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VOL. XXIII, NO. 101.
UNCLE SAM’S MEN PREDICT
ARREST OF F. WOODWARD,
"KING” OF BUNCO SYNDICA TE
With arguments of counsel sched
uled to wind up Atlanta’s famous
’’bunco” probe early this week, there
were two new and interesting devel
opments Saturday in the prolonged
controversy.
Atlanta postoffice inspectors, who
are known to have been directing a
world-wide search for Floyd* Wood
ward since the beginning of the
“bunco” exposure, intimated that the
arrest of the alleged former chief of
the ring is near.
They said they had information
that he is now in a foreign country
with which the United States has sat
isfactory extradition arrangements,
and indicated they were preparing to
close in on the fugitive and take him
tn custody.
Through the activity of Atlanta
postal inspectors, eight alleged mem
bers of the big swindling syndicate
have been apprehended in the last
ninety days. Four of the leading in
spectors in the country are known
to now be devoting their entire time
toward the capture of Woodward. It
was readily apparent in the Atlanta
offices of the department Saturday
that his early arrest is confidently
expected.
Brother Defends Woodward
The other development of Saturday
was a statement by John R. Wood
ward, of 795 North Boulevard, a
brother of Floyd Woodward, who de
nied many of the charges made
against his brother, assailed as un
true portions of the testimony of
Attorney Joseph O. Ewing before the
councilmanic investigating commit
tee, and charged that a campaign of
falsehood and slander is being waged
against Woodward.
"It has been publicily charged
that Floyd killed a man in New Or
leans several years ago, and that lat
er he killed another in Selma, Ala.,”
said Mr. Woodward. "These charges
are untrue; I have completed an in
vestigation and have concrete evi
dence in my possession to show the
falsity of the accusations.”
Mr. Woodward exhibited a volumin
ous file of correspondence and tele
grams, which included statements
from attorneys and court officials in
New Orleans and Selma to the ef
fect that Woodward had not com
mitted murder in either city.
"I also desire to correct a few of
the statements made by Mr. Joseph
O. Ewing before the council commit- •
tee.” said Mr. Woodward. “He re
peatedly tried to make it appear he
was not an intimate of Floyd Wood
ward, but that he knew him through
my mother, my sister and myself.
The truth is that we scarcely know
Ewing at all. but he and Floyd were
staunch friends as far back as 1916,
and I can easily prove it.”
Once Employed Boykin
“Sometime in 1916,” continued Mr.
Woodward, “Floyd got into trouble
about a bond forfeiture, and I under
stand he engaged Mr. John A. Bdy
kin as his attorney. Apparently the
case was of slight consequence, for
Mr. Boykin turned the details of it
over to Ewing to handle. In connec
tion with this same case, Ewing
claims to have been given a diamond
ring by my sister to use as bail for
Floyd, but there is not a word of
truth in the statement.
“Neither my mother, my sister nor
myself at any time employed Joe
Ewing as attorney. Neither of us
were ever intimate with him. I never
saw the man until the winter of 1918
—one cold day Floyd brought him to
our home and gave him an overcoat
and some shirts.
“Ewing also stated he once had a
room in our house. That is equally
as false as the other statements he
has made.” , .
Mr. Woodward said he and the oth
er members of his family were will
ing for the truth to be told, but that
they resented the continued “cam
paign of falsehood and slander.”
"Os course, there are many who
want to believe Floyd Woodward is |
entirely bad. But he isn’t. Let only
the truth be told. The good people
of Atlanta who are interested in
this investigation should frown upon
falsehood and slander, no matter
against whom it is directed or by
whom it is used,” he declared.
Taking up the charges made in At
lanta that Floyd Woodward killed
men in New Orleans and Selma-. Mr.
Woodward showed a letter received
from St. Clair Adams, attorney, 416
Hibernia Bank building. New Or
leans. It was dated May 11 and
read:
Killing Trial Denied
“I have your letter of May 7, 1921,
In which you say it has been pub
licly stated in Atlanta that I defend
ed and cleared Floyd P. Woodward
on a murder charge in New Orleans
several years ago. It being stated
that the murder took place in the
saloon of Tom Anderson . . . .
I never heard of Floyd Woodward m
letter, signed by Carroll
ft Carroll, attorneys, 808 Hennen
building. New Orleans, corroborated
the letter from Attorney Adams.
