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The Atlanta Georgian.
GEORGIA
s.500.m
6.501
ronnlntlon
Mil*** of atfam railroad*.
Milos of oloctrlc railways _
Cotton fsrrorJos 130, splndlos.. LWjLOOO
Union cotton consumed In 190S. 500,000
Value of 1906 cotton crop $100,000,001
VOL. 1. NO. 127.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 21,1906.
PPTm?. On Trains FIVE CENTS.
ITXWA-ali. In Atlanta TWO CENTS.
DINNER SPEECH
IS BRYAN’S BEST
“IDREAD THE EXPERIMENT
BUT IT IS COMING IN TIME'
“I have favored'government ownership of state railroads
only after a long deliberation. I dread an experiment by which
all the station ajjcnts and brakemen and trackwalkers’ will be
appointed and directed from Washington. I am a Democrat
and I view with alarm the obliteration of state lines and the
increasing influence of Washington.
“But I see in the future a dual ownership—state railways
owned by the states and trunk lines owned by the nation. You
need not consider this now—but it is coming in time, oh, my
friends, it is coming 1’’
—WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
Makes His Most Sig
nificant Utterance
on the Government
Owneiship Idea.
(n Importance of Issues
and Stand He Took,
the Banquet Speech
Was the Greater.
By DUDLEY GLASS.
Bryan, the oratorBryan, the
matchless leader of men, has never
in Atlanta spoken to greater ad
vantage than in his address to 400
Democrats at the Piedmont dinner
Thursday night. To those who
had heard his address of the after
noon and believed that Bryan had
lost the magic of the past it was a
revelation. To Democrats faint
hearted with continued defeat it
was an inspiration which brought
new courage to their hearts and
set tho blood pulsing with hope of
victory at last.
There were those who thought
that in his afternoon address Mr.
Bryan' had been a disappoint
ment. He had delivered a great
message, had presented the cause
of Democracy in a masterly way,
but there had been but little of the
old Bryan whose ringing climaxes
had placed him upon the summit
of oratory. He had been calm, de
liberate, dispassionate. There were
those who said that with his years
had come breadth and stability,
and with their coming the fiery
eloquence had disappeared. But
those who heard the Great Com
moner at night learned that the
old Bryan was still there.
B«gan After Midnight.
The greatest efforts of the great Ne
braskan have been at night, when oth
*r men were exhausted from contln
ued war upon convention floors. It
was In the gray dawn that he spoke at
St. Louis and held a hostile army with
the magic of his voice. It was at mid
night, w'han other speakers had been
Interrupted by the tiring crowd, that
Mr. Bryan began his Atlanta addreas
before a throng which filled every cor
ner of the great dining room and ren
il^red the street outside Impassible.
In the afternoon Mr. Bryan had ad
dressed a great audience of the peo
ple. There were women and children,
there were men upon whom It was nec-
«-Rsary to Impress simple facts. At night
the gathering was of veterans In the
political arena. Here It was not nec
tary that the rudiments of Democ
racy be explained. Before Democrats
from every section of Georgia, from
Dade to Camden, from Rabun to De
catur, he sent forth a trumpet call to
arms against the onslaughts of preda
tory wealth. He was no longer the In
structor; he was a leader calling upon
hl« captains to lead their forces once
more Into the fight. When he con
cluded there were no party divisions in
that hall. Populists, old-line Demo
crats, all were Just Democrats again—
and they were Bryan Democrats.
Explains Ownership Idess.
For the first time since his announce
ment of his stand on government own*
• r*hlp of railroads Mr. Bryan explain
ed his Ideas of how this should be gain
’d iind regulated. He took up the dif
ference between national and state
•vnershlp and declared himself In fa-
' r of the Individual states owning
the|r own roads. He did not hesitate
t“ say that he feared the appointive
piwer which would result from govern
ment ownership, but he declared that
h* feared the appointive Influence less
■ hen In the hands of an administration
than while under control of a railroad.
He dropped the tariff question upon
which he had spoken In the afternoon
nnd confined himself to railroads.
Mr. Bryan spoke for forty minutes,
hts hands clenched and his body sway
ing as he denounced the corporation
ring and appealed to his hearers for a
^weeping reform. His mobile face re
flected his every feeling and when he
r f »*e to a superb period It was a face
transfigured. His climaxes were met
'rith applause which swept the room
and was echoed from the street, where
f' r hours the crowd had watted for the
address of the great commoner. When
h* left the hall he was bathed In per-
4 M rat Ion and, as he pushed his way
through the crowded corridor to Ids
r "im, where Mrs. Bryan was waiting
young men and old fought for the right
t" grasp his hand.
