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NO. 273.
VOL. X.
I'Ll COWHIDE
WATSON, IS
THREAT OF
MERGER
Game Commissioner Charges
McDuffie Man With Crook
edness in Law Practice.
Charging that Thomas E. Watson is
engaged in an effort to rob the widow
of his late law partner of money right
fully due her, and with having lured
the heirs of the late P. E. Boyd into a
“fake” lawsuit for the mere sake of a
fee, and. declaring that he will force
Watson to "treat the widow of his old
law partner decently and fairly” if he
has to go to Thomson “and take a
cowhide to Topi,”. Stale Game and Fish
Commissioner Jesse Mercer, in an
open letter to The Dalton Citizen, pre
cipitated one of the liveliest rows the
“red-headed person" has yet figured in.
When Captain P. E. Boyd died in
April he left a targe estate, and in his
will requested that J. R. Mercer and J.
E. Mercer distribute it. Mr. Mercer
charges that Mr. Watson induced,
through his law partner, three of the
Boyd heirs to employ Watson to look
after their interests in the estate, and
says that when Watson got his fee all
pretense of necessity for his employ
ment was thrown to the winds.
Mercer says that but for Watson’s
interference the Boyd heirs would have
received twice what they did get final
ly, and that Watson, after getting his
big free out of t)ie Boyd estate, then
undertook to deprive his partner, Green,
of his share of that fee.
ALSO SAYS WATSON
ACTED ILLEGALLY.
The commissioner charges Watson
with illegally appropriating to his own
use "the lion’s share” of that fee, not
withstanding the fact that Green “was
then on his death bed.” and virtually
helpless.
It is the righting of this alleged
wrong against the widow of Watson’s
old law partner. Green, that Mercer
says he will force Watson to, even if
it involves the cowhiding of Watson.
Mr. Mercer says he has heard that
Mr. Watson has threatened to "publish
the allegations drawn up by Green &
Watson for the purpose of bringing
suit in the Boyd ease,” but, he says.
Watson will not "dare do this," as it
would merely prove Mercer's case
against. Watson,
Concluding his remarkable letter to
The Dalton Citizen, Commissioner
Mercer says:
Think of it. dear reader, a crook,
who. solely for persuades his
clients to go into a lawsuit out of
which he could not hope to win
them a dollar, and in which he did
lose them half of their interest (for
his clients received only $6,000
each, while those who were not
duped and robbed by Watson re
ceived approximately $12,000).
Then turning on his partner in
the transaction, and fleecing him
as he dies, and at last heaping
insult on the defenseless head of
the widow of the wronged man as
a . limax of his perfidy.
We are not through with Tom.
we are going to make him treat
thq widow of his old law partner
decently and fairly, if we have to
go to Thomson and take a cowhide
to Tom. This good woman Is
working for her daily bread, while
Tom Watson, with a lion’s share of
the $4,000 he filched from the heirs
of the Boyd estate in his pockets,
•’ struts around and heaps indignity
on the widow.
WATCON TELLS HIS
SIDE OF THE CASE.
Watson and Mercer are ancient ene
mies, and frequently have taken hot
-hots at each other —Watson through
ills Jeffersonian and Mercer through
his Fitzgerald Enterprise, which he
,mce owned and edited. Mercer never
before has framed them in language as
plain and unequivocal as that he uses
h; his communication in The Dalton
i 'itizen.
iaver the long-distance telephone to
ri i \ Mr. Watson said :
Time and again I have discussed
this affair fully in my paper.
■ Jesse Mercer was one of the execu
tors of the Boyd estate and was trying
~, rob some of the minor heirs of their
part. They employed me to represent
Ci. •> and 1 brought suit against Mer
cer 1 made him disgorge $18,090: so.
of course, that made him very mad at
nlc Hi--lawyers had to eotne over
here to Thomson and hrg me for a set
tlement."
The Atlanta Georgian
Girl Marries "Boss'" at Her Machine
A TYPEWRITER ROMANCE
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Mrs. -I. R. Clute, formerly Miss Emma May Bullard, the bride
in the typewriter romance.
J. R. Clute, manager of the l T nited
Mercantile Agency, sat in his office,
818 Forsyth building. At his side Miss
Emma May Bullard, his stenographer,
was taking dictation for the last busi
ness letter of the day. In the outer
office the staff was busy closing up the
books.
"Hoping to receive an early reply,
etc.,” dictated Mr. Clute. “I believe
that's all.”
Miss Bullard rose and closed her note
book.
“Er-er, wait a minute,” said her em
ployer. “Why can't we be married
right away instead of waiting? Ive
got to take a long trip soon."
