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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1896)
ADVOCATE DEMOCRAT. CRAWFORDVJLLE, GEORGIA. GEN. GORDON TALKS Regarding G. A. It. Commander’s Edict Against the New York Parade. A Washington special says: The de¬ cision published by General Walker, commander of the G. A. B., in refer¬ ence to the proposed joint parade iu New York on July 4th, was called to the attention of Benator Gordon, o? Georgia, who has been commander in¬ chief of the United Confederate Vet¬ erans ever since their organization, and he was asked if he proposed tc take any action looking to a change of the date of the next annual meeting of the Confederate Veterans at Richmond Jnne 80th and July 1st and lid. Gen. Gordon replied: “This date was finally decided upon to permit the Confederates who came from further south to go to New York immediately after the adjourtmeut and take part iu the joint parade, but 1 see no reason ‘for changing the date of onr reunion which wan called to meet at Richmond hv the last snunal meeting at Houston, Tex., and although the date could legally be changed by me, yet 1 shall not do so unless I find it to bo the wish of a majority of the United Confederate veteran camps and best suited to the convenience of the people of Richmond who have been most generous in mak¬ ing provision for our entertainment. “It will bo readily seen that no change can bo contemplated if it in any measure incommodes onr host, the people of Richmond. Of course it would now be entirely incompati¬ ble with our self-respect a« ex-Con federates to take any part iu the pro¬ posed joint parade, i do not wish, however, to discuss the action of General Walker, It has been my effort siuce the war to culti vato the most cordial relations )«iween the soldiers of the two armies and between the peopled I the sections. J am glad to know that liuve the cor¬ dial sympathy ami approval of my old eomradcN in this effort; and 1 wish also to add iu this connection that 1 have had cordial manifestations of a like sentiment ou the part of the great body’of the union soldiers.” T1IK DURANT TASK LAGS. Blanche Lament's Slayer Will Not He llangeil For Several Months. On April flth next, a year will have passed since the murder of Blanctu Lament, and yet Theodore Durant, who was convicted of her murder Ins November, is still in tho county jail at Baufrancisco, awaiting the final ac tion of the supremo court iu the oas -t. Immediately after Durant’s convio tion an appeal was taken, bnt the c**> has not yet beeu presented to the sn pronto court, owing tp manuals Mu. additional time made by both subs The lost postponement took place s week ago, when the prosecution was granted twenty dnys in which to file s bill of exceptions. At tho eud of this time It is believed that the ease will be presented to tho supreme oontt, hut a decision is not expected for sov oral mouths. Durant was to have been hanged on February 21, but the slow manner in which justice is meted out to murder era iu California, makes it plain In will not meet his death before tIn close of this year. Meanwhile tin prisoner is spending his time at the county jail much the same as the res! of the inmates. He h»s written a his tory of his life and lately is said to hsve begun the study of law. KI’I.INGER W AS DESPERATE. Bather than Surrender Ha Commit* Suicide. A dispatch from Bellefonte, Pa., say*; After holding the sheriff of Center county and 2,000 armed citi¬ zens at bay for twenty four hours, the desperado, William Etlinger, was ouly driven from his house Friday when the burning ember* of the structure were {ailing about hi* Viead, and then des¬ perate to the last and preferring death by hi" own hands to surrender, he blew out b'* brain* upon the thresh¬ old of hi* dwelling. All effort* to dislodge the man had been iu vatu until Sheriff Condo found a man to risk hi* life in setting fir* to the structure. Then it was that Filing* r allowed hi* two little children to have the burning building, but hi* wtfe only escaped death by breaking away from her huebaud’* grasp, a* he had intended to kill her a* well a* hinisplf. A# it vu, Etlinger fired four after the Woman os aha fled from the budding and then stepped outside and killed himself. HORRIBLE MINK DISASTER. Bodies of Seventy Victim. Brought to Light. An explosion followed l>r fire oc eurred tu Cleophs'* mine at hsttowitx. Prussian SiieMS, Wednesday. The rescuing parties hsve succeeded