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Newspaper Page TextThe Atlanta Constitution. VOL. XXVI. NO. 37. WORLD IS APPALLED BY BALKAN HORRORJ Powers Being Urged To Stop Atrocities by Moslems. TURKEY AND BULGARIA NOW' ON VERGE OF WAR Should Clash Come the Powers Will Try To Prevent a General Con flagration Sixty Thou sand Persons Reported Massacred. i T .option, September 12.—From informa tion gleaned in various diplomatic circles tn London today the Associated Press learns that the powers have at last rec ognized the fact that only drastic meas ures will maintain peace between Turkey and Bulgaria. No one participating in the negotiations now denies that the two .•ountrles are perilously close to war. It Is even suggested in a responsible quar ter that the Slavs are working with the Bulgarians to convince the world that a frightful state of affairs prevails in Mac edonia. and that humanity demands the intervention of the rowers. Strong press ure Is being exerted on the British for eign office to cause it to take inert en ergetic action to stop the atrocities on the part of the Turks. But the policy of the cabinet, at any rate, up to to day, continues to be confined to preserv ing the concert of Europe. On all sides | It is said that the further efforts of I every power will be. to prevent a general j European conflagration. Should War Come. In the event, of an outbreak of war be tuen Turkey and Bulgaria, being utter ly unavoidable tl e policy of the p»wers wifi r r to a complications which may embroil them. urkish circles are ex ercised at Lite action of the Greek pre mier in protesting to the powers against the atrocities perpetrated, by the Turks upon the Greeks, but confidence is ex pressed that th er- will be no change in the attitude of the Athens government on the ground that Greece Is too much opposed to the expansion of Bulgaria to do anything which might cause interna tional Intervention and consequent alter ation of the status In Macedonia. The dispatch of French warships to nearer proximity to Turkey Is accepted here as an indication of the purpose of France to be prepared to protect French interests not only during the present dis turbance, but in the uvent of war. Great Britain is keeping Admiral I'omviile. in command of the British Mediterranean squadron, informed re garding the situation, but no Instruc tions have yet been sent to him to in crease the number of British ships in the Levant. The suggested elevation of the Ameri can minister at Constantinople t > the rank of ambassador is believed in official circles here to be an ex. client proposal on the ground that In the eyes of the Mussu’mas the United States occupies an Inferior position in near eastern affairs which is due partly to the lower rank of Its representative at the Turkish capital Thousand Reported Massacred. Sofia. Bulgarin. September 12—The council of ministers is said to have de cided to mobilize the First and Second army divisions, whose headquarters are Sofia and Philippopoiis. Alarming rumors are current of further wholesale massa cres of Bulgarians in the vilayet of Mon astir One report says that 60,000 persons have been slaughtered in the district of Leren alone, which is Bulgarian. Other reports confirm that the Turks have burn ed the Christi :n quarters in three cities. Florina, Okhilda and Resen, Army Corps To Be Mobilized. Sofia, September 12—With the arrival of new and sensational reports of the wholesale massacre of Christians In Mac edonia the situation here is hourly be coming more alarming. If the latest messages, which state that sixty thousand Bulgarians have been slaughtered In the districts of Okrida and Ix-ren, shall be confirmed, no doubt exists that the gov ernment will be forced to order the mob ilization of the army Immediately. According to information brought by a courier to the revolutionary paper Au tonomy's a force of Albanians, assisted by Turkish regular forces acting under orders direct from Yildiz Kiosk, mas sacred the entire Bulgarian Chrlstain population of the Okrida and Leren dis tricts. Fearful descriptions are given of the sights seen there the soldiers slaughtering mon. women and chi: ren in every direc tion, displaying a barbarism never be. fore witnessed. The number of killed is not stated in the .ourier’s dispatches, but according to re ports from other sources, the total num ber of the victims will reach sixty thous and. Official circles are so far without in formation regarding the reported massa cre. but, in view of tile character of the latest advices from Macedonia, it is feared the news is only too true. Rumors are current that at a council of the ministers today, it was decided to mobilize immediately the first and sec ond army divisions. A deputation of leading professors and representatives of the professional classes yesterday waited upon the minis ters and urged the government to order immediate mobilization. Premier Petro foff replied to the delegation that the ministry was unable to admit the neces sity for