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The News and Observer. VOL. XX.V. NO. 44. mm all urn gamuna hues i ieis mi oiwmii. NO IBOOPS COMING Cabinet Member Does Not Believe Pritchard’s Ghost Stories. HOWITROOPS ARE SENT IF THE GOVERNOR SHOULD MAKE REQUISITION. INVES TIGATION WOULD FOL LOW. NO REGULAR TROOPS IN ATLANTA Believed in Washington that Sending Troops Wouid Make North Carolina Democratic. If that Belief Cib a'ns i 1 Official Cir cles, No Trcops Will be Sent- Washington, D. C.. Oet. 26.—(Special.) A member of the Cabinet said to-night that there would be no Federal troops sent to North Carolina, unless the con ditions in the State became ten fold worse than they were to-day represented to be. and unless an actual outbreak oc curred. resulting in murderous assaults of the basest kind. He said that the government could not afford to take sides in the matter, and frankly admitted that such was the de sire of one who had suggested the ad visability of sending the troops into the State. It is the opinion here that should troops be sent to North Carolina at this 1 time it would result in exactly what the white people wish, an undivided vote' of the white race. An official stated that the statement that if troops were j ordered to the State, they would be sent from Atlanta, was really a vagary of a reporter, as there are now no regulars at Atlanta, and only regulars could be ( sent. Requests for troops, no matter by! whom made, I am officially informed,' must in this ease come from men of more than one party, and even the Gov-' eruor’s request would be held up for in-j vestigation. Bishop Cheshire. I)r. M. M. Marshall. Misses Dasie and Theodora Marshall and Mrs. Joseph Taylor, who have been here attending the Episcopal convention, left to-night for their homes in North Carolina. PRITCHARD’S GHOST STORIES.; Washington. D. C., Oet. 26 (Special.): —Senator Pritchard has been telling great ghost stories here to the effect that the Governor’s life has been threatened, and that a race riot is imminent in North Carolina. Even Republicans say that such old chestnuts from the South just before election have played out. Pritchard is not taken seriously, and his talk is recog nized as the dying gasp of a politician who is getting ready an excuse for the defeat of his party. TESTIMONY AT HUNTSVILLE. Carpenter’s Comparison of Camps—De lay in Receiving Supplies. Huntsville, Ala.. October 26.—The war investigating comission to-day postponed the inspection of Camp Forsee owing to a mild snow* storm and very muddy roads. The commission began the examination of witnesses with General Louis 11. Carpenter, who is in command during j General Wheeler’s absence. He said the camp at Chickamanga was too crowded. That at Tampa was unsatisfactory, but it was not intended to be permanent. That at Fernandina was ideal. The food supply had been ample throughout, but quartermaster’s supplies were gener ally slow and there had been especial trouble in securing tents. Major Charles M. Candy, the lurgeon who was in charge of the medical supply depot at Tampa, mentioned one instance of supplies ordered from New York that were not received for two months. He had fitted out the Shatter expedition for Cuba and thought that in the main the expedition was fairly supplied. He had afterward heard from Captain Munson that many of the stores came back to Tampa in the hold of the Iroquois. NO NIGHTMARE DIET. THIS. Huntsville, Ala., Get. 26.—Captain GOT THEM rOQLEO.” ♦ The Negroes Vainly Expected Populists | to Vote for Negro Supremacy. This is to certify that while on ♦ inv way from Ilobesonville to m.v own home, I passed a negro school ♦ house. On reaching the school house, the loud talking arrested my atten ♦ tion. This is what I heard: “Whenever a colored man voted the Demo ♦ era tic ticket, he was voting a rope to hang around his neck to a sapling. ♦ When I vote it I want a rope around my neck. ♦ “The Third party or Populists ate not voting with us, because they want ♦ to, hut we have got them fooled, + “They have no good will for us.” The language used was such that I O drove on." I had my wife with me. A. E. GRAY. ♦ Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of October, 1808. S. L. ROSS. Notary Public. ! George S. Cartwright, who had been aide to General Kent in the Santiago campaign, said that doubtless some of the men had been hungry at times, but he thought the excitement of battle had sustained them. On the night of July Ist he had had half a hard tack for supper and the remaining half the next morning. He thought that under the circumstances the commissary depart ment had been quite efficient, in San tiago. M.j ir 11. D. Thomasson, surgeon of <ln> Thirty-Third Michigan, who had served in the general hospital at Mon tank Point after August 17th. said that in August there were sfx hundred pa tients in the hospital, and that there were often eight in a tent. There were in the beginning of his service not suf ficient cots and some men had to sleep on the blankets. Some of tin* members of tin* hospital corps were without train ing. but he had known of but one in stance in which hospital refuse was thrown out on the ground beside the tent. 