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WINN URGES THAT
BUILDINGDEPT.
BEDIM
Engineers to Plan Street Work
and Executive Forces Do
It. His Aim.
The campaign to better Atlanta ? bau I
»trei-t conditions took new impetus to i
(Jay with the declaration of Mayo- j
Winn that the chief of construction * I
department should be divided Into two
j departments—an engineering depart-!
* monl and a construction department.
■ "The department is too big for on. I
man." said the mayor. “An engineer- I
ing corps to plan the work and an ex- :
ecuttve department to do it would be
more systematic and would give better
results I think it was a mistake that j
the departments were over consoli
dated."
As a -esult of The Georgian's publi- ,
, ration of the terrible street condition?
, and the city-wide demand for better- '
ment. the meeting of council will b»
adjourned until Thursday afternoon,
when charter amendments reorganiz
ing the system of improvements are
IBv expected to be introduced
Immediate Action
Urged in Council.
Leading metpbers of council are
agreed that action should h< taken at
once In order to get the charter amend
ments through this session of ihe leg
islature.
Among them is being uiged the plan
of separating the departments. Some
want the construction officials elected
by council instead of by the people
Councilmen Charles W. Smith. Clar
ence HaVerty and others are advocat
ing a $2,000,000 bond issue for street
Improvements. A special committee
will recommend an election for the
bond issue at the meeting of council
this afternoon.
Streets of Other
Cities Shame Atlanta’s.
A striking view of Atlanta's streets
wgs given in an interview to The Geor
gian today by Chafes .1 Haden, promi
nent real estate developer and lawyer.
"1 have lust returned from a visit to
Cleveland. St Louis and Chicago, and
In comparison with the streets of those
cities the condition of Atlanta's is
shameful." he said.
1 had the pleasure of going over
large sections of these cities and I
could not help but think of our streets
as a blot on our city.
‘The Georgian has taken up a grea l
campaign In urging that the streets be
made better.
"The greatest cause of the trouble
here seems to me to be that our side
streets are so poorly paved that the
traffic is forced *00(0 Peachtree and
Whitehall streets. The traffic is theie-
I fore so heavy on these streets that no
sort of pavement could last long unde,
it. Traffic avoids the rough blocks and
our side streets are left idle while the
principal thoroughfare is congested "
Complaints Made
Os Sidewalk Inactivity.
Dr. Horace Grant communicated to
The Georgian today a complaint that is
general. No sidewalks were put down
when curbing was recently laid on
Park and Atwood streets In West End.
Nearlj all the curbing is now washed
down. Dr. Grant also said that pri
■ • vate property had been encroached
upon tn the grading work
Al the meeting of council this aftcr
, noon a resolution will be Introduced
b' the streets committee authorizing
rhe construction department to hire
free labor and to let contracts to catch
up with the sidewalk grading work.
The city convicts have been depended
upon for this work. Not a single tile
has been laid on the 30 miles of side
walks which council authorized this
yea r.
Only a Third of
Street Fund Spent
The amazing information was se
cured from the city comptroller’s office
today that, despite the city-wide pro
| ’e«s against the awful condition of At-
lanta's streets, not as much as one
third of the council's appropriation for
5 street improvements in 1912 has been
, spent by the streets committee and the
construction department so far this
year—more than six months
The comptroller's books show that
$38.945; expended, *17.212.63 balance.
$31,732.37
Marietta street widening Appor
■ioned, $25,00(1; expended. $17,029 59,
balance. $7,970.69.
While the amount provides for the
smaller part of the proposed street Im
provements this year, the larger part to
come from assessments on property
owners, the street railway company and
work done by the county convicts, it Is
a true Index to the proportion of work
done.
With increasing complaints coming
from itizens that it is impossible >
’ravel in any direction In the city for
any distance without encountering ter
rible streets, here is an itemized state
ment from the comptrollers office of
the small amount of relief work done;
Work Done and
Funds Available.
t’hert and stone fund: Apportioned.
