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THE MORNING NEWS i Established ISSO. - Incorporated 1888 - J. H. ESTILL. President CAPT. HITCH FOUND GUILTY; TO LEAVE STATE'S SERVICE TERRELL STANDS FOR THE FINDING TWO WILL BE REPRIMANDED. 1,1 HUT. ME LI, SUSPENDED FROM ALL DUTY FOR A YEAR. Court-Martial's Finding* nnd Ver dicts Approved In Every Particu lar by Gov. Terrell—Lient. Mor rison nnd Lient. Cone Fonnd Not t.nilty—Bnt Capt. Hitch SnfFem nt Hand* of Court and tlie Governor. Tiro Pnhlie Reprimands. Atlanta, Oct. 21.—Capt. Robert M. ITitch. Company T. First. Infantry. Georgia State Troops, guilty and or dered dismissed front tlie service of the State. First Lieutenant George A. Mell, Company. I, First Infantry, Georgia State Troops, guilty of conduct, prej udicial to good order, and military discipline and ordered suspended front all doty for one year, and to be pub licly reprimanded. second Lieutenant Henry L. Gritter. Company A, First Infantry, guilty of leaving his command without orders, nnd ordered publicly reprimanded . First. Lieutenant Charles A. Cone, Company A, First Infantry, Georgia State Troops, and First Lieutenant A. A Morrison, not guilty. The foregoing was the findings and verdicts of the court-martial before which were tried Capt. Robert. M. Hitch, and the other officers named, who served at Statesboro, Aug. 15.and 16, last, under orders to prevent mob violence, and to protect two negroes, ■Reed and Cato from being lynched, and from whom these negroes were taken by the mob and burned at the stake. Terrell Approves Findings. Gov. Terrell has approved the find ings and sentences of the court and official orders to that effect, by which the sentences will be carried out, will he Issued at once by Adjt. Gen. S. W. Harris. The history of how the two negroes Reed and Cato were taken away from Ihe troops, after they had been tried, convicted and sentenced by Judge Raley to be hanged, and then burned at the stake, bj/ the mob, is every where well known. A court of inquiry appointed to in vestigate the conduct of the troops fit Statesboro was followed by a court martial, appointed by Gov. Terrell, which sat at Savannah during the week beginning Oct. 10, and before which all of the officers who partici pated in the work of the troops at Ptaresboro, with the exception of Lieut. Hclntire, were placed on trial. Governor Offers No Dissent. With the presentation of its findings and sentences to the Governor, through Aijt. Gen. Harris, the court-martial to-day completed ils work. This has been approved in every particular by Gov. Terrell. it now remains only for the Adjutant General to carry out the sentences by the issuance of the requisite orders. •'apt. Hitch, who was in command t'i the troops at Statesboro, and who v as captured and disarmed by mem bers of the mob, was found guilty by the court-martial on all but one or two of the charges, and specifications dmwn up by Judge Advocate General George M. Napier. There Was No Criminality. An analysis of the findings of the <"urt shows that he was found guilty f| f gross neglect of duty and errors of judgment, but that In no case was *>y criminality attached to his ac tions. Tlie first charge against Capt. Hitch w ;is conduct to the prejudice of good pr der and military discipline, in vio lation of the Sixty-second Article of War. Under this Capt. Hitch was found Xuilty of the first specification. In that be neglected and failed to obey that Part of the Governor's order which dl l' cted him to prevent mob violence to the prisoners, Reed and Cato, but not Ruilty of neglecting to obey any other portions of the Governor's order. < apt. Hitch Hail Mnilc Plana. The second specification charged CPt. Hitch with falling io place a •ordon about the Court House, and •• her wise to properly guard the place of trial. On this he was found guilty, but the finding states that no criminality was • ttsrhed to his fallura to put out a Borden. Hitch was found not guilty of Jiatotmab Utoning ffehig. XUMRF.R 1,7.819. LIEUT. GEORGE A. MELL. the third specification under the first charge, which charged him with fail ing to formulate any plans for the protection of the prisoners, with fail ing to consult with his junior officers as to such plans and with failing