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T. R. VICTORY 10
COST HMDS IN
GEORGIA
General Belief Here That Taft’s
Fate Is Settled Once for All.
Teddyites Are Happy.
Republicans in Atlanta generally look
upon the victory of the former presi
dent in Ohio as practically ending the
contest for the Republican nomina
tion.
Already there are evidences appar
ent that the decks are being cleared
for Admiral Roosevelt to take undis
puted charge of the national Republi
can craft and to undertake its steer
ing to victory in November.
It was realized in Georgia as else
where that the Ohio fight would mark
the climax of the Republican campaign,
traders of both factions staked, their
Hl! upon it. The president left- the
white house and with hit , into I hlo
went his every hope and expectation of
vindication. The former president
plunged as heavily there —and the
Roosevelt luck, so-called, held good.
New State Line-up.
The passing of control from Taft to
Roosevelt will mean a great change in
Georgia, so far as Republican politics
is concerned.
It means that the Taft delegation to
the national convention, to be headed
by Henry S. Jackson, collector of in
ternal revenue for Georgia, likely will
be thrown out in favor of the delega
tion named at the Roosevelt conven
tion in Atlanta last Friday, which will
be headed by H. A. Rucker, colored,
former collector of internal revenue for
Georgia,
It also means the eventual turning
down of the present state committee,
of which Walter Johnson. United States
marshal for the Northern district cf
Georgia is the chairman, in favor of
the new committee named last Satur
day. under the chairmanship of W. J.
Tilson, of Atlanta.
Official Heads to Fall.
Os far more significance than the
changes in political position, as a re
sult of the Taft downfall in Ohio, how
ever, will be the resulting changes in
Federal office-holding in Georgia, it
Roosevelt triumphs at the polls tn No
vember.
The entire strength of the Taft ma
chine in Georgia has been in its office
holding membership.
As a matter of cold fact, the fight
.between Taft and Roosevelt in Geor
gia has been all but exclusively a fight
between the "ins” and the “outs." The
Taft strength consists of postmasters
revenue officers, Federal court attaches,
and the like; the Roosevelt fighters
have come from the ranks of the would
be postmasters, revenue officers. Fed
eral court attaches and the like.
The Georgia “outs" seem to have the
best of it. so far as the final shaping
of things is concerned Republicanwise,
and if Roosevelt wins in the fall, these
"outs” will be transformed as soon as
possible into "ins.”
Fight Coming to Georgia.
Undoubtedly, the nomination of Mr.
Roosevelt by the Republicans means
that the battle for the presidency will
be brought strenuously into Georgia
soil in November. Mr. Roosevelt's
dearest ambition is known to be the
“breaking of the solid South."
He said, months ago, that the one
thing that could induce him to stand
for the presidency again would be the
hope that he might accomplish that
heretofore seemingly impossible under
taking
Now that he is to be nominated.
Democrats and Republicans alike are
expecting fireworks to beat the band
next fall in Georgia.
"My Mother’s State.”
Mr. Roosevelt’s mother was a Geor
gia woman. She lived and was mar
ried in Roswell, some twenty miles
northeast of Atlanta. The former
president usually refers to Georgia as
“my mother’s state,” And that he is
determined to make that "mother’s
state” a Roosevelt state politically, if
he possibly may, is no longer a matter
of doubt.
Colonel Roosevelt will make a su
preme effort to capture Georgia.
An interesting circumstance in con
nection with this Georgia fight, too. is
the persistent rumor that Seaborn
Wright, of Rome, will take the stump
for Roosevelt in Georgia probably in
any event, surely if the Baltimore con
vention names a man Mr. Wright
thinks "reactionary.” or even a "non
progressive.”
Mr Wright is one of the nation’s
greatest orators, and his participation
in the fight to win Georgia for the
colonel would add much of the pic
turesque and spectacular to the cam
paign.
Walker to Support T, R.
That Atlanta business men have been
Interested in the fight between Presi
dent Taft and Colonel Roosevelt for
the Republican nomination has long
b een known, but the first definite step
taken by an Atlanta Democrat toward
supporting one or the other was taken
today by Edward H. Walker, well
known real estate man.
