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DIRECT VOTE ACT
ONLY CRITICISED
Georgia Senate Fails to Reject
Sutherland-Bristow Amend
ment. Called Inimical.
Over the protest of a goodly number of
legislators, who stood for straight away
rejection the Georgia house of represen
tatives has decided that the Sutherland-
Bristow amendment to the Federal con
stitution providing direct election of
Vnited States senators, was not passed
by a constitutional vote in congress
If the senate follows the action of the
house in adopting the report of the Alex
ander committee protesting against the
manner in which the Bristow bill was
passed. Georgia will lose an opportunity
to record a vote against a measure said
to be inimical to the Southern states
Joe Hill Hall fought strenuously for a
straight vote on the amendment, know
ing full well that the Georgia house would
have none of an arrangement that gave
the Federal government the right
dle with state elections
“I want Georgia to record a vote against
this amendment.” said Minter Wimberly,
of Bibb
Mr Alexanders theory that congress
had acted unconstitutionally by ratifying
the amendment with a two-thirds vote
of those present rather than a two-thirds
vote of the entire membership, seemed tn
appeal to a majority, and his suggestion
that Georgia register a kick at the man
ner of passage was sustained.
The senate has placed Its approval on
the general insurance bill, and that meas
ure. considered one of the most impor
tant pieces of legislation submitted at
the present session, lias only to be ap
proved by the governor to become a law.
Governor Brown has said that he favored
a complete revision of the insurance
statutes, and unless the bill contains
some striking error when it reaches the
chief executive it will go the law-making
**oute successfull.'
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FT VALLEY. GA 750 300 750 7.50 7.5" 1 750
GRIFFIN. GA 7.5 Q 7 fii) 7 50 i_
JACKSON. GA 1 750 760 750 750
McDONOI'GH. GA | 7.40
ROCKMART, GA I 6.00 6.00 600 600 I 600 ■ dirt
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September 1. 1912.
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IJOgNING ON NIG
Lv Atlanta . 11:00 a m 1.. Atlanta ... Hls a irn i.\ Atlanta 9:00 prn
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Ar Asheville ........ 6:30 p. in Ar. Aaheville 925 p tn \r \sheville 710 a rn
Ar Brevard .... 7:41 p m At Brevard .....Ar Brevard 7:11 a m
Ar. Lake Toxawax 845 p m . At Lake Toxaway ... .... Ar lake Toxawax. 8:10 ant
Ar Hot s j)t>g> hl> p. ii. j xi Hut Springs Nt llot Springs . . 730 a m.
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| AT THE THEATERS
GERTRUDE VANDERBILT IS
THE HIT OF FORSYTH BILL
There was one feature of Gertrude
Vanderbilt's brilliant performance at
the Forsyth last night which the men
missed—at least those who wore not
accompanied by a woman This wag
the knowledge that, in gazing on Miss
Vanderbilt’s costumes, one saw the
latest expression of the most fetching
of the very new styles. "That's what
the women will wear tliis winter," one
tould hear on every side, mingled with
expressions of "Oh, isn't it lovely!"
"Look at that petunia girdle over the
French blue tunic!” "The mushroom
hat is the very latest, isn't it beau
tiful?” Dainty little Miss Vanderbilt
charmed the men as well as the wom
en. for even those who failed to note
that her frocks were of the latest style
could, not but observe that they set off
the beauty of the little lady tj the best
advantage, and that there was a con
siderable amount of beauty to set off.
In fact, as far hack as the memory of
good things at the Forsyth go, one can
not recall anything to equal Gertrude
Vanderbilt for charm, grace and fasci
nation of personality. George Moore Is
almost as good, as far as singing and
dancing goes, as Is his dainty partner,
but she has the advantage in her pret
ty frocks and her winning smile. The
act scored n tremendous hit and de
served every bit of tile applause ac
corded it by Monday night’s audience.
Tite second hit of the evening was
made by Willie Weston. late feature of
the New York Winter Garden. Weston
sings well and has .1 breezy collection
of new songs to offer. He has. In addi
tion. a splendid gift for characteriza
tions. which adds to his work.
There are several other good things
on this week's bill. The clay modeler
offers an interesting act, better than
the usual cartoonist; lite "Three Lyres"
sing and dame well and have a good
line of Jokes, and the four Rianos give
an amusing comedy novelty act.
Sidney Drew Is well known here,
and his acting is appreciated. How
ever, he has a. poor vehicle for his tal
ents In "Tile Model Young Man,” and
his work Is almost lost In the genera)
dullness of the playlet. The Top o’ th’
World" dancers ate familiar to all. The
act is pretentious and pleases the audi
ence.