to take any steps to prevent being sur prised by the mob. On the fourth specification, under charge one, he was found guilty of failing to order up available rein forcements, and failing to make fur ther efforts to prevent mob violence after he had been surprised, captured, and beaten by the mob. He Had Taken Precantlons. But he was found not guilty of the charge that he neglected to take prop er precautions to prevent himself be ing surprised and captured. Caipt. Hitch was found guilty of the fifth specification, under charge one, which charged him with giving im proper and misleading commands while on riot duty, and failing to take prop er precautions in regard to the neces- P'” ? IJEIJT. A. A. MORRISON. sily of loading and firing in order to prevent mob violence. Upon the first charge as a whole the court-martial found Capt. Hitch guilty. lie l>!l Nol Misbehave. The second charge against Capt. Hitch was "gross neglect of duty and inefficiency (and misbehavior before a riotous mob) in violation of the sixty second article of war." Upon this charge as a whole the court found Ca|t. Hitch not guilty. But it declared him "guilty of gross neglect of duty and inefficiency In violation of the Sixty-second Article of War.” ' The court’s finding concludes with t.hess words: "And sentences him. Oept. Robert M. Hfctch, Company I. First Infantry. O. 8. TANARUS., to be dis missed from the service of the atate.” Sentence nl tint. Well, Firs* Lieut. Oeorge A. Mell, Com- "Continued on Fifth CAPT. ROBERT M. HITCH DISBARRED FROM HOLDING OFFICE CAPT. HITCH’S SENTENCE. DISCHARGE FROM SERVICE WITH OUT QUALIFYING WORDS. Neither He Nor Lieut. Mell Has Any thing to Say About Verdict at Present—Statesboro Officers N'oti llcd by Telephone—Effect On Ogle thorpe* Mutter of Speculation. General Opinion That Findings Against Capt. lliteh Were Harsh. Lacking the modifying words "with out disqualification” the sentence im posed on Capt. fi. M. Hitch by the court-martial, that he be dismissed from'the service, carries with it a dis barment front the holding of any office in the state, civil or military. The prohibition covers state, county and municipal offices. In the case of Lieut. Mell, who was ordered suspended front military serv ice for one year, there is no disquali fication front holding office, even dur ing the period of the suspension. As he is at present holding an office un der the city, this was a very pertinent question. Nothing la Soy. Capt. Hitch was seen by a represen tative of the Morning News late yes terday afternoon, and asked for a statement on the findings. The news had been telephoned to him from At lanta. "I must decline lo make any state ment whatsoever at the present time,” was the only reply made. He did not seem greatly disturbed. Lieut. G. A. Mell also declined to make any statement. , “I haven't anything to say now,” was his answer. The finding in the case of Dr. A. A. Morrison, who was acquitted, had al ready been forecasted. In the case of Lieut. Chas. E. Cone and Lieut. Henry L. Griner, the In formation was telephoned to Staites- I.IEI T. t HAHLES E. CONE. boro last night by Mr. H. E. Wilson, counsel for Lieut. Cone. Mr. Groover, associate counsel In the case, was reached and the findings In the ease of Lieut. Cone communicated to him, ns was also that In the case of Lieut. Griner. It waa ithe first Intimation of tho results received at Statesboro. There uro rumors that an effort will be made to bring the findings of the court-martial, and the action (hereon before the civil eourtg. for the purpose of having the findings reviewed. Effect On Oglethoriies, Just what effect the findings of the court-martial will have on the Ogle thorpe Light Infantry, of which Capt. Hitch was the commanding officer, and Lieut. Mell Is first lieutenant, re mains to be seen. (Some weeks ago there was a paper In circulation, it is reported, in the nature of a round robin, the signers of which agreed to withdraw from the military service In the event that the findings of the court-martial was ad verse to Capt. Hitch. Cooler counsel prevailed and the paper waa with drawn, It being urged that Capt. Hitch would heartily disapprove of euch a course, and that the company could not show their loyalty more ef fectively than by