These lawyers said the court records
had been thoroughly searched and
failed to disclose a case against
Flod Woodward within the last
thirty years.
Concerning the Selma, Ala., charge,
Mr Woodward showed the following
letter, dated May 12, from Attorneys
Mallory & Mallory, of that cjty:
“Answering yours of the 6th, we
beg to say that we have had the
clerk of our circuit court examine
the indictment records for the past
twenty years and over. He advises
that no indictment was ever return
ed in this county against Floyd
Woodward. We also discussed the
matter with Mr. Evans, registrar oi
circuit court, who has served in this
capacity for thirty years. He says
no such person as Floyd Woodward
was ever tried here. This eliminates
the idea that he might have been
tried here on change of venue?’
The final stage of the "bunco
probe will be reached with the be
ginning of arguments at the city
hall Monday morning at 10 o’clock.
Eugene R. Black, employed to rep
resent Solicitor Boykin, will have
the opening and losing arguments,
while speeches by Judge J. K. Hines,
representing Detective Chief Poole;
Robert Jones, representing Lieuten
ant Shaw; Herbert Clay, represent
ig Lieutenant Waggoner; Harvey
Hill, representing Councilman Al
Martin, and H. A. Allen, representing
Detective Payne, 11 be sandwiched
in between.
Walter Sims, chairman of the in
vestigating committee, has announc
ed that there will be no delay in
calling the committee together to
consider the evidence and reach a
decision.
It is believed all arguments will
be completed by Monday night, and
thta the committee’s findings will
be reached later in the week. Its
ful report probably will be submit
ted to the general council at its
regular June meeting.
Floridian Found Guilty
Os Peonage by Court
PENSACOLA. Fla., May 21.—J. J.
Pelham was found guilty by a jury
in the Tatoosh range, Rainier Nation
day on the charge of peonage. Pel
ham was convicted of holding two
negroes in Jackson county, Florida,
and compelling them to work out an
alleged debt.
TfiCfT fflOt OF
HARVEY’S UTTERANCE
GIVEN BY PRESIDENT
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
{Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921.)
WASHINGTON, May 23. The
outstanding political event of last
week in Washington unquestionably
has been the fact that Colonel
George Harvey, ambassador to Great
Britain, has assumed a position of
authority in the foreign relations of
the United States subordinate only
to that of President Harding and
Secretary of State Hughes. As a
matter of fact Colonel Harvey has
gone farther than Mr. Hughes in
outlining the foreign policy of this
country, and President Harding has
let it be known that he tacitly ap
proves everything the colonel has
said.
It has been commented in the cap
ital that the American foreign pol
icy was being directed by the three
H’s, meaning Harding, Hughes and
Hoover. Now a fourth H has been
added in the person of Colonel Har
vey, and he unquestionably rangs
above Mr. Hoover.
Colonel Harvey occupies a unique
position in American history. He
has more power and authority than
was accord ' to another member of
the H family in the last administra
tion—Colonel E. M. House. oClonel
Harvey not only is at the head of
the American diplomatic service but
is the personal representative of
President Harding, authorized to
“take part” in the deliberations of
the supreme council of the allies,
that governing body of the entire
world. When Colonel Harvey speaks
in Europe, he speaks not for him
self alone, not merely as American
ambassador at the court of St
.James, but in the name of the Amer
ican president Colonel House rep
resented President Wilson for a time
in the supreme council, but his au
thority was limited and he had no
absolute official standing
Few persons who have not paid
the closest possible attention to the
development of affairs in Europe
realize the power of world absolut
ism assumed by the -reme coun
cil, of which Colonel Harvey now
has become an integral part
No Official Standing
Ostensibly the supreme council has
no official standing. It is not a
creature of the treaty of Versailles,
nor of the covenant of the League
of Nations. It was for this rea
son that President Harding said
he had authorized Colonel Harvey
to take part in Its deliberations,
whereas he appointed only an "of
ficial observer” to the reparations
commission, which was constituted
by the treaty. America is not a
party to the treaty of Versailles,
and if Colonel Harvey speaks by
the card, never will be.
And yet the supreme council of
the allies is proceeding to the settle
ment of world affairs just as if there
were no machinery provided by the
treaty or by the League of Nations.
