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GFORGIA DIVORCE LAWS ARE ATTACKED BY COURT
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Speaker of Georgia House of Rep
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resentatives May Be Guber
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i natorial Candidate.
The two interesting developments in
State politics Thursday were the pos
itive withdrawal of W. . Vereen, of
Moultrie, from the Governorship race
and the well authenticated statement
that Speaker Willlam ¥ H. - Burwell
most likely will enter the came with
in the next few days. .
Mr. Vereen's withdrawal is an
nounced in his home paper, The Moul
trie Observer, Thursday afternoon. It
was entirely unexpected by - his
friensd. ' -
When the State Democratic Exec
utive Committee met in Atlanta Sat
urday a large delegation of Verene's
boosters came to the capital and
stated unequivocally that the Moul
trie man would be in the Governor
ship race, and that his formal an
nouncement would be given out short
ly. He was a most formidable can
didate for appointment to the tem
porary United States Senatorship now
held by W. S, West, .and figured large
ly in that situation.
In his statement of withdrawal
from the race for the Governorzhip,
Mr. Vereen announces that he is “out
of politics for this year.” He gives
business reasons for his withdrawal
Narrows te Two Entries.
The withdrawal of Vereen narrows
the prospective Governorship contest
to date to J. Randolph Anderson,
president of the Senate, and William
H. Burwell, Speaker of the House.
Such a race would be interesting in
the extreme, as both are well known
throughout all Georgia.
President Anderson already has an
nounced his positive intent to be in
the Governorship race. |
Asked over long-distance phone as
to his rumored candidacy, Mr. Bur
well replied: ‘
“I am considering, very seriously,
the matter of running for Governor. 1
have been considering that very thing |
ever since Governor Slaton stated |
positively his candidacy for the|
United States Senate. )
Conferring With Friends. |
“I have already conferred with a
number of my friends throughout the
State as to the matter and am 2x- |
pecting to confer with others during
the present week I may say, too,
that the outlock now is that 1 shaill
enter the race. i
"I do not deny an ambition to be
Governer; and if it appears to me
finally that the present is a fit anl
proper time for me to try for that|
high and honorable position, I cer-|
tainly’ shall make the race. 1 shall}
be in position to state positively wnat |
1 will do, however, within a fm;
days.” |
BRYAN WEARS CAP.
WASHINGTON, April 9.—Wearing
o black skullcap to protest his head
from drafts, Secretary of Stalte
Pryan returned to his desk at the
State Department to-day, after five
dayvs spent at home by order of his
physician.
Mr. Bryan still was suffering from
his cold and his voice was very
hoarse. He said, however, that he
was much improved and expected to
remain at work.
HELD FOUR KINGS.
PAXLEY, April 9.—Three men were
arrested by the City Marshal of Bax
ley to-day while playing poker in the
Grand Jury room of the Appling
County courthouse. One of them, H.
Cleland, is a constable for a justice
of the peace court. The others, Dave
Tuten and Joseph Wills, are well
known citizens of Baxley. A
Cleland held four kings when the
game was interrupted.
GRAY IS NOMINATED.
MOBILE, April 9.--Oscar L. Gray,
of Butler, Choctaw County, accord
ing to the full unofficial count, has
been nominated for Congressman
from the First Alabama district by
a majority of 1,400 votes.
Gray defeated George W. Taylor,
who is now serving his ninth term.
BONAPARTE WEDS.
NEW YORK, April 9.—Jerome Na
poleon Bonaparte, of Washington,
grandnephew of the great Napoleon,
and Blanche Pierce Strebeigh, whose
final decree of divorce from Harold
Strebeigh was signed by Justice Man
ning in the Brooklyn Supreme Court
last Friday, were married to-day at
the City Hall by Alderman Mulraney.
KILLS HIMSELF.
NEW YORK, April 9.—After he had
yeprimanded his three daughters for
tuying too much Easter finery, Wii
liam Weiss committed suicide by
shooting.
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LONDON, April 9.—Francis Ouimet,
the youthful open gol!f champion of
America, who is in England to con
test in the amateur championships
and possibly in the great open maich
¢s, showed his mettle to-day on the
Sandwich course, when, paired with
Lockwood, he defeated in easy fashion
the Marquis of Linlithgow and Lord
Charles Hope, two of the best ama
teur players in Great Britain.
The match was played in a terrific
gale, but the young American cham
pion actually seemed less handicapped
by the breeze than his opponents, who
were better used to it. His score of
83 for the round was a remarkable
performance under the conditions.
The match, with other fine exhibi-
Tries Suicide When
ries Suicide Wh
SAVANNAH, April 9.—Mrs. Edna
Wilson to-day is in a critical condi
tion in a hospital followlng an at
tempt at suicide last night when her
husband, Lester Wilson, from whom
she secured a separation, tried to
kidnap her 3-year-old daughter while
she was away at a motion picture
show.
