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TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1M7.
THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
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SIX SENATORS IN RAGE
FOR PRESIDENT OF SENATE
BURTON SAYS ROOSEVELT
INSPIRED PERSECUTION
ATLANTA, Ga„ March 23.—Just two
years ago the whole State was In the
throes of one of the most intense and
hard fought campaigns for the Senate
presidency Georgia .has known In
years. There had never been anything
llko It In the history of Georgia poli
ties.
It will he readily recalled what bit-
t' mens and at the same time wlde-
.'.•rmd public interest, was Injected
It t the campaign by the letters of
"nillv* Osborne, of Savannah, for many
years well known (itruri- In politics
Of G-orgla. Mr. Osborne took up the
cudgel hrst in behalf of Hon. W. S.
West of Lowndes County, and as the
< an ; sign progressed the candidate
who was at that time considered Mr.
* West's lending opponent, withdrew
from the race.
F< (lowing that Interesting event Mr.
T Vos; and Mr. Osborne parted com
pany and the latter's attacks upon the
South Qf rgla candidate became quite
a - aggressive ns they had been In
o;/.er directions. Mr. Osborne then
turned his support. In effect, to Mur
phy Candler of the 84th. The outcome
of that strugle, the election of Mr.
West over Pena tors Candler. B. 3. Mil
ler and A. O. Blalock. Is ancient history
and is here re tilled only as apropos of
the fact that there is now' on In Geor
gia anr. h- ;• y cc for the office of Pres
ident of tile 3 mi ate—a race that Is be-
it g poshed with considerable vigor
from many directions, yet quietly, for
so far ns .xternal appearances arc
concerned, there does not appear to be
anything of a campaign In progress.
But t .ere ir tine nevertheless and
while it will hardly rival In exciting
Interest that of two years ago. It Is
a thing of the present and will soon
begin to demand public .attention.
Six in ths Race.
There arc six Senators In the race
for the seat In the hlg chair behind the
secretary's desk, at least so current re
port and the evidences of campaign
effort, have it. There is even talk qf
a seventh entry, though It is stated
the prospective seventh candidate,
S.-nator K. T Steed f th- .IT!'' fetn-r
Representative from Carroll, will prob
ably content himself with his campaign
for the position of president pro tom.
Mr. Steed for several years, occupied a
seat in the house from Carroll, and
his name Is connected with consider
able Important legislation.
But It Is generally known that there
are now six candidates for the Sen
ate Presidency—a remarkably differ
ent state of affairs from that which
exists on the other- side of the caril-
t.>1 where the election of Hon. John M.
Slaton, of Fulton, without opposition,
as Speaker of the House, was conceded
months ago.
Here are the six entries:
Senator J. D. Howard, of the 20th,
Mllledgevllle.
Sonntor T. S. Felder, of the 22nd, Ma
con.
Senator J. J. Flyn. of the 26th, Grif
fin.
Senator L. G. Hardman, of the 33rd,
Commerce.
Senator John W. Akin, of the 42nd,
Cartersvllle.
Senator W. C. Martin, of the 43d.
Dalton.
Tljls Is Ihe list from which, accord
ing to all present Indications, the next
I residing officer of the Senate and ex-
efflelo Lieutenant Governor, will be
chosen. With such an array a dark
1: ir e is hardly probably, though, of
course, there Is no telling what un
foreseen contingencies may arise.
About the Candidates.
Senator Howard of tile 20th Is one
of Mllledgevllle'a well-known lawyers.
He served several terms in the House
from Baldwin County, In the last of
' which lie was speaker pro tern, and Is
quite familiar with the routine of leg
islation. He has led many a hard
fight for appropriations for the State
i- -dilutions in his home county, usually
with success.
Senator Felder has likewise had a
long record In the House, and *could
have gone there again had he not de
termined to try the Senate this time.
Jle was the author of a number of
popular measures now on the statute
books, among them the- present con-
vlct law under which counties are sup
plied with convicts where they desire
them nnd the law providing for the
State reformatory. He is a vigorous
speaker nnd was frequently heard in
dobnte on the floor.
Senator Flynt has likewise simply
nade a change from one side of the
•apltol to (he other. He. served Spald
ing faithfully and well for three terms
in the House and has been rewarded.
If It can be called a reward, by being
transferred lo the Senate. Senator
Flynt Is a successful lawyer, an earn
est and energetic speaker and has
always taken a prominent stand in
matters legislative.
Senator,- llkewl-o Dr. L. G. Hnrd-
m.an. of the Thirty-third Is another
of those to whom sim'Iar promotion
whether forward or backward, ha;
route. He Is a physician and one 01
the most prominent men in his sec
tion of the State Dr. Hardman has
always taken a deep Interest particu
larly in elucatlonal matters, with re
gard to wh'ch he has always occupied
a progressive attitude and the imprint
of hi« influence may be found on many
of the Important laws on the statute
hooks today.
Senator Akin is the last of the five
aspirants to the Senate pres'dency who
have had interesting careers fn the
House. With a heart which has lent
its enduring warmth to many friend
ships. with a disposition comparative
<n mildness almost to that of the pro
verbial lamb, he, nevertheless, when
aroused in the interest of public ,1us*
lire or public right displays a vigor
end an energy and a determination
which means that somebody had better
g •: on the right sdde or look out. Sen
ator Akin Is an able lawyer, and has
a legislative record of which any
Georgian might well be proud.
Of all the candidates Senator Mar
tin. of the Forty-third Is the only one
who has not before seen public service
in legislative balls. In fact it Is said
of him that th's is his first entrance
Into polir'os of .any sort, hut bis peo-
pie were glad to see him take ihe i n j.
rial step A leading North Georgia
lawyer, he is also prominent in the
business world, being president of the
Flks Cotton AT ill and vice president of
the First National Bank of Dalton. His
boom for the presidency was launched
immediate!*- following his elect'on.
