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ALEXANDER SAYS
HE'S NOT IN THE
if.it-
Somebody Is Sure Talking His
Name and He Himself Has
Said Significant Things.
Representative Hooper Alexander, ;
leader of tlxe prohibition forces in the
Georgia legislature, is not a candidate
for governor.
Pespite rumors and newspaper sto
ries to the effect that he is or will be,
he isn’t.
He says he isn't in a written state
men’ given to the public formally.
Here it is:
News items published yesterday
and today in all the Atlanta papers
referring to me as a possible can
didate for governor, or as’having
such a subject under consideration,
make it proper for me to say that I
am not a candidate and am not
considering the . subject. I know
very little about the rumors re
ferred to; am in no way responsi
ble for them and have at all times
avoided any discussion of the sub
ject.
Will He Be a Candidate?
When a man isn't a candidate, and is
not considering the subject of being a
candidate, and knows very little about
th P . talk to the effect that he is a can- ]
didate. and is in no way responsible for !
tit h talk, and has at all times avoided ;
the subject—why, of course, he isn’t a ;
candidate.
But ’* doo.-n’t necessarily follow that
he may not be a candidate, or begin
thinking of being, or join in the talk ;
about his being, or something like that;
does it?
The "noes” seem to have it. The
“noi-s" have it. and it doesn't follow!
Somebody Talking Alexander.
Somebody is talking Alexander for
governor, all right.
It may be that everybody isn't doing
it. but a good many are.
It is a welTTcnown fact that Georgia
prohibitionists are pretty well stirred
up over the Tippins-Alexander near-.]
beer and anti-locker club bill, recently j
passed by the house.
They take the. view that the present I
prohibition law must be amended in |
such wise that it may be surely en
forced, if it be necessary to make fights ]
al! the way along the line, from gov- |
err.or to the several legislative deci
sions of the state.
Where Alexander Gets On.
It may be that Representative Alex
ander was unconsciously the cause of
his own gubernatorial boom, for broad
hints of it were thought to be contained
in at least two parts of his Tippins bill
speech delivered in the house last
Tuesday.
Here are two paragraphs taken there
from: I
The courts do not enforce the
law. The gove’rnor says that he can
not and that the legislature will
not. The people can speak on Au
gust 21. They are the masters of
us all. It may come that sooner or
later we must appeal to them to
change their judges, but a more
immediate and desirable appeal
might be made next month in the
selection of legislators and a gov
ernor freshly instructed as to the
sovereign will and altogether in
harmony with it. whatsoever It may
he. If the people want liquor sold
in Georgia either by law or in de
fiance of law, let them choose a
governor and legislators who so
think. If they want law enforced
and its power strengthened, let
them say so by the men they
choose. * * *
Let the president of the Georgia
senate, who is president also of the
University club, say to his associ
ates “It is unbecoming in us, who
aspire to represent the cultured and
educated classes, to sell liquor in
defiance of law, and moreover I am
asking the people of Georgia to
make me the executive of her laws,
and I can not he party to their vio
lation.”
It, therefore, is being figured by po
ians generally that Mr. Alexander’s
entry into the gubernatorial race is de
pendent largely' on the fate of the Tip
pirs bill, and that delays and hesitancy
ui n the part of the legislature will be
taken to mean that war is Invited.
if Mr. Alexander does make the race,
it is said that his campoign will be am
ph financed by the Anti-Saloon leagues
of the various states.
REV. HUGH WALLACE
OF IMMERSION ROW
FAME IS IN ATLANTA
R’ v Hugh Wallace, remembered well
’•n Atlanta as being the center of a
lively row among the Baptists over the
Question of immersion, is bgck in the
•’it' after spending three years in
- ne. Ga., and Sweetwater, Tenn. He
preach at the Jones Avenue Bap
h’neh tomorrow at botli the 11
' < k and evening services.
n account of some radical beliefs on
■ question of immersion, the leading
Baptists of Atlanta refused to ordain
’ 1 ■ is pastor of the Ponders Ave
nir- church of this city. He afterward
’ 'dtnitted, however.