Miss Bullard blushed, smiled and dug
1 tiny toe in the carpel.
“Why, 1 guess we might as well," she
returned, demurely.
And the Piano Played
That Mendelssohn Rag.
Mt. Clute touched a button and a
clerk responded
“Please call up a minister and ask
him to come right up. Any good, re
liable pastor you happen to know. And
then go down to the court house and
have a license made out. Here are the
names.”
The clerk smiled and withdrew. Half
an hour later Rev. William E. Hill, pas
tor of the West End Preabyterian
church, reached the office. The license
was ready, the bride and bridegroom
waiting. Through the open windows
from the Atlanta club, three floors be
low, the strains of “That Mendelssohn
Rag" from a nickel-in-the-slot piano
loated into the inner office, converted
fur the nonce'into a marriage altar.
"Come in, doctor." said Mr. Clute.
And with the office force as witnesses,
the employer and his stenographer
signed a new contract, no salary speci
fied. and its term continuing "until
death do us part."
Mr. Clute turned to his cashier.
"Please draw a cheek for Mr Hill."
he said "Thank you "
The minister withdrew and the in
ner door closed on the bride and groom.
This is where novelists usually close a
'•hapter and leave something to the
Imagination. But it's not necessary
here. For Mr. Club- hesitated just a
moment, remembered something he had
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ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1912.
forgotten and sat down to his desk
again
"Please take one more letter. Miss
Bullard—l mean Mrs. Clute." he said.
And he began dictating again.
Then there was a dinner at the Pied
mont, with the office staff as guests,
and then a taxicab home to 21 Wil
liams street Mr. Clute had lived In
apartments there for the past year, n.s
19-year-old daughter keeping house for
him, so the nest was all ready for
his bride. The daughter is away on a
visit now, but she will soon return,
and. as she Is 19 and her new step
mother only 24. and they are already
great friends, the family promises to
be as happy as any one could wish.
Mr. elute has been a widower for many
years. He is about 50 now.
The wedding was yesterday after
noon. and today the couple were at
home to several early callers, who of
fered congratulations. They were just
preparing to go to the office when a
reporter called.
"No; ho hasn't lost a stenographer.”
said Mrs. Clute. "I’ll stick to my ma
chine until we can find a good one.”
"I had the hardest time trying to
convince my mother and sisters that I
was really married." she continued.
"They live right down the street here,
at No. 11, you know. Oh, I've known
Mr. Clute for a year, ever since lie
came to Atlanta I was his first stenog
rapher. but for some time I have been
with the Western Union. When his
other stenographer left, a week ago. 1
took her place temporarily. Yes. we’ve
been planning to marry for some time,
but we didn’t expect the wedding to be
yesterday. That was just on the spur
of the moment."
Mrs Clute Is tall and slender, with a
great crown of the blackest hair one
could find in a day's search. She wore
a simple business outfit of a white
shirtwaist and black skirt today, and
didn’t seem to think that a wedding
on a half hour’s notice was anything
so very’ out of the ordinary. Mr. Clute,
who doesn't look more than 40. looked
as happy as any bridegroom of 21
could have appeared, and didn't seem
to worry over the fai t that in the fu
ture he would be dictated to Instead of
dictating
19 INJURED IN
CENTRAL GF
GEORGIA
WRECK
Flyer Crashes Into Coal Cars
at Everetts—Three Believed
To Be Dying.
MACON, GA.. June 14. Nineteen
persons were injured early today when
the Central of Georgia passenger train.
Birmingham to Macon, collided with a
string of coal cars at Everetts. 37 miles
from Macon.
Engineer T. E. Mullins and a negro
fireman. Ed Johnson, of Macon, who
were scalded, and ' W. L Veilins. a
Brooklyn manufacturer, are perhaps
fatally injured.
The others sustained wounds less
serious.
Nurse Uses Skirt
To Bind Wounds.
Freight train No. 35 ran into a siding
to get out of the way of the coming
passenger train, and in so doing pushed
the coal cars off on the main track di
rectly in the way of the passenger,
which was due at Everetts at 12:08
a. m., and was on time. The entire
train remained on the track, but the
engine was so badly damaged that it
was put out of commission.
Though severely injured herself. Miss
A. L. Baylor, of Charleston. W. Va., a
trained nurse, tore up her skirt and
petticoat and made bandages for the
other suffering passengers, and min
istered to them until the arrival of a
relief train with physicians from Fort
Valley.
Injured Taken
To Macon Hospital.
The injured were brought to Macon
and taken to the city hospital.
