Show J DAVIS PRAISES SIKINLEY Fore Official of Interior Bureau f Says President is All Bight Nc York May Webster Davis former Assistant Secretary of the Interior In-terior spoke at a meeting at the Academy Acad-emy of Music tonight held under the auspices i of the New York committee tofald i tho South African republics He Slid in part The great masses of our people do sympathise with the Boers They stan for liberty for civilization for selfgovernment and lor peace Every effort should be put forth by them to b rliiff this unholy var In SouthAfrica 4tci n close We cannot as American I frecmeji whose ancestors risked their lives for freedom and Independence withhold our sympathies from the farmers of the Transvaal Chamberlain has attempted dominate domi-nate and dictate In their internal af alrs Jutit as George II interfered In the affairs of the colonies Indeed Eng land has trodden truth underfoot and trampled honor and good faith in the dust And were she to conquer the Boers there Is no doubt in the world that they would be compelled to surfer I sur-fer as the people oC Ireland have suffered suf-fered for centuries British cruelty Is I proverbial I During the battle of the Tugcla river 2000 lyddite 1 shells fell among the Boers and though at The Hague Convention dumdum bullets were con demned by representatives of the civilized I civi-lized world as fit only for savages yet I I have now In my possession three unexploded un-exploded dumdums that I picked upon up-on top of Splonkop In the trenches that had been occupied by the British troops and I have also two exploded dumdum bullets that were given me I by n surgeon as he extracted them from the bodies of two dead Boers Numerous have been the Instances of British cruelty In the battlefields of South Africa such as the abuse of the white flag and the firing up the Red Cross and the conduct of tho British troops especially the Lancers has no I parallel in modern warfare England has no right to peddle us around through Europe as the tall to her kite continued Mi Davis Thats MeKlnleylsm shouted a man in the audience McKlnleys all rl h answered Mr avls He Is a patriot one of the common com-mon people like Lincoln and the ef fort on the part of tho British sym pathizers to connect him with the Brit ish effort to crush liberty to kill the two young republics and to rob and murder their handful of brave martyrs lo 1 crime and must be resented by every American patriot McKinley Is all h but there are men about him who ought to be got rid of as quickly as possible ClJltl I1 wish to Cod 100000 Americans would arm themselves woJd hes and with an v1h American fleet go to the help of the Boers If that is1 not possible then we can tell the world that we do not sym pathise with Great Britain but we do sympathize with the Doers I There is not n grander man Jiving foday than Paul Krugcr and Cecil Khodcs Is the darmidest scoundrel Ceci hung Should the British by overwhelm ing numbers succeed In conquering the Boers In conCuarln ers the present struggle it will I avail nothing future generations will take up the burden where their wi en fathers laid It down and the out come Is certain Montagu Whh also spoke He said that he felt sure that Mr Davlss ef I forts In behalf of the Boers will be farreaoblng Jr the future and that the ptes oC the country Is being con trolled in thf Interests of the British lie said that even religion Is being used to malign the cause of the people of South Africa Resolutions wen adopted tendering thanks to those Senators ° and Rep e sentatlves who have Introduced rose lullons in Congress Crossing sympa thy with the South African repubtics and calling upon the President In the interests of humanity and clvlllratlon to Invite the great powers of Europe to join In a concerted demand upon Great Britain to stop the war |