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Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
THE RELIEF MOVEMENT
According to News Gathered From the Appointment of the Com mander of International Forces It Is Only Little Incident in the ! Plans of the Russian and Ger man Governments.

Washington, Aug. 9.-The capture of Yang Tsun. the first objective point of the international forces was the su- preme news of importance received to- day on the Chinese situation. The first word of this capture. effected last Mon day came to the signal office at the war department from Col. scriven, general officer at Che Foo. saying:
 "Che Foo Aug. 9.
 Yang Tsun was captured today. Wire up. All well. SCRIVEN.'
 Half an hour after this m sage cablegram came from General Chaff Q giving additional details of the capture and showing that it had been effected at a cost Of about sixty casualties among the American troops.
 Hardly less important was a dispatch from Gen5ral Terauchi, second in com mand of the Japanese staff. sent to the war office of Japan and transmitted to the legation here. saying that the inter national army would total 50,000 men on August 15 to advance on Pellin. This dispatch stated that on the 4th, when it was forwards d, the advance had not begun.
 This was at first incomprehensibla in view of the fact that fighting had ac- tually occurred. But a later statement that the international force would total 5O,0OO men on he 18th appears to make clear General Terauchis meaning and to reconcile it with General Chaffee's dispatches. The present movement of some 16,0O0 men doubtless is viewed in the light of a reconnaissance i'll force, the main movement of the army of 5U.GOU 10 follow on the 18th.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10

cluding Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland and Toledo. At the latter city Finn found himself out of funds and in a fit of da spondency on the Fourth of July shot himself in his room at the hotel where he and his bride were stopping. His wife, alone.in a strange city, was pros trated by the tragedy, and though her parents have done everything in their power to relieve her distress, she has constantly mOurned her dead husband. This afternoon, unable to longer stand the separation, she shot herself in the breast. the ball passing through the body. Surgeons declare the wound mortal.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
WRECKED PASSENGERS RESCUED

Cape Haytien, Aug. 9.-The passen- gers and mail from the Dutch steam ship Pins Wilem l., which went ashore on the east side of the island of Inagua on Tuesday, July S1, have been landed here by the steamship Alps Several Of the crew went ashore on Inagua, and others. with the passengers, went to the island of Mariguana. It is probable that the most of the wrecked steam ships cargo will be saved. The pas sengers lost most of their baggage. and suffered great privations on the island of Mariguana before they were taken by the Alps.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
GATHERING CHINESE
Invest the Situation at Tien Tsin With
 a New Peril

London. Aug. 9.-The flooded country beyond Pei Tsang adds immeasurably to the difficulty of the advance of the allies toward Pekin. The situation at Tien Tsin is again perilous owing to the assembling of Chinese troops with in striking distance.
 The losses of the allies in the recent operations are now said to be 1,130 men, of which number the Russians lost coo, the Japanese 40 and the British 12O.
 A dispatch from Che Foo dated Sun day. August 5. says a, messenger from Pekin reports that the dowager empress sent four carloads of food to the lega- tioqs on July 2S.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
ARCHBISHOP uENNEssYs WILL
Left Estate of About $i.OOO,O ,OO0 to Rela-
 tives and the Church.

St. Paul, Mnn.. Aug. 9.-The will of the late Archbishop John Hennessy of Dubuque. la, has been filed for pro- bate here by the executors. Roger Ryan and Clement Johannes of Du buque. The estate amounts to about $1 GOO eco, s4GOOOO of which is in Min nesota real estate. the remainder real and personal property in Iowa. The Minnesota property is divided among nine relatives. The Iowa property is divided among relatives and sister hoods of the church.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
SOMETHING OF A GAIN.

Washington. Aug. 9.-Acting Secre- tary Adee tonight made public the fol- lowing cablegram from Consul Fowler at Che Foo:
 day, protesting against limiting the correspondence with Conger, and re- questing the governor to forward to Pekin. The governor telegraphs the following: Received a note from the Tsung Ii Yamen dated the 5th. The Yamen has just received an edict per mitting the ministers to have peaceful secret telegraphic communication with their countries. All the ministers at Pekin have teiegrams for transmission to their governments. It Is proposed
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
YOUNG WIDOW SHOOTS HERSELF

Binghamton, N. Y, Aug. 9.-Beatrice Finn, daughter of w. G. Leslie, a hotel proprietor of this city, shot herself this afternoon because life without her hus- band, who killed himself on their we'd ding trip, was not worth living. Mrs. Finn is only IS years of age, but an extremely pretty, well educated young lady. Her marriage to Ray mond Finn was kept a secret for some time. Then it was announced and the couple started on q wedding tS p-
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
A CHINESE RUSE.