Think of All
You Eat
No wonder you some
times have a bilious
headache, feel dizzy,
are troubled with in
digestion and can’t
sleep.
Tutt's Pills
will help your liver do
its work regularly, as
it should. Take no
substitute sugar
coated ar plain.
HOTELS AND RESORTS.
Ocean View Hotel
W. H. Adams. Owner and
Manager,
Pablo Beach, Florida.
Forty minutes from Jacksonville.
Florida, the most desirable seaside re
sort for the accommodation of Georgia
people. One night's ride from Atlanta.
European plan, rates one dollar per
dav and up; $5.00 a week and up Ex
cellent case in connection. Special re
duced rate to regular guests.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGLVN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 13. 1912.
ALFRED HENRY LEWIS
TELLS WHY HE IS FOR
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.
The Republican party was long ago
seized upon by Money. It is instinc
tive in Money to make slaves of men.
Money, in Republican control, used and
still uses the patty to drive the people
to the shearing sheds of criminal priv
ilege. The Democrats protested and
still protest against this in their plat
form and from thei: stumps.
But the Democrats are no more to
be trusted than the Republicans. They
promise, they protest. But when, from
1893 to 1897, they had not only the
white house, but both houses of con
gress. they most carefully did nothing.
They have shown that as a whole party
they are as much beneath the callous,
calculating thumb of Money as are or
eve- were the Republicans. Where'-
fore, for one at least, my preference
goes in this campaign to the new third
party and to Mr. Roosevelt.
Government is business. president
picking is business. The country Is but
a corporation, a company; the citizens
are the shareholders. An election is
tlie shareholders' meeting. The com
pany, the country, is intended to pro
duce in favor of the shareholder-citi
zen protection to life, limb, liberty and
property.
Questions For the Citizen.
I’pon a plain business principle, of
tlie most and best for the least, the
citizen-shareholder in casting his bal
lot should consider government from
the standpoint of what he pays and
what he gets, what It costs and what it
comes to. As to what the citizen
shareholder is getting in this year of
political ungrace—l9l2 you may form
your own conclusions by reviewing the
conditions -the higher cost of living,
for example—which surround you. By
casting a wary eye about, you can set
tle, in that niatter of government,
questions of quantity and quality for
yourself.
Am I not right in comparing the
country to a corporation? What is it.
indeed, but a merest stock company in
which each and all of us hold equal
shares? And a president, what is he
but the country's business manager
when all is in? Also, the post of busi
ness manager is of all positions that
one where an iron courage and a
swe'veless Ijunestv should most abide.
A feeble or dishonest congressman
should mean no more than just a rat
aboard a liner A feeble or dishonest
president might well become the leak
that sinks the ship.
Here lies the trouble: The every-day
American is politically lazy. It grows
each year more and mote difficult io
make him work at his polities in per
son His public Idleness arises doubt
less from the fact that, with the
mounting census of the country, he
feels of less and less account. His self
importance gets swamped in a popula
tion of 96,000,000. He owns not one
twentieth Ute weight that was his a
century ago.
The Idler in Politics.
Our duty-shirking idler of politics is
right so far as he seeks to measure his
own shrinking importance to govern
ment. And yet he should remember
that while his importance to govern
ment has diminished, not a splinter has
been whittled from the importance of
government to him. The citizen, with
96.000.00tt for tlie country’s population,
should feel as much conee n in select
ing a right president as was felt by
those who voted for Mr. Madison 100
years ago.
As practiced and taught by tlie par
ties. politics becomes the art of arous
ing tlie ignorance of mankind. In this
ignorant particular I shall not follow
the parties.
For myself. 1 am glad that Mr.
Roosevelt was robbed at Chicago. It
compelled him to create a third party,
a party of progress which is what the
age demands. True, there are Demo
crats who will hesitate to abandon
their old patty standards, just as there
are Republicans who will find it hard
to break their ow n old party ties. They
should not hesitate for that.
They should put aside a sentiment
which is costing them their liberty.
Who would fail to pull down a bastile
lest he kill the ivy on the walls?
Parties are like street ears; no one
not a fool will stick to one after it
ceases to carry him in the direction he
should go. The man who is always a
Democrat, like the man who is through
thick and thin a Republican, is the
sheet anchor of the scheming, trick
turning, managing politician—of the
Boss Murphys and the Boss Barneses,
who in their evil turn are but the
merest packmasters of criminal privi
lege. Also, these changeless folks of
party have the same place in politics
that the balls have in a game of bil
liards; the bosses, acting for criminal
privilege, knock them about and count
off them.
Against Petrified Politics.
Politics stagnant and without a cur
rent Is disastrous for the individual.
