The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-09-02
HAY IS POPULAR
In SOUTH AFRICA
Renders Valuable Assistance to
BritOns and Beers Alike.
MRS. MAVERICKS CASE AGAIN
Another Attempt Being Made to Secure Her
Release SOusa's Band Has Just
Completed a Successful Con.
tInental Tour.

copyrighted. 1900. By Associated Press)
LONDON. Sept. 1.-Pendlng the dis
covery Of the diplomatists as TO how TO
best wash their hands Of the Chinese
embarrassment. public interest Is mo-
mentarily diverted to the nations pri-
yate affairs; and the wearisome war in
South Africa, the outbreak Of the b--
bonIc plague in Glasgow. the wide
spread disturbances and dlsaffection in
railway circles and the dissolution Of
parliament are all receiving much at
tention.
It Is considered evident from the
speech Of the Right Hon. William St.
John Broderick. under secretary Of
state for foreign affairs made on We'd
nesday. that the government considers
the end Of the war close enough to the
horizon to justify looking beyond It
and preparing for a general election.
Therefore an authoritative pronounce
ment on the subject Of the dissolution
OF parliament is expected at an early
date.
Whether Mr.. Broderick's anticipation
that Lord Roberts present movement
will have decisive bearing upon the
length OF the war is justified or not
remains for the present a matter Of
conjecture: but there is no mlstaking
the intention Of the government to util-
ize any appreciable military success and
ride into Office again on the back OF
'Bobs," who It is expected II 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.
Lord Roberts. emphatic commenda-
ton Of General Buffers strategy at Ma
chadodorp looks suspiciously like de-
sire to restore public confidence pre-
paratory to the devolution Of the future
conduct of the campaign upon the
shoulders upon which it originally
rested.
In connection with the ultimate set
Element of Transvaal matters, recent ar
rivals from South Africa think it pos
sible that the services OF United States
Consul Adelbert Hay might be advan-
tageously utilized.
Young Hay has managed to please
both the Beers and the English" said
Louis De villiers. a kinsman of the
Cape colony chief justice. who has
lately arrived. to a representative Of the
Associated Press.
When Hay arrived at Pretoria pub
lie opinion had been made difficult for
him by stories of his English sympa-
thles. The Boer feeling was so intense
that statements that he was no better
than an English spy were readily be-
lieved. but he behaved with such quiet
and good sense that he speedily got the
respect of the Boer official class, while
he did not part with his original opin-
ion that the Britons in the main were
right In the war. An American lady of
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 gosslped
freely of his pro-Brltish purposes; but
he outlived all this, was helpful to the
British prisoners and lately under Brit
ish supremacy has interposed more
than once in the interest of the Beers" +"
o o o
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 rep
resentative Of the Associated Press, was
discovery Of hitherto unknown let
ter from the late Baron Russell of Kill
lowen, lord chief justice of England. to
Mrs. Maybrick, reaffirming his belief in
his clients innocence and vigorously de-
olaring his conviction that she had been
unfairly condemned.
This letter has since been made the
basis for a new memorial praying for
Mrs. Maybrick's release. and so strong
is Mr.. Bells belief in the force Of this
document that a copy of 1t has been
sent personally to Sir Matthew White
Ridley, the secretary Of state for the
home department, at his summer home
in Northumberland. accompanied by the
request that he give it his earliest con-
sideration.
DR.. Bell started for the continent to-
day 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 incarceration
but has since secured for Mrs. Maybrick
an interview with her mother, Baroness
De RoQues. The discovery Of the Rus
sell letter is regarded as important not
because many people have doubted his
sincerity, but because 1t is couched in
such terms as to preclude any question
of his belief that she was unfairly tried.
Mrs. Maybrick's friends say DR.. Clark
Bell feels the mysterious influence of