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ROOSEVELT SAYS
HE HAS NOTHING
TO ml
Colonel Perfectly Willing for
All the Documents To Be
Made Public.
OYSTER BAY. N. Y. Auk 26.—W
R Hearst's declaration. cabled from I
London. tha> he would lay bare facts I
in regard to the Standard <>l fund if j
any of the principals • oneerned therein
attempted to withhold anxthins of ma
terial Importance was called to Roose
velt’s attention this morning
There was no possibility, the colonel
said, of any one having any documen
tary evidence that he would not gladly
s«-e published.
Besides William Loeb’s testimony.
Mr Roosevelt counts on letters which
he has in his possession to controvert
any charges which may be brought with
the idea of involving him with Senator
Penrose and Standard Oil officials.
"Late last evening.” he explained. "1
got a reply from Senator Clapp saying
that he could not get a quorum to
gether. He thought It would have to
be considered later.
Ready To Toll About Anything.
"As for any connection of mine with
the Standard Oil people- before or after
election. an> human being Is welcome to
make anything public about me of any
sort or description, ami if I had ap
peared before lite committee I should
have testified to anything."
In regard to Mr. Loeb s testifying be
fore the committee in his behalf, the
colonel said:
“Loeb told me that he had seen state
ments that he was to be brought down I
before the committee and that he wish
ed to\ onflfm them
"I told him that if he was called hr
could testify to i-vrt thing. He was my
private secretary then.”
Colonel Roosevelt gave out a state
ment on the refusal of the Clapp com
mittee to let him testify at this time.
He said:
T. R. to Writo Statement.
"I feel that the committee ought not
to have gone- away and let Archbold go
to Europe without taking any of his
testimony on the really grave charge
and then failed, to let me appear im
mediately. knowing. a« the committee
must know, what my later engagements
a re.
"I shall, however, at once write Sen
ator t'lapp a full statement of at least
some of the things to which I would
like to hate testified. Incidentally. 1
should like to say that they need not
hot her a bom conferring i'ld iti->na I (low
ers upon the <ommltt»e to question me
about my primary campaign. Whether
they are gain power or noi. I shall he
delighted to answer any question In my
power which the committee may put to
, me as to anything of which I have
knowledge connected with tin primary
campaign, or for that matter, of any
thing that I have evi done as presi
dent. or In thl« campaign. I suggest,
however, that the committee take up
the primarx campaign of all of the
other candidates also if they desire to
go intp the matter at all.
"Let me repeat as strongly as I can
that 1 do not understand why the com
mittee let Mr. Vrchbold go to Europe
without examining mm on the real
'ha rge.
"Not to permit me to go on and tes
tify at once amounts, as the Demo
cratic and Republican friends of Mr.
Penrose. M Lorimer and Mr. Archbold
in the senate, of course, know, to ren
dering it almost impossible for me to
appga- late- without causing the most
serious dislocation of my announced
plans.
"Joined in Assault."
"The incident s • specially signifi
cant as showing the way that the in
ti reais for which Mr. Penrose and Mr.
Archhold and their like speak have
Joined tn their assault on the Progres
sives rnd on me. They aie entirely
willing tn see clthc of the two old po
. Utiyal machines triumph because thev
control-both Their real hostility Is re-
Muv«d for me and :oe Progressive par
t/.
"Remember that the charge was
against Mr Penrose and that that has
not been investigated, although the ev
idence on that charge «a« direct All
that has been investigated has been the
counter charge as to which there was
not and never will be. because there
can not be. one shred of evidence, di
rect or indirect 111 that has been
produced is malicious and injurious
hearaaj gossip given at second hand
As far as I can make out the accusa
tion by Messis. Penrose and Archbold
really Is that a contribution wrs made
for the Improper purpose of securing
an Imprope-- consideration, and that I I
refused to rite the Improper considers. I
lion
"Let me repeat that If any lonlrtbu- ;
tion was received from the Standard I
Oil Company It was against my explicit I
and reiterated written prohibition and
nop only without my know a dg, but in
spite of the fuel that explicit assur
ance was git'n me that no sm h con
tributions were given or could lie re
cel ved."
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NASHVILLE. GA . Xtg .T In , 1
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Dr William B Goodman on the board
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GEORGIfIBLACKS
RMOSffIT
Attempt Made at Executive
Meeting to Read Clark
Grier Out of Party.
