Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-06-20
ARMISTICE SHOULD
NOW Be DECLARED
Engagement Between Armies
Would Upset Plans.
} MIGHT BREAK NEGOTIATIONS
President Roosevelt Pays No Attention
To His Critics in Russia-Portland
Wants Conference To Be Held.
There other News.

Washington, June 19.-While the
progress of the preliminary negotia.
tons for peace between the Far East
ern belligerents is necessarily slow
and at this stage of the proceedings
it is known that President Roosevelt
hopes they practically may be -conclud-
ed before he shall go to Oyster Fay
| for the summer. His desire to facil
itate in every way possible, the ne
gotiations induced him to reconsider
his original plan to so to Oyster Bay
this week.
After his visit to Worcester and Will
Jamestown, Mass, where he will go to
attend the commencement exercises OF
Clark university and Williams college
he will return to Washington, arriv-
ing here next Friday morning 1t is
expected that if nothing unforeseen
shall have occurred in the meantime,
some definite announcement of the
status of the negotiations may be
made soon after his return.
There is a possibility, even, that the
selection of the plenipotentiaries of
both Russia and Japan may be an
| nounced before the president leaves
tomorrow night for Massachusetts.
A final decision as to the seat of
the conference having been reached by
the president in common with the po-
litical world is awaiting action of the
belligerent nations as to their peace
| envoys. With that part of the pro-
gram the president naturally has
nothing to do. When the selections
have been made the names of the en-
voys of the respective governments
will be communicated to the president.
By him they will be communicated to
| the governments in interest and for
mally announced to the world.
1t is the hope here that the arrange
| ments for the conference may proceed
with such facility as to avert gener-
al engagement in Manchuria between
| the forces of Generals Linevitch and
Oyama. The precipitatio of great
battle at the present stage of the peace
negotiations would be regarded here
as a most unfortunate error of judg-
| ment-an err which might imperil
seriusly the negotiations for the con
ference. Indeed, it is believed that In
some quarters, that whatever might be
the result of such a conflict, it would
arouse such bitterness that the nego-
tiations the status of which is now SO
| favorable would collapse.
1t can be said President Roosevelt is
| giving no heed to irritating personal
| references to him which have appeared
in a part of the Russian press His
| conduct of the peace negotiations
| thus far has been as nearly directly as
possible with the emperors of the bel
| ligerent powers and the arrangements
concluded represent their personal
views as we'll as his own.
The reference to the president by
an important st. Petersburg newspaper
as a broker" is regarded here as
most unhappy, although it Is known in
Washington that 1t does not reflect the
sentiments of the ST. Petersburg gov
erment. Such condiments sereve how
ever, to accentuate the desire of the
president and of the powers generally
to avert, if possible, another serious
engagement on the Manchurian battle
field, lest the conciliatory efforts here
tofore made may be rendered fruit
less through the utterances of the Rus
sian press, backed, as they may be
with the power sof the war party ir
the empire.