T. R. QUITS FIGHT FOR G. 0. P. NOMINATION
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Cloudy today; fair tomorrow.
VOL. X.
GRACE LOOKS
IO DIVORCE
TO WIND
UP CASE
Wife Will 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.
Mrs. Daisy Grace will never be
brought to trial on the charge of shoot
ing her husband; the domestic troubles
of the pair will be settled by a divorce
as soon as Grace recovers from his
wound—so Eugene, Grace has written
to a personal friend in Philadelphia.
In the letter he wrote from Newnan
st Grace made no direct mention of his
I wife, but intimated that he expected his
family affairs to be settled by divorce
‘ and the criminal case dropped.
j Atlantans familiar with the story of
' the Grace affair have believed for a
long time that Mrs. Grace would never
. 'ace a jury to answer the charge o-f-at
'tempt to murder.
Grace Recovering;
Wife Is Silent.
It has been ruled by the supreme'
court that a husband 'can ndt testify
against his wife in a felony case, nor
can his sworn statement before death
be admitted as evidence. There has
never been another witness brought
i 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
only have evidence enough to give "rea
sonable belief” that the defendant is
guilty.
Grace Is recovering rapidly at his
mother's home in Newnan. The opera
tion recently performed revealed the
fact that his spine was not fractured,
and it is believed that he will be able to
walk again within a few months. Mrs.
Grace, who is out on bond pending
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.
BRANCH, ATTORNEY
IN GRACE CASE. MAY
SEEK COUNCIL SEAT
James A. Branch, one of Mrs. Grace’s
counsel, may be a candidate for city
councilman to succeed William Hum
phreys. of the Eighth ward. He will
be a 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 councilman, enter
ing and making it a three-cornered
race. Mr. Branch is well versed in
city politics. He numbers his friends
in the Eighth ward by the hundred,
‘and should he enter, the contest would
be a spirited one.
MARIETTA BUILDING TO
HAVE CONVENTION HALL
MARIETTA, GA., June 22.—The
plans for a new building to be erected
by R. E. Butler on Roswell street have
been completed. Thete will be two
stores on the first floor and several
suites of offices in the front of the
second floor The rear of the second
story will be used partly for storage
and be connected with the lower floor
by elevator, while one large room will
be equipped with a stage and footlights
for entertainments, conventions, etc.
BRIDGE FALLS? PILGRIMS
GOING TO SHRINE KILLED
AMSTERDAM, June 22.—Eighteen
persons were killed and twenty-two
were injured when a bridge spanning
A ravin, at Bantam, Island of Java, in
the Dutch East Indies, collapsed, ac
cording to a cablegram received from
R itavia today. The accident occurred
while the bridge was crowded with pil
grims making their way to the shrine
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Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Us- For Results
COLLEGETAL’
GOES TO AID
OF HIGH
DOCTOR
Stirred by Affecting Story,
Will Try Hard to Keep Him
From Police.
REMARKABLE CAREER
STRANGELY WRECKED
Brilliant Future Was Predicted
for Wealthy Young M. D.
• Wife Distracted.
Stirred by the affecting story of the
pathetic plight of Dr. Mayson Foshee,
of Brew'ton, Ala., who was arrested
twice by the local police on the charge
of lunacy, but is still free, a friend of
his college days declared today that he
will rpake a last desperate eff6ft to re
store to health and sanity the niah that,
he says, was once th'e 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.
PrflT rca'^ s lf!‘ ye*fFMav’‘: Georgian the
account of how tne chief of police of
home town of Brewton had
come over here with a commitment for
his transfer to the Alabama state hos
pital for the insane and how the police
had locked up the man only to release
him, in spite of his pathetic condition,
when he refused to return to Alabama
without a requisition.
Brilliant Future
Predicted for Doctor.
Dr. Bell recognized the name instant
ly. He remembered Foshee from the
time» ten years ago w hen they gradu
ated from the medical school together,
with the prediction 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 j
had.
At the outset the young doctor’s so
cial and professional life was brilliant,
and in his practice he had already be
gun to win the high reputation that his
professors said would make him fa
mous. Children were born and Dr. Fo.
shee and his family occupied an envia
ble position.
Then of a sudden Foshee began to go
back. His friends jested of his dis
tractions and his eccentricities at first.
They said it was another case of Sher
lock Holmes —the brilliant mind that
needed more thought-action than the
town lie lived in could afford him. The
drugs he used, they said, would be only
a temporary stimulant. When his mind
found other work to occupy it, he would
become the old brilliant Foshee again,
and they laughed good humoredly at
his "aberration of a day."
