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Nash Broyles, Gentleman
In withdrawing from the court of appeals contest before the
Ftate convention. Nash R. Broyles did a manly and ma unanimous
thing.
He had divided the county-unit vote exactly in half with his
adversary. Judge Robert Pottle, and Pottle had very little the het
ter of the argument in the matter of the popular majority.
Broyles made his race upon a platform of “justice first and
technicalities afterward.” and that his appeal went home to the
people unmistakably was demonstrated abundantly in the returns.
Had Broyles been any fraction less than a thoroughgoing
man of his word, he might have blocked the convention nomina
tion indefinitely. He elected to stand by his platform, however,
and to reject an honor for the sake of consistency and straight
forward sincerity.
Broyles declined to take advantage of even a broad technical
ity. It was a brave and big thing to do.
There are many men who endeavor in many ways to live up
to the grand old name of gentleman. Sonic carry their endeavor '
into their personal acts, but discount il in their politics Not so
Broyles. He draws no fine distinctions and discrimination.
Georgia may well be proud of Broyles. He fought a dean !
fight, he waged an honest battle. He lost like a gentleman. And
that should commend him most favorably to the future consid
eration of the people and Broyles still is a young man.
[Now, Women, You Sec That
i It Pays to Organize
Four years ago the big political parties looked upon woman
suffrage as an amusing joke, a sentimental theory, or a plain
nuisance.
Four years ago no big political party or big politician cared
much about women or what they thought or what they did.
Four years ago no important politician would have dared to as
sociate himself in polities with women. He would have been afraid
of making himself ridiculous, afraid of hurting bis standing before
the voters.
Four years ago the women of the country were classified legally
and in the minds of politicians WITH THE ('IIILDR EN. INDIANS
AND IDIOTS, NOT PERMITTED TO VOTE.
But everything is changed today. Four years have worked
wonders.
Today each of the throe big candidates for the presidency is
doing his best to interest women in his campaign. Each is proud to
select some woman of character and intelligence as his associate in
the work of convincing voters
Roosevelt is proud, and well ho may ho. of the friendship and
co-operation of that splendid woman. Jane Addams.
Mr Taft has invited Miss Boardman, of the lied Cross Society,
to interest herself in his campaign If she persists in her refusal he
will find somebody else.
Mr. Wilson, the Democratic candidate, has among his fighting
generals Mrs J. Borden Harriman, an energetic and intelligent
woman, who will try 1 o eon vineo other women t hat Wilson's elect ion
will help the country, and help women and childrt n especially
It is not necessary to tell any intelligent woman WHY the big
politicians and parties show this sudden interest in women, this
violent desire for their advice and help.
Women are important today in the eves of men. BECAUSE
WOMEN HAVE HAD THE BRAINS TO ORGANIZE AND DE
MAND THE VOTE AND THE RIGHT TO A SHARE IN GOV
ERNMENT
Already women have acquired the ballot in six states. In the
election which is coming women might possibly decide the whole
contest in favor of one or another of the three leading candidates
Politicians realize this, and they suddenly realize that women
are important and worth while.
They want the approval of women, and. therefore, they ask the
co-operation of women.
They want the votes of women, therefore they will try to work
for women and for the children whose defenders the women are
The Roosevelt platform gives us for the first time in the history of
this country a serious effort to include the family and its needs, and
the protection of children especially, as important parts of national
government.
Women, politicians realize your importance BECAI'SE YOC
YOURSELF HAVE BEGUN TO REALIZE YOl'R POWER
Work and fight for female suffrage everywhere.
Don’t allow the men exclusively to decide what shall be done
with the sons and daughters that you bring into the world.
Don't permit the men to decide on peace and war while vou
create every soldier that lies dead when the war is over.
Don't allow the men exclusively to settle the questions of taxa
tion by government and by trusts when the taxes come out of your
pockets, out of the money that you need for your children
Don't be classed any longer with the Indians and the idiots,
unfit to vote.
Let the attitude of the three presidential candidates, suddenly,
violently interested in you. teach yon a lesson.
The way for women to be considered and to get then- rights and
their share in government is through the ballot box and government
control.
Now that women begin to vote, women are considered
When 100 per cent of the women are permitted to vote, all
women and children will be at least 100 per cent better off
The suffrage movement has accomplish'd wonders already, it
will do infinitely more.
