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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 Curn'n for ro|tgtn,l» eoromnnlll 1* NO. 280. The Atlanta Georgian 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