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TTrTSAYS HE'LL BOLT IF “STOLEN” SEATS ARE VOTED
Colonel Roosevelt early this morning issued the following ultimatum, which “Two conventions will be held if the seventy-eight delegates lawfully elected a
was his first open declaration of his intention to bolt if the Republican national a , nd instru c te d ( or me are excluded in the preliminaries of the convention and if'
i . the seventy-eight delegates occupying seats stolen from me by the Republican
- nvention methods are not to his liking: national committee are allowed to vote on temporary chairman.”
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Geor
gia: Local thunder showers and
somewhat cooler today and tomor
row.
VOL. X. NO. 276.
SWEETHEART
OF BOYHOOD
DAYS WON
BY DREAM
j A
Charles Simons, Spurred on by
Remarkable Vision, Returns
From Oklahoma City.
LEFT HER AS YOUTH TO
MAKE HIS FORTUNE
A
Both Now Have Grandchildren,
But the Old Love Leads
to Wedding.
Out in Oklahoma City Charles Si
mons dreajned 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
(kmarrtage 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 ad,dee.
journeyed to Oklahoma City, became
a contractor, started in to make a for
i 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
fc.ur children were born, all of whom
are now grown and married.
He lost all tiding 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
dremn. In it he seemed to see the
home of the girl In Atlanta and he
san 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 v inding up his financial affairs
i next day preparatory to a hurried trip
b E'vt. He reached Atlanta four days
v ago and after two days of searching
found Mrs. Wiggins living, truly wid
owed. as he had foreseen, at the Spring
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
)iad b een 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.
EX-POLICEMAN, tired
OF LIVING, COMMITS
SUICIDE IN A SALOON
MACON, GA.. June 18.—Henry
rge a former Macon policeman,
K ~ ... ed’ into a saloon yesterday aft
n addressed a note to his wife,
cfm-dv’ writing, "I ant tired of living."
' -ent a pistol bullet into his brain.
hid been in ill health for several
The Atlanta Georgian
JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE
Roosevelt’s last orders to his
lieutenants before the actual
firins began were to force the
fighting. The ex-president was
in an aggressive mood, and
gave the impression that if it
became necessary, he would
appear at the Coliseum and
lead the battle in person.
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Here are some famous battling attitudes of Theodore Roosevelt caught by the camera dur
ing the spectacular campaign now reaching its climax.
BOY SLAYER KILLS .
SELF WHEN HE IS
TRAPPED BY POSSE
JEFFERSONVILLE, IND., June 18.
A tragic sequel to the criminal attack
and murder of Mary Louise Kelly, 73
years old; came yesterday when her
grandson. George Kelly, age<j twenty,
swallowed poison as a posse of officers
was about to capture him in a river
bottom thicket. He died in a few min
utes.
The body of the old woman was
found in a bed in her cottage. Evi
dence showed she had been attacked
and the criminal had torn the clothes
from her, probably after she was dead,
laid them on a chair and placed the
body in bed. Her savings, SIOO, were
gone.
George Kelly lived with his grand
mother, as did her son. who discovered
the crime The former had been at the
home during the day and could not be
found after the crime had been com
mitted.
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1912.
TAFT IN CONTROL AS
CONVENTION OPENS
JANE PEYTON WEARS
TROUSERS WHEN SHE
TOILS IN HER GARDEN
WINSTED, CONN.. June 18.—The
high cost of living this summer is not
going to worry Jane Peyton, the ac
tress, who is the wife of Guy Bates
Post, but the cost of clothing may wor
ry the actor. Mrs. Post is wearing
trousers.
That statement alone might create a
false Impression as to who is consid
ered the head of the Post family, but
ft need not. They are worn only when
Mrs. Post Is gardening
The cottage of the Posts is on the
shore of Lake Wonksanknonk.
FOR PUBLIC KINDERGARTENS.
SAVANNAH. GA.. June 18.—At the
coming session of the general assem
bly an effort will be made to have the
legislature authorize kindergartens in
all public schools. The bill will be in
troduced bj J. Randolph Anderson, of
Chatham.
WOMAN. NEAR DEATH.
WITHDRAWS CHARGES
AGAINST HATED RIVAL
MACON, GA., June 18.—For several
weeks Mrs. Nora Irby and Mrs. Fannie
Hysler, Macon women, have been
swearing out warrants for one another,
the former alleging that the latter had
kidnaped her children and stolen her
husband, and Mrs. Hysler replying with
charges of trespass and abuse. The
warrants against Mrs. Irby were to
have been aired today, but the justice
received the following note from Mrs.
Hysler: '
"Dear Judge—l am very ill, and am
going to die, and I don't want to go to
heaven as a prosecutrix; so please dis
miss the warrants against Mrs. Irby.”
The judge complied with this request.
BLACKS IS CUBA
H 5 WHITES
War of Extermination Is Begun
in aSntiago Provice—Plan
tations Being Fortified.
SANTIAGO, CUBA. June 18.—Five
whites are reported to have been hang
ed by negro insurgents at Ramon de
Las Yagiias. This is considered the
beginning of the blacks war of exter
mination of others not their color.
Among the whites hanged was M.
Saguas,. a French citizen. Foreigners
are fleeing to the nearest towns. In
isolated-sections big plantations are
being used as havens of safety. Plan
tation houses are being turned into
forts and machine guns mounted to
guard them.
ROLAND ELLIS QUITS JOB
THAT DOES NOT PAY HIM
MACON, GA., June IS. Roland Kills,
candidate for solicitor of the Macon
circuit, has resigned as solicitor pro
tern of the city court, and J. E. Hall
has been appointed. In his resigna
tion, Mr. Ellis states that he has held
the office three months without making'
a cent out of it, as the solicitor has
never been away.
