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THE ' OREGON SUNDAY-JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 5, 1S03
Mm issws m esw ycqz
Tvins, RcpuEficah ; McClellan, Tammany Hall, and
Hearst, Municipal League, Candidates for Mayor.
Who They Are, What They Stand
For and Their Views on ,
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Their Prospects.
1ST
EW YORK, Oct 17. If you wall.
down Broadway you will see
nunc to tlia brMM the banner
of the Republican candidate (or
mayor, minus the party nam. , It you
- buttonhole almost any Republican you
will b told that ha la going to vote
for McClellan or Hearst If you go to
ee Mr. I vlna you wlU find that hla
only coBoara la that Haarst may not
poll. 100.00 vote, because ho 'la oon
vlnced ha, wlU ba alectad if Mr. Hearst
can only hold that strength.
Again, if you vtalt Tammany Hall or
the McClellan beadquartera, as likely as
sot the first man you meet -will ba a
.well-known worker for the . ClUxens'
. union wearing a Tammany-button.- If
. you ask the Tammany leaders about the
outlook you will find them making- lons
facea about Hearst, in the effort to
cars more 'Republicans .into the Mo-
Clellan column. .
- But If you visit the headquarters of
the Municipal Ownership party, whoae
candidate Mr. Haarat la, you will get
the genuine article lnr a roseate flew.
'Borne of 'Mr. Hearst's friends are con
vinced that he wUI hare per cent of
the vote polled.
' Wherever you go you pay your money
and take your choice. All three of the
1 candidates are In a fair way to be oon
vlnced that under certain contingencies
they are sure of being mayor for th
next four years. And all three are en:
gaged in smashing party lines. ' '
The most interesting f lgure la the
campaign is William. Randolph- Hearat,
formerly of San Francisco;' and owner
of the Hearst newspapers.
. . Mr. Hearst heads the first ticket ever
voted for in New York distinctively of the
municipal ownership type. Ha . is very
much In earnest about It. and Tammany
leaders confess that a surprising num
bar of their own' voters are showing
signs of brekleg''away from Tammany
ties to follow , the leader of the new
doctrine. Mr. Hearat says that munici
pal Ownership and thebpratlon of pub
lie utilities Is no longer a Socialistic
Bream, bat a tangible thing that may be
put Into practice If ho succeeds in
getting enough voters to. place htm -in
the olty hall. He does not explain pre
cisely how he is to put hla proclaimed
principles into practice, but there are
many voters who are evidently willing
to take hlra at his word and give him
"the opportunity to try."
'.Here is Mr. Hearst's platform:
Public necessities and publle values
created by th people should be owned
by th people. ---v.
' '..I By a British Officer. ,
MY military education having lad
ma to look np to th German
army as the "n plus ultra"
of military -perfection, it was
in a spirit of humble expectation that I
slipped my notebook and my official
pass into my pocket and. taking my
bicycle with me. set out for th seen
of action. , This year th Kalserman
over. as they are called, were destined
to take place in an area 28 miles squar,
lying on th east of th Rhine between
Coblens and Weisbaden. This country
is exceedingly hilly, consisting, as it
does, of successive ranges of hills on
th average 1,000 feet high and valleys
about 400 feet above eea level. , Tha
. troops engaged numbered som 100.000
men. and -consisted of - th eighteenth
and eighth army corps. ' - . -a
1 1 do not propose to dwell In any way
upon th strategical dispositions of the
troops or to describe th nature of
their movements, for strategy, after all.
f s -th asm In all countries and in all
times. Had Oram a' armies had to In
wad India from ths northwest, I dpubt
whether he could have Improved upon
VMrxander strategical dispositions, It
was rather with a view to watching the
Individual movements of scouts, th
bandllng of companies in tha firing line,
tb organisation and idiosyncrasies of
ths German army, and comparing all
this with that of our own army, that
X attended these maneuvers.
- Any on who has seen th German
troops on parade and on th march can
rot fall to be struck by th exception
ally fin physique of th men. The In
fantry especially won my admiration,
Thes are fin, upstanding men. with in
telligent, bright faces, and most of them
have been blessed by nature with chins
-that denote steadfastness and determine
atlon. Th average height is about five
feet . seven Inches, the shoulders are
square, and their figures speak. rather
of phyalcal strength and endurance than
of -activity. . ' They are heavy men, and
would be all th better- if superfluous
fatty substance was sweated off them
' by a long course of hard athletic train
ing. .When marching they tak a long,
low step, as becomes men of larg pro
portions, but they manage -to get over
th ground at a steady pee of three
tnlle an hour, and this with their heavy
packs on their, shoulders, be it remem
bered. I noticed but vary fw of them
fall out. on the war. and this - not
through-eoreneea of - foot, bot front
bodily - exhaustion. I am Inclined to
' attribute this to th Immense quantity
of water they consume on ths march.
