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VOL. XL NO. 4.
ROOSEVELT
TOWE
DIXIE AT
' ONGE
’lans Early Whirlwind Cam
paign to Break the ‘‘Solid
South.”
JOHNSON. RUNNING MATE.
TO TAKE STUMP IN EAST
Strenuous One Also Will Take
Care of the West —Big
Fight Is On.
CHICAGO, Aug. B.—Theodore Roose
velt will invade the South and West.
Hiram W. Johnson will swing through
the East. Every state In the Union is
to be visited, some of them by both
candidates.
This is the tentative plan of cam
paign of the Progressive party as out
lined today by the candidates them
selves, the national committee and the
leaders of the movement in a series of
conferences that began when the first
national convention closed last night
and 'that were continued throughout
this morning.
The convention adjourned last night
after naming Roosevelt and Johnson,
governor of California, to head the
• ticket, and adopting the most radical
platform ever approved by a national
political convention.
The campaign is to start at once. The
work of organization will begin as soon
as the work can be undertaken. Offices
will be opened in New York and Chi
cago for the general direction of af
fairs, and other headquarters will be
established where they may seem most
needed.
Headquarters for
South To Be Opened.
At the very outset it is expected that
such haedquarters will be established
In one of the cities of the Southern
states. For the first time in years an
actual contest over the presidential
election is to be waged below the Ma
son and Dixon line, and a hot and
strenuous campaign begun to break the
“Solid South."
Plans as now outlined will catapault
the colonel himself into the Southern
territory at the very outset of the cam
paign. It was determined on for two
reasons —first, because the Progressive
leaders believe there is a chance to get
a part of the Southern electoral vote,
and, second, because they believe that
dircting a sigh. into the very heart of
the Democratic stronghold will start
' affairs with a rush that will give them
an advantage throughout the campaign,
putting the Wilson followers more or
less on the defensive.
All this was discussed today by Colo
nel Roosevelt, Governor Johnson, Jo
seph M. Dixon, head of the new Pro
gressive national commimttee that
came into being yesterday, and the
other men who will conduct the fight of
the Progressive party.
Campaign Needs of
Sections Discussed.
Meetings of delegate's and leaders of
the various, sections of the country—
the South, the West, the East and the
New England states—were held today
before the national committee resulted
its sessisons at 11 o’clock. Ihe section
al meetings were to determine the
needs of the party there in the way of
a campaign and to make a recommen
dation to the committee. The final
' plans for the campaign will be based
largely on these reports.
The first meeting of the committee
was held last night with both Roose
velt and Johnson present. Senator
Dixon lias elected chairman, cx-Gov
ernor Franklin Fort, of New Jersey,
was named vice chairman, ami Oscar
K. Davis, of New York, secretary.
It <vas before the committee in the
Florentine room of the Congress hotel
shortly after midnight this morning
that the first campaign speeches we i
delivered by the new candidates. The
coloqel’s remarks were very brief.
“We do not promise more than we
can give," he said. "We promise to
give every man and woman a chance
to live their lives and get the best of
such a life."
Johnson spoke very briefly also. H
said he had >ead inrefullj the address
of Woodrow Wilson in accepting tlu
Democratic nomination and found it
lacking hi the annunciation of human
principles.
"There is nothing to be f ared from
either Taft or Wilson," he .-aid.
Johnson and Roosevelt went from
Continued on Page Two.
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HEMOER
HITS MBS
MIN OF
GULS
Declares Children of Fifteen
Are Being Made Intoxicated.
Raps Rich Men.
JUDGES BELONGING TO
CLUBS ARE CALLED UNFIT
Dry Candidate Attacks Slaton
as “Still Hunter” and Hall as
'•Too Economic.”
Reiteiating the doctrines given ut
j terance in his Ringgold speech, but
dealing baldly with the prohibition is
sue as the “one subject that over
shadows them all,” Hooper Alexander,
gubernatorial aspirant, today an
nounced the platform upon which he
proposes to wage his fourteen days
campaign for the highest office In
Georgia.
Alexander handled the prohibition
issue with no gloved hands, declaring
that the question was no longer for or
against prohibition, but for or against
anarchy. Anarchism in its most hid
eous form, he asserted, stalked in the
cities of Georgia, and the challenge is
before the people whether the cities
shall defy the law of the state.