A Little Bit on the Ineide.
At least three of the foregoing can
didates are known lo have actively sup
ported Governor-elect Hoke Smith in
his eampa'gn of last year, nnd the
ouestien naturally arises, where will
Mr Smith's -influence go in this race’
Naturally upon this subject Mr.
Smith' himself has been silent. Natu
rally. also it is expected he will re
main so. at least so far as any pub
lic statement or attitude is concerned
It has been stated on the one hand
that Mr. Smith would take no part
whatever In this race, not even giv
ing any sign as to his preference. It
would be out of the question, of course,
for him to press his preference for more
than one. and yet anyone of those
three known active supporters would
•fi'.ake a capable presiding officer over
the upper house. The same, in fact
might be said of any one of the six
here named.
On the qther hand it is current
talk around the capitol and in pollt-
will go to Senator Felder, of the Twen
ty-second. Thl*. at least, seems to be
the understanding or the belief of the
other candidates, or some of them.
■ I im pretty well satisfied from what
I hare heard," one of the candidate?
static at the cap!"that Mr. Smith’s
friends are supporting Tom Felder.
While I have talked very little with
the other candidates you can count
upon It ^hat if this situation should
develop there would be a combination
of interests in another direction which
it would be pretty hard to 'hake.”
It a ill he noted that there is not a,
single South Georgia candidate. Four
f th'- candidates come from a narrow
belt extending across the center of
the State with Macon as its southeT-
most oo'nt. Two others come from
North Ge -rgia. and are separated by
only a few miles. Three of them are
from Ihe Sixth Congressional district
two from the Seventh and one from the
Ninth. Geographical conditions, there
fore. may well be counted upon to have
something to do with the result.
The New Senate.
With six candidates and only forty-
four votes to be cast, it is naturally
difficult to tell much about the result
in advance. Much will depend on the
South Georgia vote, which has no can
didate -,f its own and will he free to
go ns It wishes, for results which
amount to little more than committee
appointments.
Here is a list of the new Senate,
from which and by which "the president
will have to be elected:
First District—W. B. Stephens.
Second—J. H. Hughes.
Third—H. W. Whaley.
Fourth—J. J. Mattox.
Fifth—G. W. Dcen.
Sixth—J. P. Knight.
Seventh—J. H. Wilkes.
Eighth—J. S. B’ush.
Ninth—J. S. Cowart.
Tenth—W. L. Sikes.
Eleventh—A. Crittenden.
Twelfth—J. R. Stapleton.
Thirteenth—J. E. Hays.
Fourteenth—Z. V. Peacock.
Fifteenth—J. A.. J. Henderson.
Sixteenth—C. W. Brantley.
Seventeenth—E. K. Overstreet.
Eighteenth—W. Walden.
Nineteenth—M. L. Felts.
Twentieth—J. D. Howard.
Twenty-first—H. F. Griffin.
Twenty-second—T. S. Felder.
Twenty-third—A. J. Johnson.
Twenty-fourth—F. M. Gordy.
Twenty-fifth—C. I. Hudson.
Twenty-sixth—J. J. Flynt.
Twenty-seventh—C. H. Turner.
Twenty-eighth—Q. TWilliford.
Twenty-ninth—Ira E. Farmer.
Thirtieth—P. M. Hawes.
Thirty-first—B. F. Camp.
Thirty-second—J. W. Boyd.
Thirty-third—L. G. Hardman.
Thirty-fourth—E. W. Born.
Thirty-fifth—E. P. Dobbs.
Thirty-sixth—Jnmes W. Taylor.
Thirty-seventh—E. T. Steed.
Thirty-eighth—W. F. Walker.
Thirty-ninth—L. A. Henderson.
Fortieth—A. E. Lashley.
Forty-first—James L. Weaver.
Forty-second—John W. Akin.
Forty-third—W. C. Martin.
Forty-fourth—J. R. Brock.
Hon. Charles S. Northern secretary
of the last Senate, will be elected to the
same position with the new Senate.
ABILENE Kan., March 24.—Jos. R. j offense ir. fact’’ I had misinterpreted Sugar lrusl ' had dor \ e for tbe
_ _ , . • , . , . . ' , , u mi-inierpreiea Republican party, and did not care to
Burton last night was welcomed home a statute;, that and nothing more. I oppose its wishes, and they also want-
, from a five months' confinement in the ! construed presuming, as , e( j t0 stan( j j n W ith the President.
intelligence of Republican Senators, or I Kendall, running out of Columbus on
an indictment of their integrity, or | the Southern; and Ed. Warwick, not
both. in the business.
"When the caucus at which I made ! • • •
this speech broke up. it was with the Of the Macon and Brunswick now-
understanding that the fight was over , the Southern, conductors, oniv one is
for the session. But smooth old Sen- known to be living. Richard A. Har-
ators were only pretending. They knew ris. now in Atlanta. Thev were
CLOSE RELATIONS
OF 0. S. ID MEXICO
; Ironton, Mo.. Jail with an enthusiasm
. that exceeded any welcome he receiv-
■ ed in his homo town while United
i States Senator from Kansas.
Burton was convicted of appearing
for pay before a Government depart
ment while Senator. The former Sen
ator rode from the station to his home
in an open carriage and his passage
through the streets was in the na
ture of a triumphal procession. The
sidewalks were lined with people who
lifted their hats as Burton passed.
After an informal reception at their
home, Mr. and Mrs. Burton were en
tertalned at dinner by County Treas
urer Schneider. Later they went to
the theater where Burton deliveied ;
speech on "Why I Wns Prosecuted."