H - subject for the evening service
The Past, Forgiven and For-
~ ; ten; the Future, Untouched."
ACCUSED forger under bond.
G Stubblefield. Jr., charged with
•’ ng cheeks passed on the King
aware Company, was placed under
bond by Justice Orr today. No
'nts have been asked for him and
may be no prosecution.
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PERRY CAMPAIGN
MEETING FIZZLE
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Eight Persons Go to Hear Hall j
County Candidate for United
States Senator Speak.
Colonel H. H. Perry’s widely adver
tised meeting in Cable Hall last night,
In the course of which he was to dis
cuss “Woodrow Wilson and Democra
cy,” and Incidentally his own candidacy
for United States senator against Mr.
Bacon, didn't draw heavily.
As a matter of fact, there were on
hand, besides Mr. Perry, exactly eight
persons at the hour appointed for the
speaking—-and as nobody else showed
up after an appropriate and respect
ful wait, Mr. Perry smilingly shook
hands with the faithful and interested
few who did come and called the meet
ing off.
Colonel Perry is waging an aggressive
fight for Senator Bacon’s toga. He has
flooded the state from RabuA Gap to
Tybee Light with pro-Perry and anti-
Bacon literature, and believes he has
met with considerable encouragement
in some sections.
Last night was his first endeavor to
interest Atlanta in his candidacy, and
the result was not tremendously flat
tering. Whether it was lack of inter
est in his race or a surfeit of Wilson
talk that made the crowd pause in
the matter of going to hear the Hall
county statesman last evening, <’o!onel
Perry does not know. All he knows is
that the crowd didn’t come.
It is not likely that Colonel Perry
will give Atlanta another chance to
hear either his Woodrow Wilson lec
ture or his Perry campaign thunder.
LIGHTER MUSIC CHOSEN
FOR FREE ORGAN RECITAL
The program for Sunday's organ re
cital at trfe Auditorium has been ar
ranged by a musician who is not a
professional, and who has had in mind
the tastes of the general class of music
lovers instead of the few who prefer
technical and heavy music. The se
lections are "The Barcarolle," from
"Tales of Hoffman;” Chopin's “Funeral
March. Mendelsshon’s Wedding March,
Handel's “Largo in G.” and improvi
sation by Dr. Starnes and a prelude by
Rachmaninoff.
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RATS TAKE ENTIRE BEACH
AWAY FROM LITTLE FOLKS
EVANSTON. ILL., lUly 13.—Thou
sands of rats have practically taken
possession of the beach between Demp
ster street and Greenwood boulevard,
and mothers, in fear that their children
may he bitten, have kept them away
pom the lake The hot weather is be
lieved to have, caused the rats to seek
the beach.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1912.
On left. Jack Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hall. West Peachtree. Tn center, on left.
William Perkerson. Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Perkerson, and Albert Adams, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. S. Adams. On right. Mary Moore, daughter of Mrs. C. W. Moore. Peachtree street.
3008 NIEMNTS
TO CONVENE HERE
Arrangements for showing the
Southern merchant what is made in
Atlanta and what the local merchants
are doing to boost the sale of their
products, are being worked out by com
mittees of the Atlanta Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, which is
planning to entertain 3,000 delegates
to the Southern Merchants convention
in Atlanta from August 5 to 9.
The convention has been placed to
come within the last five days of the
Atlanta manufacturers exposition,
which is to show what is being done
in the way of manufactures here. The
delegates will get the advantage of a
3-cent fare over the railroads, and it
is believed this will bring a record at
tendance.
Features of the. convention will be
a theater party at the Forsyth, a Geor
gia barbecue, visits to the "Atlanta-
Made exposition,’’ a baseball game and
a reception at one of the local clubs.
J K. Orr is chairman of the com
mittee in charge, and is being assisted
by the following: C. T. Nunnally, J.
M. Robinson, Willis E. Ragan and
Paul P. Reese.
