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VOL. X. NO. 253.
HODOR»
NEW CENTER
OF Bl EASE
SCAIDAL
Attention Turns From Pardon
Charges Against the South
Carolina Governor.
CONSTABULARY PROBE
STATE WIDE THREATENED
Expected Refutation nf Pardon
Selling Charges Not Forth
(i‘minq at Columbia.
' 1 '■ J'■ I . S. July 19. Charges
th.'' P ' . henchmen havr been tak
ing r >■ ' "ii s-aft from ('harleston
i"nr rb-- ' ay shifted attention
from me ’ i J":: - selling charges that
iavp stir-nil ilit stale the past week
"11'1 caused Governor ('ole 1.. Blease'
n withhold his promised sensational
refutation of the pardon charges and
denunciation of those who made them.
Th. testimony before the dispensary
investigating committee by F. J. B.
<i Nelli, a Charleston liquor dealer, yes
terday afternoon, turned the tide of
South Carolina sensations from the
pardon scandal to the blind tiger graft
ing affair Today the graft scandal is
'"’cupying the spotlight and promises
in develop itself into a state-wide probe
of the conduct of the state constabulary
in dealing with violators of the liquor
la n s
* halt man Carlisle, of the investi
gating committee, today announced that
r a few days the committee would
again meet to probe the liquor graft
charges.
Blease Almost,
Ignores Charges.
Disappointed to an extent was the
'' ’"d that packed the Columbia the
this afternoon to hear Governor
Rlease -take the bide off" Thomas B.
P,der ' r) etective E. S. Reed and De-
William J. Burns, because of
l!lt disclosures and charges made di
'ecly and indirectly against the gov
. r 'i.n ast week before the dispensary
f'Wstigattng committee at the sessions
■'ngusta. Blease barely mentioned
charges, referring to them as
Instead, he directed an attack, in
T r ‘>' iltilolie terms, against Judge Ira
I - Jones, former chief Justice of the
“late supreme court, who is opposing
governor. He denounced
' 1 " " candidate of .corporations
•'nd newspapers and referred to certain
'• itor- of the state in unprintable lan-
He assailed Jones' record In
"'''• 'He from beginning to end and
• elated the attacks made on him as
" 'nan to which he has given utterance
>n other parts of the state.
Rm tonight Blease is expected to
•ut loose" on Felder. Reed. Burns and
member., of the investigating com
'Ttee headed by Senator Carlisle. He
“ 'o speak to working people from the
■'tr house 3tppi , and jg sav)nß h)(1
. attack for that audience. Then
' “ expected to reply directly and spe.
a,l> lo the pardon-selling charges
' In connection with Reed's trans
"iis with Attorney Samuel J. Nleh
' y" f Spartanburg, as recorded in dic
'l’b testimony presented m the
• mini! tee
I elder Sends Proof
Nichols Was Sober
>, iq , 1 l,s R. Eelder played another of
r, tmp cards today in his fight
Governor Cole Blease of South
' "ina when he dispatched to the dis-
■ investigating committee the
"f the Atlanta stenographer. S.
' 'llrbaum. to prove that the dleto
?, '-h was not only right when it said
~ E"fols had agreed to got Govern.
~ .’ ,<r <p ll a pardon to Detective
' "i' al-o that Nichols ats so.
n n "l drunk and in, ompetrnt
„ ■ aid. when h. made the bargain
■‘f-'i if she >’(,j't , nhiifs hotel
$
ONLY ONE MORE RAINY DAY. SAY EXPERTS
There may be a few of the usual showers tonight
and Saturday, according to local weather ex
perts who are not in the employ of the govern
ment, but early Sunday morning the moon changes
and then the good weather comes One aged
The Atlanta Georgian
us. mini
YIELD. SHS
hemstto
eud
Asserts America’s Right to
Defend Flag in Interview
in London.
CALLS PANAMA CANAL
DOMESTIC POSSESSION
As Such. He Declares Its Regu
i lation Can Not Be Submitted
to Arbitration.
i
L(>ND<)N. July 19. Th. London
Evening Standard publishes an inter
view with William Randolph Hearst
under the following intro.imimn, in
black face type: Mr. William Ran
dolph Hearst, the leading American
publicist and former member of con
gress. vigorously defends the I'nited
States' proposal to gi\. preference to
American ships using the Panama ca
nal; he also makes’ a forceful plea for
reciprocity between ‘‘a.nada and the
United States." The articl. proceeds
as follows:
"Mr. William Randolph Hearst,
proprietor of The New York Amer
ican and its associated journals, in
an interview with one of our rep
resentatives today, indicated clearly
the opinion In America regarding,
the action of the I'nited States
senate in proposing to exempt from
tolls all American shipping pass
ing through the Panama canal.
