Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - October 16, 1904, Washington, District Of Columbia i. PAGES TO-DAY IN FIVE PARTS INCLUDING SPORTING increasing cloudiness fresh easterly NO. OCTOBER 16, 1904.-FORTYFOUR FIVE ANY HOUR MAY Army Forced to Line Along IS IX FULL PURSUIT The Sixth Day of Fierce and Bloody RUSSIANS LOSE MEN Doggedly Holding to Positions on the Rumors of Success by Eastern Petersburg Without Official Advices and Prepared for the Claims an Over- whelming as to anese Accounts of Battle Bear Out Reports of Almost dented Slaughter on Both t- clay of a perhaps un- itcl tor closed .si night with uo ii o2 a Uon Field Marshal Ojama it to that the Russians have ti north to a line along the SaM f that his triumphant u w pi n 13 Mill an lack oC official m In thf from the cif and the feeling of and gloom which has pre- there js still been somewhat lessened by a hint tlut fas oi able news had been ed from tostein division of In jew of the sensational Un- of this the were to await official con- before accepting It the later reports of the fighting bear out earlier statements regarding the losses incurred in the six which the batJe has Oj uma estimator the Russian at own losses are mentior cii for o On 1) and U ho reports 1.511 killed and Kuropatkin in Oct 16 a latest ad- ar trat the left 4.500 dead In front nf Gen Kuroki's The there estimated at JO Oc t 16 p m kin southern has been k and In He as 10 spare KusMan fium an utter rout IV M Marshul Oyama's 11'i the north to iru the 3ha thu pursuit and inflict forces ci of the battle of Octo- t- I the Russians left 2.000 dead on the tied Fie d Marshal the Russian looses at over fighting continued all along the en- r. line ami the end not I to be Impossible for the t and they will be i batk the Hun Oku ten additional guns Japanese Official reports from the received i i-ii rind published this are as f force of the enemy h tho flank of the right holding the vicinity of t anJ Ta passes engaged our de- i i which stnt to but unable to keep hN ground on t J It anj signs of retreat The i the army then ordered the u to hotly pursue the and This t immediately formed Itself Into two th and pursued the enemy ml and the Hilata lt the enemy before who had slopped at IMc and is fortifying that piac e column of the which t engaging the enemy near k observing that t' c showed of Im- ii edl chase toward the center and left attacked tne forces of the which were positions i ear and defeated Ti columns Immediately to i on the Sha Hold Out Near Ta I enemy opposing the left column vs ibom one division and fled In t m toward His artillery l tiding a position near Ta Pass n 1Mb us of our which had U i -is a small force of the enemy K elme of the i k p of Waita Mountain Ob- that the from the nit i t f wagon was com- this body of our i iin IP finitely pursued Bending a p i ue detachment to and the i which were holding i l and i r v of the center For Point and Take Steamers of Norfolk Washington Steamboat fh xt 6 30 p. connecting at with steamers for New York and See page 7 730 Favorable Developments for sians Rumored at Oct. Russian ent of the Associated in his story of the below struggle was resumed to-day at with every promise of another uay of stubborn It is now the oay of a fight unprecedented in tory for the stubbornness and tenacity by both Friday morning was re- at Wft again advanced Irom capturing the advanced sitions held by the Japanese by brilliant attacks by the and reached their ond line but here a fierce fire compelled our troops to and a desperate artillery duel was Japanese guns were ery gunner being and their try support also being driven The stood in plain but it was Im- possible for us to take Two talions which were ordered to secure the Japanese guns advanced In tjie face of a terrible cannonade and rifle fire from the Japanese rear It an impossible the shrapnel of the decimated the advancing whole companies withered under the rific and our men were compelled to abandon the in day a similar fate befell three of our They had ed behind our infantry to pave the way for ait attack on the Japanese but the infantry was forced the ar- were almost all and the grns remained The Japanese made dee para le advances in the hope of securing the but each time ere driven and toward nightfall iwe removed the guns artillery action was beyond Throughout the day the service of guns and the accuracy of the fire were battalion of ese was mowed down while attempting to the troops ly and blood flowing in Everywhere death seems to be a ary evening the fighting at he andi we and the Japanese re- our respective news was received from the eastern division Friday but it Is so sensational that it seems to believe it until it shall have been of- can only counsel Any hour mar decide the fate of the ai mv has been driving them north ot the Sha River since the morning of October 14. and has reached and now holds a line on the main strength of the right col- umn of the left