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CHAMBERSWILL ENTER RACE FOR MAYORALTY Dan Carey Boomed as Reform Candidate by Faction New in Political Game. Following Mayor Courtland S. Winn's withdrawal from the contest for re election there was positive assurance today that Councilman Aldine Cham bers would he a candidate for the office. His formal announcement is expected within the next few days. If Aiderman John S. Candler, who was taken ill at the Baltimore Demo cratic convention and has just become able to resume his active duties, suffi ciently recovers his strength in time for a campaign he will be a candidate. A new force in politics took definite form today in a movement by a number of young men not hitherto identified with politics to bring Dan Carey, gen eral manager of parks, into the contest as a "reform candidate.” For the past two years Mr. Carey has waged a hot fight against certain features of the board system. Mayor Winn s action in withdrawing has crystallized sentiment in political circles. A number of political leaders and private citizens called on Council man Chambers today and insisted that he formally announce at once. Mayor Winn has even pledged his support to Mr. Chambers. Chambers Considers Matter. "I have the matter under serious consideration,” said Mr. Chambers. "There are a number of progressive measures which I think need agitating and on which a mayor should be elect ed. As long as Mayor Winn was con sidered a candidate 1 was reluctant to take any position as regards the race for mayor. I did not want to develop any undue friction between the mayor and council. "The keynote of next year's admin istration must be better streets for At lanta. But I am not yet ready to defi nitely outline any platform.” Aiderman John S. Candler's friends and supporters are no less active. May or Winn is much opposed to Judge Can dler as a candidate. As mayor pro tern and chairman of the Council finance committee. .Aiderman Candler has had power in city affairs surpassing the mayor. There has been a feeling on the part of JJayor Winn that Judge Candler's activities have had a ten dency to minimize his administration. And in getting out of the race Mayor Winn has done all he could to throw his strength away from Judge Candler to Mr. Chambers. Judge Candler said today that his physician had instructed him to devote only one hour a day to business until September 1, and that he could not consider entering a campaign at pres ent. See Simplified Contest. John E. McClelland. Dr. George Brown and Steve R. Johnston have al! announced for the office. James G. Woodward, a probable candidate, whom Mayor Winn defeated in the last elec tion, said today that he was not sur prised that Mayor Winn had with drawn. He would make no further com ment. But the other three candidates believe that the contest has become simplified. Though Mayor Winn has been actu ally if .not formally a candidate for re-election since January 1, he has fre quently declared that his inclinations were to return to the practice of law. Though he had a definite break with the council and the “city hall crowd" when he advocated the "compromise charter," he has made diligent efforts to regain their friendship and support. At least there was apparent good feel ing between a majority of city officials and the mayor, it is said. However, a number of active leaders of the council have been vigorous in their efforts to get Aiderman Candler in the race for many months. This is pointed to as a principal reason for Mayor Winn's unfavorable attitude to Judge Candler's candidacy, it is said on good authority that the coldness certain leading interests displayed to ward his candidacy induced the mayor to relinquish any hopes he may have had. Finds Salary Too Small. Mayor Winn said that the salary of the office, $3,000 a year, was too small. He said he had served as mayor at a great personal sacrifice, and that he felt it an injustice to his family to con tinue It. "The office of mayor of Atlanta is very exacting.” he said. "Only a man of Independent wealth or who is satis fied with the salary can serve without a great sacrifice. "I feel that I have carried out my pre-election pledges. We have raised tax assessments on central property $30,000,000. We have provided for the building of a crematory and power plant. We have done many other con structive things. But my inclination is to return to the practice of law.” ACWORTH ARRANGES BIG HOME-COMING ON FRIDAY ACWORTH, GA.. Aug. 6 —Friday has been set by the Acworth board of trade as home-coming and rally day Hundreds of ex-Acworthans will come "home” that day. A musical program by the Acworth concert band, the young ladies' orches tra of Acworth, and the Terry quartet has been arranged. A number of fif teen-minute talks will he made by prominent men of the stale The morning will h< devoted to ath letic contests. At the noon hour a bai **•<■>>«. basket dinner will be served. Dandy Fifth's Musicians in Lurch MILITIA BAND NOT' PAID A tangle which threatens a real rift in Atlanta’s Dandy Fifth regiment has grown out of the refusal of the government to pay the regiment’s band for its work dur ing the recent encampment at Anniston. The government won t pay the band be cause it took only 17 musicians to Annis ton instead of the 18. which is its regu lation complement. The eighteen members of the band say they furnished some of the best music heard at the whole maneuvers, and they have asked the officers of the regiment to reimburse them for their time and travel. Some of the officers arose to the occasion, chipping in $7. $5 and $4 each. PROF. AND MRS. DERRY CELEBRATING GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY MACON. GA., Aug. 6.