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Republican Convention Finally Turns Into a Great Organization Devoted to M erry-M akina
DELEGATES SING AND JOKE WHILE STEAM ROLLER MOVES ON ITS WAY
TAFT SURE TD BE
NOMINATED FOR
PRESIDENT
Roosevelt. Losing Fight on
•Stolen’ Delegates. Quits the
Race— Uproar Today.
Continued From Page One.
ties. With the determination of a sin
gle contest from a single county In
Washington for Roosevelt he would
h*ve had a majority. A primary flec
tion was held and It resulted in 6,900
votes being cast.
“Qf those votes 500 were cast for
Taft and 6.400 for Roosevelt. (Cheers.)
"Tt has seemed to the minority that
this question is one of right and wrong.
That it is a grant moral.
•'Party Can't Stand
Defeat With Dishonor.’
The Republican party can. stand de
feat Io honor, bpt the Republican party
can not stand defeat with dlsiiono.','
"They are rolling the roller.-sung
the delegates In happy chorus and sWll
liam T. Dovell, of Washington, took the
platform • -
■T understand," Interjected ex-.Gov
arnor Fort, of New Jersey, "that this
delegate's seat is in question."
"The gentleman is one of those whose
.-eat Is contested." ruled the chair, "apd
he has no right to vote, but I don't
think that it precludes him from speak
ing."
Mr. Dovell said that the Roosevelt
people had disregarded the party call
and. come, together without authority.
They had no right, he said, to come be
fore the convention and ask that their
delegates be seated, because they had
thrown parly law to the winds.
Dovell read from the minutes of the
state convention of Washington to es
tablish the party call and the party law.
He charged that in the state primary
the judges were selected by one man
and the officers were selected by on -
man The same primary chose the
Democratic delegates, he said, and add
ed :
•And let me tell you. gentlemen,
«hen those delegates elected at that
unlawful primary arrived at the Demo
cratic state convention they were not
allowed 10 Mt.’"
' "We rambled, we rumbled, we ram
bled, all around," sang the delegates
as the vote was called
Flngineer Root pulled the throttle of
the steam roller, she rolled ahead one
length and Washington had been added
to the Taft list. Until the Washington
ra*u wore reached "the roller" moved
with regularity.
More Raillery
From T. R. Men.
Mississippi was quickly settled ami
Taft delegates seated in the Fourth
North Carolina, the Third Oklahoma
and th* Second Tennessee districts,
The report of tho committee on the
First district of Washington, seating
the Taft list, went through in three
minutes behind the delegates at large.
Three hundred LaFollette supporters
marched to the Coliseum carrying ban
ners and signs, crying for the Wiscon
sin senator.
Ditto, the Second district, while
"Merrily We Roll Along" echoed from
the Roosevelt delegates.
The secretary read: "We find that
the delegates placed upon the tempo
rary roll by the national committee
were duly—"
"The ayes have it." shouted a deh -
gate, before Chairman Root could put
the question.
Tn one long and sing-song chorus the
opposition voted “No." and then turned
to more raillery as the Third district
was thrown into the furnace for steam
roller fuel.
It took gavel work from Chairman
Root to get order enough to state a
question.
A delegate produced a tin whistle
"Toot, toot.” went the whistle.
Everybody roared and the mingled
shouts came
"Call the next case."
"Give him 30 days."
The tin whistle tooted again to the
intense merriment of the delegates
Then the Roosevelt delegator began
cheering William J. Bryan, who -ut in
the press stand.
"Bryan, Bryan." they called tn njis.
ter their disapproval of things in gen
?ral.
"Toot, toot." again sounded tile whis
tie.
At 11:50 O'clock a Roosev, t demon ■
stration started, the cheering being led
by a inan in the Indiana d< legation
Thr California delegation rose t<> its
feet yelling: "We want Teddy, we
want Teddy."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth rose in
her place in too gallery and waved her
hat as the demonstration started. \t
the end of the first minute the applau. .
was deafening.
Victor Rosewater walked by the
Texas delegation. They grabbed him
about tiie neck send pulled him among
them for a friendly and noisy demon
si ration.
"We want Teddy," began the eitorm
that started at once. "We got Teddy.
New Jerscey started the row. {Standing
In their chairs, they began waving flags
and chanting the battle cry of the third
party.
Instantly California popped to the
front to join the noise. Massachusetts
chipped in with "Roosevelt IS. Roose
vclt IS, Roosevelt IS.”
