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THE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Generally fair today and tomorrow. VOL. XL NO. 21. GOLEBLEASE LEADING BY ONLY YOB VOTES With 100,000 Ballots Tabu- lated and 20,000 Unreported, Governor Runs Ahead. SECOND RACE LIKELY IN SOUTH CAROLINA Duncan, Third Candidate, Polls Enough Strength to Prevent Majority for Either Rival. COLtTMBLA, S. C., Aug. 28.—With 100,800 votes tabulated and about 20,000 to be received, Governor Cole L. Blease ts leading his opponent, Judge Ira B. Jones, by a, plurality of about 200 votes. If the 20,000 votes do not. materially affect the standing of the contestants, a second race will be necessary, for John T. Duncan, the third candidate in the race, has received about 1,900 votes. Excitement her eand throughout the state Is intense. A crowd of 10,000 watched the bulle tins here last night and an equally large throng paraded the streets of Charleston. A near-rlot was precipi tated tn that city and the governor was requested by long distance telephone to call out the militia, but he refused to do so. Rumors here had it that the ballot boxes had been rifled, but it is now thought that this Is untrue. It ts impossible to forecast the result, for all predictions as tn the counties which each candidate would carry have been wide of the mark, Jones’ counties going for R’ease and vice versa. The complete returns will probably not be known until late in the afternoon. ROBARTS LIVES, BUT WIFE. SHOT BY HIM. SUCCUMBS TO INJURY COLUMBUS, GA. Aug. 28.—Today A M. Robarts lies in the city hospital in a send-conscious condition wit a chance to recover from a self-inflicted wound. The body of his wife, whom he fatally shot before turning .the weapon on him. sets, now reposes in a cemetery. She died from her wound yesterday after noon. If Robarts succeeds in his fight against death at the hospital, he will have to fight for life in the courts, where it will be determined whether or not he was insane at the time he shot his wife and himself in their home here yesterday. Tneane jealousy of his hand some wife is said to have caused the shooting, but neighbors declare there were no tangible grounds for the hus band's jealousy. They say the woman was true to her husband in every way. Public sentiment now Ik against Ro barts. He has been a popular travel ing salesman, commanding a good sal ary. and with an apparently happy home. He has represented the Pitts burgh Plate Glass Company in the Co lumbus territory. SUFFRAGE FAR FROM REALITY IN CANADA, PREMIER CONFIDES LONDON. Aug. 28.—Canada must do without suffrage for a while. That was the substance of the answer today to a deputation of women by Robert L. Borden, premier of the Do minion government, who is visiting here. A deputation of women, beaded by Miss Barrett, a militant leader, called upon the premier by appointment and asked him whether or not he intended introducing a bill in the Dominion par liament upon his return granting the ballot to women. To this Mr. Borden replied that he had not power to do such a thing, as the franchise laws there are made by the nine provincial legislatures. The women were crestfallen when they de parted. 14TH DIST. CONVENTION TO NAME HEAD FOR SENATE CORDELE. GA., Aug 28—The Four teenth senatorial district Democratic < onvention will be held at yienna on next Monday, September 2, for the purpose of nominating J. P. Heard, of Dooly, who was the only candidate for senator, and to name the succeeding executive committee. The incumbent ..ffictr'- of the committee are Ed Las seter. chairman, and .1. Gordon Jones, soreta■y. Members of the committee and the delegates will be entertained by Air. Heard ala luncheon. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. Southerner, Locked in Box Car Three DaysJs Found by Fire Fighters Louisiana Man Unconscious, Dis covered When Mysterious Blaze Ignites His Prison. JERSEY CITY, N. J.. Aug 28. - When firemen today broke open a box car in the Erie railroad freight yards to ex tinguish a fire which In some unex plained manner had originated there, they stumbled upon the emaciated and unconscious form of a man. Upon be ing taken to a hospital and revived the man said his name was Samuel Evans and that his home is in St. James, La Evans said he had been locked tn the car for three days. He took refuge there in Buffalo for a night’s rest and during the night the car was locked and sealed. FLOOD RENDERS 20,000 BRITONS HOMELESS; QUEEN STORM BOUND LONDON, Aug. 28.