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Newspaper Page Text2 COLONEL HOLDS BACK PLATFORM Pendergast Places Roosevelt's Name in Nomination for President. Continued From Page One that the omimittM- ■ ft' It- nxvt, vacancies. but on.x until succosor Cou’d be elected. The nr xx pi’ty recog nizes the primarx in the selecting of the committee members. ;.nd their terms arc to begin as soon is their election. The rules provide Unit no person holding an appointive office under the government nun be a membet of the > ommitti e. In regard to contests, it was pro vided that where contests were filed in go ( ,d faith, deli gates contesting and contested should not lie p< emitted to tote until tji. i i nt< ts were si ttb It was further stated that v here laws of sates regarding the tlon of dele gates were in conflict with the rules of the convention, the laps of the state would bi cons-idi ied as superseding the rules New York Free at Last. Says Hotchkiss. \i t • ’■ i lie i ■ poi i v. j < - on< ud< <J John I. Hamilton of Illinois, moved an amendment io change the name of tin partv from Progressive to "N;ition<ii Pogiessivc' or •‘Progressive Pari).' H * • xplaim-d that in some states the parly was known by on* name an 1 in Rome stabs by the othei and the pa. t v should have a name that could be us« d in all the 'tales. The delegates sup potted him and a motion to adopt ilr report was withdrawn. The commit tee was requested to meet later to con «idi r the question of the nano . Then Chairman Beveridge introduced William H. Hotchkiss, of New York, who told of the work in his state “New’ York is at last free,” he said. “The empire of ten millions of people, for years ruled by Barnes and Murphy. Is as free today as California anil as progi ossive as Kansas was this morn ing. it has all been done In 28 days. A few who have found that this move ment Is not a band wagon, hut a work train, have deserted, but the deserters are outnumbered by the accessions to our party. Our organization has been perfected and stands for what New York should hav* stood for all th* years." Delegate Henn .1. Allen, of Kansas, lose and moved that the convention proceed with the nomination. The chair pointed nut that under the tem porary rulds and the permanent rules not yet adopted the nominations must come after the reports of al! commit tees had been disposed of Allen Wants To Go On With Speeches. Allen then moved a suspension ofihc, rules. This was declared out of older I Allen then made a motion sustained bj ■ a majority of the delegates of his state to suspend the rules and proceed with the nominating speeches. Pennsylvania and Minnesota delega tions seconded. Timothy Woodruff, of New York, got the floor and spoke in opposition to the motion “I wanted to sax to xou.’ he said, "that the Democrats have been severe- I ly criticised for putting the candidates I before the platform Let us not do th<-i same thing. Let us go and fortifx ou - j selves by luncheon and then we will be! better prepared for the battle before! us." William Flinn. of Pennsylvania, then I got the floor. He said he believed the! convenience of the delegates should count for something Half the dele- i gates from his state wanted to leave i tonight for their homes. He said ’t was well known that the country was .• hampered by rules and decisions. i "Thee is no reason why we should i not hear the speeches eulogizing the nominees," he concluded i Decide to Proceed With Business in Order. E I. Persons, of the Oklahoma deh gallon, said that the time of a train leaxing was of small importance and the hastx delegates’ action indicated a lack of appreciation of the importance of the new partx. He urged that plenty of time be taken to deliberate and drew special attention to the vice pres idential situation. Ex-Governor Frnnklin Foil, of New Jersey, said "1 hope a matter of 20 or 30 minutes will not stand in the wax of proceed ing in order. Manx of the N. w .1, ■- sex delegates were going home at 5:30. but if it is necrs-'aix we will can cel our reservations.” Finally a motion to amend all the previous motions and provide for a re cess until 1 p. m.. was mad*, ueeonded, put. and carried. Then the convention tuok ~ i <■> .•-- Final Draft of Rules Completed Dining the recess the delegales, anx- ) lous to get away from Chicago spent ' then time working among those who l opposed upsetting the nil.-- and mak-i Ing the nomination befoie th.