Every intelligent woman Ml ST b< in favor of votes lor women. I
The Atlanta Georgian
Some Thrills of Mountain Climbers
Perilous Thrills That Confront the Daring
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The snow-corniced crest of the Ecrins W
a typical snow summit -
c-pxHE Ecrins is tlie loftiest of the
I Dauphiny Alps, and affords
more snow and ice climbing
than the Meije. The usual and
preferable plan is to climb tile north
face of the peak from La Berarde
and descend on the south side, mak
ing a circuit of the peak by cross
ing tlie Col des Ecrins. The Ecrins
was first climbed by the late Ed
ward Whymper from' the south
side, but nowadays this route is
scarcely ever used excepting for the
<l< scent. The great rift, now known
ns the t'ouloir Whymper, is a ter
rific f< \ slope. 1,000 feet long and of
appalling steepness. Sharp rock
splinters protrude at places. These
form ani horage for those who care
fully zig-zag downward, thinking
meanwhile how true were tlie im
mortal poet'- words:
“lie that stands upon a slippers'
place
Makes nice of no vile hold to slay
him up."
To think of slipping whilst in the
act of clinging to such a horrible
slope is inexpressibly uncomforta
ble One has impressions'of whirl
ing over those rockj spikes, of
being cut and quartered, and finally
deposited out of human sight in
| tlie huge crevasse that vawns be
low.
I'he Eerlns is curiously suscepti
bh to sudden weather changes, and
the writer has unpleasant memories
of its northerly face at such a time.
Tlie ascent of tlie Meije Is of en
grossing interest, and few of the
great Alps afford such a wonder
full.' impressive final approach to
the summit. The early morning
hours are spent climbing the huge
rock wall overlooking La Berarde.
and at last tlie little Glacier Carre
leads to the wall of the last ridge.
The ascent of a vertical and diffi
cult slab tests every lota of muscle
and skill to the utmost. The arri
val on Its crest is surprisingly
Startling. The fingers grip the sharp
top. and left foot swings around air
ily. and with a desperate upward
heave one lands breathlessly astride
what is in reality the narrow ridge
pole of the mountain. The right leg
swings in mid-air above one of the
greatest of Alpine I'lecipices; the
left dangles over the other side of
the mountain above a tiny village of
La Grave. 7,500 f,, Pt below, and re-
g 1 -ct ters From Georgian Readers ©
HOW TO GO TO SLEEP.
F.tlltor The Georgian.'
I always read what you write
a great deal of interest and
profit. In jour article on "How to
Go to Sleep" 1 notice you offer a
suggestion "most humbly." I have
read this article with a good deal
of interest, and have intended to
try it; at the same time I write
you a word on the subject of sleep
lessness from which 1 suffered very
much some time ago. The remedy
> this. Bathe the back of the head
and neck for three or four minutes
with cold water. This takes the
blood from the brain and cools it,
and 1 have never seen it fail to ac
complish the object of bringing
about almost immediate sleep -
sound and refreshing sleep. I have
nlade the suggestion very frequent
ly. and it has never failed, as far
as 1 know, to accomplish the ob
ject.
With kind regards. T remain,
Yours trulj. S P. R.
FAIRNESS IN POLITICS.
Edit",- The Georgian:
1 picked up tonight's edition of
your paper because the sporting
page looked good to me, and on
pei using its contents further was
forcibly struck with the fairness of
vour articles lam from Chicago.
I know nothing of Southern poli
tics, but when I read "The Voter
and His Backbone,” on the back
page, I noted the good common
sense in it and dived deeper, read
j 'our art. . -hr Senatot Dixon ami
' barl, - 1> Hille- If JI, Hilles
thinks the Progressive party is a
1 one-man part) he will wake up
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29. 1912.
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’Twixt earth and sky on the great wall of the Mejie.
veals thus dramatically for the first
time. There may have been talk of
a visit to tlie old-world village, but
now there is no desire of fulfilment.
Rather, to prevent an involuntary
visit thereto, every roughness of the
sky-courting summit is gripped
convulsively. But upward. not
downward, is the cry. and Caliban
• like one crawls and clings up and
along tlie aerial highway. Soon
there is a confronting bulge in the
narrow ridge and one has to mount
warily to balance at full height on
its sharp tip. Then conies a long
stretch and perchance the French
gui le ahead strengthens the en
tente cordiale with an opportune
pull on the rope. Thus the
final difficulty is conquered. A
few minutes later upward progress
next November to find that Illinois
voters don't agree with him, and
from close observance I could name
quite a bunch of other states that
will fall right in line with Illinois,
and as to President Taft's progres
siveness, we settled that for our
selves at tlie last primaries, along
with the Lorimer ease.
The American people are tired of
spinning the wheel ami taking
chances on the green or red as it
shows up under the wire. They
are for good, clean newspapers and
men with backbone.