obeying hi* wtahe*. ~ glouuuuMU uu MUUi SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1904. DRYING OF THE ROADS WILL BETHE SIGNAL Besultory Cnunonuillnu mill In iiuportant Skirnilslin in Min chnria. Military operations in Manchu ria are awaiting the drying of the roads and plains, rendered impas sable for artillery and even for infantry by the recent heavy rains. Meanwhile the correspondents at the front have only desultory can nonading and unimportant skir mishes to record. The report that the railway sta tion at Shakhe has been retaken by the Russians, and that railway traffic betweeen that place and Mukden would be restored at once was erroneous, the place still be ing in the hands of the Japanese. The Russian government is hastening the dispatch of troops to the Far East to constitute the second Manchurian army. HEAVY FOG PREVENTS EFFECTIVE FIRING Hnt St. Petersburg Tell* of Minor Victories of ItUNSInnK. St. Petersburg, Oct. 21.—The gen eral staff to-day received the following dispatch from Gen. Sakharoff, under to-day's date: “The Russian troops. Oet. 19, made a reconnaissance in force against the enemy south of the village of Sindtapu. "The enemy's outposts were driven back. "A Japanese battery which opened fire was silenced and compelled to re tire. "There was no fighting Oct. 20. "This morning the Russian volunteer sharpshooters, under cover of a fog, closed up on the enemy and brought in another gun and limber which were left from Putiloff hill, (formerly Lone Tree hill). “The Japanese opened a. heavy fire, hut on account of the fog the firing was Ineffective.” FOG NOW LIFTING " BOTH SIDES ARE READY. Mukden, Oct. 21, 1 a. m.—Towards evening yesterday the fog lifted and some of the Russian guns at various points opened lire against, the Japa nese defenses, but they did not re spond either from scarcity of muni tions or the desire not to reveal the location of their batteries. The weather and the condition of tlie roads have made extensive oper ations impossible, but the roads are now drying hard which forecasts events In the near future. The war correspondents in the field are kept In the dark, and it is diffi cult to say when and how this dread ful slaughter will end. SOME OUTPOST FIRING BUT NOTHING SERIOUS. Huansian, Manchuria, Thursday, Oct. 20, by Courier to 'Mukden, Oct. 21. Wednesday passed quietly. Along the Russian center there was some desultory outpost tiring, but nothing serious. Last night also was without incident. This morning the plain was covered with a blanket of fog as thick as the darkest night. In the afternoon the weather cleared. The chief obstacle lo a resumption of the advance continues to be the bad state of the roads. RUSSIANS ARE FIRING BUT JAPS DON’T REPLY. Mukden, Oct. 21, 5:20 a. m.—The Russians on Thursday opened an ar tillery fire upon Shakhe station, where there seemed to be a Japanese outpost watching the Russian movements. The guns were then trained ujain the village of Larnatung, a little east of the station. The Japanese replied languidly. The weather to-day Is fine and sun ny, with a cold, biting wind. There was a severe frost last night. NEW PEACE CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT HAGUE. Roosevelt Will Issue Forntnl Invita tions to tile Powers. Washington, Oct. 21. —In the course of two days the President will dis patch formal Invitations to the INiw ers to name delegates to the new peace confrence to be held at The Hague. The Powdrs are Invited to suggest a date or dates for the meeting of the conference. Secretary Hay submitted a draft of the Invitation to the cabinet to-day. The date of the meeting was left open, because It Is stated that any one of the Powers has as much right to suggest a date as the United States. Consequently there must be consider able correspondence on this subject be fore an agreement Is reached. Jt is not expected that the conference will meet during the continuance of the present war unless it should be con tinued Indefinitely. It cannot be learned that any consideration has yet been given to the personnel of the dele gation which will represent the United States nt the congress. LIQUOR PRObITm IN INDIAN TERRITORY. Dieeaseed at Lake Mohank Indian Cesft renee. Lake Mohonk. N. Y., Oet. 21.