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TAFT AWARDED
ALABAMA'S SIX
Steam Roller in Action at Chi
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vote of the chair. Why not go on rec
ord and after you make your record It
stands behind you and your persona?
courage. Why have a record here
which gives an opportunity for charges
of fraud?"
The Taft delegates-at-large from Al
abama are O. D. Street, J. J. Curtis
S. T. Wright. Shelby S. Pleasants, Alex
C. Birch and U. G. Mason. Twelve
Roosevelt men, each with half a vote,
were elected. They are George, J. Bey
er. J. W. Hughes, W. R. Fairley, Wil
liam F. Tebbetts, C, H. Scott, W. T.
McElroy, William Vaughn, R. A. Per
ryman, S. J. Petree, J. <>. Thompson, W.
T. Williams and G. C. Michaelson.
The Roosevelt contestants were per
mitted to present their side first. A
new bombshell was exploded by the
Rooseveltlans when Attorney R. R.
Hundley, representing the contestants,
declared that the Alabama delegation
was named following a compact be
tween President Taft and Alabama of
ficeholders.
In his exhibit was the original let
ter, he declared, signed by the presi
dent.
"Four Federal officeholders. O. D.
Street, a district attorney, among them,
agreed to a distribution of the spoil in
a compact with President; Taft," said
Hundley. "This was in a letter written
by the president which I have right
here with the president’s signature on
it.”
He charged that the convention in
Alabama was held August 13, 1911, be
fore the national committee's call. The
call stated no convention held 30 days
before the call was issued was legal.
Then, he charged, a second conven
tion was held and the delegates were
re-elected.
"This is their sole claim to regulari
ty. and It must not be forgotten that
every delegate to that convention was
elected prior to Colonel Roosevelt s an
nouncement of his candidacy,” he said.
The letter of President Taft was ad
dressed to P. D. Parker. Joseph O.
Thompson, W. T, Hutchens and O. 1).
Street It reads as follows.
‘The White House, Washington.
July 7. 1911.
'Gentlemen: t
T am in receipt of a series of
recommendation 5 - to the Republican
party of Alabama ns to the course
tn bo taken with respect to the
meetings of. the state -executive
committee and the calling of the
stat'-, district and country conven
tions. which from your agreement
I assume to be in the interests of
ths party of the state., and there
fore express my pleasure at your
agreement in the same. In the
course of the administration of
those departments of the govern
ment which have local appoint
ments to make in Alabama, it has
been found necessary to seek rec
ommendations as to the fitness of
the candidates from two of your
number, one of whom la the state
chairman and the other of whom is
the national committeeman. Some
differences having arisen between
the two gentlemen who have been
heretofore consulted, it is essential
that in some proper way an expres
sion of the Republican party of
Alabama be secured as to the per
son or persons who might in a rep
resentative capacity assist these
departments with recommendations
In the future. Until such time as
the party shall have acted in ac
cordance with your recommenda
tions in this paper submitted to me
the departments will continue to
act as heretofore where the joint
recommendations of the gentlemen
can be had, and where a difference
of opinion arises, if the public in
terest will permit, the decision will
be postponed until the convention
shall have met and shall have
made Its recommendation as a body
representing the party.
'Sincerely yours.
■(Signodi WM. H. TAFT.'
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ATTEMPTIS MADE
TO KIEL PREMIER
Deputy, Excluded From Cham
ber, Fires Thrice at Tissea,
Then Ends Own Life.
VIENNA. Juno 7.—An attempt was
made to assassinate Premier Tissea tn
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 bad 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. When
Count Tissea appeared upon the speak
er's data Kovacs drew a revolver from
his pocket and fired three shots. All
went wild.
The chamber was thrown Into an
uproar.
Journalists Seize Assassin.
Members leaped tn the tops of their
desks, attempting tn 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, but before
they could seize the weapon from the
excluded deputy, he had tired a shot
Into his body. Death followed in 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 tire 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.
MIITOAL burial
SEC. UNDER FIRE
.Charging that Wyatt A. Lewis, secre
tary. has been using the receipts of
the Atlanta Mutual Burial association.
4.13 Temple Court building, as persona’
assets, with utter disregard for death
claims, J. T. Marlar today asked supe
rior court for a receiver for the asso
ciation and a strict accounting from
Lewis.
Marlar asserts that he was made ben
eficiary for a policy held by R. M. Mar.
lar, who died on March 5 1912. Lewis,
acting as secretary of the burial asso
ciation. regarded the claim as a joke
and refused to pay the SIOO said to be
due, although B. M. Marlar had paid
his assessments to the dot.
The burial association Marlar pro
nounces a fraud. He says the company
got out attractive literature, repre
senting 1.100 paying members, all of
whom had dug down for a 50-cent ini
tiation fee and paid twelve cents every
time a member died.
