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The Jones News
M. C. GREENE, Editor and Proprietor.
FIERCE BILLOT BITFLES
Decide Issues in Many Strenuous Con¬
tests, State and Municipal.
MUELLMR
Conceded Victors in
York s Grafters Ousted
in Philadelphia and
Disfranchisement
Knocked Out in
Maryland.
Election returns received by the As
isociated Press in Washington up to
o’clock Wednesday morning,
that the democrats have carried
mayoralty campaign in New
city; the state ticket in
the state ticket in Virginia and
city ticket in Louisville, while
republicans have made a clean
in Massachusetts and .Chicago
Cook county and have carried
tickets in New Jersey, Rhode
Nebraska, Maryland. In New
Hearst had a plurality in the
of Brooklyn of almost 16,000
fourteen election districts
The returns indicate McClellan’s
election by several thousand
ity. Bird S. Coler was elected
ough president of Brooklyn on
municipal ownership ticket. The
York election shows that
ownership will be a considerable
tor in the city’s politics.
The suffrage amendment in Mary
land was defeated overwhelmingly.
McClellan and Jerome Re Elected.
Returns at an early hour
day morning were complete in
er New York in the mayoralty
test with the exception of
districts scattered through the
The vote on these returns gives
Clellan, democrat, 221,815; Hearst,
municipal ownership, 218,657;
.republican, 132317—a plurality
McClellan of 3,158.
According to The Tribune
charges were made by supporters or
Hearst and Jerome. Definite
that official counts of votes in
sixth and eighteenth assembly dis
trlcts had been withheld were
at Jerome’s headquarters.
From Tammany Hall, Charles F.
Murphy shortly before 11 o’clock,
Tuesday night, sent out word to
ery leader in the city that the
of the organization was at stake
every vote for Mayor McClellan
must be counted. He told them
overloow nothing, and spare no ex¬
pense in getting the facts to
many as early as possible.
“Count every democratic vote and
turn in the report without a moment’s
hesitation,” the warning ran. “The
honor of Tammany is at stake.”
The following statement was issued
at midnight by W. R. Hearst:
“We have won this election. All
Tammany’s frauds, all Tammany’s
corruption, all Tammany’s intimi¬
dation and violence, all Tammany’s
false registration, illegal voting and
dishonest count have not been able
to overcome a great popular major¬
ity. The recount will show that we
have won the election by many thou-
sands of votes.
“I shall fight this battle to the
end, in behalf of the people who
have cast their votes for me, and
who shall not be disfranchised by any
sort of criminal bosses.
“WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.”
SCHMITZ WINS AGAIN.
For Third Time Union Labor Ticket
is Successful in 'Frisco.
For the third consecutive time, Eu¬
gene E. Schmitz, the union labor can¬
didate, was re-elected mayor of San
Francisco, Tuesday, by a majority of
at least 15,000 over John S. Partridge,
the joint nominee of the republican
and democratic parties.
In addition to mayor, the union la¬
bor party has elected its entire mu
nicipal ticket. Voting machines were
utied for the first time in all the pre-
cincts.
FOUR MEN MEET DEATH.
Passenger and Freight Trains Collide
With Fatal Results.
A passenger train on the Rome,
Watertown and Ogdensburg railroad,
bound for Watertown, N. Y„ Tuesday
collided head on with a locomotive
drawing two freight cars.
Four men were killed and one seri
ously hurt. Milton F. Toms, mail
clerk, ’is one of the men killed. The
other dead were members of the en-
giae crews.
Disfranchisement Beaten In Maryland
I he election In Maryland Tuesday
was for a state comptroller, legisla-
ture and county officers and in Bal-
tintore for a judge of the supreme
court, sheriff, city ctdrk and surveyor.
The iso no which engrossed popu¬
lar attention was a proposed consti¬
tutional amendment, the avowed pur¬
pose of which was to disfranchise ne¬
gro voters,
j’ha returns make certain the de¬
feat of the proposed constitutional
amendment by a decisive majority of
20,000 or more and the election of
McCullough, republican, state comp¬
troller, over Atkinson, democrat, and
the election of republicans in three
out of four of the city legislative dis¬
tricts.
