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VOLUME XVI CANDLER REPLIES TO HIS CRITICS Forbearance, With Him, Ceases To Be a Virtue. HAS BEEN GROSSLY MISQUOTED Georgia's Chief Executive Ex plains What He “Did Say” Regarding Ogden Party. Governor Candler of Georgia Tues day furnished the Atlanta newspapers an interview iu reply to the many critics in other sections of his recent utterance* given out in Savannah with reference to the Robert C. Ogden party. In the reports as published in the northern papers the governor was made to say many things he did not say, and in consequence the editorial references to the interview were, in some instances, of a caustic tenor that might not have characterized them had ho been correctly quoted. Governor Candler at first intended to have nothing further to say with reference to the matter,but so repeated and frequent have been the misstate ments, that be desires to set himself right once and for all, and in doing so he does not hesitate to express him self clearly and emphatically on the subject. Speaking of the matter Gov ernor Candler said in part: “Life is too short for a pnblic man to follow np and correct all the slan derous statements made about himself, his actions and his utterances. Moun tains are made out of mole hills, words are put in nis mouth that he never thought of uttering, and false color ings are put on what he does say and his utterances are paraded under lurid and misleading headlines by sensa tional paragraphers. I have learned to submit to all this, but there is a point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue, and I have about reached that poiut. “The report of what I said about the Ogden-Parkhurst party as printed in the Savannah Press, though some what highly colored, was substantially correct, and was good-humored and harmless, but as it got farther north it was exaggerated and embellished by falsehood till I would not have rec ognized it if my name had not been connected with it. In the conversation which Ihad with the Press man, which has been dig nified as an ‘interview,’ I said nothing that could give offense to the most sensitive, unless perhaps my joc ular reference to Dr. Parkhurst as a crank could do so. I ‘criticised’ no body; 1 ‘roasted’ nobody; I ‘de nounced’ nobody; I said not a word about ‘d—d yankee money; I impugn ed nobody’s motives. I see Dr. Park burst is reported to have said in his Sunday’s sermon, ‘Had the governor of Georgia, as did the governor of North Carolina, come into direct con tact with the personnel of the confer ence,’ the criticism would not have been made. “This seems to be the head and front of my offending, that I did not dance attendance on this party at its meeting in the colored church in this city. I beg to assure the reverend doctor that no offense was intended. Ilad it occurred to me that this was a courtesy expected of me I would cer tainly have gone, at whatever sacrifice of other duties, because I do not de sire to be discourteous. The doctor says: ‘The south does not altogether love us, but no one there hates us.” The latter part of this statement is unquestionably true. There is here and there in the south a crank (for we have some cranks here, too,) who thinks he hates the northern people, but this species is rare, much rarer, I fear, than the men at the north who hate the people of the south. "The amiable doctor may differ with me in this, but he would not if he could see the hundreds of denuncia tory and vilely abusive letters in my possession, some of them from his own city, in which the vilest epithets are applied to the south and southern men, and even southern women, such as ‘you cannot raise men in the south, yon raise brutes,’ ‘your state is a dis grace to the nation, ‘snuff dipping sluts, ‘d—d daughters of sin,’ etc. “These vile denunciations and slan ders have not emanated alone from ig norant fanatics, but some of the north ern newspapers have been just as bit ter and slanderous. "The southern white people and the southern negroes understand each other and do not hate eo:h other w hen let alone. These miserable assassins of character and of the peace commu nities are chargeable with all the race friction that exists. We had none of it before they intermeddled. They have abased the liberty of the press and have construed it into license to slander and abuse those who, knowing the situation in the south better than they do, dare to