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LAST EDITION
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
TOPEKA, KANSAS. AUGUST 22, 1900.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
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AT THE GATES
OF TIIEPALACE.
American Troops -IlaTe Pene
trated the Imperial City
And Are Thundering at the En
trance to Emperor's House.
CAPT. IiEILLEY DEAD.
Commander of Fifth Artillery
Killed Aug. 1 a.
Chaffee's losses, Six Killed and
Thirty Wounded.
lie Is Placed In Control of Our
Interests in China.
"Washing-ton, Aug. 22. The navy de
partment haa received the following
cablegram from Admiral Remey:
"Che Foo, Aug". 21, Taku, Aug. 20.
Dickins' command is landing today. Pe
kin, 16. All except imperial city cleared
of Chinese troops. American troops,
first to enter imperial city, have pene
trated to the gates of the palace. Cap
tain Reilley, Fifth artillery, killed on
the 15th. Morning 19th Sixth cavalry
and about 400 Knglish and Japanese
dispersed about 1,000 boxers eight miles
, outside of Tien Tsin. About 100 Chi
nese killed, five Americans wounded.
Chaffee's losses, six killed, 30 wountTed,
two days' fighting. REMEY."
The navy department understands
from the reference to the palace that
the American troops after penetrating
the imperial city were, when the dis
patch was sent attacking the forbidden
city. This is the inner enclosure of the
imperial city.
The war department has received the
following cablegram:
"Tien Tsin, Aug. 19. To adjutant gen
eral, Washington: With reference to
your telegram of 16th, horses, mate
rials and troops promptly landed at Ta
ku and forwarded to front. Sixth cav
alry mounted. Grant (transport) due
in Manila now. Hospitals excellent,
ample for present army, well supplied
and in fine condition. Everything satis
factory. Go to Pekin tomorrow. Sick
and wounded doing well. BARRY."
CHAFFEE IN CONTROL.
New York, Aug. 22. A special to the
World from Washington says:
The war department sent General
Chaffee a cablegram of four words late
yesterday afternoon which practically
takes things out of Minister Conger's
hands and puts General Chaffee in the
position of the utmost responsibility.
The message said:
."Report operations, situation, require
ments."' -
There is no intention of depreciating
Minister Conger, the government has
the liveliest sense of gratitude for him,
but it is not deemed expedient to act
on his .dispatches because after his ter
rible experience he is naturally embit
tered and possibly unconsciously biased
and because he needs and deserves a
rest. It is proposed to have Mr. Conger
come home at the first opportunity and
enjoy a long period of rest, and recuper
ation. A dispatch to the Tribune from Lon
don says:
Some more particulars are published
of the attack on Pekin by the allies.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Mail says that the walls were blown up
with dynamite. Fears are entertained
lest the communication of the allies in
Pekin and Tien Tsin should have been
cut as Chinese forces are reported in
the neighborhood of Pei Tsang. State
ments are made in Paiis to the effect
that French troops now on their way to
the far east will go to Taku, but will be
disembarked in Tonking.
The reply of the United States gov
ernment to the offer of Li Hung Chang
to negotiate undoubtedly, says the
'Times, represents the position which all
the powers concerned have agreed to
take up.
FIGHTING NEAR TAKU.
London, Aug. 22. Rear Admiral Bruce
has cabled to the British admiralty from
Taku under date of Monday, August 20,
that the allies were fighting the Chi,
nese outside of Tien Tsin on Sunday,
August 19.
CHINESE PRINCES ESCAPE.
Rome, Aug. 22. Dispatches received
here from Taku, under date of August
20, say that according to advices from
a Japanese source dated August 17, the
battle of Pekin was then finished, the
Japanese had entered the imperial
palace. The foreign ministers with de
tachments of the allied troops were then
occupying the imperial city, the Chinese
princes and ministers having retired to
Sian Fu. west of Pekin.
Field Marshal Count von Waldersee,
the German officer who is going to the
far east in order to take command of
the allied forces in China, with the three
officers accompanying him. breakfasted
with King Victor Emanuel this morn
ing, after which the field marshal went
to the Pantheon and deposited a wreath
on the tomb of King Humbert.-
The field marshal left Rome at 2:20
p. m. for Naples, where he will embark
for China.
