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COMMITTEE HERE
TO NAME DATE
OF PRIMARY
Generally Believed County Unit
Plan Will Be Adopted at
Meeting Tomorrow.
The state Democrat!) executive • ••-•m
nittee will meet in the senate chamber
jf the .capitol tomorrow at noon for the
ourpnse of prescribing regulation!- ;<n*l
taming a date fui th- forthcoming
genera! primaty fn- s'ato <i"U»e fil
ters.
Politicians am! candidates for ofli-■<•
a-e greatly interested in this nee ting,
as the uncertainty heretofore existing
■with respect to what sort of primary
♦he state is to have and its date has
aused endbss confusion and hesitancy
in the matter of announcements
th-oughout the state
The impression appears to he that
the c ommittee w ill < all a county unit
primary, although that Is by no nieans'i
a certainty. Several Influential mem
bers a'e known to t»e decidedly In fa
vor of another popular plurality pri
mary. notwithstanding the fact that
such a pritnai y does not appear to b<-
wfdeiy or generally approved.
The demand for a county unit pel-,
mary is easily three to one as against
a popular plurality primary The
country counties the so-called "two
vote” counties are solidly forth"
county unit plan. The only oppnwiJion
particularly noticeable comes from
same candidates for Judgehips and
softoitorships, who maintain that, so
far as those offices are concerned, the ,
popular plurality Idea should prevail.
It is dpubtful whether the pressure
will tv- suffiielent to exempt them from
the general order of things, however.
Date Is of Unusual , Interest,
The acute interest in the primary
has to do with tlv date upon whic h it
will be called.
Under the law. It can not be called
more than sixty days before the gen
eral election.’ which takes place this
year />n Octobei 2 It may bo called,
however, under that law, as near the
date oc the general election as the
stat? committee, in Its wisdom, may
decide to be best for party welfare
even so late as a week before, as t
mat ter of fart
The general rule In Georgia has been
to call the primary approximately sixty
days before the general election, but
already it is assured that a wide de
parture front that custom will be made
in this year's call The primary will
hardly be called for a date more than
thirty days ahead of the general elec
tion. and it may be touch less than
that. Guessing ranges all the way
from August 15 Io September 20. Only
today's session will answer the riddle.
The idea appears to prevail that the
committee will incline to call the pri
mary as late as it possibly may. not
to subject itself to undue criticism
or harges of rank favoritism or par
tiality to any andidate now In the
running or scheduled to be.
It is. frankly admitted that the pres
ent commltte is a Hoke Smith com
mittee. and it Is expected to frame
• uch a primary as the Smith faction
would prefer and that would help, to
the extent it might, the campaign of ,
the Smith faction's candidate for the ;
governorship. If it is to have one It
was known long ago that the commit- 1
tee would not meet to call a primary 1
until after the Baltimore convention
had acted. Had the Baltimore pow
wow produced another candidate’ than
Wilson there likely would have been .
no Smith faction candidate' for the 1
governorship in the race this year. As t
it is. there probably will be.
Committee Faces Stiff Problem.
There are certain difficulties in call- '
ing the primary less than thirty days
ahead of the genera election, and the I'
committee may find itself mote or le.--
embarrassed getting aound them
There is a statute which says that
election blanks shall be sent out by
the secretary of -tate to the mdi
narics for distribution to the milii..
districts, nm less than thirty bay
ahead of the general election. and o t! '
the blanks the names of the < .rnaidatr « I
heretofore appeared Unless tin
p tmaiy is held more than thirty days
ahead of tin gen- a! election, theretorc
ft is difficult to see how tins -tutu:
may bo complied with Th> blank
mlr/'t be sent out without th. candi
dates' names, the name- to he sup.
o ted later, but it is held that this
would scriouslv conflict with the in
tent and purpose of the cw if it .. d
not actually violate it.
•That problem is being wrest ed with
by the master legal minds of , |„,. |
mittee today, however and it is a sat. I
p edh tion that there will be found '
way a ound it. if any such wav is to |> 1
found
So fat the avowed candidates so. !
the governorship are Joe Hili Hal! ..t i
Bibb, and John ,\1 Slaton, of f'ult rn
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SEARCH IN G SID EL IG HTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B NEVIN.
