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VOL. XXII. NO. 121.
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British Labor Demands That
Government Move for
Peace—Trotzky Assumes
Command of Reds
PARTS, Aug. 27.—The foreign min
istry 'announced today that France
had counseled Poland to attain the
best strategic military position pos
sible until peace is signed, regardless
Os her ethnographical frontier, be- I
cause the military situation will in
fluence the peace terms.
, France had advised Poland, how
ever, to withdraw her armies with
in the Polish frontier upon the sign
ing of peace, the foreign office added.
Eighty thousand Russian soviet
Soldiers have been captured in Po
land; 40,000 killed, and 30.003 in
terned In East Prussia, according to
the latest report received from the
French mission in Poland.
TROTZKY TAKES COMMAND
OF BOLSHEVIKI ARMIES
WARSAW, Aug. 27. General
Tuchatschewski, known as the
•‘Soviet Napoleon,” has been relieved
of his post as commander-in-chief
©f the Bolshevik army on the Polish
front because of his failure to take
Warsaw, according to information
given to the press here. Leon
Trotzky, Bolshevik minister of war
end marine, has personally taken
command of the army, it Is reported
by Bolshevik officers who have been
taken prisoner.
General Tuchatschewski has had
Il remarkable career in the Russian
arm}'. He is of noble birth and at
the outbreak of the world war was
captured by the Germans. Later he
escaped an resumed his place in the
army, rising to the rank of lieu
tenant. When the Soviet government
was established he was promoted,
and rose to high command, being
credited with the defeat of Admiral
Kolchak in Siberia and General Deni
kine in southern Russia. He is only
twenty-eight years old.
Pessimistic Over Peace t
The Warsaw press is becoming pes
simistic regarding the Minsk peace
negotiations. The newspapers, with
the exception of the Socialist jour
nals, express the belief that the mo
ment is propitious to ‘‘liquidate Bol
shevism.” In some political circles
there are indications of an increas
. ing feeling that the negotiations may
come to nothing although there have
been official announcements to the
contrary.
The militarists are advocating a
Continuance of the war to compel the
Soivets to seek terms and the change
in the Danzig situation has had a
tendency to encourage the militarist
•lements. ; <
Russian soviet. troops who took
refuge in Prussia are fighting the
Poles along the frontier. An official
statement issued just before last
midnight says that two soviet bat
teries hauled into Prussia by the re
treating Russians fired upon the
Poles and that the societ forces are
also using machine guns against the
Poles on their sector. Polish troops
Who have reached the frontier have
been cautioned by their command
ers not to fire upon German terri
tory.
While there has been a lull in the
fighting on various sectors the Poles
at several places Thursday
and have reached the region of Kob
rin, approximately 28 miles north
i east of Brest-Litovsk.
Man Offers $50,000
Bet Against Dorsey,
. But Has No Takers
By far the most interesting, not to
•ay exciting, political bet that has
been offered or taken in the present
campaign was offered in the lobby
es the Kimball house late Thursday
afternoon, according to Bruce Hall,
a former Atlanta newspaper man,
Who is now connected with the Ru-
Talist Press, and who gives a most
Readable account of what happened.
“It was late in the afternoon,”
•ays Mr. Hall, ‘‘about the time when
Z the lobby begins to fill up for the
usual evening gabfest. There had
been a story in the Constitution
Thursday morning that Pat Gam
brell, of Macon, was here with SSOO
' to bet on Governor Dorsey being the
next senator. Much Dorsey talk was
f going the rounds.
“Suddenly there appeared in the
lobby a well-dressed stranger fan
ning himself with a sheaf of SIOO
bills, new’ and crisp and crackling.
He offered to het the sum of $50,000
that Gqvernor Dorsey would tail the
ticket in the primary. He fanned
himself with his sheaf of bills and
said there were fifty SIOO bills in
his hand, making $5,000, which he
would post as a forfeit that he
could and would produce in twenty
four hours the sum of $50,000 that
Governor Dorsey would tail the
ticket.,
“The handful of new’ SIOO bills
made quite a noise. In fact, they
produced more conversation, with
saving a word, than all the bal
..ance of the gab and bets combined.
