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Newspaper Page TextThe Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal VOL. XL (AFT SPLITS MIRS WHILE NICARAGUANS . ARE SPLITTING HEADS Criticised for Ordering Tenth Regiment to Managua, Pres ident Reneges and Revokes the Order (By Aaaoeiaud Ymbs.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 29.-Adverse crit icism of the state department s Central American poHcy during the closing hours . of the last session of the senate, with ' intimations that an American army , would be sent to Nicaragua soon after | congress adjourned, are believed by some j officials here to be the reasons which] actuated President Taft in revoking the I order sending the Tenth infantry from , the canal sone to Nicaragua. BPLITING HAIRS. All authorities on international law in ■ the state, war and navy departments I practically are agreed that there is no . technical difference between the khaki- i clad soldier and the marine or blue jacket when employed as a landing force In a foreign country. But there is a public sentiment which invariably asso- . ciafes the landing of soldiers with actual warfare and a permanency of purpose. On the other hand marines and blue jackets are so frequently called upon for the meet temporary and exigent ser vice as to excite little comment. From a military point of view it is said i at the department the only edket of the president's action of last night will be to sttghtly retard the assembly of a sufficient American force in Nicar agua to insure the maintenance of com munication between the American lega tion in Managua and the warships at I Corinto. 72 miles away. f HOPING FOR THE BEST. It is not believed that American inter ests or lives will be in great danger for the next two or three da ya especial ly as knowledge of the purpose of the United States to use any necessary amount of force to accomplish the pur poses announced by Minister We! tael is fully known to the rebel leaders. The navy reinforcements are beginning to report their arrival in Nicaragua The - gunboat Denver arrived at Corinto on Vueelyy. but the dispatch announcing that Pact to the navy department did not ' reach here until early teday. Besides reporting the arrival of the gunboat. ‘tWVßepatch said the cruiser California Yesterday wm to land about 400 marine* and bluejackets al Corinto and steam for Panama to embark the 760 marines which the Prairie is now speeding lo Colon for transportation across the .sthmua SITUATION DANGEROUS. s Anxiety is expressed for Managua in view of a dispatch dated Monday which was received at the state department early today from American Minister Weitzel. The dispatch merely stated that the government had been Inform ed that another attack on the capital would be made by the rebels. Copies of all: cablegrams bearing on the Nicaraguan situation are being sent . 4o President Taft. The Tenth infantry still is being kept In readiness for duty in Nicaragua » Upon his arrival at Corinto, Com mander Washington, who is now the senior naval officer in Nicaraguan wa ters. called into a conference a com mittee representing rebels. The rebels acquiesced in the demand for -the im mediate repair of the railroad between Corinto and Managua and the opening of telegraphic communication. A dispatch received here today said that wires between Corinto and Maha xgua would be in operation within 48; hours, but that it would require 18 days ■ u to repair the railroad. Much suffering because of great ■earcity of food was reported by Com mander Washington. The rebels' de mand for the surrender of the port of Corinto was presented on August 12. it became known today. * German Consul Is Asked to Investigate Mysterious Shooting (Special Dispatch to The Journal.' i MONTGOMERY. Ala., Aug. 29.—Inti mating that there was a conspiracy to kill his son. Jacob Westhofen, of Ber glsch Gladbach. Germany, has requested the German legation at Washington and,, the German consul at New Orleans to ln-1 vestigate the shooting of Peter J. West- , hofen. near McGehee’s Switch. Jqly 28. Westhofen died at a Montgomery inflrm ary as a result of blood poison and lock jaw two weeks after he was shot. He was wounded in the arm soon after' he left an automobile in which he and Mrs. I. E. Boyette, daughter of Richard Tillis, millionaire owner of the Mont-' gomery Light and ,Traction company.’ were riding. Mrs. Boyette’s husband was afTested soon after the shooting, but was released at his preliminary trial, he proving that he was in Montgomery st the time of the shooting. The German ambassador has request-. •d Sheriff Horace Hood te furnish all information possible and he will deter- I mine whether or not an investigation is I necessary. Westhofen was a member of a promi nent family in Germany and was em ployed by the Montgomery .cooperage works, which Is owned by Richard Tillis, ike White, chauffeur of the automobile in which Westhofen and Mrs. Boyette , were riding, was arrested, but has been * liberated, nd evidence being found to in criminate him. WILSON TELLS FARMERS Os TEODV AND-TMIFF Roosevelt a Protectionist, De clares Gov. Wilson. in Wil liams Grove Speech (By Associated Prase.) WILLIAMS