’• tn be general opinion that
’ • executive committee, which
< tomorrow will call a state prl
• . ' «n the county unit plan, notwlth
w-.indir’X it? past Inclination to th#* pupu-
L;- plurality variety
AB*» all is said and done, the county
in ’ {Tan seems to he the thing the peo
ple desire, and the Democratic
evr.’utive c<»m.mittee will hardly run cotin
their wishes in the matter, even
; various Influential members be
lieve m»»re thoroughly in the populaar pin
rallty idea
T here w’ll he an effort made tn exempt
the judges and solicitors general from the
operation nf the county unit regulation,
b# cause it will b*» held to operate very
unfairly in some circuits with respect to
then There are < ir< uits In ’filch one
''mint? under the unit plan will absolute
ly control w ithin Itself the notni nations in
those circuits Pur Instance, there is a
northwest Georgia Judicial circuit in
which there are three counties, one with
six electoral votes and the others with
iw'o each. Os eburse. It is obvious that
[he six-vote county might override the
?ombfned vote of the other two.
Notwithstanding this more or less pecu
iar situation that the county unit plan
iia? -et up in two or three judicial cir
•uits. however, the Impression generally
a that the committee will proceed to the
ailing of a strict county unit primary.
Broadly speaking and with an eye to
he greatest g(»od to the greatest number,
he counts unit primary seems to appeal
o the committee as the right thing
< »ld Doc Cook. nf north pole fame,
has expressed a preference for Old
f»oc Roosevelt s third party old Doc
R. might find in Old Dor c a tine
press agent any uay
T hat all things come to him wno waits
s the firm belief of William Jennings
iarrjf, particularly if he accepts Bill
S’ye's earnest admonition to hustle while
te waits •
From start to finish, from Inception to
-onclusion, through better or worse, for
•icher or poorer, through sunshine ami
a in. and everything else one might think
»f along that line, the senator stuck to
A oodrow Wilson, pending his final nomi
iHtion in Baltimore Tuesday.
As for his enthusiasm, age could not
vitner it nor custom stale its infinite va
let y Wilson fortunes never fell so low
Jot yet became the night of despair so
hick with gloom that Senator Harris
•ould not see shining orbs a-gllmmer In
he skies, and all the time “hope's great
hrobhlng star above the darkndss nf the
lead " Neither Horatius at the bridge
tor Leonidas at Thermopylae had any
hlng in particular on Harris!
Naturally, the senator is being congrat
ilaled wardily nowadays by his col
eagues in the legislature upon the hap
•s outcome of • his ambition to lend a
telping hand to Wilson. He stuck right
o the job. through all the vicissitudes of
lefeat in the presidential primary in Geor
;ia to the eventual satisfactory con
ummation of the senatorial hopes in Bal
imore.
If not the "original Wilson man" in
Georgia, et least Senator Harris may not
naptly be termed Wilson's most un
nerving and most uncompromising
rinnd and partisan
Nou that the Baltimore convention is
»ver. and Speaker (’lark has been re
ieved of the work and worry Incident
o the furthering of his campaign for
he Democratic nomination to the pres
ilem y. House Parliamentarian Charles R.
’rlsp will have a breathing spell in
Vas+tington, and likely will he able to
Ind a little time to run down to Georgia
n<i look after his congressional fences.
Mr Crisp, talking, to friends and ac
lualntanees in Baltimore recently, ex- |
ucssed the greatest confluence In the
atisfactory outcome of things in his con
gressional district. While he has had
’radically no time to devote to his cam- i
»aign, he feels, from a voluminous cor- i
espondenco and reports from loyal and
enthusiastic friends, that he is to win out
nd achieve the great ambition of his life
to occupy for a full term or longer his
list inguished father’s seat in the con
gress of the I’nited Stales He served
n congress a short time years ago, fili
ng his fathers unexpired term at his
lea t h
Mr Crisp has been a sort of mem tier
J’ congress all of his life, as it is. When
us father was speaker, young Crisp was
general favorite with members and en
oyed an intimate and warm acquaintance
kith many of them As his father's sec
etary and later as house parliamentarian
inder Champ Clark, Mr. Crisp has ac-
Diseases of Men
»i Y experience of 35 years has shown
I’l me that more human wrecks are
•a used by a chronic local disease than
ms* b > an Y O'her. No
disease, needs mere
:, careful or scien-
,Ifir attention to
: <aSIH effect n cure I
'• flKk Jf " ' ''" there Is
# n no quick cure for
j&ghc.: specific blood poi-
F<»n Temporary
3 a removal of sttnp
toms is not a cure
? aMMRHfe JU Experience. care
/ '4™ f ”' attention to de
t>. , wHFlrii % tails and a Ihor-
S&JL oWc."* 1 O Igh knowledge of
ffWSia- / BRjSI bow and when tn
■/ »ssl l: ’“ ’b* remedies
known to be 1 e: e
eSsSsssj^ficlai in thetr-at-
BroOsjjSw, merit of this dls-
ease, produce re-
OR. WM. M. BAIRD RU ]ts Honest bus
Brown ■ Randolph Blaq.j neRR methods and
Atlanta, Ga. conscientious treat
ment are features of my office Exam
inations fine Office hours 8 to 7, Sun
days and holidays, 10 to 1 My mono
graphs free in plain, sealed wrapper.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, .JULY 5. 1912.
