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WATSON'S CHALLENGE TO WAR AND FELDER’S ACCEPTANCE < - -(/>*' £ ffVit . .._ —— THOMAS B. FELDER. THE WEATHER. Forecast: Generally fair tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 77 degrees; 10 a. m., 79 de grees; 12 noon. 84 degrees: 2 p. m., 78 degrees. VOL. X. NO. 257. CUBA FIGHTS MULT 10 PUT OOM REBELS President Makes Desperate Stand to Save Country From Occupation by U. S. PRIVATE CITIZENS ARE ARMED BY GOVERNMENT Prisoners Will Be Shot as Trait ors. and Extreme Measures Used to Crush Outbreak. HAVANA, May 27. —In the endeavor ta save the Cubaa republic from in tervention by the United States, Presi dent Gomez is today making frenzied efforts to put down the negro uprising before United States military forces are landed in what every Cuban believes would be the final occupation of the is land by the great republic. Five thousand troops are In the field under orders to give decisive battle to the rebellious negroes at the earliest possible moment and to give no quar ter, Negroes will be treated with the greatest severity: prisoners of war will be shot as traitors. Three thousand men in Oriente prov ince. under the command of Montea gudo. federal eommander-in-ehief. are in motion against the principal rebel detachment under Generals Estenoz and Ivonot. The government army topes to force the horde of rebels into a battle within 48 hours. Arms Issued to Private Citizens. Continued depredations are reported. The greatest number are in Santiago and Oriente provinces, where the rebels are strongest. In those provinces plan tation owners are marshaling their em ployees and arming them. The govern ment is supplying free of charge arms and ammunition for private citizens. . B> government decree all civilians are empowered to take up arms against the marauders and no act of violence .malnst the negroes will be questioned hereafter. From Holguin in Santiago it is re- • rted that negroes attacked the village ,f Saoarriba, north of there, burning a number of houses and carrying off a number of women. A small guard of rurales has been rushed north from Holguin on a branch line of the Cuba, railroad to pursue the negroes and res cue the prisoners. The negroes are carrying off dyna mite front mining companies in Cama gue” province. In many instances I where such seizures have been made I receipts have been given to be paid by the provisional government of which Estonez has declared hims.-If president. Many Rebels Armed Only With Machetes The chief results from the rebel raids | have been seizures of money, guns and horses. Many of the negroes went into rhe field armed only with machetes. These have proved pool weapons in brushes against rurales, armed with carbines and revolvers. Traffic on the main line of the Cuba railroad between Havana and its east erly terminus at Santiago is interrupt ed at a half a dozen different places, i where the negroes have burned bridges ■ - blown up the tracks to prevent the . advance of troop trains into Santiago . province. , The extreme northeastern port of p.iracoa is being closely watched to guard against the landing of filibusters, government has learned that Hai tian and Dominican blacks and much ammunition have been landed there w ■bin th-’ past four da-’S. While attempting to seize s-veral ... - -f the high explosive melinite- be longing t> the t’uc a Copper Company ‘ Continued on Page. Two. “I-will accept Thomas E. Watson’s challenge, since he will have nothing short of a fight in the convention—and the longest pole will get the persimmon. “Watson and Felder can not both go to the national convention as delegates at large; that much is now settled. He. it seems, will have it no other way. “We shall heat him. beat him. BEAT him—to an everlasting, eternal, non revokable. complete and ultimate frazzle. “He has. by his arrogance and conceit, written his own finish—the odium of the fight he will lose is all upon him. He brought it on; he must face the con sequence.” —THOMAS B. FELDER TO THE GEORGIAN. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results Paddle Suit Cousin Os Pannier Skirt, Is Newest Bathing Garb As the swimming season opens with a splash new creations in bathing cos tumes are seen in the department stores. The latest idea in swimming garb is the paddle suit. The fashioners say it is the aquatic form of the pannier skirt. When seen on land it looks much like a two-piece suit of the old school, except that It is caught at the knees by two bands, one for each knee. When under water, however, these bands are released, allowing perfect freedom to the limbs. It is said some novel decorative ef fects are being planned for suits built principally for the purpose of being seen. Joyrider's 'Musical* Motor Horn Fails to Soothe Peachtree St Residents along Peachtree street were awakened this morning early by a sound which resembled the overture from