Mr. Hearst believes that as the ca
nal may now be considered a do
mestic possession' the United
States will not enter into arbitra
tion on the subject.
Mr. Hearst Defines
The Question.
"I would like to begin by say
ing." Mr. Hearst remarked, "that I
have been on the water during the
time that the mattei of the Panama
canal came up before the state de
partment and the senate of the
United States, and 1 am. therefore,
not entirely familiar with every de
tail of recent developments. I have
noted, however, "hat has appeared
in some of the London papers, and I
have reason to be somewhat famil
iar with the negotiation of the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty and substitution
of that treaty for the Clayton-
Bulwer treaty. As a matter of fact.
I had a good deal to do with the
change of character of the Hay-
Pauneefote treaty.
"At the time of its first negotia
tion. the treaty, as prepared for
presentation to the senate. was
practically a repetition of the
(’layton-Bulwer treaty in regard to
the provisions affecting the canal.
It seemed to me that the clauses
restricting the freedom of the
United States in regard to the
canal were improper and I sent
Mi. t'rcelman an editor of Th' 1
N'ev Yorlt American. to Washing
ton Io fight the adoption of those
clauses in arliclos written for my
publications.
Hearst Fight
Revised Treaty.
"When Mr. Creelmun leached
Washington, he telegraphed to rrte
that it would be Impossible to ac
complish anything in this direc
tion. as the treaty was ready to be
passed by the senate. I tele
graphed him in reply to oppose
the treaty, nevertheless. villi his
utmost vigor and J sent him a staff
of correspondents and Mi Daven
port. our cartoonist ‘at that time,
to make the strongest possible
fight that could l» made against
these interfering clause-. The
fight wa- mad' the treaty a pre-
I mil \> a ibam|nn p d and the
pre rpt Hay I'ami-c fof e tin.il',
Centitutsd ne Page Fi“e,
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN ANT ADS —Use For Results
ATLANTA. (LA.. FRIDAY. -H LY 19. 1912.
Mounted Scouts Rouqh Riders at Camp
DARING EQUESTRIAN FEATS
ANNISTON. ALA., July 19. Today
found tbr
infantry, suffering rrom an ;n- .
Jack of sore feet, most noticeable iij !
the- new uoinpaiijes. which are com- ;
posod almost entirely of nv n who have ;
’ • •u:nn| t Pii'' Lefort The ratin'' !
‘•trenuous inaneuvei* «>f yesterday. i < 1
lowing t'lnsrly noon the h'«ls <»f .» •
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drill Wednesday afternoon, put many
of the "rookies to the bad and gate
tlm hospital tent, for the time being,
the appearance of a chiropodist estab
lishment. 'lhe majority of the men.
however, have warmed up to the work
of the camp, and in spite of their blisl
e s fell into line today determined 10
see the day's "battle" through. This
was especially true of ibe recruits who
are loth to admit that the old-timers
have anything the best of them in anv
respect.
Office's Get Theirs.
Had those civilians who aie in the
habit of thinking that officers have lit
tle lo do in camp been on the scene
y.-sterday afternoon their Ideas would
have unde'gone a radical levisfon. for
while the men lay in their tents and
rested after the morning's rather stren
uous hiking, the officers were assem
bled and marched over several miles of
rough ground while regular army of
ficers explained to them the fine points
of Intrcnchnmnts. Nor were tin- men
slow to realize that for once, at least,
they had the better of the situation
and there was intense satisfaction pic
tured in the smiles on their faces as
the officers went trooping past. ‘
General Anderson Pleased
'l’h< entire regiment went on a long
hike yesterday before the officers were
laken out. After five hours of strenu
ous woik, the regiment captured a ba -
taiion that had intrenched the day p » -
clous. Many Atlantans would have
hern edified and surpiised t" see tbr
fellow- that keep PeachniT and Whit- ■
lia'l -is aline, v.'migmg up wood"'!
hill- 01 -klrmi-h o dei tn th. ati.c
me t» mention i* n and ta*.v* - in 11,
''H.' f -om th'- -' qt‘ of action
i .
HOUSE VOTES FOR
VIADUCTS ON PRYOR
AND CENTRAL AVE.i
A grin rai hill, with a local appiica- !
I Hon i(» Atlanta only, was passed b\
[the b< 'isc to(>a\. authorizing ano pro-
I viding tiir kga’ mat hinery w hereby the
Icit.c proceed to the erection of
'piyoi st reel and ('entra' avenue \ia
ducts ac'os< the slated railroad prop
erty.