'There were times when there was not a sufficient number of attendants. As a rule the surgeons were capable, but when he went into the institution there was a sad deficiency in numbers. He thought deaths were caused by the re moval of patients before they weije in condition to be moved. Yet the rein«sv:ils were made to make place for others who were still sick and who otherwise would not have found a place in the hospital. In one instance he had been told to get 300 ready for removal, but when go ing through the hospital he had found only seventy fit to be moved, and had demanded a written order. This order he did not get, and therefore removed only the seventy. He estimated that from 200 to HOO had been thus prema turely removed. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Cabinet Meets in Philadelphia -No Details Ob fainable -President May Return to Washington this Mornirg. Philadelphia. Pa., October 26.—Imme diately after the reception to the Presi dent to-night at tin* Union League a meeting of the Chief Executive and those Cabinet officers who are in attend ance with him at the jubilee was held at the Hotel Bellevue. Those present be side the President were Postmaster Gen eral Smith, Secretary of War Alger, Sec retary of Agriculture Wilson. The ut most secrecy attended the pro ceedings and it was impossible to learn for what purpose the meeeting was called or what sub jects were discussed. From an unofficial, though ordinarily reliable source, it was gleaned that J. O. Kellogg, private secre tary to Secretary Hay, reached here to night bearing important dispatches from the State Department. Neither Secre tary Porter nor any of the Cabinet offi cers could he seen after the meeting had ended, and no information from other ; sources could be obtained. The meeting lasted nearly one hour and was held in the President’s room in the hotel. Local detectives prevented anyone from approaching the vicinity. Mr. Kellogg when questioned about the matter admitted being the bearer of a message, but said that it was purely a personal one from Secretary Hay. That it was more than some ordinary delibera tion was apparent from the fact that Mr. Kellogg reached the Union League shortly before 11 o’clock and was imme diately taken to the President. lie then left and went to the hotel, the reception coming to an end very shortly. After the President and the Cabinet had conclud ed their deliberations Mr. Kellogg left immediately for Washintgon in a special ' car. It was reported some time after midnight that the President might leave for Washington in the morning and not remain to review the military jubilee parade. HONORABLY DISCI!ARED. Washington, Oet. 26. —The following officers have been honorably discharged, their services being no longer required: Lieutenant Colonel John Jacob Astor. Inspector General appointed from New" York; Captain Frederick M. Alger, as ■ sistant adjutant, appointed from Michi gan; Captain Alger is a son of Secretary Alger; Captain James H. McMillan, as sistant quartermaster, appointed from Michigan; Captain McMillan is a son of Senator McMillan, of Michigan. TO BUILD DESTROYERS. _____ «**j Washington, Oct. 26. —The Navy De partment to-day entered into contract with the firm of Harlan Hollings worth. of Wilmington. Delaware, for the construction of the 30-knot torpedo boat destroyers. Hopkins and Hull. It’s all work and no play with lots of would-be dramatists. RALEIGH, N. 0., THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 27, ISWB. (EARING THE END; Indications that Cuban and Porto Rican Questions ARE NOW ABOUT SETTLED TIIE NEXT QUESTION THE DIS POSITIO.i OF THE PHILIP PINES. DEWEY’S OPIMON OF THE FILIPINOS People of Luzon and Near by Islands of the Group far Better Qualified for Self government than are the Cubans. Washington, Oct. 26.