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Georgia Senate Fails to Reject
Sutherland-Bristow Amend
ment. Called Inimical.
Over the protest of n goodly number of
legislator*, 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 elect left of
United States senators, was not passed
by a constitutional vote ip congress
If the senate follows the action of the
house in adopting the report of the Alex
ander committee protesting agsinst 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 Btate.s.
.loe Hill Hall fought strenuously for a
straight vote on the amendment, know
tng full well that the Georgia house would
have none of an arrangement that gave
the Federal government the right to med
dle with state elections
"I want Georgia to record a vote against
this amendment." said Minter Wimberly.
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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 to
appeal to a majority, and his suggestion
that Georgia register a kick at the man
n»r 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, has only to he ap
proved by the governor to become a law
Governor Brown has said that he favored
a complete revision of th* insurance
statutes, and unless the bill contains
some striking error when it reaches the
chief executive It will go the law making
reut* successfully
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I 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 were not
accompanied by a woman. This was
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 this winter," one
could 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 hut observe that they set off
the beauty of the little lady to 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 a tremendous hit and de
served every bit of the applause ac
corded it by Monday night’s audience.
The second hit of the evening was
made by Willie Weston, late feature of
the New York Winter Garden Weston
sings well and has a 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; the 'Three Lyres"
sing and dance well and have a good
line of jokes, and the four Rlanos give
an amusing comedy novelty act.
Sidney Drew la well known hera.
end his acting is appreciated How
ever, he has a poor vehicle for his tal
ents In "The Model Young Man," and
his work Is almost lost In the general
dullness of the playlet. "The Top o’ th’
World ’ dancers are familial to all. The
act Is pretentious and pleases the audi
ence.
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are troubled with in
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Pablo Beach, Florida.
Forty minutes from Jacksonville,
Florida, the most desirable seaside re
sort foi tlie accommodation of Georgia
people. One night’s ride from Atlanta.
European plan, rates one dollar per
day and up, $5.00 a week and up Ex
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THE ATLANTA GEOKGLVN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 13. 1912.
ALFRED HENRY LEWIS
TELLS WHY HE IS FOR
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.
The Republican party jtas long ago
seized upon by Money. It is instinc
tive in Money to make slaves of men.
Money, in Republican control, used and
stilt uses the party 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 their stumps.
But the Democrats are no more to
be trusted than the Republicans. They
promise, they protest. But when, from
• 693 to 1897, they had not only the
white house, hut 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
ever 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
the 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.
Upon a plain business principle of
the most and best for the least, the
citizen-shareholder in easting his bal
lot should consider government from
the standpoint of what he pays ami
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 foi n
your own conclusions by reviewing the
conditions tlie higher cost of living,
for example- which surround you By
casting a warv eye about, you can set
tle, in that matter of government,
questions of quantity and quality !■>'.
yourself.
Am I not right in comparing the
country to a corporation? What is it,
indeed, but a merest stork 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
sweiveless honesty 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
eacl) year more and more 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 the 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 lie 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
96,000,000 for the country’s population,
should feel as much concern in select
ing a right president as was felt by
those who voted for Mr. Madison 100
years ago.
As practiced and taught by the 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 I 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 party standards, just ns there
are Republicans who will rind it bard
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 cars; no one
not a fool will stick to one after it
ceases to carry hitn 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 tlie 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 polities
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 politics is better for being petri
fied.
Because I feel that Mr Wilson and
Mr. Taft are too small for the white
house, I am opposed to them. They
aren't, in my opinion, white house size.
Mr. Taft has been weighed and found
wanting. Mr. Wilson lias not been
weighed, but. judging by what he has
written and what he lias 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 lie should be feet, ounces where
he.should be pounds.
Not that 1 impute to Mr. Wilson and
Mr. Tass their innate smallness as a
inoral 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. \\ ijson should find fault with their
own littleness. It was their littleness
tlieli lack of height and weight and
stiength wnich gave them tlfeir nomi
nations.
