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ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 28, I90G
purcE:
JNO. D. WALKER DECLINES TO SERVE;
“SELECT MAN OUTSIDE ASSOCIATION”
Nobody Chosen tOj BUCKET SHOP INDORSED
Take His Place as Qy A TLANTA CREDIT MEN
FOUR EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK
Investigator.
"BE BUSINESSLIKE,”
ANDERSON SUGGESTS
Representative J. Randolph
Anderson Writes Letter
to Hon. Hands
Jordan.
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O HON. JOHN D. WALKER
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0 Sparta, Ga., July 28.—On 0
0 receipt of notice of hli np- 0
0 polntment on the Investigating 0
C committee named by President 0
0 Jordan to Inquire Into the charges 0
O made by Representative Anderaon 0
0 relative to tho officials of the 0
0 Southern Cotton Association hav- 0
0 Ing an Interest In the Piedmont 0
0 Brokerage, Hon. John D. Walker 0
0 Immediately trlred President Jor- 0
0 dan that It would be Impossible 0
0 for him to serve, and suggested 0
0 that some one outside of the as* 0
O soclatlon be named in hts place. 0
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Hon. John D. Walker, of Sparta,
treasurer of' the Georgia division.
Southern Cotton Association, who was
appointed member of the Investigating
committee by President Harvle Jordan,
declines to serve.
He also suggests that some one out
side of the association be named In his
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
day morning that nothing had bqen
heard from Mr. Walker. Hon. Harvle
Jordan was out of the city, not having
returned from Scnola, where he went
Friday morning.
Mr. Walker’s declining to serve and
his Suggestion that some one outside
of the association be appointed In his
place will meet with the general ap
probation of all who wish the charges
against the official* of the Southern
Cotton Association to be Investigated
vigorously and without bias of friend
ship or relation.
And his declination to serve will re
Inforce many In the belief that Presi
dent Jordan made a mistake In ap
pointing subordinate officers of the
Georgia division as sole judges and
Investigators.
EXPECT INVESTIGATION
TO BE A “FROST."
On many sides It is believed that the
Investigation Monday will be pretlv
much of a frost. There Is 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 doubtloss be of
great Importance to one side or to the
other, says he doesn't Intend to be
present He says he doesn't cart to
get further mixed up In the affatu^and
that hs will have business to attend to
Monday morning.
Representative J. Randolph Ander
son, of Savannah, whose charges made
Tuesday In the house precipitated" the
affair, says In an open letter to Hon.
Hnrvle Jordan that he Intends to be
present, but declines absolutely to be
placed In the position of prosecuting
attorney or that of a defendant. He
suggests that the Investigation be
pursued In a business-like way and not
like a kalsomlnlng exhibition. He says
In his letter:,
"For the Investigating committee to
'It up and call a public court or trial,
and just Invite the public to come In
*nd 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, Oa„ July 27. W0«.
Hon. Harvle Jordan, President South
ern Cotton Association, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: t am this morning In re
ceipt of your letter of July 2* advising
me that you have appointed an Investi
gating committee, which will meet at
your office next Monday morning, the
•lath Instant, And requesting me to at
tend that meeting.
In reply I beg to aay that It will give
me pleasure to attend the meeting of
the committee, and give them such In
formation and assistance as I can In
the conduct of their Investigation. I
stated In my remark* In the house on
•he 25th Instant that. If an Investigation
was had, and I waa desired to do so, I
would gladly give to the Investigating
committee all the Information I had
'earing on tha subject matter of the
Investigation, and would cheerfully co
operate with them and give them such
suggestions as I could to help them in
the course of their Investigations.
The Georgian has received the following letter from a subscriber who
Is a merchant at Loganvnie, Ga.: '
“Editor of The Georgian:. I see from your paper that the Atlanta
Credit Men's Association has been Jumping on you for an editorial on bucket
ahopa.
“I enclose herewith a circular letter giving for reference, and to Induct
confidence and trade, some of these same nice folks. They tote water. pn
both shoulders or somebody Is fooling somebody. Read It.
"Very truly. . “COUNTRY MERCHANT."
Enclosed was a circular Isaued by*L. J. Anderson A Co., of Atlanta,
brokers and commission merchants. Mansgcr Anderson, when questioned
by a Georgian rejwrter, *sald the names as reterences were used by* per
mission.
This compsny Is 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 the Atlanta
Credit Men's Association:
Arnold Hat Company.
D. O. Dougherty, president of Dougherty-Ward-Little Company.
J. C. Hallman, of Hightower. Hallman A Co.
C. F. Barnwell, df Everett-Rldley-Ragan A Co.
Truitt Silvey Hat Company.
John Silvey A Co., by A. C. McHan.
H. S. Anderson, of Anderson Hardware Company.
Gramling Spalding Company.