in saving eighty of the ntombed miners and have brought to the surface see euty-one corpus. The vieiuity of the mouth of the pit is thronged with the mothers, wives, children and sweethearts of the vie tun* of the disaster anti the seenea about the entrance to the shaft are of the most pathetic character. Among the dead were four volnn ttttteer* who h»,i been going to the reacue and who were overcome by the heat caused by the fire iu the mine. It is believed that about fifty miner* are still unaccounted lor. On* may smile, and stuffe, and yet he a villain. THE 54TII CONGRESS. ROUTINE OK HOUSE AND SENATE BRIEFLY CHRONICLED. Nummary of Bill* and Resolution! Presented and Acted Upon. the norms. At the opening of the session of the boose Thursday, at the request of Mr. Hitt, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, the senate's request for a conference on the Cuban resolutions was agreed to. The conference of the two bouses on the Cuban resolutions after a conference of forty minntes agreed upon the house substitute. Tho bouse resolutions are as follows: “Resolved, by the house of repre¬ sentatives, the senate concurring, That in the opinion of congress a state of public war exists in Cuba, the par¬ ties to which are entitled to belligerent rights, and tho United Btates should observe a strict neutrality between the belligerents. deplores Resolved, That congress the destruction of life and property caused by the war now being waged in that island, and believing that the only permanent solution of tho con test, equally in the intorest of Hpaiu, the people of Cuba, and other nations would be in the establishment of a government by the voice of the people of Culm, it is tho sense of congress that the government of the United Btates should use its good offices and friendly influence to that end. “Resolved, That the United Btates has not intervened in the struggles be¬ tween any European governments and their colonies on this continent, but from the very close relations between tho people of tho United Btates and those of Culm, iu consequence of its proximity and the extent of tho com uiorce hetween the two peoples, the present war is entailing such losses upon tho people of tho United Btates that congress is of tho opinion that tho government of the United Btates should he prepared to protect the le¬ gitimate interests of our citizens by intervention it necessary. the senate. Friday was a field day for the Geor¬ gia congressmen in tho house. The senators had nothing to do, because the senate had adjourned over until Monday. The house continued with tho salary hill for federal officers and finally passed it with but few nmerid mouts. Judge Bartlett was the first Georgian to enter the arena. He persuaded the committee to accept two amendments—one that no deputy clerk should be. appointed a United Btates commissioner and another that no United Btates officer should be ap¬ pointed a receiver by a district judge. The n Judge Bsrtle idiu$ tt tliiit offered ajjprd no person related to a judge should be appointed receiver or should act as a master in chancery. This amendment was ob¬ jected to by the committee and Judge Bartlett made an argument iu favor of it. iu doing so ho was given an op¬ portunity to pay his respects to some of tho acta of a district judge in Geor¬ gia- the fact thnt He called attention to in one district in Georgia the standing master of the United Btates court,who was not a resident of the district, was the father of the judge. He also stated that tho same judge in Georgia had ap¬ pointed receivers ad nansenm. His amendment was ruled out on a point of order. Ho then announced that ho would introduce a separate bill making such provisions and he was assured by several of tbe leading republicans that they would advo¬ cate it. Mr. Tate also took quite a conspic¬ uous part in the discussion. The bill passed by almost a unanimous vote. Then the house took up the postoffice appropriation bill and spent the after¬ noon on it. This bill carries the fast southern mail appropriation. Chandler announced that senators were in the habit of doing business ss a body of gentlemen, observing such amenities as would prevail in a Wolcott, gentle¬ man's own parlor, and Mr. of Colorado, added his protest against personalities, aud Mr. Alleu closed the incident by ststing that be would postpone his speech, adding sarcasti¬ cally that he would do this if Mr. lisle gave his consent to such » course. The