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Famous Woman Writer Is Disappointed Because Colonel Roosevelt Doesn't Appear in Hall NELLIE BLY’S STORY OF A DAY AT THE CONVENTION She Thinks the Ex-Pres ident Could Have Had the Nomination Just by Asking the Con vention to Give It to Him. CHICAGO, June 22.—Here is Nel lie Bly's own story of wliat she saw arid heard at yesterday’s ses sion of the big Republican conven tion : By NELLIE BLY. It was going to happen. It was something impossible to define. It was in the air. It was thrilling. It was sensational. It bad never oc curred before. It may Have been bloodshed or only a surprise* No body knows what it was. Nobody asked Still everybody went about whispering warningly to everybody else, ‘.lust wait till tomorrow.” Christinas' morning never found earlier risers or more interroga tion-laden minds. Everybody want ed to get to the Coliseum first, with the result that crowds packed the afreets for hours before the doors opened. x There was no late arrivals. and , n lien the doors opened the people began to gush in just as waters gush out of opening gates, and in the briefest time this flood of people (Hied every inch of space. Sitting ami standing, in that vast hall. It was a friendly crowd—it did riot matter whether you knew any one or not. you just talked to them when the occasion arose. It was neither flirtatious nor bold—just natural as one would converse with one’s intimates. "We missed you yesterday when you went away." said one man who sat somewhere in our section. "We needed you here to root for Teddy.” “Thank you." and 1 remembered I bad to leave early. I answered: “Bui I Hin ready to root all day todai' for Teddy." “Good; we’ll talk to you through your hat." he laughed. 1 had previously asked some men hack of me if my hat was in their way. They protested it was not and one gallantly said: “T like that bat and 1 like it where it is—keep it there." So I did. NOT FLIRTATIOUS, PRUDISH OR PRIM. .lust here I want to say Lnever saw a finer assemblage of men. • Their behavior is royally perfect. They arc not flirtatious or bold, prudish or print or fresh, conceit ed or cringing, offish or familiar they are natural. Some towns and many conventions are given to drunkenness, but 1 have not seen a drunken man since I came to ( hi cago. Brooklyn carries the prize as a "drunk" town. Drunkenness is so much the habit in Brooklyn that they laid the streets out zig zag so the drunks could, wobble home. Back to the day when the mys terious it was to happen, a minis tei stepped forward to pray. Whether all the people had not got seated yet or whether they had noticed what I said about them the first day, T can’t tell, but al most everybody stood up while the minister in a few brief words told God to show us how to run the convention his day. Perhaps God heard and obeyed, for Mr. Root pounded on the table with his little hammer and the, meeting was announced adjourned until 4 o'clock in the afternoon That’s what happened. Nobody wanted to go. Groups formed. Ar guments and visits were made. BRYAN MAKES VOTES FOR MISTER BRYAN. Bryan sat in his little reporter’s chair on the edge of the balcony and made votes for Bryan. An end less file of men went by and each one said, with slight variation, the same thing: "I’m from Kansas, colonel, and if Roosevelt is not nominated 111 vote tor you. I m from California. Mr. Bryan, and if the? don’t nominate Roosevelt I’ll vote for you"—every one repeated ft until it sounded like some mode of salutation. The clever Mr. Bry an shook each hand and smiled and ’ replied with apparent appreciation. It looks like Mi Bryan for the next president to me. That which was to be a Republican convention full of surprises turned out to be a Bryan reception full of assur ances. No wonder the Democrats said when Root was made chair man. “All over but the cheering of the Democrats,” and then went away, smiling, satisfied to lay plans for next week. There is where Toddy missed it. lion afraid to taste the roast. If instead of sitting down in the Auditorium Annek with detectives and guards and policemen sur rounding him as if he were the Kohinow and the crons jewels all in one, he had walked, or taken a taxi, if he preferred, and come down to the convention the first day, walked in, like a free Ameri can citizen and said: “Here I am, gentlemen. I have 500 votes and then 90.1100 persons' back of me who want me, I demand the nom ination," he would have got it. He < ,ime like/ . Hon and scared them dead and ifiep ho stopped within ♦ ion feet of their camp fire, smelt the roast and never uttered a growl And the steam roller, finding the Wild Scene at Credentials Meeting CHICAGO, June 22. —Though defeat ed in every contest which they had carried to the credentials committee, the