Marlar maintains that Lewis is col
lecting and has collected large sums of
money from members and is appropri
ating the money to his own use, with
no idea of settling claims.
RUINS HER S3OO HAT
PLAYING SHE’S FIREMAN
NEW YORK, June 7.—ln an evening
gown, and wearing a S3OO plume In her
hat, Mrs. Robert H. Manzter. amateur
fire fighter, sped five miles by auto to
work at a blaze. The hat was ruined.
ri£E ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1912
Pastor-Poet and Bride Here to Sue City
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Idyllic Bungalow Where the i
Wild Waves Roar.
The Rev. William Lee Popham. evan
gelist-poet laureate of Kentucky, de
clared today that he’s going to sue the
city of Atlanta if he can't get back any
other way the $11.41 he deposited as a
collateral bond for his appearance for
trial when he was arrested at the Ter
minal hotel for registering there with
his wife, the police thinking they were
elopers.
Mr. Popham telephoned the mayors
secretary and assured him that the
young woman is really his wife, secret
ly married to him after an elopement
from Louisville. He showed to the
mayor's secretary his mahrmge cehtifi
cate, dated May 11, McDonough, Ga.,
and the sympathetic mayor's secretary
assured the poet-lover that he's all for
him and will do his utmost to get back
ths $11.41 byway of giving the young
couple a clear bill of respectability in.
Atlanta. <
Rut Acting Judge Preston doordl't
conform to that. He told Mr. Popham
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that he had deliberately deceived the
police In concealing his secret mar
riage when arrested early yesterday. In
spite of the fact that Popham showed
his marriage certificate and has ex
plained the misunderstanding, the
judge declared he'll never order the po
lice to miy back that collateral bond.
Since he's the final arbiter, Mr. Popham
will have so sue Atlanta for $11.41 and
, costs, or let that stain on his escutch
eon remain unwashed away.
'Mr. Popham, who, after being ar-
Mrs. Maude Miller Estes Pop
ham and her husband, Rev. Wil
liam I j Popham. who won her by
his “tender love epics.”
rested in the Terminal hotel on the
charge of living there with a woman
not his wife, went down to McDonough,
is back at the hotel today with his
pretty wife and the marriage certifi
cate.
At 12 o'clock today he called up the
mayor's office and said:
"I'm William Lee Po'pham, author of
Poems of Love. Truth and Power,’
Silver Gems in Seas of Gold,' 'Nut
shells of Truth.' ‘A Tramp’s Love.' 'She
Dared to Win,’ 'The Village by the Sea,’
'Love's Rainbow Dream,’ and Seven
Natural Romances.’ Also I am the hus
band of Mrs. William Lee Popham, and
I want you to have your police depart
ment restore to me the $11.41 that I
put up as collateral bond to insure our
appearance when we were arrested at
the Terminal hotel.
"Now, Mr. Mayor.” continued Mr.
Popham, "I'm a respected Baptist evan
gelist traveling on tour with a respect
ed lecture bureau and my wife is not
only respectable, but she's the most
beautiful woman in the world. And
I’ve gone down to McDonough, where
Name or Portrait of
General Lee Barred
From Whisky Labels
MONTGOMERY, ALA., June 7.—lt
would be desecration, almost approach
ing a sacrilege, to permit the name or
picture of General Robert E. Lee on a
Whisky label Alabama. This is the
verdict of R. F. Kolb, commissioner of
agriculture, who has issued a final ulti
matum to S. J. Lang & Son, liquor
manufacturers of St. Louis, that they
can not sell the Robert E. Lee brand of
whisky in this state.
At the Instance of numerous Confed
erate organizations of Alabama, Com-
several months ago
prohibited tne sale of this liquor, or at
least the use of the label. This week
the manufacturers wrote Commissioner
Kolb a letter, urging him to rescind his
former order.
The commissioner replied that he is
a Confederate veteran and respects the
name of General Lee too much to see it
used on whisky labels. He told the
manufacturers that if they cared to be
heard they would be permitted to do
so, but it would be useless, as he has
determined to prohibit the Robert E.
Lee label as long as he is in office.
3 OF NEW SCHOOL
BUILDINGS LM
Building Inspector Hayes is ready to
day to report on the four city bond
issue schools about which most com
plaint was made. He said today three
of them are in a bad condition, but that
there is little trouble with the Lee
street school.
The others are the English avenue.
Walker street and Hill street schools.
The Walker street school is the worst.
Much of the ceiling must be torn down
and built over and the plastered walls
also are in bad shape. Some of the
concrete steps are crumbling. Open
spaces about the windows permit the
rain to beet through and there have
been leaks in the roof.
The plastering in all three of these
buildings was stuck to the naked walls
without any furring. This causes all
the walls, which are only twelve inches
thick, to leak through the plastering.
The plastering is badlv discolored.
To Hear Report First of Week.
