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The News of Conyers and Rock
dale County.
VOL. XXV.
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THEIR GROUND
toller Advances While Burghers
Slowly Retreat.
IATTLES ARE 0CCUR1NQ DAILY.
lo Definite Results Can Be Learn¬
ed at War Office In
London.
A Loudon cablegram of Sunday says:
; is evident from General Buller’s
ispatch to the war office and the ad
ices to the Associated Press from
Ipeam&u’s |biv camp that a big battle is
being fought. As far as can be'
■tiered from these dispatches the re
nlt remains undecided.
The war office shortly after mid
tight Saturday night posted the fol¬
ding dispatch from General Bnller,
lated Spearman’s camp, January 20,
pning: I
"Gen. Clery, with a part of Gen.
barren’s foroe, has been in action
tom 6 a. m. till 7 a. m. today. By a
pdicious pught his use of his capturing artillery he ridge ha’
way up,
Iter ridge, for about three miles.
| “The troops are now bivouacking
■ the ground he has gained, but the
pin |“The position casualties is still in front not of heavy. them.
were
Ibont 103 wounded has been brought
I hy 6:30 p. m. The nninler of
piled has not yet been ascertained.”
both sides stubborn.
Nothing was received in London
onday to indicate that any conclusive
suit had been reached by the British
Ms in the region of the Upper
K ela . snd the lack of information
Ming what men and munitions
le Boers have in reserve prevents
®wate determination of the measure
wal successes attending the two
? 8 hard fighting.
A1 that could be said was that the
wish seem to be doggedly advancing
he face of an equally stubborn re
!a Me. At the close of Suuday the
Ders merely evacuated their first
is of defense to take up another
1 ^■■circular e roar, recalling position the a short old distance burgher
e by which the Boers have previ
fatal managed to entice the British
“ traps.
j. ! ‘fishes 1 "louday from morning elsewhere give in-South trivial
L;. Lin
°‘ m * nor happenings and do
ft Plyou Um >uate Sunday the situation.
'trreu J morning General
commenced a flanking move
°a the extreme left of the Boers’
l0 ». The infantry advanced at 5
“e morning along the side of Ta
S| a mountain, which ends at
ioakop.
g tne hills until v PCS-
ick 8 comt uunding on
h 2°8rs concentrated,
h.., , were
* Behind immense boulders
“thickly . over the hill.
« Lu lller N opened the attack and
r.ri;-f ^ ons rieS forked shrapnel continuously, the
, ? °led among
tebt < ev their attention to
V, T e the British infau
ft on
tL, e ^ oer3 stuck to their rocky
fi 5 . .v ? STlt e ooncluai°n B the greatest tenacity
i*k of the day, the
a( l only advanced across a
The Boers apparently
8uus and they did little
Captain Honley.of tlieDnb
K«l", ers ’ leli mortally wonnded
L nmgk is men to seize fresh
g of Outage. a
et reported nothing of
Pp! l0 ^ s on Monday and official
f«r,;' f<s lute , showed
"’gence the Brit
Sunday night on the
K«w5 won after two davs’
Q l war °® ce turned every
K; fcjaiht °* 16 i?n Military b t ieS at men midn assn ’ ght me
■»iT tt g mast A* have taken place on
Wfts probably more se
f e prece ding days. Gen.
- ,
"*■ s *n' lSHre not to be add likely to the to elabor- give
>•* a men ts,
' , to arrange their
to eencentrate their
The Rockdale Banner «
UPRISING IN NEGROS.
The Newly Installed Officials Re¬
belled Against American
Authority.
Mail advices from Manila bring par¬
ticulars of the uprising last month in
the southern part of Negros island,
in which Lieuteuaut A. G. Yedyard,
Sixth infantry, was killed.
Instead of being an unimportant re¬
volt of native police, as was at first
reported, it appears to have been an
attempt to overthrow American author¬
ity. This movemeut was started by
the chief officials of the autonomous
government, the men who were elected
and inaugurated with so much cere¬
mony last November.
Eleven of these officials, including
the president and several councilors,
were lodged in jail on a charge of
plotting treason, Several secured
their release under heavy bonds, but
others remain in prison.
General Smith found evidence that
ihe revolting prolice were following the
orders of the autonomous government,
which designed to use the forces un¬
der its control to overpower the Amer¬
icans. The plot failed through being
started prematurely. Two companies
of the Twenty-sixth infantry were hur¬
ried from Iloilo to reinforce the garri¬
son at Baeolor.