MISSIONARIES SAVED.
Boson, Aug. 22. The American board
of commissioners for foreign missions
has received today a cablegram from
Che Foo as follows:
J "Psalm one twenty-four seven Pekin
and Tung Chow- missionaries: also
Chapins, Smiths. Wickoffs. saved."
The pasasge of scripture alluded to Is:
"Our soul is escaped as a bird out of
the snare of the fowlers: the snare is
broken and we are escaped."
The Pekin missionaries are: The Rev
W. S. Ament, the Rev. C. E. Ewing",
wife and two children. Miss Ada Haven,
Miss Nellie Russell. Mrs. J. L Mater.
The Turg Chow missionaries who had
taken refuge at Pekin are: Miss Mary
E. Andrews. Miss Jane G. Evans, Miss
Abbie G. Chapin. the Rev. Chauncey
Goodrich. D. IX, wife and three children;
James H. Ingram. M. I)., wife and two
children. Miss Luella Miner, Rev. E. G.
Tewksbury, wife and two children: Rev.
Howard S. Gait and wife. The' Par.g
Chuar.g missionaries who were at the
annual meeting and took refuge at
Pekin are: The Rev. Arthur H. Smith.
D. I.. and wife: the Misses E. Gertrude
and H. Grace Wickoff. Lin Ching mis
sionaries under the same conditions are:
The Rev. F. M. Chapin, wife and two
children.
JAPANESE REPORTED IN THE
PALACE.
London, Aug. 22. The allies are fight
ing the Chinese outside of Tien Tsin,
August 19, so Real Admiral Bruce
wires to the British admirality from
Taku under date of August 20, adding
that the engagement was reported to
have occurred six miles south of Tien
Tsin. '
Admiral Bruce also sent a dispatch
dated Pekin, August 17, from the gen
eral officer commanding there, in which
nothing is said as to the situation, at
Pekin.
It gives a partial list of 'the British
casualties during the siege of the lega
tions, ' the death of Capt, Bernard
Strouts. and regrets, that "owing to the
heavy roads and forced march, the na
val brigade was unable to participate
in the entry," adding that the "way
they brought their guns by boat and
road from Tien Tsin is an achievement
of which they may be proud."
An official dispatch from Tien Tsin
dated August 20, and received at Tokio
reports that the Japanese occupied the
imperial palace at Pekin August 16. and
says that about August 12 the dowager
empress and the emperor and ministers
left Pekin with three thousand troops,
their destination, it is supposed, being
Sian Fu. Pekin, being in great confu
sion, was divided into several districts.
Half the Tartar City was placed un
der the control of the Japanese and com
mittees of Japanese, American, British,
Russian and French officers were ap
pointed to maintain order. A detachment
of Japanese troops rescued the foreign
missionaries and Chinese Christian con
verts, who had been imprisoned in the
palace. Two hundred Japanese were kill
ed or wounded.
LONDON IN DOUBTFUL MOOD.
New York, Aug. 22. A dispatch to the
Tribune from London says:
There is again a revival of something
like pessimism in official and political
circles here, or in the scanty remnants
of them left in London by the ravages
of the holiday season. After the ex
hilaration caused by the first news of
the entry of the allies into Pekin there
has come a rebound. The cessation of
direct communication with the allied
commanders at the front is not at all
liked, nor does Admiral Bruce's tele
gram stating that the forbidden city
was entered on the 17th do much to con
sole the doubters. In the first place it
is pointed out that the admiral does
not profess to have heard his news offi
cially from General Gaselee, but only
gives it on the authority of reports cur
rent at Taku, and we know by this
time what reports in Chinese towns are
worth. Secondly, even if the authentic
news if four days" old and much may
have happened since then the silence
of the generals lends color to a Shang
hai statement that the wires to Tien
Tsin are eui. and may help to explain
the hurried march of the German and
Italian reinforcements to Pekin.