$:">.000; expended. $17,029.59; balance,
$7,970.59.
Marietta street paving Apportioned.
$59,506.57. nothing expended.
EL Cher repairs: Apportioned $8,000;
' " $2,729.89; balance $6,270.11.
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street widening Ap-
A PETITION
If you are desirous of bettering the condition of Atlanta s
streets, cut out this coupon, fill out the blanks and send it to
the councilman who represents the ward in which you live),
To Councilman -* .
< ity Hall. Atlanta. Ga.
Realizing the disgraceful condition of Atlanta's
streets. I ask von to use every effort in your power to
bring about better conditions.
Name >'
Address
HEIRESS BRIDE'S
EIFE THREATENED
Miss Jennie Crocker, to Wed
Tomorrow. Stations Police
Guard About Estate.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15. Alarmed
b» anonymous letters threatening her life
on the eye of her marriage to Malcolm
Whitman. .Miss Jennie Crocker, Califor
nia's richest heiress, today placed her
Hillsboro estate under police surveillance
Detectives are on guard at all the gates
which mark entrances to tne grounds
Even tradesmen -re not allowed to enter,
but leave their wares at the gates, to
be carried a half irfle to the Crocker
mansion by it listed employees.
Miss Crocker's $60,060 wedding takes ,
plate tomorrow. Meanwhile the voung
heiress Is accompanied wherever she goes
by plain clothes men. \ number of
these will be icatterei hrough the fash
ionable llpiscocill 'hitVvh in Sin Maieo,
when Bishop it jiliaio Ford Nichols per
forms b< ceremo',l ha I will unite Miss
Crocker and Mil'-’lm Whitman
portioned, $5,000; expended. $2,325; bal
ance. $2,675.
West End and Grant park boulevard:
Apportioned sß.<'oo, expended. $4,572;
balance. $3,428.
Spring street improvements; Appor
tioned, $5,000; expended, $2,898.67.
Pryor street repairing: Apportioned,
$5,000, expended, $113.22.
East Mitchell street paving Appor
tioned. $5,000: nothing expended.
Fair and Hunter streets repairing:
Apportioned, $3,000; nothing expended.
South Boulevajd repairing: Appor
tioned. $3,000; nothing expended.
Ivy street improvement: Apportioned,
$5,000; nothing expended.
Highland avenue repaving. Appor
tioned. $7,000; nothing expended.
James street repaving: Apportioned,
$1,000; nothing expended.
Flat Shoals road paving: Appor
tioned. $1,800; nothing expended.
Whitefoord avenue underpass; Ap
portioned, $2,000; nothing expended.
DeKalb avenue paving: Apportioned.
$2,000; nothing expended.
North Boulevard paving: Appor
tioned. $10,000; nothing expended.
North avenue paving: Apportioned.
$4,807; nothing expended.
Grading and repaving West Hunter
street and the regrading of South For
syth street: Apportioned, $12,100;
nothing expended.
St. Charles avenue paving: Appor
tioned; $2,500; nothing expended.
St. Charles avenue paving (another
section): Apportioned, $2,000. expend
ed. $140.82; balance. $1,859.18.
Streets ordinary: Apportioned. $30.-
000; expended, $24,631: balance, $5,378.
On some of these improvements work
has begun, but vouchers for expendi
tures have not yet reached the comp
troller's office The city engineers de
clare that this Is the worst year in his
tory for street work on account of the
Incessant rains. They say a great part
of the work done has been repairs of
washouts and the like, citing as evi
dence that lie streets ordinary fund, the
fund for such repairs, is nearly ex
hausted.
Work by county convicts is one of
the lilg items this year. But all work
done in the city is under the direction
of council's streets committee and the
city construction department. Here is
an outline of the system by which
county work is done.
Whenevei the city officials desire
work done by the county they make a
request The county commissioners or
der it done or not, as they see fit.
