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THE WEATHER
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VOL. XL NO. 12.
CDDPEB SAfS
■ KILLED
SOLICIT
PDLHILL
I
Sixth District Congressional
Candidate Makes Startling
Charges in Speech.
ASSERTS THAT VERDICT OF
SUICIDE WAS UNFOUNDED
Declares Lawyer Was Assas
sinated by Member of “That
Dirty Courthouse Crowd.”
MACON, GA., Aug. 17. —In perhaps
the most remarkable, if not the most
sensational, political speech ever made
in Bibb county, John R. Cooper, can
didate for congress from the Sixth dis
trict, charged last night that the late
Hope Polhill came to his death in his
solicitor general’s office eight years ago
as the result of assassination by a
member of "that dirty court house
crowd, the Bibb county ‘ring’ and po
litical machine.”
Cooper closed his campaign with the
only political address delivered in Ma
con this year, and, despite the rain and
lightning storm, he was heard by a
good-sized audience and an enthusiastic
one. Solicitor J. W. Wise, of Fayette
county, who is also a candidate against
Representative C. L. Bartlett, was
among those present.
Cooper told the audience that he sat
by the side of Hope Polhill at the Uni
versity of Georgia for four years, and
that Polhill paid his railroad fare to
Macon, after graduation, and provided |
him with lodging here until he could ‘
earn some money. He recited the facts
as to Polhill being found dead in his
office with a pistol ball in his brain,
three months after he had entered upon
the duties of solicitor general of the
Macon circuit.
Denies That Polhill
Committed Suicide.
Cooper then charged in explicit terms
that Air. Polhill did not commit suicide,
as a coroner's inquest determined, but
was slain, he said, “by some member
of that dirty court house crowd.” This
is the first time that this charge has
ever been made in public.
Cooper declared that this same “ring”
was after him and seeking his political
and professional ruin, "but I am not
afraid of them,” he shouted. “I am
going to run for congress until I die or
am elected.” •
Mr. Cooper’s speech was a severe at
tack on Congressman Bartlett, who, he
said, is “a friend of the trusts and the
railroads.” He said that all Mr. Bart
lett has done in eighteen years in con
gress was to "send back seeds devel
oped by somebody else and speeches
written in his name by his secretary
and undelivered in congress.” Mr.
Bartlett’s campaign methods and politi
cal associates were denounced in un
bridled terms. Judge A. L. Miller, for
mer mayor and, ex-judge of the superior
court .Kid now president of the board of
education, was declared to be the head
of the "Bibb county ring.”
Cooper asserted repeatedly that
Judge Bartlett is "pitifully beaten for
re-election." and said that either he or
J. W. Wise would be elected.
Mystery Has Shrouded
Death of Solicitor.
There has always been much mys
tery surrounding the death of Solicitor |
Hope Polhill, and while some have
openly expressed doubts as to his sui
cide. no one has ever before attributed
his death to any particular source, such
as Mr. Cooper did in his speech.
Mr. Polhill was elected solicitor in a
field of five candidates against the most
solid opposition of the Macon bar. Rid- |
ing a bicycle, he traversed every die- I
trict in the counties, and shook hands )
with thousands of y». is. His defeat !
was predicted even 1/ his friends, but |
he was elected by a large majority.
Meeting with discouragement in the j
performance of his official duties, it is I
charged, he was not very successful as
solicitor. Three months after he went '
into office, he was found dead in his ;
apartments in the Bibb county court ;
house. A pistol lay at his side.
POLITICIANS ENGAGE IN
A SPEAKING MARATHON
i
CUMMING, GA.. Aug 17.—Three)
politicians engaged in a political speak
ing marathon at Cumming, when they J
consumed nine hours and seventeen •
minutes. The speakers were Thomas ‘
M. Bell, candidate for congress from !
the Ninth district, and N. A. Morris !
and H L. Patterson, candidates for
i judge Blue Ridge circuit.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
Motors Fifty Miles to
Marry in Church in
Which Parents Wed
Atlantan Takes Whole Party to
a Little Country Town for
the Ceremony.
William Clyde Byers. 131 South Pry
or street, wanted to be married in the
same, town and the same church in
which his mother and father were
joined in wedlock. So he took bride
and best man and maid of honor, and
an entire wedding party 50 miles in an
automobile to Cumming. Ga., had the
ceremony performed and returned to
day to Atlanta a happy husband.
