Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — ENGLAND IS EXCITED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ENGLAND IS EXCITED.

EVIDENCE AGAINST JOHANNESBURG CONSPIRATORS, Rhodes in the Plot—London Times Admits His Guilty Knowledge— Chartered Company Furnished Him Arms and Money. r ' V Approved the Jameson Raid. It would be difficult to overestimate ths sensation which haa been, caused in England by the publication of the substance of the telegrams and docifments which have come into t.hj possession of the authorities of the South African republic. The weight of evidence which they furnlsh againsFTiersons to whom they were addressed and by whom they were signed, of being engaged in a conspiracy to overthrow the Transvaal is admitted to be crushing. The opinion of the press very

generally condemns them. But strenuous efforts are being made to prevent, a sweeping condemnation of the authorities of Cape Colony and, of the British Chartered South Africa Company, other than individuals whose names are included in the documentary evidence. - ~ The j-.ondon Times in an editorial on the subject says: “It is impossible to ignore the gravity of the conclusion, to which the published telegrams point. They establisn beyond the possibility of a doubt that lion. Cecil Rhodes, the then premier of Cape Colony; Mr. Alfred Beit, a director in the British South Africa Company, and Mr, Rutherford Harris, secretary of the British South Africa Company, were privy to. the movement agaihst Johannesburg, and that the leaders of the movement counted upon their help and countenance to insure its success. ' “These telegrams must he taken to prove that Mr. Rhodes approved the revolution which was desired in Johannes•burg, hilt nothing in the correspondence goes to show that the actual crossing of (the frontier by Dr. Jameson, under the jcircutnstanees under which it eve ritually, occurred, was known to Mr. Rhodes or carried out with his approval. The reasons which actuated Dr. Jameson in

crossing the frontier when he did remain shrouded in mystery. His conduct awaits the explanation he may have to give at his trial.” A Pretoria dispatch gives the substance of an interview with President Kruger, In whicn he su'd that he had scratched the death sentence at once, to show that after the law had been vindicated there was HO vindictive personal feeling on the part of himself or the Government. It 4s- rumored also that President Kruger has received a personal cable dispatch from President Cleveland in reference to John Hays Hamilton.

CECIL RHODES.

JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, The American Mining Engineer Whose Death Sentence Has Been Commuted in the Transvaal.