W. H. Kiser, of M. C. Kiser Company.
SECRETARY CHEATHAM
MAKES A STATEMENT
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
was - 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 organization I was elected sec
retary of the association without any
solicitation on my part, and many of
my friends, especially rtiy wife, cen
sured me severely for accepting a po
sition which Involved my leaving my
business In the hands of others. Be
lieving that somethlnjf''J l ould be done
to benefit the cotton producers, of
which. I was one, I decided to under
take tha work, and up to this time,
notwithstanding the attacks of our en
emies, have no regrets for having done
The organization of the Southern
Cotton Auactatton woe a signal to tha
"vultures of commerce,” the parasites
who had been fattening upon the 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
association 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 me In carrying on
my work. The eirmles 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 Is one aimed
at my official Integrity as secretary
of the 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 Its suppres
sion, and the moral and commercial
sense of the lower house had carried
IL thrpugh that body by the over-
whelming majority of 182 to 18.
• Something had to be done to divert
the attention of the senate from the
main Issue, and that something was a
reneweijynt-tsrk on the Southern Cot
ton Association, In the shape of In-
uendo and slanderous. Insinuation
against the Integrity of Its officers,
without specifications. As far as that
Is concerned, I will take ample •
It at the proper time, for my part.
My official actions will bear all the
Investigation anybody wants to make,
and the purpose of this card Is not
a personal defense, which will be made
at the proper time and place, hut to
put the public on notice that an the
din and smoke and noise and dust Is
raised to obscure the real Issue and
to divert the minds of tha members of
the Georgia state senate away from the
merits of the Boykin bill for the sup
presslon of future gathbllng In Gem
gla.
I want-tt* briefly rft’nttnn the case of
A. A. Fairchild. The association or
dered the publication of Its convention
proceedings In magsslne form. As tev
era! hundred thousand copies were
contemplated, an enormous expense
was Involved. To assist In meeting
this expense A. A. Fairchild, an ad
vertlslng and compiling expert, was
employed to secure advertisements of
their business from the friends of the
association, and succeeded to that ex
tent that the book of proceedings be
came a source of revenue, Instead of a
dead expense. He waa an employee,
not an officer of the association, and
It la a question yet to be decided os to
the extent to which tha association
should supervise the Investments of Its
employees. If any one doubts the ben
efits of the association, permit me td
quote one case taken from The La-
Grange Reporter of July 27, 1806:
“Mr. A. B. Handley haa just sold his
crops of 1804 and 1805, amount to
338 bales of cotton, for 111-1* cents
per pound. When the association was
organized his 170 bales of 1804 crop
was worth 6 cents, or 85,280 for the
178 bales; by holding It eighteen
months he received 19.035, a gain of
nearly 64,500, or 85 per cent."
Comment Is needless, beyond saying
that Mr. Handley did not hold this
cotton on the blackboards of the coun
try, but In the warehouses. 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 afTalrs
comes the charge In Everybody’s Magazine of July, that the M. J. Sage
system of exchanges Is In fact controlled and dominated by the notorious
At Adams, the New York “policy and bucket fhop king."
It has been stated that the Piedmont Brokerage Company uses the
Sage wire and la connected, with the M. J. Sage system. In fact. It has
been Intimated that Sage himself has had some Intimate connection with
the Piedmont Brokerage Company within the last few weeks.
A! Adams has only recently emerged from the penitentiary at Bing
Sing, where he served n 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 of 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
ren ample opportunity to
present such evidence er testimony as I
or others may have, and where you say
that I will be given a perfectly fair and
Impartial hearing; and also because
from what I see In the public prints
It would appear that you contemplate
that this lnveatigatl..o shall be tome-
etc. For 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 Investiga
tion must mean a business Investiga
tion or nothing; and that It should be
conducted In the same way and by the
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 his own bus-
trial, In which I am to pose In the dual Ineaa. A purely formal sitting will not.
Now, It was not my purpose, neither
do I Intend to be placed In the position
°f a prosecuting ettomey, and 1 most
certainly do not propose to be placed
role of prosecuting attorney and de
fendant.
Permit me to say that If an Inves
tigation of this kind Is to amount to
anything It should be conducted as a
business Investigation, or It run* the
risk of becoming what Is usually looked
upon a* a whitewashing process.
For the investigating committee to
sit up and 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 give testimony or
disclose information or exhibit papera Fort McPherson.
In my humble Judgment, be a proper
Investigation. The committee, or some
of them, will find It necessary to make
personal Investigations for themselvks
as 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.
Safe Arrival in Camp.
The safe arrival of the Seventeenth
Infantry at Chickamauga waa reported
td the headquarters of the department
of the gulf Friday afternoon. Alt the
members of the 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
ENDS LIFE DF
D. SJFFICER
Lieutenant on Board
the Chattanooga
Done to Death.
