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2 HUGE RECEPTION TO T. fl. PUNNED Chicago in Frenzy Today as Train Bearing the Colonel Speeds Westward. Continued from Page I. ind Edward W Sims, secretary of th' tame organization and the man Roose velt is said to favor for th*- secretary ship of the national committee if be controls the convention, will go to the •rain. They will have an automobile .there, a big open car. frcin whose tonneau the former president ■ an bow and show his glittering smile, and exclaim: "Bully!" as he drives slowly through the crowds. The rest is to be left to the popula tion. t The sample of the sort of "red fire" the populace is prepared to burn has thoroughly satisfied the Roosevelt gen erals The yipping in the hotel lobbies and the gentle epithets of "Thief." “Burglar" and "Robber" hurled by the Roosevelt faction at the Taft following has given the Roosevelt supporter* a good line on the demonstration their "simple grettlng" will insure Taft Negroes Hear Band Wagon Rumble. Negro Southern delegates are wa vering The men sent from the South to the Republican national convention and instructed for William Howard Taft are growing restive. Taft lead ers today admitted this. Roosevelt men confidently proclaimed it. The admission of the Taft men came in the sudden activity of their workers among the negro delegates. Loaders of the Taft camp today talked with the negro delegates earnestly Plans for tft* lr entertainment were formed, and negro politlcalns from the Northern states were Intrusted with the delicate task of holding them in line. Marked indication- that these dele gates heard a rumble that they thought was made by the wheels of the band wagon came with the announcement that Colonel Roosevelt was coining to Chicago today. The Roosevelt men are trying to increase the impression, and a part of the noisy reception of the Colonel is designed to Influence the negroes. The first definite signs that the bolt of the negroes from their instructions came with the adoption of a bolt reso lution by a thousand of their race in a meeting in a South Side hall. It de manded that, in spite of instructions, the delegate.- support Roosevelt. To day this resolution, in the form of a petition, is being circulated among the delegates and the negroes of Chicago's black belt. Negro Returns Taft Money. The effect of the noise and clamor of the campaign, the cheering demonstra tions for Roosevelt in the hotel lob bies, the volunteer glee clubs that are carolling Roosevelt sentiments through megaphones, have had their effect, on top of this has come a letter given out by Senator Dixon, Roosevelt's cam paign manager, tn which Charles Banks, a negro delegate from .Mound Bayou, Miss., returned money given him by Director William B. McKinley, of the Taft campaign. This reply to the charges of the Taft leadei tbe*t the Roosevelt managers had sent represen tatives to Alabama to endeavor to “bribe" ami but Southern votes had a tremendous effect on the negroes. Hanks is one of the men seated by the Republican national committee. He was expected to vote for Taft. His open challenge to the Taft leaders has increased their fear. They are worried particularly about Alabama. It was from Alabama that the first threat of a bolt from the South ern delegates was received The vote of that state would ho particularly im portant to the Roosevelt men The one question the negro delegates have been irking quietly and persist ently ever since they reached Chicago is. "Who will win'."’ Alabama Key To T. R. Stampede. Alabama is the firs: state on the roll call, it has been rated in the sure Taft column. If. when it b- called on the ciax nominations are made. Alabama should east him a big slice of its vote, the effect on the other Southern states would be profound. It might start the stampede that Taft men fear It would help negro delegates make up their minds about the band wagon The Roosevelt no n are working dili gently to get part of the Arkansas dele gat,,.'i also, and if was n-porte.l tod is that tl.e.x bad -uceeeded It is to imreas. the impressiveness of this opening vote that the Roos It men are laboring with the Alabama delegates. Taft men have found a lot of obsta cles in the way ol -■* menting the votes of the Southerners. On*- of tln-lr plans was called oft bx the delegates them selves, They bad pl tuned to bring the Brownsville affair into t , campaign and there was some talk of inducing former Senator I'maker to V( ,in« and talk to tdie delegates about it. The del egates themselves issm • tn ultimatum that Brownsville be kept out o' sight. Unite on Cummins, Taft Men Plan CHICAGO, June 15 The jws Fiji!) >f uniting upon Senator Cummins a> a m promlw candidate was g.vrn set ■•,.,« ( -,, n . sideration in lengthy conferm «»• which Senator Murray Crane, of Mas sachusetts: Boise Penrose. of l*enn>\lva ■ nia William Barnes, Jr, of Nev* Y \, and other Taft leaders participate i Senator \V S Kenyon. Cummins' nisi ager, also conferred with Senator I’ixon. the Roosevelt manager, in an effort to gain support of the Roose\eh men il it Is found to nominate the ex president Dramatization of "Hiawatha” a Hit INDIAN PLAYERS PRAISED ftilKLs® One of the Indian platers in “Hiawatha” and her little papoose. Borah’s Speech To Be Key for Stampede CHICAGO, June 15.