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HOT BATTLES ST
MACON OVER 2
DEADLOCKS
Convention Which Opens To
morrow Will See Strenuous
Fight for Judgeship.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
MACON, GA., Aug 27—Delegates to
the state Democratic convention, called
to assemble in Macon tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock, are arriving on every
train.
Already the town is swarming with
these important persons. not to mention
hundreds of onlookers in this strenu
ous-to-be Vienna.
Tomorrow is to see in Macon one of
the most interesting and thrilling con
ventions ever held within the state, and
"the boys.'' which specifically includes
the "mixers" and the "fixers," are here
to have a hand in it, openly or in the
darkest and most remote recesses of the
Lanier hotel, as the case may be or the
necessities of the moment require.
By 4:80 this afternoon every delegate
■will have arrived.
This is approximately a definite
etateirent, for every delegate to this
convention has his number, description,
previous political affiliations and reli
gion carefully Indexed either in the
card systems of “Jim" Price, “Hud" Bla
lock or J. J. Brown, contesting candi
dates for the commissionership of ag
riculture
Between these throe, no delegate,
however seemingly Inconsequential, can
escape.
Broyles-Pottle Fight Headliner,
To be sure, the headliner of the en
tire show is the Broyles-Pottle con
test for the court of appeals nomina
tion.
Pottle's friends are claiming the
nomination for their man, on the ground
that he carried the popular vote by
nearly 2,000 over his Atlanta adver
sary. and that he won four more coun
ties than Broyles, even If the unit vote
is a tie.
They are citing—and with considera
ble effect —the fact that Broyles made
his fight on a platform of “justice first,
technicalities afterward "
The Pottle men say that Broyles can
win the nomination now only by in
sisting upon the most technical course
of procedure the convention might pur
sue.
They argue, too —and here they seem
to score again- that to nominate Pot
tle now would leave things as they were
—two good men holding down two good
jobs.
They cite the fact that both positions
pay the same salary'—s4,ooo per annum
—and they plead that the most equita
ble way, the way with less after-effect
of an undesirable or bitter persuasion,
would be to give Pottle the nomina
tion, notwithstanding the tie. and say to
both men, "Well done. Georgia ad
mires two such good fighters, and ap
proves of both."
The Broyles men are better listeners
than talkers today. They are standing
pat, and preserving an almost ominous
calm. What they' will do on the floor
tomorrow Is the pre-convention prize
mystery.
Soil Commissioner Deadlock a Puzzle.
The only sure thing is that "it is in
the air" today that Pottle Is to win.
and without bitterness or hard feelings
upon the part of anybody, after every
thing is over.
Everybody admits that the Broyles-
Pottle race wajff a gallant and manly
fight on both sides.
The Price-Brown-Blalock deadlock
has the best of them guessing, and it
likely will require several back room
caucuses tonight to get that thing
ironed out for convention inspection to
morrow.
On the surface of thing.-, it looks as
If Price has a shade the best of the
situation this afternoon.
Blalock is said to prefer Price as the
eventual nominee, failing himself. He
Insists, nevertheless, that as yet he has
considered Blalock only.
Price, in the matter of a Blalock-
Price line-up, Is said to be Mr. Barkis,
dressed in his Sunday-go-to-meeting
best, with hand outstretched, Blalock
■ward. palm up!
On the contrary, Browo men are
claiming that they have enough Bla
lock votes pledged on the "breakaway"
to insure Brown s nomination and they
a rec lalming that the "Joe" Brown men
on the Blalock delegations are, tn the
matter of second choice. J. J. Brown
men.
Into this fight —lt had to get in some
where, of course i nters the (inescapa
ble “Tom" Watson issue.
Hard to Lose "Jim" Price.
Watson is for Brown—J J That is a
red rag of defiance to ,-nme members of
the convention.
The Brown men say, when pushed
into a corner, that if Brown can not get
it. "Old Jim" Price looks pretty good to
them. And right there is where “Old
Jim," alias Mr Barkis enters again
center-door fancy well up stage, this
time with hand outstret-lied Brown
ward. palm up!
It looks as if it is going to be diffi
cult to lose "Old Jim" in the shuffle
down here.
The row that everybody dreads, and
the only one that smells to high heaven,
is the Gllmei and Fannin county light.
Involving as it does, charges of polltl-
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cal trickery, bald-faced thievery, and
general rottenness.
The Gilmer county row Is ancient, but
it never has been kept in cold storage.
Maybe that is why It is so odoriferous!