It is supreme in fact as well as
in name, as supreme in the world
as the supreme court is all powerful
in the United States. Notwithstand
ing the fact that it has no sanction
by the treaty of Versailles all con
troversies arising out of that treaty
are taken up and finally settled by
the supreme council.
It was the supreme council which
decided finally what Germany should
pay in the way of reparations, al
though, of course, the findings of
the reparations commission formed
the basis for the decision.
It remains for the supreme coun
cil to make a decision as to the
Upper Silesian controversy, despite
the fact that this controversy has
arisen out of provisions in the treaty
of Versailles providing for a plebis
cite and the readjustment of Polish
boundaries in accordance with that
plebiscite.
Probably of more importance to
America directly than either of
these two cases is the fact that it
Is up to the supreme council to make
a final decision as to the future
status of the Island of Yap, concern
ing which there has been a rather
tart exchange of notes between the
United States and Japan, and cor
respondence between the United
States and France, Great Britain
and Italy.
Council’s Authority
It has been the general impression
in this country that the arrange
ment of all mandates for former
German territory, such as the island
of Yap, was in the hands of the
League of Nations, but it has de
veloped that the actual allocation
of mandates rests entirely in the
hands of the unofficial supreme
council. While America was absent
from the council the mandate for
Yap, the great cable communication
center of the Pacific, was awarded
to Japan. This action was taken on
the initiative of Great Britain and
is generally regarded as the outcome
of an agreement reached between
Great Britain and Japan in 1917
whereby in return for increased
Japanese naval activity against Ger
man submarines in the Mediterra
nean, Great Britain agreed to support
Japan’s future claims to all of Ger
many’s Pacific islands north of the
equator.
When the United States protested
against awarding the Yap mandate
to Japan and advocated the interna
tionalization of the island, we found
it difficult to answer the reply that
inasmuch as the United States had
declined to take part in the pro
ceedings of the supreme council, it
was not seen how she could com
plain of any decision reached by
that body. Whether it was coinci
dence or not, the decision of Presi
dent Harding to designate Colonel
Harvey as his representative to take
part in the deliberations of the
council, quickly followed the receipt
of this Japanese reply.
Now the Yap situation has taken
on an entirely ■ different aspect, an
aspect which unquestionably is em
barrassing to Great Britain. and
which has caused her to withhold
for the time being a reply to the
American note of protest.
The supreme council is composed
of representatives of Great Britain.
France, Italy. Japan and the United
States.
It is not generally known as yet.
but Italy and France have indicated
informally that they are prepared
to support the American conten
tions as to Yap. in the event the de
cision as to the mandate for that
island is opened, as there is every
reason to believe it will be.
STILLMANDIVDRCE
SETTLEMENTNEAR,
PAPERJECLARES
NEW YORK, May 23.—Settlement
of the divorce suit brought by
James A. Stillman, millionaire bank
er, against Mrs. Anne U. Stillman,
involving recognition of the legiti
macy of the infant, Guy Stillman,
has been sought by Mrs. Stillman’s
attorneys, the New York Times an
nounces in its Sunday edition.
The terms of the settlement are
still under negotiation, the news
paper states. They provide for a
separation agreement between i Mr.
and Mrs. Stillman whereby she is
granted a yearly allowance of $90,-
000, the abandonment of the divorce
proceedings and recognition of the
child’s legitimacy.
All of the attorneys in the case
who could be reached tonight declin
ed to discuss the reported settlement,
but none of them would deny it.
Hearings in the case were to have
been held June 1 and 2, after having
been twice postponed. The settle
ment negotiations are reported to
have caused the postponements.
The divorce proceedings were be
gun in the summer of 1920, Mrs.
Stillman having been served with a
copy of the summons as she was
about to sail for Europe on the
steamship Olympic on July 8, 1920.
The complaint charged her with in
fidelity and attacked the legitimacy
of her oungest son, Guy, who was
born in November, 1918.
Fred Beauvais, a half-breed Indian
guide, who had been employed at the
Stillman summer camp near Three
Rivers, Quebec, was named as father
of the child.
Immediately after the papers in
the case were served, they were filed
in the village of Carmel, New York,
the remote Putnam county seat,
where they reposed in the files for
several months. Some time later,
Daniel G. Gleason, of Poughkeepsie,
was named as a referee in the case
and he subsequently heard testimony
at several secret hearings.