At every hamlet th villagers line the
road with pail and baths full of cool
clear German water, and the men make
greedy raids upon this supply.
- They do not sing, whistle or talk much
wh.ll plodding along they appear to
give all their attention to th. business
in hand, namely, covering ground. They
how but little Interest or curiosity lr
the task before them. Their destination.
' the whereabouts of th enemy, tit na
ture of th country, are matters or su
' prem lndifferonc to them ihey leave
. all- that to their officers,
In camp the German soldier Is an
amenable creature. H need but little,
;nd is not particular as to th way In
which h gets 11 If the ground on
which, he has to 11 is wet a it was
throughout th week he doe not wast
' tlra grumbling over It; h shakes down
, and make, th best of it So far as I
' could-e ther 1 verjrjlttl chaff or
horseplay among tb man; each man
goea stolidly about hi own business
- and. having achieved that, sleeps.. The
German Infantryman marches eight
bonra-- day; eate and drinks camp
brewtd meat soup and stolen apples b.
. LtJ''-;' L-tll v "at '.' lit-it rl V" 1 l.i ' ' ' 'u)J'l, , . n - r . . '
We demand th Immediate establish
ment and operation by th city of a
plant for th sal and distribution of
gas to all th eitlsens.
We demand that such rranonisea as
have lapsed or bar never bad a legal
existence shall be taken over by th
people,'-" .' ' ' 1
During th coming mayoralty lerm or
four years th city, will grant subway
franchises, the value of which Is so
great that It can scarcely be estimated.
It runs Into hundreds' of millions of dol
lars. All of this should remain th
property of th people.
W demand th construction of these
subways by th city, and their operation
by the city as soon as tha olty shall be
legally and financially able to undertake
their operation; profits to be devoted to
th lowering .of taxes, t batter pay and
shorter hours for employes .,
.The rapid transit act as it now stands
Is undemocratic, unjust and menao to
th city's ' interests. .
W demand an amendment to this act,
which shall permit: , . .
Separation of contracts for construc
tion from leases from operation. - The
contractor should be allowed to make
a cheap' a, bid as he can make, not
forced to become an operator of th sys
tem and to give an Impossible bond.
Short -.term lease for subways built
by th city. : - 'r :
Municipal operation. -.J :
Mr. Hearst,, la 41 years of age. He
was marrleoVtwo and a half years ago,
and has on child, a boy. - Ha was edu
cated in th common schools of San
Francisco . with on term at Harvard,
and became publisher and proprietor of
the San' Francisco Examiner when he
was of age.- In IMS be - purchased the
New York Journal, end has slnoe es
tablished newspapers in other cities.' He
has served two terms In congress from
tb eleventh district of New fork. He
has been a large contributor to charities
of various sorts, headed a Subscription
for the persecuted Hebrews in Russia,
sent a relief expedition 'to th sufferers
of th Galveston flood, .sent an expedi
tion to Mont Pelee, and has been con
spicuous In many other similar under
takings.' ' . .TV .- " .. V .
His father, was George Hearst, a
United States senator from California
and a man of wealth. His mother. Mr.
Phoebe Hearst, has been prominent in
social and charitable work In San Fran
cisco, New York and Washington.
In his fight for th mayoralty, .Mr.
Hearst-tellrirtragdlences that- be re the
only candidate who is not controlled by
bosses and ulterior influences. .
Colonel George B. McClellan,' eon ot
the late General George B. McClellatt,
ing his favortt delicacies at frequent
Intervals; th rest of his tlm is ap
parently employed la Bleeping.
He does not lev to mak friends
with the Inhabitants of th neighboring
villages, nor does he vlnc any desire
to talk to comrades of th regiment
next door; th local "publle" has but
little attraction h prefers sleep and (In
snatches, of bourse) h must get about
18 hours out of ths 14.