Citizens desiring any big improve
ments appeal to both the streets com
mittee of council and the county com
mission But the county officials do
no work in the city without the ap
proval of the city officials. However,
this eo-operat9ve system was adopted
just the first of the year
All County Work
Done by Convicts.
The county does all work with its
convicts and without assessments. But
under tiie plan adopted the first of the
year the city assesses property owners
and the street railway company for
I work done by the county just as for
work done h; the city. It Is said that
in this way much more work can be
done.
Most of the work done by the county
forces is grading. No assessment is
ever made for grading work.
The city furnishes all material tot
work done by the county.
It is probable that reforms of the
city construction department and the
whole street improvement system will
be considered at the meeting of coun
cil tills afternoon. If the matter is not
taken up then, council wilt be adjourn
ed until Thursday afternoon to con
sider some sweeping proposals for
changes which can oply be brought
about by action of the state legisla
t u re.
Many members of council favor post
poning action until Thursday in order
that a caucus may oe held end united
action agreed upon informally. But
they realize that tlje.. must act at once
to get the desired legislation through
'i,.. t ssinn of the general assembly
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. JULY 15. 1912.
JEALDUSWDMAN
SAVES REPUBLIC
’V
Discarded Sweetheart of the
Leader of Portuguese Mon
archists Bares Plot.
LISBON, July 15.—ft jealousy mad
dened woman brought the latest and
most promising attempt of the Portu
guese royalists to the verge of ruin
with heavy* loss of life and treasure. A
beautiful girl of noble family here en
amoured of t'aptain Couciri, the roy
alist leader, recently received informa
tion that he was false to her, It became
known today, and in a frenzy, went to
the government officials and revealed
the monarchist plot, every detail, of
which Is said to have been given to he”.
It was then that the republican lead
ers learned that seven regiments in
this city were in constant communica
tion with Coucjri and had completed
all plans to revolt and seize the capital
for the loyalists as soon as the latter
reached the border Measures we e
taken to nullify this plan and when
Couciri crossed the frontier from Spain
at the head of lhe strongest army the
revolutionists have been able so muster
he found the government forces wait
ing for him in overwhelming numbers
and his command was dispersed with
heavy loss in killed and injured.
The republicans also suffered se
verely and royalist agents are declaring
that their setback to the cause was
but temporary. ’lhe government, how
ever, is confident that with the ex
haustive Information placed In Its
hands by Coucirl's discarded sweetheart
there is nothing left for the royalist
leader to do but surrender o' tight.
RE LEASING BOARD
VOTED BY SENATE;
SALARIES DODGED
Altered so that the constitutional ob
jection. which caused former Governor
Holte Smith to veto a similar measure,
had been removed, the Harris resolution
providing a standing commission to re
lease the Western and Atlantic railroad
was adopted by (lie senate today without
opposition.
The resolution stipulates that three sen
ators and five representatives, appointed
from the present legislature, be named tc
constitute a’commission which shall hold
office until all the leases of the Western
and Atlantic railroad shall have been
consummated
As the present leases of the Western
and Atlantic do not terminate until 1919
this commission, should it be authorized
ny the bouse, will be tn existence for seve.,
years.
Provision of a similar act vetoed by-
Governor Smith gave members of the com
mission legislative per diem while in ses
sion. Governor Smith held this to be
an action of the legislators to create
salaried offices for themselves. The pres
ent measure gets around this objection
by allowing members of the commission
$7 a day for expenses
MAN LOST IN SWAMP IS
CRAZED BY MOSQUITOES
EGG HARBOR CITY. N J„ July 15.
Residents of Cologne, a little village a
few miles from hero, heard numerous
of “Help, for God's sake, help!"
from deep in the Mankiller swamp. As
, the swamp is a thick and dangerous
one no one answered the calls until 3
o’clock in the morning, when several
men started a search. After several
house they came upon a half-naked
man, dressed only in a shirt. He was
terribly bitten bv mosquitoes and was
demented
During spells he seemed to be normal
and gave his name as Joseph Holz
worth, of Camden He said that he
1 had escaped from Blackwell's Island,
' New York, and with a ft lend was on
ills way’ to Atlantic City, when his
friend attacked him, beating hint sense
' less and took his money and clothe?
aw ay.
