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■KING A CONVENTION DEMONSTRATION SAV WHAT? HOW'S Your VO ICE? GOOD!] %! JI « A HW. ■hsjfe ifOf My if Hr '.^^r....*^—<- Thf nV'-, irt.'.-r-I :r.c thine i" :i)f alnnit ih* •■<>- *nlion is !.■>•• ■:■ '?HU.«t rai ion I’ak< so •nn,r, p kjJ ” iai-t '"Hi i'l r Wonima Wil.-om Tlu- v.md riLLINOIS IS READY F TO GO OVER TO L WILSON ■West Virginia. Too. Expected zW to Flop- Delegates Want to Hl End Deadlock. Continued From Page One. Anal ballot before tine renewal of t<>- day> otruKKle. tells the tale 1 .a st !/'■ Candidate. First Bal. Bal. Net change. ||H Clark 44'>l -2 43<i 10 1-2 Ins'- IM WllHon .. . .324 494 17" gain Harmon . ,14k 121 10.-s ■HI I’ndernoo.l 117 1-2 1"4 13 1-2 loss ZW Ramw-ln '"- s Marshall ■ 31 :!l ' t,s "* Bryan 1-2 '"'r Kern 1 * H,n ■ Foss "8 - s S»in B Gaynor 11 gain ■ These figures take no account of the absentees, never considerable, nor of the occasional complimentary votes A-ast for Chairman James. James Ham ilton Lewis and such other dlstin ■Tuished citizens as from time to time Lere sent to the front for a vote to Anliven the situation or give some del egate a chance to rest his lungs by the mention of another name. Backbone of Conservatives Broken. Turning the spotlight upon the sev eral items of the summary, the first and most important deals with the general drift from the conservative candidates. It will he noted at a glance that when the Harmon. Underwood and Baldwin camps were first pitched they represented an aggregate of . ' 156 1-2 more votes than appeared this morning when mess call summoned the faithful to the test of purple and fine linen for the breaking of their fast. Caating about foe. some other con servative leader to whose standard they might have gone, one finds the Military Foss banner erected by a little guard solidly massed under that token of war. Counting these noses, it ap pears that of the original conservative forces 128 1-2 hare left the old home stead and are trying now to be happy under a progressive banner But even that does not mean the slightest thing in sentiment For It must be remembered that of the 128 1-2 there are 90 in one i hunk accredited to Clark from New Voik, which fact represents merely a condition and not theory. These missing New York votes are just as conservative as they ever were ’ they are ln the l >lo Kfesslve camp not for the love of the surroundings, but that the half a loaf may be re tained where the proposition of no bread stared the delegates from the Empire state in the face with William J Bryan on the watch tower to see that the supply of provender was not surreptitiously increased . The progressive rote represents a shifting of delegates from one to the other It is in some cases merely tac tical and not sentimental Less than >" votes have shifted for sentiment—the sort of sentiment that makes men fight for w hat they want. Wholesale Shifting Still Necessity. S t that the net result of the whole Efik; > on of balloting and balloting I n < am! went out arid it started, continuing unabated nearly an hour. Then in marched a motley array of leather-lunged hotel workers, bellhops and messenger boys In uniform, thick-chested ice men, today at the opening of the new bal lotting, dark required 295 1-2 votes to win. Wilson needed 231 1-2 votes Un derwood, the highest conservative, needed 621 1-2. The most industrious worker on the figures today could not see where any one of the candidates named was going to get the requisite number of addi tional votes. So that it appeared sure that If anybody had a Fourth of July speech to make at the old homestead he might as well start hotneward with out waiting to take part In the ultl mate doings Deadlock Record About To Be Broken. General predictions were made today that the Democratic national conven tion would break all record* for dead locks The first high record —49 bal lots —-was made In this city In 1852, when Franklin Pierce was nominated. At Charleston In 1869 49 ballots were cast. The delegates are casting glances homeward. Many fear that their busi ness w ill be wrecked by long absence. Others fear that they will go hungry If they stay much longer. These condi tions only can prevent a record-break ing session, several leaders asserted to day. Many predicted that both of the pre ceding long balloting contests would be broken Others predicted that the break to the successful candidate would come not later than Wednesday, while still others are predicting that the deadlock will not be broken and that the convention will have to adjourn to leave the entire question again to the people to select their '.hoice from the three leading candidates now in the deadlock In some quarters a plan was put for. ward in effect that the convention could adjourn and reconvene in Chi cago late in August, In the meantime each state holding a preferential pri mary. RECEIVERS TO SUE STOCKHOLDERS OF BANK THAT FAILED MACON, GA., -July 3.