- adoption) of the platform The convention was called to older by Permanent chairman Beveridge at 1:20 o’clock The rules committee was ready to make its final report, and as soon in order was restored Chairman Beveiidge recognized Mediil McCormick, chairman I of the committee. Ht lead rub - that I had been changed unanimously by the committee. The first was a change in the name of the party The new rule said that the party should bo the Pro der the primary law another name bad bi . I: used this should be deemed an I Inn grid part of tin ; arty Four women as members at large o| No Sweatshop Conditions Are Found in Local Indusiral Plants ATLANTA FACTORY GIRLS EXCEPTIONALLY HEALTHY MT -I. ’ ’SSy I 1 LJ... > v fair ~ ibktv w •* Bh *• ** wW s. ® pH- * - w - Y '*• f * lypicit) girl workers in Atlanta factories. These girls are operating an exhibit of overall making at, the Atlanta-made show at the Armory. The girls on duty include Myrtiee Martin. Cora Byron. Essie Baskin. Nannie Morris. Ruth Whittington. Louise Bowles and Susie Garrison. Glenn Smith superintends the exhibit. the natiimnl eomuiittwas anothei rule i eeomtnended by the committee. It " is greet' tU w ith applause. A change In the r<* presentation was recommended by which there should be one candidate for each 5.000 votes for the Progressive candidate, that at least one delegate should be sent troll) each congressional district and that one del egate for each congressman at large and eaeli senntoi lie provided. The rub - were adopted. Vote to Hear Nominating Speeches. Il became known that a final draft of the platform, containing changes sug gested by Roosevelt, had been com pleted, containing 4,000 words. It was taken to Colonel Roosevelt igaln for approval, Mr. Allen, of Kansas, at 1:25 o'clock, renewed tin motion lie had made be fore th, rev,ss that tile rules be sus pended and that the convention hear the nominating speeches for pr< sklent mid vice president. He said there cotiiu be no report from the I'esoluti »ns com mittee for an hour and a half. The mu llion was seconded by Delaware, Mary- ■ and and other states, and was carried 1 i almost unanimously. Clittirman Beveridge, in announcing!' I till resirtt of (he vote, directed that the i | ' lot! be called foi nominations for pres- • , I ident. Alabama mi- called and gave wav to'i New York There was a pause William A. Piendergast who was a slated to make the Roosevelt nominal- r ing speech was not In the hall. The! convention waited for him. I Dm ing the morning 11. B Bolton, del - I I egate from Alabama, had wired John | I Sharp Williams asking Idm If he would ' | accept nomination as vice president on i the Bull Moose ticket. The telegram ; r told Williams that there was a decided <■ desire on the part of tile delegates to I name a Southern Democrat lor vice t president , t Williams' tapir was short, crisp and ■ to the point: I “Not bv st v ■ r.d lengths." he said and a petlcetlv good boom died a-born, i I in'. jt After the tielegates had worn t,hem-| selves out with Indiscriminate yelling • 1 ami singing, the brass quartet, proud- I nent in the morning session, was I brought into play It led while the|- crowd sang "Columbia." After the song hail died away, Pr« n- 1 dergast appeared on the stage. He was ' ' greeted with waving bandannas and!’ cheers. j, At 1:5(1 o'clock he launched Into his speech. Drizzling Rain Keeps Crowds From Hall. Though they plodded through a drlz. ' zling rain to the Coliseum today, the National Progressiva d< legati s were as enthusiastic as ever when they gath ered for the final session officially to [ select Theodore Roosevelt for their! I presidential candidati. A little after 10:30 o'clock the Cali- i fornia delegation, with a band in the] lead, marched in. The band blazed away at the strains of "John Blown." j The delegates sang and cheered. Hardly had the noise died dow n when I the Illinois delegation, with its own I band, play ing "Shouting the Battle Fry I of Freedom." marched through the en- I trance. . *tn th* ga'iori tailings banners.! j saying. ' Pa-s Prosperity Around." vv< re strung uji. The veteran drum corps entered I w hile the bands w ere [day ing. its rat-( tie and shrill added a new noise to the I j g< neral confusion. The California band ltd a march I i about tae building As they passed the I Georgia delegation they wife playing "Marching Through Ge >rgia ” T t legates stood on their chairs, and, to ’judge by the look they gave the play lets. they were not the most pleased persons in the hall. And so the band switched into "Everybody's Doin' It." and later to Hall. Had. th,- Gang s All H. re." The Colorado delegation Introduced a littb novelty in campaign |>ro, cod ings by Ins, rting a vice presidential demonstration la for, the nomination of pfesi,. 11l For several minutes they i stood up and cheered bn-Judge Ben B. fHE ATLANTA GEOKGL\:< AXD NEWS. \\ El ).