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VOL. X. NO. 236.
WILSON LOSS
OF GEORGIA
INCREASED
T 014,211
Underwood’s Majority Mate
rially Swelled by Further
* Returns of Primary.
ALABAMAN CARRIES 106
OF 146 COUNTIES IN STATE
Professor’s Defeat Is Most
Humiliating in Many of
Its Aspects.
Underwood's plurality over Wil
son, 14,211.
Total vote cast, 131,412.
Underwood received 72,299.
Wilson received 58,088.
Clark received 701.
Harmon received 324.
Underwood carried 106 counties.
Wilson carried 40 counties.
There are 146 counties in Geor-
gia.
The Napoleon of the Woodrow Wil
son effort to capture the South, Sena
tor Hoke Smith, of Georgia, selected
this state to be the Wilson field of
Waterloo.
Like that other Napoleon who, for a
time, messed up the rpap of Europe so
thoroughly that its best friends were
hardly able to recognize it from one
day to another. Dixie’s self-appointed
Napoleon went forth to Waterloo to do
or die, but pretty sure, in his own mind,
that there was to be no dying fool
ishness about it.
It was proclaimed, with the usual
preliminary fanfare of trumpets, that
the South was about 10 be shown which
way it should go presidentially—shown
by Senator Smith and his political ma
chine.
Professor Wilson didn't know much
about "hat was going on: and. being a
guileless and unsuspecting sort of per
son. he let Napoleon have it his way.
The professor never had butted in on
Southern politics, anyway: and Napo
leon is a mighty persuasive and sweet
ly argumentative general now and
then.
The Professor
Played His Part.
So Professor Wilson said all right;
k if Napoleon knew that Waterloo was
the place to pull off the big fight and
get away with the bacon, he (the pro
fessor) would come down and jolly the
dear people along the line, and trust to
Napoleon to do the real directing of the
Wilson star of destiny.
And Napoleon took the Wilson star
of destiny, loaded it in his biggest
cannon, and fired it bang in the face of
“Little Joe" Brown —which the profes
sor never suspected was going to hap
pen at all—and the impact left “Little
Joe" standing right where Napoleon
found him. but it busted the poor little
star into so many fragments that all
the king's horses and all the king's
men will never be able to put it to
£*> gether again!
Wilson's Defeat
Overwhelming.
Even the I-told-ypu-sos have been
amazed almost to silence by the mag
nitude of the Wilson defeat, as .the
final figures disclose it.
Os course. 243.796 people did tell the
( few Doubting Thomases at large in
' Georgia that Wilson was going to he
so badly lost in the shuffle that he
—-w never would be dug up again, but pre
y cious few believed that it was going to
be as bad as it was.
Even The Atlanta Georgian, which
ii estimated Underwood’s plurality from
12.000 to 14.001 at first, and then back
ed off to 10.000. eventually had to
admiti ti s slightly over Its own out-
• side figure given out Wednesday night
at 9:30 o’clock.
The remote country counties coming
in at the last hour, some of them not
i until this morning, showed up practi
cally solid for Underwood.
The farmers of Georgia lined them
selves stoutly and aggressively against
Wilson.
It was shrewdly calculated by the
Wilson people that Mr. Eartfipr would
not bother to vote in this presidential
. > campaign to any considerable extent —
and he might not have bothered so
s much as he did. moreover, if Napoleon
c . hadn't undertaken to fix it so that the
small counties would be choked to death
by the big city counties in the final
count, no matter what happened.
The big city vote, which came in
first of all. shov|d getaway
bad enough, but better than it ever
was afterward.
As the country vote was reported.
Underwood pulled steadily farther and
j farther ahead. As the very remote
5... courities were reported, his ratio of in
■fe crease began to jump tremendously.
And the final summing up put Wilson
down and out even more emphatically
than his dearest enemy dared hope in
Georgia when the polls opened on Wed
, - nesday morning.
Taken all in all, Wilson's defeat was
| one of the most humiliating and com
plete ever recorded in the state.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read. For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results
BOLDPLOTTD
STEAL TAFT
DELEGATES
IN SOUTH
President Hears of Suspicious
Moves by Boss Barnes
and Acts.
TELLS JACKSON TO KEEP
A “STRANGLE CLUTCH”
Hughes Being Groomed as Dark
Horse—Atlanta Collector to
Keep Eyes Open.
