The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-22
CAPITAL NEWS.
NATIONAL
VAR CLAIMS OF THE CAROLINAs,
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.

Col. Edward ". hayes PrOtege
of the Lees of Virsinia-What
prominent Politicians Are Saying
of Hryan's Participation in the
kentucky Campaign.
Washington, Nov. 2-South Carolina,
Gsoreia, North Carolina and Florida have
t..r reasonably successful in receiving
,ayrnent for claims filed In the war de-
partment by each state respectively for
ssr,ices rendered the United States gov
eminent in raising. equipplng and trans
r,--jng volunteer troops for the Spanish
war.
South Carolina put in a claim for S24,-
1889 on this the state was allowed on
Nov. IS, 1898, $64S.02, and on July a. 1899,
sSqz2 25 making total of $9,595N and
leaving a balance still due the state of Sl5,-
The following South Carolina claims
have been disallowed: McCleary Land In
yestment Company, $126. This is a claim
for damages and cannot be considered by
the office on account of want of jurisdic-
ZION. Congress alone can afford relief. w,
p Spegener, damages, 1872; Charles Logan
damages, $25; State Agricultural and Me-
chancal Society, $3.50; and several other
claims, less than $40 each, aggregating
$35
PAYMENT has been suspended in the fol-
lowing claims on account of errors in
vouchers: Forester Manufacturing Com
pany $50; The Hub, $l54.9D; Wilmington
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, $3.50; T.
A. McCreary & Co. SIS; W. D. Hard, SIS;
and j. L. Mimnaugh & Co., S373.65.
Georgia put in claims for $20,Sl3.20. The
state received in settlement on the first
installment $2,0T.46, and on the second in
staliment $1S,74155, leaving a balance of
only 20 cents.
North Carolina filed a claim for $29, 1861.
On this the state was allowed on the first
instailment IS, 2S3.57, and on the second in
stallment $12,S27.05. Total, $2O,61062 Bal
ance still due, $9,155.05.
Florida claimed a total of S9,759T. The
slate has been allowed in two nstallments
total Of $S,S73,50. Balance still due,
Sl,3S6.2z
The Lees and "JacIx Hayes"
Ut transpired to-day that Col Edward
NJ Hayes of the Fourth Cavalry, famil-
iar,y known in army circles as Jack"
Hayes, started life as a protege of Gen.
Robert f. Lee. Gen. Lee, while passing
from the West to the East in the early
ffties. stopped for a few days at Cleve-
land, o. While there he was in the habit
of buying apples from a blind old apple
seller named Hayes. Gen. Lee was at
tracted by his black-eyed little boy, and
prevailed upon the father to let the boy
20 with the army. He succeeded in hav-
ing young Hayes appointed a bugler in
the old Second Dragons When Fitzhugh
Lee graduated at West Point, he was APP
pointed a Lieutenant in the Second Dra-
goons After Gen. Lee left the regiment
young Fitzhugh took Hayes under the
shadow of his wing. A friendship at once
started, which has been continued ever
since.
When the war came on Fitzhugh Lee
and Jack" Hayes separated, Lee going
into the Confederate army and Hayes
staying on the Northern side. AT the open
ing of the war Hayes resigned from the
regular army, went home, and was ac-
tive In raising the Sixteenth Ohio Regi-
ment of Volunteers. He served through
out Inc war, and was mustered out in 1865.
During the war he and Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee kept up friendly correspondence, and
when the war was over, looked one an
other up and exchanged visits.
When Gen. Lee was appointed Brigadier
General of Volunteers, during the Span
fish war, he personally requested the Pres
ident to appoint Hayes a member of his
staff. Jack Hayes" went to Cuba and
was closely allied to Lee throughout the
war and at its close, was, through Lees
influence, sent to the philippines. He is
what is known in the army, as a born
fighter, and he attributes everything he
has done in life to the impression made
upon him when boy, by the character
OF Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Gossip From Kentucky.
Kentuckians, returning to Washington
from the recent election, say the defeat
OF Goebel means that the Kentucky dele
gates to the Democratic National Conven-
non in 1900 will oppose the nomination of
William Jennings Bryan for the presi-
dency.
When the campaign opened, friends of
Bryan urged him not to go to Kentucky.
They reminded him that Goebel had never
oeen free silver Democrat, had made
no speeches in 1896, and was distrusted by
tne Bryan followers in the state. They
pointed out that If Bryan should support
the Goebel faction, he would awaken wide
spread hostility throughout the rank and
ME OF the Democratic party In Kentucky.
Bryan, in spite of these warnings, not
only went to the defense of Goebei, but
made such pronounced speeches in his
tavor as to ALLEVIATE thousands of voters
who had been ardent free silver, Chicago
platform, and Bryan Democrats, and one
speech in particular incensed Kentuck-
Ian at the time, and has since rebounded
against Bryan with terrific force. 1t was
words:
Don't vote for a bolterI If you can't
stomach Goebel for heavens sake don't
vote for Brown! Don't throw your votes
away, my friends! If you can't vote for
H2eoel, be honest and vote for Taylor"
Bryan intended by that speech, to compel
an good Democrats to choose directly be-
tween the Republican and Democratic
CANDIDATES. He supposed that If they had
TO vote for either Goebel or Taylor they
would, through party loyalty. support the
Dehocratc nominee. But Bryan misun-
uetstood the Kentucky situation. Those
words of his IF you can't stomach Goe-
p7L vote for Taylor!" became a campaign
"epuohcan cry on election day. Goebers
opponents stood at every precinct In the
state and cried out to lukewarm Demo-
4 cIals going into the election booths: Re
member what Bryan said, If you can't
s.oInach Goebel, vote for Taylorp" The
result was that the John Young Brown
BDemocrats almost unitedly supported the
Republican candidate.
They Are blaming Bryan.
Fl ne upshot is that the regular or Goe-
VI democrats are now furious at Bryan
Unu openly charge that his advice cost
IN tleQ The al,