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The Georgia Record. Publlßhod Weekly—Every Saturday—7»l Austell Building. Atlanta, On. Entered at the post office at Atlanta as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year SI.OO Six Months 50 Three Months 30 One Month 12 Printed at 116-118 Loyd St. Advertising Rates Given Upon Application. Remit in stamps, cash, money or express order, or bank check. Address all letters to The Georgia Record, 721 Austell Building, Atlanta, Ga. THE WAR IS OVER. The “rebellion” in the Philippines has been “crushed,” as General Grant would say. The resistance to the authority of the United States has been overcome. Aguinaldo has es caped. Now that the matter seems to be closed, what are the statesmen out of jobs going to do about it? Ths po sitions of political parties are rather peculiar. There are some who cry out “imperialism,” for want of some thing more nonsensical to jabber about. The constant advance of the republic of the United States has been steady and regular by “expansion,” from the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock to the final movement of our people in the Philippines. Such “im perialism” is not hurting our form of government. Mr. Jefferson did not hesitate'to extend the empire of repub lican government in his time of ad ministering the affairs of the govern ment, and he was a Republican in his day and time. In that same period and for like causes there were the same hue and cry of “imperialism” about the “Louisiana Purchase,” and some of the Democrats then made great complaints against the Republi can administration of President Jeffer son. The resultant facts are now the brightest parts of our development of republican government, and President Jefferson is regarded by students of history as one of the wisest and one of the most patriotic statesmen who ever administered the affairs of the repub lic, and Democrats, Republicans, ab olitionists, all regard him as the tute lar saint of the republican doctrine of a government conducted by the chosen representatives of the people. This form of our government is not a democra cy, and some of our smart men who would so instruct our people as Demo crats are not the teachers of sound and correct doctrines or fundamental principles of governmental science. We should learu to consider the gov ernment in its true sense as a Repub lican or representative government, with the will of the people as sover eignity, and public office as a public trust, to the chosen officials whose duties are to make, and administer, and to execute the laws of the people, for the people. With a proper under standing of our government and its fundamental principles, there cannot be any reasonable objection to our progressive expansion, even if our development may extend all over the world. Let the true principles of a repub lican form of government be estab lished in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, Philippines, Spain, China, or any where else on earth, so that all people may be free, and learn to govern them selves by republican principles of commonwealth, or common ownership of such things as must belong to the people in a public use and purpose. This clap trap about imperialism is all bosh. Legitimate and necessary expansion and development of repub lican government is no more like “im perialism” than the doctor of divinity by the principles of Christianity is like Hebraic theology. Let us hold the Philippines, and extend the prin ciples and science of Republican gov ernment, as we would inculcate and propagate the principles of salvation by the course of true religion. i)o you want an up-to-date, live newspaper—one that will keep you por.ted on affairs at home and abroadf You will answer the question affirm atively by sending us your name and subscription for this paper for a year or at least six months. WILL MEET IN KANSAS CITY COMMITTEE SELECTS PLACE AND DATE FOR NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. Ii JULY UH THE DALE NAMED. Honor Lay Between Kansas City and Milwaukee and the Former Won. The Democratic national commit tee met in the parlors of the Hotel Raleigh at Washington, Thursday at noon, to fix the time and place for holding the national Democratic con vention. The committee was called to order by Senator Jones, chairman of the committee. Every state and ter ritory was represented either by the national committeeman or by proxy. Kansas City, Missouri, and Wednes day, the 4th of July, was the time and place decided upon for the convention. The really significant thing about this decision is found in the absolute and decided refusal of the Democratic leaders to hold their convention on the 9th of May, the date on which the Populist national convention will be held. The sentiment against the prop osition to hold the convention on that day was practically unanimous. Its strongest advocate was National Committeeman Thompson, of Nebras ka, who in some respects has been re garded as Mr. Bryan’s personal repre sentative on the committee. That in his advocacy of this date he