A test of strength of the Henry S.
Jackson and the \\ alter Johnson fac
tions of the Republican partv in Geor
gia was begun today at a meeting of
the Republican state executive commit
tee in the senate chamber of the capi
tol. called to name Taft electors. After
many private conferences, the meeting
was < ailed to order at 12:30 o'clock, 30
minutes iftc; ,-<.h,eduly time, when Hen
ry Jackson, colleetm of internal reve
nues, and th. leader of one faction,
nodded to Walter Johnson, chairman of
the executive lommlttee and leader ol
the other faction, to go ahead
Jackson was indorsed as the leader
of Georgia Republicans.
Roscoe Pickett, of Pickens county, of
fered a resolution, indorsing Jackson
and opposing Clark Grier, former post
master at Dublin. Ga., and reading the
latter out of the party Jackson and
Grier are ancient < nemies. Jackson was
pronounced the final arbiter of Repub
lican affairs in the state.
The first test came w hen E. L. Col
lier. a negro and editor of The Inde
pendent. a. newspaper, introduced a res
olution Indorsing President Taft, the
Republican platform and the delegates
to the Chicago convention who sup
ported Taft. The resolution was ion
sid> ted to be an Indirect rap at Walter
Johnson and t'lark Greer former post
master at Dublin, Ga.. and again a can
didate for tin' place, because they sup
port, d Roosevelt at the Republican con
vention.
Roscoe Pickett .ailed sot an aye and
nay vote, which was seconded. Negro
delegates took the lead in denouncing
Theodore Roosevelt ind the Kull Moose
parly and in indorsing President Taft,
x hot tight seemed imminent.
C. P G Tee, a law yet of Atlanta, said
that tlie negroes were treated as gentle
men at the Republican c.mvention. but
.hat th. v were not treated as jentle
l men at the Bull Moose convention.
Henry I. Johnson a negro delegate.
I declared that the strength of the Bull
I Moose p.iriv lay in th. charge that the
i Southern delegates to the Republican
j convention wi re not properly chosen.
IH. then proceed, d to disprove this
: charge by lauding the Southern negro
I delegate'
He spld th. records of attempts to
bi .be negro delegates, at the Republican
convention, will prove the negroes' in
i regritj
The resolution was passed
Tire obi ■< I of the meeting Is to name
tin fourteen Go gia presidential elec
< tots I nerr -e.'ins ■■■ be no doubt that
I ; hev will r.l be Ta ft men
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. AUGUST 26. 1912.
COL ROOSEVELT'S CRY,
i"SHALL PEOPLE RULE?”
CATCH--PHRASE-HILLES
By CHARLES O. HILLES,
Chairman of the Republican National
Committee.
NEW Yr IRK. Aug 26 Shall th<
people rule'.’" Most assuredly. This Is
i republic, not a monarchy. The peo
ple shall rule, Just as they have ruled
in the past, from rhe Declaration of In
dependence down to the present day,
and just as they will continue to rule—
if they do not follow false prophets
until time shall be no more. What, then,
Is the meaning of the catch phrase of
the third term party. "Shall the people
rule? As applied to this government,
it is merely "foolish question No. 2,006."
line might as well ask, "Shall the peo
ple vote?”
"Must the people rule?” If that were
.he question it would not be meaning
less. but the answer would be simple.
The people must rule if they are to
have a good, clean and effective gov
ernment. Whenever and wherever the
people have failed to recognize their re
sponsibility. to take an interest in the
party nominations, to register and to
vole, they have paid the penalty In the
form of bad government, and they will
continue to do so. no matter what sys
tem or method of ruling is provided.
"Do the people rule?" "fbis is a real,
ly pertinent question. The people rule
when they are willing to take the trou
ble. Too often they are not. The peo
ple do rule wherever they think it worth
while to think and vote as they think.
And they do not rule whenever they
surrender their thinking powers to the
politicians, whether it be politicians
who rankly oppose It. whether they
shout "Thou shall not steal” as they
steal,- or who just steal without any
shouting.
Mere Political Catch Phrase.
"Shall the people rule?" as a political
slogan is merely a catch phrase shout
ed from the house tops with the pur
pose of persuading the people that un
der the present system they do not rule,
that they can not rule with the present
methods and that the only cure for
the evil is to adopt the guarantee "no
cute, no pay" patent nostrum which the
third term party has to offer—"four
years treatment in a plain, sealed pack,
age. with directions on the Inside."
