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THE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Local rains today and tomorrow. 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. The Atlanta Georgian x Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Result! 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? r—- _ flMBj 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.