senate then went to the calendar and passed the following bills and res elutions: To pay Chos. Phuteau, survivor of Chauteau Harrison Valle, $17-1,000 for a battery furnished dur¬ ing the war; directiug the judiciary committee to investigate the subjected “contempt of court" and report wbat amendment of legislation was neces sary. The last resolution was drawn by Mr. Hill and is a substitute for res¬ olution* for an inquiry into the im¬ prisonment of E. V. Delis. At 3 o'clock Mr. Sherman presented the conference report on the Cuban resolution to the senate, An objection to Mr. Hale prevented the consideration of the conference report at the present time and it went over nntd Monday at 2 o'clock, and upon the request of Mr. Sherman it was made the special order of the busi ness on Monday, In the discussion which followed Air. Chandler declared the resolution was not strong enough. He was m favor of the recognition snd mainten sii oe of Cuban independence by the United States. Mr. Hartman, republican, Montana, made an attack on President C ieve larni for his speech before the Presby¬ terian mission board iu New York, which he declared was a slander on western states, and was grossly im propar. Mr. Powers, republican, Vermont, and Mr. Miles, democrat, Maryland, attempted to call Mr. Hartman to or¬ der, but Mr. Hepburn, in the chair, declined to interfere. In concluding his attack Mr. Hart¬ man declared that the greatest need for the missionary existed in the white house. Mr. Hartman declared that Mr, Cleveland had insulted the western states in his reference to them and that his purpose was to create a senti ment against the admission of territo¬ ries, with financial views opposed u his. All attempts to suppress 5. t. Hartman failed. He carried his poi it and completed his speech. motion of 33 i A bill was passed on make Grosvenor, republican, Ohio, natioiid to the national military parks regular fields for manoeuvres of the army and militia of the states unilwr regulations to he prescribed by secre¬ tary of war. , The prospect that the Cuban ques¬ tion would reach its final legislative stage packed the senate galleries Mon¬ day. of the Cu¬ Before the main branch ban question (the adoption of the con¬ ference report) came up Mr. Hoar, re¬ publican, Massachusetts, offered two resolutions bearing on the subject. One, which we-t over under the raids, postponed fnrther consideration of tjie Cuban resolutions until April 6th, and directed the committee on foreign re¬ lations in the meantime to secure and report all available facts. Mr. Hoar did not press this to consideration and it went over. Mr. The other resolution from Hoar, which was agreed to, calls on the president for available information as to the status of affairs in Cuba, par¬ ticularly so far as they concern the in¬ terests of the United States. At 1:15 o’clock Mr. Sherman moved tho adoption of the conference report pting the house Cuban resolutions. By this time the galleries were packed. In the diplomatic galleries sat Mr. Ho and Mr. Hung, of the Chinese lega tian, Baron von Kettlar, of the Ggr man emhassy, Minister Mondonca, of Brazil, and other members of the diplomatic corps. republican, Maine, spoke Mr. Hale, resolution, energetically against the He did not" think the inflammatory statements made by senators in jnsti fying the resolutions were backed by facts. In 1870 this condition of af fairs existed and an effort was made to involve the United States in the con troversy. At that time tho house com mi ttee on foreign affairs presided over by General Banks, reported a resoln tion similar to this one. Bnt, fortn nately for the cause of peace and pro gress, there was then, said Mr. Hale, a man in the president’s chair whose love of liberty and patriotism was car tainly equal to that of any of the mem bers of the committee on foreign rela tions, a man who knew the real metpi ing of General war—General Grantjient Grant. tflflJjr Jjpe message today it pjis gross was as pertiuent as at that time, anil it was an unanswsrla ble plea against the present restllu '*o n » Mr. Gray interrupted to ask what rosult bad come from General Grant s mchsage. brought It had, continued Mr. Hale, the congressional resolutions to noth¬ ing. That message was so distinct, so unanswerable, that in the presence of that great, calm man, all excitement disappeared and the resolutions came to naught. Mr. During tho debate on Cuba, Sherman interrupted Mr. Hale to say that