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I, R. WELCOMES
SEN. CUMMINS
JO MOOSERS
Colonel Answers Governor Wil
son’s Attack on Moose Plat
form in St. Louis Speech.
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KEOKUK. IOWA. Sept. 4. —Speaking
to 300 Progressives in the public square
here today. Colonel Roosevelt welcomed
Senator Cummins Into the ranks of his
followers and said he was highly
pleased to learn of the attitude of the
senator, who yesterday declared his
support of Roosevelt and repudiation
of Taft.
Senator Cummins has always stood
for the fundamental principles for
which the Progressives stand, but he
may differ with us on some essential
points." said the colonel. He referred
10 tli< senator’s statement that he be
lieved in ail the principles espoused by
th Progressives, saying:
"In Lincoln’s day, when he broke
away from the Whigs, there were some
who did not believe in all the Repub
lican party stood for and it is the same
way today. But I don’t see how any
man can differ with us on the principle
of Thou shall not steal.’ " The crowd
cheered.
The colonel proceeded:
”1 believe when any one steals from
you. don’t argue, but search him."
There may be men who do not be
lieve this is to be a pet manent move,”
the colonel explained, referring to Cum
mins' expressed opinion "Well, I do,
whether I am right or w ong, it ought
■o make no difference in the attitude
<>f the Progressives in this election.
Tin old parties are rotten to the core.
Now, let any man come with us this
fall and 1 won’t quarrel about his go
ing back to the old parties in the fu
ture. Once with us, they’ll like our
company and stay with us.”
Finds Movement Popular.
After first hand observation of condi
tions in Missouri and lowa, the colonel
Fas told his lieutenants here that Tt is
necessary to mime Progressive tickets
in th states. His speeches have taken
on something of the tang of those de
'ivi-ri d in Vermont, where he demanded
»t:p; o t f. r the Progressive state can
•lfrln.es as well as for himself at the
fail i let ;.i< n.
Tit. < vionil's lowa itinerary today
ln< aides Mount Zion. Elden, Ottumwa.
Oskaloosa and Des Moines.
The colonel is pleased with the out
look in the Middle West.
"There is plenty' of third party sen
umr in the West,” he said. "The
tignt has just started. By- November
'hole country will wake up to the
fact that we are to be reckoned with
■'t the polls.”
Why hasn’t He Done Something?”
" oodrow Wilson’s stand upon the
tariff, the trusts and the minimum
wage scale proposition was assailed by'
Colonel Roosevelt in St. Louis late yes
terday before the Missouri Progressive
state convention.
Taking up Governor Wilson’s criti
cism of the Progressive policy in re
gard io regulation of trusts, Colonel
Roosevelt asked:
"If the Democratic platform really
offers any hope for the solution of the
trust question, why, during the two
'ears that Mr. Wilson has been gov
ernor of New Jersey, has nothing been
cone under Mr. Wilson's lead or even
attempted by Mr. Wilson in New Jer
for the regulation of the trusts?"
The colonel was asked to advise the
suite convention as to whether it should
i amt a full state ticket.
"1 felt that you ought to.” he said.
I feel that except in those states in
which we can take over bodily either
of the old parties we ought to run a
straight Progressive tic'-et.”
Said the colonel:
"Yesterday Mr. Wilson, alluding to
the third party platform, asked: ‘With
that program who can differ in his
heart, who can divorce himself in sym
pathy from the great object of advanc.
ing the interests of human beings
wherever it is possible to advance?’
"I am very glad that Mr. Wilson
c mtild be with us in his heart: but if
his party sympathizes with us in its
i t why didn't they in their platform
1 ke a program at least remotely re
nbling ours? Our sympathy for the
engram is not only w ithin our hearts:
11 is with our heads and our hands
About the Tariff.
When he comes to the tariff. Mr.
" ilson attempts to quote me, but he
■ singularly unsuccessful. He states,
for instance, that 1 am not concerned
with the 1 interests of the general tax-
PH.V' i', tile general public.
If he would take the trouble to read
"hat 1 have said or to read our plat
form, he would find that the commis
sion principle which we propose, and
'" which he and his party are hostile,
as for one of its special objects the
'■'ireful consideration of the needs of
ie general public. We are advocat
ing tile commission system which has
’ < i-n one of the pieces of governmental
nd industrial mechanism that have
oeen so extraordinarily successful in
building up th, great prosperity of the
Berman empire.
