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THE VALDOSTA TIMES VALDOSTA, GA., SATURDAY,' MARCH 16, 101B.
GOV. BROWN
ROASTS STAE
COMMITTEE
Ordinary's Office * X
Regrets the “Steam-Roll
er”Tactics in Vogue
THE GOVERNOR DECRIES THE
DECISION TO GIVE THE MIN-
NORITY NO REPRESENTATION
IN NAMING DELEGATES.
Atlanta, Ga., March 14.—On "be
ing asked for a statement In refer
ence to the action of th© state exec
utive committee in abolishing for
the gecond time in th© history of
the state the constitutional basis of
representation and substituting a
plan by which all delegates to the
state convention shall be named
solely in accord with the plurality
vote of the state taken as a whole.
Governor Joseph M. Bro^n said to
day:
“The action of the committee
surprises me because I thought this,
principle had been settled once for
all at the ballot box in Georgia. It
was one of the chief issues in my
first campaign for governor. At that
time th# state committee, for ob
vious reasons, provided that the
candidate ' who received the most
for governor should have the
■ from every county in the
which had voted
i'h© object, of course,
oinority by glv-
ARE
RAISED FOR
LOPMENT
JUDGE ON BENCH
WAS SHOT DEAD
DURING COURT
4; :
Vast Expenditures are
Being Made in South
GEORGIA AND ALABAMA ARE IN
THE LEAD IN THE MATTER OP
INDUSTRIAL AND. PUBUO IM
ITIOVEMENTS,
SHERIFF AND PROSECUTING ATTORNEY WERE ALSO KILLED BY
FRIENDS OF THE “ALLEN GANG," WHO WERE ON TRIAL,,IN
VIRGINIA TODAY—MANY OTHERS WERE WOUNDED IN THE
FUSILADE WHICH FOLLOWHD THE TIUASiurPOSSH IS FOLLOW.
Via THE DESPERADOES WIIO DID THE SHBOri XO—ONE; OF
THE PRISONERS WAS KILLED.
Colum-bus, Ga., March 14.—The
Industrial Index says in Its Issue lor
this week:
“Railroads, Ice factories and
church buildings ar 0 prominent in
the Industrial and construction news
of the great Southeast for the past
seven days, which demonstrates un
ceasing development.
“The initial work has been begun
In Alabama upon a hydro-electric
plant that will be part of a mllllon-
dollar Investment
“Savannah, Ga„ will have a pow
er plant to cost $1,000,000. At Ma
con, Ga., a $1,500,000 passenger
station Is to be erected.
“A $2,500,000 corporation of Phil
adelphia, Pa., has begun the con
struction In Florida of an extensive
phosphate plant,
“A company with minimum capi
tal stock of $500,000 has been or
ganised at Columbus, Ga., to con
struct a railroad between a point on
the Gulf of Mexico and Atlanta, Ga.
a distance of nearly 200 miles.
YTwenty-sIx new corporations
have been formed during tho week
with-.minimum capital stdck aggre-
$lll8,000.
HlllsrlUe, Va., March 14.—Judge
Thornton Massie, of the Twenty-first
circuit, was shot dead on the bench
today. . *
William Footer, the commonwealth
attorney, as he arose to address' the
court, and Sheriff L. F. Webb were
also killed by a fusll&de of shots af
ter the court opened today.
The “Alien gang 11 of Carroll
county, were on trial. A scoro of
persons were injured.
Calls for help were sent out and
troops are being rushed from Rich
mond.
Governor Asked for Help,
Richmond, March 14.—Governor
Mann receivod the following tele
gram from the clerk of the county
court at Hlllsvllle at noon:
Mob violence. Judge, common
wealth attorney, some officers and
others were .hot following tho con
viction of Floyd Allen for felony.
ns result of
Massie died 'at ni
his Injuries.
Twenty members of “The Allen
gang” rose fjfcmithelr seats In tho
court room and. poured a fusillade
cf shots at the s-iurt. officials Just as
the verdict wax rendered against
Allen, a. s felonr\„„. •
James Douglass- and another
Juror wore killed, ind many specta
tors were tajnrocu
Allen hid ‘Whitened to shoot up
the court fb-mL.if the leadpr was
convicted, '
The town Is I ft a date of panle.
Th c militia companies are on tho
way hero, - 't
The assaeslna fled and a posse
heavily armed eurrounded them (n
a barn, A desperate fight la ex
pected. , ■ r
Two of the Bandits Were Killed.
