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tures. But Raps Protection f
Stand of Roosevelt.
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•ions, but every one of these plans has
merely bound their working men more
tightly to themselves. Their rights un
der these various arrangements are not
legal rights. They ate merely privi
leges which they enjoy so long as they
remain in the employment and observe
the rules of the great industries which
employ them If they refuse to be
weaned away from their Independence
they can not continue to enjoy the
benefits extended to them.
"When you have thought the whole
thing out, therefore, you will find that
the program of the new party legalises
monopolies and systematically subor
dinates working men to them and to
plans made by the government both
with regard to employment and with
regard to wages.
Means Economic
Mastery Over Workers
"Take the thing as a whole, and it
look* atrangely like economic mastery
over the very lives and fortunes of
those who do the dally work of the
nation, and all this under the over
whelming power and sovereignty of the
national government. What most of
ns are fighting for is to break up this
very partnership between big business
and the government. Call upon all in
telligent men to beer wltnes* that If
thia plan were consummated, if this
program werv carried through the great
employers and capitalists of the coun
try would be under a more overpower
Ing temptation than ever to take con
trol of the government and keep It sub
servient to their purposes. What a
prise it would be to capture, how un
assailable would be the majesty and
tyranny of monopoly If It could thus
get sanction of law and tire support
of parties; by what means, except open
revolt, could we ever break the crust of
our life again and become free men,
breathing an air of our own, choosing
and living lives that we wrought out
for ourselves'
"It is like coming out of a close and
stifling air Into the open, where we
ran breathe fully again and see the
free spaces of the heavens above us
to turn away from such a program, the
identical program suggested to com
mittees of congress by Mr. Gary and
Mr. Perkins, to the proposals with
which the great Democratic thinkers of
the country oppose such platform.
Democratic leaders turn away frott
any plan to legalize monopoly and give
a l-'ederal commission leave to sav how
much of it there should be. because
they know exactly what that would
mean.
Regulation of
Competition Needed.
"What they propose Is the restora
tion of freedom. What we. need Is
the regulation of competition and the
prosecution of what has created mo
nopoly. When you have regulated It.
you have in effect restored it. We are
not opposed to regulation; we are not
opposed to commissions even If they
be necessary instruments of adminis
trative regulation, but we know that
unrestrained, unrestricted competi
tion is the very thing that has created
monopoly. Great industrial and finan
cial concerns have become so power
ful that they were able to crush com
petition and take a free field for them
selves In which they could rule and
dominate unhindered
The governor then declared that no
man had ever been made free by being
taken care of as children by the gov
emment under which they lived, and
then continued:
"In this ag" of organisation of capi
tal. advances in wages have been won
chiefly by organized labor insisting
upon its rights and its share The
other thing that has worked for the
laboring man, when there has been a
chance for It to work, has been the
great economic law of supply and de
mand. In a free field of competition,
whenever new enterprises may spring
up. where men fulfill their hopes of in
dependence and themselves more and
more numerously become employers,
there is an over-increasing market of
labor and with the increasing market
for labor there Is generally a steady
advance in wages."
Tremendous Reception
For The Governor
Governor Wilson S"l a tremendous
reception on his arrival her. Com
mittee# of the Buffalo Trades and La
bor council and the Catholic Young
Men's- union met him at his private < ir
H- was escorted to the street where a
<r..v.d of several thousand surrounded
him :nd cheered and applauded the
vandidao Governor Wilson entered an
automobile and the crowd immediately
■ loved in on It The mounted police at
tempted to scattei the crowd but the
governo: waved them back and shook
hands with as nriir. as po-sible The
candidate then was taken to the Ho
tel Latiiyetl- wh*:e a ii.ip: .-n wh.-
held. At least I,■an' shook l ands with
him. Th. n h> Went to the Hotel p,
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Roosevelt Off on
111,000 Mile Trip
BRIDGEPORT. CONN. Sept. 2
Professing complete confidence in
the outcome In November of
the fight which he Is waging,
Colonel Roosevelt left New York to
day on hi, 11,000-mile tour, which will
‘ take him to the Pacific coast and back
I to New York, and into about 35 states
Traveling in a special car, to which
I wa» attached another car loaded with
newspaper reporters, the colonel got
under way on his 1 ong continental
swing at 8;03 o'clock At that hour he
left for Hartford. Conn., his first stop
ping place. From Hartford the colo
nel's Itinerary carries him to Spring
field, Mass , whence he departs for the
West.