The people now have entire power to
select good candidates for public of
fice and to elect them; to insure pub
lic officials and legislative officers who
will carry out the will of the people;
to amend their constiutions. both state
and national, wh< n they And that either
Is antiquated or Inadequate to meet
present-day demands, to take from the
bench, either state or Federal. any man
who may have proved false to the peo
ple." In a number of states there is
already a mollified form of referendum,
notably in New York state, with refer
ence to amendments to the constitu
tion Experience in thnt state has not
indicated that the people are willing to
devote th* time necessary to studying
I th. merits of proposed amendments to
ithe constitution-but that Is not the,
I fault of the method but of the people
The peopr do rue whenever they
wish to. and hi tnose instances and de- ,
ta’ • when tne people have fulled to,
tU' It ha’ been due solely to their
neglect or their belief that t:e issue*
a. uski '< "■ i not of suffl lent Impor 1
i.n i to i > issiUiti licit doing so
Nor will any change in the system
remedy this defect. Government can
no mo e rise above the demands of the
people than water can rise above its
source.
"Insult to Thinking People.”
"Shall the people rule?" makes a
good slogan for a party which appeals
to thoughtless people, people who will
not think. It is an insult to the intel
ligence of the people who do think, who
do have a comprehensive conception of
their government, who know, if they do
stop to think, that they rule now. There
never was a political "boss" who did
not draw l - his power from the people
and never a boss—even the boss of the
third term party—who perverted bls
power to evil except through the Intel
ligence of the people, intelligent men
know that there is no necessity for
wholesale innovation in order to make
them the arbiters of their fortunes so
far as government can make them that.
Every argument which has been ad
vanced in support of the recall of
judges and of judicial decisions is based
on the assertion, or the broad intima
tion. that there is no method of remov
ing from judicial office men w ho "some
times prove false to the people," no way
In which "they -hall be taken out of
office and replaced by men with a high
er sense of their obligations” Argtv
ments like that are an insult to the in
telligence of the men to w hom they are
addressed, when only within a few
months have impeachment proceedings
been instituted against Judge Robert
W. Archbald, of the Federal commerce
court, while a congressional investiga
tion has resulted in the resignation of
l-’ederal Judge Cornelius H. Hanford
and the appointment of his successor.
No one believes in retaining on the
bench, or in any other office, a man who
has proved false to the people. No one
eouid be more jealous of the good name
of the judiciary than President Taft.
No one. even the third term candidate,
has any copyright on the command
ment. "Thou shajt not steal." or any
monopoly on the determination that
only men of the highest probity shall
serve on the bench, either state or Fed
eral Neither has any one a monopoly
on progress, and if deeds—not words
are to be the test, no one has accom
plished more for progress than Presi
dent Taft.
TOO POOR TO WED HER.
MAN SHOOTS FIANCEE
CHICAGO, tug 26.—While hundreds
of persons were passing. Frank Motis
shot Miss Vlasia Muzek during the rush
hours in the loop district today Bran
dishing his revolver. Motts tried to push
through the crowd, but was arrested.
He said he was engaged to the girl,
was too poor to marry, and meant to
kill himself. The girl may recoW-r
COLUMBUS POLICEMAN.
ILL. COMMITS SUICIDE
< I n.CMBI S GA . Aug 26 H N
l Pendergrass member of the Columbus
police forn shot and killed himself
, last n.ght He had been ill two vy eeks
I with fev e> 111 health Is th. only .mis. ‘
j ass.gned for the deed He leaves foil''!
j ■ htldren. al! girls The fun.-rul takes j
plat* t'.tnotr<>w morning I
WILSON, KING DF
WIRELESS. DESO
Famous Stock Manipulator
Writes Letter to Daughter,
Then Is Stricken.
Stretched upon a cot in the morgue of
a local undertaker lies the body of
"Wireless” Wilson, financier, promoter,
convict. He died last night in the Fed
eral prison, an hour after he had writ
ten a loving letter to his daughter ex
pressing his hope of an early parole.
He had served one year and three days
of his three-year term.
