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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-06-19
GENERAL EVANS
70 the United confe d crate Veterans at
Birmingham.

There was the greatest excite
ment in the convention hall this
att - when the time came to
elUgs8 new Cemmander-in- Chief.
After Gen. Irving Walker had
taken the chair, Gen. Bennett H.
Young nominated Gen. Evans In a
glowing speech. Gen. Withers
nominated Gen. Cabell, and the
vote resulted: Evans, /, ,232; Cabell,
l,OS4. In the contest for the place
of next meeting the result was
Memphis, l, ,196; Atlanta, 1,120.
Upon assuming command Gen.
Evans issued the following general
order No. /:
"In obedience to the mandates
of my beloved comrades, as ex-
pressed in convention this day, l
assume command of the United
Confederate Veterans.
"Comrade William e. Mickle is
hereby appointed Adjutant Gen
eral and Chief Of Staff with the
rank Of Major General. He will
Immediately enter upon the dis
charge of his duties and will be
obeyed andrespected accordingly"
Following the election of Com
mander-in- Chief, Gen. George w.
Gordon was elected Commander of
the Department of Tennessee to
succeed Gen. Evans; Gen. Irvine
Walker was reelected commander
of the army of Northern Virginia
and Gen. Cabell commander of the
trans-Mississippi department.
GEN. EVANS ADDRESS.
The morning session was devot-
ed chiefly to memorial exercises,
with Gen. Evans, the principal
speaker.
The special work chosen by the
great soldiers organization here in
annual session is purely patriotic,
peacemaking, beneficial to the
whole country, and valuable to
prosperity forever. Its principal
objects are to preserve comrade
ship; to establish justice and puri-
ty in all literature, especially in
history; to abolish sectional dis
cord; to promote genuine and gen.
erous courtesies among the people !
whose fathers nearly half cen
tury ago strove for the mastery
with bloody severity four years
upon many historical battlefields.
In proper furtherance of these
grand desires, heroism is being
also commemorated by durable
monuments as we'll as by every
token that can inspire men with
the true heroic spirit and the
love of truth which makes peo-
pie free indeed, and it must be
further stated that among the
cluster of starry guides to nation
al glory it has become necessary
to insist that the reasonable claims
of the South for better recogni-
ton should be allowed; that its
local problems should be more !
fairly considered, and that it should
be unhindered in its efforts to main {
tain, under existing endorsements,
the social and racial integrity of t
hat people who developed and {
,ivilized North America and estab- I
ished the Democratle-Republican l
which we enjoy. c
THE SOUTH HAS MADE HISTORY. :
The people of the South have t
made history which teaches moral z
md civic virtues by example, and t
hey are greatly concerned in the v
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oIten open 10 suspicion as being
accompanied with insincerity, sell
fishness or ignorant of Southern
conditions.
THE PATRIOTIC SPIRIT
The mere argument on certain
debatable questions of great i'm.
portance has been exhaus e d.
These issues have been ably dis
cussed in conventions like this fol-
many years with clearness, truth
fulness and power by the most
eminent men of the country. None
of them need further discussion at
this hour before the welI-informed
assembly. The South rests its rea-
sons and its acts in the effort OF
the States to form a separate gov
ernment on the law and the testi-
mony with absolute confidence in
the justice of its cause. The
Southern people stand upon the
firm basis of their sound and solid
character and dpon the principles
of constitutional law, civic right
and moral duty which ruled their
other actions. With profound sat
isfaction they contemplate their
history from the first settlement
in Virginia centuries ago and their
immense contributions since then
to the greatness of our country.
With the purest spirit of patriot
ism they are yet devoting their en-
ergies to the moral, the educational
the industrial and the financial up
lifting of all the people to those lof-
ty civic conditions, which alone tru-
Iy exalt nation.
The attitude of the South thus
firmly taken on questions former
ly debatable, even by war, permits
in present conditions the fair con-
cession on all sides that ''points Of
view" may he.q4nsidered, and hon
est difTe.hng, Te.I!g'.sle Hkspinion may be
i qras4 y : ,MajoSIther s., side will
Ia; Ia; 8 Il sgs'T s he qsas csss
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-06-19

