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Proctor Advanced Half Million for Campaign
STffl RESTS CASE
IN SECOND TRIAL OF
«. STELLA WIT
Broken by Sobs and Tears
Defendant Makes State
ment to Jury—Arguments
Begun in Afternoon
The stite rested at 11:05 o’clock
Wednesday morning in the second
trial of Mrs. Stella Abbott, charged
with the murder of her husband,
JohSny H. Abbott, former chauf
feur to Fire Chief W. B. Cody.
The defense presented only the
statement of Mrs. Abbott, which was
punctuated with sobs and which re
counted in considerable detail her
domestic relations.
In rebuttal at the conclusion of
Mrs. Abbott’s statement, the state
introduced about a dozen witnesses
to combat the statement of the de
fendant that ' she was mentally un
balanced at the time of the shoot
ing. Dr. Frank Eskridge, well-known
Atlanta physician, testified that post
partem insanity is by no means in
frequent. but that in his opinion Mrs.
Abbott is sane now’ and was sane
at the time of the killing. Several
other witnesses testified along the
same line.
Argument by counsel began at the
afternoon session of the court and
it is expected that the case will go
to the Jury some time Thursday.
Broken by sobs and tears, Mrs.
Abbott told the jury her story of
her life, alleged to have been filled
with disappointments caused by the
unfaithfulness of her husband, John
ny Abbott. She said she was born
in Atlanta on March 14, 1888, and
was married to Johnny Abbott in
1904. She said she was but sixteen
years of age and he was a trifle
o’der than she was when they w r ere
married.
Felt Husband’s Love Slipping
In May, 1905, she said her first son
was born. She said it was three
months later, owing to her condition,
that she realized what had taken
place. She said she had hardly re
covered from the Illness incident to
the birth of that son when in
March, 1907, another boy was born.
As she" said, her
health was practically wrecked. On
November 9, 1908, she said, a third
son was born. This child, she said,
died at the age of three years. She
said she had never been herself from
that time on.
During the last four or five years
of her married life she said she felt
her husband’s love slipping from
her. For six years before January
27, 1919, she said her husband had
not been home to dinner, and he in
frequently came home to supper. She
said she had often asked him to
stay home at night but he wouldn’t
listen to her. She said she never
knew when he was corning and could
not put any dependency in his prom
ises. For six months prior to his
death he had not taken her out, even
to church, she said. She said she
had asked him to meet her down
town and he wouldn’t do it.
On several occasions he had threat
ened to get a warrant charging her
wit hinsanity and send her to Mil
ledgeville, she said. During the sev
eral months prior to his death, wom
en would call him on the telephone
and whenever she asked them what
they wished, they would tell her ft
was none of her business, she said.
Night ol Tragedy
"On the night of the tragedy,”
Mrs. Abbott said, “Johnny came
home at 8:30 o’clock. I met him
at th edoor and he never offered to
kiss me. He appeared very nervous.
I placed his supper before him, but
after taking one bite, he stopped eat
ing. I Asked him what was the mat
ter and he got mad, stating that I
made him tired. He went into the
front room and I began to assist the
children with their lessons.
“While I was engaged with the
two boys Johnny appeared to be very
nervous and looked as though he
wanted to get away as soon as he
eould. After the boys had gone to
bed,. I succeeded in getting him to
play a game >f cards. While we
were engaged in the game, the tele
phone rang. Johnny answered it.
When he came back, he said there
was no one there. It rang again
and he again answered. When he
came back, hd appeared to be more
nervous, and again he said there was
no one there. When it rang the
third time, Mr. Mclntyre answered
the ’phone. He told my husband
there was a lady who wanted to
speak to him.
“I wenX to the ’phone and told him
to let me speak to her. I spoke in
a voice as deep as I could, and some
woman on the other end of the line
said: “Have you got your clothes
on yet?” When I spoke again she
knew that I was a woman. I asked
her who she was, and she said: “Get
him to tell you." I told her he was
not man enough to do it, and she
said tell * if he knows what’s good
hi* he’d better come to the
jwione. . .
Nerves "Unstrung
“Following this conversation my
nerves were unstrung. I was like a
person in a dream. I felt as though
I wanted to be dead. Everything
was black to me.”
At this point Mrs. Abbott broke
down and cried for several minutes
before she could go on with her
statement. >
Continuing she said: “I asked my
husband who that woman was? He
told me she was a woman with
whom he had been intimate for sev
eral years, and he said he had been
with her that day. He said she had
threatened him if be did not come
and see her 1 then called my father
on the phone and told him I was
in trouble. There was a pistol on
the mantlepiece, which my husband
had given me for my protection.
