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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18
Causes Noisy Protssts.

PARIS. Nov. l6.-In tho chamber Of
deputies yesterday NJ. Antide Doyer,
radical socialist, in moving the exten.
sion OF the law of 1897 to military pris.
ons. by which the latter would have the
privilege of legal assistance during pre-.
lim:nary examinations, aroused an up,
roar by asking if the motion was
adopted, it should be applicable to Col.
one4 Picquart, who he said is being pros.
ecuted on charges known to be tales.
This called forth numerous noisy pro.
tests from the centrists and rightists.
The motion was accepted and the debate
proceeded.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18

character, General Breckinridge ex-
pressed the opinion that there had not
been enough fighting to secure results
common to war. Whether the evils
that had been experienced were inevita-
BILE under our American system, he con-
demned this system as most reprehen'
sible and said the volunteer soldier
must always suffer the worst Of the con.
sequences.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18
SHAFTEP is BLAMED.

Inspector General Breck,mri,Ige Br1"r
tho War Com issaou.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 16. - General
Breckenridge continued his testimony
before the war investigating committee
the campaign in Cuba AMI the trans.
portation OF troops to that island He
had, he said. gone to Cuba as inspector
general, arriving at Tampa on the 5th
Of June. He had observed casually the
preparation for the decentralization OF
troops before the expedition left. aud
had concluded that they were quite iu.
adequate
II made no report, however. he said.
''as General Miles was on the ground
and could observe for him elf.''
Asked "a to his opinion Of the result
Of tho campaign. he said he thought it
was to be expected from the limitations
of General Shafter.
II think it would have been different
if General Miles had been in command
that it would have been more salts.
factorily conducted. think he has
more of the spark and genius Of COM
mand than any man in the army. and 1
sm sure that if he had had charge hb
would have been in the front rank"
Ex Governor Woodbury. suggested
that the b. tie in front OF San Juan had
been fought and the victory won with.
in eight days of landing.
General Breckinridge, in reply, said
the victory had been won "When Gen.
eral Toral's nerve gave out"
This, he continued, had been tho war
of al others when success had been
Won in the earliest stages He believed
that the war was the Lords war aud
that this wonderful success was due to
His supervision.
While he considered the result as
marvelously com mendable, lac did not
feel that General Shatter WAS above
criticism in the conduct OF lhe cam.
paign. He ascribed the outcome to the
fact that the army was one wnich was
capable of meeting all calls. mo mar
ter how it was tangled up" lie sad,
'',' went to victory"
lie had at the time quo'e1 Lord Borrs.
ford, when he said to his Ii:v upon a
certain occ. sion: "'l have YOU into
devil of fix and it is now oar du =
TO fight like HI to get me gu, OF it. y
Resuming his remarks o a general
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18

CEDAR RAPIDS. Ia, Nov lG.-Del .
.a!es to the annual busin IS meeting OF
tue Volunteer Fireneu's asso il IN
met lere yesterday. Missouri Vai.ry
VII undoubtedly be chosen us the mex
place for the state tOulualM, 1T.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18
Industrial Commission at Work.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-The govern
ment industrial commission resumed it's
sessions yesterday. The session was
mainly devoted to the rules of procedure,
as reported upon by the committee
which had been at work here on the out
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18
Nine. Hav. Been Charged.

LONDON. Nov. 16-1he hong Kong
s.nndent of the DAILY Mail say
.,ar PREPARATIONS continue mere without
.:b>n.ent und the mines in the Tai
4unlm pass have been charged.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18

