practically said that ‘Undo Tom’s Cabin’ was a lie, made out of the w hole cloth, there was sad ness and mutter in gs, Sor Mrs. Stowe is one of the idols of the Puritan city.” NEGROES LY.\UIIED IN MEXICO. A Posse Hailes and Shoots Seven With out Any Proof of Guilt. There is great excitement in the town of San Dialo, Mexico, over the lynching of several colored laborers of the Mexican Central railroad. Joso s au to, a Spanish negro, at tempted to assault the wife of a ranch owner, and escaping from the plauta t ion, was tracked by bloodhounds, and iu compauy with nine others, was j eapturtd in a Lift on the river bank j opposite Eagle Pass, Texas, | The regulators did not attempt to prove the guilt of any of the negroes, b ut hanged three of them and shot ; four more who were trying to escape. FOURTEEN PEOPLE DROWNED. Ferry Boat Capsizes on the Danube River With Fatal Result. Advices from Berlin state that four teen persous were drowned Tuesday l>y the capsizing of a ferry-boat on the Danube, near Straubiug, Bavaria. Another aud similar accident cccurr ed at Simbaob, Bavaria, where ten persons were drowned in the River lun, one of the principal affluents of j the Diuube, bj - the capsizing of a boat. MORE MEN ARE NEEDED. Americans Find It Impossible to Hold Captured Territory In the Philippines. Friday’s advices from Manila were to the effect that events of the week emphasized the need of a much larger army in the Philippines, without which, according to the best authori ties in Manila, it would be attempting the impossible to expect to establish American supremacy in the group. The inadequacy of the American forces -u said to be responsible for the large number of total losses in the number if small encounters without material results as a compensation. Most of the fighting has been in territory which the Americans had swept, but nave been compelled to abandon be cause they could not spare troops to hold it. The forces commanded by Generals MacArthur and Lawton hold two impor ‘ant lines of communication and com j j aierce, »nd the the Rio railroad Grande to river. San But Fernando much j of the country they have smaller swept, in eluding scores of the towns and some of the larger ones, have been left uncovered, simply for want of men to hold them, and the insur gents have returned and are occupying the towns the Americans abandoned and are camping in the jungles and woods outside of others, on the watch for chances to harass the garrisons and attack scouting parties of detached companies with greater forces. This is the kind of warfare they prefer to regular battles. It appears that the Filipinos who attacked the Third regiment between Sau Miguel and Balinag were part of Pio del Pilar’s army. They came from the south across "the mountains, presumably to meet a wagon train which General Lawton expects along the road. They also planned to cap ture several large detachments and were placed in ambush at different points. They fired from the jungle at a distance of 200 yards, and gave the Americans one of the hardest fights experienced in the campaign. The Filipinos lost more heavily than the Americans in all the recent encounters. The insurgent generals take the loss of arms more to heart than they do the loss of meu. Foreigners who have arrived at Ma nila from the insurgents’ country un der the recent order of expulsion, say the cemeteries in all the towns are fill ed with fresh graves. A majority of the Filipino wounded die, because the insurgent hospitals are inadequate medicines are scarce and they have few surgeons except Spanish captives, who have been forcibly impressed into service. EXECUTIVE ORDER ISSUED. Designating As to How Our New Posses sions Shall lie Governed. President McKinley has issued the following executive order for th __ jy eminent of the islands which under tho control of the United States as a result of the war with Spain: Executive Mansion, £ Washington, May 8, 1899. ) By virtue of the authority vested in me as the commauder-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, I hereby order and direct that during the maintenance of the military gov ernment by' the United States in the island of Cuba and all the islands in the West Indies, west of the 74th de gree west longitude, evacuated by Spain, there are hereby created and shall be maintained the offices of audi itor of the islands, one assistant audi tor for auditing the accounts of the de partment of customs, and one assist ant auditor, for auditing the accounts of the department of postoffices, who shall be appointed by the secretary of war and whose duties shall be to audit all accounts of the islands. There is hereby created and shall be maintained the office of treasurer of tho islands, which shall be filled by and appointed thereto an officer of the regular army of the United States. Tho treasurer of the islands shall re ceive and keep all moneys arising from the revenues of the islands, shall dis burse or transfer the'same only upon warrants issued by the auditor of the islands and countersigned by the gov ernor-general. All rules and instruc tions necessary to carry into effect the provisions of executive orders relating to said islands