“I took it and placed it on the sew
ing machine. It was my intention to
kill myself. My happiness had been
destroyed and I didn’t care to live.
But the thoughts of my two little
boys stopped me. Aly father soon
arrived at the house and when he did
I agai nasked my husband the name
of the young woman who had called
him on the ’phone. He told me her
name was Alary Powers and that she
lived on Luckie street.
"My father was writing the name
down on a piece of paper. At the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. —
Jefferson Hayes Davis, grandson
of Jefferson Davis, leader of the
Southern Confederacy, has step
ped into politics. He headed his
county delegation to the Colo
rado Democratic state conven
tion. Davis was a first lieutenant
with the Nine Cy-ninth Aero
squadron during the war. He is
the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Joel Addison Hayes, his mother
having been a daughter of the
Confederate president. The "Da
vis” was tacked on to his name
by a bill, passed by state of
Mississippi, in 1889, when he was
a youngster. The photo of Jeff
Davis is one belonging to the
family, never before published.
EASTERN FREIGHT
RATE HEARING IS
NEARING CLOSE
WASHINGTON, May 26. —Officials
of the eastern group of railroads ex
pected to finish today presentation
of their testimony before the inter
state commerce commission in sup
port of claims for increased freight
rates. After counsel for shippers and
employes have concluded cross-ex
amination of G. M. Schriver. vice
president of the Baltimore and Ohio;
Benjamin Campbell, vice president of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford, and Thomas W. Hulme, vice
president, chairman of the president’s
conference committee on valuation,
will be heard.
The carriers, which are being heard
in groups, are seeking rate increases
that will give them an additional an
nual revenue of more than a billion
dollars. TlJis amount, they claim,
will be necessary to provide the gov
ernment’s guarantee of 6 pe- cent
annual returns on their investment.
It does not cover proposed increases
of wages to employes which have
been estimated at another billion
dollars annually.
Water carriers will file with the
interstate commerce commission a
petition for increased rates propor
tionate to those asked by the rail
roads, Levi Mayer, of the Great
Lakes Transit corporation, announced
today. i
The petition, Mayer informed the
commission, will be filed at the clos
ing of the railroad hearing which
is now in progress.
STEAM ROLLER
USED ON HIM,
DANIELS SAYS
WASHINGTON, May 26.—Declar
ing that a “steam roller” was being
used on him. Secretary Daniels told
the senate naval investigating com
mittee today that he would appeal to
the full committee if Chairman Hale
insisted on putting into the record
“an unfair and unfounded” statement
as to conditions of American war
ships when the war began.
Before the secretary’s announce
ment, Senator Pittman, Democrat,
Nevada, warned Chairman Hale that
he would protest on the senate floor
against the character of questions
which the chairman was asking Mr.
Daniels.
CURED HER FITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916
Fourth street, Milwaukee, Wis.. re
cently gave out the following state
ment: '“1 had suffered with Fits
(Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doctors
and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that 1 was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last 1 secured a
preparation that cured me sound and
well. Over 10 years have passed
and the attacks have not returned. I
wish every one who suffers from this
terrible disease would write R. P. N.
Lepso, 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee.
Wis., and ask for a bottle of the
same kind of medicine which he gave
me. He has generously promised to
send it prepaid, free one who
writes him.”—(Advt.)
I 20D.G1G POPULATION.
28. S PER CENT GML
is cm mum
Official Census Figures Are
Disappointing to Some ( but
Generally Praise- Is Given
to Enumerators
Atlanta’s population in the 1920
census, as taken last January by the
enumerators, was announced official
ly from Washington at 9 o’clock
Tuesday night as 200,6*16, an increase
of 29,6 per cent.
The first given to the public
in Journal/ extras that reached the
street a few minutes after the flash
came in from Washington, was 'eager
ly received by the citizens who had
been waiting for months to know the
definite result.
Many were surprised that the fig
ures were not greater. Many, on - the
other hand, had shrewdly estimated
the census at within approximately a
few hundreds or a few thousands of'
the exact figures. The general trend
of opinion was that, while there is no
doubt that Atlanta’s population to all
intents and purposes is far in excess
of the census figures, the enumera
tors had done their work as well as
it could have been done and Atlanta,
the 200,000 city, will show _ 300,000
by the next census in 1930.
