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GEORGIANS SEE
NO WILSON HOPE
Defeat in This State a Real
Waterloo Proved by Subse
quent Events.
Georgians who have kept tab on the
trend of things political of late are gen
erally becoming convinced of two
things, so far as national affairs are
concerned: First. that Champ Clark Is
far and away in the lead for the Demo
cratic nomination, and likely will win
It: second, that the Wilson movement
has collapsed utterly all along the line,
and practically has finished its course.
The New Jersey governor has added
nothing whatever to his strength since
the failure of his Georgia campaign
save the Texas delegation. On the
other hand, the speaker has added state
after state since then, and Mr. Under
wood has won Mississippi.
As the count stands today, Clark has
votes assured. Wilson has 162, and
Underwood has 84.
On the day of the Georgia primary
Clark had 246. Wilson had 122, Under
wood had 40.
Since the Georgia primary Clark has
added 122 delegates. Wilson has added
to, and Underwood has added 44.
Wilson’s Final Collapse.
The last crimp in the Wilson tusom
ame yesterday, when South Carolina,
which had been generally conceded tn
Wilson, failed to instruct for Hlli/And
it became necessary to remove from
the Wilson column the eighteen dele
gates from that state, which had been
accorded him. *■
True, the convention did adopt a brief
and entirely colorless resolution "In
dorsing" the New Jersey governor, but
It included in -that resolution a pointed
statement that the "indorsing'' carried
with it no instructions to the delega
tion.
Another hard jolt that came tn the
Wilson people yesterday was the action
of Michigan.
In no state had the Wilson claims
been more vociferous or pronounced
than in the old Wolverine state. It
was confidently expected to send a solid
Wilson delegation to Baltimore.
When the convention acted, however,
it not only refused to send an instructed
delegation to Baltimore, hut it framed
up a delegation that is generally
thought to stand 22 to 8 for Champ
Clark.
Nor did the Michigan disappointment
complete the full measure of the Wil-
Bonite cup of woe yesterday
Tennessee, scheduled a month ago to
fall over itsejf getting into the Wilson
band wagon, forgot the alleged superior
claims of Wilson, and in the showdown
named a delegation that was agreed
upon by friends of Clark, Wilson, Har
mon and Underwood.
Georgia Begins the End.
Looking backward nowadays. It is
easy enough to see that the beginning
of the Wilson e,nd came right here in
Geo - gia.
The Wilson people frankly mad"
Georgia the climax of their fight for the
professor. They staked their all on the
Empire state of the South, and, losing
it, they lost everything
Not since the Georgia 'Waterloo has
Wilson stock advanced a point. Even
the favorable action of Texas failed to
revive the Wilson boom. Texas' action
came too late to resurrect the corpse.
Logical and discriminating observers
agreed immediately after the finish o'
the Georgia fight that the Wilson boom
was no more Some of the professor’s
more partisan and uncompromising ltd.
herents disputed this, and still hoped
against hope. But cold figures tell a
tale that can not be discounted. The
Wilson movement is no more.
State after stale has fallen into th
speaker’s column since Georgia refused
to stand for Wilson. Mr Underwood
has added four more delegates to hi"
list than Professor Wilson has been
able to round up since that fatal First
of May.
It looks today like a genuine "run
away race" for Clark.
Colorado
is Nature's Bis Repair Shop
Your overhauling is due. Your nerves are frazzled.
Your sleep brings no rest. Your appetite is an insult to
the rook and your digestion is a loafer. You're run down.
And why not? How long do you think blood and flesh
will submit to the pounding you've given yourself for the
last year?
Go out to Colorado and let the hills take you in hand.
Take a daily bath in the mountain air, forget your worries
and hurries and play for a month. Come baek with man
power like horse power and make the next eleven months
count for twenty-four. It's cheap to get a man who can
work like two at the cost of a month's rest. And the
round-trip fares are low enough for any pocketbook.
Any way of going to Colorado is a good wav. because
its gets you to Colorado. But the best service is that
afforded by the
Rock Island Lines
The people you meet en route -the scenes through
which you pass- the man} delightful surprises, make
a trip on Rock Island trains a part of your vacation.
Through Sleeping Cars From the Southeast
—electric lighted and strict!y modern are operated in
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The Colorado Flyer—every morning from St Louis—and other fast daily
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H. H. HUNT, District Pass. Agent
W'WwfaMlian 18 No. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga.
' i-LySl Phone Main »17
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SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAME S B. NEVIN.
W. Trox Bankston. who prints a
I newspaper in Alabama, the while h“
I runs for railroad commissioner in
’ Georgia, is worried over a persistent re
i port that Judge George Hillyer has
changed his mind about not being a
candidate to succeed himself on the
commission.
