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Show f Boer Sympathy. f A Boer sympathizers' society has i bcrn organized. But thus far the mem bers have not made it a requirement that the Kruger whisker is the badsre of eligibility. Barbers around Denver j-eport that they are beginning to get call? for the Oom Paul beard, but they have not yet fully decided just what the specifications of the cut must be. The Boer sympathizers' society is not particular on this point. Its chief aim j k-3 to net into its ranks men who have a warm heart for the Afrikandera who I are fighting for independence, and are . willing to lend their aid to any project Ict Ihpir relief that the majority may supgef-t. Governor Thomas is a. pro-n pro-n junced pro-Boer, but his executive capacity ca-pacity will probably prevent him from joining the movement. The idea of organizing in the interests inter-ests of the Boors originated with T. E. Sullivan of Z'd Stuart street. The latter lat-ter has ix-cn in South Africa -and had a cha.nco to observe the situation in that country. He also has strong Irish sympathies, sym-pathies, and these are enough to place him againft the Boers. A meeting was held last niht, at which Mr. Sullivan ' . ...... presided. Theie. was a small contingent of Dutch pivfvnt, but the Irish were in the ascendancy. Several i?pe?ches were made, in which the English were unani- iii"ui. t ul it piti es aiiu uriven out oi Africa, to say nothing of Ireland, but afur the orators had exhausted them-" them-" selves tb" rrmpntinwrri foully decided ii t the thins the Boers meded mort j . x-.''f t'H was? men not gvnral, but pri- : a in the ranks. The Boers -were kn. Vn to W quite well supplied with S ai!:i--!lk.n, as they have been laying : il.'s v t - : r s'lit-e the Jamefon raid- l - TUi. fctthttw-j? concluded that the best thir.to io was tougitaie the pro-Iiocr' s-iiLiii.-riir nnd -ry to urge lighters to hhl for the scene of hostilities. No inhstn.ents were received lat nteht. 1 but s-.nvral expressed a willingness to go i a small band could .be got together. to-gether. Govt rti r Thomas is not at all backward back-ward about expret-wng himself in favor of the Boer in the present war. He ays the kind of civilization the British are in the habit of shooting into their pubiects is not the kind he was brought up to revere. He referred yesterday yes-terday afternoon to the opium war against China as a good example of the English method of doing things-. It is not unlikely that the executive and his private secretary, Thomas Tully, would declare a public holiday if the English hould be downed. Speaking of the death of General Lavton, his excellency excel-lency remarked: "It is a lamentable event. It can only be compensated by another sweeping Boer victory at Tugela river." |