Rome extracts from the address fol
low:
"Plain Jennings Bryan."
I am afraid that 1 have brought too
much name to Georgia. Two art
•bough. Tonight we have heard from
IS KILLED;
Dynamite Explosion
Ruins Property Val
ued at $1,000,000.
Scr.tinusd on Page Seven.
Special to The Georgian.
Knoxville, Tenn.. Sept. 21.—The town
o( Jelllco, Tenn., (4 miles north or
Knoxville, xu almost totally destroyed
early this morning by an exploaion ot
ynamlte. It la known that ten peo-
ile are dead and fully fifty more or
jess seriously Injured. Every house on
the Kentucky side of the town Is
wrecked. The buildings on the Ten
nessee side are damaged without ex
ception. Not a window glass In the
town remains Intact. Many chimneys
have fallen as a result of the explo
sion.
car loaded with dynamite, and
standing In the yards used jointly by
the Louisville and Nashville and the
Southern railroads, was Ignited, caus
ing the catastrophe.
Wo reports are current as to the
manner In which the explosives were
Ignited. One Is that three parties wero
firing at a mark cn the car and a
bullet penetrated It, striking the dyna
mite, with fatal effect. Another re
port says the cars were being shifted
In the yard, and a switch engine sent
a car loaded with pig Iron Into the
siding on which the dynamite car was
standing, and the pig Iron car struck
the explosives, with the result already
stated.
Circus Train Wrtekad.
It Is reported here that John II.
Sparks' circus train was standing In
thp yards and several of the circus
employees were killed or Injured and a
wild lion was liberated.
The Southern railway and the Louls-
vllle and Nashville railroad are rush
ing section gunge to Jelllco to join In
the relief work.
It Is estimated that 500 people are
homeless. The Knoxville Sentinel has
started a relief fund, which Is grow
ing.
The know dead at noon today were:
J. M. t’ooke and son, Joseph Sellers,
Walter Rodgers. George Atkins, John
Gordon (colored), Snm Sharp( colored),
William Lovett, Ida Kayne, James Rey
nolds.
Three men—George Hudson, John
Knock and Daniel Taylor—are dying
ami can not survive the day.
The list of fatalities will, It Is be
lieved, be Hrgely augmented.
Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 21.—A dis
patch from Jelllco, Tenn., aays two car
louds of dynamite exploded there early
today.
A Standard Oil tank was destroyed
and several buildings were demolished.
It Is reported that 15 persons were
killed, five of whom have been re
moved from the wreckage.
A special train carrying doctors has
left here The property loss Is report
ed to be $1,000,000.
List of Dead.
The following are known to have
been killed:
JOHN GORDON,
JOHN COOK, car Inspector for the L.
ft N. R. K.
WALTER ROGERS.
GEORGE ATKINS, lineman, East
Tennessee Telephone Company.
Five unidentified bodies were taken
out of the wreckage.
Th explosion occurred on the Louls-
vtlle and Nashville tracks at the de-
pot.
Every warehouse In Jelllco along the
Louisville and Nashville railroad Is
totally destroyed and nearly every store
In the town Is either blown to pieces
or damaged to such an extent that It
Is a ruin.
The entire third door of the Carma-
than Inn. n large brick hotel struct
ure, was blown off.
It Is believed that no prominent white
Iieople. business or professional men
or their families are Included In the
death list.
Some »f the business houses either
totally destroyed or partly wrecked
Armour's packing plant, total.
Judge and Pinnacle Brewing Compa
ny’s plant, total.
Kentucky and Standard Oil Compa
ny warehouses.
Jelllco Grocery warehouse.
Glen Morgan Hotel, badly wrecked.
farmathan Inn. third story off.
Link s tailoring house.
Hoodge Undertaking building.
Smith Do' Goods Company.
Cumberland Opera House, IJj.OOO
structure, barfly shattered.
The National Bank is ruined, ns Is
th* Baird wholesale dry go«*ls house.
Moses grocery store, Central Drug
house and M. J Steinberg's clothing
P The postofflce la partly wrecked, and
Baird' ft Smiths furnishing store Is
shattered.
MR. BRYAN IN VARIOUS ATTITUDES DURING HIS SPEECH AT PONCE .DE LEON
"I am:
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ATLANTA
OFTEN*
Roosevelt won- «i$
poPtaARlTY on
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PRINCIPLES
tjeMOCBTACY
i s THE
HOPE OF
TH6
NATION
•The sun
NEVfis. Sets on
AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY^
(Sketched from the Press Stand hj Itrewerton.)