shall be issued by the secretary of war. (Signed) William McKinley. EXPENSE CAUSED DISPUTE. Costelar's Family Protested Against Gov ernment Paying For Funeral. A Madrid dispach says: When the body of Senor Castelar arrived at the station a dispute arose be tween the family of the dead states man aud the government repre sentatives, the family protest ing against the wording of the de cree ordering that that the expenses of the obsequies be borne by the public, as the preamble seemed to indicate that the only merit of the deceased was tlia* he died poor. They also disputed the right of Pre mier Silvela to act as chief mourner. COGHLAN GETS ASSIGNMENT. Captain of the Raleigh Ordered to Proceed to Puget Sound. The naval orders posted Wednesday assign Captain J. B. Coghlau to duty as commandant of the Puget Souud naval station, June 30th, by which time the Raleigh will bo out of com mission. The remaining officers of tho Raleigh are also detached and placed in waiting orders or leave. Captain Coghlau relieves as command ant Captain J. G. Green. A CONFERENCE OFDEMOCRATS Plans For Coming Campaign Were Generally Discussed. attend anti-trust banquet. Given Under Auspices of the Jef ferson Club of St. Louis, Missouri. With twenty-two members present in person the Democratic National committee went into secret session at 10 o’clock Thursday at the Planters’ hotel in St. Louis. The special occasion which brought together these domoerats was the ban quet of the Jefferson Club of St Louis, the anti-trust banquet it was called. Governor Stone stated the object of the meeting as set out in the call. He was then elected chairman. J. M. Grifliu, of Pennsylvania, who was present as proxy for Committee man Harity of that state, made a total representation of 23 states Commit teeman Stone, of Missouri, presided, and immediately after calling the meeting to order announced that re ports of organizations and conditions in the different states were desired. One by one the representatives of the different states outlined the conditions existing at home and the reports were accepted without recommendations of any kind. A number of matters of importance were discussed and plans looking to complete organization for the fight of 1900 were gone over. The work that has been done by the ways and means committee was given formal indorsement, and in order that this might be furthered and other mat ters of vital importance might be con sidered officially, a resolution was adopted requesting Senator Jones to formally convene the committee at Chicago on July 20th. The date anti place are left to his discretion, but the above suggestions were made by those of the committee present. As this was only a con ference and not a regularly called meeting, they thought it best to have the full committee get together at an early date and prepare for tho great battle of next year. After the committee had been in ses sion an hour, Mr. Bryan was intro duced and made a short address, urg ing the members to look closely after the organizations in their states, and suggesting that strong efforts be made to provide campaign funds for the com campaign. He made no specific merely talking ii> at gen eral ivay regarding the great advantage of organization. The banquet to which more than fifteen hundred people sat down was spread in the exposition hall, a great structure built somewhat on the lines of Madison Square Garden, with pri vate boxes and tiers of seats and gal leries on all sides; and it is estimated that in all 15,000 people were within sound of the voices of the speakers. Other thousands were unable to get in. There were democrats, not only from Missouri, but from all of the surround ing states. Indeed, almost every state in the union was represented, and in a sense, therefore, it was a national gathering. All of the speeches were excellent. It is not often that on an occasion of this kind they are so uniformly good. Congressman Champ Clark, who is a great favorite with' his fellow Missou rians, pitched the speaking on a high key and the others who followed were fortunately able to keep on the same high plane. “Bryan and the Chicago platform.” This was the message the speakers brought from the democratic masses. However strong the declaration against trusts or against an imperialistic poli cy may be, there must be, and there will be, no retreating from the ground taken in the great fight of 1896. And the enthusiastic demonstrations with which this declaration was re ceived showed how completely it met the approval of the people who gave this anti-trust banauet. DEWEY IN NO HURRY. Telegraphs Department That He Will Reach New York In October. Admiral Dewey telegraphs the navy department that he will stop at various places on his way to the United States, and will reach New York about Octo ber 1st. The dispatches did not enu merate the points where the Olympia will touch en route to New York. It may be that au effort will be made to ascertain these for the benefit of the officials of some of the towns, espec ially along the Mediterranean, who may desire to take official notice of the visit to their ports of the distinguished naval officer and his famous flagship. CANNOT FLOAT