owners. They had a genius for
honesty in business and fidelity to
the laws of true trade which SO di-
rected their financing that they
had never in all history produced
a financial panic. Their energy is
clasping with its glad hand the
present opportunities, and with
honorable thrift they will preserve
their prosperity.
Behold this sunny South! See
how it beams in varied beauty;how
its exults in Its temperate climate;
how its teens with products to
meet the world! Glance at it's
stretches of prosperous domain
from Maryland to Arizona, from
St. Louis to Charleston, from
Louisville to New Orleans 1t en-
braces seventeen extensive States
more than one third of the IN
ion; nearly as many as all the great
West contains, and twice as many
as the thrifty East. Count it's
twenty-four millions of people,
nearly one third of the population
of the United States. Think of it's
marvellous natural reso urces.
Hear with gladdened hearts the mu-
sic of its mills and mines, it's com
merce and its fields and forests
singing in harmonious chorus
hurrah for the Sunny South!
THE SOUTH HAS ITS OWN PROBLEMS.
The Southern States have their
own problems which they desire
to solve for the common good. 1t
is true also that there are other
questions not exclusively South
ern in which the people of the
South are concerned equally with
all citizens-Such, for instance, as
the general question of the just
between the States, and
between any State and the Gener-
al Government. But even the
problem was made local as to the
States and became acute
ly sectional in the years between
1850 and 1861, when the circum-
stances that African slavery -,
become and institution was 10y
to create a strange Southern 9
lem. After many unsuccee
the States in theie
fed to Secession, and TIL WI
1enied were forced to age
having failed in that.
'endered without anyhe
oy negotiations of waes
he old disturbing pSesand
country of a peoplalfsAu
cent became No Ow
'ver because tb h.
oaded from 1865 ~,
upportable condirtR6l
The negroes in th '"
states. were merely t Don
With nothing but the pCuu' =
nd hold Office withor1de,
ions. They were d of,
ONES anywhere exec
outh, and they fell as .tbA
he Southern people. inc
outh assumed the burdes s4
ssertion is here made tha y
f people in any age of t, u
as treated this negro ra I'll
eal kindness except the pehaN
le Southern States. All sion5
ave enslayed them, and noes. -.
rs trained them into that lite
II, intelligent, moral man. ans
hich is the indisputable qualAse.
on of a valuable population. FO. q
consider the negroes in :
frica under European rule. The {
outhern States have over six mil C,
ons of this race to care for, and a
e Southern people are qualified O
execute the trust justly, benevo- a
ntly, and for the general welfare. CT
is therefore insisted that the
ndering intermeddling with the N
lrposes to righteously solve this IL
oblem shall cease; for whatever ir
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the motive may be such interfer-
ence is misdirected, hurtful and
often open to suspicion as being
accompanied with insincerity, sell
fishness or ignorant of Southern
conditions.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-06-19
by war. 1t was feeling inherit

by war. 1t was feeling inherit
ed from our ancestors of the Amer
ican Revolution. and had been al
various times displayed through
out the South and in the North
when threats of secession were
made by the Northern statesmen.
Our fathers felt in forming this
Union they had gained a true gov
ernment of United States which
would abide forever. They were
thrilled by the patriotic sensation
that safety was secured for all
rights, and defense was provided
against all wrongs. This has,
therefore, been in all our coun-
try's history powerful sentiment,
and it is that same love of country
which still warns the soul of the
true citizen when he sees the Union
truly illustrated by the full exer-
else of all powers, delegated and
reserved, so as to serve every sec
ton, to protect the interests of
every citizen, to save every right,
and thus achieve a durable, mag
nificent greatness.
But there is another element in
the enthusiasm of our sires and
their sons which is the twin broth
er to the Union sentiment. What
is that other twin constituentwhich
was laid in the cradle of our Gov
ernment? What is that crowning
glory of our country which dis
tinguishes it even as the glory of
the sun is greater than the glory
of the stars9 1t is the equally
masterful popular sentiment con-
cerning the value of the sacred
sentiment which was ordained and
established as the "Constitution
of the United States of America. "
Within the range of the true
patriots present view there are
four ideals of equal worth. They
are the State, the Constitution, the
Union and the general welfare OF
all the people. Consider these
four great entities as they arise in
order of time, sequence and rela-
tions. They are the people, the
States, the Constitution, the Union.
Out of these our Government
arose in its remarkable form. AS
such it was dedicated to liberty;
}s such it is devoted to maintain
lquality, and as such it is organ
ked to promote fraternity. We
Eill therefore take sentiments
khich were laid in the cradle of
l., ,,g; government and make their
]. men ~tasis of our amity, their
Rafl'' ! ssalEance OF our lib
eeess,,.S we A.,orya-
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-06-19
GRANTED PARDONS.
Gov. Wilson, of Kentucky, Extends
Executive Clemency.
VOL. 1S, NO. IL