The republican candidate for sher¬
iff, court clerk and city surveyor of
Baltimore are also elected. Chief
Justice Harlan, democrat, is re-elect¬
ed by 10,000 majority. The republi¬
cans did not nominate a candidate
against Judge Harlan, though there
was an independent republican candi¬
date. The political complexion of the
next legislature is uncertain and will
not be known until the official count
has been complete.
Swanson Governor of Virginia.
In the contest in Virginia, Claude
E. Swanson, democrat, .was elected
governor by 'about 20,000 plurality
over Judge L. L. Lewis, the republi¬
can candidate.
The vote everywhere was excep¬
tionally light, but democratic apathy
was offset by unfavorable conditions
on the other side, The negroes
throughout the state abstained from
voting - almost entirely. The republi¬
cans gain a few members of the leg¬
islature.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch re¬
turns with the city of Bristol and
less than a dozen counties to hear
from gave the democrats a plurality
of 34,660.
Mayor Weaver Vindicated.
City Party Chairman Edmonds at
Philadelphia sent the following to
President Roosevelt:
“Philadelphia has risen to its op¬
portunity and stands redeemed. The
principle of honesty in government
so effectively exposed by you has won
an overwhelming triumph. Our ma¬
jority approximates 75,000."
To Secretary Root the following
was telegraphed:
“The masquerade is over. The
criminal and corrupt combination has
been driven from power by the right¬
eous indignation of a great republi¬
can city. We have only begun. Our
thanks to you for your splendid aid.”
At 10 p. m., Tuesday the city party
headquarters sent the following tele¬
gram to Governor Folk of Missouri:
“We have swept the city by 60,000
majority.”
The Evening Telegraph in its night
issue says: “Mayor Weaver’s stand
for honest politics and civic reform
was vindicated at the polls today.”
BAD BLAZE IN BIRMINGHAM.
Property Aggregating Quarter Million
Dollars Is Destroyed.
Fire in Birmingham totally destroy-
ed the next five-story building of the
Moore & Handley Hardware company,
The building was erected at a cost of
$75,000, and the stock was valued at
$175,000. The two-story structure '
that of Moore & Handley, was also
burned, the loss being $10,000.
The plant of the Philip Carey Man-
ufacturing company was also totally j
destroyed with the contents, the loss
being estimated at $12,000. I j
HADES LOOSE IN RUSSIA.
Editor of Stead Gives His Impression j
Affairs in Empire.
William T. Stead, the well known
war correspondent, fresh from Rus¬
sia, by way of Finland and Copen¬
hagen, stopped over in Berlin, Ger¬
many, on his way to Paris. For an
hour and a half he poured forth his
vivid impressions of “hell pretty well
let loose,” as he called it, of the
things that he had seen and heard
an< f f* 16 ghastly welter Into which
Russian society has drifted. |
MEMORIAL TO JEFFERSON DAVIS
Ground is Broken at Richmond for .
Erection of Shaft. j
Ground was broken at Richmond, I
Va., Tuesday, for the monument to ! j
Jefferson Davis, to be erected by thd
United Daughters of the Confederacy
and to cost $50,000.
The unveiling ceremonies are fixed I
for 1907 and are expected to be very 1
elaborate, the whole south participate
ing through prominent represeata-
tivee.
GRAY. .JONES CO.. GA.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 16. 1905
NOTED COUNSEL SLA1ED
To Defend Negro Charged With As
sault and to Be Tried In Su¬
perior Court at Atlanta.
An Atlanta dispatch says; a bril¬
liant array of legal talent will ap-
pear in the defense of the negro
charged with the assault of M rs.
Moor®,
Three eminent members of the lq-
e&i bar, Judge Howard Van Epps,
i Judge George Hillyer and Judge W.
| R. Hammond, each of whom has sarv*
ed either on the guperl or or city
(, olll -t bench, have been appointed by
j judge Roan to act as counsel for the
; itbgro.
