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About The Hustler of Rome. (Rome, Ga.) 1891-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1895)
FIFTH v ear CUBAN LIBERTY shat The Governors ot The South ern Stales Say GOV. W. Y. ATKINSON. Would Like to See the Island Free and Welcomed as a State in the Union The Gov. of Texas "Too Busy to Talk." The Governors of the States and Territories that comprise the Uni ted States have express'd th-m --pelves. through ’ho Chicago Tri bue, regarding 'he p’rnggb* now in j in Cuba' With hardly an exception they believe that the Gwernm ent of the United State ihotild not stand idly by to see the insurgents overthrown. In several instances the Gover nors sav that they voice the son'i ment of their States In fewer they refrain from expressing an opin ion. This consensus of opinion seom« to show that the citizens of the, United States stand ready to ren der to the Cuban insurgents what ever aid is best suited to their needs and th" poss’bilitieg of ‘he American people. Following is th« text of the let ters received from the various Gov erners of Southern States: I ARKANSAS. L’ttle Bock. Ark . Oct. 2 —I am heartily in favor of annexing Cuba, and am of the opinion that steps should be taken, bv the Uni ted States Government t# bring about that end. James P. Clarke. FLORIDA Tallahassee. Fla. . Oct 2—l am mhearty sympathy with Cuba’s •truggUfor liberty. I think the United States Government should recognize Cuba’s efforts to throw n fftheyokeof Spanish bondage and accord to the revolutionist the rights of belligerents. I think that Congress will do this when it meets if such a step is not taken before. Henry L. Mitchell. GEORGIA, Atlanta, Ga,. Sept. 30.—1 am for t uha. I should 1 ike to see the conn— bx free free from Spain and become a State of the Union. William Y. Atkinson. NORTH CAROLINA. Bauleigh, N. C. Sept. 30. —I am "" ’ )rp l )lirp d to express an opion " n Cuban question or on the P'dicyofthe Government. I am n '''tro of the fact that, a majority thf people of North Carolina nil) ithiza with the 'nsnrgents. * ln ' ’hat there is a general hope at the autonomy of Cuba will Im The seizure of the cfeam- SIII P Sou'hport at Wilmington has developed this feeling Elias Carr. SOUTH CARO N . S. c , October 2.-The p fefes should assist the in islan ? S 111 Cllba an<l annPX tb“ -latonce. The island is a the S "'^ menaCP f ° thp hpft ’ th of nation' 1 lPrn port 9 and the entire Report of H f ' f ° rCe and ,I,Binfect infected Van a and the other would n f P ," ! S thp y ell,w fever Spain is o t > n fest our cities, tions. ‘ nf| man among na •’uhn Gary Evans. T; -XAB. Austin. T. - n . , , rntire] v f . ' -■—l am fl ffairs in :lt Present with fention rm ' ltp to P av ary at and I ..... •’ <r ou tfide mat- t x P res s nivspip ‘ ' n .° P° s it'on to have not had the su M'*ct, as I X nfJ ? Stn,lv Charles A. Culbersoni n "BST VIR4IM A “harleston \v v 0ct.2.—1 THE HUSTLER OF ROME ROME GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY EVENING OCTOBER 2 1895 am an enthusiastic eympathizer with the Cuba patriots, and say emphatically that the United State Government should recognize the independence of Cuba at the earli est possible moment. I expressed that sentiment in a public speech a few days ago, and added that Spain sbuu d be noti fied to keep hands off. and was greeted with such hearty applause that I was unable to proceed for several minutes. William A. MackCorkle. HIS LOVE. For His Child Brought the Alia”! Datauhmg Treasurer Back - [ .Ironton. Obi*. Oct. 2.—Mai.<b ville G. Clay, ex- t reasure, win is a leged to be shot in his accounts aid recently disappeared, has re t rned. He notified the officials of bis re turn, but no one as yet has ordered his arrest, and 1 e is at his home, where he has a child seriously ill of' diphtheria . Clay looks 10 years older than a month ago, his mental agony hav ing been very great. His love for his sick child was so great that he could not stay away, and he sa s he can be found at home wh en wanted. He will provable be kepi under surveillance. COMMUTED HIS SENTENCE. ,-.r ■ Washington , Oct. 2.