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• TOM HUDSONffi
BETWEEN TWO
MILLSTONES
Both Watson and Smith Indif-
, ferent, and Lacking Money,
He Quit Governor’s Race.
S The sudden and spectacular with-
drawal of Thomas GT. 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 not'hing 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 1
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 fie failed to get it. and that
he withdraws because he realizes the
litter futility of proceeding without it!
Mr. Hudson believes that Mr. Wat
son has held the whip hand in Georgia
politics 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, has 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 began to doubt when
he failed of Watson’s support.
He called Upon Mr. Watson at the
instigation of a man high in the con
fidence of Senator Hoke Smith and
who ustiully 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 hackers 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 Thomson 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..-arid would not, support him
if he was to be the candidate of Sen
ator Smith, even If 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 Watson's support.
Hudson Awaited Developments.
I 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. He believed Watson was
more against Hudson because Smith
* was for him.
In the T’nderwood fight Mr. Hudson
was personally for the Alabama man.
He did not make a fight on Wilson, but
he did not hesitate tn let it be known
that he would cast an Underwood vote.
For this Underwood attitude, Mr.
Hudson was taken severely to task by
certain parties of rhe 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
I nderwood-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. t
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 toregoing 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 char.e that Hudson's primary
mistake was deserting his former Ter
rell (Brownl 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
thr retirement cf Hudson.
Hudson quit because of the lack of
mom# and the fear of Tom Watson
opposition.
That's all—but it wa.- enough.
Summer, Aided by Mr. Moon, Lures City Folk to Woods and Lakes
YOUNG ATLANTA SOCIETY MOTORS AND SWIMS
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i’arty of Atlanta s voting society folk starting to Silver Lake to swim, l-'i-om left to light. Dixon AL-('arthey,M ; ss \’an Spalding. Miss Helen Thorn. Pete
Daley and Miss Evelyn Reynolds. With the coming of summertime many such jolly parties motor to the country resorts to spend the day boating and swimming.
GOMEZTOFRONT
TO FIGHT REBELS
Cuban President Recognizes
Desperate Situation and Will
Lead Own Troops in Field.
HAVANA. June 7. —A condition of
anarchy prevails in Oriente province,
the government troops in the field are
unable to cop<| with the rapidly increas
ing rebel forces and President Gomez
has decided io go to the front to lead
his own army. «
Even the president's closest friends
admitted today that the government
bad made a grave error in suspending
the constitutional guarantees. kjpny
negroes who had hitherto hesitated
about joining the revolutionists fear
that they will be executed on suspicion
by the white troops and therefore have
pledged their aid to General Estonez,
declaring that they would rather die
fighting than he shot down without a
chance for lite.
The struggle has developed into a
race war that may shock the civilized
world with its barbarities. The lower
negroes are openly boasting that they
will kill all the white men and make
the white women their slaves. Through
out the island the whites are forming
committees of defense for the protec
tion of their homes, but they are handi
capped by lack of arms, while the ne
groes seem to be plentifully supplied.
Negroes All Armed.
Every negro arrested Is found to be
armed. Many whites in this city are
panic-stricken. That any personal
clash between a while and negro would
be the signal for a race outbreak here
is a fear openly expressed by the au
thorities.
The belief is growing that the land
ing of American marines on t'uban soil
is the forerunner of a third interven
tion, and- President Gomez’s closest ad
visers have warned him that unless he
crushes the revolt at once his adminis
tration will fall. It was for this reason
that he decided to lead his troops.
The failure of General Monteagudo io
lake the offensive and whip the rein Is
in Oriente province was today ex
plained by the government to be due to
the heavy rains and the difficult coun
try in which the rebels are operating.
EARLY INDIAN TRIBES
PRACTICED HYPNOTISM
< ARI.ISLE. PA.. June 7.—That hyp
notism was practiced by the Indian on
this continent long before the white
man set foot upon it, is borne out in a
statement made here by a Winnebago
Indian, a membej of the medicine lodge
of his tribe, and a student at the gov
ernment school. The secret of the pow -
er has been handed down from genera
tion to generation.
According to the Winnebago Indian
here, the fathers of the medicine lodge
frequently use hypnotism as a means of
punishment for Indians who antagonize
them. The power Is so great that once
a man comes under toe hypnotic influ
ence he can be controlled for life. How -
ever, the subject .-an pievent being in
fluenced if he fpllows secret directions,
which only a few of the Winnebago-1
know.