I The code of Georgia provides tha.
I the court shall appoint attorneys to
defend all accused persons, Unable by
reason of poverty tb employ lawyers.
The appdintment of more than one
attorney is unusual, however, and
when Judge Roan named three so dis¬
tinguished lawyers for that office in¬
terest in the case was great inereas
ed.
“In cases such as this,” said Judge
Roan after making these appoint¬
ments, “passion and feeling are most
liable to make themselves felt to the
prejudice of that strict justice con¬
templated by the law. Therefore, I
have selected as counsel for the pris¬
oner men in whose ability as lawyers
and character as men I have the ut¬
most confidence, in order that only
that strict justice contemplated by
the law, as I said, may be adminis¬
tered in my court, even though under
circumstances calculated to try the
self-command of the strongest of us.
The three attorneys have consented
to assume the task imposed upon
them by order of the court.
According to the testimony of four
men who called at the Fulton county
jail Friday morning to see the ne¬
gro who is charged with assaulting
Mrs. Moore, his name is not Jim Wal¬
ker, but Will Brice.
The four witnesses are B. H. Ray,
superintendent of the shovel gang at
work on the railroad a short distance
from the Moore residence; J. P, Bo¬
gart the timekeeper, and two negro
hands, Duff Bennett and Sam McKen-
ney.
Bogart was the only one of the four
who did not positively identify the
prisoner. He stated that he had been
in the employ of the grading company
a short time only, and was not cer¬
tain, but to the best of his knowledge,
the prisoner, Will Brice, is the man
who was engaged in the grading work.
The other three witnesses were pos
ttive in their identification.
SUIT LOST BY PAPA PLATT.
Old Man Fails to Recover $685,000
Given to a Negro Woman.
The appellate division of the New
York state supreme" court Friday hand¬
ed down a decision dismissing a suit
brought by John R. Platt against Han¬
nah Elias, a negress, to recover $685;-
000, which Platt asserted he had giv¬
en to her under coercion. The court
stated in the decision that it was
not made on the merits of the case.
“There are in the complaint,” the
decision reads, “many allegations of
acts on the part of Hannah Elias
which would result necessarily in a
decree requiring her to make resti¬
tution cf what she received from the
plaintiff. The difficulty is that none
of the allegations of the complaint re¬
specting fraud, intimidation, threats,
coercion or blackmail, is proven.
“The plaintiff himself, in his Jesti
mony in court, said that he gave noth¬
ing to the defendant under coercion;
that all he gave was voluntarily giv¬
en; that he paid her household bills,
spent large sums of money in furnish¬
ing lodgings or apartments for her,
advised her with reference to the in¬
vestment in savings banks of some of
the money he gave her, and as to tiio
disposition of other sums not so in¬
vested.
“It is also true that the plaintiff
says that he gave large sums of
money to her ‘to prevent anything
° f ° Ur |' elat, ° ns coming out to tho
, K>1f “ was ot hi ,n h,B
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? ny th,eat on the ' ,,art i ,)f the
to expose the relations.”
MOB MENACED YOUTHS.
whjte Boys Attempt to Assau|t Tw(J
Girls on Lonely Road.
Charged with attempting to assault
two young girls, Walton Gulley, aged
20, and Jake Smith, aged 16, .both
white boys, came near being lynched
by a mob at Riverside, Ga., on the
river trolley car line from Atlanta
Wednesday night.
A crowd of angry citizens had
gathered, and but for the work of
cooler heads, who got the youths off
into the woods and from there to
the car lino, the prisoners would
probably have been roughly handled
SCORE INJURED IN A WRECK.
— •
Northern Pacific Express Crashes Into
Rear of Freight Train.
Northern Pacific passenger train
No. 4, eastbouud, running 40 miles
an hour, crashed into the rear of an
easthound freight train, two miles
west of Missoula, Montana, Thurs-
day, A score or passengers and
trainmen were injured. The two en-
ginoer* will probably die.
GRANTS AUTHORITY
Southern States Want Uncle
Sam to Control Fever.