The stranger hung around for quite
a while, announcing his offer to ev
.erybody in the lobby.
»• “Tb< Dorsey he* tors seemed to
have busin ass in other parts. The
atvsnger the rso-ney produced
«r complete political vacuum, in so
far as Dorsey backers were concern
ed. Then he left.”
Ponzi’s Mansion and
Several Automobiles
Seized by Trustees
BOSTON' Aug. 27. —The mansion
of Charles’l onzi. at Lexington, with
its co.d'y fu’nishings, as well as
several ;tuto’”obiles. has been seized
by the Ponzi trustees, it was an
nounced today.
The announcement was made by
William R. Sears, one of the three
> Wceivers.
AUDITOR REPORTS
551.859.58 MID
IN TOBACCO TAX
Joel Hunter & Co.’s Investi
gation Gives Names and
Addresses of Merchants
and Amounts Exacted
The collection of certain taxes on
cigarette tobacco and cigarette pa
pers from merchants In certain
country counties of Georgia by spe
cial tax investigators appointed by
Governor Dorsey back in 1919 has
aroused considerable controversy.
The statement that many thousands
of dollars were secured from the
country merchants by the governor’s
special tax investigators has been
challenged in some quarters, notably
by Governor Dorsey and by certain
of his most ardent supporters.
In view of the conflicting state
ments issuing from various q -r
--ters, the firm of Joel Hunter &
Company, of Atlanta, certified public
accountants, has, at the request of
The Journal, made an exhaust)
amination of the reports of the spe
cial tax investigators as submitted
to the comptroller general. The re
port of Hunter & Company shows
that the governor’s eight special tax
investigators operated in .27 coun
ties and collected cigarette tobacco
taxes amounting to $51,859.56, that
no cigarette tobacco taxes were col
lected in the large cities of the state,
but that they were collected in the
country counties.
The audit made by Joel Hunter &
Co. shows the name of each
individual merchant who paid the
cigarette tobacco tax and the amount
collected from each merchant by the
governor’s special tax investigators.
This list, including, as it does, promi
nent merchants all over the state,
who stand high in their respective
communities, is of particular interest
in view’ of Governor Dorsey’s decla
ration hi defense of his action that
his special tax investigators collect
ed from "tax dodgers" and “tax de
faulters.”
The Hunter report also shows that
several merchants in Jefferson coun
ty, aftfer havftig paid the tax under
protest, stopped payment on their
checks and thus prevented the turn
ing in of $2,461.25, which still re
mains unpaid and which will prob
ably continue to remain unpaid in
view of the developments in the sit
uation.
After the special tax investigators
had been operating for some time,
the wave of resentment from mer
chants who had paid the tax under
protest became, so- strong that Gov
ernor Dorsey felt:' constrained to au
thorize a 'efund. This he did upon
the recommendation of Comptroller
General W. A. \ ’right, who from th#
first had ruled that mercfiants sell
ing cigarette tobacco, but who nei
ther gave away or sold cigarette pa
pers, were not liable for the tax.
And so it develops that merchants
W'ho file with the governor affidavits
certifying that they have neither so'ld
nor given aw’ay cigarette papers, are
given a refund. This refund, how
ever, is only 70 per cent of the
amount they paid the special tax in
vestigators, except in cases where the
special tax investigators and the
county tax collectors agree to refund
their respective commissions. Some
merchants have already filed these
affidavits and complied with the re
quirements involving more or, less
red tape. Warrants have thus far
been drawn to the. amount of $8,125
and as fast as additional affidavits
are received at the state capitol, ad
ditional warrants will be drawn. The
sum of $8,125 is the total amount
thus far refunded and not, as has
been claimed in some quarters, the
total amount of illegally collected
cigarette tobacco taxes.
30 Fer Cent Commission
For the governor’s special tax in
vestigators received 2 3 per cent apm
mission on all taxes they colleßed.
