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THE WEATHER.
Showers Saturday night or Sun
day. Temperatures Saturday (taken
at A. K. Hawkes Co.'s store): S
a. m.,,79 degrees: 10 a. m., 83 de
grees; 3* noon, 84 degrees; 2 p. m,
85 deireea^Bammm^^H
VOL. VIII. NO. 27D.
The Atlanta Georgian
•Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN’
HOME EDITION
AND NEWS
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1910.
“Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN”
TO FIGHT SHARKS
HOME EDITION
PRICE s
Bonds Ready For Any Victims
Who May Be Arrested by
Money Lenders,
LOAN ASSOCIATION IS
NOW WELL UNDER WAY
Meeting Friday Afternoon Re
suits in Definite Plans to Stop
Ravages of Usurious
Agents.
Loan shark* who have been planning
the wholesale arrest of debtors who
testified befofre the grand Jury against
the money lenders would do well to stop
and pond® r * They are not likely to
land anybody in Jail, and It Is by no
means Improbable that they may find
themselves defendants Instead of plain
tiffs In the suits that follow.
The Atlanta Legal Aid society, or
ganized Friday afternoon In tho Cham
ber of Commerce offices, means to fight
tho sharks to a finish. As the first step,
a bonding syndicate was organized with
a $5,000 pledged capital to make bonds
for unfortunates who may bo arrested
us soon as the grand Jury adjourns.
After the investigation of a year ago
the "sharks” sought quick revenge by
having warrants served on numbers of
men who had braved their displeasure
by testifying os to usurious transac
tions, and it is expected they will at
tempt the same move when tho present
grand Jury adjourns next week.
W. Woods White presided at the
mooting and explained its objects. Tho
svndlcate, in which a number of citi
zens pledged themselves for $500 each
to support Mr. White In going on bonds
for debtors, was quickly formed.
Society Organized.
A constitution and by-laws were
adopted by tho meeting. Membership
in the Legal Aid society will be open
to the public and fees will be fixed at
varying amounts, from $10 to $100 a
year. The aoclcty will offer legal ud-
vlco and aid to men and women who
havo fallen In the clutches of the
sharks, and will fight cuses, if neces
sary, thru the supremo courts.
The following directors were chosen
for the society: W. Woods White,
V. H. Kriegshaber, W. L. Llnglo, David
Marx, David Woodward, W. O. Foote,
V. L. Smith, W. O. Cooper. Isaac
Sohoen. Fre,l j. Paxon, J. Fred Lewis,
Ed Alfrlend, Edgar Watkins, W. D.
Ellis, Jr., Cam Dorsey. Philip Alston,
J. Carroll Payne. Mell R. Wilkinson, E.
C. Kontz and Walter Colquitt.
The money lending association, to
work in conjunction with the Legal Aid
hociety, was then taken ifp and will ho
fully organized In a short time. It Is
proposed to Issue stock In this organ
ization which will furnish sufficient
capital to mako ample loans to deserv
ing unfortunates, charging only a fair
rate of Interest—much below tho llle-
*• gal rates now charged by "sharks," tho
it Is not proposed to compete with le
gitimate financial companies nnd their
investments.
Mr. White on 8herk*.
\V. Woods White, who has vigorously
pressed tho movement ngalnst tho
money-lending evil In Atlanta, niado
several brief talks to the citizens pres
ent. He recited, from his notes, sev
eral cases whero tho Interest charged
unfortunate men and women had been
almost unbelievable. Ho told of one
case where a railroad man had paid
several times the amount of the princi
pal and still was not free from the
clutches of the loan men. He told of
agents who go to negro houses and of
fer to lend a negro woman $5 and then
collect $1 every week as long as the
victim will pay, kindly refraining from
askingvfor the principal. He gave nu
merous examples of oppression among
working people.
"It is the methods of the loan agents
we must fight,” ho said. "1 would pot
u ant to stop the loan business entirely.
I know of cases where some of these
men havo mude loans to unfortunates
Continued on Pegs Fourteen.
Want Ads
One Cent a Word.
On yesterday the
Atlanta papers carried
Want Ads as follows:
Georgian 578
Journal... J70)c 77
Constitution. 202p
To help those who an out of a posi
tion or who desirs a better one, Ths
Georgian prints want ads nndsr ths clas
sification "Situation* Wantsd" free.