Assuming that even the sacred city
and the palace are captured, the diffi
culties of the allies are by no means at
an end. . Their force is of course more
than sufficient to repel any attack
which might be made on them, whether
by boxers or by imperial 'troops, but
when it is remembered that they have
to police the great straggling city of
Pekin, with its million inhabitants and
to keep open the line of communication
to the coast, their strength is by no
means excessive, even if it is sufficient
for the work in hand
Besides, the allied generals, like Lord
Roberts in South Africa, may have ad
vanced too fast effectively to -occupy
the country behind them. The speed
of their march was rendered necessary
by the position of the legations, for if
the relief column had taken three or
four days longer on the journey it
might have come too late. Still, if the
Chinese troops defeated at Pie Tsang
and YankTsun should form up again be
tween the capital and Tien Tsin the
allies will either have to march back to
disperse them or wait till that task is
performed by reinforcements from the
coast and meanwhile may find them
selves virtually besieged in Pexin.
The pessimists, too, are additionally
depressed by Minister Conger's testi
mony as to the conduct of the Chinese
government, and his opinion that the
whole movement was got up by the im
perial authorities and that the boxers
were a mere pretense. On the other
hand, it is admitted that if the empress
and the Manchu princes, and particu
larly Tuan, have been captured, the
outlook is much more hopeful, since it
will be possible to find responsible Chi-
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This photograph shows the great
Von Waldersee. as he appears today.
America, Europe and Japaa.
PLAN HAS FAILED
Deficiency of $800 in Twentieth
Kansas Medal Fund.
State Officers Are Appealed to
For Help.
RAISED ABOUT $1,000.
Part of Medals Have Been Dis
tributed. Fault Found With Methods of
Management.
The spirit of patriotism and the desire
to hoijpr the Kansas heroes who came
home from the Philippines with the
Twentieth Kansas seem to have dwind
led away, because it has become neces
sary for the governor to take up the
work of raising sufficient funds to defray
the expense of procuring medals for the
members of the regiment.
The G. A. R. has failed in this effort
and O. H. Coulter, who has had charge
of the work has sought the aid of the
governor.
, In response to the appeals for addi
tional funds the public has turned a deaf
ear to Mr. Coulter, but the governor ask
ed H. J. Allen, private secretary, to take
hold of the matter and $50 was raised in
the state house today.
There is a deficiency of about J800 ac
cording to a letter of explanation issued
by Mr. Coulter. Over' $1,000 has already
been raised.
Some of the state officers all of them
giving $5 each today were glad of the
opportunity to contribute to the fund
for the medals but there was considera
ble criticism against the action of the
authorities in charge of this medal busi
ness, in sending out a part of the medals.
Som of the medals have already been
distributed to one or two companies. If
the money is raised the remainder of the
medal3 will be received by those who are
entitled to them.
One of the state officers today handed
$5 to Mr. Allen and said, in the presence
of a State Journal reporter:
"I am perfectly willing to contribute
this amount to this fund but I do object
to the methods by which this business
had been handled. Some of the medals
have been sent out to the members of
the Twentieth for which action I see no
good reason. The medals for all of the
boys should have been completed before
any were given out. And, all of the mon
ey should have been raised before any
were given out."
The plan to present the Twentieth
Kansas boys with these medals came
up. when O. H. Coulter was depart
ment commander. The new department
commander and the officials have per
mitted Coulter to continue with the
work. In an explantatory letter issued
by him the following record of the dona
tions is made public:
Donor: Amt.
Anderson county $12.00
Bourbon county DO.O0
Butler county 41.52
Clark county 9.50
Clay county . 1.00
Cloud county ... 30:95
Cowley county 29.00
Dickinson county..... .. 16.03
Douglas county 24.10
Elk county . 5.69
Finney county .15
Geary county .60
Greeley county 3.92
Greenwood county 6.00
Harvey county 2.20
Jefferson county .. 1.85
Jewell county 3.00
Johnson county -. 2.09
Kearny county 2.92
Labette county - 20.50
Linn county .., 21.58
State Normal 19.80
Leavenworth county 86.02
Marshall county 20.25
Mitchell county 3.70
Morris county 15.65
Montgomery county 9.75
Von Waldersee.