The officials arrested include some
of the most prominent men in Negros.
It is believed that they will be ex¬
pelled from the island.
ROBERTS COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Volnminou* Document, Cavering: tli© In
voatiffAtion, Re.id In the House.
The reports of the special committee
of investigation in the case of Brigham
H. Roberts, of Utah, were presented
to the house Saturday. The majority
report, signed by Chairman Tayler
and six of his assistants, is a volumi¬
nous doemneut, and is accompanied
by a summary of the law and facts.
It gives the detai's of the hearing, the
ample opportunities afforded to Mr.
Roberts to present his case, his refusal
to testify and the unanimous finding
of facts heretofore published. It pro¬
ceeds:
“The committee is unanimous in
its belief that Mr. Roberts ought not
to remain a member of the house of
representatives. A majority are of the
opinion that he ought not to be per¬
mitted to become a member; that the
house lias the right to exclude him. A
minority are of the opinion that the
proper course of procedure is to permit
him to be sworn in and then expel him
by a two-thirds vote under the consti¬
tutional provision providing for expul¬
sion.”
MOB HANGS MURDERERS.
flnlf Brothers Swung: Dp In Jail Yard at
Ft. Scott. Kansas*
Saturday night, George Silbee and
Ed Meeks, half brothers, convicted of
murder, were lynched by a mob in
the county 3 ml yard at Ft. Seott, Kan
sas. Their bodies were left dangling
from two trees in the yard. Ihe au
thonties were completely surprised.
The two men, who hailed from Ran
sas City, bad been convicted of mm
der in the first degree, their victim
being a young German farmer named
Leopold Edhnger. The murderers
disposed of Edhnger s pair of mules,a
horse and a wagon in Bates county.
Amos Phillips, an accomplice of the
two brotners in the crime, was con
victed Friday of murder in the first
degree. The evidence showed tha,,
the three men belonged to a gang oi
thieves who had been regularly du
posing of their plunder in Bates
co “ nt /
Before , being . 0 Silbee .., shout- . .
swung up
ed to the mob in defiant tones that
he himself shot Edhnger and that
Amos Phillips struck him on the head
with an ax. He insisted that his
brother Ed did not participate in the
crin L e -
‘•Be sure and , get t Phillips, the
doomed men urge d.
HONORS ACCORDED DAVIS.
_
Pre.ident Kmcer, of Transvaal, Send,
Private Cer For American.
Webster Davis, assistant secretary
of the interior, arrived at Lourenzo
Marques Sunday on his way to Preto
ria and called upon the governor gen
oral, Captain Alvaro Dacosta Ferreira,
who. gave him a most courteous recep
tion and requested friendship him to convey to Presi- a
message of special Transvaal
dent McKinley. The gov
ernment has informed Mr. Davis that
President Kruger’s saloon carnage
will eonrejr him to Pretori*.
CONYERS. GA.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1900.
> • IRE
FUNDS WANTED
For Improvement of Coosa River
From G-adsclen to Wetumpka,
TWO STATES ARE WORKING FOR IT
Will Be Menns of Opening Traffic On the
River—Atlanta's Military
Park Bill.
Congressman -Burnett, of the Sev¬
enth Alabama district, will ask for an
appropriation from this congress of
$50,000 for the improvement of Coosa
river from Gadsden to Wetumpka, Ala.
The Coosa river is formed by the Eto¬
wah and Oostanaula at Rome, Ga.,
and is now naivgable from Rome to
the locks, thirty miles below Gadsden.
The river continues to Wetumpka
twenty miles from Gadsden, and
forms part of the Alabama.
There is great interest in North
Georgia and Alabama in this proposi¬
tion. Congressman Maddox is inter¬
ested in it and attended a conven¬
tion during the summer at Gadsden
wlien an “appropiation” was urged.
Mr. Burnett has been offered a hear¬
ing by the river and harbor committee
in February, and has asked that dele
ga1i >ns from Rome, Gadsden, Wetump
ka and Montgomery be present to urge
the matter. On this committee are
Bankhead, of Alabama; Lester, of
Georgia, and Sparkman, of Florida,
and Catcbings, of Mississippi, and
with this southern strength it is be¬
lieved the matter will be favorably re¬
ported. chairman of the
Senator Hawley,
committee on military affairs, inform¬
ed Senator Clay, of Georgia, Wednes¬
day that the senate committee would
not wait for a joint bearing on the
Atlanta military park bill and that the
committee would consider the bill
Jan nary 31st.