—Continued storms added to the seriousness of the flood situation throughout England to day. Norwich is marooned, the Wen sum and Ware rivers, which join there, both being out<>f their banks. The city was in darkness last night. At least 7,000 persons at Norwich were driven from their homes, while dispatches from other seriously affected points indicate that the total number of homeless is over 20,000. A number of suburbs of London are suffering heavily from the unprece dented downfall of rain. Queen Alexandra. Princess Victoria and Prince Christopher of Greece are stormbound off Southwold in the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, in the government yacht En chantress, has been stormbound for 24 hours at Grimsby. WOMAN, THOUGHT TO BE DEAD, ADVERTISES SHE IS STILL LIVING MACON, GA., Aug. 28.--Mrs. Minor E. Jackson, of this county, is unwilling for her friends to think that she is dead, and she has advertised in the lo cal papers the fact that she is still alive, although in bad health. Last week a Mrs. M. E. Jackson who lived In the same community, died, and the friends of Mrs. Minor E. Jackson construed It to be her. As a result, her husband and children are daily receiv ing letters of condolence, and an in surance agent has called to settle a claim. Mrs. Jackson s husband is la well known planter at Baconton. JAIL GUARDED FROM FRIENDS OF SLAYERS OF TENNESSEE NEGRO ALAMO, TENN., Aug 28.—A hun dred armed men today guard the Crock ett county jail to prevent friends of Lonnie Graham. Mose Smith and Ar thur Key from attempting to rescue them. The three white men were ar rested in connection with the killing of Will Cook, a negro. Friends of the men say they will release them. Cook lived in the country, three miles from here. Monday night a party of whites rode up to his home and sum moned him outside. They riddled him with bullets. VEDRINES TO TRY IN AMERICA FOR NEW AIR SPEED RECORDS PARIS, Aug. 28.—Pierre Jules Ve drines, the famous French aviator, said today in an Interview that he would attempt to establish a new aerial rec ord for speed while in the Cnited States, which" country he intends to visit soon "I shall try to accomplish a speed of 122 miles an hour in my aeroplane," said Vedrines. "I shall make a number of flights In the United States and hope to make some new records above American soil.” WINSHIP ASKS RECOUNT IN 8188. CLAIMING FRAUD MACON, GA., Aug. 28.—Nat R. Win ship, candidate for the legislature, who was elected on the first returns and then displaced by a recount which gave Wallace Miller the third place <<i the Bibb county delegation, today peti tioned the executive committee to open several of the ballot boxes and investi gate newly discovered evidence in his possession as to alleged fraudulent bal lots. He claims to have evidence sug gesting that the boxes were stuffed with marked ballots after the polls were closed, and that he was one of the candidates scratched on these Illegal votes. AVIATOR, CARRYING' GIRL. MAKES A 3-HOUR FLIGHT LONDON. Aug. 28.—Carrying Miss Elizabeth Davies as a passenger, Avi ator Astley today flea from Hendon to Hardelot. The flight was made in three i hours. | Miss Davies has traveled farther .than any other English woman through the air. though all her flights have been made as a passenger. She has crossed the channel twice ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 28, 1912. woonnD OF CHIRITY EAVE 111 TOPB Mrs. Lucy Barclay, Who De voted Her Life to Aiding Others, Now Helpless. FOUNDED FIRST ATLANTA MISSION 25 YEARS AGO Riches Were Spent Freely for Unfortunates lnstitutions Memorials to Husband. Mrs. Lucy Barclay, once one of At lanta’s most widely known charity workers and widow of the late John F. Barclay, founder of the Barclay mis sion and promoter of half a score of other measures of relief for the city's poor and unfortunate, lies today a help less inmate of a charitable institution. The widow Vvhose infirmities have made her helpless occupies a small pri. vate room. Even that is about to be taken away from her, and she'will have to lie in the general ward among a score of incurables like herself. She has no children, and when her husband died about four years ago she went to live with her nieces, whom she had reared as her own children. It was understood then that Mr. Barclay left a sufficient sum to care for his