Later John E. Mack, also of
Poughkeepsie, was named as guar
dian ad litem for the child. Guy.
Mr. and Mrs. Stillman lived apart
after the papers were filed, but the
case did not become public until
March of this year, when counsel in
the case appeared before Supreme
Court Justice Morschauser at White
Plains with a petition to file an
amended answer in the case and’to
ask for counsel fees.
This amended answer, which set up
an affirmative defense, denied all the
allegations of Mr. Stillman and set
forth that he was guilty of infidelity,
naming Mrs. Florence H. Leeds, a
former Broadway chorus girl, aS co
respondent. It also accused the bank
er of having lived with Mrs. Leeds
under an assumed name and of being
the father of her infant son. Jay,
who was born in September, 1918.
Pending a settlement of the suit,
Justice Morschauser allowed Mrs.
Stillman counsel fees of $35,000; ex
penses, $12,500, and alimony of $7,500
a month.
Rumors of a settlement have been
current ever since Mrs. Stillman filed
her counter charges, but previously
one side or the other always denied
them and announced its determina
tion of carrying the case to a finish.
No Decision Reached
On Peace Resolution
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 21.
Republican members of the house
foreign affairs committee conferred
today on peace resolution plans with
out reaching any decision. They said
indications were that the resolution
offered by Chairman Porter, declar
ing the war between the United
States and Germany and Austria ter
minated, would be reported as a sub
stitute for the Knox measure adopt
ed by the senate to repeal the war
declaration.
League Council to
Meet on June 17
GENEVA, May 21.—The next ses
sion of the council of the League of
Nations has been postponed from
June 9 until June 17. The postpone
ment was caused by the fact that
other engagements would prevent
certain representatives from being
present on June 9.
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ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1921.
MAN WHO FASTENED BELL
ON FAMOUS BELLED BUZZARD
FOUND BY THE TRI-WEEKLY
BY O. B. KELLER
The Journal certainly does “cover
Dixie like the dew.” If you want to
find anything out, inquire about it in
The Journal. Even to who belled the
Belled Buzzard. There is only one
point left uncleared up in the mat
ter of the Belled Buzzard. That is,
what was he belled for?
Last Sunday The Journal and then
The Tri-Weekly, carried a modest
account of a number of persons see
ing a belled buzzard, and hearing his
bell, at a point near Ben Hill, Ga.,
known as Niskey’s Lake.
Comes now a letter from C. J. Car
penter, of Grand Ridge, Fla., and he
says he belled the buzzard —belled
him in 1906, which was fifteen years
ago; belled him when he was a lit
tle buzzardlet, or buzzardling, or
whatever is the diminutive of buz
zard.
“I read about the famous ‘Belled
Buzzard’ in The Tri-Weekly,” writes
Mr. Carpenter. “I am the man that
put the bell oh the buzzard. I belled
him in 1906, after I found him near
Lake Acheree, when he was about
half grown. I put a small brass bell
on him, and anyone desiring to write
me about it can address me at Grand
Ridge.”
Irvin Cobb or somebody wrote a
story in a magazine some years ago
called “The Belled Buzzard,” and the
fowl has figured in print and epis
tolary correspondence and verbal nar
rative for many years. This state
ment by Mr. Carpenter would seem to
clear everything up satisfactorily,
except on one point:
Why did he bell the Belled Buz
zard?
2DOWSKDiHIS
BESTEDFDB RIOT
LONDON, May 23.—Leaders of 200
Irish soldiers who rioted last night
in the village of Aveley were arrest
ed today and taken before their of
ficers for strict examination.
The motive for the sudden out
break was not known. The soldiers
looted a hotel, smashed windows in
business houses and held up and
searched motorists, cyclists and pe
destrians. Other military forces sup
pressed the uprising.
Divine Healer Works
Many Miracles in
Jacksonville Seance
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 22.
Brother Isaiah, the self-styled divine
healer, left Friday night for New
Orleans, after several days in Jack
sonville, healing the halt, lame and
blind. The seventy-four-year-old
miracle man treated many afflict
ed people, who declaie that they are
cured. t
Louis Bergman, well known in
Jacksonville, who has been unable
to walk without crutches for ten
years, walked off the platform in
Confederate Park tabernacle yester
day, and following treatment a child
who lost his eyesight In an acci
dent a' couple ’of years ago, read
aloud words from a card handed
him by a spectator.