\ h.SI >A Y. AL GIST 7, 1912 Moosers Win by 50,000 in Kansas TOPEKA, KA XS.. Aug. 7 latest re turns from yesterdays primaries showed today that the Progressive victory had been even greater than expected. Not only were the eight Roosevelt electors ehosn, but their major! t\ is fully 50,00' on the face of the returns thus far in. Practically the only balm the Taft lead ers have is the renorfifnation of ongress man I’. P (’afnpbell, a staunch supporter of the administration in the Third dis- . trict. First returns indicated a victory; for H. M. Gray, Progressive, but later re-I turns wrecked his hopes. Governor W. R. Stubbs defeated Sena- ; tor Charles Curtis for reelection to the | United States senate b\ a safe majority, : • Stubbs has been Roosevelt’s campaign) manager in Kansas. | Arthur <’apper, of Topeka, Progressive Republican candidate for governor, won,' easily over Frank Ryan George 11. !• Hodges, Democratic gubernatorial candi- | < date, apparently has hern notninaud over I .1 B Billiard, who made a fight with re- I < submission of the prohibition que.-tion as . the paramount i sue. The Tuft Ui.ichim was rebuked in the I iist congn ssional district, where Kepre- ’ sentai v<- D. R. Anthony was defeated for renomination by Judge \\ . I. Stuart, the ] I ‘regressive candidate. Lindsey, of Denver. The audience list- ( toned, but they did not help. “What do they all say?” shouted the ’ delegates. "L-i-n-d-s-e-y, Lindsey.” was the answer, but it was given by the Colo rado delegates only. Ex-Senator Beveridge and Senator Dixon appeared on the platform at 11:15 o’clock. Because the platform was not ready when the delegates were assembled a plan to adjourn until 2:3n this after noon was finally agreed on by the lead ers. W illiam 11 Hotchkiss, chairman of the New York state central commit tee. was called upon to make a short address on •‘What the Progressives Have Done in New York." Dean Lewis, of the University of Pennsylvania, chairman of the resolu t ions committee, said: "The platform ’can not possibly be ; ready to submit to the convention be- i foi e 1: 30 t his afternoon." Colored Men's League Indorses Colonel. The dispute ove the negro r, presen tation of tile South, which for a time threatened to bling a real fight’ in the convention, left scarcely a ripple today. Tit. few delegates who did Jisem-s t ie matter sided with t'olonel Roosevelt's I view Most of them se. in to have for- | gotten the incident entirely. As an interesting after-effect of the colonel's statements the National Pro gressive Colored Men's league has in dorsed the colonel's attitude and has called on negroes everywhere to sup port his candidai ,v Tlie same organization the day be fore had renounce! t'olonel Roosevelt. D" \V A D Venerable, of St. Louis, attempted to . ml a resolution at the tinal meeting denouncing the colonel for alleged discrimination against tile Southern negroes, but gave up tlie at tempt wlien Hie mgroes refused to listen. Although the convention still had . smm bom s to , run, the leaders of the i Hew partv todav tinned thei'-attention to the coining campaign. Roosevelt and Johnson, whether lie Is a vice pres idential candidate or not. will take tile stump. 'l'he colonel will confine him self largelv to the least and the middle West. Johnson will stump the states of the Pacific toast ami make one or two Eastern trips A national finance committee will lie organized, and <>s . a)' Str.ms will in all probability be its head George W. Perkins. national committeeman from New York, and Frank A. Munsev will lie members of tlie committee, according to present plans. The committee will be required to keep a detailed set of books, so that : , ding th< election in Nov emb, r a sworn statement of reo ipts and dis bursements can be made. ' A general bund wagon movement among persons allied witli the old par ties. but who have taken no stand in the new inovenu nt. is exnei ted to fol low tlie Progressive convention bj its Exhibits at Manufacturers Fair Operated by Model Young Women Workers. "Atlanta factory girls are all right. The picture shows several good sam ples of them," said H M. Stanley, state labor commissioner, today. “The girls, fine, healthy workers in |an Atlanta factory, were found at the 'Madc-in-Atlanta' show at the Audi torium. They do not look like the starved, tubercular working gil ls which have brought reproach upon so many industrial cities. "My office has not had the oppor tunity to make a complete inspection of factories In other cities." said Mr. Stanley. “Ou: appropriation for trav eling expenses will not be available un til after this legislature. Rut I have seen many of the Allanta Industrial plants and believe most of them are sanitary and tlie emt Inyees well treat ed.” When the Panama canal is com pleted Atlanta may well hold a front place in