But soon the young doctor began to
show really serious symptoms. He de
veloped a hallucination that his family
was trying to cheat him of his fortune.
Even I.ls wife came in for the unfound
ed suspicion.
Sets Bed Clothing
Afire Three Times.
The medical practice that had been
one of the best In Alabama began to
fall rapidly away. Dr. Forshee became
almost a recluse in his own home, and
when, at long intervals, bls friends did
see him, they shuddered at the change
in the face and attitude of the former
i "Beauty Forshee.”
A few weeks ago Mrs. Forshee de
cided that her husband must go some
where for treatment if he were not
to lose his life. To her surprise he
readily fell in with her plan and he
came to Atlanta upon the understand
ing that he would enter a sanitarium for
a year and thcei return to Brewton to
realize those promises of his earlier
career. He came to Atlanta but he
did not enter a sanitarium. Instead he
went to a hotel and his nervous condi
tion grew rapidly worse. Three times
in the fits of distraction which were
more frequent now than ever he acci
dentally set afire the bed, lothlng in hfs
room and once narrowly escaped with
hfs life.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1912.
UNCLE TRUSTY! |
<* OB I
J, I | rix/X) 11 I U-Li I
4$ 'I ® I
“The Convention is a restful, quiet place! It is really a great pleasure to watch an or ’*
tlerly. dignified gathering of free American citizens consulting in such a calm, harmonious ••
manner! It makes me think of a row between rival tongs in Chinatown! Oh, Politics, Poli- **
ties, what a gink thou art! As Goldsmith says ins‘The Deserted "
“ ‘How <* thy potions with insidious joy
Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy!’ ” “
H-M-d-t-rd-H-I-i-l-H'-l-I-j-H-l-d-l-W -H-H-I-H-H-l-i-H ’ •
HELEN M’G. COOKE,
WRITER’S DAUGHTER.
IS NOVELIST’S IjRIDE
Helen McGowan Cooke, 18-year-old
daughter of Grace McGowan Cooke, is
now the wife of an author as well as
the daughter of one. She wedded Hen
ry Leon Wilson, author of "The Spend
ers” and several other novels, comic
opera librettos and plays, at Carmel,
Cal., this week. The wedding was a
surprise to the colony at Carmel-byl
- Sea. for though both the patties
had been rehearsing for summer theat
ricals there, none suspected their en
gagement. They will live at Mr. Wil
son’s summer home near Carmel.
Miss Cook,e is known to many At
lantans, who remember her as the tiny
daughter of Mrs. Grace McGowan
Cooke, the Southern novelist. Mrs.
Cooke is the daughter of Colonel Mc-
Gowan, formerly a noted editor in
Chattanooga, and she had visited
friends in Atlanta often.
This is Mr. Wilson’s second voyage
in matrimonial seas. His first wife
was the beautiful and clever Rose Ce
cil O’Neill Irfitham, whose drawings,
signed simply "O’Neill," helped to make
several humorous papers famous. Wil
son was the editor of Puck when he
married the artist tn 1902. They were
divorced several years later.
NEYLE COLQUITT TO
DIRECT UNDERWOOD
CAMPAIGN PUBLICITY
SAVANNAH. GA.. June 22. —Colonel
Neyle Colquitt is on his way to Balti
more. where It is understood he will
have charge of the publicity In connec
tion with the presidential candidacy of
Oscar Underwood, of Alabama.
Colonel Colquitt was one of Mr. Un
derwood’s Georgia managers, having
charge particularly of publicity. A. A.
Lawrence and Captain Frank P. Mc-
Intyre are en route to Baltimore with
Colonel Colquitt.
Among other Bavannahians who an
going to see the Democratic convention
are <’. H. Sipple, E. , H Abrahams.
Charles Ga funkel. Walter C. llattridgfc
and Pleasant A Stovall
HOKE SMITH TO
SAVE U. 5. SEED
United States Senator Hoke Smith,
who is nothing if not unique now and
then, has conceived a novel idea with
respect to the distribution of hfs sena
torial share of government garden seed.
The senator has decided that he will
send seed only to such people as really
wish them.
Heretofore, the congressional idea
seemingly has been to send garden seed
to people who didn't want them and
who could not, In any circumstances, be
expected to use them. Indeed, garden
seed had come to -be looked upon as
mere reminders to recipients that Con
gressman So-and-So was still on the
job in Washington, battling for the
rights of the common people against
the hosts of plutocratic iniquity and
sin, and so forth and so on.
