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TON HUDSON IK BETWEEN TWO MILLSTONES Both Watson and Smith Indif ferent. and Lacking Money. He Quit Governor’s Race. The sudden and spectacular .with drawal of Thomas G. Hudson from the gubernatorial race yesterday is the sole and absorbing topic of comment among Georgia politicians today. The absolute frankness and candor of Mr. Hudson's statement of withdrawal has amazed many old-timers, and not a few of them declare that nothing like It is of record in Georgia political history. While some evade the use of Thomas E. Watson's name entirely in their po litical discussions, while others handle the "red-headed person” gingerly and as if they were afraid the, handling might burn their fingers, even as they pray devoutly it will not, and .while still others really regard and speak of Mr. Watson as a forceful and worthy leader In the militant Democracy of Georgia, it remained for Mr. Hudson to pay Watson the highest tribute he ever has received at anybody's hands. Sought Watson's Support. Mr. Hudson admits unqualifiedly that he sought Mr. Watson's support dili gently, because he assumed it to be completely necessary to Hudson's suc cess: that he failed to get it, and that he withdraws because he realizes the utter futility of proceeding without it! Mr. Hudson believes tTtat Mr. Wat son has held the whip hand in Georgia politic s for a number of years, and he considers him the balance of power in the state, without doubt. Hudson's coming right, out into the sunshine, into the middle of the big road, and admitting all of this, without quibble or hesitation, hits astonished the politicians almost beyond the point, of coherent comment and discussion. •Some Inside History. it is known to Mr. Hudson's inti mates that he first beganjo doubt when he failed Os Watson's support. He called upon Mr. Watson at the Instigation of rt man high in the con fidence of Senator Hoke Smith and who usually Speaks by the card for Mr. Smith. Whether Mr. Smith had actual knowledge of Hudson’s impending vis it to Watson. Hudson does not know, but. being advised to call on Watson by the certain man who did advise it, Hudson undoubtedly, felt that his sup posed backers knew • what they were doing. And. as a visit to Mr. Watson and the seeking of his support Seemed to Mr. Hudson the fit and proper things to do. he went to Jhomson and talked things over with the "red-headed one." This visit brought Hudson no com fort. Mr. Watson frankly told him that he could not, and would not. support him if he was to be the candidate of .Sen ator Smith, even it he had no other reason to be against him. Mr. Hudson did not then feel at lib erty to say that he was not to have the cordial backing of Senator Smith and his faction, because he did believe that he would get it. He. therefore, left Mr. Watson, feeling that he would not get Matson's support. Hudson Awaited Developments. Notwithstanding Mr Watson’s re buff. Mr. Hudson did not immediately consider quitting the race for governor. He felt Mr. Watson had little against Hudson. Ho believed Watson was more against Hudson because Smith was for him. In the Underwood fight Mr Hudson ■was personally for the Alabama man. He did not make a' flgfrt on Wilson, but he. did not hesitate to let it be known that he would cast an Underwood vote. For this Underwood attitude. Mr. Hudson was taken severely tn task by certain parties of the Smith faction. He stood pat, however, for he felt that, the disapproval of the Smith faction in the Underwood matter might yet win him. if not Mr. Watson’s support, at least his passive opposition. Hudson's Hopes Fail. It was not long after the close of the Underwood-Wilson fight before Hud son found that he was being ground to powder between two millstones—the opposition of Tom Watson on the one hand and the indifference and growing coldness of the Hoke Smith faction on the other. He called upon those friends in the Smith line-up who had. early In the game, promised him financial backing. What he got was nothing—worse than nothing He was advised to "raise the wind" himself, as best he might -to mortgage his farm, and keep things going as long as he could, and see if anything turned up. Then Hudson determined to throw up the sponge He realized, with some bitterness, that his supposed friends had thrown him down, and that the friends he had attempted to cultivate had repelled him With no money