Brother Isaiah performed the teats
before thousands of onlookers, and
at the time of his departure had
worked for approximately thirty
hours with very little food, and
practically no rest, standing always
in the same position. His brow is
unwrinkled in spite of his years,
and there was absolutely no show
of fatigue. People from throughout
Florida and the southern part of
Georgia flocked to Jacksonville Fri
day morning, many standing ankle
deep in water in the park during
the downpour of rain about noon.
The healer then moved to the
Billy Sunday tabernacle, where he
remained for the balance of the
day.
An effort is being made to in
duce him to locate in Jacksonville.
It is understood that the healer
refused a check for SIO,OOO from
one of his beneficiaries during his
stay here, and influence and offers
of sums of money failed to gain
favor for applicants for treatment.
Those treated were chosen as the
spirit moved him, and in nearly
all cases, those treated stated that
they noticed Immediate improve
ment.
11. S. DEFICIT MBF
FBEE BDDTLEGGERS
WASHINGTON, May 21.—Thou
sands of bootleggers may escape
punishment for violation of the
liquor laws as a result of the fur
lough of 100 federal prohibition
agents until July 1, Commissioner
Kramer declared tonight. In any
event, he added many of the cases
will have to be continued over the
forty days, which will add to the
congestion of already crowded court
dockets.
Most of the government’s impor
tant witnesses in the liquor cases
now before the courts, Mr. Kramer
explained, are the agents who work
ed up the evidence against the de
fendants. Most of these men, he
said, would return to their homes,
making it necessary either to
subpoenae them and pay their way
to their places of trial or continue
the cases.
At present, Mr. Kramer said, it
is too soon to guage the effect on the
illegal liquor traffic which may result
from the loss of 700 agents for
forty days, because of the lack of
funds to pay their salaries. How
ever, he asserted, the cut would
hurt the prohibition enforcement
unit in every way and set back if not
undo the work done in organizing
the force.
"Millions have been lost,” he said,
“in an attempt to save a few hun
dred thousand dollars.”
Mr. Kramer said he could not
prophecy whether there would be
greater bootlegging activity over the
country during the forty-day lay-off
of most of the government agents,
but he indicated that he expected
some increase of lawlessness.
As far as real whisky is concern
ed, Mr. Kramer said, the supply in
the country could be controlled at the
sources by restrictions on withdraw
als from warehouses, and that any
trouble to be expected would come
from smuggled liquors and the use
of alcohol, diverted to illegal pur
poses.
BRITISH BATTAUONS
SEOSILESII
LONDON, May 23.—Four battalions
of British soldiers will leave imme
diately for Upper Silesia, it was
announced officially by the war of
fice today.
The men will be drawn from the
troops along the Rhine. The bat
talions will augment the allied forces
sent to preserve order until the
plebiscite has been determined.
Seriousness of Silesian
Situation Is Stressed
In Note by French
LONDON, May 21.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —The French embassy
today presented a note to the British
foreign office, pointing out the se
riousness of the Upper Silesian sit
uation, in view of the persistent at
titude of the German corps, which,
it is declared, is being constantly re
inforced, the Bolshevik tendencies of
the workers, and the difficulty of in
tervening between the Poles and the
Germans.
The note says it therefore is nec
essary to make joint representations
to Germany to urge her “to put into
execution the measures she had an
nounced” and invites Baron D’Aber
non, British ambassador to Germany,
to support the steps taken’ by the
French ambassador to Germany.
Charles Laurent.
M. Laurent recently requested
Chancellor Wirth to take steps to
prevent the dispatch of war material
or the organization and transport of
volunteers into Upper Silesia.
It is stated in French quarters
here that 30.000 armed Germans have
entered the disputed Silesian terri
tory.
SEARCHMOUNTAINS
IN COAL REGION FOR
VILLAGEATTACKEBS
WILLIAMSON, W. Va., May 21.
Kentucky national guardsmen were
scouring the mountains on the Ken
tucky side of Tug river tonight in
an effort to capture those responsi
ble for the shooting into the village
of Merrimac, W. Va., late today.
According to reports of the shoot
ing received by the authorities here,
two employes of the White Star
Mining company, working at the
plant at Merrimac, were the targets
for the bullets from the Kentucky
hills. They escaped injury.
