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The Georgia Record.
VOL 1.
A GREAT MILITARY PARADE
Is Arranged By Committee For “Dewey and
Brumby Day” In Atlanta, Ga.
OTHER STATES ARE INVITED
Affair Promises to Be Grandest
Ever Witnessed In the
Southern States.
The biggest military demonstration
that has ever occurred in Atlanta or
in the state of Georgia will be given
in honor of Admiral Dewey and Lieu
tenant Brumby October 25th. The
general reception committee at its
session in Atlanta Tuesday morning,
recognizing the importance of the mil
itary feature of the celebration, appro
priated the sum of §5,000 to meet the
expenses which will be incurred from
this source.
Unless the indications fail, an'd there
is no reason to believe they will, the
militia of Georgia will be backed up
in the parade by troops from Alabama,
Tennessee, South Carolina, North Car
olina and possibly Florida. Telegrams
were hurried off Tuesday by the mili
tary committee to the adjutants general
of each oi the states named asking
them to wire an invitation at the
committee’s expense to each company
commander in their jurisdiction, to
lake part in the big military para !e in
honor of Dewey and Brumby.
At the lowest estimate made by any
member of the military committee
there will be in Atlanta over 3,000
visiting troops and the number may
go up upon the receipt of replies from
the different states to 5,000.
Acting Adjutant General Phil Byrd,
at the meeting of the general commit
tee, was tendered, the position of mar
shal of the day on the occasion of the I
parade. The selection was regarded
by the committee as a wise one on ac- ■
count of the familiarity of the acting ;
general with the military organization
of the state.
Immediately after the adjournment ■
of the general committee a meeting |
of the military committee was called !
and in the short session a great deal
toward making the parade the distinct
feature of the Dewey celebration was
accomplished.
Colonel J. Van Holt Nash was ap- j
pointed a committee of one to proceed !
at once securing quarters for thei
troops on the basis of 2,000 or 2,500 |
visiting soldiers.
States Invited.
The remarkably cheap rate of one
cent a mile which has been offered for
certain days by the railroads entering
Atlanta will be extended over military ,
and Dewey day, which under the pres- i
ent arrangements have been made the !
same. The low rates it is believed will |
be a special iuduccement to the troops
of the neighboring states that have i
been invited to take part in the cele
bration.
There was scarcely a command in '
the south that did not make an effort
to go to New York and join in the first
ovation to the hero admiral, and the
hundreds who failed to take advantage
of the opportunity will be presented
with the same chance in Atlanta. The
telegrams to the adjutants general of
the different states were sent shortly
after noon Tuesday.
The committee realizes that the time
left in which to prepare for the big
demonstration is short and those
troops that come from a distance will
be compelled to decide at once. In
spite of this the military committee is
confident that each of the states in
vited will make a good showing and
that the demonstration will be the
finest of the kind ever formed in the
city.
Provision For the Troops.
Out of the appropriation of §5,000
which has been made by the general
committee, will come the expense of
caring for the troops, who, while in
the city, it is understood, will be the
guests of Atlanta. Notices were sent
by telegraph to each company com
mander in the state notifying him that
his men will be fed and provided with
a place by the committee and that all
the troops are expected to bring is the
ATLANTA, GA.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1899
regulation campaign dress and blank
ets for use at night.
The troops will bo fed from a gener
al commissary which is to be estab
lished at some convenient point to the
troop headquarters. No regular hour
for meals will be fixed, any man with
uniform can obtain his meals any
time he appears at commissary.
Kail way People Hustling;.
Railway officials are getting together
all the engines and cars they can press
into service to handle the great crowds.
From every station the agents report
that the people are talking about “go
ing to Atlanta to see Dewey and
Brumby.”
The estimates of the visitors to be
■expected run from 40,000 up. No one
would be greatly surprised to see 100,-
000 people in the Gate City during the
two days of Dewey’s visit.
Now that it is certain that the ad
miral will visit no other city in the
south, the estimates are hardly limited
at all. As Atlanta extended the first
invitation from the south, the admiral
could not refuse, but he plans to re
turn direct to Washington.
KAIN WAS NO OBSTACLE.
