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/U'V THE WEATHER. ..-at rain Thursday night and Frl- J ^ warmer Thursday night. Tem- d -eMires Thursday (taken at A. K. &awke? Co.'s store): 8 a. m„ 47; 10 5i® 1* noon, 56; 2 p. m., 60. 1 Phe Atlanta Georgian “Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN” AND NEWS “Nothing Succeeds Lite—THE GEORGIAN” •POT COTTON. AtlHina. *iui**t; Liverpool, ^asfsr; r.,(M New York. !* 4*. Savannah, Ntf-rub': 8 15-W .tiifCUMta. 9*4. Calventon. stpa-lv * V Norfolk, steady: 9 1-1* Houki.ii. .nearly: 9 5-16. Mem phis. steady; TN. .Mobile, steady. 8%. Wtji XO. 109. HOME(4th) EDITION ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1911. HOME (4TH) EDITION PRICE: fettle® FAIR WEATHER AND LIGHT VOTE IN MOST OF GEORGIA GREET THE THREE CANDIDATES FOR THE GOVERNORSHIP HI OH STATE There Seems To Be Very Little Interest Shown at Any of the Voting Places. WAS THEM 1911 All Previous Records Broken, According to Comptroller of Currency Report. New Congress and New Senator RAINING IN SOUTH GEORGIA Large Number of Votes Are Expected to Pile in During the Afternoon. There seem* to be an exceedingly tiht vote cast over tho state for the candidates for governor. In Bomt counties It le thought interest will pick In the afternoon, while In others no ...j would even suppose an election 15 The^weather In north and central Georgia to Ideal, but In the south It started to rain about 10, o'clock. It Is thought that the race will be very doie In many counties. . , Reports havo been received as rol lons: In Cobb County.- Marietta, Ga., Deo. 7.—Voting In Ma rietta Is very quiet, Indicating that a small vote will be caat. Ex-Governor Brown and son. Joe, Jr., arrived at noils at 9:46 o'clock, and cast their votes Jos. M. Brown Is leaving for Atlanta on the 10 o'clock car. Indi cations are that he will carry Cobb county. Pope Brown'* County. Hawklnaville, Ga., Deo. 7.—Record vote to being polled In'Pulaski county. It la believed Pope Brown will win here. Russell's Home County. Monroe, Ga„ Deo. 7c—In Walton, Mr. nuBsoll'fl home county, the vote up to thla hour, 19 o’clock, Indicates that Pop* Brews If leading the ticket. Judging from the town" precincts, tho only beard from up to this time. All are In Pope Brown's favor at the Monroe and So- dal Circle precincts. It Is estimated BANK ASSETS TEN BILLION Individual Deposits Reached $5,489,995,011 on Septem her 1—Highest Mark. Washington, Dec, 7.—Netv records tor prosperity were made In the fiscal year ending October 31, 1911, according to the annual report of the government comptroller of the currency, submitted to congress today by Lawrence O. Murray. Tho document, while made up almost exclusively of figures. Is inter esting from the standpoint of showing the growing prosperity of the United states an<l the augmentation of wealth at a rate no less than sensational. Tho year was a banner ono for the banka On June 7 last, according to Ui*« report, the total of bank assets in this country aggregated $10,383,048,694, the highest figure ever recorded slnco the beginning of the national bank sys tem In this country. On September 1, 1911* Individual de posits reached $5,489,995,011, the highest ever attained In the history of -the banking system. Upon the same date the bank note currency outstanding was $696,982,033, another new record. This was nearly one-fifth of tho *total amount of tho metallic and other currency of tho country. The report states that tho bonded debt of the United Staten government on October 31, 1911, -was $963,349,390. Accompanying tho report arc a num ber of recommendations from tho comp troller for amendments to the national hanking laws. One of these recoin- j mends an amendment to make It a ' criminal aot for any officer of a national 1 bank to accept a gift of any value from; one who contemplates making a loan..