EUGENE W. CHAFIN
IS DRYS’ CANDIDATE
FOR U. S. PRESIDENT
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. July 13.--
Eugene W. Chafin, of Arizona, for pres
ident, and Aaron S. M’atklns, of Ohio,
for vice president, is the ticket nomi
nator by the National Prohibition
party, which ended it^convention here
last night. In each case the nomination
was made by acclamation after a sin
gle ballot had indicated the preference
of the delegates-
SOLOIST AS FEATURE OF
SUNDAY BAND CONCERT
An especially entertaining program
has been arranged for the regular Sun
day concert at Grant park tomorrow
from 3:30 to 5:30 o'clock.’ In addition
to Wedemeyer’s Concert band in many
popular and classic selections, Harry
Hatton will sing “Stocked in the Cra
dle of the Deep.” In the band music
is to be included selections from “Mad
ame Butterfly,” “My Old Kentucky
Home,” “Helio. New York Town.”
“Amaranthus,” “The Pearl of Savoy"
and The Merry Wives of Windsor."
800 OFF TO TYBEE FOR
ANNUAL OUTING OF
ATLANTA’S SALESMEN
Tybee Island, far-famed for its sun
kissed beach and moonlight walks, wag
takon by storm early today and sur
rendered at once to as merry a party
as ever appeared there.
Atlanta city salesmen and their wives
and children and friends—in all more
than 800 strong—arrived on an early
train for their annual outing and in
tend to stay a week at the resort.
There are more than 150 active mem
bers in the Atlanta organization and
practically every one of them took the
trip. They intend to make their out
ing one of the most delightful they have
ever had.
The party, which numbered far more
women and children than it did men.
left Atlanta last night over the Cen
tral of Georgia railroad, traveling in
two special trains and accompanied by
W. H. Fogg of the railroad.
The committee in charge of the out
ing is composed of J C. Harrison. T
N. Clyatt, E. B. Thomas and Paul S
Pause.
WEATHER REPORTS
CURTAILED BY LACK
OF AVAILABLE FUND
Telegraphic reports of weather con
ditions all over the country have been
discontinued and the work of the
weather bureau at Washington has
been seriously hampered, according to
C. F. VonHerrmann, in charge of the
Atlanta station. This has been the re
sult of the failure of congress to pass
the necessary appropriations bill for the
department of agriculture.
At present, while many of the reports
have been cut out. those from the prin
cipal stations are being kept up, and
as complete a report as possible has
been made from day to day. What will
happen if the money for expenses is not
forthcoming in a few days, the local
weather chief refuses to say.
Local weather conditions point to
rain for at least another day and pos
sibly longer. At the end of that time
there is a possibility of a dry spell
coming for a short time. Mr, Von-
Herrmann refuses to make his predic
tion any stronger than is shown by his
words that “there is a possibility of a
dry spell.”
Dr. E. M. Poteat at Tabernacle.
Dr E. M. Poteat.'who has been
preaching in Dr. MacArthur’s pulpit
since the latter departed for the North,
will preach again at both services In
the Baptist Tabernacle tomorrow. Dr.
Poteat, w-ho is president of Furman
university, has won much favor in At
lanta. bv his Tabernacle sermons.
, NAMES Os OEM
; BAIT FOR FRAUD
’ A scheme to defraud the living by
s means of letters addressed to their re
r cently deceased relatives had been un
earthed in Americus, Ga., according to
Postoffice Inspector N. A. McKew, who
has arrested Carl L. Rooks on the
’ charge of fraudulent use of the mails.
Rooks, the inspector charges, repre
sented himself as manager of the Amer
ican Grand Prize contest and would I
take from dally papers all over the I
country the names of people just de- l
’ ceased. He would then send them a
.letter in which he stated that their
1 number in the contest had won the
grand prize, an 80-plece set of silver,
valued at SSOO. He asked that $1 be j
sent within ten days to pay for the I
packing of the prize, in accordance
w’ith the contract.
