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POLICE RAID JUDGE GOBER’S OFFICE THE WEATHER » Forecast: Continued cool tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 67: 10 a. m., 73; 12 m„ 75; 2 p. m., 77. VOL. XL NO. 1. SEMS EEJUND IISIFE OF LAWYER'S OFFICE Chief Lanford Leads Search ers for Stolen Jewels With Possessory Warrant. DECLARE JEWELS ARE PART OF LOOT SOUGHT Sensational Denouement in the Famous Diamond Mystery That Stirred Police. Newport Lanford, chief of de stives, with several other officers, made a raid on the law office of Gober, Jack son & Smith in the Third National bank building, this afternoon and found a quantity of diamonds which they say are part of the loot which was taken in the noted "diamond trunk robbery.’ which so excited Atlanta police circles several months ago. Judge George F. Gober, for many years a superior court judge in Ma rietta and that circuit, and now an At lanta attorney, was counsel for George ’Vrenn, one of the alleged diamond thieves, and met his client in Birming ham before hie arrest there. The detectives believed, after the Capture of the three thieves, that some of the jewels were still missing. Jewels Found in Law Finn’s Safe. Chief Lanford this afternoon swore out a possessory warrant before Jus tice Ridley, and with his associates vis ited the office of Judge Gober. It was reported that he had difficulty in en forcing his warrant, but finally made a search and found a number of jewels in the safe used by the law firm. The robbery was one of the most dar ing ever in the annals of the Atlanta police. A wagon bearing a trunk filled with jewelry, owned by Solomon Gilsey, a Cincinnati salesman, was taken away from the negro driver through a trick, driven to another point in the city, the trunk carried into a boarding house, and the gems removed. The police found the trail a few days later, and succeeded in arresting George Wrenn, Carl Roddy’ and a man named Kaul, re covering thousands of dollars worth of the jewels. The whole loot was valued at $20,000. Judge Gober Indignant at Raid. Judge Gober this afternoon express ed indignation at the action of the detectives, who. he understood, were Pinkerton men. He declared that he had been re tained by the Protective Jewelry Com pany, the Jewelers’ organization, and by Wrenn. He said that he gave the police information as to just where the jewels were and where they would find the men involved. As a result the arrests were made and the gems recovered. The information came from Wrenn, who was to get a lighter sentence as a reward. The Protective Jewelry Company, the judge declares, had promised to pay him S3OO for his services and this money had never been paid. Jewelry worth about S3OO was therefore se creted in a safe in the office and the law firm considered it had absolute right to the property. Judge flober asserted the jewels seized today were not worth more than S3OO or S4OO. He declared they were taken by detectives armed with a pos sessory warrant while he was away fi om his office. The judge added that he would fight the seizure to a finish and denounced the detectives. TWENTY-THREE INJURED IN WRECK ON CENTRAL MACON. GA.. Aug. s.—Twenty-three persons were injured when a Central of Georgia passenger train ran off the tracks at a washout east of Monte zuma last night. The white passengers who were slightly hurt are Mrs. M. C. While, Americus; Frank White. Washington; C. T. Joiner. Camilla; C. B Clark, Mon tezuma; J. D. Bradley. Americus; J. H. Carroll, Conyers, and W. R. Gooden, Macon. Sixteen negroes were hurt. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results ALEXANDER HITSCDURTS IN FIRST SPEECH • Also Attacks State’s Railway Legislation in Opening Cam paign at Ringgold. WRIGHT AND CANDIDATE SPEAK HERE THURSDAY Promises Abolition of Liquor Traffic and Licensed Vice and Other Reforms. The gubernatorial canvass of Hoop er Alexander was put into full swing today with a speech by Mr. Alexander denouncing the state’s railroad legis lation; the announcement that Sea born Wright, the famous stump orator of Rome, and the candidate will speak Thursday night at the Lyric theater and the issuance of a statejnent at tacking John M. Slaton as a reaction ary. In his speech at Ringgold, Catoosa county, Mr. Alexander "called on God to witness the covenant I make this day with the people of Georgia; "Mercenary crime shall not stand unchallenged in