Mr. Walker comes out with an an
nouncement of his intention to form a
Southern Roosevelt campaign club and
gives his reasons for supporting the
colonel should he capture. Jhe nomina
tion.
This is not the first time Mr. Walker
has been interested in politics. He ran
for governor in the race between Gov
ernor Brown and Hoke Smith as the
anti-faction candidate two years ago
and is ex-mayor of College Park.
Three years ago when Colonel Roose
velt was retiring from the white house.
Vr. Walker proposed that subscrip
tions be taken to present the colonel
nith a national loving cup and at that
tim* he’ received a lettei from Presi
dent Taft saying that no honor was
ton great for him to indorse for Roose
velt.
C. W. Morse Writes His Atlanta Friends
GOING BACK INTO BUSINESS
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Story of Big Fee to Lawyers
Not Believed by Atlanta
Attorneys.
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Postcards from Charles W. Morse to
friends in Atlanta say that the financier
will soon be in New York and on his
feet. To one Atlanta friend he wrote
from the Park hotel in Bad Nauheim.
“Would be pleased to see you in New-
York soon. Am improving continually.
Regards from “C. W. M.”
According to a common report in
New York. Morse, upon his arrival
there, will put himself in charge of the
Hudson Navigation Company, and at
tempt to mark his re-entry into the
business world by a grand coup.
The Hudson Navigation Company is
attempting at present to obtain dock
rights at Newburgh, Poughkeepsie and
Kingston
Big Fee Story Not Believed.
The report that Charles W. Morse is
to pay a SIOO,OOO fee to the legal firm
of Anderson. Felder, Rountree & Wil
son-for securing his release from the
Federal prison is given small credence
by Atlanta lawyers, who think that such
a sum is far more than even a firm of
such excellent standing would expect.
It is said on good authority that
Morse's fee to the attorneys was about
$25,000. and this is divided between the
Atlanta firm and that represented by
H M. Dougherty, of Columbus, Ohio,
who was associated with Thomas B.
Felder in working for Morse's freedom.
The Morse case was not won in the
courts, though the attorneys did secure
a hearing in the Federal court in an ef
fort tp have Morse's sentence reduced,
through changing the status of his
crime, to a misdemeanor. The release
of Morse was won through securing the
ear of President Taft and persuading
him to commute Morse's- sentence, on
the ground that the prisoner was dying
and could live but a few months, even
if released from the post hospital, to
which he had been removed at the
urgent plea of friends and through per
mission of the president. The presi
dent had several times refused to in
terfere in the matter, but at last he
was w-on over.
Citizenship Not Restored.
Morse was not pardoned, but his sen
tence was commuted to “present serv
ice.” He is absolutely free, for there
were no restrictions upon the’commu
tation. but he has never been restored
to citizenship and can not even vote for
the man who set him free. He sailed
for Europe shortly after his release and
it is now reported that he will be back
in Wall street in a f»w weeks, fighting
to build up another fortune.
Colonel Felder refuses to affirm or
deny the report that he and Colonel
Dougherty were to receive SIOO,OOO for
their services.
“Os course my firm does not work for
its health." he said. “I can state that
they were amply compensated. But it
is not customary in legal practice to
tel! the newspapers or any one else the
details of an arrangement between
counsel and client."
Mrs. Llewellyn J, Brown.
Mrs. Llewellyn J. Brown. 3$ years
old, died at an Atlanta Infirmary today,
after a short illness. She is survived
by her husband, a brother, E. H. Hill,
of Atlanta, and a sister in <'alifornia.
The remains will be taken to Augusta
tomorrow morning for interment by
Patterson & Son.
Mrs. Russell C Mitchell
The funeral of Mrs. Russell C Mitchell.
57 years old who died at the family resi
dence. 343 North Boulevard yesterday,
tv ill be held at the Mitchell home this
afternoon Interment will be in Oak
land cemetery Mrs Mitchell ’= survived
b a son. Arthur N. Robinson, and two
daughters. Mrs Lucius W McConnell and
Miss Lillian Mitchell, of Atlanta.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANO NEWS: WEDNESDAY, MAY 22. 1912.