Have Not Accepted Gold Standard
Platform of 1895 Not Abandoned.
LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 16.-Colonel w.
J. Bryan last night gave to the Associ.
ated press the following interview rela.
tive to the late election:
''While l do not understand that
service in the volunteer army prevents
. soldier from expressing opinions upon
political questions, declined to take
part in the late campaign lest should
be accused by partisan opponents of at
tempting to embarrass the adnlinistra-
ton. Now that the election is over, I
shall exercise q citizens privilege of
discussing the resurns.
''Compared with the election of 1898
the Republicans have g"ined in some
places aud lost in others. 1t was not
sweeping Republican victory On the
whole the result is not surprising when
it is remembered that the administra-
tiou is just concluding successful war.
while majority of the soldiers are
probably anti-Republican, the manage
ment of the war has been entirely in
Republican hands and the strongest ar
gument used during the campaign was
that a Republican defeat would DIS
credit the president in the eyes of for
eign nations, while his commissioners
were engaged in making a treaty.
ut was not a trial upon the issues
now before the people, but successful
plea for continuance of the case The
people have not accepted the gold stand
ard; they have not fallen in love with
the plan to give the banks monopoly
OF the issue OF paper money; they have
not decided to retire the greenbacks:
they have not surrendered to the trusts.
Platform Not Abandoned
''These questions were forced into the
background by the declaration of war,
but they must be faced again as soon as
peace is restored The Chicago plat.
form presents tor public consideration
certain vital, economic questions. That
platform has not been abandoned by
those who indorsed it in 1896. 1t will
be reatfir1ned in 1900 because it gives
expression to the hopes and aspirations
OF large majority of the party.
V'ASA 1AAO DC4AOCI dloS AOpuA'sCS du<A
Silver Republicans favored Cuban inde-
pendence, tn understood that war
would give temporary advantage to
the party in power, but they were will
4ng to risk defeat in order to aid the peo.
pie fighting to be free.
Neither can the election be regarded
as an Endorsement of any definite for.
eign policy. Until a treaty of peace has
been entered into and the terms made
known, the people cannot pass judg.
ment upon it. Whether tho war will
raise any question of sufficient import.
ance to turn public attention away from
domestic problems remains to be seen"
In regard to the Nebraska election, he
said: "A light vote was cast in Ne.
braska, but the fusiouists have elected
the entire state ticket and carried the
same congressional districts that they
carried in 1896. If Senator Allen is de.
1eated for reelection it will be because
!, senator's are elected BY Legislators. in
stead of by the people. If Republican
senator is chosen by the new Legislature
he will 20 to Washington to represent .
minority Of the psople Of the state aud
:, to thwart the will OF the majority"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18
BRYAN GIVES HIS VIEWS
Democratic Leader Talks Con.
cerning Late Election.
RESULT WAS NOT SURPRISING,

Was Not Trial Upon the Issues Now Be-
fore tho People, but Succ~xsful Plea
For Continuance Of the Cnss-Peopis
Have Not Accepted Gold Standard
Platfor Of 1895 Not Abandoned.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18
vo-To-hac ~ rif,y cen-s.

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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22

ACTION was the young huntsman who
discovered Diana in the bath. Diana was
celebrated patroness of the sports, and
hunted the wild boar and the elephant
and fished and played tennis; but she
didn't like the entree of the young fellow
at the juncture when, fatigued and heat
ed, she sauntered away from the summer
hotel for dip an pura naturalibus. So
with a wave of her hand, or wave of the
sea the which, deponent saith not -Ac-
teon was transformed into stag SO quick
that it made his head swim. Then Diana
''sicked" his own hounds upon him, and
the young man was thus devoured. The
moral of this is political, and it is that
Action wasn't the only man who has
been overtaken by his followers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22
BULLs-EYE EVERY TIME /!

AS long ago as 1918 the London Times,
commenting on the great damage infiict-
ed on adYersaries by "Old Ironsides, .
said:
"The fact seems but too clearly estab-
lished that the Americans have some SUI
perior mode of firing"
1t is quite obvious that the American
''mode Of firing, to judge from results
at Manila and Santiago, is yet more sssu-
perior" after eighty-five years of naval
practice.
"Old Ironsides'' still is reverently pre-
served. She was the United States frig-
ate Constitution, that kept her guns hot
for an argument at all hours and in all
waters, and the gunners who sighted her
tiers of bankers could bring bulls-eye
every time.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22
THE BATTLE FLAGS.

