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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1900.
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BOERS SEEK
ANNEXATION
Peace Commissioners Xow Due in Xew
York Are Empowered to Ask This
Con n to to Raise the Stars and
Stripes ia South Africa.
'iw Yohk, My 15. According to the
Pretoria correspondent of the Herald,
he commission composed of Messrs.
Fiecher, Wessels and Woltnarino and
representing the republics of the Trane
wland Orange Free State, which is
expected to arrive here today, is em
powered to take Important action.
Th correspondents says:
"I have the highest authority for mak
ing the statement that rather than see
this country conquered by England, the
commieeioi.eis are empowered to ask the
United States to assume a protectorate
oyer the republics, this protectorate to
tend, if desired, toward eventual annex
ation i territories or states.
"Secretary of slate Reitz, who is rap
idly breaking down nnder the etrain ho
ii undergoing, voiced this national hope
in these words :
" 'We will maintain our independence
if wo can. If we cannot, we nppeal to
tbs American people to take us under
their wing. Surely the Declaration of
Independence Is broad endugh to span
the ocean. Our last hope is that having
again and again carried our burden of
persecution into the wilderness to escape
iroin England, we may be permitted t
deposit it at the foot of the statue of
liberty, to find peace and contentment
and protection nnder the Stars and
Stripes.' "
Porto Itlean and Hawaiian Democrats.
Chicago, May 15. The Record says:
Hawaii and Porto Rico will send dele
gates to the Democratic National Con
tention. Each island will be accorded
six delegates if the wishes of the demo
cratic leaders are carried out. Senator
Jones, chairman of the democratic
national committee, recently received a
aletterfroni some Sandwich it-landers
who said they were anxious to know if
he convention would peat a Hawaiian
delegation should one come to Kansas
City July 4. Senator Jones replied that
'.be convention itself would have to pass
on that question, but it is said ho ad-
need the Sandwich Islanders to send
along their delegation, and it might be
seated.
Democratic managers say that there Is
some pretty politics in the i lea of giving
"eat? in the convention to a I'orto Rican
ielegation. They believe it will be a good
p'ay, in view of the fact that the demo
cratic platform will contain an anti-im-ferial
is t ic plank. By seating a delega
tion from Porto Rico and giving it six
votes, the democrats in convention would
lemon strata in practical their conten
tion that Porto Rico is part of the United
States and is a territory co-equal in all
things political with the Indian Territory,
Alaska or the District of Columbia,
lich are unorganized territories.
Hevenge on TMlimanjr.
London, Man 15. The Exp rees of to
lr advocates i he ostracism of Richard
Crr.ker in England in revenge fur Tam
many's attitude n the Boer war. It says:
"It has not escaped notice in this coun
try that an American welcome to the
Boer delegates has been inspired and en
wwraged hy Tammany Hall, which is
controlled hy the notorious dobs, Dick
troker. The records of Tammany are
already black enough without the ad
''"i'W of this new infamy. But what
makes the action of Tammany peculiarly
famous now is the fact that Croker
'iaims the hospitality of an English
iomii ile, poses as an English gentleman
Md run, race horses on the English turf,
Wis aiding and encouraging the worst
'' Eiiglanil' enemies.
"Cmker's position is practically on all
r With that nf th I,nL, r m,i.,..
Tl Duke has siready paid the penalty
"'having fall, n under the ban of social
0-trapijni t rt i j. . . .
' kroner nuns mat trie
'facing air of the United States does not
'"variablysHit his constitution, he should
re th calm seclusion of an Italian
ithin reach of the Dnkn of Orleans,
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congenial."
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BULLER NOW
OCCUPIES DUNDEE
Burghers Looted theTown Before Leav
ing, Damaging the looses and
Destroying the Machinery ia the
Collieries.
London, May 15, 1:50 p. in. The war
office has received the following dispatch
from General Bulier:
"Dundee, May 15. We have occupied
Dundee. About 2500 of the enemy left
yesterday lor ijlencoe, where they are
entrenched. Their wagons also left y ester
day by Danger's Drift and the Danna
haujer roid. Their Kaffirs said they
were going to Laing's Nek. Almost every
house in Dundee is completely looted
The navigation colliery is all right. The
machinery of the Dundee colliers is
destroyed. The houses of the town are
damaged, but are structurally intact.'
Brand's Duipt, May 13. General
Rundle has completely checkmated the
attempt of the Boers to omesouth again,
and the enemy are retiring before the
persistent advance of the British. Many
have been captured, or are surrendering,
There were 150 of thesa yesterday and
today, among them President Steyn'
brother. Ladybrand district is clear of
Boers. They have evacuated Meqnatl
ing's Nek, and are now near Lindley.