GERMANE RESOLUTIONS
All White Men Invited to Come South
and Become Citizens of States
Represented in Text of Im-
migraticn Resolutions.
At Chattanooga, Tenn., Friday, four
teen southern states, through their
governors, senators, congressmen and
other representative citizens, made
their wishes known as to the rela¬
tions of state to the federal govern¬
ment in the matters of quarantine
ami of immigration.
Throughout the conference spirited
debate was almost uninterrupted as
to the constitutionality of federal con¬
trol of interstate health matters. Gov¬
ernor Vardanian of Mississippi was
a firm advocate of the construction
of state rights, which should prevent
the interference of federal authority
in state affairs. Governor Blanchard
of Louisiana declared that the doc¬
trine of state's rights could have no
place in the argument. He insisted
that the federal constitution plainly
makes it the duty of federal govern¬
ment to exercise such functions. Many
leaders had many followers.
Congressman John Sharp Williams
presented a report which was adopt
ed with but one dissenting voice, that
of Senator Mallory of Florida, The
resolutions follow:
“Resolved, That we, the delegates
from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis¬
sippi, Missouri, Maryland, North Car¬
olina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vir¬
ginia and West Virginia, hereby re¬
spectfully request the senate and
house of representatives in congress
assembled to enact a law whereby
coast maritime and national frontier
quarantine shall be placed exclusive¬
ly under the control and jurisdiction
of the United States government, and
that matters of Interstate quarantine
shall be placed under the control and
jurisdiction of the United States gov¬
ernment, acting in cooperation with
the several state boards of health.
“Resolved, second, That we urge
upon the legislatures of the several
southern states that they enact quar¬
antine regulations as nearly as pos¬
sible in accord and conformity as
hereafter enacted. We furthermore
urge the governors of the said sev¬
eral states, with this object specifi¬
cally in view, to call the attention of
the legislatures of their respective
states to the .wisdom and the policy
of this course.”
Congressman E. J. Powers of Mis¬
sissippi, chairman of the immigration
committee, presented the report of
that committee, which was adopted lty
the unanimous vote of the convention.
The resolutions were as follows:
“Whereas the states represented in
this conference and the whole south
are possessed of limitless resources,
agricultural, mineral and timber
lands;
“Whereas, desirable immigration is
needed in order to develop these re¬
sources, and,
“Whereas, we desire to settle with
us all white persons who are willing
to subscribe to our laws and who ap¬
preciate and love the genius of our
Institutions, now therefore be it
“Resolved, That it is the sense of
this conference that it does hereby
greet and welcome to our midst all
industrious and upright white persons
from any of the European countries,
and from all sections of the United
States who wish to make their homes
with us to assist in the development
of our resources and the advancement
and multiplication of our varied en
terprises and industries. Be it fur¬
ther
“Resolved, That we repudiate and
denounce as untrue any and all ru¬
mors and slanders that may have
been circulated to the effect that the
south is unfavorable to honest and
industrious white immigrants.
“Whereas, the president of the Unit¬
ed States has recommended to con¬
gress the passage of certain changes
in the present immigration laws of
this country with a view of making
it more difficult for the pauper and
criminal classes to enter our country.
“Resolved, by this conference of
representative men of the south, Thdt
we hereby endorse and approve these
recommendations and request all of
the senators and representatives of
the southern states to aid in securing
the passing of such amendments to
existing Immigration laws as will tend
to obtain the objects sought.
QRAY VETERANS GATHER.
u- * * . _. . Georgia * Warriors Ae
“
semble in Macon for Reunion.
Wednesday at Macon, Ga., marked
the beginning of possibly one of the
greatest reunions ever witnessed by
confederate veterans comprising
sf ate division. More than 3,000
people were in the city to attend the
exercises of the two days of 1ha
reunion, -
A BLOODY MUTINY
Raged Fiercely in Streets of
Kronstadt, Russia,
ALMOST AT CZAR’S 000R
Revolt Breaks Out Suddenly, Troops
Ar* Called, Machine Guns Play
and M:ny Rioters Al’e Mowed
Down.