---The receivers of the Exchange bank, the $2,000,000 insti tution which failed here five years ago. have been granted permission by the su perior court to bring suits against the stockholders tn recover about $40,000 nec essary to pay the creditors their full claims The creditors have already been paid S 5 per cent, and another dividend of five per cent will be distributed tn a few days The receivers will sue for enough monex to discharge the remaining 10 per cent. MACON WATER CONSUMERS TO BE GIVEN FREE METERS MACON. GA.. July 2.— Ab soon as me ters can be Installed, all water consumers of Macon will be put on a meter basis, and charged for the amouflt of water used by them The commissioners last night abolished the fiat rate” system, and de cided to Install about 4,009 meters at the city s expense Macon will thus be the first In the United States to furnish con sumers with meters free of charge An outlay of $50,000 will be required A resolution, fixing the maximum rate at 20 cents per thousand gallons and 10 cents for the same quantity for large consumers, was Introduced and favorably considered, and will doubtless be adopted next week COOK CLAYTON NEW CLERK OF JUDGE SPEER’S COURT MACON. GA, July 2.—Cook Clay ton. court crier of the United States ■ mrt for the Southern district of Geor gia. has been appointed chief clerk for the district, succeeding T F Johnson son of Hirschel V Johnson, Georgia’s ante-bellum governor Mr. Johnson was removed from office by Judge Speer Mr Clayton, the new clerk, wl.l have his headquarters in Savannah taking charge today PERSONS TURN OUT. GA . There was no mK .: to bupst tie Mfe. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. IfTESDAY, JULY 2. 1912. Previous Democratic Convention Records No. Leader on ( Year Bullets Ist Ballot Nominee 1832 1 Jackson Jackson 1844 9 Vanßuren Polk 1848... 4 Cass Cass 1852 49 Cass Pierce 1856 17 Buchanan Buchanan ••1860 59 Douglass Douglass 1864 1 McClellan McClellan 1868 22 Pendleton Seymour 1872 1 Greeley Greeley 1876 2 Tilden Tilden 1880 3 Hancock Hancock 1884 3 Cleveland Cleveland 1888 1 Cleveland Cleveland 1892 1 Cleveland Cleveland 1896 5 Bland Bryan 1900 1 Bryan Bryan 1904 1 Parker Parker 1908 1 Bryan Bryan ••Bolt from convention of 1860, bolters nominating Breckenridge. SMILER WEAPON IN PORTIA'S WAR Mrs. Weaver’s Campaign for Woman Lawyer’s Bill Deter mined, Not Bombastic. Mrs Geo Mclntyre Weaver, lone woman graduate of the Atlanta Law school, a lawyer in knowledge and by virtue of diploma but barred- or rather disbarred —by Georgia statute, still is waging a quiet campaign before the legislature to have tjie law' changed She has adopted as her motto the proverb that sugar catches more flies than vinegar would round up in a summer, and isn’t attack ing anybody, not even Joe Hill Hall. Every day Mrs Weaver may he seen In the balcony of the house of representa tives. watching the arduous labors of the representatives It may be that she is doing some excellent campaigning even there, for the wives of the lawmakers are fond of watching their husbands from the gallery and If Mrs Weaver reaches the wives she may be accomplishing as much as reaching the members themselves Sometimes she leaves the gallery for a chat with some member in the lobby, though she hasn’t registered as a lobby ist and wouldn’t like being called one Joe HUI Hall Still Hostile. But in spite of her belief that Joe Hill Hall, the old warhorse from Bibb, is not as black as he is painted, she must yet reckon with his opposition. Not even Mr Hall’s candidacy for governor has kept him from speaking his mind this ses sion and he declared today to a reporter that he was still opposed to the bill and would fight It. It is m the hands of the judiciary com mittee, and as that body is largely com posed of lawyers it likely will receive an unfavorable report. Dr. Heck, of Brooks county, author of the bill, will endeavor to have it called for second reading today, in order to get a quick report from the committee and have an opportunity to fight it out on the floor He Is confident it will be passed this session unless action is deferred in some way until too late for it to reach the senate NAPIER AND McKENNA IN RACE FOR MACON MAYOR MACON. GA, July 2.