Then the answering calls of West
' ! ROOT PLEADS GUILTY.
I CHICAGO, .June 22.—W. I’.
•; Howard of Mississippi. was rec-
' ognized by Chairman Boot.
“Mr. Chairman, a point of
i order.” he shouted.
“The steam roller is exceed-
I inir the speed limit.”
“The point is sustained.
! smiled Root’.
Virginia and Pennsylvania came to
swell the noise that had been in prog-
I ress three minutes.
A signal came from the stand for the
bund to play. As it did tile little tin
whistle again resounded its tantalizing
and mirth-provoking wheeze.
Indiana got up to join the fun, and it
was the apparent purpose of the Roose,
veil folk to make the scene one of farce
and comedy.
West Virginia, delegates climbed into
their chairs and began singing the
1 "We want Teddy” song, amid catcalls,
• whistles and hum of voices. The dele
gates did not notice that Miss Flo Ja
-1 cobson was singing in the bandstand.
As her clear notes came floating over
the great crowd the tumult ceased and
men on Ibe floor and the women in the
gallery were silent while "Moonlight
Bay" soothed the ruffled delegates.
When she ceased singing a yipping
round of applause forced an encore.
Every delegate in the house stood up
and kept the peace in tribute to the
dual power of woman and of song.
"And the band played ‘Annie Lau
rie,' " to say nothing of "Dixie," while
a man hung a banner over the rear
balcony bearing the words: '
“What Root said of the Penrose ma
chine: 'They (Pro an aggregation of
criminals masquerading under the ban
ner of Republicanism.' "
There came a roar from the crowd
and the banner was violently torn
away by hostile hands.
The sergeants-at-arms and police
ejected from the hall the men who
swung the banner so defiantly before
the face of Chairman Root, Who, white
with rage, sat and watched the pro
ceeding.
A delay tn the proceedings was due
Io the fact that a big tight was ex
pected over the Texas contests and un
usual preparations were made to meet
it.
It was reported that a roll call
would be demanded and with 30 Taft
votes shut off the Roosevelt people ex
pected to make a last big showing.
The Minnesota delegates went Into
conference while the convention was
waiting for the credentials committee
to report. They considered a plan to
refuse to vote on the nominations. It
was virtually decided to adopt the plan.
A lest vote on one of the coming con
tests was discussed. The Vote was to
find out how many of the Roosevelt
delegates would refuse to vote on the
roll calls after the permanent roll had
been adopted.
During thy long wait of the Texas
report to come in, Mrs. Elmer T. Har
ris. of Denver, was overcome by the
excitement that had attended the ses
sion. She was sitting in the gallery
with iter husband and her brother,
Walter T Wrenn, when she suddenly
leaped to her feet. A delegate cried:
"More oil for the steam roller.”
Mrs. Harris was much affected.
"Roosevelt is our candidate.” site
cried. "It is robbery.”
i There was a scene near the woman.
Her husband and brother endeavored
to calm her. Finally they bore her from
the gallery.
The convention was called to order at
1:39 p. m. and the report on the Fifth
Virginia district was read seating both
of the Taft delegates. The majority
, report declared the Roosevelt delegates
i to have been absolutely without merit.
“Choo, choo, toot," went the bells.
Tiie motion to adopt the report was
speedily carried and Chairman Root
said:
"1 would like to say—"
"Toot, toot." went the tin whistle of
t the crowd.
Mr. Root continued that nil of the
■ contexts had been finished by the com
] mittees on credentials, but that there
[ were a number of cases before the
i committee in which no formal contests
had been made.
5 With the seating of the Texas Taft
, delegates the entire report of tho cre
dentials committee had been adopted.
The committee on permanent or
ganization reported that the temporary
1 organization be made permanent.
(’.mgressman Olmstead took the chair
to put the question anA the Roosevelt
delegates proceedde to make a wild
e demonstration over the change.
> Root'. Root!" jeered the now insur
n gents.
Root' Root! ' called back the Taft
people in acclaim of their champion.
Big Demonstration
Again for T. R.
-I I thunk you, my friends, from the
I bottom of my heart," said the senator.
The first net as permanent chairman
(1 I of this convention is to ask your unnnt
, I mous consent that the delegate from
~1; '' state of Kansas. Republican broth
pl*'. Henry Allen, have permission to
I make a statement to the convention."
i, j Henry .1 Vilen, of Kansas, then took
, r I C.IV film
j I In a .invention where a minority
I report sounds louder than tiie majority
report. it is a great thing to get the
P unanimous consent of tiie chairman."
n he said. If you give mo ten minutes
g I'll n.n trouble you any more.