SUPERINTENDENT OF 8188
SCHOOLS RESIGNS OFFICE
MACON, GA.. June 18.— C. B. Chap
man has resigned the superintendency
of the public schools of Bibb county to
become principal of the Gresham and
Lanier high schools, succeeding Kyle
T. Alfrlend, resigned. The county su
perintendency is vacant.
“Wo’ll Win,” Says President’s Manager,
After Conference With Chairman.
Roosevelt, Losing First Skirmish,
Orders His Men to Force the Fight.
CHICAGO, .June 18—With the thumping of the gavel in the
hands of Victor Rosewater, chairman of the national committee,
the Republican national convention, destined to be of more than
ordiary history-making importance, and probably never equalled
in America for turmoil, came to a semblance of order, and the
great fight between Theodore Roosevelt, the only living cs
president, and President Taft for the party nomination for pres
ident .was on. At the start the Taft faction, with which the
chairman was aligned, was in control.
For hours before the opening the delegates were filing into
the great hall amid the confusion of many bands and the tumul
tuous yelling of factions ov hotl* sides. What the outcome of
the opening session would be no one could tell, but there was
blood in the eyes of the belligerents, and there seemed to be
every prospect that the plan of the Roosevelt, men to make it a
“fight to the finish’’ was about to be realized.
Roosevelt lost the first skirmish of the convention. Chair
man Victor Rosewater, of the national committee, decided that
he bad no authority to entertain a motion to revise, the roll of
the temporary organization.
Early .in the day Roosevelt lieutenants approached Chair
man Rosewater with requests for information as to his attitude.
He made no secret of the decision he had reached.
This meant that the Roosevelt plan to overturn the action
of the national committee in ousting the delegates could not be
put to a test until the convention considered the report of the
credentials committee, unless the Roosevelt forces seized con
trol.
A fight against a roll call based
on the temporary roll as made
up by the national committee was
planned as the opening fight of
Ihe Roosevelt men. It was in
tended to bring to a crisis at the
very opening of the convention
the fight that has been waged
against the Taft forces. It was
to lie the first protest against the
alleged steam roller methods of
the national committee in hear
ing the delegate contest cases
brought before the opening of the
convention.
Only one hope of winning the
initial fight remained to the
Roosevelt men—an appeal from
the chair and the chance that
they could bring the matter up
by authority of the delegates
themselves.
With hundreds of police on guard
in and about the convention hall, an
emergency hospital, fully equipped, ar
ranged in the annex, and a number of
ambulances in waiting, everything was
in readiness for the call to order of the
history-making convention at noon.
An eleventh-hour attempt was made
today to find a peaceable solution of
the problem confronting the Republi
can national convention. It was pro
posed by the Illinois delegation, which
was in session until long after mid
night, and was aimed to prevent a dis
ruption of the party by the factional
warfare of the Taft and Roosevelt
forces.
“Untainted” Delegate
Issue Up to Taft.
The issue was later put squarely up
to President Taft, and his answer was
anxiously awaited as the convention
drew near. The Illinois delegation
adopted this resolution:
"That no action shall be taken in any
matter pertaining to the temporary or
ganization that is not approved by 54G
uncontested and untainted delegates.”
This offer expressed in plain words
means a reopening of the contests.
This telegram was sent to President
Taft: t
"We protest against the plan where
by delegates whose seats are contested
are permitted to vote on their own con
tests by being seated by high-handed
methods, and think it would be unwor
thy of the president of the United
States to accept a renomination ob
tained in that way.”
Both sides hoped for the reply from
IXIRA
z CENTS EVERYWHERE '* y r E no
the white house before marching to
the Coliseum.
The plan was brought out by the
Illinois Roosevelt delegates. It looked!
so good from a Roosevelt standpoint, aaj
affording a new means of bringing up!
the original question of reopening the)
steam roller decisions, that Governor)
Deneen appointed Lawrence Y. Sher
man, Martin R. Madden and John L.,
Hamilton a committee to wait upon
Roosevelt.
T. R. Issues Ultimatum
On Two Conventions.
They returned in twenty mfnutesi
with word that Roosevelt indorsed the
plan, and also brought an ultimatum
regarding two conventions.
This ultimatum was:
“Two conventions if the 78 delegates
lawfully elected and instructed for me
are excluded in the preliminaries of the
convention and if the 78 delegates occu
pying seats stolen from me by the Re
publican national committee are al
lowed to vote on temporary chairman.”
The proposition was carried hot-foot
to the Taft camp. Unofficially the Taft
leaders declared they would not accept
it.
They proposed that the battle should
go to a finish at today's session of the
convention —that Roosevelt must either*
win by proselyting Taft votes, submit!
to the steam roller or bolt.
The Taft leaders called attention to
the fact that the plan to tie up the
temporary organization of the conven
tion until 540 delegates indorsed by
Roosevelt voted to begin work merely,
gave the colonel more time to proselyte,,
until he could get the necessary 540.
Chairman Rosewater’s decision on
the roll call issue was reached after
he had given careful study to the par
liamentary questions Involved and aft
er representatives of both sides had
submitted briefs.
Precedents Against
Roosevelt Forces.
E. L. Lampson, of Ohio, represented
the Roosevelt faction. His brief cited
only one Republican national conven
tion as a precedent. This was the con
vention of 1864, when no national com
mittee had been formed and when there
was no temporary roll made up.
The Tnft brief was submitted by
Representative M. E. Olmstead, of
Pennsylvania, who cited various na
tional conventions as furnishing prece
dent agatn't any question of the tem
per;* ry roll coming before anv body oth
er ihan the regularly constituted cre
dentials committee of the convention.
Governor Hrrbert 8. Hadley of Mis
souri was the official representative of
the Roosevelt faction delegated to call
on Chairman Rosewater today to learn