The New York Tribune of Wednesday
in effect seconds the suggestion offered by
the CHRONICLE on Memorial Day last,
that the battle flags of the opposing ar
mics of the civil war in the hands of their
capters be in common deposited in the
Smithsonian Institution. Reviewing the
proceedings of the annual reunion of vet
Grams of the Confederate army at Atlanta
this week, it says, editorially:
Men who last year were foremost in its
councils are this year leading the national
army Next year they will return to it,
so that honored veterans of the national
army will be members of Confederate
reunion. That will be as it should be.
Let the battle tags of both armies
IN the lnternecine aoar be enslrined to-
gether in one national Museum!
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22
CAMARA!l

On Monday, just while the country in
calm confidence was cogitating the prob
abilities of peace, it was rudely startled
by the annexed telegram:
"W ashington, July 1S.-The Navy De
partment is informed that Admiral Cam
ara intends to sail for the Atlantic coast
and to lombard our unprotected cities. .
On the very same day when Camara
let go of Cadiz with his teeth and took a
fresh hold on the deep we intuitively felt
assurance he was going somewhere to do
something or other. And here he is, right
at the gates!-right on top of the gatel
When this terrifying forewarning ar
rived at Boston, whose citizens have been
especially affected by war dispatches,
there wasn't single baked bean that had
been left over from Sunday, and the city
was at the Spaniard's mercy. Our East
ern friends should have profited by pre-
cautions against Camara, who is now said
to have with him naval chart of the
French-sardine branch of the New Eng
land sacred Goldfish interest.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22
THE FALL ELECTIONS.

The elections this fall will, SO far as
one can judge at present, result in Re-
publican triumphs. There is little doubt
of the House of Representatives. The
only question there, is as to the size of the
majority. The real question is as to the
Senate. That body is now divided
among the different parties. The out
look is that the Republicans will gain
control after March next. Republican
ism stands for sound money, and the
Senate has been the debating ground for
years. The Democratic Senators whose
terms expire with this Congress came in
on the tidal wave of 1892 and the res
toration of the balance alone would
give the Senate to the Republicans.
The tide. however, is with the Republi-
cans, and lest all chances fail they will
run from low-water to high-water mark.
The Senatorial result in 1899, when
Grover Cleveland was elected President
for the second time. was fifteen Demo-
Gratis, eleven Republicans, two silver Re
publicans and Stewart of Nevada.
Eighteen of the retiring Senators there
are thirty to go OUT supported Bryan
and eleven supported Mckinley.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22
A WAR PRIMER.

AS for Alphonso, the boy King of Spain;
B is for Blanco, and brief be his reign;
G is for Cuba, the tyrant oppressed;
D is for Dewey. with victory blessed;
E is for England, most friendly Of Powers,
F is for France, whose aid is not ours;
6 is for Gomez, so fierce in the fray,
H is for Hobson, our hero to-day;
rs for Insurgents. those bold rebel hordes,
is for Jingoes, all firing off words;
KS for Kingdom, that threatens to fall;
L is for Liberty, best gift of ALL
NJ is for Maine, remembered, indeed;
n is for Navy, taking the lead
0 is for Oregon, battle-ship grand;
P is for Philippines, far-conquered land;
@ is for Queen Christine, who battle abhors
R is for Righteous and jusfifes wars.
S is for Schley, and a commodore he,
It's for Torpedo. a terror at sea.
US Uncle Sam. who gives the big show,
Y is for Verde, what's there we don't know.
WIS for Weyler, so cruel and bold,
X is for Xerxes of war methods old.
Y is for Yellow-fake rumors of war,
rs for the Zeal of our Hip, hip, hnrrah''
-ETchGnge,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22
SUNDAY A DAY or BATTLES.