* Mr. Murray calls “the dishonest prac tice of national bank officers receiving Mr. Murray calls "the dishonest prac- \ . , .... - (Ice of national bank officers receiving' that Pope Brown’s vote Is aa much as personal compensation a growing evil," the other two candidates together. The and declares that It ha* reached pro- rats from the start was brisk and It portions where legislation Is necessary, wu noticeable that the Pope Brown ( He also demands that the statuto of men voted early. Some of Pop* i limitations be extended ten years so Brown's followers here predict that that It shall Jjo easier to punish bank with tho spilt between ex-Governor attaches whoso crime? go undetected ' ‘ •' -T.ti.iv *- - f or a number of years. 1 The resources of tho 7,301 national hanks in the United Slates on Septem ber 1, 1911, were $10,379,439,882.89, or 9422,962,553.04 more than thp 7,204 na tional banks doing business on Novcin- Hrown and Mr. Russell there Is a fine chance for Pope Brown to carry the county.' .v; > " , - - Chatham to Pall Ov.r 3,000 Vet... Savannah, G... D*o. 7.—Interest In . the race for governor hu not teen | ber 1, 1910. had. Tho total individual •rouMd In Chatham county, altho | deposits Jumped with mighty strides, friends of the candidates ara organized | despite’the establishment of postal sav- md have worker, at the polls. It Is lngs banks, altho these latter lnstltu- tenerally conceded that Judge Richard | tlona came too late In the.year-to cut B. Russell will carry -the county. Joe i any figure In tho report. Brown's friends have been active only i The total Individual deposits In the during tho last several days. Judge; 7,304 national banks doing business No- Huteell had'a long lead beforo Joe I comber 10, 1910, were 95,304.788,308.45. Brown announced, and his local option | The Individual deposits of the 7,801 Platform had attracted many Joe Brown | banks on September 1, 1911. aggregated people who did not know whether the ( 35.489,995.011.98. an Increase over the litter would run or not. The voting, former date of 3185,208,705.64. during the early morning hours was. The Increase In the volume of busl- " —-*“* ness as shown by the aggregate amount cry light. It Is expected that over POO votes will be polled. Floyd Shows No Enthusiasm. ' Ga., Dec. 7.—Weather Is Hut the vote In Floyd county I* light- There la no excitement at polls, tho women of W. C. T. II. have displayed banners at Rome polls urging voters remember prohibition. Heavy Vote In Augusta. Augusts, Ga., D*c. 7—Voting here heavier than expected during early mornlug. No disorder. Saloons closed end saloon men very active for Rus- "11. Russell will carry city, but coun fry districts may overbalance city vote. Very little excitement. Impossible to get anything like dcllnlto Idea of re sult here by 12 o'clock Eastern time. Columbia County. Harism, Ga., Deo. 7.—Light vote to being polled at 11 o'clock. Pope Brown "«s In the lead. The nice In Columbia county is between Russell and Pope Brown, with the likelihood of the latter ‘trying the county. WllkejTcouittyr^ Washington, Ga., Dso. 7.—Very Uttlo Inierest la being shown here In 4ho gubernatorial election. Voting Is light. Indications are that Pope Brown will ’•try Wilkes county by a small major' ,, Gilmar County. EMijay. Ga., Dao. 7c—Very light vote „ being polled. County Is going prac- ncslly solid for Pope Brown, so It to rislmcd. . Fannin County. •Bus Ridge, Ga., Dee. 7.