Kentuckians Turn Out In Force To Greet
Bryan and Hl# Forty.
William J. Bryan and his Party
i ent Tuesday night in Stanford, rfy.,
after another day of hard campaigning
;in central Kentucky. The start was
i made from Louisville at 6 o’clock
Tuesday morning. A heavy storm
i prevailed and continued throughout
the day. Frankfort, the capital city,
was reached at 8 o’clock.
Despite the rain and the early hour
a large crowd assembled in the opera
house to hear Mr. Bryan, who urged
I the election of the regular Democratic
; state ticket. The lengthy speech of
the day was that delivered at Lexiug
i ton, in Chautauqua hall, before, per
i iaps, the largest gathering of enthu
i siastic followers met during the day’s
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UPHOLD FLAG DEFENDERS.
Makes Plea for Men In Philip
pines In IIH Racine Speech.
The train bearing the presidential
party from the north slipped into Chi
cago at 2:40 o’clock Tuesday afternoon
and left for Michigan points and the
east immediately. In the course of
his speech at Racine, Wis., Tuesday
morning, the president said:
“Our thoughts, our prayers go to
the brave men in the distant islands
of the sea, who are upholding the flag
of our country in honor. And while
they are doing that we will uphold
them. All hostilities will cease in the
Philippin’es when those who com
menced them will stop, and they will
not cease until our flag, representing
liberty, humanity and civilization,
shall float triumphantly in every un
disputed and acknowledged sover
eignty of the republic of the United
States.” (Applause.)
SEVENTY THOUSAND MEN
Will Soon Be With General Otis and
Ready For Action.
A Washington dispatch says: The
combined military and naval forces of
the United States in the Philippines,
when all the troops and ships now
under orders reach there will aggre
gate more than 70,000 men and forty
five war vessels.
The last of these forces will arrive
in Manila early in December*:
This statement shows the strength
in detail of the military and naval
forces assigned to duty in the Philip
pines:
Army—Combatants, 63,872; non
combatants, 1,500.
Navy—Ships, 45; blue-jackets,
4,997; marines, 1,184.
Affiliated Orders Increased.]
The executive council of* the Ameri
can Federation of Labor met in Wash
ington Tuesday. The secretary’s re
port shows a marvelous increase in the
number of organizations formed and
affiliated. It was decided to urge on
congress legislation for an eight-hour
day and the restriction of immigration.
BRYAN FOR GOEBEL’
Nebraskan Making Speeches To
Kentucky Voters,
ADVISES ELECTION OF GOEBEL TICKET
Enthusiastic Crowd# Greet the Campaign
er# Everywhere Ovation#
Given Bryan.
The first day’s trip of the Bryan-
Goebel party through Kentucky com
menced at Cairo, 111., the first speech
of the day being made at Bardwell,
Ky., in the presence of a good-natured
’ and good-sized crowd. The special
train reached the Kentucky town at
8:30 o’clock Monday morning.
In his opening address Mr. Bryan
demonstrated his purpose to support
the Democratic ticket headed by Wil
liani Goebel for governor. He held
that, the question of whether the next
president of the United States was a
Democrat depended largely upon
whether Kentucky was Democratic
this fall. He held that any Demo
crat who stands for the Chicago plat
form is better than a Republican.
In the presence of the enemy it was
not a time to air personal grievances.
Thsj real question was one as to prin
ciples between the parties.
In national matters he assailed the
attitude of President McKinley as re
lated to the Philippine islands, assert
ing that the presn ent’s declaration
that congress wool 1 care for the
islands was a subvention 6i the decla
ration of independence and the first
to be openly made by a president of
the United States.
The declaration of the president
suggested the use of the word parlia
ment instead of congress and recalled
the colonial days and policy of King
George. The islands did not and
could not belong to us simply because
we had paid a decaying monarchy for
them.
The silver question and the Chicago
platform as a whole form the vital
questions to be solved in the coming ;
political contest of 1900.
At Fulton there was a good crowd.