“I want to present the attitude of the
progre.-slves ami 1 pledge you if you Ils.
IS ten 1 will guarantee I will not put any
•• sand in the gasoline You can then go
g as far as you like 1 promise also not
s to do any tiling to your spark plug,"
. wont on Alien
0 He then announced lit bad a state
ment from ' . lone Roosev t y great
r <:be< r greet Cl ' .Is-
s D.legaU- jumped to tie i. . hails and
- shouted. The galleries Joined in. Tito
noise grew at'..
t Almost all Itm llllnm dot.gate stood
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. JUNE 22. 1912.
18. 0. P. PLATFORM
UPHOLDS THE
JUDECIARY
Regards Recall of Judges Un
necessary. Reaffirms Policy
of Protective Tariff.
1 •'iLISI-.l ,\l, CHICAGO. lune 22. —
rhe platform reported to the Repub
lican national cooriventlon this after
noon >by the resolutions committee de
clares in strong language for tiie con
tinuum an "untrainriieled and In-
dependent judiciary."
The platform pledges to strive, not
only In the nation but in the several
states, to enact legislation to safeguard 1
tiie public health: limit effectually tiie
labor of women and children and to
protect wage-earners in dangerous oc
cupations and to enact workman’s
compensation laws.
While announcing that the party re
gards the recall of judges as unneces
sary, the platform declares for such
action as may simplify the removal
from office any Judge who may ho found
derelict in his duties.
It recommends amendment to the
present anti-tru-t laws, defining crim
inal offenses ngainst the law and pro
viding fm tiie punishment of the Vio
lators. i
li denounces the tariff for revenue
only idea, as destructive to many In
dustries. It recommends the reduction
of some of the present import duties
to be made in accordance with infor
mation obtained by at: expert commis
sion.
Tim Democratic tariff bills, passed by
the present house of representatives,
are condemned as sectional, injurious
to public credit and destructive of busi
ness enterprise.
It recommends a scientific inquiry
Into the increased cost of living. When
tiie exact facts are known, tho party'
pledges itself to enact legislation to
remove these causes.
The platform asks for legislation
which will give the farmers better' fa
cilities for borrowing money easily
and cheaply.
Prohibition of campaign contribu
tions by Corporations is urged. The
publicity of campaign contributions is
indorsed.
It favors tire establishment of a [rar
eels post, postal rates to be regulated
under n zone sstern in proportion to
length of carrying.
it. declares for the maintenance of an
adequate navy, and condemns the
Democratic house of representatives for
refusing to authorize the construction
of additional battleships. It urges, a
revival of the merchant marine. It
urges the Federal government to as
sume a part of burden of controlling
the flood waters of the Mississippi
river.
"Republican accomplishments" are
lauded and tho sixteen years of Re
publican rule by the laic William Mc-
Kinley. Theodore Roosevelt and Presi
dent Taft are declared impossible of
"successful criticism.”
Tiie platform does not contain any
woman suffrage plank, nor does it pro
vide for the initiative and referendum,
up. Part of Indiana followed. Many
other states followed suit. Mr. Allen
awaited smilingly. The cheering was
now intense. There was no sound of
the steam roller whistle now.
As the demonstration got upnder
way Chief of I’olice Schuettler moved
to the front of the hall and took sta
tion before the steps leading to the
chairman's stand. All of the policemen
under him got a signal and braced for
Instant action.
Police Precipitate
Small Riot.
A noticeable thing was that the dem
onstration was almost entirely on the
floor among the delegates.
The galleries joined in a half-hearted
way.
Mr. Allen finally walked back oh the
platform.
There was no abatement in the
cheering, which was still a steady roar.
When ho returned he looked about with
a pleased express lon on his face. This
brought a great cheer.
A North Carolina standard was then
[ducked from the floor ami a parade of
states was started. Kansas, Minnesota,
New Jersey. Oklahoma Joined in. Sud
denly Lieutenant Tom Cronin Jumped
Into the breach and stopped the pa
rade at the Ulin Is delegation seats.
A man seized Cronin and was hurled
from his feet. As Chief Schuettler
lushed to tho place and took a hand,
a small riot was in progress. One po
licetnan was struck and several of the
delegates suffered bruises, but Cronin
had made a move which stopped the
demonstration when it seemed to be
getting beyond control.
