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VOL. XI. NO. 19.
S. CAROLINA
TO CHOOSE
JONES 00
BLEASE
Notable Election for Governor
Takes Place in Palmetto
State Tomorrow.
TILLMAN TAKES HAND
FOR EX-CHIEF JUSTICE
i
Newspapers of State Against
Present Executive —Felder,
of Atlanta, Conspicuous.
COLUMBIA. 8. C., Aug. 26.—A cam
paign the like of which has not been
known in South Carolina since Till
manism swept the state nearly a quar
ter of a century ago has just been con
cluded. and the verdict be written
by the people at the polls tomorrow,
when it will be recorded whether Cole
L. Blease or Ira B. Jones will be gov
ernor of the state for the next two
years
Blease is asking the people to re
elect him. after he has served one term
of two years. Jones, a Tillman lieu
tenant of the old days, resigned from
the chief justiceship of the state su
preme court to make the race against
Blease. "to redeem the state." as Jones
says. Interest has been felt in the bat
tle not only in South Carolina, but in
every section of the country.
In the closing days of the campaign
TlVmanism, which most people here had
thought parsing out of the state, has
loomed up large again At the eleventh
hour Benjamin Ryan Tillman, the
famous "pitchfork senator" from South
• ’arolina. has taken a hand and has
come out for his old lieutenant. Jone-, j
Throughout the race, up to this last mo- |
ment statement, Tillman has announced
himself neutral as between the two can
didates for governor.
Tillman's eleventh hour statement
declared Blease unfit to be governor of
the state, and said that the state had
been disgraced in the eyes of the world.
Felder, of Atlanta,
Plays Important Role.
Thomas B. Felders connection with
"outh Carolina politics is known to
most Georgians.
Felder, an Atlanta attorney, was em
ployed by a dispensary commission to
aid them in winding up the affairs of
the old state dispensary. When Gov
ernor Blease came into office early in
1911. he dismissed the commission and
charged Felder with having divided up
with ths whisky houses he prosecuted
in the collection of whisky claims. Then
Governor Blease gave out letters sign
ed "T. B„” in which it was alleged Fel
der, in 1905, sought to frame up a whis
ky firm with "Hub" Evans, dispensary
director, to control the liquor business
in this state. Felder retaliated by giv
ing out alleged letters, signed "Cole,"
asking for money in connection with his
work as senator, according to Felder’s
interpretation. Charges and counter
charges followed.
After the appointment of a dispen
sary investigating committee at the
1912 session of the general assembly,
Felder appeared in Augusta and
gave testimony against Blease. Wil
liam J. Burns and his men also
figured largely in the investigation.
Blease was accused of selling pardons,
of having whisky graft collected in
Charleston, gnd of other things
Charge Against Jones.
Social Equality
The charge in the campaign against
Judge Jones that has attracted most
attention is that with reference to "so
cial equality.” In early Tillman days a
bill was introduced into the legislature
requiring separate‘coaches tor the ne
groes and white people. Jones voted
against this bill while Blease urged its
passage and had introduced a similar
hill. Because he opposed the bill Ira
R Jones has been charged by Governor
Blease with favoring social equality be
tween the laves.
AU but six or seven newspapers of
more than 115 In the state have beet:
lined up against Governor Blease. In
the campaign of 1910 Blease fought the
newspapeis. In this year’s campaign
the press has been stronger against
Blease.
A county to county campaign in
South Carolina is a picturesque affair.
In the campaign just closed Jones ami
Blra«e have addressed the voters In
every county In certain counties,
In Anderson. Judge Jones lta« been
howled down Jones l» claiming th*'' 1
< misert at ive vote of rhe stair arid his
followers p'edlet a landslide for him
r. s# ■ IS < lalming e I tion for I 5 00"
•OH S Th* prob bllltv IS ’h rfiffe 'p* e
between lone* an.l Hleass *• I not l>«
must mail 4,50" out i»f » volt of 110,000.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
GITYTAKES
UP STREET
REFORMS
TODAY
Council Is Considering Plans
to Reorganize Chief of Con
struction Department.
RADICAL CHANGES IN NEW
CHARTER AMENDMENTS
i
Moore Urges Systematic Beau-!
tification of Atlanta Instead
of Piecemeal Work.
