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WILSON BEFORE
CAMERA 2 DAYS
Democratic Nominee Having
His Picture Taken for
Campaign Posters.
SEAGIRT, Aug. B.—Governor Wilson
left here on the 9:42 train for New
York this morning to have his portrait
done by Seymour Thomas, the artist
who contributes the governor’s portrait
to the Democratic campaign fund The
governor will give a series of sittings
for the next two days. He expects to
return to Seagirt tomorrow evening or
early Saturday morning.
The portrait will be used for the re
production of campaign lithographs.
The governor will see Chairman Mc-
Combs and the other members of the
campaign committee while in New
York. Chairman McCombs breakfasted
this morning with Governor Plaisted
of Maine, who is very anxious to have
Governor Wilson make a few campaign
speeches in his state the first week in
September.
Chairman McCombs took lunch with
Governor Marshall, the vice presiden
tial nominee, who has offered to go to
Maine in place of Governor Wilson.
Governor Wilson was in good spirits
after the ordeal of yesterday’s noti
fication ceremonies. Just as he was
boarding the train his secretary handed
him a large batch of congratulatory
telegrams.
Wilson’s Speech
» Pleases Watterson
LOUISVILLE, KY., Aug. B.—Com
menting on Woodrow Wilson's speech
•f acceptance, Henry Watterson says:
'lt was a day of good words and good
omen at Seagirt yesterday. There was
about the formal opening of the Demo
crat Ic campaign an air that was any
thing but perfunctory, that was charged
with significance of great and vita!
■ : thing".
it is not exaggeration to say that
Governor Wilson’s address in accept
.'•nee of the nomination of the Balti
more convention was exceptionally' im
presshc and inspiring. That it would
be scholarly, thoughtful and well ex
pressed was expected as a matter of
course. That it would be marked by'
the ability of the man of intellect, the
student both of books and affairs, was
• equally anticipated. But with all this
its real force was the force of the in
telligence. the acuteness, the clarity'
with which the student has analyzed
conditions, and the courage, the sin
cerity and sanity with which he ap
proaches the responsibility of their rec
tification. With a thorough apprecia
tion of the fact that there has been a
great awakening of the people and that
the country is at the beginning of a
new epoch, he defines his conception of
the responsibilities which the voters of
the United States are to place upon his
shoulders with no suggestion of cow
r aidice. yet no taint of demagogy. In
bis masterly treatment of the tariff and
trusts he urges that our policy in work
ing reform should be neither rash nor
timid, and this lack of both rashness
and timidity characterizes the defini
tion of his attitude on the various im
portant questions touched upon in his
address.
‘■The party to which the country is
, to intrust the administration of its
government next March is fortunate in
' having so lucid and forcible a spokes
man. and the country will be doubly
fortunate if, under the presidency of
Woodrow Wilson, it shall see realized
the soundly progressive policies enun
ciated by him at Seagirt yesterday.”
ACQUITTED OF KILLING
, THEIR BROTHER-IN-LAW
HARTWELL, GA., Aug. 8. At the
preliminary trial of Henry and Ellis
Nixon for the killing of John Heaton
on Friday night, August 2, the Nixon
boys were exonerated of the charge
and left the court house free men.
It appeared from the testimony of
1 witnesses that John Heaton was the
aggressor. Heaton had attended revi
val services on the. night of the shoot
ing. Heaton, who had been drinking
heavily during the afternoon, went to
the home of the Nixons to see his
nine-months-old baby. Mrs. Heaton
, before her marriage was a Miss Nixon,
and on account of a misunderstanding
some weeks previous she had been
living at the home of her father. Mrs.
Nixon ordered him to leave the house,
when he threatened to shoot her. The
Nixon boys interfered, the killing being
tne result.
FACULTY CHOSEN FOR
HARTWELL'S SCHOOLS
HARTWELL, GA., Aug. B.—The su
perintendent. principal and teachers
have been elected for the coming term
of the Hartwell public schools, which
open September 2. They are: Profes
sor A. S. Hill, superintendent, Greens
boro. N. C.; Miss Vernon L. Hom, prin
cipal, Boston, Ga.: Miss Irene Stevens.