the celebration, for in Atlanta is made every overall worn by thr nn n digging the big ditch. tine of the most remarkable exhibits at the big Atlanta-made exposition shows a corps of the girls at sewing machines putting together tlie jeans which the men employed in tlie isth mus wear. COLLEGE DEGREE FOR HOUSEWORK PLANNED PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7. —Temple university, of Philadelphia, at tlie lie ginning of tlie next college term, will have a chair of household research for the purpose of securing recognition for housework as a distinct and worthy ! profession. One of the objects of tlie new chair will be to assist housekeep ers to plan and carry on Hie work of tlie household. MAN HAS BATTLE WITH GIANT WHITE HERRON TRENTON, N. .1., Aug. 7 -Sitting ' comfortably on his lawn reading, Carl Meyers, of this city, was attacked by a large white lierron which swooped down upon him and bit and buffeted him so sev“relv that lie was obliged to semi for a physician. Meyers gave battle and succeeded in breaking tlie bird's leg. He j then captured it. CONGRESS PLANS TO ADJOURN AUGUST 17 \VASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Leaders in congress are working for an adjourn ment of rhe present session on August 17. To this end the senate met at 10 <i m today anti agreed to begin night sessions if necessary. The house has cleared its calendar and does not find it neeessarx for long daily meetings, I’he nav\ ar.d postoftiee appropriations and the Panama (’anal toll bill are causing the most trouble. Kentucky G. O. P. Ousts r. R.’s Picture LDpISV H.Li:. KY . \ug 7 The Re publican state central committee of Ken tucky at a meeting here todav voted to remove tlie picture of Theodore Roosevelt from Hit' headquarters wall. Tlie committee also adopted a resolu •lon reading out' of the party all Repub licans who ha, • affiliated with the pro gressives. but stating that they may re turn to the fold after the Progressive party lias dissolved. leaders here. The convention, tli-v say, has been so successful that such a movement is assured among those who liave been waiting for the result of tlie c.i; liei ing before deciding what candi date they would support. Among those persons, according to I til, Progressive leaders here, are 53 Republican congressmen who so far! have refused to amioume whether they would support Taft or Roosevelt. | SOME THINGS WOODROW WILSON SAYS IN SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE This is plainly a new age. It requires self-restraint not to attempt too much, and yet it would be cowardly to attempt too little. There are two great things to do. One is to set up the rule of justice and of right in such matters as the tariff, trusts, banking. * * * The other is the great task of protecting our people and our resources and keeping open to the whole people the doors of opportunity. The tariff question has not been business. It has been poli tics. The tariff has become a system of favors. We denounce the Payne-Aldrich tariff act as the most con spicuous example ever afforded the country of special favors. There should be an immediate revision, and it should be downward, unhesitatingly and steadily downward. The high cost of living is arranged by private understand ing. Trusts have grown up very luxuriantly under the ban of the Federal anti-trust law. It will be necessary to supplement the present law with such laws, both civil and criminal, as will effectually punish and prevent these methods. WILSON ACCEPTS THLIIOfm Governor Sounds His Keynote When Formally Notified of Convention's Action. Continued From Pzqe One. the additional duty is the great task of protecting our people and our resources and of keeeping open to the whole peo ple the doors of opportunity through which the> must, generation by genera tion. pass if they are to make conquests of their fortunes in health, in freedom, in peace, and in contentment. In the performance of this second great duty we are face to face with questions of con servation and of development, questions of forests and water powers and mines and waterways, of the building of an ade quate merchant marine, and the opening of every highway and facility and the setting up of every safeguard needed by a great industrious, expanding nation. Tariff Has Been Politics, Not Business. “We are servants of the people, the whole people. The nation has been un necessarily, unreasonably at war within itself. As the servants of all. we are bound to undertake the great duty of ac commodation ami adjustment. “We an not undertake it except in a spirit which some find it hard to under stand. Some people only smile when you speak of yourself as a servant of the peo ph>: 1t seems to