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The Atlanta Georgian. VOL. I. NO. 80. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1900 i FIVE CENTfc JNO. D. WALKER DECLINES TO SERVE; “SELECT MAN OUTSIDE ASSOCIATION” FOUR EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK Nobody Chosen to Take His Place as Investigator. •‘BE BUSINESSLIKE,” ANDERSON SUGGESTS Representative J. Randolph Anderson Writes Letter to Hon. Harvic Jordan. 0000000000000000000000000a 0 HON. JOHN □. WALKER 0 0 DECLINES TO SERVE. 0 0 0 0 Special to* The Georgian. O 0 Sparta. Ga., July 28.—On 0 0 receipt of notice of hla ap- O O polntment on .the Investigating 0 O committee named by President 0 0 Jordan to Inquire Into the charges' O 0 made by Representative Anderson 0 0 relative to the officials of the 0 0 Southern Cotton Association hav- 0 O Ing an Interest in the Piedmont 0 O Brokerage. Hon. John D. Walker 0 0 Immediately wired President Jo,- 0 0 dan that It would be Impossible 0 0 for him to serve, and suggested 0 O that some one outside of the as- 0 0 soclatlon be named in hla place. 0 0000000000000000000000000O Hon. John D. Walker, of Sparta, treasurer of the Georgia’ division. Southern Cotton Association, who was appointed member of the Inveetlgatlng committee by President Harvie Jordan, declines to servo. He also suggests that some one out side of the association be named In hla place. Nothing has been heard from Hon. W. L. Peek or M. L. Johnson, the other two appointed committeemen, as to whether or not they will serve. It was stated at the headquarters of the Southern Cotton Association Satur- The following communication from Secretary Cheatham, of the Southern Cotton Association, has been handed The Georgian for publication: Prior to my connection with the Southern Cotton Association my time for many years had been given to growing cotton on my plantation In Mississippi. I had long felt that I waa not getting fair value' for the commodity I had to'sell, and, there- fore, hailed with pleasure the organisa tion of the association, believing it would be helpful to all producers. At its organisation I waa elected sec retary of the association without any day morning that nothing had been solicitation on my part, and many of heard from Mr. Walker. Hon. Harvie | my friends, especially my wife, oen- BUCKET SHOP INDORSED BY ATLANTA CREDIT MEN The Georgian has received the following letter from a subscriber, who la a merchant at Loganvllle, Ga.t “Editor of The Georgian: I sea from your paper that the Atlanta Credit Men's Association has been Jumping on you for an editorial on bucket shops. "I encloee herewith a circular lefter giving for reference, and to Induce confidence and trade, some of theee same nice folks. They tote water on both Ihouldera or somebody la fooling somebody. Read'It. "Very truly, "COUNTRY MERCHANT." Enclosed waa a circular Issued by L. J. Anderson & Co., of Atlanta, brokers and commission merchants. Manager Anderson, when questioned • by •» Georgian reporter, said the names as references were ueed by per mission. This company la declared to be a "bucket shop” by The Trade Index, of New Orleans, the authoritative cotton paper of the country. * The circular Issued by the Anderson company contained as references for reliability the following named firms having membership In tha Atlanta Credit Men’s Association: Arnold Hat Company. D. O. Dougherty, president of Dougherty-Ward-Little Compeny. J. C. Hallman, of Hightower, Hallman & Co. C. F. Batnwell, of Everett-Rldley-Ragan It Co. Truitt Sllvey Hat Company. John 'Sllvey A Co., by A. C. McHan. H. S. Anderson, of Anderson Hardware Compeny. Gramllng Spalding Company. s W. H. Kiser, of M. C. Kiser Company, SECRETARY CHEATHAM MAKES A STATEMENT Jordan was gut of the city, got having returned from Beqotp. wherp he went Friday morning. Mr, Walker's declining to serve and tits suggestion that some one outside of the association be appointed In his plaea will meet with tho general ap probation of nil who wish the charges against tho officials of tho Southern Cotton Association to be investigated Vigorously and wlthodt bios of frlend- «Mp or relation. And