Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-09-15
RHODEs's "DEFEAT."

| Afrikander Bund has triumphed, Cecil
Rhodes has received Setback" and we
have been furnished another illustration
Of the fact that blood Is thicker than
water.
The Bund Is a Dutch Colonial political
| organization that harks back TO the
! Transvaal war. and for some years was
a powerful factor in fostering Dutch feel
ing all through South Africa. While 1t was
not exactly anti-English, its motto was
South Africa for Afrikanders. OF late
wears various influences had rendered TO
weaken IL. and Rhodes was especially
active in the work of promoting those
influences. Owing as much to that policy
as 10 anything else. he was enabled TO
retain the premiership so long. BY skill
fully stimulating friction over economic
questions between Cape Colony and the
Transvaal. he succeeded in large measure
in diverting attention from the racial Is
sue. and attaching to his personal and
political following some of the most influ-
entail leaders In the Bund.
But the Jameson raid. in which Rhodes
was the moving spirit. stirred the old
Dutch feeling and the investigation farce
revitalized the Bund and led to its re-
organization on original lines. Despite
the good character with which Rhodes re-
turned from England, and notwithstand-
ing his genius as an organizer, he has
met with defeat.
None the less. as we have intimated, that
defeat is only Setback" The chances
are that the success Of the Bund will
after all but hasten the coming of
Rhodes's opportunity. When we reflect
upon Kruger's career We cannot but see
that the victory OF the Bund is liable TO
embolden him to further defiance of the
English. and to the commission of fresh
acts of injustice against the Utlandsrs.
We cannot but see that it is calculated to
afford Rhodes and his party just the oc-
casion and the excuse they seek for
again trying conclusions with the Trans
vaal.
And that that trial will be a final one.
and with the open and armed support of
the home government, there Is no reason
TO question. There is no reason TO Ques-
ton that the home government has been
steadily preparing thus TO support it.
If not, why the Anglo-German treaty re-
garding Southeast Africa? If not. why
the tacit admission that the frontier line
I'm the Soudan, where Kitchener has just
smashed the Khalifa, may be a receding
line? Why the renewal Of rumors of an
ticipated trouble with the French in the
wasp waist?
So we see that il does not seem that
the turn the election took is at all likely
to interfere with or even materially re-
tard the realization of RhOdes's dream Of
great British empire in Africa. All
the conditions point not only to the
Fastening Of the time when he will have
"provocation to strike" but to the fact
that when he next raises the cry From
Cape to Cairo" it will be answered in the
Soudan by the cry, From Cairo TO Cape"
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Bridgeport Comm has a murder mys-
terry paraleing in many respects that of
Guldensuppe. on account of which Mar
tin Thorn suffered death in the electric
chair. But in this case the victim was
a young woman. Her body was cut into
several pieces and thrown INFO a pond
near the town. The saving through the
bones and the use of the knife indicated
that they were done by physician, or,
at least, by some one acquainted with
the methods Of the dissecting-room: AS
yet the identity of the woman has not
been ascertained. One of the strangest
features OF the case is that two pieces of
the body were deposited in the pond after
the other pieces had been discovered, and
while the town was in great excitement
over the first discovery. There is reason
to believe that.the woman died from mall
practice, and that the guilty person
sought to hide his crime by making
away with the body.