The police recovered the child and
will restore her to the mother. No
charge was made against the father.
tions in practice over the links at
Deal and Sandwich, caused a switch
in the bettinz on the amateur cham
pionship tournament, in which Oui
met, with Jerome Travers, Herreschoff
and other Americans, will compete.
A week ago odds of 2 to 1 were of
fered that no American would win or
reach the finals. After Ouimet's per
formance to-day the odds on the
same proposition dropped to 7 to 5.
All of Ouimet's practice matches
have been followed by large galleries,
the British golfing public being eager
to watch the American boy who de
feated, in a triangular match, Harry
Vardon and Edward Ray, two of
Great Britain’s professional golfing
giants, in the now famous playoff for
the American open title last summer.
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ABERDEEN, April 10.—Mr. Page, the
American Ambassador, has sent to Sez
retary of State Bryan an official ac
count of the honor conferred on him
recently when Aberdeen TUniversity
made him an LL.D.
The common report Lére has it that
the chief reason for making Mr. Page
a ‘“doctor of laws’’ was to please An
drew Carnegie, rector of rthe wuniver
sity, .
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Ellis Would Put Stringent Re
strictions Around the Granting
of Legal Separations.
Having heard for four days the
woes of the unhappily mated, Judze
W. D. Eliis sjuared off and took a
vigorons rap at Georgia's divorce
laws in a short talk he made to the
jury Thursday, at the close of the
divorce docket for the present term
of court.
Judge Ellis declared that if it iay
in his power he weculd net do’away
with divorce entirely—"“because a
gentleman should not be linked. for
life with a shrew and a virtuems
woman should not be tied to a brute”
—but he would make divorces harder
to obtain, ¢
“The easier it is to gbtain a di
vorce,” he said, “the mere divorces
there will be. The spectacle we lLave
just witnessed, of more than a hun
dred persons securing their release
from the matrimonial halter by the
law is a fair sample of what goes
on in this court six times a year. At
every term of court I am humiliated
that such a condition of affairs can
exist, and I do not believe there has
ever been a divorce court jury that
didn't go away disgusted.
Would Make Both Testify.
“My idea, which I incorporated in
a bill that 1 tried to get before (he
Legislature but which was killed by
some divorce lawyers, is that there
should be no total divorces granted
on the uncorroborated testimony of
either party. Women come here and
swear that their husbands are brutes,
and a year later their husbands come
here and preve by their own testi
mony, that they:are refined gentle
ment,
“There should be no marriages
withing six months or a yecar after
a divorce has been granted. That
would end a great many of ‘this di
vorce-in-the-morning-and-marriage -
in-the-afternoon business.’
“Somebody should be appointed hy
the State to conduct one side of these
divorce cases. Ninety per cent of
them are undefended, and men and
women who are called brutes and
worse do not seem to think it neces
eary to deny the statements. 1 am
told in the country districts of Geor
gia 90 per cent of the divorce cases
are among the negroes, but I sup
port you have noticed that in Atlanta
90 per cent of them are whites,
» Urges Punishment.
“Twenty years ago divorce was
rare, and a divorced man or womun
was a conspicuous woman on the
streets., The evil has grown so that
it now permeates all ranks of so
ciety, and a person who has not beecn
divorced is more of a rarity than
one who has. And during the trial
of, these seventy cases this week,
there has not been the wail of an in
fant in the courtroom; no children
have been here.”
Judge Ellis declared that the man
who marries a 15, 16 or 17 year old
girl and then mistreats or deser:s
her, or causes her to become I,
should not merely be made the de
fendant in a divorce action, but
should be tried for a more serious
crime.
Eight cases were disposed of in the
final session of the divorce court
Thursday.
Mrs. Margaret Tuggle was granted
a second divorce from B. Pinckney
Tuggle. She married Tuggle in 1998,
when she was but 18 years old, be
cause, she said, he threatened to
shoot her if she didn't. ller parents
refused to let her live with him and
she got . divorce. In 1911 she mar
riel Tuggle again. She said ther
maiden name was Margaret Bowics,
and asked that it be restored to her.
TAFTS IN AUGUSTA.
AUGUSTA. April 9.—Ex-President
William Howard Taft and Mrs. Taft
arrived in Augusta to-day from New
Haven, Conn. Mr. Taft came to Au
gusta to rest during the Yale Easter
holidays. He will be one of the prin
cipal speakers at the dedication of
the Archibald Butt Memorial Bridga
next Tuesday.
One of those who greeted Mr. Taft
at the train was Thomas D. Murphy,
the Democrat whom Mr. Taft named
to the Augusta postoffice.
“Why, hello, Murph, how are you?”
was the former President’s greeting,
WAS WEARY OF LIFE.
MIDDLETOWN, KY. April 9—
Abraham fople, aged 93, committed
suicide to-day by cutfln{ his throat.
He said he was weary “of life and
tired of waiting to cie
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