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ARTHUR BRISBANE’S CONVENTION STORY
THE WEATHER
Forecast: Showers tonight or to
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10 a. m., 30: 12 noon, 84; 2 p. m.. 86.
VOL. X. NO. 276.
TWO CANDIDATES AND HOW CONVENTION LOOKS TODAY
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. s “ The big convention as'it appears in session. President William H. Taft.
SWEETHEART
OF BOYHOOD
DAYS WON
BY DREAM
Out in Oklahoma City Charles Si
mons dreamed two weeks ago that the
sweetheart in Atlanta he had not seen
for 30 years had become a widow and
able to keep the vow she had made to
him when both were very young. The
dream came true last night at 94 Spring
street, where Mr. Simons was united in
marriage to Mrs. Katie B. Wiggins.
Both bride and bridegroom are 50 years
old and both are grandparents. Some
of the grandchildren saw the ceremony.
Simons came originally from Augus
ta. Ga., and it was there he met Mrs.
Wiggins back in 1880 before either of
them were wed. They were sweet
hearts for a year and she had promised
that upon her father’s consent she
would become Mrs. Simons. But her
father was averse to the match just
then, because Simons was very young
in the first place and had mighty slim
financial prospects to boot. He told the
young man to go West and make some
money and then he might marry Kate
as soon as he pleased.
Made His Fortune
But She Had Wed.
Simons took the parental advice,
journeyed to Oklahoma City, became
a contractor, started in to make a for
tune and was just ready to "write for
the belated consent when a letter came
to him from the South saying that the
girl had wed and had gone to Atlanta
to live.
Two or three years later Simons
married a Western girl himself, and
four children were born, all of whom
are now grown and married.
He lost all tidings of his former
sweetheart and put away all thought
of his old-time romance to increase that
fortune.
Dream Tells How
She Is Lonely.
Simons’ wife died. He kept on mak
ing money, but now that he had be
come a widower he let his mind dwell
again upon the girl who had promised
to marry him when he was a boy back
in Georgia. Four weeks ago he had a
dream In it he seemed to see the
home of the girl in Atlanta and he
saw that her husband was dead, and
that she was lonely. She told him in
the dream that she. too. was thinking
of that old-time courtship.
Simons was so much impressed with
the vividness of the vision that he be
gan winding up his financial affairs
next day preparatory to a hurried trip
East. He reached Atlanta four days
ago, and after two days of searching
found Mrs. Wiggins living, truly wid
owed. as he had foreseen, at the Sprit,
street home.
Simons lost no time in renewing the
30-year-old romance. He proposed
within 48 hours and Mrs. Wiggins in
accepting him admitted that her mind
had been much upon just such a cli
max to that Augusta love affair for
several months.
Rev. Dr. Hendrix, of the Wesley Me
morial church, performed the evening
wedding at the bride’s home, in the
presence of only a few relatives and
friends. The couple will reside there
permanently, after a brief honeymoon
tour.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results
FIRST PORTIA
HERE OPENS
WAR FOR
RIGHTS
Mrs. Georgia Mclntyre Weaver, of 340
Courtland street, who graduated at the
Atlanta Law school last night, is today
planning a fight for admission to prac.
tice on the Atlanta bar that may reach
the supreme court of the United States.
The first steps Mrs. Weaver will take
will be to have a bill amending the
present law introduced in the state leg
islature the latter part of this month,
and if it passes her fight will be of
short duration. But a similar bill was
introduced last session and was receiv
ed unfavorably, and if the same fate
befalls the new one Mrs. Weaver will
apply to the court for admission to the
bar. Failure to secure a place will
bring an appeal to the Georgia supreme
court, and if the petition is refused
there it will be carried to the United
State- supreme court.
Declares Men of
Georgia to Blame.
“I am going to have a place on the
bar if 1 have to work ten years to
get it,” said Mrs. Weaver. "Women
have just as much right to practice law
as men. and I mean to take the lead in
giving them this right.
"They are allowed to practice in all
but three states of the Union, and in
most cases the petitions for admission
reached the United States supreme
court. I mean to carry mine there if
necessary.
“I believe I would win there, for it
is not so much the law that keeps
women from the bar as *it is the fight
the men lawyers make to keep us from
it. They may prolong the effort to
keep this privilege from us. but I think
we will win in the end.
“Constitution Not
Aimed at Women."
“My belief is based on former opin
ions of the supreme court, in which
it was said that all men have a right
to the pursuit of all avocations, all hon
ors and all professions, and that be
fore the law this right to the choice of
an avocation can not be said to be
abridged on account of sex.