Nobody, heretofore, has been expect
ed to take congressional garden seed
seriously—and precious few people
have taken them that way.
Here’s the Smith Idea.
Georgia’s junior United States sena
tor has a notion that anything worth
paying good government money for is
worth putting somewhere likely to yield
a material return to somebody.
Even a government plebeian so hum
ble and so persistently abused as a
package of turnip seed may be made to
serve a noble and uplifting purpose in
this world, in the Smith senatorial phi
losophy. So the senator will not send
turnip seed, nor any other kind of seed,
to people who desire them not.
Senator Smith Is tired of having
thoughtless and careless folks kick Un
cle Sain's garden seed around—they
gotta quit It!
The senator hss 20,000 packages o f
garden seed and 2,000 packages of flow
er seed. If you wish some, drop the
senator a line, and you will get them at
once. He has figured that a fair to
middling crop of garden "sass” may he
produced from 20,000 packages of seed,
and he wishes to push along any gar
dener. amateur or otherwise, who actu
ally and really and truly wants to be
pushed
AUGUSTANS URGING
BRINSON TO EXTEND
ROAD TO THAT CITY
AUGUSTA, GA„ June 22.—George M.
Brinson, principal owner of the Brinson
railroad, which is now operating be
tween Savannah and Waynesboro, has
conferred with leading business men of
the Chamber of Commerce in regard to
extending the road tn Augusta. Mr.
Brinson will bo offered every induce
ment to bring his road here.
Thomson, Washington. Harlem am'
other towns are making efforts to in
duce Mr. Brinson to operate his road
through their towns to Athens, hfs re
ported ultimate destination. It was
contended that the tonnage from Au
gusta would be greater than the com
bined tonnage from all the other places
mentioned, and also that coal would be
cheaper if he brought his road here,
because of the low rate byway of Car
olina roads.
Jacob Phinizy, president of the Geor
gia Railroad bank, was appointed
chairman of a committee to confer with
Mr. Brinson In regard to what induce
ments Augusta should make to bring
the road here.
JUAREZ AGAIN TO BE
SCENE OF BATTLE IF
REBELS ARE ROUTED
EL PASO, TEXAS, June 22.—Juarez,
which has been the scene of three bat
tles in recent Mexican revolutions, will
be a battlefield for the fourth time, if
the federate under General Huerta de
feat General Orozco's rebels at Chihua
hua City.
Dispatches from Jiminez received
here today say that the government
commander-in-chlef nas orders from
the Mexican war department to move
against Juarez, which is held by rebels,
after he disperses Orozco's Insurrectos.
The rebels may retreat north to
Juatez If defeated at Chihuahua City
and make their final stand on the
border, or they may break up into
guerrilla bands and continue their light
ing in the mountains •>
NEW Pffl LEADERS
SEEK I. lb DEMAND HE
TAKE CHAR6E DF HDHI
‘Aly Hat Is in the Ring Forever,” T. R.
Tells His Friends—Convention Plans
to Name Taft on First Ballot Tonight.
CHICAGO, June 22:—Roosevelt has quit the race for the
Republican nomination for president. “Beaten to a frazzle’’ on
his fight to purge the convention of “stolen’ 1 delegates, the order
went forth this morning to his friends that his name should not
be presented to the convention.
However, the colonel has not given up the fight. “My hat
is still in the ring, and will be forever,’’ he told a group of
friends. Early this morning he went into conference with the
leaders of the new third party movement, and plans will be
perfected today for formally launching the movement which will
nominate him for president.
• According to the early plan* a
call will be issued for a conven
tion of the new Progressive party
to he held at Denver during the
first week of August. The pro
gressive Western states have
flocked to the colonel with assur
ances of support of the new’
movement, and a proportion of
the representatives of the staid
Eastern states, alarming to the
old guard, has come forward with
promise of remaining under the
Roosevelt banner.
Tn the meantime the national conven
tion met at shortly after 10 o’clock this
morning, determined to finish up the
big grist of business before adjourn
ment, which likely will pot come before
Sunday morning. The plan is to com
plete the preliminary business of the
convention and then nominate Taft on
the first ballot.
Colonel and
Leaders Confer.
Active steps toward the formation of
a progressive party, with Theodore
Roosevelt as its standard bearer, were
taken today. .