Berlin. Aug. 9.-The Chlnese minister in Berlin has received a dispatch sub stantially identical with the alleged Chinese imperial ediCt ordering the safe conduct of members of the for eign legations tc Tien Tsin. This he has forwarded 0 the foreign office, where it is regarded, however, as an- other Chinese russ.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
BREAKERS D1sLocATED SPINE
Curious Accident to a Woman Bathel
 at Asbury Park.

Asbury Park, N. J.. Aug. 9.-Mrs. living of Boston, who is spending the summer here. was knocked down by a huge breaker while bathing at Fourth avenue this afternoon. Her spine was dislocated, and she received a number of contusions of the face. The injured woman was taken to the emer- gency hospital and later removed to her home in an ambulance
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
after. dispatching the same to send the originals to the consuls for verified tion ."
EVERYBODY AGREED.

Berlin. Aug. 9.-The German foreign office told the Associated Press cor respondent this dY5n ming that the con- sent of the other powers had been vir- Wally secured to the selection of Cont Von Waldersee as commander in- chief in China.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
PORTO REGAIN DEPOSITORY BANK.

Washington, Aug. 9.-The secretary of the treasury has designated the Am erican Colonial Bank of Porto Rico. at San Juan, as a depository of public moneys. The bank has furnished the United States bonds to the amount of S23D,O as security for public deposits. and is authorized to hold a fixed ball. ance of $237, 800.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
WE ARE OPTIMISTIC.
And Inclined to Believe That the Worst
 Is Over.

Washington. Aug. 9.-Secretary Root regards the situation, both from a military and diplomatic point Of view. as much improved. The promise of cipher communication with the min isters in Pekin. together with the ad- vance of the international forces to- ward that city, is believed to have a CO., relative significance. It is also bs- lieved that the resistance by the Chi nese has not been and will not be as great as was anticipated by some au. thorities who said the Chimes force was constituted of the best of their army.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
DEATH OF c. c. BOWEN.

Detroit, Aug. 9.-Charles Clark Bowen. treasurer of the Santa Fe, Phoenix & Prescott railway, died to- day.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

At Detroit-Detroit, 8; Cleveland. o. At Kansas City-Kansas City, ': Chi cago. 6.
 At Minneapolis Milwaukee. 9; Min neapolis, 6
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
A MATTER OF NO IMPORTANCE.

Chicago, Aug. 9.-No action has been taken by the populist national execu- tive committee in regard to Charles A. ToWne's withdrawal.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10
BASE BALL.
Record of Games Won and Lost
 Yesterday.

At Pittsburg Boston, 3: Pittsburg. 2. At St. Louis Brooklyn, '; St. Louis, 3.
 At Chicago Chicago, 5; Philadel- phia, 1.
 At Cincinnati-New York, 5: Gin cinnati, ?.
Evening star., 1900-08-18