J. J. Childre, of Reynolds. Ga.; Ar
thur Darden, of Anniston. Ala.; Mrs. S.
J. McMath, of Columbus, and J. C.
Doss, of Rome, were among the in
jured.
Others who suffered sprains, bruises,
internal injuries or cuts were Conduc
tor J. B. Reeves, Baggage Master A. F.
Cumbus, C. B. Geeslin. J. Tom Davis,
Charles Hanner, b. b. Feagle. R. H.
Cheatham, Express Messenger VV. D.
Bagley, all of Macon, and Bob Carson
and Frank Knight, negroes, of Macon.
Miss bouise McMath, of Columbus,
was slightly injured also.
VV. b. Veilins, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
wrns lying down between two seats
w'hen the crash came, and his head
was jammed down almost to his shoul
ders, breaking the spinal column.
A public investigation wdll take
place at Fort Valley tomorrow morn
ing. and the Central of Georgia will
ask citizens to serve on the committee
of inquiry.
CITY RESERVOIR TROUT
CONTINUE TO OUTWIT
CRAFTIEST OF ANGLERS
Out at the waterworks reservoir there
swim in blissful peace and contentment
hundreds of the most sapient trout that
ever finned a flipper. They’re the trout
—or children of ’em—that the reservoir
was stocked with several years ago by
the well known city government under
a, law which provided that no one could
go out and angle for them, under heavy
penalty, unless he were an intimate
friend of a Power-That-Be and did the
fishing surreptitiously.
Quite a number of Kid Waltons here
abouts used to go out there when no
body would be looking and hurl a fly
at the capering fishes and they’d dis
cuss political methods and ivays and
means and schemes while they fished.
It Is one theory that the trout over
heard this wisdom and applied it with
such fine success that they learned to
dodge even the most tempting bait.
At any rate, it is the fact that not in
years has one of those fish been caught,
though many a brilliant fisherman has
angled for them. They are actua.ly jraid
to swim around fifes smiling mockingly
and flipping their tails In bantering
gestures at the dis< omfited anglet s on
the bank.
Hasn't Heard the Whistle
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: RAG-TIME TOMORROW J
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• CHICAGO. June 14 -The In- •
• ternational Dancing Masters as- •
• sociation will today reduce to a •
• state of non-existence the "Grizz- •
• ly Bear.” the "Turkey’ Trot,” the •
• "Texas Tommy" and all other ul- •
• tra-modern dances classified un- •
• der the general head of “ragtime." •
• Action to expunge the above •
• terms front the vocabulary of the •
• profession will be taken following •
• the report of a special committee. •
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80 WOULD-BE SCHOOL
MA’AMS ALL UNDER
20, ARE TAKING EXAMS
After quibbling with County School
Superintendent Merry for fifteen min
utes over the age clause in the exami
nation blanks. 80 young women, who,
without exception, decided that they
were within the twenty mark, settled
down to the annual county school
teachers’ examination at the state Cap
itol today Seven young men also, all
eager for certificates, slipped in and are
busy answering questions.
The examination will last during the
clay and some of the applicants will not
finish until tomorrow. Superintendent
Merry said that hardly more than one
half of the applicants could b<’ placed
in the county schools, for Atlanta will
absorb at least three of the county's
biggest schools this fall.
116,582 ASK CONGRESS
FOR ACT G R A N T I N G
WOMEN THE BALLOT
WASHINGTON, Juno IL PetitionH
from 109,297 individuals ami from or
ganizations representing approximately
7.550 individuals a total of 116,582 favor
ing a constitutional amendment enabling
women to vote on the same terms as men
were presented to the house today by
Representative Victor L. Berger, of Wis
consin.
JUAREZ FORTIFIED BY
REBELS: ATTACK NEAR
EL PASO. TEXAS. June It. Two
machine guns and two cannon were put
in place in Juarez today to defend the
citv agains’ alt expected attack by
federal troops. Rebel troops were with
drawn from t'asa:- Glandes and lushed
tn Jintrez, the rebels fearing their hor
de! supply base was endangered The
atnnon were brought from Chihuahua.
I. R. TO CHICAGO
TO FIGHT BOSSES
TO LAST OITCH
4 ‘l’m Going to the Forefront
to See That the Battle Isa
Good One,” Says Colonel.
Off to Convention City.
NEW YORK. June 14.—“1 am going to Chi
cago to lead the fight in person, and shall leave,
here at 5:30 o'clock tonight on the Lake Shore
limited."
This declaration was made by Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt in The Outlook office early this after
noon immediately following a long-distance talk
he had held with leaders of his faction in Chicago.