Likewise the county tax collectors
received an additional 10 per cent,
making 30 per cent of the gross
amount to be deducted before the
money was turned into the state
treasury. ,
The special tax-investigators col
lected all sorts of back taxes. Thqy
collected the cigarette tobacco fax
only as one of the several kinds of
occupational taxes on their list. They
also collected ad valorem taxes which
for one reason or another had not
been previously' paid.. On the entire
Sum collected, however, they received
their 20 per cent commission and the
countj’ tax collectors also received
their 10 per cent commission.
During the year 1919 the sum of
sl43;was collected by the gov
ernor’s special tax investigators, this
sum representing the $51,859.56 in
cigarette tobacco taxes, and the bal
ance in special occupational and ,ad
valorem taxes. On this total collec
tion of $143,021 the special tax in
vestigators received commissions
amounting to $28,604, while the
county tax collectors received 114,t
I 302 in commissions. The state treas
ury actually received $100,115.08 or
70 per cent of the total amount col
lected.
War Cost 10 Nations
Os Europe a Loss of
35,320,000 People
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Owing
to war influences, ten European na
tions engaged in the world war show
a potential loss in pouulation of 35,-
320,000 persons since 1914, according
to a statistical research conducted
by the Society for Studying the So
cial Consequences of the War, of
Copenhagen, made public today bj’
the American Red Cross.
At the end of 1913, the society re
ports, these nations had a popula
tion of 400,850,000, and under nor
mal conditions this population
should have increased, by the mid
dle of 1919, to 424,210,000. How
ever. it had fallen by that time to
389,030,000, which led' to the conclu
sion by Danish statistical experts
that the loss of actual and potential
human life in these nations ap
proximated forty millions.
Causes of the abnormal falling off
in population were attributed in the
society’s report as follows: Killed In
war, 9,819,000; deaths due to aug
mentation of mortality, economic
blockades, war epidemics, 5,301,000;
fall in birth rate due to mobiliza
tion of fifty-six million men between
20 and 15 years of age, 20,200,000.
GOVERNOR DORSEY
DECLINES TO DEBATE
WITH ME SMITH
Says His Engagements for
Saturday Will Prevent
Meeting Senator in Macon,
Promises Statement Friday
Governor Dorsey will not accept
the invitation extended him by Sena
tor Smith to engage in a joint debate
in the Macon auditorium Friday eve
ning. )
The governor returned Friday
morning from Valdosta, where he
caught the night train after speaking
Thursday afternoon at Quitman. He
was reached at the mansion early
Friday morning and asked the ques
tion -whether he had replied to the
two direct challenges addressed to
him by William Schley Howard and
Felix Jackson, acting as Senator
Smith’s arrangement committee. One
of these challenges went to him
Tuesday at Americus. The second
"went to him Thursday night at Val
dosta. The second requested an an
swer to the first.
To Frame an Answer
Governor Dorsey stated, in reply to
questions, that he had not yet an
swered the challenges. He said it
was his intention to frame an an
swer during the day. He was asked
whether he would go to Macon
Friday night to meet Senator Smith.
He replied that he had engagements
to speak Saturday morning in Cedar
town and Saturday afternoon in Car
rollton, and he did not see how he
could be in Macon Friday night and
get to Cedartown Saturday morning.
He was then asked whether he would
accept the challenge for a series of
joint debates with Senator Smith.
He said he would make his answer
during the day.
At 1 o’clock Friday afternoon the
governor was asked if he had fram
ed his reply to the two challenges.
He replied that he had received no
“direct challenge.” It was explained
to him that the telegrams were sent
him by Messrs. Howard and Jackson
at the specific direction of Senator
Sinith, who had previously appointed
the mas a committee to represent
him. The governor then stated that
he had been so busy with his mail
all morning, that he had not found
time to frame a statement or reply
on the subject of a series of joint
debates. He said he "might” be abe
to get to it Friday afternoon, al
thought he wasnt sure.