them like affectation or mere demagoguery. “They do not, or will not, comprehend the solemn thing that is in your thought. You kr-’W as well as they do that there are all sorts and conditions of men -the unthinking mixed with the wise, tlie reck less with the prudent, the unscrupulous government is nothing more nor less than an effort to give voice to this great body t with the fair and honest. Representative through spokesmen chosen out of every grade and class. •’The tariff question, as dealt with in our time at any rate, has not been busi ness It has been polities. Tariff sched ules have been made up for the purpose of keeping #s large a number as possible of the rich ami influntial manufacturers of the country in a good humor with the Republican party, which desired their constant financial support. The tariff has become a system of favors, which the phraseology of the schedule was often deliberately contrived to conceal. It be ; comes a matter of business, of legitimate business, only when the partnership and understanding it represents is between | the leaders of congress and the whole peo j pie of the United States, instead of be | tween the leaders v s cungiess and small groups of manufacturers demanding spe cial recognition and consideration. “I sax nothing for the moment about the policy oT protection, conceived and carried out as a disinterested statesman might conceive it. Our own clear con viction as Democrats is. that in the last I analysis tlie only safe and legitimate ob i ject of tariff duties, as of taxes of every other kind is to raise revenue for the support of the government; but that is not my present point. \Ve denounce the Payne-Aldrich tariff act as the most con spicuous example ever afforded the coun try of the special favors and monopolistic advantages which the leaders of tlie Re publican party have so often shown them selves willing to extend to those to whom they looked for campaign contributions. Should Be Immediate Revision Downward. "There should be an immediate revision, and it should be downward, unhesitating ly and steadily downward. "It should begin with the schedules which have been most obviously used to kill competition and to raise prices in the I'nited States, arbitrarily and without re gard to the prices pertaining elsewhere in the markets of the world; and it should, before it is finished or intermitted, be extended to every item in every schedule whicli affords any opportunity for inonop- | oly, for special advantage to limited groups of beneficiaries, or for subsidized control of any kind in the markets or the enterprises of the country: until spe cial favors of every sort shall have been absolutely withdrawn. "There has been no more demoralizing influence in our politics in our time than the influence of tariff legislation, tlie in fluence of tlie idea that the government I was the grand dispenser of favors, the | maker and unmaker of fortunes, and of I opportunities such as certain men have sought in order to control tlie movement of trade and industry throughout the continent, it has made the government a prize to be captured and parties the means of effecting the capture. It has made the business men of one of the most virile and enterprising nations in tlie world timid, fretful, full of alarms: lias robbed them of self-confidence and manly force, until they have cried out that they could do nothing without the assistance of the government at Wash- ' iugton. Nation Wealthy, But People Poor. For what has the result been? Pros perity? Yes, if by prosperity you mean vast xvealth no matter how distributed, or whether distributed at all or not. The nation as a nation lias grown immensely rich She is justly proud of her indus tries and of the genius of her men of af fairs. They can master anything they set their minds to, and we have been greatly stimulated under their leadership and command. But what of the other side of the picture? It Is not as easy for us to live as it used to be. Our money will not buy as much High wages, even when we can get them, yield us no great comfort. We used to be bet ter off with less, because a dollar could buy so much more. 