This Government Is to De
mand an Explanation
and Pull Redress.
S|>eclal Cehle—Copyright.
Chefoo, China, July 21.—One of the
crew of the' French armored cruiser
du Pellt Thour, fatally shot Lieuten
ant Clarenca England, IT. 8. N„ navi
gating officer of tha cruiser Chatta
nooga.
The French squadron was engag' d
In small arm practice as the Chatta
nooga waa paaalng out to the target
range outside the harbor. Several
ahota struck tha American cruiser,
which signaled to the French com
mander to cease firing.
One or the last shots fired struck
Lieutenant England, who waa on the
bridge of the Chattanooga. Tha bullet
hit him In the bark and completely
<h»
the I
tor hla recovery.
completely
No hope la felt
BIG CROWD ATTENDS
H, SMITH MEETING
RECALLED IN PICTURES BY CART00NI8T.BREWERTON.
WILLIAMS WEEPS
'FOLLOWSDECISION
Desperate Prisoner TjVins in
Sensational Eight
For Life.
CASE PASSED TO AUG. 6
Brilliant Flank Movement
of Counsel Stays the
Execution.
Special to The Georgian,
Birmingham, Ala., July 28—There
waa a Wild demonstration In the crim
inal court today, when Judge Samuel L
Weaver derided that he had Jurisdic
tion over the body of John Williams,
the man condemned to die on the fal
lows at Cullman, Cullman county, yes
terday for the murder of State Senator
Robert L. Hlpp, and whose life was
saved at the twelfth hour by a writ of
habeas corpus It took the combined
efforts of the eherlff of Jeffereon coun
ty, Chief of Police .Wler and half a
dozen deputies to keep the crowd from
stampeding around Williams, who wept
with Joy.
Judge Weaver overruled the motion
to dismiss the petition for 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 was brought May 81, 1805,
Just after being convicted.
' countermand was given for the
at train chartered to carry WII-
i to Cullman In the event the de
cision had been the other way.
8ensational Struggle Ends.
The opinion of Judge Weaver this
morning put a temporary end to forty-
eight hours of the most strenuous time
In the history of criminal court annals
In- Alabama. Even though Williams
should be hanged the next moment It
may be said that hie attorneys literal
ly stepped In at the twelfth hour and
snatched the gallows from under him.
It was the most spectacular fight ever
>ut up In this state for a human life,
t Is the one absorbing topic In Bir
mingham, the scene of the mighty
drama In real life.
At Cullman. Ala., fifty miles from
•re, where the killing occurred four-
en months ego, the entire commu
nity Is worked up over the case.
Prisoner Fights Officers.
Had Williams not armed himself
with a heavy Iron bar, which he man
aged to get In his cell In some mys
terious way, and fought the officers
when they went to his cell Thursday-
night to take Mm to Cullman, there
would have unquestionably been trou
ble at Cullman when the train reached
there. His defiance of the officers who
had come for him was the beginning of
the many sensations that followed. The
train bad gone when the officers final
ly got him out of the cell with am
monia, and It was derided to place him
under a guard In the sheriff's office
and take him to Cullman on the early
Pelham. Da,
candidate for governor, tod.
probably the largest and
astlc crowd of voters e'
th of Macon, with ttv
Immense throng tha
Smith-lie
WA TSON TAKES STAND.
IN COMING ELECTION
urufirti uy inrK 1 ’ rrnwufi ai v» u*n*
n ' inwii’ii, OrcenMjora, Gray*, Kornythunrl
I Ami'll, uh, nil of which i-lat i'*4 the t uti-
I »IM»if*• him vMIpi! ilil- wrek. tho
it..welt* Imv. bfti'ii hi The .rourl at
HON. TH08. E. WATSON.
Noted Populist Leader Tells His Followers
Not To Commit Themselves For
Future National Campaigns.
Continued on Page Three.
Hpsrlal to The Georgian.
Thomson, Ga., July 18.—Hon. Thom-
i E. Watson announced today In
speech before the voters of seven or
eight counties gathered here that he
was going to vote for Hoke Smith for
the next governor of the state of Geor
gia, which la practically announcing
that he has returned to the Demo
cratlc party. He asked his supporters
to also vote for the Hun. Hoke Smith,
but was very particular In telling them
not to commit their beliefs for years
hence at the national election. There
were about 400 present at the meeting,
the most of whom were visitors In the
city. The people of the village were
not out at the speaking, many of them
giving their attention fo something for
eign to the questions being discussed
by Mr. Watson.
Thomas Hardwick Speaks.
The speaking was opened by Mr.