Ex-Senator 3urton began hi
speech by referring to the three in
dictments found against him, and the
two convictions under them, saying
that, while the case was pending, he
tried to get the Senate to investigate
the charges against him,-but it stead
ily refused to do so, and it was about
to expell him without and investiga
tion. when he resigned to avoid expul
sion.
“A great wrong.” he said, “had been
done not only to him. but to the peo
pie of Kansas as well, and to the peo
pie of the entire country. For tho
greatest of all crimes against a people
is where executioners ravish* the law
In the temple of justice, as they did
in my case.
“That I was employed for a short
time as the attorney of the Rialto
Company was never concealed or de
nied by me. Payments on my con
tract were made in five installments
of $300 each. The first four payments
: were each made by check, which 1
deposited with the hank where I kept
an account in Washington. The last
payment was in case. There was
nothing concealed, or unusual. In the
payments, as there was nothing to
conceal in the contract of emplyo-
ment.
“It was an unjust accusation against
me that I had been employed as an
attorney by a disreputable corpora
tion, and that I knew it to he of suph
character at the time of my employ--
ment. The Rialto Compay bore no
resemblance whatever to a get-rich-
quick concern. During the time I was
one of its attorneys, and during all tho
time that It was managed by its
owner, Maj. Demis, the Rialto Com
pany never swindled any person In
the world out of a dollar. I offered
to show this in the trial of my case,
but the court refused to allow, the
testimony.
As to Fraud Order.
“I did nothing to prevent a fraud
order from issuing against the Rialto
Company. Months after my connec
tion with the company ceased, and
when conditions changed for the
worst by reason of the protracted ill
ness and absence of Its owner, and
when there was an investigation by
the Postoffice Department, it was not
I. but the two men who prosecuted
I me who prevented a fraud order from
issuing against the company.
' “It was untrue that I was indicted
! for bribery, though it was so given
I out in th(* flaring headlines of news
papers. The charge against me*
throwing aside legal verbiage, *,vas
that I had been hired in a law suit.
I prohibited by the statute because I
j was a Senator. It was not pretended
in the Indictment that the Govern
ment has one cent of property inter-
! est in the case, where I was' accused
of acting as an attorney. There was
the law does that I knew of its ex- . Hence, they were only too
istence. as it ffiad always been con 1 -
filing to
give me and other Western Senators
Richard A. Harris, Jas. A. Burke. An
drew J. Collins. William F. Hurst.
James E. Mell, Albert A. and Thorn
ton S. Sharp.
* • #
On the Central
strued by everyone until now. I had ® e ‘ w ? tothegamefarrnorecrejT than 1 Cent f a ‘ tp Sa ™ nt
construed the statute as the Supreme, wlwereenmTed to in the k 1 lin^ of Macon a «d ^ estern to
Court i" the States had invariably 1 T\,, 9 „ 'j t0 m e Kl ,= ° r . of those whose homes were l
..... . invariably th6 bin _ H ad the members of the , vm tvm w M.tf.v in™
Invariably
construed similar statutes for a cen
tury. I had construed the statute as
similar statutes had been construed in
Great Britain from the days of ‘Mag-
nacarta.’ If guilty, my offense was
that I did not know more law than
all the Judges of all the courts of the
English-speaking race for more than
two hundred years. My offense was
as clearly specifically defined, that I
was no better lawyer than Chief Jus
tice Fuller. Mr. Justice Brewer Mr.
Justice White and Mr. Justice Peok-
hani. and not as good a lawyer as Jus
the bill. Had the members of
| 'Political community of Interest' sin-
I cerely been for the measure, it would
i haVe been reported and passed. At
I that time I had not that knowledge of
! the Machiavellian method that so uni
versally obtains in Senatorial manage- sii u
ment. I thought Senators meant what ohntioo 11
they said. I learned to my sorrow that
-such was not always the case. That
Senators who can best 'Lie like the
truth.’ is the best equipped to play tho
game, according to the modern way of
doing things in Congress. Selfishness
nnH fodr are* tVift nfintmlHno" Imnnlcpe
avannah and
Atlanta,
in Macon.
were Wm. H. McKay. John O. Davis.
Robert W. Smith and Capt. Gruven-
stein.
Of these only Capt. W. H. McKay is
living. There were Barney Cubbedge,
somewhat gray now but still in the
flesh and as handsome as ever;
and others whose
names escape me. Capt. Cubbedge is
running his train as he always did.
Capt. Reneau died only a few years
ago.
Among the conductors on tMC Ma-
quired of a country' lawyer, when the
Government accused me of offending
against this statute.
Convicted by Press.
“I was convicted 'by the press of
bribery and fraud. I was convicted by
the courts with misconstruing a sta
tute. I was guilty of nothing. Mv only
offense was that I had offended the
head of the ‘Political community of in
terest'’—the President: and the most
powerful member of the ‘Commercial
community of interests’—the sugar
trust These and these alone, are the
offenses for which I have suffered. I
violated no law.
“I doubt if the country has ever
fully realized why I was prosecuted
in St. Louis. The President evaded
the question. Attorney General, now
Senator Knox, refused to answer it.
My attorneys often asked the ques
tion, and they could get no answer.
No truthful answer could be given,
that was not a confession that in pro
ceeding against me in St. Louis the
Government had violated the very
spirit of the constitution. Four of the
five payments were made to me in
Washington. If I rendered any ser
vices 'that were prohibited by the
statute, I rendered them in Washing
ton, and not in St. Louis. /
“Why was I then taken a thousand
miles away from the place where it
was alleged I rendered the prohibited
serivees;. where four of the five pay
ments were made to me. where most
of the witnesses resided, into a
strange city where I had never seen
or communicated with any ppstal of
ficial? There was a wild crusade
against accused officials in Missouri
at that time, and the storm center
was at St. Louis. There is an inheri
ted prejudice in <hat city, against a
Kansan, but that was very slight, as
compared with the. far deeper preju
dice then existing against any high
official charged with crime. Gov.