Other points in the trouble zone
along the West Virginia-Kentucky
border were reported quiet by Cap
tain J. R. Brockus, of the state po
lice, and Sheriff A. C. Pinson, of
Mingo county. •
Major Tom B. Davis, acting ad
jutant general of West Virginia, who
is in charge of the situation in the
Mingo county region, held a con
ference today with C. F. Keeney,
president of district No. 17, United
Mine Workers of America. Mr.
Keeney said that he discussed with
the major the proclamation of mar
tial law for Mingo, Issued by Gov
ernor Morgan yesterday. Major Da
vis informed the union leader that
provisions of the proclamation were
perfectly plain to him and that he
would enforce it to the letter.
Tonight Mr. Keeney left for Mate
wan, W. Va., the mining village
which has been the scene of many
shootings. The union official said
he would make a brief stop at Mate
wan proceeding to his headquarters
at Charleston from that town.
*v W L t ! hin a . f ew hours after the au
thorities, after examining the morn
ing reports from upper Tug river val
ley, had announced that all was quiet,
they were informed that the little
mining town of Merrimac, the scene
of much shooting the past ten days,
had again been fired upon. There
were no casaulties, the report® said.
The shooting differed from the lat
est attacks upon the village in that
it was sustained for a considerable
period and seemed to come from a
considerable body of riflemen, the
reports said.
Major Tom Davis, here as repre
sentative of Governor Morgan to en
force his proclamation of martial
law, was not far from Merrimac dur
ing the shooting and authorities here
expressed the opinion it was a de
monstration for his benefit.
Captain Norton, commanding a de
tail of the state police on the border
west of Williamson, came here this
afternoon with the report that all
was quiet in his territory. In spite
of this and of earlier reports ;
quiet reigned east of the city, every
train coming from mining towns
along Tug river today brought mine
superintendents and their families
together with numbers of miners who
have remained in the Coal fields since
the rifle attacks began more than a
week ago.
Some of the superintendents’ de
clared they were unwilling to< stay at
the mines until they were convinced
the situation had quieted.
Major Thompson, r I. S. A., repre
senting Major General Read, com
manding the fifth army corps, is still
in Williamson. He declined to com
ment on the situation, saying he
was here only as an observer and his
reports were being made direct to
General Read in Indianapolis.
Train Bandits Escape
With $50,000 Booty;
26 Men in Hold-Up
NORTH TONAWANDA, N. Y„ May
21. —Bandits early today stopped a
westbound fast freight on the New
York Central railroad on the Sanborn
branch near here, held the engineer
and firemen at bay with automatic
pistols, robbed the cars of merchan
dise valued at $50,000 and escaped.
About twenty-six bandits took part
in the big holdup and six motor
trucks were used to haul away the
loot.
FORMER-GOVERNOR CATTS
ARRESTED AT ALBANY, GA., i
AND RELEASED ON BOND
EX-GOV. S. J. CATTS, of
Florida, who was arrested Sat
urday in Albany, Ga., following
a feeral indictment charging
peonage. He made bond of
$2,500.
IF -ii’
OeWstT
DORSEY AND PASTOR
Paying his respects in emphatic
■ erms to both Governor Dorsey and
Dr. M. Ashby Jones, pastor of the
Ponce de peon Avenue Baptist
church, for their positions relative to
alleged peonage in Georgia, Samuel
L. Olive, of Augusta, president of
the Georgia senate, Monday sent the
following card to The Journal:
“Editor The Journal:
“When Governor Dorsey courteous
ly, but evasively, replied to my re
quest for specific charges and wit
nesses against our state, I felt that
I had do- e my duty, and my part in
the matter was at an end. I have
refused to speak at meetings called
to consider action against the gov
ernor.
“tinder the heading: ‘Text and
Pretext,’ Dr. M. Ashby Jones has at
tacked me in a vituperative manner
in a part of his article. Five years
ago, this gentleman misused his pul
pit by making a politiaal speech
there, in the midst of a campaign.
He attacked the Georgia legislature
for passing the Veazey bill, when
that bill was the issue in an elec
tion. Since that time the doctor
and 1 have had nothing in common.
His article will be better under
stood in the light of this statement.
