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PARKEHCHOSEN
AS PROTEST ON
W. J.BRYAN
Democrats Thereby Serve No
tice Against the Commoner’s
n Dictatorship, Says Graves.
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
BALTIMORE, June 22.—The
arrangements of the
national romnfittee by a vote of
eight out of fifteen selected Alton
B. Parker, of New York, to present
to the national committee for tem
porary chairman of the National
convention if the full committee
should concur.
If the full committee concurs on
Monday Judge Parker will be the
temporary chairman of the con
vention unless the convention by
vote should reject the committee’s
recommendation and choose an
other temporary chairman, as the
Roosevelt people endeavored to do
at Chicago.
Whatever may be made of the
incident, I offer the assurance that
it has no special significance. It
was largely done through the willr
ingness of tliis subcommittee to
oblige Chairman Mack. who
strongly urged the selection of the
New York man. Chairman Mack
' insists .that his wishes, which have
prevailed in the matter up to this
point, were governed by only two
simple considerations. First, that
the temporary presiding officer of
this great and memorable Demo
cratic convention should be one
who had received the highest ex
pression of the party's confidence
as a nominee for the presidency.
Since the suggestion of Air. Bryan s
name had developed such wide
spread opposition Judge Packet
was naturally the next man to be'
considered.
Expects Progressive Nominee.
Chairman Mack also avers that
he had this other consideration in
mind in connection with Judge
Parker. He believes that a pro
gressive Democrat is practically
certain to be the nominee of the
convention. Therefore, he felt that
it would be conciliatory and a step
toward harmony if a mild conser
vative. absolutely non-committal
between the various candidates for *
ihe presidency, should have recog
nition in the earlier stages of the
•onvention after events promise to
jo against the conservative wing.
It must be said that the refusal
, >f Mr, Bryan, from Chicago, to con
sent to Judge Parker's nomination.
,nd his threat to fight it upon the
floor of the convention, strongly
iptagonized the majority of the
■ommitti e. as it did mos.t of the
delegates who have already ar
rived. Tlie action was therefore
intended to serve notice upon Mi.
Bryan that while the coming con
vention appreciated his charactei
and loyalty, ii did not propose to
submit to dictation from him.
So far the only developed and
emphatic o; position to Judge Park
er was from the representatives
and followers of Governor Wood
row Wilson. Tlie Wilson men had
already -a’d that they would eager
ly oppose Judge Parker.
The followers of Cham ('lark,
while not opposing Mr. Bryan in •
the matte., have not followed the
Nebraskan so oh-equiousl'y as the
Wilson follow ci s.
The Champ '‘lark men. by refus
ing to tight Parker, have left tlie
matter in such a shape that if they
choose they can with good grace on
Monday fall in with the program of
harmony and conciliation. The ac
tion of the Clark men is regarded
by, political observers as excellent
taci.-ics in that it does not antag
onize, as Wilson has done, the New
York delegation, which was advo
cating Parker, and which feels
moore kindly toward Clark and his
people for the attitude. If there is
any advantage accruing from the
selection, Clark gets it undoubted
ly.
Not Settled Yet.
This is all there is to the Parker
incident. The full committee and
the convention have yet to pass
upon him before he is temporary
chairman. It is very sure that if
lludge Parker is confirmed some
progressive like Ollie James or Sul
zer or Theodore Bell will be made
perntanent chairman.
1 The pictures of the candidates
fix you with their eager and anx
ious eyes from every pillar and
post of the hotels and from every
willing window on the streets. Os
car Underwood, suave and smil
ing; Wilson, alert and keen; Jud
son Harmon, dignified and strong,
and above them all, Champ Clark,
rugged and massive with majes
tic personality, rises above the le
gend. "doesn't he, look like a presi
dent,” which lie certainly does.
Papers Give a Square Deal.
Baltimore has four admirable
newspapers. The Sun and The
American in the morning and The
Star and The News in the evening.
They ar< ablj edited and beauti
ully printed. They have so far re
merubc red that Baltimore and her
newspapers are the hosts of Democ
racy. and that all Democratic can
didates are entitled to a square
deal and an impartial record in
'heir news columns. What a heart
’of hospitality it would be if the
Journalistic hosts of that great oc
cosion should forget the higli ethic
of hospitality and journalism and
misrepresent or suppress, tin facts
concerning any great Democrat of
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The Chicago girl, the Boston girl, the Western girl, the Southern girl, the New York girl. A riddle for the Sphinx.
