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Over Monument to Captain
Wirz at Andersonville,
INSCRIPTION MAIN iSSUE
G. A. R. Organizations Bitterly Attack
Daghters of Confederacy in Vindic
tive Comments—Wirz Also
Denounced.
——
“When the accursed soul of Captain
Wirz floated into the corridors of hell,
the devil recognized that his only pos
sible competitor was there.”
With these gentle and brotherly
words, says a Washington dispatch,
Corporal James Tanner greeted the
announcement of the inscriptions that
the Georgia division, Daughters of the
Confederacy, has selected for the
monument erected“forty-three years af
tér the surrender at Appomattox to the
memory of Major Henry Wirz, Confed
erate States of America, just outside
the gates of Andersonville.
The comment of Mrs. Isabel Wo'r“rell
Ball, president of the G. A. R. wo
man’s relief corps, on _the action of
her sisters in the south, was hardly
less bitter and vengeful. She said:
“In my opinion the erection of the
monument to Wirz is the crowning in
famy of an organization of women
which does more to keep alive the fires
of sectionalism than anything else in
the world.”
Corporal James Tanner, past com
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic, was asked his opinion of
the Wirz monument, and the inscrip
tions that have been placed thereon by
the United Daughters of the Confed:
eracy.
“In the first place,” said Mr. Tan
ner, “there is not an atom of truth in
existence, and never has beenr, of the
story of Wirz being offered immunity
by the federal government if he would
implicate Jeff Davis.”
The inscription in question follows:
“In memory of Major Henry Wirz, C.
S. A, born in Zurich, Switzerland, tried
by illegal courtmartial under false
charges of excessive cruelty to fed
eral prisoners, sentenced and judicially
murdcred at Washington, D. C., Novem
ber 10, 1865. . # S
“That the United States government,
! not Major Wirz,, is chargeable with
* the suffering at Andersonville, there is
abundant proof furnished by friend
and foe. Let the fact that he chose an
jgnominious death rather than bear
false witness against President Davis,
speak for his high qualities of honor,
fortitude and self-sacrifice.”
Captain William V. Dawson of the
Union Veterans’ Alliance said that
while he did not care to discuss the
Wirz monument affair he had no doubt
the Grand Army posts and the patriotie
women would be heard from in angry
protest against the proposed inscrip
tions on the monument.
“The site of the Andersonville pris
on pen,” he added, “is now owned by
the Woman’s Relief Corps to the Grand
Army of the Republic, and the propos
ed monument will certainly not be al
lowed on that reservation, if such an
act was contemplated.”
Colonel John McElroy, past senior
vice commander-in-chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and an ex-pris
oner of war, who was an inmate at
various times of seven prisons, includ
ing Richmond and Andersonville, says:
“The proposed inscription on the
-~ monument of Captain Henry Wirz is
glaringly false in every sense, and is
stroangly contradicted by documentary
evidence. I have personal knowledge
: of the greater portion of the history
of Andersonville, as I was in the first
squad that entered the prison, which
was February 24, 1864, and 1 remained
there until the prisoners were run out
of the stockade to avoid Sherman.”
HUNDRED MILLIONS SHORTAGE
Faced by United States Treasury, Says
Chairman Tawney.
The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill occupied the attention of the
house Thursday to exclusion of all
other business.
A surprise was sprung when Chair
man Tawney of the appropriations com
mittee warned the members that the
country was confronted with the cer
tainty of a $100,000,000 deficit unless
the estimates for the next fiscal year
should be cut down materially,
USED WINE AT BANQUZLT
Virginia Society in Atlanta Sets a
Doubtful Precedent.
At the banquet of the Virginia So
ciety at Atlanta, in celebration of Gen.
Lee's birthday, wine, which was bought
and paid for by the society, was served.
1t is stated that the failure of Gov
ernor Smith to attend the banquet
at which he wis scheduled to be one
of the speakers, was due to that sea:
ture.
PREACHER BIFFS-PROHIS.
Would Have Churches and Saloons
Work Hand in Hand for Better
Control of Whiskey Euvil.