—Hendlex V Napier, a prominent Macon lawyer and recently elected president of the Eagles ; of the South. Is the latest candidate to enter for the Macon mayoralty W A McKenna is the first bona fide can didate. and Mr Napier is next There i are expected to be several others, in ■ eluding former Mayors Bridges Smith • and W A. Huff and probably Aider man P L. Hay. MAYOR WARNS ChTeF OF POLICE TO CLOSE CLUBS MACON. GA July 2 If this illegal Sunday operation of clubs can not be stopped by you. then 1 am going to get some one who can stop it. 1 Mayor John ' T. Moore declared to Chief of Police W B Chapman In open court Evidence had jjgt been presented to the court to the ‘ elect that clubs stayed open all day Sun- I day The chief did not make any reply k ESCAPING PRISONER WOUNDED. GA . jjaily 2 Frank Tanner i leg. ar bellows - lunged taxicab drivers and barbers, re cruited from outside the convention. They were fresh. It was a wonderful parade. What It lacked In delegates it made up In picturesqueness. I rec- BRYAN’S AVARICE 15 BLAMED ERR DEADLOCK Nebraskan’s Attitude at Con vention Assailed by Demo crats to Alfred H. Lewis. By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS. BALTIMORE, July 2.—While the bal loting for a presidential nominee goes on what shall one’ w rite about? Obvi ously comment, and comment of the most cursory* kind, one’s single cave of refuge. Talk has largely swung and rattled upon that Bryan resolution, which, while pretending to be aimed disas trously at the ’’interests.’’ possessed but , the one purpose of trouble-making. If there be worth in a proverb, Bryan’s ears must have burned, for few were here to employ his name in conjunction with a compliment. When Bryan read his resolution Sulzer, of New York, was for answering him from the platform. His fellows on the delegation prevailed, however, in favor of letting the occa sion pass. ’’What I wanted to do,” explained Sulzer, ’’was to ask Brother William J. whether or no August Belmont gave him $15,000 in the Parker 1904 cam paign to assist him In carrying Ne braska for the Democrats, Also I de sired to Inquire how many thousand dollars August Belmont and others of his caste of millionaires contributed to Bryan’s political campaign of 1908.” There was other comment. Sulzer stood in no wise alone. The following might furnish a bird’s-eye view of opin ion as It ran: Calls Bryan a Harpie. Stowe, of Massachusetts: "Bryan? What do 1 think of him? Go get Bul finche’s Mythology and read up about the ’Harpies.’ Bryan is a Harpie’—the ’Harpie’ of the Democratic party." Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio: “Bryan’s whole attitude in Baltimore has been one of oad manners and an assumption of party authority. For one, 1 resent this attitude. 1 am tired of receiving orders from Bryan. Ob serve. 1 said ’receiving.’ 1 have never taken any of Bryan's orders, never shall take any. 1 do not need Bryan to do my political thinking; do not re gard him as the keeper of the party conscience. My ow n belief is that the resolution was just a desperate effort on Bryan's part to inject himself into the situation with the hope—a wild one —that it would end in his becoming the convention’s nominee. "Did his resolution advance his chances of a nomination? If he ever had any, 1 should say that it knocked them eternally on the head. I think we are seeing the last of Bryan as a dominating figure tn Democratic poli tics. and as one who wishes the party well. 1 thank the gods for it.” Dahler, of Indiana—-'The resolution itself was flapdoodle It was bound to be adopted. It was as though he of fered a resolution. Resolved, That we as a party will not name a pickpocket for the presidency. Everybody must agree to that, none the less, to offer such a resolution was of worse an in sult to two delegates as regularly elect ed as Bryan himself, and Bryan so meant It 1 think he expected one or two result*—a stampede that would nominate him again or tile rejection of 1 the resolution, which would give him an excuse to bolt. Both his plans ‘ failed." Wouldn’t Vote For Him Again. Martin, of lowa "1 voted for Bryan in 1900 and 1908; 1 wouldn’t vote for him now for the .office of dog pelter. For six months he has been doing all he knew to split the party. He's doing all he knows how. There is a big chance for a Democratic victory in Nowember, and the thought < f the , Democrats winning and some other than himself the white house n- minee i has made Bryan frantic” from Nebraska w I o asks ognized a barber who had shaved me in the morn ing. He seemed to be yelling, “Will you have a lit tle Bay-R-r-rum-Dum-Dum! ” When the exhausted Wilson demonstration had staggered past the Clark that his name be withheld: “Bryan has not astonished us of his own state. We know him. always selfish. Can you name a man he ever helped? Can you name a man he ever tried So help? He is utterly selfish, utterly un grateful. We have an ex-mayor and an ex-governor in Nebraska who