Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1898 Page: 3 of 8
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GEN. GOMEZ ANSWER
MR. TAY LOR’S VIEWS.
BEAGNN ON LEE.
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ally of Spain by denying to the
Americans there, and
or 300,000
would follow
instantly pass the' house of
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ship to Havana has a direct ten- dianapolis, Indiana.
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the city, with a greatly superior
force in front of him, engaged in
deal of mystery connected with the
disaprearance, and it has been
claimed by all his enemies and
many of his friends that he was
alive in some foreign country.
The law in Kentucky is that
after a man has been missing for
seven years and nothing has been
heard from him during that time
he is legally dead. It was under
this stature that his heirs recently
brought suit against the insurance
companies to recover the insurance
upon his life. The insurance com-
panies fought the cases bitterly
until to-day, when the attorneys
for the Connecticut Mutual Life
appeared in court and paid over
$4,100 on the $5,000 policy which
Tate carried in their company. In
so doing they virtually admit the
death of the ex State Treasurer.
The other defendants, it is said,
will follow the example of the Con-
necticut company.
Waco is moving strongly for a
cotton mill—and 1000 persons are
willing to put up the aggregate
sum of $50,000.
On the day of the second battle of
Cold Harbor, in 2064. Tedm
Lyons and Judge Meredith and I
rode out to the battlefield crossing
reached the vicinity of Richmond
there began to be apprehensions
that the retreat might be continued
to some point beyond Richmond
President Davis invited General
Lee, with whom he advised about
military matters, to meet with his
cabinet, and, referring to the pos-
sible further retreat of our army,
inquired of him if Richmond
should be abandoned where the
next .best line of defense would be.
General Lee, after discussing the
different possible lines of defense,
said that the line at Stanton river
would be the next best line of de-
fense, and then, exhibiting much
emotion, and tears_starting from
his eyes, said Richmond must not
be surrendered; that he would
rather die than have Richmond
given up.
I will mention one other inci-
dent illustrative of his character.
quickly.
Air. Taylor said that there was
no party or portion of the people in
Spain that was favorable to the
Cubans, but that they tegarded the
inhabitants of their colonies as
slaves to be driven and oppressed.
Mr. Taylor was asked regarding
yet, in spite of all this, the present
blind and timid administration per-
sists in declaring that this govern-
ment shall not even be neutral-—
it insists that we shall continue,
until the end, acting as the active
fine Ionic, and itsaimost supernaterel heelin
preperties justify M i guaraeteelmg « naira af
all bleed diseasee, V directiome are $llessd.
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that tnere was no time for a year
previous to his return from Madrid,
when the residence of the minister
was not guarded.
Cotton Mills Opened.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 28—
The Indian Head Cotton Wils just
completed at Cordova has begun
operation,‘employing 1000 persons.
Tne mills are the largest in the
State, containing 50,000 spindles
and 10,000 icons, with an annual
consumption of 10,000 bales of cot-
ton and representing an investment
of $900,000. They were built and
are owned by Boston capitalists,
who are now preparing to double
the capacity of their plant, making
it probably the largest in the south.
The output, which is coarse grade
cloths, has been sold for several
years ahead in China. and will be
shipped thence as rapidly as pre-
pared. Proximity to the cotton
and coal-supplies caused the mills
to be located in North Alabama.
Aerial Line to Klondike.
Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 31.--
Hugh C. Wallace, president of the
Chillkoot Railway and Transpor-
tation company, has advices of the
completion of the company’s
aerial railway over the Chilkoot
pass to Lake Linderman. This
marks a new era for Klondike
travel, as the time between tide
water and the headwaters of the
spring of 1862, in front of the
Federal army commanded by
General McClelland, and had
“This has been my condition since
the campaign begun on the Rappa-
hannock. I have to fight all my
men all the time. I have had no
reserve, no rest for my men, and
have lost more men by fatigue and
for the want of vegetables than by
the bullets of the enemy.”
I then mentioned to him what
had been suggested by Judges Ly-
ons and Meredith, as to covering
himself by the timber in the rear.
He said it was best for him to be
as well up to the front as he could,
that when the shells began to fall
upon the field he had ordered the
wagons which carried the quarter-
1 master, commissary, ordnance and
I medical stores, to go behind the
ents. I do not believe that the
American people generally under-
stand the fact that we are every
day actively assisting Spain in her
dreadful attempt to wipe what re
mains of the Cuban people from
the face of the earth. In the exe-
cution of that ignoble work the
navy of the United States is every
day engaged, and when it is not
sufficiently eager or vigilant in Its
sickening task, it is greeted with
jeers from Madrid.