Jefferson, Ga.; Miss Aurie Bonner,
Shady Dale, Ga.; Miss Mildred Pagette,
Lykesland, S. C.; Mrs. Nettie Oglesby,
’ Hartwell, Ga.; Mrs. Lois Patton, Hart,
well, Ga.; Miss Lizzie Daniel, Gro
v..rtia, Ga.: Miss Lola Skelton, Hart
well, Ga.; Miss Harriet R. Crouch, Mt.
Pleasant, S. C.; Miss Margaret Wilson,
music, Hartwell, Ga.; Miss Kittle M.
Watson, elocution and art, Port Valley,
Ga.
Mrs. Julia E. Watso n ,
Relatives of Mrs. Julia E. Watson,
who died last night, are today arrang
ing for her burial. Mrs. Watson, who
was 63 years old, died at file residence
of her brother-in-law. D. W. Apler. 35
West Baker street. She has a brother,
11. J. Thornton, living in Atlanta.
What Roosevelt Believes
in 19 12
M I?
Readers of Hearst Papers Believed All of It—and More—in.
1900. None the Less It Is Well to Have the Old Ideas and
Principles Put Out Under New Names.
The Rull Moose political baby is born—a healthy baby, and an
enthusiastic birth.
The people will hear more of this baby, and more of the new
party as the campaign progresses. Newspapers that belittle the
Roosevelt movement and believe that they can obtain results with
insincere criticism and sneers will be disappointed.
The people of this country are ready for something new, some
thing different the old machine routine.
And Roosevelt, in spite of past mistakes, sudden shifting, proba
ble future blunders and much public misgiving, will have an attentive
hearing from the ninety million of citizens, women, babies. Indians
and idiots in this country.
Readers of the Hearst newspapers, more than any other body
of citizens, will consider with interest the Roosevelt prdgram which
is handed out as NEW.
The ideas that Roosevelt now offers to the nation with his in
dorsement. readers of the Hearst papers have discussed and indorsed
for years past.
Roosevelt, before he made his speech and enunciated “his” ideas,
expressed his belief that many would call him an anarchist or a
socialist when they learned what he thought.
Hundreds of thousands of our readers can remember the day
when Mr. Roosevelt himself used to call the Hearst papers anarchis
tic and socialistic because they expounded and indorsed the‘very
ideas which he gives out today as NEW.
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Mr. Roosevelt indorses the plain truth that women should be
allowed to vote and have their share in the government of the
country.
Our readers have long discussed and indorsed that plain truth.
Mr. Roosevelt demands the election of United States senators by
the popular vote.
Eor years, in this newspaper and other Hearst newspapers, our
readers have followed editorials demanding that the election of sena
tors be taken away from a handful of purchaseable legislators and
given to the people, who alone should have the power.
Mr. Roosevelt indorses the Initiative which would let the people
start legislation for themselves; Referendum, which would compel
legislative bodies to give the people a chance to pass upon important
legislation, and the Recall, which would permit the people to dis
charge unfaithful servants.
Our readers know how long and how earnestly we have insisted
upon those measures.
The strengthening of the pure food law is one of Mr. Roosevelt’s
“New ideas.”
Insurance, old age pensions for employees, Mr. Roosevelt thinks
are needed.
Regulation of lhe conditions of labor, limitation of the hours of
work for women, prohibition of child labor, those are some of Mr.
Roosevelt's exciting “NEW IDEAS.”
<>ur readers have discussed and thought and talked upon those
subjects for many years past.
Mr. Roosevelt advocates “Internal Waterways Improvements."
Our readers advocate such improvements. And in New York city
the readers of the Hearst paper. The Evening Journal, actually passed
the canal hill -and appropriated the money that is now building the
barge canal from Buffalo to New York. And every politician in
New York knows that was done by the readers of The New York
Evening Journal.
Mr. Roosevelt believes in government ownership of Alaska rail
roads. Our readers will smile at that feeble dose of public ownership
doctrine. But they will be thankful for small blessings in new par
ties.
Mr. Roosevelt demands a larger navy.
We have so often discussed that with our readers and advocated
peace through preparation that we scarcely venture to mention the
subject again.
Mr. Roosevelt demands “fortification of the Panama canal.” The
Hearst newspapers did more than demand it. The Hearst newspapers
brought about fortification of the canal by campaign that began the
instant the impertinent suggestion was made that the new door to
our nation should be left unguarded.