hla dacllnatlon to serve will re inforce many In the belief that Presl- flent Jordan mado a mistake In ap pointing subordinate officers of the Georgia division aa sole Judges and Investigators. EXPECT INVESTIGATION TO BE A “FROST.' On many aides it la believed that tbs Investigation Monday will he pretty much of a frost There ie no power In the committee to force' witnesses to be present and there Is no power to force answers to questions. Manager Love, of the Piedmont Brokerage Company, whose testimony would doubtleea be of great Importance to one aide or to the other, says he doesn't Intend to b^ present He says he doesn't car* to get further mixed up In the affair and that he will have business to attend to Monday morning. Representative J. Randolph Ander- eon, of Savannah, whose chargee made Tuesday In the house precipitated the afTalr, says In an open letter to Hon. Harvie Jordan that l?e Intends to be present, but declines absolutely to be placed In the position of prosecuting attorney or that of a defendant. 'Uggests that the investigation pursued In a business-like way ant like a kaleomlnlng exhibition. He eaya In his letter: "For the Inveetlgatlng committee to •It up and call a public court or trial, and Just Invite the public to come In and give Information, and then render Judgment upon what they might learn In this way would not. It seems to me, he satisfactory either to them or to the public or to the members of the South ern Cotton Association.” His card follows: MR. ANDERSON'S CARD TO HON. HARVIE JORDAN, Atlanta, Ga., July 27, 1204. Hon. Harvie Jordan, President South ern Cotton Association, Atlanta, Ga. Dear Sir: I am this* morning In re ceipt of your letter of July 2t advising me that you have appointed an Inveatt- aatlng committee, which will meet at lour office next Monday morning, the 30th instant, and requesting me to at tend that meeting. In reply I beg to say that It will give tue pleasure to attend the meeting of •be committee, and give them such In formation and assistance as I can In the conduct of their Investigation. 1 elated In my remarks In the house on •be 25th Instant that. It an Investigation was had. and I was dealred to do so, I would gladly give to the Investigating committee all the Information I had h»artng on tho subject matter of the Investigation, and would cheerfully co operate with them and give them such suggestions as I could to help them In •ue • nurse of their Investigation*. Now, It waa not my purpoee, neither 4 ? 1 Intend to be placed In the position « prosecuting attorney, and I moat cvrtalnly do nut propose to be placed sured me severely for accepting a po sition which. Involved my leaking my business In the hands of others. Be lieving that something could be done to benefit the cotton producers, of which I was one, I decided to under take tho work, and up to this time, notwithstanding the attacks of our en emies, have no regreti for having done so. The organisation of the Southern Cotton Association was a signal to the "vultures of commerce," the parasites who had been fattening upon tho cot ton producers, that their craft was In danger, and very naturally they rallied under their black flag to fight us. In pursuance with my work In the aeaoclatlon I have associated with ev ery class of men who at any point touched upon the cotton Interest— farmers, manufacturers, exchange members, bucket shop men, commission brokers, etc., from Galveston to New York. I have mixed up with them and have fathered much Information, which has been of value to mo In carrying on my work. The enemies of the associa tion have resorted to every method of warfare, and have at times deluded rep utable men and reputable newspapers Into giving them support for a season, much to the regret of these reputable men later on. The latest attack of the "vultures" through their spokesman 1s one aimed at my official Integrity as secretary of tha association. This attack Is due to the fact that the business men of Georgia, awake to the evils of future gambling, had projected into the Geor gia legislature a bill' for tta’ suppres sion, and the moral and commercial sense of the lower house had