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Of Hon. Joe Brown Placed
Before People of Georgia,
ELABORATES HIS VIEWS
States Squarely His Pecsition on All
Important Questions Affecting Af
fairs of State—Brief Summary
of Document.
flon. Jos. M. Brown, candidate for
governor before the primary of June 4,
against Governor Smith, gave out for
publication Thursday an address to the
people of Georgia in which he ampli
fies his platform as published concur
rently with the announcement of his
candidacy. Mr. Brown takes up each of
the questions which have recently been
brought into prominence in connection
‘with public policies, and discusses
them clearly and fully.
Following are some of the salient
points in his address:
“I will candidly confess that I do not
claim to have been gifted by Provi
dence with an orator’s voice, wherehy
I could be heard by throngs in the
open air or in large nalls. In the
present condition of affairs, it is my
candid conviction that the laboring
masses of our state, whether in fac
tories or shops, or on the farms, need
prosperity rather than oratory. In truth
it is more than a figure of speech to
say that the time has come when Geor
gia should disassociate herself from the
aristocracy of oratory and clasp hands
with the democracy of deeds. Hence,
in this campaign I will not undertake
to make political gspeeches, but will
seek to bring about that spirit of sym
pathetic accord and co-operative en
deavor which would again secure em
ployment with fair wages to those of
our fellow citizens who are now unwil
lingly idle, whese families are dsprived
of the comforts of life, and to restore
such confidence in the good faith of
our state and her officials in guaran
teeing to every dollar invested in the
state equal protection of the laws as
will attract to her the capital needed
to develop her resources of every char
acter.
“If elected to the exalted office of
governor, I pledge every energy of my
nature to the upbuildit#z and develop
ment of this gerat stats and the resto
ration of prosperity to all her people.
“I believe in a return to the payment
in one sum of confederate pensions as
brevailed before it was repealed by
Governor Smith’s administration. :
“I believe that the affairs of the state
should be most economically adminis
tered. Any tax levied upon the people
which brings into the treasury more
money than is absolutely necessary to
meet the expense of the state govern
ment so economically administered is
robbery of the people. If, therefore, I
am elected governor I will insist upon
@ reduction of the tax rate which is
now a burden upon the people for a
top-notch high tax rate is mot in accord
with the spirit of reform.
“In the discussion cf the prohibition
question, I would not be frank and open
were [ not to state at the outset that 1
am unalterably opposed to the saloon,
and no act of mine, either personally
or officially, will approve its re-estab
lishment in the state of Georgia. |
“I shall favor the strict enforcement
of the present pronibition law, and any
amendment that may be passed by the
general asembly at the next session
respecting it. The will of the people
should be supreme, therefore, if it be
their will that the present law stand
as it now is, it must stand. If it be
their will that it bs amended,-they will
elect a gemeral assembly to enact their
will, and the will of the people consci
entiously, intelligently and deliberately
determined, is the highest law. I will
s 0 recognize and obey it.
“I believe in the establishment of a
department of labor, and that the com
missioner of labor should be chosen
from the laboring men.”
TILLMAN ENTERS SANITARIUM,
South Carclina Senator Under Private
Treatment in Atlanta.
Senator Ben R, Tillman of South
Carolina is taking a course of treat
ment in the Robertson Sanitarium, 172
Capitel avenue, Atlanta, for nervous
breakdown.
The distinguished senator is accom
panied by his wife. He will be at the
Robertson Sanitarium several weeks,
and if sufficiently recovered in health
before the spring is over will go abroad
with his wife.
FULLER AND PRITCHARD.
To Act Together in Hearing South Car
olina Dispensary Case.