If this construction is remedied the
plastering in all three of the schools
will have to be torn down. But the
contractors say the specifications did
not call for furring.
The school board and the bond com
mission probably will meet the first of.
next week to hear Mr. Hayes’ report.
‘"We will not try to fix responsibil
ity,” said C. J. Bowen, assistant build
ing inspector, today. "We will simply
submit a detailed report of th? defects
in the buildings.”
Mr. Hayes said that none of the
buildings wss fire proof.
we were married May 11, and I’ve got
my marriage certificate and I've
brought ft back' with her to the Ter
minal hotel again, where we are now
registerd today under our names as
Popham and wife, and I want your po
lice department to remove the onus of
irrespectability that may still attach to
us in ignorant minds by refunding that
$11.41 which your police say they can’t
give us.”
After he gets the monev from the
city Mr. Popharn is going to write
a poem showing that all’s well that
ends well in a temperamental romance
such as his—even if the Atlanta police
do got after you. He's going to write
the first verse and his wife will write
the second, and he'll come along with
the third and she’ll put the fourth verse
to paper. And so they’re going to make
an alternate epic pastoral that will tell
the world just what has happened to
them in Atlanta.
Recorder Preston says he will not re
turn the $11.41 to Mr. Popham. He
said he gave that money as bond for
his appearance in the court; that he
didn't appear tn the court, and that
the $11.41 Is forfeited to the city.
Mr. Preston also says he will not
give the money back to Popham be
cause the poet-evangelist acted hypo
critically and deceived the police.
GREED FDR GDLD
ROBBED STATE
DFTALLULAH :
—MRS. H. D. LONGSTREET.
Leader of Fight to Conserve
Falls to People Now Plans
New Suit.
Mrs. Helen T>. Longstreet, leader of the
fight to conserve Tallulah Falls, said to
day that only her death would prevent
suit being brought to return Tallulah
Falls to the people of Georgia.
It was corporation lawyers, dazzled by
the glitter of corporation gold, who de
cided the case in favor of the Georgia
Railway and Power Company, she de
clared.
"Coincident with the announcement that
the attorney general of Georgia found
in favor of the water trust,” she told
The Georgian, "comes the announcement
that Mr. Felder may run for governor.
I urge Mr. Felder to run for governor,
and If he does I propose to meet him on
every stump in Georgil, and when I get
through with telling the people of his vast
unfitness there will not be enough cor
poration gold to corral ten votes for him
in the state primary.”
Here is Mrs. Longstreet's statement:
By HELEN D. LONGSTREET
President Tallulah Falls Conser
vation Association.
GAINESVILLE, GA., June 7.—There
is just one thing which will prevent
suit being brought to recover Tallulah
falls, which are the property of the
people of this state, and that one thing
would be my death.
The fact that corporation lawyers,
dazzled by the glitter of corporation
gold, have declared in favor of C. Elmer
Smith and his vandals, while other law
yers of equal ability and of known de
votion to the highest standard of the
legal profession have declared that the
Georgia Railway anad Power Company
is merely a criminal trespasser on the
hills of Rabun county, Georgia, serves
only to establish that there are legal
questions which can not be properly
settled outside of a court of law.
All that the Tallulah Falls Conserva
tion association ever asked Governor
Brown to do was to permit the asso
ciation to furnish attorneys, without
expense to the state, to bring suit in
the name of the state.
Will Take Stump
Against Felder.
Coincident with the announcement
that the attorney general of Georgia
had found in favor of the water power
trust, the announcement was made that
Mr. Felder would run for governor. I
urged Mr. Felder to run for governor of
this old state, and If he does, I propose
to get a leave of absence from the post
office department and meet him on
every stump in Georgia, and when I
get through with telling the people of
his vast unfitness there won't be cor
poration gold enough to corral thirteen
votes for him in the state primary.
But Tallulah falls shall not be cru
cified upon a cross of gold to satisfy
the. greed of interlopers who cumber
the soli of Georgia. I commit myself
to the task of driving off the despoll
ers, if God gives me length of days.
They may build the dam miles high.
I will tear it down piece by piece.
Decision of
Governor Brown.
As forecasted in The Georgian, Gov
ernor Brown declined to bring suit to
test the. land titles held by the Georgia
Railway and Power Company at Tallu
lah. The chief executive. In Issuing a
statement outlining his position, said
that he followed closely the opinion of
Attornej' General Felder. He said:
"The opinion of the attorney general
being that 'the state did not reserve to
Itself any of the lands in controversy,’
manifestly it Is no longer the state’s
property, and I know of no way to re
cover it. and none has been suggested.
“Wherefore, the state having parted
with the title to this property, I have no
authority under the constitution or the
statute laws to use the stae's name for
is recovery.”
Tallulah falls shall not be dethroned.
The God of Justice who does not de
sert His cause will give me strength
and open the way.