“The doctor says that 1 am un
fit to defend Georgia. That may be
all too true, but I am none the less
willing to try to answer any man
who defames Georgia. The doctor
says that I was ‘almost’ guilty of
•wilful misunderstanding’ and ‘dis
tortion of the truth’ when I charg
ed Governor Dorsey with attacking
the state of Georgia. That part of
the doctor’s article was evidently
written for children to read, since no
sensible man or woman now serious
ly contends that Georgia is not un
der fire, superinduced by the gover
nor's attack.
Dropped Title
“The doctor and the governor
seem to have dropped the original
title of the crusade, which was:
‘Governor Dorsey’s report on peonage
conditions.’ When the proper United
States attorney asked for the evi
dence there was none to give.
“The doctor and the governor
seem to have abandoned the charge
that negroes are held in slavery in
Georgia. There never was a word
of truth in the charge. The doctor
raves about people objecting to
printing the ‘facts.’ Facts are what
we have been trying to get all along.
If the doctor and the governor have
guilty parties, our courts will pun
ish them; if they have made false
charges our people will disprove
them.
“When no substantive fact has
been forthcoming after repeated de
mands, the doctor falls back solely
on the question of lynching.
"Recorus of a generation of longer
have been combed to get all possible
material for the arraignment of
Georgia. The doctor does not men
tion a single cause for a single lynch
ing. They are presented as though no
crime preceded them. Should a list of
these crimes be written, it would
shock the world. Lynching is bad
enough in any form; but to color the
account with seeming lack of provo
cation of any ki*d is unfair.
“At present the doctor and the gov
ernor are out of court for lack of evi
dence on all • save the lynching
charges. 1 do not believe the hidden
letters are from people of good char
acter, in the main. I venture the as
sertion that ex-convicts and present
criminals wrote many of those pre
ciqus epistles, so carefully concealed.
They concern all the people of Geor
gia, and should be given to all the
people. Georgia needs no guardian-,
ship.
Oglethorpe Dispute
“The doctor says that without in
vestigation 1 jumped to the convlu
sion that Oglethorpe county was
meant, when it was not meant. The
doctor forgets, or will not see, that
every county in Georgia is under
charges till the governor states the
guilty ones. I had to guess. That is
the only privilege given to people
who are anxious to have the truth.
I do know a negro was burned in
Oglethorpe county. He outraged the
mother of a baby three weeks old
in the presence of her other little
one and then murdered the mother by
splitting her skull with a hoe, to de
stroy the evidence against him. The
governor and the doctor somehow or
other do not seem to relish this case
as good material against Georgia. 1
did write these words which the doc
tor says reveal me as unfit to de
fend Georgia, to-wit: ‘I defy the gov
ernor to designate a community in
America, not a city, where summary
justice would not be administered in
a similar case.’ If that tribute to
American manhood was a defense of
lynching, let the doctor make the
most of it.”
“The charge that Georgia is cruel
to negroes in general is a deliberate
falsehood, and a slander on the good
name of the state. There are in
stances where negroes have been
maltreated, just as white people have
been maltreated in states where the
population is largely white. Oppres
sion is not a race uestion. It is as
old as history.
“The negro is treated and under
stood better right here in the south
than anywhere else in the country.
If this is not true why do so many
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 23.
Sidney J. Catts, former governor of
Florida, arrested at Albany, Ga.,
day on a federal warrant charging
peonage, and released in $2,500 bond,
arrived here shortly before 10 o’cloclC
tonight.
No move was made towards ar
resting the former governor on an
indictment returned in Bradford
county for alleged acceptance of a
bribe, and he went immediately; to
the home of his brother-in-law In
Riverside, a suburb.
Mr. Catts was met at the depot by
his daughter, Mrs. K. R. Paderick,
and an elderly woman.
The warrant on which Mr. Catte
was arrested at Albany charges that
he held two negroes, Ed Brown and
John Henry Rodgers, in peonage on
his farm in Walton county. It waa
returned at Pensacola May 18.
The Bradford county grand jury
had previously indicted Mr. Catts on
the allegation that while governor of
the state and ex-ofiicio member of
the pardon board, he received S7OO to
influence his vote for pardoning J. J.
Simmons, a negro serving a life sen
tence at the Raiford state peniten
tiary for tpe murder of a deputy
sheriff in Bay county in 1918.
A capias was issued for his arrest
and bond fixed at $5,000 by Circuit
Judge Long. The Bradford county
jury acted by reason of the fact that
Raiford is located in that county.
