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Aus. 10.—The Peoples Party, better known as the Populists, who in “O in national convention in St. Louis next week, maj indorse Theo dore Roosevelt and the Progressive cause and disband as a separate or ganization. This plan was suggested as the pos sible action of the convention by James 11. Perris, cf Joliet. 111., chairman of the Populist national committee. Ferris, an editor, has devoted considerable space in his newspaper recently to commending the Progressive party. The amalgamation, if it should come about, would probably only come after a sharp clash in the convention, ac cording to many Western members of the party. Steam roller methods and bossism are likely to be charged, it is p asserted. For. some of the Westerners say. Roosevelt men have packed th. delegations with the colonel's follow ers in the Eastern states. It is likely that their right to sit in the convention will be questioned. One Man Party, Says LaFollette Madison. wis.. Aug. 10.—senator LaFollette. in LaFollhtte's .Magazine, today opens his fight <m the Progres sive party and Theodore Roosevelt. He declares the Progressive party is a one m man party. The editorial says: "The last thing to be tolerated of a new political party, professing to stand for progress, is to hark back to boss and machine rule through threats and coercion of candidates for office. And yet Roosevelt threatens to beat sena tors, congressmen, governors, sheriff's and coroners unless they declare for « him. "If Cannon and McKinley, fright ened at the sight of the big stick, should promise to come out for the Roosevelt party, they would have no Progressive, opponents in their district. On the oth er hand. Hadley, of Missouri, and Bo rah. of Idaho, neither of whom will go into the Roosevelt party, are to be pun ished by having Roosevelt tickets put up against them in their states. ■■ How do you stand on me'.’’ is Roosevelt's sole test of qualification ' tor a Progressive.” FOR THAT TIRED FEELING f Take Horsford's Acid Phosphate Excellent for the relief of that tired ' feeling due to Summer heal, overwork sr insomnia. GREAT SOUTHERN RISK COMPANY TO CHANGE HANDS AND QUIT FIELD Purchase of the Great Southern Ac cident and Fidelity Insurance Company of Atlanta by the Hillyer Trust Com pany will be ratified at a meeting of the stockholders of the insurance com pany at a meeting August 19. All as sets of the company, which will go out of business, will be transferred to the trust company, while its insurance business will be turned over to an East ern company of known financial in tegrity. Three hundred thousand dollars is involved in the deal, which will be for mally completed at the stockholders' meeting. The Great Southern was organized in 1909 and according to insurance re ports did a profitable business. Its dis solution is said to be based on the de sire of stockholders to place their money where the returns will be quicker and larger. RESTRICTIONS PLACED ON EXPLOSIVES IN VALDOSTA VALDOSTA. GA.. Aug. 10. —The city council has passed an ordinance for bidding the storing of dynamite within the city limits, also ordinances regu lating the keeping of gunpowder, gaso line, benzine and naphtha. The regu lations regarding the latter are much stricter than heretofore, but not ex cessively so, and dealers will have no trouble in complying with them. An ordinance was also passed requir ing certain office buildings in the city to be equipped at once with adequate fire escapes. The council had ham mered on this question for several months. FIRST DTSTRICT’S’bbCTORS MEET IN SAVANNAH MONDAY SAVANNAH. GA.. Aug. bers of the First District Medicaj so ciety will assemble in Savannah Mon day for their mid-summer meeting. The session will be held at the DeSoto hotel. A dinner will be tendered the members of the society at Tybee. Dr. E. T. Coleman, of Graymont, president of the society, will deliver the response to the address of welcome. REBUILDING Y. M. C. A. HOME. THOMASVILLE, GA.. Aug. 10.— Work on the Thomasville Young Men’s Christian association building, with the addition and changes which will make -it practically new, is progressing rap idly and is expected to be completed by October 1 These improvements were made possible by SIB,OOO subscrip tions raised by a whirlwind campaign some months ago. ♦ . WAREHOUSE DIRECTORS NAMED. JACKSON. GA., Aug. 10.—The stock holders of the Farmers union ware house met jieie this week and elected directors as follows: ,1. A King, G. P. Sanders. H. 1.. Gray. W. E. Foster. .1. D. Brownlee S. J. Smith was re-elect ed president, F. I, Walthall secretary and J. M. Gaston general manager. TOE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. AUGUST 10. 1912. On left. -John Gewinner. aged 6, above and George Gewinner, aged 3, of 803 Peachtree. In center. Sarah Cobb Orme. 9 years, old. and Cornelia Jackson Orme. 10 months, of 915 Peachtree. On right, Evalene Parsons -Jackson. 