A Washington dispatch states that
it is understood that Chief Justice Ful
ler has consented to sit with Judge
Pritchard in hearing the appl’icatlon for
a writ of supersedeas, which, if grant
ed, would stay Judge Pritchard’s order
Jor the appointment of a recaiver in the
Soutn Carolina dispensary cases'.".:;
BANK OFFICERS INDICTED
Thornton and Manry of Defunct Neal
Bank at Atlanta, Must Answer to
Charges of Mismanagement,
After weeks of investigation, the
Fulton county grand jury in session at
Atlanta, Thursday, returned three bills
of indictment against E. H., Thornton
and W. F. Manry, president and vice
president, respectively, of the now de
funet Neal bank, for violations of tae
penal code affecting banks,
Thornton and Manry are indicted
jointly for loaning more than 25 per
cent of the capital of the bank. The
loan in question was that of $120,000,
which they made to themselves as di
rectors of the bank, and also as mem
bers of the firm of C. T. Ladson & Co.
This money was invested in some
300,000 or 400,000 acres of timber land
in the Santiago province of Cuba.
Tae above offense is a felony, and
is punishable by an imprisonment of
from two to seven years.
Mr. Manry was indicted for false
swearing, when he swore ip a state
ment of the baank’'s assets and liabili
ties which he gave the state bank ex
aminer. This statement was made and
sworn to when Mr, Maary was cashier
of the Neal bank. This alleged of
fense is also a felony and is punisha
ble by imprisonment of from taree
to ten years.
Mr. Thornton was indicted individu
ally for borrowing as an officer and di
rector of the Neal bank, $71,500 as
executor of the estate of John Neal.
This offense is a misdemeanor and is
punishable by a fine of SI,OOO or twelvs
months in the chaingang.
GOV. SMITH MAKES CHARGES.
Says Candidacy of Hon. Joe Brown is
Being Backed by Conspirators.
Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia, is
sued Friday a statement regarding the
candidacy for govervor of Johseph M.
Brown, to the people of Georgia., In
part, the statement is as follows:
“The letter of Mr. Joseph M. Brown
confirms the charge that a combination
of liquor interests and hired politicians
has been made to capture the state.
“There ig not 2 word from Mr. Brown
in favor of negro disfranchisement.
“There is an cpen attack upon the
railroad commission.
“There is a poorly eoncealed admis
sion that he would approve legislation
repealing the prohibition bill together
with the suggestion that legislators
will be elected favorable to the sale of
liquor’
“I intensely advocate mnegro . dis
franchisement. 7
“T support the railroad commission.
“I am opposed to the repeal of the
prohibition law. I will veto any legisla
ticn changing the law except to per
fect it as a prohibition measure, and
this must be done by the friends of
prohibition,
“This issue has passed beyond the
mere sale of liquor.. The brewers held
a meeting and the press reported a
millicn of dollars raised by them to be
used in Georgia, Alabama and Missis
sippi. The liquor interestg have crgan
ized in Chicago with local headquarters
in Atlanta fer the purpose of fighting
for the sale of liquor in this state and
elsewhere,
“Already their hired men are on the
streets of this city. The men engaged
in this work are opposed to negro dis
franchisement. If successful, they will,
through lccal elections, with the negro
voting, buy his vote and place liquor
everywhere,
“Mr. Joseph M. Brown and the hired
politicians will not be permitted to
place the negro in control today. The
people of Georgia repudiated Joseph M.
Brown as railroad coramissioner and
the hired politicians as »Holitical dicta
tors in 1906, Now you are asked to
make Joe Brown governor, and to put
the hired politicians back in control
with the liguor interests as the chief
power behind them. Place the demo
cratic party in Georgia under their
control and your disfranchisement law
will be killed. ;
“l announced my candidacy for a
second term as goveraor because 1
thought it my duty to do so. The issues
now presented aroused my most in
tense zeal.
“T accept the issueg and am prepared
for the fight with perfect confidence
that the moral sentiment of the people
will overwhelm this effort to debauch
our state. HOKE SMITH.”
STRIKE BREAKER IN PENSACOLA.
Northern Representatives of Company
Also on ™and.
New developments in the street car
strike at Pensacola, Fla.,, Tuesday was
the arrival of a noted strike breaker
from New Yecrk, a representative of
the International Street Railway Em
ployzes’ Association, and thre= officials
of the Stone & Webster syndicate, who
cortrol the lines in Pensacola. :
A representative of the striking em
plorees madas an overture for an audi
ence with the visiting officials of the
company during the day, to effect
an amicable agreement, but was turned
down, the company stating that they
will treat with the men only as indi
viduals,
MANY BARS GLOSED
As Result of Strenuous Elec
tions in lllinois.