—There are indi cations that the Peace Commissioners in Paris are approaching the end of tin* consideration of the subject of (Tuba and i'orto Rico, and officials here would not be surprised if to-day’s session of the Commissioin concluded those subjects, leaving the Commission free to take up the most important matter in tin* pro tocol, the disposition of the Philippines. The Spanish ease has been presented with an ability and adroitness that com-, mainls the admiration of diplomats without regard to nationality, and even, our own officials have been compelled j to yield a tribute of respect to the ar- 1 guinents produced; but notwithstanding this they are holding firmly to th»v line of procedure originally outlined. It is expected here that henceforth better progress will he made toward the final j conclusion of the treaty of peace. No one knows officially just what the ; extent of the United States’ claim will be ! >*« to the Philippines. Admiral Dewey his represented to the American Com missioners that the Filipinos of the northern group, meaning by that, first the people on the island of Luzon, and after that in order, Cebu, Fanny, Leite, Mindora and Samar are. as a rule, intel ligent, practical, and (a most surprising statement) far better qualified for self government than the inhabitants of Cuba. Admiral Dewey is as familiar with the qualifications of the Cubans in this respect as almost any naval of ficer, having bad personal experience with the people, so that his statement ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦<!♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦❖♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦ i IT CANNOT BE BONE. \ ♦ * ♦ (Washington. Post.) ♦ “Even General Grant, who had conquered the ■ Confederate armies m v ♦ the field, could not. with all the civil and military power oKthe country at v his hack, force negro rule upon the Southern whites. '1 he thing is out oi ■#> ♦ the question. It cannot be. And those who engage in sit; li a desperate v ♦ enterprise will reap only the harvest of dismay and ruin. O * is hound to have weight with 1 li<*. American Commissioners. But with all i this he has made no recommendation as J to what should constitute the maximum j or minimum demand of the Americans, and their demands consequently are likely to be based upon their original instructions, qualified by any change of opinion the President may have experi enced as a result of his Western trip. Some apprehension has been manifest ed in certain quarters as to the possible adverse effect on the Peace Commission Oi an upheaval in France. However, in the opinion of the State Department officials here there is little danger of the situation in Paris becoming so acute as to justify an abandonment of the work of the Commission on the ground that the Commissioners themselves are in physical danger. COMMISSIONERS RETICENT. Paris, Oct. 11(5.—The American peace commissioners held a session of several hours duration to-day. previous to the joint session of the two commissions which opened at 4 o’clock this afternoon. The meeting of the commissioners last ed an hour and five minutes, and was adjourned until to-morrow. Both the Spanish and the American commission ers were more reticent after this scs ; sion than ever before. The Americans fully appreciate, not only their own serious responsibilities, but also the delicate position of their Spanish colleagues, to the burden of whose duties here is now added the critical political situation at Madrid, which may compel the President of the Spanish commission (who is also Presi dent of the Spanish Senate), S'*nor Montero Rios, to leave Paris. The Madrid correspondent of the Temps in confirming the report that Premier Sagnstu and the Queen Regent have prevailed upon the Minister of War, General Correa, to indefinitely postpone his resignation, pending tne conclusion of the peace negotiations, says that they represented to the Gen eral that hie withdrawal might entail not only the fall of the Cabinet, but cause the resignation of certain mem bers of the Spanish commission, includ ing Senor Montero Rios, and thereby gravely compromise the issue of the peace negotiations, SPANISH CRISIS AVOIDED, The correspondent of the Temps adds: “The net result is that an open crisis seems to have been avoided until the conclusion of the treaty of pence. In any case, this has done away with the necessity for an ad interim government, which was lately suggested as likely to he the only solution of the present diffi culties.” As the peace negotiations are now nearing the discussion of the Philippine question the Americans feci that no Some Black Exhibits that Won’t Get the Prize. stage of the proceedings has so demand ed their considerate treatment. It may not he stated to-night with cer tainty that the Cuban question has re ceived its last consideration by the Americans, nor have the Spaniards ac cepted as ultimate the United States’ n*- fusal to assume any itortion of tin* Cu ban debt. It may, however, be affirmed that the Philippine question was not reached to-day, but it may be discussed at to-morrow’s session, which will be the first occasion during these negotia tions, of a joint session of the commis sions being held on succeeding days, which fact is in some degree significant. NEW COUNTER MEMORANDUM. London, October 26.