Georgia Historic Newspapers

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VOLUME XII.
IUGOSTA TROLLEYS
AGREE TO ARBITRATE
BUT OlClffi TERMS,
Demand That Ogain Strikers
B* Not Re-Employed and
That Former Stfage Scale
Continue for w Year
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“ AUGUSTA. G®u. B®pt. 38.—Th® Augus- J
ta-Aiken Railway Electric company I
p agreed Monday to go before an arbitra
tion board io an effort to end the strike
-of MO, of its earmen "for the sake of the
city of Augusta and Its business inter
ests.'’ although ft athl maintains that
the post tier it hps assumed since the
•tart of the strike is morally and legally
right
Its agreement to go before an arbitra
tion board is also conditional, and the
matter is far from settled at the present ’
time. The conditions of the company
are that certain of the strikers who are
named win not be given hack their jobs.
They also demand the scale of wages
in force just prior to the strike shall
not be changed for at least one year.
The agreement to go before a board
of arbitration on the conditions specified
"ts made to a counellmanic committee,
which met Manager E. C. Deal, vice
< president: J. H. Pardee, of New York,
and other officials of the company, on
numerous occasions to urge that the
corporation rescind its stand, that there.
in nothing to arbitrate. . I
SETTLEMENT DIFFICULT.
While the conditions of the company.f
ft is said, will make a settlement of,
the strike difficult and will probably
mean several days of negotiations before
the matter is finally decided, the com
ratty's action Monday Is considered of J
extreme importance, for it Is the first I
recognition of the strikers.
The board »O Which it proposes to’
submit the raattsr is to be composed of I
* otye railroad official. on® official of the
chamber of oomgserce. one council mem
ber, one member of the Merchants and
Manufacturers* Association, and on® rep
resentative of- the carmen.
The report to the committee was not,
made public, but was submitted by the I
committee te an excuttve session of the
entire council, which instructed the com
mittee to lay th® statement of the trolley
company before the carmen and ask
them for immediate action. The commit
tee will meet the carmen at 4:30 o'clock
this afternoon, and will then report to
another called meeting of the city coun
cil.
NO CARS OPERATED.
No effort to run their cars has been
made by the corporation today, because ,
or orders of MX). Abraham Levy, mili
tary commander of city.
Sunday night passed quietly and the i
Richmond Hussars and two companies
•f iiifantry were relieved from duty.
There is now only one infantry com- (
pany, which is commanded by Capt.
George Maine*, on activ® duty. It is ;
atatloned at the electric company s pow-‘
ey house. There are only forty men I
in the command, but Augusta is still'
under martial law and Major Levy ta
the commander of the city.
Maj. Claud® C. 4»mith. of AU anta,
judge advocate general of the national
guard of Georgia; Capt J, T. Kim
brough. of Atlanta, arrived here this
morning. ,
Major Smith announces that the mil-'
< \ itary court which will try Capts. T. C.
Jowitt and J. H. Henderson and seven
teen privates for killing three citizens .
or Friday night when they crossed the j
guards' dead line, will convene here
Tuesday morning Major Smith was"
throughout the morning interviewing |
many witnessea to the killing, and or- j
de red them to appear before the court.
T am here to get the facts," said Ma
jor Smith to The Journal representa
tive. "regardless of whom they hit, and
" it's my duty to put them before the
court,"
PERSONNEL OF COURT.
The military court which will try the
two officers and the seventeen men un
der their command will be composed of
twelve officers of th® national guard in
addition to the judge advocate general.
Counsel wiU b® allowed to represent
th® men on trial, while the judge advo
cate will act in th® nature of a prose
cutor.
'The officers who will compose the
court will reach the city Monday even
ing, according to Major Smith.
An alleged attempt to dynamite the
electric Company's power house Sunday
evening and annihilate the three com
panies of the national guard stationed
there, was frustrated by Capt. Thd C.
Jowitt.