Executive Clemency.
Frankfort, KY, June 13.-What
is probably the final chapter in one
of the most sensational and dra-
matte cases ever tried in America
was the action of Gov. Wilson Of
Kentucky yesterday in pardoning
Caleb Powers and Jim Howard,
who were convicted of completely
in the murder of William Goebel.
Gov. Wilson also granted a par
don to Caleb Powers upon the in
dictment pending against him in
the Franklin Circuit Court, charg-
ing subornation of perjury.
For eight years Powers has
waged one of the most strenuous
fights for his freedom ever made
in Kentucky, having been tried
four times for his life, the last
trsal resulting in hung jury.
The campaign that ended in the
defeat of Goebel at the polls, the
struggle by which he wrested the
governorship from Taylor, his
assassination and the subsequent
events were replete with dramatic
situations and sensational develop
ments. Of all the actors who came
upon the stage during the long
trials that followed, not even Goe-
bel himself focused public atten-
ton as did Caleb Powers, the Re-
publican Secretary of State.
James B. Howard IS alleged to.
be the man who fred the shot the.
killed Goebel and he was un-
life sentence. Y
WILSON'S REASONS. 4R
The lengthy statement given ofle
by Gov. Wilson as to why he par-rl
doned Powers contains the follow DC
ing reasons:
Applications for pardons were
signed by nearly 100000 persons,
some 100000 Kentuckians, andlera
large proportion are Democraaou.
am firmly convinced that he isN'
beyond all reasonable doubt, innoI : :
cent oft at tbebftfeS Sharged against,
9im't 9!d tera .enaa aaa8ganizat'Spt, and thai !,
ght, June'nhargec
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-09
BEER BURGLAR OPENS
HEART To POLICE

Dan Keliikeloa. arrested in connec-
ton with the recent burglary of the
Rainier beer warehouse, has made a
full confession to the police, acknowl-
edging his connection with the steal
ing of the barrel of .suds and implicat-
ing others. His confession will be used
in evidence against Louis James, now
being held by the police and charged
with burglary in connection with the
affair. James, according to Keiiikeloa,
was the ringleader of the gang.
His story is that the crowd of boys
went to the warehouse at midnight and
forced an entrance. Once inside they
proceeded to make themselves at home,
tapping key and helping themselves
generously to the profusion of richness
lying open to their hands. After i'm
bibing much of the contents of the key,
by which time all sense of responsible
ity had gone, the brilliant idea struck
them to take a barrel away with them
This was done, the barrel. splitting bot
ties all along the way through Kaka-
ako, being rolled up to Dams home.
Among the other things stolen were
a number of How to Mix Drinks"
books. but these were thrown away
along the road.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-09
FOUR JAPANESE WILL
STAY At khLAUPAPA

Y Ishii, the japanese druggist who
has taken a leading part in the effort
made to secure the permission of the
authorities to the sending to Japan of
the eleven japanese lepers on Molokai
and in raising the fund with which
to do it, has just returned from a visit
to the Settlement. He brings back
word to his countrymen in Honolulu
that four of the eleven japanese at
Kalaupapa desire to stay there rather
than return to their home in Japan.
He discussed the matter of their re-
turn at length with the eleven most
interested in the philanthropic move
ment and seven of them have decided
that they wish to go. The others are
well satisfied with the conditions they
know at the Settlement and have de-
cided to stay rather than confront con-
ditions in the segregation settlements
in Japan that they do not know.
The work of raising money for the
fund is going ahead satisfactorily, sew
eral hundred dollars being already
collected.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-09
FAMOUS BAND
IN ROOF Garden
Sacred Drama Selections From
ParsifaI and. Other
Pleasures.