Roosevelt Defies Environment.
As a mere man-producer an elder
daj was a better day than this. As
latelj even as 50 years ago, there were
bears and panthers in the political hills.
Those bears a,nd panthers of politics
have passed away. Commercialism,
and the press and crowd of population
provided for 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 lefts, 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
flame. The demand is for laws aqd a
scheme of courts to bring about an
equality of right. We make laws to
prevt nt the physically strong from
beating the physic illy weak. Shall w e
not make laws to prevent the finan
cially strong from beating the 4inan
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, the unfair!
excess will Instantly overflow and re
turn to the common store.
Os the three named. Mr. Roosevelt
is the only one whose force and cour
age are equal to the .white house
«ork ahead. Also, he knows the peo
ple, knows where they and their inter,
est belong in the procession of govern
ment. And he is equal to saying "No!"
whenever a negative would make for
popular right.
T.,R. Strong and Bold.
Moreover, Mr. Roosevelt is not too
neixously nne. The w hite house j a
like unto a stone quarry. |t is a place !
for drills and giant powder. Nothing i
- honestly dope th. re save by heavy !
lumbering work-work for the crow ba'"’l
»ot for the lancet. All ia us ri|lle| ; !
coarse as any canebrake bear it | s I
no place for wool-foot weaklings or ar-
s of t lu a back stairs.
>our great president will h,> one
"hose nature is not too sensitively
<lrawn. Hf will possess qualifies of the
buffalo-bull -kind. In the white house
quantity is often greater than quality
and momentum counts for more than
being quick.
For myself. give me mej) <>f f| I
I Roosevelt type. They always tight and I
[never skulk. They are firm in friend
ship, fierce in war. To come within
eyeshot is to know the worst and the
best Os them. And to know it once ie to
know it always. It is their boast that I
they would sooner do good than do
right, that they prefer a white purpose
to a white principle.
li was while he was on the civil serv- |
ice commission that 1 made the at- j
quaintance of Mr. Roosevelt. Common- j
ly. I much dislike your officeholder ■
since commonly he is overblown, pomp- ■
ous. self-glorious and stands stiffly ~t i
the toes of what he conceives to be his j
dignity like a dog proud of its bras- ;
collar.
I aking officeholdeis as they run. the
; us'e shows a strong pet cent both of
fool and h' oocrite. Esvv ialh tin lat-
AUGUSTA-COLUMBIA
ELECTRIC RAILWAY
PROCURES CHARTER
AUGUSTA. GA., Aug. 13.—Augusta is
to have a new railroad to Columbia.
I he 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. Vauclu-e and either Warren
ville or GranitevHle. At the head of
the list of petitioners for a charter is
James U. Jackson, a well known Au
gusta railroad promoter and vice pres
idefit of the Augusta-Aiken Railway
and Electric Corporation.
While no announcement will be made
in regard to the plans of the new
road, it is generally believed here that
the Augusta-Aiken owners, who are at
present constructing a J 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, 1 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,"
Rut It was apparent tin the face that
Mr. Roosevelt was neither. Nor was be
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 hitn, just as
there are men who now applaud him
who were wont tn be his enemies.
More than any other. Mr. Roosevelt
was unaffected uy office. Even when
in the white house he wore the presi
dency much as a Westefrn sheriff weals
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 was a
MAN, full-sized and abundant, and was
sure that there would he plenty of him
left, even though you took his presi
i 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 w ill
open the first Monday in September.
The primary industrial school runs the
entire year.
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Oak swing green finish.
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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
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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 $2.70
$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
waisthand and crease, to close at
HALF PRICE.
$4.00 “S pecials Light stripes $2.00
$5.00 Specials Light stripes $2.50
$6.00 “ Specials Light stripes $3.00 I
Odds and ends in Mens and Youths Fancy I
Suits to close AT HALF PRICE.
Otliers 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 '.n
Atlanta. His appearance on the stage
is alwavs the signal for laughter and
applause The Murray-Jones-King
Company js dne 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.