The Model License League, & new or
ganization, opened its first annual ses
sion at Louisville, Ky., Tuesday, with
a good attendance of delegates. pres
ent from many parts of the United
States. The object of the convention
{s the adoption of a liquor license law
and the inauguration of a campaign for
its enactment by various legislatures
and city governments. The law will
have for its purpose the elimination
of low saloons; the removal of the sa
loon from politics by placing the pro
prietors out of the reach of the bosses |
and the restriction of the number of
saloons to conform to a certain stand
ard of population. The delegates in
cluded legislators, brewers, distillers,
statesand city officials and publicists.
The morning session was devoted
mainly to welcoming addresses and an
eplanation of the proposed model law.
At the afternoon session Rev. Wil
liam J. Wasson of Riverhead, L. I,
was introduced by President Gilmore.
The Rev. Wasson began by saying that
it ig high time for the church people
who are not extremists to take a hand
and settle the liquor question on a
rational basis. He said that he be
lieved this to be a step in the right
direction, and he hoped ministers of
the gospel of all denominations would
be wise enough and foresighted enough
to see the question in the same light.
“The church can no longer afford to
have its name exploited in the manner
in which it is being used-by the pro
hibitionists,” said the Rev. Wasson.
“The church cannot acquiescer in
the prohibitionist sentiment that a man
cannot be a good Christian and handle
or drink liquor. The church and the
prohibitionists are as far apart as the
poles.”
The Rev. Wasson said that the ques.
tion of drinking in moderation is one
of individual conscience.
He declared that the prohibitionists
are puritanical, and that the puritan
Is 2 “manufacturer and wholesale deal
er in artificial sin.”
“The prohibitionist believes in the
fetish of the law,” said the Rev. Was:
son. “If there is anything wrong any
where, all that is needed, according to
his belief, is a law against it. Intem
perance can never be removed by the
policeman’s club, or the sheriff’s war
rant. I am opposed to the whole pro
hibition philosophy, because I think it
is an outrageous infringement of hu
-man rights.
i “The real question before the Ameri
can people today is ‘What kinds of sa
loons shall we have? Shall we have
open, legitimate saloons or underground
| dives and dens?
~ “I believe that the church and the li
quor trade should stand shoulder to
shoulder in this great fight. We need
‘ each other. There must be co-opera
tion, without interference with the
liberties and rights of American eciti
- zens.” i
~ Frank H. Farris, a state senator
from Missouri, spoke after the Rev.
iWasson. He said that he is not a
- manufacturer or a dealer, and there
~ fore should properly come in the cate
- gory as a ‘‘consumer.”
~ He said that he is opposed constitu
tionally to prohibition, because it is a
prohibition is a sham, and that the onl
deprivation of rights. He declared that
prohibition is a sham, and that the
only way prohibition could ever be pnt
into eifect would be by the government
of the United States.
STATE ELECTION ON BCOZE
Is Planned at Caucus of Democrats in
North Carolina Legislature.
The democratic caucus of the state
legislature at Raleigh, Tuesday night,
determined to entertain a bill provid
ing for a state election in North Car
olina on state prohibition. Stromg ef
forts were made by prohibition leaders
to get the caucus to agree to favor a
bill for state prohibition by legislative
enactment, but this failed.
WHAT CONSTITUTES BOQZE?
Test Case to Settle Question is Brought
Under Pure Food Law.
A test case to determine what con
stitutes whiskey under the pure food
law was instituted in court at Wash
ington Wednesday by District Attor
ney Baker. He has filed a bill against
the James Clark Distilling company,
and the United States marshal has geiz
ed thirty-eight barrels of whiskey val
ued at $4,000 and placed them in stor
age to await final decision,
It is alleged by the district attorney
that the whiskey is misbranded in vio
lation of the pure food and drugs act.
FIVE DAGOES UNDER ARREST.