IN the campaign of 1864 the opponents of
ME- Lincoln raised the cry of Imperialism
me people were warned that their institu-
tons were in danger. The war was do
clared to be failure. BESIDES. how couId
the Union be saved by force? How co,ld
people BE- c"erced into an acceptance of rh..
Constitution in the light uf the new reading
OF that instrument? As for Mr.. Lincoln
ne was aSsalied with both ridicuIe and
Ghuse' and described as a coarse d-Sp1t
utterly unworthy of authority or resnect
The thing to do was 20 vote -hc Marty or
force out and the parry Of peace in. call
for truce. make terms and save the Com
stitutign
me warning went unheedeG The war
continued The c ,ar,,. f;,.snor was i,7,Io-sa,
al the polls by an overwhelming Majority
Within six months peace was secured bv
force. and the Union was saved. The Con-
si;ution remained intact. and was amended
10 meet the new conditions The southern
states resumed their old national engage
ments- There was for a time much suffer
ing within their borders as the result Of
long and bloody conflict but the scars
gradually disappeared. progress set in and
all was well again. Men who had partici
pated in the rebellion were elected T., high
Office, state and national, and acuuittat
themselves IN a way tn show that their
love of country and pride nf section r..
manned uniiminished- They were as faith
ful servants of ,he Union restored by force
as they had been of the Union before force
mad been found necessary tn prevent dis
ruptiOn
Alter thirty-six years the cry of irnperia1-
ism Is again raised. Again the people are
warned that their institutions are in
danger Again they are adjured to go to
the polls and save the Constitution The
party in power is using force in asserting
the national authority. and that means en-
pire and militarism. The President though
not the subject IF coarse abuse. is vet
the subject of the most extreme nisrepr,.-
sentation. and Is denounced unSparineIy
He must be defeated In November. or the
country. by the policy he has inaugu
rated. will be ruined
And who is most frequently quoted in
support Of this contention? The coarse des
pot of 1sGI. And what is II the peonla
should now rnake such heroic eGorts To-
save The Constitution which, according
To the anti-impeIialists OF 1864. was then
destroyed by the saving Of the Union by
force! And yet Mr.. Bryan and his friends;
insist on being taken seriously about their
s"-called paramount issue.
Evening star., 1900-08-18

Apathy, If one may believe reports, pre-
walls in both parties. Republican as well
as democratic leaders are much disturbed
by it. What ails the people? Why are they
So listless at such a time? When before
Were they apparently so Indifferent to par
ty appeals about national policies? Bret
Hartes famous inquiries are more than
suggested. Is civilization a failure? Is the
Caucasian played out?
We have to consider in the first place
that each of the old parties has put for
ward its old leader again. and that the
result had long been foresh. 'dowed There
was no element OF surprise in what either
the Philadelphia or the Kansas City con-
vention did. Had the result at either con-
yention been at any time in doubt. and had
generally accepted calculations been at
either place upset and new man intro
dUced. a lively period of interest and dis
cussion would have followed But we have
Mr. Mckinley on the one hand, and Mr..
Bryan on the other. and the country. ia
miliar with both. and accepting both as
logically the representatives of their re-
spective parties. feels no undue excitement.
The notes of euIugy and detraction have
nearly all been sounded. and a great many
people able to discuss the candidates
in natural tone of voice and without
starting perspiration.
We have to consider in the second place
that within the past two years have
had some very stirring events of world
wide consequence to engage our attention.
The war with Spain. the racket in South
Africa. the existing complications in China.
have all drawn upon oar interest and in
some degree reduced for the time our re-
serve force of animation. The people have
been studying geography: have been exam
lining their own national powers and rela-
tfons in new light. And this may In part
account for their being bit slow in waking
up I" the occasion of applying their con-
clusions- So that this presidential cam
paign opens in circumstances altogether
different from any that surrounded preyf-
Gus campaigns
But II Is early yet. And July and August
so far. have broken all records for irving
and ProtraCted heat. Wait until fans can
with comfort be put aside and the nights
may be relied upon to restore the strength
expended during the day. Then we shall
probably see an old-fashioned campaign in
progress. with the stumps all occupied and
the crowds around them as eager and en-
thuSiastic as of yore. A tame beginning
may make rattling ending Let us hone
So for never were national issues more
important than now.
Evening star., 1900-08-18
Taking the Stun,u.

Il guess III take the stump this falT'-I
often hear the phrase.
think such resolutions is deserv!n' of all
praise.
Provided men discriminate an show rhey
kin be wise
In their method OF cOnductn' sech a weighty
enterprise.
I've thought the matter over. an I've bout
made up my mind
To jine in the percession SOS / won't be
left behind.
When the orators is whoopn' while they
hustle an they hump
Jes' file my declaration. I'm a-goin' to take
the stump.
1 never stop half way on any plans l start
to make.
An so I've carefully picked out the stump
I'm goin' TO take.
It's close beside the river where the suns
swiftspeedin' lance
Is shivered into dfmCnds every time you
stop to glance.
An the grass is thick around it, all invitin'
to repose.
An the b;rds'll sing untirin', jes' 20 lull
along your doze.
An if the ne.ghbors miss me where the
takers howl and jump.
You kin wink yer eye an tell em that L We
gone to take the stump.
Evening star., 1900-08-18

