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CHINA DEFIES THE WORLD
Her Forces At Taku Open Fire on the Com
bined Fleets of Other Powers.
ACT MEANS BLOODY WAR
Battleships In Turn Bombard and
Capture the Forts--Two Brit
ish Ships Reported Sunk
In the Action.
The German consul at Che Foo
telegraphs Berlin that a Japanese
boat from Taku has brought the
following:
“The Chinese laid torpedoes in the
Taku river and collected troops from
Shan Hei Kwan. The foreign com
manders assembled on the Russian
flagship and addressed an ultimatum
to the commanders of the Taku forces,
commanding them to withdraw their
troops before June 17.
“At 1 a. m., June 17, the guns of
Mae fort opened fire, to which the Rus
sian, British, French and Japanese
warships replied. The bombardment
lasted seven hours. Two British ships
in the river between the forts are re
ported to have been sunk. and railroad be
“The telegraph line
tween Tien Tsin and Taku were de
stroyed. Communication by water is
also threatened.”
WAR PRACTICALLY DECLARED.
A London special says: China declar
ed war against the world when the Ta
ku forts opened upon the internation
al fleet. The accounts of what took
place are still unsatisfactory, the best
semi-official information being the dis
patch received at Berlin from Che
Foo.
The unofficial narratives, coming by
way of Shanghai, vary widely and bear
internal evidence of supplementing
the main facts with guess work. One
dispatch says that the Yorktown par
ticipated in the bombardment. An
other asserts that American marines
formed half of the storming force of
two thousand.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Che Foo dated Monday afternnoon
says:
“The forts on both sides of Tnkaare
now occupied The Chinese opened fire
unexpectedly. The casualities to the
mixed force were as follows:
“British, 1; German, 3; Rus#an, 1;
French, 1. Wounded—British, 4;
German, 7, Russian, 45; French, 1.
Chinese torpedo boats were seized.”
The Shanghai correspondents of the
Daily Mail, telegraphing Monday
says firing in observ
“The forts began
ance to orders from Pekin, conveyed
in a personal edict of the empress
dowager, by advice of Kang Yi, presi
dent of the ministry of war. Several
warships were struck by shells from
the 12-inch guns of the forts.
“The heavy Russian losses were due
to the blowiug up of the magazine at
Mandshurn.
“Four hundred Chinese are report
ed to have been killed. The Chinese
when retreating fell into the hands of
the Russian land forces.”
The Daily News has the following
from Che Foo:
• “Two of the forts were blown up.
The thirty-two warships at Kau aggre
gated ‘200,000 tons and carried more
than 300 guns.”
POWERS TAKE ACTION.
The failure of Admiral Seymour’s
oolumn and its retreat to Tien Tsin in
crease, it is presumed, the peril of the
legations in Pekin, which is still iso
lated, although Shanghai forwards
Chinese rumors that the legations
were attacked by mobs who were
mowed down by machine guns, and
also that the members of the legations
were massacred. is
The situation at Niu Chwang re
ported critical. The British consul at
Kin Kwang has ordered all foreigners
to leave Ku Ling and Nau King Chang.
The powers are taking prompt action.
Four thousand German troops have
ELLAVILLE. GA.. THURSDAY. JUNE 21. 1900.
been ordered to China; 10,000 French
troops are waiting to embark at Saigon,
capital of French Cochin China, and
from 3,000 to 5,000 more Russians
have been ordered from Port Arthur
to Taku. The morning papers con
sider that a state of war practically ex
ists and that the issue is between East
ern and Western civilization. The
Times says that the latest news infin
finitely increases a situation already
sufficiently serious.’
THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON.
China continues to overshadow na
tional politics at Washington. The
brief cablegram received at the navy
department Monday from Admiral
Remey, in command of the naval
forces at Manila, containing informa
tion to the effect that he had received
an official report from Commander
Taussig, that the Chinese fortifications
at the mouth of the Taku river had
fired upon the war vessels of the allied
powers, and had subsequently sur
rendered, occasioned intense interest
in diplomatic circles.
It is difficult to get a precise official
view of the status of our relations
with China since this last news. The
conclusion that we are in a state of
war is emphatically negatived by the
officials best competent to speak. The
Chinese minister, Mr. Wu, was an
early visitor at the state department
Monday. He does not believe that
we are at war with China. He said
there had evidently been a great mis
understanding and was confident if it
were true that the Taku forts had
fired upon the international fleet, it
was either because the commander of
the Chinese forts there did not un
derstand what was wanted, or he had
failed to receive proper instructions
from his superior through an error.