Colonel Roosevelt went into confer
ence shortly after 8 o'clock with repre
sentatives of nearly all the states, and
upon the results of that conference will
depend the program that will be Imme
diate! followed with reference to the
of a movement for which
a convention will by held during the
first week in August in Denver.
James R. Garfield, who was a mem
ber of what was known as the “ten
nis cabinet” during the last Roosevelt
administration, said this morning as he
went into the conference of Roosevelt
supporters in the Florentine room at
the Congress hotel:
"Mr. Roosevelt’s name will not go be
fore the convention today. The plan
for his nomination by the third party
will be made at the conference to which
I am now going. It is possible that the
nomination may be made In Chicago
tonight, hut I am inclined to the view
that it will be deferred until August,
and that Denver will be selected as the
place for its making.”
Pendergast
“Didn’t Know.’’
Just as he left the hotel this morn
ing. William A. Pendergast, who was
selected tn nominate Roosevelt, in re
sponse to a question, said he did not
know whether the colonel would go be
fore the convention.
There is much difference of opinion
among the colonel's followers as to the
character of the movement. Many of
the more earnest Roosevelt workers in
sist that he new party should tie formed
merely to meet emergency situations,
and that it is not wise to attempt to
make I other than a correcive force.
It is assured that the meeting of the
new party men will be held in Chicago
before the delegates and politicians
leave for their homes. The present
plan is to hold this meeting at Orches
tra hall, or in the Roosevelt headquar
ters some time tonight.
Taft To Be Named
On First 'Ballot.
The Taft leaders in final conferences
early today shaped their program for
the fifth and final day of the fifteenth
Republican national convention. As its
climax they figured thus:
“Taft on the first ballot."
They asserted that there was no
question of the renomination of the
president. The vice presidential nom
ination was hanging in the balance. but
with chan< "s favoring the renomina-
EXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p m a o y r E no
tion of James Schoolcraft Sherman.
A mass of work was before the dele
gates before the nominations could be
reached and the hour of final adjourn
ment could not be definitely forecast
ed. Some of the leaders predicted that
the convention would not wind up un
til fi o’clock Sunday morning, while
others claimed that business would end
by eight o’clock this evening. But no
one knew. There remained for the
convention today these tasks:
To act on the balance of the report
of the credentials committee.
To effect permanent organization.
To hear the report of the resolutions
committee.
To debate the platform.
To nominate the presidential candi
date.
To nominate the vice presidential
candidate.
Convention Work
To Be Rushed.
Final action on the credentials com
mittee report was expected to consume
considerable time after the hour of
convening. Robert R. McCormack. Illi
nois member of the credentials commit
tee, had prepared a statement denounc
ing the steam roller members for their
action In giving the Washington dele
gates to Taft.
To effect permanent organization was
expected to take very little time. Tem
porary Chairman Root was slated for
the permanent job. The Taft leaders
have been well satisfied with his per
formance.
To rush the session as fast as pos
sible debate on the platform was lim
ited to four hours, giving each sida
two hours. There was much uncer
tainty as to whether the Roosevelt fol
lowers would Interfere with the plat
form arrangements, as they have de
clared that they will not acknowledge
the work of the convention is regular
if the "tainted” delegates were seated.
No limit was set on the speeches
nominating presidential candidates, but
the seconding speeches were ordered
limited to ten minutes.
The nomination of the vice presiden
tial candidate was expected to con-'
sume little time, despite the fact that
the ticket’s second name was com
pletely up in the air this morning.
Hot Fight on
Rules Report.
Minority members of the Republican
convention on rules drew up today a
report for presentation to the conven
tion. In this they urged reduction of
delegate representation of the Southern
states and demanded recognition of the
direct primary laws of various states.
These ideas were steam rollered In the
rules committee, but the Roosevelt,
members of that body wanted to place
all the delegates on record.
A hot fight was expected over their
plan of the minority including mem
bers from seventeen states—lllinois,
California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Maine, Missouri, South Dakota,
North Carolina, Minnesota, Kansas,
Nebraska, West Virginia, Oklahoma,
Maryland. North Dakota and Idaho.
« Marshall Stinson, of California, was
chosen to lead the fight immediately
after the report of the credentials com
mittee.
The minority report asks that the
present rule fixing the number of dele
gates to be selected by each state, ter
ritory o' possession shall be so amend
ed that each congressional district shad
have one delegate and that additional
delegates be allowed for each 10,000
Republican votes or majority fraction
thereof cast in a district. This would
reduce the Southern representation by
approximately 50 per cent, giving these
stales and the island possessions a