t’olonel Roosevelt was accompanied
by his nephew George Roosevelt, the
only member of his personal party
The colonel served notice on the Pro
gressive party candidates that they
must live up to their pledges and that
he will not tolerate the breaking of a
promise by one of them. In a four
minute speech at Stamford, t'onn., he
said
"If any of our candidates who are
selected falls to live up to any promts*
he makes, I will take the stump against
him. We stand for applied honesty of
principles. We are. going to keep faith
with the people."
Don't Wonder at Jeer.
When a member of his audience
jeered this statement, the colonel re
torted :
"I don’t wonder you jeer. The old
parties had away of making promises
end not keeping them. It won't be that
way with us."
Colonel Roosevelt got a tremendous
ovation.
The colonel motored from Oyster
Bay early in the morning Anticipating
a crowd al the Grand Central station,
at New York, the candidate took a de
' viou« course to his car. passing through
the baggage room and a side entrance.
Only a few of those who had gathered
got a glimpse of him us he hurried
• down the platform
Colonel Roosevelt will he away from
New York for 30 days, during which
time he will carry the banner of the
National Progressive party In whirl
wind fashion through the Western
states, and up and down the Pacific
coast. During his absence the colonel
will be In close touch with headquar
ters of Ids party tn Stew York and Chi
cago
Cecil Lyon in Party,
At St Ixmis, his first slopping place
' after leaving Springfield, Muss, he will
be joined by Colonel Cecil Lyon, of
Texas, who fought so valiantly for the
colonel at the national Republican con
vention In Chicago. Prom time tt> time,
also, the colonel's entourage will be
made up of local- Progressive leaders,
who will ride with the colonel through
their states
At St. Ixmis when the colonel ar
rives there at 3 o’clock tomorrow the
i c r y . will be tilled with visitors from nil
i parts of Missouri. This is right in line
, with the third termer’s policy of ad
dressing his pleas to the working peo
ple and "tlllens of the soil."
Another state fair will be on at St.
Paul when the colonel reaches there
Thursday after making stops at Keo
' link, Mount Lion, Ottumwa, Oskaloosa,
Des Moines and possibly a few other
lowa points
Leaving St. Paul, the colonel wIP
head straight for the Pacific coast
zel to meet 200 members of the Cath
olic Young Men's union. in a brief
speech there he said:
Everything is organized in this
country except public opinion. The in
terests are organized, so are the poll
tlclans and the political parties Now
we are beginning to organize public
opinion, and i want to sav th HI you
young men tan do a great deal to per
fect this if you will an sav you will
not allo* yourselves to be bamboozled
any more, if you will bo determined
not to judge a candidate by a label, but
vote straight for right and justice,
then the air of politics will be cleared’
Young Mens Business
To Lead Public Opinion.
"It is especially the business of young
men to lead in this organization of pub.
He opinion. At the same time I know
the young man labors under a handicap
because he Is expected to wear the
jacket of the last generation. He ought
to demand that a Jacket that fits him
and not be satisfied with one that fit
his father 25 years ago. It ought to
be a new jacket suited to his shape
size and style"
The governor then returned to the
Hotel Lafavette. where he took lunch
eon with the labor union leaders His
later program called for a visit to the
Wilson and Marshall headquarters din
ner at the Lafayette with the local
Democratic leaders and labor officials,
a speech at a mass meeting at the
Broadway arsenal at 8 o'clock and de
parture for Trenton at 10:30 p rn
Loeb, Cortelyou
And Hearst Invited
WASHINGTON. Sept -W tillaln
' | Loeb, Ji . and George 11. Cortelvou. each
I a formet private secretary to Colonel
‘ Roosevelt when he was president; Wil-
' ■ ’ Hearst and John D.