—More than 500 friends attended the barbecue given at the home of T. C. Parker, near Macon, yesterday afternoon, in honor of Pro fessor and Mrs. J. T. Derry, of Atlanta, who are this week celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Last night a reception was held at the homes of their two sons. Dr. H. B. and George Derry, on Orange street, and this was attended by about 150 close friends and relatives. Prof, and Mrs. friends and relatives. Prof, and Mrs. Derry went today to Atlanta and this week they will be at home at the resi dence of D. B. Osborne, Sil Piedmont avenue. Mrs. T. C. Parker is the other surviving child of this venerable couple. Professor Derry is assistant commis sioner of commerce and labor. CLOTHES - THIEF WORKS “PRESSING CLUB'’ PLAN ROME, GA., Aug. 6.—Several Rome society and club men are minus suits of clothes as the result of the opera tions of,a clever marauder during the las' few weeks who represented him self as an employee of a pressing club. Henry Brown is in the custody of the police and is not only charged with stealing almost enough of wearing ap parel to start a clothing store, but is accused of forging two orders tor mon ey and of stealing a $75 watch from H. J. Bradshaw. CONTEST IS THREATENED IF LATE CANDIDATE WINS DOUGLAS. GA., Aug. 6.—Jeff Kirk land. one of the candidates for the legislature from Coffee, failed to pay in his assessment and register his name until about 3 o'clock on August 1. The rules seemed to have the time limit fixed at noon. The county executive committee, however, entered his name. The other candidates. Rev. A. B. Fin ley. Dennis Vickers and C. E. Stewart, are talking of a contest in the event he is nominated. State Chairman W. C. Wright wired County Chairman Frier that he construed the rules to mean that entries closed at noon. The four cornered fight promises to be lively. 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AUGUST 6. 1912 But some of the officers refused to join in the band fund because, they said, the regiment ran a canteen at Anniston on its own fund and to its own profit. They say the profits of this canteen ought to be diverted to the payment of the band. They say that is the only proper way to make up the musical deficit and that it would be shameful to make them pay out of their pockets a deficit that the gov ernment has evaded through a mere tech nicality. The regiment has not taken definite action in the controversy. So far no musician of the Dandy Fifth's band has received a cent for his ten days' work at Anniston. MILEAGE ROW WILL BE SETTLED BY R. R. BOARD WEDNESDAY Final decision on the traveling men's petition asking for an abridgement of the present mileage rule used on Geor gia railroads will be reached by the state railroad commission on Wednes day. Chairman Candler said today that the commission hoped to dispose of the mileage case and also of the request of the Atlanta and Macon railroad for ap proval of a $7,200,000 stock and bond issue. The traveling men's organizations, which have urged that the mileage rule be changed, have taken no chances. A bill requiring railroads selling inter changeable mileage to pull the coupons on trains has already passed the senate and been reported favorable in the house. EIGHT CANDIDATES SEEK FLOYD LEGISLATIVE SEATS ROME. GA.. Aug. 6.—The entries for Hie Floyd county primary on August 21 closed with eight candidates for the legislature, among them Barryl Wright, a. son of Seaborn Wright: seventeen aspirants for the board of county com missioners, two for solicitor general from the Rome circuit, and one for con gress from the Seventh congressional district. The candidates for the three seats in the legislature are W. R. Mebane. Bar ry Wright, W. M. Martin. R. H. Wick er. John C. Foster, C. D. Meadows, W. J. Nunnally and M. N. Griffin. The aspirants for the county board are J. G. Pollock, <.'. M. Young. J. Scott Davis. J. M. Yarbrough, W. N. Hor ton, R. S. Hamrick. W. M. Gammon. Thomas H. Smith. T. E. Bridges. John W. Salmon, M. 1., Shell. A. W. Bobo. J. Ed Camp. J. M. Jones. W. O. Con nor, W. J. Walker and W. C. Lovell. For solicitor general are John W. Bale and W. H. Ennis. Gordon Lee is unopposed for con gress. AGED AUGUSTAN DEAD. AUGUSTA, GA., Aug, 6.—George A. Bailie, aged 78 years, one of the most prominent citizens of Augusta, is dead here. Mr. Bailie was a native of Ire land. He engaged in the grocery busi ness when he came here as a young man. He amassed a fortune and in late years lived quietly on his income. MRS. GRACE NOT TO GO ON STAGE Fortune Drained by Trial. She May Be Forced to Enter Business World. Mis. Daisy Opie Grace, in Savannah today en route from the scene of her recent trial and acquittal to take up a new life witli her mother and her blind son in Philadelphia, may dis cover when she reaches her destination that she will be forced to go out and earn a livelihood. The cost of her trial and the pre liminary expenses exceeded SIO,OOO and she is so short of cash that she has given her lawyer, John W. Moore, a judgment lien upon her Philadelphia property to secure a part of her attor neys' fees. This note for $3,500 prob ably is only one of several that Mrs. Grace was forced to give, and she- ad mits that her resources have been drained by the trial. Nevertheless, when she left Atlanta with her mother last night on the 9:10 train for Savannah. Mrs. Grace vigor ously denied the report that she is to go