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WIN. LAW TO
BE PROCLAIMED
• INGUBA
Negro Revolt Spreads—Presi
dent Gomez Will Be Given
Iron-Hand Power.
HAVANA,.June 4 —Proclamation of
martial law' will follow con pre sal on al
approval*"' President Gomez's request
for authority to suspend constitutional
guarantees, and the bloodiest campaign
has ever witnessed is ex-
during the next two months.
wt’hen members of the house gathered
for a special session today their atti
tude indicated that they would grant
full power to the president to act.
Even the dispatches censored by the
government showed tfce negro revolt
has spread, widely and that horrible
outrages are being committed under
the banner of revolution. Outlaws have
joined the forces of General Estonez
and they are looting, torturing and
burning as they raid the property of
wealthy Cubans.
Many women have been mistreated
and it jas reported here early today
that ten white women had been carried
away from one village by negro rebels.
Rebels Gaining Courage.
The/febels are gaining courage while
ernment delays. The 5,000 rifles
and 1,000.000 rounds of ammunition
which will he sent here by the United
States government will be of vast help.
Though President Gomez is moving
vigorously now, the revolt is likely to
result in his downfall, as it is charged
that his failure to realize the danger
■was responsible for the rebels gaining
such an advantage.
The rebels are so well organized that
an outbreak in Havana is feared at
any time. More than 100 arrests of
suspected persons have been made here
and in the suburbs.
Every road leading into Havana was
crowded today with refugees fearing
death or worse in the outlying districts.
The problem of caring for several thou
sand helpless women and children is a
ssrtons problem for the already im
poverished government.
SECRET SPREE IS AN
OFFICIAL PRIVILEGE
TOPEKA. KANS.. June 4. —lt Is per.
fectly proper for a public official In
Kansas to get drunk as often and as
much as he pleases, provided he does
not do so publicly. Is the opinion of
John Dawson, attorney general. The
last legislature made drunkenness one
of the offenses for which a public offi
cial may be removed from office. The
attorney general holds that the law is
good as far as it goes, but it does not
go far enough to "get” a public offi
cial who goes on solitary and private
jags.
COUNCIL SEEKS POWER
TO RETIRE CITY OFFICIALS
If the council adopts a resolution now
in the hands of the committee on char
ter amendments, it will have the au
thority to retire any official in the city
government
Officials now have the right to peti
tion for retirement under the pension
ordinance, but the council can not re
tire them unless they first file an ap
plication for a pension. The object of
the new resolution is to make the pen
sion ordinance retroactive.
$5 DOG. BUT NO AUTOS IN
TAX RETURNS OF JOHN D.
CLEVELAND. June 4 - In making
his personal tax returns in East Cleve
land, where his Forest Hill estate is.
John D Rockefeller has put in a dog
valued at $’ No mention is made of
automobiles.
BEES IN ENVELOPES
FRIGHTEN THE WOMEN
VANCOUVER. WASH. June 4.
When they heard a buzzing sound in
mail matter women clerks thought they
were handling infernal machines,
dropped the packages and fled. The
packages contained a number of queen
bees.
DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT
ILL: APPENDICITIS FEARED
OTTAWA, ONTARIO. June 4
Alarming reports r* tched here toda>
from Quebec, where the Duchess of
Connaught, wist f th' governor gen
eral of Canada, is ill. Appendicitis is
threatened The ducal party consists
of the duke, the duchess. Princess Pa
tricia and a numb, r of attendants.
Nathaniel West.
The funeral of Nathaniel West, 65
years old. who d:.d in ('ampbeil count'
yeste:day, was buri* <i in the Bethesda
church yard, near his home, tills aft- r
noon at 2 - ' lock Jh W* st w- ■ on* o*
the oldest residents of his i-'unty and
was at one time a member of the At
lanta police force H* is survived by
several relatives, :-**me of whom live n,
this - ity.
MONEY TRUST PROBE THURSDAY.
WASHINGTON. June 4 Th- monex
trust investiga’: n will begin i New
York city next Thursday This de
cision was reached by the hous* con'
mfttee on banking and current \ to
day.
NEW FACTORY AT CONYERS.
CONYERS. GA June 4. The South
ern be » -earn and Manufacturing '.
I
V • I. the plant
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
Speculation as to what William G.
Brantley, representative in congress
from the Eleventh Georgia district,
would do in the event of his election tn
Baltimore as a delegate at large ran
riot for a time in the late state con
vention.
