Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1905 — Page 6

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VICTORY IS WITH OYAMA AND HIS HEN

Russian Army in Full Retreat from Its Mukden Positions. OLD TACTICS ARE REPEATED Line of Retreat Lighted Up by the Clare of Burning Stores. CAN HE GET AWAY SAFELY? Only Qnestlon at St. Petersburg, Where the Jap Triumph la Conceded Bloodiest Battle of the War. Toklo, March 9. —The Japanese have cut the railway north of Mukden. Tokio, March 9, 8 a. m.—lt is officially announced that the Russians began retreating yesterday morning. The Japanese armies are pursuing them. Tokio, March 9. —Advices received here indicate that General Kuropatkin is badly beaten in the bloodiest battle of the present war. London, March 9. The following dispatches are published here: “Mukden, March 8, 4:30 a. m.—The Russian army is evacuating its positions south of Mukden. “Mukden, March 8, 10 a. m. A heavy cannonading is in progress northwest of this city, causing the walls of houses here to tremble. An engagement is in progress at the imperial tombs.” Another dispatch, dated Mukden. March 8, 4:30 a. in., says: “This may be the last dispatch out of Mukden, as the telegraph line is in danger of being destroyed. The battle is in full progress.” Washington, March 9. The state department is officially informed from Tokio that the Japanese have achieved a great victory before Mukden and that the Russian army is in full retreat. Mukden, March 9, 11 a. m. The Russians are retiring from the line of the Shakhe river and the left flank to the line of fortifications on the Hun river. Japanese are north of Mukden end advancing against the railroad at Unguntun. A tight is raging two mile-s west of the railroad, and projectiles reach the railroad. Russ Retires In Perfect Order. London. March 9.—A dispatch from Mukden, dated March 8, 5 a. m., says: “The Russian army is leaving positions south and southeast of Mukden. The sky is lighted with the brilliant glare

EASTERN GATE AT MUKDEN, MANCHURIA.

of burning warehouses, where tons of commissary supplies have been given to the flames. The retirement is being effected in perfect order, the Russians beating off attacks of pursuing Japanese. The withdrawal was necessitated by a heavy concentration of Japanese west and northwest of Mukden whither they have transferred a large share of the forces from the southern front to reinforce the original striking force of General Nogi.” Lown on Both Sldoa Enormoai. Mukitbn, March 0. —The losses on both sides have been enormous. The casualties on the Russian left flank on Tuesday exceed 7,000, The burning of commissariat warehouses and the destruction of supplies south of Mukden, which has been in progress several days, is said by Russian officers to be complete. Everything that could not be carried away was destroyed. RUSSIANS ADMIT DEFEAT St, Petersburg Says Knropatktn Can Only Try to Got Away. St. Petersburg. March 9, 3 a. m. The battle of Mukden has resulted in a Russian defeat. Field Marshal Oyama has once more proven himself one of the greatest masters of offensive strategy since Napoleon. while General KuropatUn is now engaged in endeavoring to defend his title as a master of successful retreats and bring off his army, with its immense train, safely to Tie pass,

acting toward them in a spirit of Just and generous recognition of all their rights. There Are Problems to Solve. “But Justice and generosity in> a nation, us in an individual, count most when shown not by the weak, but by the strong. While ever careful to refrain from wronging others we must be no less Insistent that we are not wronged ourselves. We wish peace, but we wish the peace of Justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right, and not because we are afraid. No weak nation that acts manfully and justly should ever hare cause to fear us; and no strong power should ever be able to single us out as a subject for insolent aggression. “Our relations with the other powers of the world are important, but still more important are our relations among ourselves. Sucli growth in wealth, in population, and in power, as this nation, has seen during the century and a quarter of its national life is inevitably accompanied by a like growth in the problems which are ever before every nation that rises to greatness. Power invariably means both responsibility and danger. Our forefathers faced certain perils which we have outgrown. Face Other Perils. “We now face other perils the very existence of which it was impossible that they should foresee. Modern life is both complex and intense, and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary industrial development of the last half centure are felt in every fibre of our social and political being. Never before have men tried so vast and formidable an experiment as that of administering the affairs of a continent under the forms of a democratic republic. The conditions which have told for our marvelous material wellbeing, which have developed to a very high degree our energy, self reliance and individual initiative, have also brought the care and anxiety inseparable from the accumulation of great wealth in industrial centers. No Reason to Fear the Future. “Upon the success of our experiment much depends, not onty as regards our own welfare, but as regards the welfare of mankind. If we fail the cause of free selfgovernment throughout the world will rock to its foundations, and therefore our responsibility is heavy—to ourselves, to the world as it is today, and to the generations yet unborn. There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us, nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright. “Yet, after all, though the problems are new, though the tasks set before us differ from the tasks set before our fathers who founded and preserved this republic, the spirit in which these tasks must be undertaken and these problems faced, if our duty is to be well done, remains essentially unchanged. We know that self-gov-ernment is difficult. Left a Splendid Heritage. “We know that no people needs such high traits of character as that people which seeks to govern its affairs aright tlirough the freely expressed will of the freemen who compose it. But we have faith that we shall not prove false to the memories of the men of the mighty past. They did their work, they left us the splendid heritage we now enjoy. We in. our turn have an assured confidence that we shall be able to leave this heritage unwasted and enlarged to our children and our children’s children. “To do so we must show, not merely in great crises, but in the everyday affairs of life, the qualities of practical intelligence, of courage, of hardihood and endurance, and al>ove all the power of devotion to a lofty ideal, which made great the men who founded this republic in the days of Washington. which made great the men who preserved this republic in the days of Abraham Lincoln.” Inaugural Parade and Ball. The splendor of the inaugural parnde and the size of the inaugural crowd exceeded all former public functions of the kind. Pennsylvania avenue from capitol hill to the White House was a river of bright colors and moving mass of humanity. At night it was ablaze with electric designs, and the big pension office was the scene of the grand ball. The president reviewed the parade from a stand near the White House.

