Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-01
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ENGLISH LEADERS HOPE TO RE-
TAIN POPULAR FAVOR.
ROBERTS WILL COME TO HELP.
Hay Is Popular in South Africa-Mrs.
Maybrick's Case-Theatre
Gossip.

cONery OF the as to now TO
best wash their hands of the Chinese en-
barrassment, pubic interest is momen-
tarily diverted to the nations private af.
fairs. n the wearisOme war in South
Africa, the outbreak of the bubonic
plague in Glasgow, the widespread dis
!turbances and disaffection in railway
circles and the dissolution of parliament
are all receiving much attention. 1t is
considered evident, from the speech of
the Right Hon. William ST. Broderick,
under secretary of state for foreign at
fairs, made on Wednesday, that the gov
considers the end Of the war
close enough to the horizon to justify
looking beyond it and preparing for a
general election. Therefore, an authori-
tative pronouncment on the subject of
the diSSOlutin of parliament is expected
at an early date. Whether Mr.. Broder-
icl's anticipation that Lord Roberts
present movement will have a decisive
bearing upon the length of the war is JUS
titled or not. remains for the present a
matter of conjecture, but there is no mis-
taking the intention of the government to
utilize any military success and ride into
office again on the back of "Bobs." who
1T is expected, if all goes well. will be able
to return in October and take up the
duties of commander-in-chief, and, in
Cidentally to aid in the election.
Lord Roberts emphatic commentator
of General Buffers strategy at Machado-
dorp looks suspiciously like an effort to
restore public confidence preparatory to
the devotion of the future conduct of the
campaign upon the shoulders upon which
it originally rested. In connection with
the ultimate settlement of the Transvaal
matters, recent arrivals from South
Africa think it possible hat the services
of United States Consul Adelbert Hay
might be advantageously utilized.
.Young Hay has manage to- please
both the Beers and the English" said
Louis de Villiers, a kinsman of the Cape
Colony chief justice, who has lately ar
rived, to a representative of the Associ-
ated Press. When Hay arrived at Pre-
toria public opinion had been made diff
cult for him by stories of his English
sy mpathies. h Boer was so intense
that statements that he was no better
than a English spy We're readily believed,
but he has 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 opinion
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 out-lived all this, was helpful to the
British prisoners and lately. under Brit
ish supremacy, has interposed more thar
once in the interest of the Beers"
A tangible result of the recent visit to
Mrs. Florence Maybrick at Aylesbury
"a Va 49, ~~'
the prisoners counsel and a representa-
tive Of the Associated Press was the dis
covery of a hitherto unknown letter from
the late Baron Russell OF Killowen, lord
chief justice of England, to Mrs. May
brick, reaffirming his belief in his client
Innocence and vigorously declaring his
conviction that she had been unfairly con
demned. This letter has since been made
the basis for q new memorial praying Tor
Mrs. Maybrick's release and so strong
is Mr.. Bells belief in the force of this
that a copy of it has been sent
personally to Sir Matthew White Ridley,
the secretary of state for the home de-
Iartment at his summer home in Nor
cumberland, accompanied by the re-
quest to give it his earliest consideration
DIR. Bell started for the continent today.
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 with
her mother (Baroness de Roques). The
discovery of the Russell letter regard
ed as important, not because many peo-
pie doubted his sincerity, but because il
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 opposition somewhere, which
hinders a successful result. The late
Mr.. Bayard evidently felt this when he
declared the case had reached the end OF
diplomacy and subsequent ambassador
also met it. But, many recent evidences
of leniency toward the prisoner incline
her friends to believe that her incarcera'
ton will not be prolonged.
The outflow Of home bound American:
this week is limited by the capacity o.
he St. Louis and Etrria. The formel
takes an interesting list of passengers
including Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Gould
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne MacVeash, justice
Grow nr Cohro6v Mr. and Mrs w. IS
Elkins of Philadelphia and SousA's band
which has just completed n continents.
tour. Sousa has been in LondOn hi
week, but resisted the temptation 10 PA.
in England as he expects to return her
next season, when he will probably up
pear at the Glasgow international eXl'o
sition. =.
THE band," said Sousa, seemed GAIT
as popular at Frankfort, Cologne an
Berlin as at Paris. American music !
always most welcome. Though my in
terpretations of Wagner were enthusias
tically received in Germany, a brass ban
that a violin solo is an un
known thing in Europe, where attempt
to use military bands to play concert mu
sic are not always pleasing. Such an in
strument as the ~saxaphone is unknoNl
in Germany and the vast number }
reeds which secure the violin effects o
the band are an innovation which sur
priSed many"
Nearly every continental city has pre-
scented Sousa- with a civic flag, an
Frankfort sent a delegation to Londo
Thursday to personally present him WI:
a magnificent banner from that munich
spality.
The autumn theatrical season has al
ready opened under more hopeful aus
tpices. The revival of Nell ar
attracting big houses and the critics ar
already wondering how soon Nell wi
appear in the vaudevilles and musi
halls.