army directed against It drove the enemy and at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of October 14 it mastered the in that center after defeating the posted on the eminences south of the positions which ha had been Center Army Chasing portion of the center column which was directed against with a portion of the left fought a fierce and at 4 o'clock In the and captured Un- Our forces are now chasing the Russian force holding consisted of over a regiment of infantry with two batteries of and this force is now retreating toward the Russians are A tion of the center column is pursuing the enemy toward forces of the enemy opposing the left wing of the left army at po and where the left col- umn was engaging gradually ob- and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon made a counter but they were successfully repulsed by our left The strength of the enemy opposing tho left column was fully four of with ten teries of The report from field headquarters goes on to Japanese Win October 10 to October 14 the re- sult of the continuous fighting been favorable In every while the enemy's strength was always Not only the enemy but he was vigorously pursued by our forces pressing him against the left bank of the Hun River and Inflicting upon him heavy guns captured number over thirty and the prisoners taken number several the object of the enemy has been completely and his offensive movement has ended Jn final corpses left by the enemy at ferent points are too numerous to be easily enemy's losses cannot be easily owing to the continuance of the fighting but they must exceed besides the include an enormous quantity of and These are still un- Estimate of the Russian corpses left on the field between October 10 and October 13 and burned by us exceeded two thousand in The bodies left after the fighting of October 14 are very Our casualties October 11 and 12 were 15 cers 46 and men killed and enemy defeated by the chuang garrison October 10 appears to have halted at According to prisoners the Russian force for- merly stationed at lost sixty killed and The Japanese loss was three officers and a few men Six Attacks Oct. to reports received here the whole brunt of the October 14 fell on the Seventeenth Army being held all Its The re- pulsed six attacks and thrice silenced the Japanese The losses of the sians were very The first batch of wounded arrived here during the ing of October 13. Tho first detachment of the sion of Don Cossacks has reached Inpu Oct. 14 by courier to difficulties of their task and their heavy losses com- the Russians to abandon their forts to capture the heights commanding the Japanese at- tacks upon the entire Russian con- This probably led to the orders to the east column on the night of Octo- ber 13 to retreat north on the The on the flanks also but the fight was continued In another place about 2 o'clock In the Artillery Battle at The artillery which began on the southwestern seemingly near on the morning of be- came heavier and continued throughout 'the despite the storm of rain aud CONTINUED ON SECOND Per Dozen J. Louis Rates to THE Parker Demands ence for the REPLY TO SECRETARY TAFT Not Unusual that an Oppressed ple Should Be Democratic Candidate Discusses pine Question at Length ia Address to Visiting that if Islands Ate Given Just Laws People Will Soon Be Ready for a N. Oct. Judge Parker to-day addressed two ing delegations on the political hie speech of the campaign since accepting the Democratic tion for the The delegation numbered about a score senting the Parker Independent Club and the others the on Beach Regular of Long The delegations arrived at on a regular train over the West Railroad from New forming a to Juage Parker met them on hia a few weeks ago he addressed the cratic editors and where he had ly Members of the In- dependent Club took seats on the da and the others diew near on the When Judge Parker stepped from the house he was with Col. Charles R. of and Prof. Henry W. of New made extensive Both speakers confined their to the Philippine Islands and In a dis- cussion of the attitude of the Republican administration on that Col. man said In his Separation to the least reparation that can be made to the Philippines Is to give them that in- dependence of which they should never have been Believing that you are in sympathy with theae we are prepared to advocate your election to the We believe that you favor giving to the Philippine same independence to which Cu declared by Congress be of and we also believe that are prepared to give them an immediate promise that so far iw It In your should you be elected that in- dependence shall be secure to them out Prof. Hardon followed with a chapter in the early diplomatic history of the United together with a review of speeches in Congress on the Philippine question and their bearing upon the rious treaties respecting the Dis- cussing the failure of this government to give .to the Filipinos their freedom