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LiWf I it t LiT I II I I 111 III PROTECTION t INDUSTRY ! ENTERPRISE ! PROSPERITY ! VOLUME 30. HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 189& KiniBEH l I : I WILL ill II III. WASHINGTON LETTER. ABOUT HEADY TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF OURSELVES. THE MOVE ON CUBA. PAPERS SIGNED YESTERDAY. Tb Dmm Coatldariag th laUrvonUoa Reso lution AdeptoU br K Scaatt. (Regular Correspondent) WASHiSGToar, D C, April 18. :S98. President McKinley did no fretting because Congress took a whole week to act upon his message on armed in tervention in Cuba, while the general expectation was that the business would be donedn two days at the out side; he knows what responsibility is. That the delay has been beneficial to this government may be seen from the folio wipg language,, used by a member of the Cabinet to an impatient friend Washington", April 20. Spain will j was the question of time to be allowed I who was repeating the argument used T Plans of The Administration so Far as How The War Will. Begin. Shaped not receive official notification of the demands of the United States before to-morrow. She then will be informed that the Cuban resolutions - passed by Congress at an early hour this morn ing are now a part of ' the laws of the United States, and an ultimatum wtl be sent commanding; compliance with this law and an answer within a very short time, probably 24 hours. Com pliance is not expected, and a forward movement on Cuba will commence the latter part of this week, according to the plans of the administration. The congressional Cuban resolution will not be signed until to-morrow morning. The ultimatum to Spain . will be signed at the same time. The President early decided to make the two practically one act by a simul taneous signature to each. At the morning sessfon the President rather favored allowing the Madrid government two or even three days in which to reply to our demands, but since that time he has changed his views somewhat, anditis now believed to be his purpose to requiro an answer within a very short time, probably within 24 hours. The reason for lim iting the time .to one day, or even less, . is said to be entirely strategic, other wise two or even three days would have been followed. The ultimatum itself will be short and to the point. It will recite the maiu features of the resolutions passed by Congress! and demand a compliance therewith. So far as could be learned there will not be a meeting of. the. cabinet tins even ing or to-morrow morning before the President signs .the two documents, which, it is believed,! unquestionably will precipitate war. fit is likely that the President and Assistant Secretary Day will again this evening go over the message, which is to be. sent to Madrid,1 and make an changes which may be thought 'desirable, leaving the final act of signing the congressional resolution ' and,it he ."ultimatum' until to-morrow morning. ; It probably will ' not be made public here uutil notice iai received that it is in the hands of the Spanish government, diplomatic -etiquette requiring this. ; The" Quban resolution passed by Congress arrived at the White House at 1:15 o'clock, a little over an hour having been consumed in the formali - ties of securiutr the tiiruatures of Speaker Ieed and Vice President Ho bartj' : , . j ... , ' It was'expected thai the resolution would be signed immediately after it reached the -President, and this was Mr. McKinley's inclination, but for certain State reasons it was deemed advisable that the resolution and the ultimatum to Spain should be signed simultaneously, and time was needed to draft the ultimatum in diplomatic form. The fact that j the resolution ..was not immediately signed, gave rise to a few disquieting rejorts, but it jon appeared from statements of cabinet officers that the President had not the slightest intention of with holding his signature and that the delay lu attaching it j was accounted for solely by his desire to have a full and complete plau of I operations for the executive in the immediate future before taking the final and important jtep of turning the Joint resolution iiito a statute. Just wuat this plan hall be was the occasion for the two 1abiuet meetings to-da v. The first fer a response on the part of Spain, f The steady progress of the navy and war preparations is continued. I As to the course of events in the Im mediate future, the only prediction that can be made is one based on prece dents. According to these, Minister Woodford will notify the Spanish gov ernment of the action of the govern- on all sides against the apparent tar diness both of Congress and the Presi dent: 'Nobody has the remotest idea how unprepared we were when Con gress made the