quired a knowledge of thing® around and
about the halls of legislation in the na
tional capitol that could hardly have been
acquired in any other way than through
loqg membership in the house.
If elected. Crisp will start his congres
sional • areer splendidly and unusually
equipped for service i igUt from the min
ute he is sworn in.
Old Bill Bryan, he’s the guy tha»
put the "ad" in deadlock
one of the more or less interesting
nnd true inside stories of the late Bal
timore convention has to do with Geor
gia rather intimately, and engagingly
When the Georgia delegation firat ar
rived in the Monumental City, a caucus
was held In the Hotel at
which it was unanimously' resolved to vote
for Clark T-Inwell upon the first roll call
for the nomination for the vice presidency.
The delegation had just presented Mr.
Howel) with a beautiful loving cup. and
it felt as If it would gladly hand him
anything eJse scattered around loose and
to be handed, particularly while the hand
ing was goorl and easy.
Mose of the members understood that
the delegation's attitude was intended
more as a courtesy to Mr. Howell than
otherwise.
After the big plum had dropped In Wil
son’s palm, however, and while it seemed
that the vice presidency was more or less
up in the air, a quiet movement was
started In have the Hon. Hoke Smith
voted for nn the first ballot, also as e
sort of compliment to the senator.
H was figured by the victorious Wil
sonltes that it never would do to have
Howell get a state delegation, in the cir
< umstances. w ithout having Smith get as
least a couple.
By and by. however, the fixers got the
vice presidential business all straightened
out and cut an~fl dried, and when the vot
ing time came, neither Howell nor Smith
was placed ui> for honorable mention or
ihe convention’s distinguished considera
tion.
CARUSO AGREES TO SING
FOR ONLY $7,000 A TIME
N'BW YORK. July 5. Following; his
next season of grand opera at the Met
ropolitan lieie, Enrico Caruso next
spring will go to Buenos Ayres. It was
learned today, to sing ar the National
opera house, the Colon, in that city, at
what Is said to be the largest salary
ever paid to a grand opera artist. His
contract was signed last month in
Paris and calls for a minimum number
of twelve appearances at $7,000 a per
formance with the right to sing as
many more times at the same figures
as t'aruso chooses
Piano Facts for the Public
• , ■
Why We Do Not Pay Commission
On Piano Sales
WE have been asked so frequently for an explanation of our refusal to pay commission on piano sales, when all
other houses in Atlanta pay such commisson, that we cheerfully take the entire public into our confi
dence, explaining in detail the reasons why we adopted this policy. These reasons will be equally conclusive
to piano buyers that they can not afford to buy a piano except from an absolutely one-price, no commission house.
Because We Have But One Price Because It Is Unjust to the Public
Wo carry our one-price selling plan the full length of agreeing to The right and honorable way to do business is to make a price on
forfeit SIOO.OO for every piano sale accepted by the management what one has to sell, and get the business or not get. it at this
at any price lower or higher than this one plainly marked price. price. Then every one knows exactly how much should be paid.
Il we paid a commission to some one claiming to control the sale As we guarantee to sell at the lowest price to he had anywhere in
H would, bv agreement between the parties, amount to the same America for the same make and style, and guarantee to give every
thing as iodu< ing the price. buyer this lowest price, we can not pay unnecessary and improper
D A H * I T I commissions. The commission must be paid by the buyer and no
hCCiIIISC vUT I rice IS 100 LOW one has any right to inflict this unnecessary expense upon him.
