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2 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- The Atlanta Georgian—Premium Coupon This coupon wi'l be accepted at our Premium Parlor, 20 East A'abama at., as partial payment for any of the beautiful premium goods displayed thera. Set? Premiun Parlor Announcement on Another Page •tty W ' W1 "i £l. --ife. I»? - ■ ABE SPWIfcH Is&Jw .•w aw lllLsfglF ~ |Bf |BH Wilt MiSsfc- IWjfc 7l I WBWsr--- flf Sir will wiii lOit IM WP Wm Ms wl I||| k* - ’ k Wit 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. z 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. FOR BRAIN FAG , Take Horsford’s Acid Phosphate Recommended for relief of tired nerves, tdache follow ing mental 1 strain or yverwork •••