Mr Roosevelt’s “new ideas” are interesting, and they are also
dear old friends. They are ideas that will rule in this country,
eventually, although Mr. Roosevelt may not be at the top of the ad
ministration that shall apply all of them or any of them. Women
will vote and have their share in the national work of legislation,
taxation, initiative, referendum and recall.
Governments will wisely, judiciously and conservatively acquire
more and more control and ownership of natural monopolies.
The public, will be strengthened and protected through effective
pure food laws.
The government, that has hitherto confined its interests in health
to hogs, young colts, sheep and poultry, will eventually interest it
self in the NATIONAL health and do as much for the human baby
as it has done for the babies of swine.
Old age will be protected against poverty, against hunger and
the sorrows of anxiety. The old will no longer be left at the mercy
of grafting politicians managing poor houses. They will be protected
and made happy in their old age—and the public will be richer in
stead of poorer as the result of the transition.
Labor conditions will be regulated by the nation, and wages will
be regulated as regards the minimum.
Women who create the race will he protected against shame
fully long hours, and eventually, let us hope, relieved of all hard,
manual labor. Children will be protected against the vultures that
have exploited them and turned their young blood and bones and
life into dollars.
These things will be done by men greater and abler than Theo-
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS.THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1912.
THEY COMPLAIN THAT COL. ROOSEVELT
CROWNS HIMSELF—BUT WHAT ABOUT TRIS?
"HL
iiife
An indignant newspaper shows Theodore Roosevelt in the act of crowning himself president
of the United States. That may'offend certain demure citizens. But we submit that there is
something worse in a republic than to see a man make himself president. That which is shown
in this picture is infinitely worse—the crown of power put on the head of a public official by money.
dorp Roosevelt; by a public enthusiastic again, earnest and en
lightened.
These ideas are old, old to our readers, and old to men that died
before our readers were born.
Every repetition of such ideas is a blessing anti a help. And.
therefore, Roosevelt, taking as his own that which he formerly de
rided, offering as new that which is as old as human justice, is a
public servant and a useful man.
His success or failure is not important. But the success of the
IDEAS upon which he seeks to build another lease of power is vitally
important. And if his personality can bring new thought to bear
upon great subjects, if bis voice and manner can attract attention,
SG MUCH THE BETTER.
He will help to sow the seed and the harvest will he good
WHATEVER MAY HAPPEN TO HIM.
YOUNG WIDOW SUES
BRIDEGROOM TO GET
GEMS AND COIN BACK
J. F. Mayer, recently married to Miss
Lulle Simmons, of No, 10 Williams
street, and shortly after arrested upon
complaint of a young widow. Mrs. Ger
trude Frazier, of LaFayette, Ala., is to
day facing other charges of the young
Alabama woman, and is under S4OO
bond as a result.
Mrs. Frazier entered suit in superior
court against him late yesterday after
noon for recovery of a S2OO diamond
stud and a cash loan of SSO. Papers
were served on Mr Mayer at the home
of his bride, during an Impromptu mu
sical last night.
Almost Immediately after hearing of
the elopement and marriage of Mr.
Mayer and Miss Simmons last Satur
day. Mrs. Frazier hurried from her Ala
bama home and had the young man ar
rested by the city police. Just as he and
his young bride were preparing to leave
the city for the honeymoon trip The
charge was that he held a valuable
watch of Mrs. Frazier’s and refused to
return It to her.
INJUNCTION STOPS USE
OF COCA-COLA BOTTLES
SAVANNAH. <; \.. Aug. B.—lnjunc
tions have been granted by Judge Wal
ter G. Charlton in the superior court
against three local bottling companies,
preventing them from using for refill
ing purposes bottles which have the
name "Coca-Cola” blown into the glass.
The injunctions were requested by
the Savafinah Coco-Cola Bottling Com
pany against the Consolidated Bottling
Company, J. C. Rays’ Sons and the
Durden Bottling Company.
EAGLES GIVE PARADE
AND CHOOSE OFFICERS
CLEVELAND. OHIO. Aug. B.—With
the election of officers and the annual
parade, the Eagles had a busy time to
day. The ballots for gram! officers were
to be cast this afternoon. The big pa
rade started at 10 a. m. Ritual exem
plifications at the Eagles club house
continued all day.