“Certainly the framers of our con
stitution intended no such results and
surely the legislature never intended
any such purpose. It is not possible
for us to believe that the legislation
was enacted in reliance upon any sup
posed rule of the common law, which
would exclude women from the enjoy
ment of any such rights ’
Court Advises
New Lawyers.
The members of the graduating class
appeared in first division of superior
court today and were granted law li
censes. The ceremony was short. Judge
W. D. Ellis approved the list of grad
uates and spoke briefly. He said:
"The law is a learned profession, and
it is an exacting nn< Remember a li
cense to practice law is not a liven- ■■
to make a living by tricks rdher than
by hard work."
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1912.
Florida Postmaster
Appeals to Atlanta
To Find Wife for Him
Fame of Georgia “Peaches”
Reaches Lonely Man in
Everglades State.
Down in Harper, Fla., a town of
nearly 100 population, is a postmaster
who wants to get married. He search
ed vainly far and wide among the peo
ple of his neighborhood for a wife.
Then, hearing of the many beautiful
women of Atlanta, he made a plea for
a lifemate from the land of the peaches.
The request came today, addressed
to Postmaster McKee. It was just a
simple little letter, written hurriedly,
for postmasters are busy people, but
it contained an appeal that a more
lengthy and carefully prepared one
might have failed to express. It said:
Do you ever see any advertise
ments of girls who want to marry?
Please send me as many as you
can find and you will make a life
long friend. I want a wife!
POSTMASTER.
Harper. Fla.
Mr. McKee is in Chicago attending
the Republican convention, but Assist
ant Postmaster Coles read the letter,
placed it on his private file and said
he would do anything possible to ac
commodate the wife-seeker.
80 PER CENT OF HOGS
IN SOUTH GEORGIA
DEAD FROM CHOLERA
Georgia, more especially the south
ern part of the state, is battling with
an outbreak of hog cholera, said to ex
ceed any live stock disease epidemic
ever reported to the sta f e department
of agriculture.
State Veterinary Peter Bahnsen said
today that fully 65 per cent of the hogs
in Georgia had died from the disease
since January, 1912. The percentage
of destruction in Georgia directly trace
able to hog cholera, he asserted, would
reach 80. with apparently no abate
ment.
The farmers, it is said, have not
taken kindly to the hog cholera serum
manufactured at the Agricultural col
lege in Athens and said to be the only
preventative for the disease.
TWO ‘‘GUN MEN” GO
TO DEATH IN CHAIR
FOR KILLING GROCER
AUBURN, N. Y., June 18.—The “gun
men.” Ralph Friedman and Jacob Kahn
who killed George A. Schuchart, a gro
cer. in Rochester. N. Y., while robbing
his store on November 10, 1910, were
put to death in the electric chair in
the Auburn state prison today.
Friedman was executed first. He
took his place in the chair at 6:07 and
was dead in seven minutes.
Kahn smiled as he took his seat and
interrupted a prayer to call out, “Good
bye. fathers.” He was strapped in the
chair at 6:17 and was dead eight min
utes afterward.
EX POLICEMAN, TIRED
OF LIVING, COMMITS
SUICIDE IN A SALOON
MACON, GA.. June 18.—-Henry
George, a former Macon policeman,
walked into a saloon yesterday aft
ernoon. addressed a note to his wife,
■ Imply writing. "I am tired of living,"
md sent a pistol bullet into his brain.
He had been in ill health for several
months. .
CONVENTION
STORY TOLD
BY ARTHUR
BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
COLISEUM, CHICAGO. June 18.—
In five minutes the convention will
open. Twelve or fourteen thousand are
crowded in a big hall.
The band is playing "Darling. I Am
Growing Old." and there are bells and
human voices mixed with the band.
William Jennings Bryan sits at the
reporters’ table looking very well and
busy with a little pink flower in his
buttonhole. A thousand banners are in
the hall, and five men make it their
business to remain constantly under
each banner.
But in the street sad-eyed men out
of work are temporarily busy carrying
banners that denounce the enemies of
Roosevelt. They are trying to keep
step, but can't.
A well-fed band leads them.. When
it's over, they will still be sad-eyed and
worried —and the band still well fed.
The only news at this moment is the
announcement that Senator Borah is
not to make the T. R. fight against
Root for temporary chairman.
Francis McGovern, governor of Wis
consin. is to be the candidate opposed
to Root —at least, the wise ones say so.
Roosevelt Cheers
Most Common.