Lodrknco Marques, May 15. Boers
Saturday occupied the Kaffir location at
Mafeking; they were in turn attacked
during tno night of Saturday, and on
Sunday found themselves surrounded
The Boers lost seven killed and seventeen
wounded. The Britlgh loss is reported
to havo been heavy.
Lisbon, May 15. It is rumored here
that President Kruger has ordered the
Portuguese consul to leave the Transvaal
Republic.
THE FATE OF
MAFEKING
The Boers
Declare the
Fallen.
Town Has
London, May 16, 4:30 a. m. "Food
will last until about June 10," is the
lateet official word from Colon"! Baden-
Powell, the British commander av Mafe
king, sent to Lord Roberts, under date
of May 7. Five days later thb Boers at
tempted to storm the town, and it is
possible that they succeeded, although
nothing is known of the attack or of its
results, except through Pretoria sources,
which have do countenance here. The
British relief column is due there now.
Ten days ago General Snymao was bav
ing difficulty in keeping the burghers to
gether, owing to the approach of the
British, and when the last Associated
Press dispatch left Mafeking, May 7, the
Boers had killed, the previous day, one
of the horse guards and had captured
several of Colonel Baden-Powell's few
remaining horses.
Lord Roberts' dispatch to the war of
fice follows:
"Baden-Powell reports under date of
May 7, all going well. Fever is decreas
ing; the garrison is cheerful, and the
food will last until June 10."
Concentrating on tha Vanl,
Kuoonstad, Monday, May It. -It is
ported that the whole of the Boer forces
are concentrating on the Vaal, w itiidrftw
ing from Biggarsberg and the southwest
ern border.
It is computed that not more than 2000
Free Staters will fight on the Vaal.
Railway communication with this
place is expected to open on Thursday.
The transport is working smoothly, the
troops and horses are receiving lull
rations. Water Is plentiful and the
health of the troops is txceWenr.
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OPEN LETTER
T TV I "VT rno
I U YD I LnO
An Appeal of the Women SuQragists ot
Oregon for the Right of Suffrage.
To the Voters of all Political P.irties ( f
the State of Oregon, and to you, Sir,
Greeting1 :
The many adherents of the equal
suffrage movement, for which a con
stitutional amendment is now pending,
have held their peace for many nicuths,
lest they might embaraes you in some
way concerning the partisan and person
al conflicts in which you have been striv
ing with each other for the mastery.
But, now that your nominations are ail
made, and your plans adjusted for your
various campaigns, we desire to place
before you our plea for our own en
franchisement. We feel that you can
not justly, or honestly deprive us of our
voice in the administration of the affairs
of the government, since we are taxed to
maintain Its law s, to which, equally with
yourselves, we are held amendable. As
we provide for the government all its
soldiers at the risk of our lives; and,
when you call our tons to battle, we bid
them God-speed, oven though our hearts
be breaking, we surely perform duties
equal with yours in the maintenance of
government.
In respectfully demanding your af
firmative votes npon a question we are
not permitted to decide for ourselves, we
are not asking for the adoption of any
partisan issue, nor of any untried experi
ment. Directly to the east of us are four
sovereign states, in which the women
are enjoying the free use of the ballot.
the citizens ot yoming, the pioneer
state of this great movement, have from
time to time during the past thirty years,
announced, over their own signatures,
through her press, her legislatures, her
governors, senators, clergymen, judgeB,
representatives and chief educators, that
good and only good, has accrued to the
people and the state from the enfranchise
ment of women. They have often
publicly challenged the anonymous
writers from other states, who have mis
represented the facts, to find two men,
or women, in all Wyoming, who will
assert, over their own names and ad
dresses, that equal sufTerage has pro
duced any bad results. It is needless to
says that no euch opponent has yet
responded.
Governor Campbell, who was in office
when the law was passed in 18C9, snid,
in his message to (he legislature two
years later, "It is simple justice to say
that the women entering for the first
time upon their new and untried duties,
have conducted themselves in every
respect with much tact, sound judgment
and good sense as men." Similar testi
mony has come, unsolicited, from each
succeeding governor of Wyoming and
from all the highest officials and
educators of both sexes and all parties.
The very leading men and women of
Colorado, another state where women
vote, have issued circulars saying: "We
believe the greatest good to the home,
the state nud the nation is best advanced
through the operation of woman suffrage.
The evils predicted have not come to
pass. The benefits claimed for it have
been secured, or are in process of develop
ment. A very large proportion of
Colorodo, women have conscientiously
accepted their responsibility as citizens."
rhis statement was made in 1S:6, In
answer to the mis statements of tin
: lion vinous "anti," a correspondent cf
the Eastern press, and was signed by the
governor, ex-governor, governor-elect,
nited States senators and ex-senntors,
representatives and ex-representatives
in congress, the chief justice and asgi cute
justices of the supiemo court, the presi
dents of colleges and universities, the
presidents of woman's cluhs, Ihe heads
of educational, religious and phihin-l
Ihropic institutions, and by leading
society women throughont the state.