—Con sideration of the liquor problem In Indian territory and especially the proposal to incorporate In the enabling act admitting the territory Into the Union as one nr two atatea, a clause forever excluding the sale of Intoxicating drinks In the new state or states, was taken up at to-day’a session of the Indian conference, CLEVELAND HITS REPUBLICANS; PARKER'S THEME EXTRAVAGANCE IS HUMILIATING AND STARTLING ASPECTS OF THE CAMPAIGN HEFUHI.ICAN APPBAI. Is SATt'IIAT KU WITH CONCEIT. Grover Cleveland, Cor First Time, Turns Ills Guns On Roosevelt mid Ills Party—Former President Cheered I.ualily Cor Seven Min nies— Speaks nC the It epil city ol the Trusts—llnur S.inrs Are Flourishing;—Kent Ctrl, n lile t Ini ms oC Opposition. New York, Oct. 21.—Attracted by (ho presence of Grover Cleveland, thou sands of people struggled to gain en trance to Carnegie Hall to-night, where the former President of the United States delivered his (list and only speech of the campaign. John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury under Cleveland, was also a speaker and shared with Mr. Cleveland the great burst of enthusiasm at the meeting. Every seat in the big audi torium was taken while corridors and aisles held their scores. Still hundreds were unable to gain entrnace. This big Democratic rally was under the auspices of the Business Men's Parker and Davis Association and J. Hampden Robb, president of the organisation, presided. Grover Populnr ns Ever. Mr. Cleveland arrived al the hall shortly after 8 o'clock and immediate- ''' EX-MESIDENI GROVER CLEVELAND. ly upon his entrance cheers burst forth; the demonstration lasted seven minutes; It died out and began again with renewed vigor. Again and again Mr. Robb attempted to quiet the crowd, but was forced to his seat. When Mr. Cleveland saw that Mr. Robb's efforts were fruitless In quiet ing the demonstration, he arose and held up his hand for silence, but the people could not be quieted for two full minuteH afterward. The former President was chairman of the meeting. In his address he said In part: Mintling anil lliinillladng. "There are in my mind to-night, some aspects and Incidents of this campaign tvhlch seem to me so star tling, and so humiliating, that thy should arrest the • attention of ev ery thoughtful citizen and arouse the anxious solicitude of every patriotic American. “In a country like ours, where par ties contest for the direction of the government, we must, of course, ex pect party advocacy and honorable personal ambitions for political hon ors; but who, among those indulging in the farthest retrospect of political campaigns, can recall one In which the advantages of present party con trol have been so palpably and un hlushingly used for its perpetuation, or In which the functions belonging to the entire American people have been more Insolently forced to do par tisan service? tin lin AII the Vlrtnea. "When before haw It been so distinct ly claimed that all the virtues, all the patriotism, and all the governing abil ity of our citizenship are found among the members of one political party; and when before have those of our cit izens, not among the chosen, been so boldly considered as aliens In their own land, who should be east Into outer po litical darkness a* unworthy to be en trusted with the power and resjmnwl blllty of a government established by the people and for it he people? "When In all our history has a party so presumptuously as now, claimed to be the donors of the gifts of God, or when has one so persistently plumed Itself upon the creation of all the pros perity that has fallen to our country'" Islaralrrt With Conceit. “Never before have our people ben so belabored with party deliverance*, which In every line and every word, from platform doclaratlon* to the last appeal of party advocacy, are so sat united with conceited and tiresome Continued on Fifth Png*. BROTHER AND SISTER MEET FATHER’S LOVE. She tlliuku Them With lint Pin nml Her Hentti Follows. Peoria, HI.. Oct. 21.