Richmond, Va., March 14.—It Is
reported that Floa Allox,- VV$ver-
ado and prisoner. whD.wns wounded
In tho fusillade at HBlpvIIlo,. died
Tho sheriffs attorney and Judge a t noon. X i ' "
Massie are dead. Help quick.” One of the bandits Is reported to
How the Shooting Occurred. hav 0 been killed tHji; nlternodri In a
Hlllsvllle, Va., March 14.—Judge fight with
it 'V ——-
, outrage In the minority
exactly what happened
™. hmu. Ml j»hat gave mb, over'my
protest, the vote of every delegate
from every county In Georgia. I
neither asked nor wanted the tote
of a single county whose people had
voted for somebody else at the bal
lot box. Above all things I thought
It dangerous that the liberties and
rights of the people should be thus
Jeopardised by th e absolute elimina
tion, of minority representation.
which is one of the basic prl™«P«“
upon which our government Is found.
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“I did not dream that any com
mittee would have the effrontery
within so short a time to go back
to a principle which had been so
overwhelmingly repudiated and yet
that Is Just what has been done.
“According to the committee s or
der, every county In the state must
have Its delegates to the state con
vention chosen solely from among
the supporters of the candidate tor
president who received a plurality
vote of the whole state. Thus four-
fifths of tho counties may vote
against one man and the vote of the
other llfth could force those four-
fifths to send delegates supporting
a candidate against whom they had
voted. If such a principle as this
stands. It means the elimination of
the country counties of Georgia ax a
serious factor In the polities of the
state. And It puts within the power
of ten or a doze,, city counties of
Georgia to absolutely control tho
polities of the state. Fortunately,
this can 1<e done only by the consent
of the country counties themselves,
and I am of the opinion that they
will rebuke this Interference with
their liberties and their constitu
tional rights. Just as emphatically
now as they did four, years ngo.
“It Is a pltty that Woodrow Wil
son has hcen made the Instrument
for this attack on the constitutional
rights of the people of thc state snd
If he has to pay the penalty by the
loss of the state, which now seems
Inevitable, he will hav e nobody to
blame hut bla friends.”
has been gFunted fer^a. railway he-
tween .Gadsden, Ala., and a point on
the summit of Lookout Mountain.
Arrangements haye been perfected
for the extension of railway from
Danville to Mlll'dsi>yUle.,Ga. A
route Is being eurv,eyed for a rail
way between Decktur find Austin,
Ala. Survey^*ate Ming nysde for a
Macon and Barnesvllle, Ga.; theater
St. Petersburg, Fla; hotel and hotel
remodeling, Jasper and Loxley,
Cutbhert and jjjjgn^s'viUe, Ca.
psT"
Improving roads. Sir
klh., has voted bonds for pul
Improvements. and Cedartown and Represe:
Meigs, Ga., will vote upon the Is
suance of Improvement bonds.
Industrial plants will be estab
lished as follows:
“Oil mill, Arlington, Ga.; wood
working, Woodstock, Fayette and “ tlTe » of
Huntsville. Ala.Vmonumental mar- at a conf<
Me, Columbus, Ga.; gaa plant. Day-
railway between Gadsden.'Ala. and tons p, a . pIant „ wn>Ion , Ath .
Chattanooga, Tenn.. through north- bakery> Macon . 0a . Alh .
ern portion of Alabama and Geor
gia.
"Ice factories will bo established
at Barnesvllle and Fairburn Qa„
Haleyvllle, Ala., and Palatka, Fla.
"Church butidlngs will be erect
ed or remodeled at Valdosta and
Vldalla, Ga., Bay Mlnctte, Ala., and
Brnldentown, Fla.
“Other
land, Montgomery and Birmingham,
Ala., companies will engage In min
ing.”
s of 180,000
Miners are in Conference
Ovei the Matter.
New York, March 14.—Ropresc*n%
180,000 anthracite miners
conference at their headquarters
BENNETT MAY GET IN RACE.
Brunswick, . Ga., March 14.—A
[great deal of pressure Is being
construction work to be . brought to bear upon Judge Joseph
done, as reported this week is as foU w, Bennett of this city to make tho
l ows: (;-ace for Congress from the Eleventh
“School buildings, Newton, Ala,
$15,00 and Tampa, Fla., $20,000;
postofflee buildings,
today decided to stand pat on the
demands which were refused at a
conference with tho operators yes
terday.