Folk, then circuit attorney, had insti
tuted prosecution against public of
ficials, and other persons, and the ex
citement had grown so intense .as to
produce, for a time, judicial anarchy
in that place. Nearly all of the up
per tendom of St. Louis had been
guilty of violating the law, and those
who had not were under suspicion.
For some time, vicious attacks had
been made throughout the country
against the United States Senate.
Therefore, the prosecution of a Uni
ted States Senator in the city of St.
Louis furnished a shining mark for
all the hate that had been aroused
against such officials, and left 'to a
man IJien in my position in a strange
city very little chance for a fair trial.
I do not think t'hdt'Tt is generally
never forgave me. ,
Disagree With President. , ° f ‘ he .f, n S ineer * of , tbat , tlme but
•'There wars another Incident tliat *W ■» Th * following were
aroused the wrath of the President n A wlif inu T
against me. I could not agree with him 3 ' TT 11 ?
about who was in cojnmand at the P 8 'J, 5- ™ 1 l am Evers. \\ iWarn Lwing,
naval battle of Santiago, and I had the '■ " Flandrs, John > lowers. George
temreity to voice my convictions, which ! £• T°~ Joe Harrison. John F. Kell,
is unpardonable crime with Roosevelt, ' 52 aam o s B. Mathews, John
unless what you say reflects his Eay. George Reddy. Wm. R. Rieh-
wlshes.” I nr de, John Sheridan. John A. Urqua-
Mr. Burton referred at some length ' bar3, *-■ ^ anValkenburg and E. W.
to the Karlas delegation to the Re- ^'aterhouse.
publican convention of 1904, saying ; these known to be living are
that the movement supporting Hoke for Elll Ewing, Jim Flanders, Jourd Kent
Governor was given a false coloring, ! an d Ed Waterhouse,
and the President believed that it was J ♦ » *
a fight, under cover, on him and that I On the Macon and Western were:
Burton was working for Mark Hanna. B. Irwin. H. P. MsAIpin. Aleck
This, he said, was untrue. Bright, John W. Buffington. Win. B.
“This is why,” he said, “I was first I Fleck, Joe G. Freeny. Alfred Munson,
struck down, why I was hounded for ] Robert Richards and John W. Wat-
years for a crime I never committed: ■ son.
why all the vast enginery of the Gov- Of those known to be living are:
ernment was brought up Against me ; Brice Irwin, now in Augusta, and John
to hunt me to death. j Watson.
“But the door of hope cannot be • • *
Closed against me. nor against any j On the Southwestern were: John R.
man who will waste no time In ‘pro- ; Collins, Edward S. Graves, David H.
yoking, nor brooding over injury',’ but j Husketh, Frank Hutchison. Howell
has an abiding faith in the philosophy . McAfee. Dan R. Mathews, John R.
ora i,ooo his
SUFFER FROM FOISi
LEAVENWORTH, Kan.. March 24-
More than one thousand veterans at
the National Soldiers' Home here are
suffering from ptomaine poisoning, tho
result of eating meat hash at break
fast this morning. The first symptoms
of trouble was manifested several hours
after breakfast. Soon the home hos
pital was crowded with sick veterans
and the ambulances were rushing in
from the barracks with loads of them.
This afternon an officer in charge
of the hospital at the soldiers' homo
state that none of tho veterans were
seriously ill: that most of them had
been discharged after treatment, and
that there wns no likelihood of any
deaths occurring from tho ptomaine
poisoning. Most of those afflicted, ho
said, simply suffered a slight vomiting
spell.
Farm Houses Are Destroyed
and Narrow Escapes of
Occupants
of good.”
T dlegiraiipIlTifc!
By BRIDGES SMITH.
In delving deep into the golden past,
that I may dig up and tell of men
and events for the delectation of the
present generation, it is not my' wish
to add one flake of snow to the hair,
or one wrinkle to the crow’s feet, of
those men now living who played their Hudson “ Robert^Huas’ofi. Wm. R.
part in the citizenry of thirty, forty or Jones, Jas . F . Mathews, Jas. H. Pair,
Mathews, Warren W. Richards,
Emanuel Schaefer, William H. Strey-
et, John T. Wade. Thos. W. Water-
house and Clarence A. Williams.
Of these known to be living are:
John Collins, now running to Eaton-
ton; Howell McAfee, long since retir
ed and living at Smithville. and Tom
Waterhouse, running an engine the
same as ever.
* * *
On the Macon and Brunwick, now
the Southern, were:
Peter J. Bracken, Thad Braswell,
W. L. Freeny', Elam H. Gillon. S. K.
Hill, James R. Hopper. Richard B.
Henry O. Spier and Reuben J. Thorn
ton.
Of those known to be living is Peter
Bracken. »
• . * *
On the Macon and Augusta were:
James Farris, J. R. Lee, Jos. Smith
and^L. Thomas. All dead.