We guarantee to sell any instrument we handle at the lowest price BCCOSC It IS IlliUSt tO COniPCtitOFS
to be had anywhere in America for the same make and style of an
instrument. We can not live up to this low price policy if we give We take the view that every house in the piano business is enti-
■ .» per cent. 10 per cent or more as a comrnisison to some one claim- tied to know exactly where we stand on every question. We have
mg to control the sale. * therefore declared in unmistakable terms that we do not pay com-
fl co If I Mt H kl missions to any one, not oven salesmen, every salesman working
bCCdUSC II IS nOt nonorsble for ,his house employed on salary and salary alone. In the
same way we have declared our position on the one-price policy
, P know that if we pay commission we must add the amount of and to vary from the position we have taken for the benefit of
this commission to the cost of the instrument before figuring our some favored customer would be unjust to other piano houses, as
profit. I hat moans that we are a party to allowing some friend well as other customers.
unknown to the buyer Io get a secret commission at the expense.
Because We Want YOUR Business
Because It Is Unjust to Music Teachers If we sell you a piano, we expect to sell the instrument to von. I I
.... a,l ’l tor that reason want Io give you the full benefit of our lowest
Ihe great majority ot music teachers would not solicit and would price. We are not selling the piano to some friend of the family,
not accept a commission from any piano house on the sale of an and. therefore, see ho reason why this friend, who simply happens
instrument to one of their clients; why should we join with the to know that you are going to buy a piano, should get S4O 00 or
less scrupulous mmority in a conspiracy to overcharge the buyer? $.-)0.00 out of it at your expense! If you take the same view of it,
Ihe commission system puts all music teachers in a false light. you will deal with this one-price, nP-eommission house.
CLEVELAND-MANNING PIANO CO.
°" e SO NORTH PRYOR STREET No Comm Won I
REP. WILSON IS
HOUSE JESTER
Bill Requiring Millers to Keep
Directory of “Tiger” Patrons
His Latest Effort.
Representative IV. IV Wilson, of
Gwinnett county, is not only one of the
patriarchs of the house of represen
tatives. but one of the readiest little
Jokers. It is a rare occasion indeed
that does not find the gentleman f om
Gwinnett coming to bat with his Joke.
Urging a bill for the Australian ballot
and offering more or less humorous
amendments to other members’ bills
form the principal occupation of the
venerable legislator. •
The house was having a three-cor
nered debate over the bill against buy
ing and selling seed cotton, a measure
designed to prevent i.egroes and others
from picking another man's field clean
of the staple and disposing of it to
an unscrupulous dealer. Another mem
ber offered an amendment to require
all parties purchasing seed, cotton to
keep a record of every purchase with
the name of the seller. The debate
dragged on amid the yawns of the un
interested house, when Mr. Wilson
rose and offered a second amendment.
The clerk read it. as follows:
"Be it further enacted, that every
miller who grinds corn for blind tige: s
must keep a record of such tigers,
with addresses and price schedules,
for the information of the public.”
Then somebody called the previous
question.
NELLIE GRANT SARTORIUS
WEDS FRANK H. JONES
COBURG. ONT., July s.—Mrs. Nel
lie Grant Sartoris, widow of Algernon
Sartoris, of Warsash Hants. England,
end only daughter of the late General
U. S. Grant, was married yesterday to
Frank H. Jones formerly first assist
ant postmaster general of the United
States, at her country, home here. The
bride was given away by her son. Cap
tain Sartoris. The wedding, because
of the death recently of the nrotner
of the bride, Major General Frederick
D. Grant, was attended only by neat
relations nf the bride and groom.
• NEARLY FIVE MILLION ‘
: SPENT AT BALTIMORE
IN NAMING OF WILSON:
• . —..—_ •
• The total expense at Baltimore •
• in nominating Woodrow Wilson •
• was $4,991,400, The money was •
• spent as follows:
• $115,000 raised by the city of Bal- •
• tlmore to defray expenses •
• of Convention Hall and •
• National Committee. •
• $326,400 estimated amount ex- •
• oended by delegate;- and •
• alternates. *
• $50,000 spent on headquartets •
• and by campaign man- »
• aeers. •
• J 4.500.000 estimated amount spent «
by 50.000 visitors to Bal- •
• timore. •
••••••eeeeaaseeeeaeeeeeeee
FOUR GIVE THEIR CUTICLE
TO MEND WOMAN’S SCALP
TRENTON. N. J.. July 5. —To give
a new scalp to Mrs. Mary Deletsky.
the young woman who was terribly in
jured some time ago when her hair
caught iii machinery at a worsted mill,
the doctois at McKinley hospital are
performing a difficult operation—that
of grafting new sktn to the top of her
head.
Her husband, sister and two broth
ers have given skin from their bodies
for her.