such a step at the present mo ment. The Turkish government is believed to have at the present moment no less than 60.000 soldiers in the vilayet of Adrian ople, large bodies of them within ten to fifteen kilometers of the Bulgarian frontier. Confronted with such a situa tion. it Is argued that Bulgaria would be amply justifie.d In mobilizing the first and second army divisions, tlie headquar ters of which are at Sofia and Philippop olis, and which comprise the forces near est the Turkish frontier. The government appears to be firmly resolved to avoid giving Turkey the slight est pretext for declaring hostilities and Is doing its utmost to restrain the war fe ver. The situation, however, is rapidly becoming worse and popular excitement Ls increasing. Tlie Bulgarians are singu larly undemonstrative and self-restrained, and are not accustomed to give vent to their feelings in popular demonstrations and noisy processions. Sofia and the coun try generally are outwardly as calm as in the most pea' of ill times, but people who know the Bulgarians say this calm is more to be feared than any outward evi dence: that the realize the fearful condi tion of their brethren in Macedonia. An engagement is reported to have oc curred between a force of insurgents and Turkish troops at Suchindol. in which not a single revolutionary was killed, while the Turks lost heavily- . Telegrams from Burgas says the Bul garian population Is fast disappearing from the district of Losengrad, and that everyone unable to escape to the Bul garian frontier is killed. Five hundred fu gitives have arrived nt Burgas, from Te kenegea. They state flint in the surround ing villages the Turks search the houses for guns, failing to find which they force the peasants buy guns. Those fugitives report that two mon. one aged 100 years and the other 85. were impaled by the Turks in the course of their search. The war office hero is greatly concerned over the increasing number of deserters who join the Insurgents. Bulgaria May Fight. London, September 14.—Rumor from Vienna .and elsewhere is very busy this morning regarding the Balkan crisis, and whilst it Is impossible to confirm the more sensational statements, there is ac cumulation of evidence that some vio lent solution cannot long be delayed. The Sofia correspondent of The Dally Telegraph sends, under Sunday's date, another long dispatch warmly defending Bulgaria’s patient and quixotic attitude of loyalty toward the porte and the pow ers and denouncing Europe’s indifference to the wiping out of a large Christian community. He says: "Bulgaria has displayed unexampled moderation. Her last urgent request to the powers was that, they should com pel Turkey to suppress the rising by le gitimate methods of ■ warfare, but to snare women and children from Indi;,Ti tles and massacre. “But even this Christian "Europe has refused and now Prince Ferdinand’s gov ernment. having carefully considered the question and aware of the disastrous consequences with which the powers threaten Bulgaria If she intervenes, has decided that It cannot longer neglect its sacred duty to prevent the Christian pop ulation being done to death. in a cou ple of days more the die will b< cast and Bulgaria will do her duty. An of ficial communication will be made to tlie powers in the above indicated sense, and forthwith the necessary meiisuSes will be taken and only countermanded if the powers Immediately intervene. This Is Bulgaria's last word. The moral re sponsibility will fail upon Christian Eu re pe, even if the material consequences have to be endured by Bulgaria.” A dispatch from Constantinople to The Standard says large forces are being collected to the north and northwest of Constantinople, where. In the event of ■war, the first fighting is expected to oc cur ' and though allusions to any plan of campaign is strictly censured. It may be assume! that German advice during recent years has not left Turkey unpre pared this time. The Times publishes a long dispatch from Mcnastir. dated September 5. in which. ns the result of his own observ.*.- tiers and those of other witnesses, the correspondent fully confirms the descrip tions of the Turkish extermination of the Christian population in the vilayet cf Monastir, which lie says is being carried out, whole-heartedly and Indiscriminate ly by regulars ami bnshi-bazonks. be tween whom there Is little to chose and whose doing it is evident are directly sanctioned by the sultan. Still at Their Bloody Work. Sofia. Bulgari.'’.. September 1 3.