Want Ads published by
all the Atlanta newspapers
for the week ending June
18, 1910, a period of six
working days: The Geor
gian carried 3.078 PAID
Want Ads; Journal, 2,382;
Constitution, 1,242 Want
ads.
The Georgian prints no
Sunday paper.
HH11APPIY
West Side Improvement Club
Places Case in Hands of At
torney Anderson.
MENACE TO HEALTH
THE CITIZENS DECLARE
Great Lake of Green Slime
Covers Tract in Fifth Ward
and Threatens Epidemic
in That Section.
Members of the West Side Park
Improvement club, who have been urg
ing the removal of the city's dumping
ground at tho cJty gate, have turned
their case over to Attorney James L.
Anderson und the city of Atlanta will
be enjoined In tho courts as soon as Mr.
Anderson prepares the bill.
"We will stop the nuisance,” said Mr.
Anderson, “for the city has no more
right than an individual to perpetrate
a nuisance on a community."
Since tho protest was first begun the
citizens of tho Fifth ward, and those
living just outside the city, say they
will not stop their fight until relief is
given. Night soil and the carcasses of
many dead animals are thrown In the
dump, as well as a great quantity of
garbage. Tho pile covers ten acres and
lias been used so long as a receptacle
for refuse matter that for a depth of
many feet there is nothing but filth.
In time of rains the water seeps thru
and forms a lake of xllmy green liquid.
Muny doctors havo pronounced It an
awful menace to health.
At a recent meoting of the club, when
subscriptions were asked to ITclp de
fray the expenso of removal, a man
with tattered clothes arose.
“Gentlemen,” he said, "I am a poor
man and need every cent I can get for
a livelihood. I have no money at pres
ent. but in 30 days I will get some and
I will give $25, which will bo the great
er part of the sum I will get, to help
make my home decent to live In.”
mils,"
YELLS M'MURRAY
Attorney Accused in Alleged
Attempted Bribe Case
Grows Angry.
Washington, Juna 25.—J. F. McMur-
ray, of Oklahoma. In tho Interest of
whose law llrm at South McAleater,
Okla., Senator Oore, of that state,
charged In the senate yesterday that
certain membera or ex-members of the
senate and house of representative!
tried to Induce him to accept a bribe.
.-■> that certain legislation regarding
Chlekneaw and Choctaw land* could be
Hissed, when *een this morning, *ald:
"Senator (lore 1 * declarations In the
„enate yesterday were a conglomeration
of Ilea, damn lies, without tho slightest
foundation. The only reason I can at
tribute for the Oklahoma senator’s re
marks I* that we were divided In opin
ions as to how certain contracts made
regarding tho Indian lands of which I
have charge should bo passed on. Sen.
ator Gore wished legislation enacted
whereby congress could put Its a. k.
on all these contracts. It has been my
contention and that of numerous other
persons Interested-In the land and In
Oklahoma affairs generally that the
signatures of President Taft and of
Secretay of the Interior Ballinger would
suffice to complete these contracts.
This In the opinion of the majority
of landholders and others, would save
time and do away with the usual 'red
tape' generally necessary In anything
with which congress has any dealing.
1 have represented the Choctaws and
Chickasaw* In their land affairs for
many years. Till* statement, charging
bribery seems to me to bo nothing
more than a malicious political move on
th- part of the Oklahoma senator to
kill some legislation to which he Is op
posed It Is cither that, or that he
wants to make a play to the gallery,
upholding himself to the people of his
state a* a perfect specimen of honesty,
a* fhr the statement that I or any
body else would realise millions out
of the transaction, that Is too absurd
to talk about. It makes me mad to
talk about the affair. Can I excuse
myself by saying that It Is an Infamous
lie without any cause?"
McGuire Enters Osnial.