GROVE. Pi.. Aug. 29 Governor Wilson, in a speech at a farmers' rally here today, talked of the farmers' share of prosperity with exist ing tariff. He said in part: **lt is strange that we should have put off so long looking into our gov ernment to see whether it is in fact run I according to the rules we originally I laid down for it, but it is certain that I we are now looking into it very sharply i and without the least danger that we ! shall be deceived again as to its char- I acter. Our idea of it has been frqm the first that it was a genuine partner- I ship and that all were upon one footing and were to share alike. "But a very interesting thing has I just come to light. That is not in fact the way the government has been administered in our time. It has been in the hands of self-constituted trus tees. and the partners have seldom been allowed a real governing voice In the administration. HAMILTON’S PLAN. "We had supposed that we were con ducting the national business along the lines laid down by Jefferson, but we And that as a matter of fact we have been continuing-it along the lines laid down by Hamilton. Hamilton believed that the common run of men had lit tle qualification for such business, that it could be really comprehended and wisely-directed o4ly by those who led If. commercial and industrial enterprises and owned the chief bodies of property in the country. And tn our time the leaders-' of the Republican party have, consciously or unconsciously, adopted , his notion. NOW A PLUTOCRACY. Those men financed party campaigns and were always on the inside when party policy was to be determined. Tariff schedules, the foreign policy of the country, the chief expenditures of the government—everything went as they suggested, while tne rank and file of us fared as we might, and were happy if we had any small share in the prosperity which they organised for themselves. They were the trustees, we were their wards and took part in the common life as they planned and directed. What went on in the trustee meetings we were very seldom allowed to learn—learned indeed only by im pertinent inquiry, only by congres sional investigations or trials in court, which the trustees complained sadly Interfered with the regular course of business. _ _ AS TO ROOSEVELT. “Mr< Roosevelt has proclaimed him self a convert to the protective policy— I say a convert because he at one time very frankly avowed a different opinion—and has said that while he ad mitted that, no doubt, some duties were too high and ought to be lowered, on the whole, the policy pursued by Re publican' administrations had been the right one; and he thought the ‘prise money’ which had been received undef. (hat aystem by the manufacturers of ths country was legitimate booty. IT IS PRIZE MONEY. "The analogy is a very interesting one. Prise money is generally acquired by capture and not by any process of earnihgs. but Mr. Roosevelt is always frank and says that his only objection to the“system is too much of the prise money remains in the hands of the of ficers *nd too little of it is distributed to the crew. His own object he avows to be to see to it that more of the prise money gets into the pay envelopes of those whom the free hooters employ. The interesting point I wish to raise now Is Who supplies the plunder from whom il-the prise money taken? THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA? s •The., present Democratic congress had the old-fashioned idea of govern ment. They supposed that its benefits and protections were to be distributed and equally shared. It introduced and passed a bill which became known as the farmers’ free list bill.- 1 "That will put many indispensable things on the free list. Most prominent among them were agricultural imple ments, because the American farmer pays more for his agricultural imple- (Continuad on Page 7, Column 4.) HERE IS THE “HAMILTON McWHORTER” TELEGRAM 3-4-Qn S Athene Ga 8/20/12 A B Andrews, ✓ Raleigh. N. C. As I wired you the Governor vetoed the mileage bill last night. It was vetoed late to prevent being given out for the morning papers and he*" does not expect it can be reasonably avoided to give it to the ' afternoon papers. None of the papers are yet aware of his veto. The state wide primary for Governor and other offices will be held tomorrow, Wednesday. You #ill therefore appreciate the situation, --v I am having copy now made of veto and I will mail it to you. Am very much gratified over the xurait situation. - ..Hamilton McWhorter , 7 449 Bn _ / ■ - L The Journal's Greensboro, N. C., correspondent mailed the telegram which was found in Greensboro, at tne Southern Railway station, from which the above cut was made. It speaks for Itself. It is not a Western Union or a Postal message, but on the form blank of tbe Southern Railway. The two letters in the upper left i hand corner, “Qn,” indicate it was forwarded by the Atlanta office of the- Southern Railway, which re lays for Athens to Raleigh, N. C.» the letter “8,” following the office call, indicates the ‘‘wire sign” of the Raleigh telegraph operator who copied the message, in the telegram, from which the above cut was made, appears a pencil forwarding line, too dim for reproduction, marking out “Raleigh, N. C.” and inserting, Ralei£j Hotel, Washington, D. C.” written in the handwriting peculiar to all telegraph operators. This is the telegram which Hamilton McWhorter, counsel for the Southern Railway, living in Athens, Ga., denies having sent. He admits having sent “a” telegram to Mr. Andrews, vice president of the Southern, but aays it was a “different kind of a message/* The copy from which the above cut was made shows no sign of mutilation, alteration or change other than tbe forwarding pencil marks stated. WITH SACRED KNIFE. WOMAN WAITED TO ASSASSINATE TIFT Mrs. Caroline Beers Arrested by Detectives Just as Taft Party Entered . Hotel in Columbus - • (By Associated Press.) COLUMBUS. Ohio, Aug. 29.