Judge Hillyer did give out a state
ment early in she spring to the effect
that he would "retire at the end of his
present term of service on the railroad
commission, .Mr.’ Bdnkaton thereupon
announceVr'tfiat he wofilrf’be a candi
date to succeed the judge, and would
enter the primary fw that specific suc
cession, rather than for one of the other
two vacancies to occur.
There have been something like a
dozen gentlemen "mentioned" for rail
road commissioner, but Mr. Bankston
seems to be the only candidate thus far
who has come right out in the open and
said which particular vacancy he pro
posed to go after.
About a week or more ago. however,
rumor began to assert, with consider
able show of authority, that Judge Hill
yer had reconsidered his former deter
mination and would be very nitwit in
Hie race to succeed himself. This in
teresting and significant rumor, more
over, Judge Hillyer has neither denied
nor affirmed, notwithstanding the fact
that numerous anxious inquirers have
undertaken to gel a further word from
him.
It Is a known fart, too, that consid
erable pressure of a particularly
weighty- kind has been brought upon
Judge Hillyer of late to stand once more
for the office he now holds.
"If not nominated now. 1 shall
immediately begin the fight for next
time." said Colonel Roosevelt the
other day. If that fails to stop the
argument, what will stop It?
Editor Charles R Pendleton, of
.Macon, is not afraid to rattle his
kkeleton-in-the-closet, if necessary
or desirable. He admits he was
once a member of the Georgia legis
lature.
Charles R. Crisp, who is a candidate
for congress In the new Third district,
is giving practically, no time and at
tention to his Georgia campaign, be
cause his exacting duties as house par
liamentarian in Washington keep him
so busy ho dare not leave the national
capital.
Mr. Crisp’s particular work Is such a
vital part of each day’s proceedings in
Washington that the house was forced
to adjourn one day this week, because
while the parliamentarian was neces
sarilv absent from his post of duty for
an hour or s<>, the house got. Itself into
such a tangle that it couldn’t get out
without shutting up shop temporarily
or, at bast, until Mr, Crisp could be
communicatod with.
Congress likely will adjourn early in
June, and not until then will Mr. Crisp
have a real opportunity to prosecute his
Georgia campaign.
Mr Taft apparently Is rapidly
approaching that point where he
will agree that "nobody loves a fat.
man."
The idea that a delegate at large
means a delegate with no strings
fled to him. is not necessarily true.
The state Democratic convention
may require - ven Delegate al Large
Watson, for instance, to stand
hitched. ■
A number of newspapers in the Sev
enth congressional district are urging
Representative Gordon Lee for one of
the delegate's places from Georgia to
the national Democratic convention in
Baltimore.
Mr. Lee is a warm friend as well as a
congressional colleague of Mr. Under
wood; and, besides, Walker county.
THE A LLAM A GEOKGIAA AND NEWS: J HURSDAY, MAY 16, 191 Z.
where Mr. Lee fives, gave tho Alabama
man the biggest majority he received
in the Seventh district.
G Edward Maddox, of Rome, and J.
M Lang, of Calhoun, also are being
mentioned as district delegates to Bal
timore.
Whatever else may be true, most
newspaper" men love Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt dearly for the rattle
ty-bang "copy" he makes.
If Colonel J Lindsay Johnson
succeeds in getting his ’’insurgent"
band seated in the state convention,
he ought never to stand ba< k here
after on taking any old 10 tef 1 shot
that heaves in sight.
Ed Smith, of the editorial staff of
The Baltimore American, Is not only
one of the most astute and observant
political writers In this country, but en
joys—largely by reason of his long
service on The Post and Herald in
Washington- a wide acquaintance
among statesmen, real and near.
Mr. Smith has been cheeking up
things political In Georgia of late, par
ticularly with respect to the presiden
tial situation Republican wise, and he
believes that, whatever may happen
elsewhere to the Southern delegates Mr.
Taft now- has, Georgia’s delegates will
never be switched from the president to
Mr. Roosevelt.
’Tf Mr. Roosevelt beats Mr. Taft to
the nomination he will have to beat him
to it without Georgia’s Republican dele
gates—that’s a fact," said Mr. Smith.
"I have looked into that matter, and 1
think T am right."
“It may be true.” he continued, “that
the Democratic delegates will be switch
ed from Underwood to Clark at the
psychological moment, hut the Repub
lican delegates will stay put."
Mr. Smith talks most Interestingly of
his newspaper experience here and
there.
“I once ran a gossip column." said he,
"which I headed ‘Men and Things.’ I
thought that was a good enough head,
until one day I wrote something about
the particularly charming wife of a well
known Alabama congressman. The aft
ernoon of the day it appeared i received
a note from this delightful, woman, ob
jecting vehemently and at length to be
ing classed with 'Things.’