widow for the remaining years of her life. Several months ago Mrs. Barclay left her nieces and went to the Home for Incurables, where she now lies helpless. She paid a small sum tn order that she might have a private room. She re cently told an old friend who found her there while on a visit that this sum was almost exhausted and that she would soon have to become a regular charity patient. There was no complaint. Takes Cheerful View Os Her Misfortune. "I suppose it’s for the best,” she said and smiled. When she was talking she was seated in a large rocker. Rheumatism had so bound her muscles that she was unable to lift her hands which are withered with age and pain. A peculiar malady, found occasion ally by physicians, is slowly turning her body to stone. Rut the physicians say she may live for years in that condition of absolute helplessness. For many years in Atlanta the name of John Barclay was as closely asso ciated with charitable’work as that of Carnegie is with the founding of libra ries. The millionaire gives out of his abundance. John Barclay mortgaged his home to raise money to guarantee a certain sum so that a local charity might not lose a fund promised by a wealthy philanthropist on condition that Atlanta raise an agreed sum. Mr. Barclay was never a minister In his church, the Methodist, but he worked as faithfully as many ordained ministers. In the congregation of the First Methodist church he and his wife were noted workers. They aided the -elief efforts of this church and often went further in their work than did the church. More than 25 years ago Mr. and Mrs. Barclay founded the first mission In Atlanta. It was started as a Sunday school in the factor?’ district out Ma rietta street. The old-time residents who occasion ally went out to aid in the carrying on of services tell of how Mrs. Barclay played the little organ in those days, when even then rheumatism had so af fected her that she found it the great est pain to pump the organ. Called Founder of Sheltering Arms. The Sunday school grew and grew until it. became a regular mission church. It was afterward called the Barclay mission. This was not the only charitable work that Mrs. Barclay did. There is hardly a more revered and favored institution in Atlanta today than is the Sheltering Arms, a place where little children are, eared for and taught while their moth ers labor in the mills. Mrs. Barclay is spoken of as the woman who was the real founder of that institution. To other charitable organizations she gave her aid both physically and financially. At the time that his wife was carry ing on this work and giving her strength for the poor and unfortunate in a day when there was no organized effort for charitable relief here, Mr. Bart lay was giving his time and money to va rious similar causes. So quietly and modestly was his work done that only after his death did his fellow citizens know how much h' had accomplished Continued on Page Two. ANOTHER FRAME-UP iv HI a POC.KXV XKWFiWMWfjft. ® IN UL Jim ex It. I JpSlSgg .«R KERfelS®*' we it i J L au. •---€ nut /ft • v $ j •< At* ■ ■* - tlßil Olli' -’, WWSI - • '■ FOES EflF VETO PLOUO BROWN Charge Southern Got Advance Information on Governor's Mileage Disapproval. *Foes of Governor Brown today pre pared to announce that they had posi tive information to show that the exec utive had given the Southern railroad advance information on his veto of th° mileage pulling bill. They further declared that the South ern had been warned to keep the news secret so that It could not get to the newspapers before primary day. The secrecy was maintained, these enemies of the governor declare, for fear of the c/fect of the veto on Jack Slaton's chances in the primary race. An alleged telegram from Hamilton McWhorter, of counsel for the Southern and once a noted lobbyist, furnished the basis of the charges. This tele gram. dated from Athens. Ga., on Au gust 20, was sent to Vice President A. B. Andrews, of the Southern. It told Mr. Andrews that the bill requiring tin pulling of mileage on trains, for which the traveling men of the state had been making a hard light, was to be vetoed and that plans had been laid to prevent the newspapers from obtaining the in formation before the primary election. The text of the telegram is In the hands of the men who made these so-called revelations today. Governor Brown was out of the city. BARTLETT-WISE RESULT TO BE DECLARED FRIDAY MACON, GA. Aug. 28—The Sixth district congressional convention will be held at Barnesville Friday for the purpose of declaring the nominee of the recent primary, who, on the fa< e <•( the returns, is Representative <’. 