—A woman with two long knives concealed in her clothing awaited the coming of Presi dent Taft to a hotel here this morning. When arfested she gave the name of Caroline Beers, aged 49, and said sne was the president’s wife. Mrs. Beers was found this morning on one of the upper floors of the hotel near the elevator it- was presumed the president would use soon after his ar rival. She was rushed out of the place by detectives just before the presi dential party arrived. Warning that the woman might try to harm the presTflent came yesterday when she told hofffl employes 'hat she was going to punish the president. "I have the sacred knife for President Taft,” she .said, after being arrested. She probably referred to a long, keen bladed affair upon the handle of which had been* placed a photograph of Mr. Taft. Mrs. Beers is well dressed and 8200 was found in her clothing.? She says she resides at Greenville, Ohio. FACES BUSY DAY. President Taft faced a program that wa ’_ expected to keep him busy until late tonight. The president's chief ad dress was* scheduled to be given tonight at a banquet of the Ohio Bar association. He declared, that his speech wftuld not be, on politics. At 9:30 o'clock the activities of the day began when he viaited the state house and was serenaded by 600 vocalists from the Ohio sangerbund. By 10 o'clock he was taken to the state fair where he will deliver two short addresses and take luncheon. Mr. Taft was accompanied here by his brother. Horace D. Taft, who joined the presOdential party at Boston last night. EXPLAINS VETO POWERS. President Taft publicly explained today his exercise of the veto power in his speech to a great crowd of farmers on the state fair grounds here. President Taft was not told of the aest of a woman, Mrs. Beers, who was taken at a - Power as I have the Veto ♦U J W head wouW dr °P in the basket. But I am not a king and that is very different. The president must use the veto when his conscience tells him, whether his head drops In ff»e basket or not. The veto is an excellent thing? My friends who criticise me forget that I was elected jutet as they werfc and by a good many more people than-they were. ” The president spoke to the farmers of legislation which congress h<s enticted forvtheir beWeftt and promised that other legislation would follow. He paid his re spects to the reformer. "One trouble with the present day reformer,'' said the presi dent, "is that he wants his reforms put into effect tomorrow morning for break fast. Reforms do not come that quickly. Mere change is not necessarily progress.” Musical Convention (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) FORSYTH. Ga.. Aug. 29.—Judge E. T. Pound, president of the Southern Musi cal convention, has issued a call for the sixty-seventh annual assembly of the convention; the meeting to be held at the First Baptist church of Forsyth on August 27 and 28. This association claims to be the oldest musical conven tion in the state and has a membership In thirty counties. ATLANTA. GEOBGIA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1912. kX was higher My ; Iso I CUT 1 MV EXPENSES TH6 ) p vear over. SEVEN MILLION ) \ Poll-AR-S at — — —— OME BILUOA/ < NMjeTEEN MILLION/, SIX HUMORED AND THIRTY-SIX « ID, OME HUMDRJED \0 iTV-TMREE i AMD SIXTY— / I If gENTS * y II I // ■ ■ CUTTING EXPENSES WHEN«HUGE GO IN IS FIRM COMMISSIONER? Issue May Be Raised on This Point-Price Claims Nov. 1» Conner Says July 1 > The issue is liable to be raised as to whethar J. D. Price. Democratic nom inee for commissioner of agriculture, will assume that office immediately after his election to It in October, or whether he must wait until July L 1913. • J. J. Conner, commissioner of agri culture. appointed by- Governor Brown upon the resignation of Thomas ,G- Hudson to fill the unexpired term .of Mr. Hudson, claims that hts ‘commis sion holds good until July 1, 1913. "On the other 'hand, Mr. Price con tends that when he is elected he will be entitled to the office immediately, about November 1, or as soon as the secretary of state can declare the re sult and he, Mr. Price, can take the oath of office. ’ Legal as well as lay opinion is said to be divided on the question. There seems to be no clear provision in the )aw that will conclusively settle it. WHAT LAW PROVIDES. ’ The law provides that in the case of a vacancy in the office of commissioner of agriculture, the governor shall ap point a