The body of the aged man—he was 67
years old—ls awaiting funeral direc
tions from the young stenographer he
married, after divorcing his first wife,
in order that she might not give evi
dence against him under the law for
bidding a wife to testify against her
husband, the same rule which kept Eu
gene H. Giace silent in the trial of
Daisy Grace.
Mrs Wilson, whose marriage was
soon followed by enforced separation
when her aged husband came to the
penitentiary, is living In the East.
Writing to Daughter
When Stricken Fatally.
Christopher Columbus Wilson, as he
was known before the magnitude of his
stock-selling operations caused him to
be . ailed "Wireless Wilson." was writ
ing a letter to His daughter in the li
brary of the prison yesterday afternoon.
He was feeling well, despite his 67 yeats
and the strain of a recent trip to New
York, where he went under guard to
testify in a suit involving the wireless
telegraph company's financial opera
tions. He had served a third of his
term and was eligible for a parole and
freedom. had told several friends
recently that he was confident his name
would appear on the next parole list,
and he expressed this hope in the let
ter.
Suddenly one of the other prisoners
who hid been granted the use of the
library cried out that something was
wrong with the old man Guards rush
ed to th- prisoner and found him suf
fering from a serious attack, which
afterward proved to be uraemic poison
ing He was taken to the prison hos
pital and the prison physician called,
but in a short time he vv’as dead. The
end came in the same room, and within
a few feet of the bed where Charles W.
Morse lay so many weeks, apparently
dying, before he was removed to the
Fort McPherson hospital, given his pa
role and almost miraculously restored to
health.
Aided Guard Who
Had Befriended Him.
One of the last acts of "Wireless"
■ Wilson was one of kindness to a man |
| who had befriended him. \\ hen he was I
taken to New York to give testimony
I ,n the suit, he was undet the guard of
I Keeper Shen. <>f the Federal prison For
a day ot two the old man disappeared,
and It was reported In New York that
he had es. aped from hl.« keeper ll«a.<;
ifrerwsrri learned thai th* guard had;
I permitted »h> aged man to stop at one,
j ..f the best holei“ ink* several trips,
I <il mi nd the city, and ot her wise . ujoy his j
BLEASE OR JONES
TO BE CHOSEN
TOMORROW
South Carolina Voters to Name
Next Governor After Most
Notable Campaign.
COLUMBIA. S. C., Aug. 26. —A cam
paign the like of which has’not been
known in South Carolina since Till
i manisrn swept the state nearly a quar
ter of a century ago has just been con
cluded. and the verdict will be written
by the people at the polls tomorrow,
when it will he 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
'he 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
Tillmanism, which most people here had
thought passing out of the state, has
loomed up large again. At the eleventh
hour Benjamin Ryan Tillman, the
famous "pitchfork senator” from South
Carolina, has taken a hand and has
ome out for his old lieutenant, Jones. !
Throughout the race, up to this last mo
ment statement. Tillman has announced
himself neutral as betweeq 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 Pl«ys Important Role.
Thomas B. Felder’s connection with
South 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
rnor Blease came into office early In
1911, he dismissed the commission and
charged Felder with having divided up
with ths whisky houses lie prosecuted
in the collection of whisky claims. Then
Governor Blease gave out letters sign
ed "T. 8..” in which it was alleged Eel
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 nut 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
Ham ,J. Burns and his men also
figured largely in the investigation.
Blease was accused of selling pardons,
of having whisky graft collected in
Charleston, and of other tilings.
stay in the metropolis, though always
undet a watchful eye. So much pub
licity was given the matter than when
Shea returned with Wilson he was dis
missed from the prison service.
Heating of this, the wireless promoter
gained permission to write a letter to
Congressman "Jack" Beall, of Texas, a
friend of former days, and Beall ob
tained for the guard a position in Tex
as at twice the salary he had earned in
Atlanta.
Wilson exhibited to a caller at the
prison a few days ago a circular sent
out by the wireless company , announc
ing a dividend of 100 per cent.
Cites Prosperity of
His Wireless Concern.
"There." he said, bitterly. "The com
pany 1 promoted is earning double
money for its stockholders, and I. the
man who sold the stock, am locked in
prison for selling it. Do you call that
justice?”
Wilson was convicted in New York of
using the mails with intent to defraud,
bls methods of selling wireless stock
failing to meet the government require
ments. It is said that thousands of small
Investors lost their savings through in
vestments brought about by the vivid
word-painting of Colonel Wilson. The
promoter was sentenced to serve three
years in the Federal prison at Atlanta,
and began his term here on August 23, a
year ago.
