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Georgia Delegation Turns Deaf Ear to Appeals of Wilson Men—Bryan Turns Against Speaker
CLARK AND UNDERWOOD CANDIDACIES IN ASCENDENCY AT BALTIMORE
Delegates Instructed for
Alabaman Will Turn
to Missourian in Pref
erance to Any of the
Other Candidates.
By JAMES BE NEVIN.
BALTIMORE, MD, June 26.—For the
first time since the Underwood people
reached Baltimore—not particularly the
Georgia Underwood delegation, but all
Underwood delegations—they are be
ginning to speculate upon a possible
second choice for the presidential nom
ination.
Mr. Bryan's comments upon yester
day's proceedings in the convention
hall, published m several New York
newspapers today, have brought the
Underwood people squarely face to face
with the idea that eventually they may
have to go to some other candidate
than Underwood, and today it looks as
if the man they will go to unquestion
ably will be Champ Clark, who is loom
ing bigger and bigger every minute as
the probable nominee of this conven
tion.
Mr. Bryan has aligned himself with
Woodrow Wilson. He says the.ponven
tiori probably will nominate either a
reactionary or sqjne so-called progres
sive satisfactory to the reactionaries.
He goes out of his way to put the ban
of his disapproval specifically upon the
Undertyood delegations, upon Harmon
and upon Senator Stone, former Sen
ator Dußoisc and other Clark leaders.
Ur.derwood Delegations
Look Kindly Upon Clark.
If Bryan has turned his back or»
Clark, it likely will mean in all proba
bility that the Underwood delegations.
In the event they break from Under
wood at any time, will go to Clark.
The Georgia delegation is beginning
tn look kindly upon Clark—far more
kindly since Bryan has apparently put
the seal of his disapproval upon him
than before. The Georgia delegation
feels that the speaker is all right, and.
In the event Underwood s nomination is
found to be impossible it more than
likely will go to him. While no mem
ber of the delegation is willing to be
quoted publicly as expressing any
thought that might, be construed into
a hint that the delegation is not com
pletely and thoroughly for Underwood,
first, last and all the time, still some
of them say that, if a break from Un
derwood should be found impossible to
avoid the delegation would land in the
Clark column.
Wilson Men Attempt
To Win Georgians.
Attempts to. interest the Georgia del
egation. in Woodrow- ilson s behalf
were renewed today, but without suc
cess. One of the leading Georgia dele
gates-at-large was sent for by a Wilson
leader and invited into a conference.
Every inducement was offered the
Georgians to swing into the Wilson
column for second choice.
The Georgia delegate said to the Wil
son’ representative frankly that the
Georgia delegation certainly would
consider no proposition to put Under
wood, with his long experience in
statesmanship, second to Wilson, with
his two scant years. The Wilson lead
er said the Wilson people would agree
to frame it either way—Wilson or Un
derwood at the head.
After an hour's talk with some of the
Georgia delegates, the Underwood lead
er Informed the Wilson representative
that Georgia would consider no line
up with Wilson on anything; that if the
Wilson people wanted to join Georgia
In making Underwood the nominee for
president or Champ Clark the nominee,
they would be welcome Into camp, but
that beyond that there was nothing do
ing. The Georgians share the prevail
ing opinion that Wilson has been elim
inated from the fight for the nomina
tion.
Near-Heroes of Late
Primary at Work.
Al! the familiar Wilson leaders of
Georgia, near-heroes of the late presi
dential primary' fight, are on hand, mix
ing It with the delegates and undertak
ing to squeeze their man Into the run
ning somewhere.
One Georgia \Vilsonlte of wide repute
went tn Chairman G. R. Hutchens last
• night and proposed that a combination
be framed up between Underwood and
■Wilson, with Underwood for the presi
dency and Wilson for the vice presi
dency. Os course that impressed Mr.
Hutchens as entirely too generous to
be true, particularly coming from the
Wilsonite of wide repute, as aforesaid,
and he said he would have to talk the
matter around a bit and sde how the
boys took to it. When he began talk-.