It had been stated —probably by Old
Man They Say—that. Mr. Brantley pos
i-tlve-ly would not consent to serve on
the nationci delegation with the "red
headed person" from Thomson, because
of the ancient and bitter enmity exist
ing between them. Besides that. Mr,
Brantley's name was not considered
seriously for a delegate's place, not
even mentioned, indeed, until some 24
nours before the convention was call'd
to order.
The truth of the matter may as well
be stated.
Mr. Brantley was in no sense of the
word a candidate for a delegate's place;
he was in actual ignorance of any sug
gestion that he serve until the conven
tion was about ready to be called to
order.
Moreover, it is a fact that Mr. Brant
ley did demur to the idea that he go to
Baltimore with Mr. Watson He thought
it might bring about an unpleasant
status of things, not to say an ineffect
ive situation.
Because of his great ability, his high
standing in congress and his nearness
to Mr. Underwood, it was insisted,
nevertheless, that he owed it to his
party to sink and sacrifice whatever
feeling he had in the matter, and, for
Mr. Underwood's sake, yield his views
to the extent of agreeing to go to Bal
timore. if named by the convention.
Finally. Mr. Brantley said he would
put the matter In the hands of his
friends and do what they thought he
should do—this for Mr. Underwood's
sake, as well as for the sake of the
party that had so greatly honored him
In the past.
So it came to pass that Mr. Brantley
was elected—and Mr. Brantley will
serve. And this information ought to
ease several pains, and set forever at
rest whatever doubts still assail some
few politicians here and there.
"Everybody has a right to their
own opinion." said Mr. Barnes, of
New York, discussing Mr. Roose
velt recently. Everybody hasn't the
right to assault the English lan
guage. with Intent to murder it.
however.
This “Let's all drop Watson"
suggestion doesn't seem to impress
particularly, coming from people
who have no Mr. Watson to drop.
Former State Senator J A. J. Hen
derson gave his friends a real surprise
a day or so ago. when he announced
his determination not to continue his
tight for election to congress from the
new’Twelfth district.
Mr. Hendi rson, who was looked upon
as an exceedingly formidable candidate,
gives business as his reason for quit
ting (he race. He declares that his in
terests are so extensive and involve so
many other people, that he felt himself
not Justified in undertaking the game
of politics at this time.
The retirement of Mr. Henderson
leaves Judge Parker, of Waycross, and
Ranfial Walker,, of Lowndes, the omy
two avowed candidates for congres
sional honors in the Twelfth, but it is
2 KILLED. 3 HURT IN I
RAID ON BLIND TIGER
IN KENTUCKY TOWN
WHITESBURG, KY.. June 4.—Two
were killed and three wounded when a
posse raided a blind tiger near the town
of Jenkins. Deputy Stieriff Bollock and
United States Marshals J. W. and J.
H. Adington led the raid. A lookout
must have given for the
men in the blihd tiger were awaiting
the officers. A demand to surrender
was met by a volley. Officer Pollock
fell, wounded by three bullets. The fir
ing continued, two Inmates of the "ti
go-" being killpd and two wounded. The
eight remaining in the barricade hoist
a table cloth as a white flag and sur
rendered.
F ARMY ORDERS
WASHINGTON. June 4. The fol
lowing army orders have been issued:
Major W. E Horton, quartermaster,
from office quartermaster general to
New York, assistant to chief quarter
master that diyismn.
Captain F. H Burton, quartermas
ter, from Eastern division to Boston,
as assistant quartermaster.
Captain W. C. Metcalf, coast artil
lerx. retired from active service.
Captain F D. Powers, coast artil
lery corps to New London, Conn re
lieving Captain F. T. Arnold, quarter
master.
Captain E. T Davis. Thirteenth cav
alry, to mounted service school. Fort
Riley. Kans., as secretary of school.
RIFLE ASSOCIATION TO
BANQUET AT SAVANNAH
i SAVANNAH. GA, June 4.—A1l is
I now in readiness for the thirty -seventh
I annual banquet of the Savannah Rifle
association, which will be held at Ban
non Lodge. Thunderbolt. tonight.
Among the speakers will be <'**’ *n*’l A
R. Lawton, vice president of the Cen
l ral of Georgia railway Colonel A M
' Brookfield. British consul to Savannah.
I'olonel PI. isant A Stovall. <<ir*r *>f
Th* Savannah Press and Judge Henn
ig, M Aiptn. of the court of ordinary
I Colonel I '' Postell will act master
| f ceremonies.
Automatic Refrigerators
are superior to all others.
C. H Mason, 6 and 8 West
Mitchell street.
j nr ATLANTA GEOKF
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
given out, with considerable degree cf
authority, that there unquestionably
will be another entry, if not two more.
