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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. TIMKSDAY. JINE 1™1 7 SOME PERTINENT QUERIES ASKED BY JUDGE BATEMAN the following card, asking several pertinent questions of candidates con cerning city politics and affnlrs, has been received by The Georgian: Editor of The Georgian: The city executive committee has celled the primary for August 22 next, end candidates have been making an nouncements. Their friends and the friends of good government have brought them out. Of course, they ere not self-constituted. Their valua ble services are sought by others. But upon what principles are these candl- dates running? Upon what platform have their friends and these friends pf good government put them? Are we f tlU to have the old song, "We are for Atlanta," and when they get In turn their backs on Atlanta, by attempting to sell our water'workB and getting them in the hands of n private cor poration, and do other like damage? Are not there many Issues upon which these candidates should be made to declare themselves for or against? If not, with what Intelligence can u clllzen cast his vote? 1. Are these candidates In favor of our present uniform and ad volorem system of taxation, and do they favor and ad vocate a strict. Just and equal assess ment of property for same? Are they opposed to or nre they In favor of any Increase In the present rate of taxa tion? 2. Is not the license tax for the priv ilege of carrying on business in our city In many Instances unequal, un just and oppressive? Will they favor the regulation of such tax as shall be just and fair to all business enter' prises? 3. Bo they recognise that monopolies oppress and hinder others In the pur suit of business enterprises, and that they prevent competition and leave the people at their mercy? Are they in favor of and will they contend for equal justice to all, and. special priv ileges to none? 4. Do they favor municipal regula tion by appropriate legislation of all street railway and telephone systems, and the electric and gas light plants and all other public utilities, and ab solute ownership when necessary for the protection of the people? 5. Do they recognize that ward pri maries Is "home rule." and will lessen the expenses of holding elections? Are they In favor of such primaries for pl- dermen and councllmen, and through out the city for mayor and officers of the heads of departments: or do they favor changing the election of the last named from the people to the council, and from the council to tho people at the will of tho officeholder who Is ichemlng for reelectlon? 6. Do they recognize that there ought to be a. law enacted by which shall be created for the city a railway and civil service commission to be se lected by a majority vote of the peo ple In the same manner as that of mayor and other heads of departments with authority to regulate street rail way and telephone systems and elec tric and gas light plants and other pub lic utilities, and with authority to se lect the necessary number of subor dinates for each department, and to determine the fitness and qualification ?h.m » J ub o/dlnates and remove . 5 for J “ 5t cau,e b >' complaint made and established, and with such other authority for the protection of tne people, usually delegated to such commissions? . 7 - P° they recognize that it would be Just and fair to the people to en- a £»vortne a four-year term of ofnee for the heagg of departments, and that none of them shall be eligible for election to & third successive term, or are they in favor of continuous sue* ceeslon and schemes to keep them In? s. Do they favor or are they op posed to nepotism, that ts. the beitow- MJbdnage In consideration of re lationships. rather than of merit or le gal claim? «. Do they recognize for the past >'* ar » th « whiskey traffic In i 1 ** b,en b * ,, * r regulated and controlled than In any other city In the United •States; and are they op- poaed to or do they favor a continuation of kuch regulation and control, and are they opposed to any agitation that will disturb the quiet and peace'of bur city on this subject? 10. Do they recognize that recently a scheme was on foot and an effort was made to dispose of our water works to a private corporation at the exnense of the people, and to further fasten cor porate grip upon them by taking their last nnd only public utility? Are they In? favor of auch, or are they against It. Do they recognize that we are In need of a city hail nnd auditorium that will accommodate the present and future growth of our city, and do they favor, as early as practicable, the pur chase of a lot suitable and convenient ly situated for such purpose? 