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CONVENTIONTRIP
MID FORJY CITY
Police Chief Turned Down,
But Librarian Gets Money
to Go to Toronto.
Though Chief Beavers was turned
down when he wanted to attend the
national convention of police chiefs
and several other heads of departments
have been" refused city appropriations
for convention trip expenses, Miss
Katherine Wootten, Carnegie librarian,
is speeding toward the Ottawa conven
tion of librarians with SIOO of her ex
penses paid by the city.
The police board recommended that
Chief Beavers’ expenses to the national
chiefs’ convention bd paid, but when it
reached the finance committee Chair
man John S. Candler held it up.
"Let’s call in the city attorney,” he
suggested. The city attorney ruled
that council had no right to appro
priate money to pay for convention
trips, unless such a trip were in direct
pursuance of said official's line of duty.
So Chief Beavers lost the appropria
tion. ,
Arranged So It's Legal.
But this week Miss Wootten, libra
rian. desired to attend the convention
at Ottawa, Canada. She’ is a city of
ficial anil presumably under the attor
ney's ruling. Rut Chairman Candler
drew up a voucher for her expenses,
carefully stating in the blank spaces
•that she was fcoing to interview New
■York publishers with a view toward
■obtaining wholesale rates on books and
'to look into comparative prices on fix
tures for libraries. That made the ex
penses perfectly legal, and the check
for SIOO was diifwn and sighed.
' “As for me," said Mayor Winn, "I
‘believe that it is wise to send all heads
of important departments to their na
tional conventions. I do not believe in
■junkets for council members or any
body else, but I think these trips for
■experts are fully paid for in the knowl
edge the experts gain. But I believe
■they should all be treated alike."
It is believed that- the police board
will re-open the matter of Chief Beav
ers’ trip and see if there is not some
■way to write his voucher to bring it
into the list of "legitimate” expenses.
any faction who is here to present
his honest claim and aspiration be
fore his party in tlie convention
city.
Biggest Convention on Record.
Colonel John J. .Martin, sergeant
at-arms, informs me that the con
vention hall is the greatest in which
the national Democratic party has
ever assembled. The great audito
rium will seat proportionately as
many more Democrats than the
Chicago auditorium as there are
more Democrats than Republicans
In the country at large. Tliere is
20 per cent more room here than
in Chicago. There will be room for
5,000 more people to bear the
Democratic proceedings than heard
tlie Republican wrangle. There is
room, and better room, for twice
as many newspaper men as Chi
cago provided for. The platform is
twice as large, the convenience for
telegraphers better, the ventilation
is tlie finest th. any political con
vention has known, and. best of
all, the acoustics are said to be per
fect. Baltimore has done her royal
best and. led by Mayor Preston and
Colonel Crain, will he a royal host
to the triumphant Democracj- of
1912,
ftiE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. JUNE 22. 1912.
SIDELIGHTS ON G. O. P. POWWOW
Big Mail
For “Reporter.”
James D. Preston, in charge of the
press section in the convention hall,
came into the press box with a big
bundle of mail in his hand yesterday.
“The Coliseum postmaster wanted
me to help him get out the newspaper
men's mail,” he said. “It’s all for one
reporter, William Jennings Bryan."
Hadley Some
Off-Hand Spellbinder.
Governor Hadley of Missouri., whose
stirring oratory and bell-like voice have
charmed the Coliseum crowds, does not
write out his speeches in advance and
rehearse them in front of a mirror.
Mans’ persons who have sat under the
governor’s verbal spell in the last few
days have been.heard to remark:
"Os course, that speech was prepared
and studied out in advance, although it
does not sound that way; does it?”
Whereat a neighbor would reply:
"Why, no man could speak that way
off hand on the spur of the moment. It
does not come so easily as that extem
poraneously.”
Governor Hadley was seen at his ho
tel in the evening and the question was
put to him point blank:
"Do you write out your speeches in
advance and commit them to memory?"
He smiled as he replied:
"No; I don’t. 1 just think out what I
consider the right thing to say and go
ahe#d and say it."