Th cavalryman did not Impress m
quit so favorably as th infantry sol
dier. Speaking generally, they are far
too heavy for their horses, and struck
m as being good riders, but poor horse
men. . They are somewhat too pron to
look upon th horse as a mere means to
locomotion, and not as a sentient ani
mal to be carefully treated and spared
all unnecessary fatigue. Every German
horse-aoldler is seriously handicapped by
having to carry a lane. This instru
ment of tortur is about It feet long
and mad of steel tubing pointed at
either end, and provided with a wooden
core. - As may ;b Imagined, this is n
light thing to drag about, mors espe
cially as, instead of carrying It in th
rest provided for that purpose, hJioldxJ
it continually at the "snort trail," there
by perpetually threatening', with the
butt-end th flank of th horse on his
off-side. After being hit accidentally
myself three or four times, I learned to
stand wide at a passing squadron. Ths
pointed butt-end of a steel lane is hot
a comfortable thing to have knocking
about the region of one's belt
Tb German cavalryman la 'also pro
vided with a revolver. I do not com-'
plain of this, but and this is a serious
disadvantage h la also on maneuvers
provided with blank ammunition for the
same. I happened to be at hand when
a troop of borae ran into a patrol of
the enemy s cavalry. For one full mo
ment ther waa a perpetual inferno of
dancing horses and popping- revolver;
afterward ther was much bad language
and smell of singed horsehair. I do
not know what ths tally of dead anl
wounded would have been had ther
been real bullets, but even as it was
ther wer two badly burnt horses and k
man with a bleeding hand. The whole
thing reminded one of a lot of school
boys fooling with firearms it was
equally futile and dangerous.
The artillery of the German array1 la
a most imposing branch of ths service.
By reason of its enormous strength, it
trails along the road In huge columns.
and is divided into regiments of 88 guns.
The Worses appeared to me not etrong
enough for their work. The men are
fine, strapping fellows, and I felt sorry
for the horse.
Th horss batteries, of which there
are three to each army corps, are very
low movers. Ther are only six horses,
taw ttie-men are very heavy. What at
tracted my notice was a brake attached
to each gun and operated by mean ot a
leather thong by th man who rod on
of . th wheelers. This brake worked
upon th axlea of the guns themselves,
and was muon used in the hilly coun
try. .
As regards Its cyclists, the German
army is Immeasurably bebnft I can
only say I would rather have no cyclists
at ail than such men as the German
army at present produces. Miserably
mounted on the oldest of boneshakers,
weighted with the heaviest of boots and
earner leggings, nam pered by havlnt
a carbine slung ever the shoulder, and
having only the most rudimentary Idea
of btoycle riding, theae men do not make
up for these tremendous disadvantages
by any compensating virtues of Intel
ligence or scouting proclivities. '
Th German officer Is. for his rank,
immeasurably older , than his British
oonfrsr! smart and soldierlike, be If
has Inherited from his father a faculty
for looking matters fairly In th face
and forming hla town conclusions.,
Colonel McClellan has been a candi
date for election eight times, and he has
nsver been defeated. H was i elected
president of tb board of aldermen in
lit by th largest vote given In th
olty. of Nw York that year. H waa
elected to congress in 184, 18. 18S,
10 and 1802. He defeated Botn ixw
for mavor in 110 and is now running
again with two candidates against hlia.
Mayor. MoClellaa arrives at his erne
tbewj4rii clock, us is going
to try to keep this up, although during
ths last two weeks of the campaign mil-
night will hav been long paased ere
h seeks bis nightly rest He works
until 1:1 o'clock. Then he closes bis
desk and goes directly to his political
headquarters in th Bartholdl hotel, at
Twenty-third street and Broadway.
His day's work as mayor has been
finished. He has opened and read his
mall. He ha scanned th dally re
ports. He has threshed out a long batch
of work with th board of astlmat and
aDDortlonmanL Ha - has - reoeWed - his
callers, listened to petitions, complaints,
blame,, praise, growls, kicks and com
mendation, and ' has generally gon
throush th dally grind. He has an.
swered his letters, brought everything
up to date and Is ready to fao the
ordeal of a candidate on th platform,
and. being a candidate for re-election.
he is 1n th nosttlon of a man on the
aetensive. -
"Wllltara "Mvlvlns. who 'accepted th
Republican nomination for mayor a lit
tle more than a week ago, after a dosen
men had refused, has astonished by his
vigor and confidence not only the or
ganisation which placed him in th field.
but th leaders or rival parties woo
had come to regard - th Republicans
as almost a negllglbl quantity in th
campaign. . ,..V7
He has carried out a speaking sched
ule which would stagger even William
J. Bryan. It included as many speeches
as th hours between dinner and mid.
night gave him to- make. He talked
literally all the time, excepting during
th intervals when be was whirled In
an' automobile from on meeting t
another. He makes from three to 10
speecheSfSvery night. Sunday excepted.