the market place. The pestilence shall not walk at noonday unrebuked. The prostitution of young girls shall not go longer unwhipped of justice. The covenant with death shall be disannulled and the agreement with hell shall not stand. The rich and pow erful- shall no longer set up their re spectable crime as a pattern for the vicious and the ignorant. “The odds against me are heavy,” added the speaker, "but 1 accept the terms. ‘‘State Must Either Be Wet or Dry.” Os the liquor issue. Mr. Alexander said: "No further progress can be made in any reform in Georgia until the com mon people destroy the lawless liquor law, whip the politicians back to de cency and give the privileged classes to understand that their time comes next. The contest is one where no quarter is possible. The state will have to be come either wet or dry. Every judge in Atlanta knows of lawless liquor places within his jurisdiction. And yet not a finger is lifted to stop them. Neither the executive nor the judicial departments are performing their func tions in this respect. When I found that the legislature would not pass the Tippins bill over the governor's veto I drew out the S2OO that the state pays me Tor 50 days of service and told the Democratic committee to put my name down among those who would be can didates for governor. 'I will appeal this to the people,’ I said. “The people of Georgia are waiting for a leader," declared Mr. Alexander. "With God's help, I will undertake the task." Sees Hope for Drys In Party Split. In the statement issued by' campaign headquarters today, John M. Slaton is so much the conservative that he could not belong to the Democratic party in many states. The statement declares that the Slaton forces have made a concerted attack upon “progressive ness,” but that, notwithstanding, the candidacy of Mr. Alexander will draw so many votes from both Slaton and oJe Hill Hall that the prohibition man will win through the split. Alexander’s campaign, in charge of Charles D. McKinney, of Decatur. Is being conducted so far from the can didate's law offices in the Atlanta Na tional Bank building. McKinney announces that Alexander himself will not do much speechmak ing, but will confine his time to the formation of an organization, when he isn't busy in the legislature. Judge W. A. Covington of Moultrie; W. W. Lambden. of Waycross; Wright, of Rome, and L. J. Steele are. the other active managers of the' Alexander can vass. It is said that Mr. Alexander's friends are busily engaged in raising a campaign fund in his behalf and that several have themselves pledged very respectable amounts, • Californians Need • : Governor at Home • • CHICAGO, Aug. s.—The Cali- • • fornians adopted this resolution: • • "Resolved, That we need Gov- • • ernor Johnson on the Pacific coast • • more than they need him in Wash- • • ington.” • • •••••«•••••••<»••••••••••• Storekeepers See h'lade-in-Atlanta Show at Armory ATLANTA IS HOST TO 3,000 MERCHANTS Aw<'BL i 'Mr w ' Wsyf.. 1 ■MLadJI |h I KTwanPr iA ■ ■ * J WE • ’ « -A WL dfSfe WV T-W 1 ' // WMMf/ JI W “• I </>// -A'WjLl i t ‘ i /®tt .A. V vw* F/o ■HiW I 1’ T 7 V i U /A\ 111 ’■IAA °i VI Al 111 wlloi 11 X v \ >7 X t If z / i 1 Iw I ‘ V > | / I |l JHnt ■ Aw I lU -jl W A bevy of pretty Georgia girls on the biggest ehair in the world, on exhibition at the made-in-Atlanta show at the Auditorium. 1 he young women on the extreme right and extreme left of the picture are seated on the arms of the chair. Visitors to Spend Three Days “Taking in” Best Wholesale Market in the South. Clerks and wives are running the country stores of Georgia today and will draw molasses and wrap up calico for the next three days, for the merchants themselves have packed their grip sacks and taken the train to Atlanta. Some of them arrived this morning, and others will be in tonight. The sec ond annual convention of the Southern Merchants association opens tomorrow morning, and 3.000 storekeepers are coming. There isn’t much business on the pro. gram for the week. The merchants have been invited to come to town, visit the big Made-ineAtlanta show at the Auditorium, take in the theaters and the baseball game, surround a barbecue and have just as good a time as pos sible. Their attention has been espe cially called to the fact that the Tip pins bill did NOT pass, and that cards to the clubs may be had for the ask ing. The visitors represent almost every town in Georgia and several in adjoin ing states. They range from little fel lowi from the crossroads to department store magnets of sister cities. The reason for bringing them here is to prove that Atlanta offers them the best wholesale market in their territory. They will attend the Forsyth Ifteater tonight, the baseball game tomorrow afternoon, a reception at. the Piedmont Driving club on Wednesday and a bar becue Thursday. They will have a spe cial night at the Made-in-Atlanta show Wednesday and are expected to spend ail the rest of their spare time there. ATHENS JOINS NATIONAL BODY. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.- The Cham ber of Commerce of Athens, Ga„ wftli 100 members, has been elected to mem. bership in the Chamber of Commerce of the United Stales of America. v ATLANTA, GA.. MONDAY. AUGUST 5. 1912. BULL MOOSE THRONG YELLS AS NEW PARTY IS BORN , Boy Killed by Lift as Mother Phones to Ask When He Will Be Home Pupil of Vacation Bible School at Wesley Memorial Church Crushed to Death. Mrs. J. Faustman. 178 Ivy street, call ed up the superintendent of the Vaca tion Bible school at the Wesley Memo rial church today to ask if her boy, Leo, wopld be home for lunch soon. "He is dead.” said the superintendent. A few minutes before the lad. twelve years old. had started to descend in an elevator in the church, working the lift himself. Then he lost his nerve and at tempted to leap out. He was caught between the grating of the car and the floor and killed out right. His neck was broken and his body crushed. Other lads attending the Bible school, which was inaugurated by the Men and Religion Forward Move ment, found the crushed body after hearing the boy’s last cry. JUDGE BROYLES FINES CITY OF ATLANTA $1; SET A BAD EXAMPLE The city of Atlanta fined itself $1 for violating one of its own ordinances t< >day. Buster Holder was driving a trash wagon blithely along the left-hand side of Gordon street (east bound) when a punctilious citizen espied him and made a policeman arrest him then and there with. Buster Holder admitted in Judge Broyles' court this morning that he was employed by the city and was driving a city wagon on the wrong side of the street. "The city sets a bad example by vio lating its own road laws,” said Judge Broyles. "I flue it one dollar.” The city paid the fine. PEOPLE KIND TO ■ HIM, SHOOTS SELF W. T. Beasley, Treated Harshly Elsewhere. Attempts Suicide at Newnan. NEWNAN, GA., Aug. s.—Because ■ kindnesses had been shown him here i while elsewhere the world had turned against him. as he said in two letters, . W. T. Beasley. 50 years old, twice shot , himself today in the Union depot here before a crowd waiting for a train. 5 Beasley was restrained from sending ■ a third bullet into his body. At the hospital it was said he had no chance L to live. Beasley had apparently planned his suicide long ago. In a letter dated July 4 he gave details as to what should be done with his body "if anything hap . pened to him.” ‘ Beasley paced the smoking room of . the station evidently in great agitation ! for several hours this morning before he pulled the revolver from his pocket 1 and fired. The revolver was wrested from him after the second shot. ’ln one ■ of the three letters found his daughter and a son at Temple, Ga., were men tioned, and lie asked that his body be , buried in Newnan, because here alone had any kindnesses been shown to him. ■ The letter stated that in the last two y ears he had lost $2,500; that the world , had turned against him. and that sui cide was the quickest and best way ou' IrToo Radical to Burn Negroes/Conservatives Say, So They Lynch'Em Two Mississippi Blacks Strung Up By Mob After Killing L White Man. MERIDIAN. MISS., Aug. a.—Follow ing the murder of a white man named Tutt, two negroes were lynched at Halls Station this morning. The leaders of - the mob wanted to burn the blacks, but ? the conservative element prevented 1 such action. The two negroes were taught by the 1 frenzied mob of w'hite men shortly after ’ the commission of their crime, and im mediately preparations were begun for 1 the torture of the two victims by burn ‘ ing them at the stake. Before the oil . and wood could be obtained, how'ever, the cooler heads in the mob, by argu . ment, persuaded the others to refrain. Whereupon they immediately strung up the two negroes to tree limbs and shot their bodies full of holes. TURKISH DEPUTIES CHAMBER DISSOLVED; WAR CAUSES UNREST CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 5.