—The Paris cor respondent of the Times says: “At to-day’s (Wednesday) sitting the Spanish peace commissioners presented a new counter-memorandum. declaring their readiness, provisionally to accept an article of a preliminary treaty stipu lating that. ‘Spain shall relinquish all rights to sovereignty in Cuba without , formulating any other claim and to leave jin suspense all remaining questions, ! specially the Philippines. 1 “The Americans asked until to-mor row. (Thursday) to reply to this new memorandum. This is regarded as a favorable sign, being a slight relaxation of the rigidity the Americans have hith erto maintained. They are per haps aware that the < üban and even the Spanish bond-hold ers are becoming alarmed at the strange turn of the financial side <>f the discus sion in which Spain, the United States and Culm, with extraordinary unanimity and carelessness all repudiate the Cuban debt.” ( ii . Di .f.i iif - WHITE OR BLACK? The Buldozing by Imported Negro Voters Fittingly Denounced. Oak Ridge. N. C„ Oct. 25.-<Special.) 1 —The following resolutions have been adopted by the Oak Ridge White Mans Club of this place: ! iu view of the alarming condition p! Eastern North Carolina under negro rule, of the constantly increasing dis position of the negroes to hand together. I and their increasing insolence as has I been shown right here among us dining the last two days, when a negro, George Brooks, recently arriving from South ' Carolina, called the Democratic regis trar. Mr. A. S. Clark, a liar; and another negro, Bill Young, drew a pistol on .Dr. S. A. Cook and family; and in view, further, of the spilling of white blood in tin* county of Robeson, as reported iu the morning papers— “ Resolved Ist. That we deem it the • duty of every decent white man, regard less of his views on national politics, to come to the rescue of his race in the State. This year there is but one issue which overshadows all others: Shall the white man or the black man rule in North Carolina? | “Resolved 2nd. That we will not rc ! gard those white men who desert their race in this hour as worthy of as much ' respect as the negro who is at least faithful to the tics of nature and votes solidly, thus indicating to white men everywhere their duty to stand with their race. “Resolved 3rd. That the solid vote of the negro, ignorant as it is, and often led by vicious men, is ouually a menace 1 to the counties of middle North ( aro lina, and that men that aid and abet , this condition of things in this oommuni j ty should not be tolerated socially by . white men. ‘‘Resolved 4th. That a copy of these , resolutions be placed in the hands of ■ every white man in this township and community and that we appeal to ill J as they love their wives and families . and their race to join in our effort to re deem the State.” THE FASHODA SNARL Terms Upon Which it is Said France Will Yield. IN A FALSEs POSITION ENGLAND SHOULD HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF MARCHAND’S MISSION. GENERAL KITCHENER ARRIVES IN PARIS Sir Wiiliam Harcourt Urges Support of the Gov trr.tr.ent. Capt. Bara'ier Marchand’s Courier, Reaches Paris. Brings Despatches from Fashoda. Paris. October 26.—The Soir hears in diplomatic circles that France is pre pared to evacuate Fashoda with the re servation that she shall receive some compensation, to Ik* arranged hereafter. “This result,’’ says the Soir, “is the outcome of a new argument advanced by Lord Salisbury to the effect that as the dispatch of the Major Mart-hand mission was not notified to Great Britain in ac cordance with custom, Great Britain is entitled to dispute Major Marchand’ right to holdd the territory occupied. "As the Quai D’Orsay is thus placed in a false position through the fault of M. Ilanotaux, the predeessor of M. Del easse, the latter is forced to recognize the justice of the British objection.” URGES SUPPORT GOVERNMENT. London, October 26. —The keen desire to hear the view of the Liberal leader in tin* House of Commons, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, on the Fashoda ques tion, was satisfied this evening by his speech at Aberystwith .Wales. Sir William Vernon Harcourt said it was the urgent duty of everyone, without regard to political differences, to support the Government in maintaining the rights of the empire in the political crisis, a crisis especially dangerous owing to the unexampled situation in France. GEN. KITCHENER IN PARIS. Paris, October 26.