From Idaho, where women have been
voters siriCH 1S9U, have come to us many
testimonial, also unsolicited, highly in
dorsing the movement, signed by men
and women of unimpeachable integrity
ami standing, among whom are Chief
Justice I. N. Sullivan, Associate Justices
Huston and Quarlee, II. K. McElroy of
the state normal school, Win. Balderston,
editor of the Idaho Statesman, and a
great many other prominent men, as
well as the very promimnt women who
lead in society, education and philan
thropy. Everybody knows that the enfranchise
ment of tho women of all the states is
coming ; that It is inevitable. Oregon to
day, la the onlv st.ite wl.ero on equal
suffrage amendment I pending. She,
ami she alone, is in position to lead
the van of progreet in this important
movement in this dawn of the new
century. Let her voters do their duty
I b' "''"kin their ballots "Yea" for the
equal suffrage amendment, and she will
go into imperishable history as the first
state of the Pacific Coast to place the in
signia of liberty upon the brows of the
mothers of her soldiers and statesmen.
By this act of simple justice yon will
place Oregon in a position where she
will advertise her own greatness and
thus enhance your prosperity without
cost to yourselves.
It is related of the poet Whittier that
npon being asked his opinion of a future
state of existence, he replied by quoting
from an epitaph he had read somewhere :
Here lie I, Michael Anglerod,
Have mercy on my soul, Lord God,
An I would do, were I Lord God,
And you were Michael Anglerod.
It was the apt significance ot this epi
taph that appealed to the solons of the
legislature who submitted the equal
suffrage amendment for which we ask
your vote. We believe you also will
see the point. "A word to the wise is
sufficient."
ARE ADVISED
TO SURRENDER
Boer Delegates Have Counseled Such a
Course in Event of Defeat at the
Vaal.
London, May 16 The most import
ant developments in today's war news
is a statement cabled from Cape Town
announcing that the Boer delegates had
apvised the Traosvaa'ers to eurrend-jr if
defeated at the Vaal. This remarkable
announcement is vouched for on good
authority, and evidently ohtxins more
credence in Cape Town than would a
mere rumor. The occupation of Glencoe
was merely a logical sequence of Gen
eral Buller's advance and the Boer's re
tiling movement. As ueual the Boers
are reported to be flying; but also as
usual, the accounts add that their trans
ports and guns were removed in safety,
which in itself is a contradiction of any
statement that any Boers were panic
stricken. About 1100 more troops have arrived
at Beira, Portuguese East Africa.
Among them is Lord Dnnraven, who ac
companies the Dunraven shai pe hoot ere
as a Etipernumary captain on the bat
talion staff.
Lovrenco Marques, May 10. A Por
tuguese official dispatch says an encoun
ter has occurred at Mafeking, and that
tho Boers have bten repulsed with
heavy loss.
Filipino fcject Civil Marriage,
Manila, May 16 (Correspondence of
Associated Press.) Tho most sensation
al of the events of the past week has
been the general distribution hy the
Jesuits of pamphlet in which is set
forth the "Truths Which Christains
Must Observe." Among the things most
strongly condemned by the Jesuits in
this pamphlet are religious tolerance and
the recognition of civil marriages. Con
sequently, this act of the Jesuits is con
sidered by many to be an attack upon
the American administration.
The commands are backed up by many
quotations from the Bible, encyclicals,
syllabus and letters from different Popes,
The pamphlet was issued without duly
expressed church authority and until
the organ of Ihe Uomari Catholic church
in Manila, a Spanish newspaper failed
the Libertns, admitted the (act that the
Jesuits had published, and with evry
right the pamphlet in question, con
siderable doubt was entertained as to its
authenticity.
The I'ft.ea Envoyn.
Nkw York, May 10 Messrs Fischers,
Wolmarens ami Wessels. the envoys
from the South African republic and the
Orange Free Slate, who arrived here
yesterday, commissioned by their govern
ments to endeavor to lndt:ce the United
States to nse its influenco in the estab
lishment of peace iu South Africa, were
questioned today regarding the statement
from London that a cablegram from Cape
Town asserted that they had advised
surrender, should their sountrymen be
defeated on the Vaal river. Severally
and collectively the members denied
that they declared that they were op
posed to surrender.
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PROTESTS AGAINST
THE CREDENTIALS
Charges Fraud in the Appointment of
Clar He Will Name a Senator.