The "steam roller" whistles began to
toot. Cries and hoots were hurled at
tiie policemen.
An excited Roosevelt delegate in the
jam knocked the Illinois standard to
Hie floor. Illinois had n. t Joined the
parade with Nebraska. Maine. Pennsyl
nla, California and Massachusetts un
til just before the near riot occurred.
A lone delegate carrying part of the
Maryland standard paraded alone. The
fight at the Illinois delegation stand
started between I'. J. Hawbaeker and
Wil lam J. Hooke, of tho Illinois dele
gation. Cooke was guarding Hie stand
:< •«1 and Hawbaeker tried t<> seize 11.
| ''O"k< r, s’ , ted A |. Herman Jumped
in and was hit on the jaw Just then
the head of the parade appeared and
Lieutenant Cronin jumped in. He
stopped the fight and the parade.
Root’s Efforts
For Order Futile.
One Indiana standard was captured
by a Roosevelt delegate. Harry S. New
jumped to his feet and successfully
guarded the other.
All through the demonstration New
York sat passively. . It Is known that
several men were struck in the tight.
At the end of 20 minutes Chairman
Root banged bis gavel for order. A
new burst of cheering rolled over the
throng. A second attempt at order
resulted the same way.
At this point Allen tried to quiet the
delegates by waving his hands. He
had better success than the chairman.
Tho noise subsided 21 minutes.
Allen then resinned and read the
Roosevelt statement, the announcement
of which brought on the demonstration
"I suggest," he said, “that when I
read this and proceed to my comment
you remain quiet."
"We will," cried several.
"I do this because this statement is
not to create a demonstration in the
convention. The statement asked the
Roosevelt men to decline to vote on
any niatter before the convention.
Hisses and groans were heard.
The next sentence of the colonel was
that he did not seek the voters, bo*
demanded that the delegates do not
vote at all.
A cheer greeted this .-ally.
Next he read that the convention did
not represent Hie Republican party, but
did represent It movement to fraudu
lently override the Republican party.
Tlti - drew a cheer.
“We are merely presenting the case
of progressive Repulieans." he said. He
then read a statement of Colonel Roose
velt. which Hie ex-president had Issued
over his signature early in the after
noon. At tiie conclusion of the read
ing, Mr. Allen said:
"This represents the majority of
Roosevelt vbters and I dare say it rep
resents the sentiment of all Roosevelt
delegates."
Convention Represents
Discarded Committeemen.”
“No, no." came thr- cry front nil parts
of the house.
"We have contested with you until
we have exhausted all parhuinentary
rules to get. our men on the roll. When
the vote of these delegates were chal
lenged you permitted them to vote. In
the California case roll call we de
cided the steam roller had exceeded
tiie speed limit.” Allen continued.
"Since you seated these contested dele
gates we hkve now decided that this
convention represents the discarded
remnant of the national committee.”
A number of New York delegates
took exception to strictures on New
York's primaries, which Mr. Allen made
and iie went on:
"All 1 know < f New York I read in
Tiie New York World, which said that
the primaries of the Republican party
would put Tammany to shame and Ttie
World is the chief Roofeevelt hater of
your town."
"Wo can not become parties here to
a condition that lets a defeated nation
al committeeman seated in a conven
tion override the will of a majority of
lite electors of his state,’" Allen went
on. He was referring' to Pennsylva
nia and then pointed out the other
states in which Taft had ben defeated,
and said the Roosevelt men would not
submit to having this decision over
turned by a eomtnittee.
-We will not join you ift saying -”
Tile confusion became so great that ills
remarks could not be heard for some
time.
He then turned upon Sereno Payne,
declaring that until he could show that
lie represents Hie sentiment of the peo
ple of his state he could not stop criti
cism.
What Has Happened
To Republican Party.
"When Roosevelt left tiie white
' house four years ago lie left you a
majority in both house of congress.
He left you a majority in several
states."
There, was an outbreak at this time,
which was quieted by ("hairman Root.
"He left you a record upon which
you could elect Mr. Taft. He left you
a progressive policy which was buried
under an avalanche of words at Wi
nona. Eighteen Republican governors
were buried under an avalanche of
votes a few months later."