WASHINGTON. March 24.—“I pro
pose a toast to the peace which Mex
ico and tho United States are endeaV-
has either been promoted Jn office or
has received immunity from punish
ment, by the President. But such is
the case.. Nor did the President stop
with his rewards in .bestowing gifts
to the witnesses who testified against
me. Every official who had anything
to do with my case, with one excep-
no charie against me like that made known that every witness who testi-
against Ihe fate Senator Mitchell and *£ against^ me
other defendants in the land fraud
cases, no charge that I had defrauded
the Government out of anything. The
oring to establish In Central America , Government had no monitory inter-
and to everlasting peace betewen Mex- : est whatever in the fase. Whether a
lco and the United States.” fnrud order should or should not issue
This isentiment spoken by Secretary 1 against my client, made not one dol-
Root at a dinner given Saturday by i ja r 0 f difference to the Government. . _ _
the Mexican ambassador and Mrs. ; The Government would not make or t‘°n, has-been promoted by the Pres
Creel in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Root i ] ose anything, which ever way the ' "” f
set at rest all doubt as to the joint ] case should be decided by the Post
movement for pacification which the ; m astp- General.
two neighboring republics have initi- | "The statute had been passed in 1S64
ated and showed how closely the re- ] near the close of the war. to pre-
latlons between Mexico and the United vent Congressmen from taking claims
States have become. Mr. Root’s toast ngainst the Government for collection,
followed toasts proposed by Mr. Creel claims against the Government had
to the Presidents of the United Slates ; P ii ed mountain high at that time, as
ident.
Was it Coincident?
“Were all these promotions, re
wards, immunities accidentally coinci
dent with my downfall? Did my’ case
have nothing to do with bringing to
these judges, prosecuting officers, wit
nesses and criminals all their good
upon
piled mountain high at that time, as a j luck? Every man must
nnd Mexico, and to the American Sec- roau ]t of Ihe war, and Senators and | this question for hilmself. But does
retary of State. The sentiment sug- congressmen made a, specialty of seek- not the inquiry as to the price of my
gested by the Secretary of State was lnt , these claims for collections. The
received with great enthusiasm by the
Mexican ambassador’s guests and the
small dinner party became an affair
of International significance.
ASSURES HI HELP ■
very be't men in Congress advertisad
in the Washington papers to collect
these claims on contingent fees. As
it required an appropriation to pay the
claims, when allowed, it was thought
that such action should be denounced
as wrong and in conflict with the of
ficial duties of Congressmen. This was
the inspiration and purpose of the law.
It meant as was then thought, that
in all matters where the Government
stood to win or lose something, or
here money or property was involved,
the Congressman was prohibited from
apnearing for money or. property or
blood obtrude itself when the facts
are considered?
"There are many other things that
might be named which would go to
show that my fall and conviction, in
each case, was a judicial fartfe, a
travesty on justice, a political perse
cution. I hope and expect that both
my past and future life wiir be set in
contrast to the judgment of the court
in branding me as a criminal..”
Mr. Burton denied the charge that
he had secured his seat in the United
States Senate "by the corrupt use of
money.” contributed by the railroads.
even fifty years ago. Fate or for
tune. just as you like, has dealt un
kindly, perhaps unjustly, with some
of them. Each did his part In mak
ing ^Macon what it is / today, some do
ling more than others, of course. There
are men living, only a few it Es true,
to whom the present generation owes
much, and but for whose efforts, whoso
enterprise, whose public spirit, and for
whose foresight. Macon would now be . Old-timers will remember a num-
a struggling village. i ber ° f ^Ineers a little later, say
And my hat is off to these h)4m. I ‘WF-IIto/ yew*-ago. and.sotnelhir-
They command my respect and esteem, i t >'- five or for *f Tle ' r
Some of them are old because of the i ar e so familiar that I want to
record in the family Bible, in spite of m f n ! ,on a f, ™ i .' n Y ff ' vl A c ?3P. e , J.°
gray hairs. Knowing their love for ' '' \ ^l ltc l! e . '
Macon their qualities of good citizen- ; Tosh Hodges Tom Elfe, John McGol-
ship their usefulness had I the power i r3ckt *_ r ank Mlcklejohn, VV’altei Scat-
I would turn -backward the flight of tergood, Asa Clarae. F. B. Arden. Bill
time and make them young men again. Barnes, Dad Morris, Oscar Lagerquist,
* * » | Lige Pate. • Green Freeny, Ed Sco-
Last Sunday I wrote of Col. \V. A. ! vllle, Henry Burton. Joe Hartman.
Huff, who was Mayor of the city thirty j Wm. Friend, Joe Conley, Frank Gools-
years ago, as being the only official | by. Bill Ryan, John and Charlie Horn,
of the city government, excepting the i Encle Sandy Mathews, and his sons,
alder-manic board, now living. Now. I ! Jim and Albert Dan M. Gugel, John
am witness to the fact that having S. Schofield, Billie Sloan, E. D. Mil-
known Col. Huff for—I’ll n*,t say how i Hams. Will Gugel, Frank Willis,
many years, but he was a .young? man 1 Green Bright. Chalire Tolbert, Henry
when I first knew him—he moves about > Lathrop, John and Alt Vlnlng, Russ
the streets with almost the same quick ; Harris. Henry Fox, Luke Husketh, M.
action as when he was Mayor thirty , H. Jones. Chas. Heldt, Will Wasner.
years ago. But here is a note from Ben Jones. Nes Taylor, Bill Emerson
him. and in it is a fact I should have i and Bob Sheridan.
