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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Ry THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta. Ga Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act March IX7I Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week By mail. $5 00 a ■-ear Ratable in advance. Mr. Hearst Says He Con fidently Predicts That Champ ( lark Will Be ’ Nominated and Elected BALTIMORE, .hilt I The papers reeenth quoted from various signed articles of the contributors to the Hearst news papers and imply that this or that opinion is the opinion of Mr Hearst or of the Hearst newspapers. There are nine special contributors to lie Hearst news papers, all writing over their own signatures and jzivinff then own personal views. These men are all men of f’nru p and strong individuality, w hose viewpoints and opinions differ trreatly. To take the opinion of any one of these contributors and live it as the opinion of the Hearst papers or Mr Hearst is not accurate and not fair. I have not as vet made am comment on the convention, but I will give the following statement to the press: In my opinion the vast majority of the delegates of this convention are progressive, and the convention will demon strate its own progressive character in the preparation ol the platform and the nomination of a candidate. The division at the start on the question of a temporal’) chairman was not in the least a division on the question ol progressive or reactionarv principles. It was merely a divi sion on the question of whether or not Mr. Bryan was right in his attempt to dominate the convention and Io dictate in detail ever' action of the convention A great mam progressives, a great many personal friends and admirers of Mr. Bryan voted against Mr. Brian because thev disapproved of the particular purpose ol his and of this particular act of his. The ('lark delegates did not vole as a bod} one way or the other. Thev followed their OWN consciences and convictions without the slightest attempt at coercion or any machine meth ods. One hundred and ninety nine ('lark delegates voted for Mr. Brian. The others voted for Mr. Parker Ever) man did what seemed lies! in his own heart and mind In the California delegation Mr. 801 l nominated Mr Par ker. vet seven of the California delegation voted for Mr. Brian. In the Massahusetts delegation, which is lor (’lark, a large majority voted for Mr Brian In the Washington delegation, which is for ('lark, all the delegates voted for Mr. Brian. Everv delegation determined its own attitude, the ('lark managers believing that the greatest Irherly is the best Item oeracy. ( If Mr. Brian lost, he lost not because of an) lack of admi ration for Mr Brian among the delegates, mil because of any prejudice on the part of the ('lark forces or of am individuals among the Clark forces, but because a majority of the delegates of the convention believed that it was best for the part)' Io en courage harmony wherever harmony could he secured without sacrifice of principle. The convention dpeided that it had functions to perform and was capable of performing them, and that the Deinoi-rae) did not need a dictator, not even so aide and honorable a one as Mr. Brian. It is unwis> and unjust of Mr. Brian to declare that ever) one who disagrees with him upon this point of opinion was a rcaetionari. obedient to a boss or subservient to Wall Street. I am as sincere a progressive as Nir. Brian. I lune fought for the cause of the people as long as Mr. Brian has. I have qjade as mam sacrifices for principle as- Mr Brian has. and I am as read) as Mr Brian to continue the progressive tight in the present and in the future without surrender and without co mpromise. lam not favorable to Mr Parker I opposed Mr. Parker in 1904 at the St Louis convention, just as Mr. Brian opposed him. I received over 20<> votes in St Louis in the 1904 comen tinn. with opposition to Mr Parker, but if I had been a dele gate upon the floor of this Baltimore convention yisterdai. and if 1 had voted in the interest <>f harmony to elect Mr Parker to an unimportant position, maintaining mi *>tand unswervingli for progressive prieiples in the vital matters of the platform and the candidates. I would deni Mr Brian the right to ini piign mi motives or t<» question mi loialii to the progressive cause. I am defniitel) ami positive!) and finalli in favor of a progressive candidal' and a progressive platform, but I waul to sec the progressive candidate and the progressiie platform carried through to victor) In tin enthusiastic support of a EXITED Demoerac) I know that there is no mor.' genuine progressive in the length and breadth of this land of ours than ('hanip ('lark