When asked if there would be a
strike, President White of the Mill
Union said “if the operators want
a strike, they can probably have
one."
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SHOT AT KING I
IN ROME TODAY
King on Way to Pantheon
; When Fired Upon
THE ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE WAS
MADE BY A YOUNG ANARCHIST
WHO WAS CAUGHT AND BEAT.
BN ALMOST TO DEATH.
Rome, March 14.—An Attempt
was made by an anarchist to'assas
sinate King Victor today as he was
riding to th« Pantheon to attend tho
memorial service! on the anniver
sary of the funeral at hi* father,
King Humbert Who was assassinated
In 1900.
A man in tbs crowd fired a revolv
er point blank at the king. MaJ. Lan
gs, who waa riding Iby the aide of
the king’s carrlsge, was wounded,
Tho assassin quickly fired a sec
ond shot snd was preparing to shoot
again when tho crowd closed In on
him and overpowered him,
The crowd knocked him prostrate.
Jumped on his body and the man
was nearly beaten to death before
be. coulfi 1)0 rescued by the police,
se. treat was tbs anger of tho crowd.
Afterward the man gave his name
NEWS OF A DAY
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AMONG PEOPLE
Of
County Will Not Have
Primary May First
MANY WERE ANXIOUS FOR
BOTH PRIMARIES TO HE
MELD ON THE SAME DAY, BUT
THIS WILL NOT BE DONE.
The king;, rqtntflPjfc' ealm, ' fc later
proceeding to theA’anthedfit whore
the memorial-exerclsis wore hold.'
^STEAMSHIP WAS BURNED,
;'nUdjShlp Jfsilo a Spectacular Fire
' In- New Vork Harbor, V* 1- '
’New York; March 13 Tho'ito.im-
shlp San Jose, of the United States
Fruit Company, -was burned and
sunk at the foot of Maiden Lane to
day. The loss la $250.(00,
The ship was loading for tho West
Hides and th e fire was very spectacu
lar.
Savannah, March 14.—Owing to
the fact that the registration In Sa
vannah Is unusually largo thta year
n6-effort will be made In Chatham
county to hold -the Democratic prt-
tnjfcy for county officials on May t
wh]tn the presidential primary la
held'. This election, will probably ho
ordered* for some time later, prob
ably tho latter part of June. Thero
were many In thli county who were
anxious for tho primary election for
county officers to bo held si tho
same time as the presidential prima
ry, as It was thought that a much
larger number of votens could
brought out for tho single primary
than with two elections. The reg
istration Increases as the time ap
proaches .for .the bot&a to close.
There Is. noUrery^plUohV opposition
shown In thfS'ctiuViy to tho county
at Anjonlo- Dalba, and Is snld to be o^.MiUUereri,’strong opposl-
.a^Roman onkrchlst, raged, twenty-, c ty administration.
Hoppe and Sutton Again.
Now York, March 14.—Willie
Hoppo and George Sutton have fin
ished practice for their contest ftt
the Hotel Astor tomorrow night for
the I8.il balkline billiard champion
ship, the title to which Is now held
by Hoppe. It will be the second
time within a period of five weoko
that these two famous cue artists
have met. In a championship contest.
Their last contest was for the 18.2
title, and was won by TToppe, wtio
district, slr.i© it became known that'
Fabr© line stamahlp “Canada,” re-
T __, , , cently completed at the shipbuilding
Miami, Fla; ; Gon K reMman G - Brantley would yards at Toulon, sailed from Naples
apartment houses, Atlanta, Augusta n °t a B®In allow the use of his name today on her maiden trip to New
and Columbus, Ga.; Birmingham, as a candidate. Judge Bennett is York. The ship will be employed
Ala., and Miami, Fla.; bank 'build- out of the city at present and could regularly in the Now York-Mediter-
ings, Fort Lauderdale and Lawtey, not he seen, but so far as his friends ranean service. She is 14,00 tons
Fla.; bridge. Miami, Fla.; depot, know he is not a candidate to sue- ®nd of modern equipment in every
Cullman, Ala.;; factory building, ceed Mr. Brantley. (respect.
“Canada” Starts on Initial Trip.
Naples, March 14. — yhe new I now holds the world’s championship
titles at both the 18.1 and 18.2 1 balk-
line games. Both th© youthful cham-
flon and the veteran Button have
displayed fine form In their prac
tice work for tomorrow's match, and
the local followers of the green ta
ble sport are looking forward to a
rare treat when the two com© to
gether.
OI«l John Burroughs, in,SaVannali.