TOO LAZY TO ESCAPE
FIVE YEARS IN PRISON
‘ COLUMBIA. • MO., July 15.—George
I Smith, a negro, has just been sent to
the state penitentiary because, after
being paroled when convicted of forg
ing a check 'or $2. he refused to report
to the circuit court here to give proof
t of his good behavior.
Unless Governor Hadley pardons
him. Smith will have to serve five
■ years. It is said that Smith could
’ easily have proved that he had be
t haved himself, but was top lazy to do
> S' The sheriff warned him repeatedly,
i but Smith would not go to the trouble
t• > walk a few blocks to the court house
BLEASE ACCUSED
Os CRIME HERE
Felder Declares South Carolina
Governor Will Be Indicted in
This State.
Continued From Page One.
some he had already' pardoned before.
But I have evidence that Blease of
fered pardons to men behind the bars
if they would kill me. That's another
of the crimes I can prove against the
degenerate who i£ still legally entitled
to call himself the chief executive of
a great Southern state.
"Detective Reed and 1 are awaiting
further summons from the investigat
ing committee at Augusta. Reed has
a telegram from Nichols, with whom
he bargained for a pardon for the yegg
man Dentley. which shows us that
Blease accepted the $15,000 bribe the
Burns detective pretended to offer him
while the dictagraph caught their bar
gain in the Washington hotel.
Awaiting Further Summons.
“That telegram tells Reed (known by
Nichols as Attorney Porter, of Chi
cago) to hurry on South and wind up
the deal, and pay his money and get his
pardon, just as Nichols said he would
fix the governor’ when they' made the
contract. That ought to prove to any
commission what sort of man Biease
is.
"Reed and I are awaiting that com
mittee’s further summons. When the
committee gets through, when the peo
ple of South Carolina know the. truth
about the man who has swindled them
out of a governorship and when they
have turned him out as they surely will
when his term expires If they do not do
it before—then we will begin our crim
inal prosecutions. I will not detail now
lhe crimes we will prove against this
plan because it would forewarn him
and his clique, but if Justice is done in
South Carolina and here, as it surely
will, Blease will go behind the bars for
all the years be lives. And that sen
tence will be no more than he de
serves.
“When Blease came to Atlanta for
that commercial congress," continued
Mr. Felder "1 had him shadowed every
moment of his stay. And my. detec
tives saw the felony he committed.
That can be proved and if I live I'm
going to prove it, and if 1 don’t live
there still will be witnesses who will be
able tn convict him of that crime."
,'eed Not Through Yet.
As Felder talked Detective Reed, the
Burns sleuth of the dictagraph, came
into the interview. Reed looks for all
the world the double of the late Paul
Morton, secretary' of the navy under
Roosevelt, railroad magnate and Insur
ance chief. Reed opened the dictagraph,
which had received the conversation
binding the alleged pardon sale in
Washington
"That’s the same little machine that
trapped the McNamaras in the dyna
mite plot." he said, "it's the same one
I used to convict the grafting council
men at Atlantic City and the legisla
tors at Columbus. It's been a pretty
loyal machine to the Burns detective
agency and it may do some more work
to undo Blease. I'm not through with
the case yet. I'm going to be here for
several days, waiting upon the call of
the. committee. We had proof even
while the committee was in session that
Nichols was coming along nicely in his
negotiations with the governor to sell
us Dentley "s pardon. Os course the
telegram telling me to come and wind
it up meant that the governor had ac
cepted $5,000 for the pardon and was
ready to Issue it. But the dictagraph
may do still more clever work in this
ease if it's needed any more."
Nichols to Tell
Os Pardon Deal
SPARTANBURG. S. C„ July 15.—At
the request of Samuel J. Nichols, the
Spartanburg attorney trapped by E. S.