—" How many of the delegates th.it have been seated in this convention by the national com mittee are Federal Joi holders? "How much are they getting per year to uphold the Taft administra t lon ’.’ “That would be of interest to the Re publicans here." That, in a general way, will bo tire tenor of the speech that Senator Wil liam E. Borah, of Idaho, will make be fore the Republican national conven tion next week. it is designed to be the forerunnei and the ground work for the Roosevelt bolt if a bolt shall be found necessary. It will, In any event, be the keynote of what the Roosevelt people hope will be a stampede of the delegates to the for mer president. Senator Borah has not entirely com pleted the speech, but he admitted to day that he is going to say something along these lines with a view to open ing the. eyes of the delegates to what he alleges Is the real sact —that most of the Taft delegates from the states are [H>rk barrel ]>ersons who are influenced solely by tlielr salary Interest and who tire unable to deliver anything at elec tion time. As it is figured at present. Senator Borah will allege that there are 179 way-rollers among the delegates from the various states —most of them from the South. There is a force of accountants and detectives and investigators at work sot the Roosevelt people, compiling the exact statistics on the subject. Sena tor Dixon, the national Roosevelt man ager. is directing the activities, and the Colonel's men expect that, before the opening of the convention, they will have made up n list of every Federal office holder among the delegates. Bryan Twits Colonel On Fight on Root IJNCOLN, NEBR.. June 15 W J Bryan takes a few shots at Colonel Roosevelt in the current issue of The Commoner. Mr. Bryan, after hoping that tile colonel will be persuaded to go to Chicago to "liven things up." says: A few years ago Mr. Roosevelt said he would crawl on his hands and knees the length of Pennsylvania avenue to i mak" Elihu Root president of the Unit | cil States, hut now he is unwilling to I trust him as temporary chairman of i the Republican national convention. I What a change, but It can not be for gotten that Mr. Roosevelt now de li un» ■ s as 'crook' a man whom iie picked as his successor. "An anti-third term league was or ganized in Kan is t'itx a few days ago in anticipation of Roosevelt's nomina tion. Watch these clubs grow if the ex - president Is again the candidate." Illinois T. R. Men Plan to Undo Taft <'HlCa<;h, Juno 15. Illinois' 56 Roosevelt delegate? will meet Monday morning the Congress hotel tn de termine what steps shall be taken in view of the national commlth e's un • iting of delegates via the 'steam I odor" route. Tin- meeting was called by Secretary Itobie: 1: Met' -niick. f ’lowing a de < tsion 1 v the t 'allfo nia Roosev« Ilians to bind their presidential electors to I the colon*-! regardless of Taft’s possi ble nomination. That the Illinois dtde gntion may adopt a similar program is probabh . .*nu zvI’LANTA GEORGIAN AM) ’NEWS. SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1912. Outdoor Production Is Given Realistically on Banks of Springvale Lake. If you’d care to see a real Indian Hiawatha, with a real red-skinned Minnehaha, as Longfellow himself con ceived the epic, you have that privi lege toil ay, for out at Inman Park a company of real American Indians is enacting the famous story, with real grass and groves and trees on the banks of Springvale lake as a stage setting. The play is given as a benefit for the Uncle Remus memorial, fund. Evi dently the Indians as actors already have made a hit in Atlanta, for the performances yesterday were well at tended ami large audiences are already guaranteed for the performance this afternoon and tonight. The plot of the play follows closely the lines of Longfellow’s immortal poem, but the Indians act in panto mime. speaking no w ord from the open ing to the closing of the piece. Reader Recites Lines. Instead, the narration of the play Is given by R S. Pigott, at one time a resident of Atlanta, who formerly was in the Augustin Daly Company and with Henry \V. Savage. Mr Pigott reads the lines as the Indians enact them. At yesterday’s performances the en tire audience declared the redskin Thespians portrayed their tragic roles with a remarkable appreciation and dramatic effect. The production is under the direc tion of 1-. E. Moore* The performances will continue, for the benefit ( >f the Uncle Remus fund, all next week. They All Look Good 1 o Their Managers < HICAGO. June 15. Here are the latest convention forecasts given to 1 he Georgian today by campaign man agers of Theodore Roosevelt, President Taft and Senator LaFollette. By JOSEPH M. DIXON, Manager of the Roosevelt Campaign. Theodore Roosevelt is going to he nominated. The people of the country want him to be their president. They will not stand for the boss brand of politics