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SLATON SAYS HIS
MS OF ISSUES
ARE KNOWN
Candidate Sees No Need to
Take Stump His Managers
Attack Campaign System.
After h «*rv)« • «»f n years in
ictive politics in gi •. John M Sla
ton thinks that his position <>n all ques
tions now before the people of the state
in the gubernatorial race is too well
known for him to take up the time of
he voters by reiterating them front the
-tuinp.
That is the trend of a lengthy state
ment given out at Slaton iwadquarteis
today replying to charges made by his
opposition l»y suggestion th it be feat'
to meet the issues and is content to
conduct a "still hunt" for votes.
In addition. M Slaton's managers
take occasion to attack a system, which
they say exists in Georgia, of candi
dates paying politics’ hern hmen in each
county to conduct their fights. He de
clares that by appealing to the Indi 1
vidual voter, lie has avoided paying,
tills tribute and i« thus able to finance!
his own campaign, leaving him free of;
pledges to any political ting when h*
enters n.ffii e. should he be elected.
System is Attacked.
His statement in pa it follows:
John M. Slatons campaign for
governor, in which lie ha', largely,
gone direct to the individual voter
Ignoring Hu politicians as such,
and the vast horde of political
workers has pi oven such a sur
prise, particularly Io his political
opponents.,that, at a loss for a plan
of attack, they have finally charged
him with making a “still hunt."
Six - nr -even years ago there be
gan to be built up in Georgia a vast
horde of political workers in the
counties of the state, and men were
even known to seek remuneration
for their services hi carrying militia
districts. Those Mr. Slaton has ig
nored. preferring to conduct his
campaign upon merit, and he has
carried it to the individual upon
that basis.
His opponents could not there
fore charge him with "ring" alli
ances; they could not criticise him
for employing political workers in
the various counties, so it had to be
the “still hunt” •
It is somew hat doubtful, how
ever, if the voters of the state w ill
be able to discover anything sinis
ter in a square and straightfor
ward appeal for their individual
support: and that Is all Mr. Slaton
has made.
He’s Paying Own Expenses.
Mr. Slaton is paying the expenses
of his own campaign Many con
tributions have been tendered him.
but he has uniformly turned them
all down with the exception of one
or two small ones offered by close
personal friends, where absolutely
no political consideration was in
volved and which could not, on ac
count of such friendship, have been
rejected.
The result is that Mr. Slaton is
under no sort of obligation to any
politician or clique of ixilitielans;
his sole obligation is incurred in
the appeal made to the individual
voter
As a member of the legislature
foj- more than sixteen years, Mr.
Slatons views on all public ques
tions which have come before the
state within that period have been
exploited in the press and are well
known to all readers of the news
papers. There is not before the
people today a single public ques
tion upon which he has not. within
that period of legislative service,
taken open and public stand
It is well known that he has
taken firm position for the adequate
and effective regulation of public
utility corporations in the interest
of the whole state. His attitude to
waid the Western and Atlantic
railroad is an open book, he fought
for its preservation against those in
the legislature w ho sought to crip
ple it: he insists that the state shall
retain it and get full value from its
rental or operation
Financial Problem to Solve.
Five years before the convicts of
the State were put on the public
roads he advocated that policy in
a speech which he wrote out in ad
vance. He has taken an open stand
for permanent registration of vot
ers. it was his own suggestion
which others havi adopted.
Under the next idmlnistration
big financial questions will confront
the state. It is already apparent
that something must h< done to
restore the balance between income
and appropriations Mme than
half of Georgia s • ..it standing bond
ed indebtedness or some .<:: Tuu.iuui
due in 1916, must |>« icfunded
Ttfese bonds must be pi a ~| at tht
lowest possible interest ute and to
the best advantage of tin state in
view of the expiration of th. ba-,
in 1919. the question of the dis, .-i
tion of the Western ami Atlanii
railroad must be dealt with.
These are some of the big q.ies
tions that will confront Gemma
next governor, and in dealing with
them there is need not of a them Ist
and a dreamer, but of a broad
visioned and practical busin. ss
man. such a man as Mr. Slaton.
E. C. James.
The funeral of E. <'. James, 3S years
o'd. who died late yesterday, was he!.',
at Bloomfield's chapel this afte noonat
2 o'clock. Interment was in West view
cemetery Mi James is survived by
his mother M- Ma ga ■• t X .lam- '
ami a sister, M - W B. McKinney.
Seagirt Mecca for Democrats When Party 'Nominee Was Notified
WILSON DELIVERING SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE
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speech Xo. 2. Ollie .lames, senator-elect from Kentucky, who made the notifica
tion speech; Xo. 3. Miss Eleanor Wilson, daughter of the governor; No. 4, Mrs.