—General Lord Her bert Kitchener, commander of the Anglo- Egyptian forces in the Soudan, and Cap tain Baratier, the French officer who brings Major Marchand’s dispatches from Fashoda, arrived here at ten o’clock this evening. General Kitchener left the railway station unnoticed. Captain Baratier received an ovation from hundreds of members of the pa triotic league and others. Marcel Her bert, a member of the Chamber of Depu ties on behalf of the Patriotic League, presented to Captain Baratier a gold ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦ 1 Don't Like the Pie Hunting Gang, f ♦ 1 t Dr. G. J. Robirson has Always Been a | | Republican, but will Vote with Dem | ocrats so Long as the Negroes ♦ 2 Draw the Color Line. | ♦ Smihfield, N. C„ Oct. 2ti. —Dr. G. J. Robinson, a prominent physician ♦ <► of this place, and brother of Judge Robinson of tin* Superior court, to-day ♦ <► authorized the following statement: ♦ ! O “1 am and always have been a Republican, but I cannot support the pic- ♦ > hunting gang who are aspirants for office in North Carolina. There seems ♦ to be but one issue. The negro has drawn the color line,, and so long as ♦ such a state of affairs exists. 1 shall support the Democratic party, and ♦ <> earnestly wish all true Republicans may do the same. ♦ <> . “G. J. ROBINSON.” ♦ i ❖ ♦ | ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ THIRD EDITIONS PRICE FIVE CENTS, medal. The friendly demonstrations con tinued until Captain Baratier reached his residence. The city is calm this evening. NAVAL PREPARATIONS CONTINU England Says it is Impossible for Salis bury to Recede from His Position. London, October 2G. —This evening has witnessed a great outpouring of oratory on the Fa shod a question. Speeches were made at various places by Hon. Charles T. Ritchie, president of the Board of Trade; Sir John Gorst, vice-president of the Committee of Conned and Conser vative member of Parliament for Cam bridge University; George Wyndham, under Secretary of State for War; Lord Edmond Eitzmaurke and Alfred Lytttie ton, Liberal Unionist member of Parlia ment for Leamington. All recognized the gravity of the situa tion. but declared that, even at the risk of war, it was impossible for Lord Salisbury to recede from his position. The activity in naval preparations con tinues on both sides of the channel. MOVEMENTS OF PRITCHARD. Believed That lie Has Followed the President to Philadelphia. Washington, I>. C'.. Oct. 2*5. —(Special.) --It is reported to-night that Senator Pritchard has given out a cock and bull story on the situation in North Carolina, but all efforts to find him in Washing ton have been fruitless. It is understood that he left North Carolina yesterday afternoon for this city, but I am told to-night by his most ultimate friend that he has not been here to-day. His friend is of the opinion that Sen ator Pritchard has gone direct to Phila delphia to see the President and Attor ney General Griggs, who are attending the peace jubilee. An official tells me late to-night that he has private advices to the effect that Senator Pritchard wishes to rid himself of the responsibility of writing the letter that caused such excitement in the Cabi net meeting Monday. He will attempt to explain his letter to the President and wishes to show the latter that he is not suggesting the ordering of troops to North Carolina on account of pressure the negro element has brought to bear upon him. Col. W. 11. S'. Burgwyn was here to see Secretary Alger before the latter left for Philadelphia. Col. Burgwyn made a direct request for the retention of the Second regiment. He said (><* per cent, of the whole regiment, and SM> per cent of the men in camp wish to stay in. Secretary Alger made no promise to Col. Burgwyn, hut later said to a report er that no change would be made in the orders. Col. Burgwyn presented no peti tion. A CARAVAN ENGULFED. Salouica, European Turkey, Oct. 2(5. Terrible storms have swept over Mace donia. doing an enormous amount of damage and causing considerable loss of life. In one instance a caravan consist ing of 47 persons and one hundred horses was engulfed in the river Galice, and all were drowned.
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