He had himself received no word of
news from his home government and
will remain in Washington until
further developments.
At the state department the view
prevailed that notwithstanding there
had been a bombardment and that our
forces were on Chinese soil, still there
was not war up to this stage. So
far the state department has had no
proof that the Chinese government at
Pekin has sanctioned or ordered any
attack upon the international column
or upon the international fleet. It is
possible that the Chinese commandant
at Taku himself may have revolted
with his troops and joined the boxers.
Therefore it cannot be assumed that
v/e are at war until formal assurances
to that effect has been received from
competent authority.
Secretary Hay was asked if the
latest developments had made any
change in the policy which the United
States had adopted toward the Chi
nese trouble. He replied:
“Our naval forces in that region
have beefi directed to act concurrently
with the forces of the other powers
for the protection of all American in
terests.”
Owing to the eccentric action of the
telegraph wires and cables which in
terferes with Admiral Kempff commu
nicating with the navy department
and also with his superior officer, Ad
miral Remey, at Manila, the navy de
partment may give Admiral Kempff an
independent command in the interests
of quick dispatch of business. the
Great apprehension exists at
navy department as to the fate of the
United States marine guard of fifty-six
men which was landed at Tien Tsin
and dispatched by rail to Pekin before
the railroad was interrupted. They
went forward to Pekin under an au
thorization granted by the Chinese
government to the United States
minister at Pekin in common with
other ministers to employ a naval
guard at the legation. Just before
the wires from Pekin were cut word
came that Minister Conger had de
tached twenty of these marines from
his legation and placed them as a
guard at the Methodist compound.
This is an inolosure of some ten acres
situated nearly a mile distant from the
legation, where many missionaries and
their families as well as a large num
ber of native Christians are believed
to have taken refuge.
DEMOCRACY
OF GEORGIA
Assembles In State Convention
In City of Atlanta.
HON. W. J. BRYAN IS INDORSED
Statehouse Officers Nominated
And Delegates to Kansas
City Selected.
The Democrats of Georgia held
ihoir state convention in Atlanta
Thursday. The meeting was brief and
businesslike, with every evidence of
harmony on issues that have to do
with the well-being of the party.
The convention was called to order
in response to Chairman duBignons’s
gavel at noon, and with no delay, and
au absence of friction throughout, the
task of the convention was disposed of
rapidly, until at 4 o’clock every duty
had been performed and adjournment
was taken.
For fully an hour the delegates
struggled with the contest over the
four places as representatives of the
state at large at the national conven
tion, but finally this difference was
disposed of by the withdrawal of V. T.
Sanford, of Floyd, and John Triplett,
of Thomas, from the race, leaving the,
convention unanimous for Boykin
Wright, of Richmond; Jack J. Spald
ing, of Fulton; Louis F. Garrard, of
Muscogee, and Wylie Burnett, of
Clarke.
The committee on platform, by a
vote of 12 to 7, voted down a resolu
tion offered by Mr. Thompson, of
Hall, to put in a plank favoring local
option. Bryan
William Jennings was en
dorsed as the Democratic nominee for
president. attend the
The delegates chosen to
national convention at Kansas City
consists of the following members:
From the state at large—Boykin
Wright of Richmond, Jack J. Spalding
of Fulton, Louis F. Garrard of Mus
cogee, Wylie Burnett of Clarke.
Alternates—V.T.Sandford of Floyd,
C. H. Brand of Gwinnett, H. C. Fish
er of Coweta, John Triplett of Thomas
First District—George T. Cann, of
Chatham; J. A. Brannen, of Bulloch,
Alternates, C. G. Edwards, of Tat
nail; E. K. Overstreet, of Screven.
Second District—S. S. Bennett, of
Mitchell; Dr. E. B. Bush, of Miller,
Alternates, F. P. Griffin, of Calhoun;
Martin F. Amorous, of Colquitt.
Third District—J. T. Hill, of Dooly;
J. P. Cocke, of Lee. Alternates, W.
E. Steed, of Taylor; E. T. Hickey, of
Stewart
Fourth District—Price Gilbert, of
Muscogee; F. P. Longley, of Troup,
Alternates, G. P. Monroe of Marion;
W H Daniel, of Heard.