Atlanta’s census will place her
second city in the south, as in the
previous census, unless she is pass
ed by Birmingham. The Alabama
city, with an area of 52 square miles,
or just twice Atlanta's area of 26
square miles, is pulling hard to pass
the 200,000 mark. The census of
Birmingham has not yet been an
nounced. New Orleans is again the
first southern city with 387,408 peo
ple. The population of Memphis
also was recently announced at 162,-
351, Memphis being the fourth
southern city in size.
How Atlanta will rank among the
cities of the nation remains to be
seen. Only a few of the larger cities
have yet had their population an
nounced, In 1910 Atlanta Was the
thirty-first city in size.
COTTON GROWERS
DEFEND PRICE AS
SET ON 1919 CROP
The price committee of the Amer
ican Cotton association adopted a
resolution at'tlm recent annual meet
ing of the association held on Mont
gomery, declaring that the spinners
could afford to pay sixty cents a
pound for the balance of the 1919
crop now remaining in the hands
of producers. This resolution has
been criticized by numerous editors
over the country, whose opinions
recently were reviewed in the Lit
erary Digest. In reply to those
criticisms the national headquarters
of, the American Cotton asociation,
in Atlanta, on Tuesday gave out the
following statement:
“What are the facts so far as the
cotton growers are concerned? The
cost of producing a pound of cotton
in 1919 as carefully worked out by
a committee at the Montgomery con
ference, April 13-16, arrived at the
average figure of thirty-eight cents
per pound for the crop of 1919 as
applied to the main producing states.
The crop of 1919, basis middling, has
not been sold for an average of forty
cents. Fully one-fourth of that crop
was under middling and has been
sold at prices which "would hardly
average twenty-five cents per pound.
If three-fourths of the crop sold for
forty cents and one-fourth at tweii
ty-five cents, the average price re
ceived for the whole crop would not
exceed thirty-six and zf'quarter cents
per pound, or 1 3-4 per cent less than
the actual cost of production.
“As fixed by the committee, a prof
it of even 25 per cent to the average
farmer who only produces six bales,
would net only $275 and at this his
entire crop would have to average
him a price of 47 1-2 cents per pound.
“Either the average cotton grower
must remain in a state of agricul
tural slavery to satisfy the general
ignorance of the world as to the cost
of producing cotton, and be content
with low prices, or he must in the
face of unjust criticism and in the
defense of his home, his occupation
and his manhood, assert his rights
and by co-operative efort enforce
them. There is no other solution
of the problem and the American
Cotton association offers the only
medium through which the cotton
growers and the south can profitably
and equitably enforce and maintain
those rights.
“It will cost the farmer consid
erably more in 1920 to produce and
i harvest a pound of cotton than it
did in 1919. It costs just as much
to harvest and market a bale of low
grade cotton as it does a bale of
middling cotton, so that middling
cotton should command a price high
enough to average the cost of pro
duction for the entire crop and a fair
profit above that to the growers.
This rule is applied to every well
established business industry in the
world except cotton growing.”
What Won’t Man >
Do for Love?
MUSKOGEE. Okla. —“She said she
wanted a pet,” ' said Jimmy Ross,
nine, to police, when they arrested
him for swiping a baby wolf from
the front of a theater. “She” was
his blue-eyed girl.
Says Extravagance
Has Hit the Skids
OKLAHOMA CITY. “Extrava
gance is slackening.” according to R.
S. Rowe, president of the Ameri
can Bankers’ association.
Thief Will Be Bare-
Footed and Bareheaded
DALLAS. —‘Our Best Store” was
robbed here —but not extravag ir.tly.
The thief took one shirtwaist and a
skirt.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1920.
$20,001,0110 FIRM
TO-ERECT STEEL
PLANT IN ROME
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Company.to Take Over Rome
and Northern Railroad and
1,800 Acres of Ore Lands.
To Make Auto Parts
ROME, Ga., May 26.—Establish
ment at Rome immediately of a gi
gantic steel mill and automobile
parts plant by the International Steel
and Motors corporation, with a capi
tal of $20,000,000, was announced
here today by Henry L. Brittain,
New York capitalist and president of
the Terry Shipbuilding corporation.
Savannah, Ga.: the Alobile Shipbuild
ing corporation. Mobile, Ala., and the
Birmingham Steel corporation, Bir
mingham, Ala. ,
The company was organized in the
offices of Brewster, Howell & Hey
man, in Atlanta Tuesday, when a
charter was obtained and officers
elected. Books of subscription to
stock will be opened in the near
future. It is the plan of the pro
moters to make the organization a
thoroughly southern enterprise, and
it is expected that many leading
business men of the south will be
come interested.