Wagner's ~Parsifar' selections. in
Guiding the Holy Gran, played by the
famous Twenty-Fourth Regiment band.
L. S. A, in the Alexander Young Hotel
roof garden last evening, proved de-
lightful intellectual treat for hundreds.
The news that the transport Sherman
was in port from the Orient. and car
rylng the Twenty-Fourth with its ia
nous band, spread with remarkable
rapidity and there were seven or eight
hundred people in the elevated garden
to enjoy an unusual musical pleasure.
Leader Wilfred 0. Thompson takes a
particular pride in observing that his
audience enjoys the productions of his
thirty-fve skilled musicians. large
proportion of whom are negroes. and
he made brief speech in which he
regretted that there had not been time
to print programs for the concert. He
announced that selections would be
given from the late Richard Wagner s
'Parsifal' and he hoped those gath
cred around would get as much pleas
ure out of it as did he and mis- musicians
IN rendering it. The leaders, remarks
were applauded as were all the selec-
TONS
Notwithstanding a Hawaiian quintet
playing to the diners in the feastroom
at the mauka end of the building, the
Salvation Army band in the not far
distant street and an occasional note
from nearby churches, at the start of
the band s concert, there was attention
for but one thing, the music of the
Twenty-Fohrth.
Captain Berger of the Hawaiian band
was present and enjoyed the exalted
entertainment as much as any, and dur
ing an intermission he heartily con-
graduated Thompson, as did many 9TH
er citizens of prominence.
1t was a pleasant surprise to many
when the Twenty Fourth played "Ha-
wall Ponoi' toward the last.
The concert lasted until late, yet not
one left the garden until all was over.
Following was the program:
Grand March, Aida" ...... Verdi
Overture" Tampa - .. Herold
Idyll-'' Astrav in the Forest Herman
(Soloist Sergeant Warren.)
Quartet: Messrs Green, Banister, Terry
and Richard
Grand Fantasia from Richard Wag-
ner S sacred music drama "Parsi-
far Arr. Tobani
Serenade ............ Schubert
Excerpts" Belle of New York -.
. - Kerker
Concert Waltz-''On the Beautiful
Rhine .......... Keller Bella
International Fantasia 80. Robinson
'Hawaii Ponoi.'
tStar Spangled Banner
Wilfred O. Thompson, director.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-09
DETAILS OF THE CAUSE
OF PRESENT TROUBLE
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nese government was informed that
she was bound for Macao laden with
a cargo of 134 cases of arms and am
munition, the consignee being Chinese
and the commander had been ordered
by the Taotai Of Canton to stop the
unloading of her cargo AT the same
time two customs officials and some
twenty bluejackets boarded the steam
er. The commander also said that if
the steamer, was lying at anchor in
Macao territorial waters he would not
be in the capacity to make any OBJ
lection whatever but as long as she
was at anchor in Chinese territorial
waters the ship had to obey the COM
mand of the Chinese authorities. Now
the Macao territorial waters is limited
in extent and the depth very shallow,
scarcely reaching two fathoms. Though
the captain was DESTROYS of negotiat-
ing with the consignee no steamboat
would dare to approach the ship APP
parently for fear of the Chinese war
ships. There we're more than ten pas
sengers on board the steamer, who on
account of the delayed arrival were
in want of provisions. They were anx-
ious to make land for the purchase of
provisions but the Chinese would not
permit them to launch a boat and so
they could do nothing in such cfrcum-
stances. No objection whatever would
be listened to by the Chinese and
should the steamer dare to weigh
anchor or disobey their command the
Chinese threatened to send her to the
bottom in an instant. Under the sit
uation the captain came to the final
conclusion to follow the Chinese to
Canton. According to the commander
the Chinese authorities were intimated
from Kobe prior. TO the departure of
the Tatsu Maru that the steamer
would unload those arms and ammu
milton at Macao which were to go to
the hands of the native revolutionists
through a Chinese merchant. It was
surprising to note that the commander
was informed of the particulars relat-
ing to the contract between the consig-
nee and the owner of the steamer.
In connection with the seizure OF the
Tatsu Maru the government instruct
ed Mr.. Hayashi, Minister at Picking,
and Mr.. Uyeno, Consul at Canton, to
lodge a protest to the following effect:
Even if the steamer was riding at
anchor in Chinese territorial waters as
is insisted by the Chinese authorities
it is quite clear that she was obliged
to do so temporarily taking into con-
sideration the condition of the neigh
boring waters and by referring to the
testimonial given by the Viceroy of
Kwantun. 1t admits of no question that
the steamer was not lying at anchor in
Chinese territorial water as her captain
insists on account of the depth Of
those waters and the deep draught Of
the steamer. In spite or all these facts
the Chinese authorities are going to
submit the matter to the consideration
of the Customs Council compelling the
merchant to lose the opportunity for
a proper transaction. This serves only
to aggravate the matter and aggran-
die the sum of redemption for the
damage. The Chinese authorities are
therefore requested to take steps for
the early liberation of the steamer.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-09
MARINE:

Quarrelsome seas and ineonvenient
winds worried the United states Army
transport Sherman, Captain Bru-
guierre, for three or four days out Of
Nagasaki. and for this reason was she
a couple of days late reaching this
port, much TO the disappointment of
Honolulu people, who had expected
the other night to enjoy social con-
tact with army officers and their
ladies at dance and dinner.
Soon after midnight yesterday the
United States Naval Station wireless
operator became aware that the Sher-
man was trying to get into CONVEX
sation, and from that time up to the
entering OF the channel, about 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, the wireless appa-
ratus ashore and that aboard the
troopship were in almost constant con-
versa ton, a conversation which, after
the start, was mostly one-sided, Off
GERS aboard the transport sending
cable messages for the mainland by
wireless from the ship to the Naval
Station, and thence to the office of the
Commercial Pacific Gable Company.
Operator Charles E. Reeves of the
Sherman deeply regretted not being
able TO raise Honolulu until within less
than 140 miles, whereas he has during
his two round trips aboard the Sher-
man had some most satisfactory long
distance talks with all other import
ant points in the Pacific.
On the last trip out of this port,
bound for San Francisco, the Sherman
sent out a message which was picked
up at Sitka, Alaska, at a distance of
1866 miles. Manila was talked with,
this present trip, at a distance of 1900
miles and more, and Japanese wireless
stations were in touch with the Sher-
man until she was nearly five days
out of Nagasaki 1t is the same eXpe-
rience, almost, had by the transports
Thomas and Logan, and will doubtless
be the experience of the Sheridan,
when she is in service again, until
there is a station on this island that
can handle wireless business over the
mere 2O0-mile limit.
News of the world was received
aboard the Sherman when she was
four or five days out of Manila, and
days after she had left Nagasaki.
There was a crowd to meet the Sher-
man when she locked. The first to
get up the gangway We're about thirty
Chinese, washmen and vegetable deal
ers. They We're sent back to cultivate
patience, having butted up before the
gangway was properly gathered to the
vessel.
Among those in the crowd We're nu-
merous baseball enthusiasts who crowd
ed to the Naval wharf to get a
glimpse OF the baseball players of the
Twenty-fourth Regiment, who in the
forenoon had sent a challenge by wire
less to play any team that might want
to take UP the challenge a game OF
baseball in the afternoon.
Chief among those aboard the troop
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HAMMOND MAY
BE CHAMPION

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/ 81 use a Greener gun and take a
pair with me wherever 1 go. [ ex-
pect to be here a month and would
!! like a match at live birds, but / am
told that that would not be allowed.
THE shooting game is good in the
| Colonies and there are about fifty gun
clubs over there. 1 have been shooting
professional for eight years and shot
as far back as thirty-three yards. This
is virtual scratch with twenty-one
yards back the limit handicap. We
handicap by distance and not by bird"
Hammond is an all round sporting
enthusiast and talked Interestingly OF
many other branches of sport.
He says that a young rover named
Arnst will probably challenge. Webb
for the worlds sculling championship
and that he is looked upon as the COM
ing champion. A year ago he won the
sydney Thousand" a mile race for
cyclists, worth $3.50 TO the winner, and
since then has taken up rowing, de-
feating every man he has met with
ease
He says that an attempt is being
made in the Colonies to abolish live
bird shooting and that the papers are
pleased to refer to his favorite sport
as "chicken-butchering and poultry
numbering"
Hammond is a total abstainer but an
inveterate smoker, although he quits
the weed cold a month before shoot
ing in a competition.
The baseball game al AaIa Park yes
terday afternoon amused him greatly.
Why" said he, they actually turn
ed handsprings and they beat anything
I have ever seen for barracking.