Energy and composure are Mr. Ivln's
chief characteristics. : Although he ' is
14 years old and has spent th last four,
years chiefly In the esse of his library
or in pursuing botanical Investigation
about his summer home, at Narragan-
sett Pier, ths amount of work that be
Is abl to accomplish has - staggered
Senator' N. Ar-BlebcTg -and Samuel-8,
Slater, both much younger men, who
r aiding him In his campaign. Unde,
all circumstances, Mr. Ivlns Is ' suave,
oonrtecus and apparently deliberate.
- It was hla original intention to fol
low a literary career and to his studies
n that direction h owes his command
f - graceful and forceful -language as
equally punctilious In the field and In
the messroom. He Is clever at map
reading, and fairly good at judging dis
tances, but suffers- from an excitable
temperament and a quick temper. Total
lack of Initiative, ths fault of his whole
training, Is his besetting sin; la camp he
Is, according to bis mood, either fiercely
Insulting or Jocularly familiar with the
men he baa to deal with., - ' '
I never wish to see (nor is It likely
that J ever shall) troops more smart at
all parade ground exercises, on parade.
Or batter organised. ...-, .
Before I strapped on my well-filled
haversack and attached myself to the
eighteenth army . corps I waa Imbued
with great and profound respect for the
German army and all Ita worka, and
hoped to acquire much technical knowl
edge by studying It In th field.""'-''
They are in a great hurry, the Ger
mans, to get to business, I watched the
advance of a division of infantry along
a valley; the enemy were supposed to be
somowhere on their left flank. First
of all a squadron of dragoons was seat
ahead to spy out th land. Th' officer
commanding these waa supposed to r-
purt pruiresgtotTietenereJ oommandlng
th column. This, however, was quite
unnecessary, as th general and bis
staff followed on so closely that ther
was but llttl h could not see for
himself. Immediately behind, in one
long column, came the It battalions of
Infantry and 88 guns.
In these circumstances It waa, per-
hapa, fiot so foolish as It appeared that
each' battalion 'should have flung out
a faw scouts to right and left- Soma
of thess men searched th wooded. hill
sides with th aid of trained dogs,
though how a dog however well trained
can detect the difference between th
cent of foeman and friend still' re
mains a mystery to m. Ther Is,
however, even to th dull human nose,
little difficulty In traolng th scent of
a Prussian infantry battalion. .
wail, my . division -. marched . along
gaily. When the scouts lingered a min
ute or two they found themselves mixed
up with the vanguard, and another halt
of five minutee brought the remainder
of the advance guard up to block ths
roadway. It waa on lust such occasions
as this that I noticed a troop of cavalry
who, to my Inexperienced 'eye. appeared
to belong to the .enemy, ' trot merrily
down the roe-Wward os. They were
hussars, and wore no helmeta, our drag
oone, however, let them by without mur
mur, as did also the resting infantry
of our vanguard; then a preternaturally
wide-awake officer of the main guard
noticed that aomethlng waa amiss, and
shouted - "Felnd! Felnd!. (enemy!)'
whereupon ther waa a rush to onptl
and load rifles, whil th hitherto un
conscious hussars (or were they merely
much dissembling?) ' turned tall and
bolted round the corner out of th
village and into safety without a ahot
being fired. That waa all we saw of
the enemy, that day.
' That night I slept (or attempted to
sleep) with the troop in bivouac Next
morning a llttl before t o'clock w wer
off again. Th mist lay thick over th
npmha-. and vn when the sun was well
up in th heaven it waa Impossible to
see more than too or 800 yards ahead,
Perhaps this was -th reason that ths
advance guard gave our cavalry scouts
a little more grace. Anyhow, they were
a good half mil ahead, and rod hither
and... thither incessantly through the
mist-shrouded forests and orchards,
Now and again a carbine cracked close
at.Jiand. and-the sound of galloping
horse came ghost-like out of the impene
trable whiteness. Down into the val
ley w dipped, and the infantry (stlU In
- ' V , , 1 11 :rT 1
Hi; IHIW
wall as his acquaintance with 0v Uvlni
tongue and two dead ones. -
Ha. first . demonstrated , his'.' lnflepen
dencc'.of political control when he took
sides against his own Jather In th cam'
palgn of 1871., Ther waa very lively
contest In that year in th old third
assembly' district of Kings. 'Mr.' Ivlns
supported -Horse--Greeley,"" wtill his
father advocated th election of Charles
O'Connor. - r" . ; '
He" was a leader in th movement
headed by General Slocura in Brooklyn
in 1878 which broke the McLaughlin
ring; h was on of th organisers of
the , Stat Bar association; he sent a
majority . of th Brooklyn -board of
aldermen to. Raymond street jail for
contempt of court; as Mayor Grace's
secretary In 1881 he impeached th po
lio commissioners becuthy falle
to clean th atreeta - and r caused th
column of route) swung up again into
the fields on the opposite hillside. The
mists were,. melting space by now, but
still lay thick 1n th valley. On brlgad
wung off to - our right, but we still
held, on over th plowed fields. , .