The bride is Miss Cleo Hortense Fol
som, a nurse at the Atlanta hospital.
She was thoroughly In sympathy with
the sentiment of her swain and when
he suggested yesterday afternoon that
the knot be tied in the country church,
she readily consented. Accompanied
by Folsom and Miss Nellie
McWilliams the bridal party sped to
Cumming. A license was obtained and
the Rev. T. P. Tribble, pastor of the
church, performed the ceremony.
As soon as the rites were concluded,
Mr. and Mrs. Byers, maid of honor and
best man got back in the auto and re
turned to Atlanta.
AUBURN GRADUATES
TO HAVE REUNION AT
SCHOOL NEXT YEAR
Atlanta alumni of Auburn plan to
invade the Alabama college town en
masse at the Auburn "home coming,”
which will take place next commence
ment.
The plans were perfected last night
at a banquet at the Aragon hotel in
honor of Dr. C. C. Thach, president of
Auburn. Dr. Thach told of the purposes
of the reunion, and every man about the
board promised to be back at the alma
mater next spring.
Auburn men devoted the day to re
viving their college spirit. At 5 o’clock
a reception was held for the president
at the University club. After this the
party adjourned to the Aragon, where
the dinner was served.
Speeches were made by Colonel J. C.
Woodward, president of the Georgia
Military academy; Father Rapier, of
Marist college; Dr. K. G. Matheson,
president of Georgia Tech; Burton
Smith, Dr. Thach, Professor Thomas
Bragg, of Auburn, and others.
CHICAGO NEWSPAPER
STRIKE CONDEMNED
BY PRINTERS UNION
Aug. 17.—Following
unanimous indorsement of the execu
tive council of the Typographical union
and executive council and officers of
the Stereotypers union for their atti
tude on the Chicago newspaper strike,
the International Typographical union
was prepared today to rush through
the business that remains before their
convention here.
The indorsement of the report of the
committee on subordinate unions which
condemned the striking pressmen in
Chicago for refusing arbitration ami
condemned the stereotypers for viola
tion of a contract, brought a hot fight.
President Lynch, of the Typographical
union, himself took the floor for Presi
dent Freel, of the stereotypers, who was
attacked by those opposed to the re
port. Finally the report of the com
mittee was adopted.
CHRISTIANS SLAIN BY
TURKS; YOUNG GIRLS
ARE MADE CAPTIVES
CETTINJE, MONTENEGRO, Aug. 17.
A general uprising of Christians against
Mohammedans in the Berana district of
Albania is feared there by Turks as a
result of a general massacre in which
scores were slain. Hundreds of young
girls were carried into captivity.
The Mohammedan tribesmen wjio
perpetrated the massacre were support
ed by Turkish soldiers. After the mas
sacre many of the tribesmen fled into
Montenegro with their captives.
HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN
DIES IN FORSYTH COUNTY
CUMMING, GA., Aug. 17.—" Uncle”
Berry Odum, Forsyth county’s oldest
citizen, died at his home near Cum
ming yesterday. He was 100 years and
I six months of.-ge. He was a vet* ran of
| the Indian and Civil wars.
TO OUR READERS
You can have money to spare if
you have time to spare.
Have you ever stopped to realize
the many opportunities the Want
Ad pages of The Georgian offer you?
Thousands are making dollar after
dollar reading and using them.
You can buy. sell and exchange
1 anything under the sun at a profit.
Rent everything rentable. Secure
competent help, find fine positions
I and locate business openings through
these small ads, and many other
i countless things.
Many who started reading and
using Georgian Want Ads just for
curiosity have bank accounts now.
- It pays them. It will pay you. Try
it and see.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1912.
POLiGE HEO
■ TO HID
PROBE OF
GRAFT
Inspector Hayes, of New York,
Reduced in Rank and Then
Suspended.
ANGRY, HE IS READY TO
ASSIST THE PROSECUTOR
Officials, Already Uneasy, Are
Quaking With Fear as He
Seeks District Attorney.
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—New graft
disclosures of a startling nature are
looked for momentarily as a result of
Police Commissioner Waldo's reduction
in rank and suspension of inspector
Cornelius G. Hayes, of the new ten
derloin district, one of the best known
police officials in the city.
It was reported today that the de
posed inspector had made several ef
forts to get in touch with District At
torney Whitman since his suspension.