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Above, the Park hotel at Bad
Nauheim, where C. W. Morse and
wife have been staying; facsimile
of a post card written by Morse to
an Atlanta friend; and a portrait
of Morse.
T. R. on Drink Habit
“NEVER DRANK HIGHBALL
OR COCKTAIL IN MY LIFE:
I DON’T TOUCH WHISKY”
NEW YORK. May 22.—William H.
Hatfield. Jr., a lawyer of this city,
wrote to Colonel Roosevelt:
"As you are aware, a story of
Cleveland's intemperance was cir
culated throughout the country
during his-second term. A some
what similar slander is now be
ing told from coast to coast "by po
litical enemies regarding you, and
it is doing harm’to your cause. Do
you not think that a denial should
be made?"
The colonel replied:
"En Route,
"Pullman Private Car Oceanic.
"My Dear Mr. Hatfield:
“First, let me thank you for all
vou have done for me. As for that
intemperance story, I hardly know
whether to notice it or not. It
happens that I am. as regards li
quor, an exceedingly temperate
man. 1 drink about as much as
Dr. Lyman Abbott—and I say this
with his permission I never touch
whiskv at all, and I’ have never
drunk a highball or a cocktail in
my life. J doubt if I drink a dozen
teaspoonsful of brandy a year. It
. is such an infamous lie that it is
a little doubtful to kno'w what to
do regarding it. Faithfully yours.
(Signed) T. ROOSEVELT.
"William H. Hatfield. Jr., Esq.. No.
30 Church street. New- York. ’
WORK BEGINS ON NEW
AUGUSTA POSTOFFICE
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AUGUSTA. GA.. May 22.—Soundings
are being made on the government's lot
in front of the union depot 'preparatory
to making excavations for the new Fed
eral building. It will front four streets
Telfair, Eighth, Ford and Walker—
and will cost about $300,000.
The city of Augusta has traded the
government the lot on which to build
the new postnffice for the present post
office. which » ill be used as a city hall.
YEGGS LOOT POSTOFFICE.
i HARDRON. OHIO, May 22.—The
p -. toffi.ee at Montville, Geaugeau coun
ty. was looted by yeggs early today
who escaped with S9O in < ash after
leaving stamps to the amount of SIOO
lying strewn over lilt floor.
W,0P,000 011
GO. IS ORGANIZED
Empire Cotton Concern. With
Twelve Mills. Springs From
Trust Co. of Georgia,
The Empire Cotton Oil Company has
been organized with a capital of $4,-
000.000. of which $2,500,000 will be is
sued at once.
The Empire Cotton Oil Company was
promoted and organized by the Trust
Company of Georgia, and all of the
directors and principal clients of the
trust company are substantially inter
ested in the undertaking.
The company has acquired twelve
cotton seed oil mills, one of which is
located In Atlanta, and the others at
various points throughout the state.
These mills now crush about 75,000 tons
of seed per annum. It is understood
that the company has undeY contem
plation the erection of several other
mills.
The officers of the company will be
as follows. Thomas Egleston, presi
dent; E. P. Mcßumey, vice president
and general manager; L. G Neal, sec
ond vice president and manager fer
tilizer department: board of directors—
C. E. Currier. John E. Murphy. E
Woodruff. J N. Goddard. L. G. Neal,
J. M. Diffee., Edward H. Inman. Mell R.
Wilkinson. C. L. C. Thomas. Thomas
Egleston. E. P. Mcßumey and J. E.
Smith, Jr.
It is understood that the company
will start business with cash on hand
amounting to more than $400,000.
The headquarters of the company
will be located in Atlanta.
LightweightHubbyNo
Match for Wife, His
Plea in Divorce Suit
Eugene R. H. Boozer told superior
court today that the only way he could
escape periodic pommelings from the
hands of his wife, Mrs. Edna. May
Adams Boozer, was to hide from her.
"My wife is an ample woman," said
Boozer in a divorce suit filed today,
"weighing 150 pounds, while I am a
small man. weighing but 125' pounds.
My wife continually handles me unless
I conceal myself from her.”
Boozer told the court that shortly
after his marriage his wife became fa
miliar with liquor and when under the
influence developed pugilistic habits.