12. Are they In favor of, or are they against Judicial and legislative officers accepting free passes, franks, etc., from corporations? 13. And last, but not least: Are they In favor of reasonable sal* aries for the officers of the heads of departments, that ts, such as will rea sonably compensate them and subor dinates for the services performed, and such as are usually paid for such like services by private Individuals, ffrms, companies and private corporations; or are they In favor or not-of taxing the poople to pay such high salaries as they would not pay In their own pri vate buslnes for such like service? These are Issues, live Issues, that the people are interested In. Let the candidates speak out, or let the people- get together In convention and make a platform upon which their candidates shall stand. J. N. BATEMAN. June 26, 1606. At the Casino. Fsw’ better vaudeville offerings have come this way than the ffno collection of specialty acta which are holding the boards of the Casino this week at Ponce DeLeon. Alme. Rcnz, with her beautiful, Intelligent horses; the Broth ers Meers on the tight wire; Water- burg Bros, and Tenny, In as clever a 7HE ANNUAL PROBLEM THE HARDEST CROP TO RAISE, B'Q08H." CRANK OFFERS TO TEACH JOHN D. TO SPEAK FRENCH musical act as one would care to see; LeRoy and Woodford, the Chadwick trio, and the Camerngraph complete a bill which has created more genuine praise than any other vaudeville at traction that haB been brought to At lanta In many seasons. Tho matinee. Thursday afternoon and the remaining performances during the week should draw splendid audiences to the Casino. Max Hoffman's own company of high-class vaudeville carefully selected from the leading musical comedy or ganizations of America will appear at tho Casino nil next week. , The company numbers over thirty people, and Includes a number of great feature nets. kMtrn in IM ve r nacular of tho vaudeville stage as "head-liners." Possibly the most fa mous artist on tho program Is "Silv ers" Oakley, the clown, who ha* Just closed a remarkable engagement at the New York Hippodrome. Hla long en gagement In Now York has made him a popular Idol at tho Hippodrome, es pecially with the children. He will introduce his laughable baseball trav esty and his burlesque on "The Dip of Death." the great sensational act of tho llamutft & Ballsy circus. By WILLIAM HOSTER. Special Cable—Copyright. Compelgne. France, June 28.—John D. Rockefeller bad his second experi ence with a crank yesterday since ho ha* been In France. This llmt It yas an Englishman who had aead In Paris that the richest man in the world did not speak French. He came all the way to Rockefeller's cha teau to try to persuade the billionaire to- be taught French, assuring him that It could be learned In two week*. Tho Englishman met Rockefeller as the latter stopped at the gate of the chateau to talk with your correspond ent. Mr. Rockefeller wss returning from a visit to the,market and had n number of brown paper parcels con taining raspberries, peaches and flow er*. "Can I have a few minutes’ talk with PRISON FOR SHEPARD FOR KILLING A CHILD Special Cable. London, June 18.—Elliott F. Shep ard. of New York, will have to go to prison for killing a child with his au tomobile. His apprnl to a higher court has been decided unfavorable to him. CHARGES OF GRAFT AT SOLDIERS' HOME Special to The Oaorglsn. Chattanooga, Tenn., Juns 28.—Tho arguments In ths esse of the National Soldiers' Homs of Johnson City vs. J. E. Parrish were as sensational a* the briefs charge. Charges wero made In the Federal court that lh^ >104,000 which was spent on the oonstruction of the home by John Q. Unkefer was much larger than waa necessary and Insinuations wers mads openly that ths money was appropriated by some one rather than on the bulldlnga. The opin ions of Charles A. Foreman. C. P. Holtsclaw nnd J. D. Weaver, leading architects of the East, In which they said that the work should not have co«t over >46,000, were cited in the trial as good rensons for ths chnrgo of "grafting." The attorneys for tho defendant. Tt. B. L. Mountcaatle, of Knoxville, and Harr A Burrow, of Johnson City, charged that the payroll wn* extravagant and fraudulent nnd >40,000 In excess of the real payroll, and that many painters, carpenters, etc., were employed who Idled away their time, and that much of the work done by these workmen had to be done over again. Appointed Pastor. Hperlal to The fleorston. Newberry, 8. C.. June M.