--Tlie Albanian and Turkish troops collected in the vilayet of Adrianople appear to bo pursuing their usual tactics of burning and plundering the villages and killing the peasants, instead of making an attempt to break up the insurgent bands. Very little news Is filtering through from Mona?tlr. but all reports agree that the position of the Christians is desperate. The Turks are making a clean sweep of the whole Bulgarian element. The Albanian soldiers in the vilayet of Adrian ople are stated tp be entirely, beyond con trol. At Kostursco, the influential beys com- LAW’S HEAVY HANI) LAID ON GRALTERS. "Washington, September ll—United States Attorney Beach today announced that the persons named in the seven in dictments returned by the grand jury last Tuesday were: George W. Beavers, former chief of the division of salaries and allowances, post office. August W. Machen, former general su perintendent of the free delivery system, postoffice department. James W. Erwin, former postoffice in speetor with headquarters in San Fran cisco. George H. Huntington and Isaac S. Mc- Giehan, both of New York city, owners of the Columbia Supply Company, of that city. Eugene D. Scheble, of Toledo Ohio, a dentist, and interested in the firm of May berry & Ellis, of Detroit. Mich., letter box manufacturers. Beavers, Machen and Erwin are named jointly in one indictment for conspiracy to defraud the United States. Another indictment is against McGlehan, Hunting ton and Machen for conspiracy to defraud the United States, and still another is against the same three conspiracies to commit bribery, both under section 5441. R S. Scheble and McGlehan are ffiilicted jointly for conspiracy against the United States and again for conspiracy to commit bribery. Another indictment is against McGlehan for bribery and the last is ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1903. COAST STORM SWEEPS OVER THE PENINSULA Jacksonville, Fla.. September 13—Be ginning Friday morning on the east coast, and Saturday morning on the west, and lasting twenty-four hours at each, south Florida has been swept by the strongest cyclone ever known In the history of that part of the state. The wires went down at the beginning, and railroad service was delayed. Op that account, no de tails reached this place until today. Even now they are not full, for many places that were tn the center of the path of the storm have not yet been heard from, and the wires in the storm-swept district are not yet working. 21l Miami tho wind attained a ve locity of 65 miles per hour. The carshed of the East Coast railroad was -*.ed from its foundations, clear of the cars that were under it and demolished, not even scratching the cars. The tin roofing of the Belcher block was torn off and blown across the street, completely demolishing the front, of the building on that side. Groat dam age was done to plate glass windows. Many Vessels Wrecked. Large trees were uprooted and several small houses were blown down, but no one was hurt. Several small boats wore sunk iq the bay. Passengers on the East Coast train, which arrived in the city tonight, re ported many Wrecks along the shore be tween Miami and Kobe’s sound. Among them is one four-masted and one three masted schooner, and several smaller vessels. None of their names is known. One of the Standard Oil Company's large steamers, with two barges. Is beached near Boynton. The crew of fifteen men were saved. Tlie bodies of two unknown white men drifted on the beach near Boynton. The storryi did not extend as far south as Key West, and did no damage as far north as St. Augustine. Trees and small houses were blown down at Cuttier. plained to the officers of the excesses com- I mitted by the troops. The officers resent- j cd the criticism, end told the soldiers that 1 the beys wore friends of the revolution- I aries, whereupon the soldiers burned tho beys’ farms. The Turks have burned tho villages of Airnagjk ami Erlkler. in the district of ' Lo.=' ii.yi’.'-d. They beheaded twenty-two ' .Bulgari:, ns at Altnagik, in he presence ; of their families. Twelve thousand troops are assembled i around Malkatonovo end are. engaged tn I pillaging and burning the villages. The ! population everywhere if fleeing to the j forests and mountains. All the Turkish population In the dis trict of Losengrad has received arms; even ahe boys have revolvers The Albanian soldiers proceeding from Odiin to Losengrad plundered the village I en route, robbed the churches and burn ed the village of Korakej. A body of Albanians going to Vasilfko on the Black sea was attacked by a band and is reported to have suffered a loss of 100 men. A band led by the insur gent chief. Atamasoff, was surrounded by Turkish troops at Kokushko. After six hours’ fighting the Insurgents cut their way through the soldiers by throwing bombs. The Turks lost twenty men. The final arrangements for a revolu tionary outbreak in eastern Macedonia have been completed, but for some Inex plicable reason the risings hang fire. YANKEE GUNS MADE TURKEY GOME TO TIME Washington, September I I.- The follow ing bulletin was posted at the navy department today: "Admiral Cotton telegraphs from Bel rut, September 10, that the governor general of Damascus had been appointed acting governor general at Beirut and Explosion Aboard Olympia. Two Killed, Several injured Norfolk. Va , September 12.