1.. Bartlett, by a plurality of about 20(i. Judge Bartlett has appointed his dele gates from each of the twelve counties, and thus the convention will be unani mous for him. In view of this fact, it is not expected that Candidate .1 Wal ter WlAe will press his claim for a re count In certain counties. Judge Bartlett has appointed a total of -’O9 deb-gates to repi esent him at the convention.’the pluralit? rule entitling him tri name th< delegates even from the counties carried bv Ills opponent. CHICAGO IN PANIC AS WATER MAIN BURSTS; SIX HURT,SIOO,OOO LOSS CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—Six persons j were injured, a number had narrow H escapes from drowning, damage total ing SIOO,OOO was done and a section of Chicago turned Into a little Venice to ( day as the result of the bursting of a ' big water main at Thirty-third street and Wentworth avenue. The water gushed into the air foi fifteen feet. The flood poured into basements and under mined sidewalks and streets. Firemen and police were called. A fire truck dashing to the scene of the accident crashed tlxrough an undermined street . and pilcht* the members of the truck company if the street. 1 ACTING GOVERNOR WILL NAME JUDGE FOR DARROW TRIAL t LOS ANttELES. Aug 28.—Acting , Governor Wallace will name the judge who will preside at the second trial of Clarence S Darrow, labor attorney, on a charge of bribery. The twelve supe > rior judges of Los Angeles county re fused to hear the ease Judge Willis i set the trial on the calendar for Octo ber 21. and then announced that Gov ! ernpr Wallace had been asked to des ignate the trial judge. The decision of the governor will be announced wlth- • in a few days. ' OIL STEAMER BURNS AND SINKS; CREW OF 42 SWIM TO SHORE i SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Aug. 28. Divers ate working off Aleatt iz wharf to locate the hull of th, steamer Rose- • erans which sank late yest<M<lay fol < lowing a fire which wrecked tlie vessel I to the w ater line The crew of 42 men aboard the ves sel jumped into th. water and .swam ashore. The Rosecrans was an oil-cat tying vessel belonging to the Asso ciated oil Company. It was valued a> , SBO,OOO. and had been in sei vi< e foi a number of years. ARTISTS’ PAINTINGS RUINED BY HEAT AS BIG STABLE BURNS f NEW YORK. Aug. 2x. A spectacu lar tire, which did SIOO,OOO damage and , routed the guests of the exclusive Gainsborough apartment house and surrounding dwellings, occurred early today when the four-story brick build ing occupied as a stable at 225 and 227 West Fifty eighth street wa s destroyed. So intense was the heat that win dows in tin Gainsborough wer. broken : and valuable paintings owned |>y i .irtistv living in the apartments were d< .su'.- ’ By l ad GJRPENTERSDN COURTHOUSE OUT r Men Refuse to Work Overtime, and Superintendent Bars I Them From Job. t - True to the troublous traditions of the Fulton county court house, a lock out of carpenters in the employ of Moise DeLeon. wealthy contractor strangely missing since early in Au gust, was in progress there today. , No word had been received of the vanished contractor, but his troubles ’ continued to multiply. j. Some twenty-five carpenters were not i working today because of a dispute over Superintendent H. J. D. May’s orders for overwoik May says he wanted a ; certain amount of work completed by . Saturday and asked the men to work . overtime. They refused, declaring it was against union rules. Thereupon ) they were locked out by May, who said ho would not have men in his employ who did not obey his orders. The superintendent said today he would*have a new crew 1n short order, but in the meantime further work on th. building is being held up. It was > worry over the court house contract • which is said to have led to DeLeon’s mental collapse and disappearance. DRUNKEN SOLDIERS i “SHOOT UP” TOWN; WOMAN NEAR DEATH 1 WILMINGTON. DEL. Aug 28.’--Mrs. John Corblt, the heroine who was wounded white saving the family of Michael Maher I lorn the regular sol- 1 dlers from Eon Dupont who. while un der th. influence of drink, shot up Dob mn<ville, a suburb of Newcastle. Del., is in a critical condition and may die. The private- were from the Eighty first eomii’anv , i oast artillery. White in- I toxicated, the? tired upon the village with arm? rifles loaded with ball car tridges earl.v yesterday. Six soldiers are under arrest and will be tried by court-martial. RICH. BUT HER DAUGHTER GOES TO COOKING SCHOOL NEW YORK. Aug 2s.