that Is b* hind the activities of the Taft steam roller. By WILLIAM B. M’KINLEY, Manager of the Taft Campaign. President Taft will bo nominated on the first ballot. Taft has the majority of the delegat*-- will stick with him in spite of"ny attempt to stampede them to the colonel, in the final analysis it Is an indorsement by Republicans of what has been a Repub lican administration.' By WALTER L. HAUSER. Manager of the LaFollette Campaign. LaFollette xvill be nominated because the Republicans who will be delegates to the national convention will per ceive early In the game that the bit terness het w een Taft and Roosevelt has become so intense as to make it im possible for either of them to be elect ed in November. They max be a dead, lock for a ballot or two. and then every loyal party man will see the absolute necessity of choosing a third man —and LaFollette. be* ause of his progressive principles, will be that man. HONOR FOR CAPTAIN PETTY, SPARTANBURG. S. Juno 15. I’aptain Charles Petty, dean of Jour nalism in South Carolina and associate editor of The Spartanburg Journal, has been el* ted a life member of the South x’a'.'i'lina Press association. FATHER AND SON KILLEDJN FEUD Nephew and Cousin of Dead Men Shoots Them to Death in Meriwether County. WOODBERRY. GA., Juno W. O. and Oscar Evans, father and son, were buried today at the old Evans family burying ground four miles north of Greenville, one chapter in a Meri wether county family feud of more than a year's standing was closed. Another chapter will be enacted on Monday morning, when O. C. Walton, nephew of W. o. Evans, and cousin of Oscar Evans, is given a commitment trial at Greenville on charges of killing the, two Evanses, whom he shot to death at the store of Fletcher Wheless, three miles from Woodberry. yesterday. After the killings, Walton went to Greenville and surrendered to the sher iff of Meriwether county, who has him in custody, but not in Jail, pending his preliminary hearing. Ihe trouble between Walton and his relatives’, the Evanses, began moreithan a year ago. when they took opposite sides in a criminal case over a negro in the city court at Greenville. Dead Men’s Side. According to friends of the dead men, Walton, at the time of that trial, drew his pistol on W. O. Evans. Yesterday the Evanses and Walton met in the Wheless store, when the conversation drifted to firearms and shooting af frays. W. (J, Evans is quoted as say ing: "Well, I looked down the barrel of one pistol, but I'll never look down another." Walton, it Is said, replied: "It looks like you are trying to bring up that old trouble again and want to fight." " Ith that* Evans' friends claim, Wal ton drew his pistol and was about to point it at the elder Evans when Oscar Evans drew his weapon. Immediately Walton, it is claimed, shot young Evans through the head. The elder Evans by this time had run to his bug gy and secured his own gun and Wal ton went after him. The two raced around the store until Walton got the drop on the elder Evans and shot him down. Walton's Story Different. But. according to the other side, there is a different story to the affraj Walton claims that he was endeavoring to avoid trouble, and when the elder Evans started for his gun he, Walton, endeavored to escape through a rear door, but that Oscar Evans stopped him and threatened to kill him if h<* moved another step. Then Walton filed, killing the younger Evans The elder Evans. Walton claims, pursued him around the store four or five times when he turned and shot Evans In self defense. Walton is about 25 years old and his cousin was about the same age. W. O. Evans was about 50 years old. The families are well known In this section. AH Factions for Progressive Platform CHICAGO. June 15.—The platform of the Republican party is to he pro gressive. Leaders'of both the Taft and Roosevelt camps have agreed to this Senator Robert M. LaFollette and his forces are trying to make it strik ingly progressive. President I'aft and his followers have agreed that a num ber of progressive ideas shall be Includ ed if they control the convention. For mer President Roosevelt Is writing his own platform, and while little has been given out as to Its probable contents, ills leaders here are certain that it will be progressive enough to suit any member of the party and that it will definitely promise a number of reforms. Two planks are pretty apt to be in cluded In the platform, no matter who is the nominee of the convention. One Is for woman's suffrage. One is for im provement of the Mississippi as a wa terway. The fourteen-feet-through the-valley idea has been suggested as a good bait with which to angle for the ■Missouri voters who have been more or less startled by the commotion in the Republican party ranks there. Bait For “Solid South.” The plank is also the first real effort to break the solid South. Louisiana and Mississippi in particular could be Induced to view Republicanism from a different point of view, politicians here assert. If they could be made to believe that the Republicans would actually begin the deepening of the Mississippi