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T. R. CRIES “THEFT;” BITTERLY ATTACKS TAFT
CHICAGO, June 22.—Theodore Roosevelt issued the following statement: roller’ methods, and with scandalous disregard of every principle of elementary
“A clear majority of the delegates honestly elected to the convention were honesty and decency, stole eighty or ninety delegates, putting on the temporary roll
chosen by the people to nominate me. Under the direction and with the encourage- call a sufficient number of fraudulent delegates to defeat the legally expressed will of
ment of Mr. Taft, the majority of the national committee, by the so-called ‘steam the people, and then substituted a dishonest for an honest majority.”
THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and tomorrow. Tem
peratures: 8 a. m., 73 degrees: 10
a. x m., 79 degrees: 12 noon. 31 de
grees; 2 p. m„ 84 degrees.
VOL. X. NO. 280
ELOPEMENT
IN HOSPITAL
' BRINGS ON
FOODOOW
Until Woman Cook at Grady
Fled With Forger ths Menus
Were 0. K.
DOCTORS KICK ON EATING
HAM EVERY DAY IN WEEK
Internes and Nurses of Institu-
• * tion Tire of Monotonous Fare
and Change Is Made.
X.
If the form< r matron of Grady Hos
pital had not eloped with a cheek
forger, there would be no trouble at all
over the meals about which the medical
si.iff has been furiously kicking.
i tver at Grady hospital today every
'• doctor of the institution declared that
while Mrs. Cora .Johnson was matron
in charge of the cooking they were
never better fed in their life. But one
night about tv.o months ago Mrs. John
son eloped "-ith one Bert Walmsley,
” no had just been released from jail,
and. they went to Seattle. Mrs. E. D.
Phillips was put in charge and the
it d'wmrs say they have had to eat the
4 same dish over and over, day after day,
without variety, until they simply can't
ho their work properly for lack of food.
Ur. Summerall. the superintendent,
says the other doctors haven’t formally
complained to him about Mrs. Phillips’
men's, but he admits that they have
spoken to him about the monotonous
recu’rence of haljj and turnip greens
for a week at a time consecutively, and
ho ays that he has frequently asked
Mrs. Phillips to please put a little more
of the spice of life on her .able.
Even Write “Poems’
• Xbout the Menus.
He says she gives the doctors suffi
•imti food all right, but buys enough
lain for a week and uses it all before
die shifts to steak or mutton. House
t’hysician Harvey, Surgeon A. B. Jones
md others of the staff don't feel unite |
he same "ny about it. as may be sejm I
ty the poetry one of them got up when
hev found that Mrs. Johnson had real
y eloped for good. This is the poetry:
Farewell. thou pickled beet and fra
grant onion:
t'a i cwell. thou Wienerwurst of
dapple giay;
IMrewell. thou radish, looking like
a bunion:
Farewell. O thou lunch of yester- i
day.
The doctors point to a day's menu
as laid out by Mrs Phillips and I
call attention to how monotonous it
gets to eat the same fare very day for
) i week. Menu:
V Breakfast —Eggs and bacon, potatoes,
■ mt n flakes, tea, coffee and milk.
I Dinner —Roast beef, potatoes, beets,
■ icllicon. coffee, tea, milk.
Supper —Frankfurters, tomatoes, cold
beef, potatoes, dessert, tea.
Got a Really
Good Supper.
Dr. Summerall says the doctors prob
ably won’t make any further protest
about their food, because he has; con
vinced -Mrs, Phillips that they really
need mote variety. He say. the supper
she served last night was really as good
as many that the eloping Mrs. Johnson
brought forth, and he thinks that so far
as the trouble over the pabulum is con
, , rued there is no further reason to
fear a revolt.
But the staff at Grady has some other
grievances. For instance, they say
they're so badly underpaid by the city’
that applications from young physi-
A ( ians for places on the staff are falling
off to near zero.
They get only from s.l to Sl.i a month
C om the city, according to length of
-ervice, and they declare that the
mrees similarly are underpaid. They
mint out with evident resentment the
practice of the railroad companies in
ruling their own doctors to the hos
, j.-.j to perform operations upon rail
,,.ad eHiints aft-u the Grady doctors
done practi'cally all the work. The
•• railroad doctor: get the sls fees, they
. while thev don't get anything but
th, doubtful glory.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
GUICE MS
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Wife Wil! Never Be Brought to
Trial. Husband Writes to
Close Friend.
LEGAL SEPARATION TO
END WOMAN'S ORDEAL
Wounded Man Is Recovering >
Rapidly and Expects Crim
inal Case To Be Dropped.
