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The Georgia Record.
VOL. I.
GENERAL JOUBERT IS DEAD
Commander=ln=Chief of the Boer Army a
Victim of Disease.
A HEAVY BLOW TO BOERS
Hero of Majuba HiH, Great Patriot
and England’s Impla
cable Foe.
Advices from Pretoria announce the
death of General Joubert Tuesday
night at 11:30 o’clock. He had been
suffering from an attack of perito
nitis.
The town is plunged into mourning
for the true patriot, gallant general
and upright and honorable gentleman.
It is known that General Joubert
had been ill several weeks. He never
recovered from the wound sustained
in battle in front of Ladysmith last
November, when it was reported that
he hud been killed. He left the front
some weeks ago, leaving the Boer
forces then surrounding Ladysmith in
command of other Boer generals.
The death of Joubert is a sad event
for the Transvaal. Next to President
Kruger he was recognized as the fore
most Boer leader. He had been in
command of the Boer army for years,
and to his great generalship and force
of character the efficiency of the South
African Bepnblic’s army is due.
General Joubert’s death and the
capture of General Cronje weakens
the forces of the Boers to a large ex
tent and will result in great changes
in the army. They are the two most
famous of the Boer generals, and the
ending of the public careers of both
during the present war will be one of
the greatest shocks to the republic’s
people. Cronje is supposed to be on
his way to St. Helena, where he will
doubtless be confined during the re
mainder of his life.
Joubert’s successor in the chief
command will probably be General
Louis Botha, now commanding in
Natal.
General Pietruskobius Joubert,com
mandant general of the Transvaal
forces, better known as Piet Joubert,
or “Slim Piet” (Slim Peter) was born
about sixty-nine years ago. He was
descended from an old French Hugue
not family which settled in South Af
rica many years ago. He was born in
Cape Colony, but was taken by his
parents, when several years old, to
the Orange Free State, where he was
taught from early childhood to shoot
straight and hate the British.
He is described as having been
utterly fearless. Os schooling he had
but little, and he never saw a newspa
per until he was nineteen years old.
In spite of this, his ambition prompt
ed him to read the few books he could
obtain and he succeeded in obtaining
a fair knowledge of history and lan
guage.
In consequence of the acquisition of
Natal by the British his family moved
from Natal and settled in the Trans
vaal. Soon afterwards he became a
burgher of the South African republic
and daring fighter. It was claimed in
his behalf that he could lead a body of
men more successfully against hostile
natives than any other man in the
Transvaal. He came to be so feared
by the natives that, the knowledge that
he was at the head of a punitive expe
dition usually resulted in their sur
render.
It w’as during these wars with the
natives that Jcubert became acquaint
ed with Paul Kruger and the two men
became bosom friends. He was elect
ed vice president of the Transvaal in
1896, defeated Sir George Coffer at
Majuba hill in 1881 and acted as presi
dent of the republic in 1884 during
President Kruger’s absence in Europe.
General Joubert was always in favor
of the use of force instead of diploma
cy and President Kruger on several
occasions had great difficulty in re
pressing his hot-headed colleague, no
tably in 1879, when Joubert with Kru
ger and Pretorius was planning the
rebellion to overth .'ow British rule in
the Transvaal.
The result was Majuba hill and the
practical independence of the Trans
vaal. It was Joubert who organized
the army of the South African repub
lic, later on dividing the country into
seventeen military departments and
each of these departments into smaller
divisions with commandants, field cor
nets and lieutenants of various ranks
in charge.
According to the general’s plans
every native became a trained soldier
without leaving his farm, and has his
equipment always at hand.
It was also due to General Joubert
that the South African republic suc
ceeded in amassing the munitions
of war and provisions which have
stood them in such good stead during
the conflict now in progress.
“ DALY Is" RESPONSIBLE.”
Defense In the Clark Investigation
Submits a Lengthy
Brief.
The brief of the defense in the Clark
investigation has been submitted to
the senate committee and is signed by
Hon. Charles J. Faulkner and Mr.
Roger Foster, and it covers 232 pages.
The document is throughout an ar
raignment of the prosecution. It be
gins with the assertion that “an exam
ination of this testimony will confirm
the most skeptical in the belief that
those who seek to brand a majority of
the representatives of a sovereign state
as ‘dishonest’ and as ‘bribe takers’are
influenced by no lofty purpose of rem
edying an evil, nor is it entered upon
from a desire to maintain the integrity
of the membership of the United States
senate. The facts shown in this record
fully justify the assertion that those
who originated the prosecution were
controlled only by sentiment of the
bitterest personal and political hostil
ity.”