did not represent the wishes of Mr. Bryan, however, was strongly attested by other members of the committee who have been in conference with the leader since the member from his own state has seen him. Mr. Bryan was in favor of some day in the first week in June, preferably the sth, and the committee would have selected that date except for the strong appeals made by the representatives from Oregon, who pointed out that this would conflict with their elec tions, and that they would be unable to send delgates to the national con vention if there were such conflict. Outside of this refusal to accept the Populist date, the most significant de velopment of the day’s conference is found in the emphasis given the fact that the Democratic campaign is to be pitched so as to catch, if in any way it is possible, the German vote. This first manifested itself in the appeal of the orators who spoke for Milwaukee. The geographical arguments advanc ed by Kansas City proved efficacious. To the eloquent appeal of the repre sentatives of Milwaukee they pointed to the fact that with the convention of 1896 at Chicago, the Democrats lost Illinois by nearly 150,000 votes, while the Republicans lost the state in w’hieh they held their convention by about 70,000 votes. Kansas City won by a vote of 41 to 9. Cincinnati had a delegation on board headed by John 8. Huff,former ly of Atlanta, with an offer of $25,000, but it was decided not to present the city’s name, as the sum was too small to give it a chance. The claims of the rival cities as to hotel accommodation, railroad and tel egraph facilities were presented in open session by representatives of each city, and subsequently in execu tive session ex-Governor Stone on be half of Kansas City, and National Com mitteeman E. C. Wall, on behalf of Milwaukee, explained the financial inducements which the city he repre sented w-as willing to make. Each offered the committee $50,000, but in addition Kansas City was will ing to furnish hotel accommodations for the members of the committee and the hall with decorations and music free of expense to the committee. A speech which had a great deal of influence in fixing the date was made by ex-Senator Gorman. He said that four’years ago it might have been well to hold the convention early, as the party then took a new position, one which drove many of the leaders out of the party or into temporary retire ment. The organization then went SON DEFENDS FATHER. Young Clark Appears Before the Sen ate Investigating Committee. C. W. Clark, son of Senator Clark, of Montana, appeared before the sen ate committee Tuesday and told that he had an income of $250,000 a year and that he was in business for him self. He denied in detail the assertion of such witnesses as Whiteside and Hew itt, State Senator Myers and others. Mr. Clark submitted what he said was a detailed statement of his receipts and expenditures for political purposes during the Montana campaign. The aggregate footed up to SIIB,OOO. into new hands, inlto the hands of able men, but many of whom had not been active in control of party affairs. It took them some lime to organize. Now there was a f ood organization. The party was reaily and equipped to enter upon the campaign. The party in power should be allowed to hold its convention first and the indict ment of that party.could be made as it had been madein’imes past. address issued. When the business of the meeting was concluded the committee issued the following call:, “The national democratic commit tee, having met in the city of Wash ington on the 2211 day of February, 1900, has appointed Wednesday, the Foui th of July, aS|the time and chosen the city of Kansa s City, Mo., as the place for holding sie national Demo cratic convention I Each state is en titled to a represeiJation therein equal to double the nuiiier of its senators and representative! in the congress of the United Statesjnd each territory, Alaska, Indian Territory and the Dis trict of Columbia,lhall have six dele gates. All Demolratic conservative reform citizens of Ithe United States, irrespective of past political associa tions and differences, who can unite with us in the effort for pure, econom ical and constitujional government, and who favor th republic and op pose the empire, t e cordially invited to join us in send ig delegates to the convention.” The committee, at 6:30 p. m., ad journed to meet at iansas City, July 3. WASHINGTON 5 FAREWELL. . Usual Address Is Read In the United States-Senate. An annual custom which has pre vailed in the senate for many years is the reading by some senator designat ed by resolution, of Washington’s fare well address, immediately after the reading of the journal of the senate on Washington’s birthday. Several day’s ago Senator Foraker, of Ohio, was selected to read the ad dress. It was a notable compliment to him that when the senate convened Thursday that all the public and private galleries were crowded and scores of people stood in the corridors unable to gain admission. An unusually Igrge attendance of senators was present and all gave