Mr . Dais;. Grace will never be I
brought to trial on the charge of shoot. '
Ing her husband: the domestic trouble?
of the nair will be settled by a divorce
as soot: as Grace recovers from bis
wound —so Eugene Guice has written
to a personal friend in Philadelphia.
In the letter he wrote from Newnan
Grace made no direct mention of his 1
wife, but intimated that he expected his ■
family affairs to be settled by divorce I
and the criminal case dropped.
Atlantans familiar with the story of i
the Grace affair have believed for a
long time that Mrs. Grace would never
face a jury to answer the charge of at
tempt to murder.
Grace Recovering;
Wife Is Silent.
It has been ruled by the supreme ■
court that a husband can not testify ,
against his wife in a felony case, nor I
can his sworn statement before death ;
be admitted as evidence. There has
never been another witness brought
forward in this case, and it has been
the belief of lawyers that the chain of
circumstantial evidence against Mrs.
Grace was not strong enough to con
vince a jury which must find a defend
ant guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt." ■
The indictment by the grand jury was .
not unexpected, as this tribunal need I
only have evidence enough to give "rea
sonable belief” that the defendant is i
guilty.
Gr.i, is rec •ve.ritig rapidly at his
niotl’.ei's horn. in Newnan. The opera
tion recently performed revealed thei
fact that his spine was not fractured. |
and it is believed that he will be able to
walk again within a few months. Mrs. I
Grace, who is out on bond pending I
trial, is living quietly with Mrs. Louise |
Wilson, a trained nurse, in West End. |
She will not discuss the probability of
a divorce or trial.
Mrs. Grace’s Lawyer
May Run for Council
James A. Branch, one of Ml.-. Grace's
counsel, mi be i candidate for city
councilman to succeed William Hum
phreys. of the Eiahth ward. He will
boa candidate if he accedes to the
wishes of his many friends who have
beseeched him to enter the race
There also is much talk of Charles
Harman, a former eouneilni in. enter
ing and making it a three-cornered
race. Mr. Branch 1- well versed in
city politics. He numbers his friends
in ’he Eighth ward by the hundred,
and should he enter, the contest would
be a spirited one.
USERS OF “DOPE” ARE
ROUNDED UP IN WAR
ON SALE OF COCAINE
The police war against the illegal
sale of cocaine took a new turn today,
when it was directed against victims
of the habit as well as druggists.
The dope fiends are being rounded
up, and all found without a job and
loafing about the streets will lie jailed
and sent up for vagrancy.
Three wen taken in today, two be
ing sent to the Tower and one held for
trial as a vagrant.
HOUSE OFFICER DIES.
G KEEN FT 1 -1.1 ‘ INI’., hmr 22. Scr
ge<'nt-a I- A i »» v I . S. .JnckHin <»f the
house of r< preseiitafives died <it d<hhi.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1912.
ROOT PLEADS GUILTY.
CHICAGO, June 22.- W. P.
Howard of Mississippi, was rec
ognized by Chairman Root.
“Mr. Chairman, a point of
order.’’ he shouted.
“The steam roller is exceed
ing the speed limit.”
“The point is sustained. '
smiled Root.
TAFT’S “STEAM ROLLER” SMILE
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COLLEGE ML 1110$
WEALTH! DOCTOII
Stiired by the affecting slm'y of the
pathetic plight of Dr. Mayson Foshee,
of Bi <'. ton. Ala., who was arrested
tv. ice b- the local police on the charge
of lunacy, but is still free, a friend of
his college days declared today that he
will make a last desperate effort to re
store to health and sanity the man that,
he says, was once the brightest physi
cian in Alabama.
The friend who has come to Foshee’s
assistance is Dr. W. Jay Bell. Jr., who
has offices in the Candler building. Dr.
Bell read in yesterday's Georgian the
account of how the chief of police of
Foshee's home town of Brewton had
come over here with a commitment for
his transfer to the Alabama state hos
pital for the insane.
B illiant Future Predicted.
Dr. Bell recognized the name instant
ly He remembered Foshee from the
time ten years ago when they gradu
ated from the medical school
with the t>rediction of the instructors
there that Foshee was destined to make
such a name in his profession as few
men have won. Next he remembered
him in Brewton when Dr. Foshee was
married to a girl of one of Alabama’s
finest families, who added a large for
tune to the one that Foshee already
had.
Tit. it of .i sudden Foshee began to go
back. Hi.- friends jested of his dfs
tr.ietions and his eccentricities at first.
But soon the toiing doctor began Io
shun really serious symptoms. He de
veloped a hallucination that his family
was trying to cheat him of his fortune.