The letters were opend by some rela
tive of the deceased who. of course,
could not know’ whether or not the per
son had entered a contest, but who
would in most cases send the sl. Then
’ Rooks returned a card in which he ac
knowledged receipt of the money and
replied that he was sending the prize,
i In the acknowledgment card he drop
. ped the prize to an eight-piece set,
; valued at $5. He then sent a set of
> knives and forks, which the inspectors
• obtained and which, according tn lo
cal jewelers, have exactly two cents
s worth of silver in them and might be
> worth 25 cents in the open market.
i CHURCHES PREPARE
, FOR OBSERVANCE OF
WHITE PLAGUE DAY
i
Workers for the Atlanta Anti-Tuber-
I culosis association will be busy in the
church and Sunday schools of Atlanta
> tomorrow making plans for “White
■ Plague day,” to be observed in 175
' Sunday school classes on the vfollow
-1 Ing Sunday. July 21.
The teachers of the Sunday school
classes will discuss tuberculosis and
1 its prevention.
Pamphlets will he furnished l>y the
association, which already has done
much toward preventing the spread of
the disease through its visiting nurse
system and its free dispensary in the
• Gould building.
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POSTMASTER UNDER ARREST,
, SAVANNAH, GA., July 13 —Felix S.
Frazier, postmaster at Limerick, Ga.
was arrested today by postoffice in
-1 spectors on the charge of embezzle-
■ meat of United States postal money or
der fund*.
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EXCHANGE SOON
Election of Charles P. Glover
to Head the Association Is
Expected to Pave Way.
The election of Charles P. Glover as
president of the Atlanta Real Estate
Men's association is believed by many
to mean that a real estate exchange,
run on i#ie plan followed in many other
cities, will soon be opened in Atlanta.
Mr. Glover's flection as heajl of the or
ganization was opposed only by that
part of the membership against the
formation of an exchange, which he is
known to favor. The matter wrill. It is
believed, be brought up at at early
meeting.
Other officers chosen at the anniver
sary dinner of the association last
night at the Case Durand, were Harris
G. White, sales manager of Ralph O.
i Cochran’s agency, vice president; G.
Ward Wight, of M. C. Kiser Company,
secretary, and J. W. Dobbins, president
of J. W. Dobbins & Company, treasur
er. Al! of the officers were elected
unanimously, as the choice of Mr.
i Glover was made unanimous as soon as
' it was seen that he had a majority of
the votes.
Ralph O. Cochran Praised.
The ’occasion was the second anni
versary of the association and was pre
sided over by the retiring president,
Ralph O. Cochran, who was the recip
ient of many compliments for his work
as head of the association during its
first two years.
The report of the secretary show’ed a
marked improvement in the association
for the past year. It has increased in
membership from 153 a year ago to
nearly 209 at present, and numbers on
its roll practically every real estate
dealer of repute in Atlanta.
M. C. Kiser. G. Ward Wight and
Charles P. (Hover, who attended the
national convention recently held in
Louisville, made interesting t<alks of
the trip and urged that Atlanta seek
the convention for 1914 and send a
large delegation to Winnipeg, Canada,
next year.
MUSICAL PROGRAM AT
DR. HANSCOM'S CHURCH
A special musical program at the
Central Congregational church will
supplement Dr. George Loring Hans
com’s sermons at both services tomor
row. Dr. Hanscom will preach upon
the “Dangers of Religious Indecision"
, In the evening. In the morning his
text will be “Look Upon Us." Miss
Porter and Mr. Lowe will render solos
at both meetings.
ALBANY HUNTERS KILL BEAR.
ALBANY GA . July 13 —Baird Do
zier, Bert Moreland and Parker West
brook. while hunting in the western
part of Dougherty county, about ten
miles from this city, killed a black
bear weighing about 150 pounds.
COTTON EXPERT
RAPS GOVERNOR
Brown Fails to Attend Confer
ence He Called—Growers
Discuss Holding Plan.
N. T. Blackwell, of Dallas, editor of
The Cotton and Cotton Oil News, vig
orously censured Governor Brown to
a gathering of advocates of the South
ern States Cotton Corporation yester
day for the chief executix’e's failure to
be present. The meeting was to have
been a conference of Southern govern
ors or their representatives.