Reed, the Burns detective, into talk
ing about Governor Blease and a cer
tain pardon. State Senator Howard B.
Carlisle, chairman, will call a meeting
of the dispensary Investigating com
mittee to be held in Columbia next
Thursday at noon, at which time Mr.
Nichols will appear and tell his side
of the alleged conversations. Today
Mr. Nichols said:
"It would be useless for me to make
a statement at this time, as it could
only amount to a statement. What I
have to say 1 want to say on the wit
ness stand and have it put into official
tet ords. Until that time 1 have nothing
whatever to say of the matter."
Mr. Nichols returned from Columbia
today . He was at the governor's man
sion when the Sunday morning papers
came out and from these he learned
for the first time that a detective had
been on his path. Mr Nichols and Mr.
Carlisle held a conference here today,
and it was decided to hold the next
meeting of the committee in Columbia
on Thursday to hear Nichols’ testi
mony
Blease Refuses to
Talk of Dictagraph
COLUMBIA, S July 15. Denying
that Samuel J. Nichols, of Spartanburg,
askyd him to pardon Gus Dfford, and
refusing at this time to reply to the
charges of Thomas B. Felder, of Atlanta,
that he had been guilty of an aet of
degeneracy while in Atlanta in March,
1911. and that he would be indicted by
an Atlanta grand jury for his alleged
misconduct in the Georgia city. Governor
Col? L. Blease today said that in the
near future he would answer this and
HOMES BURN WITHIN SIGHT OF
FIREHOUSE; BAD STREET BLAMED
To the Editor of The Georgian :
Won't yon help us before it is too late” Our homes, though
humble, are going, one by one, being burned to the ground in
sight of a fire house !
Three homes burned to the ground in less than two months.
Why? Because the city will not pave one of the most important
streets in this section (South Moreland avenue). The city offi
cers will tell you that they are waiting to put in a sewer. Why
don't they pul in a sewer and run the house connections to the
curb, and not let the people connect until the lower end of the
sewer is finished? Then the city can pave the street. Wednes
day night the best fire engine in the city was compelled to
spend nine hours in the street, because it could not move, on ac
count of the street.
EAST ATLANTA IMPROVEMENT CU B.
.Atlanta. Ga.. Julv 15. 1912.
GEORGIAN FALLS
TOURISTS HONE
Newspaper’s Guests Loud in
Praise of Railway Companies
Which Handled Special.
The Georgian s 50 guests who journeyed
on the outing to Cincinnati. Niagara
Falls. Toronto and Detroit returned to
Atlanta last night. All of them declared
the trip was the pleasantest of their
lives. «
The railroad officials throughout the
length of the route vied in courtesies to
the party and ever, J. F. McFarland, who
has done world tours as manager of such
excursions for many years, says he never
went upon a finer one and doesn’t think
"a finer one can he made."
When The Georgian special arrived ex
actly on schedule time at the Louisville
and Nashville station the excursionists
streamed from the Pullmans. gretted
their hundreds of friends who had gobe
to the station to welcome them back, and
then held an impromptu meeting, at
which they passed unanimously this reso
lution:
Resolved. That at an informal meet
ing of the Tourists of The Georgian
special train returning front Niagara
Falls and Canada, on July 14. 1912.
we do uninimously extend most sin
cere thanks to The Atlanta Georgian
and News.. Mr. J. F. McFarland, man
ager of the tour, and Mr, F. J. Par
malee, T. P. A. of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton railroad, for
a most pleasant and profitable tour.
We also wish to extend our thanks
to the Louisville and Nashville, Cin
cinnati. Hamilton and Dayton and
Grand Trunk railroad companies, to
the Niagara Navigation Company. .
and Gorge Route, and to the Detroit
and Cleveland Steamship Company,
for most efficient service and courte
ous treatment.
The resolution was offered on the spot
by every one of the tourists.
other charges'made against him by Fel
der In written statements.