A • ornparjb'n bill, also pas-'ed. au
thorizes the lowering of the railroad
tracks as may he neerssa'y l“i tht
accomplishment <»f this work
ATLANTA PRISONER
ESCAPES GUARD AND
LEAPS FROM TRAIN
(■h.i>b s L Sos-om.in. an Atlanta man
who was being taken from Udioit to
l)eLan<l. Kia., in charge of Eloiida of
fleets. If; ped from.a moving train tn
<ia.v al Adams Park. Ga,. ; little town
on the Central near Macon. ID dashed
into the wood> hofm* r h»* t ain • on’d
be stopped.
Soss<»man. who is v anted fm ’
legod forge'v in l/ej 7 aj|j uas locjte-i
in Detroit h.v Pinkerton detectives, wh •
shadow rd his sweetheart in Jackson
ville. X remark of heis that "they’D
never e« t (’harlle; he’s in Detroit.’'
gave the (lew to his wheieabouts
PLEA OF WOMAN TO
PREVENT EXECUTION
SAVES NEGRO’S LIFE
When Mi.- R. N. Hirdemun. wife of
Representative Bob' Haldeman, of
Jefferson county, awoke Imlay to find
ea pentr-rs dismantling the gallows
which was to have taken the life of
Charles Gibbens, a negru slayer, in the
Louisville, G.i.. baseball pick, -he knew
that Iter huriy call to her husband to
stop the hanging had not been in vain.
Upon new evidence submitted to
Govirnoi Biown line yesterday after
noon Gibbons' (hath s r 'nton< < w .
commut'd to life Imp i< mmr-mt and 1 11 •
J. ifc -.a county slmii? ".1 noiificr 1 ■
trai dn.'n th" ga'low and call off tlm
execution he had s< heduled fui today
prophet, who claims 99 per cent of his predictions
are true, expressed himself this way: “The moon
has spent its last quarter to get full and is tired ot
the jag. It will change Sunday and then all will
be clear and bright once more.”
(<i'iM'”i;i militinnifii at the Au
niston army maneuvers are seeinu
examples of daring horsemanship
by mmnitml scouts of the Seven
leenth infantry. Ou the left is
W . M. Williams, on the richt Jo
seph Viotels. two ol the most
fearless of I he scouts.
I LOCAL GOLFERS WIN
IN FIRST ROUND OF
INVITATION TOURNEY
The first match play rounds "ere run
off ovei the course of the Atlanta Ath
letic club this morning The chief in
terest centered in tlm first flight. In
this: tile winners of the rounds com
pleted by 1:3(1 p.m. "ere Smith <’u!
lum and R. 11. I-: mgh. of Birmingham,
W It Tichenor and G. H Atkisson. of
Atlanta, and Scott Probasvo of Ciiat
tanooga
The winner- continued al match play
this afternoon, "hili tin |osm -of llm
morning rounds "ere paired for Hie
battle in the loser- flights
The results of the mat' lies pi-iyeil
this morning folio"
First Flight.
Smith ('ullnni defeated It Riehii.ls
by default
R H Rrnjgh <|pfr;ijcd I „ \ i nold I 1
up.
\\ R ’l'i-lHpoi d-M'.i Ir« I D* I 'ink
Holland, by dofaub.
Scoi t Pr«»b.i-"> d<>fc:)io(| IL Blan
ton. 1-3.
< L H Aik 1 son defeated E W I \ .
5-3.
Second Flight.
!<;. B. ('rawforii ilefdated \V K Wil
son. by defaull.
It I’. Jone- defeated P. \' Rain-
I w Her. 4-2.
D. Jemison defeated E. G. Brown.
I up (19 holes).
K. Martin defeated A A. I'oonari,
7-6
H S. ibles defeated E 11. Rai nett, I
up (19 holes).
('. E. Corwin defeated E. J. Holditch.
2-1.
11. P. Ward defeated E T. Winston
3 - 2.
Third Flight.
P"'iy Adan defeats.| 11 H. Glenn,
by default. t
J 1.. (Il a\ " d<T a led Ho" 11 r| t'bol m .
4-2
H ' Monte def. ale.! ,t I Raiqr- ,1.
b 1 default
H. Blink defeated T. B. Paine, 2-1
Governor "Passes Up”
A Feast for Beans and
Pone at Aunt Martha's
While Legislators Celebrate Riv
er Opening. Brown Visits
Aged Woman.