KISS AND MAKE UP TEN
TIMES; NOW DIVORCED
LOS ANGELES. UAL.. June 7.- Aft
er kissing and making up ten times,
John Johnston, a stationary engineer,
petitioned for a divorce from Eleanor
Johnston and it was granted by Judge
Monroe on the ground of desertion.
"We started afresh ten limes, but my
wife felt that she couldn't live without
her mother being with us, and I
couldn’t live in the same house with
her," Johnston testified.
The couple lived in many different
titles. Johnston left his wife In On
tario. f’anada, but Judge Monroe gave
him a decree when it was shown that
I'is wife refused to come here with
him.
LTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NFA\ rtt 11 »a y. JI NE 7. IF>i*r.
M'KEEDEPLORES
MAIL FLmTION
Postmaaster Would Like to
See General Delivery Closed
to Protect Girls.
“I would like t-> see the 'general de
livery' window closed in order to stop
the clandestine correspondences young
girls carry on through it to their ulti
mate ruin," said Postmaster H. L. Mc-
Kee, "but you can not close the win
dow. There are hundreds of people
who come into Atlanta every day and
who don't know where they are going
to stay until they gel here. They have
to give their addresses as 'general de
livery.'
"Just how much of this flirtation goes
on through the mails without the
knowledge of parents or guardians is
impossible to estimate, but postoffii’e
officials know that it is large.'
"However certain we are of it. w'e
can do nothing to stop.it. A letter
addressed to 'general delivery' must be
held at that window and not delivered
to the street address of the party,
though that may be known to the
clerks, and, of x'ourse, much of this
sort of correspondence is carried on
under an assumed name.
"It’s simply one case where the bur
den of correcting tile evil lies in the
parents; there is apparently nothing
that we can do to aid them."
GERMAN CROWN PRINCE
HAS PUBLISHED A BOOK
BERLIN. June 7.—The Germin
crown prince lias furnished an interest
ing proof that he is following in his
august father's footsteps as regards
versatility of taste and achievement.
He has written and published a book
which bears the title, "Out of My Hunt
ing Diary," with tlie extremely high
sounding credit line. "By Frederick
William, ('town Prince of the German
Empire and Prussia."
As a matter of courtly fact the book
is the joint product of the crown prince
and princess, for of the photographs
which illustrate profusely the stories
many were caught by the camera of th
- n princess.
The publication of the hunting diary
brings out the fait that the crown
prince has been devoted to the pen for
a long time past, and it is understood
that he will publish a volume of short
stories if the present work proves a
success.
ARMY ORDERS
WASHINGTON. June 7.—Captain H. I
Dorey, Fourth infantry, to general staff ,'
corps; Captain G. H. Jamieson, general
staff, to Fourth infantry; First Lieu
tenant E, S. Hughes, ordnance depart
ment. from Watertown arsenal. Massa
chusetts. to Philippine islands; First
Lieutenant C. A. Schaeffer, medical re
serve corps, resignation accepted.
PRETTY GIRLS KISS MAN
ON STREET AND ROB HIM
CHICAGO, June 7.—As John Miller,
of Boston, stood in front of the Great
Northern hotel, two pretty girls rushed
up to him, hugged and kissed him. A
detective attested the girls. They had
JS of Miller's money.
RUINS HER S3OO HAT
PLAYING_SHE’S FIREMAN;
NEW YORK, June 7. In an evening
gown, and wearing a S3OO plume In hi r
hat. Mis. Robert H Manzler, amateut
fi>e tighter, sped five mills' by auto to
work at a blaze. The hat was ruined.
Shady Groves and Cool Bath
ing Pools Are Popular
These Days.
The opening of the summer season
the season of parks and meadows - has
lured many Atlanta parties to the woods
and streams about the city.
Sometimes they travel on motor
cycles. sometimes in the regulation pic
nic carryall and sometimes in automo
biles. In the cool of the evening it is
possible most a'nyr day to see parties
going out to East Lake, or to Silver
Lake, nr to a number of other popular
resorts.
Moonlight picnics also are coining
into their full share of popularity. At
lanta's society is indulging its propen
sity to swim together with Its picnic
habits.
Silver Lake is the nightly scene of
parties, where swimming is followed
by luncheons
NAVAL CADETS WILL
ROB ACADEMY TOWN
OF ELIGIBLE GIRLS
WASHINGTON. June 7. For the
first limp in history practically all the
marriageble young women in Annapo
lis will bebome wives on a single day
when the first class in the Naval acad
emy is graduated today. The honey
moons, however, will be very short, as
every one of the youthful husbands will
De ordered to the fleet. If all the newly
• reated ensigns wed, twenty lonesome
bridegrooms will bp aboard each bat
tleship in the Atlantic fleet.