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German general. Field Marshal Count
He will command the allied armies of
Nemaha county 6.35
Norton county 12.50
Osage county 21.20
Ottawa county 6.54
Phillips county .29
Riley county ; 1.85
Rawlins county . .60
Reno county 3.39
Saline county 11.05
Scott county 3.82
Sedgwick county 14.08
Seward county 4.55
Stafford county , 7.77
Stevens county 1.65
Sherman county 10.00
Trego county 1.00
Washington county 45.62
Wabaunsee county , 4.05
Wilson county 40.00
State Reform school, Topeka.... 13.25
Through state superintendent.. .. 455.09
Reformatory, Hutchinson 17.00
Asylum, Winfield 18.00
Industrial school, Beloit 16.00
Deaf and Dumb school, Olathe.. 26.00
Orphans' Home, Atchison 6.00
Penitentiary, Leavenworth 38.25
Soldie.s' Home, Fort Dodge 6.00
Asylum, Ossawatomie 62.00
J. B. Tomlinson, Warden pen... 1.00
Asylum, Topeka 70.75
Agricultural college, Manhattan. 11.00
J. E. Heir, Bennington 6.50
Post 47, Minneapolis , 20.00
Post 18, Ottawa ... 40.00
Post 4, Independence ., 5.00
Post 173. Seottsville 8.18
Moundridge - 2.00
School, Russell county 3.65
School, Wichita county , 3.41
School, Riley county .35
Total $1,015.63
This circular says: "About $1,800 is
reeded" to complete the medal fund,
"$800 yet to be raised."
No figures are given to show what ex
penses are to be met with this money;
neither is the amount expended indi
cated. RAifl WAS LIGHT.
Tuesday's Fall Not Enough to
Believe the Drouth.
The rain in Kansas last night was
light. It was not general over the
state, and it will have little effect on
the rapidly expiring corn crop.
The Santa Fe reports that a light
rain fell over the eastern and South
ern Kansas divisions and on portions
of the middle division. No rain fell
along the lines of the Oklahoma or
western divisions in the southern and
western parts of the state.
The Rock Island reports a light rain
extending from St. Joe south to Cald
well and southwest to Liberal.- No rain
fell in the northern part of the state
west of Courtland, Republic county.
GOOD RAIN AT HAYS.
Hays City, Kas., Aug. 22. Heavy rain
fell during last night; two inches of
rain falling. Heat was oppressive yes
terday, ranging near 107 in the shade.
Farmers are elated over rain. Plowing
has comenced. The acreage for wheat
is assured to be' larger than this year.
Without several days of warning, with
out an outrider to warn the people of its
approach, the rain came unheralded and
without the sanction of the weather bu
reau. RAIN IN TOPEKA.
The precipitation commenced at 4:30
o'clock Tuesday afternoon and it was
midnight when the last drop was re
corded but the heavy rain fell within an
hour. The total was 80 hundredths of an
inch. A light rain fell this morning but
was not more than a trace. The rain
was the relief that has been longed for
many days. The table of the tempera
ture shows that when the rain approach
ed at 3 o'clock the mercury was busy
but it fell rapidly and within two hours
had dropped 34 degrees.
1 P. M 97
2 P. M I... 98
. 3 P. M 100
4 P. M 76
5 P. M 66
6 P. M 73
7 P. M 79
There are several high and several low
barometers scattered over the country
and a high and a low in the northwest
may have had something to do with the
rain but it is more likely a local thunder
storm and the heat did its share.
The balmy temperature of the tropics
is still playing its engagement in Kan
sas and the state is now ahead of any
other for high temperature. The report
for the 24 hours ending Tuesday morn
ing at 7 o'clock shows the following
maximums: Concordia 104, Dresden 100,
Fort Scott, 101, Hays City 105, Meaks
ville 101, Manhattan 103. McPherson 105,
Osage City 101, Sedan 101, Toronto 102.
McPherson still holds the palm and re
ported the highest temperature of the
year 107V Hays City comes a close
second.
The maximum temperature this morn
ing up to 11 o'clock was 74 and the min
imum 69. The wind was south edging
along at 5 miles an hour. The forecast
is "Thunderstorms east portion this
afternoon or tonight. Thursday fair and
moderate temperature."
HE WAS FJWM KANSAS.
First Man to Scale the Walls of
Pekin.
