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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. - Finn? . n fc r , ..] u nr| Charles R. Pendleton. .hair nun of the Georgia delegation, is one LEADING CANDIDATES IN RACE FOR GOVERNOR z _ X / SPPWi A’□A 1 MW .... w W w B Mb 1 if 1 ft i / ------ -- - \ Wli My SXi / \W BBik B. >/ r /a w *" / C 4 V 'SOB® i, it A mg .... 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 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 26. 1912. " \ \ m $ ORBbw i \» wiiiik 11 w B -Im i x '' X "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 ble. X 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. r ftp r VycY yy y 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. 3