He declared that Roosevelt will not
aid in the “scuttling of the ship." He
offered the new principle of human
rights as against the discarded nation
al committee, which did not represent
tiie people. We pleaded with you ten
days and fought for five more. We
shall not fight any more.” be added.
"Yellow." cried one.
“V«u accuse us of being radicals,
but a« radical as we may be, we never
went to a national convention and se
cured through fraud the nomination of
a presidential candidate we know could
not be elected."
A cheer of less than a minute fol
lowed.
Convention Making
Its Own Rules.
A report of the majority of the com
mittee on rules was laid upon the
table. The report of tjie minority of
the committee received tiie same fate.
Tins meant that the convention would
work under the old rules
James Watson, of Indiana, made both
motions to table. The next order of
businyss was then called for. the re
port of the committee on resolutions.
Former Vice President Fairbanks read
tiie report of the committee on the
platform.
"That committee heard those eases
tvitiontlv and denied no one a hear
ing." h<- first Miid. and then proceed
ed to the reading of the platform As
he read th< qu'itathm of Lincoln <m
Lovers* Separated by a
Quarrel 25 Years Ago*
* Meet Again and Marry
Widow and Widower Become
Bride and Groom —In At
lanta on Honeymoon.
MACON, G'A., June 22. —Boyhood and
girlhood vpwa that were broken 25
years ago In a lovers' quarrel were re
made here yesterday afternoon in the
marriage of Mrs. Mary Lee Boynton
Findlay and John T. Glover, of Bir
mingham, Ala. They were sweethearts
a quarter of a century ago, but. bad a
misunderstanding and broke their en
gagement. Miss. Boynton then married
Captain George W. Findlaj, 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, went to Alabama and married.
His wife died several years ago. When
he heard of Captain Findlay’s death,
Mr. Glover, a widower himself and
lonely, came to Macon to see she who
once promised-to be his. The wedding
yesterday afternoon followed a court
ship of several months. They are now
in Atlanta on their honeymoon.
Mr. Glover Is one of the leading at
torneys Os Birmingham and is quite
wealthy. Mrs. Findlay has for five years
been the leader of the. Christian Sci
ence church in Macon, and iter de
parture from this city will be a severe
blow to that congregation.
goxernment, "‘of. for and by the peo
ple," he was greeted by groans and
laughter. The declaration that the Re
publican party would uphold the integ
rity of the courts brought an orderly
round of applause.
The. convention cheered W. .1. Bryan
when he left for Baltimore. He has
been here reporting the convention.
When the cheering subsided. Mr.
Fairbanks was smiling. “I am glad
of the interruption made b.v applause
tor one of our political friends Who
now. it seems, has business in Balli
more."
When Mr. Fairbanks concluded the
leading of the majority's report on
platform at-4:16 p. m.. a minority re
port carrying the views of Senator La-
Follette was read.
LaFollette’s Platform
Hits Money Trust.
W. C. Owens, of Wisconsin, read the
LaFollette platform, it carried a bit
ter attack on the "money trust." Un
der the plank on banking and currency.
It declares its opposition to the Aid
rich currency plan and continues:
"We pledge our candidates that un
der no circumstances shall the Federal
government come to the aid of liigh
finance, but shall support those banks
that, extend a genuine preference to
srtictly commercial as against specula
tive loans, and to the millions of pro
ducers who depend on these banks. We
favor a carefully worked out and scien
tific emergency circulation under con
trol of the government backed by
proper reserve, issued only against
commercial paper that represents ac
tual transactions and adopted only aft
er the people have thoroughly discuss
ed and intelligently approved of it.
“To free the country from this thral
dom all Hie powers of the national
and of the states should be invoked.
Means must be devised for diverting
from the money trust the millions of
savings which flow freely from city
and farm to its banks and insurance
companies. The people should be en
abled to control tiie banks in which
their juwn money is deposited.
"The LaFollette tariff plan recom
mends a continuation of the protective
tariff, but asks that the schedules be
"reduced to the ascertained difference
In the labor in this country and abroad
and so adjusted as to assure its bene
fit to labor and not to protect ineffi
cient management nor place a premium
on the further exhaustion of our lim
ited national resources."
At the conclusion of the reading of
tiie LaFollette platform, Mr. Cady was
given the floor to argue a motion to
substitute the minority report for the
majority.
For Regulation
Os Corporations.