The corporation will take over the
Rome and Northern railroad and its
iron ore lands to the north of Rome,
and also will develop an additional
acreage of mineral lands in north
west Georgia. The company has se
cured about 18,000 acres of land.
Stockholders in the corporation are
largely officials of manufacturing
companies that will use the products
of the plant here. Standard automo
bile parts and other standard ma
chinery will be the only manufac
tured products of the corporation.
The company first will begin
operation of its red ore mines in
Chattooga county, the ore to be
brought to a blast furnace to be
constructed just northwest of Rome
as soon as practicable. The furnace
will have a daily.capacity of 60 tons.
Later on, an open hearth steel furn
ance with blooming mill for : king
hard and soft* billets will be added,
the capacity to be 200,000 tong per
annum. A bar and sheet mill will
come next.
The company will specialize on
the manufacture of standard parts
for automobiles, trucks and tractors.
Mr. Brittain, who was attracted to
Roma by this city’s claim for the
government armor plant in 1917, said
that this city, with its vast mineral
resources in close proximity, its
water pbWer and river and rail trans
portation facilities, and the nearness
of southern ports, is the most log
ical center in the world for a .well
rounded out steel plant. He said
that this city has distinct advantages
over the Pennsylvania and lake sec
tions.
Officers of the corporation are:
Henry L. Brittain, president: H. Ab
ner Dean, Rome, vice president; F.
W. Teague, president of the Colum
bus Iron works, Columbus, Ga., vice
president; John M. Graham, Rome,
treasurer; James M. Craig, secretary
of the Birmingham Steel corporation,
Birmingham, secretary; Denny &
Wright, Rome, general counsel.
In addition to the officers, Walter
M. Massey, treasurer of the Massey
Tin and Machinery works, of Macon,
Ga., and K. L. Jones, of the Jones
Machinery works, of Atlanta, are
directors.
No other basic industry being cal
culated to do more for the develop
ment of the south along industrial
lines than a well-developed iron and
steel plant, the city of Rome feels
that the establishment of the Inter
national Steel and Motors corpora
tion plant here will make this city
one of the south’s greatest industrial
centers.
Miami, Fla., Gains
440.1 Per Cent With
Population of 29,549
WASHINGTON, May 26.—Miami,
Fla., ranking as 1,002 d city of the
country in 19190, with a population of
5,471, has grown more than five
times a,s large in the last ten years,
and now has 29,548 inhabitants, ac
cording to announcement today of
the census bureau. Miami’s increase,
24,078, or 440.1 per cent, over 1910,
is the largest thus far shown by any
southern city.
Miami has outgrown Fort Smith,
Ark.; Asheville and Raleigh, N. C.,
of the larger southern cities, as -well
as a large number of cities having
less than 25,000 population.
The cnsus bureau today announced
the following 1920 population fig
ures:
Florence, S. C., 10,968; increase
3,911, or 55.4 per cent. Alabama City,
Ala. 5,433, increase 1,119, or 25.9 per
cent. Hampton, Va„ 6,138, increase
633_, or 11.5 per cent. Lexington, Va.,
2.870, decrease 61, or 2.1 per cent.
East St. Louis. HL, 66.74 1 ' increase
8,193. or 14.0 per cent.
The population of Florence, Ala.,
will be announced at 10:30 a. m. to
morrow.
Famous Teutonic
Goes on the Block
. LONDON.—The government has
asked for bids on the White Star
liner Teutonic. The big ship was
built in 1889 And was a crack ship
for many years. She was aranged to
be quickly convertible as a cruiser
and was taken bver by the govern
ment during the war. Unless pur
chased for commercial use now she
wii; be broken up. for the balue -es
her metals. t ' '
BARREHEHOSENTO
HEAD REGULARS ST
FRISCO CONVENTION
Vereen’s Election as National
Committeeman Ratified.
Hardwick and Perry In
dorsed for Committees
Charles S. Barrett, of Union City,
Ga., was elected chairman of the reg
ular delegates to San Francisco at
their meeting held at 12 o’clock
Wednesday in the Kimbiill house.
Mr. Barrett’s election was unani
mous and was in accord with the
general expectations. He is presi
dent of the National Farmers’ union
and is well-known throughout the
country.
The delegates unanimously ratified
the action of the recent state conven
tion in directing them to choose
William J. Vereen, of Moultrie, as
Democratic national committeeman
from Georgia, and to present his
credentials in proper form to the
proper authorities. Mr. Vereen was
present at the meeting and was ac
corded a most enthusiastic recep
tion.