Representative Elliott has intro¬
duced a bill to establish a branch
home of the National Homo for Dis¬
abled Volunteer Soldiers at Castle
Pinckney, in Charleston harbor, South
Carolina, or some other eligible dis¬ site
in or near that city for the use of
abled officers and enlisted men of the
volunteer army and navy of the United
States.
MAHAN’S LETTER.
Famous and Widely Discussed
Document of Our Naval Ex¬
pert Is Made Public.
A New York dispatch says: Follow¬
ing is the now famous letter of Cap¬
tain A. T. Mahan, the naval expert,
which lias caused wide discussion in
Q rea t Britain. Captain Mahan au
nounceg that his sympathies are with
Eu ? „ land but bega the public to re
fra a frQm blic mee tings at which
resolution8 of sympat hy for one side
or ^ otber are offered;
„„ j t to onr c i t i ze ns gen
era „ and to the B oer sympathizers
oial] the inadvisability of pnb
‘ question. There
h(j meeti on this
are very ' many among us, myself cer
faiu] who feel a3 strongly in fa
' Britain others do of
^ f Qreat aa
bgr “ neflU<
„ L ug al[ be careful not to pro .
voke on@ another by immoderate ex¬
^ regsiona of opinion, to which public
eeti tend . Those of oue side
oke retaha tion on the other side
l_ tbey make it necessary—for in the
problems J of the near future good un
lelstandjng with Great Britain is too
i rtant for na to permit the impres
g - on tbat we are all aga i nst her here,
and we find onrBe i vea i n the nn
seem u. state c f par tv divisions for and
against foreign states, as in the be
ginning of this century between the
| rencb and Br itish parties,
avad myself of this opportunity
to say that, in my judgment, not only
is the cause of Groat Britain just, but
to have failed to uphold it would have
been to fail in national honor.”
CENSUS OF PORTO RICO.
lJlhabltallt , ot i s i a „,i Number 957.000.
p„ n ce Credited with 56 ,000.
^ be 0 gj cl - a j ce nsus of Jnan Puerto has Rico^ 32,-'
haa been finished. San
500 inhabitants.
pon*e- ha# nearly twice as many
reg j dents _ the number being 56,000.
Tbere ar g 95 Vi y00 inhabitants on the
t g } and(
BRYAN VISITS BELMONT.
Nebraskan Is a Guest of New
Yorker at a “Private”*
Dinner.
William Jcnniugs Bryan was the
guest of honor at a dinner given by O.
H. P. Belmont Monday night at his
residence in New York. The dinner
was private, no reporters being ad¬
mitted, and to a penciled note Mr, Bel
mont made response:
“There will be nothing at, during
or after the dinner for publication. aud
The dinner is a purely social affair
of no public interest.”
Mr. Bryan was the only guest of
national importance, but big men in
Tammany hall were present.
Bryan took breakfast Tuesday morn¬
ing at the Hoffman house with a num¬
ber of free silver and single tax leaders.
Subsequently he received the newspa¬
per reporters. When asked if he made
a harmony speech at the Belmont din¬
ner tho night before Mr. Bryan an¬
swered:
“I don’t know if I used the word
harmony or not, but I always speak in
such a harmonious strain that no oue
can object unless he disagrees on the
issue. As a matter of fact I talked
very little on politics.”
Colonel Bryan declined to discuss
the letter of Robert B. Roosevelt and
others protesting against his entertain¬
ment as the guest of the Democratic
club. - About noon Dr, Leveson, of
Brooklyn, an Imperialist, call with two
Filipinos,but Mr. Bryan refused to see
them. Mr. Bryan’s callers were
nearly a 1 silverites. The gold Dem¬
ocrats held aloof.
Tuesday night Mr. Bryan dined ot
the Democratic club as the gueit of
President Kellar will twelve others.
LEYBS IS CONFIDENT.
Transvaal Envoy Declares Boers Will
Ultimately Trumph.