can tell you all about it. Thus far at this convention he has hurt nobody but himself. It will be a bright day for the Democracy when we re rid of him.” Carroll, of Alabama: "Bryan's ac tion? It was what I should have ex pected. Bryan is a composite of Peck sniff and Uriah Heep. As hypocritical as Pecksniff, he has all of the pre tended humility based upon vicious ness which Dickens gave to Uriah Heep.” Remember Bennett's Will? Bald-win, of Tennessee: “I’ve never heard much good of either Ryan or Belmont. On other hand. I’ve never heard of anything so unalterably mean as what Bryan himself admitted he did to old Dotard Bennett. If there’s anything in the record of either Ryan or Belmont which for meanness can compare with Bryan’s share in the Bennett will business I will favor Bry an’s resolution to throw’ them out of the Democracy. The Bennett will? Why, you must have heard of ft. If not, you can partially instruct yourself at least by reading 'Bryan’s Appeal From Probate' in the 77 Connecticut Reports. Any lawyer can show it to you.” Sanders, of Kansas: “That resolution and what claptrap oratory went with it were merely part of Bryan’s plan to get himself the nomination. Bryan is seek ing the nomination for the presidency. He will get It If there are enough hope less fools among the delegates to give it to him. Also, mark my words, if Bryan isn’t nominated he’ll quit the party. Certainly that's the best of rea son for not giving it to him. Talk of Sinbad the Sailor and his Old Man Os the Sea. Bryan has been Democracy i> Old Man of the Sea, weighting down Its shoulders and giving It the backache ever since the party was so unlucky as to heaV of him.” AIRSHIP BLOWS UP; 5 ARE DEAR Vaniman and Crew of the “Akron" Fall to Death Dur ing Test Flight. Continued From Page One. denser. Flames enveloped the after sec tion of the framework. The men in the balloon could be seen clinging desper ately to the structure Suddenly the balloon shot earthward with sickening speed. In her wake was a thick trail of smoke. Flames billowed for many yards behind the blazing plummet. .Many on the ground were sickened by the sight. Chief Black, of the fire de partment, a man hardened to sights of distress and excitement, was nearly overcome. Black, who was at the han gar. afterward said: ' We heard the screams of the doom ed men for two miles across the wa ter. It was awful. I tried to keep my head turned away, but the shrieks of the frantic spectators about me com pelled me against niy will to look up ward.” This was the third flight of the Ak ron. About $7‘,000 had been spent on the balloon preparing her for flight She was constructed along the lines of Walter Wellman's famous dirgible. in which he made an unsuccessful at tempt to cross the Atlantic. Vaniman was Wellman's i hies engineer. He was born in Virden. 111., 40 years ago and had spent most of his life experiment ing in aeronautics. PLANS FOR LAYMEN’S MEETING. COLUMBUS, GA.. July 2 —Horace V. Sanderson, field secretary of the Lay men’s Missionary Movement, is in Co lumbus and last night held a confer ence with the committees on arrange ments for the big institute to be held In this city next >ear. GEORGIANS HOLD SUN ROPE FDR RNDERfDD Alabaman Expected to Have Tryout Today—ls He Doesn’t Win, It’s Champ Clark. By JAMES B. NEVIN. CONVENTION HALL. BALTIMORE, MD„ July 2.—The morning of another balloting day in the national convention ' found things pretty much where they ‘ were yesterday morning, save that it is more vident than ever that Wood , row Wilson will not be the nominee of ; the party. , , Yesterday morning I sized the situa , tion up in a sentence reading: "Clark or I chaos." I repeat that sentence today. It is as much Clark or chaos now as then. The Woodrow Wilson forces worked like beavers yesterday. They endeav ored with all their might to accom plish two things—first, to nominate Wilson; second,"if not to nominate him, at least to crowd him across the ma jority line, and thus make answer to , Clark's crushing appeal that he has , been named seven times by a majority , vote and by all unwritten, undisputed law ’ and custom is entitled to the , nomination. Georgia Wilsonites Active. The Wilson people have accomplished . neither consummation so devoutly , sought by them. Wilson reached high . water mark last night and fell below it before adjournment. Maybe he may muster a few’ more votes on the early ballots today. The chances are he has spent his force and from now on will fade as a compelling factor in the prob lem. . The whole Georgia Wilson line-up Is on hand -jn Baltimore, working with might and main to bring about the nomination of the New Jerfeeyite. J. R. Smith, of Atlanta, who went home Fri day, hurried