' 1 fora illy been asked to
'appeal before the senate committee
1 investigating campaign contributions,
w lien it resumes hearings late this
■ I mom h
Mr i ortr.vnu has testified that when
I he conduct, . Mr. Roosevelt's campaign
in 190< no contributions we • received
,tron th. Standard <"' t'ompany. John
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Archbold or anybody acting for that
corporation.
The committee wants.to examine him
in the light of Mr. Archbold’s testimo
ny that he gave SIOO,OOO with the
knowledge and consent of Colonel
Roosevelt. Mr. Loeb was Colonel
Roosevelt's secretary nt the time the
former president wrote letters and tel
egrams to Mr. Cortelyou directing the
i return of any Standard Oil contribu
tions Both men have notified the com
mittee they are ready to appear. Neither
i has been subpenaed. Similar letters
. have been sent to Mr. Archbold and Mr.
1 Hearst.
Efforts are being made to find the
men who handled campaign funds dur
“ ing the recent presidential primaries
I Some correspondence along that line is
“ said to await the return of Senator
■ Clapp, chairman of the committee.
Stanley Comes
Back at Roosevelt
HENDERSON. KY . Sep' -■ Cono
nel Roosevelt is spending much of
his time denouncing the recommenda
tion of a committee which he charac
terizes as 'mere sound and fury.' said
Congressman A. O. Stanley, chairman
of the committee investigating the
United States Steel Corporation here.
1 In answer to the strictures of Colonel
Roosevelt in bls recent speech at St.
Johnsbury. VI Congressman Stun
ley’s statement continue**
"Ordinarily a candidate for presi
dent and a former president could he
expected to find some subject of ’pith
1 and moment' to occupy his valuable
time and that of his auditors. But the
colonel Is unique, as he knows the
great value of 'sound and fury ' They
have been Ills principal assets during
more than a decade of public service
and 'sound and fury'—more fury and
less sound, and his voice grows hoarser
and chances slimmer have character
ized his last furious political fiasco,
stampede of the stall-fed bull moosg.
lately the property of the steel trust.
. now exhibited by his devoted manager
and munificent provider, one George W.
Perkins, of New York.
What a Pity! Saya Stanley.
, "Says Colonel Roosevelt, the anti
trust law’ by itself can never in any
shape or way solve the problem of
dealing with the trusts.
"If the Sherman anti-trust law had i
been a complete and all-sufficient rem
edy. the Stanley committee would nev
er have proposed to amend it. What
a pity the colonel did not discover
there was no value in the Sherman
act when he was president and when
his attorneys general brought repeated
suits under it to dissolve the trusts, and :
his allies with much sound and fury" |
proclaimed to the country that by this
means they were going to punch all
the malefactors of great wealth who
were not 'friendly' or wufllciently lib
e ra I.
"During his entire incumbency in of
fice Roosevelt m ver advocated but on< ;
amendment to the Sherman act. the no- I
torlous Hepburn bill, and this bill was
actually written, every word and every;
line of it. by E. H. Gary, chairman of'
the board of directors of the United
States Steel Corpotation and by Victoi
Morawetz and Erancis Lynde Stetson, I
its attorneys.
Will Keep Tryst Heads Busy,
I'or the first time since the Sher
man act was written the Stanley com
mittee has proposed amendments with
tee'h in them and which, if enacted into
'law. will deprive the colonel of such
valuable -i ds as the < hairman of the
finance committee of the steel corpo
ration and the heals of the harvester
I trust because these laws if enforced,
' will find these gentlemen so busy keep.