It is then declared that the' senti
ment in the state of Montana is so
universal for Mr. Clark that the “lead
ing spirit of the protestants, whose
prejudice has animated this prosecu
tion, has found it necessary to invest
large sums of money in the purchase
of the press of the state, and in other
cases by the establishment of newspa
pers with the hope of checking and
J dividing the sentiment of the people
i of Montana.”
Af&r some other preliminary re
. marks the brief definitely audrspecifl
■ cally names Marcus Daly as the chief
; instigator of the contest and the state
i ment on this point is as follows: .
“Marcus Daly having defeated Sen
ator Clark in 1888 for congress and
for the senate in 1893 through treach
ery to his party organization, was un
willing to restrain his personal hos
tility and to permit the voice of the
people, through their legally constitu
ted representatives, to determine the
election of their senator, and as early
l as the 10th of February, 1899, he or
ganized a committee of his personal
friends aud agents to work up and pre
pare a case against the seating of Sen
ator Clark by this body. The testi
mony will bear out the assertion that
every member of this prosecuting
committee was either one of the con
spirators in the attempt to defeat Mr.
Clark’s election or an employe of Mr.
Daly, or an adherent of his faction in
this state.”
AN EASY UNDERTAKING.
Bloomington, Indiana, Paper Will Get
Out a “Satanic” Edition.
The Rev. Mr. Sheldon’s effort to
run a newspaper for one week has in
spired H. J. Feltus, editor of the
Bloomington, Ind., Star, to experi
ment in an opposite direction. He
will turn.over the editcrial and busi
ness departments of the newspaper
to the printer’s devil to conduct the
sheet as Satan would. In an editorial
he says:
“The Star for Saturday, March 31,
will be a devil of a paper. Suitable
contributions for such a paper, briefly
written, will be considered. No
church notices nor reading matter nor
advertisements of a religious nature
will be received. We propose to let
the devil have full sway. ”
ATLANTA, GA . SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1900.
AU POWERS AGREE.
The “Open Door” Plan as Regards
China Is Successfully
Initiated.
Secretary of State Hay submitted to
congress Tuesday the correspondence
had with the governments of Great
Britain, France, Germany, Russia,
Italy and Japan respecting the main
tenance of an “open door” in China.
The correspondence extended from
September 6th last to the 20th instant,
the last date making the successful
completion of the undertaking.
On September 6th the state depart
ment addressed to our ambassadors at
London, Berlin aud St. Petersburg
copies of a “formal declaration, setting
out the desires of our government in
the matter of the ‘open door. ’ ” Italy
and Japan were similarly addressed
about a month later.
While the “formal declarations”
sent to the ambassadors were similar,
yet each of the officers adopted a dis- ,
ferent phraseology in addressing
themselves to the governments to |
which they are accredited, the domi- 1
nant note being best set forth perhaps
in Ambassador Choate’s note to the
British government.
After reciting the importance to both
governments of the matter and the
president’s understanding that the
British settled policy is freedom of
trade in China for all the world alike,
though conceding certain spheres of
influence by formal treaties with Ger
many and Russia, Ambassador Choate
points out to Lord Salisbury that main
tenance of this policy is alike urgently
demanded by the commercial commu
nities of our two nations in order to |
improve existing conditions and en
able extension of their future opera
tions.
PL A N TO PAY TEACH E RS.
Attorney General Terrell of Georgia De
ckles Upon an JEntip'Jiy New Method.
The teachers in tIA common schools
of Georgia, under a jlecision rendered
by Attorney General' Terrell, will get
their salaries this year on time. Pay- !
ments will be made from the state I
treasury for the two spring months of
the school term, though it looked for !
a time as if only the salaries for one
month could be paid on time.
The decision of the attorney general
has pointed a new aud, so far as prece
dent is concerned, a unique way for
the state to meet its obligation to the
teachers. He has held that the bond
ed debt fund of the state may be ap
plied to the payment of interest as
well as principal on the debt. The
public debt fund now in the treasury
consists of the proceeds from the sale
of state property, such as the old cap
itol building aud the Okefenokee
swamp, and this fund has been banked
up in the treasury and kept out of I
circulation.