Our cavalry scouts wer now only tOO
yarda ahead of us, and loomed clearly
Visible through tha fadtna- base. Our
advance guard had fallen back, and was
now only some 24) yarda ahead of our
leading battalion. I looked to our right
and saw a long black mass coming to
ward us; suddenly it stopped, .and
seemed to shrink to half its height I
turned my field glasses that way and
battalion of Infantry kneeling
down facing our flank. The mist was
lifting every moment more and mora.
They were aoon dleoeraibl to the naked
eye. One more minute tbey waited un
til they could distinguish whether our
men had helmet covers or not. These
were still swinging along in fours-rslx
strong battalions. ' I held my breath.
Then - came at command a rattle ' of
breech block, and v next moment the
enemy were pouring a steady Are. Into
ue at 100. yards' range.' For 10 seconds
this continued. Then a man on a horse
seemed to discover that aomethlng was
amiss. Our men got the order to "right
turn and fire."
Thus" it was the battle began. - Foi
one solid half hour friend and foe were
racing one anotner in cioee oraer rou
ble ranks front rank kneeling, real
,ndinrlourlng a perpetual
atream of fire on one another at dis
tances varying from 80 to too yarda
The enemy had been reinforced by now.
I watohed hie reinforcements marching
up gaily la the formation known ae "di
vision in a line of corapanlee."- They
swept over that naked hilltop la one
unwavering line two deepl I was Ill-
mannered enough to laugh. Te godsi-t-
MagerafonUln was a Joke to thls Twice
12.000 men facing one another , at too
yards distance not a vestige of covet
anywhere, if the men oi one siae couia
have only been made bullet proof for
five minutes not a soul of ths other side
could have been left alive. : v . ,
I wae Just in time . to see a very
pretty sight. I had posted myself on
the extreme right of our enemy's line
when, looking to the front, I saw aome
1,006 yards away a gay bundle of lance
points sparkling In the sunshine. Very
deliberately and obviously a staff officer
galloped up to the battalion facing us
they bad been pouring in the murderous
volleys at a range of ISO yards. The
officer oommandlng ordered them to
stand up (the front rank had been
kneeling) and to "form fours right" In
this formation they moved off at the
march across our front, while the mea
beside me were still biasing Into the
thick of them.
By the time the tall of the battalion
had swung clear, the cavalry for auch
the lance polnta proved to be had got
within -1,600 .yarda ot us. . From that
moment they came on through the gap
at a canter; it took them exactly t min
utes and 22 seconds by my watch, and
they made a ' very brave show. Five
squadrons of dragoons galloping on us
in review order. Anon there wae a luK
while the umpire gave his decision.
What it was I cannot tell, neither 4o I
much care. If there had been real bul
lets the Infantry, friend and foe alike,
would have been annihilated long elnce;
If, on the other hand, they had. borne
charmed lives the cavalry oould never
have got within (0 yarda This, per
hape, is a misstatement for I took the
trouble to look at' the sighting of the
rides of the Infantry, who were being
charged. These were set at S00 yards
since firing first began, and they were
not altered when the cavalry claimed
their attention, eo that perhaps half a
dosen ot these might have survived th
chars
Of what followed I cannot attempt te
give en Intelligible description the
whole thing was so absolutely new to
m that my brain refused to fully com'
prehend. I wae now standing on a nar-
, row tableland 2,000 yard! across,, From
Scene on th platform at Carnegie
htllM WOliim R Hant o I
peak . following hla onanimoua
nomination for mayor of New York
'" the mass meeting convcnttonrT"
left to right la on long double line was
stretched a - division of infantry, - and
180-yardsawajrTand ia the same forma
tion), facing me,, waa another dlvleion
of Infantry (the one which X had fol.
lowed elnce dawn), both biasing away
stolidly at one another," while on the
bills to left and to right of me, respeo
ttvely, tt guns answered on another.