The band, having finished with
“Darling, I Am Growing Old,” plays
something gay, but no one notices the
difference. The moment to open the
big fight has arrived. Those that came
to the convention with real, interest are
serious and about one per cent of the
total. The other 99 per cent are cheer
ing. The chief and most easily heard
words In the roar are “Roosevelt, he Is
all right."
Not all his friends think so. Many
fear the honor of organization, A few
hours or possibly minutes and it will
be known where the power lies. The
contest is between the tremendous
popular disorganized enthusiasm for
Roosevelf and cold, well-planned, or
ganized scheming by the machine.
The convention is called to order at
one minute past twelve. Victor Rose
water. head of the national Republican
committee, pounds with his gavel and
actually gets comparative silence. He
!? a small man with much curly hair,
low on his forehead, a big. useful nose.
His friends proudly say that he has all
the “nerve” needed to run a steam
roller. His success in almost silencing
the crowd pleases him. The yelling
stops as it does when a. prize fight is
about to start. The crowd does not
want to miss anything.
After the opening Os proceedings a
gentleman named Stone tried with a
megaphone to get the aisles cleared.
For a long time this could not be done
effectually. The period of dullness was
enlivened by a colored gentleman from
Mississippi making what looked like a
good speech
The convention cheers when told
that Rev. Father Callaghan will ask a
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• •
: New York Starts •
• •
• Boom for Hughes:
• —_ •
• CHICAGO, June 18.—New York •
• today began the first work for a •
• dark horse that has been done In •
• the open by any of the inner set. •
• Lafayette B. Gleason, secretary of •
• the convention and of the New •
• York state Republican committee. •
• said: •
• "Fifty men can bring about the •
• selection of Charles E. Hughes •
• If we can get anybody to start the •
• real movement the solution of the •
• presidential fight will be easy •
• New- York’s delegation Is not go- •
• Ing to break to the colonel.” •
• Mr. Gleason’s statement was •
• taken as indication that the »
• New York delegation would work •
• for a third candidate openly at the •
• first possible chance. •
MAYOR TO PUT BAN
ON STREAMER ADS;
CHEAPEN THE TOWN
"No more streamers and banners
announcing private excursions or
money-making schemes will be permit
ted to cross Atlanta streets,” said May
or Winn this afternoon. “Permits will
be confined in the future to purely
charitable enterprises, great civic
movements and things of a similar na
ture. I don’t care much for these ban
ners across the streets, anyway. They
look like a country town, and Atlanta
has outgrown them.”
Mayor Winn’s announcement fol
lowed a visit to his office by two At
lanta women who entered a vigorous
protest against, an excursion promoter
who offered a rival trip against theirs
and who had obtained a permit to hang
a streamer across Whitehall street.
They insisted that his permit be re
voked. The mayor declined to do this,
but offered the women a permit for
their own banner.
Then he made up his mind that only
in the name of sweet charity should
any more streamers cross an Atlanta
thoroughfare.
MOUNTED POLICEMEN
TO AID TRAFFIC SQUAD
IN CONGESTED STREETS
Police Chief Beavers tomorrow will in
augurate another Improvement In Atlan
ta's traffic regulations to further relieve
the congestion in the crowded downtown
streets.
The chief will place a special detail of
mounted men in the downtown district,
and these officers will ride to and fro
through the streets to enforce all re
quirements of the traffic ordinances. Par
ticular attention will be paid to slow
moving vehicles, which are required to
keep close to the curb, but automobiles
also will come under the scrutiny of the
traffic men.
Much complaint has been received by
the chief to the effect that slow moving
vehicles occupy the center of the streets
and block the passage oi autos, causing
congestion. Owing to the narrowness of
the streets, the chief says the traffic laws
must be strictly observed, and that slow
moving vehicles as well as autos must
keep in their place.
CHAS. FRANKLIN DIES IN
VIOLENT COUGHING SPELL
Arrangements for the funeral of
Charles Franklin, the Atlanta archi
tect who died suddenly late yesterday
at his home, 350 Oak street, have not
been completed. The remains are at
Greenberg & Bond's chapel awaiting
arrival of relatives from New York and
California.
Mr. Franklin had just reached home
after a day's work at his office when a
fit of coughing seized him. He died
shortly afterward and it is thought a
blood vessel had been ruptured.
He is survived by his wife and one
dai'whter. Mist Clara Franklin.