A St. Petersburg special says : It
is* reported that a massacre occurrel
at Kronstadt Wednesday night an.I
that, the Infantry, using machine guns,
fired on the people. The British em¬
bassy has requested general Trepoff
$a protect, the British subjects at
Kronstadt.
A dispatch to a news agency In
London from St. Petersburg says sail¬
ors of the Russian squadron at Kron
stadt mutinied, overpowering their
officers, and landed and attacked the
shops, public buildings and spirit
stores.
Later reports only magnify the hor¬
ror of the situation. The mutiny was
complete. According to the latest re¬
ports, not only the sailors, but the
garrison of some of the forts, joining
in the insurrection.
The few soldiers and sailors who
remain loyal, fought all night again- t
the mutineers and the workmen who
enlisted under the banner of revolt.
Barricades were thrown up. The re¬
port that machine guns were used is
apparently confirmed.
The Maxim guns fired all Wednes¬
day night and Thursday morning (he
streets were flooded with blood. The
number of dead and wounded runs
far into the hundreds
Later two regiments of Cossacks
and the Imperial Horse Guards were
dispatched to Kronstadt from St. Pe¬
tersburg, and a regiment of Uhlans
were sent there from Oran’.enaum, a
few miles west of Peterhof. Altogether
about 20,000 troops are engaged in
quelling the insurrection.
According to some reports, the sail¬
ors and strikers were finally surround
ed, but would not surrender, Both
sides have been losing heavily. The
troops lost eight officers killed or
wounded. Other reports say the Ult-
Ians deserted to the mutineers, and
are now fighting against the Imperial
troops.
The inhabitants of Kronstadt aro
ii> a panic. The boats to St. Peters¬
burg have stopped running and tele¬
phone and telegraph communication
have been severed.
Both Count Witte and, the emper¬
or have made another surrender. Gen¬
eral Trepoff has been removed from
the powerful position which he occu¬
pied, that of governor general of St.
Petersburg, and assistant minister of
the interior, and Russia’s premiers
has* agreed to immediate universal
suffrage.
ballot boxes in street.
Sensational Developments in Contest
Over Election in New York.
The contest over the mayoralty
election in Now York, Inaugurated
by William Randolph Hearst, the mu¬
nicipal ownership candidate, develop-
ed interesting and spectacular fea¬
tures Thursday.
For twelve hours the boxes contain
Ing nearly 500,000 ballots cast in
Tuesday’s election, choked the streets
in the vicinity of the headquarters of
the board of elections hi Sixth ave¬
nue.
The ballot boxes had been gath¬
ered during the night by the police
und conveyed In patrol wagons to the
election board’s headquarters. There
the officials refused to receive the
ballot boxes and the police, acting un¬
der a court order signed by .lustleo
Oaynor, compelling the police author¬
ities to turn (he ballots over to the
election board, had nothing to do but
remain outside and await the pleas¬
ure of the election officials.
Apprised of the situation, the at¬
torneys for Hearst appeared before
Justice Dickey of the state supreme
court and secured from him an ol¬
der compelling John ft. Voorheus, the
president, of the hoard of elections, U
accept the ballots. The order was
served promptly and the ballots then
were receipted for by the election
board.
Charges that several ballot boxes
had been stolen before the return*
v ere reported and that others wore
found unsealed were made (luting the
day. The investigation of the elec¬
tion promises to be the most thorough
ever made In New York city.
AMENDMENT BADLY DEFEATED.
Effort to Disfranchise Negroes In
Maryland a Great Fiasco.
Late returns dissipate much of the
doubt, as to the result of Tuesday :-;
election in Maryland. With a few
precincts of one of the usually
ocratlc county to hoar front the do
feat of the proposed suffrage restric¬
tion amendment by 28,00b to 29,000 it
indicated.
VOL XII. NO. 1.
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Shoes for ladles, every day shoes—
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Shoes for hoys—that rtand rocks—
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Shoes for girls for sonool—
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MACON, C2 GEORGIA.
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