WASHINGTON, May 3.—Strong evi.
dence of a well laid plot to steal from
President Taft the> delegates of every
Southern state and make his nomina
tion impossible has aroused the easy
going chief executive to action, and the
announcement was made early today
upon his return to the white house that
he would take personal charge of his
campaign from now on.
The plot involves William Barnes,
Jr., Republican boss of New York state,
who fought desperately against in
structing the Empire State’s delegation
for the president. It was first revealed
in a secret letter sent to the leaders of
the Taft henchmen in the South.
This letter was the subject of a
lengthy conference between Henry S.
Jackson, collector of internal revenue
at Atlanta, against whom serious
charges have recently been made by a
weekly publication, and the president
aboard Mr. Taft's special train on its
way to Washington today.
Taft Tells Jackson
To Keep Strangle Hold.
Jackson was the president's guest
and until the early hours the two went
over the Southern situation. Mr. Taft
is thoroughly alarmed and Jackson is
understood to have been given rigid in
structions to keep a strangle hold on
his delegates.
The hot fire directed, at Jackson re
cently by the Roosevelt forces put him
in urgent need of comfort and solace,
and It Is understood he was ready to
promise the president everything he
asked. However, the Atlanta collector
insisted to the president that the
Southern Taft leaders, in Georgia at
any rate, interpreted the Barnes letter
as meaning that William Barnes. Jr., is
for the president.
The president was not reassured. Ho
has received information from reliable
sources that the Republican boss is
preparing to throw the New York dele
gation to Charles E. Hughes, now su
preme court justice and the most con
spicuous dark horse that ever balked
at running in a pr Jdential race. No
body supposes that* Barnes is in love
with Hughes.
Barnes Sounds Out
Leaders in Daring Plot.
But Barnes is convinced that, ac
cording to present indications, the split
Republican party in New York is going
to be badly whipped in the November
election. It is a case of the Albany
boss loving not Taft less, but Barnes
more, and in the belief that Hughes
can carry the state for him, he has
turned to the former governor for help.
Barnes has sounded out Taft leaders
throughout the country on this daring
plot to desert the titular head of the
Republican party. A number of the
Southern filer, who received it inter
preted it as indicating that New York's
uninstructed delegation will not sup
port Taft, but is looking for a compro
mise candidate.
The president is pretty well con
vinced that this is the situation he
faces, and is said to have so told Jack
son. The president arrived at the white
house about 9 o'clock and simultane
ously the announcement was made that
he “will personally direct his campaign
for renomination from this time on un
til the national convention at Chicago."
Delegates Refuse
To Desert Colonel
BOSTON, May 3.—The eight dele
gates at large elected in the Massa
chusetts preference primary and pledg
ed to vote for Theodore Roosevelt will
vote according to their personal Incli
nations when convention time comes
around, according to today’s develop
ments in the tangled presidential situ
ation in the Bay state.
Colonel Roosevelt has released • the
“big eight" after learning the result of
the preference vote. But Charles S.
Baxter, who led the Roosevelt slate,
declared. 'I have always been a Roose
velt man and I still am," and it is be
lieved that the attitude of the other
delegates will be the same as that of
Baxter.
The Taft forces, however, are not
satisfied with the situation. They have
announced'that they will demand a re
count of the state vote for delegates at
large, and if this recount still shov s a
Roosevelt lead, will attempt to prevent
the seating of the Roosevelt delegates
at the convention.
FIRST PHOTO OF PRESIDENT TAFT
AND HIS NEW AID TAKEN IN GEORGIA
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This 'photograph taken in Savannah Wednesday is the first made of President Taft with
his new military aid. Major T. L. Rhoades, who was recently appointed to succeed Major
Archie W. Butt, the gallant young Georgian, who lost his life when the Titanic went down in
mid-ocean. Major Rhoades is shown in full uniform in an automobile with the president. The
photograph was taken upon the arrival of the presidential party from Washington to attend
the Hibernian centennial celebration held in Savannah. The president was entertained highly.
KILL ME OIINX
PLEMSJLLEN
Outlaw Chief, in State of Col
lapse, Wails, “I Have
No Chance.”
WYTHEVILLE. VA., May 3.—Floy <1
Allen, leader of the outlaw gang that
wiped out the Carroll county court at
Hillsville, was in a state of collapse
while his trial for the murder of Prose
cutor Foster went on today.