“The least the governor of Georgia
could have done was to be present at
this meeting and extend a welcome to
these delegates from other states," said
Blackwell. "Especially after he had
called the meeting himself." Blackwell
also criticised Attorney General Wick
ersham and Congressman Bell, of Tex
as.
Representatives of the governors of
Texas and South Carolina and the com
missioners of agriculture nt South
Carolina and Alabama, together with
■ cotton factors and cotton groevers, were
present at the meeting to hear George
Dole Wadley, originator of the South
ern States Cotton Corporation, explain
the purpose and workings of 'he plan
which, it is saJd, will give the South
ern farmers a uniform price of 15 cents
a pound for cotton.
To Have $7,000,000 Capital.
The corporation, the organization of
which is now under way, is to be capi
talized a - $7,000,000.' There will be 50
directors, apportioned among the cot
ton states —one director for every 300.-
000 bales. The cptton states will be
organized by county organization, six
citizens to form the county board.
These county boards are to certificate
cotton in their territory. The South
ern States Cotton Corporation is then
to pay the farmers handling cotton
through the organization 11 cents each,
issuing to them interest bearing script
for 4 cents payable when the corpora
tion markets the cotton held over the
distress period.
Considerable enthusiasm for the
scheme was manifested, but the public
officials present played safe. R. F.
Kolb, commissioner of agriculture of
Alabama, declined to serve on the res
olutions committee.
J. D. Price, candidate for commis
sioner of agriculture In Georgia, took
up a greater part of the. time of the
. meeting asking questions relative to
the scheme which he said had been •
submitted to him by Georgia farmers.
Tom Hudson, former commissioner of
agriculture, and E. Lee Worsham, state
entomologist, were present, but took no
I part in the meeting.
DUBLIN TO ENTERTAIN
WEEKLY EDITORS OF
GEORGIA NEXT WEEK
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DUBLIN, GA., July 13 —•Preparations
have about been completed for the en
tertainment of the Georgia Weekly
Press association, which meets in this
city Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
A large portion of the visiting body
will reach Dublin Monday on the. 8
o’clock afternoon train from Macon.
They will be met at Fitzpatrick by a
delegation from the local entertainment
committee.
One hundred automobiles will be at
the depot to take the delegates to the
homes prepared for them.
Monday night at 8 o'clock the wel
coming session will be held in the high
school auditorium. W. T. Anderson,-of
The Macon Telegraph, will respond to
the address of welcome, and P. A. Sto
vall, of The Savannah Press, will de
liver an address on "Journalism.” Sev
eral other entertaining features will
close an evening of pleasure for all.
Tuesday morning the business ses
sion will take up important matters
relating to the work of the associa
tion, and at noon the editors and their
friends will be taken by special train
to the picnic and barbecue grounds at
Idylwild.
After the visitors return to Dublin
they will be given an automobile ride
over the city. Tuesday night a banquet
served by the women of Dublin, will
end a crowded day.
Wednesday morning the business will
be completed and the editors will take a
special train for Savannah and Tybee.
RIVERSIDE SUMMER
SCHOOL STUDENTS IN
ATHLETIC CONTESTS
The Riverside Summer school is in
full swing. Classes are meeting regu
larly and the 70 boys who assembled
for the first time only a week ago now
are a welded unit. The most noticeable
activity is in athletics.
Already two round robin tennis tour
' naments are being carried on—one for
the larger and another for the smaller
boys. The prizes offered have added
an unusual interest to the matches.
The baseball team is sowing consid
erable promise. The band la develop
ing rapidly.
In the evenings the bovs spend part
of the time at the Brenau Chautauqua
and part at the summer camp near
‘ Gainesville.
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Buy it now. Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is al
most certain to be needed before the
1 summer is over. Buy it now and be
’ prepared for such an emergency. For
i sale by all dealers. •••
Solutions to THE GEOR
GIAN’S Proverb Contest
Picture Puzzles should bear
sufficient postage. Have
packages weighed before
mailing. -
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