Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, August 26, 1912, FINAL, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text2 ROOSEVELT W 5 HE HAS NOTHING TO CONGEST Colonel Perfectly Willing for All the Documents To Be Made Public. OYSTER RAY. N V. Aug 26 W. R Hearst's declaration, cabled from London, that he would lay bare facts tn regard to the Standard <>l fund if any of the principals concerned therein attempted to withhold anything of ma terial Importance, was called to Roose velt s attention this morning There was no possibility. the colonei said, of any one having any documen tary evidence that he would not gladly eve published Besides William lx>eb 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 nt) officials "I>ate last evening." he explained. "I got a reply from Senator Clapp saying that he could not get a quorum to gether. He thought It would have to he considered later. Ready To Tall About Anything. "As for any connection <’f mine with the Standard 011 people before or after election any human being Is welcome to make anything public about me of any aort or description, and if 1 had ap, peared before the 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 before the committee and that he wish ed to confirm them "I told him that if he waa called he could testify to evrythlng 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 Write Statement "T feel that the committee ought not to have gone away and let Archbold go to Europe without taking any of his teetimony on the really grave charge and then failed to let me appear im mediately. knowing, as the committee must know, what my later engagements are. I shall, however, at once write Sen ator Clapp a full statement of at least some nt the things to which I would like to have testified. Incidentally, I should like to say that they need not bother about conferring additional pow - ers upon the committee to question me about my primary campaign. Whether they are given power or not. 1 shall be delighted to answer any question In my power which the committee may put to me as to anvthlng of which 1 have knowledge connected with the primary campaign, or for that matter, of any thing that 1 have ever done as presi dent. or in this campaign. I suggest, however, that the committee take up the primary campaign of all of the other candidates also If they desire to go into the matter nt all. "Let me repeat as strongly as 1 can that I do not understand why the com mittee let Mr. Archbold go to Europe without examining him on the real charge. "Not to permit me to go on and tes tlfy at once amounts, as the Demo cratic and Republican friends of Mr Penrose. Mr ixirimer and Mr Archbold in the senate, of course, know, to ren dering it almost impossible for me to appear later without causing the most serious dislocation of my announced plans. “Joined in Assault." "The Incident is especially signifi cant as showing the way that the In terests for which Mr Penrose and Mr. Archbold and their like speak have joined In their assault on the Progres sives and on me. They are entirely willing to see either of the two old po litical machines triumph because they control both Their real hostility Is re served fnr me and the Progressive par ty. 'Remember that the charge was against Mr Penrose and that that has not been Investigated, although the ev idence on that charge was direct. All that has been Investigated has been the counter charge as to w hich there wa« not and never will be. because there can not be. one shred of evidence, di rect or indirect. All that bis been produced Is malicious and injurious hearsay gossip given at second hand, j As far as 1 can make out the accusa tion by Messrs. Penrose and Ar 'th.. d really Is that a contribution was mime for the Improper purpose of »•« uring an improper consideration, and that t refused to give the improper consider.,. t ion. "Let me repeat that If any contribu tlon was received from the Si n.l ,rd ! Oil Company it was against my exi .It , and reiterated written prohibition not only without my knowledge, i. . In ; spite of the fact that explicit ass , r . ante was given ine that no such . tributions were given or could be . ceived.” NASHVILLE ALDERMAN NAMED NASHVILLE, GA.. Aug In special election held here Saturday to All the vacancy caused by the death Dr William B. Goodman on the boa' I of aidermen. M. S. Griffin was unop- I posed. ' The Atlanta Georgian Premium Coupon Thia ceu»o" will be accepted at our Prem-um Parlor. 20 Eaat Alabama at.. aa partial payment for any of the beautiful premium u -rta d apiayed there. Spp Premiun Parlor A nnnuncenh'nt on Another Page - --’ -4r I UNCLE TRUSTY! Copyright. 1912, International News Service. 1 /FEULOAa/ WoR Ki’S (; HE h' p 'i (• you he. coKpiAuiy / Z. 'i| ) iNiviTED To fcdpE |Ni r 1 j \ The hoo6»e 'a/agokj y \ f" \ S’® IHh / of Toil , OET / //ai I 'X J i rurd / WeradtS 11, 1 \ z 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?” GMi«s RAPRQDSEVELT Attempt Made at Executive Meeting to Read Clark Grier Out of Party. A lest of strength of the Henry S. Jackson and the Walter Johnson fac tions of the Republican pvrty 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 called to order at 12:30 o'clock, 30 minutes after Schedule time, w hen Hen ry Jackson, collector of internal reve nues, and the leader of one faction, nodded to Waltei Johnson, chairman of the executive committee and leader ol the other faction, to go ahead. Jackson was indorsed as the leader of Georgia Repubiiians. Roscoe Pickett, of Pickens county, of fered a resolution, indorsing Jackson and opposing (’lark Grier, former post master at Dublin, G:t . and reading the latter out of the party Jackson and Grier are ancient enemies. Jackson was pronounced the final arbiter of Repub lican affairs in the state. The first test eatne when E 1.. 