Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — MICHIGAN’S MEN WIN. [ARTICLE]

MICHIGAN’S MEN WIN.

HER UNIVERSITY ORATORS DEFEAT CHICAGO. Discuss the Principle of Graduated Tax—Alarming Condition of Affairs in Matabeleland—Spain Must Fight Her Own Battles—Consml Criticised. * »•' 'VChic'a*d>'Men Lose iM Debate. Michigan and Chicago Uniyersitiesunet for the first time in debate at Ann Arbor Friday night. Michigan secures the first forensic victory and Chicago gets hesr fourth • eonse«utivy : defea,t. The question was: “Is the Principle of a Graduated Tax One That Should Be Adopted by the States?” Michigan took the.affirmative side and Chicago the negative. Michigan’s speakers in their Order wefe CBas. J! Vert, senior law, of Morristown, N. Y;r -Edmund Black, senior law, of Chattaaoo-., ga, Tenn.; and Paul G. Albright', freshman law, of Philadelphia. Chicago’steam consisted of James ,P. Whyde of Chicago Wesley C. Mitchell of Rushville, 111., and L. Brent Vaughan' of Ohio. The judges were President Ballantine of Oberlin College. Supt. Compton of the Toledo schools, and Judge McLeHan of Auburn, Ind. They gave each man-a percentage both in argument and delivery, and on the ranking system Michigan had thirtyfive and Chicago twenty-seven. A Bloody Revolt. Dispatches received at Cape Town from Buluwayo, Matabeleland, indicate that the uprising in that part of the colony is very serious. Telegrams from the front first merely outlined a revolt of a few natives in the Inseza and Filabugi districts, the massacre of some white settlers, including Commissary Bentley, and the dispatch of a small force of volunteers to the scene of the disturbance. An extensive uprising of the natives, it is understood, has taken place and the.revolt may spread to other parts of South Africa. The settlers in Matabeleland are flocking into the towns, which are being placed in a condition for defense. Volunteers are being enrolled everywhere and provisions are being' collected. Re-enforcements of mounted police have already been sent to Buluwayo, Inseza and Gambo and the Gape rifles* have received orders to pre-' pare for active service. Supplies of ammunition for the Maxim guns are being hurried to Buluwayo and all the horses of the disturbed territory have been seized by Col. Napier, who is in charge t,' the government forces. The natives are raiding farms and Killing white settlors in tlic Mata,;>° hills distriet. -and r-u----mor has it that overfifty people have been slain. Will Not Support Spain. —lt has leaked Tjut in Madrid diplomatic circles that the Spanish foreign office has been informed by its ambassadors in the principal European courts that Spain is not likely to receive more than purely platonic sympathy even from the French'Government in a conflict with the United States. The Spanish representatives in all the European courts have discovered that it is absolutely absurd to hope that any European Government' would act inconcert to support Spain even by friendly mediation or moral influence. They have also discovered that both the foreign governments and the whale European public wonder why Spain does not immediately give Cnba and Porto Rico colonial autonomy and self-government, such as England gave to Canada, in order to disarm the secessionists in Cnba and to conciliate American sympathizers. Incompetent Consul. Congressman Hopkins, of Illinois, called on Secretary of State Olney and made verbal charges against Consul General Williams, who represents the United States at Havana, Cnba. He accuses the consul general of incompetence for the position he occupies and declares his neglect to investigate and report upon the ease of Walter Dygert, a citizen of Illinois and a resident of the district which Mr. Hopkins represents in Congress, who is -aider arrest in Cuba, shows he is in sympathy with Spanish officials.