Washington, Aug. 22. The war depart
ment has prepared the following sketch of
Musician Titus, who, according to the
Associated Press dispatch published this
morning from Pekin, scaled the wall with
a rope by means of which the others
climbed to the top:
Calvin P. Titus, enlisted April S, 1S99, at
Wichita, Kan., aged 19 years. This was
his second enlistment, his last service be
ing in company K, First Vermont infan
try, from which he was discharged No
vember 2. 1898. He was assigned to com
pany E, Fourteenth United States infan
try. He was born at Vinton, la. A cable
gram from Pekin dated the 17th instant
shows that he was wounded in the neck
slightly.
SHELDON IN NEW YORK.
Will Travel for Christian Endeavorers
Before He Returns to Topeka.
Word has been received in Topeka that
the Rev. Charles il. Phcidon, who is now
resting at Lake Bluff. New York, will on
Saturday go to Boston, where he will of
fer his services to the officers of the Na
tional Christian Endeavor society.
He will undoubtedly travel in a number
of states in the interest of the Eendeavor
society, making addresses at their state
meetings before his return to Topeka in
December. The first meeting of this kind
which he will attend will be the State
Endeavor rally at Eastport, Maine, during
the second week in September.
It is stated that Mr. Sheldon is working
on a new novel, the plot of which has to
deal with his experiences during his one
week's editorship of the Christian daily.
The novel is to be read to his congrega
tion by installments during the coming
winter.
BRYANDAY.
Topeka Will Belong to
Friends Tomorrow.
His
Eyery Detail of the Big Eyent
is Completed.
WILL ARRIVE AT 10:30.
Distinguished Guest BeEscorted
to National Hotel.
Private Receptions Will Then
Be Held.
Managers Say An Enormous
Crowd Will Be Here.
Tommorrow's Programme.
Bryan will arrive at 10:30 over Santa
Fe.
Will be met by committee and escort
ed hotel.
Reception of state officials and notifi
tation committee at hotel.
1 P. M. Reception of all othef com
mittees at 706 Kansas avenue.
3 P. M. Notification ceremony in state
house grounds.
Address of welcome.
Address Chief Justice Doster.
Notification address T. M. Patterson.
Reply William J. Bryan.
Public reception.
Letters continue to pour1 into the Pop
ulist headquarters notifying the state
central committee of the large crowd
which may be expected here tomorrow
to attend the Bryan notification meet
ing. Mr. Bryan will arrive here at 10:30 on
the Santa Fe coming by way of Atchi
son. Arrangements have been made for
him to make a short speech at Meriden
but it will not delay the train longer
than five minutes.
Mr. Ridgely, chairman of the state
committee, who will accompany the
special committee which goes to Atchi
son to meet Mr. Bryan said that Mr.
Bryan would be in the hands of the com
mittee from 7 o'clock that morning until
8 o'clock in the evening at which time
he will leave on the Union Pacific for
Manhattan.
The special committee which goes to
Atchison will be composed of ex-Governors
John P. St. John, John W. Leedy
and L. D. Lewelling, John W. Breiden
thal, Judge Allen, Senator Harris, Col.
K. C. Little, John Madden, Jerry Simp
son, and O. T. Boaz. This committee
will leave tomorrow morning for Atchi
son on the 4:30 train and will breakfast
with Mr. Bryan.
When the train arrives in Topeka the
party will be escorted to the National
hotel by a local committee which will
consist of J. S. Ensminger, S. H. Allen,
George Wagner, L. A. Stebbins, H. A.
Heath, H. C. Lindsay, J. M. Padgett, J.
B. Billard, John Martin, T. J. Coughlin,
F. W. Fraslus and Abe Steinberg. The
Topeka City Troop will also act a3
mounted escort.
At the National hotel parlors immedi
ately upon Mr. Bryan's arrival the state
officers and notification committee will
meet him. All other committee recep
tions will be held at 706 Kansas avenue
the receptions there beginning at 1
o'clock and lasting until 2:30. The mayor
and city council and Commercial club
will be first received as they are repre
sentatives of the city and will extend the
welcome. After them will come the
committee appointed by the Moneteary
League which is to notify Mr. Bryan
that he has the support of that organi
zation. The fusion state central com
mittees will follow and after them the
fusion candidates and general commit
tee of 250. The rooms at 706 Kansas av
enue will not be open to the public as the
public reception will be given at the
stand in the state house grounds after
the notification ceremonies have been
completed.