and no Tom Watson, despair seized upon Tom Hudson, and he quit. A Pathetic Story. The foregoing is the loosely running story of the rise and fall of the Hudson campaign in Georgia. It does not make happy reading Interwoven In the warp and woof of it is much of the pathetic and the depressing. The charge that Hudson’s primary mistake was deserting his former Ter rell (Brown > friends to flock with Ter rell's dearest foe; the investigation of the workings of the agricultural de partment when Hudson was commis sioner; the alleged improper use of the patronage of his office —these things were minor incidents in bringing about the retirement of Hudson. • Hudson -quit because of the lack of SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS By JAMES B. NEVIN, Right after the state convention met and "fit, and bled, and died." it was urged in some quarters that it had per formed a monstrously irregular service to the people when it named certain prominent citizens presidential electors. One excited partisan of the Wilson persuasion—and, by the way, those Wilson people do seem to be more than moderately bad losers—expressed a fear that these electors, having been chosen "from the known friends of Under wood," might, in the event that some one other than Underwood is elected next November, tefuse to vote in the electoral college for the person named at Baltimore, and—-well, one forgets all the grand, gloomy and peculiar things scheduled as likely to happen, in some folks' imagination, unless something could be done, pretty quick, too, to straighten things out! A little calm thought and investiga tion discloses the fact, however, that the state convention, in naming elec tors, merely followed an ancient and unbroken custom in that matter. It has been the invariable rule for the convention that names delegates to the national convention also to name electors. These electors always vote in the electoral college for the person win ning in the party naming them. Discussing this matter, The Macon Telegraph points out that there was an elector once upon a time who violated his instructions in this matter and voted in the electoral college for some candidate whose cause failed in the elector's state. The Telegraph excuses the man upon the ground that he was crazy, and committed suicide shortly after putting over his remarkable and unheard of stunt. A whole lot of people have got back to where they prefer reading of Ty Cobb's doings, rather than of the late state convention. George Ade says his guberna torial boom is a joke. It Is rather painful to note' that George has reached the point where he consid ers it necessary to explain that his jokes are jokes. Congratulations, good wishes, and “many happy returns of the day" came in clusters and festoons to former Gov ernor and United States Senator Jo seph M. Terrell yesterday. Senator Terrell was 52 years old on Thursday, June 6. Senator Terrell's thousands of friends throughout Georgia will rejoice to know that his fifty-second birthday found him well along the road to re covery from the unfortunate and se- PAGEANT EXPERT TO TALK ME Thomas Woods Stevens, of the Chicago Art institute, is in Atlanta to lecture be fore the Atlanta Art Institute and to make tentative plans for the great pageant which wifi be given next fall under the auspices of the local Institution in com memoration of Georgia's history. Though nothing definite has been de cided It virtually is agreed the pageant will revolve around the principal events in the history of Georgia. Mr. Stevens said this morning that about 800 persons would be used in nine scenes and that the costuming would be in keeping with the scenes. The first scene, for Instance, will repre sent life among the Indians before the coming of the white man. Then the ar rival of Governor Oglethorpe will be shown and so on up to modem times. The last scene probably will be taken from the Civil war The play for the most part will be spo ken The whole piece will be presented out of doors. Mr. Stevens himself will write the play and he will get such data as Is necessary from histories and research among old inhabitants. money and the fear of Tom Watson's opposition. That's all —but it was enough. Hudson Not D'Sqruntleo. Mr. Hudson, who will be in At lanta a day or *so before going to his home In Sumter county, spent the greater part of today in (he Kimball house lobby, conversing genially with friends