—Light vote being polled In Fannin county. Rus- It la Bald, will carry tho county '*0 to one from present Indications. (Bulletins from other counties In the n,, e sppear on page 3.) of assets of the banks was approxi mately 9563,258,000, or 5.88 per cent. Business Days Before 14 CHRISTMAS Shop Early and Avoid the Crush IDI TRIAL OF PACKERS ♦ Business Eyes Center on Chi cago as Millionaires Battle for Their Freedom. Chicago, Dec. 7,—With the eyea of the business world upon Judge George A. Carpenter's court, United States Dis trict Attorney James IL Wllkerson to day planned to pick the twelfth tales man acceptable to the government aa a Juror to try tho ton multi-millionaire packers on criminal charges of con spiracy to keep up tho price of fresh meats, contrary to the Sherman anti trust law, and to turn tho twelve men over to the defense's counsel for ex amination. "/'••' .. Mr. Wllkerson said ho thought tho jury could be completed by night. John S. Miller, chief counsel for the beef barons, predicted that tho task of se lecting twelve unprejudiced men would consume tho entire week. Ten of-the government's 30 challenges were exhausted In selecting the first eleven men. Today the packers were expected to use as many of their SO. Six of tho twelve men acceptable to the government were believed to be certain to be forced out of the Jury box because they were farmers and stock shippers. The Impression was that stockmen "'have It In for the packer*. The center of tho packers' defense, os shown hy questions put to prospec- Continued on Last Page. FOR THE EMPTY STOCKING. Here are the subscriptions received Thursday for the Empty Stocking fund: Previously acknowledged .... --SSL!® Walter K. Mitchell. East Lake .. 5.00 Orace and Ruth Goldin, Drake- town • • • '•••■• -J® Mildred Browne. Savannah -Itt Lucy and Lelah Thompson. 153 Ashby *! "Buster- Bird, Corner .50 Loin Powers. Montlcrllu 3.110 A Friend, Montlcello 1-Ofl Boise Peed,' Butler 1» r- Photos Copyright by Harris & Ewing. At the left is a snapshot of Sanator Hok* Smith on his way to his first nation. It looks like a windy day in Washington. Above ia a flashlight of the opening of tho aaoond aataion of tho house of tho eivty-aeoond congress. Spaakar Clark has just oallod the moating to order and Chaplain Coudon Is loading in prayar. This viaw ia takan from tho Republican tide and tha Demoorats are facing tha camsra. VICTORY IS CLAIMED . AT 3 HEADQUARTERS Each Manager Declares His Man Will Carry More Than Both the Others. RETURNS TO CANDIDATES There Will Be No “Squealing” by the Brothers on Their - Dynamiting Pals. Loa Angsles, Dso. 7c—James B. Mc Namara and his' brother,' John, today flatly.refused to testify before the Fed era1 grand Jury probing tho alleged dynamite plot which has resulted In ex plosions In all parts of the' United States. . At 11 o'clock, the brothers .were still In tbelr cells In the county-Jall and had asserted this morning .that taking them over to the grand Jury room would be a waste ■ of time., 'They -sold they would not "come thru District Attorney John D. Fredericks, who endeavored tO'Induce them to tes tify, saying that If they did they might earn shortening of their sentences in the state prison, was not surprised by their attitude. "They need not testify," he said. “We have plenty of evidence without them and we ran establish the crimes we hope to prove without the story of these boys. It was their chance to do some thing for the state and the state might have' remembered It when the time comes,as It surely will, that these boys ask the pardon‘board, to shorten their sentences. As far as proving the case joes, we have the proof. I have given everything we had to tho Federal au thorities. They wilt-find It sufficient.” When tha Federal grand Jury assem bled Assistant District Attorney Reagan outlined the esse to tho Jurors. He was closeted with them for more than an hour, explaining. It to believed, the 1 general plan of the Investigation. It Is now believed that Ortle McManl- gal will be the first witness summoned. It Is reported that a certain San Fran cisco labor man will be called tomorrow and that he will give testimony In Im portance second only to that given by McManlgaL State House Officials Go Home to Vote—Hoke Smith Hete From Washington. •'One o'clock and all's well." was tho cry that rang out from tha Pop* Brown watch tower In tho Kimball house at 1 o’clock Thursday afternoon. The echo camo bock from tho Joe Brown sentry