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VOLUME XII.
HERALD FORECAST
SHOWS THAT WILSON
IS LEADING RIVALS
Grand Total of Test Ballots
Gives New Jersey Governor
Big Majority Over His Near
est Opponent
(Copyright. ’912. by The New York
Hevald.)
NEW YORK. Oct. 5,-At the close of
the week, the Herald's nation-wide can
vass of the presidential situation. Gov
ernor Wilson appears to be leading his
two rivals. (
President Taft has pulled up some
irhat during the week. Republicans in
the several states, who had gone over
the Bull Moose camp have returned to
the Taft fold. Just how extensive thia
movement is. is not Indicated. The
president’s friends are far more cheerful
thanzthey were a 'week ago. They say
che tide has turned their way. They
declare the shift back from the Bull
Moose to the president will easily give
Mr. Taft first place in the race before
/lection. They count on the support of
those Republicans, who, in many in
stances, had openly announced that, be
lieving the president’s eletclon Impos
sible, they would cast their ballots for
Governor Wilson to insure the defeat of
ihe Bull oMose candidate.
One of the interesting features of the
week Is the apparent gains made by the
president in New England. Reports from
jpeclal correspondents there indicate that
if the election were held at this time, ho
would be certain of carrying New Hamp
shire, about which there was some doubt
and that he would win Vermont which
nntil the last few days was in the bal
ance.
But* even with his apparently Increased
strength, he appears considerably behind
the other two candidates. Governor Wil
ton's friends say their candidate cannot
oe defeated. The Bull Moose managers,
privately expressing no great hope of
victory for their candidate, say they have
already Insured the defeat of the presi
dent. In many parts of the country the
third termer has gained in following.
WILSON IN FIRST PLACE.
Straw votes aggregating approxi
mately 75.060 taken In twenty-nine
states, put Governor Wilson in first
place. They indicate that he is lead
ing in popular support in twenty-three
states of the twenty-nine. The Bull
Moose nominee leads in five and the
president In one, Utah. The same
rotes put the Bull Moose in second
place .in eightecs states. Governor
Wilson tn six and the president In
Ive. Special orreap undents largely
oear out these estimates. There are
ajtne discrepancies. In some instances
:hey are very marked. But this K al
ways true as between the investigations
of trained correspondents and test bal
ifgpK \
As has been- explained, the Herald
is not confusing the two methods of
•sttmating public sentiment. Each is
expected to stand on its own bottom,
each is conducted entirely apart from
the other. X . •» x
The test ballots were taken with
greatest care' in mining camps in the
southwest, among grangers and ranch
ers of the northwest, among bankers,
manufacturers and toilers in the great
centers of population, and among the
great army of wage earners in the
vast mercantile establishments in the
cities in the east. The correspondents
have talked with political leaders in
every congressional district in the land.
They have talked with the voter in
every walk of life. They have made
every possible effort to get an accur
ate gauge on sentiment as it exists at
the present time-
A grand total of the test ballots col
lected by the Herald gives Governor
Wilson. 30.261; the Bull Moose candi
date. 20,748; the president 13.065, and
Debs. 4,983. In presenting these fig
ures for the interest and consideration
of its readers it is but fair for the
Herald to say that in all presidential
or gubernatorial campaigns it has been
noted for the progressive—the enthusi
astic and fervent partisans—always
rush forward to cast their votes, while
the conservatives are inclined \to be
indifferent. How far this factor fig
ures in the present contest it is of
course impossible to estimate.
It should be called to the attention of
the reader that, while the number of
ballots taken is large, so far ay straw
ballots go. It is Infinitesimal compared
with the millions of votes which Will be
cast on Nov. 5. In the present instance,
however, it is significant that wherever
the ballots are taken, whether among
the cowboys of the wild and woolly
west or among the street car drivers in
New England, the general result is
much the same.
The Herald will continue taking these
be I! ota Next Sunday it will present
tables containing more than 150,000
votea All this material, coupled with
the investigations of its special corre
spondents, who will be kept at their
tasks steadily, will bZ used to base a
forecast in the issue of the Herald of
Sunday, Nov. 3. Meantime the reviews
and tabulations of ballots will be pub
lished each Sunday.
In the straw vote from Connecticut
the Bull Moose candidate is in the lead.
In the reports from Jhe special corre
spondents who visited the Nutmeg State
it is indicated that Governor Wilson is
well in the lead and that if the election
were held at this time he would be
elected. They report also that the pres
ident is decidedly stronger than he was
and that he is now second to Wilson.