Local authorities stated they had
no instructions to arrest the gover
nor here on this charge. Reports
from Albany stated that Attorney
General Buford, of this state, had re
quested that Catts be held until he
furnished bond on the Bradford coun
ty charge. The sheriff requested a
message from Governor Hardee mak
ing the request and when it was not
received at 1:45 o’clock the former
governor was given his freedom.
Advices from Starke, county seat
of Bradford, tonight, were to the ef
fect that the’fopmer governor waa
understood to be enroute there to sur
render at the time of his arrest in
Albany and that no effort would be
made to take him into custody here.
A joint legislative committee !•
conducting an investigation at Talla
hassee into certain official acts of the
former governor. Their sessions have
been executive and no announcement
has been made of the proceedings.
Mr. Catts refused to make a state
ment upon his arrival here, telling
newspaper men that if they "wanted
to be polite leave me alone.” At Al
bany, according to reports, he stated
his arrest was the work of “political
enemies.”
At the home of his daughter to- i
night it was said that Mr. Catta
would make a statement within a few
days. Nothing could be learned of his
future plans.
CATTS MAKES BOND
OB 1 $2,500 IN ALBANI
ALBAN Y. Ga., May 23.—Former
Sidney J. Catts, of Florida,
bond Saturday in the sum of
following his arrest by local
“Jeers on a federal indictment for
peonage in Florida. He left at 1:56
p. m. for Jacksonville.
Five Albany citizens signed the
bond. Mr. Catts was assisted in se
curing bondsmen by the Rev. James
Allen Smith, D. D. v pastor of the
First Baptist church, of Albany, and
the Rev. R. J. O’Bryant, pastor of
the Byne Memorial Baptist church,
the latter a personal friend of the
former governor.
Before the federal bond had been
signed Sheriff Tarver received a tele
phone message from the attorney
general asking that Mr. Catts.be held
for the state authorities after the
federal bond was made. Sheriff Tar
ver asked the attorney general to
nave Governor Hardee, of Florida,
send a telegram containing this re
quest and stating amount of bond.
After a considerable wait the attor
ney general again was called up and
urged to hurry the telegram from
Governor Hardee, but the attorney
replied that he and the governor
would have to hold a lengthy con
ference first. • f
Mr. Catts insisted that the attor
ney general was attempting to delay
matters and harass him in every
way possible, whereupon the sheriff
informed the attorney general that
unless he received a message from
the governor before 1:45 o’clock h#
would release Mr. Catts. who wanted
to leave for Jacksonville at 1:55
P m. The message did not come and
the former governor was allowed to ,
depart. He declared to the last he
had been persecuted.
Before leaving Mr. Catts informed
his bondsmen he had been to British
Columbia and did not learn of the
indictments against him until he was
en route home. When arrested he had
in his possession a ticket from Cin
cinnati to Jacksonville and was
waiting here for a connection.
ENGLISH DO HONOR <
TO ADMIRAL SIMS
LONDON, May 23. —Admiral W. 8.
Sims, U. S. N., arrived here today
with Mrs. Sims. The admiral was
met by numerous friends made hero
during the war. He will receive a
degree from Cambridge university
before returning to the states. The
admiral was honored by an escort
of destroyers sent out to meet his
vessel by the British admiralty.
iNTI-MTISH MDBS
HUN WILD IN EGYPT
i
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt. May 23.
Anti-Britlsh mobs, surging through
the streets here last night, killed
and wounded many persons beforo
they were suppressed by the mili
tary. Additional British trobps have
arrived and today were in full con
trol, although the situation was still
threatening.
Unidentified Man Is
Killed by Ohio Police
LIMA, Ohio, May 21.—An uniden
tified man about 35 ’ years old was
shot and killed here today in a re
volver battle with policemen, when
the latter attempted to stop a tour
ing car in which he and another man,
who gave his name as Joe Willis,
were riding. Willis was captured.
In the car, according to police,
were revolvers, sawed-off shotguns
and a quantity of ammunition.
Authorities of Hunterstown, Ind.,
notified Lima police today to be on
the lookout for two bandits who early
today.according to the advice of lo
cal officials, robbed the bank there
of 30.000 and escaped in a touring
car. Hunterstown is 10 miles from
Fort Wayne.