—The presi dent has commuted to imprison mens for life the death sentence imposed upon Clyde Mwttox, ot Kansas, who was to have bee r> hanged on the 11th instant. This is the case in which th *• prisoner's mother, after appealing personally to the president, secur ed ale ter assuring her that the death sentence would not be c a r ried out. Mattox was convict’d of killing an old c d >red man, John Mullen, who was seeking to protect two colored girls. He was convicted and sentenced to hang in Kansas in 1891, gained a new trial from the United States ®upremß court and after two in >re trials was again c mvicted and re sentenc j d to death March 23, 1891 Another appeal was taken to the United States supreme court and this time the judgement was af firmed and the convict was sen tenced to be hanged Oc . 11, ot this year. As a last resort in this case, re markable for the number of trials, the man was sentenced to death, then an appeal was made to tip president, who, alter long consid eration, has just commuted the sentence as above noted. In his en dorsement the president says: ‘•lt is with much hesitation that I can show-any measure of clemen. cy in this case, inasmuch as 1 do not regard the convict as entitled to any sympathy, because of hi -1 former life, or t°stiinony taken on h s trial. I have concluded, how ever, after an anxious and perplex ing consideration of all the tacts presented to me, to save the con vict from the death awaiting him under the sentence of the court and at the same time to effective ly protect society in the future from his vicious propensities by directing his imprisonment duiiug his life. I am constrained to this course simply and solely because 1 cannot shut out the fear that cei ain testimony offered upon his tri ll and excluded by the court and which a strong minority of th supreme court held should havt been received, might, it admitted, have produced a result more favor able to the convict and probably averted his sentence o; de th A Y. M O. A. MAN Gets Into»rouble by Talking to a Durrant Juror WILL BE INVESTIGATED Damaging Evidence Brought out Against the Alleged San Francisco Murder er. Signal Corps Helping h Im San Francisco, October 2. — When the Durrant trial was re sumed this morning Judge Murphy created a sensation by announcing that one of the jurors had told Firn that some one had spoken to him about the case. Juror -TiU* man was then culled to the stand. He stated that on Thursday last, while riding with a Juror in a car Henrv J McCoy, Secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association, who entered the car, said to him: “If you don’t hang him (meaning Durrant) we will hang you ” Tru man said the remark was probably made in an off-hand manner, but he thought it his duty to bring the matter to the attention of the court. Judge Murphy thereupon issued an ord"-for McCoy to h» bre-’-ht before him on Thursday next. During the examination of the witnesses in the Durrant case this morning the prosecution brought out the fact that members of the «ignal corp«.to which Durrant be longed, had contributed to a find for the prisoners defense, The defense todav. in adfliti >r to attacking Oppenheim, the pawn-' broker, on hia inability to nrw- Iv describe persons visiting his store, begun to destroy hie evidence by alibi, which it propose# to show where he wns at 10 o’clock on the morning between Apr’! 3rd and 10th , within the dates Oppenheim said Durrant had tried to sell the ring.*. The roll call at the lecture deliv ered at 10 o’clock on Anril 4th »t Cooper college, with Durrant marked present, was introduced and it was in connection with it that the court ruled out the infer ential testimony. It is probable that (he prosecution will have to nut in •’pven'y-four students of Durrani’s class a”d endeavor to find who answered for him. The students have been polled on the question,'but no one has v°t b n en found who will that be an swered for the alleged murdere”. The defense followed ir : ‘s alibi on Oppenhiem’s testimony by showing that on April sth, soon >ifter 11 o’clock. Durrant was at the Lick Technical school, two miles from Oppenheim’s store. LITTLE MYRTLE Played Detective and gave the Pc iice a Hot Tin- Chicago. Oct. 2.—Little Myrtle Flynn, 7 years-old. is probably the youngest detective on record Yesterday she saw a colored boy' snatch a ady’e pocketbook. No Policeman was in sight, but. 'ittle Myrtle followed the boy and , saw him mount a span of wooden j zebras at a merry-go round. Then I she scampered to the nearest pol>c e ( station and excitedly told her story. 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