appropriation of f50, 000,000. Asa matter of fact, there were not five rounds of ammunition in a fortified place in the country, and the ships did not have ammunition be issued by President McKinley with-1 in 43 hours of the moment hU iyni tare i attached to the joint resolution authorizing forcible intervention in Cuba. It is understood, but itr ofil clally, that the President; has decided to adopt the plan of calling for volmi teer militiamen rather thun on exil ing opon each other state to !tirtiili its quota of the number of men tie sired, and that the organisations which volunteer first are to be accept.: h gardless of the state from whk:i th-y wine. AccoruiDK xo estimate iu. uy war ueparunent oniciais, m than 2,000,000 volunteers have I offered to the government, which i about twenty times more men! than anyone expects to be needed. Just after a meeting of the Cabinet, at which the probability ,of the ma terialization of the forcible Eurojai. intervention upon which Spain rv..- to save it from a terrible tluachttik was referred to in a discussion, a u ber was asked what would Le iLe probable result of an attempt on the part of the six great European powers to force the U. 8. to withdraw its de mand to evacuate Cuba. I ii CUrtaMi C(l itm. f ; Pinal examinations will soon here. The new Cower beds will improve the campus. . New students are still coming In. Dumb Bells and physical culture are having the desired effect. Mrs. Led better and daughter havo arrived from Texas. The daughter will enter school. ' The Mandolin Club hat been organ ized and is doing good work. Misats Crawford and Mull areea in the balls .again, after a short visit to their homes. News is scarce unless we rehash old matter that would not be palatable to 4 tie reading public Th students are so busy preparing for examination and commencement .'iatthey can't look up nevs. The teachers are equally as busy, and the neighbors are busy planting crops, se please excuse as for being so brief just now. 3 , Mr. A. H. Wacaster, of Morgan ton. "Fighting, I one of our fonuer students, rode down ment of the United State, and sbouid enough to fight arvthing. We were the Spanish answer be unsatisfactory, as is expected, the next step in order will be for him to ask for his passports and leave! Madrid. That would be fol lowed immediately by the withdrawal from4Washington of Senor Polo, the Spanish minister. At this point it can be said that the Spanish government will so shape every phase of the nego tiations a3 to oblige us to take the in ¬ itiative at every point. f After the withdrawal of the minis ters, and assuming that Spain does not back down, will follow actual war, but whether or not the first overt act will be preceded by a formal declaration of war, which would insure the immedi ate neutralization of .the powers, or whetherthe North Atlantic; squadron will make its' appearance off Havana as a beginning, cannot yet be predict ed. : f ",; 7;j In this connection, it may be stated that the army and navy experts are beginning to take less hopeful view of were simply ready in an amateurish manner. The President was shocked when he learned the full facts. A knowledge of these facts had as much to do with making him cautious as a desire to avoid war. Had. this coun try been forced into war three weeks ago, we might' have gotten ' the worst of things for awhile. I think we are now about ready and can give an ac count of ourselves." , These words should be considered by the hair-trig ger individuals who blame the PresI-' deut for not rushing, into war weeks ago. .' ' ; " ' - . Just when hostilities will begin is si ill a matter of soW-doubt, although it must necessarily . be soon. The House lsYo-day considering the inter vention resolution adopted by the Senate, which recognizes the indepen dence of the present, government of Cuba and otherwise differs from that adopted by the House. It is expected that; an agreement will ; be. reached ana plenty or it," was his prompt re I on his wheel last Sunday to pay us a - w n H A. . . A piy. xnai represents tne position or I visit. He said some nice things about tne administration to a dot. It pro-1 Penelope that made some of us real poses to drive Spain out of Cuba, re-1 glad. garaiessoi wnemer it nas to Dgbt I Mhrs Childers spent Saturday and Spain alone, or the allied powers. I Sunday at the hosnltahle home of Mr. This is very well known to the Euro pean Ambassador! and Ministers at Washington, unofficially! and they have only to give the President an op portunity, by presenting a note either threatening or announcing European I good table viands J. P. Rockett. She must have smiled upon the lads of the congregation where she. worshiped Sunday, for the effects of its broadness are visible yet, or perhaps it might have been the