The Brussels correspondent of The
New York World obtained the follow¬
ing statement from Dr. Leyds, the
Transvaal envoy extraordinary in
Europe, before he left for Paris on his
diplomatic mission: and critical
“In view of the new
phase into which the war is now en¬
tering, I send to the people of America
a few words on the subject of any
eventual proposal in regard to the
suspension of hostilities, a desire for
which appears to be gaining strength
on both sides of the Atlantic.
“I am as confident as ever of the
ultimate triumph of our cause. A
temporary success of the British arms
would merely have the effect of infus¬
ing fresh vigor into our men aud
strengthening their determination to
hold oiit at whatever cost.”
DEBATE ON ROBERTS CASE.
Chairman Tayler Begins Fight on Utah
Man in tlio House.
A Washington dispatch says: Enor¬
mous crowds were present in the
house Tuesday to witness the opening
of the debate in the Roberts case.
Fully three-fourths of the spectators
were women. They occupied the re¬
served gallery tier, and their bright
gowns illumined the gloom of the
cavernous recess about the spacious
hall. The diplomatic gallery alone
was a yawning chasm.
With brief preliminaries the resolu¬
tions to exclude Roberts and the mi¬
nority resolutions to permit him to be
sworn in and then expelled, were laid
before the house,and without any agree¬
ment as to a vote, Mr. Tayler, of
Ohio, began his speech, in support of
the majority resolutions.
CAROLINA’S WHISKEY PROFITS.
Palmetto State Accumulates a Snug; Sum
From the Dispensaries.
The statement of the South Caralina
state dispensary for the year 1899
shpws that during the year the amount
of prafits going to the counties, towns
and cities was $220,492.35. The net
profit to the state, which go to
credit of the school fund, are $193,-
589.49, making the total net profits
$414181.84.
The total gross profits for the year
were $485,520.79; the total receipts for
the year were $1,638,939.26, including
the $46,073.24 surplus brought over
from last year. The fatal disburse
ments were $1,495,818.26, leaving a
balance December of $142,121 31st. in the The state aggregate treas- j
ury on ;
purchases made during the year were
$1,158,081.32.
PRITCHARD SPEAKS
Against Proposed North Carolina
Disfranchising Amendment,
VIGOROUSLY OPPOSES THE CHANGE
liepliefl To Senator Morgan, Who Had
JPrevionsly Spoken On the Sub¬
ject—A Day of Oratory.
Monday waa another day of oratory
in tho Senate. Mr. Pritchard, of North
Carolina, delivered a long and carefully
prepared address upon the race ques¬
tion in the south, his remarks being
addressed particularly against the pro¬
posed amendment to the constitution
of North Carolina, which if enacted, he
said, would disfranchise a large class
of voters, both white and black.
He was followed by Mr. Turner, of
Washington, in a speech on the Phil¬
ippine question in which ho arraigned
tho administration policy.
Mr. Hoar chairman of the judiciary
committee, reported back the resolu¬
tion of Mr. Rawlins, of Utah, for an
inquiry upon polygamy with a recom
mendation that the first and last para¬
graphs of the resolutions bo adopted.
The report was accepted and the reso¬
lution as amended adopted. As pass¬
ed the resolution read:
“To what extent polygamy is prac¬
ticed or polygamous marriages enter¬
ed into in the United States or in
places over which they have jurisdic¬
tion.
“What, if any, steps should be taken
or measures enacted for the preven¬
tion of polygamy in the United States
and places over which they have juris¬
diction.”
Mr. Pritchard, of North Carolina,
then called up his resolution. His ad¬
dress was in tho nature of a reply to
that delivered several days ago by
Senator Morgan. When he remarked
that tho cry of “negro domination”
was the answer given to every propo¬
sition made by the Republicans, Mr.
Tillman, of South Carolina, interrupt¬
ed to say that little else was to be ex¬
pected when the admistration contin¬
ually thrust negro postmasters on the
people of the south.
“There you have it,” retorted Mr.
Pritchard, “If I should read the ten
commandments to the senator he
would cry, ‘negro’ back at me.”
“We say nigger in the south, not
negro,” replied Mr. Tillman. “Let
11 s stick to the facts.”
“The sanator may use whatever ex
pression he likes. I’m satisfied to
use mine,” said Mr. Pritchard.