The city council will meet this after
noon to reorganize the chief of con
struction department. The body will
act as a committee of the whole in an
effort to decide on the needed changes
at once without the delay of reference
to,a committee.
Councilman Aldine Chambers said to
day that with the changes made by the
charter amendment bill and the im
provements he was confident the coun
cil would make In the chief of construc
tion department. Atlanta’s street im
provement system would be thoroughly
reorganized for greater efficiency.
Not only are these reforms assured,
but as a result of The Georgian’s cam
paign for better better streets
has become a platform plank of the
numerous candidates for mayor and
council. This plank is sure to stand at
the head of the program of next year's
administration.
Leading the movement for a reor
ganization of the chief of construction
department are Alderman John 8. Can
dler. James R. Nutting. Councilmen
Charles W. Smith. Claude C. Mason.
Aldine Chambers and others. A num
ber of plans ate proposed.
Plan To Have Business
Man Head Department.
One plan Is to have a business man
at the head of the department and
leave all the detailed organization to
him. Another is to divide the depart
ment into construction and engineering
departments. Another is to have the
council name the several heads of the
subordinate departments. The object
of the meeting this afternoon is to
agree on some one plan.
The council, through the recent char
ter amendment, has authority to make
any’ changes except that the head of
the department still must be elected by
the people.
The, other charter amendments af
fecting street improvements, already In
effect, are:
That council and not the property
ow ners shall have the authority to de
tetmine the character of paving for a
street, and that council shall have the
authority to condemn any street or
sidewalk or new paving at any time it
sees fit.
The fact that the property owners
pay two-thirds of the cost of the pav
ing and the character of pavement to
be used is left to the property owners
has been one of th* s principal causes
for delay, it is said.
Wilmer Moore
Gives Suggestions.
That the council shall require prop
erty owners to make all pipe connec
tions before a street is paved. If the
property owners neglect to make the
connections the city will make them
and assess the property owners for the
cost. This will prevent the past system
of cutting up paved streets.
That g.uner|pg shall be put down
along with curbing to prevent the curb
ing from washing away. This cost has
always been assessed against the prop
erty owners, but the guttering was not
put down until the street’ was paved.
There is -ten miles of curbing laid in
the city now which has no guttering
to protect It in times of rains.
Wilmer Moore, president of the
Chamber of Commerce. gave these sug
gestions for reforms today
By WILMER MOORE.
A spirit of chic awakening is
arousing an interest in the ques
tion of city planning, or replanning.
This is a fixed plan by which the
city, in all of its municipal im
provements. discontinues the vague
efforts of working along indefinite
lines. This is not altogether a
question of the development of the
"City Beautiful.’’ hut its purposes
a e fundamental It provides fa
cilities that are for common good,
serves everybody. develops all sec
tion*. and seeks t<» >ave uaste in
both time and money. It elimi
nates the p» bi Ii t \ of favoritism,
and the development nf certain re
• tricted areas 01 for the
benefit of th*’ Influential individ
ual*- I’ h « practice method of
budfling the inndc’H p'*’g'» -wlvr
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Continued on Pogo Two.
UNCLE TRUSTY! ~|
% Copyright? 1912, International News Service
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nice little band wagons, too, but the seats seem to be awfully empty so far! I can’t pay much attention to you just now,
I’m so busy taking care of these sick friends of mine! It looks now as if they may all have to go to jail! And just as busi
ness was getting good, too! Can you beat it?”
MEXICO TO SHOOT
10 PRISONERS
Suspension of Constitutional
Guarantees in Effect—Reb
els Spurn Amnesty Offer.
JUAREZ. Aug. 26. —Suspension of
constitutional guarantees throughout
the Mexican republic went into effect
today. Prisoners of war may be shot
without trial as long as the suspension
continues. The suspension follows a
special act of the Mexican congress.
Amnesty was extended to rebels who
chose to lay down their arms before the
suspension order went into effect. Ac
cording to reports at the rebel camps,
not a single one of their number took
advantage of the order.