carrl> 1 It through that body by the. over whelming majority of 132 to 15. Something had to be done to divert the attention of the senate from the main Issue, and that something was a renewed attack on the Southern Cot ton Association, In the shape of ln- uendo and slanderous Insinuation against the Integrity of Its officers, without specifications. As far as that la concerned, I will take ample cara of It at the proper time, for my part. My official actions will benr nil the Investigation anybody wants to make, and the purpose of this card Is not a personal defense, which will bo made at the proper time and place, but to put the public on notice that oil the din and smoke and noise and dust 1s raised to obscure the real Issue and to divert the minds of the members of the Georgia stale senate nuny from the merits of the BoyMn bill for the sup. presalon-af-future '■gambnug In Oeor gla. I want to hvlofly.rA-ntlon the case of A. A. Fairchild. The association or dered the publication of Its convention proceedings In magaxlne form. Aa sev era! hundred thousand copies were contemplated, an enormous expense was Involved. To assist In meeting this expense A. A. Fairchild, an ad vertising and compiling expert, was employed to secure advertisements of their business from the friends of tha association, and succeeded to that ex tent that the book of proceedings be came a source of revenue. Instead of a dead expense. He was an employee, not an officer of the association, and It Is a question yet to be decided as to the extent to which the association should supervise the Investments of Its employees. If any one doubts the ben efits ot the association, permit me to quote one case taken from The LS' Grange Reporter of July 27, 1808: "Mr. A. 11. Handley has Just sold his crops o( 1804 and 1945, amount to 839 bales of cotton, for 111-18 cents per pound. When the association waa organised his 178 bales of 1904 crop was worth C cents, or 88,210. for the 178 hales; by holding - It eighteen months he received 89,1736, a gain of nearly 14,500, or 8o per cent." Comment la needless, beyond saying that Mr. Handley did not hold this cotton on the blackboards of the coun try, but In the warehouse). Regardless of scurrilous rumors Incubated In buck et shops, I am In this fight to stay, and mountains of mud shall not deter me from keeping up the fight for the hard-pressed producer. RICHARD CHEATHAM. NOTORIOUS “AL" ADAMS. BACKS THE SAGE SYSTEM Coincident with the muddle of the Southern Cotton Association affairs cornea the charge In Everybody's Magaxlne of July that the M. J. Sage system of exchanges la in fact controlled and dominated by the notorious A1 Adams, the New York “policy and bucket shopf king." It has been stated that the Piedmont Brokerage Company uses the Sage wire and Is connected, with the M. J. Sage ayatem. In fact. It has been Intimated that Sage himself has had some Intimate connection with the Piedmont Brokerage Company within the last few weeks. A1 Adams has only recently emerged from the penitentiary at Sing Sing, where he served a five-year sentence. A. A. Fairchild, one of the officers of the Southern Cotton Association, admitted Thursday that he had owned a one-eighth Interest In the Pied mont Brokerage Company. In the attitude ot a defendant on trial. I mention this because there are certain expressions In your letter which seem to lean that way—where you say that I will be given ample opportunity to present auch evidence or testimony aa 1 or others may have, and where you aay that I will be given a perfectly fair and Impartial hearing; end also because from what I see In the public prints It would appear that you contemplate that this investigative shall be some- fete. lor the committee to attempt to hold a court and be governed by the methods of court procedure or the technical rules of evidence would, I respectfully submit, be In the nature of a solemn farce. I would suggest that this Invaatlga- Don must mean a business Investiga tion or nothing; and that It should be conducted In the sams way and by tha same methods that a business man would use In looking Into the workings thing in the nature of