□n a motion of Thomas W. Hard
wick, which was unanimously adopt
ed, Chairman Barrett appointed J.
R. Smith, of Atlanta; William J.
Vereen, and Benjamin M. Blackburn,
of Atlanta, as a committee of three
to attend to all arrangements for
transportation, hotel reservations,
etc. Arthur Lucas, of Atlanta, was
requested to serve on this committee,
but was unable to do so on account
of being called out of the city on
business.
On motion of J. R. Smith, of At
lanta, Chairman Barrett appointed
Colonel H. H. Perry, of Gainesville.
Thomas W. Hardwick and T. W.
Hawse, of Bainbridge, as a commit)-
tee of three to prepare the brief to
be presented to the national commit
tee and if necessary to th credentials
committee in support of the cre
dentials of the regular delegates.
The committe was directed to re
quest Samuel L. Olive, of Augusta,
Joseph E. Polite, of Milledgeville,
and Marion Smith, of Atlanta, to
assist them as counsel.
The deelgateg elected Mr. Hard
wick as Georgia’s representative on
the resolutions committee of the
national convention, and Colonel H.
H. Perry, of Hall county, as Geor
gia’s representative on the cre
dentials committe of the national
convention.
A preliminary canvass of the dele
gates indicated that there will be a
full attendance on the trip to San
Francisco. A detailed canvass by let
ter will be made by the committee
on arrangements. The meeting was
attended by nearly all of the dele
gates and alternates from the state
at large and by one or more dele
gates from each congressional dis
trict. A railroad representative sub
mitted an itinerary costing about
$275 for the round trip. Including
transportation, Pullman space, and
meals en route. It is estimated that
the total expenses of the trip will
be from SSOO to S6OO.
Altitude Record
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 26.
What is sai dto be the world’s . .rd
for an altitude flight with an air
plane carrying three passengers and
a pilot was established at Kelly
Field, yesterday, when Lieutenant
Harry Weddington reached an al
titude of 19,400 feet with three en
listed men in the cockpit.
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Woman Prosecutor Who
Will Conduct Slacker
Case Against Dempsey
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MISS ANNETTE ADAMS
Miss Annette Adams, of Phila
delphia, United States prosecut
ing attorney, will conduct the case
for the government against Jack
Dempsey, world’s heavyweight
boxing champion, under indict
ment on charges of evading the
draft law. The trial of this fa
mous slacker case has been set
for June 7, after having been
postponed several times.
TWO AMERICANS
HELD IN MEXICO,
CAPITAL HEARS
WASHINGTON, May 26. Two
Americans, Homer Carr and a man
named MacDonald, have been taken
prisoners at Jiminez, Chihuhua, ac
cording to a report to the state de
partment today form the American
const ! at Chihuahua. No _ details
were given.
The state department issued the
following statement regarding the
Americans;
“MacDonald, probably is M. C. Don
ald, of Vernon, Tex., who went to
Mexico this year as an employe of
the Huasteca Petroleum company to
work in the oil fields in the neighbor
hood of Tampico. He is a native of
Mississippi.
“Homer C. Carr is employed as a
mining engineer by the American
Smelting and Refining company. His
home is in New York City. He is a !
native of Pennsylvania.”
PROBE OF MOTIVE FOR
SLAYING RECOMMENDED I
MEXICO CITY,*May 26. (By the i
Associated Press.) —Formal investl- >
gation, for the purpose of clarifying
the part taken in the death of Presi
dent Carranza, both by Colonel Ro
dolfo Herrero and members of the
Carranza party, is recommended by
the commission of four named by
Generals Obregon and Gonzales to in
quire into the tragedy. The com
mission submitted its report last
night and cited ten points which
the members had agreed had been
proven from stories of witnesses. It
was added that in a number of points
many other stories purporting to
tell the actual circumstances could
not be confirmed and were unworthy
of credence.
SCENTB A COPY.
$1.50 A YEAR.
$58,810 SPENT ill
PALMER CAMPAIGN;
| $5,000 IN GEORGIA
I Senator Kenyon Says An-
I ' other Georgia ‘'Victory”
Would Be Disastrous to
Palmer’s Candidacy "
I WASHINGTON, May 26.—William
I C. of Cincinnati, lias ad
vanced $500,000 to the campaign fund
of Major General Leonard Wood, he
i testified today at the senate inves-
• tigation into pre-eonvention presi
i dential cahipaign financing.