854 Peachtree. PRODUGEROWTD LEAVE BROAD ST. Commission Merchants Will Occupy Proposed Building Near L. & N. Terminal. Within six months every commission and produce house in Broad street will leave its present quarters foi r a new building on the Louisville and N’ashville railroad yard parallel with Hunter street and new tenants will take their places. Real estate men say it means the certain development of Broad street into a retail business section for high-class trade and will bring about great enhancement in values, be sides relieving the retail congestion in Whitehall and Peachtree streets. The Louisville and Nashville road has begun the erection of a long concrete structure abutting on its track's beyond the present big terminal freight build ings. A new street, to be known as Produce row. is to be cut between the tracks and Hunter street, and the new structure will face on this street, with its rear on the tracks. Every merchant will have his.own trackage at the rear of his store and the cost of drayage will be eliminated. The stores will be of concrete, so they can be flushed nut with a hose very day, and the business houses should be much cleaner than the brick and'wooden structures, with basements, now in use. Among the dealers who are said to have signed contracts for new quarters are McCullough Bros.. Sulinis Fruit and Produce f'ompar .r, Porter Produce Company. . Lowry Fruit and Produce Company, Central Fruit and Produce , Company, A. Fugazzi Company. Gate City Produce Company, and nearly a dozen others. It was stated today that all but two firms in the street had signed, and these would follow. Real estate dealers say all leases will be taken care of easily, for the de mand for Broad street houses will be much better when the produce concerns are off the street. The thoroughfare will "be left cleaner, the sidewalks free from obstructions and general condi tions improved. They predict that most of the older structures will be remod eled for retail trade and that Broad street will become almost as impor tant as Whitehall street within a few yea rs. BREAKS HIS LEG TO KEEP OUT OF COURT; JUDGE FINES HIM $lO ST. LOUIS, Aug. 10.—When John Moran was called for trial on a peace disturbance charge in Justice Lamb's court at University City it was reported by a messenger that he could not ap pear. as he had broken his leg. The sympathetic judge sent Police man Walsh to Moran's home to inquire as to his condition. He found Moran seated at the window, apparently in good health. "Did you break your leg?" asked Walsh. "I did." replied Moran. "How ?" -"With a hammer. I didn't want to go to court." "Let's see your leg." "It’s out in the woodshed. Go and look at it," said Moran. Walsh found the wooden leg in the woodshed. He mended it with a of scantling taken from Moran's fence and forced Motan to put it on and ac company him to court, where Judge Lamb fined him $lO. LLOYD OSBOURNE. AUTHOR, NOW DYING IN CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10.—Friends of Lloyd Osbourne, author, and stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson, learned to day that he was expected to live but a few days and that, in anticipation of the end. nis wo sons, who hate been living with their mother since her sep aration from her husband in 1909. had been called to his bedside. Osbourne is 44 years old. He collaborated with Robert Louis Stevenson in writing "Tile Wrong Box. " "The Wrecker” and "The Ebb Tide.” DENTIST DIVORCES WIFE WHO “STAYED OUT LATE" ST. LOUIS. Aug "10. On testimony that his wife had an ungovernable temper, stayed out late at night and neglected him. Dr. C. W. A. Spies, a dentist, got a divorce in Judge Hitch cock’s court from Mrs. Bertha Spies. Mrs. Spies did not appear in court. TEACHING GIRLS TO CAN. THOMASVILLE. GA.. Aug. I<l.—Mis- Lilia Forrest, of Boston, demonstrator for the Girls' Canning clubs of Thomas and Grady counties, has been giving practical demonstrations of the work in the various districts of these coun ties. There ate 86 gills in the Thomas county club. The merchants here offer to take everything they can get tanned by the girls and pay the best market prices. *ed vZJ i /J >,— HILLES EXPLAINS WHY TAFT FAILED TO VETO PAYNE TARIFF BILL By CHARLES D. HILLES. Chairman of the Republican National Committee. NEW YORK. Aug 10.—I have been asked why the president did not veto the Payne tariff bill. President Taft signed the Payne tar iff bill because he believed that it would lower tariff tolls, because he believed that with the antiquated system of framing tariff bills, with no informa tion other than that ex-parte testi mcwiy which is presented to the tariff committees of congress, he could ob tain no better measure from congress, and because the Payne tariff bill made provision for machinery which would Insure adequate information on which to base all subsequent revisions. Con gress had been trying to do its work without the proper tools. The Payne bill provided the tools. Mr. Taft pronounced it "the best tar iff bill the party had ever passed,” be cause it contained provision for the cre ation of the tariff board, because It made provision for,a maximum and minimum tariff which would enable him to compel foreign nations to grant fair treatment to American goods; because it imposed a tax on corporations which would yield a net revenue of $25,000,0110 annually and subject their affairs to more thorough Federal scrutiny than had ever been possible before: because, although some of the duties imposed were, in his judgment, far too high, in a far greater number of instances mate rial reductions of the duties were em bodied in its provisions, and because his veto of the measure would have left the Dingley law in full force. Tariff “Experts” Questioned. Throughout the special session which President Taft called to revise the tar iff he sought definite information re garding the various industries affected. He .wished to know whether existing duties were too high, or too low, and, If either. what change should be made. Men who had long posed as tariff ex perts were called to the white house and questioned regarding this industry and that, this rate and that, only to reveal that