We have neither leisure nor inclination
to seek for thorough record of Sunday
battles to see that they have been nu-
merous enough in modern wars, at least,
to make them notable. Some of the hard
battles of the American Revolution were
decided on Sunday, as was that of Wa
terloo and some of the heavy engage
ments of the Franco German war. In
our later American wars Sunday fighting
has grown into habit. though we do
not attribute this TO predisposition, but
rather to circumstance.
The capitulation Of Fort Sumter at the
outbreak of our civil conflict occurred on
Sunday, April Il, 1861, and was followed
by the first pitched battle at Bull Run on
Sunday, July 81. The first great naval
engagement of the present war occurred
at Manila on Sunday, May 1, and the an
Inhalation of Cervera's squadron by Com
modore Schley took place on Sunday,
June g. Sunday, June 10, the general
bombardment of Santiago by American
land and sea forces was begun, and we
have abundant analogy for expecting, if
the war continues, that other hot and
bloody contests will signalize this day,
scrperiptively, of peace and rest.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22

COMMENTING on the municipal muddle
in Dover the Iader of that place re-
marks: ''Unless there is an appeal made
from the Courts quo warranto decision
against Dover, it is said all the hotels
and saloons can be closed at once, no
taxes collected, and, in fact, all munich
pal business done will be illegal, nor can
any way be legally found out by going
back to that moss grown charter SO
VIGOROUSLY out of conformity to the laws
of this State and which our people, prac-
tically, by unanimous vote, agreed to
give up for their present one, which has
been kicked and cuffed out of all reason
or proverbial Jersey justice. y
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22

JUDGE KIRKPATRICK of the United
States District Court has appointed the
following referees in bankruptcy for
New Jersey under the new law which
Congress passed July 1, and which goes
into effect August 1: Camden, George J..
Bergen of Camden; Mercer, Samuel D..
Oliphant, Jr., of Trenton; Somerset,
William G. Steele of Somerville; Morris.
Joseph F. Randolph of Morristown; Mid
dlesex, James Parker of Perth Amboy;
Essex, Frederick w. Leonard Of Newark;
Hudson, Leon Albeit of Hoboken. The
appointments are for two years.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22

Nor predeterminedly, but not less sci
entifcally, the ranges of the American
rifed guns of four and more inches bore
may be approximately known thus: Four
inch, miles; s inch, six miles; inch,
eight miles, ETC., to 16 inch, sixteen miles.
These are extreme distances, not actually
effective ranges. To get the elevations,
or trajectory, these distances should be
divided approximately by three. Thus to
strike an object twelve miles distant with
a thirteen inch projectile the latter must
ascend into the air four miles.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22
WAGES IN 1872, 1881 AND 1897.

The Massachusetts Bureau of Statis-
tics of Labor has just issued publica-
ton in which comparisons are made be-
tween the rates of wages paid in 1879,
1881 and 1897, and in the prices of food
products in the years named. AS rule,
wages were higher in 1897 than in 1881,
only eightindustries being exceptions, but
wages in 1897 were lower than in 1872,
even after the nominal rates in 1892 had
been reduced to gold standard. Com
pared with 1879 there was a decrease of
30 per cent. in the price of groceries in
1897, and decrease of 6.67 per cent.
compared with 1881. Provisions, as a
whole, show decrease of 1852 per cent.
in 1897, compared with both 1872 and
1881. It is plain that the workingmen
of 1897 have gained over those of the
other years mentioned, because their
wages have greater purchasing power.
Although the exact rate of gain is diff
cult to determine, the fact is apparent
that the working people of Massachu-
sets are ia better condition than ever
before. The conditions that existin that
State are much the same that exist else
where. Hence it is fair to state that the
condition of the wage Garner in the
United States is better today than it has
been in many years.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22

It's pretty hard on the bald-headed bird
we glorify by the name of eagle, but it is
due to pathological verify to admit his
connate origin with the modest species
we are wont to contemn under the des-
ignation of buzzard In this connection
it might be added that the turkey is also
of that American family. But as we eat
the turkey we shall forbear to criticise it,
preferring to mention only that it is next
of kin to cranberry sauce.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22
THE "DEWEY EAGLE