Calls l aft and T. R.
Enemies of Labor
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Colonel
Roosevelt und President Taft were de
nounced as foes of labor in a campaign
speech In the house today by Repte
sentalve Wilson, Democrat, of Penn
sylvania. Mr. Wilson Is chairman of
the house committee on labor. His
speech, which was an appeal by the
Democratic party for labor, was on
“Labor and the Democrats."
“Democrats," said Mr. Wilson, "have
Indicated during the last ession of
congress that they are labor's real po
litical triends and are prepared to pass
beneficial legislation for workingmen.
"It seems strange, but nevertheless
It Is true, that Theodore Roosevelt,
who has for months been parading
himself as the friend of the common
people, was the first president to issue
an executive older denying wage
workers employed by tin government
the right to petition congress for re
dress of their grievances. This gag
order was broadened by President
Taft."
The speaker stated that Governor
Wilson's speech on the labor question
had been garbled and misstated. He
declared the New Jersey executive had
a more enviable record than ■ that of
Colonel Roosevelt Mr. Wilson de
clared Roosevelt never suggested any
beneficial legislation. but contented
himself with promises. He added that
President Taft, since his injunction
was issued against striking working
men. "has never had a sympathetic,
understanding of the needs and rights
of American labor."
Millionaire Wilson
Leader in Kentucky
L(>l' IS V 11.1,E. KY . Aug 10. —John-
son N <’ainden, millionaire coal opera
tor and turfman, will load the Demo
cratic campaign for Wilson in Ken
tucky. He was made chairman of the
campaign committee at a meeting of
the state central committee this morn
ing.
Camden, w lio now makes liis home
near Versailles. Ky.. is a member of
the West Virginia family which has
some of the most extensive coal inter
ests in Kentucky. He is the son of
former Senator Camden and is the
business associate of Senator Watson,
of West Virginia, and of John C. C.
Mavo. the national committeeman from
Kentucky.
COUNTY CONDITIONS FIX
PRIMARY ENTRY DATES
To cleat away a misunderstanding
resulting from the confusion of dates
for final entry in the August primary,
tlte state Democratic executive com
mittee in session hern today decided to
let till •■minty dates govern the condi
tions in restricted localities The state
committee on July 6 fixed August 1 as
the closing date, but many county com
mittees ordered cates as late as Au
gust 12.
Hardly a handful of the members of
the committee were present, as it was
undei stood that the • ommilt* • meeting
was to be held but for one purpose. The
■ •(solution acceding to the various
• ■ ounty dates was presented by 11. R.
'Arnold, member from the state-at-
j SLAYER GETS TWO YEARS.
ANNISTON AI.A.. Aug. 10.—The
'ur\ tiying Cross Pearce for killing
j Sarg- Kt nnedy rendered a verdict to
' !a\. hn.'n'.L the defendant guilty of
•nans .• .mint r in the first degree and
| fix* ! j Jul- '.is ■ nt at tw.» years* in the
petiitenii tr\ \ttorneys for the defense
ga\- i of appeal. Bund was fixed
•C SI ‘""i !h; ; h <h fendant was re-
l« a st <l.
THE GEORGIAN AXD SEWS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10. 1912.
HOUSE, MERRILY,
GOES TO WK
Three Moot Bills, Slaughtered
l
at First Saturday Session
of the Year.
Tlte house was extremely busy today,
even though there barely was a quo
i runt on hand. The session was the
first and only Saturday session of the
year.
Speaker Pro Tent Vinson, of Baldwin,
put the lid on tight early in the ses
sion and warned everybody that no
member could leave the hall upon any
pretext whatsoever, without first ob
taining permission of the house.
The acting speaker notified the door
keepers that they would be held per
sonally responsible for the escape of
any member or members, under penalty
of the loss of their jobs.
Then the house got tight down to
business and resolved itself into a leg
islative slaughter house, much to the
‘ delight of some of its many friends and
to the. disgust of others.
Prison Reformers Bill Killed.
The first bill to go to the block was
the bill of Mr. McElreath, of Fulton,
introduced at the request of the Geor
, gin Prison Reform- association, und
. w hich sought to clothe judges of courts
of original jurisdiction in criminal busi
ness to suspend sentences in certain
cases, and to mold their opinions and
judgments on lines of probation.
This bill was backed by numerous
reform societies in tlte state, and its
, failure to pass will cause widespread
f disappointment. It went to the Junk
heap for lack of a constitutional major
ity—the vote standing 80 to 33.