Chicago, May 17. A special to the
Times-Herald from Helena, Mont., says :
When the United States senate com
mittee on privileges and elections nietts
tomorrow, it will have to face another
complication in the Clark senatorial
case. Governor Smith arrived in Butte
this afternoon, and wired Attorney Gen
eral Nolan to meet him in thnt city. The
governor desired to consult the attorney
general as to the form in which he wi l
put a protest that he will wire to the
senate tomorrow against the acceptance
of the crtdciiliulsof Mr. Cl.uk in the ap
pointment of Lieutenant-Governor
Springs. Governor Smith aillbaee his
protest on the ground that the appoint
ment is vitiated hecanse of fraud. He
will allege that the resignation of
Senator Clark was written in April and
that the date that it now bears, Mav 11,
was the result of the erasure of the
original date, which, it will be alleged,
can be easily proved by examination of
the docn merit.
He will allege also that the resignation
was in the possession of Charles A. Clark,
son of the senator, for several weeks, and
thnt the reslgnitivn of Senator Claik
at the time ho did resign, and his ap
pointment by Lieutenant-Governor
Spriggs, was part of a plan to insure his.
appointment by the lieutenant-governor.
In the carrying out of the plot, it will be
added, misrepresentation and other de
vious methods were used to get the gov
ernor out of the state. The governor
will hold that, owing to alleged fraudu
lent practices, followed in the apo iint
ment of Mr. Clark, that appointment is
void, and he will himself make an ap
pointment to fill the vacancy from
Montana.
While it Is not positively known whom
the governor will appoint, it is believed
that Maitin Muginnis, who represented
Montana in congress in the early days of
the territory, will be chosen. He is not
allied with either democratic faction,
and has alw ays been a strong party man.
rreciict Itry.n's Defeat.
Washington, May 10 Wharton
Barker, the nominee for president by the
middle-of-the-road populists, called on
President McKinley today to pay his re
spects. These gentlemen havo known
each other ever sincx tho latter entered
public life. Later, Mr. Barker said that
his nomination makes the election of
Mr. Bryan impossible.
"At the last presidential election, Mr.
Bryan received about 0,500,000. 0( this
number, at least 2,000,000 were populists.
This year I will get 1,500,(0 or poeiilly
1,750,000, of that number.- This will
cut Bryan's vote to 5,000.000, or less
Where is he going to gel the other votes
necessary to elect him? It is estimated
Mr. Mckinley received 1,500,000 votes
from the the democratic ranks four years
ago. These will not go to Bryan this
year to make up his loss of populist votes.
If Gorman or some other eastern man is
nominated by the democrats this year he
wili carry New Yoik, New Jersey, Mary,
land and Delaware in the East, not to
count doubtful states elsewhere. The
fleht this year will not be made on the
money question. Transportation, ex
pansion and other live subjects will
mako up the issues."
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ACROSS THE
TRANSVAAL
Christiana, the First Town Withiu the
Transvaal Borders to Be Occupied By
the British, Was Taken by Hunter
Yesterday Afternoon.
Kkoonstad, May 17. Hunter has cc
copied Christiana without opposition,
the enemy having retired to Klerkadorp
under the impression that the latter
was threatened by a portion of this force
from Parys.
Handle's force was close to Clocolan
ycBterdav evening. The country was
ilar of the enemy.
Tim resident commissioner in Basnto
land reports that a number of Boers liv
ing in the Enickabnrg and Bothlehein
diftrlcts have applied to him for advice
and as to tha conditions of surrender.
This i very satisfactory.
London, May 17. 2:18 p. m. The
war nflic? has received the fallowing dis
patches from L id Roberts.
"Kroonetad, May 16 Rundle yester
day occupied Mcqiutlings Nek and
Modder Port without opposition.
"Hunter has entered the Transvaal
and has advanced within ten miles of
Christiana.
"Methuen has reached n point twelve
miles on the lloopstad road without tee
ing the enemy.
"Natives and local whites have con
firmed the previous reports of tho disor
ganization of the Free Staters. The situa
tion here is unchanged."
London, May 17. In the committee-,
room of tho hou'e of commons this morn
ing, Sir James Kitxon announced that
Mafeking hail been relieved. The war
office, however, Is nnable to confirm the
announcement.
Capk Town, May 17. A dispatch from
Lourenco Marques, dated today, says
that Commandant Eloff, grandson of
Pre-mlejit Kiuger, with a patrol, entered
Maftking, whereupon Colonel Baden
Powell opened fire on the burghers, kill
ing eeventetoi of them ami taking Eloff
and ninety af his men prisoners.
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passed resolutions urging all labor or
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politic tl party, as the only means by
which laboring men may hope tt icccre
the rights they consiiler their due. No
party was named, but private expression
of opinion from members show that
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throu.'h in chair nan, Senator Morgan,
repre'ented its written report on the
Nicaragua canal bill to the senate. The
committee tukes a ttron position against
the ro, cs t on to I uiU a canal via the
Panama route, nud f7ors the Nicaragua
route.
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