before a single battle had been fought in the civil war, Spain, France and England had recognized the bel¬ ligerency of the Confederacy in the very language of the resolutions now before the senate. At 3:15 p. m., Mr. Mitchell pre¬ sented his resolution seating Mr. Da pout as senator from Delaware and it was held to be a question of higher privilege than the conference report on the Cuban resolutions,so that Cuba went over. The Cuban question continues to be a drawing card in the senate, attracting large crowds at Tuesday’s session. Mr. Lodge (Rep., Mass.) rose to a question of personal privilege. He said he had read on Sunday an interview attrib¬ uted to Senor Dupuy de Lome,of Spain. There w»s nothing singular in this fact as the Spanffh minister communicated largely through the newspapers. Bnt in this case the minister called in ques¬ tion the accuracy of a statement made liy him (Lodge), The senator read the sent min¬ to the clerk’s desk and had ister's reference to Mr. Lodge’s utter¬ ance calling iu question the translation of a statement attributed to General Weyler in which the latter declared he would “exterminate” the insurg¬ ents. Mr. Lodge commented on the exactness of the translation and said that a literal rendering of General W evler's language would be that he would “clean out" the large insurgent bands and “exterminate” the small ones. Mr. Lodge said that he did not won¬ der at tbe extreme sensitiveness of the Spanish people, bnt he did not think this offered any excuse for the Spanish minister in adopting the coarse he had. He (De Lome) had been referred to as a historian, bnt iu truth he was the ex parte representative of Spain and what he had disclosed from time to time subtracted from the snm of information on the Cuban sub¬ ject. It was pretty well established that the debates iu the senate and hon-e were purely domestic matters, and it was not proper for a represen¬ tative of a foreign country to com mu meats except through the etate depart m*nt. Mr, Tell-r. republican, Colorado, -aid ih- rn’e was unvarying against a e. mmut.-ication except through the -ta;e j ariment. There should be no comment by a foreign minister. He should not be heard at all, except •nd with those who labor with them of complete' relief ^has^noT tbwa'fw been able to reach them. While he will not turn away from them nor allow discouragement' to de stroy activity in their behalf, let ns not forget the missionaries in our land who need our aid, to whom we owe a duty and who can be reached. It seems to me that the Christian people of our land do not estimate at its real value the work which the Board of Home Missions has in charge, and if they can be made to realize its extreme importance, the means to carry on and extend this work will be forthcoming; and I hope that such an unnsual interest may be aroused in be¬ half of the cause, of which this meet¬ ing is a part, as will sugg< st to many heretofore indifferent that among the most comforting of their posses sions will be a share in the triumphs and achievements of homo missions JUDGE HALL RESIGNS. He Had a Snug Place In the Interior Department. A Washington special of Tuesday says: Judge John I. Hal), the assis¬ tant attorney general in charge of the interior department, has resigned. He has just accepted the general attorney ship of the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad, an adjunct of the Southern. Judge Hall accepted the position several days ago to assume charge on Apirl 15th, when his resig¬ nation from the interior department will take effect. It is said that Secretary Smith will appoint a successor to Judge Hall at once. The duties of the office require an able lawyer to fulfill. It is no child’s play. It takes work and lots of it. Judge John I. Hall has been anxious to get out for a year or more. The duties were too arduous, confin¬ ing him twelve hours or more a day. As the office only bolds for a year longer it may he difficult to get a Georgia lawyer of the first cull’ng to accept it, hut theie may he rnauy who would like it for the honor. WEISSINGER DEAD. __ played an Important Part in the Kentucky Senatorial Contest, A special from Frankfort, Ky., says: 8enator R oze l Weissinger (sound mQ democrat) is dead, He had ^eu Jjj {or gevera i days with a bad 00 id which changed into pneumonia, He wag made mucb WO rse by the ex citement o( Saturday when he was told t j iat Blackburn had been elected, Monda morning his friends were caUed