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WSON WINS HIS
FIGHT; WILL GO
* DELEGATE
Underwood Leaders Assure
Him of Trip to Baltimore !
i
Convention,
Thomas E. Watson will go as one of
Georgia’s delegates at large to the na- j
j tiona! Democratic convention at Balti- ‘
A
Ju more I
M This much is assured in advance of '
( the assembling of the state convention I
in Atlanta on May 29. That his selec- ;
tion ’.'ill come only at the end of a bit. I
ter fight cn the floor of the'convention I
is equally certain.
The sudden and vehement reversal by-
Mr. Watson of his previously an
nounced determination not to seek a
delegate’s place upset many a political
playhouse yesterday; but it brought
matters to an instant focus.
. Receives Word
f He'il Be Chosen.
Already Mr. Watson ha. received
positive assurance of his election from
the hands of the powers that will con
trol the convention.
In ‘he 'word.-, of an admirer, “the red
headed person brought 'em to time, all
right!"
The rush 'c get Mr. Watson back
into a good' humor as soon as possible
was most strenuous. The telegraph
. wires were both hot and heavy with
P* pious protestations of friendship am!
high regard for Watson last night and
this morning.
Notwithstanding that, however, he
will be fought bitterly, uncompromis
ingly, and. to the last ditch by a pow
erful minority in the convention
’ There are two decided and distinct
j views of the proposition put up to the
forthcoming state Demo- ratio conven
tion by Thomas E. Watson, in his an
nouncement tha* he intends "to head
the Georgia delegation to the Baltimore
national convention.”
There are Underwood leaders of
strong influence who declare that Mr.
V. atson shall go. without question or
protest, now that he has announced his
full determination to go anyway; there
are others who declare that so long as
the power of protest remains within
r them Mr. Watson shall not go to Balti-
W more
< Entiled to Scat,
Say Friends.
Those who favor Mr. Watson's right
to be named a delegate to Baltimore
declare that he is clearly entitled to W
named a delegate, primarily because of
his service in bringing about Mr. Un
derwood's victory in Georgia. They say
there would never have been any ques
tion of Mr. Watson's going had Mr.
Watson himself not raised the doubt by
an editorial in his ow n publication, in
f w nidi he said he had decided not to
ask f or one of the places.
Attitude Suspicious. Say Foes.
On the other hand, the anti-Watson
ites argue that Mr. Watson's attitude
of suspicion and hostility to his recent
Underwood comrades is insincere and
assumed- to serve an ulterior purpose.
f They argue that he is maliciously bent
upon making mischief inside the Dem
ocratic party, and that he is. as rap
idly as he may. getting himself into his
favorite role of martyr, that lie may
stab to death the Democratic partv if
opportunity presents itself between now
and November next.
Vert- much less than one-half of the
Fulton county delegation to the state
convention would agree to discuss the
■Watson incident for publication today.
Most of them approached the matter
gingerly, and hesitated to touch it at
! ali They seemed to feel that the prop-
* osition might become entirely too hot to
hold as time ran along.
Those who did discuss it were about
evenly divided—either for it heartily or
against it violently and uncompromis
ingly One member admitted frankly
that he "expects to take to the woods”
and stay away from the convention
SALE OF LOTS AT HILL
CREST
Improvement of Marietta
/ Street and Marietta Road.
A sale of lots at Hill-Crest, a new'
suburban settlement on the Marietta
car line, will take place tomorrow aft
t erndon at 2 o'clock.
The Riverside Investment Company,
> of which Mr William M. Little, of Bit-
F* mingham, is president, has spent a good
/ deal of time and expense in getting the
' property laid off and subdivided, and
has just recently put it on the market.
It is located at Collins Switch, on the
first hilt beyond the Chattahoochee
river.