commissioner, who shall hold (Continued on Page 7, Column 3.) MlLEftfif PULLING STILL UP TO B. fl. COMMISSION Decision Indicated Thursday or Friday-Change in Bag -1 gage Rule Argued A decision is indicated, to come Thursday afternoon or some time Fri day, from the state railroad commis sion, in the long pending dispute be tween the traveling public and the rail roads of Georgia as to whetlier or not mileage shall be “pulled” by conduc tors or by ticket agents. When the commission adjourned at 1 o’clock Thursday afternoon it had net yet taken up the -mileage question, but its execu tive session .was due to resume at 3 o’clock and last through the afternoon, and resume again .Friday morning to last during the day. - . The application of the Atlanta Ter minal company for an amendment of the commission’s passenger rule re quiring that bagfcage be delivered at railroad stations 15 minutes before the scheduled departure of the train on which it is supposed to go, was heard by the commission Thursday morning, and was followed immediately by the executive session. The Atlanta Ter minal company asks that the rule be changed so that in cities of 50,000 or over the delivery of baggage will be required of travelers 30 minutes be fore the departure or trains. R. T. Pace, superintendent, and W. A. Vaughn, baggage master, of the Atlanta Ter minal company, appeared before the commission Thursday in support of the petition. Ed Jordan, representing the United Commercial Travelers; Bolling Jones, representing the Atlanta Cham ber of Commerce, and E. L. Rhodes, rep resenting the Southern Jobbers and Milliners’ association, urged the com mission not to grunt the change. Ar thur Heyman, attorney for the com pany, closed the hearing with his argument. Other important matters than |he mileage bill are pending before z tho railroad commission for decision. ' One ft them is tjie petition of the Atlanta and Macon Railway company for au thority to issue 33.600.000 stocks and 33,600,000 bonds to cover the construc tion cost at the third-rail electric line which the company expects to build between Atlanta and Macon. The pe tition to require less than carload shipments of stoves to be crated Is also pending for decision. 'This Negro Wanted Value Received for Fine He Had Paid (Special Dispatch te The Journal.) ANNISTON, Ala., Aug. 29.—After hav ing been arrested, tried and fined on a charge of stealing a half bushel of meal, Austin Sterling, a negro, went to the Humphries store in Oxford and told a clerk that he had just' paid $28.50 and that he wanted his meal. The surprised clerk told him that the money he paid was to the city of Oxford, and not to the store where the negro is alleged to have stolen the meal. GOURT STOPS STRIKEOS FROM PICKETING SHOPS Spalding Foundry and South ern I. & E. Co, Says Men Are Bribed to Strike for $7 Day Simultaneous strikes in two of the city’s biggest plants have resulted in stringent restraining orders directed against the International Moulders' Un ion of America and the local organisation. No. 273. A strike has been on at the Spalding Foundry company's shops since July 22, and at the Southern Iron And Equipment company’s shop since August 8. About a dozen moulders are said to have struck at the former company's plant and .about 25 at the latter. The orders drawn by the attorneys of both companies were signed Thursday morning by Judge George L. Bell, of the superior court, and were very similar. AGAINST INTERFERENCE. They restrain the union, its members, and a number of the alleged strikers in dividually, from interfering with the em ployes of the plant in any way; from seeking to induce them to quit work; from intimidating the workmen by threats of violence; from offering them bribes to induce them to stop work; and from picketing the premises about the shops. Officials of the union and the individual defendants are ordered to show cause on September 7 why the injunction should not be made permanent. The suits alege that the, men who are sti on the job have been offered “bribes” of $7 per and join the ranks of the strikers, and that in one instance a molder was offered sl4 per day to-strike. The Southern Iron and Equipment company is a "non-union” shop, and to force it to employ only unin mld ers the strike is alleged t have been called there. VIOLENCE CHARGED. The Spalding Foundry company is a union, or rather has been a union shop, and the strike was called there, it is said, because, when one of the men failed to show up for work, on July 22. a non-union apprentice was put in his place. In the suit of the Southern Iron and Equipment company It is alleged that one of the strikers assaulted an em ploye who had refused to join the strikers and threatened to kill him if he showed up for work the next day. Pickets have been placed about both shops, it is alleged, and the workmen have been harrassed by the strikers. B. L. Brooks, president of the Mold ers’ loca here, and Wnam Van Houten, a national officer, are among the indi vidual defendants. The suits were filed by Attorneys Rosser & Brandon, J H. Porter and Smith, Hammond & Smith. pr Fall Term Opens (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) EASTMAN, Ga., Aug. 29.