dissent from their dogmas born of ignorance and preju dice, or to resent their insults and slanders. @lje illoiitgouicnj JWonitar. QBNERALS AT <)UT>. j Uuards Hor Gates of Forbidden City Cause Clash Between Von XValdersec and Chaffee. Advices from Pekin stato that many applications have been made to Mi. Roekhill and General Chaffee by Chi nese of all degrees for the retention in China of the American troops until the withdrawal of the troops of all the powers. Many of those who are mak ing this request think the withdrawal of the Americans will make the others remain longer. There are also people who do not desire to see any of the soldiers go, fearing anarchy and an uprising against foreigners. The sol diers who return do so with all the honors of war. Field Marshal Von Waldersce has made application that the gate of tho Forbidden City be guarded by German troops after the departure ol the Amer icans. General Chaffee has replied that American soldiers will continue to guard the gate. At this tho Ger mans are indignant, saying this im pugns their honesty and that if the United States desires to do her share of policing the city she should leave be hind enough troops for that purpose; that merely a few men belonging to the legation guards should control the gate which will be within the German quarters cannot be allowed. If Gen eral Cliafleo persists in this course, diplomatic representations will be made in the matter. The ministers of the foreign powers are meeting daily. They do not, at present, show a disposition to reduce the claims which many think to be extremely reasonable. It is understood in Washington that the Chinese plenipotentiaries at Pekin —Prince Chiug and Li Hung Chang— are prepared to give a guarantee to the powers for the protection of all foreigners in China if the foreign troops now stationed there are with drawn. Thus far the icteution of the foreign troops has been urged as nec essary in order to preserve order and protect foreigners, but the Chinese authorities say thnt order has been so far re-established that the imperial government is fully able to order the Chinese troops in such away as to in sure complete safety to the interests of all foreigners. This is understood to he the basis of tho withdrawal of 10,000 French troops, and it is earn estly hoped among Chinese officials that this will be followed by a rimilnr movement on the part of the other foreign forces in China. BLOODHOUNDS ON TRAIL. In Train Hold-Up Near Memphis Rob bers Secured About $3,000. It is stated that over §3,000 was se cured in the hold-up of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf train Monday night, four and a half miles west of Memphis. The train rerchcd Little Rock half an hour late. Sidney Drew, the negro porter, who wus chot by the bandits was tuken to St. Vincent’s hospital, where his wound was dressed. His condition is serious. C. T. Header, the express messen ger, was badly beaten ever the bead and shoulders with a pistol, but was able to continue his run. The pas sengers were not molested. Blood hounds were immediately put on trail of the bandits. COLONEL WYLLY RESIGNS. Little Expense Item Causes Officer to Lay Down his Commission. An Atlanta dispatch says: The res ignation of Colonel T. S. Willy, Jr., which was occasioned by a difference with Governor Candler regarding items of expense claimed by Colonel Wylly to have arisen while he was in the discharge of his duty, has been accepted. An item of expense involved by Colonel Wylly’s command at Sylvania last month while dealing with the sit nation there when the five negroes were expected to be hanged for the murder of Herrington aud Hears is tho cause of the resignation, the gov ernor having refused to approve part of the expenditure, and Colonel Wylly paying it out of his own pocket. W«- on C garettes A bill w-as passed by the lower house of the Illinois legislature prohibiting the sale, giving away or bringing into the state of cigarettes, cigarette papers or any substitute therefor. INDEHNITY 15 ENORMOUS. The Powers Agree That China Shall Pay $275,000,000. The foreign office at Paris has re ceived a dispatch from Pekin an nouncing that M. Picbon, the French minister, presented Wednesday the report of the committee on indemnity. The amount China is to pay has been fixed at 1,365,000,000 francs (about 8275,000,000). How it is proposed that the indemnity be distributed among the powers is not set