Tannhauser, but wasn't. The sound was moving swiftly, too, for it was heard on one side one minute and another the next. Presently the notes changed and a weird chord was sounded. In his basic principles it was like the muffled drum effect from Cho pin's Funeral March. This and other near-melodies were honked on th* morning air. A curious person found the organ w as attached to an automobile and was played by the exhaust from the gasoline engine. Woman Asleep, Rocks Chair on Match and Burns Self to Death CHICAGO, May 27. —Mrs. John J. Dunn, a wealthy widow of 40. is dead today from the effect of burns caused when she rocked on matches and set fire to a pile of newspapers. The acci dent occurred on the porch of her home while the woman fell asleep in her chair. The flames spread to her cloth ing, and she awoke with a scream. Her son ran to her assistance and tried to put out the flames with a niece of car pet. The carpet caught fire. Albert Strasberg. 14 years old. saw the acci dent and ran to Mrs. Dunn's assistance. He broke into the basement, got a gar den hose, attaiched it to a hydrant, and put out the fire which had attacked the house The woman died later in a hospital. Berry Pilots Balloon 'St Louis* in Attempt To Win Distance Prize SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS, May 27. No word had been received at 9 o'clock today from th- balloon St. Louis, with | Albert VonHoflfnian and Captain John I Berry, pilot, which sailed at 5:25 last night in an attempt to lift the Lahm cup. The St. Louis got away in a 25-mile wind which carried it rapidly in a northwesterly direction. The balloon lacked about 5,000 cubic feet of being filled to its capacity of 80,000 feet. Captain Berry was satis fied, however, that he and Von Hoffman would make at least 1,000 miles before landing. NEW TROLLEY LINE ATLANTA TO MACON: CAPITAL IS $100,000.0() The Atlanta and Macon railway, a projected trolley line between Atlanta and the Bibb county metropolis, was chartered today by Secretary of State Phil Cook. The road Is capitalized at SIOO,OOO. The line is to operate through the. following t.owrfr Forest, Jonesboro, Lovejoy. Hampton, Sunnyside. Griffin and Forsyth The incorporators are W D. Seahan. Kennatt Cowan. S Bul lard <. G. Young R. S Parker. H M Scott, W j Masser- H R Stewart, s Grantland W. J. Kincaid and James M. Brannen. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. MAY 27. 1912. PLOTTERS ON! KING’S LIFE JAILED IN ITALY Wholesale Arrests of Anarch ists. Alleged Conspirators, Being Made. * EMMANUEL IS CLOSELY GUARDED FROM PUBLIC Seizures Believed To Be Result of Probing of Recent Attempt to Slay the Ruler. ROME. May 27. —Wholesale arrests are being made throughout Italy today as the result of the discovery of a plot to assassinate King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. The discovery of the plot fol lowed admissions made by Antonio d’Alba, the young anarchist who tried to shoot King Victor Emmanuel sev eral months ago. A number of alleged conspirators already have been taken into custody at Milan, Naples, Rome and Bologna At least three self-con fessed anarchists are said to have been arrested here. The authorities will give no information relative to the scope of the cabal, nor will they admit hew many arrests have been made. It 1: believed that the authorities have been investigating the ramifica tions of the plot for some time. After d'Alba was arrested in Rome charged with attempted assassination he clung to the story that he was alone in the matter. Police Quiet To Avoid Suspicion. There were rumors of various sorts. One of these was that d'Alba was in i the pay of Turkey and had been elected by an anarchist society to kill the king The belief most generally accepted at | the time, however, was that d'Alba had cone insane through reading accounts of Italians killed in the war with Tur key. That the police have delayed making arrests until the last minute so as no* to arouse suspicion and hinder their in vestigations is evident. It is known that many other arrests will be made. in the meantime King Victor exposec himself as little as possible and when he appears in public is escorted by a strong guard, while secret service agents mingle with the crowds. WOMAN AND 2 CHILDREN DIE WHEN BOAT IS UPSET MORGAN (TTY. LA.. May 27.