“'Your usually interesting column,'
her note ran, 'concerns itself exclusively
with "Men and Things," and as you
wrote of me, and I certainly am not a
man. I Infer that you meant to say 1
am a Thing '
"I answered that note as best I knew
how, concluded Mr. Smith, "and the
next morning 1 changed the heading of
that column to read, 'People and
Things.' ”
RICHMOND WILL UNVEIL
A. H. STEPHENS MEMORIAL
RICHMOND, VA„ May 16. Two
Georgians are included in the list of
graduates In medicine at the University
College of Medicine in this city. They
are Edward Bancroft, Jr., of Athens,
and Louis Garrard Roberts, of Colum
bus. Marcus Pinson Neal, of Birming
ham, Ala., is also a graduate.
Arrangements have been completed
for the unveiling of a tablet to Alexan
der H. Stephens, of Georgia, on the site
of this college. The exercises will take
place May 22 and Congressman William
Gordon Brantley, of Georgia, will be
the orator of the occasion. <>n this site
was located the headquarters of Steph
ens while he was vice president of the
< 'onlederacy.
HOT SPRINGS UNHURT
BY FLOOD, DECLARES
MAYOR, EX ATLANTAN
’’The report that appears to have
gamed ground in Georgia that the baths
al Hot Springs, Ark., have been sus
pended on account of the flooded con
dition.in the Mississippi valley is ab
surd to any one who knows anything of
the topography of the land." says W W
Waters, mayor of Hot Springs, who
is in Atlanta looking after his tea! es
tate interests.
"Hot Springs. Ark., the place of the
famous baths, is over 100 miles from
any point of the flood,” Mr. Waters con
tinued, "and the country around there
is no more affected by the flood than is
Georgia. Travel to that section also is
unhindered. There are at least a dozen
ways by which one may teach Hot
Springs from this section without being
incommoded by the flood."
Mr. Waters is a former Georgian who
went West shortly after the war He
"as too young to take part in the fight
ing. but fled with his mother from At
lanta when Sherman entered the city
He visited Ma. on during the Confed
erate veterans' reunion. He is spending
several days at the
20 PER CENT DIVIDEND
FOR WRIGHT COMPANY
NEW SOIiK. May t 6. For the third
successive year the Wright Aeroplane
Company has voted an annual dividend of
about 20 per cent. The action of the
executive committee will be ratified at
an early meeting of the directors, of
whom Wilbur W right is chairman.
The Wright company is a $1,000,000 cor
poration. organized three years ago by
the Dayton investors. There are now but
sixteen stockholders, among whom are
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Andrew Freedman,
Ulan A. Ryan, DeLaneey Ni. oil and sev
eral others prominent in the financial
» orld.
Escapes An Awful Fate.
A thousand tongues could not ex
press the gratitude of Mrs. .1 E. Cox, of
Joliet. 111. for her wonderful deliver
ance from an awful fate. “Typhoid
pneumonia had left me with a dreadful
cough." she write*. "Sometimes I had
such awful coughing spells 1 thought I
would die 1 could get no help from
doctor's treatment or other medicines
till I used Dr. King s New. Discoveix
Hut I owe mv life to this wonderful
remedy for 1 scarcely cough at all
now." Quick and safe, it's the most
reliable of all throat and lung medi
cines. Every bottle guaranteed 50c
I and SI.OO, Trial bottle free at all drug-
ONE MIG BOUT
TOOKOFFONLYS
Survivor Saw Craft Lowered
When Fifty More Might
Have Been Saved.
LONDON, May 16. —Another pathet
ic chapter was today added to the story
of human sacrifice in the Titanic dis
aster when an employee of the lost
White Star liner testified at the gov
ernment's Inquiry that lie had seen one
lifeboat lowered containing only five
passengers. These lifeboats, according
Ito previous evidence, could accommo
date from fifty to seventy persons in
a calm sea such as prevailed off the
Newfoundland banks when the ill-fated
steamer plunged to the bed of the At
lantic.
A bathroom attendant on the Titanic
named Rule testified that he had seen
the practically empty lifeboat lowered
away. He did not know who had given
the order to lower the boat but he
thought it was an officer, On cross ex.
amination Rule pleaded at times that
he could not remember, saying the dis
aster had affected his memory. This
brought him a sharp rebuke frojn Lord
Mersey', the presiding judge, who said:
"I can understand how the dis
aster could affect your memory but can
not understand how you could remem
ber things which did not happen."
This was an allusion to vague and
contradictory testimony’ which Rule had
given on direct examination.
