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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. T, R. FULL OF FIGHT AS BIG BATTLE OPENS rzz_ aML,- ii i - w” ■ fISMV K" wats Mil Xn’lßßk i i wBEs RSBMBS / : BHUwaElk lamES ~<SB| 1 I 8N 'll /xll \ / // / ' W f I \ ; ////v - wH 1 / / / ? " 1 S« / / /piicn?oX —' '/ \\ > //copyau; m , px> / I I ~rT // t v<vy Z / ? mt* 3 *' a\ £■ Z> / zv I x 1 w iSwmmK -■ XzSjaw.y .s£i?az ice. EH I 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