W. H, BROOKS
IVY STREET REGRADING.
Editor The Georgian:
1 do not wish to east a damper
on any movement looking to the
general good of Atlanta or for the
benefit of any of our live and en
terprising citizens, but for reasons
of consideration sot the north side
residents 1 feel that the regrading
oi Ivy street should be deferred un
til Peaehtiee street is again open to
traffic.
When the present work on Peach
tree was inaugurated we were in
formed in dulcet tones that "tak
ing the hump off" and restoring the
pavement would be a matter of
only about three weeks. These
weeks have passed and are likely to
lengthen into months before this
street is again open In the mean
while if Ivy street is rendered im
passable the inconvenience will be
great.
I have conferred with many
, north aiders” and tind that, with
the exception of a few interested
j ones, they feel that no should
is impossible, the .Meije (13.081 feet)
is under foot.
All around rise peaks of a thou
sand forms, witli Mont Blanc s glit
tering snows towering afar in the
northeast, whilst, most impressive
of all. and close below, looms tlie
weirdly serrated eastern ridge of
the .Meije, with its fearsome-look
. ing tower of the Doigt de Dieu.
Those who wish to traverse the
mountain and descend to La Grave
cross this lower summit. The
somewhat lengthy expedition is
now made more feasible by the
erection of a mountain hut within
reach of the upper ridges, and this
will he welcomed by those who oth
erwise might have to spend the
night out on the heights, ofttimes a
desperately dangerous experience.
be taken at presen* which would
necessitate a more rough and cir
cuitous route into the city.
GEORGE M. NILES.
Atlanta. Ga.
THE SOCIALIST AND HIS IDEA.
Editor The Georgian:
in a recent issue Mr. J. H. Jen
kins replies to an article written
by Rev. Dr. Parkhurst anent our
civilization and the Socialists.
Mr. Jenkins claims that Social
ism does not propose to buy out the
capitalist system at one clean
sweep, but successively. Where Dr.
Parkhurst and Mr. Jenkins got the
idea that the Socialists propose to
buy out the capitalists either at one
clean sweep or successively is be
yond my comprehension. It is sure
ly not advocated by Socialist au
thorities. This argument may be
a good nerve sedative for an over*
gtieved capitalist ora peace-loving,
quiet genth man, yet a Socialist
who knows Socialism and does not
wish to conceal his true Socialism
will never advocate this as a mat
ter of bringing Socialism.
I’he Socialist doctrine is that ail
the machinery of production now
tn the hands of the capitalists is
uftjustly expropriated from those
who actually produced it. Confisca
tion through legislation Is the main
tenet of Socialism. This is the
only reason why Socialists go into
polities.
1 believe that no Socialist ought
to conceal the true aim of Social
ism by easy -going phrases, let op
ponents say what they please.
J. GOLDMAN.
Atlanta, Ga.
John Temple Graves
Writes on
Startling Presidential Possi
bilities
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What Might Happen If the Electoral
College Can Not Settle the
Three-Cornered Race
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
zI > HIS vivid and sensational
I presidential campaign is
charged with astonishing pos
sibilities that extend beyond the
ballots of November.
Unless the result on November 5
should be absolutely conclusive, the
excitement of American politics will
have just begun.
The Democratic committee ex
presses the most unbounded confi
dence that Wilson will be elected by
a great majority of the popular vote
and of the elctoral college.
The Republican committee ex
presses an equal confidence in Air.
Taft's ele ti< n.
And the Progressive party are en
thusiastically sure that .Mr. Roose
velt will be elected.
The impartial observers in the
country agree that Wilson's chances
are best, but that the progress of
the campaign may develop increas
ing and formidable strength for
Roosevelt or Taft in the electoral
college.
May Throw Election Into
House of Representatives.
There are a great many people
who regard it as distinctly probable
that the strength of the three lead
ing candidates may be so divided in
the electoral college as to throw the
election, under the constitution,
into the house of representatives.
In this connection these are th©
facts to consider:
in the election of a president by
the house of representatives, each
of the 48 states lias a single vote,
and the political majority in the
state delegation determines for
whom that vote is cast. There ar©
22 state delegations in which the
Republicans have a majority, and
four in which the Democrats and
Republicans are tied. These four
tied states are Maine, with two
Democrats and two Republicans;
Nebraska, with three Democrats
anfTthree Republicans; New Mexi
co, with one Democrat and one Re
publican, and Rhode Island, with
one Democrat and one Republican
The states that would cast votes
for a Democrat are Alabama. Ari
zona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida.