close attention to Mr. Foraker’s reading, which was a fine bit of elocution. At the conclusion of the reading he was congratulated by his colleagues. Miners Get More Wages. An advance of 2 1-2 cents per ton iu wages has been granted the coal dig gers of the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company at Brookw’ood, Bibb county, Alabama. AGUINALDO IS LOCATED. The Wily Insurgent Leader Escapes to Japan. A special from Hong Kong, British China, to The New York Evening World says: “United States Consul Wildman has information that three members of the Filipino junta, Luban, Ponce and Agoncillo, brother of the envoy, left recently for Japan to meet Aguinaldo. This gives credence to the story that Aguinaldo escaped from the island of Luzon to Formosa when hunted by General Lawton’s expedition through the northern part of the island.” GROSVENOR BLAMES BRYA.N. Says Nebraskan Influenced Votes Fa vorable to Spanish Treaty. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, spoke in the house Thursday in support of the Porto Rico bill. He said that any political party or individuals who took part in ratifying and supporting the treaty with Spain was estopped from opposing any of the legitimate effects of that treaty. When that treaty hung in the balance, a certain Nebraska colonel (Bryan) left his regiment and came to Washington to aid in securing ratification and he did influence votes at a critical juncture. A GRANT MEMORIAL. House Will Vote Honey For a State In Washington. The house committee on library fa vorably reported a bill Thursday making on appropriation of plans or designs for a memorial or statue of General Grant to be erected at Wash ington. The bill upon which the report is based was introduced by Representa tive Mercer, of Nebraska. Prominent Populist Dead. Colonel Thomap Fletcher, of Little Rock, known throughout the country as the leader of tjhe Populist party of Arkansas, is dead. CRONJE REQUESTED BRIEF ARMISTICE Kitchener, However, Returns an Emphatic Reply. “FIGHT OR A SURRENDER.” London Advices Say That Boer General is In a Bad Way. According to Thursday’s advices from London, General Cronje is seem ingly making his last stand. He is dying hard, hemmed in by British in fantry and with shells from sixty guns falling into his camp. On the third day of the fight the Boer chief asked for an armistice to bury his dead. “Fight to a finish or surrender un conditionally,” was Lord Kitchener’s reply. General Cronje immediately sent back word that bis request for a truce had been misunderstood, and that his determination then, as before, w r as to. fight to the death. The battle went on. This was the situation of General Cronje Tuesday evening as sketched in the scanty tel egrams that emerged from the semi silence of South Africa. Officially Lord Roberts wires that he scattered the advance commandos of the regiments that w'ere striving to reach General Cronje. It is regarded as singular that Lord Roberts, wires Wednesday, should not mention the appeal for an armistice on the previ ous day and also that the war office should withhold good news, if it has any. Without trying to reconcile even the scanty material at hand, it seems plain that General Cronje is in a bad, and even a desperate condition, and that the British are pressing their ad vantage. While the attack on General Cronje proceeds, there is a race for concentra tion between the Boers and the British. The engagement with Gen. Cronje’s five to eight thousand intrenched men is likely to become an incident in a battle between the masses. The sep arated fractions of the Boer power are rapidly drawing together to attack Lord Roberts. Will Cronje be able to hold out until the Boer masses appear, or if he does, will they then be able to succor him? The British are facing the Boers on ground where the arms, tactics and training of the British are expected to give them the advantage. General Buller, according to a dis patch from Chieveley, dated Wednes day, finds the Boers in positions north of the Tugela largely re-enforced. This seems strange. The war office for the first time has given out an official compilation of the British losses. The total is 11,208 to February 17th. This does not include, therefore, Lord Roberts’ recent losses, nor the Wiltshire prisoners. The press association learns that the British losses at Koodos rand were 700. Advices from Paardeburg Drift, Orange Pre? State, Tuesday, Feb. 20, via the Modder river, Wednesday, Feb. 21, statfe that one of the cost liest actions of the war occurred at Paardeburg Drift Sunday, February 18, General Kelly-Kenny, in his pur suit of General Cronje, caught his rear guard at Klip Drift and followed the burghers to the Boers’ laager at Koodos rand. The drift action began at daybreak. The advance was deadly and the British losses were heavy. The bat tle W'as an exact repetition of the Mod der river battle, with the soldiers un der fire all day long and the fighting had no definite results, as the Boers’ laager was well barricaded and they remained therein. The British guns shelled the laager