un- der a United States Prof. Hardon great opportunity was thus lost by the Republican An opportunity to confer benefit both on the Filipinos selves and upon this Had this course been pursued Mr. McKinley would have hailed at all times In the Islands as a great the United States would have been spared the waste of life and money involved in the Philippine and would have gained commercial advantages more valuable than those it now haa The existing ation is distressing to a large number of people who regret the contrast between Republican doctrine and the doctrine of the Republican and also see no hope of improvement except In the of the party whose you Judge Parker's Judge Parker replied as Prof. and greatly appreciate the compliment of your and the assurance of the support of yourselves and those you The importance of the issue to which you refer cannot be It is attracting the attention of the men all over the counti y. Permit me to call your tion to the portion of the Democratic platform relating to government has the right to make one set of laws for those and another a different set of absolute In their for those the Wherever there may exist a ple Incapable of being governed under American laws in consonance with the American the territory of that people ought not to be part of the American We Insist that we ought to do for the Filipinos what we have done already for the and that It is our duty to make that ise and upon suitable guarantees of protection to citizens of our own and er countries resident there at the time of our to set the Filipino ple their free and to work out their own Declaration of born In the brain of the father of says the same thing In for It de- clares that governments derive Just powers from the consent of the have before said that we may not disregard the responsibility Imposed by possession of the and that will be best subserved by preparing the islanders as rapidly as possible for and given to them the assurance that It will came as soon as they are reasonably pre- pared for This means Independence for the Filipinos In the full sense of the When prepared they may govern themselves as the Cubans unless asking unless asking untrammeled by our unencumbered by our and uncontrolled by Republicans for Taft has 'A promise to give ultimate independence will be construed by the more violent disposed to to be a promise to grant independence In the near future and during the present The success of the experiment we are making In the Philippines depends on having tbe Filipinos understand that we are there for their but that we to W i Controlled br Union Trust and Storage 1414 F street 1.S5 Baltimore anl B. 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Every Saturday and Tickets good returning until Sunday stay working out the goad we propose to do Heie we have ihe issue The Re- publican parly stands for the subjugation of defenseless foreign racy stands for We relieved Spain of this thorn in her the to plunge It Into our own We and are enormously for tha privilege of the Spain had been trying to conquer the ands since tho early decades of the century She had never quite That is not Every true American Would despise a man wno would not light to the last gasp for the land of his fireside and the birthplace of Did not our Illustrious tors in the Revolution do For what doad man the memory of Are not the Irish still ing under the English Will the Boer sympathizer refuse a sympathy to the Filipino patriot defending his hearthstone against the Spanish spoiler and Do we not honor every man who has at freedom's holy When the of our great the Spanish war sels the Filipinos hoped tho freedom for they had struggled so approaching Our history seemed to guarantee that our ambition would be to see them and perpetually with pride to our love liberty The Republican platform fifty the came intu existence dedicated to the great task ot arresting tho extension of human The arresting the extension of man sounds but It speaks of the virtue of another All the leaders of the Republican party of that day have passed Jn their places have come very different We need not point out that which principally differentiates It ily suggests But we will refer to one of the results of that Boor of Hope our utter defeat of the Spaniards the Republican administration paid to the vain of the pinos for this uncertain option on this victim's tenements and In the attempt to bolster the option we have wasted over 000 more of the people's money over lives And the waste of money sacrifice cf are not yet fended if the policy of trie tlon is to be That policy refuses to promise independence for the or at any or upon any condition It does noi even leave open the of The rails at the Democratic proposal to promise them independence as as they are fur It it gests to of Intelligent people that such a promise would stimulate the to be more instead of en- the improvement which would secure them what tuey most desire on I