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 con sidered to be an indirect rap at Walter Johnson and Clark itieer former post master at Dublin. Ga and again a can didate sot the place, because they sup ported Roosevelt at tin Republican con vention. Roscoe Pickett t ailed for an aye and nay vote, yvhich yvas seconded. Negro delegates took the lead In denouncing Theodore Roosi velt and the Bull Moose party and in indorsing President Taft. ; A hot fight seemed imminent c P Goree, a layvyer of Atlanta said • .it the negroes y\ere treated as gentle m« n at the Republican convention, but tiny were not treated as gentle men at the Bull Moose convention. Henry I. Johnson, a negro delegate, declared that the strength of the Bull Moose party lay in the charge that the South-rn delegates to the Republican < onventlon w. re not properly chosen. H- then ptoceeled to disprove thia , . ti:iig< bx lauding the Southern negro del-gates He said the records of attempts to Itn .ue ni g ’<> delegat's at the Repnblicap onv- tn i. ,i, will i oy ,• ttie negroes' in i tegrity Th* tus-oiition was passed. Ti '• obi- I of the meeting is to name I tne f-npt.. t Geo g a presidential e!e<‘ tors 'l l -eems io tie no doubt that I they wi ,< be Taft men THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS- MONDAY. AUGUST 26. 1912. COL ROOSEVELT’S CRY, "SHALL PEOPLE RULE?” CATCH-PHRASE-HILLES By CHARLES D. HILLES. Chairman of the Republican National Committee. NEW YORK. Aug 26. "Shall the people rule?" Most assuredly. This Is a republic, not a monarch'. The peo ple shall rule. Just ns they have ruled In the past, frpm the 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." one might as well ask, "Shall the peo ple vote?" Must the people rule?" If that were the 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 vote, they have paid the penalty In the form of bad government, and they wilt continue to do so. no matter what sys tem or method of ruling Is provided. "Do the people rule?" This Is a real. i y 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 shalt 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 w ith 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, when they find 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 modified form of referendum, notably in New York state, with refer ence to amendments to tiie constitu tion Experience in that state has not indicate.l that the people are willing to devot. ;he time necessary tv studying (the merits of proposed amendments to I the constitution —but that Is not the I fault of the method, but of the people. The people do rule whenever thev . wish to. and in those instances and de. tali' where the penpie have fared to i nil it has beer due »o'< v to their I q,.g . c ..r rhe • he'ief iha’ the issues < rake we . not of sutfiennt mipct . tall. to nc< v.'Sl'air t.Ttr uott.g so Nor will any change in the system remedy this defect. Government can no more 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 his power from the people and never a boss—even the boss of the third term party—who perverted his . 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 h is 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 who “some, times prove false to the people," no way in which “they shall be taken out of , office and replaced by men with a high er sense of their obligations" Argu ments like that are an insult to the in ! telligence of the men to whom they are addressed, when only within a few . months have impeachment proceedings , been instituted against Judge Robert i W. Archbald, of the Federal commerce court, while a congressional investiga tion has resulted in the resignation of Federal 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 could 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 shalt 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. Aug 26. While hundreds 1 of pet sons were trussing. Frank Motis shot Miss Vlasta Muzek during the rush hours in the loop district today Bran -1 dishing his revolver. MotG 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 recover COLUMBUS POLICEMAN. ILL. COMMITS SUICIDE COI.fMRI S. GA Aug 26 H N Pendeigias- member of the Columbus police fora, shot and killed himself last night He had been ill two weeks with fcvei IP health is the <>nlv isuse ' iv.-«igried for the deed He leevrg fom • bildien a klr « The fum-ral tak> pirn e i >m"ri ovt morn ng WILSON, W DE WIRELESS, DEAD I (Famous Stock Manipulator; i Writes Letter to Daughter. Then is Stricken. Stretched upon a cot in the morgue of a local undertaker lies the body of “\V ireless" Wilson, financier, promoter, convict. Ho died last night in the Fed eral prison, an hour after he iiad 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 Grace silent in the trial of Daisy Grave. 