they were not thoroughly informed about the relation of the rates ’to the needs of the industries it was sought to protect. Senators and repre. sentatives of long experience would de. dare that a given rate was far too low Others, with equally long expe rience and equal reputation as experts, would assert it was far too high. When asked to produce proof, each faction could only quote the testimony of some ex-parte witnesses. As a result. Mr. Taft was forced to the conclusion that there existed no method of determin ing beyond peradventure the actual re quirements of the various industries. No sooner had President Taft reached this conclusion that he became con vinced that the first essential was not change In rates, but the instruments by which the wisdom and justness of pro posed changes could be determined. He would not proceed with a revision of grades until he had a survey. A judge of long experience, he saw that the committees of congress were obliged to base their conclusions on testimony which was not evidence, to fix rates by a series of compromises between the extreme claims of opposing witnesses, and to do so far from free from politi cal influences which were powerful, If not compelling. Nor could he prove either to his own satisfaction. There was no starting point from which to reason, no conclusive or even gener ally accepted basis. He believed in, and the national platform declared for, a tariff which should equal the differ ence between, the cost of production here and abroad It was, then, for a logical mind a natural conclusion that the first essential to an adequate and satisfactory revision of the tariff was a method which would establish be yond question the cost of production here and. abroad. Such machinery pro vided and its results in the hands of congress and of the president, the rest would be plain sailing. To that end he bent his energies, and when he had se cured a bill which made provision for a tariff board to investigate and scien tifically to determine these costs he felt, and not without reason, that such a bill was the best that had or could be passed. No Reason to Veto It, ft has been asked why President Taft did not veto the Payne tariff bill. From his standpoint there was no reason whatever to veto it. As I have said, it gave him three all important provisions, and a fourth —some reduction of the existing rates —which was not only good, but than which he could hardly expect better until he had the information on which to base his arguments for still lower rates. To have vetoed the Payne bill would certainly have im periled the business of the country. It would greatly have prolonged the tar iff session. And there was no certain ty that a new bill would have contained as much that was good and as little that was bad as did the Payne bill. To secure provision for a tariff board had required a prolonged fight. The second time that fight might not be won. And as I have said, that pro vision alone was, in the estimation of the president, the great merit of the Paytie bill. < The wisdom of the president's view —from an economic, if not from a po litical standpoint—is shown by the thorough, accurate and convincing re ports wjtich the tariff board has made on every industry It has had time to investigate. That the Democrats In their folly have failed to avail them selves of the authoritative Information secured by the tariff board is merely a reflection on the intelligence of the Democrats. It is in no sense an im peachment of the information gained, the accuracy of which no man of con sequence in either party haa eared t® assail. The success of the maximum and minimum tariff provision of the Payne tariff bill has been all but lost sight of. Under Its provisions the president was enabled, through the department of state, to compel the removal of nu merous restrictions against American products, both of the factory and of the farm, with the result that American exports promptly jumped from sixteen hundred millions In 1909 to two thou sand millions in 1911, an increase of $400,000,000. Other nations had long appreciated the benefits to be derived from a dual tariff system. Some Amer ican statesmen had advocated such a system, hut none had had the oppor tunity. or the force, to secure its adop tion. 1 This was a starting point from which to argue the advantages of the policy, and to the logical and convinc ing arguments of Mr. Taft was due its adoption. It has often been said that had Pres ident Taft vetoed the Payne tariff bill he would have won the approbation of the American people and have insured his own re-election. Possibly it would. Certain it is that view was urged upon him. But he dismissed it as unworthy of consideration. He was not adminis tering the duties of his high office with a view of augmenting his personal pop ularity or of promoting his political welfare. He was doing his duty as he saw it, and those who take the trouble to study the effects of his approval of the Payne bill must be convinced that he acted wisely from the standpoint of the nation's welfare, even if not from his own. IT TOOK 44 HOURS TO CATCH 65-FOOT WHALE TACOMA. WASH.. Aug. 10.—It re quired a whaling boat at Westport 44 hours to conquer a 65-foot humpback whale, according to Immigration In spector Keagys, just returned. The av erage whale is killed in two or three., hours, and old whalers said the enor mous creature of the sea put up a ter rific fight From the moment a har poon was hot into the beast until a flag was hoisted over its body, it was an elemental and primitive contest. 3