—Mrs. Nellie Thomason, wife of a former prominent real estate dealer in this city. Is dead at her home in l.acon, as the. result of Injuries received in a sensational encounter with Richard and dunnto Higgins, son and daughter of John G. Higgins, a prominent member of the board of supervisors of Peoria county ami prominent in Republican polities on Saturday last. Young Higgins is 24 years old, and his sister is 29. They intercepted a letter written lo lligglus, senior, by Mrs. Thomason, in which she asked the older Higgins to meet her la the depot of tlie Kook Island Railroad In this city. Higgins was at SI. Louis and his son opened the letter. The missive asked Higgins to be in the waiting room. When Mrs. Thomason arrived, she was confronted by young Higgins and his sister. Mrs. Thomason is said to have attacked Higgins with a hat pin, whereupon Higgins struck her In the face. Later the woman asked tlie ticket agent to assist her to 'the train. lie did so and when she was gone, discovered the floor of tlie waiting room covered with blood. The woman lingered In great agony nt her home ill l.ueon until she died. Higgins is under arrest on a state warrant charging him with murder. The case lias created it sensation. That Detective William K. Murphy, who was murdered under such sensa tional circumstances in this city last June, was connected with the Hig gins- Thomason case wuh a startling development of the afternoon. It appeals that on the night Mur phy was killed he was shadowing John H. Higgins, at the instance of the mem tiers of the Higgins family. Young Higgins says that either on that night, or on the following night, Mrs. Thom ason called up the Higgins residence by telephone and said: "Murphy was a good friend of yours. Well, he got his to-night. Kelrans fa fellow detective of Murphy), is your friend, too. He will get his next." Richard Higgins says that the fam ily had made frequent efforts to break up the attachment between the elder Higgins and Mrs. Thomason and had In vain offered her large sums of money. He declares that she frequently call ed up the residence by telephone and taunted the family upon the failure to break off the relations between the elder Higgins and herself. mother "killsman ~ FOR COURTING DAUGHTER. Warned Him to Keep A way and Shot When He Didn't. Tampa, Fla., Oct. 21.—Last night Mrs. Loflcy, who lives near De Soto I’ark, shot and killed Joe Wood, who, It Is alleged, was paying too marked attention to her young daughter, after having been repeatedly warned to keep away from the premises. He was found there last night by the mother of the glr.l, and she put an end to his life with revolver. Wood was tried for bigamy some two years ago, convicted and served part of his time, when he was pardoned. CUT THE THROATS OF MOTHER AND YOUNG SON. Hnlf Brother of Woman’* lln*hnnd a Prisoner nnd Lynching Feared. Hhrevcport, La.. Oct. 21.--A special to Ihe Times from Athens, 1,a., says; Mrs. Ike A. McGee, wife of a farm er and her 10-year-old son. Ham, were killed to-day hy an unknown person, who cut their throats. Posses are out hunting for a negro who Is supposed to have committed the crime. Tho sheriff has arrested a man named Craighead, the half-brother of MeGe*. who was on the place at the time. Craighead Is in the pariah jail at Homer A lynahlng la feared. 5 CENTS A COPY DAILY. $8 A YEAR. WEEKLY 2-TTMEB-A-WEEK.fi A YEAR MONEY SPENT BY THE REPUBLICANS PARKER GIVES FIGURES. SHOWS HOW ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN WASTING MONEY. New Jersey Delegation* March Through llnada Converted Intis Brook, hy lleavvy Ilnln, to Kaopna to Hear llemoerntle t andtdnto Speak—Stand With llateed Umltrel liin While Judge Parker Talks. Will Hedure < ost of the Army. Eeopus, N. Y., Oct. 21.—Judge Par ker to-day addressed a delegation from Hudson county. New Jersey, on tha subject of administrative extrava gance, answering n. speaoh mad* by Secretary of War Taft, In which the Secretary called upon the Democrat* to give a bill of particular*. From midnight until afternoon to day the rain fell In torrents. Streams overflowed, the roads were converted Into brooks and made nearly impassa ble for pedestrian*. Nevertheless the New Jersey delegations formed a pro cession at the Hsopus station of the West Shore Railroad and marched to Rosemount. Reaching Judge Parker's house, the delegation surrounded the veranda. Though the rainfall had ceased, tho trees were dripping, and umbrellas had to be raised. When Judge Parker stepped from Ihe house he was greeted