•The Tippins bill, he declared, was not
a prohibition bill, but an effort to aid
the governor and the courts in the en
forcement of the law.
In his defense of the Tippins bill'and
its explanation Atlanta.locker clubs are
attacked and supreme and superior
court judges, who are members of such
clubs, are pronounced unfit to sit :n
judgment on cases involving violations
of the prohibition law. Along this line
Mr. Alexander says:
"They can not disguise that issu-.
The rich clubs are violating the law.
They refuse to obey it. They are will
ing, and many of them say so. to indict
and prosecute the common criminals
who follow their example and take
shelter under it. Rut they demand and
enjoy immunity for themselves, and it
is-utterly hopeless to expect the law to
be enforced against the common crimi
nals, when the judges are members of
lawless associations, some of them ac
tually buying liquor at pleasure from
these law defying concerns.
“Where the judges belong to a club
they have clearly disqualified them
selves to pass judgment, and anarchy
is in the community because the in
strumentalities for vindicating the law
are paralyzed.
“It is known that some members of
the supreme court are members of
some of the high-toned social clubs,
perhaps all of them. If so, I fall to see
I how they are in position to pass judg
ment.
“Under the shelter of these clubs that
call themselves respectable there have
been formed dozens of purely lawless
liquor selling speculating associations,
in which debauchery has proceeded to
such a stage that women—even young
girls of fourteen or fifteen years of age
—habitually frequent some of them,
and hardened gamblers traveling here
have turned away in disgust from the
sight of young girls drunk." »
That the standpatters in Georgia pol
itics fear his candidacy more than they
are willing to admit, Mr. Alexander as
serts in his closing paragraphs.
T ou don’t see their newspapers at
tacking Joe Hull,” he says. "Why?
They are not afraid of him. He is an
honest man and has been a valuable
man in the legislature and would make
a good governor if he wasn’t so an-
I tagonistlc to economic progress.”
As a reiteration of utterances made
i at Ringgold. John M. Slaton is attacked
i for what is termed his "still-hunt”
methods and the vast expenditures of
money in favor of his candidacy.
In dealing with general state issues,
Mr. Alexander advocates the following:
The extension of the Western
and Atlantic railroad to the sea as
the solution of the high freight rate
problem now engrossing the people
of Georgia.
The publication of all campaign
expenditures and the prohibition
of the expenditure of more than
$2,500 by a gubernatorial candidate
in a single campaign.
The repeal of all laws granting
the cond. mnatlon of water power
sites to piivate capital and the de
velopment of water powers by the
I state.
A permanent registration law.
Prohibition of the publication of
any matter of a political nature in
any newspaper unless it is paid for
and is plainly marked as paid for
and by whom.
The sealing of appropriation of
public money.
The passage of a tax levy law as
a remedy for the present financial
situation. Such a law would re
quire. the legislature to vote the tax
wh-n voting the appropriation.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST S. 1912.
THEY COMPLAIN THAT COL. ROOSEVELT
CROWNS HIMSELF—BUT WHAT ABOUT THIS?
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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.
WHAT Roosevelt Believes!
I
in 1912 .
The Bull 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 from 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 program 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.
Mr. Roosevelt indorses the plain truth and women should be
allowed to vote rnd 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 I nited States senators by
the popular vote.
For years, in this newspaper and other past newspapers, our
readers have editorials demanding that the election of senators
be taken away from a handful of purchaseahle 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 the conditions of labor, limitation of the hours of
work for women, prohibition of child labor, those are some of Mr.
Rosevelt’s exciting “NEW IDEAS.”
Our 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 bill—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 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 sdare 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 national 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. w
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 transaction
JOHN D, JU, OPERATES
DISORDERLY HOUSE TO
TRAP POLICE GRAFTERS
Oil Magnate’s Son Said to Have Ob
tained Evidence Against Officials in
System” and to Have Delivered It
to Public Prosecutor in New York.
NEW YORK, Aug. B.—lt was learned today that John D. Rocke
feller, Jr., with the assistance ot James B. Reynolds, assistant district
attorney, for the past year has been operating a pretended disorderly
house in the heart of the white light district for the purpose of secur
ing evidence against police officials, politicians and the procurers of
younft girls. Men who were dictating its management never appeared
fa the house, which is located in the West Forties. The orders were .
carried out by a manageress and her assistants.