but state the It argues If our people agree that the is wrong In threatening by Us silence that which it undoubtedly ual bondage for the the remedy is in hands We have donated to Spain a number of millions and ed Cuba with equal justice and less of Imbecility we displayed in acquiring the But we have done our duty to We have left her to work out her own take her place In the march of civilized Shall we the Filipinos to hope for Shall we prevent their building up their and try to force ours upon them? a not a and every race must work out Ita civilisation in Its duty to the Filipinos a. promise of But If It oUd our own Interest demands that be relieved of tbe Filipinos Just aa soon as are reasonably prepared Cor self- JL nation is ever subject to expensive wars with other nations and with its This necessitates strong garrisons and ful and draws heavily upon the And records no In- stance of a from her colonies anything like an adequate return for the blood and treasure land's national debt was doubled try the revolt of the colonies It bad her much to in the American following European alleges that tion of ihe Philippines must promote footer commerce and and Introduce tho leaven of OK THIRD HEARD ROOT AND LODGE Enthusiastic Meeting Held at CONNOK FOR MEN AND POLICIES COMPARED Former War Secretary Asks Where ker Would Stand it a Democratic Con- gress Should Pass a Silver Be Exercised Only His Constitutional D O. 19> optional one way Via Chicago with liberal Ten-day coach excursion good on p. m. October 16, The Chesapeake and Ohio Is noted for its ex- m. October 15, The and Ohio 1 service and magnificent Oct. Secretary of War of New and United States Senator Henry Cabot ot to-night addressed a Republican held at the Academy of under the auspices df the The Academy crowded to Us and the ad- dresses of the speakers aroused much en- George B. lican national occupied a seat on the Mr. Hoot was the first He in Is impossible that the people of the United States should know either whai policy the Democratic party tute ror the policies of thp Republican party upon the Issues political life or what manner of man it is who will be intrusted with the execution ol the governmental The design and natural effect of this kind of is to invite the people to compare the men and the policies and the of the Republican not with the main but with an ideal standard of Democratic party attacks the means and measures of Republican party upon the ground that they are not We do not pretend to be We have been doing the best we and we believe the record shows that we have done better than the Democratic party have ever done or ever will The Democratic Referring to the Democratic Mr. Root platform having been came Judge Parkers What was the convention to Xot that the gold standard was right and the free coinage of silver was but it was the platform adopted by this con- vention is silent on the question of the monetary standard because it 13 not re- garded by UB as SL possible issue in this Though Judge Parker was of the opinion that the question was where would he stand if a cratic Congress were to unsettle tt by a frea sliver Concerning combinations of the sneaker the leadership of President a Republican Congress passed additional laws necessary to the ment of the control of the Federal over trusts and and an Attorney General of the States had made them so that all tha of the Democratic platform merely contribute to honor and of their Within the Mr. Boot declared President was exercising his constitutional in recognizing the of and referring to the declared the demand of the that pinos be fitted for self-government was being compiled with by the Republican Tie answered the charges of and closed with a de- fense of President recent dis- ability pension Senator In his speech said there was not a single question on which the Democratic party had shown united effort because the dominant element the party IB not elected oa the Issues which are before the That Is the he when they came into power under Mr. Cleveland that they utterly failed to legislate and could not even pass a tariff u laid down In their own Re said that a Democratic would mean uncertainty and Introduce a doubt as to what would There IB ways a dread In the popular he that what the Democrats do will be worse than anybody else will to Tha Southern Railway will sell trip tickets for the accommodation of ers from the of going home to register and Tote on occasion of November 8, 1MH, at rate of one Toll Information 70S Baltimore and lUtun B. K. Saturday and trains both Indorsed by La Follette Republicans to Succeed Henry C. Oct 15 ment was made from the of Republican State central committee day that in the event of the courts de- ciding that John J. Kempf is entitled to a place on the Republican ticket as the regular nominee for State the committee will run August C. of as an It was also announced that the com- indorsed W D. Connor as a ber of the Republican National tee