Anyway, the convention will have to
face It, for lawyers are here, loaded
down with affidavits and allegations,
while other lawyers are here prepared
to defy the “allegaters" to the very
death!
Everybody wishes Gilmer county
could, or would, come into a state con
vention sometime without a lot of dirty
linen to wash But it looks as if that
day never will dawn.
Convention Probably Will Not Act.
The impression is that me convention
will hear the Gilmer county indict
ment. listen to arguments, and do noth
ing.
The matter of convention organiza
tion has not yet been thrashed out. al
beit the thrashing already is well under
way.
William J Harris wants to be made
permanent chairman, but he has been
industriously admonished, kindly but
firmly, today that it is not what a man
wants that makes him happy, so much
as it is what he gets.
There probably will be opposition to
Harris. Judge Sam Adams of Savan
nah, has his friends, as also has Hardy
I’lm, of Atlanta, Slaton's campaign
manager. W. S. West, of Valdosta, also
is being mentioned.
John W. Bennett, who served as tem
porary chairman of the Underwood
convention In Atlanta, is being groomed
for temporary chairman of the Macon
convention He likely will be given the
place without a contest.
Considerable interest attaches to the
making of the platform There is a ru
mor going the rounds here to the effect
that a movement will be made to hftve
the committee on resolutions submit a
report denouncing Governor Brown's
veto of the "mileage pulling bill."
If it does report such a resolution,
there will be some fireworks and some
rqpgh things will be said on the floor
of the convention.
What Will the Alexander Men Do?
Cooler heads are advising that the
“mileage bill veto" Issue be left out of
the convention —and it likely will be.
Much curslosity attaches to the four
lonesome Alexander delegates, and
I speculation as to what they will do or
say is varied.
As a committee of protest, they might
report many things—they might de
mand that Georgia be declared "in a
-tate of anarchy.' and they might call
for a prohibition plank in the platform.
They will be the only delegates prob
: ably disposed to dissent violently from
any proceedings of the convention, for
the Hull delegates, as a rule, have all
come tight into the Slaton camp and
agreed to be good
ASSASSIN. DISGUISED
AS PRIEST. CAUGHT
KINGSTON JAMAICA. Aug 27.—A
■ man credited with having been the origi
nator of the series of explosions at I‘ort
iu-Prince. Haiti, when General Leconte,
th< president, perished in the flame#
which destroyed the presidential palace,
irrived here on board the German steamer
from Haiti. The suspect appears
i ■ be an Italian and wore the garb of a
priest He will be returned to Haiti.
ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
In the Senate.
Fraud Charged in
Gilmer and Fannin
Attorney Carl Hutcheson, of Atlanta,
will go before the state convention in
Macon tomorrow and file charges of
corruption in Gilmer and Fannin coun
ties, whereby the nomination of Judge
"Newt” Morris was made, possible over
Judge H. 1,. Patte r son in th • recent
Blue Ridge circuit primary.
Mr. Hutcheson returned from Gilmer
and Fannin counties late Monday after
noon, loaded with affidavits and allega
tions of fraud, which he proposes to air
before the convention. Luther Z. Ros
ser, another well known Atlanta attor
ney, w ill represent Judge Morris in the
hearing.
The charges to be brought by Attor
ney Hutcheson involve fraud of a most
tlagrant character, intimidation and
denial of suffrage to qualified but anti-
Morris Democrats.
The Morris attorneys, under the di
recting hand of Mr. Rosser, will enter
sweeping denial to the allegations
brought by the Patterson attorney, and
will demand of the convention a full in
vestigation and petition it to throw’ out
both Gilmer and Fannin counties en
tirely. if it believes they should go out.
It will be insisted, however, that if
the judgeship vote is thrown out, the
entire returns must go along with them.
Would Change Broyles-Pottle Tie.
This would bring on a lot more talk,
for the throwing out of either Gilmer
or Fannin, the one without the other,
would seriously affect the court of ap
peals race, as Broyles carried one coun
ty and Pottle the other—and both are
two-vote counties.
To throw out Fannin and not Gilmer
would give the court of appeals nomi
nation to Pottle; to throw out Gilmer
and not Fannin would throw the court
of appeals race to Broyles.
It is thought that neither the Broyles
nor the IJpttle forces would agree to
any such settlement of their race, as
either action might make possible.
The convention might, if it saw fit.
throw out only the judgeship returns,
for the convention is an absolute and
final law unto itself, and its powers are
entirely arbitrary.
The chances are that Gilmer's and
Fannin's returns'both will be validated,
but that a deplorable state of things
will be shown to exist in those coun
ties. particularly with respect to the
Hlue Ridge judgeship race.
