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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 “I believe in a return to the payment in one sum of confederate pensions as brevailed before it was repealed by Governor Smith’s administration.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, e — e ————————————— 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. |