El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24
Louis Botha's Defeat For
South African Parliament
is NOT FINAL By Gen. B. j. Vigoen
IS NOT FINAL

General Louis Botha's defeat by Sir
Percy Fitzpatrick for the Pretoria
(northern) electoral district to the
union parliament, is significant only
insofar as the future destiny or Unit
ed South Africa is concerned. Botha
will be elected by another district
such as Standerton or Middleburg,
where his marty dominates, the mem
Der for either of those districts re
signing as matter of loyalty and
duty to the leader of the Africander
party which Botha undoubtedly is. His
defeat, therefore, at Pretoria, north
an avowedly lingo and imper1allsuc
circle. will only be Of temporary con-
sequence.
VIII Not Retire.
He will not step out as prime min
lister because his party, which has q
large majority in the legislative bod
les, could not well afford TO expert
ment with men of unknown ability and
tact without grave danger of mis-
guiding the young, yet enormous com
monweaIth. facing, as it does, many and
serious problems, paramount of which
are the native CKafir) and the dual
language questions. Unless Gen 30
tina. therefore, is utterly disguised and
posftiveIv refuses to continue as prime
minister and minister of agriculture
(Which loyalty to his people Will not
permit him to do) the government
will continue unmarried by the Pretoria
incident.
Botha's defeat and Fitzpatrick's vic
tory at the polls clearly indicates that
all that talk Of forgive and forget, and
the assimilation of Briton and Boer
was insincere, meaningless hypocrisy
Sir Percy Fitzpatrick was elected on
the issue of the race question, or. In
other words. the question of English
domination against Boer supremacy IN
South Africa.
Fitzpatrick is Irish.
Fitzpatrick represents the extreme
ultra lingo element in South Africa
Though of Irish parents, born and edu-
Gated in South Africa, Fitzpatrick is
among the Britishers who oppose most
bitterly any recognition of the Dutch
language and the Dutch Africanders
in general. He was one of the five
so-called reformers, who in 1895 and
1895 conceived the idea to overthrow
the struggling little Transvaal repuo-
liz nv inducing Jamison to invade the
unsuspecting republic with an armed
force of 1850 men, and 1t was Fltzpat-
rick who secretly armed 5000 Engllsh-
men in johannesburg, who were to JOIN
Jameson. but who at the psychology
cal moment were SRAAOhOA $3.50
failure and surrendered their 5000
struggled rifles and "a Calling guns to
tbe Boer forces without ever firing
shot
Convicted of Treason.
Fitzpatrick was tried with the four
others and condemned to death Tor
treason and melting rebellion, but
through the mediation of the United
States and other countries, the SEN
teuce was never carried out. He i'm
mediately started secret warfare by
sending petitions to the late English
queen. with hundreds of thousands or
signatures praying for Intervention or
relief from so-called grievances These
signatures were bought at the rate OF
IS apiece and came from Kaffirs, Hot
tentots, Bushmen, Malays, Hindos-
tanese. from women and children Mr.
Fitzpatrick carried his agitation fur
ther. he wrote voluminous book
which was called the '-Transvaal From
Within
His Book Distributed.
Being a lawyer and a South African
by birth his version of the South At
rican situation was accepted in Eng
land and her colonies as 'ipso facto"
authority and law. So well was the
truth smothered and so dramatically
was Boer tyrrany and English suffer
ing portrayed in this book that the
late queen Victoria was moved to pas
sion. and Immediately knighted Mr..