“As a simple act of justice to
the insurgents, and as an act of
self respect upon our part, the sen
ate, at its last session, passed the
Morgan belligerency resolution by
a great majority, and everybody
knows that that resolution would
ever had, and I know it. In the
formation of my line of battle I
directed that it should cover Tur-
key Hill, but that was left out and
was occupied by the enemy.” He
said he had to direct General
Breckenridge to recover that po-
sition, which had been done at a
considerable sacrifice of men This
Turkey Hill juts out on the valley
of the Chickahominy and com-
mands common range up and down
the valley. He said if he should
shorten his line to make a reserve
the enemy would turn his flank,
and that if he weakened his line so
as to create a reserve the enemy
would break through it.
There he was with his back on
Richmond, the capital of the Con-
the Chickahominy at Mechanics-
ville, and riding along a road a
few hundred yards in the rear of
our line of battle until we came
in view of the Gaines mill farm,
and to where we saw General
Lee’s headquarters in the open
field, we could see that the shells
from the enemy’s guns were fall-
ing on the field he occupied. I
suggested to these gentlemen that
I would ride down to where Gen-
eral Lee was. They stated that
they could not go with me, but
requhsted me to suggest to Gen
eral Lee the question as to whether
j he could not cover himself by some
| large timber, a few hundred yards
| to the rear of where he was, and
from there send his orders and re-
then annexation
ceive reports as well as from
where he was. I should mention
that there was at that time a good
deal of solicitude about his expos-
ing himself too much to the guns
of the enemy. I said to them that
I would go and see him, but would
not like to talk to him about
changing his headquarters in the
midst of a great battle. When I
reached his headquarters there was
no one with him but an orderly;
his staff officers had gone to the
front. After the ordinary greet
ing I mentioned that a great deal
of artillery was being used. He
said:
‘ ‘Yes, more than usual on both
sides,” but added: “That does but
little harm,” and waving his hand
to the front of him, where the
musketry was like the tearing of
sheets, he said: “It is that that
kills men.” He told me that Gen
eral Grant was hurling massed
columns of from six to ten deep at
three different points against his
lines. I said: “General, if he
markably well-balanced intellect,
was always calm and self-possessed |
and never unduly elated by sue-1
cess or unduly depressed by adver-
sity.
As amiltary man he will, no
doubt, rank in history as the ablest
general of his times in this or any
other country The campaign he
conducted and the battles he
fought, and the victories he won,
with numbers inferior to those of
his adversary, with poorly equip-
ped and provided armies against
as pertectly equipped and provided
armies as ever marched in banners,
was a matter of astonishment to
the civilized world, and drew flat
ter ing encomiums, from some of
the first military men of Europe.
I saw a great deal of General
Lee during the war, and never
one of the greatest battles of the
war. He was calm and collected;
exhibited no excitement, and
seemed te me -to be a grander and
greater man than ever before. He
told me of the sufferings of his
men, tor want of vegetables, that
he had advised them to use sassa-
tras buds and the buds of grape
vines as a substitute, but that this
did but little good. And he asked
me to go to the commissary gen-
eral before going home, and urge
him to send at once all of the po-
tatoes, onions and other vegetables
he could to the army. He did not
forget the needs of his soldiers,
even in the hour of a terrible bat-
tle. God bless his memory.
Mr. Gladstone still continues in
feeble health.
Do you think I can forgive that?
Have you ever been a father?
“Besides these considerations,
which ought to have checked you
in your shameful project, there is
another that is no less clear. I
am not in a position, Gen. Blanco,
which requires that I should be
looking for a steamer to take me
from the island. You had better
look for a steamer yourself, for of
the two you need it most.”
as the Cuban question is concern-
ed, the administration seems to
blunder along from day to day,
without any definite purpose, with
both eyes closed to present realit-
ies obvious to everybody else. It
seems afraid to act lest it should
disquiet or displease Wall street.
For that reason the democratic ma-
jority in the house should never
cease its agitation until the belli-
gerency resolution has passed that
body.”
“In conclusion it gives me some
satisfaction to say that any one
who will take the trouble to re-
read my North American Review
article will find that I predicted
exactly all that has happened since
it appeared.”
