Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-05
BoER FLAG GREETs BRIToNs.
An Exciting Incident occurs at Bar
Aarbor.

BOER FLAG GREETS bRlTONS.
An Exciting incident Occurs At Bar
Ilarbor.
Bar Harbor, Me-, Sept. 5.-French-
mans Bay resounded with the booming
Of guns yesterday morning and as the
reports rolled suilenly along the noun
tains and the heavy smoke lifted there
was unfolded maryeiously pictur-
esque scene. Inside the breakwater,
under the lee Of Bald Porcupine and
Green Mountain. the British squadron
commanded by Vice Admiral Bedford,
lay quietly at anchor.
Beyond Bar island, 300 yards up the;
coast, in the larger bay, the white
hulled warships of the United States.
decked with flags, their bands playing
and small guns saluting, were doing
honor to the British visitors, while
along shore crowds watched with in-s
lterest the opening formalities between;
the navies OF the two nations.
gut while all these hospitable dem
4 onstrations were taking place there
was one discordant note ashore. Short
lily before the British warships were
i sighted Edward Van Ness ran up a
Il Boer flag on staff erected for he pur-
i pose on his lawn in Albert Meadow, in
front of the anchorage place of the
British ships.
AS the flag went up Mr.. Van Ness,
addressing some assembled friends,
said:
This flag, the emblem Of the Trans
sIyaal Republic, is carried on the field of
4 lbattle by the heroic Beers, a people too
great to bear a yoke, too noble and
Slbrave to be suffered to live. The Brit
s|ish army, exceeding in number the en-
sltire Boer population OF the Transvaal,
lis now droving the undismayed patriots
Ito the mountains, the last refuge OF
4 Freedom.
Il These same English are at your
ldoor, and for that matter they are all
J lways at your door. Her fleet patrols
Iyour coasts. ready at any moment tc
4 Iwaylay your commerce or penetrate
tyour harbors. Her enmity we may an
ticipate; but what you have most te
lfear is her friendship. which, like the
Ipython, first embraces and then absorbs
q her victim.
Crowds soon gathered about the cot.
l|tage, and about 10 o'clock a committed
J, waited upon Mr.. Van Ness and re
j Iquested that the flag be hauled down
Mr.. Van Ness refused. Then Selectmal
llC. H. Wood, accompanied by the chic
! Iof police. called upon him, and. after h,
!. Ihad again refused, Mr. Wood cut tn,
!; lrope and seized the flag, while tn,
$ crowd applauded.
Mr.. Van Ness is aswealthy resident o
J, New York. He has long been Boe
! lsympathizer. and was a member of th
) lcomniitsee which welcomad the Boe
/ commissioners on their arrival in thi
j, lcountry last spring.
Croker Attacks Hill.
New York, Sept. 5.-Richard Croke
81 was at the Hoffman House early yes
lterday morning and talked with man
I people in the corridors. He was aske
: about ex-senator David B. Hill
I speech at Troy and said:
i Mr. Hill attacked me in his speech
= He did not come right out and attacl
me by name, but he did SO indirectly
That's his style of doing business. III
did the same thing six years ago an
2 when charged him with it he denie
!, lthat he meant me. He said at tina
Istime: Mr.. Croker. did not attack 20
= and my enemies are trying to max
( trouble between US. They are tryin
: to make me say things do not say an
:. mean things I do Anot mean. But h
], ! did mean me all the time. Mr.. Hi
( never does things in the open. He al
: ways hides behind something an
Il LEAVES loophole to crawl out Of.
i He is deceitful, tricky, and could nj
! tell the truth IL he wanted to. He is
4 lpicayune politician; he Is a peanut pol
: tician, and could not be captain OF
3 district lf he lived in New York cit!
: Tammany Hall would not have dc
! ceitful, untruthful sneak like David
i 3JlHill in its organization.
4 .If 1t were not for these things
: would have recognized Dave 4iill 4
!, Header long ago. What we want in
i Header is man who Ia brave and wit
: the courage to stand by what he NEAR
= and not go sneaking around in Il
3 dark and hiding behind everything.
a Take Senator Murphy. for instanc
You can believe what he says. He dot
not say one thing one day and lie abo,
1t the next. He says what he meaI
Isl and stands by Il. There u no sneak
yl him. And Coier q Just like Hill
ysl did - same A. ! shis art ticles. 81
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