--The ex plosion of a barrel of alcohol on the superstructure deck of the cruiser Olympia, in dry dock at the Norfolk navy yard tonight, killed two men, se verely Injured several others, and set fire to the ship. The master at arms of the vessel is missing. The dead: CORF'ORAL YERKES, United Slates marine corps. WHITE SEAMAN, unknown. The damage by fire was confined to the I | ogainst Machen singly for accepting brib [ : ery under section 5501, revised statutes. Graft on Letter Boxes. - ; All the indictments are based on trans ; actions relating to the supply of letter , ■ boxes and package boxes and devices. Some sensational charges are made. The l indictment against Beavers, Machen and ’ Erwin alleges that the postal device and ■ ! improvement company of San Francisco . I formerly the Montague Indicator and Let- ■ ter Box Company, was composed almost I entirely of western postal employees; that in 1839 it set aside 1,000 shares of stock for forwarding its Interests, and that armed witli this authority its president, 1 Daniel S. Richardson, and Inspector Er win came to Washington, saw Beavers, Machen, Heath and others and got an order for equipping 2,084 letter boxes with their device. 'I be indictment says the company was systematically relieved of Its obligations in the way of paying freight, crating, painting and printing cards for the de vices it was furnishing. Tile Indivtmer t charges that Beavers and Machen owned stock under assumed names. Most of the thousand shares of stock set aside, the indictment says, went to different post office officials and again President Rich ardson came to Washington and follow ing an increase in the contract price he. got for tlie company dividends were paid on the stock. A number of postal eases are now pend ing before the grand jury, which will re sume Its sessions here next Monday. At Stuart fifteen acres of pineapple sheds were blown down, as well as the saw mill anti sheds across the river and .the building occupied by the postoffice at Wa Wa. The racing yacht No. 23 was blown tip into the woods, where she now lies high and dry. The -esidence of Captain McNiel was blown from its foundations at Stuart. At Jupiter the kind blew 75 miles per hour. Iwt.lt the rain falling in torrents. Taking a day in crossing the penin sula. tlie storm struck Tampa Saturday morning, soon attal ting a velocity of 70 miles per hour and raged all day. The rooting of the Almeria and the De Soto hotels were blo.vn off. Several cigar facto-,os were badly dam aged at, Ybor City and several buildings wtre unroofed. Tampa Badly Torn Up. In Pampa the Hampton block was un roofed and six small buildings were blown down. No loss of life is: reported. An un known man was struck by a falling roof I and badly hurt, but It Is thought he j will recover. j The streets are a tangle of wires i Street fines made no efforts to run cars. The wires leading from Pampa in all di | lections are down and the city is In total i darkness. | Other places on the west const and in I the interior have not been heard from |,nr.d it is feared t’ert when reports come I in the damage will bo vastly increased. I The ornti"c and grape fruit crons have , been greatly Injured, the fruit b. ing I blown from the trees or cut up by the thorns. ■ Hurricane in the Bahamas. . Nassau. Bahamas. Friday. September II.—A severe hurricane began here ?n "Wednesday night and has just ended. Tho lowest point reach 'd by tho baromet' r was 29.20 and the velocity of the wind, which came from the northeast, was 90 miles. Great damage has been done to vegetation and fan i products, while the f'uit crops have boo i ruined. Many houses were damaged, hut ;:o loss of life has been jot reported. The chipping .around this island was badly damaged. No news from the other Islands ho- yet. been received. I reived. | lias expressed n des o to settle the case | of the vice consul satisfactorily to tbu i United States government. Beirut quiet, { business improving, confidence increas ' ing.” I The state department has authentic i advices that Governor General Nazim. I of Damascus, who has been appointed I acting governor gen " of Beirt t. is a ’ trustwort 1 ■ ami iron . ■ I: <t.-d ■ iri and , Minister Leishmnn lias b*-en instructed ; to advise the sublime porte that the I Washington government is greatly l pleased at the Immediate granting of its I request, for the removal of the governor : di Beirut and tlie appointment in his i stead- of a responsible person and one | tavorabla to foreigners. j A long’ cablegram reached the state de f partment today from .Minister Leishman on the general Turkish situation, which i has not yet been made public. The pres tige of Mr Lelshman at Constantinople 1 tins greatly increased since the arrival of tlie European squadron off Beirut. ' and tlie scope of his representations to the porte also has increased in the last ’ few days. It is understood that our gov I eminent will push to an early conclusion ; all its pending claims against Turkey. Chekib Bey, the Turkish minister, was 1 an earl.” caller nt th-' state department ' today, bringing further reassuring ad j vices that a "condition of absolute peace I has been established at Beirut ” They Remain in the Mountains. Constantinople, September 13.