The Portland daily press., 1890-10-29
THE MURMURS OF A COMING STORM.
Hard Words May Be Uttered When
StanIey's Officers Speak.
The Explorers Recent Reference to
BartteIot Promptly Resented.
Messrs. Ward and Bonney Say Just
Enough To Arouse Curiosity

LONDON, October %. - The Telegraph
appeals to Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley to clear up
the Bar.telot affair. Bonny declines at pres.
ent to say anything unless in reply to perso-
nal matters which appear in Barttelot's
book. He says he advised Barttelot before
the publication of the book that many things
could be said against his brother that had
better be left unsaid. and that therefore he
ought to suppress certain passages in his di-
aries. He was surprised that Barttelot had
ignored his advice.
BoDny explains that he took command of
the expedition on the death of Barttelot. be-
cause Jameson, who was heir to the com
mand. was then at a point 700 miles distant
He emphaticsly denies that there was any
ground for the deduction that Barttelot had
insulted hi, murderer's wife.
correspondent of the New York Herald
has seen Mr.. Herbert Ward In regard to
Stanley's reply to Barttelot. He does not
consider 1t his fault that he and Stanley are
not on good terms. He said that though he
was with the rear guard he was absent most
of the time, either taking dispatches to the
coast from Major Barttelot for the commit
tee, or in charge of the camp at Bangala,
which is 1000 miles from the coast, and not
the upper Congo consisted of 125 men, the
weakest in body, In command of Ward and
Benny.
Ward, Troup and Bonny landed at the
Iambuya camp with goods and men in Au-
gust This camp was commanded by Bart
telot. Stanley's letter of instructions stated
that BarttelOt would receive 600 carriers
from Tippu, but nothing was received from
the latter. Promise after promise detained
the rear guard until it was impossible to
move. TO have marched from Yambuya as
Stanley suggested was impossible, as he had
left the bulk of the expedition. horses and
ammunition, to be carried through dense
forest by men utterly unreliable, of acknowl-
edged bad character and the weakest in
body.
From the time the tragedy in the rear
guard commenced, Tippu Ffib continued to
procrastinate, and the Zanzibaris and Sou
danese Tell sick and died. No news reached
the Yambuya rear guard, and as month after
month OF horrors passed and as Tippu sent
no aid the camp became pOwerless to act.
Stanley calculated he would return five
months after his departure. Nine months
after Stanley left, Barttelot sent Jameson to
make last effort to get carriers from Tippu,
and sent Ward to the coast with letter for
instructions frtm the committee. The latter
replied that II they could not march in ac-
cordance with orders they should remain at
Yambuya until Stanley arrived there or sent
fresh orders.
Ward was ordered to remain at Bangala,
where he heard of Barttelot's death. He
saw poor Jameson de- and on his return to
maiDder Of the expedition and bring 1t to the
coast. While on his journey he heard that
Stanley had taken Bonny and the rear guard
back to Emin.
In his Darkest Africa" Stanley takes too
harsh a view CT the rear guard tnat suffered
so much while doing their best.
1t Is not difficult to observe that Ward Is
much shocked at the manner of Stanley's
attack on Barttelot. 1t was noticeable that
Ward, in referring to BarttelOt's mode of
death, called 1t murder" and, speaking of
the relief of EmIn, said, when Emin was
taken prisoner"
The Central News Association has re-
ceived letter from Mr., Walter James
barttelot, called forth by the Herald's in
terView with Stanley.
Mr. Barttelot says: at is, of course, for
Mr.. Stanley to decide when and how it is
incumbent ON him to reply to the charges
contained in the recently published volume
of Letters and Diaries, which are universal
ly admitted, even by those who question the
wisdom of my action, to call for a prompt
answer; and OF course make no complaint
on that score.
II will ask, however, to be permitted to
say that In so far as Mr.. Stanley has indica-
ted in advance the materials on which he
relies and the nature OF the reply which 1t
is in his power to make, he has not even
shadowed forth in the most distant terms a
single fact or Argument 10 answer to the
specific accusations which it has been my
painful duty to bring against him in
vindicating my brother, but has resorted in
stead to veied threats of an exposure of con-
duct on the part of my brother at which he
never limited before In a lengthy private CON-
munication to my father, which does contain
eight seperate charges. Whether this re-
serve on his part has been due to cnnsidera-
tion for my family, as he asserts, or to the
circumstance that there Is no foundation for
these entirely new personal accusations
against my brother, are questions that have
yet tG be determined.
sEnr tha mr. T tanft 70 hot
from neither point of view has MIR. Stanley
attempted to meet, or indicated any imme-
diate intention of meeting, the Indictment
against his own act in connection with the
rear guard. gravely as his honor is by COM
mon consent involved"
TBy the terms Of their enlistment the offic-
ers of the Relief Expedition agreed not to
publish their accounts of their experience
Ia Africa until six months had elasped from
the time Mr.. Stanley's work appeared That
some of these officers will write Of the relief
of Emn and the troubles of the expedition,
Is certain.