"I believe in protection; I believe that
If Mr. Wilson's free trade policy or
tariff for revenue only policy is in
'■mod faith and not merely treated as a
lampaign cry. widespread disaster will
r ’-'lit to American life.
But T don't believe for a minute
hat •> protective tariff by itself offers
u> any way or shape the solution for
: he economic and social injustice
Against which we Progressives are
’•riving.
■Let Mr, Wilson study what has hap-
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PROPERTY OWNERS OF
MACON’S FASHIONABLE
HINES TERRACE IN ROW
MACON GA., Sept. 4.—Over a mat
ter of six inches the residents of Hines
terrace are divided and arrayed against
each other. Thirty property owners on
the east side want curbing laid at a
certain height. Thirty property owners
on the west side want the curbing, but
say it must be six inches lower than
the east siders want.
Two petitions have been filed with
c‘ ■' council, and.no matter what action
t. body takes the affair is going to
the courts for settlement. The west
side residents and the east side resi
dents have each organized and named
committees and employed attorneys.
Hines terrace is one of the most fash
ionable thoroughfares of Macon
pened to industry in England and in
Germany during the last forty years.
During that forty years England has
been under a free trade system and
Germany has adopted a high ta. iff
system. During that forty jears the
conditions of the labor world have
grown worse in England and better in
Germany. Germany has advanced
relatively to England HI along the
line and especially in the standing of
her people.
"As to what Mr. Wilson says about
the minimum wage I can only say that
I disagree with him in toto. We arc
only advocating what we are sure can
be done and ought to be done. Evi
dently Mr. Wilson has not studied the
"onditlons about the labor of women
in factories.
The Trust Question.
“Mr. Wilson comes out squarely
against our proposal to regulate the
trusts. He has not anything to put in
its place except a statement that h<
stands by the great Democratic think
- s who have made the Democratic
platform on this subject.
' Mr. Wilson has been governor of
New Jersey for nearly two years. If
the Baltimore platform really offers
any hope for the lrust solution, why
du ing these two years has nothing
been done by New Jersey under Mr.
Wilson's lead for regulation of th<
trusts?
"The answer is because the states
by themselves can not get at the diffi
culty and It is pure topyism of the
most backward kind to suppose that
they can, and incidentally any such
policy would have the grinning sup
port of every law-breaking trusl.
"Mr. Wilson seems to forget that
part of bur program is to give to the
people themselves direct control over
their own government. When the peo
ple themselves thus effectively control
their own government and the govern
ment In its turn controls the big cor
porations it seems to me the veriest
folly of fear to express apprehension
lest under such a system the chief em
ployers, as Mu Wilson says, because
they have 'this tremendous authority
behind them,’ may oppress the wage
workers.
"We have a genuine constructive
policy. Mr. Wilson's plan, as far as 1
can gather, is merely to continue the
present futile system, adding fresh
and empty protestations of hostility
to the trusts, but giving no hint as to
any method by which these protesta
tions can become more than protesta
tions. We must supplement the anti
trust law b. the kind of real and
efficient governmental control advo
cated in the Progressive national plat
form or we will not have made on<
step toward solving the trust ques
tion.”
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1912.
'
Grudge Goodsinsky, one o f the scouts, showing little Rub,
Tarpley some of the sights of the eamp.
Up and Down Peachtree
The Peachtree Girl
Sure Keeps Cool.
"This is where we women have the
laugh on you men" said the Peach
tree girl, asking a little more ice in
her lemon and lime. "You have been
calling us slaves to fashion for lo these
many years. And now look at me, ob
serve my coolness and then feel of the
rag around youi neck which was a col
lar when you left home. It is to laugh."
"What's the ha-ha about?" returned
the man. peevishly, fanning himself
with his straw lid.
“Why, every winter since the hoop
skirt era you men have been horrified
at women's dress," explained the girl.
"You've been aghast because we go to
dances in zero weather with sheer silk
stockings, low satin slippers and a gown
cut low in the neck. You’ve been
prophesying pneumonia since before
you could spell it. But you didn’t have
to attend many funerals in our set.
"And now look at yourself. Thai
coat may be thin, but from the way
it hugs your, shoulders and the haste
with which you throw it of when you
get in your office it must feel like il
weighs a ton. And that stiff collar you
started with! That’s a nice thing to
strangle yourself witii in weather like
this. And those soft ones are ever
worse, for they stick tighter.