Presently on the hill where the enemy's,
gune still stood there appeared denee
masses of . infantry upon the hillside;
and similar masses began to move about
the hills Where our gune stoodhere,
there and everywhere huge bodlee of
Infantry in assembly formation dotted
the bleak' hillsides. For an hour 1 these
columns of men moved . about like
swarming bees on the side of a bouse,
while artillery-crashed (there were now
78 guns la action, every one of which
I was sble to locate) and muskety rat
tled. Then at last my old friends, for
no ostensible reason-fell "back. " They
did thta at the march in "column of
route.'.' and soon the instructive and
picturesque sight Ot som 14,000 ' in
fantry climbing up a 1,100-foot hillside.
In two black solid columns, waa a sen,
while ' about the. same number of In
fantrymen, of the 'Eighth army corps
fired blank, at them across the valley,
range 600 yardsl
Ylotog Sage's Sons.
reeWyr
vThe house In which Victor Hugo died
baa just disappeared from Paris, j It
was in the avenue which bears hla name,
and close to his statue.
' Arsene Houssay. In "Ls Annalee,"
aye that h never addressed a letter to
him in any other fsshlon but . . - ,
To Victor Hugo, ;
. . At His Avenue."
r4t the bouse Itself has a modest ap-
peaxance. Its chief charm were a beau
tiful garden, with great treee and a de
lightful fountain, and the extraordinary
richness of Its furniture. ' , .
. The house did not belong te Victor
Hugo. It bad been built by the Prin
cess de. Lurlgnan, and Hugo finally tried
to buy it from the princess. - To bis
amassment she asked 180,000..
The lady smiled.- "That Is nothing,
considering," aha remarked pleasantly,
"Considering what 7" demanded . the
still bewildered poet ...
. "Think, master; this little bouse has
had the incomparable honor of having
been lived In by Victor Hugo." v
The maater eralled in hie tarn, As he
replied, this time without a trace of
bewilderment; -"Ah,
madam, yon see I am not rich
enough to have a house which has been
lived In by Victor Hoga--: -;
a 'Am Indian's MUor-Xdk Walk.
From the Wagoner (I. T.) Baying
A woodsman walks with a rolling
motion, bis hips swaying an Inch or.
mors to th stepping side, . and his
pace is correspondingly long.
This blp action may be noticed to an
exaggerated degree in the stride of a
professional pedestrian, but ths latter
walks with a heei-snd-toe step, whereas
an Indian's or sailor's step is more near
ly flat-footed. In the latter, cass th
center of gravity is covered by. the hole
foot . . . ,,,.-'
The poise Is as- secure-as that of a
rope-walker.. . ThOtoes - ars pointed
straight . forwarder -even a trifle In
ward, so that the inslds of the heel,
(he outside of the ball of the. foot and
the smaller toes all do their share oi
work and assist la balancing Walking
In ths woods in this "rnannsr on 1
not-so likely to trip over projecting
roots, - stones and other traps aa he
would be -if th feet formed hook .by
pointing outward. . - "
Th advantage Is obvious In snow,
shoeing. If the Indian wer turned td
ston while In th act of stepping th
statu would probably, stand balanoed
on on foot, , - - -: - - ;
Yellow Peril
THE Transval Is fighting its own
- peculiar yellow peril. . For ' the
moment it Is a land 'under the
shadow of the Chinese danger.
Away in the country districts men man
ufacture weapona of defenee and barri
cade their houses at night and women
dread to be left alone. They fear the
Chunchuses of th Rsnd.
Bast, west north always Chinese.
The matter la serious. Chinese loot a
lonely . farm or murder the occupant;
Chinese raid stores and kill the proprie
tors with knlvee and butchers' cleavers;
Chinese fight Kaffirs away on the veldt
end get killed; murdered Chinese are
found In" ont-of-the-way spots; mounted
police organise "drives" against Chinese;
mobile columns sweep tbe country
roundlng-up- Chinese; tt . Chinese . get
burled (by mistake) on aoms one's lsnu
at Durban, whereupon follow clalme tor
f 500 and legal action. Travellers report
wsnderlng Chinese at Victoria Falls;
Delagoe Bay complalna In fluent Portu-guese-alngllsh
of immigrant Chinese (un-
desired). High veldt, ipw veiut, wooa
-, I iitfit Tnv Tin jminfg ill In p, . r-
bush ettll Chlneee. Headlngfor Rr.L...-T-i. ... .... wn. tr. V
for Cairo, apparently beading, the flur
ried Chines brain only know where.
Argus-eyed, writers to the newspapers
report Chinese holding a blockhouse "In
military fashion," from which sentinels
spy upon the passing traveller; others
assert that the Umltleaa lime oaves In
ths Sterkfonteln district on the West
Rand, give refuge to bands of Chinese
bandit a. The thlng goes oticrescendo
Always Chinese. Daily the Rand ex
pects to hear that Chinese are occupying
the forts which command the capital.