TRIES TO SHIELD HER
HUSBAND. WHO SHOT
HER; BLAMES SELF
1 CHICAGO. Aug. 26.—Mrs. Elizabeth
Guentert, lying dangerously wounded
at a hospital here, has confessed that
her elaborate story of burglars enter
ing her home, driving her into the yard
and shooting her because there was no
> money in the house, is false. Her hus
. band shot her. she says. The hus
band. Emil Guentert, confessed first.
. Police discovered so many dist?|epan
i cies in his story that they locked him
up. Then he said he had come home
afle* he had been drinking and his wife
upbraided him. He became angry and
: shot her.
"It was m.v fault." said ihe wounded
woman. "1 should not have angered
. my husband."
NEW ORLEANS GRAFT
SCANDAL IN WAKE OF
VISIT OF BURNS MEN
NKW ORLEANS. Aug 26 Following »
report that detectives under VVm. I
| Burns have‘been working here for month*
’anil have uncovered extensive municipal
corruption there was a hurried meeting of
city officials today. 'l'bls meeting was to
discuss the situation and for the purpose
of serving the public with a statement
that an> graft charges that might b»
made will be promptly probed
KENTUCKY GIRL OF 15.
JILTED. SHOOTS SELF
MT STERLING KY. Aug 26 Miss
Iva B Tuggle fifteen, of \Vln< h* st< r.
who has l»en visiting at tin home <if
Roger D. Par*<ms. In till* dtv . shot and
I killed h* i self late la M mgltl In M t Par
eon vartl. Th* girl used a revolver
Mr ami Mi* Parsons were away from
home and a not' found addri sued to
Mrs Parson’ fated that !• *• a ill
lo*' with .< \\ tin it* • li*i l»oj and ll* hail
Jilted itet
ALANTA, GA.. MONDAY, AUGUST 26. 1912.
Pastor-Matchmaker Is
Asked to Help Doctor
Win Vice War Leader
Wisconsin Man Falls in Love
With Girl Crusader When
He Reads of Her.
JANESVILLE, WIS., Aug 26.—Dr. A.
P. Burrus expects today to receive an
answer from Rev. G. L. Morrill, of Min
neapolis, who has promised to intro
duce timid swains to maidens with
w hom they fall in love. Dr. Burrus de
mands an introduction to Miss Virginia
Brooks, the West Hammond Joan of
Arc and crusader against vice. Dr.
Burrus timidly says that he has fallen
in love with the young woman. She is,
he says, his ideal.
Although he has never seen her, he is
certain from what he has read of her
work in cleaning out the West Ham
mond dives that she weighs about 130
pounds; that she doesn’t have a pug
nose and thick lips; that she doesn’t
have lop ears; that she does have a
well developed chin, and that she is a
good cook and nurse.
These are part of the doctor s speci
fications for his ideal. In addition, he
has a great admiration for Miss
Brooke’s work, and, he says, he would
be willing to go to West Hammond to
heip her.
12 JUDGES’REFUSE
TO SIT IN SECOND
TRIAL OF DARROW
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 26.—Twelve
superior judges in Los Angeles county
have refused to preside at the triai of
Clarence S. Darrow for alleged jury
bribery.
The action of the judges follows th#'
announcement of Judge George H. Hut
ton. who heard the first trial of Darrow,
that he would not preside at the second
hearing. District Attorney John D.
Fredericks is in a dilemma H« mas
demand that a special judge bp ap
pointed or may ask for a change of
venue to some other county.
RECOUNT RENIED IN LOWNDES.
VALDOSTA, GA.. Aug 26.—J. E.
Passmore, one of the defeated »andl
dates for ordinary of Lowndes county
In the primary la»t Wednesday, has
asked for a recount of the votes cast
in the Valdosta district, but he waited
100 long to make tin demand and
Chairman Woodward has declined to
grant hla request.
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• Kills Second Brother.:
• With Gun by Accident •
• ABBEVILLE, LA Aug 26. •
• William Sorbet RgPd 11. who ihrc •
• years ago a< < id< nialh killed ,$ •
• voting* i biother \ith a shotgun. •
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SECRET KIN
GRAFT IS BARED
New York Prosecutor, After
Civilian. Compels Banks to
Produce Deposit Books.
NEW YORK. Aug. 26—Evidence of
a secret link between Lieutenant ('has.