“Without going into particulars. 1'1!
bet an ice cream my things don’t
weight a third as much as yours, ob
serve the wide hat which shields my’
face from the sun. See the ventilated
waist which qdmits the passing breeze
Notice the thin fabric of my skirt. Soo
how cool and contented I am.
"Slaves to fashion! If you men were
not afraid to be ‘different’ you'd hang
those coats up until fall, have your
shirts cut V-shaped, have your trou
sers made of some thin, filmy material
and quit swearing at the heat. Yes I’ll
takel that soda now."
How Hot Is It Up
And Down Peachtree?
"I wish I knew how hat it was—
or is," said the rotund drummer, run
ning a well-soaked handkerchief around
his dripping brow and tucking it under
his collar. “But it’s as hard to tell the
temperature by Atlanta thermometers
as to learn what time it is by a street
clock.
“1 passed a drug store an hour ago
and stopped for a look. There was a
column of red mercury in a glass two
feet tall, and it said 86 degrees. 1 got
cooler right away, but when I noticed
it was hanging against a soda fountain
full of ice I got all heated up again.
“Two doors down the street I saw
another weather tester and took a peek
it It. It registered 122, and it jumped
a degree while I watched it. But it
was screwed to a brick wall which had
been soaking sunshine all day.
“Then I got mad and went on a hum
for the real thing. I found thermome
ters indoors which ran all the way
from 84 to 98, with no apparent reason
for the difference. 1 asked a salesman
to show me a lot of thermometers un
der the pretense of buying one and they
had as many different opinions as a
third-party’ convention. I don’t know
how I’m going to gel the facts.”
“Why don’t you ask the official fore
caster?" asked a sympathizing friend.
"Pish, and a pair of poohs,” said the
drummer. "Who gives a dam how hot
it is on top of the Empire building. 1
can't sell goods up there. 1 want to
know how hot it is up and down
Peachtree."
And he moved toward a soda foun
tain, carefully hugging the wall to keep
in the ribbon of shade.
Cullud Taste in
Hats and Shoes.
“No. a four-dollar hat’s a little too
high for my shape,” said the customer
in the haberdashery. "Make it about
three bucks.”
“All right.” said the salesman, as the
customer picked a lid. “But just wait
a minute."
A negro about 20 years old his hands
knotted from pushing a shovel, walkeo
up to the counter, picked out a four
dollar fall hat, paid over the coin and
walked out, stepping high.
“Well, what do you think of that?"
remarked the white customer. "How
much does that negro earn?”
"Perhaps $8 or $lO a week,” said the
salesman. “But that's got nothing to
do with it. He had four dollars. He
wanted a hat. And nothing but the
best and the latest will do a negro when
he wants to ‘sport.’
"They’re the same about shoes.
They'll spend $6 for a pair of patent
leathers, wear them to a dance tonight,
slash holes in the toes with a knife
if they pinch too much, and be perfect
ly’ happy. I’ve seen many a man with
a $5 hat and $6 shoes when the rest
of his outfit wouldn’t bring a dollar at
auction. And the queerest thing is that
they’ll wear those same fine shoes into
the ditch where they're shoveling dirt.
You can go to any big gang of negro
laborers and see fine hats and shoes
being mined in the mud. They won't
wear their old things when they have
new ones to wear."
STATE COLLEGE EXHIBIT.
DALTON, GA., Sept. 4.—The Slate
College of Agriculture has written for
permission to make an exhibit at the
Whitfield county fair here the week
of October 7, the letter being from G.
W. Firor, secretary of the extension
work of the college. A prompt and
cordial acceptance of the offer hajj been
forwarded to him
I Keep Alert Guard at Night, as
Scout Master Learns to
His Pain.
A lot of city youngsters are back
in to«% today’ with a knowledge of
hiw to cook and “keep house” that
may solve the cost of living problem
in many Atlanta households.
They arc members of Boy Scout
t oop No. 2, who camped <>ut at Lake
wood foY three days, preparing their
own food, making their own beds and
doing al! the “fixing up" and ai the
fame time keeping strict military dis
cipline under Scout Master Frank P.
Margolin.
They demonstrated their alertness
one dark night in very striking man
ner. Lou Joel was on guard and the
scout master decided to >oe If lie was
keeping his eyes open. He crawled up
on him through the woods and was sud
denly ordered to halt. He crawled on.