box over the American National-bank, COne o'clock'and all’s well."1 And'It re-echoed'from the Russell signal sta- tbm III the Klin hill!. Taking the T.o'clock claims given ’out fl'nln the three K uti.'l Tlilt'.T l.il headquar ters os the truth, the wholo truth'and nothing but the truth, free from nil ex- apgei'iilh'ii, i .1 .J u.lli r, it ml bin*, n "t one. but three, candidates for governor'will havo been • nominated when tho votes lire all In aiol i.unite,I Thursday night. For each of. the campaign managers claims a sweeping victory for his Cham' plan. Pops Brown Claims. Volney Williams, campaign manager for [Pope Brown, lusued tin, following statement at 1-o'clock: *«. “Reports from our leaders In the con- gressiomil distil.ts show Hint Pope Hrowri Is recolving more country votes than Russell and Joe Brown combined. Every report received Is * exceedingly encouraging Of-course'oil reports at GREAT-TOWN,"ATLANTA,, SAYS JUDS0N HARMON this time are more or less speculative, hut tha tide Is running strong for Pope Brown. I truly believe thiX he Will car. ry more counties than Hoka'Smlth car. tied last year, when he won In 90. Fopo Brown la evidently receiving prac- 11, .illy the solid Iloke. Smith vole and drawing largely from the Joe Rrown prohibition supporters. "Reports from a greats many Pope Brown strongholds and from fifteen counties that have been considered doubtful show Pope Brown much stronger than hod been anticipated by his friends, and - Indicate tbat he will carry moro' counties than Judge Russell and Governor Brown combined. Par ties well acquainted with conditions In Fulton county placo Fulton safe In tho Pope Brown column. All opposition has glvi'M up In Ilihb ri,limy and Fnpn Brown supporters are colebratlng with a brass band. Telegrams from Ben Hill, Tift. Thomas, Ware, Coffee, Sum ter, Dooly, Houston. Newton. Haralson and Morgan nil point mrongly tq largo pluralities for Pope Brown In each county." From Russell’s Manager. At 1 o'clock-James. B.- Nevln, Judge Richard B. Russell's campaign mana ger.'gave out the following statement: “News from all parts' of'‘Georgia at this hour Indicate tho absoluto accu- IT'S WOMAN’S DAY AT THE CORN SHOW Girls Have Splendid Exhibit of Canned Fruits and Variety of Vegetables. MANY PRIZES ON THE LIST Great Work Toward Increased Production and Larger Prof its Done by Competition. J-i-I-H-H-H-I-l-l'l-H-H-I-t-HH-H $ FREE ADMISSION AT NIGHT 4- + TO PUPILS AND TEACHERS 4- + - — ' - 4* 4* The Corn show commlttoo nn- 4« 4* nouncos that pupils of the public 4 4* schools and students of tho Tech, 4* + a. M. A. and Marlst college, City 4* 4* High schools and their teoohers 4* 4* will bo admitted to tho Com show 4* + free Thursday night and Friday 4* 4* night. 4* 4* The show will be liept open 4* 4* these nights in order to give the 4* 4- schools an opportunity to see the 4* 4* exhibits before tho show closes. 4* 4* Woman's day at the Southern Corn show witnessed a continuance of tho marked Interest In the great exposition of Georgia products. "How Adam delved and Eve span” would have been Continued on Last Psflo. THURSDAY THE DAY TO NAME Indications Are That a Good Vote, Considering Registra- .tion* Will Be Polled. GUILTY PARTIES —DETECTIVE BURNS. Famous Sleuth Who Ran Down McNamara Brothers Makes Startling Accusation. , CALLS HIM A “BUNCO” MAN Declares That “Little Cigar Maker” Knows Who Is Re sponsible for Outrages. / 4- GOMPER8 HAS NO GUILTY 4- 4- KNOWLEDGE, 8AYB OFFICIAL + Washington, Dec. 7.—Contra cy 4- 4- to tho opinion expressed by Do- -r 4* tectlvo Burnx that Samuel Own- 4- pars knew of the guilt of the Mo- 4- 4- Nam ara brothers some time before + 4- their confessions, Stanley W. + 4* Finch, chief of the bureau of In- 4- 4* vestlgatlon of the department of -j- Justice, declared his belief that 4- 4- Gompers had no guilty knowledge 4- 4- of the dynamiting. 