a public court and conditions existing in hla own bus- trial, In which I am to pose In the dual Ineaa. * ——* 1 role of prosecuting attorney and de fendant. Permit me to aay that If an Inves tigation of this kind Is to amount to anything It should be conducted as a business Investigation, or It runs the risk ot becoming what is usually looked upon as a whitewashing process For the Investigating committee to sit UP end call a public court or trial, and Just Invite the public to come In and give Information, and then render Judgment merely upon what they might learn In this way, would not, it seems to me, be satisfactory either to them or to the public or to the mem bers of the Southern Cotton Associa tion. The committee has no power on earth to compel any one to appear, or to make any one gtve testimony or A purely formal sitting will not. In my humble Judgment, be a proper investigation. The committee, or some of them, will find It necessary to make personal Investigations for themselves aa to some facts, anl to hold personal Interviews with various persons, just as a business man would do under like circumstances. Yours truly, J. RANDOLPH ANDERSON. Safa Arrival in Camp. The safe arrival of the Seventeenth Infantry at Chlckamaugs was reported to the headquarters of the department of the gulf Friday afternoon. All tbs members of tha regiment were reported to be In good health and no regiment In the camp better equipped for a sum- . - mer campaign than the companies from disclose Information or exhibit papers, Fort McPberso- ENDS LIFE OF O.S. Lieutenant on Board the Chattanooga Done to Death. .RECALLED IN PICTURES BY CARTOONIST.BREWERTON. WILLIAMS WEEPS MWILDSM GAME CALLED ON ACCOUNT OF RAIN Desperate Prisoner Wins in Sensational Fight For Life. CASE PASSED TO AUG. 6 Brilliant Flank Movement of Counsel Stays the Execution. Speclsl to The Georgian. Birmingham, Ala., July 28—There was a wild demonstration In the crlm Inal court, today, when Judge Hamuel L. Weaver decided that he had jurisdic tion over the body of John Williams, the man condemned to die on the gal lows at Cullman, Cullman county, yes terday for the murder of State Senator Robert L. lllpp, and whose life waa saved at tha twelfth hour by,a writ of habeas corpus. It took the combined effort* of the sherllf of Jefferson coun ty, Chlsf of Police Wler and half a dosan daputlas to keep the crowd from stampeding around Williams, who wept with Joy. Judge Waaver overruled tha motion dismiss tha petition fof a writ of habeas corpus and passed the case to August 8. The condemned man was remanded to the sheriff of this coun ty, where he waa brought May 81, 1808, just after being convicted. A countermand was given for the special train chartered to carry Wil liams to Cullman In the event the de cision had been the other way. 8ansational Struggle Ends, The opinion of Judge Weaver this morning put a temporary end to forty- eight hours of the most strenuous tlms In the history ot criminal court annals In Alabama Even though Williams should be hanged the next moment It may be said that hla attorneys literal ly stepped In st the twelfth hour end snatched the gallows from under him. It waa tha most spectacular fight aver ut up In this stale for a human life, t Is the one absorbing topic In Bir mingham, the scene ut the mighty drama In real life. At Cullman, Ala, fifty miles from here, where the killing occurred four teen months ago, the entire commu nity le worked up over tha case. Prisoner Fights Officer*. Had Williams not armed himself with a heavy Iron bar, which ha man aged to get In hla call In soma mys terious way, and fought tha officers whan they went to hla bell Thursday night to take him to Cullman, thtr* would have unquestionably been trou ble at Cullman when the train reached there. Hla'defiance of the officers who had coma for him was the beginning of the many sensations that followed. The train had gone when the officers final ly got him out of the cell with am monia, and It waa decided to place him under a guard In the sheriff's office and take him to Cullman on tha early Continued on Page TH••* Atlanta Scores One Run in Her Half of First Inning—Four