He was pale and trembled in every
limb when carried into court. .Just as
court convened Judge Staples was in
formed that the prisoner last night
begged his guard to cut his throat.
■■l've got no chance,” Allen said to
the jailer. “Kill me quick and have it
over with. I’m all in."
Judge Staples ordered that Allen
should hereafter be watched carefully
night and day to prevent suicide. The
guard will also be doubled over the
other prisoners.
Cyrus Gibbs, a. civil engineer of Car
roll county, took uji a great deal of the
early session of coqt t explaitilftg in de
tail maps of the Hillsville court ],-■ is<-.
that the Jurors might have a clear idea
of the conditions tinder which the
shooting took place.
ILLNESS POSTPONES
PROBE OF SOUTHERN
BELL TELEPHONE CO,
The investigation of the Southern
Bell Telephone Company has been
postponed until Wednesday afternoon
at 3 o'clock on account of the illness of
Alderman John E. McClelland, chair
man of the committee.
When the probe is begun a hearing
will be given the company officials and
all citizens who wish to make com
plaints. After receiving tnis evidence
the committee will decide whether the
case should be taken to the railroad
commission.
JUDGE PALMER CHEERY
DESPITE ELECTION DEFEAT
Judge H. E. W. Palmer, who was
taken seriously ill at his office Mon
day. is recovering rapidly and expects
to be able to resume his duties within
a short time.
"I wish to express my thanks to my
friends who stood by me in the race
for county commissioner," said he in a
statement issued today. "My failure
to be re-elected w ill not in any way!
impair my kindly feeling toward the'
voters of Fulton, nor will it make me |
any less willing to do all in my power
for the public good.”
PICTURE SHOWS SOLACE
TO PEOPLE. SAYS GAYNOR
NEW YORK. May 3.—ln a letter to
the board of aidermen. Mayor Gayn-T
says that the moving picture shows are
a great solace to the community.
ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, .MAY 3. 1912.
Despondent Over His
Domestic Troubles, He
Tries to End His Life
E. Batta. of 107 Fraser street, shot
himself in the breast near the heart
today in an attempt at suicide. He
was sent to Grady hospital at. once,
and is not expected to live. His recent
troubles with his wife are believed- to
be the cause of his attempt to kill
himself. •
Batta appeared in the police court a
short time ago. when, he brought
charges against his wife, and she was
held to the state courts. At the trial
Mrs. Batta tried to jump from a win
dow on the fourth floor of the court
room, but an officer caught her just as
she attempted to leap. She was dis
missed, as under the Georgia law a
husband can not testify against his
Wife.
A divorce suit against Mrs.-Batta is
now pending in the courts.
WILL ADDRESS LAW
STUDENTS ON TWO
GOVERNING SYSTEMS
Upon the invitation of the Atlanta
Law school, S. G. McLendon, former
chairman of the state railroad com
mission, will address the senior and
junior classes of that institution on
■The Swiss vs. the American Initiative,
Referendum and Recall" tonight in the
convention hall of the New Kimball.
A full discussion of the two systems
of popular government will be given by
the former commissioner. Mr, McLen
don is thoroughly familiar with his sub
ject. as he has spent much time collect
ing data both on the American and for
eign forms of government.
Besides the two higher classes of the
Atlanta Law school, the other students
of that institution with the Atlanta bur
are expeced to be present.
MINNESOTA BANK CLOSED;
VICE PRESIDENT MISSING
WINNEBAGO CITY. MINN., May 3.
Bank examiners today are investigat
ing the affairs of the Bank of Com
merce here following the closing of the
institution at their order after a brief
I preliminary investigation,
H. W. Parker, vice president of the
institution, has left the city. At the
bunk and at his home it is said his
whereabouts are not known.
6-TON PRINTING PRESS
FALLS SIX FLOORS
CHICAGO, Max 3. A six ton printing
press being hoisted into the new building i
of Rand, McNally Company, slipped from
its tackle and fell six tv <-i • to the street.
It crashed through into the basement.
| A number of pedestrian:; had narrow es-
I capes. The press was demolished and
damage amounting to SIO,OOO was done.
WHITE SQUIRREL NEWEST
FREAK. GOTHAM’S BOAST
NEW YORK, May 3.—John Seaton,
superintendent of public buildings In
Richmond borough declares he saw a
white ■i'liiir-'-l while- motoring along
Jewett avenuj|
HEBS' PKT OFF
LOOK FOR STRIKE
. I
Break in Peace Negotiations
May Result in Walkout of
170,000 Men.