Both Mr. Walker and Judge Parker
are actively campaigning, although It
is pointed out, as a fact not without
significance, that Judge Parker has not
yet resigned his judgeship nor ex
pressed an intention to do so—and res
ignation has generally been considered
a necessary prereouisite to the pur
suit of congressional ambition upon the
part of a Georgia judge.
Senator John Sharp Williams
thinks the senatorial free bath
should be abolished in Wash-ing
ton. The old reliable “immunity
bath” might be abolished, too, per
haps—and no real harm done.
A Georgia politician says h<- has
"pasted an account of the late state
convention" In his “scrap book for
future reference.” Well, there is
where the account should be past
ed; the convention was a “scrap"
all right!
The sub-committee having in charg
for the Georgia delegation to Baltimore
the matter of hotel accommodations in
the Monumental City had a fine little
scheme knocked galley west a day or so
ago. '
This cute little committee had it all
fixed up to put Thomas B. Felder and
Thomas E. Watson in a room together,
with only one double bed between
them. The room selected Is quite a
cozy one, too, and wasn't provided witli
a fire escape.
The sub-committee figured that it
was doing a fine harmony-and-hrother
ly-love stunt, and was pluming itself
accordingly—on the strict q. t.
It was under the impression that, the
state convention marked the ending of
the Watson-Felder near-war, and that
thereafter all would be as merry as a
wedding bell
But the Watson-Felder thing broke
loose again in Georgia the other day -
and the fine little Baltimore scheme is
all off!
"Champ Clark is convinced a
congressional bird In the hand is
worth two presidencies in the
hush." observes the erudite Bir
mingham (Ala.) Age-Herald.
Champ may have acquired the no
tion from “Cousin Oscar" —who
knows?
The Hon. Lorimer, of Illinois, is
booked for another farewell tour of
the senatorial circuit. This is pos
i-tive-ly his last appearance!
Thomas E. Watson’s announced de
termination. via* Major McGregor, Mr.
Watson’s most intimate friend and ail
viser, not to oppose Senator Racon for
re-election is being accepted as final.
Few* profess to believe that either Mr.
Watson or Major McGregor undertook
to juggle with words in the major's
communication to the editor of The
Macon Telegraph, setting forth ex
plicitly the fact that Mr. Watson had
given up his Immediate senatorial am
bition.
Mr. Watson is specifically advised
that Senator Bacon will be in the race
to succeed himself. ■
There is a growing opinion, however,
that Mr. Watson has an eye on Senator
Hoke Smith's seat, and may try for it
I wo "years hence.
VISITING GERMANS
FETED BY U. S. NAVY
AT HAMPTON ROADS
FORT MONROE, VA., June 4 - En
tertainment of the officers of the vis
iting German squadron composed of
the battleship Moltke and the pro
tected cruisers Stettin and Bremen was
divided between land and sea today.
Among the features upon the program
were a review and exhibition drill for
Rear Admiral Vonßebur Paschwitz at
the fortress and a luncheon for the
visiting German officers upon the bat
tleship Louisiana.
The Gelman squadron and the fleet
of eight United States battleships, sur
rounded by a flotilla of lesser warcraft,
presented a lively picture as they stood
at anchor in the road today.
RIO GRANDE ON RAMPAGE:
TRAINS STALLED BY FLOOD
EL PASO, TEXAS. June 4. -Hun
dreds of miles of the Rio Grand*’ is
flooded from recent rains and traffic is
held up in the Southern Pacific rail
road infected districts. Many trains aie
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OHIO OEMDCRITS
ON BATTLE EVE
Plan of Harmon Men to Carry
Unit Rule Bitterly Fought
by Wilson Forces.
TOLEDO, OHIO. June 4. —The unit
rule proposition continues to overshad
ow all other topics of conversation be
fore the Democratic state convention,
which opens here tonight and continues
Wednesday.
The leaders of the Harmon organiza
tion insist that they have the votes and
intend to carry it through, despite the
cry of gag rule by the Nineteenth dis
trict Wilson men, elected in the recent
state primaries. If they stick to this
plan of campaign, the convention will
be a stormy one, as the Wilson men de
clare they will fight the measure to
the last ditch and if defeated in the
state convention assert they will car
ry the fight to the floor of the Balti
more convention.
Baker Leads Fight For Wilson.
Mayor Newton Baker, of Cleveland,
will lead the fight for the Wilson men.
He intends to try to get on the resolu
tions committee and will make his
first fight there when the committees
convene this afternoon.