for to succeed Henry C. The committee re-elected to its ship the seven men who resigned during the Supreme Court proceedings They Perry C John M. W. H. J. A. Van 3. J. P. and W. P. IBEX TO PART of Great Battle Turns to Judge Parker on the Van Cott's Son Accused of Trustee Discusses Race Lives Lost in Storm at Sea Hill Talks or Force Secretary Taft in Three Soldiers the and Mrs. Roosevelt at Problems for French Museum of Virginia and Luck of Ziegler School for Street Car PART Paupers of of Old Lim Noble Memorial tu and Marquise de Fontenoy Heard In Hotel of an Mr. Dooley on Marriage of Brazil Woman About and in Richmond Pays Better Than Art. the Soul of PART Real Legal Record Local Financial the Amusement Washington and SPORTING SECTION Part of Football Racing Results Hobnails on Schoolboy Game by PART Seen at the Efforts to Check Smoke Pet of a Education in the Jolly Life of College Song with a and About Exclusively for Fair As Seen by English Found in the Waste the Foe of Adventures of Put His Trust in Budget of Short for the Bad Boy Show of Chrysanthemums Charge Made Against Son of New York CANDIDATE FOR ASSEMBLY He Declares It a Plot of His Young Van Cott and a Cashier in the Are Accused by Supt. gan with the Importation of 200 Il- legal Republican Voters into Fifth Arrest Is Based Upon the Sworn Confession of 4, THURSTON TO NEW Senator Says Judge Parker Pays Tribute to Republican New Oct. United States Senator of ad- dressed a large crowd in this city in When Judge Parker the gold standard has been fixed what a noble that is to the the and the statesmanship of the Republican party He closed a. tribute to President velt by Democrats say he'll bring trouble upon us No citizen need fear trouble with any power as long as he Is dent Theodore Roosevelt in the White means Theodore Roosevelt in the White House means continued BURIALS 4 nd trains both County Undertaker Drew Fees for Inter- ring Chickens and Oct. C. Is in jail preparatory to serving three years in the State penitentiary for having obtained money fraudulently from the county through pauper McCoy county and when suspicion arose that some crooked work was more than 300 graves in the county cemetery were opened In nearly all of them pieces of dead and other things Influential relatives of the undertaker quickly reimbursed the and a resolution was passed asking the judge and attorney general of the Criminal Court not to prosecute The grand indicted and upon trial he was sentenced to three years in The Supreme Court confirmed the of the lower court and McCoy was immediately taken into He was prominently connected and known throughout the ATTEMPT TO Dynamite Explosion Injures Several of the Men in Oct attempt was to-day to blow up with mite the harbored forty men employed at the Stee 1 Foundry where there is a The building was and the sleeping thrown from their Every the hotel and in an adjoining house was and the west side of hotel building was pushed out by the force of the Several The proprietor of the hotel was a cial officer of the steel company until two weeks when he leased the police are Low Defends Oct. for- mer mayor of New addressed a large political gathering here Mr. Low touched on the Philippine and defended vigorously President Roosevelt's recognition of the Panama He said the tariff should be revised by its not its The speaker characterized President Roosevelt as a man of vigor and de- and Judge Parker as a person of lack of lack of faith in his own DISTRICT ft O. 19. Solid vestibule limited train leaves via Chesapeake and Ohio Railway at p. with day Pullman and dining ning through to St. Louis without Only one night The P. F. V. leaving p. has Pullman er through to St. Dining car vice a la See other column for Money to Lend at 4, and 6 Per Cent. On Mai T. New Van son of the postmaster of this and a cashier in the were arrested this charged with colonizing in the Fifth sembly Bond was given fof in the Court of General The chief witness Van Cott Jn a sworn confession says that he engaged to place illegal voters in The testimony allege Van Cott had rooms rented throughout the The arrests were made by ties of State Superintendent of Elections Van Cott is a candiate for the assembly in the Fifth The charges in the warrants include the i that the persons named therein the importation from other States into city of more than 200 with the intention of i registering and had placed free of in various Van Cott and McAvoy will appear be- fore Justice Wyatt next The affidavits in the case were made on John I and declare that Van i Cott brought through i various men who were to receive their lodging for about six They ware to vote the Republican Theae collected from Bowery lodging 1 were assembled in Washington Square one night In such numbers that they at- general Richard Van Cott looked them and paid to his agents money for the affidavits re- In his Richard Van Cott by and that no proof can adduced that has concerned In colonizing