To get more accurate line on condi
tions in this small, but Important state,
the Herald will take many more test
ballots and will have its correspondents
make other tours of the state.
States tn which President Taft has
made gains are Connecticut, New Jer
sey. Maryland. New York. Pennsylvania
Minnesota and Michigan. - In many
parts of the Empire State there are in
dications that Republicans temporarily
under the Bull Moose have strayed
back into the regular fold. Tn the Key
stone State the president's following Is
growing in some of the mining sections.
In Minnesota the drift back to Taft is
evident, but here, as In Michigan, it
is not very marked.
- WILL VOTE FOR WILSON.
This movement is in part offset, how-
MH. ROOSEVELT IS
NEITHER WILLING
NOR COMPETENT
—WOODBOW WILSON.
jThird-Termer Is Flayed in Dig
nified But Biting Utterances
of Democratic Leader at
Indianapolis \
BY RALPH SMITH.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Oct. 4 —-Be
; fore the biggest, the most unwieldly
I and the most turbulent throng that he
’has yet addresed, Governor Wilson, at
Washington baseball park last night,
gave Theodore Roosevelt the hardest
rhetorical drubbing that he has essayed
in this campaign. There were 30,000 in
the crowd. It was an open air rally.
It was a speech teeming with vigor
ous language and it was a crowd bub
bling over with vociferousness
that heard it. Altogether it was an
unprecedented event in the Wilson
campaign.
Roosevelt, said the governor, had
been tried by the people who wanted
succor from the “excessive tariff ano
universal monopoly and had been found
neither willing nor competent to give
them relief."
And for proof, the governor referred
his hearers to Senator La Follette’s au
tobiography. There, he said, would be
found the bitter truth about Roosevelt
as a progressive. Taft, declared the
governor, was "merely the successor of
Roosevelt." Turning to Roosevelt and
others In the new party movement the
governor, with an unusual display of
intensity, said this:
ONLY BUBBLES.
“There are some noble people, there
are some people of very high principle,
who believe that they can turn in other
quarters for relief, but they do so sim
ply because there is one of these par
ties that blows beautiful bubbles for
them to see float in the air of orato
ry; men who paint irradescent dreams
of uplifted humanity, men who speak ot
going to the rescue of the helpless, men
who speak of checking the oppression
of those wfyo are over-burdened, men
who paint the picture of the redemp
tion of mankind, and who do not admit
who they are.
‘There are men whom we have seen
tested, and their conversion is after a
time when they possessed the power to
do these things and refused to do
them.
FOUND WANTING.
“Is it not true that when Theodore
Roosevelt was president of the United
States, the people of/the United States
were willing to follow him wherever he
led? And. where did he lead them!
When did he turn in the direction ot
this great uplift of humanity? How
long was the conviction delayed? How
impossible Was .It for him to see
that his arm was strong, to come to the
succor of the weak, and now he has
een it, when he wishes to regain their
confidence, which by his failure to act
he bad forfeitedT’ \ ■
A MONSTER RALLY.
The rally was gotten up on what are
now termed old fashioned lines. There
wan a monster parade of marching
clubs. Some said it was two miles Ibng
and others said four, it all depended
on whom you asked. If you questioned
Tom Taggart, he’d tell you it was eight
miles long. There was red fire, sky
rockets, curb crowds, three deep, drum
corps galore, and buglers, all combining
to make a noise that was deafening. At
the ball park there was a howling mob,
each one squirming for a vantage point.
The like of that crowd has not been
seen by the governor in all his trav
els and experience as a public speaker.
Picture a park filled at night time
with a cheering, surging mass, the
grand stand packed to the danger point
and 1 marching clubs with their music
and red fire fighting for room, and you
(Continued on Pag* a, Column X.)
ever, by the apparent decision of many
scared Republicans to cast their ballots
for Governor Wilson. They*believe this
wi|l defeat the Bull Moose candidate
beyond all question.
In z Ohio conditions remain about as
they were, with Governor Wilsop lead
ing both his rivals and President Taft
running second. Indications seem to be
lacking that there will be any vesy im
portant change here. In Maryland, Ar
izona, South Dakota. Minnesota, Neva
da, California. Oklahoma. Kansas, Ne
braska, Missouri. lowa, West Virginia,
Indiana and Kentucky Governor Wilson,
according to the observations of the
correspondents, is at present in the lead.