How many wanderers are there! No
one knows. Official figures re port only
824 missing from the mines, at a given
time, out of a total of 44,000. The pn
official world thrusts tongue in cheek
and talks In four figures. Antl-mlnes
newspspers hint at murders never made
public An Indignant chamber of mlnea
denounces exaggeration, defends Chi
nese; temporary troubles; agitators; re
patriate bad characters; all well. Un
official world scoffs openly, bints' Chi
nese not fit for mines, calls for more
police, calls for strict compound system.
Who is right T I do not know. No' on
know. r ' -
But amid all th dust of controversy
certain grim facts cannot be dented. In
less than a month there have been the
following undisputed, indisputable, hap
penings: Twenty Chinese attack the house of
Mr. Lunn, a farmer on th East Rand.
Ons of th coolies killed and two
wounded. ,
, In th same district Chines attack
th house of Mrs. Sullivan, a widow, and
bind her and her children whll they ran
sack the place. Bef flr leaving they try
to fire the house. : .
- Plet Joubert'a farm at Moaba Velden
attacked by Chinese. Joubert murdered
with knives; his wife, son, sged 10 years,
and baby of ltfrnonths Injured. ' Be
lle ve9 -the- eoolles wonld have maasacred
the entire famllytoad not the alarm been
given. . '
Homestead of Mr. Jackson. Sterkfon
teln,' near Krugersdorp, held np and
looted. Jaokaon overpowered, and threat
ened with knive.
Fight between wandering Chinese-and
Kaffirs on a farm In th Pretoria dis
trict. On Chinaman killed.
Chinaman found dead on the veldt
having been hacked to death with a
butcher's cleaver. ' '-.
' European atorekeeper In ths Pretoria
district murdereoV.hy Chinese, whe are
Tirt to have. "come down from the bills."
Chinese attack a., Chines ator near
Krugersdorp, butir one of th pro
prietor snd nearly kill another.
Twenty Chinese attack aa Indian but
passage of the law taking the
of street cleaning oit of, the police de-
. 1. 1 i - Heaartment
partmeni anu niaama r -r. 1
by itself; he sided Mayor Grace by J
aonal Inspection in seeing in" ----
law. wae enforced; he oegan
.... . . . . . ... . v. ,,vnr eowei
to appoint and reinor hi had ot uo-
ev.---..n -IthAnt tha aYOVt TrlOr 0 P"
rwHiM)..WiMWia. W trn 1
proval; he was ons of the earl dval
cat, or beuot ww,,;;B-Ul'
state; he exposed th corrupt us o
money in elections; he. investigated a
schools and tenement-house evils, being
the first edvocate of manual ,n'Bi.
th schools; and'hs was counsel to ins
Faaaett invtlgatlng committee.
He retired from political activity In
180, and for 10 yeare devoted hlmaeir
to business. He severed all corporate
connections in 1801, snd slnoe then has
devoted onlv a small Dortlon oi i"
time to law practice, ..-.-
It waa he who in 1888 volunteer;
hla services to defend General Gar
accused ot . having violated the n
tralltv 'laws- and who obtained his
oulttaL .... . v
The New York Herald interviewed tn
candldatee aa to their motives "
methods and these are some . of tb
thlnsrs thev said:
Mr. Ivlns I estimate Mr. Hearst's
vote from 78,000 to 118.000. ; I thing
the total vot will be about 6.0
Under these conditions, if I get the s
same vote, that Governor illgglns did,
made up by Republican and tndnpendent
votes, my election le certain. ine race
is between Mr. MoClellan snd myself.
It will need over 200.000 votes In an
nam to elect and Mr. Hearat cannot poa-
alblv set them. The first thing that I
shall as will be, so far as possible with
in the law, to clear out every man who
holds ble office merely by virtue of hla
allegiance to Tammany. lialL What dif
ferentiates my position from that of
Mr. McClellan or Mr. Hearst la that if
I am elected mayor shall have th
legislature te back up my principle.
Would Mr. McClellan , or Mr. Ilea
have that advantage?
Mr. McClellan says bis admlnlstra
is the issue of the campaign. He lo
for reelection. He is the friend of lab
and has ahown it by acts, not word:
Under aim. New York has -mads mor
strides for municipal ownership than
any other city. - No sane man would
promise that the city should build, rapid
transit tunnels and condemn gas plants.
It ths city waited till it had the money
to do It it would wait for many yeara.
He agreea with Roosevelt on govern
ment ownership of things private cap
ital can handle Just as welt . - . ."
