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j special Saturday ] i NIGHT EDITION. Phe Atlanta Georgian ! SPECIAL SATURDAY j NIGHT EDITION. ! 1 ■ _J VOL. I, NO. 80. - 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. 00000000000000000000000000 O HON. JOHN D. WALKER O DECLINES TO SERVE. O O 0 O Special to The Georgian. 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 0 0 O0000000000000000000000000 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