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 called "Wireless Wilson." was writ Inga letter to his daughter in the li brary of the prison yesterday afternoon. He was f -eling well, despite his 67 years 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. He had told several friends recently that he was confident his name would appear on the next parole list, and he expressed this ho[>e in the let ter. Suddenly one of the other prisoners who had been granted the use of the library cried out that something was wrong with the old man. Guards rush ed to the 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 vailed, but in a short time he was dead. The lend came In the same room, anil 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 < >ne of the last acts of "Wireless" Wi son was one of kindness to a man I who htd befriended him. When he was taken to New York to give testimony in the suit, he was under the guard of Keeper Shea of the Federal prison For a day or two the old man disappeared and It was reported in New York that he had < aped front hrs Ret per It wns afterward learned ihai the guard had permitted tin »«<| man to stop ai ,>n» of tin best hotel** tnR. several teip* » md the i itv . and "tin is Ise eni-tv hl» BLEASE DH 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 manfsm 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 be recorded whether Cole L. Blease or Ira R. 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 Tillmanisrn, 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 come out for his old lieutenant, Jones. 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 Plays Important Role. Thomas B. Felder's connection with South Carolina polities 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 'lie old state dispensary. When Gov ernor Blease .a me 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. 8.," 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, and of other things. 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. Hearing of this, the w ireless 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 compan.v, announc ing a dividend of 100 per cent. Cites Prosperity of His Wireless Concern. "There." he said, bitterly. "The com pany I 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, his 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 Wiison. 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 Ills 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 operations, in order that she could not testify against him at the trial. But In spite of this, he was convicted and I sent to prison The body probably will be sent to New York as soon as word is received from the widow and daughter of the tin.: nciet Son Born Week After Conviction. rhie* of the wireless men were con victed at th» same term nf court. They were ' nrfMophe. c Wilson three 'ears EVanets X Hut * director and • .»«• • t an*| \\ Tnni|i- '»lns. nn» \ m Tr>n*p*inM hi*« I term SLATON IIGTINI IN PLOT TO MENGE NIILEMTO 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-partisar character of his support in the main, some of his friends today are In a measure disturbed by reports that have reached Atlanta to the effect that a deliberate attempt is being made tc "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 platfonr may be promulgated in Macon which will include many of the so-called 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 thai 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 whin 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 the 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 Insisted, 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. If the state committee lends itself to the effort to embarrass Mr. 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 rounties 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" the convention might succeed, unless 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’ NYACK, N. Y, Aug. 26.'—Pleading that it was the same "jag” sot which he was arrested the night before and that a man can’t be placed in jeopardy twice for the same offense. Benjamin Bi van was discharged from court here The Trials of a Traveler. "1 am a traveling salesman." writes E. E. Youngs. E. Berkshire. Vt„ “and was often troubled with constipation and indigestion till I began tn use Dr King's New Life Pills, which 1 have found an excellent remedy.” For all stomach, liver or kidney troubles they are unequaled. Only 25 cents at all druggists. »•• “1 was cured of diarrhoea by one dose of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy." writes M. E Gebhardt. Oriole, Pa. There is noth ing better. For sale by all dealers. EXQUISITE WEDDING BOUQUETS AND DECORATIONS ATLANTA FLORAL CO., • Cull Main 11S0. IF YOU CAN'T COME YOU SHOULD WRITE You Will Regret It If You Don’t Take Advantage of This Most Li/eral Offer. For several weeks we have been urg ing our readers to lose no time in tak ing advantage of the Georgian’s Atlas offer as explained elsewhere in this is sue We have thus far been unable to make arrangements with the publish ers to supph all of our readers with this valuable work, so the offer Is llkel.v to be withdrawn any day. Do not be among the disappointed ones, but act at once. lit** Standard Atlas and Chronolog ical History of the World should he In eiery family in Atlanta. The only way to get It Is to i lip nr tear out «lx head ings and present them nt th* office of tide paper as soon ns possible If you should not And time tn call, write to u Im lost, a thf hea<llng« wl'h the small expense fee explained In th* dlsphii idv ertisenu iits, and include IJ lentf. (or tandas*.