He has detiiiitel) declared his views in innumerable earnest and inspiring utterances, ami he has demonstrated his sincerity by his acts He is not a new convert to ih< progressive cause. Eor nearly half a century he has fought tin progressive fight and won his batties on progressive issues IL is a veteran in the war lor the people's rights He has won his promotion and attained his present dis tinction through his courage ami devotion to the people's cause He has not changed Ins mind nor altered his attitude on these progressive question* ni all hi* long and honorable career, and we know that if elected president of tin- I nited States he will be and will remain a progressive and‘a Democrat I knew Champ ('lark when I was a representative in eon press, and. like Aeneas. I can tel: of a progressive tight ' part of which I saw and part of which I was I knew thA Democratic minority. disorganized under Joseph W. Bailey, demoralized under John Sharp Williams I saw Champ (’lark elected leader if this disrupted and C*nU*>.»« .« !_*•* Gel..—— The Atlanta Georgian SUMMER SPORTS By HAL COE EM AX. .JR' • i - /, r — .. - ‘ I "s 1 ■'■■■ ( WMRU 1 N ■ ,V? T Buss V ,»(? tjh, VsieuSMT L|FTIN6- EAWiNG- Z' fi Ni’'l,> Z Treble -<jm- ''N ier) J] j Ta.mß-.p-tl \ Sun-Burned/ « 'Sis. V Tt ' s ' * —? X A' iXc /) - ~ < u i i/iti n\ - .m CoOKJNG- BATMiNG- i i ' -pv EM PEB T AND SU N - j SHINE. by Mary ,1. Holmes —there It lay. face down, on the rock. The tall ferns s-r-w and sweet around the rock, the water fall sang a song of summer and of laughter In green places, the pines sighed mournfully In the cannon and above there floated in the se rene blue a fleecy cloud. The blue bells shook their deli cate petals as If some fairy wed ding was at hand, ami there in the cleft of a great rock smiled a wild rose, as sweet and as pink as the first flower that bloomed In the Garden of Eden. So still it was In the deep green canyon, so still, so sheltered, so scented, so cool, it looked and felt as If m\ foot was the first ever to tread the way to the cleft rock hi the clear spring Ind yet there It lay. the queer, battered, weather-beaten old book. Tempest and Sunshine." by Mary .1 Holmes Who whs reading it” 1 wondered. Where did It come from? In what attb had it lain all these mocking years” • I had Just got Interested in that b"ol< when trjuh-.-r slipped up be hind me and took It out of my geogra phi W hat'» that you're reading m> dra ' said she. 'something about South American industries."' Ind she took the book right awa- from me thrtyami there and net or (gain did 1 get one glimpse of it I never did know whether T-tv pest got Sunshine's sweetheart away from her or not. and here it was right here in th- deep < anon o?« God’s Answer & Bv KLLA WHEELER WILCOX Copyright *912, by Xmerican-.Journal-Examiner. ONCE in a time of trouble and of care 1 drepmed I talked with God about my pain; With sleepland courage, daring to complain Os what I deemed ungracious and unfair. "Lord. I have groveled on mi knees in pra.ver Hour after hour." I cried, "yet all in vain; \o hand leads up to heights I would attain. No path is shown me out of my despair." Then answered God; "Three things I gave tn thee— t lo.ar brain, brave will and strength of mind and heart. All implements divine, to shape the wav. Why shift the burden of thy tod on Me’ T H to the utmost he has done his part With ill bis might, lot no man dare to pray." An Old-Fashioned Book Bv WINIFRED BLACK. MONDAY. J ELY 1. 1912. waiting to be read, face down, on the riven rock. Hack! A»e those voices on the wind? Some one is coming up the canon iII step into the shadow a minute Here they are—three girls three funny little old-fashioned girls. One. very little, and one middle sized, and one quite tall. They are looking for something. "Here's where we sat." said the eldest girl. "I see l-t.” said the little girl, as she snrang and picked up the book in less than a minute the three wore In a knot by the riven rock. The eldest girl set her sturdy back against a tall tree, the two smaller ones settled themselves comforta bly at her rather good-sized feet, and the spell began to work. ■’Tempest frowned darkly," be gan the eldest girl. "Oil"’ cried the little girl, "that mean olfi Tempest Is beginning again I almost hate to heat about her. She is awfully mean." Anti rather than disturb their j<n 1 stole carefully away down the green canon and loft them to gether there by the riven rock, where the clear water sang the -ong of summer and of laughter In green, shedy nooks. Tempest and Sunsirine and the little old-fashioned girls. And now 1 shall never know what happened to little Sunshine and her sweetheart, the voting doc tor. I shall never know whether Tempest