intervention, to be made officially ac quainted with it. ON BOARD A WAR HI P. an easy and quick campaign than they sometime to day, or to-morrow at the outside and the resolution be sent to the President although there is some talk of the possibility of a deadlock between the House and Senate. Noth ing official has bean . said about the programme that "will be followed after the resolution reaches the President, but the statement is made upon crood entertained a short time ago. Months are now mentioned instead of weeks as the probable length of hostilities and one eminent naval officer, who had experience in the late war, professed a belief that unless outside pressure is brought to b jar, a war may easily drag along for a year under the existing; conditions. ' - Apparently the powers have aban doned open efforts in Washington. All was quiet at the legations today, and no instructions were received by any of the ambassadors or ministers in the line of mediation. Wr Mljtht Shake Alt Europe. From the Evening Wisconsin. Altogether stirring times are upon the nation, and the result of .the im pending war must be to drive Spain from America, and with other cumula tive disasters it may overturn the pre sent government of Spain and produce chaos and confusion there. The over throw of jthe Spanish government would react seriously upon France and may produce a financial catastrophe there, which may shake all Europe. authority that j the President will make a demand upon Cuba to evacu ate Cuba and will grant one or two days for the answer. This will be largely for form sake, as it is already practically certain that Spain will re fuse,! and will probably accompany the refusal with a message of defiance. ihen the naval forces of the country will be put in motion and the first steps taken towards driving the Span iards out of Cuba, while the troops now being hurried as fast as steam can carry them towards convenient points Tot Navy Ready to Do Its Daty, Bat Not Ex pcctlos a Watk-OVtr. Newton Enterprise. ' The- following letter was recently re ceived by Mr. Frank J. Long, of Ca tawba, from his brother, Lieutenant A. T. Long, and by courtesy we are permitted to print it. Fortress Moaroe, Va., April 1, 1898. Dear Frank: We have just arrived nere to-nignt wnen I receivea your letter. morning and came directly here to join Commodore Schley's fleet. The squadron at Key West under Captain Sampson contains the majority of the battleships and will probably be called upon to do the heavy fighting on that coast. This squadron is called the fly ing squadron because it contains the fastest ships in the navy. The Min neapolis is the fastest one and both she and the Columbia havei three pro pellers and are built for commerce de stroyers that is they have great speed, light battery and no armor at all. The Brooklyn is , ah armored cruiser, that is she has speed, heavy battery and light armor protection. The Massachusetts and Texas are bat tleships and are the best fighting snips, iney.iiave very ueavy batteries and thick armor. The cruisers are ex- We expect a good crowd at com- mencement. Come one. come all! We add a new feature this time a de. bate by six of the students. There will be baptising at Hart's Mill Sunday at 0:30 a. m. Miss Hettio Hosley, from the Morganton 1). t D, Institute is expected to be baptised. Qciktcs. Smallpox In Ahvtll. Asheville Citizen, 14tli. ' Last night a negro tramp came to town and secured quarters at the res taurant at 49 North Main street. Thi morning it was suspected that the ne- We left Philadelphia Friday cro ,,ad the "allpox. The authoriti es were noiiueu ami at once maue an investigation. Health Officer Dr. M. H. Fletcher and I)r. Carl V. Reynolds, of the board of health, and City Phy bician A. Crawford made an examina tion. Dr. Crawford pronounced the case smallpox. The negro told several :tbries ai to the place whence became, saying at one-time Jacksonville, at an other Tampa, and at another Spartan burg. The case was Immediately quarantined, and patroleraen were sta tioned at the! front and rear entrances of the building. ' THE LOSS ON THE flAlNEI of embarkation will be got in shape to pee ted to run away from any thing UnqualiUerf Faith. From the Baltimore Herald. President McKinley may be 'slow and cautious," but the country has an unqualified faith in his integrity, fair- we shall have so many be rushed over to Cuba just as Boon as the fleet has captured a desirable loca tion on the island for them to be land ed, i Once landed the war will be pushed to a speedy and victorious end both on land and on water. Naval officials smile at sensational predictions of damage that will be done to our commerce by Spanish privateers. Instead of having any fears on that score, they think that fast and for- nes, and firmness The