forlb, hilt as the dispatch does not mention The Ha gue, it is thought the ministers are hopeful of being able to settle the pro portion to be received by each power by discussion at Pekin. Ml. VERNON. MONTGOMERY < OIINTY. GA.. THURSDAY. MAY H. UNO RAILWAY BARONS TO WAGE WAR Gould and Vanderbilt In terests In Clash. IS A FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY Lively Times Are Expected When Fierce Contest of Dollars Is Well Linder Way. A New York special says: From the tremendous market movements in Union Pacific and Atchison slock, big advances occurring in each Thursday, it became clear that a fight is going on between great mouey interest* over the establishment of trans-con tinental systems. It now appears that this fight cen ters around the plans of George J. Gould and E. H. Harriman to estab lish a vast network of roads from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, and Wil liam K. Vanderbilt and tho Pennsyl v 111 in railroad people, seeing what was up, have mndc up their minds to frus trate them. With the Gould and Harriman fieo plo on the one hand are said to lie Kuhn, Loeb A Co., who are identified with the Union Pacific management, while Mr. Morgan is believed to have lent his influence to the Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania forces. The Rockefellers, who are identified with Mr. Gould in the Southwestern deal, are said to have stood aloof from the Union Pacific incident and to have done nothing which could be criti cised by Mi. Morgan, with whom they are associated in many affairs. Following the discovery that Messrs. Gould and Harriman wanted to control the Union Pacific, carrying with it the j Southern Pacific, it became plain that the Missouri Pacific aud Illinois Cen tral might be substituted for the Chi- I cago and Northwestern as the eastern J connection of the Union Pacific,there | by greatly injuring the Vanderbilt po sition in the west. In order to protect tho North western and New York Central, William K. Vanderbilt started to accu mulate a large amount of Union Pa cifi and Messrs. Gould aud Harriman j learning this, also bought enormous quantities of this stock. Meanwhile the Pennsylvania, liav j ing lost the Burlington to the North ern Pacific and Great Northern, also had to fix up its western fences. It bought large quantities of Atchison. This road gives a through line to Han Francisco out of Chicago. Good au thorities assert that the Pennsylvania began buying Atchison stock many mouths ngo, but did not think it was I necessary to get enough ptock to exer cise control, if need be,until the Gould and Burlington deals developed. Now, it is asserted, both the New York Central aud Pennsylvania,which j entered into a close alliance two years ago,never had such need to stand shoul der to shoulder as they have at present. If the enormous buying of Union Pacific bas secured control of that property in the interest of the North | western, New York Central, and per i haps St. Paul, there is no necessity j for controlling the Atchison, but it the Union Pacific has been lost to 1 Gould and Harriman the heavy ac cumulation of Atchison Thursday ! would indicate that that company is needed as an outlet to the Pacific coast for both the Pennsylvania und Vander bilt lines. There is another serious side to the fight. The Pennpyl vania has been try ing to prevent the entrance of the I Gould lines into Pittsburg. A recent dispatch from that city stated that the i Wheeling and Lake Erie rtbuld not be so extended, but that the Penn sylvania would allow Mr. Gould fa vorable trackage rights over the Bal timore and Ohio. It is officially stated that this offer will not be accepted, but tho Wheeling road will be extended into Pittsburg as rapidly as possible. This will di rectly bring iu both the Wabash and Missouri Pacific, giving them a large steel aud iron tonnage. Mr. Carnegie, before selling out to the steel trust, made a contract to deliver a vast amount of his tonnage, aggregating more than 1,000,00 b tons a year, to 1 the Wheeling road. Mr. Carnegie wa» 1 himself to build an independent line 'to tidewater, presumably at Balti more. He is understood to have made ao offer for the Western Maryland rail road. Now, it is assertt d, Mr. Gould intends to carry out some such plan in order to prepare for any fight that k« may have with the Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt people. Mr. Gould has further irritated