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TOM HUDSON WAS 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 off 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 Angers, 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 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 A 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 usually speaks by the card for Mr. Smith. Whether Mr. Smith had actual knowledge of Hudson's impending vlb > it to Watson, Hudson does not know, but, being advised to call on Watson by the certain tnan who did advise it, i 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 Thomson and talked things over with the “red-headed one.” This visit brought Hudson no com for,. Jir. Watson frankly told him that he eould not, and would not, support him if he was to be the candidate of Sen ator Smith, even if he had no other reason tp be against him. Mr. Hudson did not then fee! at 11b e-ty to say that he was not to have ye cordial backing of Senator Smith snd his faction, because he did believe hat he would get it. He, therefore, left dr. Watson, feeling that he would not jet Watson's support. Hudson Awaited Developments. Notwithstanding Mr. Watson's re buff, Mr. Hudson did not immediately coislder quitting the race for governor. • le felt Mr. Watson had little against Htdson. He believed Watson was m<re against Hudson because Smith wa for him. 1 the Underwood fight Mr. Hudson wa personally for the Alabama man. Hedid not make a fight on Wilson, but heild not hesitate to let it be known ths he would cast an Underwood vote. br this Underwood attitude, Mr. Htlson was taken severely to task by ceiain parties of the Smith faction. Htstood pat, however, for he felt that th disapproval of the Smith faction in th Underwood matter might yet win hh. if not Mr. Watson’s support, at lest his passive opposition. Hudson's Hopes Fail. It was not long after the close of the jderwood-Wilson fight before Hud m found that he was being ground to pwder between two millstones—the oposition of Tom Watson on the one had and the indifference and growing edness of the Hoke Smith faction on til other. le called upon those friends in the I Slth line-up who had, early in the gne, promised him financial backing. Viat he got was nothing—worse than rthing. rie was advised to “raise the wind” frnself, as best he might—to mortgage h farm, and keep things going as Itg as he could, and see it anything gned up. Then Hudson determined to throw » the sponge. He realized, with some tterness, that his supposed friends ad thrown him down, and that the fiends he had attempted to cultivate ad repelled him. With no money and no Tom Watson, lespair seized upon Tom Hudson, and le quit. A Pathetic Story. The foregoing is the loosely running story of the rise and fall of the 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 Hoik with Ter rell's dearest foe; the investigation of the workings of the agricultural de partment when Hudson was commlit- Bioner; the alleged improper use of the patronage of his office—these things were minor incidents In bringing about, the retirement of Hudson. Hudson x quit because of the lack of SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS 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, refuse 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 w'as 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 BUlcide 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 wfishes, 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 TALHABADE 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 will 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 modern 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 arid research among old inhabitants. money and the fear of Tom Watson’s opposition. That’s all —but it was enough. Hudson Not Disgruntled. Mr. Hudson, who will be in At lanta a day or so before going to his home In Sumter county, spent the greater part 6f today in the 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 it was not at all ap parent in his talk. "I feel that a tremendous burden hag been lifted from me,” he said. “I told the story in my card. I have nothing to add to it nor take from it. "I feel that I have just cause of com plaint because of some treatment I re ceived, but I am going to 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 I shall not forget. Some of those I shall not forget are my friends, who stood by me. Some others I shall not forget are not my friends. “I knew I was being ground to pieces between two millstones I could not get away from. I am glad I had common sense enough to know when I was head, ed straight for defeat. I 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. But they didn’t, and I 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 reach more people and bring better results that could not be obtained in any other -■edium In this section. By JAMES B, NEVIN. 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 tvas 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 oft 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 Generals Screven and Stewart in Midway ceme tery, Liberty county. This has been a pet project wit I Colonel Colquitt for eight years. Congress passed this appropriation two years of 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 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 tn marble or bronze. Those people who are figuring the gubernatorial Aght without talcing carefully into consignation the name of the Hon. Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb, ar* making a mighty big mistake. Mr. Hall says so himself—and h* 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. Han is actively advocating a "package house law,” in lieu of the present etate-wfide prohibition statute, and he says the suggestion is being en thusiastically received everywhere. Si4O,DOOFIREAT WNESBORO.GA WAYNESBORO, GA., June 7.—Fire of unknown origin here today caused a loss of $140,000, when the general store of the R. C. Neely Company was Je-. stroyed. The stock of goods was val ued at SIOO,OOO, fully covered by insur ance. The loss on the building amounts to $40,000, only partially insured. The building was owned by the company occupying it. The Needy 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 & 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 LEFTDYN A MITE 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. Boorsteln, who has a furniture store in the building. The cracksmen lighted a fuse connecting with the dynamite, but the cap failed to explode. Detectives are satisfied rank amateurs handled the job. Mud was daubed into some of the cracks in the safe, but no effort was made to use nitroglycerin. The sticks of dynamite were taken to the police station by detectives and carefully locked In the big safe in the detectives’ office. unite d’cig arstores 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 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 the dissolution of the Tobacco trust resulted In a saving of five per cent in the cost of all products han dled. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, JUNE 7. 1912. SLATON AND DALL TO FIGHT IT OUT FOR GOVERNOR Dark Horses Rumored, But 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 a* 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 Murphey 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. Tree* Full of "Obtervera." 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 Btrong man, has hosts of friends throughout the state and la a good fighter. He is actively cam paigning, and has promulgated a plat form that appeals to many. He will get a good, big vote, but few think he will come into the home stretch a win ner against Blaton. 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 Thomae E. Watson and the nomlnant 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 ha* the situation well in hand, and that It will not likely get away from him. 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 are 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 HUI 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 has come tinder the wire a winner. Thon, too, to get back to the begin ning, in Georgia one never can tell! N. C. for Wilson After All-Night Session RALEIGH. N. G.. June 7.—The state Democratic convention, after indorsing Woodrow' Wilson for present and elect ing eight delegatee-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-Kltchfn 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 convention yesterday voted to send a complete delegation of 24 men to the Baltimore convention, and in structed them to vote for Woodrow Wilson for the nomination for presi dent. The vote may be transferred to another candidate whenever, in the opinion of two-thirds of the delegates, Wilson’s nomination becomes impossi ble. SCHOOL LOT PURCHASED. COLUMBUS, GA., June 7. —The city of Columbus has purchased an addi tional lot adjacent to the Secondary i Industrial school, for which $5,000 will | be paid. The industrial school prop- | erty is valued at $75,000, and it is th* | intention of the city at some time to make it a great Industrial institution — —— FARMERS MEET JULY 11. AUGUSTA, GA.. June 7. —The execu tive committee of the Savannah Valley Associated Farmers Clubs has named I July 11 as the date for the annual meet ing. It will be held with the Bennett Springs, S. C., club. A special train will carry Augustans 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 city 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 marines 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 40 feet high in the background, which is sur mounted by a globe representing the world. Faces Union Station. Just below the 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 th» fountain will be directly beneath this figure. On the other side of the shaft are massive figures portraying the sculp tor’s ideas of the new and old worlds. The new' W'orld is represented by the figure of an Indian reaching over bls shoulder to take an arrow from his quiver. The old world is represented ATLANTAN SOUTHERN V.P.OFNEW NATIONAL COMMERCE CHAMBER Sam D. Jones, of Atlanta, has been elected as vice president of the Nation al Chamber of Commerce 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. The National Chamber of Commerce was organized in Washington several 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 trade, has asked that the chamber call a general conference in Atlanta this fall of all Southern trade bodies to de vise means to obtain better trade rela tions w'ith our South American neigh bors. urday, Another Sale For Men f in Rich’s Economy Basement < *£ $1.50 Madras Union Suits 2* Here are the genuine Girard union suits with \ *£> athletic sleeve, elastic shoulder and waist and the / i I C knee length drawers. They are made of checked > madras —ideal for summer wear. Genuine SLSOI S quality, Saturday for «... ) JJ? i Men’s 50c Night Shirts for Sc Identically the same night shirt that sells day in \ ■» and day out at 50c, on sale tomorrow for 39c. These / JP gg 1h 2* night shirts are made of a good quality white cam- > 'jn brie, either plain or finished with collars. All sizes I 2l 2JJ tomorrow ) J* 3 i - More Coat Shirts for Men 5r Positively the lowest price ever quoted on coat \ jjp shirts of equal style and quality. And we have an / *- immense variety for you to select from—shirts of \ V* 2p chambray, percale and madras, in stripes, checks and / figures. Some are made with detached collars and \ others with attached. Tomorrow, Saturday/ JJp • 15c Four-Ply All Linen Collars; Doz. *1 Hundreds of dozens of these all linen collars for \ SE <=J men at 39c dozen or 3 dozen for sl—the lowest / 5p 2* price ever quoted in Atlanta or any other city. \ These are 4-ply linen colars in turndown and in 2 □5 standing styles—a great variety to choose from, f aS 2* Really worth 15c each, Saturday, 39c dozen, or 3A a<2 dozen for SI.OO. y | M. RICH & BROS. CO. | 5 i by the figure of a patriarchal Caucas ian of heroic proportions and thought ful mien. The monument, w'hich was 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 of 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'/ Deqatur** reputation «« an aduoational canter la thoroughly eetabiiahed. it la alao generally accepted that from the standpoint of equipment with such modem improvements as WATERWORKS, a modem SEW ERAGE SYSTEM, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, TILE SIDEWALKS end MA a CADAM STREETS, DECATUR la in a class all by itself, but th* advan tages of Decatur a* A BUSINESS CENTER may not be so well unde retoed. Bet It ehoutd be remembered that i DECATUR ie the COUNTY SEAT OF DEKALB COUNTY, one of th* ' RICHEST and MOST FLOURISHING COUNTIES IN GEbRG4A. Its/ handsome new Courthouse, built of Stone Mountain granite, bee at> traoted favorable attention from all over the South. Not only ano all -if the County Offices located here, but the town beasts of other aaph besineee facilities as TWO OF THE BEST BANKS WN GEORGIA, WELL EQVIF?*D DRUG STORES, HARDWARE STORES, DRY GOODS aTCURfft GENERAL MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENTS, LIVERY BTA i BLEB, GARAGES, BARBER SHOPS and ail the other oonvewaenoaa4> of a modem town. The Pae* that It has ouch oonvenleneee oorwtttvtea another |*«d:rtM*B( why Decatur to justly entitled to Ho reputation as « THE IDEAL RESIDENCE TOWN For further hnfermertien about Decatur and D*Kafb Oteunty. ■ : for Booklet. n ? 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 Cunds 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.