country al-1 midable auxiliaryj cruisers on the seas ready owe a debt to his conservatism, I that any Spanish privateer that gets the exercise of which has equipped us far from home will be extremely for fora war Into which the hotheads tunate if .it escapes destruction or cap threatened to precipitate us when our ture by some of them. The Spanish preparations wet e embryotic and pre- ar not ignorant of our preparation in liminary. rr puis. ; Send vour address to H. E. Backlen & Co., Chicago and get a free sample box of Dr. Kings New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pilUare easy in action and are particularly effective iu the cure Constipation and sick headache, tor Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They ate ion, in anticipation of the recep-1 guaranteed to be perfctly free from every iieieienous fruui&nce auu m ij? tfurelv vegetable- They do not weak- t in of the resolution, was devoted largely to questions of finance and military policy, as well as to the tram lug of the ultimatum itself. So far as 'n be gathered, the i important.' ioint at issue In regard to the ultimatum they cannot fight to advantage, while the battleships are expected to fight anything. If this squadron should be kept for the defence of this part of the coast in the event of war it would be because it can move quickly from one threatened porf to another and we un fortunately haven't sufficient ships to protect our coast. Should the fleet of our enemy approach any part of this coast it would .be our doty to try to prevent it reaching any port. Don't think for a moment that we (the navy) are crying for war. ,We know too well the condition of affair and how unprepared we are, owing, largely to the fact, that a great many people who now wish war have heretofore been opposed to a navy and would not appropriate for it. Now we need It badly and would give a great deal to have it. If war comes I think the sentiment or toe navy is to; obey or ders and do the best we can with what we have and above all do oar duty; ......... . i . . - anaoonitntnK.ti is going 10 ue a walk-over,,, for Spain has some good ships and they are a brave people and we would certainly receive some hard knocks. The ship is over 7,000 tons displacement and Is 412 feet long and the full complement of oClcert and crew U about 4 - men. Battery is one 8-inch, two C-Inch. and ehrht 4-Inch Cuba or not. The get era! impression HCe. twelve C-pound and two I-Dound is, tiowerer, tan tney wui, and tnat a ; qmck-Srtng guns, lour brother. this lice, and they are not likely to go as extensively into the privateering business in reality as our sensational ists have made them go in imagina tion.: - -j '' ': The massing of practically three- fourths of the regular army about 18,000 uit-n at Chickamaoga Park. of 1 New Orleans, Mobile, and Tampa, is the first opni move towards the mili tary occupation of Cuba. The plan of campaign t msde out, but so well has the secret been kept that no person, not n ofSciaI can potitiyely say whether theej regulars will have militia assistance In their invasion of Prai4cnt McKlaUy Sod tho 5nata 5Uti tlc tu th KUUd sd4 Srd. In responding to a resolution Presi dent McKinley to-day transmitted to thf Senate a r?iort froiu the Bureau of Nnvltratfon with regard to the loss cf life by the Maine disaster: N umber on board the Maine at the time of the disaster Officers 2C: sail ors, 200; marines,1 S3; total, 5. Numrer saved -Officers, 24; sailers, CO; marines, 1 1 ; total, 05. Nnmler lest Officer?, 2; sailors, 200; marines, 29; total. 200 ; Bodies recovered Officers, 1; sailors and marines, 177; died from injuries, B; total, 1M. Tboae burled In the cemetery at Ha vana nam be rest 1W; buried at Key West, 1; buried at Pittsbanr. 1. Numbers of bodies not recovered pfficers, l;enllstd men and marines, 73; total, 74. The work of recovery, says the re port, was continued until April Cth, when the wrecking tugs wer with drawn,' and nothing now it being done- In tnat direction so far as is known. and the hut bodies reported as recov- ereu were sent to Key est on Maren 20th. No entimate ha been made of the part of bodies which were recov ered and buried. Washington Dis patch, 12th. en by their action, bat b giving tone to the stomach and bowels greatly in vigorate the system. Regular size 2!ci. jer box.; Sold by Shuford's Drug Co. call for volunteer from the militia will 1 ANDREW T, LONG. If jom U Ua t bm Wtt. Youraut fortify your tytetaarainit the attacks of d;eae. Your blood tuoit lrt kept pur, your stomach and digeative organs in order, your appetl- leiwu. hwui ?araspaniia i ine mediclie to buiU you up, purify and enrich yoor blood and give yoa stren gth- it create an appetite and girt i digestive power.
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