Heretofore the law has required that
a graduate cadet should serve two
years at sea before receiving his com
mission as ensign. A law now going
into effect for the first time makes an
ensign out of a midshipman the mo
ment he receives his diploma. Knsigns
are permitted to wed, and it is under
stood in the navy department that
practically every member of the class
of 1912 has a bride immediately in
view.
FALLIERES ASSISTS
CARTOONISTS WHO
CARICATURED HIM
PARIS, June 7.—The president of the
republic, who is made the butt of jokers
anil caricaturists to an extent unthink
able in other countries, even the United
States, has just done an exceedingly
humorous and "Parisian" thing.
An association of humorous artists
has started a fund to support a home
for superannuated comic cartoonists.
The plight <*f a funny artist who fails
upon evil days, after having made or
tried to make the public laugh all his
life, peculiarly is pathetic. It touched
M. Fallieres, and he has sent a hand
some donation to the fund.
The point is that these very same
humorists have been offensive persist
ently toward the president.
UNITED CIGAR STORES
WILL BE REORGANIZED
NE\V YORK. June 7.--Unofficial an
nouncement has been marie that the
United Cigar Stores Is to be reorgan
ized
Tim terms are not announced, but It
will mean an issue of additional stock
The company will buy a large cigarette
manufactory to make supplies for its
own use.
It is reported that the new trade
contracts made by the Cigar Stores
since Hie dissolution of the Tobacco
'rust resulted in a saving of five per
cent in the cost of all products han
dled.
TO GIVE PENSIONS TO
TELEPHONE WORKERS
BOSTON June 7 A minimum pen
sion of $25 per month and a maximum
of st<io per month are the principal fea
tures of a new pension system which
tlie New England Telephone and Tele
graph Company announces.
SEARCH IN GSI DEL IG HTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Right after the state convention met
and "tit, and hied, and died." it was
urged in some quarters that it had per
fot med a monstrously irregular service
to the people when ft named certain
prominent citizens presidential electors.
One excited partisan of the Wilson
persuasion—and. by the wav. 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 Und< r
wood," might in the event that some
one other than Underwood is elected
next November, i efuse 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 qu.ick, 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 boon 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
hack 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.
Congratulation o , good wishes, aril
"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 Io
know that bis fifty-second birthday
found him well along the road to re
covery from the unfortunate and se
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 r,f
mind today and keenly relished yes
terday’s numerous hearty messages of
good will and friendship.
Many bats 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 f-’elder get to Bal
timore? Nobody knows but Mr.
Polder—and he declines to say.
Colonel Neyle Colquitt, of Savaminh, '
who served the, cause of Underwood so
gallantly In the late state presidential
primary, is rejoicing in the assuranct
from Mr Underwood that congress wil 1
pass at its present session an appro
priation of SIO,OOO for the erection of •
monument to the memory of General-
Screven and Stewart in Midway cemi -
tery. Liberty county .
This has been a pet pro ject wit J
Colonel Colquitt for eight, years.
Congress passed this appropriation
two years or more ago, hut 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 will soon be up.
Two counties in 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 marble or bronze.
Those people who are figuring the
gubernatorial light 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 ha
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
"trackage house law,” in lieu of the
present state-wide prohibition statute,
and he says the suggestion is being en
thusiastically received everywhere.
"The Atlanta convention did not
help the cause of Oscar Under
wood." says Thomas E. Watson.
And a lot of people will wonder If
that does not make it just about
unanimous.
Uncle Andy Carnegie says he Is
for Taft to succeed himself, if only
Uncle Andy were a delegate, the
president might appreciate his at
titude immensely.
.
The presence in Atlanta of John T.
Boifeuillet. of Macon, clerk of the
house, reminds one that the summel
session—and the last of the present
general assembly -of the legislature is
near at ha nd.
In a little less than three weeks—on
June 26. to be exact—the legislature
meets. Already Clerk Boifeuillet is
busying himself with preliminary ar
rangements,
furiously enough, the first bill on the
calendar is the famous Tippins bill. It
seeks to close every near-beer saloon
in the state anil It does not seem likely
that the legislature will be able t<j
side-step a vote upon it.
