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2 TAFT AWARDED ALABAMA'S SIX Steam Roller in Action at Chi cago Crushes Opponents in First Test. Continued From Page One. 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.' 1133 . |DISCOL NT f ■BHKwnMHMßnmMßHnawaawMMaMoW7^w«w , sMMonaßnsiaCTffiQßamHenMHmißaNnffiHa«NHßaawawanaHaawaMaß • ■ Ba w . ... „,, m— m 18111 mi—«—imfim.mii.— i»uimm.n»w-» ■-!<—»»■ n—v mm—Mir.r«nr.wi—. 11 m 1 ijmibuhiiji milll JlimiMin fewM— 11 ■ ■ ■ilnrn mm— mm————mJ I OURS IS THE FIRST OF THE SEASON I MEN’S SUMMER SUITS, HATS AND FURNISHINGS I I All New 1912 Stock—Not an Out-of-Date Piece of Goods in the House I I NOTHING RESERVED--$40,000 STOCK I H Come Early Tomorrow and Get Your Pick I Ibuehl-meador company Cor. Walton ’ J 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 WANTS HIS ROMANCE MONEY IKill VW. Bh i - ■ W ' A\ /JgMWaMg 1 K„ 7 \\ /JMHB B. / /jit ML . ‘ i.- x.BKsa '\\ / AtoPiFT > . i * \ isaßiwl SPy ■> A; L.' [f 111 **>. .‘.y&S; V'■ ,I’Vp * q-4 ' ’>■* ■ Jv’VA 1 ww. y 1 V \ . "‘I At w \ w V ' ‘ y- / \ Jr/ w/ MkW \ X A- W/ ’ \ x -y/ rWg*. I Evangelist and Bride Plan an; 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 / IL. www I wk jP* i I V; . fa 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.