DEATH SUMMONS SENATOR BATE

Ie Victim of Pneumonia Contracted During the Inaugural Ceremonies. Washington. March 9. United States Senator William BTimage Fate, of Tennessee, twice governor of his state, a veteran of both the Mexican and civil wars, rising from private to major general in the latter, and for eighteen years a conspicuous membet of the upper house of congress, is dead at his hotel apartments in this city, aged 78 years. Death was due to pneumonia and defective heart. Senator Bate attended the inauguration ceremonies on March 4 and his death is believed to be due primarily to exposure on that occaslon.

Mrs. Chadwick's Trial Begun.

Cleveland, 0., March 7.—The trial of Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick for alleged violation of the national banking laws was commenced in the United States district court before Judge Tayior. Andrew Carnegie, who will be a wit ness, was present

ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS INAUGURATED

Great Crowds of People Witness the Interesting Ceremonies. OTHER LIKE EVENTS SURPASSED • Capital City a Symphony in Color in Honor of the Occasion. Washington, March 4.—At 1250 p. m. today Theodore Roosevelt, standing on a spot made historic by a long line of presidents who have taken the same oath with right hand raised and left hand on the Holy Scriptures, repeated

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TAKING THE OATH.

after Chief Justice Fuller the following words: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and to the best of my ability protest, preserve and defend the constitution of the United States. Crowning Event of the Day. The taking of the oath was the crowning event of a day full of features. The crowd assembled for this event cannot be estimated even by comparison. It extended far beyond the reach of the voice, and was so densely packed as to carry the stage out of sight of many. The capitol plaza, resourceful in accommodating the thousands eager to view the ceremony was completely filled. People came by its numerous streets and avenues', which like so many yawning, ravenous maws, greedily swallowed the throng, until every coign of vantage was occupied. Vice President Installed. Half an hour before the event described in the foregoing—at high noon —in the presence of as many of his fellowcitizens as could be crowded into the senate chamber, Charles Warren Fairlxanks was Inducted into the office of vice president of the United States. The ceremony was quickly followed by the final adjournment of the senate of the Fifty-Eighth congress, the beginning of a special session, an address by the vice president, and the swearing into office of almost a third of the membership of the senate. President's Inaugural Address. In his inaugural address President Roosevelt said: “My Fellow Citizens: No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with gratitude to the Giver of Good who has blessed us with the conditions which have enabled us to achieve so large a measure of wellbeing and of happeniness. To us ns a people it has been granted to lay the foundation of our national in a new continent. We are the heirs of the ages, and yet we have had to pay few of the penalties which in old countries are exacted by the dead hand of a bygone civilization. We have not been obliged to fight for our existence against any alien race; and yet our life has called for the vigor and effort without which the manlier and hardier virtues wither away. Oar Own Fault if We Fail. “Under such conditions It would be our own fault If we failed: and the success which we have had in the past, the success which we confidently believe the future will bring, should cause In us no feeling of vainglory, but rather a deep and abiding realization of all which life has offered us; a full acknowledgement of responsibility which Is ours: and a fixed determination to show that under a free government a mighty people can thrive best, alike as regards the things of the body and the things of the soul. “Much has been given us, and mucL will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves: and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation of the earth; and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities. Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only In our words, but In our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by