"How do you go along without a'skip,
without a glimmer of hesitation?"
"Oh, that's nothing,” the governor re
plied modestly. “A w hole lot of speak
ers can do as well as I,”
Flower Girl Couldn't
“Break Up Interference.”
Colonel Roosevelt came very near
contributing to the Frances E. Willard
hospital. Threading their way through
40 RUSSIANS DIE IN
CLOUDBURST; MANY
HOUSES DESTROYED
ST. PETERSBURG. RUSSIA, June
22.—Forty persons were drowned and
immense property damage has been
done by a cloudburst in the district
about Vladikavkaz in Ciscaucasia, Rus
sia.
Thirty miles of the tracks of the
Vladikavkaz railway between Bossiau
and Sycpzowsk were washed away and
many buildings destroyed.
Vladikavkaz has an important mili
tary station. It lies 50 miles north' of
Mozdok and has a population of more
thai?~so,ooo. -
$500,000 FIRE DESTROYS
BIG K. C. GRAIN ELEVATOR
KANSAS CITY, MO., June 22.—The
Union Pacific gtain elevator in Ar
mourdale was destroyed by fire late
yesterday with thousands of bushels of
grain. The flames spread to the Union
Pacific shops near by and several other
buildings. The loss is estimated at
$500,000.
DENMARK TO EXHIBIT AT
THE PANAMA EXPOSITION
COPENHAGEN. June 22.—The Pan
ama-Pacific exposition committee, who
is touring Europe in the interest of the
world's fair which will be held at San
Francisco in 1915, left here today for
The Hague, after securing the promise
of the Danish government to send rep
resentation to the exposition. Tlie
commissions were received by King
Christian yesterday.
the crowd around the two political
headquarters wei’e a score of very pret
ty girls—under the watchful eyes of
chaperons—selling flowers to raise
funds for the irfetitulion.
Down the corridor passed the colonel
surrounded by his personal guards. One
of the prettiest of the girls—a young
woman with laughing eyes—Miss Hen
riette Bosch—started in pursuit, but the
crowd blocked her way.
“Oh,” she exclaimed in a disappoint
ed tone, “I did so want to sell him a
flower.” Turning, she saw Frank Har
per, the colonel’s secretary. The next
moment Harper confronted the demure
miss.
"I have not sold one to an English
man yet," she said sweetly.
"I’m an Englishman." said Harper,
and lie bought.
Suffragettes Busy
At Convention.
Suffragettes are leaving nothing un
done to forward the “cause” during the
busy convention week. Tn the morn
ings the women sell The Woman's
Journal, a suffrage organ, in front of
the Coliseum, and In the afternoons
they serve tea at the suffrage head
quarters in the Fine Arts building to
raise funds to carry on the work.
Delegate Featherstone
Apologizes to Chair.
W. H. Featherstone, who on tlie sec
ond day at the convention entered into
a violent exchange of words with
Thomas F. Devine, of Colorado, over
Devine's statements regarding the
seating of the Texas Taft delegates
arid had to be ordered to his seat by
Sergeant-at-Arms Stone. wrote to
Chairman Root yesterday, saying by
his action he had intended no disre
spect to the . convention nor to the
chairman.
BAND WILL PLAY
HF GRINT PARK
The first band concert of the season
will be given at Grant park tomorrow
afternoon at 3 o'clock. Fred Wede
meyer’s band was awarded tlie contract
for summer music by the park board
and authorized to begin its series of
concerts at once. The band wlil play
twice a week at the Grant park stand
throughout July and August.
The Fifth regiment band was a bid
der for the suirpner music, but most of
the park board members had pledged
their votes to the Wedemeyer band be
fore the regimental musicians made
their request. It is probable that the
Fifth’s band will be given the contract
next season.
The park board adopted a resolution
asking the Fulton representatives in
the legislature to draft a bill which will
give the city absolute ownership of
the "Texas,” the famous old locomotive
which chased the "General” in the An
drews raid, and which was given the
board some time ago by the Western
and Atlantic railway. The board hopes
to avoid any future argument over the
ownership of the engine, such as has
recently arose over the title to trie
cannon at Fort Walker, now claimed by
the adjutant general.