Protest by Members of a committee representing Tammany Hall had an hour's conference w ith State Superintendent of Elections George W. Morgan at nls office this after- and presented to him a statement which embodied a protest against what It termed an tion of power and usurpation of the statement said m At a meeting of committee of tha organisation ot York County held this assembly district T reported that challenges made tended to delay of The attempted Justification of tratton offices October 13, The order referred to was Issued by Superintendent and contained a list of to be Alleged Contents of Bottles Seized in t It was addressed to the board of registry and also to the captains of New Oct. enue officers Jn seized DEATH PENALTY FOB at by of Woman He Oct. 15.-H. A. a shot and killed last night by H. D. for an insult to his A negro servant girl in the service of Chapman had sented to Videtto that her was enamoured of and repeatedly brought him alleged to be from Emboldened by their he this epoke to Mrs. who re- buffed him He then apologized and explained why he dared address When she told her husband of the currence he went to store and offered the choice of a horsewhipping or something else Videtto tried to fui ther but Chapman reiterated his Videtto turned toward a telephone to summon tlie when Chapman the bullet striking Videtto in the back He taken lo the city where he died a few hours Chapman TO DOCTOE ment regard the Issuance o' day and turned over to the board of assumption oi health lor analysis thirty bottles supposed i to contain color and other all of which they found den under a bed in the apartments of the reputed owner of a Prince street The officers arrested Solomon alleged proprietor of the and the aU an un on your an 4 en usurpation ot authority giTan by law to registration officer and Jn of penal code maken aa as well Cor a public official an a to voters or or or of the qua lifted At the conclusion of the Mr. lie would take the against the three were the outcome of a story which Herman told the en ef deputy to the effect that turan was in. the habit of adulterating the whisky sold by him with acids so It would any one who tured to taka more than one or two SLEEPING CAE Several of the Occupants but No One Was committee would hear from him the protest later Managers Call on Chairman Taggart and August of the Democratic national executive called on Charles at Tammany Hall It was stated by that the cail WM of a social and that the bers of national committee were re- turning several calls that Mr. had made at Murphy assured Messrs. and Belmont that New York City would give the national ticket a phenomenal He ai so red them thai everything was most favorable in There was some discussion abom the number of challenges which have beer Oct 16 sleeping car attached to the rear of the Southern Pacific Overland tram broke left the and plunged over a embankment into Cow Creek made through the activity of State Bu while the train was running at full speed of Elections Morgan It one mile south of West None of stated that a. large number of the occupants of the car was cans had been challenged a-s well as though several were and The Tammany leader told Chair slightly William F. man Taggart that there was something Mrs. and C- of i mysterious about the of Oreg. were badly hurt regarding registration The car tipped over and Blid top which the leader did not pro stopping at the edge of the fesi to understand is somewhat swollen by the recent While Messrs Taggart and Belmon The tram crew entered the car were at Tammany Hall arrangements wer through the windows and assisted the made through communication with sengers to disengage themselves from the that in o n nf III i Ul B was firmly caught by the neck between berths and was rescued with MEK Scaffolding on Bridge Over Crooked in Little Ark Oct special to the Gazette from Cotter In the act ot placing girders about nice tons on the Crooked Creek under course of twenty miles west of this the scaffolding gave way and five men and the girders were precipitated In a heap to the ground forty feet be- Three of the men were Instantly and the other two severely The J. W PRANK 8t A. The w. P. J. W. U Delightful at Old Point Fine tel Chamberlin unsurpassed in A night by Otto L. Hayes Charged with ating Honey and Falsifying Oct 15 i grand jury to-day returned an I against Otto president of th i Gallon National which failed eral Hayes Is charged wit l the actual misappropriation of his and the incidental falsification c the and Edward A president of the flickinger Wheel Corr ia Indicted In the same on the charge of aiding and William E foi merly a bookkeeper In the First of this was also Indicted o the charge of embezzling about c the bank's Great Frederick October 18-21. Special via B O. R R. froi Washington 8 a. m October 19 and 2 Including on those date for the round Greatly rates on other days of the br People You Union Trust and Storage 1414 F street