PARIS. Second Attempt to Pull Vessel Off the Rocks a Failure. Advices from Coverack state that a supreme effort was made Friday to float the American liner Paris, which is on the rock off Lowlands Point. The attempt resulted in another failure. The Paris is in the same po sition, which is now regarded as very critical. COMMISSION REACHES SAMOA. Their First Business on Arrival Was to Confer With Chief Justice Chambers. The Samoan commission, consisting of Bartlett Tripp, former United States minister to Austria-Hungary; Baron Speck von Sternberg, representing Germany, and C. N. Elliott, C. B. , of the British embassy at Washington, representing England, arrived at Apia, Samoan Islands, on May 13th. Its first sitting took place May 10th. The commissioners were engaged all that morning in conferring with the chief justice, William L. Chambers. Nothing was disclosed regarding the deliberations, but it is reported that they will uphold the action of Admiral Kautz, the American naval commander. Mataafa sent the commissioners a letter of welcome and expressed hope that they would satisfactorily end the troubles in Samoa. It is understood Mataafa will obey the unanimous or der of the commission, though it is doubtful whether he will order his followers to disarm, u-nless the Malie toaus are first disarmed. The Germans aro preparing com pensation claims. It is understood one firm claims 860,000, and that other German subjects claim $20,000. Replying to questions submitted to him by a! correspondent of the Asso ciated Press, Mataafa said it was the head chiefs, and not himself, who be gan the war, adding that they did so because they were angered at power being taken from them by violence. Mataafa claimed lie had upheld the treaty and said his orders throughout were not to fire upon the Europeans, and that but for this order the whole party of blue-jackets could several times have been shot down by large bodies of natives concealed in the brush. KAUTZ TO COME HOME. Administration Is Pleased Over Situa tion In Samoa. A Washington special says: The American member of the Samoan com mission, Mr. Bartlett Tripp, did not make any report by cable to the state department Thursday and all the de partment’s information of the move ment of the commission came from the naval cablegram and the press dis patches. The officials were gratified to note that there had been no fresh outbreak preceding the arrival of the commis sion, and from what is reported of the conditions at Apia, they are convinced that the crisis has passed, and that the commission will have little difficulty in securing the complete festoratiou of peace. It is realized that it will be no easy task to provide permanently for the administration of the affairs of the is lands, however, and it is possible that this portion of the work will be passed over for the time and remain for ad justment when the commissioners re turn to the United States. Respecting the reported approval by the commission of Admiral Kautz’s acts, it can be stated that little doubt was entertained in. Washington that such would be the result when these acts were examined dispassionately by fair-minded men of large caliber, just as they received the approval of the president and Secretary Hay, after a careful scrutiny. Admiral Kautz will return to the United States with the Philadelphia. The flagship will be replaced at Apia by the cruiser Newark, which is as formidable in every respect as the Philadelphia, and having been recent ly renovated, is in shape for long ser vice. She was started for Apia about six weeks ago from New York, making her way around South America. DISCUSS WAREARE. Peace Conference Committees Get Down to Basilicas.. Advices from The Hague state both sections of the Committee on the laws of warfare of the peace conference met separately Thursday and began the ex amination of the subjects submitted to them, the Red Cross section discussing paragraphs five and six of the circular of Count Muravieff, the Russian min ister of foreign affairs, and the Brus sels conference section discussing par agraph seven. Both sections met subsequently and discussed the question of competence as regards the scheme for the revision of the Geneva convention known as the Morgnier scheme. EVADING PUBLICITY. Dewey’s Itinerary I* Not Yet Known at Department. A Washington dispatch says: Some of Dewey’s friends in the native de partment suspect Qhat the admiral is purposely evading a statement of his itinerary, desiring to avoid as- far as possible all demonstrations, His friends intimate that, having been obliged by his health to decline to at tend the dinner at Hong Kong in hon or of the queen’s birthday, a very un usual declination. Admiral Dewey will find it impossible to depart from the rule be there established and at tend any banquets or popular demon stration in this couutry. CURRY NOT INDICTED. Chatham Grand Jury Returned No Bill Against [Lieutenant. At Savannah, Ga., Thursday, the grand jury found no bill in the case of Lieutenant Frank Z. Curry, of the Third Georgia regiment, who was charged with the murder of Private Lee Reed, of the Second regular artil lery. 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