channel, opening a new line for com mercial activity and offering relief from the annual floods. There is a lot of good politics in that plank, these, men Say. Pretty much of the rest of the plat form is left to speculation. If the Taft men win. one plank will be for "scientific revision of the tar iff." with a properly empowered tariff board to investigate and report to the -president and congress. La Follette's tariff plank, should he be able to write his ideas into the plat form. and he might through a delegate swap, would be for revision downward. LaFollette's Railroad Plank. Another LaFollette idea that the con. vention will have to reckon with is his plank for the physical valuation of railroads. So far it promises to be the big platform fight. William Barnes, Jr . of New York, is deeply interested in the platform. Nich olas Murray Butler, of New York, pres ident of Columbia university, is hewing some planks for the Taft platform, and Senator Elihu Root will convey the president's own ideas to the Taft lead ers here, at the same time shaping them Into "platform language." Former Vice President Fairbanks, who has been suggested for chairman of the platform committee, will write one or two of the planks He has al ready done some tentative work along this line. T, R.'S FIGHT IS LIKE THAT OF GRANT'S IN 'B2; DARK HORSE WON THAT TIME Every political student who has delved into those musty archives wherein are kept the records that tell of great political battles past and gone must be struck with the similarity of the pre-nomination fight waged by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in this year of our Lord 1912 and that conduct ed by General Ulysses S. Grant exactly 32 years ago. Grant's campaign was for the Repub lican nomination for the third term after a lapse of four years—so is Roosevelt’s. Grant was a soldier of achievement— as is the hero of San Juan Hill. Grant’s campaign followed a world girdling trip, during which he received the welcome and praise of strange sov. erelgns and peoples—Roosevelt has but lately returned from his African hunt and a triumphant tour through Europe. Grant Was Idol of People. And Grant was the popular idol of the. people—a claim made for Colonel Rcoaevelt by his supporters. But net alone are the two cam paigns similar in these particulars. The construction of the Grant and Roose velt campaigns has many points in common, for Grant was opposed by Blaine —even as Roosevelt is opposed by Taft. The fight in the convention hall was one of the bitterest in the annals of Republican party history. The convention convened in Chicago on June 2, 1880. with more than 10,000 spectators lining in the galleries to watch rhe battle royal. And for over a week th? Blaine and Grant forces battled together before Garfield, a dark horse, won the nomination. Conklin opened the nominations by presenting the name of Grant, and he did it with an imperial grandeur and with a degree of eloquence that was impressive. Had he been as discreet as he was eloquent his speech would have been a perfect exhibition of im pressive oratory; but Conklin, inspired by’his love of Grant, antagonized the Blaine delegates by his pungent satire anent the Blaine cohorts who disre garded their instructions to vote as a unit for Grant. , Speech Weakened Grant. * He referred to Grant as a candidate, "without patronage," without emis saries, without committees, without bu reaus, without telegraph wires run ning from his house to the convention hall, or running from hfs house any where. His speech, however, left Grant weaker instead of stronger. Following Conklin’s speech for Grant and Garfield’s speech for Sherman, the name of Blaine was presented by Joy Joy's advocacy of Blaine was tame and disappointing, beside the masterly ora tions of Conklin and Garfield. But Blaine’s candidates were strong, and were firm in their conviction of ulti mate victory. The balloting began. Three hundred LUXURY IS FORCED ON A MILLIONAIRE BY COURT’S ORDER NEW YORK. June 15. —ln a court order County Judge Fawcett, of Brook lyn. not only designates the amount of money to be spent each month for the maintenance of a millionaires house hold. but specifics in what manner the money shall be spent. The order was in the case of Samuel E. Haslett, a Brooklyn recluse, declared Incompetent. For years he lived in an old mansion and permitted it to go to decay. He boarded his wealth and received no visitors of any sort. Haslett has an income of $40,000 a year, s Judge Fawcett allowed the com mittee SI,OOO a month for his mainte nance. it is specified that part of the money be used to pax* one physician to be in constant attendance, two nurses, one cook and one porter. MARIETTA HAS A LAUNDRY. MARIETTA, GA.. June 15. Marietta has a steam laundry now. It will be open for business in about ten days. Officers of the company are: V. S. Phillips, president and general man ager; J. J. Black, vice president, and H. R. McClatchey, secretary and treas urer. / Eye Comfort A pair of properly fitted glasses xvill enable you to read and do all sorts of close work comfortably. Our