, Tlte bill of Mr. Hobbs,-of Houston,
C prohibiting drug store attaches other
. than regularly licensed pharmacists
from tilling prescriptions was lost under
f adverse circumstances similar to those
. under which the prison reform bill met
its death. The Hobbs bill got 84 favor
able votes tr> 20 unfavorable, but the
, So were not sufficient to pass it under
the constitution.
Mr. Slade, of Muscogee, shared the
common fate with bis bill to regulate
the signaling of trains at grade eross-
J ings. The vote on that stood 74 to 26.
Librarian's Pay Raised.
r It becoming apparent that nothing to
, which there was opposition could hope
t to pass today's small house, the house
- tried its hand at passing a few bills to
i which there was no opposition.
Under this head, a bill raising the
.> salary of the assistant state librarian
s from $760 to SI,OOO per annum, a bill
- regulating the future appointment of
- fertilizer inspectors and directing the
disposition of fertilizer fees, and a reso-
f lution i•■considering the houses refusal
s to grant a SIO,OOO appropriation to the
S Georgia School tor the Deaf all were
f passed.
s As the house droned away, numerous
.. members sought, upon one pretext and
- another, to get out of the hall. At no
time was there anything doing in that
line. Mr. Hollis, of Taylor, seeking
unsuec t ssfully early in the game to get
p excused for a few moments, got his
? fighting clothes on and objected to
. every subsequent request fi>r unani
f mous consent. He even objected to a
tj request for unanimous consent that he
p himself be excused-for a time, although
P j nobody else objected. *
•1 | it is estimated that tile house will bo
. kept pretty busy Monday rei onsidcring
' v i numliei of things it killed today.
: Progressives Order
: Woman Sent toNX •
: State Convention •
• NEW YORK. Aug. 10.—The state •
• convention of the National Pro- •
• gressive party will be held at •
• Syracuse on Thursday and Friday. ®
• September 5 and 6, it was an- «
• nounced this afternoon. It will be •
• made up of ten delegates and ten •
• alternates elected from each as- •
o setnbly district, or approximately •
• 3,000 men and w omen. •
• County Chairmen have been in- •
• structed to see to it that women •
• members of the Progressive party •
• be sent as delegates from their •
• counties, and that women who •
• have enrolled or desire to enroll in •
• the party be admitted to partici- •
• pate in its primaries wherever •
• held. •
• •
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GIRL CAPTIVE OF
HERMIT 3 YEARS
Harrowing Tale of Torture Told
After Her Rescue by Sheriff
From Desert Hut.
SAN BERNARDINO. CAL. Aug. 10.
After having been held captive foi
three years in a lonely hermit's hut in
the center of a desert at Kramer. Miss.
Bessie Wyman, aged 23. told a weird,
harrowing tale today of the experience'
she had undergone.
At the time of her disappearance she
was a beautiful girl, plump of form
and red-cheeked. Today she is a mere
skeleton with her face a horror of hag
gard lines and her body showing un
mistakable signs of severe treatment.
The ease lias caused widespread publii
indignation and the hermit is threat
ened with summary punishment.
The girl's rescue was brought about
through a note which she hastily
scraw led on a piece of w rapping paper
and sent to her mother, Mrs. Alice Wy
man. in Minneapolis. Mrs. Wyman
wrote to Chief of Police Sebastian, of
Los Angeles, in which she said tlte girl
was held a prisoner in Mike O'Malley's
cabin in the Kramer desert. She de
scribed in the letter the alleged cruel
ties to which the young woman said
she had been subjected.
Found Half Starved.
Deputy Sheriff Edward Harris, of
Barstow, went to O'Malley's cabin,
where he found the girl, half starved
and cut off from all communication
with the outside world. O'Malley
gua.ded her with zealous care and
never left her but once She eagerly
took advantage of the first opportunity
and scrawled the note to her mother.
She waited many days before Harris
arrived and practically had given up al!
hope of ever being rescued when he
appeared al the cabin door.
O’Malley refused to allow gi'l to
take a thing from the cabin and stated
that if she left she must go in her bare
feet. The hermit insisted that she go
in the sparsely clothed way in which
sue was dressed when found by Har
ris. but the sheriff interfered. He
made O'Malley bring forth the clothes
he had taken from the girl and 'hid
when he brought her to the cabin, after
which the girl clothed herself and was
brought to San Bernardino
li' mother Is rushing West to meet
her daughter, whom she had mourn'd
ns dead so three years.
Woodrow Wilson; Xo. Alton B. Parker, who was temporary chairman of the
Baltimore convention, and member of the notification committee; Xo. 6. Governor
I bomas R. Marshall, of Indiana, Democratic nominee for vice president.