TAFT SURE OF NOMINATION;
T. R. OFF TO OYSTER BAY
Lovers, Separated by a
Quarrel 25 Years Ago,
Meet Again and Marry
i Widow and Widower Become
Bride and Groom—ln At
lanta on Honeymoon.
MACON GA.. June 22.--Boy hood and
; girlhood vows that were broken 25
years ago In a lovers’ quarrel wi re re
made .a ci yesterday afti i noon in the
marriage of Mrs. Mary Lee Boynton
Findlay and John ’!’. Glover, of Bir
mingham. Ala. They were sweethearts
a quarter of a century ago, but had a
misunderstanding and broke their en
gagement. Miss Boynton then married
Captain Georgi A". Findlay, of Macon,
who recently died in Atlanta and who
was at the time one of the most promi
nent men of this city.
Mr. Glover, then a struggling young
lawyer, wont to Alabama and married.
! His wife died sever::! years ago. Witch
| he heard of Captain Findlay's death,
I Mr. Glover, a widower himself and
lonely, eante to Macon to see she who
once promised to be his. The wedding
yesterday afternoon followed a court
ship of several months Titey .ate now
in Atlanta on their honeymoon.
Mr. Glover Is one of the leading at
torneys of Birmingham and Is quite
wealthy. Mrs. Findlay has f T five years
been the leader of the Christian Sci
ence church in Macon, and her de
parture from this city will be a severe
blow io that congregation.
TROUP COTTON BLOOMS.
I,A GRANGE. GA June 22. First
cotton blooms tn Conte into this city
were hi'mcju Th'iisday aft •■raoon by C.
B. Vium: f.'otit tl> farm near Cross
Road;, Troup county.
STATE REDUCES
ITS ILLITEM
BRI' NS Vt it K. GA. June 22. -The
Georgia Educational association, which
is irt convention on Cumberland Island,
will close its annual session late this
afternoon wUh the election of officers
Plot. Holman Gardner, of Georgia
Tech, who spoke on "Importance of
Technical Education,” showed the enor
mous development of the South in re
cent years in technical education and
pointed out that the South’s resources
were vastly beyond the dreams of the
most optimistic.
State Superintendent. M. D. Brittain's
annual address on the educational sit
uation in Georgia proved of unusual in
terest. He said that Georgia, with
only one-third the ability of her sis
ter states, dining the past decade has
reduced white illiteracy from 12 to 7
per cent, and negro illiteracy from 92
to 35 pet cent. He pleaded for fuller
recognition of the rights of the coun
try (’hiid to an education and recom
mended legislation along this line.
Prof. J. S. Stewart, of the chair of
secondary education of the University
of Georgia, explained the proposed
commission of high schools of the
South
"Boys Corn t'lubs in Georgia” was
another interesting subject, being pre
sented by Pi of. M. C. Gay.
Other address were ott the "Trinity
of Education,” by Dr. Harrison, of Mer
cer uni vet sit:y: "Domestic Science In
Rural Schools,” by Miss Holt, of the
Augusta city schools.
Roosevelt Delegates Whistle and
“Toot” ns Steam Roller Speeds On.
Old Favorite Songs and Yells Delay
Hurry-Up Taft Program.
-
Colonel Quits Fight Before Convention, But ‘
Refuses To Release Delegates—Taft To Be
Named on First Ballot, with “Sunny Jim”
Sherman for His Running Mate Again. ■
COLISEUM. Chicago. June 22.—The Republican national
convention was turned into a grand farce today by the overrid
den Roosevelt forces, who. having lost every battle before the
convention, and being in a more jubilant spirit, as the end of the
big struggle was practically reached. whistled and “choo
chooed in imitation of the steam roller as the convention ma
chine ran over their frail opposition and seated all the Taft
contested delegates as fast as recommendations were received
from the credentials committee. The Roosevelt delegates sang.
“Merrily We Roll Along,” “Marching Through Georgia,” and
numerous other old favorites, mingling them with cheers for
Roosevelt, and materially interfering with the hurry-up pro
gram of the Taft forces.
With the machine working
rapidly, there was every pros
pect that President Taft would be
renominated by the convention
this afternoon o.” tonight, and on
the first ballot. While there had
been no agreement reached on
vice president, it was expected
that the present holder of that
office, James Schoolcraft Sher
man. would be named.