TWENTY COUNTIES GO DRY
Larger Cities in State, However, Voted
to Retain Saloons—Chicago Was
Eliminated from the Election
by a Court Order.
In the local option elections, held by
1,200 townships, in 84 counties of Il
nois, outside of the city of Chicago
Tuesday, twenty counties became abso
lutely anti-saloon territory, and approx
imately 1,500, or about one-half of the
total number of saloons in that terri
tory, were voted out of business.
Most of the larger cities of the state,
however, voted in favor of licensing sa
loons.
The larger cities voting in favor of
the saloons are:
Springfield, KFreeport, Aurora, Elgin,
Sterling, Kankakee, Lincoln, Mon
mouth, Bloomington, Danville, Joliet,
Murphysboro, and Rock Island,
Those voting to abolish the saloons
were: :
Rockford, Decatur, Dixon, Hoopes-:
town, Georgetown, Pontiac, Shelbyville,
Carbondale and Champaign.
The following counties are now abso
lutely anti-saloon territory, so created
by the voters by their ballots, and are,
in addition to the six which voted last
November to abolish license:
Boone, Moultrie, Fayette, Hamilton,
Edgar, Clark, Brown, Saline, Gallatin,
Douglas, Macon, Cumberland, Platt,
Shelby, Coles, White, Wayne and Rich
land.
The electton in Chicago was purely
aldermanic and followed closely party
lines. One-half of the membership of
the city council of seventy was elected
and the republicans made a net gain of
ten. The new council will contain 44
republicans and 26 democrats. The
make up of the present council is 36
democrats, 1 independent derocrat
and 34 republicans.
Although the question of closing of
saloons was barred from the ballot by
court action, the united societies for l?-
cal self-government claimed a victory,
inasmuch as only about 23 of the 70
aldermen who will compose the new
council, they declare, favoring person
al liberty.
The Independence League made a
strong fight in several of the wards and
polled a vote of good proportions for
some of its nominees, but the total
vote of the party was less than that
of the socialists.
FLORIDA LUNACY LAW UPHELD,
Supreme Court Declares Its Validity in
Passing Upon Scudamore Case.
The supreme court of Florida Tues
day rendered an opinion in the case of
the state against George C. Scudamore
which establisnes the constituionality
of the law in Ilunacy proceedings.
Scudamore, former cashier of the Peo
ple’'s Bank and Trust Company of
Pensacola, and accused of defalcation,
had been ordered committed to the
state hospital for the insane by the
county judge of Escambia county.
The supreme court in Tuesday’s de
cision, ordered Scudamorz remanded
to the custody of the county sheriff of
Escambia to be conveyed to Chattahoo
chee and delivered to the guperintend
ent of the state hospital for the insane
The opinion did not sustain the conten
tion of the state that the legislature
has no power to commit insane per
sons to county judges, that sufficient
notice is mot given in such cases and
that the constitutional right of trial by
Jury is denied. .
Tobacco Beds Destroyed. -
Night riders rods into Seottown, in
Lawrence ccunty, 0110, opposite Hun
tington, W. Va., Monday night and de
stroyed the tobacco heds of Ned Shock
ley and Henry Darnell.
JORDAN TURNED ON THE GAS,
Atlanta Baptist Minister Loses Life
by Asphyxiation. :
Lying unconscious on hig*bed in a
rcom filled with gas, at his residence,
20 East avenue, Atlanta, Dr, John D.
Jordan, pastor of the Jackson Hill Bap
tist church, ‘was’found jn a dying con
dition Thursday afterrioon.
Physicians were summoned to the
scene, and did heroic work, shut were
unable to relieve Dr, Jordan, who died
shortly afterwards frum‘/asphxlation.
For maay months heshad been labor
ing under difficulties, his healt‘h having
been very poors”
STATE TROOPS IN PENSACOLA,
o - SR 2o
Every Available Man in Militia Serv
ice. Called Out to Keep Order.