:, Mr. Hearat saya: -- .-'--.-r--
"I believe that of the 10.000,000 peo
ple in this country, 1.000,000 or 8,000,000
ths most prosperous r 8,000,000 - or
8,000,000 are ably represented In con
gress. In the courts of law and In the
nowspapera. My ambition la to forward
the interests of tne 70.000,000 or more
of typical Americana who are not so
well looked after.. I feel that- any man
who directs great capital wilt ordinarily
be abl to aecur all he deserves."
He has been celled a radical, an enemy
of capital, a foe to bUmes7--nswermg-these
charges, he says that he himself
is a capitalist a business man and one
of the Urfest employers cf labor la the
Qsountry. He saya he baa 10,000 men
on hi payroll. H is tne owner ana
publisher of newspapers in San Fran
oisoo, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York
and Boeton. . : ' . ..
in the Rand
en the BUelnfonteln eotate near Beks
burg, on the Keel Rand. Two of Nthe
Indians murdered and three othere in
jured. . ' ' " ""
These things do not look ntos on paper.,
They do not read wall even in the eecur
ity of Johannesburg. But they are terri- .
tying when related at lonely farmhouse
on dark nights. Ugly phrases are uaed.
At Boksburg on the east and at Krugers
drop on the weet the word "lynch" has ,
been uttered, though some of th papers
hav not printed it The heart of th
Boer grow bitter. "This then Is your
boated British rulT" he murmur.
Yet with all this on caanot help feel- ,
ing som pity for the Chinese. Every,
man's hand Is against them. To wander
In ignorance from the mlnea la to enter
an enemy's country. In the native kraals -.
It Is whispered that the yellow men eat .
babies; and the Kaffir bunta (hem down
with relentleee vigilance.
But why this leakage from the ml nee?
Did theae men know In China that their
work lay a thousand odd feet below the'
surface of the earth, or did they think ,
that the gold mlnee of the Rand were
like the tlninlnrs nf ths sMrM The
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they beaten? The chamber of mine ay
they are not Then why do they deaert'r I
No one know. But by four Vnd fives, .
riftun. .. .-.. I th.. H.n.P t-
away across the great uplands, going
thsy know not whither, living they know
not how. ' Hiding tn dongas -oyoav,-- y
slinking across th farm by nights Jf.
dodging South African constabulary pa.-...,-,
trols, chived by Boer farmers, chased uy ti
Kaffirs? steeling fowls,-robbing lonely-' H
k. n h t a Va M.AA t .4 . k. 1 rvkll. ' T?
desperate, with Asiatic contempt of life
In their blood. Chinese cruelty and cal
lousness in their hearts. ' No one can
understand them; they nnderstsnd no
man. Ia It strange that the end ia some
times violence end murder?
The South African constabulary pests
near the mines are strengthened and re
arranged; a mobile column, 80 strong,
sits at a s tragical point Just outside
Johannesburg olty, ready to proceed, at
any moment to -any ' part of the Reel;
another 180 men are especially employed
to ' apprehend rooming Chinese; , com
pound supervision on the mines era; to
be stricter legislation Is to be Introduced-to
give Europeans the right to
arrest . nri.rln . rhln-tsa In-- the ab-
aence of police; white resident ara-tejf
nave permit to poeeese urearms vi
description save msgsslns rifles; and the.
government will lend guns and ammuni
tlon to poor whites In the country dls
trlcts until the . Chinese aanger na
paased sway. ,. ..
But this is not the end of the dlf
oulty. Who will pay for all this?
tha money Is oharaed to the Inter-c
nlal council, which pays the South Afr
can constabulary, there wilt toe 4 stung
protest from the Orange Rlver'colony,
which is already crying out that It is
saddled with more than its fair ahgreu
.1 V. .n.nillliir. Anit it the
Transvaal alone hae to pay there are
many who-wlll strongly object to have
to bear additional burdens beraut' th
mines employ Chlneee labor. Already It
Is urged that the mines must psy for
any extra protection neceasary.
The general feeling seems to t that
the - Chines should be strictly com
pounded, on th Klmberley system, but
before this could be dnrte opposition of
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the traders Who iook to tne mines ror a 'g ,
large amount of business would have to j
couree, be a revival of -"slavery" front y
those who desire to make political cap- I j
Ita I. . ' I J
So Johanneeburg goe -on hoping fnr I l
th best from the new police and mine t
errangnmeiiteV'.and for. a new eplilt UW
how Itself In the Chinese.
But the man on the Reef la buying)
ravMvera.
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