Are Members of Black Hand, and Are
Charged With Murder,
Revealod by the confession of one
of his five slayers, the body of Jos
Tritido, & young Italian, was exhumed
Sunday on a truck farm, near Bt,
Charles, La., where it had been buried
over a month. Four Italians are under |
arrest charged with the murder, and l
the police are in pursuit of a fifth,
As Warning to Prohibitionists
in Girard, Alabama,
NO DAMAGE ATTEMPTED
Foilowing Arrests, Dynamite Was Ex
ploded in Front of Homes of Prohi
League President and
Ministers.
Feeling between the members of the
Law and Order league at Girard, Ala,,
and persons opposed to the prohibi
tion laws, reached its height Friday
night when dynamite bombg were ex
ploded in front of the residences of C.
T. Gifford, president of the league,
and two Girard. ministers active in
the league. No damage, however,
was done to persons or property.
The explosion followed the arrest of
six men, three whites and three ne
groes for violating the prohibition
laws. The ILaw and Order league
swore out eleven warrants on informa
tion secured by a detective in the em
ploy of the league. The detective says
he got so close to the whisky vendors
that one of them offered to take him
into the business as a partner. =
So much feeling was engendered
against the Law and Order league
that the officers were moved\ to issue
a statement, in which they told that
the resentment against the organiza
tion is unwarranted. h
“We are prepared to protect any and
every man who has been in our em
ploy,” says the statement, “we want
it known that we assume all responsi
bility.
“These violations have been in a
sneaky form, and yet the violators
seem to be surprised when we get a
secret man to catch them.”
Officers of the len®ue express the
opinion that the dynamite explosions
were effected to intimidate them.
Friends of the anti-prohibitionists de
clare that mischievous young men
: men caused the explosions,
MAKE STOCKHOLDERS LIABLE
Is Purport of Petition Filed in Neal
| Bank Case. 3
~ Upon the petition of R. C. Bosche,
a depositor of the Neal Bank, before
Judge Ellis at Atlanta Friday morning,
a temporary restraining order °© was
granted to keep E. H. Thornton, W, P,
Manry, H. C. Caldwell, Arthur C. Kee
ly and Mrs. L. N. Pittman from sell
ing or transferring any property they“
may possess until further instructions
from the court.
The Central Bank and Trust Corpora
tion, the receiver of the Neal Bank,
were likewise enjoined from transfer
ring or disposing of collateral they
hold or may hold as security for loans
made by the Neal bank.
The petitioner claims that he de
posited SI,OOO in the bank, and desires
to join in the ‘demurrers, special and
general, filed by other intervenors. He
alleges that the stockholderg are re
egponsible for the bank's indebtedness.
FLORIDA TRUCK DAMAGED.
Cold Wave Hits Many Points Along
Gulf Coast.
The coldest weather experienced in
Pensacola since December, 1906, was
that of Friday, when the temperature
went as low as 28 degrees. The cold
wave has struck many points along
the gulf coast. Much damage has
been done to early crops and gar
| dens.
! WALKER FIGHTS EXTRADITION.
Thieving Cashier Will Stay in Mexico
ag Long as He Can.
According to dispatches, William F.
Walker, the absconding cashier of the
New Britain, Conn., Savings Bank, will
fight extradition proceedings in Mexico
and will not return to the United
States until every means of defense
in Mexico has been exhausted.
DECLINES TO PAY INTEREST.
State National Bank at New Orleans
Due Louisiana SIO,OOO.
Governor Blanchard of Louisiana an
nounced Friday night that the State
National bank of New Orleans has re
fused to pay the state interest due on
state money deposited with the bank
during 1907. The amount due s a
little over SIO,OOO,
The bank’s refusal was based on the
recent withdrawal of the state funds
amounting to about $200,000 after di
rectors of the bank had recommended
that it go out of business,
HANCOCK VERDICT WITHHELD.
Fate of Major, Who Broke Pledge, Lies
With General Davis.
The military career of Major Wil
ilam F. Hancock, coast artillery corps,
courtmartialed in Atlanta on a charge
of conduct unbecoming an tfficer, rests
now with General J. M, K. Davis, om
manding general of the department of
the gulf and reviewing authority, and
possibly with President Roosevelt,
ROOSEVELT AROUSED
Over Charge That He is Using Patron.
age to Aid Taft—Will Score Sen
ate Through Public Reply.