The state campaign in Maine will open
on Monday and continue three weeks. The
result is net in doubt. but the list of speak
ers shows that the republicans will exert
themselves to the utmost to bring out their
full vote. Many orators of national repu-
tatiOn have accepted assignments and the
issues. local and national. will be thorough
ly discussed.
Why are the republicans so anxious to
make rousing demonstration at the polls.
when they are already assured of victory?
Why would not ordinary majority suf-
flee? Because there are two parties in
Maine. discussion Is invited. and free speech
prevails. There is nothing to keep voters
away from the polls but Indifference and
in such a state. in such campaign, with
the new issues important and the old issues
still pressing. Indifference would be dis
creditable To the state. and discouraging to
the party elsewhere. The Maine campaign
therefore promises to be as lively and as
entertaining as though the difference in
the strength of the two parties could be
measured by a few hundred ballots
If Mississippi We're a September state
would there be an effort as earnest on the
part of the dominant party there to stir
up the people? How could ther. be? Stir
them UP about what? There is but one
party III Mississippi The republicans put
up no sta e ticket Their votes have near
ly all been disfranchised. There is no dis
cussion II political issues. Democratic as
pirants for office canvass in d personal WAY
for nominations. and when they are made
at the primaries further interest in affairs
ceases. few thousand votes are sufi-
cient on the day of election To ratify the
action of the primaries. and. as rule.
only a few thousand are thrown The lack
Of all opposition encourages and produces
indifference on the part of those who still
hold the right of suffrage
We may examine these same two cases
with respect to the national contest Con-
sld"red locally, there is infinitely more for
Mississippi than for Maine In the policy of
expansion The Souths cotton crop is in
the scale and the price will rise or fall
as expansion remains an accomplished fact
or Is Cancelled by an adverse policy. Maine
will benefit only as the country in general
Will benefit But Maine will freely discuss
the subject and vote in November to sus-
tain the party Of expansion, while Missis-
Slppi VIII bar discussion and vote for the
party OF contraction. And yet there are
people who wonder at the greater thrift
of the eastern states over their southern
sisters
Evening star., 1900-08-18

corruption and decadence into which the
great empire has fallen.
The rescue of the ENJOYS and their pro-
teges has been 80 long a matter of extreme
doubt that the news brings uuspeakable re-
lief to all the world. There was a time
when few people believed the ministers to
have survived the first fierce outburst of
race hatred. II remained for the United
States to employ means to prove the con-
trary. Then began a series of negotiations
without an equal in the long history of in
ternational dealings. China faced the
world. seeking to secure terms to prevent
an invasion. The world distrusted her.
She threatened to hold the ENJOYS as hos
tages against an advance of the relief
forces. She pretended to have been griev
Ously injured by the assault upon the forts
at Taku. BY ways that were dark and
tricks that We're vain" she tried 10 becloud
the situation and postpone reckoning. She
massed an army to oppose the allies at
Tien Tsn. and yet refused to accept the
full responsibility for such an act of war.
She persisted in pretending 10 hold the
powers offenders. instead of defenders
of their assailed rights. She proposed one
plan of adjustment after another. never to
the satisfaction of the nations. She would
have forced the ENJOYS to leave Pektn,
doubtless to be murdered by treacherous
escort. She sought to interrupt official COM
munications. She at the last tried to secure
a cessation of the advance by the pretext
of an armistice to discuss ways and means
of effecting the liberation of the envoys.
In all these negotiations the United
States. voicing the policy of the allied pow
ers. stood steadfastly demanding a distinct
performance by China to prove her good
faith and capacity as government. There
was no yielding from those demands. To
the extent of its ability the government
placed troops in China. and did everything
in its power to advance the plan of rescue.
1t accepted the supreme commandership of
a German field marshal. 1t imposed no
conditions to hamper its full usefulness in
the campaign. Dealing directly with China
when the other powers found their means
Of communication chOked, it was able TO
bring the dealings TO focus and TO reduce
China to her last terms
The United States will always receive full
credit for this achievement of sturdy in
siStence upon the righteous demands of
civilization. for tact in dealing with a pc
Cular antagonist. and for readiness 10 do
its full part in the military program. what
ever
Evening star., 1900-08-18