Roosevelt forces renewed their battle when the committee went to work today on the Texas cases. There remained to be decided today contests involving 30 delegates in Texas, two delegates in Virginia and possibly two in Missouri. Os the 30 Texas delegates the national commit tee had given four to Roosevelt and 28 to ’ Taft. Chairman Devine addressed the com mittee and denounced as “gutter work” a statement issued by the Roosevelt members denouncing the Taftites’ ac tions. He declared the statement which was given to the-morning newspapers was “as dastardly a piece of falsification as was ever concocted." Chairman Devine announced that the majority would is sue a reply. Lie Repeatedly Passed. Devine declared that any one who asserted that the majority report of the credentials committee liacf been pre pared in advance was a "willful and deliberate liar." R. R. McCormick, of Illinois, who gave out the statement, rose to reply. Devine surrendered rhe gavel and threatened a personal attack on Mc- Cormick. He sat down. Committeeman St. Clair, of Idaho, said hr did not. believe the committee had been crooked, but when he made a "fraud" reference to Arizona. Commit teemau* Morrison, of that state, cried: “You are a liar. You can’t say we have fraud out there. You lie!” Order was finally restored without bloodshed, but there was another out break when Halbert, of Minnesota, said Devine was an impartial chairman. Esterbrook, of New Jersey, asked Halbert if lie intended to support Taft if nominated. Halbert replied that he, would not tell you. “He is going to boil.” shouted Ester brook. There was a sharp exchange between the Taft and Roosevelt men, involving Blum, of Georgia; Summers, of Vir ginia; Monde!], of Wyoming, and Lib bey. of Maine. Chairman Devine then appointed the following men upon a committee to make a reply to the McCormick state ment: J. A. Hemenway, of Indiana; O. M. Landstrum, of Montana; M. B. McFarlne, of Florida: F. A. Esterbrook, of New Jersey; G. A. Malby, of New York. The 26 Taft district delegates from Texas were seated by the credentials committee. After a long struggle, the delegates at large in Texas were seated, by the committee by a vote of 27 to 16. This ended the contests. Lion had not jumped upon it, grew' bold and said to its followers: “You see that Lion is afraid. You smell that roast? Well, if you desert camp you’ll not get a bite and we’ll take away even that which you have." So he lost, the Lion did. Sup posing Napoleon had ridden that white horse into Paris and rushed into a stable and stayed there; the trouble is—that Teddy did not take thejiurdle. EVERYBODY waits FOR IT TO HAPPEN. Thence Democrats rejoice. The things that didn’t happen in the morning were promised, so back tjie fifteen or twenty thou sand expectants shot. Then the same message, "No session until two.” Everybody yelled. In tlie top row one could hear the name of Taft. A hoarse and well inten tioned individual skied his hat and issued an unintelligible and hoarse cry through a megaphone. Some one picked up an American flag with Teddy’s picture beneath and started to move- through the hall.' It was doleful—no one seemed to be courageous enough to swell the ranks mutinally. Sudden spurts of yelling broke out in different loca tions. but they did not last long or create much sensation. But no one went away. The order was made to clear the hall. A threatening gentleman in a badly fitting suit told us by mega phone from the piatform that the hall must be emptied as the lights would go out in five minutes. No one left. The chief of police tried it. He looked fine in his uniform and he knew it. He stepped upon tlie platform and announced that the hall must be cleared. Nobody moved. Then he turned to the press division And said: “You’ll hav? to get out. We have orders to clear the building.” "But we can’t go," yelled back a press representative. “We are here to see something happen,” and they stayed. ROOT STARTS AWAY, BUT FEARFULLY STOPS. Chairman Root took up his coat and hat. s He was going. Good. All we Teddy people liked to see it. A cry from the depths of the crowd started: "We want Teddy.’ A score of steam roller stock holders rushed to Mr. Root and every one tried to whisper to him at the same time. He sat down suddenly, fearfully. “He’s afraid to go, lest Teddy comes and steals the convention,” 1 said, and everybody whispered to everybody else: "He’s afraid to leave for fear Roosevelt comes." I jumped on the platform—l shook hands with him. “How do you do. Mr. Root?” I asked. "I have come to talk to yon. and Nell Brinkley has come to illustrate you.” "Very good.” he said. "I will THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANO NEWB. SATURDAY. JUNE 22, 1912. TAFT’S “STEAM ROLLER” SMILE ■ -V" -E A I L_ ®S I JRFJ® : -» Jit BL W ; y j>'.. e W * . J ' Ji r" help along with the interview.” Then I did it. "Mr. Root, do you really think if Mr. Roosevelt is out of it that the Republicans can elect a president?" He looked shocked. He glanced at me frightenedly, then stepped back as if to retreat. There was no place to go. He looked appeal ingly to his friends for aid. "Real ly—” he hesitated. His friends closed in and that interview termi nated. Moral: When you want to catch a. hawk, don’t introduce yourself with an explosion of dynamite. Dr. Depew' came on the platform to speak to some friends (politi cal), Mrs. Depew holding his arm. She’s a qwiet person and generally in blue, and though she says noth ing one feels her strength and that Chauncey is leaning entirely upon her .and obeying—and that is a good thing for Chauncey. HISTORY ALL WRONG ABOUT THE REBELLION. You ought to see the colored del egate from Kentucky. He was having - a white shirt argument with one from Texas. Tt was a fighting that war gave you the right to wear that white— shirt.” "My father fought, yes. sir, he fought in that war to give me the right to wear a white shirt.” That’s the first intimation I ever had that a white shirt was the is sue of the rebellion. I have always felt history is inaccurate. Now 1 am convinced. But then, writers used to have a false modesty in the days when no one had legs. It was startling to know a white shirt caused a long and bloody war, un der the cloak of the slave market. One little delegate from Georgia was murmuring despondently and miserably to himself: “Samuel’s in the Lion’s den.” “Did you just hear it?’ I asked. "That was’long ago —don’t feel so bad.” "Teddy’s my Samuel, and he’s in the Lion’s den,” he wailed. Time proved—no Teddy arrived —the crowd began to dwindle—not because they had been told to just because Teddy was a prisoner in Elba and nothing happened. Even the white-haired woman who had held her place against a dozen officers and ushers, when the order first came to clear the house, got and left weary, de spondently. Nothing had hap pened. The rain began to come through the roof. The crowd got hungry. Te.ddy di'd not come. Nothing happened. Everybody went home disappointed. T. R. Shows Record Os Barnes and Root CHICAGO, June 22. —Colonel Roose velt today authorized the publication of the following statement headed; "ROOT. BARNES AND GRAFT, THE BOSS VERSUS THE PEOPLE. BOSS BARNES: "From the unanimous report of the specie! committee of the New York state senate appointed to investigate the city and county of Albany: “ ‘The most conspicuous beneficiary of graft, public extravagance and raid ing of the municipal treasury, we find from the evidence to be Mr. William Barnes, Jr., himself, as the owner of the majority of the stock of Journal company. He is the president of this company and the chairman of its executive committee. “ ‘We shall not repeat in detail the uncontradicted facts brought out be fore us to the effect that the contract for printing the proceedings of the common council of the city of Albany was the result of a scheme whereby the successful bidder was assured of getting additional work in violation of law, and fixed his bid lower than any outside printer could do the work for; the work was padded to an incredi ble extent merely to increase the cost of the job and the value of the con tract thus obtained; that Mr. Barnes’ concern, the Journal company, without having any plant to do the work with, nevertheless got. in violation of law, orders for duplicate copies of the work done by the public bidder, and farmed out these orders to that bidder who paid Mr. Barnes’ concern 25 per cent on the job; that on the work obtained at public biddirig, the successful bid der paid Mr. Barnes’ concern 15 per cent: that these payments were made to Mr. Barnes’ company because, to use the language of a witness who knew the facts, Mr Barnes dictated w’here the printing goes and The Argus gives up to The Journal in order to obtain the printing. How much money The Journal company received from these sources did not appear.rbut it did appear before us that Mr. Barnes’s company had obtained unlawfully from the state the sum of $13,504.50 and from the county of Albany the sum of sl,- 559.50, on the pretext of furnishing work which his concern had not done.’ “ROOT. “Once a corporation jackal always a corporation jackal. Roosevelt knows that is true. He made the discovery in experimenting with Elihu Root. “Elihu Root was the man who, ac cording to William C. Whitney, could tell a rich man how to evade the law safely. “Any lawyer," said Mr. Whitney, “can tell me what. I must not do. Root is the one man who ca.n tell me what I can do and how. "Root is the man whom Thomas Ryan set to work to carry out this plans in the Equitable. What those plans were the investigation showed- Root is the man to whom Thomas F. Ryan referred when he said as one who would speak of his hunting dog or his valet: “‘J instructed Root to do so and so.’ "Root Is the man whom Theodore Roosevelt took out of She jackal law yer’s office, where he belonged, to put him in the service of the United States, where he was out of place. A big na tion does not need legal jackals. A big thief does need them. "Part of Root’s business in the ser vices of corporations was to get hold of Theodore Roosevelt, ‘and deliver him.’ if he could. He got hold of Theo dore Roosevelt. He convinced Roosevelt that he. Root, was the one grand brilliant man. Thanks to Roosevelt he became secre tary of war and secretary of state. As secretary of state he became very use ful to his employer—the corporations— this was proved in negotiations with Belgium, which gave Congo interests to Thomas F. Ryan and his friends, and in negotiations with Russia, very valu able to the steel trust, the oil trust and others. THIS BURGLArIsN’T UP ON HIS FRENCH; OVERLOOKS A “BET’’ If tlie burglar who entered the home of W. D. Green, 256 Ivy street, had been a college graduate he wouldn’t have overlooked the bet he did. Mr. Green went home to find a win dow' had been broken, his family being away, and there were traces of a stranger having ransacked the place. “But the only thing I missed," said Mr. Green, “was a bottle of ordinary corn liquor which stood on a table. Right beside it was a bottle of fine French brandy, but the label was also French, and I reckorvthe negro wasn’t up on that language. RIVFRS REALTY CO. TO SELL FIVE LOTS AT AUCTION JUNE 27 The E. Rivers Realty Company will hold an auction sale of central proper ties Thursday, June 27. Three lots at the southwest corner of Houstpn street and Piedmont avenue and two lots on the east side of Pied mont avenue just north of Decatur street will be sold. Each lot measures 25 by 200. Spirited bidding is expected and the sale Will be marked by good old auction-time enthusiasm. Eat Peaches and Cream You can get the cream at home, but I’ll send the peaches direct from my orchard. I’ve made a hit with my FROM-ORCHARD-TO-HOME PEACH Proposition. Folks seem to like the big. luscious peaches I send them, freshly picked from the trees. The dew is hardly off of them. . SHIPMENTS MADE DAILY the kind I grow. This ie peach belt, where the finest peaches are grown, and that’s I’m in the heart of ths what I’ll do for you: Selected Extra Fine Peaches, six large baskets to crate, OEA express prepaid to any point in Georgia Fin,e Peaches, run of orchard, six baskets to crate, Os) express prepaid to any point in Georgia Write for prices and terms to points outside Georgia. SEND MONEY ORDER OR CHECK J. O. BOOTON, Marshallville, Ga. COLONEL’S HUT IN HING FOREVER, HE mis Plans for Formation of New Party Go On—Denver to Get Convention. CHICAGO. June 22. —Active steps to ward 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 diately followed with reference to the organization of a movement for which a, convention will he held during the first week in August in Denver. James R. Garfield, who waAi 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 lam now going. It is possible that the nomination may be made in Chicago tonight, but I am Inclined to the view that it will be deferred until August, and that Denver will be selected aa the place for its making.” Pendergast “Didn’t Know.” Just as he left the hotel this morn ing, William A. Pendergast, who was selected to 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 tha t the new party should be formed merely io meet emergency situations, and that' it is not wise to attempt to make it other than a corrective 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. Tlie persons present at the confer ence represent everything progressive from the Roosevelt steering committee for the six New England states to the ultra-raxllcal representatives of the Pacific coast delegations. They are spurred by the statement made by Colonel Roosevelt to a large gathering that besieged his window at an early hour, when he poked his head from the window and said: “My friend, my hat is In the ring and it will be in the ring for good and forever.” This utterance was today used as the keynote for the new party men. They Insisted, without dissent, that the chief essential of getting together was to have the colonel make a race for presi dent. Among the regular Republican poli ticians unusual concern was attached to the part the Eastern representatives are to play in the new movement. From the Massachusetts delegations four of the delegates at large and one district delegate will stick with the new party. They are led by Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard, the leader of the