in fttld big p bysicaus. Dr. Ely and Dr Hum6) gaid tbey thought he would not 8arvive the day, as the oball g e for the worse was very marked, Senator Weissinger has played a more importan t part in the senatorial contest than any other member of the ra , assembly. To him is doe the of a pair with Senator g > tbe repubUcaa member from Louisville,which prevented the repub jjeans from having a majority on joint ballot on the death of Mr. Wilson a few weekg ag0 . But for this Dr. Hun ter would now be United States sena tor DR. JAMESON ON TRIAL. Arraigned for the Second Time Before the Court. A London cable dispatch states that Dr. Jameson and the officers who ac¬ companied him in the Transvaal raid were again arraigned in the Bow street police court Tuesday morning and the charges against them were re¬ newed. Major Coventry and Captain Gosling were added to the list of the accused. The courtroom was crowded with members of the aristocracy, among them were the duke of Abercorn, the earl and countess of Coventry and Lady Aunaly. A large number of members of the house of commons were also present. Sir Richard Web ster, attorney geueral, and Mr. It. B. Finlay, solicitor general, conducted the prosecution, and Sir Edward Clarke, E. H. Car.-:on, M. P., and Sir Frank Lockwood appeared for the de¬ fense. Magistrate Sir John Bridge presided. DEATH IN A LANDSLIDE. Dwelling House Demolished and Oc¬ cupants Burled. A huge landslide swept down a rav¬ ine on Portland, Oregon, heights Sun¬ day morning, completely wrecking the dwelling house of Daniel McDonald, killing his daughter, Belle, aged eighteen, his cousin, Daniel Campbell, who was a guest in the house, and se¬ riously injuring McDonald and his wife and a younger daughter, Mary. Judge Maddox’s resolution provid¬ ing that Chickamauga park shall be used for the purpose of national en¬ campments of United States soldiers and the atate militia has been adopted by the house. This will make the park tha center of all military maneu¬ vers and will lead to many encamp¬ ment* every year. TALMAGK’S SONS FAIL. \Vell Known Rio« Merchants Assign With Heavy Liabilities. Daniel Talmage’s Sons, rice mer chants of New York, with branches at Charleston and New Orleans, have as¬ signed to Joseph Giilet, giving prefer ences to sixty-nine creditors for $14,- 547. Of those sixty-seven are to farmers in Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi for rough rice delivered to the firm in amounts ranging from 8200 to $1,5 >0. The firm did the principal bnsmes- business iq rice in New York, and the has been established forty-six years. The liabilities are not definitely known, but ore currently reported to be over $ 30 , 000 . PRESBYTERIAN HOME MISSIONS. President Cleveland Addresses a Meet in S York. One of the most important meetings held in recent years in favor of the home mission movement of 1 he Pres¬ byterian church was that which took piece in Carnegie music hall, at New York, and over which President Cleve¬ land presided. Every available spot io the hall was crowded, and an over¬ flow meeting was held in the lower hall. The platform was crowded with prominent ministers and laymen of the Presbyterian church. When President Cleveland appeared at 8 o’clock, accompanied by Rev. Dr. John Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Pres¬ byterian church, he was received with tumultuous applause, the whole audi¬ ence rising and waving handkerchiefs. When the applause had subsided Dr. Hall introduced President Cleveland as chairman of the meeting, whereupon the applause was renewed again and aga n. President Cleveland addressed the meeting as follows: I desire to express my appreciation of the privilege of participating in this conference and of the opportunity thus afforded me of testifying to the value and usefulness of the work un¬ dertaken by the Board of Home Mis¬ sions of the Pregbyterian Church. My interest iu this subject and my familiarity with home missionary ef¬ forts are not newly acquainted. They early came to me in the surroundings of a Christian Presbyterian home and were stimulated by a father’s faithful labors in the cause. My early impressions are not, how¬ ever, the only basis of the testimony I give tonight in favor of home missions. As your fellow-citizen, interested, I hope, in all things that deepen the re¬ ligious sentiment of our people and enlarge Christian influence, I fully realize the transcendent importance of this agency in its operation