Ing it around he found that others be
sides. the Wilsonite of wide repute, as
aforesaid, had been talking it around
among the boys, and that what he
(Hutchens) had to communicate, as a
sort of curious piece of gossip, was not
news to the delegation at all.
Trying to Line Out
Georgia For Wilson.
The idea presumably was to line out
the Georgia delegation for the New
Jerse.v man somewhere. After two
days’ hard work, nothing had been ac
complished in the second choice mat
ter, so surely’ Georgia would fall for
the suggestion of Wilson for the vice
presidency, if it carried with it Under
wood for the big job. Not one single
member, of the delegation could see
anything in that pipe dream, however,
and not one delegate agreed to consider
the proposal, even half way seriously.
The Wilson people, including the
Wilsonite of wide repute as aforesaid,
have succeeded in getting nothing but
the colder! of > omfort from the Geo. -
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, ..] u nr| Charles R. Pendleton. .hair
nun of the Georgia delegation, is one
LEADING CANDIDATES
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Jack Slaton, at the top, and .Im-
Hill Hall, of Bibb county, two fore
most candidates for governor ami
leaders in the legislature which
convened today.
of the happiest men 1n Baltimore to
day. He is proud of the stand the
Georgia delegation is taking and
pleased with the way it is sticking to
gether.
Pendleton Says Don *t
Believe Hostile Press.
On behalf of lhe Georgia delegation.
Colonel Pendleton wishes It made as
plain as it may be that Georgia has
considered no second choice for the I
presidential nomination and will con-;
aider none so long, at least, as Under
wood has the slightest chance of a
nomination. And today lhe Georgians
believe that Underwood is looming de
cidedly larger than he ever has before.
Georgia already has acquired a con
vention reputation as the delegation
that sits tighter and sticks closer to
gether than any of them. All sorts
of appeals have been made to it; all
sorts of stories have been sent out
about it: all sorts of attempts have
been made to disrupt and shake it. but
no effort has rattled it or caused it one
moment of uneasiness about itself.
Discussing the Georgia delegation
today, Chairman Pendleton said:
“It is a fine delegation of level-head
ed men. It came to Baltimore to serve
a high and patriotic purpose to the
Democracy. Nothing can shake that
determination. All sorts of misrepre
sentations have been sent out and may
be sent out by a press hostile to its
candidate for the presidency. People
should believe the things they read in
the papers friendly to Underwood, and
reject the things said in a hostile press.
I am not going to bother my head to
deny the fakes and untruths that a
hostile press may send out or an enemy
give utterance to. All the Georgia dele
gation asks is that the people of Geor
gia watch what it docs —that will tell
its story. The people may judge Geor
gia by the acts of its delegation, not by
what somebody unfriendly to it may
say or hint that It will or will not
do."
Georgia Delegation
Not For Gaynor.
An effort has been made to place
Colonel Pendleton and the Georgia del
egation in an attitude of favoring Gay
nor, of New York. The Georgia dele
gation is not for Gaynor for second
choice, and Colonel Pendleton has never
said he was. The truth of the matter
Is, that while the New York delegation
and the Georgia delegation are very
friendly and have stood together
far, particularly in the Parker-Bryan
fight, New York is far more apt to
come to Underwood than Georgia is to
go to Gaynor. The New Yorkers are
not instructed; the Georgians are. The
Gaynor boom has very little of the
substantial about it; it is more of a
favorite son game than anything else.
The Georgia delegation lias it unofii.
cigl, but semi-autolioritative, today
that the New York delegation is se
riously considering the idea of voting
for Underwood on the first ballot for
the presidential nomination, and likely
Will djl 30.
The Underwood marching club, of
Alabama, is parading the city today,
headed by a brass hand, and all hands
Jngibg 'Underwood. My Undetwood,”
t ->ong composer! by Chq d Gill, > Ma
con, Ga., boy, and scl to the tune of
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"Maryland My Maryland " The song
is a. big hit. In Baltimore.
The Georgia delegation has been ask
ed how it would- feel about a motion
to make the temporary organization
permanent. The delegation will con
sider such a motion with favor, if it. is
made.