WILKESRARRE. PA.. May 3.—That
any referendum vote of the anthracite
miners on the peace agreement, which
. was rejected by their conference com
mittee in New York yesterday, will
support th<> action of the committee
was the opinion expressed by leaders
here today. As a result of the break
off In the New York negotiations, be
< ause the operators insisted on the abo
lition <if the sliding scale, the same
leaders say they expect that there will
ultimately be a strike in the anthra
cite fields, which will affect 170,000
' men.
Hitch on Wages.
The anthracite leaders declare that
the supposed ten per cent increases
offered by the operators amounted to
little- more than live per cent, with the
sliding scale gone, and they demanded
1 some form of union recognition.
The possibility of a miners’ conven
tion, probably held in this city, to
■ which the whole matter will be refer- ,
red., is now very strong, although it
was reported that President John P.
White, of the United Mine Workers,
and his follow committeemen might
make- a final attempt to have negotia
tions in New York reopened.
SMOKE CAUSES ALARM IN
MOVING PICTURE SHOWS
A pan!' was threatened last night in
the moving picture- shows on Peach
tree street by volumes of smoke drift
ing in from a blaze >n Auburn ave
nue. This and the clanging of gongs
as the fire apparatus dashed by made
the spectators rush to the exits.
The people on the outside were quick j
to locate the fire, and the rush was
stopped before it assumed dangerous
proportions or any one was injured.
[HAMBURG-AMERICAN
LINE’S CHIEF IS DEAD
GREENWICH. CONN. May 3.—Emil
L. Boas, director and g'-nera! manager
of the Hamburg-American steamship
' line, died early today at his home here
after a four days illness, from influenza
and incipient, pneumonia.
Mr. Boas was born on November 15.
1854. in Goerlitz, German”, and was
educated at the royal Frederick Wil
liam gymnasium, Breslau and Sophia
gymnasium, Berlin. His wealth is es
timated at several millions.
N? PARADES AT POST.
Dress parades at Fort McPherson will
be discontinued for three weeks, on ac
count of the absence of a part of the
regiment at Waco, where it is engaged
in target practice
KHH DUEL ID DEATH
FOLLOWS GAME HUH
"THE GIRL FROM N. V
Women Terror-Stricken Outside Door
as Men Battle Alone in Dining Room
of Mechanic Street House—Find One
Killed and Other Wounded.
Slayer Arrested as He Enters Cab and Five 1
Women Are Held by Police---On Hospital
Cot Story of Tragedy Is Told—lnquest To Be j
Held by Coroner.
Alone in the dining room of Belle Burton’s resort, at 28 Me
chanic street, this morning at 3 o’clock, C. Richard Harper, rep
resentative of an insurance publication, and Kell Potts,
clerk for the Southern Express Company, fought a duel with
knives, and when terrified women of the place entered, after the .
struggle had ceased, they found Harper dead from a dozen ■
wounds and Potts bleeding and barely conscious.
They had quarreled over the result of a matching contest‘d J
with a hottie of beer the stake. "|g
The body of Harper lies in the morgue of a local undertaker,
awaiting a coroner's inquest this astern ion. Potts, his head ]
swathed in bandages, is in Grady hospi il under the guard of a
policeman. Five women are locked in tl police station to tell the
coroner the story of the quarrel and the! tragedy which ended it.
“Dick” Harper,'as he was called, had
lived in Atlanta for the past year
with his wife and sister. He came from
Louisville, Ky„ about a year ago
as the representative of The Insurance
Field, a trade paper. Kell Potts is the son
of the late Frank M. Potts, a wholesale
liquor dealer, and lives at 21 East Fifth
street. He Is a clerk for the Southern
Express Company. He and Harper
were close friends, ✓
Matching for Beer
With “Girl From N. Y.”
Harper told his wife yesterday aft
ernoon that he was called out of town
on a business trip. Shortly after mid
night he and Potts drove In an auto to
the segregated district. In Mechanic
street. They were drinking then, the
■> omen say. and they drank more after
lheir arrival.
"Harper was matching for a bottle of
beer with The New York Girl,'" said
Potts on the operating table at Grady
hospital. "They quarreled over who had
won.
" 'The girl won it.' I said to Harper.
Then he came at me with a knife. He
cut me, and then I drew my knife and
went at him."