—Rev. John H. Oraves, for the past few years pas tor of ths West End Methodist church, this city, and student at Vsndsrbllt University since January, has been ap pointed pastor at Marlon. 8 C., fl* successor to Dr, J. A. CUftWt degassed. Nsw Trial Denied. Special to Tbe Georgian. Chattanooga, Tenn., June 28.—Judge C, D. Clark has dented C. J. Martin a new trial In ths O'Rear small pox peat house suit. In which tho plaintiff want ed >10,000 dniriagp* becnu»e the pe»t house was built near his property. you, please?” said Uft crank. .Mr. Rockefeller became alarmed, and aald he was here to rest and excused himself, but the crank persisted. "I don't want you to give me. any thing," said the Englishman. ”1 want to give you something: I want to teach you French. I ran do It ao that you will he able to speak the language In two week*. - ' Mr. Rockefeller seemed to he very much relieved. He thanked the En glishman smilingly nnd said: ••pm very sorry, but I really haven t time. Besides I manage to get along very well with English. Everybody seems to spenk It. Good day.” Then tho crank Insisted that It was Mr. Itockefeller'a duty to become ac quainted with the beatitlen of the French language and left In a huff. Aa n manor of fact. Rockefeller ha* been making u°e of an easy method of learning conversational French. JUDSON CLEMENTS Dj Private Leased Wire. Wftflhlnpton, June 2S—In Administra tion circle* ft waa made known t«»day that tho president ha* practically de cided on three members whom he will Appoint a* new member* of the Inter state commerce romml*nlon when tho railroad rate blllf which provide* that the commission shall be compo*ed «»f eeven member*, *hall have become a law. They are: Jame* 8. Harlan, of Illinois; K. K. (Mark, of Iowa; Franklin Lane, of Caii- f"i nl.i. The present commissioners, Martin A. Knapp, New York; Charles A. Prou- ty, Vermont: Judson C. Clement*. Georgia, and Francis M. Cockrell, Mis souri. will be reappointed, It l* stated. The now commission will be com* poffed of four Republican* nnd three Democrat*, tho political dlvl*ion being Knapp, Prouty, Harlan ami Clark, Re publican*: Cockrell, Lane and Clem ent*, Democrats. 000 0 000000080000000 0 o O TERRE HAUTE MAYOR 0 O REMOVED BY COUNCIL. O O By Private Leased Wire. 0 O Terre Haute, Ind., June 2*.— O O Under Impeachment proceed- 0 O Ings, the city council ha* found 0 O Mayor Bondman guilty nnd hn* O O removed him from office. Ho O O whs charged with having wll- 0 O fully neglectod to enforce the O O law* against saloons and gam- O O Ming. O O O 00000000000000OO000 HE J UNGL E” REVELATIONS OF CRIMES Of .BEEF PACKERS ByUPTC IN SIN CLAIR | 1 w . ====== CHAPTER VII (Continued). They carried him to a dry place and Uld him on tho floor, and that night two of the men helped him home. The poor old man was put to bed, and, though he tried It every morning until the end, he never could get up again. He would lie there and cough and cough, day and night, wasting away to a mere skeleton. There came a time when there was so little flesh on him that the bones began to poke through -which was a horrible thing to see or even to think of. And one night he hud a choking flt, and a little river blood came out of his mouth. The family, wild with terror, sent for a doctor, and paid a half dollar to be told that there was nothing to be done. Mercifully the doctor did not say this ■o that the old man could hear, for he waa still clinging to the faith that tomorrow or next day he would be bet ter, and could go back to hi* Job. The company had sent word to him that they would keep It for him—or rather Jurgls had bribed one of the men to come one Sunday afternoon ami say they had. Dede An tanas con tinued to believe it, while three more hemorrhage* came: and then at last one morning they found him stiff and rold. Things were not going well with them then, and though It nearly broke Teta Elzbieta’s heart, they were forced lf > dispense with nearly all the de- renrie?, C f ft funeral; they had only * hearse, and one hack for the wom en an«l children; and Jurgls, who was learning fast, spent all day Sunday making a bargain for thesfe, and he ■we It in the presence of witnesses, f? that when the man tried to charge Jim for all sorts of Incidentals, he did hot have to pay. For twenty-five pars old Antanas Rudkus and hi* son had dwelt In the forest together; and Jf hard to part in this way; 'per haps, It was Just as well that Jurgls had to give air his attention to the task of having a funeral without bo ng bankrupted, and so had no time to indulge in memories ami grlet •W the dreadful winter was come Jp°n them. In the forests, all summer Jong, the branches of the trees do bat ik for ftnd *°me of them lose {nd die; and then come the raging Jtasts, Ln< j ^ .forms of snow and strew the ground with these Jpk* P branches. Just so it was In faekingtown; the whole district “fac'd itself for the struggle that was jn agony, and those whose time was died off In hordes. Ail the year Jound they had been sewing as cogs thr- great packing house machine; •nd now waa the time for the reno- New Minton China. We cordially invite those interested in Artistic China b call to see our new im portations of English makes, Minton is especially at- tactive with its odd designs lri( i unusual coloring. Maier & Berkele. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS lit au actual Tacklngtown romance. The first chapter shows a hroad-zhontdered butcher being wedded to n young girl who sees In hltn s hero. Tho wedding, In all It* grotew|ueuc«s, fa described. Practically penulles*, Jurats tells bis bride she shall not return to work In tbo packing house—he will work early aad late. On arrival In* Chicago. J. Szcdrilns. a Lithuanian, who ran n delicatessen store In Packlngtown, guided Jurgls, Onn, Msrljn nnd tho remainder of tho party through the stock yards, after be had given them lodging. The little coterie decided to purchnse n house. They were to noy $12 a mouth for It. They liud thsy have been swindled—amt the company charges such In terest that they t wlll toeonshtejojioy. •a. ‘ Yesterday's instalment or the story rentes in par ..—lly; tells how, after the r»nl estsu* ag**nt hud la. —_ to pay large Interest on the house; HtnnlsIornN. tbe little hoy, was sent to work, with rt certificate which lied. In that It save his age as sixteen. It Is told how Antanas. working like s slave. Is finally a victim of saltpetre poisoning. On*, too, has to seek work. She pays ten dollars tribute to a forelady who engngex her—and she gets but eight or ten dollars n w»-k f< r ngonlxluic labor. Pea Bpi pains rack her—yet she must work. And Jurgls foils on. the manhood being sit tint'd from him by the horrible grind of the merciless lords at Packlngtown. Copyright. 190S, by Upton Sinclair. All rights reserve4l. Published by courtesy of Doubleday, Page A Co. vatlng of It, and the replacing of dam aged part*. There came pneumonia and grippe, stalking among them, seek ing for weakened constitutions; there was the annual harvest of those whom tuberculosis had been dragging down. There came .cruel, cold and biting winds, and bllszarda of snow, all test ing relentlessly for falling muscles and Impoverished blood. Sooner*or later came the day when the unfit one did not report for work; and then, with no time in waiting, and no Inquiries pr regrets, there was a chance for a new hand. , t L The new hands were here by the thousand*. All day Ion# the gates of the packing house* were besieged by starving and penniless men; they cam* literally by the thousands every single morning, lighting with each other for a chance for life. Blli- —-n,« ,nd cold made no difference to them—they were always on hand; they were on hand two hour* before the sun rose, an hour before the work be gan. Sometime, their fare, froze; sometimes their feet end sometimes they froze ell taceth« r - b tri still they ceme, for they bed no other ^One^dgy Durham advertised In the neper for 200 men to cut Ice; and ell that day the homeles* and starving of the city cam# trudging ‘htaugh th* enow from *11 over It* 200 squsre mile*. That night forty score of them crowded Into the station house of Jb« stock yard* district—they flll«i the rooms, sleeping In eech other’s Jape, toboggan fashion, and they plled on topofeach other In the confer* I|M th* police shut the doors sad left some to freeze outside. On the morroer. be fore daybreak, there were 2,000 at Durham's, and the police "serve, had to be sent for to <m*»l_tb* rlet. T»*w Durham's bosses picked out twenty of tbe biggest: tbe 'Two hundrad proved tn have bean a printers error. Four or five mile* to.th# lair the lake, and over this the bitter winds ceme raging. Sometimes the thermometer would fell to 10 or » de gree* below zero at night, and In *■* morning the street* would be piled with snowdrift* up to the window* The street* through which llf friends had to go to their work were unSved end full of deep hole* end gullies: In summer when If rained hard, a men might have to '* hi* to get to hi* house; in winter It was no Joke get ting through these places, beforo light In the morning and after dark at night. They would wrap up In all they owned, but they could not wrap up against exhaustion; and many a man gave out In theso battles with