TURKEY IS READY TO
BALK THE BALKANS
ATHENS, Greece. Sept. 38.—Turkey
Is making eleborate military prepara
tions to meet any hostile demonstra
tions in the Balkans, according to a
semi-official statement published here
today. > •
The Ottoman government has called |
up 108.80® men, forming eleven divisions j
of the Redifa. or Second reserves, for '
a six weeks’ training in field manue- '
vers.
The Turkish troops sent from Thrace
to Albania some time ago. have now
been ordered to return to their sta
tions. so thaUth® only troops at pres
ent detached from their ordinary |K>sts,
are those concentrated in Saloniki,
along the Dardanelles, and at Smyrna,
In consequence of the war with Italy.
RAIN AT ABBEVILLE
DEPRESSES FARMERS
'Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
ABBEVILLE. Ga.. Sept. 30.—AbbeMlle
and vicinity are having more than their
share of rain. Out of the last eight days
ft has rained five days.
The farmers and merchants are very
depressed with fields opened white with
cotton and hundreds of tons of good pea
vtne and velvet bean hay to cut.
In Nation-Wide Forecast,
I
New York’ Herald Says
Wilson Will Win Victory
Forecast Based on Reports From All Sections of the United
States Says: “With the Republican Party From One End
of the Country to the Other Torn Asunder by the Activi
ties of the Bull Moose Candidate, and With the Democrats
Working in Complete, Almost Blissful, Harmony, Indica
tions at the Present •Time—Thirty-Five Days Before
tion— Point to Democratic Victory at the Polls in Novem
ber”
(Copyright by Ney> York Herald and The Atlanta Journal.)
J Special Dispatch to The Jourial.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—With the Republican party, from one end of
the country to the other, totn asunder by the activities of the
Bull Moose candidate and with the Democrats working in com
plete. almost blissful, harmony, indications at the present time—tlfirty-flve
days before election —point to Democratic victory kt the polls in November.
It is too early to make an ironclad prediction. The New York Herald
will not at this time attempt to do so. Conditions in many parts of nation
are very much unsettled. Chaos uftly describes the situation in a few sec
tions. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated many times that only tne
most daring would venture a prophecy as to the result of a presidential
contest more than a month in advance of election. , *
Conditions can change overnight Whole presidential canvasses have
in fact changed overnight Any one of man) factors might unexpectedly
enter into the situation, setting at naught all opinions and deductions.
Straw votes point to the election of Governor Wilson They indicate
that President Taft will run third in many states. Personal canvasses
made by the Herald’s experienced political correspondents in every cor
ner of the country indicate that sentiment at the present favors Governor
Wilson. They show keenest activity on the part of the Democrats and Bull
Moose campaigners and in many sections listnessness and indifference on
the part of the Republicans. ' s > -T > V ■
< EFFORT TO GET FACTS.
m undertaking the most elaborate presidential canvass ever made by
any newspaper the Herald instructed all of its canvassers and all of its
correspondents to “get the truth." For more than a month reporters have
been working from coast to coast, and the results of their investigations,
as well as the work of men assigned to take test ballots are set forth m
this section.
From now until the close of the campaign the Herald will continue to
publish, without favor, color or bias, the exact situation throughout the
country as indicated by its staff reporters, special correspondents and
canvass..
The straw votes published in this Issue were take.; in eleven states
, and, while they shed an interesting light on conditions, cannot be offered
as an unfailing index of what might be expected throughout the country.
But it is a fact of importance however, that the Republicans, from prac
tically all the political reports—from Oregon to Southern California, from
Maine to Colorado and from Northern Michigan to Kentucky—bear out in
large measure the returns from the straw votes.
It is a further important notation also that the Republicans of practi
cally all the correspondents agree. ' Some of them Intimate that conditions
are gradually changing—that President Taft is gaining here, that Governor
Wilson is losing there —but the majority of reports Indicate that the
Democracy at the present time Is away tn)the lead. . T——- • '
' INTERESTING SHIFTS FROM 1308.
Most interesting shifts In the vote from 1908 are shown by the test
ballots. These ballots, by the way, were taken with the utmost care. All
possible safeguards were used to prevent ballot box "stuffing.’’