' ’ g their pr< ious hides out of the jails
that t!•-• y " ill hate m> time running th< I
"ilitii- >f the country <■; pulling foil-I
det for tin bull moose. ’
22 LIVES LOST IN
EASTERN FLOOD
Pennsylvania and West Vir
ginia Hit by Cloudburst—Ohio
River Gives Up Dead.
WHEELING. W. VA . Sept 2.
Heavy loss of life ha- been caused by a
cloudburst that Hooded southwestern
Pennsylvania and northern West Vir
ginia last night. Eight bodies air adv
.I: < I t
have been recoW rerf - from 1 t’fle- *< »hi»>
river, which Is t f-be-i Jimi
of debt Is The u.. t;i tj i j -• ■ ,»j w.cdy
reached 22. and is • xpet'ted’jo gifltTgii
er.
Latest reports from the various dis
tricts are as follows:
('Olliers. W. Va.-At least nine
drowned and probably twenty.
<'herry Valley. Pa.—Six drowned.
Burgettstown, PtL—CfnL drowned
Avella. Pa. Three drowned.
Canonsburg, Pa.—Three drowned.
The victims at Canonsburg. Pa., were
Eli Hancock, aged 30, and two un
known foreigners. All had seen res
cued from their homes, but returned for
valuables and were caught.
Colliers, W Va.. Hit Hardest.
(olliers, \\ . \ a., suffered the brunt
of the downpour ami here the greatest
loss of life occurred. Down the creek
farther at Hollidays Cove the debris
gorged and the waters, rising rapidly,
swept away at least half a dozen
houses
At < olliers, Mrs. Ad Thorley and het
small daughter were drowned and an
Italian hostler, his wife and three chil
dren were swept away and drowned.
Railroad communication between
this city and Pittsburg on the Pennsyl
vania railroad has been discontinued as
the result of the flood Telephone and
telegraph wires are prostrated and it is
feared that when complete reports are
received the deaths will total more than
a score.
51,000,000 Damage,
Reports Indicate
Pit I SBt RG, PA.. Sept. 2. -Fragmen
tary reports received today indicate that
more than D.tiUti.OOO damage was done by
floods desuiting from a cloudburst last
' night in western Pennsylvania, northern
I west Virginia and southeastern Ohio.
There are rumors that the number of
dead as the result of the storm will be be
tween thirty and fifty Telephone and
telegraphic services were out of commis
sion.
Wisconsin River
On Rampage
WAUSAU. WIS.. Sept 2 The flood in I
tie Wisconsin river has reached the dan- I
: ger point and the river is still rising at ,
the rate of 3 inches per hour. Railroad j
: tram service has been abandoned north I
of Wausau the new Nortt western rail
road bridge was destroyed by dynamite ’
Sunday afternoon in an effort to relieve :
the pressure on the cofferdams in the 1
east channel.
THREE KILLED IN WRECK.
HUSTLER. AA IS Sept 2 Two paz
sengets and 'he enginee: were killed
and the fireman fatally injured when a
Chicago. St Pau'.. Minneapolis and
'Omaha train ran into a washout near
I he:• \ number of passenge' s were in
jutid, some of them .seriously.
fCHNNGESUBGED
IN STREET WORK
Special Committee Not to Rec
ommend Creation of Office
of Consulting Engineer.
Council's special committee on the
i reorganization of the chief of construc
, tion department completed its report itt
a meeting today . It will recommend a
new system for the department at the
theeting of council tomorrow afternoon.
' composed of C. C.
.Mason, S. A. Wardlaw and Harvey
Hatcher called on Chief of Construc
tion R. M. Clayton and asked him if he
would accept a position as city consult
ing engineer. Captain Clayton said he
would wait to see what sort of consult
ing engineer’s place council created
and what changes were made in the
chief of construction department. He
said he would then decide whether to
run for chief of construction or accept
the place of consulting engineer.