But the governor did dictate a briet
statement today in which he character
ized Felder as a "cowardly character,
Ijlief and debauchee," and ctilled William
.1. Burns, the detective employed by Mr.
Felder, a "cheap hireling unworthy of
belief."
Blease denied that Nichols had sought
the pardon for Gus Deford, as indicated
iln dictagraph testimony presented the
dispensary investigating committee at
Augusta late Saturday afternoon by De
tective E. S. Reed, of the Burns agency.
The governor’s dictated statement fol
lows:
"The entire transactions as brotfght out
in Augusta have been done at this time
in the campaign for the purpose of in
juring me. thinking, as we had passed
over a half of the state, that it would be
impossible for me to reach the people
again. That whole thing is a tissue of
misrepresentations and willful lies, whicli
1 will show the people of the state at
the proper time with the proofs. 1 have
received numbers of telegrams, letters and
telephone messages from my friends
throughout the state and from parties
who have heretofore never been my
friends, in which they denounce the com
mittee for the action it has taken and
assuring me of their undivided support.
I am satisfied they have done me no in
jury, but have materially strengthened me
with my’friends and all other South t 'aro
linans, who love their state and who will
resent the manner in which this cowardly
character, thief and debauchee has at
tempted to injure the chief magistrate
of this state with the assistance of this
committee."
Referring to W J. Burns, the detective,
the governor said;
“in my opinion Burns proved himself
unworthy of belief and a cheap hireling,
as be has in other of his transactions."
The governor said he did not care to
make any mention of the incident of
yesterday wnen he ordered J. N. King
and O W. Watson out of his residence.
He quoted one of these men as using in
his home words of very “ungentlemanly
character.’’
Attornev Nichols, who was connected
with the alleged pardon bribery scheme
as related by Detective Reed. left yester
day afternoon for his home in Spartan
burg Governor Blease said today:
“Nichols never mentioned anything to
me about a pardon for Gus Deford, and
no such pardon has been issued.”
Nichols and other friends of Governor
Blease were in conference at the execu
tive mansion several hours yesterday
A CORRECTION.
Jp a letter to The Georgian, the Rev
Hugli S. Wallace corrects the statement
made in this paper that the Baptist min
isters of Atlants' had at one time de
clined to ordain him because of his
views on immersion Immersion was not
the point of faith on which Mr. Wallace
and the other ministers differed.
FARMERS RALLY IN LOWNDES.
VALDOSTA. GA . July 15. Tn
Lowndes County Farmers union is pie
paring for a big rally in this city on
July 26. W. T. Carter, president of
the Mississippi Farmers union, will be
the principal speaker. He will speak
on "The Marketing of espe
cially cotton.
SUNDAY DANCING
GOES UNDER BAN
Effort of Grant Park Revelers to
Tilt the Lid Is Checked by
Policeman.
Sunday dancing In Atlanta was shoved
under the ban good and hard today by
Recorder Broyles.
An effort to tilt Atlanta's lid just a
wee bit was made yesterday afternoon
by a merry party of boys and girls, who
went out to Grant park, and. in the pres
ence of a crowd of recreation seekers.
Waltzed and two-stepped to the strains
of an electric piano in a iiall over the
refreshment stand. The startled specta
tors looked on in amazement, wondering
what had happened to Atlanta. Public
dancing in the park on Sunday afternoon
-the idea was almost inconceivable.
But it was all over In a little while,
for when Policeman Norman appeared the
dancers deserted the waltz and scampered
away. Two young men. Barney Waldrop,
247 South Moreland avenue, and Walter
Strickland, 338 Woodward avenue, were a
bit braver than the other dancers, and
sought to waltz together. They were
spied by Officer Norman, who made cases
against both of them.
In police court today. Strickland told
Recorder Broyles he had been informed
that the police had no objection to the
dancing. He was fined $1.75. Waldrop
failed to appear, and wtas ordered in con
tempt of court.
"Sunday dancing certainly will pot be
tolerated," said Judge Broyles. “Atlanta
has not reached ihe’Sunday dancmg stage
yet."