4- hH-H-i JtUSH TO POLLS IN ATLANTA Early Reports Received at the Different Headquarters Give No Accurate Forecast. This 1* the day. Democrats of Georgia are conducting a stale-wide primary ejection to nomi nate candidates for governor and com missioner of commerce and labor. Re- us nour indicate me ansomm accu- 15®?^. ttll^nnn lndl cat cd that°a reason- Lscld SiaZ' &?i‘‘SS 1 ™ ably ^arge °perccnto go of the registered I salt; that Ault,' Russell ■ would get v# jJ WOU |j b0 cilatj „ ot „nly In Atlanta and Fulton county, but over the atate os a whole. The weather oould not Photo by .Mathewson. ‘ * PAXON AND HARMON. Colonel F. J. Paxon. president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, which I* sponsor for the corn show, and Gov ernor Judson Harmon of Ohio, tha guest of honor, were caught by the camera as the Ohioan wng-pointing more electoral votes than both of the Browns-put together, and'I'am firmly convinced .that this Is: precisely what has tanpcneil In Georgia today. Wins from oil parts of'the stato. Indicate nothing short of la Russell. landslide. Every ono of tho big -ix r-uinii.1, go ing 'for Russell, with tho possible ex ception of Blhb, and the Joo Brown forces arc fighting desperately- to save that county for themselves. Reports from all'of the four-vote counties lndl- cate a.tremendous Russell vote. "I am thoroughly satisfied that Rus sell has beaten- them both to an abso lute frizzle., Ho I, to be Georgia’s next governor.” • - Joe Brown Prediction. At the Joe Brown headquarters, the following statement was given out at 1 o'clock: "Our reports at 1 o'clock were 60 per cent' better than expected. They Indi cate that Governor Brown la winning by. a good majority. Judgo ■ Mose Wright Just called up from Rome and says all sides are conceding Floyd to Governor Brown. Jacob S. • Collins wires from Savanah that the governor is -In. the lead there, anil will carry ’Chatham county. He Is getting mofe votes In Muscogee than the other two. We are leading In 40 or 60 counties we lost last year. Wo have not re ceived a single bad report," Telegrams Are Posted. Telegrams, with favorable news from over the state for tha respectlvo coun ties,'are posted st reach headquarters, where numbers of enthusiastic support ers are gathered, eager for news of the election. Tift. Haralson, Ware, Sumter, Ap pling. Bibb, Ben Hill, Dooly and oth ers are claimed for Pope Brown In tha telegram* received at his headquarter*. Messages posted at Joe Brown head quarter* predict sweeping Joe Brown victories ip Cobb, Telfair, Butts, Doug las, Oreert. Morgan, Henry. Lauren*. Rockdale, Ware. Muscogee, Dodge. Jackson, Coffee, Taylor, Taliaferro and other counties. 'Telegrams posted in Russell head quarters from Chatham, Gwinnett. Madison. Richmond and other counties are that Judge Russell to making a runaway race In those counties. Diak and Jpa Vote, The two Browns were at their head- noon. Judge Russell wll Thursday night In time to hear the re turns. Pope Brown did not go to his home at Hawklnaville to cast a ballot. Ho came lo Atlanta Wednesday night _ _ _ and lias been here all day. Joe Brown with admiration st the Atlanta sky voted at Marietta, his home, before 10 two Browns appeared to be leading and Continued on Pag* Three. C°ntinued on Paa* This*. have been moro Ideal for an eloctlon, considering that this to December, when it would Just as likely have been rain ing. freozlng or snowing as tho clear crisp day that it is. A total vote of 160.000 for the wholo atate and of 12,- 000 for Fulton county Is not In the least Improbable. Polls In tho cities opened at 7 o'clock Thursday morning, and will close at 7 o’clock ot night. In tho rural districts and small towns the polls opened at S o’clock and close at 3 o’clock In the afternoon. Returns from tho rural dis tricts and emaller counties will begin coming In to the now-sgapera and cam paign headquarters about 4 o'clock, and by 6 o'clock there should be a fair In dication of how a largo part