'l’he majority of us have been disturbed tn find ourselves growing poorer, even though our earn ’r.gs were slowly Increasing. Prices climb faster than we can push our earnings up. ' “Moreover, we begin to perseive some j ' things about the movement of prices that I concern us very deeply, and fix our at ' tention upon the tariff schedules with a ; more definite determination than ever to ! get to the bottom of this matter. We have been looking into it and we begin to see very clearly what at least some of the methods are by which prices are fixed. We know that they are not fixed by the competitions of the market, or by the ancient law of supply and demand. The high cost of living is arranged by private understanding. "I am not drawing un an indictment against anybody. This is the natural his tory of such tariffs as are now- contrived. Nobody in particular. I suppose. Is to | blame, and I am not interested just now lin blaming anybody. The fact is that ) the trusts have been formed, have gained | all but complete control of the larger | enterprises of the country. Anti-Trust Laws Make Trusts Fat. "The general terms of the present Fed ) era! anti-trust law forbidding 'combina- I tions in restraint of trade’ have ap parently proved ineffectual. Trusts have grown up under its ban very luxuriantly, and have pursued the methods by which so many of them have established virtual monopolies without serious let or hin drance It has roared against them like any sucking dove. "But the means and methods by which trusts have established monopolies have now become known. It will be necessary to supplement the present law with such laws, both civil and criminal, as will ef fectually punish and prevent those meth ods. adding such other laws as may be necessary to provide suitable and ade quate judicial processes, whether civil or criminal, to disclose them and follow them to final verdict and judgment. They must i he specifically and directly met by law I as they develop. i “But the problem and the difficulty are .much greater than that. There are not merely great trusts and combinations which are to lie controlled and deprived of their power to create monopolies and destroy rivals; there is something bigger still than they are and more subtle, more evasive, more difficult to deal with. There are vast confederacies (as 1 may perhaps call them for the sake of convenience) of banks, railways, express companies, min ing corporations, pow-er and development companies and all the rest of the circle, bound together by the fact that the own ership of their stock and the. members of their boards of directors are controlled and determined by comparatively small and closely interrelated groups of persons who, by their informal confederacy, may control, if they please and when they will, both credit and enterprise. Confederacies But Natural Outgrowth. "There is nothing illegal about these confederacies, so far as 1 can perceive. They have come about very naturally, generally without plan or deliberation, rather because there was so much money to be invested and it was in the hands, at great financial centers, of men ac quainted with one another and intimately associateil in business, than because any one had conceived and was carrying out a plan of general control; but they are none the less potent a force in our eco nomic and finacial system on that ac count. They are part of our problem. Their very existence gives rise to the suspicion of a ‘money trust,’ a concen tration of the control of credit which may at any time become infinitely dangerous to free enterprise. If such a concentra tion and control does not actually exist, it is evident that it can easily be set up and used at will. Laws must be devised which will prevent this, if laws can be worked out by fair and free counsel that will accomplish that result without de stroying or seriously embarrassing any sound or legitimate business undertaking or necessary and wholesome arrange ment. Not a Partisan Or Personal Fight. “We should go into this campaign con fident of only one thing—confident of what we want to do if intrusted with the government. It is not a partisan fight we are entering upon.. We are happily excused from personal attacks upon op ponents and from all general indictments against the men opposed to us. The facts are patent to everybody; we do not have to prove them; the more frank among our opponents admit them. “To be free is not necessarily to be wise. But wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest. Should 1 be intrusted with the great office of president. I would seek counsel wherever it could be had upon free terms. I know the temper of the great convention which nominated me; 1 know the temper of the country that lay back of that convention and spoke through it. I heed with deep thankful ness the message you bring me from it. I feel that I am surrounded by men whose principles and ambitions are those of true servants of the people. I thank God, and wilt take courage.” K > lbw « 46 ’ C\ 2 SPECIAL PRICES -ON ALL— HAMMOCKS 57.50 Hammocks 55.50 56.50 Hammocks 55.00 54.50 Hammocks 53.50 54.00 Hammocks S 3 00 53.50 Hammocks 52.65 Baby Hammocks were $5.00, now $3.00. Mail orders receive prompt attention. KINO HARDWARE CO. 53 Peachtree St.