the snowdrifts, and lay down and fall asleep. And If It was bad for the men, one may Imagine how the women and chil dren fared. Some would ride In the cars, If the cars were running; but when you are making only 8 centa an hour, as was little Stanlslovos, you do not like to spend that mu£h to ride 3 miles. The ehltfrai vmM come to the yards with great shawls about their eats, and ao tied up that you could hardly And them—and still there would be accidents. One bitter morn ing In February, the little boy who worked at the lard machine with Stanlslovas came about an hour late, and screaming with pain. They un wrapped him, and a man began vig orously rubbing hi* ears; and as they were frozen stiff It took only two or three rubs to break them short off. As a result of this, little Stanlslovas conceived a terror of the cold that was almost a mania. Every morning when It came time to start for the yards, he would begin to cry and protest. Nobody knew S uite how to manage him, for threats Id no good—It seemed to be some thing thaf he could not control, and they feared sometimes that he would go into convulsion*. In the end, it had to be arranged that he alwaya went with Jurgls, and cam# home with him again; and often, when the snow was deep, the man would carry him the whole way on fils shoulders. Sometimes Jurgls would be working until late at night, nnd then It was pitiful, for there was no-place for the little fellow to wait, save In the door- ) wavs or In a comer of the killing bed*, and he would all but fall asleep there, n! freeie to death. There was no heat upon the killing j beds; the men might exactly as well * have worked out of door* all win ter. For that matter, there was very little h*at anywhere Ip the building, . except In the cooking rooms and such [ places—and it wa* the men who work ed In these places who ran the meet risk of all, because whenever they had to pass to another room they bad to go through Ice cold corridor*, and J sometime* with nothing on above the waist except a ulecvelesa undershirt. On the killing beds you were npt to bo covered with blood, and It would treezo solid; If you landed against a pillar, you would freezo to that, and If you put your hand upon the blada of your knife, you would run a chitm-c of leav ing your *kin> upon It. The men would tie up their feet In. tU'WHpnporH and <-ld nicks, and then* would bo soaked in blood and frozen, and then soaked again, and so nn until by night tlmo a man would bo walk Ing on great lumps the aizo of tho feet of an elephant. Now nnd then, when the bosses were not looking, you would see them plunging their feet nnd kle« Into tti«- Mt.imlng hot i;tivnMH «.f the steer or darting across the room to the hot water Jet*. The cruelest thing of all was that nearly all of them—all those who used knives—were unable to wear gloves, and their orma would bo white with frost and their hnnds would grow numb, and then of course there would be accidents. Also the air would be full of steam from the hot water and the hot blood, so that you could not see five feet beforo you; and with men rushing about at the speed they kept up --n th.- killing beds, and nil with butcher knives, like razors. In their hands—well. It waa to bo counted as a wonder that there were nof more men slaughtered than cattle. And yet all this Inconvenience they might have put up with, If only It had not been for one thing—If only there had been some place where they might eat, Jurgls had either to eat his din ner amid the stench In which he had worked, or else to rush, os did all his companions, to any one of the hun dreds of liquor stores which stretched out their arms to him. .To the west of the yards ran Ashland avenue, and here was an unbroken line of saloons— "Whisky Kow,” they called It; to the BOftfe vm Fbriy-seventh street, where 8N9S u**re half a dozen to tlia'fcRNAfc aa# at tbs angle of tbs tw# waa “Whisky Point, a.apace of fifteen or 1 twenty acre*, and containing one glue factory and about two hundred saloons. One might walk among these and take hi* choice: "Hot pea soup and boiled cabbnge today;” "Sauerkraut and hot frankfurters, walk In;” "Bean I soup and stewed lamb, welcome.” All : of the»*e thing* were printed In many [ language*, os were also the names of the resort*, which were Infinite in their variety and appeal. There was the "Home Circle” end the "Coeey Cor ner;” there were "Flfresldee” and the “Hearthstones” and "Pleasure Pal aces'’ and "Wonderlands" and "Dream Castles" nnd "Love's Delights.” What ever else they were called they ware sure to be called "Union Headquar ters ” and to hold out a welcome to workingmen; and there was always a warm stove and a chair near It, and some friends to laugh and talk with. There wa* only on# condition attach ed—you rnu*t drink. If you went In not Intending to drink you would get your head split open with a beer bot tle in the bargain. But all of the men understood the convention and drank; they believed that by It they were get ting something for nothing—for they did not need. to take more than one IFF UPTON 8INCLAIR. Author of **The Jungle.