EDWARD LUCKETT TO BE
BURIED IN WASHINGTON
The body of Edward Luckett. 35
years old. superintendent of the Tallu
lah Falls Railroad Company, who died
late last night, will be taken to his
former home, Washington. D. C.. for
interment. Mr. Luckett died in an At
lanta sanitarium, after several weeks’
illness. He was an experienced rail
road man and had seen a number of
years in active service. He is survived
by two children and one sister. Miss
Madge Luckett, who was with him dur
ing his illness-.
GEORGIANS GET PATENTS.
WASHINGTON. July s.—Davis &
Davis, Washington patent attorneys,
report the grant, this week to citizens
of Georgia of the following patents:
J. H. Booth, Point Peter, sweep holder
attachment; E. R. Derry, Augusta, desk
stool: C. L. Dickert, Macon, attach
ment for turning latches: A. Henslee,
Villa Rica, planter: W. H. Williams,
Statesboro, sack.
BOOSTERS OF GOOD
ROADS ARRANGE FOR
MEETING IN ATLANTA
1 Arrangements for the convention in
November of the Southern Appalachian
Good Roads association.’ which will
, bring to Atlanta hundreds of good roads
enthusiasts, will be made at noon to
morrow when Dr. Joseph Hide Pratt,
president of the association and state
geologist of North Carolina, will confer
I with the good roads committee of the
, Chamber of Commerce.
Forrest Adair, cahirman of the com
mittee fro the Chamber of Commerce,
has Invited the county commissioners
to meet with Dr. Pratt. Professor C.
M. Strahan, of the University of Geor
gia; Professor Branch, of Tech,
and Dr. S. W. MeCaliie, state geologist
of Georgia and chairman of the exec
utive committee of the association.
i also will be present.
The exact time, for the convention
will be set. When It was decided to
hold it in Atlanta no definite date was
set. the committee merely agreeing
that it should be in November. Many
other details will be taken up at the
meeting tomorrow.
FRENCH MARITIME
WORKERS VOTE TO
CONTINUE STRIKE
PARIS. July s.—The maritime strike
situation on the French coast took a ■
more serious turn today with an
nouncements from the union head
quarte s in Bordeaux and Marseilles
that a referendum ballot had resulted [
in favor of extending the strike.
Rioting broke out at Havre, where
the strike began, and a number of
strikers and gendarmes were seriously
wounded fn the fighting.
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Graduates of the "Ga. Tech" are in ,
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Improvements in past vear:
New Hospital, $25,000; New Shops,
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For Catalog and Illustrated Booklet,
address
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ENGLISH FLYER AND
ARMY OFFICER DIE
FROM 400-FOOT FALL
LONDON, July s.—Captain Lnr.
raine. an aviator, was fataaly hurt ar :
Sergeant Major Wilson, of the
army, who was flying with Lorraine < .
a passenger, was instantly killed near
Stomehenge, on Salisbury plain, tori r
when their monoplane tilted in mid-a
and crashed to earth. Wilson was act.
ing as Lorraines mechanician at th
time. They had set sail from Larklr
at 6 o’cjock. When 400 feet in the a
the machine overturned. Wilson wa
killed instantly, but Lorraine live.;
about an hour.
SHORT AND TO
THE POINT
Follow Example of Woman's
Institution In Compiling Know),
edge Compactly.
Dr. Graham Taylor, the noted Chi
cago sociologist, has said that ther f [
nothing like a woman's intuition tor
going directly to the point by the short
est cut possible. Mr. Taylor
that there is something almost uncan
ny about the high average of correct
ness in the apparent guesswork of
womankind, and perhaps various men
who have tried to deceive their wivr?
agree with him.
The last of just the quality that thP
student notes in woman is what ha«
long blocked the progress of giving to
the public a compact, eommonsense
reference work that would place the hi;
tory of the world’s great events upon
any one’s desk without occupying a
space greater than an ordinary novel
would take up. That is the Standard
Atlas and Chronological History of the
World, which The Georgian is offering
to its readers.
Graham Taylor was crossing on a
New York ferry boat and received one
of his first impressions of womanly di
rectness when his mother cried out that
her pocketbook had been stolen, and.
pointing directly to the man w'ho stood
next to her. cried: “That man took it.”
Her son feared a scene, as he claimed
that no man would have dared accuse
another without evidence: but, much
to his surprise, the man proved to be
the guilty party.
in the past experts in compiling
knowledge have lacked the ability tc
"pack” it in a volume so that not an
inch of space is lost and the possessor
of the book can place his finger on.
a fact like Mrs. Taylor did on the
pickpocket without a moment's delay
But the publishers of this Atlas have
accomplished this task, and it is the
book you can not afford to he with
out.
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