It is a pestiferous measure, to many
members, and a lot of them wish it
might be quietly smothered to death
and consigned to the outer dagknest
forevermore. Rut its friends s?iy nay—
and the Tippins bill must be reckoned
with, right oft the reel.
WINDOW BOXES FILLED.
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Hanover Inn, the new
hotel at Wrightsville Beach,
already open. Warren H.
Williams, manager.
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A55/ISSIN SHOOTS
AT PREMIER OF
AUSLRIA
Deputy, Excluded From Cham
ber, Fires Thrice at Tissea,
Then Kills Himself.
VIENNA. June 7.—An attempt was
made to assassinate Premier Tissea in
the chamber of deputies today, but
failed. The would-be assassin was
Deputy Kovacs, who had been excluded
from the chamber because of the part
he had taken in political riots. After
firing three shots at Premier Tissea
from the press gallery, Kovacs turned
his weapon upon himself and commit
ted suicide,
Kovacs had been forbidden to enter
the chamber. In some manner he man
aged to get by the guards today and
secreted himself in the press gallery at
the opening of the session. Wfian
f'ount Tissea appeared upon the spetfitv.
er’s dais Kovacs drew a. revolver
his pocket and fired three shots. AH'
went wild.
The chamber was thrown into an
uproar.
Journalists Seize Assassin.
Members leaped to the tops of their
desks, attempting to ascertain where
the shots had come from. Others, fear
ing a general fusillade, dropped beneath
their seats. Journalists in the press
gallery leaped upon Kovacs, hut before
they could seize the weapon from the
excluded deputy, he had fired a shot
into his body. Death followed tn a
few minutes.
Count Tissea had been the storm cen
ter of political strife. It was he who
was largely instrumental in holding up
the universal suffrage measure re
cently which led to the declaration of
martial law in the capital. He was
also responsible for the recent passage
of the army reform bill through the
second and third readings.
Several previous attempts had been
made upon the life of the statesman.
Last December he was attacked by a '
mob In the streets and missiles were
hurled at him, but he escaped.
BROTHER OF CLAY,
SLAYER, IS HELD IN
SAME JAIL AS THIEF
While Robert L. Clay occupies the
solitary cell of a maniac in the Tower
awaiting trial for the slaying of his
wife a few weeks ago, John W. Clay,
his brother, restlessly paces to and fro
in another ceil but a few feet away \
facing trial for robbery.
John Clay became a companion in
trouble with his brother when Recorder
Pro Tern Preston bound him over yes
terday afternoon in bond of S2OO on the
charge of robbing J. J. Temples, 550
Crew street, while the latter was un
conscious with vertigo.
John Clay presents an entirely dif
ferent picture from that of the wife
slayer. While Robert Clay lies silently
on his bunk throughout the day, glar
ing wildly at the wails of his cell, John
Clay piteously pleads that he is an in
nocent man and begs that something
be done to get him out of jail.
"This is awful,” he moaned, "to think
of us two brothers being prisoners
hero in jail at the same time—Robert
crazy and the slayer of his wife, and me
accused as a thief.”
SEVEN YEARS
OF MISERY
How Mrs. Bethune was Re
stored to Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegeta
ble Compound.
Sikeston, Mo. “For seven years I
suffered everything. I was in bed for
four or five days at a
time every month,
and so weak I coulo
hardly walk. I had
cramps, backache
>1 L an, J h paf i ar fi p . and
' ~,1 was 80 nervous and
\'' -±q*4R?® weak that 1 dreaded
to see anyone or
have anyone move ir
BMBrWc room - The doc-
tors RaVP rnp
WlYiNrf Illi IL IllllilMHifu c j ne t 0 eagp me st
those times, and said that I ought tt
have an operation. I would not listen tc
that, and when a friend of my husband’s
told him about Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg- «
etable Compound and what it had dons
for his wife, I was willing to take it.
Now I look the picture of health and feel
like it, too. I can do all my own house
work, work in the garden and entertain
company and enjoy them, and can walk
as far as any ordinary woman, any day
in the week. I wish I could talk to every
suffering woman and girl, and tell them
what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound has done for me.’’—Mrs.
Dema Bethune, Sikeston, Mo.
Remember, the remedy which did this
was Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound.
It has helped thousands of women who
have been troubled with displacements,
inflammation, ulceration, turners, irreg
ularities, periodic pains, backache, that
bearing down feeling, indigestion, and
nervous prostration, after all other meana
have failed. Why don’t you try it7