and acquaintances upon .sub jects political and otherwise. Mr. Hudson was in a particularly happy frame of mind, and if he is sore or disgruntled ft was not at all ap parent in bls talk "I feel that a tremendous burden has been lifted from me." be said. "I tolo the story in my card I have nothing to add to it nor take from it. "I fc»l that I have just cause of com plaint because of some treatment I re ceived, but I am going in stay in Geor gia. run my farm the best I know how, keep in touch with my friends, and— well of course, there are a few people 1 shall not forget. Some-of those I -hall not forget are my friends, who stood by me Some others I shall not forget are not my friends. "1 knew I was being ground tn pieces between two millstones I could not get away from lam glad I had common sense enough to know when I was head, ed straight for defeat. 1 believe I might have won would have won had things gone as I at first thougt they would go, and as I believe they should have gone. Rut they didn’t, and 1 shall not fret my life away because of hope gone wrong and plays destroyed. “Whatever Tom Hudson may or may not be. he is not a > sorehead nor a grouch." Ask any business man and he will tell you The Georgian Want Ad columns teach more people and bring better results that coqld not be "btained In any other •'•edium in this section. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, .JUNE 7. 1912. rious Illness which came so suddenly upon him in Washington about a year ago. It now looks as if the senator Is to become eventually his former physi cal self. He was in. a very happy frame of mind today, and keenly relished yes terday's numerous hearty messages of good will and friendship. Many hats are off and elevated at arm's length above many heads in Georgia today to Colonel Randolph Anderson, of Savannah. The gen eral opinion is that any future Democratic president finding him self in need of a diplomat guaran teed to dip. will do well to consider Colonel Anderson for the job! How will Tom Felder get to Bal timore? Nobody knows but Mr. Felder—-and he declines to say. Colonel Neyle Colquitt, of Savananh, who served the cause of Underwood so gallantly in the late state presidential primary, is rejoicing in the assurance from Mr. Underwood that congress will pass at its present session an appro priation of SIO,OOO for the erection of a monument to the memory of Genera’s Screven and Stewart In Midway ceme tery. Liberty county. This has been a pet, project wlt> Colonel Colquitt for eight years. Congress passed this appropriation two years or more ago, but there was a flaw In the framing of the act. and it must be passed again. The contract al ready has been awarded and the monu ment wili soon be up. Two counties tn Georgia were named for these two Revolutionary heroes, and the Savannah man thinks it all wrong that their names have never yet been glorified in maTble or bronze. Those people who are figuring the gubernatorial fight without taking carefully into consideration the name of the Hon. Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb, are making a mighty big mistake. Mr. Hall says so himself—and he should know. Without any campaign committee or manager, other than himself, with no publicity bureau or agents, Mr. Hall is getting In close touch with hundreds of voters throughout the state and ob taining from many of them cordial pledges of support. Already the Macon statesman has visited 31 counties, and he says he real ly has not started his actual fighting. Yesterday he addressed a large gather ing in Vienna. Mr. Hall Is actively advocating a "package house law,” In lieu of the present state-wide prohibition statute, and he says the suggestion Is being en thusiastically received' everywhere. SI4O.ODOFIREAT WHDIW. ' WAYNESBORO. GA„ June 7—Fire of unknown origin here today caused a loss of $140,000, when the genera! store of the R C. Neely Company was de stroyed. The stock of goods was val ued at SIOO,OOO. fully covered by insur ance. The Joss on the building amounts to $40,000, only partially insured The building was owned by the company ' occupying it. The Neely Company will reopen for business in another building next door to the one burned as soon as a new stock of goods can be secured The burned structure will be rebuilt as soon as possible. The Neely Company Is one of the largest mercantile concerns In this section. Lack of fire-fighting facilities pre