All voters were asked especially to fill out their ballots accurately—to
tell truthfully just how they voted four years ago and how they intend to
vote this year.
In practically every canvass made the voters approached displayed
great interest in the ballots and expressed an eagerness to participate.
, In the eleven states where these straw votes were taken—New
York, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio,
Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Wyoming—Governor Wilson ran
first in nine. The Bull Moose candidate was first in Connecticut and
Pennsylvania. President Taft was third in Ohio and Wyoming. In Ohio
he polled 942 votes, as 818 for the Bull Moose ticket. Governed
Wilson received 914. The fight in Ohio is a llvel; one. Herald reports
show that if the Moose candidate can show as much strength in
November as he developed at the-recent primary President Taft will lose
his native state. (
It Is stated also that if the president polls 70,000 fewer votes in
November than he received .four years ago he will be beaten. While at
• the present time Ohio should be placed among the doubtful states, it
appears that Governor Wilson has the better of the contest there.
DEMOCRATS IN HARMONY.
All the Democrats are pulling shoulder to shoulder for victory.
There are no defections. There, as in all states near the northern *
border line, the farmers are very 1 ostlle to the president. ’ '
In Pennsylvania, one of the pivotal states in the great contest,
there are indications of a close fight. Intimations are that President Taft
is stronger now .han he was a short time agnA The Bull Moose candi
date has a very strong following. Governor W’llson Is holding the entire
Democratic vote, to all appearances.
New Jersey and New York are, through the straw votes and the
special canvasses made by a large corps of men, in the Wilson
column. It seems fairly certain at the present time that the Democracy
is sure of carrying both states.
Returns from the canvass Indicate with much clearness that the
Republican party is split wide open. The Bull Moose candidate is in
many sections “dividing it into halves.” To do that would without much
doubt bring about the election of Governor Wilson.
Figures obtained in the voting contest show that the Bull Moose can
didate is pulling the great bulk of his strength from the Republicans. They
show that Governor Wilson is winning more from the Republican than
he is losing to the Bull Moose ticket. For instance, while 4,150 Republicans
who four years ago voted for Taft will this year, according to their state
ments, vote t4ie Bull Moose ticket, only 67 Democrats will swing to tue
Bull Moose. Debs loses twenty to the third ticket. Out of 24.895 votes
polled in the eleven states named, the Republican loss from 1908 is 5,997,
while the Democratic gain over 1908 is 2,254.
INDICATE DEMOCRATIC SWEEP.
Should the ratio thus far shown in the voting contests continue it
would indicate that Governor Wilson would carry more states than were
ever before carried by a presidential candidate. It should be pointed
out, however, that the ballots have not yet been taken in some parts
of the country whei*e the president is regarded as strong. It should in
fairness also be pointed out that the enthusiasm of the Wilson and Bull
Moose candidates would naturally make a bigger showing in any test
ballot than would the indifference and' hesitancy of the Taft men.
To illustrate, it has been shown many times that enthusiasts will >
go blocks to express their opinion In a test of sentiment where* the
lackadaisical type will remain at home silent.
It seems to be a line-up of the progressives against the conservatives,
with the former falling either in the Bull Moose or Wilson camp and
the others lining up with the president.
Just how extensive will be the support of the president by Demo,
cratic conservatives has not yet learned. ‘
It is too early to tell. The Republican leaders are counting on a
great drift to the president during the last days of the campaign of
(Continued on Page Three)
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. OA„ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1912.
Close of the Corn Season Viewed from Mars By H. T. Webster
MOull
ROOSEVELT PLEADS
WITH WENT
CROWD FOR VOTES
Leader of Party Provok
ed Big. Wilson Demonstration
When He Began Attack on
Democratic Nominee
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, nominee of
the "Progressive” party for the presi
dency, pleaded for the vote of Geor
gians last night at the auditorium to
an audience that occupied every seat in
the big hall when he began his speech.