Thousand Fans Disappointed. Before 4,000 fans on the Piedmont diamond Saturday afternoon tha Pall- cans and tha Firecrackers met for the last gam* In th* series on the home grounds for this week. The rain which threatened to come down any , moment was the cause of tha starting of tha game fifteen minutes In advance of the scheduled time. First Inning. The game In detail. Rlckert filed out tothe pitcher. Cargo out third to Aral. Broulhera filed out to left. No hits, no rune. Crosier fanned. Jordan out, pitcher to first. Winters groundered to third and on wild throw Into tha crowd want to third. Hid Smith blngled lo right and Winters scored. Smith out trying to steal second. One hit, one run. OTHER GAMES. AT NABIIVILLB- Flrst Game— Nashville 000 000 020 —8 8 3 Memphis ....... 200 101 120 —t It 0 Llebhardt And Hurlliurt; Duggan and Well*. Umpire—Compau. SOUTH TtLANTIC, Jacksonville ...18 0 Augusts 0 3 8 Villi* and Shea; Holmes and Carson. NATIONAL. Chicago '..180 000 001— 8 13 Boston ...000 000 000— 0 7 Batteries: Brown and Kllng; Dorner and O’Nalll. Pittsburg ... <..008 321 000— 9 IS Philadelphia .. ..000 003 000— 8 11 Batteries: Leaver and Gibson; 111- tlngar and Donovan. • WA TSON TAKES STAND IN COMING ELECTION Noted Populist Leader Tells -His Followers Not To Commit. Themselves For Future National Campaigns. ■pedal te The Georgleo. Thomson, On., July 88.—Hon. Thom as E. Watson announced today In a speech before the voters of seven or eight counties gathered here that ha going to vote for Hoke Smith for the next governor of tha state of Geor gia, which Is practically announcing that he ha* returned to tha Demo cratic party. He aaked hla supporters to also vote for the Hon. Hoke Smith, but waa vary particular In telling them not to commit their beliefs for yea fa hence at the national election. There war* about 400 present at tha meeting, the moat of whom were visitors In the City.. The people of tbs village wars not out at the speaking, many of them giving their attention to something for eign to the questions being discussed by Mr. Walton. Thomas Hsrdwiek 8p»*U». Th* speaking waa opened by Mr. Thomas W, Hardwick. Ha spoke for about an hour on the disfranchisement question. Strange tta aay that nqlther of the speakers waa cheered when he wlnt upon the platform. All ayes turned upon them, but not a cheer from the audience. Mr. Hardwick's address was along tha lint of the one he made some time ago at C'rawfordvIUe on the disfran chisement question, while the address ot Mr. Watson waa ot a personal na- turn toward "Farmer Jim," and tha farmer candidate waa given a sound roast by the lost Popullet candidate for the presidency ot the United States. Mr. Hardwick stated that ha had a! ways been for the disfranchisement of the negroes, and that he hoped to die in the fight for white supremacy. Ha says that tha railroad ring la fighting to retain tha negro In politics and that It will be a bad time for the slate It the good whits people do not rise up and fight the evil down. Urged “Grandfather" Clausa'. Ha said ha appreciated the fact that It was not right for any representative of 'the national house to taka active ateps In tha stale fights, but ha con sidered It waa a right that all white people had to fight their deadly foes, and he was going to fight tha negro aa long aa ha lived. Ha strongly urged the grandfather clauAe In the dtefranchlsement bllL He eaya thta will not bar any white man who has tha right to vote tha privtlega of voting. He said It Is a fight for whits man's rights, and ha will push the fight to the bitter end. Mr. Hard wick also entered Into a personal con demnation of the opposing candidates, but his denunciations wars not aa se ver* aa thosa of tha speaker who fol lowed him. Vote for Hoko Smith. Mr. Watoon epoko for just one hour and fifty-aevaa minutes. H** confit.. I f'riVn.l his remarks to ths.personal condemns- Iruilroad tins This Government Is to De mand an Explanation and Full Redress. \ Special Cable—Copyright. Chefoo, China, July 28.