The sum of §175,000 will be due as ■
interest oil the public debt on
Ist and the sum to pay this interest is |
now being held in the treasury. Gov
ernor Candler has suggested and At- I
torney General Terrell has sustained
him on the point that the §175,000 due
as interest can be paid out of the §325,-
000 in accordance with law and the
§175,000 which was intended to be
used as payment of the interest due in
July can be used in the payment of
teachers in the common schools.
The principle is an entirely new one
as advanced by the governor and at
torney general aud it means that the
teachers will get their money at the
same time they did last year.
OLIVIER’S GIIEvFfeAT.
Wily Boer Commandant Eludes Roberta
After Being Virtually Trapped.
Advices of Tuesday from London
state that the Boers are having a little
good luck and are showing some bold
ness again as a raiding party estimated
at 400 is believed by the British
forces at Warrenton to have crossed the
Kimberley-Bloemfontein wagon road
Monday and have headed for Ja- j
cobsdal, with the intention of cut
ting the railway ten miles west.
Commandant Olivier appears to have '
got his 5,000 men and twenty miles of l
wagons into rugged country, where he
can make an easy rear guard defense. I
Charles Williams, the military expert,
says:
“If this column gets through sub
stantially Commandant Oliver will
have carried out the great feat of the
war, seeing that he ran every chance
of being ground between the upper
millstone of Lord Roberts’ army and
the nether millstone of the broke*
Basuto frontier.”
JUDGE THINKS
POWERS GUILTY
Made Startling Declaration In
Open Court at Frankfort.
PRISONER IS HELD FOR TRIAL
Culton Is Alleged to Have Made
Sensational Confession,
Which Is Witheld.
There were some startling develop- j
ments in the Goebel assassination at i
Frankfort Tuesday. W. H. Culton, j
who waved examination and was held i
over to the circuit court, went to I
the Capitol hotel, where he was in
conference with the attorneys for the i
prosecution for over two hours. He
was accompanied by his brother-in- ,
law, E. E. Hogg, who is also his attor
ney. Culton was reported to have
made a confession, but later it devel- j
oped that the information gained was
not as sweeping as thought. His
friends admit that he gave the prose
cution such information as he had and
which had heretofore not come out.
Henry E. Youtsey, Republican Audi
tor Sweeny’s clerk, was arrested at ;
noon aud locked up in jail charged
with being an accessory to the assa«i
nation. He is a half brother of Hon.
L. J. Crawford, a prominent Republi
can of Newport, and detectives arrest
ed him as the man with the black
mustache whom Golden mentioned as
being given the key to Caleb Power’s
office. Youtsey complained the prose- ;
cution had broken faith in arresting
him, and it is said he is ready to
make a public statement for which the
prosecution is not anxious at this
time.
POWERS HELD FOB TRIAL.
At Tuesday’s session of the examin
ing trial of the Republican secretary of
state, Caleb Powers, the courtroom
was cleared of all persons except at
torneys, newspaper representatives
and court officers. The defense an
nounced they would introduce no testi- {
mony and tendering Governor Taylor’s
pardon of Powers, asked that the de- |
fendant be dismissed upon tne evi
dence. The commonwealth disputed l
Taylor’s right and the court overruled ’
the motion. Bail was asked for. Judge
Moore said: *!
“It is not my belief that Powers
fired the shdt which killed Gover
nor Goebel, but from the evidence,
it is my opinion that he was con
nected with the conspiracy to kill
him. I shall, therefore, order
that he be held over without bail
to the Franklin county grand jury
that the case may be further in
vestigated.”
Culton’s counsel announced that
Culton waived his examination trial
and by agreement of the attorneys he
will remain at home with his sick wife
under private guard. Captain John
Davis also waived examination and
was admitted to bail in the sum of
§5,000. He was locked up for the night. I
The Democratic militia w’ill be re
tained in Frankfort until after the cir
cuit court, which begins Monday, and ■
at which Secretary Powers and others
are to be tried.
LYNCHING IN MARYLAND.
Negro Charged With the Usual Crime Is
Swung Up By a Mob.
Lewis Harris, the negro who was
arrested at Belair, Md., a few days ago
charged with a criminal assault ujoon
Miss Anne Mcllvain, was* taken from
the jail Monday night and lynched,
after a brief struggle between the
sheriff and the mob, in which two men
were slightly wounded.