—The Mississippi river Is being dragged to day for the bodies of Mrs. Henry Brown and her two children, who were drown ed when a launch was capsized last night. The woman's husband and an other pasenger saved themselves by clinging to piling FESTIVAL REHEARSAL IN CHARGE OF DR.STARNES Dr. Percy Starnes, city organist, will be in charge of the rehearsal of the Atlantic Music Festival chorus, which will be held tonight In Cable hall at 8 | o'clock. The chorus is working on Hayden's "Creation." which will be put on In the early fall. Besides this, they are working on some part songs which will be given shortly at one of the organ recitals. COLUMBUS COTTON BUYER DEAD COLUMBUS. GA Ma- 27 J T Watts, for fifteen vears a resident of Columbus, is dead from heart failure Hh body will be sent to Senoia for interment. He was well known as a cotton buyer. “The action of the secret caucus held in Atlanta Saturday was a rank in justice upon Walton, Rockdale, Clayton and Campbell counties. ♦ “Both Fulton and DeKalb counties went for Wilson, yet those two coun ties not only ‘hog’ a majority of the district delegates, but also arrogate to them selves in advance of the convention the right to dictate one of the delegates-at large. “I am a candidate for the chairmanship of the Baltimore delegation, and I invite all delegates who favor my candidacy to meet in the ballroom of the Kimball house at 8 o'clock Tuesday night. * * No one connected with the scandalous Morse ease -should present himself.” —THOMAS E. WATSON TO THE GEORGIAN. ! NAT KAISER AND BRIDE AT HOME; BOTH HAPPY | I ’ T r/- - O)' \ IK I® J * M b, H W’ oNBHI \ \W*\ \* " w % II \\\ I\\ * , \ A \ ’ /ITS / \\\ ink \ - k*" —*<<vL z / \ \WHk\. \ / \w., x ? i Inlxflß \ WflL \ .IL • a fiBO 7 W* ’W- L \ y\ \ ) BSfcrAw \ \ \\\ 0 / K jfC TiK u&Lkf' >vf i : \ k 'A® ifß* 'jjjWY O! 1 I -W /I Mrs. Nat Kaiser, formerly Mrs. Ruth Wintz, and Mr. Kaiser, of Atlanta, who were married last week and have returned to Atlanta and are at the Georgian Terrace. Mr. And Mrs. Nat Kaiser are at the Georgian Terrace, having arrived Sat urday night from New Orleans, where Mr. Kaiser married Mrs. Ruth Wintz last Monday. Witt) his two sons and his daughter. Mrs. Robert Schwab, beside him, Mr. Kaiser told a Georgian reporter of his marriage and of errors which, he said, had, crept into newspaper reports. He appeared as happy as any bridegroom possibly could be, and expressed regret that Mrs. Kaiser was indisposed and could not leave her room. "My wife was never a manicure." said Mr. Kaiser. "Mrs. Wintz was for some time cashier in the Hotel Frune walcl, the leading hotel of New Orleans, holding a responsible business position MERCURY REMAINS UP AROUND 86 DEGREES; DROP BY WEDNESDAY The mercury played around 86 de grees during the greater part of today, as it did yesterday, and kept Atlanta sweltering and seeking tor shady spots. For s' hast another day or two no change is scheduled in weather condi tions By Wednesday or Thursday a cool wave is due. No rain is in sight for a longer period than Thursday. WRIGHT IN CRITICAL STATE AFTER RELAPSE DAYTON, OHIO. May 27. The con dition of Wilbur Wright, the aviator, Is again highly critical today, following a relapse late last night. Physicians are tn constant attendance at the bedside ready to resort to he mic measures un less his temperature soon goes down. and one which any woman might be glad to have. She was not a wealthy wom an. The death of her first husband had made it necessary for her to earn a liv ing, just as many of the best women of Atlanta are doing. A short time ago she opened a hairdressing establish ment, with several women as her em ployees, and was making it an entire success. And the story of a hurried courtship was all wrong. I had known Mrs. Wintz for a long time. "My sons knew I was to be married and accompanied me to the train when 1 left. My children have met my wife and we are all Just as happy as any one could ask." Mis. Kaiser remained tn her room most of the day, complaining of Illness resulting from the railway journey. $200,000.00 BILAZE hits CLEVELAND; SEVERAL FIREMEN OVERCOME CLEVELAND, May 27.-—Two hun dred thousand dollars loss was caused today by fire on Euclid avenue between East Nineteenth and East Twentieth streets. Several business concerns suf. fared. The fire, started from defective wiring in the building occupied by the Jackson Motor t.'ar Company and spread to the Firestone Tire Company, the Continental Jewelry Company and th* Grabowsky Power Company. Several firemen were overcome from fumes of burning rubber, but recovered. Fireman Synaer. engine No. 7, fell from a second floor and was badly hurt. WfITSDN BEGINS W FELDER HITS Hllll HARD; GREAT BATTLE Mill BN The Sage of McDuffie, Aroused by “Unwarranted” Caucus, Says He’s Out to Beat City Politicians to a Finish and Issues Call to His Legion. Felder Accepts the Challenge and Promises a Rare Old Fight, With the “Red-Headed Per son” Beaten to an “Everlasting, Complete and Ultimate Frazzle.” Thomas E. Watson today declared war uncompromising against the “city politicians," and will undertake to dominate-the state Democratic convention completely through the country coun ties. In issuing his defiance from Thomson. Watson centered his fire upon Thomas B. Felder, of the Fifth district, and makes the indorsement of Felder by the Fifth district for delegate at large his immediate and controlling reason for inviting a bitter fight on the floor of the convention. ; Felder unhesitatingly and vigorously accepted Watson’s broad and specific challenge, and said Watson shall have a fight, and a real one. This joining of the issue between Watson and Felder, in spite of all overtures for peace made last week, undoubtedly means a big fight for control on May 29 on the floor of the Democratic con vention in Atlanta. Both Watson and Felder are confident of winning. By JAMES B. NEVIN THOMSON, GA., May 27.