found out how wicked site was and reformed I shall never know what either of them wore the day thev were married of what the young doi tor said when he ■ gathered little blue-eyed Sunshine to his heart," as he must have some time before the end of the story. Isn’t It too had? "Tempest and Sunshine." what a queer old-fashioned hook it was. to be sure. Not a married woman In it. not a stolen kiss, not an elope ment even; no actress, no late sup pers. no divorces, no “climbers." no clever innuendos, as Mr. Aston Stevens says—nothing but honey and bread and butter and snowy biscuits and blue eyes and that wicked, wicked Tempest. How could we ever have been so absorbed in it when teacher found me reading it in my geography so many years ago? And yet there they sat today together in the deep canon, tht* three growing girls, as deeply absorbed In the old-fash ioned book they had fished out of some garret as if It had been a treatise on eugenics, the sort of thing that seems to be so fashion able Just now’ Have the girls changed, or have we who buy the books for them changed? Sentimental, high-flown, lacking in literary merit. Doubtless, doubt less. no one could claim much for the "art for art's sake" side of the Holmes book or its like. And yet Just the other day when a girl of seventeen went with me for a walk up the green canon where the laughing w ater .< alts day and night to all who are weary to come and rest and laugh, too. and when she carried as light reading in Iter blouse pocket "De Profundis" and 'Omar Khayyam”—l felt somehow as disconcerted as I would to watch a harmless gray and white kit ten trying to make itself believe that it liked mustard and horse radish for dinner and couldn’t abide a dish of bread and milk with good thick yellow cream on it. "Tempest and Sunshine." by Mrs. J. Holmes. We laugh at the old fashioned books now. and at the old-fashioned people who read them, and yet. do you know, id take my chance with any one of the little readers of "Tempest and Sun shine" up there in the canon the other dav and let the poor, puzzled earnest .voting person with the "Omar Khayyam" yearnings and the "De Profundis" cult go by on the very cold side of the street for al! of me. I wonder if I am en tirely wrong” Love friendship, simple hopes kindly ambitions, sweet, daughter ly affection, home live white table v loth, the yellow butter, the golden honey, tin amber tea. the little sprig of woodbine in the golden hair, the simple bouquet of wild r<>«es on the table, the bright fi r e on the friendly hearth, when the i 00l of evening falls the sweet clover under the window, the com fortable iat in the sunshine on the porch, the old dog at tiie gate, the bees a-hum in the buckwheat what is there bettei than these things ~r more to be loved and desired, after all? THE HOME PAPER The Education of .the Voter THE RECALL Gives the People Power to Remove an Ineffi cient Man From Office. THE recall is a special form of the initiative. The mechan ism of this factor in our po litical life is very simple, tn cer tain cities a clause ha' been insert ed in the chartet permitting th» calling: of a new election to fill an office on petition of '25 per cent, more or lees, of the voters. Its direct object is to give the people the power to remove an in efficient’ man from office, if he has misused or abused the privileges of it. By the recall clause in its char ter. Los Angeles. < al., has removed a mayor from oflv e. It is no easy matter to determine how far the power of recall is a just instrument in the hands of th«» people. But there is no question whatever as to its safety, if the people rise to the level of it intelli gently. The one great asset count ed on by political rings and bosses is the supineness of the people. They count on the mass not taking hold, not taking Intelligent interest In politics. And this close analysis • has a point in this, that it leaves the rings and bosses free to use their power as they like. This Fact. Escapes The Average Man. It is amazing that a fact so sim ple and so plain to discover should escape the average man. What does he do when he ’s convinced that the ring has so forced up things about him that only a hand-to mouth fight is possible? He does nothing. The powers know be will do nothing, and they sing the Halle lujah Chorus quite often, for quite often things come their way with no opposition. Before the advent into our poli tical vocabulary of Initiative. Ref erendum. Preferential Primary. Re call and the like the average voter was about as safe as a man with one foot in the grave and the other on a Vianana peel. But these nev words, and all the ideas for which they stand, are not fixed condi tions; they are open doorways