vented volunteer workers from saving the building COLCORD AND HUMPHREY IN RACE FOR COUNCIL At the solicitation of many promi nent citizens of the Seventh ward. A. R. Colcord today formally entered the race for council from that ward against J H Andrews W. G. Humphrev has announced for re-election from the Eighth ward. Mr. Colcord Is president of the Col cord Lumber Company. Mr Humphrey is a member of the bond brokerage firm of Robinson. Humphrey <8- Wardlaw. They are two of the most prominent of the younger business men of Atlanta, a type continuously appealed to to take an active part in municipal affairs BUNGLERS LEFT DYNAMITE UNEXPLODED UNDER SAFE Bungling by amateur cracksmen at an early hour today saved the building at 142 Decatur street from being wrecked Several sticks of dynamite had been planted under the big Iron safe of S Boorstein, who has a furniture store in the building The cracksmen lighted a fuse connecting with the dynamite, but the rap failed to explode Detectives are satisfied rank amateurs bandied the job Mud was daubed In’o some of the cracks in the safe, but no effort was made tn use nftroglvcerin The sticks of dynamite were taken to the police station by detectives and carefully locked in the big safe in the detectives' office UNITED CIGAR STORES WILL BE REORGANIZED NEW YORK, June 7.—Unofficial an nouncement has been made that the United Cigar Stores is to be reorgan ized. The terms are not announced, but it will mean an issue of additional stbek. The company will buy a large cigarette manufactory to make supplies for lt. ! own use. It is reported that the new trade contracts made by the Cigar Stores since the dissolution of the Tobacco trust resulted in a saving of five per cent in the cost of all products han died. SLATON AND HALL TO FIGHT IT OUT FOR GOVERNOR Dark Horses Rumored, Rut the Real Race Is Between At lantan and Bibb Man. The collapse of the Hudson campaign for governor and Hudson's formal withdrawal from the contest yesterday leaves John M. Slaton, of Atlanta, and Joe Hill Hall, of Macon, the only two avowed candidates in the field. < Speculation as to other probable can didates is widespread and general. It lacks much of the definite and authori tative, however. There is the remotest possible chance that. Railroad Commissioner Murphej’ Candler may get into the race. There is a shade more probability that At torney General Thomas S. Felder may throw his hat into the ring. That Congressman Hardwick will have a try for the governorship is a bet just a lit tle bit more promising than either one of the other two. And the best bet of any appears to be that Slaton and Hall will be left to fight it out between themselves. Trees Full of "Observers." To a political observer up a tree— and the trees are ful of political ob servers right now—it looks as If John M. Slaton has the governorship race "sewed up in a bag." as the irreverent ones put it. Mr. Hall Is a strong man. has hosts of friends throughout the state and Is a good fighter. He is actively cam paigning, and has promulgated a plat form that appeals to many. H“ will get a good, big vote, but few’ think he will come into the home stretch a win ner against Slaton. Slaton has a fine organization, a well equipped campaign machine, the pres tige of two terms in the speakership and in the presidency of the senate and a two months term in the governorship. Besides that, he is popular, and knows the game. He has the backing of Thomas E. Watson and the nomtnant Brown faction In Georgia politics. Can Hall beat It? Maybe, but not a great many people seem to think so, if one inquires around the hotel lobbies, not only of the politicians who drift In and out of Atlanta, but of laymen as well. Nothing Certain, of Course. Lightning changes in the complexion of things political in Georgia are by no means unusual, and the Slaton cam pagn may be up to its neck in trouble before the week is out. That Mr. Slaton is not unmindful of this is evident from the fact that he has determined to push his fight more vigorously now than ever before He believes he has the situation well in hand, and that it will not likely get away from hirrtt Georgia has an uncomfortable way of jumping hither and yon politically, and nothing is guaranteed under the politi cal pure food laws, anyway, and all schedules nr« subject to change with out notice, and so forth and so on. and —well, Mr. Slaton has no idea of not keeping right busy on the job! And. always there is Mr. Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb! He says Hudson's withdrawal makes It easy for Hall to defeat Slaton —and even If the betting Is not that way, many a horse with-the odds against him hag com* under the wire a winner Then, too, to get back to the begin ning, in Georgia one never can tell! N. C. for Wilson After All-Night Session RALEIGH, N. C.. June 7.—The state Democratic convention, after Indorsing Woodrow Wilson for present and elect ing eight delegates-at-large favorable to him, adjourned at 8:30 o'clock this morning, after an almost continuous session since noon yesterday. E. L. Travis and George P. Pell were nominated for corporation commission ers. and E. L. Daughtridge for lieu tenant governor. A resolution indorsing the records of the ten congressmen and two senators and the state administration was car ried by a large majority on a. strictly Simmons-Kitchin lineup. Minnesota Sends 24 Wilson Delegates DULUTH. MINN., June 7. Resisting all efforts to create a stampede In favor of William J. Bryan, the state Demo cratic < (invention yesterday voted to send a complete delegation of 24 m*n to the Baltimore convention, and in structed them to vote for Woodrow Wilson for the nomination for pres l dent. The vote may be transferred to another candidate whenever, in the opinion of two-third- of the delegates. Wilson's nomination becomes impo. -i- I ble. SCHOOL LOT PURCHASED. COLUMBUS. GA., June 7. The city] of Columbus has purchased an addi tional lot adjacent to the Secondary j Industrial school, for which s.’>,ooo will ; be paid. The industrial school prop- : erty Is valued at $75,000, and It Is th' . Intention of the < ity at some time to | make'lt a groat industrial institution FARMERS MEET JULY 11. AUGUSTA. GA., June 7. The exccu | tive committee of the Savannah Valle.’. Associated Farmers Clubs has named July 11 as the date for the annual meet Ing. It will be held with the Brunei< Springs. S. <'.. club. A special train] will carry Augustan, to the meeting - . HALF A MILLION TO SEE COLUMBUS UNVEILING WASHINGTON, June 7.—Knights of Columbus, representatives from Amer ica's Catholic cardinalate and thou sands of visitors are here to attend the unveiling of the SIOO,OOO memorial and statue of Christopher Columbus in this citv tomorrow. Secretary Knox will preside at the unveiling ceremonies, which, besides a demonstration by the Knights of Columbus, will include a pageant in which 10,000 soldiers, sailors and malines will take part. President Taft and other prominent government, officials are among the speakers of the day. On Sunday the ceremonies will terminate with a military field mass by the Spanish war veterans, which will be attended by nearly half a million people. The memorial, a semi-circular foun tain, adorned with a white marble statue of Columbus, has a shaft 4u feet | high in the background, which is sur mounted by a globe representing the • world. Faces Union Station. Just below tile statue of Columbus is ] the figure head of a ship, a female fig- | ure of great beauty, typifying the spirit ; of discovery._ The great basin of the • fountain will be directly beneath this I figure. On the other side of the shaft are] massive figures portraying the sculp- I tdr's ideas of the new and old worlds, i The new world Is represented by the i figure of an Indian reaching over his | shoulder to take an arrow from his | quiver. The old world is represented | I ATLANTAN SOUTHERN V.P.OF NEW NATIONAL ] COMMERCE CHAMBER! Sam D. Jones, of Atlanta, has been . elected as vice president of the Nation al Chamber of ('ommeree for the South ern states. A telegram to this effect ' to Secretary W. G. Cooper from Charles ] G. Craddock, of Lynchburg. Va. one of the national directors, was received today, and members of the local cham ber are highly pleased with the honor conferred upon their former president. I The National Chamber of Commerce i was organized in Washington several j months ago by representatives of trade ; bodies In 60 of the principal American cities and hopes to follow the example ' of the German organization of a simi- : lar name which has done much to In- . crease Germany’s trade with foreign peoples. The local chamber has already taken ; steps to promote trade with South America, and . St. Elmo Massengale,] chairman of the committee on foreign i trade, has asked that, the chamber call | a