Mr. Pritchard argued that the ques
tion involved tho peace and welfare
of the nation and the stability of our
institutions. The constitution in
plain, mandatory and unequivocal lan¬
guage guaranteed to each state a re¬
publican form of government. But
according to Mr. Morgan’s contention,
said Mr. Pritchard, the constitution
could be violated if it became neces¬
sary to violate it in order to maintain
Democratic rule in the south. That
was nullification, pure and simple.
Mr. Pritchard said that Louisiana
was one of the states which, by con¬
stitutional enactment, had deprived
certain of its citizens of privileges
guaranteed them by the federal con¬
stitution, and he said that the Demo¬
cratic party of North Carolina was at
tempting to secure the adoption of a
proposition to amend the constitution
of that state in a similar way.
FILJHT AGAINST ROADS.
Florida Commission Want Railroad Fares
Cut to Three Cents.
A big legal fight began Monday in
the circuit court at Jacksonville Fla.,
between the state railroad commission
vs _ various Florida railroads to com
Be i them to reduce the fare to three
cents.
The fight will be warm on both sides,
the railroads refusing to adopt rules
promulgated by the commissioners.
To Unseat Robbins,
»p be bouge committee on elections
>j 0 j divided on party lines and by a
vo te of 6 to 2 decided to recommend
the mating of William F. Aldrich, Be
publican, who contests the seat now
be | d by Gaston A. Robbins, Demo
crab f or the Fourth congressional dis
trict of Alabama-
Official Organ of Rockdale C’oun
ty. Has Largest Circulation in
Ihe County.
BKVS0N “NOT GUILTY.”
Sensational Trial of the Alleged
Smith Lynchers Comes
to An End.
At 10 o’clock Wednesday night tlio
jury in the ease of Thomas L. Bryson,
at Gainesville, Ga., charged with the
shooting of Ki Smith in the Hall coun¬
ty jail, returned the following verdict:
“We, the jury, find the defendant,
Thomas L. Bryson, not guilty. ”
Tho eases against Mark Bell, Henry
Lowry, Charley Tanner and Ollie Bell,
tho other alleged members of the mob,
were 110 I pressed.
The charge of Judge Reagan to
the jury was thoroughly comprehen¬
sive and no point was left unnoticed
that should have been mentioned.
The most sensational feature of the
day as regards the trial was the volun¬
tary surrender of Mark Beil and
Henry Towery, jointly indicted for the
murder of Smith with Bryson. They
had been hiding out since they were
indicted.
Boll and Towery say they would
have never kept awny from the officers
if they had had any assurance that
they would have been given n speedy
trial, but they did not care to remain
in jail, hence kept out of roach of the
officers of the law-. They were pres¬
ent in the court, room during the after¬
noon and heard the arguments that
were made by the state aud the de¬
fense.
BRYAN WAS CAUSTIC.
Says Trusts Constitute tlio Hen That R.nys
the Golden Kuir.
William Jennings Bryan made a
journey into Connecticut Wednesday,
addressing meetings nt Stamford and
New Haven, and then hurried back to
New York, that he might keep his en¬
gagement to address the public meet¬
ing in Jersey City Wednesday night..
I 11 his New Havon speech he said:
“The Republican party is afraid to
kill trusts becauso they constitute the
hen that lays the golden egg in cam¬
paign times, but trusts are bad, intol¬
erable and indefensible. Bad things
need not be tolerated in America.”
DULLER SENDS REPORT.
Names of Dead and Wounded ns a Hesnlt
of Sunday’s FlBlillns;.
Just before midnight Monday night
the London war office issued the follow¬
ing dispatch from General Buller:
“Speahman’s Camp, Jan. 22, 6 p.
m.—The following casualties ate re¬
ported in General Hare’s brigade as
the result of yesterday’s fighting:
Killed, Captain Ryall, Yorkshire reg¬
iment, aud five men. Wounded: See
0 nd Lieutenant Andrews, Border reg
iment; Captain McLaughlin, Inni
skillings; Lieutenant Barlow, York
shire regiment, and seventy-five men.
Missing: Eight men. Other casual
ties will bo forwarded when received.”
WHEELER SAILS FOR HOME.
Alabamian Sailed From Manila On the
Transport Warren.
The war department received a ca¬
blegram from General Olis Monday
stating that General Wheeler would
sail from Manila Wednesday on the
transport Warren for the United States
by way Guam and Honolulu.
Cosl of Collecting Customs.