recorded: Of all these, so far as I can learn,
*T see you will persist in advertis- j the only ones now living are: Henry
ing me in the role of antiquity, there- j Lathrop, now in Atlanta: Green
by making me appear among the list j Freeny, now running an engine: Russ
of ancient and ‘oslerized’ citizens of ; Harris, now in the lumber business:
this community. This is the very re- (.and E. D. "Williams, still on an engine,
finement of cruelty, and If autunyi j * * *
leaves did not in themselves carry the ] I wish I had space to tell something
rich colors of ‘a golden hue,’ and if about these men. Many of them met
‘tHe sunset of life did not give me ; death on the rail, some of them were
mystidal lore.’ I would bring a suit granted the privilege of dying peace-
for damages against you for these I fully at home. I would like to tell of
continuous attacks on me in .my iso- ; Uncle Ned Graves , with his old
lated condition. You should remember ; Chickasaw; of how John M r ado went
that while a man’s age is controlled down into the swollen Muckalce Creek
bv his feelings, it requires the best of with his hand on the throttle, and of
pliiLsophy to bear up under a great a -number of others who risked death
weight ' of years, and that constant ‘ to save the lives of passengers. I
public reference’ to a man’s increasing would like to tell of how the old loco-
years will at last force him to be- motives, the old wood-burners, that
lieve that he is not only very ancient. ■ bore names instead of numbers, like
•but that he ’lags superfluous.’ How- the Emerson Foote. Cherokee. Asbury
ever, it is not yet so with me. M'hen Hull. Chickasaw. Choctaw, John L.
DANVILLE. Yn.. March *4—A
tremendous forest fire Is sweeping the
county of Patrick and heavy damage
to property has already resulted and
the lives of many are endangered.
The fire started Friday night, It ap
pears, near Stuart, the county seat of
Patrick, and the terminus of the Dan
ville and Western Railroad, and has
been raging ever since.
Latest reports are that the confla
gration is under no control whatever,
though a large number of citizens and
fanners are engaged in an effort to
cut down trees and confine the blaze
to certain limits.
From Stuart the fire has spread
southeast in the direction of Danville.
Tonight it had reached Critz, & dis
tance of about fifteen or twenty miles
from where it originated. The width
of the conflagration is about six
miles.
HON. PETER PREER
DIED SUDDENLY
COLUMBUS, Ga„ March 24.—Hon.
Peter Freer, representative-elect of
Muscogee County, in the Legislature,
nnd on of the most prominent of the
younger members of the 'bar of Co
lumbus. died last night rather sudden
ly. after a short illness of a day. His
death, which wa.s wholly unexpected,
was a groat shock to his numerous
friends throughout the city. Col. Preer
■fcas the lieutenant colonel of tho Fourth
Georgia Regiment, and was among the
most prominent military men in the
Slate.
MAJ. PENROSE ACQUITTED *
CHARGE NEGLECJ_QF DUTY
SAN ANTONIO. Tex., March 24 —
Maj. C. W. Penrose of the Twenty-
fifth Infantry was today acquitted of
the charge of neglect of doty prefer
red against him at the instance of
President Roosevelt for alleged mis
conduct in connection with the shoot
ing up of Brownsville. -Tex., toy tha
soldiers'of the Twenty-fifth Infantiy
last August.
PROCURATOR GENERAL
OF HOLY SYNOD DEAD
ST. PETERSBURG. March 23—M. Pob-
edonostseff, former procurator general
of tho holy synod, is dead from a compli
cation of ailments and extreme old age.
It is understood that he left voluminous
memoirs' throwing light on the reigns
of the last three Romanoffs. It le ex
pected that these memoirs will lie pub
lished. The newspapers are devoting
their most important space to sketches
of the career of M.‘ Pobedonostnett. They
are unanimous in judgment tha* he em
bodies an epoch. lie was one of the-
biggest personalities in the history of
the Orthordox Church, and in the death
of M. PdbedonoStsefT, the autoertyry loses
Its most consistent, zealous and able
exponent. His influence will long sur
vive him.
STRANGE DEATH OF WOMAN
WHO SAW NIECE'S GHOST.
SPRINGFIELD. Ohio. March 23.—
Mrs. Daniel Clauer. aged forty, was
found dead at her home here today.
She was apparently in good health yes
terday. hut last night became fright
ened and startled her relatives by de
claring that she saw the ghost of her
dead niece. Marie Orasla. who died a
week ago. Mrs. Clauer's husband, who
was an engineer at the State Odd Fel
lows’ Home, died suddenly two weeks
ago.
Georgias the Leonlte has completed his
107 years and was asked why he liked
No railway company, nor other corpo-' 30 3,0 s0 l° n S in life, he said: 'l have
Prcsi- for a fee. It"was thought by • the frfle. I rat ion, no firm, nor person, ever paid ! n ° cause for blaming old age.’ The
Mustian, \V. A. Black, J. J. McDon
aid and others. But all these things
would take columns.
WASHINGTON, March
dent Roosevelt has addressed a let- mers of the law to cover no other kind
ter to H. M. Marvin, of Dover. Del., of cases. Such was the construction
who asked tho President if Govern- placed by Senator 5 and ^Representa-
ment aid could be extended toward
tives. ca'binct ministers, bureau offi
Ing child. The cers and. indeed, by everyone until
the Supreme Court, by a decision of
five to four gave it another and far
different construction in my case. Aft
er the enactment of the statute no Sen
ator or Representative who knew of
the law ever openly took a fee for
appearing In a case before a depart
ment where the money or property of
the Government was involved. But they
at once communicated <3l<3 appear as pa d attorneys all along
in cases where the Government haa no
property or money interest at stake.
This was done by the very best men
in Congress who helped to make the
law, and others who must have known
of the law and the purposes of Con-
the recovery of his
letter is as follows:
My Dear Mr. Marvin: I am in re
ceipt of your telegram of the 22nd
inst. Anything that this Government
can do to help you will of course be
u me, for save only the crime of as
sault upon women there is none so
dreadful as that which has brought
-osnoq ano.f oi aiojjos Sujoiuojqjjcan
hold. I hav
with the Postoffice Department f>-.k-
ing that all aid we have in our power
to give along the lines you mention or
In any other that may prove practi
cable, be given to you.