He was enthusiastically welcomed by
his friends, but his first reference to
Woodrow Wilson, nominee of the Dem
ocratic party, whom he later put in his
private Ananias club, brought the roof
down about his ears so seriously that
it seemed for a time as if he were not
going to be allowed to conclude his
argument. His own determination,
aided by a sense* of courtesy upon the
part of a large element in his audience I
not of his pollticaf faith, won against
the outbreak, however, and with a few
lesser interruptions excepted, he held
the platform alone till the end of his
speech. Toward the end of It he
climbed up on the table. He began
talking at 8:15 o’clock and finished with
"We stand at Armageddon and battle
for the Lord” at 9:30 o’clock.
It was easily a Democratic audience,
but one perfectly friendly to the colonel
as a man and a good fighter. The
third party contingent of It seemed to
be gathered at the front, near the
speaker.
The more enthusiastic menfoers of
that contingent wore the bandana of
their party around their necks. There
was plenty of shouting, and a good
band furnished lively music, playing
"Onward, Christian Soldiers” before the
colonel’s arrival at 8 o’clock, and salut
ing him with "Yankee Doodle” as he
came down the middle aisle, while the
audience stood and yelled and waved
bandanas. One hymn, "Onward. Chris
tian Soldiers,” was sung by the
audience while it was waiting for the
speaker. There was a dodger in every
seat, with the verses of several hymns
printed on it. and there was plenty of
other literature at hand for each mem
ber of the audience, from cards of mem
bership in the Progressive party on up
to copies of the bulletin issued by the
party's national committee.
ATTACKS MR. WILSON.
The colonel put Mr. Wilson in the
Ananias club when he declared that
Mr. Wilson "attributes to me what I
never said, and what t am obliged to
say he must know 1 never said.”
Colonel Roosevelt had to fight hard
to hold his grip on the audience, what
with Interruptions from individuals
and the dullness of his talk about the
trusts and the recall of judicial decis
ions and the labor planks in his party’s
platform, and what, also, with the
tramping of feet, a- noise that began
shortlv after he was well launched
upon his speech and that never con
cluded while he talked.
Not a mention of woman suffrage was
spoken by Colonel Roosevelt during his
Atlanta speech. He appealed to the
women of Georgia once or twice during
the course of his speech, casually with
the men; but not once did he defend their
right to ballot. He contrasted his plat
form with those of the two other parties,
(Continued on Page 3, Column 4.)
WAGNER, S. C., CROWD WRECKS
MAYOR'S NEWSPAPER PLANT
AND FORMS FOR LYNCHING
Representative-Effect, Charged
With Shooting Political Foei
Is. Rushed to Aiken to Pre
vent Violence
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
AUGUSTA, Ga., Sept. 30.—Hugh Long,
mayor of Wagner, S. C., editor of the
Wagner News, and representative-elect
of Aiken county, was spirited away from
Wagner early Sunday morning Just be
for# the arrival of a mob, which had
gathered with the avowed intention of
lynching the politician for shooting
Pickens Gunter the afternoon before.
/ ‘Long is now lodged in the Jail at
Aiken, where he arrived Sunday morn
ing after a Journey of twenty-five miles,
about half of whioh was made on foot
over mountain paths.
Following the shooting of Gunter, a
partisan of Long’s opponent in his re
cent race for the legislature, J. C. L.
Busbee, Long was taken in charge by
Sheriff Rabom. Feeling ran high, but
no fear of mob violence was entertained
during the afternoon.
PLANT IS WRECKED.
About 6 o’clock, however, a mob gath
ered and after first 'wrecking the, plant
of Long’s newspaper it started after the
politician, its leaders shouting that they
were going to hang him.
Accompanied by the sheriff. Long con
cealed himself in a house of one ot
his friends and for several hours the
mob was unable to locate him, while its
members were searching, the city, a
state policeman found Long and the
sheriff and leaving the latter to lead
the mob Jn the opposite direction, he
set off through the woods about Wag
ner with the politician. The sheriff
marshaled his deputies and threw a
feigned guard about another of the
houses, and this was closely watehee
by the mob until daylight, when the
sheriff informed the members of the
mob that Lon;; was safely away and
allowed them to search the house which
his men had been "guarding.”