-Calm continues at Beirut, but trade is at a standstill. Reshid Pasha, the dismissed vail, left Beirut Saturday for Constanti nople. The other powers have now abandoned the intention of sending warships to Bei rut. The Christian refugees encamped in the mountains refuse to return to Bei- ■ rut in spite of the promise of the authorl : ties to protect them. > deck of tin vessel and embraced only the canvas awnings and their fixtures. The decks, however, were slightly Injured. Immediately after the explosion fire quarters were sounded and the crew, navy yard's fire department and a de tachment of marines under Captain Booth, soon quelled what looked to be a very dangerous blaze. Explosion Result of Theft. The explosion. according to reports iTom eye witnesses, was tne direct re sult of the theft of a barrel of grain alcohol, containing fifty-six gallons, by a party’of sailors. This barrel was, It is said, taken from one of the store houses of the yard and removed to dock near the Olympia. There It was broached. Shipkeeper Daly, on board the Olympia, detected the odor of the spirit and sum moned the ship’s master at arms. A search led to the discovery of the bar rel, which was taken aboard the Olympia and placed on the hurricane deck. With the exception of a small quantity which ilaj been consumed by the thieves it was intact. The incident created a great amount of excitement and In Clo furor the guilty sailors escaped parties sent to arrest them. While this was going on Yerkes and the unknown sailor went to the bar rel with the intention, it Is reported, of securing a drink, and one of them struck a match. Tho explosion was Instantaneous an I both men were enveloped in the flaming liquid. They perished before a hand could be raised to save them. Olympia Caught Fire. The ship at once caught fire and the blaze, for a while was stubborn, but was finally extinguished. A search around the ship revealed two marine caps In the bottom of the dry dock, together with tlie ship’s parrot. I’oij was blown in hor cage, off the ship by the force of the explosion, but was uninjured. High Prices for Oil. Beaumont, Tex.. September 13.—Effec tive tomorrow, the pipe line has posted a bulletin fixing the price of Beaumont crude oil at 38 and of sour lake at 23 cents, superseding previous, quotations of 30 and 15 cents, respectively. There has bom very little trading at. the for mer quotations and the newly posted prices are those on which the market has been conducted recently. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DELIVERS ADDRESS TO ORGANIZED LABOR Syracu3s N. Y.. September 7.—Presi dent Roosevelt today was accorded a magnificent reception by the citizens of I is own state. From tlie moment of his arrival In this city this morning at 3:30 o clock until he stepped aboard bis spe cial train at 10:30 tonight, to begin hts return trip to Oyster Bay, he was given a continual ovation. Syracuse never be fore held such a throng as assembled here today to greet the president. Fully one hundred thousand persons from all sec tions of New York state tested the car rying capacit.v of th.; various lines of railroads and many additional thousands came from the conriry immediately con tiguous to the city. Everywhere in the city, and a; the grounds of the New York State Fair Association, the presi dent was receiv’d with notable enthusi asm. There was never before such n demon stration by organized labor In this city. Fully five thousand, men and women were In line. The labor day committee as it reached the stand sert its chairman to greet the president and to pin a badge upon his eoat. I’he president expressed l.i.s pleasure in a few words and the line !>■ gun to roove. Union -fter union uncov ered as it reached the stand. The President's Address. After the parade the president went to the fair grounds, where he was Intro duced by Lieutenant Governor Higgins, president of the state fair commission. After cheering ha 1 subsided the presi dent .-poke as follows: "Side by side with the increase In the prcsperity of rhe wage-worker and tho tiller of the soil has gone on a gnat in crease In the prosperity among t io busl ntis men and among certain cra.-ses of jicfesilonal men; and the pros;'tity of these men has been parti” the cause and parti', the consequenee oi the prosperity off Armer and wage-worker. It cannot be too often : epea ted tliat in this coun try in the long run, we all of us tend to go up or down together, if the aver age of well-being is high, it means that th- average wage-worker, the average I; rmer and the average business man are all alike well off. If rhe average shrinks there Is not one of th.-se classes which will not feel the shrinkage. ”.lt Is all-ea£j>ntlal to the continuance of our healthy national tide that we should rw ognlzc this community of interest among our people. The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us. and. therefor-. In pub Io life tbr.‘ man Is tl. 1. .”.