Wil liam K. Vanderbilt by planning an ex tension of tho “ heeling road to th« vicinity of Cleveland. When the new link of the Wabash in northern Indi ana and Chicago is built,"he Gould sys tem will have a direct line from Cleve land to Chicago, paralleling the Lake Shore all the way. IN HALLOWED SPOT HEROES WILL SLEEP Blue and Gray to Be En tombed Side By Side IN HISTORIC ARLINGTON SOD Secretary Root Carries Out Spe cial Act In Regard to Care of Confederate Graves. A Washington special says : Sec retary Root has giTon orders to the quartermaster general’s department for the execution of the act. of con gress requiring the re-burial in Ar lington national oemetery of the con federats dead now there, numbering 126, and with them tho remains of the 126 confederates buried at tho na tional soldiers’ borne here Protests have been received by the secretary from the women of Virginia, who wish the remains taken south, but the order remains unchanged. It is stated at, the war department that the action by Secretary Root in respect to tho reburial of the confed erate dead at Arlington cemetery is in strict conformity with the requirements of a special net of congress, which made an appropriation of 82,500 for marking the new graves with head stones. Soon after the law took effect oppo sition was mauifiested toward its pro visions by the representatives of cer tain confederate organizations. The result was that the authorities sus pended action in the matter. Considerable correspondence then look place between the officials of the war department and ladies represent ing certain confederate organizations ut Richmond and elsewhere. A few days ago Secretary Root, in structed the quartermaster general to carry out the law, nt the same time in forming all the parties interested of his action. It, is understood that Hec retary Root acted in this matter on representations made by Senator Cock rell. It is further stated that tho notion of the department is in line with Presi dent McKinley’s policy of giving the same care and attention to the graves of the Confederate dead as is given to those who fell on the Union side. In a telegram to (he quartermaster gen eral, Mrs. N. V. Randolph, of Rich mond, Va., protested against the pro posed action in the name of the “wo men of Virginia,” and added: “We have no right to place our dead against the protest of tho G. A. It.” In reference to this it is said that no protest has been made by the G. A. R. BIG SHOW OPENS. Pan-American Exposition Starts Off Without Formal Ceremony. The gates of the Pan-American Im position at Buffalo, N. Y., were thrown open Wednesday morning according to program, and notwithstanding it Imd rained all night and the weather con ditions were threatening, large crowds were in evidence. At 8:30 a. in. the turnstiles clicked and the first of the millions of people who will visit the bountiful Rainbow City during the six months of its ex istence passed into the grounds. No ceremonies marked the opening of the gates, it, having been decided by the management to combine the opening day ceremonies with those of May 20. William Hamlin was permitted by agreement to purchase the first ticket, he having offered some some ago to pay $5,000 for the privilege. At noon the government building was thrown open aud General Brig ham, chairnv.n of the government board, made a brief address. The following message conveying the congratulations of President -Mc- Kinley was read: Memphis, Tknn., May I.—The presi dent directs me to convey his con gratulations to the citizens of Buffalo upon the auspicious opening of the Pan-American exposition, so rich in blossom and ripe in expectation. May the hopes and ambitions of its promo ters be realized to the fnllest measure. “Gbokok B. Co KTKLYor, “Secretary to the President.” Simultaneously with the opening of the exposition gate*, a number of pigeons were released. Thirty-five went to Oil City, twenty five to Cleveland and five each to Toledo and Pittsburg. Attached to their legs was this mes sage: “ The people of all the Americas:— This message of greeting, borne to you by carrier pigeons, announces the opening of the Pan-American exposi tion and extends to every one an in vitation to participate in the pleasure and benefits of thin six months’ festi val. WII.r.IAM I. lIcHHAKAX, “Director General.” CHINA CANNOT l*\Y. Resources of Celestial Kingdom t Not Adequate to Settle Enormous Claims. A cable