CLAIMS ASSAULT.
Long claims that he was attacked by
Gunter on the streets of Wagner. He
says he was knocked down and that
Gunter jumped on top of him. While
they were scuffling on the ground he says
he drew his revolver and fired two shots,
one of which lodged in Gunter s body,
inflicting a wound which is expected to
prove fatal.
Several witnesses to the shooting re
fuse to talk about it. Dr. D. C. Port
wood and Hayes Gunter, a relative ot
the wounded man, but a political support
er of Long, are held on warrants charg
ing them with being accessories to the
shooting.
The entire trouble is attributed to the
bitter feeling and the personalities in
dulged in in the raye between Long and
Busbee in two primaries.
OPPONENTS OF (JU WILL ”
COMBINE ON ONE MAN
They Are Working to' Crystal
lize Sentiment Before the
Convention Meets
(By AicoeHted Press.)
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. W.-Men who
oppose the renomination of Gov. John
A. Dix spent the early hours today while
delegates were gathering for the Demo
' cratlc state convention tomorrow, trying
to crystalline sentiment around some sin
gle candidate. (
An effort was made to persuade Charles
F. Murphy, leader of Tammany hall,
that the placing of the governor at the
head of the state ticket again would
mean the loss of many county tickets,
even if the governor was re-elected, and
that a stronger man could be—e hose n.
Mr. Murphy insisted, however, that Gov
ernor Dix should be renominated.
The project of bringing William J.
Bryan here to reinforce the antl-Dix ele
ment appears! to have been abandoned.
Wilson b Touch With
Situatiop at Syracuse
(By Associated Press.)
SEAGIRT, N. J., Sept. 30.—Governor
Wilson left Seagirt early today for
Atlantic City to welcome the good roads
congress.
The governor said he had nothing to
add to his statement of last night, urg
ing the delegates to the Democratic
state convention at Syracuse to 'make
ar/ “unbossed'’ choice for governor.
However, be will keep in close, touch
with the situation at .Syracuse.
Gov, Dix Insists He Is
a Patriotic Progressive
(By Associated Press.)
ALBANY, N. Y.. Sept. 30.—Governor
Dix today issued a statement in reply to
that of Governor Wilson, issued last
night, in which the presidential candi
date called upon the delegates to the
state Democratic convention at Syra
cuse, to choose as candidate for gover
nor, “a progressive man of the kind to
be his own master."
“For aggressiveness and progressive
ness in administration during the past
two years, no state in the union has had
a record equal to that of the state of
New York,” said Mr. Dix, and continued:
“If there is any misrepresentation ot
Governor Wilson’s remarks to impress
the public that he does not desire my re
nomination, I am frank to say that aft
er the reported Interview in Syracuse
the fault is with the press and not with *
him. as his personal letters to ne ex
press a very different attitude.”
GEOOGIIIIW
VOTE FOB BW :
IFOKM
Union Employes Say That |
Only J-fope to Prevent a Gen
eral Strike Is for Road to
Make Concessions
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
AUGUSTA, Ga., Sept. 30.—Employes of
the Georgia "Railroad company, who are w f
member* of the Order of Railway Con
luctors and the Order of Railway Train
men, have overwhelmingly voted for a
strike on the Georgia system unless the •
railroad is willing to reinstate Conduc
tor J. T. Paschal, alleged to have been
discharged June 5, for reported violation
of the sixteen-hour law.
The overwhelming vote for a walkout
was confirmed here Monday afternoon by
Vice Presidents T. A. Gregg, of the Or
der of Railway Conductors, and Jaffies
Murdock, of the Order of Railway Train
men.
A final conference will be held between
the employes and the officials of the
Georgia Railway company Monday after
noon.
The officials of the trainmen stated
that they were unwilling to announce
the exact time at which the men will
walk out until after the final conference
With the railroad officials.