Washington, Illinois and North Dakota
appear to be lining up for the Bull
Moose. Delaware, Wisconsin, Idaho,
Montana and Oregon are unclassified.
New Hampshire and Vermont as Taft
states.
In most localities the situation has
changed but little since the Hehaid ta
ble published last Sunday. The Dem
ocrats are working shoulder to shoulder
all differences have been buried. Grum
blers who were recalcitrant at first have
entered the Wilson camp. On the other
hand, the Republicans are not work
ing as harmoniously as they could. Es
peeially is, this true in Missouri, where
the marked differences indicate the cer
tain election of Wilson presidential elec
>tor«. , *
All -leaders of all parties predict thgt
the hext ten days will see many impor
tant changes in the situation. The drift
in the Empire State is already being
watched with keeneat interest, owing to
the prominence and popularity of the
three candidates for governor and the
important effort their canvass may have,
on the national campaign. It is expected
that Mr. Straus, the Bull Moose candi
date, will poll an enormous vote.
It is believed that William Sulser, the
Democratic nominee will sahow some
strength and it is conceded that the pop
ularity and wide acquaintance of Job
E. Hedges, the Republican nominee, will
win him a flood of votes. The Herald
will keep its readers informed from
week to week of the shift in the im
portant campaign—perhaps the most im
portant of a generation.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1912.
STEEL TRUST IS
BEHIND ROOSEVELT,
DECLAIIKWILSON
Third-Termer’s Program, in Re
gard to Regulation of the
Trusts Dictated by Trust
Magnates Themselves
(By AaaocUted Preu.)
PUEBLO, Col., Oct. 7.-That the United
States Steel corporation -4s "behind the
third party program In regard to regula
tion of the trusts," was the charge made
by Gov. Woodrow Wilson in a speech
here today. Corroborative evidence of
that assertion, the governor said, was
coding to him every day. ,
"It is a very interesting circumstance,”
said Governor Wilson, "that the United
States Steel corporation is behind the
third party program as regards the regu
lation of the trusts.
T am perfectly ready to admit that the
officers of the steel corporation think
that is the best thing for the United
States. My point is that these gentlemen
have grown up in the atmosphere of
things that they themselves have created
and which the law of the United States
has so far attempted to destroy. And
they now want a government which will
perpetuate what they have created.”
Mr. Wilson declared today that he was
not discussing personalities but Issues:
"What difference does Mr. Taft's rec
ord make to me?" said the governor;
"what difference does Mr. Roosevelt’s
career make to me? What difference do
my own attainments make in the face of
the tremendous Issues? I tell you I can't
afford to think of Mr. Taft and Mr.
Roosevelt in thinking of the fortunes of
the people of the United States.”
Governor Wilson devoted a considerable
portion of his speech go labor questions.
Before beginning to speak he gave out
for publication the following letter
which he said had been forwarded to
him from democratic national headquar
ters as having been circulated by Charles
D. Hilles, Republican national chairman,
among employers of labor:
THE HILLES LETTER.
“If the November election results in
the choice of a Democratic congress and
Democratic president, new tariff bills
will be enacted at once. In other words,
destructive Democratic tariff measures,
such as President Taft vetoed at the
last session, will become laws.
* “Only one thing can prevent this, and
that is a protest vote on the part of the
American workingmen. They must
choose between a high standard of liv
ing and that of the under-paid European
workingmen. Do your employes under
stand that this defines the exact differ
ence between the Republican and the
Democratic party, not only as far as
your produce is concerned, but as per
taining to all other products of Ameri
can labor?
"If you will kindly send us a list of
your employes who are voters, with
postoffice addresses, each one will be
asked personally to vote for Taft and
Sherman and the Republican candidate
for congress, and told the reason why.
"(Signed)
“CHARLES D. HILLES, Chairman.”
Governor Wilson said that beyond de
siring to make the letter public he
wished to make no comment on it.
PRICE WILL DEMAND TO
BE NAMED COMMISSIONER
Such Is General Belief,Follow
ing His Visit to Capitol
* Monday-
Although he declines to make any
statement concerning his intentions, it is
believed at the capitol that J. D. Price,
the commissioner of agriculture-elect, will
lay claim to his office as soon as the sec
retary of state consolidates the returns
of last Wednesday’s election.
Mr. Price, who Ilves at Farmington.
Oconee county, was a visitor at the capi
tol Monday morning. He called upon
Secretary of State Philip Cook and dis
cussed the election returns. The secre
tary of state Informed him that the re
turns of forty odd counties had not yet
come in, due, it is believed, to the Irreg
ularity of mail service on the Georgia
railroad, which is tied up by a strike of
the conductors and trainmen. A major
ity of the missing counties are served by
this road.