Smith Headquarter’s Statement
Hoke Smith headquarters, when
informed that the .governor would
not accept the invitation to meet
Senator Smith in Macon Friday
night, gave out the following:
"We are disappointed but not. sur
prised by the governor’s failure to
met Senator Smith in Macon Friday
night. He gave out an interview
some days ago in the Constitution
that he would meet the senator. We
figured that Macon was a fair place
to start a series of debates, in view
of his claims that he was going to
sweep Bibb county. As to railroad
schedules, it would be quite easy for
the governor to keep his engagement
in Cedartown Saturday morning. The
Atlarfta sleeper leaves Macon aftei'
midnight and arrives in Atlanta at
6:20 a. m. The Seaboard leaves for
Cedartown at 8:10 a. m. This would
give the governor the necessary con
nection. But since it is not conven-,
ient for the governor to meet the
senator in Macon Friday night, we
hope he will find it. convenient to
meet him elsewhere. The governor
has been trailing the senator’s itin-l
erary in south Georgia, going be
hind him and devoting himself main
ly to abuse of the senator, while pay
ing slight attention to Mr. Watson.
We hope he can get his consent to
meet the senator face to on at
least one occasion.”
Two Challenges Were Sent
The first challenge went to Gov
ernor Dorsey last Tuesday at Amer
icus. It was delivered to him while
he was speaking. He later read the
telegram and put it in his pocket.
He did not answer it. Newspaper
men accompanying him on his tour
could get no statement from him
concerning the challenge.
Having waited more than forty
eight hours without an answer.
Messrs. Howard and Jackson sent
a second challenge to the governor
at Valdbsta on Thursday afternoon.
It was delivered to him when he went
to Valdosta to take the night train
for Atlanta. The second telegram
was as follows:
“We hhve not received a reply to
our wire asking that you appoint
a committee to meet with us to ar
range debates between you and Sen
ator Hoke Smith. As the time is
short, may we urge you to appoint
the committee at once, so that sev
eral debates can be arranged before
the primary. We are assured from
many parts of Georgia that the pub
lic is eagerly looking forivard to
these meetings.
(Signed)
"WILLIAM SCHLEY HOWARD,
k “FELIX JACKSON.”
The first telegram, which was sent
to the governor on Tuesday, re
quested a series of debates and sug
gested that the first one be held
Friday night in the Macon auditor
ium, where Senator Smith was sched
uled to speak, and -where the gov
ernor claimed to be very strong.
There has been the keenest in
terest among Macon people in the
governor’s answer, and his friends
of Bibb and surrounding counties
will doubtless feel a great disap
pointment that the governor de
clined the Invitation.
Official Vote in
Tennessee Primary
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 26.
The official vote in the Democratic
state primary of August 5, as can
vassed by the primary board yester
day afternoon was:
Governor: A. H. Roberts, 67,940;
W. R. Crabtree, 43,961; John R. Neal,
937; E. L. Wirt, 270.
For railroad commissioner: George
N. Welch, incumbent, 63,303; H.
Knox Bryson, 27.464.
c uts TloThFn g prTc es
Here’s away to save $lO to S2O
on your next suit. Simply drop a
card ‘to L. E. Lawson, manager of
the Lincoln Woolen Mills Co., 200 S.
Green St., Chicago, 111., and ask him
for a copy of his new tailoring book
No. 396 with big cloth samples and
latest information about styles and
prices. He will tell you how men
with a little spare time can make
big money in the tailoring business
and quote you prices so low that
you will wonder how he can do it
while others are asking such high
prices. All orders are sent on ap
proval with the privilege of return
ing it if not satisfactory.— (Advt.)
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1920
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RICHMOND HAS
171,667, GAIN OF
34.5 PER CENT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Rich
mond, Va., with the largest numeri
cal growth of population in its his
tory during the last decade, takes
rank as thirty-seventh largest city
of the country, the censsu bureau an
nouncing the population today as
171,667. Ten years ago Richmond
ranked as thirty-ninth city and in
the decade has outgrown Syracuse,
New Haven, Memphis and Scranton.
Omaha and Akron Have outgrown the
Virginia capital.
Richmond’s numerical increase was
44,039, or 34.5 per cent. Its previous
largest numerical increase was for
the decade ending with 1910 when
it was 42.578, or 50.1 per cent.
Among southern cities, Richmond
takes rank as fourth largest, dis
placing Memphis, which held that
rank ten years ugo and which now
has about 9,000 yeople less than Rich
mond. New Orleans, Atlanta and
Birmingham rank as the first three
southern cities.