Dean Heads Committee
On Permanent Organization.
H. H. Dean, one of Georgia's dele
gates-at-large, was elected chairman
of the committee on permanent, or
ganization. In that roll he will play
a prominent part in the convention
hereafter. It may be said that Mr.
Dean's election to that high position
of great and abiding responsibility was
brought about more by reason of Geor
gla's firm amt uncompromising stand
against Mr. Bryan in the Parker con
test than for any' other reason. The
delegates generally are persuaded that
whatever else may happen in Baltimore,
the Georgia delegation will never con
sent to take any sort of dictation from
It is a fact that the Georgians went
into the convention hall eery much
against Bryan. They came out eter
nally and uncompromisingly against
him. If the commoner elects to get
back In bis place, he can do business
witli Georgia, but as ringmaster of the
whole show, be can not transact a
little bit. The truth of the business
is that there is more than one Geor
gia delegate who believes that Mr.
Bryan is headed straight for Theodore
Roosevelt's third party, and that he w ill
land there before this convention is
long a cold and dead thing of tin- past.
Whether this suspicion is entirely jus
titled by- the fact in the cas- is a
question, but that many delegates’ be
lieve Bryan i going to quit if h< '.in
not bo.:a the performance is a fact.
ASSEMBLY OPENS
WITH 010 SCRAP
Rejection of Smith Appoint
ments Last Summer Bobs
Up on First Day.
Continued From Page One.
eentl.v made against Secretary H. F.
Harris by Dr. Willis Westmoreland,
former president, in which the secretary
was bitterly attacked. The board it
self rendered a report defending Dr.
Harris, but Dr. Brown will insist on
a full and open probe of the board. His
resolution was referred to the commit
tee on sanitation and health.
Mr. York, of Cobb, introduced a hill
to put all county officers on salaries
instead of fees in counties of 20AI0O
population or more.' Another bill puts
solicitors general of circuits having 20.-
000 population on a salary basis.
Mr. Anderson, of Chatham, sent in
a resolution to amend the act of the
last session which put Putnam county
in the Seventh district, far away from
its location, to put it in the Eighth,
where it naturally belongs, it was a
clerical error which caused the trou
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Electrocution For
Condemned Felons.
Mr. Adams, of Hall, introduced a hill
providing an electric ehair at the state
prison farm at Milledgeville where the
death penalty shall be imposed upon
all convicted of capital crimes, and
changing the inode of death from hang,
ing to electrocution.
The bill provides $2,000 for Installing
the electric apparatus and prohibits
ntws|iapeis publishing any details of
execution.s beyond the mere fact that
the criminal was executed. '
Mi. Adams also introduced a bill to
plm-e a s2,noii tax on fraternal organ
izations having lockers for liquor,
instead of the present si>oo t.'ix.
Several bills to raise the salaries of
state officials were introducetl Among
tln-m were:
By Burwell, of Hancock. To rai.se
the salary of the stale treasurer to
$4,000 a year, and to raise the salary
of the chief clerk of the emnmis-ionet
of agriculture from SI,BOO to $2.500 pet
yea r.
Ault Committee
Proposes Changes.
Ilppr<*s«n:ative Ault, of Poik. and as
sociates of the special committee wtiicn
investigated the agricultural depart
ment, introduced two bills embodying
the findings and recommendations of
ilw committee. One prescribes an im
proved sysu m fop handling money re
■ eived and paid nut by the 5 department,
’CI” 1 <»ih<t limits the nnmbei of
lilizer io - poctoi - to bp employed and
providot to.j thej mu t tbeb’
• iitire time to the official duties. It
provides for six general inspectors at
$1,200 a year and such additional in
spectors as may be needed during the
busy season not to exceed 40, at $83.33
a month.
To Honor Stephens' Memory.
Crawfordville, Ga., will have the most
distinguished list of guests in its midst
next Fourth of July that any one town
of its size ever entertained, for the
whole Georgia legislature accepted to
day the invitation from Crawfordville
to come down, cat barbecue and bruns
wick stew and celebrate tl\e 100th anni
versary’ of Alexander H. Stephens, only
vice president of the Confederacy and
governor of Georgia at the time of his
death.