After leaving the secretary of state's
office, Mr. Price called upon Governor
Brown, with whom he held a short con
ference.
It is believed that the returns will be
consolidated within the next two or three
days. Work upon them wffl be begun
Tuesday morning. Mr. Price will remain
In A tlanta untll Wednesday, when he
will go to Griffin to attend a meeting
of the board of directors of the Georgia
Experiment station. He will return to
Atlanta and if the election returns have
been consolidated, he may take a certi
fied copy of the returns, showing his
election, to Governor Brown and make
formal request that he be allowed to
qualify for the position of commissioner
of agriculture.
The governor has already stated that
J. J. Conner, appointed to serve out the
unexpired term of Thomas G. Hudson
will hold the office until after the legis
lature meets next June. He has also
declared that he would not commission
Mr. Price before that time. Whether Mr.
Price will resort to a legal action to ob
tain the office is not known. He said
Monday morning that he had not yet de
cided upon any plans and could not now
say what he would do.
Friends of Mr. Price hold to the con
tention that be is entitled to qualify for
the office as soon as the election returns
are consolidated. They take the position
that Mr. Conner has no legal right to
serve after his successor is elected.
A statement from Mr. Price as to the
course he will pursue is expected later
In the week. <
JUMPING ON THE COLONEL’S FRAME
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JUDGE REFUSES
BECKER S MOTION
TO DELAY TRIAL
Attorneys for Police Lieuten
ant, Accused 9f Rosenthal
Murder, Exhaust All Efforts
for Delay
(By AuocUted Tress.)
NEW YORK, Oct iff. —Charles Becker,
formerly in charge'V a strorrg-arnred
squad of the New York police depart
ment, was on trial for his life this aft
ernoon on an indictment Charging him
with the murder of the gambler, Her
man Rosenthal. John F. Mclntyre, of
counsel for the prisoner, fought to the
last moment for delay, but Justice Goff
overruled his motion and at 1 o’clock the
selection of tlje jury was begun. The
first talesman examined, Philip Herrlich,
was challenged peremptorily by the
prosecution because he had formerly
been a policeman. Recess was then ta
ken until 2:30.
The most rigid inquiry on the part of
the police and the district attorney’s
office has brought to light nothing to
indicate that Zelig waa killed to defeat
the ends of justice. Davidson, his slayer,
appears to have been actuated solely
by a desire for personal revenge on the
man he says robbed him. However, it
was a remarkable coincidence, for
through Zelig the state hoped to show
that his gangmen, retained by “Bald
Jack” Rose, shot Rosenthal at Becker’s
bidding.
DEFENSE SEEKS DELAY.
John F. Mclntyre, counsel for Lieuten
ant Becker, announced he would ask for
postponement of the trial because of the
illness of John W. Hart, assistant defense
counsel.
Mr. Mclntyre said that Zelig had
been under subpoena by the defense,
and declared that his death was a
"serious setback" for Becker's case.
The selection of the grand jury for
the John Doe proceedings began at
11:30 o’clock.
When the Becker case was called Jus
tice Goff promptly denied a motion of
Mr. Mclntyre for a postponement be
cause of the illness of his assistant,
John W. Hart.
PANEL IS CHOSEN.
Fifty of those summoned having failed
to appear, the grand panel was ex
hausted after twenty-one of the twenty
three required had been selected. Jus
tice Goff, however, declared this number
sufficient and after swearing the jurors
in, dismissed them for two weeks.
Almost without exception the jurors
are well-to-do business men.
THIS COW BREAKS ALL
RECORDS FOR MILK
(By Associated Press.)
BROCKTON, Mass.. Oct. 7.—A1l rec
ords for milk and butter have been
shattered by Creamello Vale, a Holstein
cow owned by Earl Upton. The cojv has
given 26,930 pounds of milk, with a
monetary value of $1,300 since Nov. 15,
1911.
An average cow gives, according to
the department of agriculture statistics,
about 3,000 pounds of milk a year.
Creamello Vale in one month has given
3,200 pounds.
At her best Mr. Upton’s Holstein has
given 108 pounds of milk a day, which is
at the rate of 4 1-2 pounds an hour. The
present record for a year is 27,432
pounds of milk.