In the meantime Colonel Roosevelt,
beaten in his fight to purge the conven
tion of "stolen” votes, quit the race for
the nomination by’ the convention and
busied himself with conferring with his
friends in outlining plans for the
launching of the new progressive party
which he is to head. He notified the
management of the Congress hotel,
where he has been staying, that ne
would give up his rooms, both personal
and headquarters, there tonight and
would return to Oyster Bay. He issued
a statement this afternoon. In which he
stated that the nominations of the
present convention were not binding
upon the party, and refusing to re
lease his delegates which are pledged
to him. He asked, however, that they
refrain from voting in the convention.
The statement said:
"A clear majority of the delegates
honestly elected to this convention
were chosen by the people to nominate
me. Under the direction and with the
encouragement of Mr. Taft, the majori
ty of the national committee, by the
so-called 'steam roller' methods and
with scandalous disregard of every
principle of elementary honesty and
decency, stole 80 or 90 delegates, put
ting on the temporary roll call a suffi
cient number of fraudulent delegates to
defeat the legally expressed will of the
people, and then substituted a dishon
est for a honest majority.
Refuses to Release
Pledged Delegates
"The convention has now declined to
purge the roll of fraudulent delegates
placed thereon by’ the defunct national
committee, and the majority which thus
Indorsed fraud was made a majority
only because it included the fraudulent
delegates themselves, who all sat as
judges on one another's cases.
"If these fraudulent votes had not
been thus cast and counted, the con
vention would have been purged of
their presence. This action makes the
convention in no proper sense any long
er a Republican convention represent
ing the real Republican party. There
fore. 1 hope the men elected as Roose
velt delegates will now decline to vote
on any matter before the convention. I
do not release any’ delegate from his
honorable obligation to vote for me if
he votes at. all. but under the actual
conditions I hope that he will not vote
at all.
"The convention as now composed
has no claim to represent tne voters of
ihe Republican party. It represents
nothing but fraud in overriding the will
of the rank and file of the party. Any
man nominated by the convention as
now constituted would be merely the
ben( tieiary of this successful fraud; il
HOME
IDITKW
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ A O Y RE NO
would be. deeply discreditable to any
man to accept the convention's nomi
nation under these circumstances: an ’
any man thus accepting it would have
no claim to the support of any Re
publican on party grounds,
have forfeited the right to ask the
support of any honest man of any par
ty on moral grounds."
Steani Roller
On Its Way.
The convention was scheduled to
meet at 10 o’clock, but drifted aim
lessly’ for three-quarters of an hour.
Two minutes after the convention
started the "steam roller” rvas on its
w’ay. The delegates and chairman
seemed to enjoy the run. The first
case that came up was that of the del
egates-at-large from Mississippi. Two
reports were offered When the motion
of Delegate Watson to table the mi
nority report came up some one in the
audience called:
"Toot, toot!”
Others imitated the sound of escap
ing steam. When the vote was put the
delegates shouted: "Yes.”
Then they shouted: "No.” The "no”
was loud and long and shrill.
"The ayes appear to have it,” shouted
the chairman, smilingly. “The ayes
have it and the motion Is passed.”
Some delegate produced a metal
whistle and sounded tw’o shrill blasts.
"The other Mississippi cases in which
there were no contests w p ere rushed
through in the same manner, the chair
man announcing his decision amid
deafening chorus of “noes.”
Every one was good natured.
Roller Exceeds
Speed Limit.
Chairman Root advanced to the front
of the platform to ask order when the
contests in the state at large cases of
Washington were called. In a pleasant
little speech he asked for a little mote
quiet.
“Mr. Chairman, a point of order.”
shouted P. W. Howard, of Mississippi.
“State the point.”
“The steam roller is exceeding the
speed limit."
“The point is sustained." smiled Roo'.
"However, we must hasten somewhat,
for we have hopes of getting home fn"
Sunday.”
The clerk then read the majority ;■ -
port in the Washington case.
John J. Sullivan, of Ohio, pre-wnfi d
the statement of the minority and "m
behalf of all of the Roosevelt membe: <
of the. committee on credentials” mov< I
the adoption of the statement as a sub
stitute.
The statement charged that th? Tait
contests in Washington were al!
"trumped up on us" and urged the seat
ing of all the Roosevelt delegates.
1 Mr. Watson, of Indiana, moved to ta
ble the minority motion and to let the
steam roller list go through.
‘ “Choo, choo, ehoo," began the dele
gates from the Roosevelt side. They’
started to make a loud and lively inn-
' tatiou nf a toad relief in full operation,
t As the mimic escaping steam cam
hissing over the heads of the delegate*
the cry was heard: 'Ail aboard foi fin
i ehoo-ehoo car."
"Sand your track."
Ami then, turning the situation Into