-A decree dissolving the chamber of deputies was published here today. General elections are expected to follow within three months. The decree w r as issued aftei- the chamber had adjourned sine die. The dissolution of the chamber had ' been expected as a result of dissensions which had broken out between factions , of the dominant party of Young Turks. . The entire trouble has been brought on by the conduct of the Turkish military operations against Italy. Just before dis solving, the chamber passed a resolution expressing "mistrust of the cabinet.” HOMLI EDITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE Y RE NO Great Enthusiasm as Col. Roosevelt’s Convention Is Called to Order. Ex-Senator Beveridge Sounds Keynote—-Wo men Eor First Time in Nation’s History Play an Important Part. CONVENTION HALL. CHI CAGO, Aug. o.— Ihe Progres sive party was formally launched as a national political organiza tion at 12:47 o’clock this after noon. At that hour the national convention which will nominate Theodore Roosevelt for the presi dency was called to order. The delay of 47 minutes in opening the proceedings was due to an extended conference which the Progressive lead ers held with Colonel Roosevelt at his hotel. Upon their arrival proceedings began. Senator Joseph M. Dixon, of Mon tana, called the convention to order and a new political party was ushered into being. Amid the usual delay while clerks shouted orders to clear the aisles, Dixon stood waiting hi e chance to say the word that Would set the con vention in motion. It was some min utes before he was able to speak. "Ladles and gentlemen,” he saJd. "the convention will now come to order Twenty-eight days ago in the city of New York It was decided that there should be a new political alignment In these United States. They then and there issued a call for a convention to take up the subject and try to ac compiiah an alignment. New Milestone in i Political History. “In the past 28 days the nation ha< seen evolution in its democracy, a new alignment, in political parties. Now, in four weeks the nation has seen a po litical convention of a new party send ing the largest number of delegates ever seen at a political convention in this country. It has passed the aca demic discussion point and before the sun sets this afternoon a new milestone will have been erected in the political history of this country—a new party will have been bom that will know no North, no South, no East, nor West, no sectional lines of any kind." While Dixon was speaking some one shouted “Hurrah for Teddy!” and for two or three minutes delegates Indulged In a shouting bee. Finally Dixon resumed an Introduced O. K. Davis, who read the call for the convention. The reading of the call twice occa sioned cheers—once when it was an nounced that the new party believed in the right of the people to rule and again when the words were shouted: “Thou shalt not steal.” The reading o$ the names that were appended to the call was also a signal for cheers. Hiram W. Johnson, of Cal ifornia, and Ben Lindsay were both loudly cheered. When the name of Dixon, of Mon tana. was reached the delegates had the occasion to give the provisional chairman a small ovation. Timothy L. Woodruff and Oscar Straus, of New York, were cheered and James R. Garfield's name was greeted with a round of cheers. Chaplain Prays for • ‘‘Another Joshua.” Senator Dixon resumed the stand after the call had been read. He called on Rev. T. F. Dornblaser, pastor of the Grace English Lutheran church of Chicago, to pronounce the in vocation. The delegates and visitors rose while the prayer was offered. In the prayer Dr. Dornblaser quoted the prayer of King David as most ap propriate for the occasion and uttered a plea for divine inspiration that the del egates might do their duty in displac ing parties that have no higher ambi tion than to serve self. "Thou God of infinite resources,” he said, “give us anotherJJoshua man who can lead us to speedy and ultimate victory.” The invocation concluded with the Lord's prayer, recited in unison. As the prayer concluded the band swung into “America,” and hundreds of flags that had been draped against the celling beams were unloosed. As they fluttered down the crowd joined with the band. As the song swelled out the vast audience rose to its feet. When the singing ceased Sefiutot