Thomas W. Hardwick. He spoke for
about an hour on the disfranchisement
question. Strange to say that neither
of the speakers was cheered when he
went upon the platform. All eyes
turned upon them, but not a cheer
from the audience.
Mr. Hardwick's address waa along
the line of the one he made some time
ago at f'rawfordvllle on the disfran
chisement question, while the address
of Mr. Watson was of a personal na
ture toward “Farmer Jim,” and ths
farmer candidate was given a sound
roast by the last Populist candidate for
the presidency of the United States.
Mr. Hardwick stated that he had al
ways been for the disfranchisement of
the negroes, and that he hoped to die
In the fight for white supremacy. He
says that the railroad ring Is fighting
to retain the negro In politics aqd that
It will be a bad time for the state It
the good white people do not rise up
and fight the evil down. ■
Urged "Grandfather” Clausa.
He said he appreciated the fact that
It was not right for sny representative
of the national house to take active
steps In the state fights, but he con
sidered It was a right that ell white
people had to fight their deadly foes,
and he was going to fight the negro as
long as he lived.
lie strongly urged the grandfather
clause In the disfranchisement bill. He
keys this will not bar any white man
who has the right to vote the privilege
of voting. He said It is a fight for
white man's rights, and be will push
the fight to the bitter end. Mr. Hard-
wlrk also entered Into a personal con
demnation of the opposing candidates,
but his denunciations wera not as se
vere as those of the speaker who fol
lowed him.
Vote for Hoke Smith.
Mr. Watson spoke for Just one hour
and fifty-seven minutes. He confined
hi» remarks to the personal condemna-
Pelham today
others of the present week The , <
mltlee on arrangements prepnted
great barbecue to feed the pee
Thirty-five hundred pounds of in,
thus roasted disappeared when
crowd was turned loose In the tip
Soon.
Mr. Smith arrived her* this after n
front Amerlcus, where he spent
night. The speaking begnn at n<
Coliyiet Ernest Davis, of Camilla,
of tne well known lawyers of the
briny district. Introduced Mr. Srnlll
CAR OF POWDER KXPLODE
Salt Lake City, Utah. July 2*. —.
loaded with Jlnnt powder In a fr«-t
train on the Rio Grande and We-r
rallrand exploded at noon today, r
tlrely wrecking the train and ernti
Ing the equipment over th* mount
side. It happened St Goshen, on
Tlnllr branch. All wires are tin
■ Is rumored that ths entire <-t
■ killed.
lion of all the* candidates, with th»
egreptlon of Hoke Smith, whom I
aid hs wna going to vote for. But he
did not say whether he was going to
tsar off the nnth that Is to be printed
on the head of the ballots.
Mr. Watson devoted several minutes
to telling the manner In which Jim
Smith got his large fortune as a farm-
er. He sajd It was from th* -us* of
convict labor at a cost that would tick*
any man rich. Hs said ths prison
board Investigated his alleged abuse
of the ronvlcte several times, and mie
lime there wse s fine of 82,800 Imposed
upon Mr. Smith for brutally treating *
B risoner he had In his convict crimp.
le also frequently called attention to
the much-talkad-of “Lucinda" *t r-y.
which has bean used again-' Jim
Smith.
As to Other Candidates.
Hs said that tha only thing four cf
the candidates were In ths race for « ns
fdr the defeat of Hoks Smith. He de
clared that Eatlll, Jim Smith, nor Dick
Russell had any Idea of being - k< ted.
He also got Into ths personal nature
with hla remarks about Dick Russell,
and ststsd that ha was ths candidate
against race suicide, having .nlxt-on
children more or less. He »a!d that
Russell was only helping Clark Howell
toward ths defeat of Hoke Smith, but
that th* combined efforts of the ,-ntlr*
“bunch" could not down tha candidate
of the people.
He said that the president of the
United States was bringing about the
reforms that he (Watson) advocated
more than ten years ago. He said that
William Jennings Bryan was sl-o talk
ing reforms In the old countn and
that on August 22 there would h- a
sweeping vote cast for ths people * can
didate.
Bryan's Good Chance.
In speaking of Bryan he aald he
would unquestionably get the Demo
cratic nomination In 1*05. and that he
would-not get a man fr > Maine f..r
his second man, but would get A man
who could carry his own pro in. t.
The speeches wera charm lerinric of
the two who made them, and tin i « ere
received with applause by tlndr tri'-nds.
Mr. Watson was reported a- Intending
to make th* direct statement that he
was going Into the Democratic camp,
but th# nearest he g ■: to It »i. ..hen
he said:
Urges Friends to Vote.
I am g dng to vote fot it,.k— Smith
In this primary, f ant a Jeffermninn
Democrat, always have been, atm win
dfe one. I want nil of tny Populist
friends to go with me and wtp.- nit tits
railroad ling of the state of Georgia