The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-20
CHAMBERLAIN ACCUSED
OF Being Party to the Jameson
Raid,


New York. Oct. ia dispatch to the
World from London says: The calling
out of the militia indicates plainly that
the British government considers it nee
essarY to take timely precautions against
some foreign complication which threat
ems to supervene in the Transvaal trouble.
In the first instance the militia is only
to be employed to take the place in the
home garrisons of the line regiments
that are going to South Africa.
The government has not thought it adj
visable, in view of the hostile feeling
evoked in Ireland by the attack on the
Boer republic, to reduce the Irish military
establishment below its normal strength
of 10000 men, and it is intended to set
free the regular troops stationed in Ire
land for war service by substituting En-
gish militia battalions in the Irish gar
risons, the Irish militia being sent for
duty to England. This calling out of the
militia has added appreciably to the gen.
eral estimate of the gravity of the situa-
ton.
w. T. Stead has issued a pamphlet on
the Boer war entitled, Are We in the
Right? An Appeal to All Honest Men,
1t is a powerful indictment of Chamber
lain's diplomacy bringing in the strongest
relief the persistent provocative course
followed by the colonial secretary
throughout the negotiations, with the pat
wall The most sensational part of the
pamphlet is Mr. Stead's solemn declara-
ton that Cecil Rhodes informed him tina t
Mr.. Chamberlain informed him that he
was Drvy to the Jameson raid and that
the parliamentary inquiry into the origin
of that conspiracy was hushed up be-
cause point had been reached in the
investigation which. if exceeded, would
implicate the colonial secretary directly in
the Mot. In his pamphlet Mr.. Stead
SAYS:
Before the prime minister of the Cape
went very far in the conspiracy he found
it necessary to enlist the support of the
colonial office in his designs. He sent
over to London DIR. Rutherford Harris
with instructions to inform Mr.. Chamber
lain of what was brewing. Mr.. Harris
executed his mission and cabled to Rhodes
the result of the interview. At first
Chamberlain refused, but subsequently,
after Harris had spoken openly to Mr..
Fairfield of the colonial office and had
communicated to Chamberlain the con-
tents of a cablegram from Rhodes, warn
ing him that if he thwarted the conspi-
racy England would lose South Africa
Chamberlain gave way on the convenient
pretext for protecting the builders of the
Bechuanaland railway from savage tribes
Further. Kruger. has heard that commu-
nicatons between the consprators ennis
and constant. and during the whole
month of November cablegrams were con-
stantly passing and repassng between
the conspirators at Cape Town and
his trusted emissaries and friends in Lon
don, who were, on his behalf, keeping the
colonial office in touch with the move
ment. He knew also that on Nov. Mr..
Fairfield advised the removal of the i'm
perial troops before the ugly row began,
in which the leading role was to be play
ed by the forces of the chartered COM
rany.'
This letter is one of the few documents
that are in evidence. He mas heard also
that so far from Mr. Chamberlain know
ing nothing of the plot. he took so
keen and close an interest in its develop
ment that he insisted that Jameson s
men shold go in under the union jack
and that the next governor of the Trans
vaal should be appointed by the colonial
office.
Further, he knows that Just before the
raid took place a cablegram was received
AT Cape Town from trusted friend OF
Rhodes in London, who Immediately after
a long interview with Mr.. Chamberlain
telegraphed to hurry up President kru-
ger also knows that when Rhodes went
home to face the music after the raid his
first step was to send Mr.. Hawksey to tell
Mr.. Fairfield of the existence of the ca
Diagrams which passed between Cape
Town and London which established the