ROOSEVELT DOES NOT
DENY TRUSTS GAVE
BIG.MONET IN 1804
He Admits Corporation Con
tributions, but Denies That
He Ever Solicited Any of
Them
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—"1 asked no
-man to contribute to the campaign fund
when I was elected president of the
United States, and I wish to reiterate
that Mr. Bliss and Mr. Cortelyou both
assured me that no promise had been
made as a return for any contributions.
Neither they nor any one else having
authority asked me to act or refrain
from acting in any matter while I was
president, because any contribution had
been made or withheld.
"Gentlemen, could I put It more
sweepingly T’ . ,
In these words Theodore Roosevelt
summarized his testimony today to the
senate committee investigating cam
paign funds.
The colonel specifically denied that
he ever asked for contributions to his
1904 campaign fund or that he had
known of any contribution by J. P. Mor
gan. He declared he had ordered the
return to the Standard Oil company of
any contribution it might have made in
1904; that he had been assured by
George B. Cortelyou "only yesterday”
that he knew .of no such contribution;
and that he did not believe Cornelius
N. Bliss had ever demanded a contri
bution from John D. Archbold or from
any corporation by any methods of ex
tortion.
ADMITS CONTRIBUTIONS.
Colonel Rossevelt did not deny that
corporations had contributed to
campaign. He says the letters and pub
lished statements had always acknowl
edged that fact, but he specified that
no such contributions had ever been
obtained under any suggestion that the
administration would reward the givers
with special favors.
The former president's testimony bris
tled with characteristic statements.
- "Senator Penrose should be driven
from the senate,” he declared, "because
of his acknowledged friendliness with
Standard Oil Interests.”
Charles D. Hilles and Congressman
Bartholdt should be forced to prove
their statements that the Roosevelt
primary campaign funds this year had*
amounted to $3,000,000 or $4,000,000 or.
should be driven out of public life.
» CRITICIZES COMMITTEE.
He declared, as had Senator Dixon,
his campaign manager, Wednesday that
the senate comm’ttee’s activities hd
thus far been directed solely toward the
Roosevelt campaign funds, and that no
attention had been paid to other candi
dates.
He was assured by Senator Clapp that
the representatives of other candidates
would be called “before election.”
The principal part of Colonel Roose
velt’s examination before the commit
tee was concerning the SIOO,OOO Stand
ard Oil contribution to the Republic
an national campaign fund of 1904, John
D. Archbold has testified that he made
such a contribution to the late Corne
lius N. Bliss; George R. Shelden, treas
urer of the committee in 1908, and this
year also, has testified that Mr. Bliss’
records showed such a contribution;
George B. bortelyou, chairman of the
committee in 1904, has sworn that no
such Contribution was received, and
Colonel Roosevelt has aaid that he gave
repeated and express instructions to
both Mr. Bliss and Mr Cortelyou that
if such contribution waa made, it was
to be
WILSON AND BRYAN
AROUSE NEBRASKA
TO HIGHEST PITCH
Lincoln Literally Thronged
With Cheering People When
Great Commoner Welcomed
Democratic Candidate
BY BALYK SMITH.
LINCOLN, N*b„ Oct. s.—lt took the
country hereabouts, that William Jen
nings Bryan calls home, to give Governor
Wilson the most fervid welcome that Jjas
been extended to him anywhere since he
began campaigning for the presidency.
The outpouring and the acclaim with
which the crowds greeted the successor
of their own choice in .party leadership
was positively something to marvel at
Without doing the slightest violence to
English it can be said that Governor
Wilson’s ride from the station where
Bryan met him, to the Linden hotel,
waa a triumphal 'procession. The ova
tion was marked by a spontaneity rare
in campaigning. Bryan himself in the
height of his glory did not receive such
a splendid greeting. The whole country
side tributary to the South Flatte river
for 200 miles about Lincoln came into
town to swell the crowds. There were
enough people lining the curbs to carry
the state for Wilson hands down if they
all could vote. There are 60,000 persons
living in Lincoln, and there were as many
more again on the streets as the gov
ernor drove through with the Commoner
at his side.
BRYAN IS TICKLED.
Bryan was tickled to death with the
reception that Governor Wilson received
and so expressed himself. He declared
that the best part of it was that it was
a sincere tribute to a great leader of'the
cause of Democracy. The street turnout
was such a rtarvellous affair that it
moved the governor to do something that
he had not previously done in his cam
paign-stand up in his machine during
the entire ride from the station and
engage in doffing his hat to the cheering,
smiling multitude.