Sincerely yours, , , .. ..
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 1 Fress in enacting it
In his telegram to the President, I
Mr. Marvin said that many threaten- |
ing letters are sent him every day
saying his boy may be killed by a sup- :
posed captor and suggested that they
be looked into. He also said that he
had sent out pictures and notices re
garding his kidnaped boy and was told
the postmasters were not allowed to
display them in the public buildings.
The father said he believed a word
from the President to the Federal au- ;
thoritles which he suggested might be ;
the greatest aid of ell.
one cent to elect him to office, he said,
at his request or even to his knowl
edge. Some of the men for whom ha
had secured appointments, he said,
had sent him money, but he had re
turned it In every case. He called
upon his appointees to bear him out
In the assertion that they had never
paid one cent for their office.
“I won my election' in a fair and
open fight, with the help of a band of I
Leonite was sensible to the last.
” ‘Time was when reverend years ob- ;
sorvance found
And silver hairs with honor’s meed !
was crowned.*
"But. if you are stubbornly bent on
my complete destruction, just forge one
more link to.the rusty chain that binds
me to the past, and tell the publid
through your reminiscent column that j
of all the men who were engaged in i
active service on the old Macon & I
i M r estern Railroad, now the Central of i
To the few of us who knew these
men personally, knew their faults and
virtues, knew them as man to man,
and think of the &ood old times when
the great majority of them, now dead,
were In the flesh, we now realize what
good men they were, and how good
were those days.
TILLMAN WOULDN’T RETRACT.
HEADLESS BODY FOUND.
INDICATING A MURDER.
SUNBURY, Pa.. March 23.—Securely
sewed in a linen sack, the headless
body of a man was found today float
ing in the Susquehanna river, about
fifteen miles south of this city. There i
are ten bullet and. five knife wounds on
* | the corpse, and the head had been sev- *
1 ered close to tlie shoulders. There are
no marks on the body to identify It.
The authorities are positive it is a case
of murder, but have no clue upon which
they can work.
friends as loyal and true as ever sup-
Kfi/KXSSi: JAwSVE NSKSr *■ ***• -* **• — »*-
KILLED COMPETITOR
PI
leal circles that Mr. Smith’s Influence fatal .
SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. March 24 —
Frar.klln E. Smith, a prominent real
estate dealer, and Edward Beversdorf.
his stenographer, are dead, and E. J.
Wilson, another real estate man. is in
jail charged with murder and assault
as the result of a shooting affray here
this afternoon.
A business difficulty is assigned as
the immediate cause of the shooting.
Beversdorf was sitting at his desk
next to mat or Smith, when Wilson
fired. The stenographer was shot
through the heart. Three other shots
were fired, al! striking Smith, one
passing through the throat proving
No Violation Intended.
They did not intend to violate the
law. They construed the statute, in
every instance, as similar statutes in
the States had ever been construed.
a 5 prohibiting appearance of the Con
gressman as paid attorney only in a
os«e where the Government stood to
win or lose something or. in other
words, eases aaginst the Government
that might cost the Government sorae-
; thing. There had never been a prose-
, cution under the statute when I was
i indicted, and the law had been for
gotten. I th'rk I am entirely within
, the bounds of truth when I say not a
• single Senator or Representative knew
: of the existence of the statute at the
time I was fndietd. I certainly did not
But the actions of great lawyers like
Cockling and others, had made the pre
cedents when the statute was fresh in
their minds, and these precedents
whese followed with:ut question, up
to the time the case was brought
'■ against me.
"When in jail at Ironton. a United
States Senator on his way to his seat
in the Senate, called upon me and
acknowledged that he was guilty un
der the unaccountable decision of th
five justices of'the Sunreme Court
That Senator occupying his seat in the
Senate chamber with the Government
in possession of all the facts, and my
inc.arceration in Jail Is a fair mmnle of
what this admirdstrathan means when
it hypr-'criticallv shouts about the
'Square deal.' Case after case could h
given showing that the very ablest an-’
hest lawyers in the country have un
wittingly violated this law.
“Then, If I was guilty what was my
signed, they were untarnished still. I
know full well that the latter part of
that statement is denied by a judg
ment of the highest court in the land.
I realize, perhaps more than any one
else can the deep' stain that is upon
j my name, and the name of a proud
! State. But it is not an indellihie
stain. .That decree records a lie. My
past life contradicts it. I hope, if I
live my future life will help me to
wipe it away.
Theodore Roosevelt Inspired It.
"I have been frequently asked who
it was that inspired this unjust and
cruel persecution against me. I have
not made any public answer to that
question. I do it now. It was Theo
dore Roosevelt. True, he had to oper
ate through others. Some of them
acted with malice of the kind that
animated Roosevelt. Others were
driven to help in the great wrong
through fear. It was like him to deny
having anything to do with institut
ing proceedings against me until after
I was convicted. Then he boasted,
'it was I who aimed ihe gun.’ The
question naturally arises why he did
it.
“When the ‘Cuban reciprocity’ legis
lation was pending in the Senate, I
mafia a speech that made me tempo
rarily notorious if not famous. I said.
ing Peter Bracken and the under- '
signed. Fifty-four years have swept !
from the face of the earth every otlyar
man then employed by the road be- •'
tween Macon and Atlanta. And I doubt |
if there Is another man now living who !
was then at work on any railroad in :
the South.”