upon the stage to recoup her for tunes and pay for the education and treatment of her blind son. She said she had had offers from theatrical man agers. May Enter Business Field. Mrs. Grace did not deny that site might enter some business. What this business will be she has not yet even attempted to determine. She lias no professional training, nor any particu lar accomplishment which might be turned into an income. She believes that after all the obligations of the trial are settled she will still have enough left so that she and her mother may live in fairly comfortable circum stances. The income from her proper ty would not also provide for her blind son's education and care and she said she was determined to give him every opportunity in life if she had to “work tier hands off" to do it. With her mother last night she avoid ed the curious crowd at the depot by hurrying to her state room through the freight elevator. There she bade good bye to Detective Burke and Captain and Mrs. H. J. Weaver in the privacy of the compartment that she had taken under an assumed name. When she sails for Philadelphia from Savannah today it will be also under a name that is not her own. "I am very grateful to you all who have been my friends," she said, as the train moved out, "but I am glad to be leaving this city of my sorrows—for ever.” BROWN CAN'T GO TO SEAGIRT. Because the legislature is in ses sion, Governor Brown has been forced to abandon his plan to attend the noti fication ceremonies at Seagirt, N. J., on August 7. OFFICER DIVES INTO RIVER AND RECOVERS STOLEN STRONG BOX MACON, GA., Aug. 6.—A small iron box containing indorsed checks for SI,OOO. several hundred dollars in cash, four gold medals and a number of im portant papers, has been recovered from the muddy waters of the Ocmui gee river by Wilse Birdsong, a denuty sheriff who dived at the place pointed out by the thieves who stole the strong box and threw it into the river when they could not open it. The owner of the box, C. F. Strobe,g agreed not to prosecute if the two young men who stole it from his safe would tel! what they did with it. They took the deputies down the river sev eral miles and pointed out the place where they had thrown it in. The deputy found the box after diving 40 times. CHARGES AGAINST PRISON COMMISSION WILL BE QUASHED The charges against the. prison com mission. brought recently before the re formatory committee of the house by former Superintendent. Bethune, have been turned down by the committee, with a recommendation to the house that the prison corhmission be exoner ated. This report will be accepted by the house, and the charges formally quashed. HAIL FORCES FARMERS TO • SELL THEIR LIVE STOCK PENNSBURG, PA.. Aug. 6. Because of the terrific hail and wind storm which destroyed their corn and oats crop and devastated their gardens, farmers between Hereford and Milford Square, near here, are obliged to sell their cattle. They will be unable to feed them over winter. in a strip of territory 20 miles long and three wide, hail as big as shell barks fell to a depth of six inches, de stroying all vegetation. MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN NO. n “The Houses in Our Midst” Sunday In The Sewer In the next block to Atlanta’s Police Headquarters is a house. Within is a ball room. In it, near a slot piano, lies a man with a bullet through his lungs. By him is the pistol. Crumpled at the other end of the room is one created for mother hood, the day of dolls forgotten, the hope of children gone, with life slipping away through wounds in her forehead, cheek and breast. About are gaping women. ’ I The time is last Sunday afternoon, the place a part of our so- f called sewer. Disinfectants a thousand-fold stronger than carbolic acid are pow erless here. ’ e Waste them not, even after our wash basins, sinks and yards have been disinfected! y None may hope to cleanse Atlanta while the drains, instead of T carrying off their frightful burden, are forcing it back into the city’s heart and homes! ? • A Victor Hugo said that Paris lost over twenty-five millions of francs annually by her sewers of concrete and stone. F You may estimate the cost of ours—built of the flesh and blood of women—which every five to seven years must be replaced with new material. As happened Sunday, occasionally one may not endure so long, but sinks weltering with others in the hideous mire beneath the stream. Physicians declare the system deadly and unnecessary. Scientists say that from it come bacteria blinding and blighting babies, maiming and killing wives. Sociologists pronounce it the greatest source of social impurity. The law forbids it as a menace to morals and health. This man and woman, so lately killed in it, would be living today had the law been enforced by city officers. Those in authority should no.t wait until our city is overrun with sewer rats, men like those now making New York a by word, before remembering their oaths of office and the ordinances of Atlanta. They should and will close the Houses in our Midst! The Executive Committee of THE MEN AND RELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT. 111 WIF O l i l VT^roL l ' * SKn The Kind Yon Have Always Bought has borne the signa ture of Chas. 11. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow no one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good” are but Experiments, and endanger the health of Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium. Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. 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