** vould thw when ho got home perhaps have to trudge soveral blocks, como staggering hack through snowdrifts with a bag of coal upon hi* shoulder. Homo wn* not a very at tractive place—at Ien*t not fhl* win ter. They had only been nblo t«> buy one stove, nnd this was n small on**, and i>? ■ \i <1 n*»t Mg enough to warm even {he kitchen in the Mttcirst weather. This made It hard for Tela Klzhlcta all dny, nnd for tho children when they could not get to school. At night they would nil huddled around thin ntovc, while they at#* their supper ofr their lap*; nnd then Jurgls and Jonas would smoke a pipe, after M< h th< v. "i,id 4 iaw l Into their beds to get worm, after putting out the Are to save tho coal. Then they would haw ..<lii4* f i I k h t fill ek|MTl<‘f|ceH vtlfh the cold- They would sleep with all their clothes on, Including their over- ronts, and put over them all the hed ging am! spare clothing they own^d: the children would hMco nil crowiled Into one bed, nnd yet even mo they • '"ild not kt*ep u a i hi The outMld* one* would he shivering amt nobbing, crawling "Vi-r tf»*• others and trying to get «li»wn Into the center, and causing a fight. This old house with th** leaky weatherboards wa* n very different thing from their plastereii cabin* *t home, with great thick mud wall* plas tered Inside nnd outside with mud. and the cold which came upon them huh a living thing, a demon-presence In the room. They would waken in the mid night hour*. wbei> everything wn* black; perhaps they would hear It yelling outside, or perhsp* there w-4iuld he deathlike MlUncn* and thst would would be wmrse yet. They could feel the cold as It crept In through the cracks, reaching out for them with Its Icy, death-dealing Angers; and they would crouch and cower nnd try to hide from it, all in vain. It would come, and It w^mld come; a grisly thing, a spectre born In the black caverns of terror; a power primeval, cosmic, shadowing the tor ture* of the lost souIh (lung out to he went back he did not *hlver *o, he had more courage for his task; the deadly brutalizing monotony of it did not afflict him so—he had Idea* while he worked, and took a more cheerful view of hi* circumstance*. On »the way home, however, the shivering wa# apt to come on him again; and so he would have to stop once or twice to warm up against the cruel cold. A* there were hot thing* to eat In this saloon, too, he might get home late to Til* supper, or he might not get home at all. And then his wife might set out to look for dilm, and she, too, would feel the cold; and perhaps she would have some of th# children with her—and so a whole family would drift Into drinking as the current of a river IPI. Wi ■. L ... drifts dow'iv stream. And If to com- drink, and upon the strength of It they I piete the chain, tha packers ail paid might mi themselves up with a good ! their men In check*, refusing all re time; and so he got the reputation of being a surly fallow, and waa not quite welcome at tha saloons, and had to drift About from one to another. Then at night he would go straight home, helpint On* and Stanlslovas, or often putting the former 6n a car. And chaos and denti Iron-hard; and would cringe In There would be: they cried out; i no mercy. And when they wov day of toll, little nearer t would be their turn the tree. (Continued In Torn nfte is cruel, »ur they e, alone.' them if no help, ornlng— another th. hot dinner. Thl* did not always work• out In practice, however, for there w«e pretty •ure to he a friend who would treat you. and then you would have to treat him. Th'n some one else would come In—snd. anyhow, a few drink* were good for a man who worked hard, ,\* quests to pay In coin; and where in Packlngtown could a man go to have hla check cashed but to » saloon, where be could pay for the favor by spending a pert of the money? For all of thee, things Jurgls was saved because of Onn. JI" never would take hut the urn drink at noon- 1 Removed to Larger Quarters WHERE WF. ARE NOW PREPARED TO, DO THE HIGHEST CLASS OP Commercial Printing at Reasonable Prices. Gate City Printing Company Bell Phone 2020. 23 K. Mitchell Street, Near Pryor.