The invitation came by telegram to
Speaker Holder of the house and Presi
dent Slaton of the senate from Mayor
W. H, Holden of Crawfordville, and
both houses rose to their respective
feet and accepted. A special train will
be engaged to take the legislators to
Crawfordville and return.
Banking Bill Introduced.
The most voluminous bill which
reached the house today was that pro
viding for a separate department of
banking, relieving the insurance com
missioner from this brand of his work,
and regulating the conduct of state
banks generally. It was an outgrowth
of the special commission which held a
week’s session at the capitol a few
yveeks ago and wais introduced by
Chairman Turner, of Jones county, and
his associates on the commission.
Chairman Turner, who is also chair
man of the bank committee of the
house, announces that a public hearing
will be held on this bill tomorrow after
noon at 3 o'clock in one of the commit
tee rooms, and all interested are re
quested tn attend. The essential fea
tures of the bill have already been
published.
Another Income Tax Bill.
Another hill to provide a tax on in
comes was introduced today, this time
by Representative Tarver of Whitfield.
Tile income tax hill has been intro
duced every year, as far as the memory
of man runneth into ancient history,
tnd It was greeted as an old friend to
day.
Mr. Tarver’s bill proposes an amend
ment to the constitution, to be submit
ted to a vote of the people, giving the
legislature the right to fix a. graduated
lax on incomes. No specific figure Is
given, that being left to t.he legiela
t tire.
Six New Senate Pages.
Sorrow and sadness was, distributed
at the capitol today when six pages
were appointed by Flynn Hargett, mes
senger of the senate, and 60 applicants
turned down. Mr. Hargett has been be
sieged by fond fathers, fond mothers
and also the sisters and the cousins
and the aunts of small boys desiring a
chance to run errands in the senate
chamber and play marbles in the cor
ridors, until he couldn't sleep o' nights,
and he breathed a sigh of relief when
the appointments were signed and
sealed today. Here are she lucky ap
pointees: Robert Foreman. Atlanta:
Wilmot. Littlejohn. Americus; Mack C.
Duggan. Sandersville; St. John Meach
am. Williamson: Tully Cornwell, Mon
ticello, and D. F. MeClatehey, Jr., Ma
rietta.
The six appointees will serve for the
first 25 days of the session and then
another half-dozen will be named for
rhe other half of the term.
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Breakfast
Is Served
Good breakfasts start, the day right; and it’s the part of wisdom to se
lect food for nourishment, that can be easily digested.
A dish of
Grape-Nuts
and Cream
with some fruit, a slice of crisp toast and a cup of Postum, contains
ample nourishment easily digested—to carry one, well fed, through the
morning’s work.
The exhilaration of bounding health is well worth the trial of such a
breakfast.
(( There's a Reason
Postum *Cereal Co., Ltd., Rattle Creek. Mich.
GO SLOW ON LIQUOR
LAW, IS WARNING OF
GOVERNOR BROWN
Adhering tn his campaign pledges of
1911, Governor Joseph M. Brown today
urged the general assembly to go slow
with prohibition legislation and undei
no circumstances to change the pres
ent prohibition law without a referen
dum.
In his annual message delivered to
both houses at noon, the chief execu
tive entered into an exhaustive discus
sion of the present prohibition statutes,
deploring the fact that Georgia had
acquired the habit of letting prohibition
legislation and rumor of prohibition
legislation overshadow other and more
important laws. He said:
Must Be Submitted To People.
"Regarding prohibition legislation, it
is propei- that 1 should state that this
was made a distinct issue in the last
gubernatorial campaign, and naught
can bo more than the statement that
the peopld of Georgia have given us a
special mandate on this subject; tn
other words, they have definitely de
cided that If any change be made In the
present statutes governing the manu
facture and sale of alcoholic liquor? In
this state, such change shall not be
effective until after it has been sub
mitted to them and has received their
approval at the ballot box.
"A perusal of the present law shows
that it will be difficult, by the use of
words, to make it stronger; but the
effectiveness, as it stands or as it may
he amended, necessarily' is a. matter of
local enforcement.”