Every available man in the Florida
state militia service has been srdered
to Pensacola. Besides the Jacksonville
companies the Suwange Guards, the
Tallahassee, Apalachicola and other
companies proceeded to Pensacola on
the Sunday morning train,
Boston Suburb Almost Oblit
erated by Conflagration,
LOSS IS TEN MILLIONS
Four People Lose Life and Half a Hun.
dred Injured, Some of Them Fa.
tally — Ten Thousand People
Are Left Homeless.
The greatest fire that has scourged
any part of the metropolitan district of
Boston, Mass., in ten years, devastated
the manufacturing, tenement and re
tall sections of Chelsea, a suburb, on
Sunday and Sunday night, burning over
one square mile of territory and lev
eling many of the city’s best struc
tures.
The fire started at 1:40 a. m., and
was not under control until 9 o'clock
Sunday . night, notwithstanding that
half of the Boston fire department’s
strength and steamerg from a dozen
other cities and towns went to the
aid of the Chelsea brigade.
The loss is estimated at fully $lO,-
000,000. About 10,000 people are home
less. Late Sunday might four bodies
had been recovered from the ruins.
Half a hundred personsg were injured,
some fatally.
The fire originated in the rear of the
Boston Blacking company's works on
West Third street. A terrific gale,
which at times had a velocity of 60
miles an hour, put the fire Dbeyond
control.
Among the structures destroyed
were thirteen churches, two hospitals,
the public library, city hall, five school
houses, twenty business blocks, nearly
a score of factories and' upwards of
three hundred tenement and dweliing
houses.
THREE MEN ASSASSINATED.
Orange Packers Meet Death at Hands
: of Unknown Parties.
Thres men—Charles Whitehurst,
George Griffin and Charles Smith,
white, orange packers—were killed by
unknown parties at Lake Harney, 23
miles from Sanford, Fla., by unknown
parties.
While the victims and ten other
white men employed in a packing
house, were sleeping, a party of arm
ed men set fire to the house, and as
the inmates ran from the burning
‘building, the attacking party opened
fire on them with rifles and shot guns,
Ten escaped and aroused the neigh
borhood, but no clew could be founad
to the assassins.
The men killed wera recently from
Georgia. The crime is sald to have
been the work of men who had heen
refused employment in the packing
house, who resented bringing pack
ers from other places.
HOBSON STILL PREDICTS WAR.
Bays Clash Between White and Yeliow
Races is Inevitable.
Debate on the naval appropriation
bill in the house of representatives on
Saturday resolved itself in the main
into a discussion of the possibilities
of a war betwsen the United States
and Japan. In line with his well
known views on the subject, Mr. Hob
son of Alabama pleaded for four bat
tleships instead of two,
A war between the yellow and the
white races he regarded ag Inevitabla,
and he asserted that Japan’s present
military activity was with a view to
the supremacy of the Pacific and as a
natural conscquence there would he
a clash at arms with the United
States.
. Little Delaware for Judge Gray.
The result of the primaries of Sat
urday indicate that Delaware will send
practically a unanimous delsgation to
Denver in favor of Judge George Gray
for the presidential nomination,
‘ALLEGED TRUST INDICTED.
Grand Jury at Savannah Returns True
‘Bills Against Naval Stores Men.
Indictments were returned by the
federal grand jury at Savannah, Ga.,
Satarday afternoon against the alleged
“naval stores trust.”
Four of the defendants were arrest
ed and gave bond in the gsum of $5,000
each, ' The others were out of the
city,
The first count of the bill charges
comhining and conspiring to monopo
lize trade, and the third, monopolizing
and attempting to monopolize trade.
SENATE PASSES LIABILITY BILL.
Not Confined to Railroads But Covers
All Common Carriers.
The bill relating to the liability of
comomn carriers by railroads passed
by the house on April 6 was Thursday
passed by the senate without amend
ment and without division,
The senate bill on the same sup
covered all forms of common carriers.