Opticians will make a complete and careful test of your eyes and fit the correct lenses in the latest style mountings at reasonable prices. A. K. Hawkes Co. OPTICIANS 14 WHITEHALL and seventy-eight votes were necqgsary for a choice. On the very first ballot Grant received 304 votjs, while Blaine was given 284. Sherman got 93. Garfield himself got one vote on the second ballot. Blaine lost two votes and Grant gained one. And so the fac tions struggled* on for 33 consecutive ballots. For 33 ballots Grant never got more than 309 votes, Blaine never more than 285, Garfield never rose above two votes in all. Grant's Supporters Loyal. The thirty-fourth ballot began—the second week of the convention—and the delegates, worn out with the strug gle, prayed fora compromise candidate. It was here that Garfield began display ing strength, fte was indeed the only logical compromise candidate, though many favored Senator Windon of Min nesota. His landslide started when Wlndon's delegates met in caucus, a minority deciding to vote for Garfield in preference to their candidate. At the end of the thirty-fourth bal lot Garfield's vote registered 17 instead of 1, Grant got 312 and Blaine 275. Still no one had reached the 378 necessary to nomination. They voted again. This time Garfield jumped to 50 votes, Grant got 343 and Blaine Icjst 18, falling to 257. The thir ty-fifth ballot was called and the storm broke. The Blaine column swerved to Garfield almost unanimously. When the votes were counted it xx*as found that Garfield had 399 votes in all. Grant 306 and Blaine 42. The dark horse—Garfield—had won. Grant’s supporters had stood by him with marvelous fidelity. He started with 304 votes, never fell below 302, never rose above 313 and ended on the final ballot with 306. He had the ablest galaxy of leaders that ever ap peared at a national convention in sup port of any one delegate. MY NEW PLANS TN MY OLD OFFICE I DID NOT HAVE * sufficient room to give attention to many diseases that I knew needed especial attention and so the majority of our work R was with Diseases of Men. But when I moved wMf to my new offices I wen * to large ex- Wm pense to equip one Mi the very best pri vate laboratories in fl the South with a view devoting more time and attention Hmlll to various chronic j diseases that I know need that attention to detail so essential to their proper diag- J nosis and Er a-irent in order that they IMFMO— VI may get not only re- DR. WM. M. BAIRD. iief, but a cure. Br °s6 n Mar’le« l a h St?eet din9 ' Diseases of WOmCtt Atlanta Ga have been largely left to the surgeon’s knife when by proper attention to detail and with proper care many of them can be cured without opera tion. The same is true of Piles, and Rectal diseases in general. I KNOW that this office affords the best opportunity for relief and cure possi ble. I KNOW, too, that this office is the best equipped for doing good work of any office south of the Mason and Dixon Line, and there is none better in the United States. Don’t, then, let someone influence you against an advertised office, but call, and see for yourself if every statement I make is not correct. We all do our best for our patients, and spare no time, trouble or ex pense to be of real benefit to them. Perfect work is the aim of this office and we want those who will appreciate this to call and see us. Pamphlets sent free on request. 11 V I V 'Jfl Krl) \\ . [I 13 Wvv i V| y; 56 Marietta St., Brown-Randolph Building Atlanta, Georgia BAPTISTS TD AID I OF BESSIE lira Atlanta Churches to Work Tol morrow to Raise Their Part I of College Endowment. Baptist churches in Atlanta will r>b-*,. serve tomorrow as Bessie Tift college day. Following talks in the various’ pulpits by prominent speakers, an in-; dividual canvas among Baptists of the, city for their part of the $360,000 en dowment fund will be made. A large committee of laymen and' members of the Atlanta Baptist Minis-?- ters association will co-operate with the officials of the college In this work? The ministers who will occupy the pulpits are: First Baptist church. R. A. Lansdellg Second Baptist church, in the morning A. R. Moncrief, in the evening, J. R Gunn; Ponce DeLeon Avenue church J. R. Gunn; Capitol Avenue, in tht morning, H. C. Bucholz, in the evening R. A. Lansdale; Jackson Hill church J. R. Sammons; Temple Baptist church in the evening. J. E. Sammons; Wes End Baptist church. A. Chamblee; Oak land City church, in the evening, A Chamblee; Klrjcwood, church, In the evening. O. H. P. Bloodworth; Wood' ward Avfenue church, in the morninj and evening. J. S. McLemore; Centra Baptist church, Will D. Upshaw; Gor don Street church, in the evening. A. J Moncrief, and Grant Park church, ir the evening. Will D. Upshaw. The Tabernacle Baptist church wil observe the Bessie Tift ceremony or Sunday, June 23. The workers in charge of the Atlants campaign are Miss Mattie Morris (a graduate of Bessie Tift and president of the Alumnae association), Rev. R. A. Lansdell, Rev. J. R. Gunn and O. H. B. Bloodworth. They have opened campaign head quarters in the Atlanta National bank building.