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2 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." NASHVILLE ALDERMAN NAMED ! NASHVILLE. GA . Xtg .T In , 1 special election held here Saturday to fill the vacancy caused by the death o’ Dr William B Goodman on the board of aidermen M S Griffin was unop posed. The Atlanta Georgian—Premium Coupon ThU coupon will b« accepted at on- Prem ,m Parlor 20 Raet Alabama at., aa part al payment for any of the beautiful premium gooda d<apiayed there See Prent'un Parlor Announcement on Another Pay* UNCLE TRUSTY! j Copyright, 1312, International News Service. :I— - j (/O /Fellow IZ/ORKINGMEsX ■ / 1 f* ( You Afct GORPIAuLY / 'll i ' INVITED To |NI f | ‘ 'I \Th£ KOOSE JAZ AGOHiJy S'' rY-X V — X w W 3) 11J 5feo? t Aoh.You morhyuahpedt or toil >et / /Z 44 -4*l Owl to William,- you and Theodore as the Rival Friends of the Working Man ought to make a hit! And those are a couple of 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 so good, too! Can you beat it?” • A 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. The Trials of a Traveler. I am a traveling salesman,” writes E. E. Youngs. E. Berkshire, Vt„ "and was often troubled with constipation and indigestion till I began to use Dr King’s New Life Pills, which I have found an excellent remedy.” For all stomach, liver or kidney troubles thev are unequaled. Only 25 cents at ail druggists. »»• I was cured of diarrhoea bv one dose of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy." writes M E Gebhardt. Oriole. Pa. 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