In urging general legislation the gov
ernor followed closely' the trend already
indicated by the legislators. He urged
a scaling of appropriations tn prepare
for the deficit the treasury department
is facing. He recommended the crea
tion of the office of state auditor, a
revision of the banking laws, an in
crease in the number nf state bank ex
aminers and a complete revision of
Georgia’s Insurance laws.
In insisting upon the absolute neces
sity of a general policy of retrench
ment. the governor said:
Retrenchment Necessary.
"It is with regret that I report to
you that we have had sufficient funds
to meet only lb per cent of the cur
rent common school appropriation,
though 5b per cent of it is now due.
This Is the lowest on record. In 1911,
at this date, only 13 per cent had been
paid. The next lowest was in 191 b
when 20 per cent bad been paid; and
that total payment, doubling the one
for this year, was only half the pro
portionate amount oaid by June. 1904.
on the school appropriation of that
year.
"I believe if. to the public Interest
that you devote more serious attention
to the scaling of expenditures than to
the question of levying additional
taxes.”
In no unmistakable terms. Governor
Brown pronounced the Hoke Smith
amendments passed to insure flexibility
to the state finances of little value. One
amendment, Increasing the governor’s
borrowing power, Governor Brown
branded a makeshift.
For the registration law nf 1908, the
.governor’s pet aversion, he again urged
a nypeal, calling attention of the gen
assembly to the fact that he had
urged Its appeal in 1910 and 1911.
100,000 White Voters Victims.
By its provision, the governor sa#l,
fully 100,000 white voters of Georgia
were being disfranchised annually. Its
provision he pronounced the most
drastic in the Union. In Fulton county
alone, where the Federal census shows
the number of whites at voting age to
be 35,861. the total registration for 1912
was but 14,701.
He recommended, a big change in the
manner of handling state convicts on
the public roads. He Said:
"The building of good roads Is un
doubtedly one of the main factors in
the marked progress the state has made
in material development during the
past three years. Yet, as this prog
ress Is mostly due to the use of ths
state’s convicts, the state has the right
to require such handling of the con
victs as will generally benefit, all the
people, while increasing the facilities of
the several Bounties.
"Therefore, it should be required by
law that, at least, a stipulated propor
tion of the convicts be worked upon the
njain roads in each county leading from
its county site to the county sites of
adjoining counties, or that, all of the
convicts be worked upon such main
roads a stipulated proportion of their
total time until said roads are com
pleted.
Urges Pardon Secretary.
"Furthermore, that the main roads be
laid off and worked In accord with the
demands of public necessity and mod
ern science. I recommend that the
office of commissioner of public high
ways be established, and that it be filled
with an experienced civil engineer, at
a. salary and traveling expenses, etc.,
to be fixed by law.”
Upon the subject, of pardons the gov
ernor recommended that, a pardon sec
retary or assistant attorney general be
appointed to examine all applications
for pardons which now go before the
prison board. The distribution of the
state’s convicts over 130 counties, he
said, has made it impossible for the
prwon board to cope with the situation.
The rapid growth of Georgia rail
roads has made double tracking a ne
cessity In many instances. Upon this
subject the governor urged that the
transportation committees of both
houses and the railroad commission
hold a conference as to the advisability
of forcing several lines to double track.
“W. <S. A, Should Me Released."
Again, the governor urged that the
railroad commission be decreased in
membership from five to three, main
taiinng that there was no reason why
this body should have more members
than the other state commissions.
Exactly as he had urged on June 28,
1911, the governor said a second time
that the releasing of the Western and
Atlantic railroad should be given at
tention at once. He said that no legis
lature should contemplate, the leasing
of the state road for a longer period of
time than 30 years—the life of a single
generation.
Special appropriations for the state
schools and state departments were
recommended as follows:
Increase of $5,000 in the maintenance
appropriation for Georgia Tech.
Special appropriation for Georgia
Tech of $20,000 for a new heating and
lighting plant.
Increase in the appropriation of
$5,000 annually for the. Georgia Normal
and industrial school.
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