The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-05-25
Unofficial Reception In Their
Honor at Washington.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS- PRESENT
Patriotic Addresses Supporting
the Cause of the Burghers Dee
livered BY Various Speakers.

An audience, remarkable for its
size, sympathy and enthusiasm, greet
Jed the Boer ENJOYS at the reception
given in their honor Sunday night at
the Grand opera house. Washington
City, under the auspices of the con-
gressional aud citizens committee.
Long before the time for the meet
ing to open, the house was crowded to
suffocation and many were turned
away unable to gain admittanee
While official Washington was not
represented in any manner, there
vere probably thirty members of the
senate and the house occupying seats
in the auditorium and on the stage
Speaker Henderson was in one of the
boxes, and others present were Sena-
tors Daniel of Virginia, Teller, Till
man, Pettigrew, Mason and Yelling
ton, Representatives Shaffroth, Atwa-
ter, Slayer, Glynn, Rupert, Gaines,
Latimer, Lentz, Sulzer, Landis, Lin
Apey, Ryan, Greene, Henry of Massa-
chusetts, Hay, DeArmond, Clark of
Missouri, Meirs and Rhea of Ken
lucky.
One of the boxes, it was stated, had
been reserved for the president,
committee having been sent to the
white house with tickets of admission
to the opera house, but no representa-
tive of the presidents official house
hold was on hand.
Chairman Sulzer, of the reception
Committee, presided, and number of
addresses, all of them patriotic in
character and earnestly supporting the
cause of the Beers, were made, the
speakers including Messrs. Fischer,
Wolmarans and Vessels, the Boer
ENJOYS; Senator Wellington, Hon.
Bourke Cochran, of New York, and
Mr.. Sulzer.
Chairman Sulzer was the first speak
er. After welcoming the ENJOYS and
(emphatically stating that the occasion
twas non-partisan and non-political in
character, he said in part:
England now and always has been
the aggressor. The Beers will never
surrender their love of liberty. They
can only be conquered by being exter-
minated, ard England must not be
permitted to exterminate them and
steal their homes. Her criminal march
of devastation must and will be
Checked"
The three enjoys were introduced in
turn by Mr., Sulzer and each of them
was given cordial reception. Their
remarks were listened to with close at
tention. The audience gave a stand
ing greeting to Commissioner Fischer,
who told his hearers why the enjoys
had come to this country and what
they hoped to accomplish. His re-
marks were very much in keeping with
what he already has said in published
DltervieWs.
ave have come across the seas from
two different republics, said he, ''to
see whether here in the hearts of the
people of greater sister republic the
spirit of more than o hundred years
ago is still alive, whether the sentiment
that caused its people to take up arms
to obtain its freedom is strong enough
to recognize the feeling possessed by
us. We come to you as a great liberty
loving people in whom the sense OF
justice and fair play is strong, and
look to you TO find practical scheme
to obtain peace with justice.
"We come to appeal to your people
and speak to you as brother Repub.
licans and to ask for hearing, and
hope to obtain it. The receptions
which we have been given have beer
most gratifying to us ever since We
have set foot on your shores. There
/ Is no doubt, from assurances received
y from all parts of the country that the
sympathy of the people is with US
We look to you to help us, if possible
and whether we get assistance or no
we appreciate the kindly feeling which
has been manifested for US. "