• * •
•Mention, of the fV Macon & West- i , . , . _
ern Railroad set me to thinking of the : M'hile waiting for a tran^to go to Co
conductors and engineers of the lore Iumbus. O.. the Senator was enter-
ago. But to go back more than thirty ! t aIned by , Mr A, E v mma ^ t i. 3 ” erS
years would not, in my opinion be in- ; the Berkel>' Club, which is composed
terest.'ng to the people of today for principally of Republican bu.-iness men
the reason that there are so few of
WINCHESTER, Va.. March 22— Ac
cording to a story vouched for by sev
eral prominent men of Winchester and
Martinsburg, W. Va., a personal en
counter .was Imminent early Sunday
morning'in the Berkely Club, at Mar
tinsburg between a number of it3
members and Senator B. R. Tillman, of
South Carolina. After lecturing here
on the race question Saturday Senator
Tillman was taken to Martinsburg by
Howard Emmart in an automobile.
the direct descendants of the old-timers
now here. Therefore I will go back
to 1877. thirty years ago. and call the
roll of the men who pulled the bell-
cord or Jerked the throttle at that time.
During a discussion of national affairs
Senator Tillman Is said to have made
a remark reflecting upon President
Roosevelt, which many clubmen took
as an insult, they being staunch ad
mirers of the President. It is stated
that men jumped to their feet and an
grily demanded that the Senator’s re
marks and har=h criticism of the Pres
ident be withdrawn, but Mr. Tillman
refused to take back a word of what
he had said. The difficulty was finally
smoothed over.
BIG BLAZ-BURNS ,
PLANT IN PITTSBURG
PITTSBURG; Pa., March 23.—An ex
plosion late today fn ih" Plant Baird
Machinery Company, located on the north
side of Liberty avenue, between Twen
ty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, set tire
to the building, and within a short tiino
the flames snread to the Simmonds Man
ufacturing Company. Brown & Zortman
Machinery Company and a number of
small buildings, all of whleh w»r» burned*
The loss will exceed $260,000. The cause
of the explosion has noi been ascer
tained.
HOT WEATHER RECORDS
IN WASHINGTON BROKEN
WASHINGTON, March 23.—All pre
vious records for hot weather in Wash
ington for the month of March was
broken today when, acording to offi
cials of the weather bureau, the ther
mometer at 3 o'clock this afternoon
registered 93 degrees.
William M. Wadley always selected
... substance, that I would not support { best men as their conductors, and
the measure in its then form: that it I that the mere fact that these big rail-
■ vas plainly in the interest of the ! road men Passed judgment on a man
‘Sugar trust’: that it would be a gift was a certificate of good charcter. Here
of many millions of dollars annually is a list of the conductors on the Soutjr-
to that great corporation, and a crush- I western as far as memory and the help
ing blow to the beet-sugar Industry: j others can bring to mind:
that the whole measure was conceived j Thos. S. Jeter. George S. Dasher.
• n hvpocrisv: that it violated the car- 1 James N. Bass, J. R. Camp, James E.
dinai 'principles of the Republican par- i Dense. Felix A. Dougherty, Ed. G.
The recent death of Capt Thomas
S. Jeter brings to mind a number of
conductors on the Southwestern Rail
road. Capt. Jeter was the oldest of
them all. and his death removed from
earth the last of those who were young
men with him. But of the fourteen l -nrearn im rpcji v APPARPl
or fifteen who were In life thirty vears j DRESSED IN COSTLY APPAREL
ago. only three are known to be living. | ri C T,
Cleverer, more accommodating, better! CLE^ ELAND. O., March 3 Dress-
men never ran a train. It was the j in * herself in her costliest apparel
common saying that Virgil Powers and : Mar Y Pete rs
on the tariff: that Cuba was pros
eercus. and did not need it: that the
Cubans would not get the benefit of the
■ duction of the tariff on sugar if
—!c nml that to support a bill of
this kind was either an insult to the
Jeffers Charles A. Kendall. John B.
Giles. E. A. Warwickfi. Thos. J. and
W. S. Welch. Geo. J. Lunsford, Flem
Geealin and Francis M. Long.
Those living are Felix Dougherty,
still pulling the bell cord; Charlie
widow aged 45
years, plunged over a 75-foot bluff to
death in the waters'of Lake Erie, near
the Clifton Club boat house, today.
Mrs. Peters had suffered from ill
health for some time past and had been
in dejected spirits. She lived with her
mother at 7130 Brinsmade street, and
the family Is well known on the west
side.
STRINKING MINERS
TO RETURN TO WORK
WTUKESBARRB. Pa... March 23.—The
3.000 striking miners of the Kingston
Coal Comnanv today decided to go back
to work Monday pending a settlement of
th"ir grievances by the officials of the
eompanjfl It is now thought that an
amicable agreement will be reached.
A. K. DETWEILER ON
HIS WAY FROM EUROPE.
TOLEDO Ohio. March 23.—Informa
tion obtained from George A. Detweii-
brother of A. K. Detweiler. who
was today indicted for fraud at San
Francisco says that A. K. Detweiler
was in Europp. but returned to the
United States and passed through this
city on his way.to the West.
PRESIDENT SIGNED
BLACKBURN’S COMMISSION.
WASHINGTON. March 23.—The
President today signed the commis
sion of former Senator J. C. S. Black
burn, of Kentucky, to be a member of
the Isthmian Canal Commission.
Assistant Cashier in Jail.
PITTSBURG, Pa.. March 23.—Ernest
W. Bowman assistant cashier and
e'erk in the Citizens National Bank of
Tienesta, Pa., was committed to jail
today charged with misapplication of
funds and making certain false entries.
According to United States District At
torney John W. Dunkle. the apparent
shortage will amount to about $30,000.
Bowman denies the charges.
Heinrich »Von Korn D*ad.
BRESLAU, Prussia. March 23.—
Heinrich Von Korn, proprietor of the
Schleische Zeitung, is dead. He Avas
years of ago and left a fortune of
$20,000,000. The paper has been In the
family for-175 years.
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