There has been no change in the pro
gramme for the notification ceremonies
and they are scheduled to begin prompt
ly at 3 o'clock in the northwest -corner of
the state house grounds. Marion Butler
will not be present and J. H. Edmiston,
vice chairman of the Populist national
committee, will act as permanent chair
man of the meeting.
Chief Justice Doster will speak for 30
minutes and will be followed by T. M.
Patterson, chairman of the notification
committee who will deliver the notifica
tion address to which Mr. Bryan will
reply. After the ceremonies a public Re
ception will be held which will close 'in
time for Mr. Bryan to get his supper and
leave on the 8 o'clock train for Manhat
tan. In the evening a meeting will be held"
at the stand u the state house grounds.
Webster Davis, J.' B. Weaver, Cyclone
Davis and other prominent speakers will
address the meetings. There will be no
meeting in Garfield park.
The committees have done everything
possible to liave matters move smoothly
and everything will come off as near the
schedule as is possible. The committee
on decorations began their work last
night and by tomorrow morning will
have the stand and the poles on the
street car line from the Rock Island to
Ninth street decorated.
A letter was received from Jas. N.
Stephens, of Denver, secretary of the
Monetary league, stating that the com
mittee representing that league will be
here to notify Mr. Bryan of their sup
port. This committee was appointed at
a meeting of the league which was held
in Kansas City during the Democratic
convention and consists of a member
from each state and terirtory. They
will be received by the reception com
mittee and will be taken to the rooms
at 706 Kansas avenue where they will
meet Mr. Bryan and notify him of their
mission. They w-ill have no part in the
notification meeting proper.
A telegram was received from Frank
Elliott at Denton, Kan., stating that the
rain would prevent the fifty horse men
from riding to Topeka to attend the
meeting but they will come on the train.
The reception committee will meet to
night at 706 Kansas avenue and will per
fect their plans for the care and enter
tainment of the large crowd which is
expected. The police force will be in
creased for the occasion by thirty extra
men who will keep people in order and
act as a bureau of information for the
benefit of the visitors.
When Mr. Bryan leaves for Manhattan
he will b; accompanied by Judge Doster,
T. M. Patterson, John A. Atwood and
Jerry Simpson, who will be with him at
the meetings in Manhattan and Marys
ville which will be held on the 24th.
The Women's Bryan and Breidenthal
club will entertain the visiting ladies at
the notification meeting with a reception
in the vacant room at Eighth and Kan
sas avenue.
BRYAN AT AUBURN
Begins a Series of Speeches in
His Old District.
'Auburn, Neb., Aug. 22, W. 3. Bryan
made the first speech here today of a
series scheduled for today In the First
congressional district of Nebraska. The
meeting was held in the court house
grounds, and in spite of a light rain
which was falling, a good crowd was
present. The First congressional dis
trict was represented by Mr. Bryan in
congress and has, since his retirement,
been represented by a Republican mem
ber. Mr. Bryan made a plea for the election
of G. W. Berger, the Democratic can
didate for congress. He -compared the
govefnment to a corporation. He said
all citizens were stockholders, as such
they owed it to themselves to look well
after the conduct of the directors of the
corporation. He charged the Republi
can administration, the government di
rectors, with deceit in all its policies.
This deception had, he said, been prac
tised in regard to the financial system,
the trusts and the foreign policy of the
country. He charged the Republican
party with the intention of fastening a
national debt upon the people. He de
voted himself especially to the enlarge
ment of the army, saying that if "we
could take the Philippine - islands, we
could subject any weak people." The
Republican party was building its policy
upon the plea that "might makes right."
They were asserting that the financial
question was this year the paramount
issue only because the Republican party
regarded the dollar of more conse
quence than the man.
He dwelt upon liberty as a God given
right, saying the Filipinos were as much
entitled to it as we are. In promising,
them a good government we are only
promising what kings promised under
similar circumstances. We have, he
asserted, no title to the Philippine is
lands according to the Declaration of
Independence. In the first place Spain
had no title and in the second place,
we can not buy people, nor was it any
more profitable than wise to wage for
eign conquest. Already what had been
spent in the way of treasure in the Phil
ippines to say nothing of blood is more
than the profits of trade with those is
lands for many years would amount to.
The flag had been hauled down in Mex
ico and the Mexican people were better
off with their own government than
they would be with an American carpet
bag government in that country.
