The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 3, 1896, Page 1

w ouy rrev A Jde, g us 'lq.'-] 9(_” 071 | VOLUM E LXXIX.—NO. 155. CHAMBERLAIN TO FACE b CRS, Receives a Knockout Blow From President Paul Kruger. BEATEN IN DIPLOMACY He May Be Compelled to Cease Shielding the Acts of Cecil Rhodes. OTHER TROUBLES ARE AHEAD Russia and Great Britain May Be at a Deadlock Before the Year Is Out. [Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times.} LONDON, Exc., May 2.—The popular impression is that President Kruger has knocked Mr. Secretary Chamberlain literally over the ropes. I choose this image because in the public imagination here the whole South African business has * come down to & persona! contest of nerve and science between these two champions. itis niot a very intelligent way of regard- ing the thing, perhaps, but you cannot long keep people interested in abstractions of principle and statecraft. They want to see men or watch them fighting, and their funny press for months back has summed up the Transvaal affair ina mental picture of the Boer heavy-weightand the Birming- ham lightning artist stripped in the ring. - As has been said, there are no two opinions that Oom Paul has scored a gen: uine knockout. Chamberlain seems to have no illusions on that point, for he dis- appeared from London yesterday leaving no one to answer the questions which the House of Commons is bursting with im- patience to put on the subject. The ex- planation is that he bad a speech to de- liver on'the education bill in Birmingham, but this is too tain, because he could have met Parliament and reached Birmingham in plenty of tinmie afterward. That he shouyld want time for reflecting is only natural, though, for on Monday he has to meet 4 crisis of the first magnitude. It will be put to him squarely whether he intends further ‘to shreld the Chartered Company from the consequence of its crihes or not, and on his answer depends his career and perhaps that of the Minis- try he represents. T understand that these disclosnres of the complicity of Cecil Rhodes and other Chartered officials'at the Cape in the plot against the Transvaal form only.a partof wliat is to come. What for the moment is more interesting, however, is that these revelations are novel only to the genersl public. Chamberlain and others in author- ity have known these facts and more for months. Chamberlain’s original impulse was to act on them, but the pressure of in- terested influence stretching all the way from the royval palaces down to the city ‘bucket-shops was too_powerful for him to withstand, and he. yielded to the temp- tation to try to pull the Chartered Com- pany out of the pit that it had dug for another. If he does not make s stand “-mow on the very brink he will tumble himself. B Kruger’s plan was to'deal most, leniently with all his prisoners at Pretoria. Those who were sentenced to death he intended | to make an example of to the extent of heavy fines and banisliment; others were ta get off with almost nominal fines, with verhaps here and there the penalty of banishment as well. He had no idea of crippling the business of the Rand or of destroying thé vast interests built up on its gold fieids.” This I know at second hand from his lips, but it is very possible that Chamberiain’s insolent publication of a practically threatening telegram in Parliament before it could have reached Pretoria, togetier with the surrounding inciden London, niay have altered the Boer President’s plans. It will be neces- sary to show. him now at once that Eng- land mesns to play iair, or he will pass the word around South ‘Africa that the Dutch are being insulted and defrauded, and the English will find themselves immediately. face to face with a hostile combination of all four Parlipments of those of their own _ :Natal and Cape colonies, as well as those of the Orange and Transvaal republics. This is what the situarion suddenly has come to, and it<s not a nice one. So-preoccupied with it and its dangers | are Englishmen in general that the murder of the Shah gets treated like a common- place event. It is remarked, indeed, that this will inevitably throw Persia into Russia’s arms and thus double England’s aifficulties and perils in Asia, which are already -sufficiently great. At another time such an outlook would stir these islands to excitement, but now there s such a surfeit’ of apprehensions in other quarters that there is no room for new fears. Men of affairs agree that few things arg more probable than that Russia and England will be at a deadlock before the year is out. Meline is certain of his premiership for four weeks at least, but only because the « Chamber nas adjourned till May 28. Mean- while the municipal elections throughout France begin to-morrow, and their results will throw a gooa deal of light on what is likelv to happen in June. The Radicals are entering the contest on a scale never attempted before, placarding the whole country with denunciations of the present Ministry as a creature of reactionary combinations, which could not survive a day without the votes and support of the right, and Bourgeois, Goblet, Lockroy and the rest of the Radical leaders are to make speaking tours of the provinces as if a Parliamentary canvass were on hand. The socialists, though allied with them in the Chamber, will conduct a campaign of their own on similar lines. Only a few years ago the approach of May was viewed with terror by every big city on the Continent, and there seemed tobe a danger that England was des- PRICE FIVE CENTS FAIR LADIES OF HER SUITE. F’j MlSS LILLIAN REA, QUEEN OF THE SAN JOSE CARNIVAL OF ROSES, AND SOME OF THE tined to become a festival of disorder and anarchical violence, but now people are taking heart-again and recognizing that the apprehensions were baseless. From all quarters the reports of yesterday's la- bor processions and demonstrations show almost unbroken