Own your party; don't let your party
own you. A healthful uncertainty, a
hopeful ability to abandon a party
going wrong or decline a candidate who
lacks fitness, should work for good—
good for the public-—good for the indi
vidual. In politics, as in commerce, no
one buys his own, but sells It. Where
fore. if you would be listened to and
not ignored, enriched and not stripped,
become uncertain. Cease to think that
progress consists in standing still or
your polities is better for being petri
fied.
Because I feel that Mr. Wilson and
Mr. Taft are too small for the wiiite
house, 1 am opposed to them. They
aren't, in my opinion, white house size.
Mr. Taft has been weighed and found
wanting. Mr. Wilson has not been
weighed; but, judging by what he has
written and what he has said, by his
shifts of principle and corkscrew twists
of feeling. I should say that, considered
from the standpoint of a white house,
mankind would find him only inches
where be should be feet, ounces where
lie should be pounds.
Not that I impute to Mr. Wilson and
Mr. Taft their innate smallness as a
moral fault. Rather, it should be
charged to the thronged conditions into
which they were born. Big populations
bear fruit in small men. in a crowd
the infinitesimal finds its opportunity.
To herd men stunts men. Big trees re
quire room, and what plant subsists
itself upon a foot of earth will never
kiss the clouds. It may do for a fish
ing rod; it will never furnish timber
for a bridge. Not that Mr. Taft and
Mr. Wilson should find fault with their
own littleness. It was their littleness,
I heir lack of height and weight and
stiength which gave them their nomi
nations.
Roosevelt Defies Environment.
As a mere man-producer an elder
day was a better day than this. As
lately even as 50 J’earfe ago, there were
bears and panthers in the political hills.
I hose bears and panthers of politics
have passed away. Commercialism,
and tin- press and crowd of population
provided tor their disappearance.
Commercialism fears the bears,
avoids the panthers, population refuses
them room They go, and in their stead
come rabbits and Wilsons, red squirrels
and Tafts, offending no one. threaten
ing nothing. Mr. Roosevelt is big. in
defiance of an environment. After a
fashion he is a throwback of polities,
and would have better matched a Jack
son day than this.
Mr. Roosevelt would fit into the
white house day like a picture into a
frame. The demand is for laws ynd a
scheme of courts to bring about an
equality Os right. We make law „ t „
prevent the physically strong from
beating the physically weak. Shall we
not make laws to prevent Hie finan
cially strong from beating the finan
cially weak? The law should be as a
quart pot in the hand of every man so
that when one dips up more than'the
justice of nature intended, tlie unfair
excess Will instantly overflow and re
turn to die common store.
<>f t'ne three named. Mr. Roosevelt
is the only one whose force and cour
age are equal to tlie white house
»‘Hk ahead. Also, he knows the peo
ple know s where they and their inter
est belong in the procession of govern
n ent. And he is equal to saj jng ‘‘No’”
whenever a negative would make for
popular right.
T. R. Strong and Bold.
Moreover. Mr. Roosevelt is not too
nervously tine. The white house is
like unto a stone quarry. Jt j s a place
for drills and giant powder. Nothing
Is honestly done there save by heavy
lumbering work —work for the 'erow b-,-'
""I tm the lancet. All ls as ruflelv
coaise as an\ canebrake bear. it | s
no place for wool-foot weaklings or ar
ts- s of the back stairs.
lour great president will be one
whose nature is riot too sensitively
urawn. He will possess qualities of the
buffalo-bull kind. In the white house
quantity is often greater than qualify
ami momentum counts for more than
being quick.
For myself, give me men of the
Roosevelt type. They always fight and
never skulk. They are firm in fii.-nd
ship. fierce in war. To come within
ey< shot is to know the worst and the
best of them. And to know it once is to
know it always. It is their boast that
they would sooner do good than do
right, that they prefer a white purpose
to a w hite principle.
it was while he was on the civil serv
ice commission that I made tlie ac
quaintance of Mr. Roosevelt. Common
ly. I much dislike your officeholder
since commonly he is overblown, pomp
ous. self-glorious and stands stiffly on
the toes of what he conceives to be his
dignitv like a dog pt’oud of its brass
ddhir
taking officehold, is as they run. the
taste shows a strong pei cent both of |
fool and hypoeritt. Especial:? the lai-'
AUGUSTA COLUMBIA
ELECTRIC RAILWAY
PROCURES CHARTER
AUGUSTA. GA.. Aug. 13.—Augusta is
to have a new railroad to Columbia.
The secretary of state of South Caro
lina has been asked for a charter for
the Carolina and Georgia railway, to be
run through Leesville. Batesburg, Hi
bernia, Vaucluse and either Warren
ville or Graniteville. At the head of
the list of petitioners for a charter is
James ('. Jackson, a well known Au
gusta railroad promoter and vice pres
ident of the Augusta-Aiken Railway
and Electric Corporation.