Judge Broyles
To Be at Convention
Judge Nash R. Broyles returned to
Atlanta from Highlands. N. C., today
and will go to Macon at 4 o'clock this
afternoon, there, with his friends, to
place his cause squarely before the state
convention, in order that it may deter
mine who is entitled to the court of ap
peals nomination
"1 thought it best." said Judge
Broyles today, "to return to Georgia,
and be on the ground when the court
of appeals nomination was placed be
fore the convention
"1 have tied Judge Pottle in the unit
vote of the counties. We stand on ex
actly equal footing. I do not concede
the force of tiie argument that Judge'
Pottle should hat e the nomination
merely becausr he has a majority of the
popular vote 1 tan the race oti a dis
tinct understanding that it was a coun
ty unit race. I made no effort to in
crease heavily my vote in any county,
as I might have done in Fulton, for ex.
ample. I made no effort to cut down
Pottle’s popular vote in any county, as
I might have done in Chatham, for ex
ample. I want the right thing done
in the appeals court race—that's all
"I shall go to Maron, keep in Mose
touch with my friends, and advise them
to such course as seems fit and prop
er as the situation develops in the eon-
I vention."
The f tllowing eitiiens of Fulton
county have been named delegates te
■the convention:
Albert Howell. Jr chairman, and J
H Ulm. R F Ma I I x, John W Moore
Waltv P. Andrews. J B Robins m,
Earle Griggs, V H Kriegsbaber. James
B. Nevin, l. V Rossel, Jr. .1 Fred
Lewis and Alfred <’ Newell
The Fulton delegation left >n South
lorn train No. 6 at 12:20 today.
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Neu) York Votes in Barbershops and Stables
WHY NOT USE SCHOOLS?
NEW YORK, Aug. 27,—Why not vote
in a school house instead of a barber
shop?
This question soon will be presented
to the board of elections of New York
by a group of men headed by Raymond
B. Fosdlck, former commissioner of ac
counts. and Louis H. Pink, head of the
United Neighborhood guild, No. 176
Nassau street, Brooklyn.
Fosdlck and Pink confidently expect
the change will be made by the board
in time for the fall elections.
Here are the places where the sov
ereign male citizen of New York now
exercises his royal prerogative of ruling
by ballot:
Barber shops.
Garages.
Cigar stores.
Livery stables.
They usually possess these striking
characteristics:
Lack of room.
Dirt.
Poor light.
Bad air.
Inefficient equipment.
Inconvenient location.
These are the places which Fosdlck
and Pink plan to substitute:
School houses.
Park buildings
Library buildings.
Court houses
Municipal office buildings.
Department headquarters.
All these could be had without ex
pense.
In addition, it is planned to use
churches and settlement houses.
CONGRESS BREAKS ITS
RECORD FOR “GAB”
WITH 18,000,000 WORDS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—The flow of
"gab" at thia session of congress sur
passed all records. Never In the his
tory of this legislative body has such a
volume of oratory been produced.
The figures demonstrate that during the
session Just closed approximately 18,000,-
000 words have been turned into The
Congressional Record. The size of that
volume has grown to 13.003 pages. The
session has continued 265 days.
Other sessions have been longer and
many have considered matters of more
importance, but none has shown such a
reckless use of the printing power.
The first session of the flfty-flrst con
gress, which passed the McKinley tariff
act. is the nearest approach to the rec
ord of this session. That session existed
204 days and The Record grew to 11,588
pages.
The second session of the fifty third
congress, which enacted the Wilson-Gor
man tariff act. existed 268 days and The
Record comprised 10.216 pages. The first
session of the fiftieth congress continued
for 321 days, but The Record only cov
ered 10.236 pages
It hat is known as the war congress,
the second session of the fifty-fifth, lasted
but 215 days and The Record showed but
| 7.569 pages.
LAKE STEAMER WITH 200
ABOARD ON ROCKY SHOALS
MACKINAC ISLAND, MICH., Aug.
27. The steamer Tionesta, bound from
Duluth to Buffalo, ran aground on Tin
shoal, the rocky ledge oft Bois Blanc
island, ytsterday. Two hundred pas
sengers are on board. No damage of
serious nature was done to the Tiones
ta. The ferry boat Algomah and the
tug Ward have gone from Mackinac Is
land to the assistance of the vessel.
In the Gutter.
“The city of New York pays $125,000
each year for the use of the wretchedly
inadequate buildings now used for poll
ing places when right at hand its own
entirely equipped buildings are avail
able," said Mr. Pink. "That’s bad busi
ness policy to begin with.”