In view of that reply, the committee
decided not to recommend that a per
manent position of consulting engineer
be created. Dr. Rudolph Hering is now
consulting engineer to advise as to the
bond issue Improvements. But mem
bers of council have announced that
this office will be discontinued on Oc
tober 1.
Urge Hancock's Candidacy.
Since the committee decided at its
last meeting to recommend the elimi
nation of the qualification that a man
shall have had ten years’ experience as
engineer before being eligible as a can
didate before the people for chief of
construction, it was reported today a
movement had been begun by a number
of citizens to get W. A. Hancock, for
mer aiderman from the Seventh ward,
to run for chief of construction. Mr.
Hancock is manager of the South River
Brick Company
Tiw committee decided the chi's of
construction should have an assistant
in charge of the details of the office,
an engineer in charge of streets and
an engineer in charge of sewers, and
that the appointment of these assist
ants should be approved by council and
that council should have the authority
to remove them at any time.
The chief of construction now has
four assistants, one in charge of streets,
one in charge of sewers, one in charge
of sidewalks and one in charge of street
repairs. The chief of construction has |
general supervision over them all and
he lias absolute authority as to appoint
ments and removals. It had already
been cfcc ided that the chief of construc
tion should be under the direction of
council.
Hatcher Still Protests.
Councilman Wardlaw made a sugges
tion that there should be some one in
the chief of construction's office during
( all office hours who could give general
! information to the public. He said tin-
I less Captain Clayton was in the office
he couldn't get any information about
' things. The other members of the eom-
I mittee agreed with him, saying that the
i new assistant to the chief of construc
tion would be the man to meet the pub
! lie in the,.construction office.
Councilman Hatcher, chairman of the
council streets committee and who has
protested that there was no general
complaint against Atlanta's streets, in
sisted that no changes were needed In
the chief of '.’oustruction department.
He said that all the members of the
< ommittee knew Captain Clayton would
be tc elected.
(DOG FOILS THIEF
IN HUKE’S BOOM
(Tobacco King Awakes When
He Hears Bark and Finds
Burglar at Work.
r NEW YORK. Sept. 2. W pet dog
whose watch duty was outside the bed
' oom a.'f < 'hl< b c Duke, the millionaire
tobacco magnate front the South, who
lives at No. 1109 North Broadway.
Yonkers, began to bark about 2 a. m
Mr. Duke woke up and heard some one
moving about in an adjoining apait
ment.
Mis. Duke was quietly slumbering,
l ite servants slept in another quarter.
It must be some Intruder, the husband
realized. He started to rise as quietly
as possible. As He was about to get out
of bed a man. who carried a dark lan
tern with its rays directed towaid the
floor, entered the room.
The millionaire remained quiet. The
light of the lamp was raised until it
f T upon his face. Neither l.c not the
other spoke. Half blinded. Mr. Duke
could not. see the face of the intiuder.
B inding Rays Awakened Wife.
1 lien the electric rays were diverted
to the adjoining bed, v. none they rested
upon the face of the sleeping wife
Not a word was spoken; not a move
ment made a sound. But In a moment
'he bright light annoyed the eyes of
Mrs. Duke, and she awoke, exclaiming:
• Who s there? What do you want?"
I he right hand of the stranger came
forward into the ring of light made by
the flash lamp, it carried an automatic
revolver.
"You just he quiet, both of you, o'
I'll shoot." said a low voice.
With the light switching from one to
another, the stranger backed off until
he reached the door, which he pulled
shut after him. Then his footsteps
could be heard moving rapidly- across
the sun parlor, adjoining the bed room.
In a couple of minutes Mr Duke
turned on the incandescents and hur
ried to the telephone He called up
Yonkers headquarters and reported his
adventure.
Dog's Bark Scared Burglar.
Several bureau drawers in which
were valuable articles of jewelrv had
been disturbed, but nothing had he- n
taken. The barking of the dog prob
ably interrupted the intruder's work.
No trace of him was found bevond the
edge of the lawn
It was a thrilling expetience," said
Mr. Duke afterward. "Hereafter I
think I'll keep an automatic gun of my
own It may look as formidable to a
burglar as this man's gun looked to
me.”