The colonel dashed out of his private office to
a waiting crowd of newspaper men and said:
“Gentlemen. I am going to Chicago tonight. I
have received countless telegrams from leaders and
delegates there urging that I go there immediately.
It seems to be the unanimous opinion of the men
there of my political beliefs that I am imperatively
needed there at once.
“The delegates demand that 1 eotne on. not as
a candidate, but because, for the time being. 1
stand as representing the principles for which the
he Republican party have overwhelmingly declared
ey have had an opportunity to express their wishes
rank and file of tl
in stales where th
at the' primaries.
“The delegates who represent the people themselves feel that,
they, the people, have declared themselves beyond all possibility of
misunderstanding or misrepresentation and arc not in a mood to see
victory stolen from them.
“I will be accompanied to Chicago by Regis H. Post, who was
governor of Porto Rico during my
former term of the presidency.
“The action of the national
committee in the California, Ari
zona, Kentucky and Indiana con
tests makes the issue clear cut as
to whether the people have the right to
make their own nominations or wheth
er a small number of professional poli
ticians shall be permitted to steal that
right. The rank and file of Republi
cans have declared for me and the
principles 1 represent in all states
where preferential primaries have been
held. Mr. Taft in these states re
ceived only au average of one-seventh
or one-eighth of the votes cast.”
"Is it going to be a fight to a finish
in Chicago?” asked a newspaper man
"It is.” replied the ex-president, with
grim emphasis, "and I am going there
to he at the forefront of it, to see that
ft is a good one.”
t’olone) Roosevelt said that he could
not at this time give out the details
of his plans in Chicago.
"In fact. I have not mapped out a
program yet." .he said.
First Fight in
Steam Roller Wake
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t'Hlt'AGO. .lune 14. Bitter feeling
between Taft and Roosevelt members
of the national committee came to a
climax today In a fist fight that fol
lower! a decision of the committee seat
ing two Taft delegates in the Third
< tklalionta district.
The excitement over this clash had
hardly died down when the committee
sealed two more Taft men from the
First South Carolina district. Taft ilel
egates in the Second and Ninth Ten
nessee districts were also suited
This brought the totals on contested
lielegations to 165 for Taft and 9 for
Roosevelt, the dispute in South t'aro
lina being only’ between Taft partisans.
There, was a neat approach to a gen
eral free-for-all fist tight in the ante
cham'ber following the Oklahoma hear
ing Only the quick action of detec
tives kept the situation from becoming
mote serious when a Taft devotee
st luck a Roosevelt partisan and was in
HOHL
IDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE o y re°
turn belted by another lieutenant of
the former president. (
Grant Victor. United States marshal
in the Eastern district of Oklahoma,
was the Taft belligerent. L G. Disney
was the Roosevelt man attacked and
Patrick Doree, of Westville, Okla.,
came to Disney’s aid.
Couldn't Stand for
Name of Thief. *
“Disney made remarks about me
which alleged thievery and other
things.’’ Victor said. “Os course, I hit
him. I'd hit any man that would say
those things aboui me."
The omnipresence of detectives in
the room was shown by the quick ac
tion in parting the fighters. The two
blows bad no sooner been struck than
each of the three men was being
soothed by two officers, other dele
gates were there to quell the trouble.
No attests were made.
The debate over the Third Oklahoma
district brought out the most bitter
feeling that has prevailed during thg
meeting. The Roosevelt men fought
every inch of the way. though a gag
rule had been imposed by t'haitman
Rosewater in answer to appeals by
Taft committeemen to shut off ques
tions by the colonel’s representatives.
The lie was passed for the first time in
a sharp clash between Francis .1 lle
ney, the Roosevelt leader, and a Colo
rado committeeman over the gag rule.
Heney asserted th< gag rule prevailed
in Colorado. This was denounced as
false by Committeeman T. H. Devine.
More Lawyers
Fight for T. R.
While the Oklahoma contest was on
it became evident that the Roosevelt
men werb getting ready for a relent
less pursuit of contested delegates
when two lawyers appeared in the com
mittee on proxies. Judge Mlltdn Pur
dee, of Minneapolis, sat on T. Coleman
Dupont’s proxy, and Theodore Joslyn,
of Michigan, on the pioxy of G. A.
Knight, of California. These men were
on their feet much of the time, making
pertinent questions. They brought out
a good deals of valuable evidence for
the Roosevelt side of the dispute. A M
.Stevenson, of Colorado, one of the Taft
leaders, entered a protest.
"1 want t<> protest against this cross
examination," he said. His protest was