“Like paying rent for a poor house
when you own a good one which is
idle?” he was asked.
“Exactly,” returned Mr. Pink, "but
that’s only one of many reasons. Isn't
it odd that in a republic the supreme
act of self-rule should be performed in
manner haphazard and in places unfit?
“Legislative and judicial chambers,
the world over, are in keeping with the
important functions there exercised,”
he went on, "the surroundings of
churches are dignified and quiet, but
how different the polling places.
“It is important that voting be con
ducted amidst dignified surroundings,
free from the shadow of the> control
of the district leader and his followers.
A place well lighted, properly venti
lated and sufficiently spacious is essen
tial to the minimizing of the opportuni
ty for fraud."
Former Commissioner Fosdick is
enthsiastic in his commendation of the
idea.
"This fall will surely see the experi
ment tried," he declared. "It is only a
small part of the movement for the
utilizing of public schools for public
business. The school buildings are built
and maintained at great cost, and they
are idle 60 per cent of the time.”
GIRLS YOUNG UP TO
25, BUT OLD AFTER,
IS Y. W. C. A. RULING
CHICAGO, Aug. 27. —Girls who are
25 years of age are able to take care of
themselves. Under that age they are
still young.
That is the ruling of the directors of
the Y. W. C. A., who have asked 21
young women over 25 years of age to
kindly pack up and leave the home
here. They will admit younger girls
from the country- who are coming to
the city and ask for shelter and pro
tection of the association.
Formerly the directors held that
women of 30 were young. They have
altered their rule, they explained, be
cause of the heavy demand on them sot
accommodations. The demand of young
girls coming to the city- cun not be dis
regarded.
"There is nothing for it to do but to
ask the older girls to leave. Unless we
bad some age limit rule we would soon
be running an old ladies home here."
one of the directors explained.
! SOUTH SIDE BOULEVARD
MASS MEETING CALLED
A mass meeting of the south side cit
izens will be held in the old city hall
Thursday night at 8 o'clock to consider
the project of building a boulevard
from West End to Grant park. Council
has made an appropriation of $9,000
with which to begin this work. While
the streets in this section are being
Improved the citizens want Georgia
avenue regraded.
The members of council of that sec
tion will be present, and the general
condition of streets will be discussed.
JOHNO.'SFARMIN
REIGN OF TERROR
Employees Waylaid and Shot.
Detective Burns to Solve
the Mystery.
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—Following an
extended conference with John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., Willjam J. Burns, the
detective, today took personal charge
of the hunt being made for the des
peradoes who, during the past few
weeks, have held the estate of John D.
Rockefeller, the oil magnate, at Pocan
tlco Hills, in a state of terror.
Efforts on the part of the local police
to round up the men, who within the
past few days have shot two of the
employees of the Rockefeller estate,
held up and robbed a number of others
and spread terror throughout the entire
section in which the great estate lies,
have been unsuccessful.
The trouble'which has held the Po
cantico home of the oil magnate in a
state of terror began about three weeks
ago when several employees were dis
charged, following complaint lodged
with the superintendent. The dis
charged men, it was said, began send
ing threats to the men retained, warn
ing them that unless they quit they
would be severely dealt with.
No attention was paid to the warn
ings. A few days later an employee on
the way to the estate was waylaid and
seriously injured. Others were held up
at night on the roads and robbed. The
trouble culminated toward the end of
last week when an employee was shot
and seriously wounded.
For the past ten days the estate had
been guarded by armed men and all in
truders or suspicious persons warned
away.
ATHENS MAN. DESPONDENT
AND ILL, COMMITS SUICIDE
ATHENS, GA.. Aug. 27.—J. O. Wil
liams, a well-known Athens man. com
mitted suicide here today by shooting
himself with a shotgun. 11l health and
despondency were the causes. He was
54 years of age.
Mr Williams was a former resident
of Madison county, and later was in
business in Athens, but several years
ago retired. He was an uncle of Elmer
Crawford, county clerk. Ho leaves three
sons, Jefferson. Price and Coyle Wil
liams. all well known. He had been in
poor health for three years and had
often threatened to take his own life.
BOY. DEFENDING MOTHER.
STABS FATHER TO DEATH
VINELAND. N. J., Aug. 27.-E. R. Gar
ton. a wealthy livery stable skeeper. was
stabbed to death early today by his son.
Henry. 21. who used a knife in defense
of his mother Later the slayer sur
rendered himself to the chief of police.
Garton was beating the boy's mother.