The board accepted the offer of the
Atlanta- Turn Verein to give fihe city
the services of Professor Fritz Benn,
physical director, as life-saver at Pied
mont park lake.
Oh, You Daughter!
Oh, You SIOO.
CHICAGO, June 22. —Samuel Baum,
a convention visitor from Waterloo,
lowa, was overwhelmed shortly after
midnight yesterday when a young
woman rushed up to him at Wabash
avenue and Congress street and threw
her arms about his neck.
"Oh, you daddy, I'm so glad to see
you!” she cried.
"I guess you have made a mistake. I
don't believe I ever saw you before,”
said the astonished Baum.
Ten minutes after the woman ex
cused herself Baum missed SIOO in bills,
which he had carried in his vest pock
et.
Bryan Commends
Wisconsin Delegation.
W. J. Bryan yesterday gave to Ar
thur W. Prehn, a delegate
from the Eighth Wisconsin district, a
signed statement commending the ac
tion of the Wisconsin delegation in
voting solidly against the tabling of
the resolution offered before tlie con
vention last Wednesday to substitute
for the list of contested delegates an
other list that had been prepared.
“80b,Jr.,” Real
LaFollette Booster.
LaFollette has no more arduous
boosters than “Bob, Jr.," twenty years
old, who will tell you at the Grand Pa
cific hotel headquarters that he is
“dad’s personal representative.” Bob,
Jr., spent yesterday in encouraging La-
Foilette supporters to join last night's
demonstration.
"If you mean what you say and are
wearing that badge earnestly, get in
line." urged the candidate's son. "We
need every man tonight.”
GRADUATES OF TECH
GUESTS OF ALUMNI
AT SMOKER TONIGHT
A grand rally of the Yellow Jackets
will be held- at the Piedmont hotel this
evening’at 8:30 o'clock, when a com
plimentary smoker will be given all
the Atlanta graduates of Georgia Tech
by the Alumni association of the
school. Paul Norcross, president of the
association, and Professor Lowndes, on
the arrangement committee, are ex
pecting a big crowd. Besides the an
nual election of officers, a number of
Interesting surprises are billed.
TEN CLUETtO REST;
SUMMER IS TOO HOT
FOR ‘HIOHBROWINO’
The Ten club will meet at the home
of Professor M. L. Brittain, state school
commissioner, next Tuesday night, and
then take a rest for the summer. It is
too hot for hlgh-browlnrr In July and
August, and even the Ten had rather
think about lemon-and-llmes and fish
ing than the abstruse problems which
are thrashed out at these meetings.
Walter G. Cooper will read the paper
at the final meeting of the season, but
the announcements do not give the
subject. Joseph M. Terrell, ex-govern
or, ex-senator and czar of the Ten,
says it will be something light and
cooling.
WALKER FORMS NEW BANK.
FITZGERALD. GA.. June 22.—John
D. Walker, of Sparta, Ga., has just or
ganized a bank at Osierfield. Ga., about
eight miles from Fitzgerald on the A,,
B. & A The capital stock is S2u,OOU.
PUSHAfiGHBALD
IMPEACHMENT
*
House Committee Ready to
Rush Case Along—Twelve
Serious Charges Stand.
WASHINGTON, June 22.-—Because
the house can not master a quorum the
articles of impeachment against Judge
Archbald, which have been voted by the
house judiciary committee, will not
be presented on the floor-before July 1.
Chairman Clayton, however, stated that
the committee was prepared to push,
the case, and if possible to have It in
the senate by the middle of next
month.
Chairman Clayton declined to say
what is contended in the twelve counts
against the commerce court jurist. It
is understood, however, one of the prin
cipal counts is the charge that he per
mitted Holm Biuce, a railway attor
ney, to lend aid in the preparation of a
decision directly bearing on the corpo
ration Bruce represented. Another
count will relate to the jurist’s trip to
Europe which has been stated was par
tially paid for by corporation lawyers
in Scranton, Pa.
The charge that Judge Archbald at
tempted to influence the Erie railroad
in the purchase of a culm pile through
E. Williams will stand as one of the
counts. The jurist’s numerous other
alleged transactions in the purchase of
coal lands will be grouped as they re
late to certain railroads, while the cele
brated ’’wire pool" decision, wherein a
number of prominent New York men
were sentenced io pay mild fines when
the district attorney insisted they
should be sent to jail, will also be a
separate item in the indictment.