Fifth District—Charles Daniel, of
Fulton; Eugene L. Johnson, of Camp
bell. Alternates, Hugh Dorsey, of
Fulton; Joseph James, of Douglas.
Sixth District—B. F. Holder, Jr.,
of Monroe; F. M. Stafford, of Pika,
Alternates, O. H. P. Slaton, of Spald
ing; F. Z. Curry, of Butts.
Seventh District—W. C. Bunn, of
Polk; Albert S. Johnson, of Bartow.
Alternates, O. N. Starr, of Gordon; H.
B Harper of Floyd.
Eighth District—W. A. Bronghton,
of Morgan; David W. Meador, of Mad
ison. Alternates, John W. Wright,
of Green; Moses G. Michael, of
Clarj£e
Ninth District—Thomas Hntchin
son, of Cherokee; H. W. Bell, of Jack
son. Alternates, J.H. Davis,of Towns;
A. J. Julian, of Forsyth.
Tenth District-Loms Cohen, of
Washington; H. A. Williams, of Glas
cook. Alternates, Thomas Remson,
of Lincoln; W. R. Reed, of Taliaferro,
Eleventh District-^ohn W. Ben
nett, of Ware; G. W. Smith, of Irwin,
Alternates, Samuel E. Atkinson, of
Glynn; E. T. Gentry, of Dodge.
Congressman Bartlett read the sec
tions of the platform indorsing the
Chicago platform of 1896 and pledging
Bryanf the support of Georgia to William J.
amid profound applause, dem
onstrating the fact that on these two
points the Democracy of Georgia is a
The platform calls for a limitation
of the power of taxation vested in the
legislature of the state, and suggests
a maximum tax beyond which the law
makers cannot go except in time of in
surrection or war, when the defense
of the state is necessary. Business
combinations of an nnlawfnl nature
are condemned in strong terms in the
platform, while the imperial policy of
the Bepnblican administration with
reference to Porto Rico and the Phil
ippines is inveighed against in power
ful terms.
Governor Allen D. Candler with the
present statehouse officers, including
Captain R. E. Park, of Bibb, the nom
inee for state treasurer, were made the
nominees for the party in the coming
election bv acclamation. Circuit court
judges and solicitors receiving the
largest votes in the primary were also
placed in nomination.
The convention expressed its thor
ough confidence in tb v *i ability of Chair
man F. G. duBignon as the head of
the state committee, and in Vice
Chairman E. T. Brown, who as the
permanent and temporary chairman of
the convention, respectively, retain
their official positions on the state
committee.
Two Democrats from each congres
gional district were named as members
of the committee, and at his leisure
Chairman duBignon will appoint in
addition to these one member from
each district, who with the national
committeeman for Georgia will consti
tute the executive committee for the
next two years. An effort was made
to change the representation of the
controlling committee, but it met with
failure, and in future the body will be
made up as has been the custom in
the last few years.
At the close of the session Governor
Candler appeared in the convention,
and as the “grand old democrat” from
Hall mounted to the speaker’s plat
form he was given a rousing his ovation. thanks
The governor, in expressing reiterated
to the assembled democracy,
the pledges he made to the convention
two years ago.
The members of Georgia’s delega
tion to the national convention met at
the Kimball at 6 o’clock Thursday af
ternoon and organized by the election
of Boykiu Wright, of Richmond, as
chairman.
__
The lat£orm adopte d is in part as
follows:
The Democracy of Georgia in con
vention assembled indorse our state
administration and commend our chief
executive, and each of our state offi
cials, for their wise, patriotic and
economical administration of the
state’s affairs. Their unanimous nomi
nation and their certain re-election
will be but a justly deserved tribute
to their fidelity and integrity,
We congratulate the people of Geor
gia on the present system of .public
schools, inaugurated and brought to
its present state by the Democratic
party, and we pledge the best efforts
of the party to a continuance of the
same.
We favor an amendment to the con
of Georgia limiting the power
of the general assembly to levy and as
sess taxes for any purpose whatsoever,
exceeding a specified per centum, ex
eepfc for the purpose of suppressing
insurrection, repelling invasion and
defending the state in time of war
We believe in ballot reform and fa
yot the enactment of such measures as
will secure honest elections, and be
lieve that such safeguards should be
thrown around the elective franchise
as secure the free and intelligent
expression of the will of the voter.