Some of the Harmon leaders, fearing
the effect the enforcing of the unit rule
will have on the state ticket this fall,
were busy this morning endeavoring to
bring about a compromise between the
two factions which will give Harmon
the selection of the six delegates-at
large, a presidential indorsement by the
convention and allow the nineteen Wil
son delegates to go to Baltimore as
Wilson men. The compromise appears
to be agreeable to the Wilson forces,
but Ed Moore and Ben Chamberlain,
Harmon's personal representatives hi re,
refuse to listen to any compromise.
Cox in Lead for Governor,
Congressman Cox, of Dayton, appears
to have the nomination for governor
lined up, but O. S. Hughes is making a
hard fight for delegate and may show
considerable Strength before the nomi
nation tomorrow.
Ex-Mayor James Rice, of Canton, a
dry leader, gave out a statement today
attacking Congressman James M. Cox,
candidate for the Democratic guberna
torial nomination. Rice declares Cox
is the first choice of the liquor inter
ests and for that reason the party
ought to make him its last.
•
[KICKERS’
COLUMN
a.. ' 5
If you are unhappy,
have a grouch or a
grievance, here’s the
place to tell about it.
What About the
Summer Band Concerts?.
To the Editor: What has become of
the park concert question? Are we to
pass the summer without the usual se
ries of band concerts? There seems to
be no inclination on the part of the
(<iundl to appropriate money for this
populab amusement, and It is to be re
gretted that Atlanta is to allow these
concerts to be passed up.
Progressive Atlanta! That is the
term usually applied. Cities not as
large as Atlanta have arranged for a
series, one in particular having erected
a band stand and the concerts are
about to begin.
it is getting late and about time for
arrangements to he made if we are to
have our concerts.
If the council will not provide for the
series. I would suggest that a popular
subscription be started. A CHORD.
SENIOR LAW REPRESENTATIVES.
ATHENS. GA.. June 4.—James E.
English, of Waycross; Fred V. Para
dise, of Amity, and Joseph E. Varela,
of Tampa. Fla., will represent the senior
law class on commencement day. to
gether with the men already named
from the other branches of the uni
versity.
TUESDAY. JUNE 4. 1912.
T, R., FEARING CLARK AS
FOE, NOW WANTS HADLEY
By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.
WASHINGTON, June 4.—Roosevelt
has winged, the word along the line that
he . wants Hadley, of Missouri, for a
running mate. With Hadley for vice
president he hopes to stiffen the Repub
lican hand in Missouri and the West.
Roosevelt believes that Clark will be
the Democratic nominee against him.
With Missouri as a solid wali behind
Clark, the Oyster Bay feeling is'that
the single chance of rounding up the
state for the Republicans is to put
Hadley on the ticket.
Hadley ha's already carried the gov
ernorship, and Roosevelt deduces there
from a local Hadley popularity.
Both the Roosevelt and the anti-
Roosevelt forces declare Roosevelt will
be in Chicago not later than Thursday.
They read between the lines when he
sends forth word that he’ll “come if
needed," and insists that the question
of “need” has already been decided by
him in the affirmative.
T. R. Buttons For Taftites.
So sure is a former Taft contingent
in congress of an ultimate Roosevelt
victory at Chicago that they have
donned, and are wearing a new kind of
campaign button. One may he seen
most prominently blazing on the broad
breast of House Leader Mann. It is a
Roosevelt button, with the motto all
about it, "We know when we’re beat."
Taft, who also knows when he's
“beat,” insists more strongly than ever
to his near advisers—after the doors
have been doubly locked and guarded—
that his name must not go before the
convention. He has seen enough by
the light of the recent primaries to
know that the great majority of the
party do not want him, and, although
the indomitable Tawney and others try
to cheer him up and show him that
with the aid of the national committee
sitting in Chicago he can be steam
rollered into the nomination, he has no
heart for so empty an honor.
Better, he believes, to step sidewise
out of a situation cvhich grows worse
and not'better every day than to bur
glarize the convention for the. nomina
tion and then be beaten nut nf every
semblance of political humanity at the
polls.
Finding Fault With Managers.
Taft is finding grievous fault wdth
McKinley and Crane. .He insists that
it was they who, against his will and
protest, drove him into those speech
making tours, which in the recent ail
mary fights resulted so disastrously.
Crane and Mr. McKinley don’t say
much in reply to Taft's complaint of
bad management, but murmuring
among themselves they intimate that it
was he. not they, who insisted upon
that unfortunate speech-making.
Among the soberer and more
thoughtful Democrats, many of whom
have not violently preferred the cause
of any candidate, the conviction is be
ginning to form that Clark should be
and will be named. Littleton, of New
'York, has come, after a -week's absence.,
.from, his*seat, full of a Clark belief.
Hilton, of West Virginia and the sen
ate, Is another.