slave. can register. He Is not denied a
vote on account of race, color or previous
condition of servitude. Neither Is the IL
nterate negro whose ancestors voted be-
fore 1867. But the illiterate white is re-
fused registration whose father was citi-
zen Of Ireland after 1857. and so the distinc-
tion as to race and color is difficult to prove
fE law.
Another question Is, Who will bring
the matter to the test of constitutionality
The democrats have sworn not to do it.
The republicans would lose the best part
of their vote, both as to numbers and
character. If the educational qualification
is made to apply to the mountaineers Of
the western counties. What case in law
will the individual have who pleads, not
that he is refused registration by an edu-
catfonal qualification, but that an Hitter
ate white is allowed to register
The writer of this evasion of North Caro-
lina's responsibility evidently intends to be
taken seriously in his shallow sophistry.
How much better it would have been had
the Charlotte preacher-edtor declared:
we had to do 1t, whatever the means and
whatever the cost, and we are willing that
our measures be tested by the rules of the
nation. as founded by our progenitors of
10 and as brought to date by their sue
cessors after the great struggle"
Evening star., 1900-08-18

iekiu has been entered and the Ieca-
h"L,rS relieved. White civilization has
tr!umrhed over yellow barbarism. China
has been spared the commission Of =
crime which would have stood with
out a parallel Ia history. She has
been kumhled. through invasion and
a refusal Df the powers to accent her
verbal guarantees. She has drawn mo,
herself a severe punishment. The Christian
nations nave achieved the extraordinary
feat of sn1iheriIg all differences. pettv
and great. for the time necessary to dis
patch an International army to Pek;n IN
force China TO comply with their demands
After such a display of unity II Is nos
sihle to believe that even greater world
movements may be inaugurated upon other
than a blood basis Having achieved what
at the outset was deemed by many to he
impossible, 1t should be within the power of
the nations 10 proceed along the same lines
to solve the Chinese problem according to
the most lasting interests Of all, refraining
from territorial seizures and selfish aggran-
dizements. with an eye single to the insti-
tuition over China Of a responsible govern
ment capable Of rising steadily from the
Evening star., 1900-08-18

There can be no question in the unpreju-
diced mind as to the unconstitutionality of
the North Carolina suffrage amendment.
which abridges the voting rights of the
illiterate negro by means of a discrinina-
ton based Enthusiastically upon his race
color and previous condition of servitude."
Had the trainers of that amendment sought
deliberately 70 cut directly athwart the
fiber Of the Constitution they could not
have found ii more straightforward method
To the comparative honor of the North
Carolina democrats be IT said that as a
rule they frankly confess that the stat.
amendment may be out of keeping with the
ntteC nth amendment of the federal Consti-
tuition. but contend that II is from their
point of view, a necessary violation. They
mold that the end justilies the means. Such
men as these are infinitely more to be re-
Spected than those who seek to excuse the
suffrage restriction upon the ground that
its unconstitutiOnality is not to be proved
OF this latter class is the Rev. A J. Nc
kelway, editor OF the Presbyterian Stan
dard Of Charlotte. n. c.. who prints In the
current issue of the New York Independent
an article on the suffrage amendment
Coming from a clergyman the following
proposition makes strange reading:
THE question is Does the section yio-
late the fifteenth amendment? We freely
grant that the Intentions of the trainers
or the two amen irnents were far enough
apart. Do the amendments themselves
clash. and will the Supreme Court so de-
eide?
lit will he noticed that the first clause
Is an educational qualification. which is
constitutional enough. 1t wifi be further
noticed that the grandfather clause as
1t Is called, is an extension of the suffrage
instead OF Its denial or ahridgement
Tho educated negro, chough a former
Evening star., 1900-08-18

1t is estimated in New York that about
1000 merchants from the interior of the
country are now in that city buying goods
for the fall trade. The Chicago papers last
Monday estimated that 5000 merchants
from the south were in Chicago on the same
errand. No attempt is made to collect sim
liar statistics in this city, but it is known
that the number of business men from other
places who have been here during the past
two three weeks has been very large
This movement of merchants to the centers
of distribution. instead of staying at home
and waiting for the Representatives of the
wholesalers to call upon them. is sign of
the prosperity of the country. 1t will have
a result in great increase in retail sales in
the interior during the fall and winter