—The Eastman public schools will begin the fall term Monday, September 2. The buildings are being repaired, and the class rooms are being put in order foij the opening day. MODE VOTES THAN VOTERS IRE CAST IN SOUTHCAROLINA Blease Has a Majority of 1r 461 Votes, but Investiga tions of Fraud Have Already Begun a- "■ ■ 1 '■■■" (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 2».-The offi cial returns from Tuesday's Democratic state primary show that Governor Elease has a majority of 1,4«1 over both Judge Jones and Duncan. Th* vote la: Blease. 69,457; Jones, 65,972; Dunean. 2,042. The vote exceeds by 30,000 any pre viously polled in thia state. There are rumors of contests from all over the state, and the Democratic ex ecutive committee may have to order an official recount of the votes. One of the features of the contest for governor is that about 20,000 more votes were polled in that contest than for any other state office. In Anderson county alone there were 4.000 more vote* polled between the gubernatorial contstants J than any other state contest. This dis crepancy has led many to believe that a S recount will be ordered. In several of the counties it is stated that more votes were polled than there ,i was names on the club rolls. Some of the county executive commitees have not ; ' s waited f° r the state committee to take : action, bdt have ordered investigations r J| themselves. The complaints to John Gary Evans, chairman of the state committee, alleg- • P ed that the vote is out of all proportion to the state’s population, and that there *i were more votes for governor than there are men over 21 years of age In the state. PADDING OF ROLLS. Rumors of irregularity are pouring in. S A report from Cherokee county says it is charged that Republicans, Socialists and people from North Carolina and from Union county cast their ballots In 1 Cherokee. Rumors of padding of club rolls repeating and other charges of ir regularities are openly made. The state chairman, John Gary Evang, has been flooded with telegrams and'tel ephone messages from all parts of tha state, but he will have nothing to say until the state executive committee meets here tomorrow at noen to tabulate the returns and declare the official re sult. Any protests will come up before them for review and determination. 3 Protests from a number of boxes tn Spartanburg county have been filed with the county executive committee, and will be considered when the county commit tee meets today at noon to declare the result and tabulate the retomi' County committees meet at every county .seat today to receive the returns and deciare the official results. It is reported that the Anderson com mittee will make a recount of the vote of that county. The Columbia State sums up the situation this morning editorial- 1 ly as follows: “According to the census of 1910 the white population of South Carolina was 679,162. For the ten years. 1900 to 1910, the white population of the state in creased a Mttle less than 22 per cent Asyming 22 per cent as the rate of in crease for the decade, the white popula tion of the state should be at this time 709,045. 141,809 LEGAL VOTERS. | "Reckoning that for every five persons there is one male of voting age, there should be In South Carolina at this time 141,809 white males of voting age. At 11 o’clock last night 138.304 votes had been reported as cast in the last Tuesday pri mary. Thirty-three boxes remained ug reported. Eleven hundred and ninetji eight boxes already reported had aver aged 115 ballots each. Talcing 115 as tbe average for the remaining S 3 boxes, 3,800 ballots would remain to be added to the ballots reported, making a total for the state of 142,104. “In other words, the inference would be that every white man above 21 years' old in the state voted last Tuesday, plus 295. If the white voting population ofi the state is 141,809 every white man whose' | name was not on a club roll, every white man who was sick; every unnaturalized' white foreigner; every white imbecile an 4 lunatic of voting age; every white con vict; every white man who was outside of the state on election day; every white! j man who did not go to the polls; every white Republican and every white Social-; Ist must have counted to make the a£| gregate of 142,104 ballots reported and to be reported as cast, plus 296.’’ - '”1 < Boys Are Arrested F'or Robbing Church (Special Dispatch to The Journal.! SAVANNAH, Aug. 29.—Rob Lewis and Walter Small, two lads, aged la j and 14 respectively, are held by the police on the charge of breaking in and robbing St. Philip’s church, on West Broad street. The boys are alleged to have obtained some clothes and a box ■ of carpenter’s tools. .' r - • Mrs, Vickers Dies - /j (Special Dispatch to The Journal) JACKSON, Ga., Aug. 29.—At the age < of 78, Mrs. Rosa Vickers died at the home of her son, N. K. Vickers, at; Flovilla Tuesday night, death having' been due to old age. She is survived' by N. K. Vickers, Beulah Vickers, of: this county, and Troy Vickers, of Buck-! ner. Ark. The funeral will take place, Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at Sandy Creek cemetery. z J .« •’ w*..-x . . si. • J M NO. 98.