Union men here aay that the entire
Georgia system will be paralyzed if th® *
strike ie called.
Superintendent W. S. Brand, of th®
Georgia railroad, whose voluminous cor
respondence with the union officers over ,
the trouble has been published in pam
phlet form, declared at 2 o'clock Mon
day afternoon that he bad received no
communication from the union official®
during the day. * .1
He says that he will make absolutely ;C?
no statement until the union men of
ficially make known the result of their
ballot.
Mr. Brand, In the published corre- , ’
spondence, however, has repeatedly re
fused the request of the union men to
reinstate the conductors, J. T. Paschal
or A. M Morgan, and it la not belleve4
here that he will change his attitude
when the result of the strike ballot 1®
known to him.
SAYS LAST RESORT.
Vice President Gregg in his statement
declared that the strike is the last re
sort after many overtures for a settle
ment of difference of union and tht
company. • w®
“No one could hate to see a strike X
more than I do,” he says, “but the* meu
have voted and will go out unless the
compaay is willing to grant onr re- '"’Ls
quest that it reinstate the two men whe
were discharged without fault." ‘
The case of Conductor Paschal seem*
to nave started the entire trouble. H«
was discharged on June 6. for an al
leged violation of the sixteen-hour law'.
It is said that he allowed hi® engineer 'I
to work a few minutes over the tims
limit. i
The union men maintained that
Paschal, because he was a member'
a union committee, the grievance com
mittey. had antagonized , the railroad
officials because of his position in th®
union. They declare that he woul*
have been forced to stop'bls train be ,
tween towns to avoid a technical vio i
lation of the sixteen-hour taw.
In Ipisi correspondence with the union
officials, Mr. Brand declares that Con
ductor Paschal was discharged for th® J
violation of a national taw, namely, a
portion of hour service law of |»O7, at
act designed for the protection of rail
road employes and that the “weakening
of discipline always carries with weak
ening of discipline recklessness and
other kindred horrors."
In view of the attitude assumed by th®
railroad throughout the corTespondenc®,
there seems to be litle probability of it®
officials taking action during thi' after
noon, which will prevent the trainmeg
and conductors leaving their w’ork. s
Mr. L. S. Davis, chairman in Augusta. ,
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers. said to a representative of Th®
Journal Monday afternoon that the al
titude of the Georgia railroad engineer* O
in the trainmen’s strike would be neutral.
He further that they could
not strike through sympathy.
The couni of the ballots was finished
Monday shortly after noon, and the re
sult announced to Superintendent W. S.
Brand. Neither side will make any
statement of the result until after *
conference. Railroad employes say,
however, that strike is certain unless
the company meets the demand of th® ’
union.
It is believed that if the strike is de
clared, it will completely tie up th®
railroad, and it is probable that no at- jfl
tempt will be made to operate*trains for
several days.
The strike, if declared, will affect about
300 members of the Order of Railway |
Conductors and the Order of Railway
Trainmen. According to the statements *
of the employes the tie-up of the road
will be complete. It is also hinted that
the strike,\if declared on the Georgia •
railroad, will result tn a probable walk
out of employes on other southern rail
way lines.
The alleged grievances of the employe*
include the demand for the reinstate
ment of J. T. Paschal, a conductor, whe
was discharged, it is said, on June a
for an alleged violation of th® sixteen fl
hour law. It is said that he al Io wee
his engineer to work overtime, although
he himself did not. The .company re
fused to reinstate Paschal, it is said,
and the ballot for a strike resulted.
MILEAGE OF ROAD.
The Georgia railroad system has ■
total mileage of 336 miles. Its princi
pal line is operated from Atlanta to Au
gusta, Ga., with 171 miles. It also op
erates the Macon branch, Augusta and
Macon; the Washington branch. Bar- <
nett to Washington; the Athens branch,
.Union Point to Athens; the Union Point
and White Plains railroad, the Lexing
ton Terminal railway and -the Monroe
railroad.
NO. 3.