REMOVAL OF ERSKINE
FOUNT TO PIEDMONT
PARK IS NEWEST PLAN
The park board and the streets com
mittee will recommend to the council
that the location of the Judge John Er
skine memorial fountain, at the junc
tion of the Peachtrees and Baker street,
be changed. A number of citizens peti
tioned for the action, and th* council is
expected to adopt a. resolution request
ing the park board to find a more suit
able location.
Forrest Adair, who spoke for the cit
izens at a mass meeting, said the foun
tain should be taken better care of
and that in Its present location it had
become an undesirable loafing place. It
is expected that the fountain will be
placed in Piedmont park.
The fountain Is one of the most beau
tiful works of art in the city. No ap
proprlatlon hri« been made for its up
keep for a number of years. In Pled
mont park the regular appropriation for
the park would be sufficient to beautify
its surroundings with a grassy plot ami
keep the fountain in working order.
WOMEN WILL NOT OBEY
ORDER TO WEAR SKIRTS
MOMBASA, EAST AFRICA, Aug. 8.
The local Portuguese governor of In
hambane has been forced to rescind his
recent order that the native women of
that section wear skirts. The edict
aroused tremendous opposition among
the women of the surrounding coun
try, who bring eggs ami vegetables into
the village for sale. They declared
their intention of boycotting the town
unless the governor should withdraw
the decree.
TURKEY TO DECLARE
WAR ON MONTENEGRO
ROME, Aug 8. The Turkish minis
ter io Montenegro is reported to have
left Cettinge today, having been re
called by his government. This was
considered a preliminary step to a
formal declaration of war. If war
conies Montenegro will establish her
self as an ally o£ Italy against Turkey.
SENATE DISTRICT
IS Ali'Jl OF FOLTON
This County Would Divorce
Clayton and Cobb and Cre
ate the Forty-fifth.
Fulton county’s plan to take part in
the primary' in the Thirty-fifth sena
torial district failed to materialize yes
terday afternoon when the district ex
ecutive committee met to arrange de
tails. Instead of opposing Cobb and
Clayton counties, the Fulton members
decided to co-operate with the repre
sentatives of the other counties to work
the state legislature for separate sena
torial district for Fulton.
The plan is to obtain an a.ct taking
Clayton and Cobb counties out of the
Thirty-fifth district, attaching them to
some other district, leaving Fulton
ipaster of the Thirty-fifth. If this plan
proves impossible, the passage of a con
stitutional amendment creating a. new
senatorial district, the Foryth-flfth, will
be urged for Fulton.
Both Cobb and Clayton counties have
agreed to this arrangement, but the
plan will not interfere with the coming
primary. The committee adopted Au
gust 21 as the date and August 26 an
the date for the senatorial convention
to name the new executive committee,
Clayton county, whose turn it is to
have the senator under the rotation
system, will be allowed to name its own
man.
LAD’S GRANDMOTHER
AND MOTHER SEE HIM
RUN OVER AND KILLED
SAVANNAH. GA.. Aug. B.—With his
mother and grandmother witnessing
the tragedy, .1. William Lang, Jr., nine
years old, was killed in front of his
home when two wagons loaded with
crushed rock passed over his head and
body. James Royal and Ike McCoy,
negro drivers, are under arrest. The
first truck, driven by Royal, knocked
the child from his bicycle. The second,
close behind, passed over his prostrate
body. The boy was just learning tc
ride the wheel and his mother and
grandmother were watching his efforts
from a front window. Both negroes
state that the accident was unavoid
able. They claim the boy was unable
to control his wheel and ran into the
front truck.
SILVER SERVICE FOR SHRINER.
SAVANNAH. GA.. Aug. 8. —As a
token of appreciation of his many years
of valuable service. Potentate E. A.
Cutts, of Allee temple, Ancient Arable
order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
has been presented with a handsome
silver service by the Nobles of Allee
temple. Mr. Cutts was recently elected
imperial outer guard at Los Angeles.
SENATE IGNORES
MNALPRDTEST
Defies England and Refuses to
Strike From Bilil Right of
Free Toll to Americans. t
WASHINGTON, Aug B.—The United
States senate defied Great Britain in
her Panama canal protest when, by a
vote of 44 to 11, about midnight last
night it refused to strike from the Pan
ama canal bill the provision exempting
American ships from payment of tolls
for passage through the Panama canal.