Mr. Bryan said:
“You can cto some pretty good yell
ing here, but I want to tell.you if you
elect Mr. Goebel governor and Joe
Blackburn senator, there will be more !
yelling in Nebraska, than there is [
here. They say a man does not want
another to do better than himself, but
I am not selfish when I say I want you
to give Mr. Goebel a larger majority
than you did me is 1896. While I
appreciate the splendid vote of 1896, j
I believe our party is stronger than it 1
was then and there are always sixteen ■
reasons to one why it should be so.” j
The largest crowd of the day was
met at Mayfield, and the greeting to i
the visiting party was the warmest.
Mr. Bryan and Mr. Goebel were the |
speakers, the former delivering the '
most elaborate speech of the day.
EXCITEMENT IN BARNESVILLE.
Negroes Resent Being Ordered Out of
Oxford Knitting Mills.
At 10 o’clock Monday night the
Barnesville, Ga., police reported to
Mayor Kennedy that forty to fifty ne
groes were assembled near the square,
with rifles and clubs, evidently prepar
ing for a midnight attack. The mayor
at once ordered out the Barnesville
Blues and in loss than an hour the
city was under military rule and every
vestige of a mob bad disappeared.
The cause of the mobilization of 1
negroes is supposed to be the outcome
of the strike which occurred at the
Oxford knitting mills last week. The
white operatives refused to work with
negroes. The matter was adjusted,
but not until every negro had left the
mill. Numerous notices have been
posted by unknown parties warning
negroes not to return to their occupa
tions. This is supposed to have
aroused the negroes.
Newell Will Sign Protocol.
A special from The Hague says:
Stanford Newell, United States minis
ter to the Netherlands, will sign the
protocol embodying the agreements
reached by the representatives of the
powers participating in the recent
peace conference.
BRITISH ARMY
IS AUGMENTED
Queen Victoria Makes a Call For
35,990 Reserves.
IS DETERMINED TO END WAR
Incidentally England Will Thus
Demonstrate to World
Her Resources.
In the English house of commons at
London, Wednesday, the first lord of the
treasury and government leader, Ar
thur J. Balfour, brought in the fol
lowing message from the queen:
“The state of affairs in south Africa
having constituted, in the opinion of
her majesty, a case of great emergency
within the meaning of the act of par
liament, her majesty deems it proper
to provide additional means for mili
tary service. She has, therefore,
thought it right to communicate to the
house that her majesty is, by procla
mation, about to order the embodi
ment of the militia, and to call out the
militia reserve force, or such part
thereof as her majesty may think nec
essary for permanent service.”
The calling ont of the militia and
the militL reserves has occasioned
widespread wonderment. Old stories
of preparations against continental
combinations are revived. It is freely
rumored that the government is de
termined to demonstrate to Europe
that the British army is not a negative
quantity.
The call will be for 35,000 reserves
and for an added appropriation for
, war purposes of £10,000,000 sterling.
The house agreed to consider the
royal message on Thursday.
A motion by Mr. Baifour appropri
ating the entire special session for
government business was carried Ly
279 votes against 48.
The debate on the address in reply
to the speech from the throne was
then resumed. Philip James Stan
hope, liberal member for Burnley,
moved an amendment strongly dis
approving the conduct of the negotia
tions with the Transvaal. He attacked
the policy of the secretary of state
the colonies, Mr. Chamberlain, and
demanded that the latter should clear
himself of the charge of complicity in
the Jameson raid.
The amendment was seconded by
Samuel Thomas Evans, liberal mem
ber for the middle division of Glamor
gunshire.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, lib
eral member for West Monmouthshire,
and former official leader of the liber
al party, following several minor
speeches for and against the govern
ment, said it was the duty of the party
to support the government in main
taining the integrity of the dominions
of the queen, but that they had a
right to speak of the policy of the
government in an altogether different
tone. He criticised Mr. Chamber
lain’s policy. At the conclusion of
his speech the house adjourned.
EDITORS VISIT FAIR.
Members of (Ho Two Georgia Press Asso
ciation# Enjoy Themselves.
A feature of the opening exercises of
the Georgia State Fair at Atlanta was
the presence of a hundred or more
Georgia editors in the auditorium,
members of the Georgia Press associa
tion and the Weekly Press association.