of tho rural voto has gone. Early voting In tho Atlanta precincts eras heavy, hundreds of business men and mechanics going to tho polls before starting to their places of business. In tho larger city precincts long lines of voters waited their turn to get to the ballot boxes: Confidence of victory was evidenced at each of the three gubernatorial cam paign headquarters Thureday morning. Reports were being received from workers and supporters In and out of Atlanta. ■ Claims of success on election day ore Just os strong as they havo been In the past few days Immediately preceding the balloting. There Is no In dication of a landslide victory for any one of the three candidates. Complete returns must come In from at least half the counties of the state before any really definite Idea con be obtained as to what the final result will be. FIRST WARD. Three hundred votes were polled in this ward up to 2 o'clock. It Is a light vote and all the candidates are claim ing a plurality. However, It la conced ed that Judge Ruaaell to probably stronger in this ward than he la In any other In the city and that he will get a considerable vote. SECOND WARD. The vote In tho Second reached 750 by 2 o'clock, Joe Brawn’s workers In sisting that they have a plurality. The race In this ward seems to bo between Pope Brown and Jo* Brown, with Judge Russell the third man. THIRD WARD. Voting In the Third ward went on very slowly up to 2 o’clock. By that tlmo only 610 votes had hc-n cast out of a registration list of nearly 5.800 and very littl— Interest was shown. Now York, Dae. 7.—Detective Wil liam J. Burns, arriving in New York from Philadelphia, today gave out nn Interview In which he declared that Samuel J. Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, was u man "higher up" In the McNamara dynamiting cases. It was Burns who ran down and convicted the McNamara brothers. am satisfied." said Burns, "that Mr. Gompers knew at the tlmo the first piece of structural Iron work was dyna mited back In 1908 -who was responsi ble for It. The onss to be condemned and punished are the 'bunco' men like Gompers." IL was made known today that the Federal government was closely watch ing the movements of Mr. Gompers. Reports were received from Wash ington today to the effect that a war rant haa been Issued for the arrest of Frank M. Ryan, president of tho In ternational Aeaoclatlon of Bridge and Bructural Iron Workers and the In timate aspoctato of John J. McNamara. Mr. Ryan Is In Wnshlngton today, where the heads of the American Fed eration of Labor are In conference. Later In the day Burns mndo the fol lowing statement: "I dare Gompers to make an affidavit that he did not know all about these things. I am willing to make an am - davit, and I havo evldenco to support It, that Gompers camo to IndlannpoiiH and sat down and talked with tho men who wore working with the McNa maras. He waa in session nt Indianapolis with men who were planning to dyna mite. Gompers Is against me. Every anarchtot In the country took hla cun from Gompers. It was from Sam Gom pers that tho anarchists got tholr In spiration. Every man who could Hpout from a street corner was on the Job. “He came to Indianapolis and sat down and talked to the men who were working with the McNamaras. Tho men at these .conferences at Indianap olis made It appear that tho American Federation of Labor waa behind them. I am not prepared, however, to soy that this 1s so. "But I do know that some of tha Mg men In the federation were lending their assistance, their activities, to tho cause of the McNamaras. I know that Gompers was In session nt Indianapolis with the men who were planning to dynamite. "The obvious Intention of all this talk wax to have a crank take a shoe •trot." "What Is your reason for coming to Contlnurif on Lait Pag*. <Sf HARD If’ hard hill to nSss life toda; you're Inclined lo that folks will kn hold you down USE GEORGIAN WANT ADS. V