Joe Hill Hall Plans to
To Make 100 Speeches
In Week on Auto Tour
Bibb Candidate for Governor to
Cover Fifteen Counties in
His Whirlwind Campaign.
MACON, GA., Aug. 8. —Representa-
tive Joe Hill Hall, Bibb county candi
date for governor, has arranged for an
automobile speaking tour through fif
teen counties next week, when he in
tends to make 100 speeches. He will
leave Maeon Monday morning and mo
tor through the counties of Bibb, Jones,
Jasper, Putnam, Baldwin, Hancock,
Jefferson. Washington. Emanuel,
Toombs, Jeff Davis, Pulaski, Wilkinson,
Dooly and Houston, speaking wherever
he can obtain an audience.
Mr. Hall has signified his willing
ness to meet Hooper Alexander on the
stump, and it is possible that they will
have a verbal combat in Macon a few
days before the primary.
extra
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P * Y
One of the men associated with
Rockefeller is said to be Clifford
E. Roe, of Chicago, who aided in
the white slave investigation two
years ago. Later Roe went to
Chicago and assisted Federal Dis
trict Attorney Sims in a cam
paign against white slave traffic
there.
A sensation was caused by a report
that Mr. Rockefeller has turned over
to the district attorney’s office testi
mony’ showing that a police inspector
and a civilian confederate of the lead
ers of the "police system” collected
tribute.
Other evidence of police blackmail
was obtained, it is alleged.
District Attorney Whitman will make
a Herculean effort to* uproot the po
lice system and drive graft out of the
police force.
First, however, he will not press this
campaign until after he has completed
the Rosenthal case.
Proving Details of
Rose’s Confession.
When the grand jury went Into ses
sion today it was with the intention of
devoting its entire attention to wit
nesses whose testimony was expected
to establish the relations alleged to ex
ist between Police Lieutenant Charles
A. Becker and "Bald Jack" Rose prior
to the murder of Herman Rosenthal,
the gambler, with whose death Becker
is charged.
It was the plan of District Attorney
Whitman to begin today to establish
the truth of charges made in Rose's
expose of the alliance existing between
certain members of the police and the
under world, by which police officials
and politicians grew rich through graft.
Detectives from the district attor
ney s office had served summons on a
number of persons mentioned by Rose
in his statement, and they were in
structed to appear before the grand
jury.
With Mr. Whitman practically direct
ing the situation, aided by two assist
ants and a corps of detectives, evidence
is piling up rapidly.
Sullivan Now
Called a Slayer.
The district attorney is said to have
found a reliable witness who is willing
to testify that Jacob A. Reich, better
known as Jack Sullivan, the friend of
Lieutenant Becker, the man who rode
uptown with him on the morning of
the Rosenthal murder, fled with the as
sassins in Libby and Shapiro’s gray
automobile. The district attorney ex
pects the grand jury to indict Sullivan
for murder in the first degree upon the
strength of testimony which this wit
ness will give.
Other evidence corroborating allega
tions of Rose is accumulating rapidly.
Two police Inspectors, it is reported,
may he indicted as a result of the mass
of incriminating testimony in the hands
of the district attorney. One of the
inspectors is said to command one of
the most important precincts in New
York; the second is not now in com
mand of any district, but is said to
exert great influence,
40 LIVES IMPERILED
BY INCENDIARY FIRE
NEW YORK, Aug. B.—A fire started
by an incendiary in a four-story tene
ment at 587 Gates avenue, Brooklyn,
Imperiled 45 lives early today. Many
children were carried through the
flames to the roofs, and thence to the
roofs of the adjoining buildings.
IN FAIRNESS TO G. F. GOBER.
The Georgian intends to be fair and
do no one any injustice. It is some
times imposed upon.
We hereby withdraw any reflection
in any way that may be drawn from
what has appeared in our columns
within the last, few days upon George
F. Gober, an attorney, with offices at
710-711 Third National Bank building,
Atlanta, Ga. We detract nothing from
him as an honorable man and a reputa
ble lawyer.