The two organizations held a joint
meeting Wednesday morning in room
104 of the Kimball. Presidents H. H.
Cabaniss and Walter Coleman were
present at the meeting and explained
that there was no business to be tran
sacted, but that the meeting had been
culled for the purpose of visiting the
fair.
The members of both organizations
went out to the grounds at noon and
dined with Sheriff Calloway on Geor
gia barbecue. After a hearty indul
gence of this luscious product the edi-«
tors took in the Midway. They went
through every show in the enclosure
and enjoyed the exhibitions im
mensely.
At 3 o’clock they went in a body to
the auditorium and participated iu the
opening exercises.
NO. 17.
BOERSWEREWAITING
Further Particulars of Destruc
tion of Armored Train,
TOWN ON ENGLISH SOIL BESIEGED
The Transvaal Flag I# Raided Over New
Castle—Kimberly Mines
Are Threatened.
The London Daily Mail’s Cape
Town correspondent, telegraphing
Sunday evening, says:
“Kimberly is besieged and the
Boers are massing in force. No de
tails, however, are obtainable.
“The Boers have cut the railway at
Belmont, have seized the Spyfoutein
railway station and constructed forti
fied earth works. There are strong
defending forces at Modeler bridge
and the Orange river bridge.
“The object of these energetic oper
ations is believed to be the capture of
Cecil Rhodes. Kimberly is now iso
lated, both railway and telegraphic
communication being cut.”
The Daily Mail’s Glencoe Camp
correspondent under date of Sunday
says:
“A force under Commandant Viljoen
from Spitzkep, occupied New Castle
Saturday afternoon, and it is reported
planted their flag over the town hall.
“It is rumored that the Boers have
captured a police patrol of six men at
Dejagers, on the Buffalo river.”
So far as actual new-s is concerned,
very little change in the situation is
noticed. The state affairs at Mafe'nng
can only be conjectured. The occupa
tion of New Castle by the Boers was
prepared for and expected, the plaee
having been abandoned by the British.
The Boers are reported by press dis
patches to be menacing Kimberly.
Boers Were On the Watch.
Further details are at hand regard
’ ing the destruction of the armored
I tram at Kraaipan. These show that
i Captain Nesbitt, who was in command
of the train, was warned at Maribago
i that the Boers held the line. He re
; plied that he was bound to proceed.
Nearing Kraaipan, the train dashed
into a culvert that bad been blown up
by the Boers, who were lying in wait
for the train. The Boer artillery im
mediately opened fire and a desperate
fight appears to have ensued, lasting
four hours, with tht. odds greatly
against the British. The precise de
tails are uncertain.
It seems, however, that a police
patrol, a-ttracted by the firing, ap
proached within about two thousand
yards of Kraaipan, saw the train
ditched with the Boer artillery still
pounding at it, but noticed no re
sponse. The Boers seemed afraid to
approached until the wreck was com-,
plete; and the police feared, as there
was no sign of life near the train, that
the entire force had perished in a des
perate attempt to get the train back to
Mafeking, where they knew it was
anxiously awaited with its load of guns
and ammunition.
It is reported that the Boers lost
heavily, but there is no means of ver
ifying this. Two miles of rails were
torn up.
There is no authoritative confirma
tion of the report that a battle has
been fought in Natal between Sir
General George Stewart White and
the Orange Free State troops, although
there is no question that the Boers
have crossed the frontier at several
points.
MANY EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS.
Dunth List on the Island of Coran Said to
Have Been Four Thousnnd,
Official dispatches from Batavia, cap
ital of The Netherlands Indies, con
firm the reports regarding the recent
earthquake on the island of Coran.
Not only the town of Amhoi, on the
south side of the island, was destroy
ed, but several other villages were
wrecked. The official advices declare
that no fewer than 4,000 people were
killed hundreds of others serious
ly injured.
Marchand Wanted Revenge.
Advices from Paris state that Major
Marchand, who commanded the French
expedition in the Soudan, wished to
go and fight for the Boers for revenge
for being compelled to withdraw’ from
Fashoda, but the government refused,
him permission.