Secretary Gage has sent to congress
nn estimate of $7,872,000 ns the cost
of collecting the customs during the
next fiscal year,
HOWARD ENTERS RACE.
Alabama l’opnlUts Announce Him For
United States Senate.
Hon. William M. Howard, of Fort
Payne, Ala., has announced his can¬
didacy for the United States senate on
the Populist ticket. The announce¬
ment had been expected for some time.
A conference of Populist leaders was
held in Birmingham some days ago
and it was decided to put a state ticket
in the field and run a man for the
senate. I
Steamer Marie Released.
A dispatch received from Durban
says the German bark Marie, loaded
with sulphur, which was cautured
early in January by the British ■ cruiser
Fearless and taken to Port Elizabeth,
bus been unconditionally released.
Southern Baptists In Conference.
In Covington, Ky., Monday, a large
number of Baptists representing all
southern states met to bold a five days’
missionary conference.
NO 2.
“CONSPIRACY”
SAYS LANDIS
Worked In the Admission of Utah
To Statehood.
SEVERE ROAST FOR ROBERTS.
florroonism Denounced In Sever¬
est Terms o,n the Floor
of the House.
A Washington special says: The
houBe resumed the debate on tho Rob¬
erts caso at 11 o’clock Wednesday.
The galleries were again well filled,
most of the occupants, as on Tuesday,
being ladios. Home minor business
preceded the resumption of the debate.
Mr. Landis, of Indiana, then deliv¬
ered a sensational speech. Ho
contended that Mr. Roberts was
not entitled to admission be¬
cause lie lmd violated Utah’s com
pact with the United States. Mr.
Landis resented as unworthy of belief
the charge made, he said, by Senator
Rawlins that the president had ap¬
pointed notorious polygamiRts. The
senator might as well accuse tho
house of endorsing polygamy since it
had passed a bill appropriating $40,
000 for the agricultural college at Lo¬
gan, Utah. “The president of that
college,” Baid he, “is a polygamist,
living in open and notorious polygamy
with three wives. One of his leading
professors is a polygamist, living with
two wives. The trustee is a polyga¬
mist, living in open and notorious
polygamy with seven wives (laughter)
and they have been blessed with thirty
nine children. (Laughter.) of
He further asserted that three
tho members of tho first presidency
and ten of the twelve apostles who
signed tho petition for amnesty were
polygamists. leaders who
“Of these fifteen
solemnly pledged their nonor and
faith to tho future obedience to the
law of the church of Christ and Latter
Day Baits, three have probably kept
their pledges, namely, Wilford Wood¬
ruff, Franklin D. Rodgers and An¬
thony II. Lunn.
After detailing the polygamous r. la
tious of other Mormon leaders, he
continued:
“Pages might be written of the vio
] a tion of the compact by which Utah
wa8 given a star. Mr. Speaker, that
star is a fallen star; it does not shine
w ith the brilliancy and luster of her
B i s ter stars. It shines by canning
and by deceit, by treachery, by fraud.
It speaks of crime and of violation of
the most solmn covenant ever made
between territory aud the Union.”
(Appluuse.) from
“We have as a representative last
Utah a man with three wives, the
one tak<JD) tbe rt gayg( ag near as
we can ascer t a ; ni before 1890, I be
]ieve And bu did not denv that that
woman became his plural wife after
Utah was taken into the American
Union. And I here charge that Utah
came in as the result of a deliberate
con „pj racy to free that people from
the federal authority, and thus enable
them to live their religion unhindered.
“In 1896 Mr. Roberts was a cindi
date for congress, and the church dis
ciplined and defeated him because the
time was not then ripe for a polyga¬
mist to come to the American congress.
He became a candidate in 1898, and
the man who placed him before the
convention stated that he ran by per¬
mission of the church, In 1898 we
were engaged in a war with a foreign
foe. American manhood was away
from home and all absorbed in coun
tr
‘Valor was at war virtue was
prayer. The north and the south un
der one flag! They hoped in this gen¬
eral condition of magnanimity perjured to come
back, and it was then this
cheat attempted to crawlin Sirit
came by itself, but it will be hurled
back boldly and in the open day by
the outraged indignation of the Amer¬
ican people. (Applause.) And across
yon threshold will be writteii in let¬
ters large enough to be read from the
national capitol to the Mormon tem¬
ple: ‘No polygamist shall ever sit as a
member of the American congress.’”
(Applause.)