ROOSEVELT LOSES FIRST
8MI8H ; STEAM ROLL
DELEGATES TO STAND
COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 18.—Fighting desperately at every
move, adherents of President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, rival can
didates for the Republican nomination for the presidency, are this
afternoon engaged in the most strenuous battle that a national con
vention has known for years. The fighting was opened by the Roose
velt forces, led by Governor Hadley, of Missouri, who. immediately
after the reading of the temporary roll, moved that the unseated
Roosevelt delegates be substituted.
After a series of preliminary
clashes, Hadley was declared out
of order, as was also his appeal
from the decision of the chair.
After the attempt of Hadley to
bring the delegate issue before the
house immediately had been frus
trated, the names of Elihu Root,
the Taft adherent, and Governor
McGovern, of Wisconsin, for the
Roosevelt forces, were nominated
for the temporary chairmanship.
Struggle To Bring
Hall to Order.
Chairman Rosewater’s gave! banged
at 12:01, just one minute behind the
schedule. It was still banging five
minutes later as Sergeant-at-Arms
William F. Stone, with a megaphone,
ordered the police to clear the aisles
and prepare for a photographer to take
a flashlight of the scene.
The bitter fight over the nomina
tion, the climax of a campaign that had
seen a former president and a president
trail through half the states of the
Union, was reflected in the attitude of
the delegates.
Crowded in the aisles, standing on
their chairs, one state cheering and an
other answering with its own discor
dant reply, the men refused ter come to
order so that the photographer might
work.
In the meantime speakers, prepared
to say suave words of the party's 60
years of history, were delayed. The
program could not go on, The ser
geant-at-arms struggled with the
crowd. The police helped here and
there. Finally the picture man let off
the blinding flash.
The chairman’s gavel brought a sem
blance of order. The chaplain uttered
hjs two-minute prayer. The conven
tion was finally under way.
Just as the flash was made the band
broke into the “Star Spangled Ban
ner,” and the delegates and host of
visitors sprang to their feet and the
most vociferous cheering of the day
swelled from the throng.
Gov. Hadley Gets
The Floor First.
Slight confusion was caused when
one of the flags near where the flashes
were filed was thought to have caught
fire. The flag was quickly torn down
by a man sent up among the rafters.
Rev. Father J. F. Callaghan pro
nounced the invocation. Secretary
William Hayward then read the call
for the convention.
During the prayer and reading of the
call cries of “sit down” were heard.
Just before the flashlight was taken
Stone threw up his megaphone and
HOME
IPITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE o y r E no
pointed it at Assistant Chief of Police
Schuttler.
“Clear the aisles,” cried Stone. “Clear
them at once, Chief Schuttler.”
The assistant chief got busy. The
aisles were soon cleared.
At the end of the reading of the call.
Governor Herbert S. Hadley of Mis
souri arose and was recognized by the
chair.
When Governor Hadley arose he
said: “I rise to a question of informa
tion.”
Hadley wav escorted to the rostrum.
Delegate James Watson, of Indiana,
also came to the stand and was given
a seat. Delegate Watson arose to a
point of order. He asserted that until
the convention was properly organized
no matter of business should come be
fore the house.
Governor Hadley then made a short
address. He said he had arisen on a
point of information. Hadley moved
that the Roosevelt list of delegates en
bloc be substituted for the secretary's
temporary roll.
Great cheering by the Rooseveltians.
Watson's point of order was renewed
and Rosewater ruled Hadley out of or
der. However, not to appear arbitrary,
he decided to hear arguments. He
granted each side twenty minutes to
present their arguments.
Governor Hadley began the argument
in behalf of the Roosevelt roll.
Hadlej' told of bis experience in the
national committee. “I don’t say the
charges of thievery are true. 1 do know
some of them are true. Let us settle
It here; let us know what they have to,
say."
When he said that you couldn’t set
tle the question by raising a point of
order, the delegates yelled wildly.
Demands Sift of
Fraud Charges.
“We contend the convention should
not proceed to the transaction of any
business until the charges of fraud
have been sifted," Hadley exclaimed.
When Hadley finished. ex-Governor
Fort of New Jersey took up the argu
ment. Fort replied for the Taft peo
ple.
When Fort finished, James Watson, of
Indiana, yielded ten minutes of his time
to Congressman Sereno Payne of New-
York. Payne spoke in behalf of Taft.
Hadley interrupted Payne.
Payne refused to allow Hadley to
ask him questions.
Payne finished and Watson then
spoke.
"Chairman Rosewater." he said, “has
only asked you to consider these mat
ters for yourselves He is not attempt
ing to dictate. He is the agent of the