This has given rise to rumors that
Hayes is anxious to give information to
the attorney. There are many who be
lieve that Hayes' position in the de
partment has placed him in the best
position of all the men in the police
system to reveal certain relations be
tween the force and powerful Tam
many politicians.
Hayes, stripped of his shield, flayed
before his fellows and suspended pend
ing trial on charges of neglect of duty
and making a false statement, is de
clared to be in possession of informa
tion that will make officialdom, already
uneasy, quake with positive fear.
Hayes may hit back. He is declared
to know many things that "men higher
up" want kept secret. Hayes was first
reduced to a captaincy and then sus
pended. The reduction and suspension
of Hayes was Commissioner Waldo’s
first decisive action since the murder
of Herman Rosenthal.
Schepps Party
Stop in Buffalo
BUFFALO. Aug. 17.—Sam Schepps,
the man who is said to hold the key to
the Rosenthal murder situation and
who is in Buffalo, having arrived here
last night, had not risen from bed at 9
o’clock this morning. Attorney Ru
bin, who, with two detectives and a
newspaper man, is accompanying
Schepps back to New York, was routed
out at that hour by a reporter for The
Georgian. Asked when he intended to
leave Buffalo, Attorney Rubin said:
"I have had but three hours sleep
and do not care to talk on this matter
now. I don’t know when we will leave.
I will say, however, that I do not want
New York to know when we will arrive
there. I want to reach the city unher
alded. I fear a large crowd would be
on hand if the time of our arrival were
made known.”
it has been rumored that the party
would go to Niagara Falls, not at
tempting to reach New York on Sun
day. Schepps has not talked on the
sensational case since his arrival here.
He has been told by Rubin to say noth
ing.
GIRLS TO BE MESSENGERS
FOR TELEGRAPH COMPANY
PITTSBURG, PA.. Aug. 17.—The
Western Union Telegraph Company
soon will put girls in as messengers in
Pittsburg offices. The company is using |
girls as messengers in Connellsville, I
Greensburg and some of the smaller |
cities, in Pittsburg the girls will be
put first in the branch offices.
Girls are more conscientious and less
liable to interruption on delivery trips,
Superintendent Diehl says.
HOOPER ALEXANDER'S
FATHER SERIOUSLY ILL
ROME. GA., Aug. 17.—Colonel T. W.
Alexander, a pioneer citizen of Rome
and the father of Hooptv Alexander, a
candidate for governor of Georgia, is
seriously ill lu re. Colonel Alexander is
nearly X 0 years old, and has been tak
ing great interest in his son's candi
dacy for the governorship.
J. J. PORTER DIES AT ROME.
ROME, GA., Aug. 17. —After long ill
ness. J. J. Porter, uncle of Claude H.
Porter, editor of The Rome Daily Press,
is dead. The funeral was held today.
FOUR PELLAGRA DEATHS.
ROME. GA., Aug. 17.—Pellagra is
claiming many vii tints In north Geor
gia. Four people have died In Floyd
county this week from the dread dis
ease Doctors seem to be unable to
cope with the situation.
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ALEXANDER RALLY
IN CABLE HALL NOT
LARGELY ATTENDED
There was an Alexander rally in Fa
ble hall last night, which was attended
by more than three score persons.
The gathering was addressed by C. A.
Brannon. M. F. Buchanan. Charles D.
McKinney and Thomas B. Goodwin.
All of the speeches were along the
usual line of Mr. Alexander's campaign
addresses, cards and promulgations.
Georgia was declared to be in a state
of anarchy; the "bosses" were alleged
to be ruling while the people weep; the
newspapers were viewed with alarm
and resolved to be in a diabolical league
against Mr. Alexander, and Slaton’s
campaign was declared to be in the
hands of the "big interests.”
Nothing much, one way or the other,
seemed to be thought of Joe Hill Hall,
and his campaign was scarcely men
tioned at all.
KILLING OF CALVES
CAUSES HIGH BEEF;
BUTCHERSASKLAWS
. CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—Federal and
state legislation to forbid the slaughter
of calves will be asked of congress by
the United Master Butchers association.
It is the slaughter of calves; the butch
ers say, that is responsible for the high
cost of meat. Proper legislation against
It, the butchers say, would reduce the
cost of beef a pound within a
year, and fifteen cents within five years.
“It isf the wanton killing of calves
that is responsible for the high cost of
meat,” said Theodore Mix, of Minneapo-
I Jis. "Unless it is stopped. I can foresee
I a time when there will be practically no
| beef for the market. Thed airymen are
most at fault. Many of them kill calves
for the profit of the hides alone.”