—One of the crew of the French armored crul'-r du Fetlt Thour, fatally ahot Lieuten ant Clarence England, U. S. N.,* navi gating officer of the cruiser Chatta nooga. Tha French squadron waa engaged In email arm practice aa tha Chatta nooga waa passing out to the target range outside tha harbor. Have nil shots etrurk tha American cruiser, which signaled to the French com mander to cease firing. One of the last shots fired etniek Lieutenant England, who wn« on the lirldgn of tha Chattanooga. The bullet hit him In the back and completely penetrated the body. No hopo |a felt fur hie recovery. BIG CROWD ATTENDS H, SMITH MEETING Special to The Georglao. Palhnm, Oil. July 21.—llokc Smith, candidate for governor, today address*! probably tho largest and moat enthusi astic crowd of voter* over assembled Knuth of Mm on, with th** <*x« cptIon of thn Immenso throng that gathered In Albany Homo work* ago to hear tho Hmlth-IIowolI debate, Beginning with hit meeting at Ashburn, Tumor coun ty, laat week, .Mr. Hmlth ban been greotod by largo crowd*. At Wn*h- Ington, Greensboro, Grays, Fornyth and America*. all of which place* the can didate ha* v III tad thl* week, the crowd* have been largo. Tho crowd at I*<•!hfiin today hurpahhc* In number* nil others of tho present week. Tho com- mltteo on arrangement* prepared it great barbocuo to feed tho people. Ttrtfty-flv© hundred pounds of meat* thu* roasted disappeared when tho crowd waa turned loooe In the after noon. Mr. Smith nrrlved here thia afternoon from Americufl, whero ho spent tho night. Tho speaking began at noon. Colonel Ernest Davis, of Camilla, one of tho well- known lawyer* of th<* Al bany district. Introduced Mr. Hmlth. CAR OF POWDER EXPLODER- Holt Lake City, Utah, July 28.—. car londod with Jlnnt powder In a freight train on the Ulo Orande and Western rnllrnnd exploded ut noon today, en tirely wrecking tho trnln find #*« ntter- f*jo equipment over the mountain It happened at *io*hen, on the Tlntlc branen. AH wire* are down. It Is rumored that the entire crew was killed. tlon of all the candidate*, with the exception of Hoke Smith, whom he said he was going to vote for. Hut he did not *ay whether he wo* going to tear off the oath that Ie to be printed on tho head of tho ballots. Mr. Watson devoted several minute* to telling the manner in which Jim Hmlth got hie largo fortune a* a farm er. He said It was from tho use «»f convict labor at a coat that would make aay man rich. He said the prison board Investigated hla alleged abuse of the convict* several times, and one time there was a fine of 12,500 Imposed open Mr. Smith for brutally treating a prisoner he had In his convict ramp. lo also frequently called attention to the much-talked-of "Lucinda" story, which has been used against Jim Smith. A* to Other Candidates. He said*that the only thing four of the candidates were In tho race*for was for the defeat of Hoko Hmlth. He de clared that Eatill* Jim Smith, nor Dick RUMtll had any Idea of being elected. He also got Into the personal nature with hla remarka about Dick Russell, and stated that he was the candidate against race suicide, having sixteen children more or less. He said that Russell was only helping Clark Howell toward the defeat or Hoke Hmlth, but that the combined efforta of the entire "bunch" could not down the candidate of the people. He said that the president of the United States waa bringing about the reforms that he (WaUon) advocate.I more than ten year* ago. He said that William Jennings Bryan was also talk- Ing reform* In th* old country aai that on August 21 there would be ft sweeping vote ca*t for the people's can- dldate. Bryan's Good Chsncs. In spe-.'iklng "f Bryan h** Kild he would unquestionably get the Demo cratic nomination In 1908, and that he would not gst a man from Maine f r his second man. but would get a man who could carry hi* own precinct. The speeches were characteristic of the two who made them, and they were received with applause by their friend*. Mr. Watson wn.* reported an Intending to rnako the direct statement that he going Into the Democratic camp, but the neareet he got to It was when he said: Urges Friends to Vote. t am going to vote for Hoke Smith In thl* primary I am a Jeffersonian Democrat, always have been, and will die ut lh< " i|» out the of Georg