A Washington special says: Pres
ldent Roosevelt feels very keenly the
chargeg recently made against the ad
ministration of the use of federal pa
tronage to secure delegates to'the next
republican national convention pledged
to the nomination of Secretary Taft,
Thig feeling has been strongly em
phasized and a vigorous sentiment of
antagonism aroused by the action of
the senate recently in holding up ex
ecutive appointments for confirmation.
Accordingly the president called the
members of his cabinet together
Thursday morning and discussed with
them the subject of making a public
reply to these charges. All the mem- |
bers of the cabinet were present ex
cept Secretary Cortelyou. Several of
the cabinet officers had engagemants
to appear before congressional com
mittees on 3arious subjects of pend-
Ing legislation, and were compelled
to *cancel them when the urgent sum
mons from the white house were re
ceived. The president instructed all|
the members of his cabinet to prepare
as soon as possible a full list of the ‘
‘recent appointments in his department
with the facts in each case. The
time which the order covered was left
indefinite, and several members were
In doubt as to whether all recess ap
pointments since the adjournment of
the last congress were meant or sim
ply those made since January 1.
At any rate the records are being
looked up, and when the facts are
placed in the hands of the president he
will issue a public statement. It will
will isswe a public statement, It will
not be addressed to congress.
It will be recalled that among the
first appointments held up were those
of postmasters at Toccoa and Conyers,
- Ga.,, to succeed the incumbents, who
_are women. The new appointments
were referred to the postoffice cabinet
and pigecn-holed. Next the senate or
dered an investigation in the Pensa
cola, Fla., postofice affair. it ap
pears that in this case a postmaster
has been illegally holding office for
& year after being ' rejected by the
senate for incompetency.
Next the senate rejected certain ap
pointments on the ground that they are
made for political efféct and in the in
terest of Secretary Taft. Finally, a
New Hampshire appointment was made
without consultation with the senators
from that state, and a man was se
leeted whom they opposed.
The president has indignantly de.
nied making use of the executive ap
pointive power for political purposes,
and in each instance has asked for
| specifications and promised those In
terested a square deal.
In Georgia the announcement was
made that the changes ordered were
for incompetency on the part of the
Incumbents. For several days it has
been reportéd that the president in
tended to rotaliate against the senate
for thus blocking practically all ap
peintmentg sent in. Just how this was
to be done is not apparent. The veiled
insinuation contained in the letter of
Governor Hughes to the republican
club is sald to have been particularly
exasperating to President Roosevelt
l‘nd to have determined him upon the
present courge,
GOVERNMENT CASH REPAID.
New York Banks Return First Instail
ment of $10,000,000.
New York banks paid over to the
government Thursday the first install
ment of the $10,000,000 public depos
its that Secretary Cortelyou called on
them to surrender in order to strength
en the treasury’s working balanee, The
banks of the city now hold $72.027,000
of public deposits, $41,000,000 of which
was placed with them during the Oc
tober disturbance.
WETMORE HAS FINALLY LANDED,
Re-Elected Senator in Rhode Island
Legislature on 85th Ballot,
Former United States Senator Geo,
Peabody Wetmore was elected to the
United States senate on the first ballot
cast in both branchds of the Rhode
Island general assembly at Providence
Tuesday,
The days’ voting was a continuation
of the balloting, which occupied most
of the time of the general assembly at
the last gession, and which at the time
of adjournment was still in deadlock.
The first ballot Tuesday was the 85th
in the contest.
WILLIAMS' ELECTION RATIFIED
By Mississippi Solons in Joint Session,
New Senator Makes Speech,
At a joint meecting of both branches
of the Misslssippl state legislature at
Jackgon the election of Hon. John
Sharp Willlams as United States sen
ator to succeed Senator Money was
ratified, The new senator made an
address of forty minutes touching on
state and national lssues,
Clashes Between Pelice and
Unemployed in Chicago.