-: re resentpiive of each of ns wi o seeks to do good to each by doing good to all In other words, whose endeavor it Is, not to represent any special class and promote TAGGART. IS SLATED T O SUCC EE D JO NE S. Chicago. Ills.. September (’.—(Special) [ As n result of a number of conferences ; bctw<en leading members of the demo- j trade national committee from tlie east, middle west and the west, it Is now be- , llevtd that Thomas Taggart, commlttee ttan for Indiana, will be the new .’.hair man of the national committee and the n at aver of the next national campaign, succeeding former Senator James K. Jones, of Arkansas. Within the last few days half a dozen or more national committeemen hive been in Chicago. The last to leave were D J. Campau, of Michigan, and T. E. { Ryan, of Wisconsin. Others who have been here are Urej' Woodson, of Ken- , tucky; Norman E. Mack, of New York, | Thomas Taggart, of Indiana, and sev- j oral more, Including rcnrcsontatlves of . lowa Missouri and other states in the , w st. Committeemen Campau and Mack ; lave made several visits to this citj, j THOUGH SUPPOSED DEAD AND REID RETURNS TO HOME Griffin, Ga.. September 10—(Special.)— It is allotted to very few tn*n the op portunity of standing over the grave in which Is supposed to rest their mortal bodies long since turned to mother clay and walk among friends of their child hood, who for years hnve believed them dead, yet auch Is the experience of Jack Reid, and the story of bis life outrivals the fiction of Marie Correll! or Hall Caine. Over twenty years ago Jack Reid waa thought to have died In a western cl y. and his remains were shipped to Grif fin and burled In the family burial ground. Last night a man claiming to be Jack Reid reached this city, and today has proved, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that his claim was true. He has told small Incidents happening in the life of I Reid which no one but Reid could know, [ and while at first his story was scorned as untrue, those most competent to judge are emphatic in the assertion that the man is none other than what he claims. Reid belongs to one of the most prom inent families in Georgia, and before the civil war his father was one of the wealth iest men in middle Georgia. Jack was a wild boy, and sowed his oats with a prodigality that shocked many of his friends, and spent money with a lavish hand. At his father’s death, he inherit ed a considerable fortune, and when ho became of age It is said that hts guar dian gave him $50,000 In gold. He did not realize the value of money, and looked upon It simply as the means of gratifying his appetite for pleasure, and even to this dav tales are told of his reckless extravagance. He married a Miss Boston, of Savan nah, but their married life was unhappy arid they were divorced. He again married, but soon after left Georgia and went to the far west, af ter having squandered tlie princely inher itance left by his lather. Little is Known of his life in the west. He says he made a fortune in California, which he lost by going security for a friend. Twenty years ago a telegram came to bis relatives front a small town in Texas, merely that class’ selfish interests, but to represent all true and honest men of al! sections and all cesses and to work’ for their Interests by working for our common country. No Test Save Personal Worth. "We can keep our government on -a sane and healthy basis, vre can make and keep our social sjstem what it should be. only on condition of judging each man. uot as a member of a clpss. but on his worth as a man. ‘•lt is an infamous thing in our American life, and fundamentally treacherous to our institutions, to ap ply to any man any test save that of his personal worth, or to draw be tween two sets of men any distinc | tion save the distinction of conduct, the distinction that marks off those who do well and wisely from those who do ill and foolishly. "There are good citizens and bad citi zens in every .-lass, as in every locality, and the attitude of decent people toward great public and social question:’ should be determined, not by tho acci'lcntal ques tions of employment or locality, hut bv I thoso deo-i-y-jt principles which represent tho innermost sou’? of men. "The failure in public and in private life thus to treat each man on his own merits, the recognition of this govern ment ”s being either for tlie poor ns such or for the rich as such, would prove fatal to our republic, as such fallur? and such recognition have always proved f. tai In tho cast to other republics. A henltny rennblican government mns: rest upon individuals, net upon classes or secti-'ns •As soon as It becomes government b” a c’ass or bv a section it departs from the old American fdp;n No Class Government. "People shew themselves just unfili for litierty whether tjrev submit to an archy or to tyranny; and class govern ment. whether ft bo the government of a plutocracy or tlv government of a mob.’ Is equally Incompatible with the prin ciples established in tho days of Wash ington and perpetuated in the days of Lincoln. "The line of cleavage -be’wcen good clt-’ izenshlp and bad citjz’nship separates th" rich man who doos well from the rich man who does ill. the poor mar. of gpod con liet from the pooj mar. >f bad conduct. This line >f cleavage l.es at right angles ’o any such arbitrary line of division as that separating one r’.ass ‘ from 1 not I one lc ality from 1-O’ her, or me.i with a e "tain degree of property from those u.‘ a less .logy'’” of property. “Let the watchwords of all our be the old familiar watchwords of hon- [ and Mr. Campon and Mr. Ryan, of Wis- I corsin, left for theii l.omes las: night. i Committeeman Taggart is still in Ch’- i eago. but he declared today he did not I know if the conference or the presence | of the various national party managers bad anything to do with the next cam paign. He admitted, ltdwever, that he would accept tlie chairmanship if the honor I were thrust upon him. Mr. Taggart was three times mayor of. Indianapolis, a. city nomial!.’’ re.utb iican by from 3.0C0 to 6.000. ami in 1892. as chairman of the state • I’.tmlt | tie. carried the stat" for Grover Cleve- I land w’m’n his opponent was Benjamin I Harrison, a resident of Indiana. In 1888, | when the same men were candidates, Taggart, as state chairman, carried Ma : rion county, cr Indianapolis the home of Mr. Harrison, for the party. Ho I was loyal to the nomination of Clfi. l.md as weil ns that of Bryan, and is be- I lleve i to star..l neutral between any f: 1 - tions in the party ranks. - stating that Jack Reid had died out. i there and the remains were ordered ship- : ped back to his old home. His second I 1 wife earns to Griffin to attend the fu- | ' neral. Tho casket was opened .it the I ' grave and friends who knew him. in his ! younger days declared the dead man was , ! Reid. His family mourned Ills death and : his wife shed bitter tears over his grave. ’ Friends spoke softly of his follies and : 1 extolled his virtues, and soon Jacs Retd i 1 was forgotten. Last night Officer Brown saw a man ; 1 standing on the corner of Hill and Solo- ! mon streets, evidently bewildered or un- j certain as to where he wished to go. The 1 ■ j officer spoke to him. asking him his name. ’ ■ He replied that it was of no concern to > ■ | the officer, but stated that he would like I ' to be referred to a hotel. Mr. Brown ; ■ directed him where to find a lodging ; | house and he left. This morning he i again appeared upon the streets, and seeing a sign bearing the name of Reid, I he entered the place of business of Reid | <<• Gordon. Seeking out Mr. Reid, ho divulged his identity, but asked that it f bo kept quiet. He said he was Jack ! Reid and had come back to his old homo i to make inquiries about bls family, but : did not want any one to recognize him. , To this Jim Reid would not consent, and , told several friends of the statement of the man who had just come into his store. As soon as It became known that n man claiming to be Jack Reid was in Griffin and in the flesh, scores of people began crowding around the man and plying him with thousands of questions. His mind does not seem to be perfectly clear, but | th" answers Ip gave proved beyond a I doubt that he is really Jack Reid and the I man who was buried as Jack ' I Reid over twentj' years ago wns ■ ian imposter. Mr. Reid says h< I I knew of tlie imposition which was ’ | practiced upon his relatives, but declim s : to state wh.v it was don". It may have been that he thought he had caused hi;- family trouble enough and by taking that course be would forever drop out of thelt lives. Soon thereafter Reid loft for Cen tral America and later to South America, In which countries he has since lived. He says he left Lima, Peru, nine weeks ago PRICE: FIVE CENTS. esty. decency, fair dealing and common sense. "I here is no worse enemy of the wage worker than the man who condones mob violence in any shape or who preaches class hatred: and surely the slightest acquaintance with our industrial history should teach r ven the most short-sighted that the times of most suffering for our people as a wh >le, the times when busi ness is stagnant, and capital suffers from shrinkage and gets no return from Its investments, are exactly the times of hardship and want and grim disaster among the poor. Capitalists and Legislation. “In hl? firn th** capitnHst who is really a conservative man. the man who has forethought as well as patriotism, sho’ilrj heartily welcome every effort, Iftcis’n five or otherwise which has for it? object to NTpcnre fair dealing by capita!, corporate nr inJiviinaL toward the pub lic and toward the employee. “Such laws as the franchise tax law in this state, which the court of appeal? rr-entiy unanimously decided constitu tional-such a law as that passed in con gress last ’ \'h for the purpose of estab lishing a department of commerce /and labor, under which there should ' ea bureau to oversr- ■ and secure publicity from the great corporations which do an interstate business- - su. h a law as that passed at the same tim>* foi tlie regula tion of tlie "rr . t highways of com merce so as to keep those mads clear on fair terms to all pro luvo:*« In getting thejr »o»o? to market--these laws are in the interest not meroiv of the people as :: whol.