Other figures follow: Helena.
Ark., 9,112, increase 340, or 3.9 per
cent. Ardmore, Okla., 14,181, in
crease 5.563, or 64.6 per cent. Boise,
Idaho, 21.393, increase 4,035, or 32.2
per cent. Hutchinson, Kans., 23,298.
increase 6,934, or 42.4 per cent. In
dependence, Kans., 11,902, increase
forcefully upon me today that he
1,440, or 13.7 per cent.
Vicksburg, Miss., 17,931; decrease
2,883, or 13.9 per cent.
Monroeville, Ala., 1,017; increase
401, or 65.1 per cent.
Marion, Ohio (revised), 27,891; in
crease 9,659, or 53.0 per cent (pre
viously announced as 28.591).
El Paso, Tex. (.revised), 77,543;
increase 38,264, or 97.4 per cent.
(Previously announced as 83.836.)
Louisiana places:
Kinder. 1,148; Oakdale. 4.016.
Boy Drowned as
He Lay in Bed
LONDON.—Tommy Whitehead fell
in a canal near his home and was
taken out unconscious. Partially re
stored, his friends were carrying him
home when he became fully con
scious and walked the remainder of
the way unaided. He went to bed
and died in a half hour. Coroner
says he had water in his lungs that
drowned him when he lay down.
Army ’Planes Start
On Their Return Trip
NOM, Alaska, Aug. 26.—Three of
the four planes in the United States
army’s Alaska aerial expedition took
the air on the retunr flight to Min
eola, N. Y., at 3:30 this afternoon.
The first leg of their trip will take
them to Ruby, 300 miles east. Cap
tain St. Clair Street, commander of
the expedition, expects to hop off
early tomorrow.
Peace Treaty Ends
Back-Fence War
TERRE HAUTE.—"Yes, sah, jedge,
I frowed bricks at dat man. But
when he come along wid a shotguh,
I jes’ up an' lef’.” Margaret Bay
was speaking. “Dat ol’ gun’s no
’count anyhow, jedge—she ain’t even
gotta trigger,” said Joe Riley. The
judge sent them home after they
signed a back-fence peace treaty.
Two Fall in Airplane
Near Flat Rock, N. C.
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Aug. 26. —In
an airplane fall near Flat Rock Wed
nesday, Arthur S. Truex, manager of
the Hendersonville Telephone com
pany, Lieutenant Zibelhausen, pjiot
were injured seriously and the ma
chine was wrecked. At an altitude
of 2,000 feet, witnesses said, the
plane dropped in a nose dive but the
pilot succeeded in righting it 800
feet from the ground only to have it
drop in another nose dive and strike
the earth.
IS IT ANOTHER “PONZI?”
Capitol Florist, Replaced by
Negro, Gives Out Custodian’s
Letter Approving His H 7 ork
Frank Grant, formerly florist of |
the state capitol grounds and execu- I
tive mansion, who was discharged
from his position by Governor Dor
sey and replaced with a negro named
Rufus Bennett, has given out the
letter of T. E. Massengale, custodian
of the capitol and mansion, notifying
him of his dismissal.
In this letter Custodian Massen
gale stated that Mr. Grant was a
capable man, and w r as being dis
missed for reasons of economy. The
letter was made public iVednesday
by Mr. Grant in reply to a state
ment by Custodian Massengale, pub
lished in the Atlanta Constitution
Wednesday morning, defending Gov
ernor Dorsey on the ground that Mr.
Grant was dismissed because of in
competence and failure to observe
the working hours and rules laid
down by the custodian.
In his statement defending Gover
nor Dorsey’s dismissal of Mr. Grant
the statement is made by Custodian
Massengale that "after keping a rec
ord on Mr. Grant I found that his
services were unsatisfactory and so
reported to the governor, who abol
ished the office of norist and told me
to notify Mr. Grant of that fact.”
The letter written to Mr. Grant by
Custodian Massengale on March 15,
1919, was as follows:
"Mr. Frank Grant, Florist,
“Atlanta, Ga.