quiet and civic decorum. The exceptions are a sharp scuffle’ in one of those villages in the Belgian mimning district where something like a state of civii war always exists between employers and employed, and a disturbance in Vienna. Some correspondents there de- scribe it as arising out of the quarrel be- tween the Bohemians, Others ascribe the trouble directly to the socialists, What is certain is that the troops and police han- dled the crowd without gloves, sending some hundred of them to the hospital with wounds, and that the military had to occupy the Prater through the night. Vienna has, however, been drifting ‘toward. chaos, from the municipal pomnt of view, for a long time, and so much bad blood has been engendered between the local authorities and the populace of late that the only wonder is there is not more fighting. No one would have been sur- prised, considering the exceptional politi- cal excitement of the moment, if the Parisian hoi polloi had seized the occa- sion to make a disturbance, and special military precautions were indeed taken to guard against an unexpected turbulence, but positively nothing happened. There are the usual rumors that the Faubourgs are saving themselves for to-morrow, and intend mischief then, but there is probably nothing in it. 2 In Great Britain, of course, all notions of public disorder on Mayday seem as far out of date now as tremors about Char- tist violence. There were many proces- sions and speeches, but they were all as innocuous as the Salvation Ariny parades. It was, however, not without significance that Aberdeen had its by-election on that | date and came within a paltry 400 votes of electing to Parliament Tom Mann, who is as advanced a Socialist as the English labor movement has produced. -.He stood alone against the regular Lib- | eral nominee, and, by the rules, should have been beaten by 4000. His immense pollin one of the most clannish of the Bcotch constituencies has thrown the Lib- eral leaders into a panic of bewildered consternation. They fear that 1t means that the Liberal party will have to come to terms with the labor party at once, or be destroyed by it, and some of them are actually advocating this course. But they are such shallow persons that if at the next election somewherealabor candidate runs behind his expected poll they will veer round and conclude that a!l danger from the third party isat an end. The story of the Cologne Gazette, that ex-King Milan of Servia is going to Amer- ica for the purpose of finding a million- aire bride for his son, seems more like a guess founded on knowledge of Milan's character than a statement based on fact. This ex-King would be delighted to pocket any number of commissions on negotia- tions of this nature, and would not be troubled by any scruples about promises or even written pledges, but he would do all this with his tongue in his cheek. Both be and his son understand per- fectly that an American marriage would be an utter impossibility. If the young Alexander is to remain on the throne and establish a dynasty, he must marry within Europe’s royal circles. He will not be 20 years old. till August, but for three years vam efforts have been made in numerous directions to find for hima bride. Consid- ering that he hasa real crown to offer, it spenks rather well for the girls of the various shabby genteel dynastic families that they have all refused him. Princess Sibly of Hesse-Cassel, came nearest to being entangled in an engagement, but caped at the last moment. Three or for other German princesses and two daugh- ters of Nicholas of Montenegro, were laid siege to, but resisted successfully. A fort- | night ago Alexander suddenly started ona visit to Greece, and the official papers at his capital were indiscreet enough to men- tion that he would probably find a wife at Athens. This was telegraphed to Athens and the King of the Hellenes hastened to an- nounce the betrothal of his only daughter to her cousin, Grand Duke George Michaelovitch, before the Servian suitor could arrive. The reasons for this univer- sal shrinkage are well enough understood in the courts of Europe, but not so easily explained. Alexander is a terribly pre- coctous creature, Who was a bearded man at 15, and already was the subject of whis- pered stories which recalled Carlyle’s an- ecdotes of Peter the Great. Since then he has grown immensely in brain and will powers, but the savage physical side of him has kept pace with his mental progression, until at 20 he is a sort of sinister prodigy, who is very likely destined for great things, but at whom peopie shudder none the less. Lord Lonsdale is in Berlin trying to induce Kaiser Wilhelm to change his mind and say that he wili come to Cowes with his yacht this summer, and the idea seems to prevail here that he will succeed; but this is based on the theory of English public opinion that the Emperor is afraid, and that all that he needs is to be reassured by Lonsdale that nothing un- pleasant will happen. I fancy it is much nearer the truth that the Emperor is deterred from coming by the strength and volume of the German protests sgainst such a step. The Ger- mans have neyver liked his penchant for the English family, and after last winter's savage wrangle between Beriin and Lon- don, they like it so much less than ever that they are afraid tospeak their minds. The Times this morning says that it is not pleasing to the national vanity to have to record that two ot the cleverest things in the Royal Academy this year are by Americans. I am not so sure that Sar- gent's work this time quite puts him in the category, but there is no doubt that Abbey’s “Lady Anne and Gloster” is the triumph of the year. It is magnificent alike in conception and composition. Tt forces people to say that if he con- tinues to progress it will leave himself without any rivals at all in England. Sargent’s portraits,which with Princesand