A resolution adopted* by the associa
tion demands laws prohibiting the kill
ing of male calves under one year and
female under three years of age.
GENERAL BOOTH IMPROVES.
j LONDON, Aug. 17 —General William
Booth, head and founder of the Salva
tion Army, who is ill here, showed
slight improvement today. The gen
eral has passed a comfortable night
and slept several hours. His fever
abated somewhat.
MRS. ARMOR AT FITZGERALD.
FITZGERALD. GA.. Aug. 17.—Mrs.
Mary Armor, national organizer for
j the W. C. T. U„ spoke here last night
at the Central Methodist church to a
large audience. She was introduced by-
Rev. Guyton Fisher, pastor of the Cen
tral Methodist church.
INDIAN AVALANCHE KILLS FIVE.
BOMBAY, INDIA, Aug. 17—A moun
tain climbing party of five men were
overtaken by an avalanche In Kash
mone and all w'ere killed. The news
was received by courier today.
Brothers, Separated
Thirty-Two Years Ago,
Meet Again by Chance
Wealthy Texan Finds Relative He
Had Thought Dead Living
in Georgia.
ROME, GA., Aug. 17.—Separated for
32 years, two brothers, W. A. Wright,
of Rome, and J. M. Wright, of Mount
Vernon, Texas, met this week and are
now enjoying the reunion.
When the brothers separated way
back In the seventies J. M Wright
went West. It was a mere chance that
the brothers met. The Texan was in
Bowdon, Ga., and In the course of a
conversation with J. W. Burrow, of
that place, he spoke of a brother he had
living in Georgia at one time, and called
liis name. Mr. Burrow knew W. A.
Wright and told the Texas man that he
lived in Rome.
The Lone Star citizen took the next
train for Rome and after making a few
inquiries located his brother in East
Rome. It was a joyful meeting, for
each had thought the other dead. The
I exan is now wealthy. The Rome man
is a special officer for the Southern
railway.
GLOVER NEW PRESIDENT
OF ROME EXCHANGE BANK
ROME, GA., Aug. 17.—J. A. Glover
was elected president of the Exchange
bank to succeed W. P. Simpson, de
ceased Mr. Glover has been vice pres
ident of the bank for a number of
years and is also at the head of the
Simpson Grocery' t'onipany. T. J.
Simpson, a son of the deceased and the
vice president of the American Bank
and Trust Company', was elected vice
president.
$35,000,000 NEW UNION
STATION FOR CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—Construction of
a anaew station by the Pennsylvania
railroad and other lines using the pres
ent Union station, which will cost ap
proximately $35,000,000, will be begun in
the near future. The plans, which are
being made by Burnham & Co., archi
tects of the Chicago plan, include also
the location of a new postoffice just
across the street.
STATE SENATOR ENNIS, OF
ROME, IS SERIOUSLY ILL
ROME. GA., Aug. 17.—State Senator
William H. Ennis, a candidate for so
licitor general from the Rome Judicial
circuit, and well known all over the
state, is seriously ill here at his home
on the east side. He will not be able
to confer with the voters during the
remaining days of the campaign.
PREACHER SAYS MEN
IN HIS CONGREGATION
MAY REMOVE COATS
Men need not swelter while attend
ing services at the Central Baptist
church. Pastor Ridley has announced
that rather than have men stay away
from worship, he will allow them to re.
move their coats or loosen their collars
and make themselves comfortable. He
expects to see attendance at tomorrow’s
services increased thereby.
And he is going to ask the women
to take off their-hats in order that the
congregation can see the minister while
he is speaking.
Tomorrow the pastor will speak on
"The Church With a Vision” at the
morning service, and at night on "Hin
drances to Personal Salvation."
SAYS HIS WIFE WAS
DRIVEN INSANE BY
GRACE CASE DETAILS
The columns and columns printed
about the Grace case drove his wife
crazy, is the claim of T. W. Arnett,
peripatetic preacher of Oakhurst, De-
Kalb county, made today' before Judge
Roan, who was hearing her suit for
divorce.
Mrs. Arnett in her bill charged cruel
ty, but the husband resisted the pro
ceedings on the ground that his wife is
Insane. He attributes it absolutely to
her prediliction for reading everything
she could get In reference to the fa
mous Atlanta shooting ease.