RESULT OF GOEBEL TROUBLE.
L. & N. Railroad Shops Bring Removed
From Kentucky.
The work of tearing down the Lou
isville and Nashville machine shops at !
Bowling Green, Ky., was commenced
Tuesday, preparatory to removing
them to Tans, Tenn. The monthly
pay roll to the employes of the com
pany is about §30,000. The removal
is said to be due to the Goebel trouble
in Kentucky.
NO. 40.
CLARK PAID FORTUNE
For the Honor of Donning the
Senatorial Toga.
SO ALLEGE THE MEMORIALISTS
| It In Asserted That Wholesale Bribery
Was Practiced and 8312,890 Was
Spent By Montara Man.
A Washington dispatch says: Coun
| sei for the memorialists in the case of
! Senator Clark, of Montana, have sub-
I mitted their brief to the senate com
j mittee on privileges and elections:
After reviewing the testimony in
detail counsel presents the following
I facts in the case from the evidence ad
-1 duced:
| First, that at least fifteen members
! of the legislature were paid by Mr.
I Clark and his agents for their votes.
Second, that at least nine ethers
were offered money for their votes and
! ihat the total amount of offers reached
8175,000.
Third, that §IOO,OOO was offered by
Dr. Tracy, a friend and agent of Mr.
Clark, to bribe the attorney general to
dismiss the proceedings in the Well
come case.
Fourth, that the agent of Clark of
fered Justice Hunt of the supreme
court 8100,000 to dismiss the Well
come case.
Fifth, that Mr. Clark and his friends
engaged in wholesale bribery and at
tempted bribery of members of the leg
islature to secure the election of Mr.
Clark.
Much is made of the testimony alleg
ing efforts to bribe Justice Hunt and
Attorney General Nolan in the Well
come disbarment case.
“It is evident,” they say, “that Mr.
Clark and his friends fully realized
the importance of the decision of that
court in its bearing upon Mr. Clark’s
contest, otherwise they would not have
taken a special train to bring his
agents to Helena to negotiate and ar
range for the purchase of that court.
The fact that Mr. Clark’s agent, Mr.
Jesse B. Root, law partner of Mr.
John B. Wellcome, paid Mr. Z. T.
Cason §1,500 to leave the state of Mon
tana and not testify before the court the
circumstances going to bear out the
charge of unlawful expenditure and
I corrupt use of money by Mr. Clark
j and his agents to carry out their pur
| pose.
The offer of §IOO,OOO to bribe the
1 attorney general to move the dismis-
I sal of the proceedings is but another
I chapter of the long story of bribery
! and attempted bribery that marks the
i the entire history of Mr, Clark’s cam
paign for the senatorship -from the
time in August, 1898, when he agreed
with Governor Hauser and others to
put up §35,000 for primaries and from
| §IO,OOO to §60,000 more for the gen
l eral election and as much afterwards
j as w’as necessary up to and including
the §1,500 payment to Cason.
Os the 95 members of the legislature
I (including Mr. Whitesides) 26 W’ere
sworn before the committee.
“Os these memorialists say nine
i have taken oath that they were offered
| money to vote for Senator Clark; two
have admitted the receipt of money,
i §5,000 each, after voting for
Mr. Clark, but tried to excuse it,-
j Hither by direct testimony or other
wise they claim that the acceptance of
bribes is fixed upon fifteen others.
“From the proof adduced it is rea
sonably determinable.” they soy, “that
in addition to the §328,000 actually
paid to members of the legislature by
Mr. Clark and his agents offers were
made to other members, aggregating
about §175,000.”
“HEAP TALKEE, TALKEE.’»
Seminole Indians Visit Governor Tanner
at I’ahn Beach, Florida.
Governor Tanner, who is sojourning
at Palm Beach, Fla.-, continues to
improve in health, aud is anxious to
return to Illinois.
The other day when three Seminole
Indians were iu the city and heard
that the governor was a “big heap
■ medicine man,” they visited his excel
lency and smoked the pipe of peace.
They also presented him with a bag of
herbs for curing his ills and a fine In
dian pipe. The governor showed his
appreciation by giving each of his
visitors a present, and they left with
the remark: “Him good medicine
man, heap talkee, talkee.”