A number of nice homes, owned by
representative citizens, have already
been built at this place, and there will,
no doubt, be considerable development
there in the near future. Fulton county
has a good macadamized roarj from the
city limits to Bolton and the city eoun
eil’on last Tuesday acted favorably on
A the plan to tak‘ up the cobble stone
V’ in Marietta street and pave the same
I ’ with asphalt. Cobb county is improv
ing and cherting the road all the way
from Marietta to the river, so that the
road from Atlanta to Marietta, will soon
be one of the best auto roads out from
the city.
The American Realty ami Auction ,
Com). any. of Greensboro, N will
handle the sale.
Penny Brothers, the twin auctioneer
representing the company
' y* There will be an excellent band of
f music at. the sale, and it is expected
r that" there will he a large crowd of
ladies and gentlemen present.
ONE REASON WHYGARBAGE PROBLEM
i.. MUST BE SOL.VED BY 01TY 00UNCIL
i Wi
. - iIMH
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Here’s another ph"i wjraph showing the ncjrlwt of tip’ city sanitary department--a goods
box on a sidewalk np-town. piled Io overflowing with refuse. An old negro woman, one of the
dozens of early morning scavengers, is picking over the refi-e. As she digs for what she wants, she
scatters tin remainder on the sidewalk. to bo blown l>v p’-cn breeze and scatter disease germs
broadcast over the 'dty. Council is now considering the purchase of a plant to cost $440,000.
Another company offers a plant for fat below that um, and claims it will bring in a regular
income instead of being a constant expense.
rather than face a showdown on the
Watson row.
Expressions from out-of-town ■ on
vention members, named and prospec
tive. .show a " ids diversity of opinion
on the Watson subje< t.
One stalwart of the stalwarts, the
editor of one of Georgia's leading Dem
ocratic newspapers, is known positively
to have said that he will not serve on
the delegation with Watson—and it has
been generally conceded that he was to
be named one of the "big four," with
out fail.
Mr. Watson has ■ ailed a meeting of
his friends and supporters in the ball
room of the Kimball the night pieced
ing the state convention. In that call
Mr. Watson sounds a challenge to his
immediate Underwood allies of the past,
rather than to the defeated Wilson end
of the preslde’ntial row.
Campaign Crudely
Run, Watson Thinks
Thoma- E. Watson does not thmk
Campaign Manager G. R. Hutchens
made much of a job of running the
Underwood headquarters in Atlanta.
Moreover, he gives out some decided-
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 10. 1912.
ly interesting information with re
spect to the big Unrlerv ood rail' held
at the Grand Opera house in this city a
few da; s before the orimary.
In all of the adveitisements of that
meeting Mr. Watson was played up as
one of the speakers-to-be. He was
listed, indeed, as one of the bright and
particular stars of the evening.
He non says he never aas invited,
to attend the meeting, although he says I
he was "told” bv a friend that he;
"would be invited.”
On the night of the speaking, when j
Mr. Watson failed to show up, it was |
given out that he could not come, be- 1
cause a few nights before he had "put i
his throat out i-f business speaking in I
August:i."
■Mr. Watson, writing of the Atlantal
rally and the Augusta meeting in this I
week's Jeffersonian, says:
Over the protest of the Under
wood management. I spoke in Au
gusta. because the local manage
men; insisted that I should.
Result; We held that big < ity
to a meager majority of 400. This
we more than offset in Hie small
country county of Glascock.
I was not asked to speak in At-
lanta. Vardaman. Heflin and O'Neal
were imported to storm that cita
del.
Result : Underwood lost by 2,-
500.
It took more than 30 of our small
counties to even up the losses in
that one city.
Suppose we had not held them
• down in Macon, Savannah and Au
' gusta'
If those cities had been as un
| sucees fully managed as Atlanta,
j our 105 country counties would not
| have saved us.
i Mr. Hutchens, who w ill be one of the
i Floyd county delegation to the state
! convention in Atlan.ia, and who is
i sooken of for th'- permanent chairman- I
I ship of the convention, as well as one
|of the "big four" delegates to Balti
moie, is warmly advocating Mr. Wat
son's election as a colleague on the “big
four" delegation.