—Thomas E. Watson is going to Atlanta tomor row, looking for a fight, and specifically inviting it. The "red-headed person" who hails from the grand old county of McDuffie today announced his abiding determi nation to run the state convention his way. or run It Into the ground—or somewhere. He once again reads the riot act to the “city politicians." deciares that his enemies are undertaking to "hog" the whole show, throws a big bomb in the direction of Thomas B. Felder, of At lanta. and winds up by announcing his purpose to “hog" the show himself. Whatever there was of white-winged peace In the atmosphere political, so far as Watson was concerned—and there was much of that as far back as Friday last —has been utterly dispelled. The secret caucus of the Fifth con gressional district delegates in Atlanta Saturday was the straw that broke the camel's back. Watson Promises Fight To the Finish. And now it is to be a fight to a finish, says Watson. The state convention must yield to certain demands that Watson will make and that he thinks fair. Just and right, or it must cast Watson out completely and travel without him. There is to be no compromise—the state convention must be frankly pro- Watson or anti-Watson. That is Wat son's "ultimatum.” It not only means the Watson or antl-Watson coloring of the delegation to the national convention In Balti more, but it likely will cut far into state politics, and profoundly affect the forthcoming gubernatorial campaign. As late as Saturday morning. Mr. Watson said: "I am not going to At lanta with a chip on my shoulder, spoil ing for a fight. I am assuming that the Underwood politicians of the big cities mean to give me a square deal I have been assured, with emphasis, that such is their purpose. Until I see con crete evidence that they do not intend doing that. 1 shall not be the aggressor In trouble." Atlanta Caucus a “Rank Injustice.” Today Mr. Watson sees—or thinks hr sees. which means the same thing to Watson —that very concrete evidence, and the sight by no means surprised him He said "The action of the secret caucus held Pl. < ' THOMAS E. WATSON HOHL EDITION L»L> On Trains. FIVE CENTS. X IVIVIL. i n Atlanta. TWO CENTS In Atlanta Saturday was a rank injus-e tice upon Walton, Rockdale. Clayton and Campbell counties." "Both Fulton and DeKalb counties went for Wilson, yet those two counties not only 'hog' a majority of the dis rtict delegates, but also arrogate t<* themselves in advance of the conven tion the right to dictate one of the dele gates-at-large. "The Fifth district caucus was tile-, gaily called, and its action is null and void. Nobody had any right to call that caucus in advance of the assem blage of delegates from all the counties Wednesday. I advise the delegates from all the counties of the Fifth dis trict to assemble on the night of May 28. after my conference at the Kime ball. "Those delegates have the right and should exercise it to agree upon the district delegates and also deleg’ate' for state-at-large, subject to the ratifica tion of the convention. The country counties are not bound in honor nor>- party law by the snap judgment taken upon them by the secret caucus Satur day. "That local, secret, unrepresentative caucus is without a precedent within the political history of this state. It was meant to cut the country counties out of a fair expression of their choice, and every man who is connected with it has made a serious mistake. “It is my purpose to see that the country counties are treated right. "The Underwood victory was the country man's triumph, and we do not intend that city politicians, who could not carry their own counties, and who were snowed under in their own voting precincts. shall be permitted to issue advance orders to the convention or to run the convention after it. convenes. "1 am a candidate for the chairman ship of the Baltimore delegation, and I invite all delegates who favor my can didacy to meet me in the ballroom of the Kimball house at S o'clock Tues day night. Reporters of all newspa pers are cordially invited. No railroad lobbyist need apply. No one connected with the scandalous Morse case should present him.-.elf. "I earnestly request delegates who are friendly to me not to enter any caucus until after the adjournment of our conference at the Kimball house, on the night Os the 28th." Mt itson's vchemant declaration Os war means that there is to b* a .posi tive and sharp division of the forth coming state Democrat! convention into Watson and anti-Watson camps. It means that Thomas B. Felder,