The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07
FOR OTHERS SINS
AN AMERICAN TELLS THE STORY
OF THE JAMESON RAID
CONSPIRACY.
HAMMOND WAS NOT IN THE PUSH"
If Reports Are True He Was Friend
of the Boers-Assassin of the Shah
Is Believed to Have Had
Many Accomplices.

New York, May "A dispatch to the
World from Mrs. John Hays Hammond
says:
Hammond suffers in silence His COM
panions endure nobly the penalties due
to Jameson, who is the lion of the hour
in London.
"NIr. Hammond's health is in crit
ical condition. The prison fare is very
bad. MRS. HAMMOND"
Samuel Lychtenstaeder, an American,
who has lust returned to New York from
Johannesburg, says:
THE Johannesburg reform committee
met last Christmas day at Cecil Rhodes
office to receive instructions from him
as to procedure against the Beers. /
was present. Rhodes instructions were
that the reformers should march into
Johannesburg under the British flag and
when the town was captured triumph
of the British arms should be proclaimed.
The Instructions were followed by n 81
lence of some moments, and then Ham
mond arose and said: Not for all the
wealth this land contains; not IL you
were to make me absolute ruler. would
l have hand in carrying out these in
structions. can pull a trigger to
shoot down a robber but | can pull no
trigger in a revolutionary intrigue. If
| am to take up arms today it will be
under the flag floating yonder, the ban
ner of the free people who believe in rev.
olution as remedy of oppression and
who hate the rape of the free peoples
territory. Gentlemen, you can count
me out
"The reformers nearly all of whom
were Britons, were thunderstruck. Afte,
Hammond had spoken they realized that
Cecil Rhodes order must be revised. 1t
fused to be called off. He insisted on
carrying out his part of the original pro-
gram of conquest But when he invaded
the Transvaal the uitlanders, influenced
by HAMMOND, gave him no aid, and the
raid failed miserIbly."
SIR HERCULES DENIES.
London, May AT the request of the
secretary of state for the colonies, Mr..
Joseph Chamberlain, in the house of com
mons today, Mr.. Henry Labouchere
tgreed to postpone until Thursday all
questions regarding the publication of
the Pretoria cryptograms and in regard
to the action the government proposes
to take towards the British Chartered
outh Africa company and its directors.
Mr.. Chamberlain, replying to ques-
lion, said he had received telegram
from the governor of Cape Colony, Sir
Hercules Robinson, with reference to the
cryptograms, which have been construed
as implying that Sir Hercules had knowl-
edge of the plan to invade the Transvaal.
The telegram from Sir Hercules is as fol-
lows:
I can not state too explicitly that
never received from any one the slightest
hint of what was about to occur, and the
news of the invasion of DR.. Jameson
came like n bolt out of the blue sky. Ii
there should be any insinuation to the
contrary / rely upon you to protect my
character in my absence"
Mr.. Chamberlain was questioned re-
garding the cryptogram from Johannes
burg, urging that the raid be postponed
till Cecil Rhodes had pledged that the inn
perial government would not assert au-
thority over the Transvaal in the event
of success, Mr.. Chamberlain replied:
'Mr. Rhodes had no authority to
pledge the imperial government in any
way" and he was not aware that Mr..
Rhodes had done so.