“Dear Mr. Grant: In a letter from
the governor today he informs me
that he will dispense with your ser
vices after July 1 as florist at the
state capitol. He further states that
you are a capable man, and that we
could not get a more capable man
for the position, but that the amount,
paid for the work to be done at the
capitol in your line will, not warrant
the wages W’e. are now paying.
"If you can obtain work before
the time mentioned that would be
compatible with your desires, we
would have no hesitancy in relieving
you.
“Yours truly,
(Signed) "T. E. MASSENGALE.”
The fact that he was discharged
from his position which he had held
under Governors Smith, Brown,
Slaton and Harris andreplaced with*
a negro named Rufus Bennett, was
made public Monday by Mr.- Grant
in a statement to the public.
He stated that his salary was SIOO
a month; that he was discharged, as
shown by Custodian Massengale’s
letter, for reasons of “economy;” that
the negro was paid $21.75 a week,
or only a slight saving; that the
negro was subsequently given an as
sistant, which made the cost of the
work considerably more than his ser
vices had cost the state.
Mr. Grant’s disclosures brought
the statement by Custodian Massen
gale defending Governor Dorsey on
the ground that Mr. Grant was dis
charged for incompetence. This
statement elicted from Mr. Grant
copy of Custodian Massengale’s let
ter, testifying to his competence.
One of the duties of the florist is
to mow the grass on the capitol
lawn. This work was done by Mr.
Grant with a hand-driven lawn mow
er. In the hot summer months it is
extremely laborious W’ork, as the
lawn is large and the grass is thick.
Friends of Mr. Grant call attention
to the fact that recently Rufus Ben
nett, the negro who succeeded Mr.
Grant, has been furnished a lawn
mower driven by a gasoline motor,
so that he has nothing to do but
walk behind it, steering it and ma
nipulating the throttle of the motor.
HEALS STOMACirTROU-
BLE AND TAPE WORM
AT HOME
A sample home treatment which
gives quick and lasting relief in all
forms of stomach trouble, including
tape worms or other worms, is being
supplied to sufferers by Walter A.
Reisner, Box C-64, Milwaukee, Wis.
He is so confident of results that
ne guarantees absolute satisfaction
in every case or there is no charge
for the treatment. If you suffer
from stomach trouble or any kind
of worms, send him your name and
address today, as this notice may
not appear again.— (Advt.)
EAST POINT HAS
5,241, GAIN OF
42.3 PER CENT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—The
state of Georgia has 2.893,955 people,
an increase of 284,834, or 10.9 per
cent, according to revised census fig
ures announced today.
Revision of the total for the state
of Georgia included 299 from a miss
ing enumeration district in Mc-
Intosh county, and 55 from revision
of the total of Liberty county,
which added 354 to the total first an
nounced for the state.
East Point. Ga.. has 5,241, an in
crease of 1,559, or 42.3 per cent.
Advance of Forth Worth, Tex.,
into the list of cities of the 100,000
class, with at otal of 106,482, ranks
that city as sixty-fifth largest mu
nicipality in the United States. The
Texas city jumped from seventy
fifth rank, which it held for ten
years, passing Spokane, Kansas City,
Kan.; Yonkers, Lynn, Duluth, Taco
ma. Elizabeth, z-Lawrences, Mass.,
and Utica.
BIG NEWS!
Red-hot, three-cornered races are now raging
in Georgia for the United States senate and the
Governor’s chair.
Cox and Roosevelt are bidding for Democratic vic
tory all over the country, while Harding is rallying the
Republicans from his front porch in Marion.
The Bolsheviki and the Poles and Ireland and other
peoples and nations are turning things topsy-turvy over .
in Europe.
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PMUMONON
SUFFRAGE ISSUED
SV SECTY. COLBY
Amendment Not Ratified by
Legislature, Assert Insur
gents Women Jubilant
Over Victory
WASHINGTON, 26.—The
right of women to the ballot was
formally made a part of the con
stitution of the United States to
day when Secretary of State Colby
proclaimed ratification of the nine
teenth amendment.