by which you can go out into the field and exercise new powers. It must be remembered that the Initiative is just as apt to inspire a bad man as a good one. It is all a question of which can get the re quired number of signatures to his petition and the majority of votes at the election which hi* petition calls for. People Must Watch Over This New Privilege. Hence the people with this new power and privilege are very much like a body of owners of valuable physical property. They have to watch it, cover ft with high insur ant e. and have an eye on It night and dqy The bosses, eager to In- Mr. Hearst Predicts Clark Will Be Nominated and Elected Continued From First Column. discouraged minority. I saw him weld it into a harmonious unit, and devote it to the fundamental doctrines of Democracy. I saw him outline the progressive policy which expressed lhe demands of the people, and received the support of the peo ple. and. wonderful to relate. I saw that dispirited Democratic minority transformed into a triumphant Democratic majority. Tho people of the United States found in that Democratic minority under the inspiring leadership of Champ Clark a po litical body which represented them, and the people placed that body and that leader in tho control of congress and gave, them the po'wer to carry through to complete success the admirable work which they had so well begun. The success of the Democratic organization in congress was the cause of the great Democratic victory of 1910. and Champ Clark was the leader who made that victory possible. All tho Democratic governors ot that year were swept to success on the tidal wave of Democracy which found its origin and received its impetus through the progressive and Demo crat! of Champ Clark and his associates in congress. Champ ('lark, who harmonized the Democracy in congress and led it to success in support of progressive principle, seems to me now to be the man to harmonize the Democracy of the nation and lead it to victory in this campaign for the presi dency of the United States. x 1 confidently predict that Champ Clark will he nominated and elected, ami that he will make the greatest president that the Democracy has had since tin dat s of Jefferson and Jackson. W. R. HEARST. Bv THOMAS TAPPER. fiuen-e polltica' conditions, for yea s bent the!” energies to that. end. That is one form of In itiative. Hitherto when a vicious man has been put in office. he has usually remained there until his term expi-ori; but the instance of Los Angeles, quoted above, show’s how such a case may be dealt w/h once it comes to popular notice. Rut is the Recall a necessary in strument lo place in the hands of the people? I f you read only the dally papers you will be convinced that as good men heartily con demn It as others, equally good, 'defend it. It is pointed out that when the mob takes the Initiative to bang a man instead of leaving his ca«e In 'he hands of law and the courts, it proves 'hat public opinion can be influenced to per form irresponsible deeds. But. happily, there lies in the In itiative a very great power. That power is the nomination to office of a man WHO WILL NEVER NEED To BE RECALLED. That a meth od should be prot ided for the re moval from office of an unfit per son. has neve’ beeq denied, hence impeachment trials were Instituted. Hut th» temptation to remove an officer on the petition of a small per cent of the voters Is a different instrument It is true that the seme of the voters may kill the prayer in the petition. Some cities and towns that have added the Recall factor to their charters have been very careful to consider this. For example. Fresno. California, demands 51 per cent of the voters to sign a Recall peti tion; on the other extreme. Berke ley requires only 30 per cent. Need More Experience to Estimate Its Value. The Recall has been described as ":i blow at the dignity of public life." Properly and justly to esti mate its value we need more expe rience. and we shall probably get al) we need of it. But other pow ers in the hands of you as a voter are sufficient in 99 per cent of cases to take care of the situation. The hundredth per cent cab be left lo the impeachment trial. For the. 99 per cent a w ise choice of candi date. an intelligent effort to get the tight man for the place, a disposf- < tion to stand by justice In all Its forms; these are the factors of In surance against a catastrophe that are all powerful. Once again, it is all a matter of Intelligence. A degree of Interest on your part In live constructive politics will bra* anything the ma chine tries to put in operation. So. your education. as a voter, turns your attention to wise, construc tive politics for direct and efficient service.