While no announcement will be made
in regaro to the plans of the new
road, it Is generally believed here that
the Augusta-Aiken owners, who are at
present constructing a $2,000,000 power
dam on the Savannah river eight miles
above this city, plan to operate the new
road by electric power.
ter, when one compares what they do
with what they say. Wherefore. I keep
aloof from them, it being part and
parcel of my religion to avoid a fool
and hate a hypocrite.
"Fights What I Want Fought,”
But It was apparent on the face that
Mr. Roosevelt was neither. Nor was he
that worse creature—a coward. From
the start I liked him. and I have never
shifted from that feeling. He fights the
ones whom I want fought with; and
that, with me, has the place of charity
and covers a multitude of sins.
In twenty years no one in public life
has changed less than Mr. Roosevelt.
Others have changed, and men assail
him now who once indorsed him, just as
there are men who now applaud him
who were wont to be his enemies.
More than any other, Mr. Roosevelt
was unaffected by office. Even when
in tlie white house he wore the presi
dency much as a Western sheriff wears
a six-shooter. He could get it and use
it on the instant. But he didn’t carry
it in his hand: he wasn’t forever point
ing it at you. I have known five presi
dents, and the big difference between
Mr. Roosevelt and the other four con
sisted in this: Whereas the others
never seemed to forget that their ad
dress was the white house, Mr. Roose
velt never seemed to remember It.
The others appeared to be afraid to
lay their presidency down, even for a
moment. It was all there was to them,
and they feared, mayhap, that it might
get mislaid. Mr. Roosevelt suffered
from no such apprehension. He wgs a
MAN, full-sized and abundant, and was
sure that there would he plenty of him
left, even though you took his presi
dency away.
SCHOOLS OPEN IN SEPTEMBER.
COLUMBUS. GA.. Aug. 13.—Super
intendent R. B. Daniel, of the Colum
bus public schools, has announced that
the fall term of the grammar and high
schools will open September 21, while
the secondary industrial school will
open the first Monday in September.
The primary industrial school runs the
entire year.
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Screen Windows Our best Oak Swing, well
73c Windows 50c
Bs<‘ Windows 40c bolted, will last for years.
.">()e Windows 35c
:i;>r W iixiow< 25c Was SIO.OO now $6 95
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A good oak swing with reversible
back.
Was $7.50 now $4.95
Oak swing green finish.
Was $5.00 now $2.95
WATER COOLERS
HALF PRICE
4 Gallon Galvanized Cooler.
Was $2.50 now $1.25
PRICES GOOD LONG AS THEY LAST
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OLD MARIETTA MAN DIES.
MARIETTA, GA., Aug. 13— Edward
McDonald, an old citizen of Marietta, died
at his home here after a short illness.
He is survived by his wife and two chil
dren, Mrs Charles Carnes, of Marietta,
and John H. McDonald, of Elberton. Ga.
Mr. McDonald was born in Ireland.
Distribution of the 45-
piece Dinner Set commences
Wednesday, August 14.
Subscribers who desire back
numbers of the coupons can
get them at Premium Room.
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MEN'S PANTS
And a big range from which to
select at One Third Off former
prices
$4.00 Pants are now
$5.00 Pants are now $3.35
$6.00 Pants are now $4.00
$6.50 Pants are now $4.35
$7.00 Pants are now ....$4.70
$7.50 Pants are now $5.00
One lot Light Cheviots and Home
spuns some slightly soiled around
waistband and crease, to close at
HALF PRICE.
$4.00 'Specials Light stripes $2.00
$5.00 Specials Light stripes $2.50
$6.00 Specials Light stripes $3.00
Odds and ends in Nlen s and Youths Fancy
Suits to close AT HALF PRICE.
Others in Blues, Blacks or fancy colors at One
Third Off.
Panama Hats Half Price
Eiseman Bros., Inc.
11-13-15-17 Whitehall St.
JACK MURRAY MAKES
BIG HIT AT THE COOL
BONITA SHOW HOUSE
Jack Murray, who is playing the lead
ing comedy role in the "Misfit Pressing
Club” at the Bonita, 32 Peachtree street,
this week, is proving to be one of the
most popular comedians that have ever
appeared in a popular priced house in
Atlanta. His appearance on the stage
is always the signal for laughter and
applause The Murray-Jones-King
Company is one of the best in the busi
ness. and ’’The Pretty Girl Chorus’’ is
the most delightful imaginable. Mo
tion pictures in addition. Children sc,
adults 10c Afternoons and evenings.