I’he order to halt came twice more ar.
I then the scout master felt th- thud of
IBoy Scout club across his head ami
he has the bump today.
Mr. Margolin said today that I-ak, -
wood was ha dl.y far enough from the I
city for the most effective’ results, and I
that next year a spot further from tlu
city would be chosen for a three weeks’
stay. The troop will hike to Marietta
Ihanksgiving day, having learned how
to walk on tramps taken from Lake
wood.
ST. PAULS CHURCH HOLDS
"HOME-COMING” SERVICE
All persons who ever have been mem
bers of St. Pauls Methodist churc.. at
Grant and Sidney streets have been
asked to meet again at the ch .rch
Thursday for home-coming and reunion
services.
A special song service w’ill be held
and talks on the history of the church
will be made by various officials from
from the different departments. The
members which the church recently
hits acquired will be given a reception
and welcome by the old members, and
for the former members, something of
what recently has been accomplished
will be told.
CANOE PADDLED BY PAIR
ACROSS ROUGH CHANNEL
DOVER, ENGLAND, Sept. 4—A
record for hazardous canoeing was
made today when two well known Do
ver oarsmen, Burgeat and Waited, pad.
died a canoe across the English chan
nel to the French coast. The passage
was very rough and the high wind
threatened every minute to swamp the
frail craft. A high wind prevailed.
When a mile off the French coast a
wave struck the canoe, overturning it.
Fortunately, a fishing boat was near by
and picked up the canoeists.
Apt Pupils
PROBLEM
Zeke Carnes, the cook
SHERIFF SEARCHES
CONGREGATION FOR
TOTERS OF PISTOLS
ROME, GA.. Sept. 4.—The singing
land praying of a congregation of ne
! groes did not aw e Sheriff Dunehoo
when he entered a church in search
of a whisky seller.
As soon as the sheriff entered the
church he saw a negro with a gun
sticking out of his h p nocket. He
promptly arrested him. While a dep
uty held tile prisoner, the sheriff
searched every worshiper in the
church to see if any one else there
carried a gun. The prison’ r was has
tened away, when the search was com
pleted, and the services continued.
COUNTY SEAT FIGHT IN
MURRAY GROWS WARM
DALTON, GA„ Sept, i.—The three
cornered fight over what town shall be
the county seat of Murray grows
warmer daily. Eton. Chatsworth and
Spring Pl,-tee being the contestants.
The Eton people, who have set the
pace by offering a free site for the pub
lic buildings and SIO,OOO in cash, met
an obstacle when they applied to the
county paper for advertising space. It
was refused them. Then they came to
this city and placed their advertising
in I’he Citizen, paying for 1,500 sub
scriptions in Murray county. The pa
per will be sent into practically every
heme in the county for this month.
COAL OIL STRANGLES BABY;
MOTHER DISCOVERS IT DEAD
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 4.—Sammy Hickman,
two years old, was choked to death yes
terday at his home, 1816 Market street,
Alton, by swallowing a quantity of coal
oil, which was dashed in his face when
he pulled the can off a shelf on which it
had been placed.
The child’s mother, Mrs. Sarah Hick
man, was out in the yard when the ac
cident occurred. Although only a short
distance from the kitchen, Mrs. Hick
man says she heard no sound or cry
on the part of the baby.
Coroner C. N. Streeper held an in
quest and returned a verdict of acci
dental death.
PAPERHANGERS STRIKE
IN MACON FOR RAISE
MACON. GA.. Sept. 4. The paper
hanger of Macon are on a strike. They
are only twelve in number, but they
control the paper trade of the city, and
until the differences between them and
their employers are adjusted there will
be very little wall paper pasted up in
Macon. The paper hangers want a
higher wage scale, and their employ
ers refuse to giant It. Every pJlper
hanger in the city belongs to the union
and the union has called the strike.
STEPHEN NOLAN’S BATH
COST 75 CENTS PLUS sl7
MACON, GA. Sept. 4.—lt cost Steph
en Nolan, a well-known Macon man.
the sum of $17.75 tc take a bath. He
paid the Turkish bath proprietor 75
cents and then he Jumped into a tub.
When he emerged he found that his
coat had vanished. It contained thr
sl7. Coincidently a negro bootblaet
also disappeared, and he has not beer
taken yet.