Frances Anderson.
The funeral of Frances Anderson,
little daughter of J. C. Anderson, was
held at the family home on Peathtree
road this afternoon at 3 o'clock. In
terment was at Harm'my church. The
BIG NOOSE READ!"
TO MIKE PUBLIC
ALL LETTERS '
Roosevelt Will Produce Any He
Has if Approximate Date Is ,
Given Him. 4
Continued From Page One.
Roosevelt say the letters of Roosevelt of
October 26 and 27 and the telegram of
October 29—a1l to Cortelyou—were
“written for the record.”
“That is false,” insisted the colonel.
“I may have remarked that ‘this will r
set the record straight,’ or something
of the kind, to indicate that I intend- ,
ed an official record of the affair ex
actly as it happened. I don’t recall that
I made any comment whatever, but if I
did its import had clearly been miscon
strued.” ' r
Colonel Roosevelt leaves for his Ver
mont trip at midnight tomorrow. He ex
pects to spend three days making the
hardest kind of a campaign.
Steel Trust Back
Os T. R., Says Reed
CHICAGO, Aug. 27,—“The steel
trust, the Morgan interests, are backing
Roosevelt, and they are as wicked as
Standard Oil.”
This is the statement of Senator
James A. Reed, of Missouri, here on
his way home from Washington.
"Roosevelt is resorting to his usual
style,” said Reed. “He abuses every
body who differs from him. In this
way he hopes to divert public attention
from the present issue, which has come
be his own connection with the
Standard Oil Company. Does Roose
velt deny that the steel trust and the
Standard Oil interests interlock? •
“What difference does it make wheth
er Roosevelt got money from the
Standard Oil Company when his chief
adviser now is George W. Perkins, the f
man who originated the steel trust?”
TAFT MENTOSUZ TO
TAKE T. R. ELECTORS
OFF TICKET IN NEBR.
LINCOLN, NEBR., Aug. 27.—Suit to f
remove the names of six Roosevelt •
electors from the Republican ticket in
Nebraska will be brought by the Taft
organization in the state, provided the
electors refuse to comply wdth a de
mand that they resign. . 1
This move was determined upon at a '
meeting of the state committee, and
copies of the resolutions demanding
resignation of the Roosevelt men were
mailed to them today.
The suit will be brought in the state
supreme court. If the desired order is
not issued there, the case will be taken
to the supreme court of the United
States. ,
JOHN JACOB ASTOR'S
BABYJVIAY JOIN CLUB >
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—John Jacob
Astor, the late Colonel Astor’s newly
born son. has been invited to become a
member of the Babies auxiliary of the
New York Diet Kitchen association, of
No. 1 West Thirty-fourth street.
Should he decide to accept he will
have for colleagues Edith Kingdon
Drexel, the daughter of the former
Marjorie Gould; Leonard and Marga
ret Dunne, the children of Peter Finley >
Dunne, “Mr. Dooley;” May Low Goon,
the little daughter of China; Dorothea
Sandford Villard and Henry Hilgard
Villard, grandchildren of Mrs. Henry
Villard, president of v the association,
and others equally notable,
VETERAN GETS HIS CIVIL •
WAR INJURY CUT OUT
ALTOONA, PA., Aug. 27. —After car
rying a lump on his head for 50 years,
Major John R Garden, veteran of the 7
Civil war, walked to the hospital and
asked that it be removed, as it had
lately been annoying him. When it
was suggested that he submit to an
anesthetic, he shook his head.
“11l undergo the operation without,"
he said, and he did. f
Major Garden was shot by a Confed
erate sharpshooter in the war, but
after the wound healed it never gave
hint any- trouble until recent years,
when it began to enlarge.
DOCTOR WARNED TO
LEAVER HOME FIRED
ATTALLA, ALA., Aug 27.—Dr. E. K.
Hamby has recently received several let
ters warning him to leave. He was called
away from home, ostensibly on profes
sional business. While absent his home
was burned.
ACCUSED BANK CASHIER
RETURNS TO STAND TRIAL >
NEV FORK, Aug. 27.—John A. Flack.
I former cashier of the Abilene. Kans.,
I State bank, charged with a shortage of
SBO,OOO. today waived extradition and will
start for Abilene tomorrow to stand trial
on a charge of grand larceny.
BOURKE CCCKRAN A MOOSE.
HEMPSTEAD, L. I , N. Y. Aug. 27.
W Bourke Cockran. former Democratic
congressman, has been designated by
the Progressive committee of the First
congressional district here as candidate
for the nomination for congress.
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