A. Becker and police headquarters by
which Recker transferred $5,000 month
ly- to a civilian artarhe of the depart
ment is alleged to be In the possession
of District Attorney Whitman today.
The civilian attache is thp same
whose personality has figured frequent
ly in the graft hunt, but whose name
has not been revealed.
District Attorney Whitman gave un
til 3 o’clock this afternoon to several
bank officials in whose institutions the
civilian in question is reported to have
deposited his “earnings” to produce
their books. Mi. Whitman threatened
criminal proceedings unless the books
are forthcoming.
Il is learned that Police Commis
sioner Waldo Is conducting a secret
personal investigation into the depart
ment which he commands. Friends of
the police commissioner declared he has
decided tn "stick to the ship” and that
lip is spending part of his private -for
tune to unearth graft. No end of in
quiry is being neglected.
Hard After Vice Dens.
While Whitman is pressing his case
against Becker and the others Indicted
for the murder nf Herman Rosenthal
and while he is delving Into police
graft, he Is taking steps to uproot gam
bling and disorderly houses by ex
posing the real owners of the houses
used for law-breaking purposes
It is said that some of the proudest
names of America’s aristocracy will be
dragged into the Investigation before It
is ended.
Suhpena servers started out today to
serve the owners of buildings housing
illegal resorts. All owners are ordered
io appear before the special grand jury
beginning September 3
Foliow Ing the release of ihn supposed
“Gyp the Blood" in Pike county. Penn
sylvania. yesterday, the authorities ar<
again completely hi sea over the when
a bouts of the nun man Although the
offer- of $5,000 reyvard for - “Gyp the
Blood" and “Lefty Louie" stimulates
|ihe search. nA fresh clews of impor
tance haw been found.
HERE'S IDEAL SITE FOR
G. 0. P. TRAINING CAMP
ALBANY N V Sus 26 Wai with |
Stevens <’a rpent er. a magazine unt.i,
iu*i r»’iirtiu<l from ih« ‘ anadlan woods.
4' flic quid* - up North aniuw them
i-dytß b\ il'lilig wild bull limo • Ue.ii
liiu lulu,
Finds Wife Is Bigamist
When Another Brings
Action to Divorce Her
Woman Prominent in Society
and Church Sued by Man She
Deserted to Rewed.
CHICAGO. Aug 26. —John G. Coon, a
traveling salesman, served papers In a
divorce suit on his wife. As a conse
quence, the home of Emerson H. Nich
oly. in Evanston, has been closed and
Nicholy and his wife have disappeared.
Mrs. Nicholy. according to the divorce
complaint, is Mrs. Coon, and the paper
further alleges that she deserted her
husband and her six-months-old baby
boy in 1909
Since that time Coon has been seek
ing her. His detectives located her tn
Evanston.
The Nicholys were society leaders,
members of the choir in St. Matthews
Episcopal church, and noted among the
"younger set" for their delightful en
tertainments Mrs. Nicholy was visit
ing her husband's parents in Jersey
City when the papers were served on
her
When news of this reached her hus
band. he closed their home and disap
peared The woman is also said to have
left Jersey City.
LYMAN ABBOTT AND
STAFF (T. R.ISON IT)
BRANDED HERETICS
WINONA LAKE. IND.. Aug 26 -
'’hargpß intorpolatpd in a sermon by
Rev. Mark A. Matthews, moderator of
thp Presbyterian general assembly, that
Rev. Lyman Abbott and his associate
editors of The Outlook are heretics, has
created wide discussion heie today.
Rev. Mr. Matthews’ charge was drop
ped Into a sermon on the fruits of the
resurrection of Christ. Theodore Roose
velt Is an associate editor- of The Out
look.
"Perhaps some of you voung minis
ters study The Outlook." he said, "and
think yourselves very wise. If ever
there was a publication by a heretic.
The Outlook is that sheet It is edited
by a bunch of heretics. If you con
tinue t<» read it you will have theologi
cal meningitis, sociologh*al neuritis and
political gastritis.
“The publication is under the ban of
I lie pure food law because it never
i baked article in It nor an unadulter
ated one."