Ex-Minister Taylor, in a chat
last night at the St. Charles, said
that the solution of the Cuban pro-
blem would eventually be annexa-
tion to the United States. Recog-
nition of belligerency would result
in the independence of the island,
and there would immediately be
a very large influx of Americans
into the country, so that within a
few years there would be 200,000
breaks through your lines, what _ .p______y., —___
reserve have you?” He replied, insurgents recognition as belliger-
“Not a regiment.” and added:
timber, and added: “I have as
good generals as. any cammander representatives if it were not for
pay tribute to his virtues and his
worth.
The orator of the day will por-
tray his general character. I will
only detain the audience to men-
tion a few incidents which came
under my personal observation,
or were otherwise known to me,
As an evidence of his character
and ability as a military man, it
is sufficient to say that General
Winfield Scott, under whom he
served in the Mexican War, and
under whose general authority he
served in the army of the United
States before and after that war,
desired to have him appointed
commander-in-chief of the armies
of the United States at the com-
mencement of the war between
the States. His convictions of
right and sense of duty caused him
to decline this high honor, sand to
. accept service for the State oi Vir-
ginia and under the Confederate
government, and to sacrifice his
splenaid home and risk his life on |
the weaker side, in that great war.
. I think it is no exaggeration to
say that, considering all the -ele-
i ments of his character, he was as
| perfect a model of a man as has
* been known in human history,
i Endowed by nature with remark-
I able physical perfection, and bless-
। ed with a great intellect and ex-
i tensive general cultivation, he was
[ a model of moral purity, and a
devout Christian. He was, when
in reach of the church to which
he belonged, the Episcopal, re-
gular in his attendance on its min-
istrations. He possessed a re-
Yukon river is shortened from a,
month to one day, besides remov-
ing the perir and hadship. The
company has made a contract with
the Canadian government at 15
cents per pound for transporting
all its freight for the mounted
police from Dyea to Lake Linder-
man. _
Judge L. M. Crawford of Dallas
was given quite an ovation at the
sound money convention at In-
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ma lid 3aa€ SKIN
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being efticacious Ie
toning ap the ayate-ma
and restoring € com-
stitution, whan lenpaire4
from any eause. e
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the Atitndean thnispanishna"sard” young and brave Francisco Gmez?
the existence of a criminal con
spiracy to muzzle that body, of
which the president himself is
facile princeps. He can no longer
conceal the real altitude in which
he has placed himself. As every-
body knows, under the great fam
ily compact, Senator Sherman was
put in hfs present office in order to
make a vacancy for Mr. Hanna in
tne'senate. Then, when the once
great man became mentally dis-
abled, the president resolved to
treat him just as if he were dead
by transterring all of his real func
tions to his personal attorney, an
obscure country lawyer from Ohio,
without fitness, training or capa-
city for the great post once held by
Steward, Fish and Olney. By this
unlawful and very indecent ar-
rangement, the president, from
personal motives, has deprived our
state department of a head at a
very critical period in our diploma-
tic history. There is now no
secretary of state, except the presi
dent himself, and still he refuses
to aceeptthe counsel of his con
stitutional advisers. He knows
that large majorities in both houses
are in favor of the belligerency re-
solution, which_would be followed
at once by a neutrality proclama-
tion, but he insists upon prolong-
ing the present perilous situation,
that may involve us in war any
day under very unfavorable con-
ditions.”
“Please explain more fully your
meaning on that point”?
“What I mean is this: Our in-
terest is that this war should end
1 as quickly as possible without our
dirtct intervention. The sover-
eignty of Spain in Cuba is now so
near an end that a breatn from us
will blow it over. While the pas-
sage of the belligerency resolu-
tion can not be made a j ust ground
.even for suspending diplomatic re-
lations, it will. at this moment,
give the insurgents such moral
support that they will certainly be
able to end the conflict in a very
short time, without our further in-
terference. On the other hand,
the hysterical policy that forces
the administration to send a war-
Not at All Enigmatical in Expressing
Himself.
Hon. Hannis Taylor, ex-minister
to Spain, in an interview at New
Orleans, said to a Picayune re-
porter, regarding Cuba and the
Battle Ship Maine’s visit there:
“Yes. I have observed that the
Maine has been ordered to Havana,
and I have also noted the stupid
pretext given out by the incom-
petent people now mismanaging
our foreign affairs for sending her
there. Nobody will be deceived,
because all the worli knows, ex
cepting only the president and his
advisers, that the end of Spanish
rule in Cuba is now at hand. Af-
ter three years of heroic struggle
and self sacrifice, the Qaban pa-
triot has broken the military
power of Spain, and in the midst
of a scene of death and desolation
never witnessed before, the noble
sufferers are calmly waiting the
end. The poor comedy called
autonomy, put forth as a device
to disarm the insurgent host in the
hour of victory has recoiled upon
its authors. Its only practical ef-
fect has been to cause such rioting
in Havana as to make the lives
and property of Americans more
insecure than ever before. And
saw him evince any special emo-
tion, except on a single occasion.