Mr. Bryan sharply arraigned the Re
publican party for its alleged inconsist
ency in the position formerly taken on
questions of militarism, money and
trusts and the position now taken on
those questions, and continuing said:
"The same spirit that carries you to
the Philippine islands will lead into
some other places and make you hold,
the people and make them subjects
against their will. The same spirit of
militarism and imperialism that car
ried you to the Philippine Islands will
carry you wherever you can find a peo
ple weak enough to be whipped by the
United States. The doctrine of impe
rialism is the doctrine of the bully and
the coward. It is the doctrine which
takes people under the pretense that
you are taking them for their good and
you reach your hands in their pockets
and rob them, while you are taking
them. Republicans, your papers tell
you that the Filipinos are savages; you
dare not say it, because you do not arm
savages and turn them out to fight peo
ple. They say we can not haul down
the flag In the Philippines once it is
raised there. Even this administration
rdoes not find any trouble or difficulty in
hauling down the flag in Alaska. I
suppose they contend that In a cold
climate you can haul it down, but that
you can not in a hot climate.
"The American flag represents the
purpose of the American people. No
body can haul our flag down against
our will, but the American people have
the right to put it up where they want
it and to take it down where they de
sire. The flag is the servant of the na
tion the people are not the servants
of the flag. If that is true, how are
you going to bring the American troops
back from Pekin? They planted the
American flag there. I want the Amer
ican flag to come down from the Phil
ippine islands in order that the flag
of a republic might rise in its place.
I would rather that we have two flags
representing two republics than one
representing an empire."
CUT SHORT AT TECDMSEH.
Tecumseh, Neb., Aug. 22. The train
bringing Mr. Bryan from Auburn to
this place was an hour late, and in con
sequence he was compelled to cut short
hi3 stay here in order to fill his other
engagements of the day. His speech
was briefer than that made at Auburn,
taut covered very much the same
ground. The crowd was again large.
In the course of his speech here Mr.
Bryan related that he had made his
first Fourth of July speech in thi3,
Johnson, county, twelve years ago.
"When I concluded," he said, "two men
came to me and askea me whether I
was a Democrat or Republican; but
they don't do that any more. When a
man makes a speech in favor of the
Declaration of Independence they know
he is not a Republican."
Mr. Bryan left Tecumseh immediately
after his speech for a twenty mile drive
across the country to Pawnee City,
where he spoke .'ate this afternoon.
CLIMAXls REACHED.
Rabid Partisans Will ' Fly Mc
Kinley and Roosevelt Kite
Over Bryan Stand.
Extreme partisans who would rather
that Topeka should lose her reputation
for hospitality than allow an opportuni
ty to insult the Bryan people to escape
will attempt to fly a large kite bearing
the pictures of McKinley and Roosevelt
over the stand while Bryan is speaking.
It Is needless to say that O. K. Swayze
is the leader of the movement.
Korean Rebels Attack Song Ching.
Yokohama, Aug. 22. An official dis
patch from Korea says that a thousand
rebels have attacked Song Ching, burn
ing the government buildings located
there.
. Weather Indications.
Chicago, Aug. 22. Forecast for Kan
sas: Thunder storms in east portion
this afternoon or tonight; Thursday fair
with moderate temperature; variable
winds.
MASSED AT
HACIIADODORP.
Boer Army, 8,000 Strong,
With All Artillery
Occupies Position on the De
lagoa Bay Railroad.
00M PAUL IS THERE
With Botha, Lucas Myer and
Schalkburger.
Compromising Correspondence
to be Made Public in London.
Twyfelaar, Monday, Aug. 20. Through
secret intelligence agents the British,
authorities learn that Gen. Louis Botha,
the commander in chief of the Boer
forces; Gen. Lucas Myer, the comman
der of the Orange Free State forces,
and General Schalkburger, vice presi
dent of the Transvaal republic, with 8,
000 Boers, has assembled at Machado
dorp (generally understood to be the
headquarters of President Kruger on
the Pretoria-Delagoa Bay railroad)
with the whole of the Boer artillery, in
cluding the heavy pieces formerly at
Pretoria,
LABOUCHERE STIRS UP TROUBLE.