dispatch from Pekin says: j At ;i mooting of tho ministers Wed Tiosday the report, of the indemnity committee was road. Regarding the resources of China tho report was very voluminous. It was practically a re petition of Jameson’s well-known pamphlet upon tho subject. Sir Rob ert Hurt offered suggestions similar to those already credited to him. It is claimed tlmt the revenues from all available sources will not allow- China to pay the indemnity unless assistance is rendered. Tho subject of Count von Walder soo’s letter will be takeu up at the next meeting and a reply to it will be drafted. Tho ministers personally object to the tone of the letter. They claim that they know what they want w ithout being told. They particular ly object to any of tho legation guards being under any authority except that of tho ministers themselves. A Washington dispatch says: Tho German and French ambassadors and Mr. llogestvcusky, for tho Russian ambassador, wore among Thursday’s callers on Mr. Hill, acting secretary of state. The discussion was almost en tirely on Chinese affairs, tho press dispatches as to an agreement on 8273,000,000 indemnity and on a change of custom duties having ex citod considerable interest in official aud diplomatic circles. None of tho callers were able to con firm the report, but tho opinion was general that an agreement on indem nity has been reached. The prevailing I view was that 8273,000,000 represent I nd a compromise between the mini mum amount urged by tho United States and tho maximum urged by the other powers. The original total of claims amounted to a half billion dol lars, so that, the present total repre sents v. scaling down of about 10 per cent. At this rate the claim of the United States, which originally wus about 825,000,000, would bo cut to | about 818,000,000. j It is believed in Washington that the bitch wliiah is said to have arisen at I‘ekin over tho proposition to in- I crease the Chinese custom duties to ; meet the indemnities demanded by the | foreign powers is caused by the broaching by Mr. Roekhill of his plan lor the abolition of the Likin duties as a condition for bis acquieceuce in the customs increase. Tho United | States government lias in the past ad ' milted a readiness to permit the Chi nese to increase the custom rates pro viding there was no discrimination between the powers. Minister Wll says that the present 5 per cent is to tally inadequate to provide a sinking fund for a new loan. ROASI FOR M’LAURIN. Bryan scores South Carolina Senator For “Political Flop.” A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb.,says: In n statement made Thursday W. J. I Bryan takes Senator McLaurin, of ' South Caarolimi, to task for what he 1 declares is his “political flop.” At the Mime time Mr. Bryan admits Senator McLaurin’a action marks the begin ning of a movement in thesonth which will have an influence upon tho poll , ti<-s of the nation. He say*: “It is not. likely that Mr. McLaurin will lie the leader of the movement fie cause he is handicapped by the fact that he is using his official position to misrepresent the views a id interests of his constituents; lint some leader will arise to give direction and force to tho aristocratic aud plutocratic ele ment for which Mr. McLaurin speaks. There is such tin element in eviry community, and now that the race question no longer unifies the w hite people of the southern states it will doubtless manifest itself. “.Senator Tillman bas already taken up the gage of battle thrown down by Senator McLaurin and will doubtless fie aide to marshal a considerable ma jority in that state; but the same in fluences are at, work in other states where there is greater danger of sue cess. “The democratic sentiment is strong enough to resist and overcome the Me Laurin movement, hut those who be lieve that the man ia more important that the dollar will have to bestir themselves. ” SEVEN DIE IN FLAGES. Fireman Prevented From Saving Vic tims By Freight Train. Seven persons were burned to death, three fatally injured aud several others slightly burned und otherwise injured in a fire that destroyed a three-story apartment building at 51316 Marquette avenue, South Chicago, early Sunday morning. While the occupants of the burning building were struggling to save them selves, the firemen, who were respond ing to the alarm, were vainly waiting for a freight train which blocked the way of the fire engines to move away