She. even engaged in a hand-to-hand
battle with a negress and came off vic
tor. he asserted. The Boozers live at
35 Dunn street. West End.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE
IFT. R. AND BRYAN RUN?
WASHINGTON, May 22. -Here is a
story that was enjoyed keenly by mem
bers of both parties in the house and
senate cloak rooms:
It is related that a man called on his
neighbor armed with an imposing look
ing document.
"Bill,” said the caller, "I want you to
sign this petition.”
"What- is it?” his friend asked sus
piciously.
"WMI.” was the reply, ‘ it looks as
though Roosevelt would be nominated
at Chicago and Bryan at Baltimore.
This is a petition praying that ths
country be restored to the Indians.” I
WATSON SURE TO GOTO
BALTIMORE IF HE WILL
DESPITE WILSON PRESS
Thomas E. Watson will go as a
Democratic delegate-at-large from
Georgia to the national convention in
Baltimore.
He also will sit in the state conven
tion.
If both of these statements do not
tome (rue, it will be entirely Mr Wat
son’s own fault.
T-hose three paragraphs will do to
paste in your hat.
Mr. Watson will come to the state
convention, either as a delegate or as
proxy for one of the McDuffie dele
gates.
If he was left off the McDuffie dele
gation. it was through a misunder
standing
However, a proxy already has been
arranged for him. In the event he de
sires, to come, and it be found impossi
ble to restore him to the county dele
gation.
Is Watson Courting a Fight?
If Mr. Watson is looking for a fight
in the state convention, he will get it.
And if he gets it, the finish Is prob
lematical.
But does he actually court a fight
According to the Wilson newspapers,
he does. According to Mr. Watson's
real friends—people qualified to speak
foi him —he does not.'
He will come to the Atlanta conven
tion just as-any other delegate might
come. He will speak his mind on vari
ous questions, just as any other dele
gate will be privileged to. Particular
heed will be given to what he says,
because he contributed much to the
Underwood victory, and the Underwood
leaders realize that fact. Not only that,
but because of the large following he
represents in Georgia—the greatest and
most compact following behind any in.
dividual in the state.
Wilsonites Prod Watson.
The Wilsonites persistently have
prodded Watson, ever since he first in
timated that he would like to go as a
delegate to Baltimore
They- charged during the Wilson-Un
derwood campaign that Watson and
Senator Bankhead had made a "trade”
whereby- Watson would have a dele
gate’s place. This neither Watson nor
Bankhead denied nor affirmed. al
though it wasn't true Watson merely
kept right along, fighting for Under
woof —and Underwood won
Right after the election Watson said
he believed he wouldn't go to Balti
more after all. Then the Wilson press
began saying that Watson had been
"shoved aside” and otherwise belittled
by his Underwood associates of the
immediate past.
■Watson then said he believed he
would go to Baltimore, and he called
a meeting of his friends in Atlanta the
night before the state convention, to
consider his cause, and to talk over
the matter of winning his fight. The
Underwood people at once assured
Watson that he should be a delegate,
if he wished to be.
And they are standing by that as
surance now.
Hot Air From Abroad
Having exhausted their efforts to
embarrass Watson’s Underwood asso
ciates. and Watson himself, without
any measure of success within the
state, the Wilson leaders then turned
their attention to people outside of the
state, with an eye to bringing opposi
tion from that quarter.
Washington city was muckraked for
anti-Watson sentiment; an effort was
made to get up on the blind side of
Underwood himself, indeed, in the Wil
son anti-Watson undertaking But
that failed, as might have been ex
pected.
Finally, the names of three or four
national leaders were wired in to At
lanta. as the sum total of the anti-
Watson strength that could be assem
bled in Washington city, and that al
leged opposition was made the basis of
a cock-and-bull local story, to the ef
fect that there was a national upris
ing on, and that it was going to over
whelm Watson.
It was even pointed out that the Un
derwood leaders had agreed to get to
gether in Atlanta within the week and
prepare plans and specifications for
Watson's elimination from the situa
tion. ..
Nothing in It.
There was nothing whatever of ap
proximately Important truth in the
Washington-local story.
There is to be no meeting of the.