Representative McGuire, of Okla
homa. whoso Identity has been Indi
cated In connection with renator Gore's
charges, was at the white house this
morning for the purpose of paying hie
respects to President Taft before leav
ing for Oklahoma. When asked about
the charges made by Senator Gore, he
said:
•'I know that I am the member of
the house that Senator Oore had In
mind w hen he spoke on the floor of the
senate yesterday. There Is nothing for
me to fear In this matter. My hands
are clean. The provision I offered cov
ering this matter will stand Investiga
tion It was a compromise, agreed to
hv the two factions of Oklahoma Inter
ested In this fight. The compromise
provides that these rlalms must be
o k'd by tbe president of (he United
States and by the secretary of the In-
Continued on Pago Fourteen.
UNDER THE WIRE
IN A FAST CANTER
Session Will Wind Up Some
Time Saturday Aft
ernoon. i
CAMPAIGN PUBLICITY
BILL FINALLY PASSED
But the Public Will Not Know
Until After Election Is Over.
Senator Gore Holds Up
McMurray’s Claim.
Washington, Juno 25.—Congress will
adjourn this afternoon.
An agreement waa reached this morn
ing to oonclude the preeent session dur
ing an hour as early In thp day as pos
sible.
Only the conference report on the
general deficiency bill and a few other
matters of leaser Importance now stand
In the way of adjournment. Senator
Crane, who generally knows what the
senate Intends doing before It actually
dnea It, said this morning that an un
derstanding had been arrived at be
tween the two branches of congress for
an adjournment probably In the middle
of the afternoon.
He was asked If the senate seeelon
might not be prolonged Into the night,
but replied that such a plan was not
expected. He said the whole program
could be cleaned up Before night If
both houses carried out the plans now
provided for.
Publicity Bill.
As soon as the speaker called the
house to order this morning Represen
tative Gaines, of West Virginia: called
up the conference report on the Mc
Call campaign publicity bill. Ho want
ed to have the bill rushed thru, but was
prevented by Aotlng Whip Gamer, of
the Democrats, who said he would rales
the question of no quorum until debate
was allowed. Gaines consented and for
nearly an hour the senate amendment.
Continued on Page Fourteen,
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TO PEOPLE’S WILL
AT NEX[ SESSION
Movement For Popular Elec
tions Is Expected to
Bring Results.
ONE OF THE SCHOOL BOND8 I88UED BY ATLANTA AND 80LD AT PREMIUM.
The first Issue of bonds authorized under the recent election has arrived at the olty hall from the en
gravers. Ths Issue wai sold at a premium to Atlanta dealers.
FIELD TO
He Had Never Formally An
nounced and Won’t Make
the Race Now.
CANDIDATES’ PLANS
IN FORMATIVE STATE
“Nothing Doing” at Either Of
fice Saturday—Both 'Read
ing Letters From Friends
Promising Support.
WILL ENTER FIELD:
That the city council at Its next
meeting will rescind action on the
vote of the people” amendment and
bow to the clearly expressed wish of
the public le now freely predicted fol
lowing the movement of the past few
days looking toward a public expres.
slnn of the people's will. The mass
meeting at tha Auditorium on next
Tuesday night will probably result In a
pretest against council's action which
will bring results.
Supporters of the movement declare
that tho Atlanta votera have twice ex
pressed at the polls their desire to elect
their own city officials by direct vote,
and even whether this be considered by
council a wise movement or not, It Is up
to council to abide by the will of the
people, whose servants the members of
that body are,
\ The committees planning the big
mass meeting to be held Tuesday night
at the Auditorium will meet Saturday
afternoon. The Invitation coramlttre
will extend a special request to the
legislature and the council to be pres
ent and hear and see for themselves
the twice reiterated desire of the peo-
pl. It Is expected that the demonstra
tion on Tuesday night will practically
eliminate the opposition of council.
At the last meeting of council when
the clerk, recorder, warden, building In
spector and city electrician were takon
from the list of those to be elected by
■he people, there were many members
absent.
At a full meeting of council," say*
Aldlne Chambers, "there Is always a
majority In favor of the election by the
people."
Atlanta to Have New Life In
surance Company With
Home Office Here.
The Georgia Travelers association
met In their second annual convention
Saturday morning In the ball room of
the New Kimball house.
They were welcomed to the city by
Mayor Robert F. Maddox and the re
sponse was by U \V. Reeves.
The report of the secretary showed
that the organization waa In a very
nourishing condition and twelve new
members were taken In at the morning
session.