When the governor’s train got into
Lincoln the first man to grab his hand
was Bryan, who wore a characteristic
smile.
"Hello, Mr. Bryan,” said the governor
as he descended the car steps.
"Welcome! Welcome! Welsome!” re
turned Bryan, taking the governor’s out
stretched hand. The crowd howled with
delight and swarmed about the machine;
they grabbed the governor’*? hand; they
pulled at his coat and all but mobbed
him and all the time keeping up a half
cheer and a half chant of "Wilson. Wil
son,” and Mr. Bryan told the governor
whom he had not seen since the Balti
more convention, that Nebraska was
ready to give him her electoral vote.
Bryan also expressed approval at selec
tion of Sulzer, of New York.
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TRAINMEN DEMAND
ROAD REINSTATE
ITUfflU™
Vice President of Trainmen
Says That Arbitrary Refusal
of Railroad Alone Blocks
Settlement of Strike
BY CKABLES PHILLIPS, J*.
(Staff Correspondent.)
AUGUSTA, Ga„ X>cL 7.—“A1l that ha*
stood in the way of a settlement of the
strike of the trainmen and
on the Georgia railroad since late last
night is the arbitrary position of th*
company in refusing to take back th*
men who worked in ths Atlanta jointl
company terminals.”
This was a statement made to Th*
Journal at 2 olclock Monday afternoon|
by James A. Murdock, vice president of
the Order of Railway Trainmen, after
United States Labor Commissioner C. P.
Neill had been in conference with him
and with officials of the railroad almost!
constantly for twenty-four houra
Just what disposition has been maxi*
of the other grievances of the conducts
ors and trainmen, which caused thsi
strike, Mr. Murdock will not state, an<f
the officials of the company here hade
nothing to say to the reporters for tw#n J
ty-four hours.
Mr. Murdock says that the
takes the position that the trainmen andl
conductors in the Atlanta joint termin'*
als were not really a part of the Geor-*
gia railroad and should not have gonel
out with the other members of the ord
ganization last Tuesday.
TRIED TO WEAKEN UNION?
Mr. Murdock declares that for yearsl
the company has been trying tot
weaken the union on the Georgia rail J
road by separating the men on the,
road from those who are employed is!
the Atlanta terminals.
This, he says, has been done* despite!
the fact that in all orders to engineers)
the statement is made to the "en
gineers of the Georgia railroad and|
the Atlanta joint terminals,” and, ig
signed by Superintendent W. S. (
Brand, of the Georgia road, who IB
not even a member of the board of
directors of the terminal. *
Mr. Murdock stated emphatically!
that there will be no settlement ofl
the strike unless the company does re
cede from its arbitrary position irf
this point.
"Had it not been for the arbitrary po
sition on this one point,” he said, •’thel
men would have been back at world
this morning, and the suffering people!
along the line, who are cut off from
supplies because of the strike, would
have been ended. But for that fact!
the several differences of the com
pany and the men, which resulted in
the walk out last Tuesday, might now
be settled, and an absolutely net*,
question has arisen through thg
strike.”
"STARVATION POLICY.” *.
Apparently the “starvation
has been adopted by the road and ne|
effort had been made at 2 o’clock todays
to operate a train out of Augusta. 1$
is said, therefore, by officials here thal
the railroad will let its engines remand
idle until the people along the line aro
so badly in need of supplies that busl4
ness rpen will be sworn in as
and prevent further attacks by strike
sympathizers on the
whom the company has here to operate!
its trains.
Superintendent Brand refsues to
Superintendent Brand refuses to malu|
if he intended to seek a federal injunct
tion, which would place every one whe!
attempted tb interfere in the operation
of the trains in contempt of the United
States courts.
F. W. Burgess, assistant grand chied
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En 4
gineers, states that even if such an in 4
junction is secured by the railroad
cannot now say that he would let thsi
engineers take the risk of operating
even mail trains.
HEAVY REVENUE LOSS.
Those in a position to know
that the Georgia railroad is losing
$25,000 to $40,000 a day revenue because ofl
the strike. ,
Murdock's statement has
great surprise here among union men 4
who declare that the railroad entered in
mediation with this "quibble held ba.ck/1
and that they have never Intended tq
allow a settlement of the strike.
Tt Is a finish fight now, they say. Thejj
are emphatic in their statement thaq
men in the Atlanta Terminal are worfcJ
ing as a part of the Georgia system.
Dr. NeHl would neither affirm nor denjf
Mr. Murdock’s statement.
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