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Underwood leaders, looking to the un
doing of Watson. There never was any
such meeting contemplated, that any
single prominent Underwood leader
knows anything about.
Moreover, it is not at al! likely that
Georgia would permit any- outsiders to
dictate the personnel of the Georgia
delegation to Baltimore
Any attempt to "butt in" on the Wat
son matter from the outside unques
tionably will work to Watson’s ad
vantage.
Previous attempts to “boss", the state
of Georgia have not resulted very hap
pily for those who undertook it, inside
or out.
"City Politicians.”
In one particular only do the Wilson
people appear to have slipped one over
on Mr Watson.
Early in their prodding they did con
vince him that the "city politicians”
were seeking to hand him a large col
lection of lemons. Then, and only jhen.
did he show an inclination to fight. He
said in his Jeffersonian ’ that if the
“city politicians" were seeking a fight
with him they would get it.
There is no doubt about that—and if
Mr. Watson is seeking a fight with the
"city politicians" he will get. his, too.
But the real basis for the suspicion
that either is seeking- a fight with the
other is the Wilson press. And re
flection has led Mr. Watson and the
“city politicians" to think that ought
not to count too heavily, perhaps, that
is there is to be a row. it should be
about some real and not fancied griev
ance.
What Watson May Expect,
Here is the situation, without bias.
Watson surely will go to Baltimore,
without protest, if he pursues his pres
ent and past course with respect to
that.
So far as Watson is concerned, there
is no reason to suspect that he will
come to Atlanta seeking a fight.
But if Watson comes, as the Wilson
press and not Watson says he is com
ing. seeking a fight, he will get it.
Anybody, indeed, who comes to that
convention seeking a fight will be ac
commodated—if not. it will be the first
one ever pulled off in Georgia in which
the fight seeker failed of accommoda
tion.
At present, all signs point to Mr.
Watson's triumph in the convention.
If he does not triumph, it will be his
own fault.
Will he disappoint the Wilsonites
and the anti-Wilsonites by not doing
the very thing they have been trying to
make him do?
The betting is 10 to 1 that he will do
that very thing. For the Hon. Thomas
E. Watson is as smart as the smartest
of them—and a good deal smarter than
most of them.
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PURITAN SABBATH
Southern Presbyterians Object
to Sunday Picture Shows,
Street Cars, Trains, Etc,
BRISTOL. TENN. May 22 —Sunday •
picture shows, railroad trains, street
cars and newspapers were toda- - de
clared to be "evils” by the genera! as
sembly of the Southern Presbyterian
church and members of the church were
called on to disapprove of and abstain
from indulging in them. This action
came up in the adoption of the report
of the committee on Sabbath observ
ance. which vigorously condemned the
habitual indulgence in them. The com
mittee urged action to give employees
“protection from the greed of corpora
tions and selfishness of pleasure seek
ers” on the Sabbath
Other Important Features.
The foreign mission committee re
ported that the. various fields have had
a splendid year's work and that the out
look is most promising.
The report was made by Dr Harris
E Kirk, of Baltimore
The committee on theological semi
naries recommended the appointment of
a committee, consisting of two from
each of the four executive
to receive propositions for locations and.
subscriptions for a big training school
for Christian lay workers.
Committee on Doctrine
The moderator announced the fol
lowing as a committee to epitomize and
publish a “brief popular statement" of
the doctrines of the church based upon
the “Truths of the Confession of
Faith;"
Judge W. B Somerville. New Or
leans; Dr. R. C. Reed, Columbia. S C.;
Dr, James I Vance, Nashville. Tenn.;
Dr. T. H. Rice, Richmond. Va.; Dr. W.
R Dobyns, St. Joseph, Ma; George
Sommey. New Orleans; Dr. J S Lyons,
Louisville; Judge A. C. Howse. Bir
mingham; Oscar Newton, Jackson,
Miss.; Rev. H A, Ravnell. Spartan
burg. S. C.; Dr. J. Lewis Howe, Lex
ington, Va.; Dr. R A. Webb, Louisville;
Dr E. C Caldwell, Austin, Texas; ex-
Governor M. F. Ansell. Greenville, S. C,
and ex-Governor Robert B Glenn. Win
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