vigorously and Boers confessed to a loss of over 800 men. The terrific shelling was resumed Mon day, when General Cronje asked for an armistice. The shelling was continued Tues day, over fifty guns pouring lead into the Boer camp. A WALK-OUT ORDERED. Miners at Jellico, Tenn., Are Advised To Go On Strike. An Indianapolis dispatch says: Pres ident Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, before leaving for the Illi nois convention instructed that a strike be ordered at the Jellico,Tenn., mines. It was at first intended to have Na tional President Mitchell call the men out and allow the operators, if they saw fit, to issue an order for his ar rest, but after weighing the T. case J. Smith, president of the district iu which the mines are located, was di rected to call out the men. Adverse To Department Stores. The Missouri supreme court has de clared the department store law, passed by the last legislature, uncon stitutional and void, being class legis lation. GREAT DEBATE IS LAUNCHED Discussion of Porto Rican f Tariff Bill Begins. OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST All the Democrats In Congress Are Outspoken Against the Payne Measure. A Washington special says: The debate on the Porto Rican tariff bill opened in the house Monday. On all hands it is agreed that this bill, although it applies only to Porto Rico, involving as it does the question of the power to govern our new pos sessions outside the limitations of the constitution, is the most important measure which will come before this congress. Interest in the bill is intense among the members on both sides and there is urgent demand for time. The Dem ocrats are solidly arrayed against the measure and they will have powerful support from the Republican side in Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Littlefield, of Maine, both able and forceful debaters. How far the Republicap disaffection will extend, or whether it will endanger the bill, it is impossible to say at this time. Mr. Payne, the floor leader of the majority, refused to agree that a vote should be taken upon a substitute to be offered by the minority. This sub stitute, which has not yet been framed, will be in substance the bill originally introduced by Mr. Payne providing for free trade with Porto Rico by the ex tention of the customs and revenue laws of the United States over the island. The debate Monday was in the na ture of a long range bombardment be fore the clash of the contending forces in battle. Mr. Payne opened with a general argument in support of the bill, going largely into the material side of the situation which the bill is designed to relieve. The house then went into committee of the whole with all questions relat ing to the close of the debate open. Mr. Payne, in charge of the bill, in opening the debate, received marked attention. “This bill by its terms,” he ex plained, “relates only to the island of Porto Rico. It cannot be taken as a precedent of any legislative action in reference to the Philippine islands when the present insurrection shall have boen overcome except in so far as we assert in it our view of our pow er under the American constitution. “But our constitutional power is questioned. I find no case where the question was directly involved or which is decisive. “It is now universally conceded that we have the power to acquire ter ritory by conquest or by treaty. I find no limit in the constitution to this power. In respect to Porto Rico we are not hampered by treaty stipu lations by act of congress. We have absolute power.” RICHARDSON LEADS OPPOSITION. Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, the leader of the minority, made the open ing argument in opposition to the measure. “I am not an alarmist,” said he, “but in my judgment the pending bill is more dangerous to the liberties of the people of this republic than any measure before seriously presented to the American congress. It will prove more far reaching in its provisions and disastrous in the results that must of necessity follow if it should be en acted into law than any act ever pass ed by congress. “The bill is framed upon the idea and assumption that congress enters upon the government of Porto Rico unrestrained by the provisions of the constitution. This we deny. Those of us who oppose this measure, I be lieve, without exception, maintain that the bill cannot be enacted into law without a total disregard and vio lation of not simply the spirit, but the express letter, of the constitu tion.” CONFERENCE AT TUSKEGEE. Negro Educators Hold Their Ninth Annual Meeting. The ninth annual session of the Tuskegee negro conference assembled in the church at Tuskegee institute at 10 o’clock Wednesday. The session was notable for the un usually large number of prominent southern educators and business men of both races who were present. Professor Booker T. Washington said in his opening address that the value of these meetings lay in the; good which the delegates got from them to carry home. He warned them against ex-slave pension agents and. emigration agents.