Mr. Colby announced the procla
mation when he arrived ut his of
fice, having signed it shortly be
fore at his home here, where the
official certification that Tennessee
had become the thirty-sixth state to
ratify the amendment was taken
early today. •
A group of suffrage leaders who
had waited until a late hour last
night for the arrival of the Ten
nessee certification were hurriedly
summoned to the state department
and met Mr. Colby. They cheered
when told the last step to make the
amendment operative had been
taken.
Among them w’ere Miss Alic<!
Paul, chairman of the national worn
ans party; Mrs. Abby Scott Baker;
Miss Julia Emory, Baltimore; Dr.
Lydia Allen Devilbis, of Georgia;
Miss Mary Moore Forrest, Scituate,
Mass.; Mrs. Anne Calvert Neely,
Vicksburg, Miss.; Mrs. B. G. Kalb,
Houston, Tex.; Mrs. Cyrus Mead,
Dayton* Ohio.; Miss Emilie Grace
Kay, St. Paul, Minn., and Miss Emma
Wold, Portland, Oreg.
No Flaws Found
The Tennessee ratification was
taken to Mr. Colby’s home by Charles
L. Cooke, master of ceremonies of
the state department, and Mr. Colby
and Frederick Nielson, state depart
ment solicitor, went over it for pos
sible legal flaws. They’ found
it was said.
Suffragists had expected Mr. Col
by to make the ceremony of pro
claiming the amendment a public
one and evidently were disappointed.
They requested him aagin to 'go
through the ceremony for their bene
fit and for the moving picture men.
"I think representatives of al)
groups of women should have been
present at the ceremonies,” said Mrs.
Aoby Scott Baker.
Mr. Colby said he would consider
going over the ceremony again and
went into his office.
The women, however, left the stats
department without waiting for his
decision. They held a jubilation at
their own headquarters a short dis
tance away.
T. E. Watson Cancels
Speaking Engagements
On Account of Illness
AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. -6. —Thomas
E. Watson has canceled all his
speaking engagements, for the im
mediate future, at least, and possi
bly for the remainder of his cam
paign for United States enator. The
reason is illness. Laryngitis, acute
bronchitis, and a nervous breakdown
constitute the diagnosis of Dr.
Thomas R. Wright, of Augusta, who
declares that "the combination of
ailments is such as to make him a
very sick man. He necessarily will
require some days to get well.”
Dr. Wright went to Mr. Watson’s
home to visit him Tuesday; and
called again Wednesday, at which
visit he found an improvement in
pulse and temperature, with his con
dition otherwise unchanged.
James Wilson, Former
Cabinet Member, Dies
At Home in lowa
TRAER, lowa, Aug. 26.—James
Wilson, former secretary of agricul
ture, died at his home here today.
Scents a copi.
$1.50 A YEAH.
GOV. COX SGBMITS
PROOF OF GREAT
G. FUND
lists Cities Which Were
Called on for Contribu
tions, Atlanta Among
Them, in Pittsburg Speech
New York, Aug. 27. (En route
with Governor Cox to New Haven.)
—Any- attempts of Republican lead
ers to deny the figures quoted at
Pittsburg last night in support of
his charge that the G. O. P. cam
paign fund goal is $15,000,000 will be
met by “additional revelations,”
Governor Cox said today.
He indicated his next move would
be to give the names of some of
the heaviest contributors to the Re
publican fund, and to attempt to
prove his assertion that the SI,OOO
limit announced by Senator Harding
is being evaded.
Democratic leaders are confident
that Governor Cox has wrecked the
financial plans of the Republicans,
George White, chairman of the Dem
ocratic national committee, said
when he met the governor this
morning.
In his speech in Pittsburg last
night, Governor Cox read a list of
fifty-one cities in twenty-six states
to which he claimed the Re
publicans had assigned quotas to
talling $8,145,000. Then he read
paragraph after paragraph from
“the Official Bulletin,” which he
said was a confidential publication
which was issued by the office of
Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the
Republican national committee.
These quotations showed that cam
paigns are being made in scores of
states and that quotas in addition
to those of the 51 cities have been
assigned. His conclusion was that
those quotas as mentioned In the
bulletins, would send the total con
siderably above $15,000,000.