The defeat of the Burton amendment
to strike out the discrimination in fa
vor of American ships was the senate’s
answer to the protest of Great Britain
against the legislation. It was this
clause of the bill which led Great
Britain to send a. formal protest, to the
state department.
The failure of the amendment means
that the provision will be kept in the
bill. The only senators to vote for the
Bunton amendment were Brandegee,
Button, Crane, Fall, Gronna, Lodge,
Nelson, Oliver, Penrose, Root and Wet-*
more.
The vote was reached at 11:30 p. m.
following eleven and a half hours of
debate.
Hoke Smith’s Amendment Accepted.
The senate also adopted an amend
ment offered by Senator Hoke Smith,
of Georgia, providing that the only
ships to be exempted from tolls were
those engaged “exclusively” in the
coastwise trade. This would bar ships
which engage partly in the foreign
trade and are thus brought in competi
tion with foreign ships.
He added a provision that such shtps
when exempted fronj the payment of
tolls should relieve the government;
from all liability for damage to ship,
passengers and crew while passing
through the canal.
As first introduced, the amenstment
would have required American coast
wise ships to pay the actual expense of
this passage, but Senator Bristow ob
jected that if the cost of operating the
canal was $3,500,000 a year and only
one ship went through, its tolls would
be $3,500,000.
WOMAN CATCHES OUTLAW
AND THEN CALLS SHERIFF
CRAIG, COLO., Aug. B.—After suc
cessfully eluding heavily armed posses
In three counties for a week, Edward
Sartell,e alias William Morgan, said to
be the leader of a gang of outlaws from
the Hole in the Wall country, Wyom
ing, and who escaped from the jail here
last Tuesday, was made a prlsorter by
a woman.
Mrs. Annie Decker, wife of a Snake
i River rancher, “covered” the outlaw
with a revolver while he was eating a
meal which she had prepared for him.
The woman disarmed the bandit and
then hog-tfed him. Afterward she tel
ephoned Sheriff Davis of Carbon coun
ty, Wyoming, and until his arrival the
woman was alone with her prisoner.
Sartelle is now in jail at Dixon, Wyo.
WOMAN~GETS LICENSE
FOR SHY BRIDEGROOM
WASHINGTON. PA., Aug. R.-Be
cause the prospective bridegroom was
too shy to walk into the marriage li
cense office and demand the necessary
document to permit him to wed, Miss
Lillian Mitchell, of California, near
here, today made application for the
license for her marriage to Edward
Schmidt, of Chicago. When surprise
was expressed at the appearance of
the pretty young girl, she readily ex
plained that her fiance lacked the
requisite nerve 1o make the request.
The young people expect to make their
home in Chicago.
MILLIONAIRE TO LEAD
BIG SUNDAY SCHOOL NAVY
LAPORTE, IND., Aug. 8 —E. K. War
ren, the Three Oaks, Mich., millionaire
manufacturer and one of the directors
of the Rumly Company of this city, has
been named as admiral of the World’s
Sunday School convention fleet of four
ocean*liners which will carry the dele
gates from the United States and Can
ada to the meeting at Zurich in July,
1913. Mr. Warren stated today that
2,900 delegates would take passage on
the trip, for which steamers have been
chartered.
DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS,
THE AUTHOR. LEFT $46,183
NEW YORK. Aug. 8.-The apprais
er’s report values the estate of David
Graham Phillips, the novelist, who was
killed by an erratic musician, at $46,-
183.04. The assets consisted entirely
of royally rights in novels, articles and
short stories.
LEAVES SICK BED TO WED:
FEVER CAN'T BALK CUPID
NEW HAVEN. Aug. B.—Arising from
a sick bed, where he had been for elev
en weeks at the home of his fiancee
with a severe attack of typhoid fever.
Commander Frank Stanley Cornwall of
the local division of the naval militia
was quietly married to Mrs. Marcia
Beach, of Woodmont.
After the marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Cornwell returned to the cottage of
Mrs. Cornwell, where he will recuperate
from his Illness.
BURGLAR MAKES GOOD HAUL.
HARTWELL. GA., Aug.'s.— A bur
glar broke the show window of the
Jewelry department of Herndon’s drug
store and took four watches, tyro dia
mond rings and some pocket knives
The thief evidently had his goods spot
ted, because he reached over severa
bracelets and other jewelry forth«
watches and diamonds,
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