upon the hearts of men for the salvation of their souls. The long roster of those who have been led into the way of right ousness through the instrumentality of our home missions are rich trophies of successful endeavor. But it is not only as your fellow citizen, but as the chief executive of your government, that I desire to speak, for I am entirely certain that 1 serve well our entire people, whose servant I am, when I here testify to the benefit onr country has received through home missionary effort, and when I join you in an attempt to ex¬ tend and strengthen that effort. No one charged with the duties and responsibilities which necessarily weigh upon your chief executive can fail to predate the importance of re¬ ligious teachings and Christian en¬ deavor in the newly settled portions of onr vast domain. It is there where hot and stubborn warfare between the forces of good and evil is constantly invited. Jn these days the vanguard of occupation in a new settlement is nevpr wi'bout its vicipus and criminal element. Gambling houses and dram shops are frequently amoDg the first estab¬ lishments in a new community. It must also be confessed that removal from old homes and associations to new and more primitive homes has a tendency among honest and respecta¬ ble settlers to smother scruples and breed evil indifference to Christianiz¬ ing and elevating agencies. These conditions, if unchecked and uncor¬ rected, fix upon the new community, by tbeir growth and expansion, a-elmr aeter and disposition which, while dangerous to peace and order in the early stages of settlement, develop in¬ to badly regulated municipalities, cor¬ rupt and unsafe territories, and unde¬ sirable states. These are serious con¬ siderations in a country where the people, good or bad, are its rulers, because tho conditions to which I have referred would certainly menace, within a circle constantly enlarging, the safety and welfare of the entire body politic, if we could not hope that churches and religions teaching wonld from the first be on the ground to op¬ pose the evil influences that are apt to pervade tho beginning of organized communities. These churches and this religious teaching were never more needed than now on our distant frontiers, where the process of formmg new states is going on so rapidly and where new¬ comers, who are to be the citizens of mw states, are so rapidly gathering together. instrumentalities the For these at outposts of our population, so vitally important in view of Christian men, as well as patriotic citizens, we must depend to a very great extent on home missionary exertion. How can we ex¬ cuse ourselves it we permit this exer¬ tion to languish for the lack of proper support? objects home If we turn from the of missionary labor to the situation of those actually toiling in distant fields, for God and humanity and a purer, better citizenship, our sympathy with tbeir work must be fnrther quickened and onr sense of duty to them and their cause actively stimulated. They are the men and women who have left home and the associations of friends under the direction of organ¬ ized boards to teach Christianity in sparsely settled sections, and to or¬ ganize churches where none exist, en¬ during discomfort, hardships, poverty and danger for the sake of a cause to which, in a very comfortable and in¬ expensive way, we profess to be at¬ tached. There are soldiers at the front, fighting onr battles, and we who stay at home can not escape the duty of providing for them, and re-enforcing them in every way if we are to con tinne them in onr service Onr hearts have recently b-:en pro¬ foundly stirred by the dangers that threaten the devoted m*»n and w. men who havo gone fr«tn among us to preach and teach Christianity in for¬ eign lands. Onr sympathy with them in the regular home for foreign ministers been sent statements of less importance than this. “But considering the cimcnmstan ces,” added Mr. Teller, “bad I been in authority I would not have sent bim homo for this offense, but I would have had the secretary of state in a most kindly way, suggest that the repeti¬ tion of the offense would lead to his going home.” Mr. Teller then turned to the con¬ ditions in Spain. He did not think the outbreak of students should give offense. The Spanish authorities were , ' doing ail in their power to stop the trouble. Th -re w is no probability offen¬ that Spain would dissent in an sive way to the passage of the pending resolutions. Spain