Answering questions by' Thomas
Scanlon, attorney for the National
Sailors and Firemen's union. Rule said
he had seen J. Bruce Ismay, managing
director of the International Mercantile
Marine, owners of the White Star line,
on the boat deck helping fill lifeboat
No. 3 on the starboard side. He had
not seen Ismay leave the ship.
Picked Up No False Report,
Rule followed Wireless Operator Dur
rant. of the Canadian steamer Mount
Temple, on the stand. Questioned by
Attorney Clem Edwards, representing
the Dock Workers union, Durrant testi
fied that he did not pick up any wire
less messages on April 15 to the effect
that the Titanic was proceeding to Hal.
ifax and that all her passengers had
been rescued.
This was the first inquiry into that
phase of the disaster relating to the dis
semination offals einformation regard
ing the fate of the ship and her passen.
gers.
John Hart, a third-class steward on
the who testified after Rule,
said that he thought so lightly of the
accident that he went to sleep again
after he learned the vessel had col
lided with an iceberg. Later, when
aroused to the gravity of the situation,
he went on deck and helped to get the
passengers Into the lifeboats..
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Supreme Court and
Governor Refuse to
Stay Slayers* Doom
The state supreme couth and Gov
ernor Joseph M. Brown are giving
slayers small chance to evade justice
now.
Figures recently appearing in court
records show that the high tribunal has
been exceedingly' loath to reverse a trial
Judge in capital cases on legal techni
calities.
For the March term, 1911, 24 murder
cases were affirmed and two reversed.
For the October term, 1911, 29 eases
were affirmed and one reversed. For
the March term. 1912. eight eases have
been argued and not a single judgment
reversed.
Governor Brown, during his present
term, has refused in every capital case
appealed to him to set aside the judg
ment of the courts and commute the
death sentence.
FINLEY SPEAKS AT COLUMBUS.
COLUMBUS. GA., May 16. -The
committee in charge of the arrange
ments for the annual banquet of th<-
Columbus Board of Trade, which will
be held on the evening of May 29,
will make their reports next week. The
principal speaker at the banquet w ill be
President W. W. Finley, of the South
ern railway.
UNCLE SAM WON’T FEED
HIS SUB-TREASURY CATS
WASHINGTON. May 16.—The two
cats at the sub-treasury in New York
must continue to live on charity. The
government has decided, owing tt> the
high cost of meat, that It can not feed
them.
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but not until the discovery of the mar
velous "Swissco" Hair and Scalp Rem
edy has there been anything offered that
would accomplish this result.
This great remedy cures baldness, sore
scalp, dandruff, brittle hair or any other
hair or scalp disease, and changes gray
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if you are suffering from baldness or
•any of the troubles named above, or
have gray hair that you want restored
to youthful color If you do not Wish 4o
try .a full-sized bottle, let us send you a
25-eent bottle free, for trial.
“Swissco” Hair Remedy is for sale by
all druggists, at 50 cents and SI.OO a bot
tle. or a free 25c hottie can he had by
writing direct to the Swissco Hair Rem
edy Co., 195!' P O. Square, Cincinnati.
Ohio, inclosing 10 cents as an evidence
of good faith. The 10 cents does not
cover actual postage and packing on the
25-eent hottie we send you.
For sale and recommended in Atlanta
by Jacobs’ Pharmacy.
NINE P-A-Y-E CARS PUT
ON THE INMAN PARK LINE
Better street car service on the Geor
gia avenue-Inman Park route began to
day, when nine new cars of the pay-as
you-enter type were put in service by the
Georgia Railway and Electric Company.
This is the third route to have the
P-A-Y-E cars, making a total of 32 in
use. The Peach tree-Whitehall and Mari
etta-Decatur routes were given cars of
the new type some time ago.
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HEADACHY, BILIOUS, CONSTIPATED
*
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AIL those days w hen you feel miser
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Isn’t it foolish to be distressed when
there, is such a pleasant way to over
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Give your inactive liver and ten
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to constipation.
Take a teaspoonful of Syrup of Figs
tonight, sure, and just see for your
self by' morning, how gently but thor
oughly all. the sour bile, undigested
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IT WOULD COST OSCAR
$200,000 TO COMEBACK
LONDON, May’ 16—For the first time
since he got out of tne Manhattan Opera
house Oscar Hammersteln has just re
vealed an important detail of his compact
with the Metropolitan.
"If,” said he, "I pay a penalty’ of $200,-
000 I can return to the New York grand
opera field. And if I only said I wished
to do so I have little doubt that I could
find the money.”
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You simply can’t have your liver in
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drugging yourself. Being composed
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aromatics it can not injure.
Ask your druggist for the full name,
"Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna.”
Refuse, with scorn, any of the so
called Fig Syrup imitations. They are
meant to deceive you. Look on the
label. The genuine, old reliable, bears
the name, California Fig Syrup Com
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