On "trusts and monopolies" the La-
Follette platform says in part
"The special interests, the railroads,
the harvester trust, tiie United States
steel trust and ail industrial corpora
tions are planning to secure some ac
tion by tiie government which will leg
alize their proceedings and sanction
their fictitious capitalization. The
time is at hand to declare tor a sta
tute that shall make it everlastingly
impossible for any president, any con
gress or any court to legalize spurious
capitalization as a basis of extortion
ate prices. We pledge the Republican
party to the enactment of such a law.
By the enactment of the Sherman anti
trust law later proceedings In those
cases have shown that the present law
is impotent to destroy monopoly.
"Suppleemntai legislation should be
enacted to -facilitate the enforcement of
the law, by imposing upon those who
combine to restrain trade (and par
ticularly upon those who combine to
control more than 30 per cent of any
branch of business), the burden of
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sistent with the public welfare. Sup
plemented legislation should also be
enacted b which proceedings for the
dissolution of trusts shall become ef
fective to restore competition. To this
end courts should be empowered to
prevent any person from owning shares
in more than one of the companies into
which a trust has been divided by
decree.
"The proposed trade commission
should have power to condemn ail con
tracts. agreements and practices found
to be discriminatorj’ and oppressive,
and to compel the substitution of such
as are found to be reasonable.
It should enforce prohibition of crim
inal practices which should be special
ly defined by law.
T. R. Delegates
Refuse to Vote.
Fairbanks moved to lay on the table
the motion to substitute the minority
report for the majority report of the
platform committee. Demand for a
roll call failed to receive the seconds
of two states, and the minority report
was laid on the table by a viva voce
vote.
Roll cal] by states on adoption of
platform presented by majority of plat
form and resolutions committee began
at 5 p. m.
The declined to vote in Alabama.
They were the two Roosevelt delegates
who refused to take part in the pro
ceedings.
Announcement that California would
not vote was made by Meyer Lissner,
of Los Angeles. The convention was
in uproar. A poll of delegates was or
dered by the chair.
As the roll of California was called
the Roosevelt men refused to answer
to their names. The two Taft dele
gates from California seated from the
Fourth district voted yes.
NEW ROAD FROM FORT
TO PRISONJS PLANNED
A macadam boulevard, several miles
long, from,Fort McPherson to the Fed
eral prison byway of Lakewood park,
is being planned by the Chamber of
Commerce. A bill asking the govern
ment to construct the roadway will be
introduced in congress after the close
of the Republican and Democratic con
ventions
The decision was made today follow
ing a visit to Lakewood by a commit
tee of Atlanta men late yesterday, on
which they inspected the grounds for
location of the annual exposition being
planned. The new road is to connect
at the. prison with the Grant park road,
thus making a continuous drive around
a quarter of the city.
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. There 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.
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ERACE EXPECTS
WILE TO GO FREE
Thinks Divorce Will End Case
and She Will Never
Be Tried.
Mrs. Daisy Grace will never bs
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 ills
wound—so Eugene Grace has written
to a personal friend in Philadelphia.
In tiie letter he wrote from Newnan
Grace made no direct mention of his
wife, but intimated that he expected his
family affairs to be settled by divorce
and the criminal case dropped.
Atlantans familiar with the story of
the Grace affair have believed for. u
long time that Mrs. Grace would never
face a jury to answer the charge of at
rempt to murder.
It lias been ruled by the supreme
court that a husband 'can not 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
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 hi.?
mother's home in Newnan. The opera
tion recently' performed revealed the
fact tha,t his spine was not fractuj'pd,
and it is believed that ho 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 tiie probability of
a divorce or trial.
Mrs. Grace’s Lawyer
May Run for Council
James A. Branch, one of Mrs, Grace's
counsel, may b" a candidate for city
councilman to succeed William Hum
phreys. of the Eighth ward. lie wil
be a .candidate if lie accedes to the
wishes of his many friends who haw
beseeched liiiu to enter yie race.
There also is much talk of Charles
Harman, a former councilman, enter
ing and making it a three-cornerec
race. Mr. Branch is well versed in
city polities. He numbers his friends
in ‘he Eighth ward by tiie hundred,
and should he enter, the contest would
be a spirited one.
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There are lots of things
that need painting now—
things that you yourself can
paint, so the cost is very
small—just for the paint.
And, anyway, every nor
mal man, woman or child
likes to wield a paint brush
for a little while, at least
once a year.
So get a can of Carriage
Gloss Paint and go over the
porch chairs, the lawn swings
and the benches. There's
one kind of paint that’s made
f a
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