COUNCIL EXPECTED
TO ADOPT NEW CITY
PLANT PLAN TODAY
It was said today by prominent mem
bers of the council that the contract of
the New York Destructor Company to
build a garbage disposal plant for $276.-
000 would be adopted by council this aft
ernoon. li will be recommended by Mayor
Winn and the finance committee
The company offers to give bond to
build a SIOO,OOO electric power plant in
conjunction with the crematory if the
council will finance such a proposition.
Otherwise the bond provides that the
electric plant can'be built on the same
terms of credit as the garbage plant with
in one year after the garbage plant is
completed.
The Trust Company of Georgia has un
derwritten the destructor company’s con
tract to build the garbage plant.
MACON MAN ACCUSES
HIS WIFE OF LARCENY
Macon raatrmionial trouoies were placed
before Sheriff C. W. Mangum, in At’arda,
today.
The official received a letter from W.
A. Hooks, -,f West 'iftipb"l| avenue.
Macon, asking that his wifa, ln> is in
Atlanta, be arrested on two charges if
larceny. He asserts that she ran away
from Weir heme several -eeks ago. taking'
the family finances, consisting of several
hundred dollars, and has not been heard
from since. He offers <25 lor informal lon
leading to her arrest and return to him.
JOHN MITCHELL TO BE
SENTENCED WEDNESDAY
WASHINGTON. July 15,-John
Mitchell, vice president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, adjudged in
contempt, will be sentenced by Justice
Wright on Wednesday. Through his
attorney. Mitchell today agreed to
waive his right to be in the court when
sentence is passed, and the penalty will
be imposed in his absence.
BROTHER SLAYS BROTHER
IN A BUSINESS QUARREL
MONTGOMERY, ALA.. Idly 15.—News
has just reached here of a tragedy at
Prattville. Autauga county, last night,
Peevy Bridges, a well known citizen being
dead, while his brother, Mack Bridges, is
under arrest charged with tne ki-.-.lng
The slaying took place at the home of
Mack Bridges, where the brothers were
discussing Business when they fell nut.
The dead man was shot with a revolver.
CAMP MEETING NEXT MONTH.
JAUKSoN, GA.. July 15.—Prepara
tions are under way for the annual ten.
day meeting of the Indian Spring holi
ness camp meeting, which will be held
August 8 to 18. The preachers are Rev.
\\ . Ruth, of Indianapolis, and Rev.
C. H. Babcock, of Portsmouth. Va.
Charlie D. Tillman, of Atlanta, will
have charge of the music.
PREACHER HEADS SCOUTS.
JACKSON. GA., July 15.—The Boy
Scouts of Jgekspn left today for a
week's camping trip on the Towaliga
river. The boys will be in charge of
Rex Robert VanDeventer. pastor of the
First Baptist church of this city.
LOIWTOKEEP
OF SENATE FIGHT
May Ask Voters of State for
Vindication, or May Ask the
Senate to Reopen Case.
M ASHINGTON. July 15.—Wil! ~
Lorimer, who on Saturday was ur
ed as United States senator from l
nois, will keep up his senate figtp. but
will go back to his fiome*in fhieju
and go to work for the present
He will probably re-enter politi,, an ,|
seek a vindication at the han< s of
Illinois electorate; but that ias r ,
been decided.
Mr. Lorimer js far from being :
carewpljp and crushed man he tnig ;;
imagined. Since the fight for hi- -•
became most active, Mr. Lorinv
been laying at a downtown hotel. : ldi .
ing given up his quarters in the Y -
Men's Christian association. H.
remain there until probably the ci.o ,
the week, when he will leave so- i
cago.
Lorimer takes the view that h< ; <
ask to have his case reopened on ■!.■
ground of newly evidence at
any time he wishes. He feels that th»
senate in reopening his case aft. r <
had once declared his title valid
lished a precedent it can not iguor-
Since he walked out of the
chamber Saturday he has barely n
tioned his case.