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SOCIETY INOMEN
GOLF FOR TITLE
OF TWO CITIES
Nashville Team and Atlanta’s
“Five Best” Contest on the
East Lake Links.
Five Nashville society women today
are attempting to demonstrate that
they can beat an equal number of At
lanta society women at golf in the first
team match between women ever play
ed in the South. The Atlan.ta women
declared they would have to be shown,
just the same as if they were from
Missouri. It is to be a match game for
eighteen holes and will be played on
the East Lake links.
The Nashville golfers, smiling and
confident, arrived last night in a pri
vate car. They were up early this
morning, practiced and declared they
are in the “pink of condition.'’ The
Atlanta players arrived on the links
shortly before noon, and assured their
opponents there would be huge chunks
of sadness in the ranks of Nashville
society when the private car hauls back
an overwhelming defeat.
Contest Result of Challenge.
The contest is the result of a chal
lenge issued by the Nashville women,
and which was promptly accepted by
Atlanta. The players represent * the
finest women golfers in the South, and
there’ll not be a dull moment.
The Nashville quintet consists of
Mrs. E. W. Daley, the best woman
player in Nashville; Mrs. Roger Smith.
Mrs. A. B. Newell, Mrs. Seymour and
Miss Jeanette Acklin.
The five who will battle for the su
premacy of Atlanta are Miss Alexa
Stirling, the fourt'een-year-old golf
wonder of the South; Mrs. Thomas B.
Paine, Mrs. Robert J<?nes, Miss May
O’Brien and Mrs. Nash R. Broyles.
Dr. A. VV. Stirling, father of Miss
Alexa, has offered a handsome loving
cup as a prize to the winning team.
Miss Stirling a Champion.
Miss Stirling is regarded as the
champion woman golfer of the South,
despite the fact that she was defeated
by a Memphis woman in the recent
tournament at Chattanooga. Everyone
who witnessed that contest conceded
that the young golfer did not play her
best game.
It is expected that she will be at her
best today, and that she will perform
some remarkable feats.
"Atlanta women think they can real
ly Play golf and wo want to cure them
of this hallucination,” remarked one of
the Nashville players.
"When the game is over our Nash
ville friends will wonder if a little more
practice wouldn't help some,” is the
way the Atlanta women look at it.
The argument soon will b( settled.
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SKIN ON HAND BROKE
IN DEEP CRACKS
Bled and Very Painful, Would Throb
arid Burn. Could Not Sleep, Hand
Swollen and Stiff, Used Box of
Cuticura Ointment with Cuticura
Soap. Hand Well, Cracks Healed,
Litchfield, Me. "About a year sgo I
began to have trouble with my right hand.
The whole inside of the hand began to crack.
The skin was dry. thick and hard and then
broke out in deep cracks which bled and
were very painful. They would throb and
pain me, and burn so that I could not sleep
nights. The flesh was a peculiar red color
and the hand was swollen and felt stiff.
"For six months I tried a great many
different remedies, but none of them did any
good. Finally I commenced using Cuticura
Soap and Cuticurg Ointment. From the very
start I found It was helping me. The cracks
soon began to heal and before I had used
one box of the Cuticura Ointment, together
witji the Cuticura Soap, my hand was well,
the cracks all healed, and the skin soft as
before the trouble began. Six months have
passed and I have had no return." (Signed)
Mrs. C. W. Norten, Nov. 21, 1911.
GIRL OF 12 CURED OF PIMPLES
By Cuticura Ointment.
Dover West. N. 8. —"When I was about
twelve.or thirteen, my face broke out with
pimples They came out in groups and caused
great disfigurement. Attar trying so many
remedies without success, I saw the Cuticura
Ointment advertised and I sent for a box.
In a week I saw a gnat change in my face,
and it rendered a complete cure. Now you
can not tell I ever had pimples.” (Signed)
Miss Mabel Morash, Mar. 31, 1»11.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold
everywhere. Sample of each mailed free,
with 32-p book. Address. "Cuticura,"
Dept T, Boston Tender-faced men should
■have with Cuticura Soap Shaving Stick.
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