knew we had a right to recognize the belligerents. “I would be delighted,” said he, “to hear that Havana had passed into the hands of the insurgents. I would be delighted to hear that the insurgents had run the Spanish soldiers into the sea.” But the senator added that while he had the sympathy, yet be felt no irri¬ tation over the student ebullitions in Spain. Mr. Teller vigorously In conclusion reasserted that if the Spanish minister repeated this public utterance, the senator would favor giving him his “walking papers. ” The American people would not tol¬ erate any dictation or criticism from foreign representatives accredited here. At 2 p. m. the Cuban discussion ended and Mr. Turpie took the floor on the Dupont election ease. REPORT ON CUBANS. Gen. Meritt May Be Sent Down for That Purpose. Major General Merritt, commanding the department of the Missouri of i ur army, has been called to Washington, it is said, for the purpose of being sent to Cuba to make a report to the president upon the condition of affairs there. It has usually been the practice of this government to detail an army officer to any country of the globe, when a war is in progress, in order that he may report to the war depart¬ ment upon the methods of warfare. Such was the case during the Japan China war. This government sent both an army and a naval officer to make reports upon that. Lieutenant O’Bri'-n, who is now stationed at Mc¬ Pherson barracks, at Atlanta, was the officer who was detailed to go with the Japanese army daring the fighting in Manchuria and he made an elaborate report on the tactios pursued in that war. General Merritt is a man of recog¬ nized ability and one in whom the president has the ntmost confidence. It is, therefore, said that the president would like to have him go toiCuba to report upon the situation there, It is said the pri sident desires the judg¬ ment tff a military expert on the situa¬ tion, and that in his desire he wants the best opinion possible to get. the No information can be got at war department as to the facts in the case. Indeed, the president is giving out no information about his position on the Cuban affair. GOV. ATKINSON INTERVIEWED He Talks Interestingly to a Washing¬ ton Post Reporter. In the Washington Post of Tuesday there appeared an interview with Gov¬ ernor Atkinson, which will doubtless be read with interest in Georgia. “I think,” he says, “Georgia can safely bo counted among tho states that will retain their allegiance to the democratic party, Fusion between the populists aud republicans is talked of, but its consummation is doubtful. The democracy is divided to some ex¬ tent over the silver question, bnt not to a degree that the existence of the party is imperiled. In my opinion the advocates of siver are in the majority and I think a majority of the delegates selected to the national convention will be silver men. The gold cause, which was making some headway in the state, got a severe setback about fhe time of the iast bond issue aud a reaction favorable to free silver coin¬ age immediately set in. I don’t think the Georgia delegation will go to Chi¬ cago with any threats or ultimatum, but they will not be satisfied with any platform that does not distinctly re¬ cognize the claims of silver as a money metal.” MR. CLEVELAND DENIES A Publication Regarding Hts Posi¬ tion on the Cuban Question. A Washington special says: The president said to a representative of the Associated Press Friday morning: “I see that it is assumed in cer¬ tain quarters that a deliverance pub¬ lished a few days ago on the Cuban question may be taken as defin¬ ing the attitude of the administra¬ tion on that subject. I wish yon wonld say that I never saw the state¬ ment nor heard of it until I read it in the newspapers, and even then neg¬ lected to read all of it, supposing it to be nothing more than a newspaper gness. I do not know how it origina¬ ted, nor by whom inspired, but I do know that I am in no manner respon¬ sible for it, nor in any way related to it “I only desire to say in addition that I do not know whether the publi¬ cation referred to represents the views of the administration on the Caban question or cot,and that I have never found any difficu’ty in communicating with tha people in a manner which leaves no doubt as to the authenticity of any *tatement purporting to repre¬ sent my views.” Otb future well-being has nothing tc do with onr being sincere, unless w« are also right.