London, Aug. 22. Henry Labouchere'a
publication of the correspondence ad
vising him of the seizure at Pretoria
of compromising letters to Secretary
Reitz is to be followed by the publica
tion of the whole correspondence, which!
the colonial office says will be issued to
night or tomorrow, all the members of
parliament involved having answered
the official communication sent to them
on the subject. v
HAMILTON CROSSES THE CROCO
DILE. London, Aug. 22. The war office has
received the following dispatch from
Lord Roberts dated August 21:
"Liuetenant Colonel Sitwell, reconnoit
ering near Ventersburg, engaged the
Boers. Two British were wounded. Lieu
tenants Spedding, Davenport, Surtee and
Watson and a medical officer and 24 men
are missing.
"Hamilton has crossed the Crocodile
river.
"Paget and Baden-Powell engaged th?
commandoes, protecting Dewet August
20. Lieutenant Flowers and one man
were killed. Lieutenant Klrby and six
men were wounded."
JUMPED THE TRACK.
Trolley Car Wrecked on a Cleve
land Suburban Line.
Cleveland, O., Aug. 22. An electric car
on the Cleveland and Chagrin Falls su
burban line jumped the truck on a curve
near Chagrin Falls today while runnintc
at high speed. The car was wrecked and
the crew and twelve passengers cut and
badly bruised. Five persons were seriously
injured. The accident was caused by a
broken brake rod. Those most seriously
injured are:
John Young, conductor, Chagrin Falls.
Miss Rathburn, Newburg. Ohio.
Mrs. M. G. Meice, Chagrin Falls.
Mrs. Walter Barrows, Chagrin Falls.
C. H. Hubbell, Chagrin Falls.
Fortunately the car struck a trolley pole
when it left the track, otherwise it would
have gone down a steep embankment. Hail
this occurred a number of lives would
probably have been lost.
BRYAN AND ROOSEVELT
To Speak From Same Platform on
Labor Bay in Chicago
Chicago, Aug. 22. It was announced
at Democratic headquarters today that
William J. Bryan Would be In Chicago
Labor day after all and speak at tne
picnic to be held in connection with,
the Labor day celebration. The an
nouncement was made by George Schil
ling, head of the labor bureau at the
headquarters, and was joyfully received
by the people in charge of the picnic.
If this programme is adhered to it
will result in Governor Roosevelt and
Colonel Bryan appearing on the same
platform. Mr. Bryan's original inten
tion was to go to Cleveland on Labor
day, but according to the announce
ment made by Mr. Schilling he haa
changed his mind.
, DELAWARE DIVIDED.
Two Republican Tickets in the Field
Owing to Addicks.
Wilmington, Del., Aug. 22. The con
vention of the regular Republican (anti
Addicks faction) has nominated the fol
lolwng ticket:
For Governor Martin B. Burrls.
Lieutenant Governor John Hunn.
Presidential electors Chas. W. Pusy,
Manlove Chase and Daniel 0. Layton.
Hayes was named as a presidential elec
tor by the union Republican convention
(Addicks' faction) two weeks ago.
Congressman for the full term Ex
Congressman Jonathan S. Willis.
Attorney General H. H. Ward.
State Treasurer Dr. L. Heisler Ball.
Insurance Commissioner Geo. E.
Smith.
Auditor of Accounts Purnell B. Nor
man. The convention also nominated Walter
O. Hoffecker for the unexpired congres
sional term of the late John H. Hoff
ecker. ' .- . . ..
TO CHANGE MEMORIAL DAY
Commander Shaw Favors the Last
Sunday in May.
Chicago. 111., Aug. 22. Albert D.
Shaw, commander in chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, arrived In Chi
cago last night to consult with the ex
ecutive committee on the last details
concerning the coming celebration,
which he says promises to be the larg
est and most successful encampment in
the history of the organization.
"Our membership is decreasing rep
idly every year," said the commander
in chief, "and soon the G. A. R. will
be a thing of the past. I hope, how
ever, that before we pass out of ex
istence we will change our memorial
day from the 30th of May to the last
Sunday in May. Memorial day should
be given over to patriotism and inspi
ration, and not to boat racing and bii-il
games. I shall recommend at the na
tional convention that the date be
changed, and while I cannot say what
the action of the delegates will be, I
hope to find that they are all with,