DIES IN HOVEL. LEAVES
$200,000 FOR HIS FRIENDS
NEW AORK. Sept. 2.—Michael Kelly
died in a hovel, but left an estate of
$200,000 to be divided among people
who had been kind fb him.
Finds His Wife Dead.
When Patrick Dorrian. a traveling
salesman, went to awaken his wife who
was asleep at their home. 69 Connally
street, this morning, he found her dead.
Coroner Paul I >onehon said that she died
from heart failure
Always a good show,
often a great show, Forsyth.
WORM SPEND
OOIETMOOT
Thousands Enjoy Music, Sports
and Addresses at the Grant
Park Celebration.
Continued From Page Ona,
P. Marquardt. J. F. Bradfield. J. W
Bridwell and Luther Gower formed the
reception committee and announced
that the speakers and other guests of
honor would be received formally at
the pavilion. It was announced that
all the funds for expenses had been
raised within the ranks of organized
labor, something unprecedented in At
lanta.
Three speakers are. on the prog,am
for the day at the park. They are Je
rome Jones, editor of The Journal o'
Labor: Carl Karston, president of th*
Atlanta Federation of Trades, and Shu
ford B. Marks, president of the Georgia
Federation of Labor.
Baseball games, races and other out
door sports are on the pahk program
for the afternoon, to follow the grea
basket dinner at noon.
Committees in
Charge of Celebration.
The committees in charge are:
Sub-Committee on Program ano
Amusement—W. C. Puckett, of tbo
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
Carl Karston. president of the Atlanta
Federation; R. L. Corley, machinists,
and Dennis Lindsey, printing press
men.
Music Committee—L. P. Marquard.
tailor, chairman: Jerome Jones, of the
Typographical union; William Van
Houten, molder; W. C. Puckett. Bn th.
erhood of Railway Trainmen, and J. W.
Bridwell, stone cutter.
Reception Committee—N. H. Kirk
patrick, printer, chairman; L. H. Mar
quand. tailor; J. F. Bradfield, garment
worker and now secretary of the At
lanta Federation of Trades; J. W. Brid
well. stone cutter, and Luther Gower,
garment worker.
Finance Committee—O. A. Cone, pa
per hanger, and for many years finan
cial secretary of the Atlanta Federa
tion. chairman, with S. B. Marks, presi
dent of the Georgia Federation of La
bor, William Van Houten, ex-president
I of the Atlanta Federation and now its
treasurer; Pete LaTerza, tailor, and N.
H. Kirkpatrick, ex-president of the At
lanta Federation and a member of tin
Atlanta Typographical union.
Dancing Committee—E. A. Lyle
chairman; t'liarles Hirsch, brewer. G.
■ Mcßr.vant. plumber; Pat Quinn, stone
i cutter and foreman of stone eutters tit
> the Federal prison, and Luther Gower.
, garment worker.
I. W. W. Barred From
New York Parade
NEV YORK. Sept 2. Members of the
Industrial Workers of the World were
I barred today from participating in the
annual Labor day parade of trades
unionists. The industrialists had threat
ened to disregard the order against them,
and scores of police reserves were on
hand to prevent trouble when the parade
of 35.000 workmen of various trades
, moved down Fifth avenue. Despite the
threatening weather, more than 100.000
persons saw the procession.
BABY HELD FOR BOARD
BILL AMOUNTING TO S 3
''HICAGO. Sept. 2.—Timothy Crotty,
eleven months old. was restorefl to his
mother's arms by Judge Scully, after
he had been held several weeks a?
“hostage" for a $3 board bill.
DOGS ARE BUTCHERED AND
SOLD FOR FOOD IN BERLIN
BERLIN. Sept. 2. Reports are cur
rent here that dogs are being butchered
and sold to the poor for food.
Watch the Forsyth clock
—don’t be late.
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