A committee was appointed to push
the passage of the "hotel Inspection"
law which will be presented to the
present legislature.
President R. H. Buchanan presided
and announced that at Che afternoon
session the assemblage would be ad
dressed by 1. K. On.
With the organisation and application
for charter of the Cosmopolitan Life
Insurance Company, Atlanta la to add
to her Met of Industries a million-dollar
life Insurance company, which will be
gin busineee In four weeks, or upon til*
granting of the application for charter
under the laws of Georgia.
It la the purpose of the company, with
such a large paid In capital and sur
plus, to open simultaneously In and
develop tho entire Southern and West
ern states. Its operations will be based
on the old line legal reserve plan, under
which so many of the most noted In
surance companies have won their suc
cess
The home offices of the company will
be In Atlanta, and several hundred per
sons will be employed in looking after
the company's Interests at this point.
In the list of the charter members of
this organization will he fodnd the
names of men prominent In business
and financial circles of the state. These
are:
Hon. J. Pope Brown, state treasurer:
Joseph Htrsch. capitalist: Clllford An
derson. attorney: J. B. Holllngahead,
state bank examiner: Thomas H.
Lumpkin, whoesale dry goods mer
chant: Etf M. Wafer, state commission
er's chief clerk and advertising expert
In the department of Industries and Im
migration.
The big offer of Inducements to be
found In this Hold coupled with the
rapidly developing disposition of South
erner* to look with favor upon Imur-
ance companies whose Investments will
be practically all made at home, to-
S ether wllh the broad-gaugcl plan un-
er which the Cosmopolitan rompnny
1s to do business, will doubtless assure
It the most successful operation from
the start.
_ > endeavors beve pur
[y endeared’ ths sksst tc ms. Yon wtU.
therefor*, Bad Uwloood chock to corn
subscript lea for tho coning yoor. with
th* odnonltion, "Keep the goad work
gn^oni” Tsn r* r°iIii0XLBY.
MldwtUo, Os , June 4. 1(10.
OF THAT LETTER?
The question of questions In legisla
tive circles Just now Is: “Who wrote
that letter?”
And "that letter* refers to the un
signed communication sent by Thomaa
E. Watson Friday to the house of rep
resentatives In which charges of graft
were made against J. Lee Harron, keep,
er of public buildings and grounds, and
which also contained Insinuations
against the probity of R. F. Duckworth
and John Lee, of the Farmers union,
at Union City.
Mr. Watson has signified his wil
lingness to send the name of the writer
of the epistle to Speaker John X. Hol
der, but at noon Saturday Mr. Holder
hod recelved.no word from the editor
of The Jeffersonian,
Friday's mall held a letter from Mr.
Watson to Oovernor Brown of the
same Import os that sent to the speak
er of the house. The communication
was almost Identical with that received
by Mr. Holder, with the exception that
the writer' did not refer to the "un
wisdom” of the chief executive in ap
pointing Mr. Barron to the place he'
now occupies.
Committee Is Scattsrsd.
ft Is understood that most of the
members of the committee on public
property, to which the Watson letter
was referred, have gone to their homes
and that there will not be another
meeting to consider the matter until
Monday. It Is at least certain the com
mittee will not meet again until the
name of the writer of the letter making
the charges of graft Is In their pos
session.
A great many of the members of th**
legislature approached on the subject
by a reporter for The Georgian appear
to regard the matter in the light of a
tempest In a tea pot
Why Writ# to Watson?
“if the writer of the letter wants the
legislature to probe graft charges, why
did he not write to the speaker direct?*’
asked one. “Personally, while I do not
know much about the matter and less
about Mr. Barron, I do not see how the
charges could be sustained when It Is
a matter of common knowledge that all
th** contracts referred to were let aft*»r
sealed bids had been submitted. Mr.
Barron had no way of knowing how the
contracts wer» to be awarded, and, so
far as I can lenrn, no say whatever In
the matter."
"One can hardly say what the legis
lature will do In the case,” said an
other. "It depends upon the character
Continued on Peg# Fourteen.
Notices of Sunday Ser
vices in Atlanta churches
appear on page 22.