back for Monday’s voting, in response to a wire telling him Wilson was about to pluck the plum. The I plucking was expected to take place last night. Besides Mr. Smith, Thomas W. Hardwick, of Sandersville; James R. Gray, of Atlanta; Pleasant A. Sto vall, of Savannah; E. T. Brown and William J. Hanis, of Atlanta; Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia; Congressman Charles Bartlett, of Macon, and others are on hand. They long ago gave up importuning the Georgia delegation to > come to Wilson. They now are beg ging it to stand by Underwood to the last ditch. They have acquired a new and entirely different idea of things of [ late with respect to Georgia’s standing stoutly by the every letter of its con vention putting those instructions on the delegation. As for the Georgia delegation in the • convention, it is standing by Mr, Un- • derwood, and will so long as he is in the running. That he is yet in the run ning is admitted by all. That his I Balloon Built In Akron, Ohio AKRON, OHIO. July 2.—The balloon. “Akron." which was destroyed at At -1 lantic City today, was constructed In this city and named for the city be -1 cause of the fact of its construction. ■ The flight across the Atlantic was the idea of Frank A. Seiberling. president 1 of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com ' pany, I The fabric for the big gas bag was made at the rubber plant here and was shipped to Atlantic City In charge of Vaniman and his brother. It required ■ many months of constant labor to con struct the bag and when finished was pronounced to be the strongest gas ba? ever constructed The manufacture of the fabric was kept a secret for a long time after the details were given to the public Npne of the crew, including the Vanimans, were Akron men. BY T. E. POWERS finishing line an Alabama delegate megaphoned! "Mr. Chairman, please notify all these waiters and bellboys that we will need them at the hotel for breakfast.” T. E. P. chances of being nominated are very slim, however, is the opinion of the forces generally prefer Underw’ood as majority. He will have his tryout to day. If he can’ win, every opportunity 1 will be given him to do so. The Clark a second choice, and would go to him, if he should show winning form. The || Georgians are being praised for their B steadfastness of purpose and their evi dent sincerity of support of the Ala bama man. Clark Men May Aid Underwood. If the Underwood forces had been solidly behind Clark as a second choice, as the Georgia delegation has been, the Clark forces might go solidly to Un- ® derwood in today’s tryout. But they have not been. As it is, however, a ( large section of the Clark vote may swing to Underw’ood, if he gets well into the running anywhere along the line. If Underwood fails to achieve the nomination today, it is rumored that he j ■w’ill request that his name be with- ■ drawn front the convention’s considers- 1 tion. In that event, by far the greater 1 part of the Underwood strength will go I to Clark, and once more the possibility S of Clark’s nomination will loom large. H Looking at it from a standpoint of things as they are, and not as they I might be, or as somebody would wish them, it looks as if Clark must yet be flu nominated, or nobody, which may be j construed to mean some incopsequen tial dark horse, Clark has received® and held through seven ballots a ma jority of the convention’s vote | In the entire history of both big par- T ties there never has been but one lone Z case, that of Martin Vanßuren, where- 7 in a candidate once having received a I majority vote of a national convention J subsequently failed to have the nom ination awarded him. I The Georgia delegation is discussing, I with considerable spirit, Judge C. R. | Bartlett’s resolution offered In con- | gress yesterday, providing for the elec- A ■ tion of a speaker protein and for a fl committee to notify the president of the United States that the speaker was fffl not in his seat when the house was called to order, while, for a short time, *■ Clark was away from Washington, in coniw-enee, in a private home in Balti more with three of his loaders. Georgians Denounce It Is understood that Mr. (’lark* 7 «in-d from Baltimore, which is and a'li' kl'. rc-acrvd by trolley Washington, to run n\e r for an ui'l 'll.-' I'-- Mr Bryan’s attac "W Ml-. I’! irk from tit.- floor of the rfl/ vention. ; attack had rom<> like a ■ J ' Bryan for i d’’ ’’ x.-r- professed 1 -'lks ' irk -i. "d ’ ' ’lark never. Z gfc- >i - .■' . j.- i ■ • po i ’ ; '• ■9h| '' ■ aKB J „■ i■ ■ W ■" 1 ' ■ f " '‘ir- p-ir|B.,. ® 'rf's ’ ' o ;| . 1 ■ 1 • m b^k !>', J ’-A f al! w till 7€ ' - I DEATHS AND B B. 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