Tho' children qf. Savnmmli, partic
ularly-those who attpmj^hft prjtgto
^ohoola, are tobig'gfvsq, a- rare-treat
tow, being (lib Kneels ‘of "Mr. John.
"Burroughs, of , California, tho fa-,
mum naturalist anel pool, who is
visiting at Renlleu, a resort neap Sa
vannah, On «ev-‘ral ocrnxfona num
bers -of xlm.^llclrpu havo visit-’,1
Stf..Burroughs ami l-cc.i eutjkftnJnod
with -his stories of the birds and
trees. No one la enjoying thle more
than Mr. ■ Burroughs himself. The
balmy summer breather ‘hat,, pre
vailed here during the past few
day* haa offered an excellent oppor
tunity for him to enjoy outings In
the wood*. -
Prevent Cruelty to Animals.
Savannah will have a Society for
tho Prevention of Cruelty to Ani
mals. A meeting of thou Interested
In protecting dumb animals will be
held Tuesday night, at which time
the society will he formally organ
ized. Visitors to Savannah have 10-
conty commented upon the need
here for such an organization.
Merchants of Adel put Y if!
up Good Prizes
TEACHERS OF THE COUNTY ARE
CALLED UPON TO ASSIST IN
GETTING UP INTEREST AMONG
THE BOYS.
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To Organize for Roonevolt.
Seattle, Wash., March 13.—The
Roosevelt League has completed ar
rangements for the State qonvention
to b© held here tomorrow, at \yfilch
time plans will b© discussed for an
eggresnive campaign in Washington
in the interest of th© Roosevelt
candidacy. Th© league will oppose
tho “regular” Stato organization,
which hn» declared for the renoml-
nation of President Taft.
Adel, Ga., March 14.—Tho mer
chants and business men of Adel aro
showing their Interest *in good
farming by offering $150 In prizes,
to tho boy a of the Uoya’ Corn Club of
Berien county. • , '
Already thirty-nine of sturdy
youths havo entered tho club ’and
ar 0 going to muko it. hot for tho
other boys of tho "State.
Ilelow Is a list’of these boya who , *
have ao far Joined: jfo
Harley Jordan, 'Charlie. Daniels, .«
Artie Fateh, Rufus Griffis, Charlie * '. '
Futch, Cbarllo Howell, Eugon 0 aiinp.
son, B. J. Brack, "I. M.. McConnell.
Earnest Surronty, Britt ..Bonrirt^ >yjV
Howard: L. Jones, Alvin Futch,.
Johnnie Hendry, Loland' Connell,"', i
Elite Wltherlngtoh, Byron Shaw,
Coy Deon, Odol Harris, AAhur Cobb, v
Amml 0 Chestnut,- Roy Joltcrsdn, Al-
glo Jones. Willie’J- Mathis'; C.olum- ’.
bus Wright, Daniel Bennett, S. A.
Jirhan, Baryox Eenphtt, Oscar Claris. ’
J<y»e 0 , Bcimcji, Frank/lditcholi; Bll-
llp; Ccaddy,. USnrilo Oglotreo/ Carl
McConnell, Ottls Odom. . ’
There nro other bo^ of -Berrien
county who should bocomo member* ■
of tho club aim try their hands on
growing corn.
It Is honed that th,. teachers of
ho county will th!- work
mong tile bo>r un-J that tho people
of Borrlon generally will push the
[work.
Boys wishing to Join should send
In thol: names at onco to Mr. M. S.
Button, Add, Ga., or to W. Q.
Avery, Nashville, Ga. Teachers who
secure boya tor tho club should send
In tholr names to tho samo parties.
Mr. G. V. Cunningham, the dis
trict agont with th 0 United Statca
Department of Agriculture, In co
operation with tho state College of
Agriculture, was In Add a f*w
days ago In the Interest of tho
work. Ho has charge of 27 counties
In Houthwcst Georgia and reports
that all tho counties In his territory
havo an organization now. Some
of tho counties have as high as 250
boyB la the dub. Berrien should
havo Just as many as any county.
GUNS SALUTE MR. KNOX.
Son Joso, Guatcmnula, March 14.
—Tho American cruiser Maryland,
with Secretary Knox and his party
on hoard, arrived here today and
were welcomed with a salute of
guns from the harbor fortifications.
Naval Stores Market Today.
Savannah, Ga.. March 14.—Tur
pentine Is forty-nine and rosin is
2C.M to $7.40.
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