Colonel Wilson's battle in the courts
was a memorable one. He was pos
sessed of a considerable private for
tune, and he spent it liberally to save
himself. The trial was marked by the
sudden marriage of the aged defendant
to his girl stenographer. He had di
vorced his first wife about the time of
the opening of his .troubles, and it was
freely stated at the time that Wilson
wedded his stenographer, who had inti,
mate and confidential knowledge of his
opera; ions, in order that she could not
testify against him at the trial. But
in spite of this, he whs convicted and
! sent to prison
The body probably will be sent to
I New York as soon as word is received
I from the widow and daughter of the
| financier
Son Born Week
After Conviction.
Thre. of the wireless men were con
victed at the same term of court They
I were Christophe' i Wilson. three
'ea' « Franc I" \ Riit’er director an
j counsel, two y. a«. ;, r f \v \V Tomp I
j kins, on* year. Tomp.i ns has served I
| his term. „ j
SUTONIICTINI IN
PLOT TD AVENGE
Ml LEAGEVETO
I
Plan to Pack Convention for
Platform to Embarrass Him
as Brown’s Friend?
Notwithstanding John M Slaton's
overwhelming victory in the governor
ship race, and the alleged non-partisan
character of his support in the main,
some of his friends today are tn a
measure disturbed by reports that have
reached Atlanta to the effect that a
deliberate attempt is being made to
"pack" the convention to meet in Ma
con next Wednesday to Mr. Slaton's
embarrassment.
it is reported that delegations are
being framed up in many counties of
Georgia, known generally as "Hoke
Smith" counties, whereby a platform
may be promulgated in Macon which
will include many of the so-ealled
'Hoke Smith” policies, and particular
ly as they seem opposed to the so
called "Joe Brown policies" in Geor--
gia.
The present county executive com
mittees of Georgia are said to be gen
erally more favorable to the Smith end
of recent Georgia political endeavor
than to the Brown end. They were or
ganized immediately after Mr. Smith's
last victory for the governorship, and
were composed, in their majority as
pect, by the known friends of Smith.
Plan to Denounce Brown.
It--is being specifically charged that
a strenuous effort will be made to as
semble a convention in Macon that
will denounce openly Governor Brown’s
recent veto of the mileage “pulling’’
bill, passed by the legislature, and dis
approved by the executive.
If that is done, it will embarrass Mr.
Slaton necessarily, as the governor was
known to be Mr. Slaton's avowed friend
in his race, and when'Mr. Slaton's cam
paign was in its infancy and the Brown
support gave it tremendous prestige. To
run Slaton for governor on a platform
openly denouncing an act of tile pres
ent executive would be very distasteful
to Mr. Slaton. As a matter of fact,
Slaton likely would refuse emphatical
ly to stand for it. thus, if the conven
tion ! nsisted. putting the question
squarely up to the people of Georgia.
The present state executive commit
tee is a Hoke Smith committee, and as
such will have an influencing voice in
shaping matters at Macon, particularly
In the preliminary work.
Chance For Plan to Succeed.
IT the state committee leftds itself to
ih-- eiYori to embarrass Mi. Slaton, and
any considerable number of county
committees also take a hand in the
matter, the effort may succeed.
The convention is to be composed,
under the ruling of the committee of
friends of a various gubernatorial can
didates. according to the way the sev
eral counties went. Under this ar
rangement. Mr. Slaton should have a
clear and undisputed control. But the
election was very one-sided, and an ef
fort to ’pack’’ tile convention might
succeed, unle.-s Slaton’s friends keep
their eyes open and watch what is go :
ing on.
I he alleged effort to hit Brown over
Slaton's shoulders, because of Brown's
, veto of the mileage bill, is the real
thing, so many of Slaton's friends say
today. that is in the wind, and to which
■ the county' committees quietly are be
. ing asked to lend themselves.
COURT RULES MAN CAN’T
BE FINED FOR ‘HANGOVER’
X A< K. X v. Aug. 26 —Pleading
that it was the same “jag" for which
he was arrested the night before and
that a man can I be placed in jeopardy
twice for the same offense, Benjamin
Bryan was discharged from court here.
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