New Eng land faction. Besides himself, George W. Coleman, James P. Maginess and Al vin G. Weeks from the list of delegates at large for Massachusetts are going to the Roosevelt camp. Dr. Frederick P. Glazier, of Hudson, Mass., a district delegate, 1s the fifth member of ths representative list who takes a. place behind the colonel. The proportion of five out of 36 Massachusetts delegates is said to be a fair indication of rela tive strength of the party factions in Massachusetts. The other New Eng land states will have more or less part in the movement, with the predicted possibility of throwing this iron-bound j Republican stronghold into the Demo- cratic column along with ' the solid South in the coming election. Oklahoma Behind T. R. “Dynamite Ed” Perry, of Oklahoma, wants to nominate Roosevelt, fpr the presidency either tonight or early to morrow morning, immediately after the Taft contingent in the convention ad journs. “Our delegation of sixteen men,” said Perry today, “will remain throughout for Roosevelt. No one else goes. And we'll go back to Oklahoma and carry the state for him.” E. F. Herriff, of Apache, Okla., vice chairman of the delegation, stood by and indorsed Perry in each statement Two members of the Oklahoma dele gation will gr> down to Baltimore and there mingle with the progressive Dem ocrats. They claim to have assurances from Oklahoma Democrats that they will join in the third party movement Probably Perry and Herriff will be ths two men to go to Baltimore. The backbone of the new movement is, of course, th® California and Okla homa delegations. Texas is to join strongly with the two Western states in the List and reports from Missouri, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska and Washington give assurances to ths colonel of a marked party defection in those states to his movement. There is at present no strong drift from Illinois, Ohio, Indiana or Ken tucky and lowa, having large of her own, is playing extremely doss’ until th® definite program is outlined, Minnesota's progressive Republicans are for Roosevelt on a third party tick- ' eL according to W. A, Eaton, of Du-j luth. Senator Moses Clapp is not talk* ‘ Ing on the subject Hugh T. Halbert*' of St Paul, is with the Rough Rider. “Wasn’t Started / Soon Enough.” ‘*We've had but one oonypia.int.'" eeJIS Mr. Baton. “Ths third party move-*; ment was not started soon enough td.; stilt us. We've wanted Roosevelt on * progressive platform as the progressive candidate from the beginning. While I ’ can speak only for myself, I am satis- ' fled that this sentiment is unanimous."* The actual work of preparing for tbs convention at Denver is to be dona largely under the direction of Judge Re.n B. Lindsey, of Denver, who Is lead - ; tng the Colorado contingent into th« new camp. The judge la enthusiasti cally for tlie Roosevelt movement and he Is today doing much preliminary work looking to the general meeting which Is to come in hie town. He assured the men who came today to confer that Colorado would go for the colonel, regardless of Democratic action at Baltimore, and great faith is pinned to him by his fellows. Move On Now! says a policeman to a street crowd, and whacks heads if it doesn’t, "Move on now," saya the big, harsh mineral pills to bowel congestion and suffering follows. Dr. King's New Life Pilis don't bulldoze the bowels. They gen tly persuade them to right action, and health follows. 25c at ail druggists. •** A sprained ankle may aa a rule be cured in from three to four days by applying Chamberlain’s Liniment and observing the directions with each bot tle. For aale by al’ dealers. ”• A fRIFTHROUGH The Jno. L. Moore & Sons' grinding plant would make you realize the value of accurately ground Eyeglasses. Their Kryptok Bifocal is the aristocrat, among Eyeglasses. Most comfortaNe and dressy glass made. 42 North Broad street. FUNERAL NOTICE. ' HALL— Friends and relatives es Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Hall and family ar® invited to attend the funeral of Dr. J. P. Hall Sunday, June 23. 1912. at 3 p. m., from his late residence, 137 West Fair street. The members of W. H. T. Walker camp and Comanche tribe ofi Red Men, No. «, are especially invited j to attend. Carriages will leave the of fice of H. M. Patterson fe Son at 2:30. FUNERAL NOTICE. iTo the Chiefs and Members of Comanche Tribe No. 6, Improved Order Red Men: You are hereby commanded to be at the Red Men's Wigwam Association, No. 86 Central avenue. Sunday, June 23, 1912. at 2 p m„ for purpose of attending the funeral of our decreased broth er, Dr. J. P. Hall, No. 138 West Fair street. Interment at Westview camelry. Ail brethren of other tribes are ex tended a cordial invitation to meet with us.. E. K GRIMMETT. Sachem. Attest: HENRY H. GREEN, Chief of Records. 3