We have not been single in impressing
that the present war is necessarily pop
ular and national struggle, American
versus Spanish in its inspiration and pros
ecution; that it is not political, partisan
or sectional. We have gone further, to
say that the political organization that
may attempt to appropriate to itself the
honors, triumphs and sublimities of the
conflict would attact to its effort such a
sirocco of popular condemnation after the
war as no political aggregation could by
any possibility Withstand. Our express
sions on this line were impelled by what
we believed to be patriotic apprehensive-
ness.
But that the sense Of the whole people
of the country is ardently and unselfishly
one of national conservation, testimony,
actual or circumstantial. is constantly
being afforded. Taken at no greater val
uation than as that of straw, there is a
robust Americapism in the modest pros
PoStHo u a A1oUAC AOWSpdpOt buhI eliza
mates from among the pines of South
Carolina-aye, of South Carolina, the in
tractable, rampageous, erratic common
wealth, as we have deemed her, where
everything New Englandite was branded
an abomination, etcetera, etcetera.
Now, you wouldn't imagine that Yer
mont Yankee Admiral could hope for
conspicuous glorification- for any at
all-down there among the palmettoes.
But just listen to the editors announce
ment, his assistant in chief being at the
front in the army:
''In honor of Admiral Dewey, the hero
Of Manila, we name our paper the Deceg
Eagle. The term Dewey represents cour-
age, method and victory, and the term
Eagle represents aggressiveness and lib
erty. We may not measure up to our
highest ideals Of journalism. but we will
make an honest approximation. We will
labor to advance the various interests of
our subscribers and the public gener-
ally"
The plucky little weekly is published
at Lake City, S. C.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22

IT has been proposed to present to Ad-
miral Cervera residence at Tampa, and
the idea is good one. With all Spain's
Hamboyancy about her historic chivalry,
Cervera has been the one Castilian gen.
tleman evolved by this strife. His treat
ment of the Merrimac captives was that
Of brave and magnanimous officer, and
be should by voluntary exile among us
be made secure against the certain VEN
geance and ignoble death that await him
in the inhuman country he faithfully and
courageously served.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22

WHILE we are showering merited and
enduring plaudits upon the heroes of the
war let us not forget its heroines, of
whom there have been many. The hos
pital service, the Naval Aid and the
Red Cross are silent consultations that
constantly shine, and the brighter from
darker skies. Many of these modest SOL
acers of the manned and sick may never
be known by name, but there is one hero
inc who has made for herself the title to
be called aloud. She is Miss Jeanette
Jennings, who had just arrived at Sibo-
ney and there embarked on the wretched
Seneca to nurse the i'll and wounded.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS may be sat
home" when he is word painting a Car
ibbean sunset, but he is away out at sea
when he essays to portray battle scene.
He draws too palpably upon Imagination
for faithful depletion, and when clearly
outshone by courageous writers who do
their descriptives right at the front, Mr..
Davis turns upon and belabors the officers
commanding the United States forces.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-22
FOREIGN SAILORS.

There are lots of excellent foreign sea-
men, and that is proved by occasional de-
sertions from foreign ships to get into the
American navy, where any sailor af1oat
should feel mighty proud to be. But the
American tar is dandy himself, the best
on the seas. and there is slight chance,
and surely no inducement held out, for
foreign sailors.
The British House of Commons was
the other day somewhat stirred over the
report, which proved to be untrue, that
English seamen by wholesale were de-
serting that service for enlistment in the
American navy, and it seems easy enough
to locate the origin Of that rumor. An
English writer, formerly member of
Parliament, recently asserted that Dew
ey's guns at Manila bay were manned by
British gunners who had been bribed to
desert her Majesty's Asiatic squadron for
duty against the Spaniards. The state
ment was absurd for many reasons, first
of which is that foreign gunners are not
under any consideration ever put in con-
troll of American guns in naval action,
though, for obvious reasons, the same is
not the case in land engagements.
But Graham's remarkable announce
ment fell upon official ears in this coun-
try and had the effect of bringing into
the light an authenticated roster of the
American Philippine squadron, with the
list of English '.gunners, as follows:
Seaman. 1; ordinary seamen, 4; carpen-
ter's mate, second class, 4; coal passer, 1;
water.tender, 1. Of these eight Britons
one only, the carpenters mate, might
have had ambitions to be ''gunner," on
the ground that he could hit nail