While members of Hie legislature and
officials and citizens of Rome were
bidding high jinx over the commercial
future of the Floyd county metropolis
at limd.int upon Hu opening of the Ca
toosa Ivor yislcrday. Govmnoi Broun,
who was lo have been the guest of
honor, was rating snap beans and corn
bread with Amu Martha Evans in
('licrokee county, in honm of the wom
an's ninciiet b birthday .
The chief executive .admitted today
that he turned down lhe Rome eele
braiioit for tin- simpb country dinner
ind "as glad that he had done so.
"Do you know." he said, "I met an
I old man up the'e Um le Berry Dun-
I 1 an. they called him—who had raised a
bale of "olton and s<t bushels of corn
mi his little farm neat Woodstock with
bis own hands, lie was 94 years old."
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MRS. MORROW FAINTS
WHEN COUNSEL ASKS
LIBERTY OR GALLOWS
(■HH’AGO, July 19. -Mrs. Retu- B.
Moriow. chargi'd # with the murder of
her inventor husband, fainted in court
today. While her attorney. (’. K. Ki b
sl«‘in, was pleading for her lit- M< s.
Morrow uttered a cr\. 'id to the floo
ami lav theie until conscious. Mrs
ITi 'D' ick FXistor, her sister, was b-side
her in an instant. Court proc* • lings
w*’o si.RpendPfl and Mis Morrow was
tariied into the ants-room md r’-
' vi\ cd.
'Fla- morning was taken up with Mi.
Kibstoin* ai<umeni. ll* demand
I ba i th* chib v\ onia n who i at •us •■■’d of
’’ ivint *<hot hu; husband he liberated
•»i tha’ b»’ rn the gjllpw
It 't t - expected th** raw* would go to
’he jury before night.
HI|L
HOI I
IDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ A O Y RE NO
HUNDREDS
HAVENDT
PHD FOR
SEWERS
Discrimination Which Has Cost
Perhaps $50,000 Found in
Construction Department,
EFFORT TO COLLECT WILL
BRING ON A BITTER FIGHT
Many Owners Have Had to
Meet Stiff Assessment While
Others Escaped Levy.
The Georgian today present? facts
revealing almost unbelievable discrim
inations between Atlanta’s property
owners by the city in the levy of as
sessments for Sewers. ' E
Aujhcntic records have been obtained
from the chief of construction's office
showing that during the last twenty
years miles of assessment sewers have
been laid without any assessments be
ing made against the property own
ers The amount due the city on these
sewers is estimated to be from $25,000
to $50,000.
By a comparison with the rigid law
supposed to apply in regard to assess
ments, the condition is shown in its
true significance. Assessments of 70
cents per running foot are levied
against all property owners, no mat
ter how poor they are. as >1 Hen on their
property. Despite strenuous protests,
thousands nf dollars are collected from
property owners In all parts of the
city.
Construction Chief
Blamed by Committee.
The fact that sewers had been laid
in about 50 streets without having any
assessments levied against the prop,
erty owners has just been discovered
by members of the sewer committee of
council.
The sewer committee changes every
yea 1. The chief of construction de
partment has the duty of keeping th°
assessments straight. And members
of the sewer committee place the blame
for this state of affairs directly on the
const ruction department.
W. A. Hansel, acting chief of con
struction, explained tin flnassessed
sewer matter In this way: Most of
the sewers had been laid years ago
where there were few houses on the
streets. The property own* rs object 'd
to paying tthe assessments, so the sew
er committee of council at that time re
lieved them, ft was provided that they
bi- assessed as they were connected
with the sewers. Yet the rule of the
sewer committee is to assess everyone
bordering on a sew et bet'or, any con
nections ili'i- allowe;:.
Mayor Winn explained todity that the
reason so many sewers wire laid with
out assessments being levied against
property owners was dim to the ruling
nf (lie late city attorney, James An
derson. Mr. Anderson ruled that an
assessment could not be levied for a
sower unless there were i|s,> watet ('.m
nections In the street.
I'ity Attorney James L. May son has
ruled that assessments <an be levied
whether th' te are water connei tions or
not
May oi Winn said that the great ninn
bet of unassessed sewers were Igld
prim to 1905. All water connections
have since been made.
Sewers in Fifty
Streets Not Assessed.
Here is the list of unassessed sewer?:
Xngie: avenue, Boulevard to branch.
Ashby street. Park to Gordon.
Alexander street, Marietta to Luckie
Armstrong street. Piedmont tn But
ler.
zYshbv street, Non toss tn West End
a venue.
South Boulevard. Boulevad tc
Glennwood.
Berean avenue. Gaskill to Tennille,