Lorimer Tale One of
Bossism and Trusts
There Is a significant coinciden.
the fact that the expulsion of I
from the senate came on the fv
•ihe victory for popular election '
•United States senators, sot which tin
•Hearst newspapers have batti
•through almost a score of year?. \\
the people selecting their own -rvi
’tors. Lorimer cases will he lmpo?sii> !
It is the general belief that the !."■
'mer scandal, and the use which t
Hearst newspapers have made of i
point to the necessity of popular . . -
lions, were most powerful facto.- ; .
assuring the success of the propo
constitutional amendment.
AU of inordinate ambition, crlrnu.. '
greed, reckless wealth and drunk ■
power are iJlusDated in the- Lo i
shame. It is the perfect embodim. nt
of bossism.
Betrayal Begins It.
It began in a betrayal of rhe ex
pressed wishes of the people lilin
Republicans, at the primary of 19i'-.
explicitly declared a preference for A
- Hopkins to succeed himself in th”
'senate. When the legislature tor;
vened the mandate was disregard'
deadlock ensued, and afte; sevi t
months of fruitless balloting l.o'im '
was suddenly elected to succ< ed Ho -
kins, largely through Democratb \ ••;
The explosion came when sot n:
Representative Charles T. W'nfb •’(
the Illinois legislature, confess'd ' s'
he had been paid SI,OOO to volt so
Lorimer, and gave the names of ot:> -
that had received similar vmnpfn ■>-
tion.
Lorimer at first tried io ignore ■
issue. But at length a demand
made in the Senate for .an investor .-
tion. A committee was appointed a
an exhaustive investigation was in;,' -
But powerful influences were
work. Edward Hines, one of the in
tent factors of the lumber trust. -
busy, as did the agents of big busin -
The senate committee reported In f
vor of Lorimer.
By such methods Lorimer's door
fall was temporarily staved off B'
scant eight votes Lorimer wa s whit- -
washed.
But the blow was only temporari!'
stayed. The popular storm increase '
in fury. The election of 1919 < >
along and the Republican party, wi'i
had made Lorimer's cause its own. • <
buried beneath an avalanche of bai ■ -
Aldrich was forced to quit: Hale !
lowed, and half a dozen more—all 1
imer men —went down to defeat.
Illinois legislature began an inv> i
gation of the charges against 1.0 1 •
Funk Accuses Hines.
Clarence S. Funk, general mattag'
of the International Harvester 1 •
pany. swore that Edward Hines “
approached him. and with lhe renn’’
that he “had put Lorimer over. tho;ig>
it cost $100,000." requested Funk
help make up that sum from th<- f' 1
of the Harvester Company.
Edward Tilden, pfesident of the > .
tional Packing Company—beef tm
who was said to have acted a? " '
urer of the SIOO,OOO fund, refused
produce his books before the jlDn •
legislature, and was upheld in '
stand by the courts.
After a sharp fight the‘senate n
dered another investigation. Hine?
peared. but pply to make a dec' •
while Tilden declared that he m
kept any memorandum of his i-xi •■'
tures outside of his business
blocked the effort to get at the • b"
that he had acted a? treasure! •(
'bribery fund.
Hines let loose the fact that A
rand Taft both favored Lorimer. <
iLorimer himself again entered » -: r '
■oral denial. Theie Uas a mas-s of ■
tdepce tendic" to corroborate l ur
story, and the other testimony 1
had been iptioduced at the firs' h
ing.
Hut again the senate committee
cided in favor of Lorimer. This v
the final effort of the machine.
ever. A change has come over aft
In the serrate. It had been detr
tstrated conclusively that this time '
'whitewashing committee would no' '•
'upheld. Wherefore. Vice Presm
•Sherman, turning the gavel of th?
ate over to another, rushed mad'y
Chicago recently to break the tie" -
'Lorimer and beg him to resign. I-
Lorimer would not quit, and so car
hi. ejection bj the senate.