-, but of tin- propertied class- ? For in no wav fs the stability of prop erty better assured than by making it patent to our people that property bear? !s proper shar< of tho burdens of the stab*: that pror»e’*tv is handled not only in the interest of the owner, but In the int“rest of th** xvholn community “In other words, legislation to be per manently rood for one c’ass must also be rood for the nation as a whob*. and legjslptlnn which does injustice to any rb-ms J<? certain to work harm to the na tion. Take oip currency system for ox *mn’e. Tb|<: r-'L.lon I? a? a gold b-sic The ♦rnnscjrv nf the publfr In excellent condition. Never before has the v>r-r rlrcula ‘ ? nn Hnon as ns h Is this day: and this eireul«Hon. o'-nr. p: nf money dollar nf wh : ’h 5- nir with gold. Now. our <b!s emund rurrermv cjverferr’ Is «■»< ti#»r»rftt so pf ennr*'**. but It is nf to tbr» a*» a uhoL'. of tho healthy effect on bcslness cond'Hour No Room for Idlers. ',’ThPre is no room in n ■ Er.nltl-- X'o 'ri.-nn li'» f ■ the mere . 5 -f or t>-,. man or the woman whose obje .. It :- throughout lif ■ to shirk the duties whirl! life ought to bring. Life can mean noth ing worth meaning, unless Its prime alm is the doing of duty, the achievement of results worth achieving. "The man or woman who as bread winner and home maker, or as wife and mother has done nil t'nst he or she can do. patiently and uncomplainingly. Is to ho honored; .and is to be envied by nfi those who have never had the good fortune to feel- the need and duty cf doing such work. Motto of tlie Three Musketeers. "We must act upon the motto of I for each and each for all. There must be ever present in our minds the funda mental truth that in a republic such as ours th" only safety is to stand neither for nor against any man because he Is rich or be.ause ho is poor, because he is engaged in one occupation or another, because he works with his brains or be cause he works with his hands. W» must treat each man on his worth and merits as a. man. \V? must see tha.t each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less. "Finally wo must keep over in mind that a republic such as ours can •’■xTtt onlv jn virtue of the orderly liberty which comes through the equal domina tion of the law over all men alike, and through its administration in such reso lute and ‘’earloss fashion as shall tea a BURIED. OF HIS YOUTH i and re.icl.ed Griffin last night. The town - he left had grown to n good size city ah'! | he was unable to locate The scenes which ; wen- familiar in his younger days, but this morning he found his old home and I after talking to old companions soon re l called many names and scenes long for i gotten. Talks with Old Body Servant. I Among those who came to identify him I was a negro who was his body servant tn I slavery times named Henry Reid. As j soon as Henry saw him ho exclaimed: : "Howdy do, Marse John. Don’t you : know me?" | Mr. Reid replied: "Certainly. Henry." He then related an incident that was so ! characteristic of the old Jack Reid that | every one present, many of whom knew I the particulars, had all doubt dispelled I as to the Identity of the man. He said: j "Henry, do you remember when the ’ old folks; sent, me to school In your i charge and furnished us with a fine mule, new buggy and harness, and how I rode through the country to Mobile, Ala., in stead of attending school as the., thought?” The darkey replied that he remembered the incident only too well, as his j oung master after spending what money he had sold his servant to a slave dealer. "Then," said Reid, "do you re member that when the folks bought you back from the dealer at an advanced price and got us home how uncomforta ble it was for us to sit down and eat our meals for several dais?” \V. I’. Blanton, one of the largest plant ers in Sjialding county, and a first cousin of Jack Reid, was in tlie city, and when informed of the claims of the man, stated that he could identify him if lie was Reid, by a scar on one of his legs. He visited Reid and was sitown the scar, and after talking with him for a tew moments was thoioughiy convinced tile man was none other tnan ..ink Heid, the companion of his boyhood ami the ward of his father. To say that the appearance of Mr. Reid proved a sensation would be but to feebly express it. Hundreds of citizens crowded around him all day. the skeptical trying In ever,-, manner to etvrap him and prove him an impostor, but those who have studied him closest and are more com petent to judge unhesitatingly declare him to be the man whose remains were supposed to be mouldering In Oak Hill cemetery.

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The Atlanta constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, September 14, 1903, Image 1