Mesa free press., 1900-09-14
ENGLAND W|DE-A-AWAKE
End of the War in Africa is Now Near
its end.
PREPARING FOR GENERAL ELECTION
Young Hay Pleased the Boers-lmport.
ant Letter Discovered in Maybrick Case

ant Leter discovered III MayDrick Ease
L0ndon.-Pending the discovery of
the diplomastists as to how to best
wash their hands of the Chinese en-
barrassment public interest is mo-
mentarily diverted to the nations pri
vate affairs, and the wearisome war in
South Africa, the outbreak of bubOnlc
PLACE in Glasgow, the widespread dis
turbances and disaffection in railway
| circles and the dissolution of Parlia
ment are all receiving much attention.
1t is considered evident from the
speech of Right Hon. William st. John
Broderick, Under Secretary of State
| for Foreign Affairs, made on WedDes-
day, that the government considers
the end of the war close enough to
the horizon to justify looking beyond
1t and preparing for general cleo
| tion. Therefore, an authoritative pro-
nouncement on the subject of the dis
| solution of Parliament is expected at
an early date.
Whether Mr.. Broderik's s anticipation
that Lord Roberts's movement will
have decisive bearing on the length
of the war is justified or not remains
| for the present matter of conjecture;
but there is no mistaking the inten-
tion of the government to utilize any
appreciable military success and ride
| into office again on the back of "Bobs,"
| who, it is expected, if all goes WELL
will be able to return in October and
| take up the duties of commander-in-
chief, and incidentally to aid in the
election.
HAY PLEASED THE BOERS.
Lord Roberts's emphatic commenda-
tion of Gen. Buffers strategy at Ma
chadodorp looks seriously like a de-
sire to restore public confidence pre-
paratory to the devolution of the fu-
ture conduct of the campaign upon
the shoulders upon whom it originally
rested. In connection with the ulti-
mate settlement Of Transvaal matters,
recent arrivals from South Africa
think it possible that the service of
the United States Consul Adelbert
Hay might be advantageously utilized.
Young Hay has managed to please
both the Beers and the English" said
Louis De Villiers, kinsman Of the
Cape Colony Chief Justice, who has
lately arrived, to a representative of
the Associated Press. When Hay ar
rived at Pretoria, public opinion had
been made difficult for him by stories
of his English sympathies. The Boer
feeling was so intense that statements
that Hay was no better than an Eng
lish spy were readily believed; but he
behaved with such quiet and good
sense that he speedily got the re-
spect of the Boer official class, while
he did not part with his original opin-
ton that the BritOns, in the main,
were right in the war. An American
lady of the keenest Boer sympathies,
added to Mr.. Hays first perplexities by
making a regular campaign to win
him to the Boer side. Failing in this,
she gossiped freely of his alleged pro-
British purposes; but he Outlived all
this, was helpful to the British pris
oners, and lately, under British SUI
premacy, has interpOsed more than
once in the interests of the Beers"
THE MAVERICK CASE.
A tangible result of the recent visit
to Mrs. Florence Maybrick, at Ayles-
bury prison, of DR.. Clark Bell of New
York, the prisoners counsel, and a
representative of the Associated Press,
was the discovery of hitherto un
known letter from the late Baron Rus
sell of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice
of England, to Mrs. Maybrick, re-
affirming his belief in his clients in
nocence, and vigorously declaring his
conviction that she had been unfairly
condemned. This letter has since been
made the basis of a new memorial
praying for Mrs. Maybrick's release,
and so strong is Mr.. Bells belief in the
force of this document that copy Of
it has been sent personally to Sir
Mathew White Ridley, the Secretary
of State for the home government, at
his summer home in Northumberland,
accompanied by the request that he
give it his earliest consideration. Dr.
Bell has started for the continent,
more than satisfied with the effects
of his visit to England. He has not
only succeeded in seeing his client
for the first time since her incarcera-
ton, but has also secured for Mrs.
Maybrick an interview with her
mother, Baroness de Roques.
The discovery of the Russell letter
is regarded as important, not because
many people doubted his sincerity, but
because it is couched in such terms
as to preclude any opinion of his be-
lief that she was unfairly tried. Mrs.
Maybrick's friends say DR.. Clark Bell
feels the mysterious influence of oppo-
sition somewhere, which hinders a
successful result The late Mr.. Bayard
evidently felt this when he declared
the case had reached the end of diplo-
nancy, and seubsequent ambassadors
also met it, But many recent evidences
of leniency toward the prisoner incline
her friends to believe that her incar-
ceration will not be prolonged.