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
LEAGUE BEING FORMED
Tax Payers and Voters
to Organize in
Cause.
ALDERMAN J. L. KEY,
Who Has In Council Led the Mu
nicipal Ownsrship
Fight.
The Municipal Ownership League.
The public Interest In civic owner
ship and control ot public utilities has
reached this point. The League Is be
ing formed.
Alrendy the project lias the barking
of many of Atlanta's most Induentla!
citizens, who have rallied to The Geor
gian’s cause.
Within a short period of time It Is
believed that there will be 5,000 voters
of this city who have signed the mem
bershlp blank.
i the recent white primary a can.
dldate running on a luunlclpul owner
ship platform polled over 4,000 votes.
It Is expected that 100 per rent of tho
men who voted for municipal owner
ship will Join the organization and
push Its purpose to success.
Aside from those who by their bal
lots expressed their views, there are
hundreds of others who east their votes
for personal reasons who will Join the
movement sweeping Atlanta It Is on
this basis thnt the conservative figures
as to the membership are based.
Frldny morning a number of promi
nent citizens were called upon by a
representative of The Geotglan and
asked for their views. In tho short pe
riod of time It was Impossible to see
a great man)- of the strongest support
ers of municipal ownership.
"I Will Join,” Says Hoke Smith.
Hon. Hoko 8mith was reticent shout
giving out an Interview off-hand, but
It Is well known that ho Is one of the
strongest advocates of munlelpul own
ership In the slate. Mr. Smith said-
KEY GIVES REASONS
FOR NEED OF LEAGUE
“The time lx ripe now for a municipal gas and electric light plant.
All that lx necessary to get It lx for the people to crime together and say
they want It, and the battle lx practically won," said Hon. James L. Key.
"The people are greatly indebted to The Georgian for it* effort* and
they Hnve confidence In The Georgian.
"The Municipal Ownerxhlp League lx the thing. It will give the
public nn opportunity of getting together on this vital issue. Every
public xplrlteil man of every shade of political belief on other lines can
here find common ground and can co-operate for the public good.
"It lx going to be a long, hard fight, of course, but the fight will win
In the end.
"The street railway company and the gas company will fight It.
Everybody expects that. They think they have everything they want,
and they will not want any one—not even the city—to entrench upon
whnt they consider their own private preserves. And then the street
railway company that owns the gas and electric company, has $7,000,-
000 of watered stock that they must pay dividends on, and they will
want to scrouge everybody else out In order to do It.
"The public are willing to pay dividends on actual Investments, but
are not willing to pay on the rake-off of the speculators.
“The legislative committee In New York reported that gas could be
produced at 61 cents a thousand in the city of New York, where labor,
material and everything else Is Very high, and where the cost of any
sort of public Improvement In very great. Here I am satisfied gas can be
produced at a much lower figure ani the people are entitled to It.
"A gas plant such as we have hare could be reproduced for somewhere
between $500,000 and $750,000, and the gas company Is financed on a basis
of $2,000,000. We have got to pay on a whole lot more of their water.
"Another thing, people are willing to pay for the gas they use, but
don’t want to be held up and arbitrarily forced to pay the bill whether
they have used the gas or not.
"Thnt Is one of the conditions that must be remedied, and can be.
"The matter of an electric light plant Is simple.
"The city »nn utilise the power at the waterworks pumping station
and ft already has the conduits and most everything that Is necessary to
operate Its plant.
"The thing for the city to do Is to do Its own lighting ns soon ns the
present* contract is out, and then the thing will grew of its own accord.”
Make Demand for
Uniform Wage
Scale.
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP LEAGUE
APPLICATION BLANK.
I hereby wake application for membership In the MUNICIPAL OWN
ERSHIP LEAOl.'K.
I favor tho ownerahlp of a gas anil electric lighting plant by the city
of Atlanta.
Remarks:
Date 190.. Name
Aildress
Occupation
Sote.—Cut out and return to THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
Two hundred and fifty machinists,
employed at the Southern railway
shops In this city, and perhaps 2,000
on the system are making a demand
for Inrreuse In the wage scale from $3
a day to $3.25.
The proposition Is now in the hands
of the executive committee ot th* Ma
chinists' Union, and a meeting will be
held within the next few days to form
ulate a request to be presented to ths'
Southern railway management.
A general rtrlke on the system Is
probable. If the demand for Increase In
wages Is not granted.
The contention of the marhlnslst Is
for a uniform scale, Ths claim that
In Birmingham the existing scale la
$3.25 a day.