DEL VAL RESIGNS,
BUT THE PONTIFF
WON’THEARto it
Pope Says He Had Rather Give
Up Papacy Than Give
Up His Secretary.
Romo, June 24.—Revelation of the
fact that Cardinal Merry Del Val, papal
secretary of state, had tendered his
resignation to Pop# Plus X nnd that
the pontiff hsd refused to accept It
caused a sensation here today. The
cardinal's action hsd not be*n unex
pected, hut that of the pope caused
great surprise In view of the critical
situation now existing In the relations
between the Vatican nnd Germany and
Spain.
That the pope will remain Arm In his
support of the secretary was made evl-
Contlnued on Page Fourteen.
Judge R. B. Russell w*tl not bo ■
candidate for tho. governorship.
In his statement made igat January
Judgo Russell said emphatically that
he would not enter any race In which
both Oovernor Brown and former Gov
ernor Hoke Smith were candidates.
When Oovernor Smith made his an
nouncement this let Judge Russell out.
Judge Russell had never Issued any
formal announcement that he would
become a candidate, hut when It be
came known that he was eonslderinff
this move he was the recipient of many
assurance* of support.
In view of the fact that Judge Rus
sell ha* made no formal announcement
of hi* Intention to become a candidate
It Is not regarded as likely that ho will
make any announcement "withdraw
ing" from the race.
Getting Ready to Begin.
The formative state, the beginning ta
get ready to commence, the Just tremb
ling on the rise—that about describes
the present status of the campaign lit
both the Hoke Smith nnd Joe Brown
ramps.
Busy scenes were presented Satur
day morning at the office of ex-Govern-
nr Hoke Smith and the (lve rooms on
the ftfth floor of the Peters building
which have been engaged as tho Smith
headquarters, but they didn't havo
about them the hurry, rush and swing
that Is characteristic of the later
stages of a campaign.
It was not the sending eat of cam
paign matter, the encouraging of forces
nnd the strengthening of the lines, but
It was the receiving of campaign mat
ter congratulating the chief of one of
tho factions that he had consented to
go upon the war path.
Mr. Smith spent the early morning
hours Saturday opening and reading
his messages, but later went to tha
cnpltol, where he was to Argus a case
In the supreme court.
TVhnt about his campaign manager,
about hie campaign committee and
about state and county organizations?
"Nothing doing" yet Everything ten
tative nnd formative.
Even the Smith headquarters room*
have not been completely manned with
desks and operatives to look after tho
clerical work.
Committee of Legislature?
Word, however, hoa been brought to
the ex-governor that a committee from
the legislature Is being organized to aid
In his campaign In the state at largo.
That's formative, too.
Many of the close political friend* of
Mr. Smith are coming Into his head
quarters to share In the work to bo
done there. No formal organisation
meetings have been held by them ns
yet. That's In the formative state, too.
News Is also being received of ths
organisation of Hoke Smith clubs In
the state. It Is all Impromptu go far,
however, and no attempt has been made
to weld them Into a political whole.
Have Smith or Brown anything to
give out to the public, any statement td
make? Not yet. That la all ferment
ing and brewing, too, but not yet ready
to he put on draught.
Brown 8ay!ng Nothing,
Over nt the capltof Oovernor Brown
had nothing to give out either of hi*
campaign or of anything In the nature
of a statement for publication. But
assurances of support from all parts of
the state are being received there alao^
and there Is news of the organisation
of many Joe Brown clubs. And yet
here, ton, there Is nothing deflnlte th be
said. It's all formative.
Political weather prophets say It I*
the calm before the storm that Is to
break In a few days. Others say It be
tokens a quiet, uneventful campaign.
Mothers! Read To Your Little Ones
—A BED-TIME STORY
Beginning Monday, The Georgian will introduce
to its readers a series of most delightful stories
for children, written by
Edith Havens—“Little
Bed-Time Tales."
You mothers who recall the
hcntttiful days of your own
childhood will take (treat in
terest in these clean, whole
some, imaginative little storiea
read in a few momenta to
your little tots before bed
time.
The Georgian hag secured
exclusive rights to these storiea
in this section, and there will
be one on the back page every*
‘day. Watch for the first num
ber. Read them to the little
folks.