from the crossing and give an open road to the fire. EXPRESS ROBBERS GET SEVEN YEARS Justice Was Swift InChes nut and Jordan Case. PLHA 01 ttUILTY CXPEDITIYR After Imposing Sentence, Judg® Clave Culprits clootl Advice. Chesnut Penitent. At Miicoii, Ha., Wednesday, O. W. Chestnut and G. It. Jordan were e«n tenced to the penitentiary lor sen-** ycara each for robbing Express Mes senger J. N. While on April ‘jtlth. Sentence waa paaaed on tliejn at 12. to o’clock by Judge Felton in the superior court room. The diaponeation of justice in lb'* ease lias boon the ipiickesl In the an* uala of the Bonthern 'Express Com pany. At 10:80o’clock Chestnut and Jordan wore arraigned in tho recorder’s conrt under sections 101 and 152 of the cm*' I inal code, which read n» follows: "Section 151. Uobbery i*' (lie wrong | ful, franilulent and violent taking <<# I money, goods or chattels from the por ! aoii of another by force or nilimida ! tion, without the conaentof the owner. "Section 152. RobWery l>y tope* forces or violence aball be puniahed I j impriaenment and labor in the peniten tiary for not leas than four years ioar longer than twenty yearn,” In the laws of Georgia there is n* aiuib offense known ns train robbery, an the defendants woro charged with robbery hy force. Roth Chestnut and Jordan pleadeil guilty and Recorder l-’reenian con milted ihem to the superior conrt un der bond of 81,000 each. The-hear ing of the case iu the recorder’s count did not consume over ten minutes, I Tho matter waa then carried iinms ] dintely before the grand jury, wlm h was in session, and ilio defendant* wore indicted in n very few piipntm. They sail) they were guilty am) Hup were arraigned before Judge Felton, who was engaged in hearing the civil docket, Chestnut and . Jordan were arraigned, pleaded guilty and cm tl waa sentenced for seven years in Ihe penitentiary. Chestnut appear* d deeply affected throughout ihe entire proceedings, and frequently wi|<4 tears from lua eyes. Jordan was nt>- sointoly indifferent and smiled win 0 sentence waa paaaed upon him. be fore passing sentence Judge Polio# asked the men if they had anything W> suy. Chestnut arose and, with much emo tion, stated in effect that this was no lirst time he had ever been arrest* •) and was the tirst offense he had ev*» committed, lie safd his life lind tine honorable until the commission of thf 1 ruin robbery. That ho had served '•< ycara faithfully aa a policeman and ser geant on the force at Jacksonville,Fla , commencing iu IK9I, and resigned i* lua own accord to accept a belter pay ing position in the railroad servo u, being an engineer by profession, ami volnntarity left the railroail. He only commenced di inking al ■ >it a year nr ao ago, mid then on account of domestic troubles. He declared that if he bad not been drunk he would not have committed the < xptrss ! robbery. Obestnnt expr ssed giend regret for having done the crime, hm! said if he came out of the penitentiary alive lie would never do another crim inal act. Chestnut said he is thirty ycara and was been in Vortli Carolina, He threw himself on tho mercy of the court and asked leniency. Chestn .t if manner of ranking Ins statement arous ed considerable sympathy for lor# among the large min.tier of spectator# In the courthouse. In passing sentence Judge Filh a -aid that the term of punishment fixed by law for Hiis offense wa- b i 1 not leaa than four years nor long* I than twenty years. He said be won <1 ' give them seven years each, which A leas than half of the extreme limit d the law. He took into considers'x-'S their plea of guilty lie declared ih -t seven yeais was really a long pern -1 of time. He advised that when iloy get out al the penitentiary they^let■■# ( liquor ulone if it made them cornu t Hindi acts as the one for which liny are to suffer punishment. ROBBER JORDAN CONFESSES. two rien Who Looted Express Cir Have Hotli Admitted Uuitt. Detective Amerson reached Macon, (In., Tuesday morning with R. Jordan, who was arrest* d in Atlanta Monday night charged with being the confederate of O. W, Chestnut in ti o robbery of Express Messenger White. Jordan was taken direct to the i ffb e , of the chief of police, who had » long talk with Jordan, during which the prisoner made a full confession of hi# part in the robbery, but placed all the blame on Chestnut. His recital of tl.# ' details of tlie robbery coincided ex ! actly witli tl e confoseio J of Chestnut. NO. 5