Governor Cox held up copies ofy
the bulletins before the crowd but
did not reveal how they came into
his possession. The big crowd made
tlie hall resound with cheers when
Governor Cox challenged Will Hays
to deny’ ihe correctness of the
quotas he mentioned.
Senator Harding was brought into
“the evidence” when Governor Cox
read what he said was a message
from him in “the Official Bulletin.”
It praised the work of the financial
organization.
The greatest applause came when .
Governor Cox read this paragraph
wh.ich lie ..said he found in one is- •
sue of the bulletin;
“Harding and Coolidge have the
confidence of the country, but boys,
get the money; the platform is good
enough to hold the weight of the na
tion, but boys, get the money.”
61 Cities Represented
Governor Cox’s data consisted al
most entirely of matter taken from
the official bulletin of Fred vv . Up
ham, of Chicago, treasurer of the
Republican national committee, but
his chief exhibit was a type- ritten
list purporting to show Republican
campaign quotas imposed on fifty
one principal cities in twenty-seven
states and aggregating $8,145,G00.
Naihes of local subscribers, Gov
ernor Cox said, were ordered kept
secret. These quotas, given as $2,-
300,000 for New York city, $750,-
000 for Chicago, $500,000 for Phila
delphia and ranging down to $25,000
for smaller cities like Albany, N. Y.,
and Atlanta, Ga., were said by Gov
ernor Cox to have been announced
about the middle of July.
That Senator Harding, his Repub
lican opponent, “was acquainted
with the details” of the quota plan
and that it was also approved by
Will H. Hays, chairman of the Re
publican national committee, was
charged by the Democratic candi
date.
From subsequent Issues of the
official bulletin, Governor Cox quot
ed many’ reports from Republican
workers throughout the country,
reporting going "over the top” and
in excess of the alleged quotas.
Announcement of the $8,145,000
metropolitan quotas, Governor Cox
said, was made bv David H. Blair,
as assistant to Treasurer Upham.
A meeting was hbld ifi Chicago,
Governor Cox said, at which Will
H. Hays, chairman of the Repub
lican national committee, "spoke his
blessings."
The governor charged that type
written sheets bearing the fifty-one
cities’ quotas were "distributed to
those assembled," and he produced
one of the alleged quota lists, but
did not state how or where It was
acquired. The quota plan, he said,
was carried out like that of the lib
erty loan campaigns.
That the reputed attempt to raise
$8,145,003 from fifty-one cities in
twenty-seven of the forty-eight
states is fair evidence that the
tal national fund will be much larg
er, was declared by Governor Cox,
who said big business men were
prominent on the Republican ways
and means committee and that the
raising of funds was on a business
“salesmanship” basis.
Quotes Bulletin
Governor Cox also quoted from
statements in the Republican bulle
tin that state and county organiza
tions were not to be “disturbed or
retarded in ther activities.”
Calling attention to Chairman
Hays’ statement that $3,000,000 was
being raised. Governor Cox said that
.today's' papers carried a statement
from Treasurer Upham that the Re
publican total would be about $7,-
500,000.
“From the evidence which we shall
submit,” Governor Cox added, “I
think you w’ill agree that we are jus
tified in multiplying Mr. Upham’s fig
ures by two.”
Governor Cox, standing staunchly
by charges that an
purchase the presidency was bein b
made, declared that “the senatorial
oligarchy and their friends are
harking back to the days of Mark
Hanna.” stating that in the 1896
campaign, which Mr. Hanna managed,
$16,000,000 was spent.
“It was this foul thing,” said Gov
ernor Cox, “which Theodore Roose
velt brought to an end when he re
formed the Republican party. When
he was doing it, Warren G. Harding
branded him as an Aaron Burr.”
“I charge again an assault on the
electorate.” said Governor Cox. “It
can’t be hidden: the hosts are mar
shaled; the money ammunition is
prepared, but it will .not succeed. The
net is spread in sight of the quarry.
“What is the game except to be
cloud the public mind on the subject
of the League of Nations issue and
world peace?”
The typewritten list of cities
quotas presented by Governor Cox
follows:
Official quotas: New York city,
52jOOO.OOO; Chicago. $750,000; Phii-
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