—Mrs. Elnmr i Illai’k. ow n> r of a great fortune, has sailed fm Europe with her daughter tn t'O' . iio- lattet in au English cooking sc hum [XTRA E. 1 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p^ fIE BROYIES TO WITHWW 111 JUDGE SICE Atlanta Recorder’s Action Will Make Pottle’s Nomination Unanimous at Macon. WM. J. HARRIS OF POLK * r PERMANENT CHAIRMAN Price and Brown Expected to Fight It Out for Office of Soil Commissioner. f MACON. GA., Aug. 28.—Judge NanVi R. Broyles has announced he will with draw in favor of Judge Pottle, the tat tor’s nomination to be made unanirrwous, MACON. GA.. Aug. 28.—With Judge Robert Pottle a probable winner over Judge Nash Broyles in the court of ap peals race, a stiff fight certain between Price and Brown for the agriculture commissionership and a referrence of the Gilmer county fraud charges to the new executive committee, the Demo cratic state convention opened here to day. William J. Harris, of Polk, is to be the permanent chairman of the con vention and the new executive commit tee. Hardy Ulm, of Fulton, is to be the secretary of the convention and of the state committee. W. S. West, of Lowndes, is to be the temporary chair man. Pottle seemed to have out-generated Broyles completely in the political frame-ups arranged over night In the Hotel Lanier. Not until daybreak this morning had the slates been made to stay put, and even as the convention assembled there was a lingering doubt that everything would go through as programmed, especially with respect to the commissionership of agriculture. Pottle s plea that he should be nomi nated because he had Broyles beaten in the popular vote had been a winning card. Besides, south Georgia seemed suddenly to have awakened to the fact that to put Broyles on the court of ap peals bench would make that court vir tually a solid north Georgia court, with two judges from Atlanta. People Remember Broyles’ Platform. The plea that Broyles can win now only by insisting on technicalities, when his platform specifically declared sot Justice first and technicalities after ward. also has come home to roost in the final showdown. The state department of agriculture is openly fighting for Brown for com missioner of agriculture this morning with the supposed backing of the en tire administration. Tom Watson is reported to have demanded of the state administration its backing of Brown for commissioner of agriculture. Brown needs so few votes to win the nomina tion that the effort to land him may succeed. Commissioner Connor aggres sively fought for Brown this morning, and department patronage is being promised in quantities sufficient to swing delegations where it can be done. Blalock may not be able to control enough of his own delegates to force Price's nomination. The odor of guano has been pretty successfully attached to the Brown boom, and it is hurting the Elbert coun ty man. Blalock, too, is openly fa vorable to Price, failing himself, and Blalock seems to stand no chance what ever of the nomination. - * The Gilflier county mess has affected all the races and it was that that kept lhe politicians juggling all through the weary night In Macon. The convention is unquestionably strongly antl-Morris, and if it ever gets hold of the Morris- Patterson question firmly, Morris will be steam-rolled sure. But the Gilmer returns are so essential in other races that they will be validated, the dele gates seated and the judgeship row passed along to the new executive com mittee. The lobby of the Lanier was a seeth- Mr. and Mrs. Slaton In Hotel Lobby. ing mass of humanity until well'after midnight. There were lights galore alt over the place and the jugglers were at work in the private rooms. John VI. Slaton came down last night and mingled with the crowd in the lob by until 1 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Slaton, who has achieved a reputation here of being an even betetr politician than her distinguished husband, was with the governor to be in the lobby talking freely and animatedly with the delegates. Slaton side-stepped every discussion except as it pertained tn his own nomination, however. The oratory is to oe cut out today.