Mr. Proctor said this advance was
; "more than the total contributions”
■ to General Wood’s campaign. He
. added that he had contributed $lO.-
l 000.
i Mr. Proctor told the committee
• that between 60 and and 70 per cent
: of the amount advanced by him had
1 been spent for publicity and the bal
ance on speakers and headquarters.'
"We’ve spent, 1 think, an average
of $.5,000 a state,” he said.
Chairman Kenyon asked if contrib
> nations were considered as addi
tional to the $500,000 advance.
"They are not,” was the reply.
The witness said he did not have
personal knowledge of any other
large contributions, adding:
“Our treasurer will tell you ex
actly.”
$59,610 for Palmer
Contributions to the fund for At
torney General Palmer’s campaign
for the Democratic nomination for
president were placed today at $59.-
610 by former Representative C. C.
Carlin, of Virginia, his campaign
manager.
The largest contributor was James
McClurg Guffey, of Pittsburg, who
was identified as an oil man and
prominent in Democratic politics'in
Pennsylvania. Frank L. Crocker, of
New York, gave $2,500. Former Fed
eral Judge Harry Covington, treas
urer of the Palmer organization,
gave $2,500, Mr. Carlin said.
Mr. Carlin named O. Michaels, of
Scranton, Pa., as giving $1,500, and
J. Hlrry Covington as contributing
$2,000.
"This man Covington was formerly
a federal judge and resigned to go
with the alien property custodian’s
office when Mr. Palmer had that
office, wasn’t he?” asked Chairman
Kenyon.
“I don’t know exactly,” was the
reply.
“And the size of th® fee Mr. Cov
ington got at the time caused public
comment.” , Chairman Kenyon con
tinued.
“I’Ve only heard a little about
i that,” Mr. Carlin said.
Other Contributors
Resuming the reading from his
i list, Mr. Carlin said Frank L. Crock
i er, New York City, gave $2,500; John
F. Crosby, Hartford, $1,000; William
C. Devitt, Pennsylvania, $1,000; F. J.
Barrow, New Y"ork City,, $500; W. H.
Caldwell, $500; Robert Law, Jr., New
York City, $1,000; F. P. Garvin, as
sistant attorney general, SI,OOO.
Chairman Kenyon asked for the
identification of each man, but Mr.
Carlla said he knew nothing in de
tail about any of them.
“Who does then?” demanded the
chairman.
“Mr. Covington is treasurer,” the
witness replied.
Committee members sought to get
details about the Pennsylvania party
fight over the Palmer candidacy.
Mr. Carlin said he had not partici
pated.
“Let me tell you something, not
in a personal way,” said Senator
Reed, Democrat, Missouri. “This
committee has had too many man
agers who have no information about
things like this.”
“I would have known, but I was
instructed to keep my hands off
Pennsylvania, because the men there
would handie the situation them
selves, Mr. Carlin replied.
$5,000 Spent in Georgia
Senator Edge, Republican, New
Jersey, asked about Georgia and
Michigan priipary elections. Carlin
said $5,000 had been contributed to
election expenses under Georgia
state law, mentioning Clark Howell,
of Atlanta, as an assistant.
Mr. Palmer’s candidacy has been
largely carried along by an over
whelming sentiment, Mr. Carlin said.
“And where was this sentiment
manifested,” Chairman Kenyon in
quired.
“Well, in Georgia for one,” Mr.
Carlin replied.
“I should say that with a fehv
more victories like the one you had
there, all would be lost,’ Chairman
Kenyon told him,
“We got the delegates,” said Mr.
Carlin.
In Michigan, he said, SI,OOO had
been authorized for advertising, by
the national organization.
"The Democratic party is having a
love feast and not a money feast,”
Mr. Carlin said when the commrttee
began going into state affairs.
"Perhaps there Is nounng to con
test about,” Chairman Kenyon inter
rupted.
Senator Pomerene. Democrat, Ohio,
insisted that the witness be allowed
his own views.
Georgia Contest “Accidental”
In Geo>%ia the contest against Mr.
Palmer was "accidental,” Mr. Carlin
said, while in Pennsylvania he class
ed it as "unexpected.” Senator Reed
brought the partisan tilting within
the committee ranks to a temporary
close with the remark, “That in the
history of the Democratic party no
man has started out to get a presi- /
dential nomination by the process of
spending $400,000 of his own money.”
“I’ll ask you about your own con- i
nections,” Chairman Kenyon began. I
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