by cheers nnd hatidelapplng. Extravagance Is Bi Irlent. Judge Parker said: "The expenditures of the govern ment —says fhe administration—have been managed in a spirit of economy as far removed from waste as from niggardliness. That the expendi tures of tho government have been free from niggardliness cannot, T think, he successfully denied, hence it should he and Is frankly admitted. With the claim that the expenditures have been managed in a spirit of economy, we must take Issue. The facts presented in support of the charge of extravagance have not been answered. ' Judge Parker gave figures to show thst It cost about $186,000,000 more to run the government last year than It did aeven years ago. "That atate mertt." he said, "on Its face raises th presumption of extravagance and waste, a presumption which requires evidence to overcome. Pensions Will Not Slop. "None has been presented. By way of indirect answer to the Democratic, charge of extravagance the Inquiry has been put by the administration w hether we propose to cut off the pen sions. We. answer, certainly not. And we further assert that the inference suggested by the question is not in genious. "The amount paid out in pension* has been decreasing every year since 1898. Hut for the unwarranted order No. 78. which was fully considered In my letter of acceptance, the amount paid for pensions in the seventh pre ceding year would have exceeded the amount paid last year. "The Inquiry Is further made hy the administration whether we would dare to reduce the cost of the army. We answer that most assuredly we would, and we ask the people to deeldfi be tween the administration and the Democratic convention on that point. Would Iteiliacc (nil of Army. "In tho year 1897 the War Depart ment cost loss than 149.000,000, which was about the average cost per year lor the preceding twenty-six years. This last. year, a year of peace, the cost of 'the army was $115,000,000. "One of the questions we now ask the people Is: 'What is the use of spending more than double on the army now than we deemed wise to spend previous to the Spanish war?' "A large standing army Is unneces sary, so our statesmen thought, and so the result proved. lit Is alike unneces sary, unless militarism Is to become part of our policy. It we are to play the role of the 'big policeman' in the South American states, requiring each to act according to some administra tions conception of ‘decency In indus trial and political matters,' and fur ther require It to ‘keep order,’ and pay Its obligations,’ according to the stand ard which may be set by each suc ceeding administration: and If, in ad dition, the administration may at pleasure see to It that the states 'gov ern themselves well, and be prosper ous and orderly,’ according to the erlt terlon which may be set by each ad ministration, then we should readily admit that we should have an army costing $115,000,000 a year. In South Aiimrlinn State*. “But the people have not as yet ap proved the administration’s policy In dealing with the South American states. They have not yet said by their votes that they are In favor of conferring upon the President the pow er to Interfere with the Internal affairs of a South American state at pleasure "The President ha* not the power to declare a policy equivalent to a threat of armed Intervention whenever he shall decide the circumstances Justify It. An attempt to exerclae such a power would constitute a usurpation prohibited by the constitution of the United States. “Hence It is safe to assume that not withstanding the letter to Secretary Root, which waa read at the Cuban anniversary dinner, no administration will dure attempt to establish a uni versal protectorate over South Ameri can states, or to become responsible for their misdeeds.' __ What Monroe Dnrtrtae I*. "Mr. Olnsy admirably started the purpose of the Monroe doctrine In hie address at Harvard College. March 2. 189* 'The vital feorture of the Mon ro* doctrine le that no European Pow - er *h*n forcibly poeseaa tlartf of Amerlcsn soil and forcibly control th* political fortune* and defftlnl*# of Its people.’ "That ta the national position, and It wfll be maintained "But how South American state* shall hhav# toward each other, or Continued ea Wifi q