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TAFT MEN DERIDE
ROOSEVELT CLAN
The Taft-Roosevelt war in Georgia,
which is very much alive even if Dem
ocratic troubles recently have some
what obscured it, will reach a decided
crisis tomorrow, when county conven
tions will be held—unless they are not
-in ever:.- county in the state, for the
purpose of electing delegates to vari
ous district Republican conventions
yet to be held. and to one big state
convention to follow.
These county conventions scheduled
for tomorrow are of questionable legal
ity in the minds pf the Taft people, but
perfectly fit and proper in the minus of
the Roosevelt people. It al! depends
upon the way you look at things Re
publican in Georgia.
The call was not signed by the regu
lar state chairman. Waiter Johnson. It
was signed by A. Graves, however, who
snatched the authority from some
w here.
According to Johnson, the delegates
have already here, chosen in Georgia,
and C-V( cvthing is over in this suite so
far as the national convention is con
cerned. save the Taft shouting -and
even that Mr. Johnson is willing to
make modest and not prolonged, if it
will help any.
As lons as the Taft outfit insists
upon strangle-holding the delegates,
however, the Roosevelt outfit can not
see anything coming their way unless
a new deal—and a square one —is
framed up. They figure that even if
it does not go through, it will give
them a platform upon which a con
testing delegation may get into the
limelight at i’hicago. if there happens
to be anything doing in the contesting
delegation line there next June.
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GIANT DERRICK FALLS
THREE STORIES; KILLS
ONE, INJURES MANY
BOSTON, May 10. —One man was
killed, four were Seriously hurt and i
several slightly injured today when a '
huge derrick fell from the third floor of '
a building on Edinboro street. The
dead man is Louis Aranson, a mason, of
church street. Chelsea.
The most seriously injured were
Louis Septa, of 12 Lynde street, Bos
ton; Nicholas Piera, of 175 Salem
street, Boston, and Rocco Sansorgo,
of 28 Chatham street, Boston.
DOCTOR WAGERS HE CAN
TOUR EUROPE WITH S6O i
NEW YORK. Ma; 10.—Dr. Jorgo
Mikkelsen, of the Norwegian hospital,
i’hicago, yesterday sailed in the steer
age of a German liner with 100 as his
sole capital. His departure is the re
sult of a wager made lust Thursday.
Until December 1. when he is due
back in Chicago. Dr. Mikkelsen is
bound by the conditions of the wager
not to beg. borrow, steal or receive
charity. He may earn money by any
means other than the practice of his
profession. He is to visit Copenhagen,
take a lecture course at a medical in
stitute at Vienna and pass an exami
nation there, visit Berlin, Paris and
London.
ATLANTAN GETS PATENT.
WASHINGTON. May 10.—Davis &
Davis, patent attorneys, report the
grant this week to citizens of Georgia
of the following patents;
S. J. Bland. Uvalda, supporting and
ventilating device for hay stacks.
W. D. Hughes. Atlanta, gearing for
motor vehicles.
50,000 LONDON TAU ORS
WALKOUT OF SHOPS
/LONDON, May 10.—Threats that by to
morrow night the tailoring industry fw
London will be at a standstill were made
by the leaders of the strke of the m£n
and women tailors. Twenty-five thousand
are out In the East End shops and an
equal number In the West End shops. AH
others, afbout ten thousand in number,
have been ordered out within 24 hours.
The provisional committee of the East
End strikers today levied new demands
on the proprietors for a ten-hour day and
an increase of wages all around.
ANNOUNCEMENT
I respectfully ask the voters of North
Atlanta, to elect me to the unexpired
term of the late Judge S. H. Landrum,
Justice of the Peacp of said district.
Election to be held on the 18th day of
Maj. 1912. at 43 1-2 Decatur street.
Polls to be opened at 7 o'clock a, tn.
and close at <i o'clock p. m.
This Mac 6th. 1912.
CHARLES W. SEIDELL.
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