Mr. Chamberlain are most talked of, areas remarkable as ever. The unfinished “Clytie’”” left by Lord Leighton shows what was always sus- pected, and what was equally true of Albert Moore—that he weakened and emasculated his work by over finishing. “Clytie’’ is much stronger as it is, and better than it would have been if he had lived to polish it into inanity. Millias, ‘Watts and Dicksee are ridiculous this year, and Herkomer and Fildes are not much better. Since silk made of wood pulp has been tried in America, long accounts are given of a process invented three years ago at Besancon, and apparently confined there, which is now to be tried on a larger scale in Lancashire. Concessions have been obtained from the French patentees, along with pledges of no competition in the English market, and it is ‘confidentially believed that the introduction of this new industry will revolutionize the economic conditions of Lancashire, which suffered sadly of late from the decline in the ¢otton monopoly. HaroLp FrepERIC. — 3 Ehodes’ Column Altacked. CAPE TOWN, Souts AFRICA, May 2.— News has reached this place that a body of Matabeles, numbering fully 1000, at- tacked the relief column under Cecil | Rhodes, en route from Salisbury for Bulu- wayo, on the 30th ult., near Makalaka, | and that the natives were repulsed lwm; the loss of thirty killed. The relief col- umn sustained no loss, and 13 expected to arrive at Gwelo on the 5th inst. L7 aptmE i ASSASSINATION OF THE SHAH. It Is Established That the Murderer Be- « longed to a Secret Society of Fanatics. TEHERAN, Persia, Mey 2.—The fol- lowing details of the assassination of the Shah yesterday were obtained through. official sources this morning: The Shah, accompanied by the Grand Vizier and a number of attendants, paid a visit to the shrine of Shah Abdul Azim. His Majesty traversed the outer court, where he stopped and gave a bank note to an Arab and spoke a few kind words to a water-carrier. Two chains barred the way to the inner court of the shrine. The 8hah had just passed the first chain when the assassin approached him and, when within a few feet, fired a revolver, the bullet from which struck the Shah near the heart. His Maj- esty fell forward upon his knees, but rose, walked a few paces and then fell again, dying almost at once. The assassin was immediately seized and hurried away. LONDON, Ex6., May 2.—The Queen, through Premier Salisbury, has sent a dis- patch to Muzafer-ed-Din, the new Shah of Persia, expressing profound sympathy at the tragic death of his father, the late Shah. The Persian Legation here announces that it is now definitely establishea that the assassin of the late Shah was a mem- ber of a secret society known as the Babi, composed of religious fanatics, and which organization the Shah tried to suppress. s i R Beatrice Made a Governor. LONDON, Exa., May 2.— Princess Beatrice (Princess Henry of Battenburg), daughter of the Queen, has been appointed Governor of the Isle of Wight. FAR S 105 FESTAL SEISO The Garden City Decorated for Queen Lillian’s Reception. TONS OF FLOWERS USED. A Populace Living in Dwellings Hidden Beneath Blooms and Evergreens. WEDNESDAY THE OPENING DAY Historic FIna»l?s and Gorgeous Equip- ages to Form a. Pageant Two -Miles Long. SAN JOSE, Car., May 2.—The Carnival of Roses which opens in this city next Wednesday will be the greatest flower show on earth. This is verifiad by the large number of magnificent foats in con- ‘| struction for the floral pageant and the number of beautiful booths that will be maintained in the carnival pavilion.,, The many acres of sweet peas, marigolds and roses that were planted for carnival pur- poses are all in full bloom, and there will . be an abundance of flowers. The decorating of the streets is going rapidly forward. Linés of flags and ban. ners have been strung every few yards across Market and First streets, and at the principal crossings streamers ' of ever- greens cross each other and from the center wreaths are suspended. Every telegraph - pole: and sign - post is decorated with a redwood tree, The town bas begun to assume a gala- day attire, and by Saturday night the dec- oration of the city will have been com- plete. The great dome of the Courthouse has been decorated with red, white and blue ribbons, the whole surmounted by &n immense wreath of evergreens. - The front of the building will be trimmed with bunt- ing, and a reviewing stand will be erected for the judges on the streets. The front of .| the Hall of Records will be similarly deco- rated. i The floral parade of Wednesday, the opening day of the carnival, will be over two miles in length. There will be over seventy-five floats and decorated "rigs in line. Thousands of school children and most of the fratetnal societies will join in the parade. The Queen'’s chariot is of Egyptian de- sign, and will be a thing of beauty almost. beyond comparison. Miss Rea, the Queen,’ will occupy the throne seat upon the high- est platform in the rear. Besides her regal gowns a very costlv robe made of cloth of gold will'hang over her throne, chair. Be- side her will be the Prime Minister, repre- .sented by ex-Mayor Austin. On the next step beneath the throne two pages— Ernest Keenig and Charles Hower Jr.—wiil be seated, and upon the platform still lower down the two maias of honor will occupy vositions. Still further in the front’ there will be three attendants on either side with four flower-girls in a cen- tral group between them. The throne will be covered with a scroll canopy, and from it to the foremost part of the float garlands of flowers will be supported on tall pillars and spears. Surrounding the whole palm leaves are arranged, and the rest of the work is left to the deft fingers that will do the fioral work on the float. o The float of the Santa Clara County Floral Society will be magn ¢ ‘“ent and novel in desizn. 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