MILLIONS THROWN AWAY
In Establishing and Maintaining Navy
Yards of the Country, is Charge of
Representative Lilley. * |
Representative Lilley of Connecticut,
whose charges against the Electric
Boat company and the subsequent in
vestigation have brought him into the
limelight, spoke on the naval appro
proation bill in the house Saturday. He
deveted himself almost exclusively to
navy yards and brought out-startling
facts and figures.
He took occasion to introduce a res
olution calling for the appointment of
a commission to report on the advisa
bility of abandoning ths navy yards
and naval stations at Kittery, Maine;
Port Royal, S. C.; Charleston, S. C.;
Key West, Fla.; New Orleans, La., and
Mars Island. Cal. Of the Key West
yard he said:
“At this yard, in the fiscal year end
ing in 1907, $94,318.77 was expended
for labor and the value of their total
product was but $7,126.18, or there
might just as well have been tossed on
the coral reefs $87,192.59 as far as any
return to the government was concern
ed, and yet last session of congress
voted to throw $44,500 more of good
money after the bad.”
“At Kittery there is a dry dock
which costs $1,100,000. Tee dock is in
readiness for the docking of first elass
battleships, but the approachss are in
such a condition as to make it inad
visable to take first class battleships
to that yard.
“But the point that the business man
would fail to comprehend is that $lO,
000 was appropriated at both sessions
of the last congres for new construc
tion at New @rleans, and for what ad
vantage to the United States navy God
only knows.”
Charlesten, 8. C., furnished Mr. Lil
ley with his most remarkable navy
yvard figuras:
“During the past five years '5213,-
213.76 has been disbursed among la
borers,” he gaid, “and there has never
been dona for the navy ons cent’s
werth of work at this yard. Yet, at
the last session of congres $278,000
more was appropriated for this yard
at Charleston.
“Annapolis, for which congress has
sen fit to appropriate suts that reach
a total of over $10,000,000, is sunk in
the mud. Battleships cannot reach the
academy, and the United States coast
and geodetic survey reports show that
the upper Chesapeake {s fast filling
up.” Y
TENNESSEE BARS STANDARD OIL
Can Henceforth Engage Only in Inter
state Commercey Business,
By the judzgment of the supreme
court of Tennessee, in an exhaustive
opinion delivered by Justice Neil, the
Standard Ofl company is ousted from
the state of Tennessee, foruthe Aacié_
of this company at.gallgtin."f;lin ‘re
straining trade. By the judement of
the court the Standard Oil company
can only engage in interstate com
merce, as far as Tennessee s con
cerned.
PROBLEM OF THE UNEMPLOYED
Put ‘Up to President Roosevelt in Re
port of Edwin Meserole,
The “problem of the unemployed”
wasg laid before President Roosovelt
faturday by Edwin J. Meserole of the
Ethical Soclal League of New York.
Ha urged upon the president the ap
pointment of a commission to study
this question at home and abroad,
with the view of devising some prac- |
tical means to aid the unemployed of
this country in time of national eco
nomic disturbances.
Anna Gould Returns to Orient,
Mme. Anna Gould, with her children
and their tutor, saileg from New York
Saturday for Genoa and Naples. About
the samos hour the Prince de Saganfi
=ho has been paying assiduous ecourt
to Mme. Gou'd, sailed for Europe on
another steamer.
THIEVES MAKE BIG HAUL,
Rob Jewelry Store and Make Way With
. $50,000 Worth of Gems,
Some time during Saturday night,
and in the hest patrolled district of
San Francisco, thieves ontered the
Jjewelry store of P, Lcndy, and robbed
it of diamonds, watches and other
jewelry, amounting to $50,000,
Entranca was made by cutting a |
hole through the partition that sepa- |
rates the store from a candy shop.‘
The safe was blown open with mitro
glycerine,
GOVERNOR HUGHES SELECTED
By New York Republicans as Their
Choice for President.