Marie Danto, known as "The New
York Girl,” told the police of the begin
ning of the duel. She sobbed hyster
ically as she described the quarrel and
the attack.
“At first they cut. each other, but not
bad." she said. "Then they shook hands
and seemed friendly. But right after
that they went out of the dining room
into the dance hall and shut the door.
There was an awful hoise of feet on the
bare floor, and cursing, and then a fall.
After a little while we opened the door
and went in. Harper was lying dead
on the floor and Potts was bleeding
and faint. We thought he was dead,
too.”
Shrieking Women
Call Policeman.
Potts pulled himself together in a
few moments after the affray and left
the house. He had just climbed into a
cab at the door and was ordering the
drivy to leave when Policeman Lewis
Whitley, summoned by shrieking wom
en who had fled into the street, ran up
and arrested him. An ambulance was
called and he was sent to Grady hos
pital, where his wounds were bandaged.
The physicians say he will recover.
In the cab the patrolman found a
bloody knife, a long-bladed pocket
knife of the type used by physicians.
He sent it to the-station to be used as
evidence. The knife used by Harper
was found on the polished floor of the
dance hall.
The restricted district was thrown
into a turmoil by the news of the trag.
edy, which spread rapidly through the
street. There was a hurried exodus at
once. Women gathered in little groups
on doorsteps and street corners. In a
few minutes the patrol automobile came
clanging Ihto the street, and when it
returned to the .station it carried as
prisoners Marie Danto. Lucile Kern.
Ovie Martin. Ethel Russell aryl "Jack"
Davis, all women inmates of the re
sort.
Charles T. Hopkins and John W.
Moore, attorneys, appeared at the sta
tion today to examine the women wit
nesses prior to the inquest. They have
been retained by the family of Harper
for the prosecution of Potts.
EXTRA
. -
Pl'lrj? On Trains. FIVE CENTS.
rillLT> i n Atlanta. TWO CENTS.
T. R. AND TAFT IN
ANOTHER OREL
Colonel Invades Maryland, and
the President Is to Follow.
Advice to Negroes.
BALTIMORE, May 3.—Colonel The- ,j
odore Roosevelt made a whirlwind tour
of Maryland today In an effort to carry ,
the state in the presidential preference |
primary to be held on Monday. Presl
dent Taft will follow him tomorrow and
they will fight It out as they did in
Massachusetts.
The colonel arrived at Salisbury at
4:30 o’clock this morning and started
in after a few hours’ rest on a program
of eleven scheduled speeches and a
number of impromptu platform talks.
At 9:30 o’clock this morning the ex- M
president addressed an enthusiastic ’
meeting at Salisbury. He then left for
Havre De Grace, where he was sched
uled to speak this afternoon. He will j
arrive at Union station. Baltimore, at J
5 o'clock this afternoon.
In his Salisbury speech Colonel j
Roosevelt attacked President Taft and 1
denounced bribery of voters at pri- ’
marles.
"Our opponents, and I am sorry to 5
say Mr. Taft has safcj it, do not trust a
the people to rule themselves,” said the j
ex-president.
“Mr, Taft has told us that he dis- j
trusts the impulsive judgment of the j
American people. Now. I heartily dis- J
agree with Mr. Taft. I trust the peo- J
pie to govern themselves. I think they
know how to do it."
Hits Taft Machine.
The colonel hit the Maryland Taft I
machine, led by William B. Jackson, a
the national committeeman, saying thata
it did not prop.-riy represent the senti-S
rnent of the people. s
“1 don't expect the boss to be witnSj
me because the movement is not
for him." he said, “Now. ,as to ld?«
business, we don’t antagonize the majjw
who is square. We expect him to bs"d
with it- But the crooked business man |
we don't want with us and he isn't wel-Jj
come. H< knows well we don't want®
him.
“The n n who sells his vote,” thsj,
colonel said, “is a traitor. Now, I asim
that every colored man here In
South see that none of his race sells a3
vote. If the colored people will do as ka
wish I hope they will organize and sefl
that there Is no corruption here in th«l
South." j
LACK OF OPPOSITION PAYS
JUDGE “ANDY” CALHOUN ■
It pays not to have opposition in J
politics.
Judge Andy ’’aihoun. of the Fulton a
county superior court, was the first of Jj
the < indldafos to furnish rhe commit- ,j
tee an account of his election expenses. S
The only item was S2OO. his entrance >
tee..