These gentlemen, in turning to Clark
and thinking greatly of the party and
a ballot triumph in November, argue
after this wise; Wilson is the leading
candidate against Clark. It is not sure
that Wilson could carry New Jersey.
It is sure that Clark could carry Mis
souri. Also, Missouri is bigger than
New Jersey.
Clark Stronger Man.
In the electoral college it takes 266
votes to choose a president. The Dem
ocrats, given Oklahoma, Missouri and
Maryland, are certain of 188 votes. Fur
the other 78 required to elect, the Dem
ocrats would have Maine, Massachu
setts, California. Colorado, Illinois. In
diana, Ohio, West Virginia, New Jer
sey and New York to look to.
Clark can carry Missouri, Oklahoma
and Maryland. It is a question if Wil.
son could. Wilson would lose Missouri
sure, and Maryland probably.
With Hadley for vice president upon
the ticket with Roosevelt, Missouri
would inevitably go Republican if Wil
son did the running for the Democrats.
The returns from the popular prima
ries are thus thrashed out: Clara
swept, as if by fire, Rhode Island. Mas.
sachusetts, Kentucky, Maryland. Illi
nois, Arkansas, Utah. Colorado and
California.
Clark also carried Nebraska, even in
the face of Bryan's expressed prefer
ence for Wilson, and Bryan was chose t
a delegate and instructed to vote first,
last and all the time for Clark.
This marks Clark as the great na
tional choice of the Democracy. The
candidate who can carry California, Il-
linois and Massachusetts, as Clark car
ried them, is something more than a
mere neighborhood candidate, more
than merely the favorite son of a state.
Wilson carried Texas, Oregon, Min
nesota, the Carolinas and Pennsylva
nia. What then? The Democrats, if
they tried, could no more lose Texas
and the Carolinas than the Republicans
could lose Pennsylvania. As for Ore
gon and Minnesota. Clark at the ballot
box would stand as good, if not a bet
ter. chance than Wilson.
Wilson Has Antagonized Opponents.
In Harmon's state of Ohio and such
Underwood states as Alabama and
Florida, Clark would be stronger than
Wilson who—through Bryan—has an
tagonized every supporter of either
Harmon or Underwood between the
oceans.
Last, yet not least, it is pointed out
that Wilson is a dreamer, while Clark
stays on the ground; that the one is
academic while the other is practical,
that the one shifts and changes while
the other remains steadfast; that the
on e writes essays while the other, in
practical fashion, puts the people’s
needs in the way of house measures
squarely up to the Republicans of the
senate.
In short, the currents of argument,
and per consequence, conviction, are
setting toward Clark and against Wil
son. It is the common admission by
every cool head among the Democrats,
thinking on party victory, that Clark
should be the man.
Wednesday | Thursday
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Peaches and Prunes
Finest California Eyaporated Peaches; the 4 4
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Finest Santa Clara Valley California Prunes:
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Medium, per pound 12c
Large, per pound 15c
Extra large, the very finest grown, per pound 21c
Potato Chips, 20c Pound
Fresh and crisp, made in our own cookery of
finest potatoes
Ridgway’s Tea Special
Ridgway's Teas are the best for iced tea as well as to
drink hot. The following special offer for Wednesday and
Thursday only:
3 Lemons free with each 1-4 pound of Ridgway’s Tea; 6
Lemons free with each 1-2 pound'of Ridgway's Tea; 12 Lem
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Finest Butter, 29c Pound
Famous Piedmont Hotel Brand
Finest Fresh Florida Pineapples; a.
Wednesday and Thursday, each CJU
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BIG FUND RAISED
TOFIGHmiTERB
NEW YORK, June 4.—Proprietors of
the hotels and restaurants forming the
Hotel Men’s association have raised a
fund of SIIO,OOO to fight the Interna
tional Hotel Workers union, and today
they declared that they were assured
of victory in their contest. Each mem
ber has ben assessed SI,OOO for the “war
fund.”
Despite dissension in the ranks of
the strikers, the leaders of the cooks
and waiters asserted today that they
would be able to win and succeed in
forcing recognition of the union.
When the leaders resumed their cam
paign today they declared that 69 es
tablishments had been crippled and that
5.518 employees were on strike. The
hotel and restaurant men admitted that
thev would not serve their full quota
of patrons, but that they would be able
to carry on their business if provided
with proper protection. They said that
help had been promised them by James
H. Dashner. of the Elite association, one
of the six fraternal associations form
ed by waiters and chefs.
They had promised Dashner that all
of the unionists will be given their old
places with the concessions they have
asked, leaving the recognition of the
union out of the question, if they wi.l
return to work.