We favor an amendment to the Fed
erft l constitution providing for the
election of United States senators by
the direct vote of the people,
We are in favor of the immediate
construction and control of the Nica
raguan canal by the United States
We reaffirm and renew our Relief in
the allegiance to the principles of
Democracy as contained and enumera
ted in the national Democratic .plat
*orm of 1896, and we denounce the
Republican legislatmn in congress
whereby the single gold standard has
been fastened upon the people, for the
time being, we hope, and the control
of the currency has been turned over
to the national banks, whereby the
greatest and most oppressive of all
trusts-the money b ?S
created to feed upon the laoor and
industries of the people, and to add to
the wealth and power of a favored
“^ss, whose greed is insatiable.
The collection of war taxes in times
of peace should be discontinued and
yre demand the repeal of the wa* rev
ftCw*
VOL. X. NO. 25 .
We view with alarm the multiplica
tion of tljose combinations of capital,
commonly known as trusts, that are
concentrating and monopolizing the
industries of the country, crushing out
the independent producers, of limited
means, destroying competition, re
straining the opportunities for labor,
artificially limiting production and
raising prices, and we emphatically
declare onr opposition to all sucb un
lawful combinations, and demand the
enactment of such laws, both state and
national, as will aid iu the destruction
of these great combinations and trnsts.
Public taxation should not be im
posed for private purposes; we, there
fore, adhere to the doctrine of a tariff
for revenue only.
We are convinced that the protective
tariff system is the hot-bed that has
produced these vast numbers of trusts
and combinations, and we demand that
they be suppressed by the repeal of
the protective tariff and other privilege
conferring legislation responsible for
them.
We demand that the 10 per cent tax
on state bank issues be repealed, so ss
to permit a Bystem of local state
banks, under such restrictions and by
the deposit of such securities as will
absolutely protect persons dealing
with them.
The Democracy of Georgia favors
the nomination of William Jennings
Bryan, of Nebraska, for president of
the United States, and the delegates
of this state are hereby instructed to
unite with the Democracy of the other
states of the union in making such
nomination.
Confident in the correctness of these
principles and policies, we cordially
invite all voters, irrespective of past
party affiliations, to join with us in our
effort to give relief to the paople.
DOWAGER EMPRESS “BLUFFING.”
She ‘'Advises” Kioters To Disperse, Bui
Refuse a To Use Force.
A London special says: Observers
at Shanghai and Tien Tsin think there
is a great deal more trouble ahead for
the concert of powers than merely
reaching Pekin with 2,044 men. Se
rious disturbances are taking place at
Yung-Nan-Fu and Meng Tze, as well
as at other points at a aonsiderable
distance from the capital.
The whole Chinese empire seems to
be in a ferment.
The intentions of the empress dow
ager are still equivocal, with a bal
ance of testimony on the side of a de
termination to expel the appropriators
of a part of her country or lose her
dynasty in the attempt. Monday,
It is related of her that on
following the murder of the chancellor
of the Japanese legation, she was
aroused to ft sense of danger, and went
personally to the Ynng Ting gate of
Pekin, where she advised the rioters
to disperse. But she took no. steps to
apply foroe and the _• appearance of
things is more threatening than be
fore.
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS
Favor Bryan’* Candidacy and Beafflrw
the Chicago Platform In Voto.
The California Democratic state
convention in session at Sacramento
Thursday adopted resolutions reaffirm
ing the Chicago platform; favoring an
amendment to the federal constitution
to require the election of United
States senators by the direct vbte of
the people; favoring the immediate con
struction, control and protection of
the Nicaragua canal; extending sym
pathy to the Boers; condemning impe
rialism and the Porto Rican tariff
laws; favoring the,abolition of all un
necessary taxes; condemning trusts;
favoring the passage of laws for the
exclusion of all Asiatic, laborers and
indorsing the candidacy of William J.
Bryan for president of the United
States.
Missouri Democrats For Bryan.
The Democrats of Missouri, in state
convention at Jefferson City Thurs
day, elected thirty-four delegates to
the national convention at Kansas City
and instructed them for Bryan for
president._ .
Dewey Becomes Reticent.
Beyond expressing hia gratification
with the receptions accorded him
everywhere on his 4rip, Admiral Dew
ey, who returned to Washington Wed
nesday night, declined to make any
statement.
Whitney Sells Out.
J. K. Haggin has bought stock of C. H.
Whitney hie entire farm near
Lexington, Ky., of 1,230 acres, for
S115.700 cash. ,