When our army, then commanded .
by General Joseph E. Johnson, federacy, and seven miles from
retreated up the peninsula, in the the "ith Q oreokl” Snerinr
Ex-Treasurer Tate of Ksntueky is Pro-
noumeed Dead, Aceording to The Law.
James W. Tap, the defaulting
ex-State Treasurer of Kentucky,
who skipped the State, leaving a
deficit of about $80,000, II years
ago, is legally dead if not actually
so. There has always been a great
dency to embroil us in a quarrel in
a most awkard fashion.
: “Suppose a riot is provoked by
the presence of the Main, what
can her crew do against a popula-
tion as large as that of New Or
leans? It can only begin a con-
fl ct that will inevitably involve us
in direct intervention, with all the
suspicion as to motives that would
inevitably follow it. Oathe other
hand the recognition of belliger-
ency would pave the way for a
prompt solution of the whole mat-
ter without our direct interference
in any form whatever ”
“Do you believe that we are
near an armed conflict in some
form ?”
“I am apprehensive, for one
reason only. If we had a firm,
strong hand at the helm we could
certainly settle the matter without
war. But a morally timid, vacil-
lating man when in the presence
of danger is liable at any moment
to do some ill-advised act that will
bring on an explosion. The send-
" ing of the Main to Havana at this
moment is on that order. So far
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Addreeu Delivered Before John B. Hood
Camp Confederate Veterans.
The following is the t xt of the
address delivered by J adge Rea-
gan before John B. Hood camp,
Confederate Veterans, and Wil •
liam B. Travis chapter, Daughters
• of the Confederacy, on the occa-
sion of the commemoration of the
anniversary of the birth of Gen-
efal Robert E. Lee, at Austin:
Daughters of the Confederacy,
Ladies and Gentlemen: We have
met together today to commemor
ate the anniversary of the birth of
, General Robert E. Lee, and -to
To Offers of Briberv from the Span-
ish Captain General.
New York, January 31.—The
Sun’s Havana cable says: The
sudden departure of Gen. Blanc®
from Eljucaro to Manzanillo was
caused by the following letter,
which he received from General
Gomez in answer to his proposals
of peace on the basis of automy:
“I am sadly convinced now of
my mistake in addressing a letter
to you asking your co operation to
re-establish peace and prosperity
to Cuba and, Spain. My words
were clear, and they were support-
ed by the record of my whole
life. They show I was inclined to
accept negotiations for the inde-
pendence of Cuba in the mutual
interest of the island and of Spain,
but never anything that could
taint my Gname with dishonor or
make me appear as betraying the
noble cause of freedom to which J
have devoted all my energies.
“Instead of an approach fro
you in a fair and honorable sense
I have received your strango III UI—
mation of your desire to meet me
for the purpose of personally no-
tifying me of the following affairs.
“That you are ready to place a
steamer at my disposal at any part
of the coast of Cuba I should
deem to be the best to transport
me to any port outside of Cuba to
which I may desire to go, and at
the same time you offer me all the
monetary resources I may ask for
the expenses of my trip-and main-
tenance of myself and frmily in a
foreign land
“I felt so astounded when I
learned all this, I felt so ashamed,
more for you, General Blanco,
than for myself, that in the first
moments I was benumbed, know-
ing not whether such heinous pro-
posals could be a reality or a
nightmare.
“Have I reached my present
age, fighting, as I have done for
thirteen years in the field for the
independence of Cuba, and for
thirty years cherishing that ideal
as the greatest in my life, only
that you or any one should believe
that at the end of my journey, I
should cover myself with igno-
miney by accepting a base reward
of money from the Spanish cap-
tain general for the cowardly aban-
donment of my army? Are you
sane, Gen. Blanco? Do you not re-
member the blow of the machete
which the hand of a Spanish as-
sassin inflicted at Punta Brava,
near the spot where Maceo died.
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Pardue, P. H. Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1898, newspaper, February 4, 1898; Alvarado, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1453940/m1/3/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Journalism%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Johnson County Historical Commission.