SUBURB NOW OVERRUN
BY SNAKES AND OWLS
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Aug 17.
Countless numbers of snakes and owls
have Infested Hose Hill, in Avondale.
Cincinnati’s most exclusive suburb.
Women fear to venture outdoors
Screech owls in countless numbers have
made their abode in this exclusive part
of the city. Boys are killing the pests
by hundreds.
PENNY EACH FOR NAMES
TO SUFFRAGE PETITION
CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—Mrs. Catherine
Waugh McCullough, an Evanston suf
fragist, Is advertising for names to a
petition, offering a penny a name.
BASEBALL IN PEN IS PLAN
OF A WOMAN_REFORMER
ALBANY, N. Y.. Aug. 17.—Mrs.
Maude Booth, of New York, a prison
reformer. Is organizing a baseball team
at the t 'omstock penitentiary.
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WITHWILO
ISCEIIM
Great Ovation in Boston After
Din of Welcome in Staid
Rhode Island.
THRONGS COMPEL HIM TO
ADDRESS THEM IN STREET
Strenuous Day Mapped Out for
Colonel Among Massachu
setts Progressives.
BOSTON, Aug. 17.—Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt, the Bull Moose candi
date for president, came from Provi
dence to Boston today after opening
his campaign there denouncing the
New England opposition to the third
party movement.
Colonel Roosevelt arrived in Boston
at 10 a. m. and was given a great ova
tion. He will speak at the Point of
Pines this afternoon and from a band
stand on the common tonight. He
leaves on the midnight train for New
York.
Colonel Roosevelt and his party will
have luncheon at the home of Dr. Wil
liam Sturgis Bigelow, 56 Beacon street
Conversation with the local Progressive
leaders will follow, and Colonel Roose
velt will then be driven to the Point ot
Pines. A band concert and the singing
of campaign songs, and an address by
the Rev. Allan Hudson, of Brooklyn,
will keep the crowd busy until Colonel
Roosevelt arrives.
The Progressives expect to have 25.-
000 at the afternoon session, when ad
mission will be free to all. After his
first speech the colonel will go to Oak
Island Park, and be present for a few
moments at a church picnic.
The next appearance of Colone:
Roosevelt will be at a banquet tender
ed him by the Progressives at 6 p. m.
Matthew Hale, the Progressive state
chairman, will be toastmaster and will
introduce Mr. Roosevelt.
Greeted With Din
In Rhode Island.
Colonel Roosevelt was welcomed
with a din in Providence, R. 1., yester
day. He expressed his welcome as one
that would have done credit to Kansas.
The station was thronged with eager
huli moose fans, and the streets to his
hotel were blocked. He had to make
several short speeches en route before
the frenzied crowd would allow' him
to proceed.
Outside the armory, where he made
his principal speech at night, he was
forced to talk to several hundred ad
mirers who were unable to gain en
trance to the crowded hall. To them he
said:
Movement
Going Forward.
“I was told six months ago that there
was not a Progressive in Rhode Island.
I think it is pretty plain that statement
is erroneous.
“Right at the outset,” he muttered
“I wish to answer a question. Men
have asked me if this movement is go
ing to go on. or if it is just a move
ment w hich is connected with me. This
movement is going on just as sure as
fate. This s a real movement, spring
ing from the needs and hearts of the
people of the United States.
"The only part that I have had in i
is that perhaps I have brought it on
two or three years earlier than It would
have come anyhow. The man is blind
who does not see that our people are
tired of having other people goverr
them. Our people were making up their
minds that there must be a new party
which should deal with live issues."
In his speech at night opening hit
campaign Colonel Roosevelt declared
that the ordinary voter had nothing to
hope for through success of either the
Democratic or Republican parties
which, he asserted, are equally boss
ridden. He said in part:
"The Progressive movement is aimed
at the rotten machine, the rotten boss
systems of both parties. Only by sup
porting the Progressive party can you
strike any effective blow against boss
rule and machine ring politics.
"The success of the Democratic na
tional ticket means enthroning in power
one set of bosses; the success of the
Republican national ticket means en
throning in power the other set of
bosses.
"There 1? good reason why many men
should bitterly oppose the Progressive
party. Every political jobber, every
crooked business man, every beneficiary
of privilege and every paid employee
of such beneficiary—all these are na
turally against us. Hut 1 hold that
every self-respecting, ordinary citizen
should be for us. The men for whom