CANAL SME TO
BE EDEL TO U.S.
Senate Passes Panama Bill.
House and Taft Expected to
Approve It.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 10. —The Pan
ama canal administration bill, which
■ passed in the senate late yesterday by
|a non-partisan vote of 47 tn 15, is ex
pected to pass the house without dan
gerous opposition, despite the fact that
the original bill had one of its most
drastic features modified. As the orig
inal bill came from the house it con
tained a flat prohibition against the
ownership or control by any railroad
line of a steamship line. This was
toned down to prohibit the passage of
railroad owned ships through the ca
nal. Sponsors of the bill declare they
expect President Taft to sign the docu
ment.
As the bill stands now it provides
free passage to American ships, prohib
its the passage of ships owned by rail
road systems through the waterway
and authorizes the establishment of a
one-man government for the zone. It
I is expected that railroad systems own
ing steamship lines may assault the
constitutionality of the bill in the
courts if it becomes a law. However,
if the attack is not made and the bill
stands in its present form, it will prove
a. powerful instrument in the hands of
the government in anti-trust warfare.
The interstate commerce commission,
under the senate amendments to the
i
bill, will become a powerful force. •
The amendments endow the commis-
■ sion to a large extent with the enforce
ment of the anti-trust law.
It had been expected that the pas
. sage of the bill in face of opposition
from the British government to the
clause granting free tolls to American
ships might be used for campaign ma
terial. However, the senate vote was
so divided that party lines were split
up. A similar condition is expected
when the b+ll comes to a vote in the
house. f
The house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce today decided to
request a conference witli the senate on
the bill providing for the regulation and
management of the Panama canal zone.
The bill as it passed the senate is ac
ceptable to the Democratic members of
i the committee and most of the changes
• urged in conference will be of a purely
. technical nature.
In the June issue of The Month
ly Cyclopedia and Medical Bulle
tin of Philadelphia, edited by
Charles E. de M. Sajous, M.D.,
L.L.D., appears the following—
“ Many physicians have come to real-
I ize that caffeine, as daily consumed in
i coffee and tea, has much to do w ith the
causation of many annoying ailments
. that formerly were obscurely diagnosed
and vaguely treated. It stands to rea
son that this alkaloid, when taken in
daily doses of six or more grains, must
. exert a harmful action on the nervous
: circulatory and digestive systems. Its
, action must also modify the action of
other drugs prescribed by tire physi
cians.”
Continuing, this article say s:
> "Postum, the well known cereal bev
erage. made of clean, hard wheat and
. a small percentage of molasses, has
been the means of effecting an easy
‘ change front coffee and its harmful
I stimulant—caffeine —to a wholesome,
■ harmless, nourishing beverage."
, Eminent analysts, such as Prof. J. \V.
. Mallet, of the University of Virginia.
' have proven that a cup of coffee (only
• three-fifths coffee and the rest milk)
contains about 2 1-2 grains of caffeine.
; A Government report issuing April
4th, this year, from the Bureau of
Chemistry shows that the deadly coffee
drug, caffeine, administered in small
' doses, cause'! the death of cats, dogs,
rabbits and guinea pigs in a few hours.
PEACHTREE ST.
PUMAira
Millions in Improvements for
City. According to Big
Property Owners.
Continued From Page One.
streets ordinary fund was exhausted
as well as his office expense fund and
the sewer repair- fund. Five thousand
dollars was transferred to this fund
from unexpended funds. A great part
of the special street funds are unex-
I pended.
Because of the delay in collecting as
,l sessments for sewers the committee de
|cided that all lateral sewer construc
tion should be stopped on October I io
allow the collection of assessments to
catch up with expenditures before the
first of the year. The department is
now $27,000 behind in collections.
County Commission
Ready to Help.
The public works committee of the
county commissioners today decided
they will regrade and relay the paving
on Ivy street if the city council re
quests them to. and work on the thor -
oughfare will probably be begun within
two weeks. A proposition was sent to
’ council, through Harvey Hatcher, mem
ber of the street committee, that the
. commissioner s will grade the street and
■ relay with the present paving, or with
such material as the city may provide,
if the city' will build the retaining wails
necessary on either side of it. The res
olution was authorized following a
request from the street committee that
tile county immediately begin making
over the street.
Practically every property holder up
Ivy street has agreed to ilpnate money
toward the work and $30,000 has been
raised to be turned over to the city to
, ward the expense of reconstruction.
, The property owners hope to be reini
i bursed for this amount at some future
1 date.
The committee also authorized the
> request for bids for asphalt paving to
i be laid on Peachtree road from Buck
head to the county line.
I SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT
b'or the six months ending June 30, 1912. of the condition of
The Prudential Insurance Company of America
OF NEWARK,
Organized under the laws of the state of New Jersey, made to the governor
of tlie sfate of Georgia, in pursuance to the laws of said state
Principal offices, 75a to 769 Broad street, Newark N J
I. CAPITAL STOCK.
Amount of capital stocks 2 000 000 00
■ Amount of capita! stock paid up in cash •» nnn’nnri’n.
11. ASSETS. -vuo.UOU.OO
Total admitted assets t'-iru dr-
ill. LIABILITIES. ,
Total liabilities .... .. . ,
IV. INCOME DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR in
Total income
V. DISBURSEMENTS DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS nr Tuc
YEAR 1912.
Total disbursements ...
Greatest amount insured in any one risk ....$ 112,886 00 "
, Total amount of insurance outstanding2.l36.6B2 924 ou
A copy of the act of incorporation, duly certified is"’of Hie in th*
of the insurance commissioner. in !ne ot ‘ lc *
STATE OF GEORGIA —County of Fulton.
Personally appeared before the undersigned, J. M Skinner whn a*; „
duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the manager of the Prudent'lnt
; surance Company of America, and that the foregoing statement is "orrew
and trup. j mcTWrn
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 10th dat of AugustlTr
J. T. KIRKPATRICK. JR..
I Notary Public. »
AKERS & SKINNER, Manager*
409-10 GRANT Bl’l LDI NG. ATLANTA, GA
T.R. TEELS OF HIS
FIGHT ON NM
oom
Admits New Party Was in
Peril —“But Now We Have
Started Right," He Says,
OYSTER BAY, N. V.. Aug. in.—Some
inside history of the Progressive con
vention in Chicago was revealed today
by Colonel Roosevelt. He discloted
that the Bull Moose party came dan
gerously near splitting over the negro
problem.
"1 had great difficulty tn bringing
some of my supporters* around to my
idea of how the negro question in our
party ought to be handled,” said the
colonel. "Some of them believed that
it was an outrageous discrimination
against the negro to say that any of
them must be excluded. I maintained
that the third party had to take a dis
tinctive stand on it; that the negro
problem, so far a» the party's future
was concerned, must be handled firmly
at the start.
“It looked for a time as though we
would break on the negro issue. I
don't mean that our party was in
danger of going to smash, but that it
seemed as if some of our supporters
could not be reconciled. But they saw .
the force of what I maintained. They
came to realize that to keep out the
venal type of negro and let the South
ern end of our party handle the prob
lem there as a local affair was the only
way out of it.
Took Bold Stand.
"We took a bold stand, but we start
ed right. Now we are going to organ
ize a party in the South that will eni- *
brace the decent element of the negro
race exactly as the negro shows him
self fit to come in with us. We will
help the negro to become more useful
to himself* and to the community."
The ex-president• laughed over the
comment of W. J. Bryan that the colo
nel in his Chicago speech had stolen
the Democratic party's ideas.
"We have stolen all the Democratic
ideas excepting those fit for the in
mates of a lunatic asylum," said the
colonel.
Roosevelt was immensely please
over a telegram from the crew of the
battleship Oregon at Bremerton. Wash ,
saying: "We join in congratulating you •
on your nomination for the presidency,'
"The enlisted men of the army and
navy are with me." said the colonel.
"They know I understand them.”
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UNIQUE FIGURE QUITS
TOOMBS COUNTY RACE
VIDALIA. GA., Aug. lit.—" Uncle
Johnnie' Clifton, a unique ir
county politics in the state, has quit
the race for representative fro’ii
Toombs county. Mr. Clifton originated
the plan whereby the rival candidates
visited the farmers in pairs, using the
same horse and buggy, one of them
talking politics with the. farmer while
the other plowed for him, and vice
versa, so that the farmer would lose no
time from his work.
Mr. Clifton gives as his :eason for
retiring from the race his feeble health
and his age.
MAXWELL QUITS ELBERT RACE.
ELBERTON. GA.. Aug. 10.—M. ]•;.
Maxwell, candidate for the legislature,
has announced his withdrawal from the
race, stating that he cannot spare th.
time from his business. He is one of
the leading /merchants of this section.
There are seven other candidates in the
field for legislative honors from filbert
county
ALLEGED SLAYER HELD.
ANNISTON. ALA., Aug. 10.—After a
long investigation by Probate Judge
Arnold, Walter Johnson, accused ol
killing Tom Snow on the night of July
21 near Camp Pettus, was held with
out bail to await action by the grand
jury. »
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