Georgia. Indiana. Kentucky. Louis
iana, Mississippi, Missouri, New
Jersey. New Mexico. New York.
North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma,
South Carolina. Tennessee. Texas.
Virginia. West Virginia. Total, 22.
The states that would cast votes
for a Republican president are Cali
fornia. Connecticut. Delaware, Ida
ho, Illinois. lowa, Kansas, Massa
chusetts. Michigan. .Minnesota,
Montana, Nevada. New Hampshire,
North Dakota. Oregon, Pennsylva
nia, South Dakota. Utah, Vermont,
Washington, Wisconsin. Wyoming.
Total. 22.
Never before in American history
has there been found on the eve of
a presidential election a house so
evenly divided between parties as
to make a choice improbable, if not
Fhe Little fin Pail
By CHESTER FIRKINS.
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T"N Y might and magic, by table and chair, ?
|j He’d scale to the heights of the playroom wall
And take from its hook in the dizzy air >
The Little Tin Pail—and that was all. >
h A shout and a rush through the echoing hall, >
1A summons loud as an ocean gale; »
And HOW should I work when I heard the call
of the Little Tin Pail? 5
We would wander away to the sunny shore; y
We would race to the rim of the watery sand; 5
And I was forty and he was four, |
Rut which was the younger when, hand in hand,
; We journey ed down to the playtime land (
Twere hard to tell, and of no avail. <
For I was a slave to his least command— V.
S With the Little Tin Pail. j
We built a country all our own. ?
With rivers wide and with mountains high. ;
And. pausing just tor an ice cream cone. >
We’d fashion a town and a lake nearby.
We talked to the fairy-folk who fly >
On the wave-foam far as a ship can sail. >
Oh. many' the magic joys that He s
In a Little Tin Pail! <
I Rut once, when the Work-Gnome tried me sore (
And the call of the Work-World made me dumb, S
I did not go to the study door, j
And I called to him that I couldn't come. <
< But my thoughts went wrong and my brain was numb.
And I hastened soon on his weeping trail: ’ <
And all I found where the cold waves thrum j
j Was the Little Tin Pall.
It is hidden far in an attic grave >
S Eor his mother's sake—that she may not see ?
j And think again of the joy G> d gave >
And carried away from her and me: >
S Rut I. in that hour that used to he. {
j When he'd shout to me with his playtime hail. <
S Turn back, with the tears of memory,
To the Little Tin Pail.
THE HOME PAPER "
impossible, under the party divi
sions that exist.
if Wilson should receive 260 votes
and lack the seven votes necessary
to a majority of the electoral col
lege. he would not be elected, and
the Roosevelt-Taft electoral votes
would, be strong enough to throw
the election into the house. Then
the equal party division of the
states might, and probably would,
make an election of a president
practically impossible by the house.
Whereupon, after ballots extend
ing through the session, the elec
tion. under the constitution, would
go to the senate through the neces
sity of electing a vice president and
presiding officer. The choice would
be restricted to the two candidates
receiving the highest vote for vice
president in the general election. In
this case the vice president or pre
siding officer of the senate so elect
ed would become the president of
the United States.
Rut notice the complications.
The senate is Republican, and the
Republican senate would naturally
choose the Republican candidate
for vice president, even though he
had been beaten, world without
end. in the November ballot. So
that In the not improbable event .of
the election going to the senate,
that Republican party might elect
its own presiding officer, himself a
candidate, and make “Sunny Jim”
tlie president of the United States.
Or, in case Hiram Johnson, of
California, ran second In the elec
tions, the Republican senate might
make Hiram Johnson president of
tlie United States.
The Field of Possibility
Is Now Wide Open.
In other words, if Wilson ran
1,000,000 votes ahead tn the general
elections, and yet lacked two votes,
or even one vote, in the electoral
college, and the evenly divided
house failed to make a choice, the
senate might make one or the other
of the minority candidates of a di
vided or defeated Republican party
for vice president the chief execu
tive of the republic.
If in turn the senate should by
death or persuasion divide equally
among three vice presidential can
didates (which Is not impossible),
then Philander Knox, of Pennsyl
vania, secretary of state, would be
come ex-officio president of the
United States!
S ' that the field of possibilities
in this wonderful presidential cam
paign is wide open and fairly thrill
ing with interest.
The enthusiastic friends of the
candidates may, of course, laugh
at the speculation, but there are
thousands on the watch tower who
will find enough in the outlook to
keep them awake to the end of the
chapter.
of course, my personal opinion is
that Wilson's majority in the elec
toral college will be satisfying and
complete.