general conference in Atlanta this i fall of all Southern trade bodies to de- ] vise means to obtain better trade rela tions with our South American neigh bors. Srtu[day> Another Sale For Men t “• tn Rich’s Economy Basement •£ i *i ?50 MadrasTUnion Suits I j| 2* Here are the genuine Girard union suits with \ athletic sleeve, elastic shoulder and waist, and the / fILJr ■ W£" knee length drawers. They are made of checked > JG madras—ideal for summer wear. Genuine $1.501 *U qualitv, Saturday for ) S> j - . I Men’s 50c Night Shirts for jc and day nut at 50c, on salp tomorrow for 39c. These / Jp M W night shirts are made of a good quality white cam- > 'jß hric, either plain or finished with collars. AU sizes 1 J* ej tomorrow J * More Coat Shirts for Men B' '•'JJ Positively the lowest price ever quoted on coat \ shirts of equal style and quality. And we have an / W""lh Z* B *-~ IJJ immense variety for you to spJpH- from—shirts nf ’ M, V> Jjp ' • chamhray, percale and madras, in stripes, checks and / Sr jjJ figures. Some are made with detached collars and \ "2 others with attached. Tomorrow, Saturday ... / I - ' I * 15c Four-Ply All Linen Collars; Doz. ’..m Hundreds of dozens of these all linen collars for \ 2’ ' * niPri at dozen °r 3 dozen for sl—the lowest J 5* price ever quoted in Atlanta or any other citv. f Jfr O BC «, These are 4-ply linen colars in turndown and in ) 5> standing styles—a great variety to choose from, i A Jffi JF JSp Really worth 15e each, Saturday, 39c dozen, or 3) dozen for SI.OO. § M. RICH & BROS. CO.I by the figure of a patriarchal Caucas ian of heroic proportions and thought ful mien. The monument, which war designed by Daniel H. Burnham, architect, and sculptured by Lorado Taft, both of Chi cago. is placed directly in front of the union station at Washington, the gate way to the national capital and facing the capitol, which is only a few blocks distant. The unveiling of this memorial to the famous Italian takes place 425 years after he discovered America. The agi tation for its erection was set afoot by the Catholic order of the Knights of Columbus several years ago. The sub scriptions started by this order practi cally assured the success tvf the project and was later made secure by an ap propriation by congress. [DECATUR, GEORGIA ANOTHER REASON WHY IT DESERVES ITS REPUTATION OF* THE IDEAL RESIDENCE TOWN — Decatur'a reputation as an educational center is thoroughly established. C It is also generally accepted that from the standpoint of equipment with such modern improvements as WATERWORKS, a modern SEW ERAGE SYSTEM. ELECTRIC LIGHTS, TILE SIDEWALKS and MA- / CADAM STREETS, DECATUR is in s olsss all by Itself, but the advan-a tages of Decatur as S A BUSINESS CENTER may net be so well understood. Bet it should be remembered that DECATUR is the COUNTY SEAT OF DEKALB COUNTY, ene of the RICHEST and MOST FLOURISHING COUNTIES IN GEORGIA. Its handsome new Courthouse, built of Stone Mountain granite, has at tracted favorable attention from all over the South. Not only are all of > the County Offices located here, but the town boasts of other such business facilities as TWO OF THE BEST BANKS IN GEORGIA, WELL EQUIPPED DRUG STORES, HARDWARE STORES. DRY GOODS STORES, i GENERAL MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENTS, LIVERY 3TA- ’ BLEB, GARAGES, BARBER SHOPS and all the other conveniences of a modern town. The fact that It has such conveniences constitutes another good reason why Decatur is justly entitled to Its reputation as THE IDEAL RESIDENCE TOWN For further information about Decatur and DeKalb County, aend for Booklet, DECATUR BOARD OF TRADE DECATUR, GEORGIA PLANS LAID TO HOLD $1,000,000 EXPOSITION AT LAKEWOOD IN 1914 A joint committee of the city council, the county commission and the Cham ber of Commerce has agreed upon plans to raise $1,000,000 to make Lakewood park a permanent fair ground and to cel ebrate with an exposition in 1914 the jubilee of Atlanta’s rebuilding from the ashes In which It was laid by Sherman. The committee. W. L. Peel. Council man Aldine Chambers, County Commis sioner S. B. Turman. I. E. Allen and W. G, Cooper, agreed upon the plans yes terday afternoon. They propose to deed the park to a company of citizens, issue bonds for funds and have a good part of the work done by county convicts. The recommendation of the committee will be presented to city council the Chamber of Commerce and the county commission. 9