It 1s generally believed among lbs
conservative leaders of organised labor
here that the demand will be granted
without necessity of a strike.
Local unions held meetings Thurs
day night and discussed the situation
About three >eai*H ago a strike exist
ed for thirteen months at the Southern
shops here.
ASSAULTS?
License Inspector Ew
ing Wants to Abolish
Them.
Pictures, paintings and photographs
of white women In the nude festoon
the walla of eeveral of the negro clubs
In Atlanta.
There are eight of these clubs where
whisky Is sold and Area the brains of
the negro members.
There have been many attacks on
white women In and around Atlanta
during the past few months.
License Inspector R. A. Ewing has
determined to close up these dube and
to that end made an Inspection Friday
morning, accompanied by Alderman F.
A. Qullllan, chairman of the tax com
mittee.
It Is Mr. Ewing's purpose to enforce
the $1,000 retail liquor license tax on alt
clubs that sell liquor. All of these
eight clubs sell whisky and beer-ln re
tail quantities.
"This will also affect the white
clubs," said Mr. Ewing, "but that can
not be helped under the present laws.
Certainly every respectable white club
would be willing to pay the license
rather than have the negroes Inflamed
by liquor and Indecent pictures."
The clubs now pay the state tax.
Senator Brackett An
nounces There Is To
Be No Contest.
New Tork, Sept. 21.—Senator
Brackett announced that there should bt
no contest of the Russell Sage will
The senator Intimated that a financin'
settlement had been effected, but hf
refused to give out any Information re
garding It. He said that ona of the
attorneys for the estate would give oul
a statement.
Brackett represents Edison Conrad, I
'Ora old, of near Troy, who la a great
grand nephew of the late millionaire.
Attorneys for Mrs. Saga today Issued
the following statement:
"Assuming no contest of Mr. Sage'i
will, Mrs. Sage haa Intended and In
tends to glye to each of Mr. Sage's ret.
stives who are beneficiaries under hit
will an additional amount equal to his
or her legacy, and to do this as soon
as possible after htr qualification at
executrix."
Had Jawbone Broken.
Hpeeltl to The Georgias.
Athens, Os., Sept. 21.—Henry, Jr,
the little 10-yesr-old son of Henry T.
Comer, was thrown from a horse yes.
terday and had several teeth knocked
it, hla jawbone broken and hla knet
illy lacerated.
myself, but you may say I will Join the
league when It Is formed."
8am D. Jones, president of Chamber
of Commerce: "In my Judgment munic-
I pal ownership Is a coming proposition,
und It will be more and more Insisted
U|s>n by the people. It Is a matter I am
not willing to be quoted at length on
vlthout giving careful consideration to
"It Is against my rule to give oul an i what 1 say. but 1 am In favor of the
interview that I have not written out city’s owning and operating those
things neoessnry to the public."
H. A. Boynton, president ofthejlmm;
ton Grocery Company, and'otie ,.f the
committee of five suggested by Aider-
man J antes L. Key at the past session
..I council to formulate plans by which
the city can own Its own gas and elec
tric plants, said: "I am strongly In fa
vor of municipal ownership. I have not
Continued on Pago Three.
TYPHOON DEA TH LIST
NOW NUMBERS 10,000
Hongkong. Hept. 21.—It Is now eotlmated that not lets than 10,000 Ilvea
were lost In the recent typhoons. Most of these were Chinese. It la cer
tain thnt the entire Halting fleet, of (00 vessels and 6,000 men, were de
stroyed. , ., M
Dead bodies are being cremated to prevent a plague. Many of those
engaged In this work have succumbed to the dreadful stench and tbs hor
ror of It all.
AUGUSTA NURSE AND DOCTOR
RESCUE STARVING SAILORS
New York. Bept. 21.—Rescued after
having drifted In a wrecked schooner
for five days without food or water,
with a sick crew. Captain R. J. Robin
son. of the schooner Flora Rogers, told
s thrilling story of suffering upon his
arrival on the Clyde line steamship Al
gonquin in New Tork.
The captain and crew were rescued
by Mlaa Jacqueline Rowe, a trainee
nurse, end Dr, S. 8. Hammond, both
of Augusta, Go., who rowed a boat from
the Algonquin.
SUES MOTHER FOR $5,000 DAMAGES;
QUARREL OVER NU SPELIN CAUSE
i
Elkhart. Ind., Bept. 21.—Henry Comment has filed an action against
his mother-in-law. Mar)- Peas, for $1,000 for alienation of his wife's af
fections. The trouble originated Ig ■ quarrel over hla criticism of Presi
dent Roosevelt for championing spelling reform.