MARCHERS WERE ROUTED
Would-Be Paraders for a Time Defied i
Authorities, Buv Gave Way When \
Their Leader Was Knocked ‘
Down and Arrested. 1
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An attempt of the soclalists to bring
about a “march of the unemployed”
through the down-town streets of Chi
cago Thursday, resulted in two sharp
fights with the police, in which the
would-be marchers were routed after a
‘number of men had been clubbed. Dr,
Benjamin L. Reitman, the originator
of the plan to march through the
streets, and two of his followers were
arrested.
For several days Reitman, who ig a
socialist, had been making announce
ments of his idtention to hold a pa
rade of “hoboes” and ‘“unemployed,”
despite the warning given him by
Chiet of Police Shipp that no march
through the streets would be permit
ted. Reitman, however, continued to
‘dofg the authoritles and Weadnesday
‘night thousandg of circulars were dis
tributed through the downtown saloons
and lodging house district calling on
all the men out of work to assemble
at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon on
the lake frent. The chief of police
early in the day reiterated his state
ment that the march would not be
permitted and directed that all the
police force be held in reserve at the
various stations,
At o few minutes before 2 o’clock a
crowd commenced to gather on Michi
gan avenue in front of the Art Insti
tute and in a few minutes a column
which was really a series of bunches
of four and five, and, headed by Relt
‘man, they started west on Adams
| stroet. The marchers proper did not
|number more than 200 at any time,
but many hundreds of people followed
them along the sidewalks and added
to the confusion.
After marching a block west on
Adams street, Reitman countermarch
ed to Michigan avenue, passed north
to Madison street and then marched
west two squares on Madison street,
Here he encountered a strong squad
of police, who, after a command to
disband bad been disregarded, ordered
his men to charge the marchers. The
police came on o run and the column
was Instantly Lroken up. Several men
were knocked down and the police, not
attempting to make arrests, used their
clubs freely in quickening the foot
steps of the fleeing “unemployed.”
Followed closely by the offigers, the
marchers darted into the crowd of
shopperg along State street and seve
ral women were pushed to the side
walk during the confusion. Np ar
rests were made and uobhody wag se
riously injured, although the ' police
dealt vigorous thumps with their clubs
on the backs of the marchers.
A number of the marchers, after gel
ting away from the police, went south
on State street, alming to form an
other eolumn as they went. At State
street and Jac¢kson boulevard they had
formed the :semblance of another pa
rade and, taking the middle of the
street, they marched along, six abreast.
Just before reaching Clark street they
were met by another detachment of
police. Another order to disperse met
with no response, the marchers at
tempting %o shoulder their way along.
The police instantly charged, swing
ing their clubs right and left.
The marchers fled wildly, some run
ning in the doorway of the Union
League Club, while others gought safe
ty in the postoffice building. Others
turned south into Clark street, but
were quickly captured and placea une
der arrest.
NEGROES LYNCH NEGRO,
Colored Citizens of North Carolina
Town Refuse to Be Buncoed.
I A long distance telephone message
trom Selma, N. C., reports the lynching
'lt Pine Level, Johnston county, of a
strange negro at the hands of a negro
mob.
The strange negro, purporting to be
advance agent of a “big show,” faked
the negro residents into attendance on
what turned out to be a one-man per
formance by the strange darkey hime
gels. His body was found at daylight
on the Southern railroad tracks.
BRYAN PLEADS FOR BECIKKHAM,
Bpeaks to Kentucky Solons Urging the
Support of Ex-Governor.
The climax of W. J. Bryan's visit
to Frankfort, Ky. was reached Tues
day afternoon when he spoke to the
democratic members of the legislature
behind closed doors, advocating the
election of former Governor Beckham
as United Stateg senator. Mr, Dryan
sald neither Beckham nor anybody else
had tavited him to Frankfort,
APAIN
FLEET IS OFF AGAIN.