COUNCIL TO ONE
CHAHCEOnNORK
ON STREETS
Construction Department Reor
ganized With Responsibility
Assumed by Lawmakers.
following the adoption of a plan of
reorganization of the city construction
department at the meeting of the city
council yesterday afternoon, leaders of
council declared today that better re
sults in street and sewer work would
be secured in the future.
By the adoption of the plan the
council has taken upon itself the re
sponsibility for , improvement work.
Members of the council have answered
the criticisms of their constituents
about the lack of street work by de
claring that they had done all they
could do. They said they had had ap
propriations provided, but simply
could not get the construction depart
ment to do the work.
Under the present plan, the chief of
construction is elected by the people
and Is independent of the council in so
far as he chooses, except that the coun
cil controls the appropriations.
Under the new plan, the council has
made the chief of construction amen
able to the council in all matters, even
taking the authority to approve the
appointment of his assistants and to
lischarge them But the chief of con
struction is still to be eleceted by the
people.
The new plan goes into effect on
January 1
Ten-Year Clause Stays.
A majority of the council voted
against eliminating the qualification
for chief of construction requiring ten
years experience as an engineer. The
reorganization committee reported in
favor of striking out this requirement
of eligibility in order that a business
man «is well as an engineer might run
for the office.
Obviously, this action narrows the
possibilities of opposition to the pres
ent incumbent. And as soon as the
council had acted Captain R. M. Clay
ton said that he would run for re-elec
tion.
The special committee wa« continued
that it might make a report on the
more detailed matters of the depart
ment. The council adopted its report
that there should be an assistant chief
of construction in charge of the detail
ed affairs of the office and an en
gineer In charge of streets and an en
gineer in charge of sewers.
One of the criticisms of the council
men has been that only the chief of
construction has authority over the as
sistants and only he has knowledge of
the work of the different departments.
When the chief of construction was out
of the office, they declared, neither they
nor any private citizen could find out
about construction matters.
Experts to Probe Office.
Perhaps the most important step in
the movement for reorganization of the
department will be taken within the
next few weeks when the experts, em
ployed by the municipal research com
mission of the Chamber of Commerce,
begins a sweeping investigation of the
chief of construction department and
all other city departments. These ex
perts will go into details of bookkeep
ing and the systems of office organiza
tion. phases the council and its com
mittee have not touched upon.
When the report of the council's
committee was brought up yesterday
afternoon Councilman Harvey Hatcher,
chairman of the street committee, and
Councilman J. D. Sisson, of the Fifth
ward, offered a minority report to re
tain the "ten years as an experienced
engineer" clause.
Led by Councilman Hatcher, a vig
orous fight was begun in which the.
city’s street Improvement system was
clearly sidetracked for a time, and a
discussion of personalities was begun.
He sought to make if appear that a
personal fight was being made on Cap
tain Clayton
Aiderman McClelland openly declared
that the elimination of the qualifica
tion was a political effort to oust Cap
tain Clayton.
When a notion was made to table
the whole report of the committee it
carried.
Report Taken From Table.
But Councilmen Mason, Smith and
Chambers and Aidermen Nutting and
Candler and others were making a vig
orous fight for some of the more Im
portant features of the report. The
report was taken from the table on the
motion of Aiderman Johnson, and
adopted with the exception of the ten
yea r qualification
Aiderman Maddox made a motion
that the ten-year qualification be re
duced to five years, and that the sal
ary of the chief of construction he
raised from $4,000 to $6,000. This was
lost.
Several times statements were made
that Aiderman Candler was the author
of the ordinance which provides for the
present organization of the chief of
construction department. Aiderman
Candler said he drew the original or
dinance. but that it was emaciated be
fore it was finally adopted by the
council. He said he wanted a ten
year qualification for the chief of con
struction, but that the council instead
of the people should elect him. and that
the council should have the authority
(o go anywhere in the United States
to employ its engineer.
FOOD INSPECTOR FOR LA GRANGE
LA GRANGE, GA., Sept. 4.—ln pur
suance to the pollcv of general sanita
tion outlined by the local board of health,
composed of W. 8. Davis, C L Christo-
Über and Dr. H. W. Terrell, the city coun
cil has employed Dr D. O. Browning, of
Montgomery. Ala . to be sanitary and food
inspector for this city.
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