MRS. BELMONT TO TAKE
STUMP FOR WOMEN'SVOTES
MILW AUKEE. WIS Aug. 26 Mrs.
j'» H P. Belmont. .New York suffragist
is io • unit to Wis< «»risiii September 15
[lol ilire® touring h\ automobile,
working foi enfranchisement of Wis
i misin women.
Mrs B< Inumt « 111 probabh speak in
M iw Hike. . although sh* • xprv'seii a
pi 1* !■ in » for small tow u».
IXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
IK BE LEI
SHEHER
HISHffl
IS HE
Confident Wealthy Contractor
Will Return, Although No
Clew Is Found.
RECEIVERS FIND HIS .
FINANCES SHIPSHAPE
Discredit Theory That Disap
pearance Was Caused by
Worry Over Courthouse. /
"My husband will return. He Is alive,
somewhere, and will come hack to me'
I am confident of that. I can not tell
what has happened to him, but I.have
faith in his safety.”
1 hat expresses the unwavering hope
today of Mrs. Moise DeLeon, whose
husband, the wealthy contractor, left
Atlanta on August 6 for a fiehtng ex
cursion and has not been seem since he
left a Chicago suburb a few days later.
Mrs. DeLeon has had no word from
the missing man nor have any of his
business associates received a clew to
his present whereabouts, but they all
feel confident that he will return.
"We have no theory,’’ said Ronald
Ransome, one of the receivers, today.
"We just don't know; that’s all. But
we shall go ahead with the work he
left unfinished, stepping into bls shoes
as well as we can, and wait for news
from him.’’
Discredit Theory of
Court House Worry.
Mr. Ransome was inclined to dis
credit the published report that Mr.
DeLeon was worried about his court
house contract, fearing he had submit
ted a bid so low that he would lose.
"We have gone over the papers.” he
said, "and while it is true that Mr. De-
Leons bld was the lowest by $22,000.
he had been careful in his contracts
for material, had bought at low figures
and there Is no reason to believe that he
would not have cleared the profits he
expected
"Whether we shall go ahead toward
the completion of the court house work
we can not say just now. We are in
structed to report next Thursday to the
court, and the matter wdll he determined
then. Mr H. L. Fraser, ths other re
ceiver. is one of Mr. DeLeon’s office
men and the work is being carried on
through the direction of the old office
and by the same force of men. About
one-third of the work has been done.
We shall engage experts to make esti
mates on that and submit them tn the
court.”
I hat Mr. DeLeon could have been
Involved financially seems impossible to
the receivers, who have carefully gone
over his accounts. They are confident
that if any previously unknown credi
tor existed he would have come forward
since the wide publicity given Mr. De-
Leons disappearance and filed his
claim with the courts. But nn such
creditor has appeared, no unexpected
debts have been discovered, absolutely
nothing to account for DeLeon's volun
tary absence has be>en found.
Friends Fear
Aphasia Attack.
That the contractor, broken under
the strain of his several large under
takings. is mentally unbalanced and
wandering among strangers, is a theory
advanced by several of his friends. It
may be that he has been attacked by
aphasia, a mental shock which leaves
one without memory, without knowl
edge of one’s own name or residence.
But this is hardly likely, when it Is
remembered that DeLeon carried ample
means of identification. He had a num
ber of Masonic emblems, always car
ried a quantity of papers bearing his
name, and should easily be identified in
ease of accident.
The court house was the only piece
of actual contrtwt work Mr. DeLeon
has under way. His men ate at work
on a number of other buildings, but
these are being done for the owners on
a percentage basis, and the owners will
be permitted to complete them, reliev
ing the De I.eon office of this responsi
bility As to the court house work, Mr.
DeLeon is under bond for $244,000.
twice the amount of his contract. In
case the court decides not to permit the
receivers to complete the work, the
county commissioners will announce
the default of the contract and the
bonding company will then either com
plete the work or pay an indemnity.
Dispatches from Chicago state that
P. A. DeLeon, a nephew who lives in
New York, has arrived to assist In the
search for the lost contractor Young
DeLeon visited the Chicago morgue to
views the remains of a man killed by
an automobile, hut was positive that
the victim was not his uncle. He stated
that Moise DeLeon had about $2,600 In
cash, o veral Masonic emblems and an
expensive watch wh*n he disappeared
The Chit ago police are continuing the
search, but have no real clew to lva>.
them.