where a position was long ago prepared with this contingency in view. The problem before the Russian comma nder-in-chlef is much more difficult than, the one he met successfully at Liaoyang, since now he is threatened on both flanks, his left wing being entangled in a mountainous region far from the railroad. Nevertheless Russian military men here express a fair degree of confidence in General Kuropatkin’s ability once more to extricate his army and avoid a Russian Sedan. Besides his skill in rear-guard action they base their hopes on the physical condition of the Japanese though they are conceded to be the greatest marchers in the world, are well nigh exhausted by their strenuous endeavors of the last fortnight Only to the initiated is the news of the reverse positively known at this time. Emperor Nicholas and high military officers, of course, were informed by General Kuropatkin’s telegram of Tuesday, stating tersely that Mukden must be abandoned; and they received details of the beginning of the withdrawal as they appeared in excised portions of the official dispatches given out yesterday. From information in the possession of the Associated Press it is known that General Kuropatkin contemplated retirement before the beginning of the battle, and that he had hoped to accomplish it without a serious combat. The Japanese, however, forced him to accept battle. The double turning movement compelled him to send the major part of his reserves to the fighting line and rendered an effective counter stroke out of the question, and the decision to retire was immediately taken on March 6. Withdrawal was actually begun during the night. The great question now, and the one over which the general staff burned its lights late into the night, is whether Field Marshal Oyama has entangled the Russians in his strategic net sufficiently to prevent a successful retreat to Tie pass. NEWS PRINTED AT TOKIO Eatlmatea o t the Louei Give a Grand Total of 100,000. Tokio, March 9, 6 a. m. —The great battle in Manchuria raged all day yesterday along the entire front. The Japanese were generally victorious, and they drove the Russians from a series of important positions. By nightfall it seemed imperative that General Kuropatkin would have to withdraw his shattered legions to avoid a complete disaster. Indeed, it appeared impossible for him to effect a retreat without heavy losses of prisoners, guns and stores. The continuous battle is already the bloodiest of the war. Upon the ground that General Oku alone gained lie 8,000 Russian dead. The reports from the other armies are expected to triple this figure. It is estimated that the Japanese have lost 50,000, making the joint slaughter far exceed 100,000 men. Details of the combat are lacking, but it is believed that the Japanese have cut the railway north of Mukden, leaving only the roadways and a light railway from Fushun to Tie pass as avenues for the retreat of the Russians, but army headquarters refrain from affirming or denying a report to that eflfeet. The details of operations against Fushun are not yet at hand, but it is understood that following the capture of Maehtuntan the Japanese renewed the assault on Tieta and dislodged the Russians.

CABINET IS NOMINATED

Sam* Hen Except In On* Cn**—Senate Promptly Confirm*. Washington. March 7. Outside of the discussion of the proposed treaty with San Domingo, by which the United States is to collect the tariff of that country and see that its creditors are paid therefrom, the Interesting business transacted at the first ses sion of the special session of the senate was the confirmation of the president’s cabinet which was done soon after the nominations were read, the committees In charge of the respective nominations being polled on the floor of the senate. The cabinet is not changed, except as to postmaster general, where Cortelyou succeeds Wynne, who is nominated consul general at London. Besides the cabinet the senate confirmed ex-SenatorQuarlesas judge of the eastern district of Wisconsin, and ex-Sen-ator Cockrell as interstate commerce commissioner. Nominations which referred to committees include the following: Ambassadors —Whitelaw Reid, to Great Britain; Robert S. McCormick, to France: George V. L. Meyer, to Russia; Edwin H. Conger, to Mexico; Henry. White, to Italy. Ministers WilliaiSa W. Rockhill, to China; Thomas J. O’Brien, Michigan, to Denmark. Consul general Robert J. Wynne, at London. Consuls Robert J. Thompson, Illinois, Cienfuegos, Cuba; William W. Wedemeyer, Michigan, Georgetown, Demerara, Guinea; John W. O'Hara, Indiana, Montevedio.

Death of Timothy Sullivan.

Missoula, Mont., March 8. —Timothy Sullivan, a wealthy hardwood lumberman of Buffalo, N. Y„ and the senior member of the firm of T. Sullivan & Sons, died on the North Coast limited on the Northern Pacific railroad. Deceased is said to have had a national reputation as a politician and one of his sons is T. F. Sullivan, is also noted in New York politics.

General John H. Reagan Dead.

Atlanta, Ga., March 7.—The Journal has received a special saying that General John H. Reagan, the last surviving member of the Confederate cabinet is dead at his home in Palestine, Tex. ~