Governor Charleg E, Hughes was in
dorsed as New York’s republican can
didate for president bv that part_v’si
state convention, he’d Saturday, and
the four deélsgates at large wita their
alternates, wers instrueted to use:all
honorable means to bring about his
nomination,
Over-Three Hundred Expell=
ed from Clemson College
FOR APRIL FOOL PRANKS
Officials of South Carolina State Instl
tution Determined to Uphold Dis
cipline—Classes Must Now
Be Revised. ;
Two hundred and fifty-seven stud
ents of Clemson college, South Carolf
na's state institution, were dismissed
Wednesday morning. This number,
with the 49 members of the junior class
dismissed Saturday, aggregate 305
turned out.on account of the All Fool's
day escapade, when 309 cadets ab
sented themselveg from the campus,
drills and classes from 7:45 a. m. until
6 p. m. Of the 309 participants only
four were not dismissed. One of these
was suspended until September, one
acquitted of the cnarge and two will
be dealt with by the commandant.
The testimony in the cases of these
young men differed widely from the
testimony in the other cases. The
discipline committee had been holding
sessions taree times a day, excepting
Sunday for a full week, At 7:45
o'clock Wednesday morning, when the
corps formed in line for their regular
daily drill, 'Commandant Minus had
his adjutant publish an order direct
ing the participants in the escapade
to turn in at the quartermaster’s de
partment all college government prop
ertieg in their possession.
After all the property had been turn
ed in to the quartermaster, tae boys
as directed by Commandant Minus,
congregated in the chapel, After all the
cadets of the institution were seated,
and after the regular chapel services
were concluded, President Mell made a
short talk, stating that, though he was
sorry for tie boysg dismissed, yet dis
cipline had to be preserved. When 3e
had finished, he handed Cadet Adjutant
Tindall an order to /be published at
once. Thig order provided for the dis
missal from the college of 43 mem
bers of the preparatory class, 132 mem
bers of the {reshman class, and 82
members of the sophomore class. -
The faculty will be compelled to re
vise the classes. Many sections in
the freshmen and sophomore classes
were almost totally wiped out,
There are about 400 students left in
the institution,
~TO PROBE PAPER TRUST, i
O e Pasw i
By unanimous vote the house com~
‘mittee on judieiary Wednesday agreed
to report favorably the “paper trust”
resolutions introduced April 2, by
Speaker Cannon, ey
One of these resolutions dirscts the
attorney general to inform the house
what steps haye been taken to inves
tigdte and prosecute the International
Paper company of New York, and oth
er . corporations or combinations en
gaged in the manufacture of wood pulp
or print paper.
The other resolution directs the sec
retary of commerce and labor to in
form the house as to what steps have
been taken by the bureau of corpora
tions towards investigating the alleged
“paper trust.”
The resolutions were subssquently
called up in the house and passed.
THEODORE PRICE RETURNS.
Veteran Cotton Trader Will Quit Spec
ulation Temporarily.
Theodore H. Prige, of New York, vet
eran of a score of campaigng in the
cotton market, has decided to retire
from speculation for the next two
yearg in order to devote his entire at
tention to his only son, whose n2alth
has caused his parents considerable
worry,
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Mobile Herald Changes Mands,
Official announcement ig made that
The Mobile (Ala.) Herald, the oldest
afternoon paper in the city, has been
sold by Major Tebbetts and associates
to Horace Turner and associates,
ELECTRIC COMPANY IN TROUBLE
New Orleans Concern Goes !nt> the
Hands of Receiver,
The Consumers’ Electric company of
New Orleans, with eapital stock, bonds
and other obligations aggregating in
the neighborhood of $2,500,000, was
placed in receivership Friday.
The petitio~ ~“aclared that the com
pany had defauited in payment-of in
terest due on the bonds. The Consum
ers’ Electric company is one of two
companies supplying electric light and
power in New Orleans, o
GAMBLERS DEFEAT HUGHES.
b it il /s
Bills to Stop Race Track Gambling
Killed in New York Senate.
The vcte of one senator in the New
York legislature Wednesday caused a
tie vote us 25 to 25, and defeated, for
the time at least, the two bills em
bodying the recommendation of Gov
ernor Hughes that legal protection be
abolished which since 1895 has protects
ed public gambling at race tracks.
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