Bob Evans, With His Sixtéen Battles
ships, Leaves Rio Janeiro—Ac
corded a Brilliant Send-Off.. i
Amidst the booming of guns and:the
cheers of thousands on the accompany
ing pleasure crafts, the American war
ships. sailed from Rio Janeiro, Brazil,
Wednesday afternoon, bound for Pun- ;
ta Arenas, on the Magellan straits. Ten'
days will bring the flect almost midway
on its 14,000-mile cruise to San' Fraf
cisco, and the ships and the meén ‘car
ried with them from Rio the Godspeed
and good wishes of the whole Bra
zilian nation. Not an uptoward inci
dent had marked the visit of the Amer
icans. They were feastéd ‘and feted,
both officers and men, during their so
journ, and half the population turned
out from early in the morning to give
them a fitting farewell: The quays,
the public buildings and the hills were
crowded with thousands watchipg the
warships until they had disappeared
through the mouth of the bay into the
open sea. ;
It was about 8 o'clock when the
American fleet began to move, passing
out in single and in inverse order ac
cording to divisions, the Alabama Jead
ing. Three divisions Qf the Brazilian
navy followed, composed of three bat
tleships, seven cruisers and §ix de
stroyers. In addition many steamers
circled about, having on board, thou
sandg of spectartors from ;hore. Hun
dreds of launcheg and small craft from
the sporting clubg, all gaily decorated,
were there also. N
Thus sixteen battleships entered on
the third stage of their voyage to the
Pacific. In this run of 2,230 “knots,
which will terminate February ‘l, aec
cording to the schedule, at Punfa Are
nas, the most southern port in the
world, the shipg will traverse the haz
ardous narrows at the eastern entrance
to the Btraits of Magellan. :
Since Ferdinand Magellan, the great
Portuguese navigator, with a squadron
of discovery ships, fitted out by
Charles V., king of Spain, discovered in
1520 and passed through the strait
‘named after him, no greater attintion
has been directed towards this famou
| interocesnic waterway by ‘any oyen%
l than by the coming passage of it by
the fleet of American battleships, Ma:
l gellan straits have a total length o;
340 miles and a width varying froms
twenty miles to hardly two miles and a
half. :
In going through the‘}tnit, Admiral
Evans’ fleet will have the best time of
the year for the purpose, sile midsum
mer of the southern hemigphere,
There are few obstrugtions in Magel
lan straits from rocks.and islaids. The
strait lies entirely within Chilean ter
ritory, but it is a free waterway, and
is considered neutral territory,
As compared to the Cape Horn route,
the strait has an advantage of some
what more than one hundred miles.
Steam vessels seldom take the Cape
Horn route,
The passage of Magellan strait is in
most respects comparatively safe for
steam vessels, though there are a few
| dangers, The main difficulty is that
there is too grea. a depth of water, in
places it reacheg over 3,000 feet, to per
mit of anchorage. The strait is well
lighted, however, by numerous light
houses. :
Steamships of the commerclal Mnes
navigate the strait by might, but two
parts they always pass in - daylight.
These are the Narrows at the eastern
part of the strait and Crooked beach.
RECEIVER GOES TO CUBA
‘ ————
To Investigate Property on Which De
funct Bank Made Loano._
Asa Candler, president of the Cen
tral Bank ‘and Trust Corporation, re
ceiver for the Neal Bank, left Atlanta
Thursday for Cuba to examine the
properties on which the Neal Bank
loaned in the neighborhood of $l3O,
000,
CANNON PREMIER AUTOCRAT,
So Declared Missouri Representative
in Discussion of Bill,
An attack of the power of the speak
er was made In the house of repre
gentative Friday by Mr. Shackelford
of Missturi during the consideration
of the urgency deficiency appropria
tion Dbill, He said Speaker Cannon
was the ablest, boldest champion of
antocracy this age has produced, and
declared that the speaker exercised
“a greated despotism than exdsts in
any monarchy in Europe”
ENORMOUS PENSION ROLL.
The Appropriations Committee Recom
mends Sum of $150,000,000.
Representative Kelfer of Ohilo, chair
mman of the gubcommittee on pensions
of the house committee on appropria
tion, has announced informally that
that committee has agreed to recom
mend a pension roll of $150,000,000 for
the fiscal year ending June 20, 1909,
This will be about $7,000,000 in excess
of the pension roll of the present year,
