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MEXICO HOLE TO
HANOLEHEfIOWN
ffl-MJDEBO
President Resents Talk of In
tervention—lnvasion Gossip
Increases Here.
Continued From Page One.
Intervention may be the signal for an
• nti-American uprising and massaci •
throughout the southern republic.
General Salazar at Border.
General Salazar, leading the rebels in
northern Mexico, is reported to be en
camping half a mile south of the bor
der near Culberson. Texas. He com
mands 600 men, well armed, ammuni
tioned and mounted, and It appears to
be Ills intention to harass the I nlted
States troops who are powerless to
cross the border in pursuit of the in
surrectos
Brigadier General Stoever today re
ported that the rebels attempted to
crore the border at Lange-. Texas, yes
terday, nut wire Intimidated by Lieu
tenant Boone, of the Fourth 'cavalry,
r.nd a detachment of American sol
diers. I.ater In the day. General Sala
zar conferred with Lieutenants Booone,
Johnson and Wagner, across the bor
der The rebel leader su’d he desired
the friendship of the United Stati s
government and he regretted the raid
at Culberson’s ranch on Friday when
the Amt "lean troop" w< re fired upon.
Little credence is placed in this state
ment, bra n;e of Salazar - repeated
avowal that he intends to “fore- Wash
ington to intervene at any cost
Tales of Horror
Told to Senators
EL PASO. TEXAS. Sept 9. With I
the Intention of forcing the I nlted |
to intervene in Mexico, the reb
els in Sonora are now confining their
operations to besieging towns popu
lated largely by Americans or are
working on the United Slates border
raiding into Arizona and New Mexico
and generally conducting themselves so
as to insult Americans in every possl-;
hie way They declare they will con- |
tlnue this policy
The coming of United States Sena
tors W'iinam A Smith and A H. Call
tn investigate Hi.' Mexican situation
will have ifs effect upoti the policy of
Hie American government, It Is be
ll x. d. in solving t“ give Washington
iiitthr titles Information on true eundl;
tlons in Mexico
S mitor Smith spent Sunday taking
testimony. mil today exp eased himself
as shocked at the stories of the om
rugi s told by Americans. Two Mm -
im n gills told of the brutal minder of
their tathe. by Mexicans while Hie fa
tiler was trying to defend the d’nugli
tel s'
Julius Romner. president of the Mo -
mon colonies, detailed the disarming of
tie colonists and the looting of then
I ome'. Mining men. plantation ow n >
ranchmen and others are giving the
committee i large list of abuse* ot
Am : leans
The American border is excited to
day linausr a niy officers look to a
general mobilization in a few ilty*
Thee have considered for months l.a'
lnt<" vention n Mexico was certain ami
dci nie Ilia il should b< hurried.
Cowboys Gather
To Attack Rebels
IkH’i;l.AS. ARIZ Sepi. 9. Cowboys
fro i .1; neighborhood mound Liouglas
tire gathering hen today, prepared to
cross the mt. ; national .im into Mexi
co and attack the i mi Pi.es that ar
marching on Aguii I Tic. i. The leaders
Os the cowboy volunteers say they cer
tainlv will cross tiie line and drive away
the JJi\i mi* if bullets fall in Douglas
u< they ii d a 1 the last attack on Agua
Prieta. An attack on the Mexican
town, which virtually is a Mexican ex
ten-ion of Douglas. is expected tomor
row
Geperal Inez Salazar is expected to
.loin forces w ith ’ General I'umpa five
miles south tonight. The town has a
garrison of 150 men
The cowboys say they will not <ie
pend on the United States troops io
defend tile place, but. forgetting rules
of neutrality, will ,-ei io it that no
harm emits to the American town from
the attacking rebels
NEGRO GRIP THIEF SHOT
WHEN HE RESISTS ARREST
J.. M. Toy Im. a negro, is m Grady
hospital suffering from two pistol
wound- as the result of an attempt last
night to shoot Plain Clothes Officer J.
W Bry.m.
< iflii r Bryan was attempting to ar
rest the neg o on tito charge of steal
ing i grin from a visiting neg'o Odd
I- ellow when Taylor pul)<'<l n pistol ami
fired fsiint blank at be officer The bul
let went wild and th' ofiii er returned
On fin shooting In* assailant in the
hip and leg Several grips had been
misscii during tin afte.noon fiom a hall
a' 42 Madison avenue, where the x sit
ing odd Fellow* wer> registering. Tax
lor is not a member of the order, but
had gained entrance to Hie ba!'.
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STEALSGEMSTD
BEDECK WOMAN
Son of Charlotte Merchant Is
Arrested Here for $4,000
Theft—Jewels Recovered.
His fondness foi a young woman atid
his desire to b< d—k her with diamond*
caused the undoing of W. Frank Whit
aker. son of a prominent merchant of
charlotte. N <’’, xx ho r,i« arrested here
mid •.•.ill be takert back to Norfolk to
night to insv.er to the ehmge of steal
. ing money ami jewels to the amount of
*4.000 from the home of a wealthy Nor
| foil; woman on th" morning of July 4
Si xi ’al hundred dollais worth of the
stolen diamond.*, sent to the young
woman in Norfolk by young Wbitakei ■
after his arrival in Atlanta a few days 1
ago. furnished the clew that led to hi* [
arrest here. The recipient of the gem*
is known in Norfolk as Patsy Gaynor. 1
Her Komi is said to be in Ohio She
is being detained in jail in Norfolk as a
material . itness against Whitaker
The woman freely turned the jewels
in r to the N'orfolk police. She is said
Io h;i . < l,<>n ill at the time of the rob
bery. and protests that she knew noth
ing whatever concerning the Job.
Local detectives have recovered dia
monds to the amount of about SI.OOO,
w hit h had been pawned here by Whita
ker.
l’"lic< Sergeant M. M. Freeman of
Norfolk, arrived today and will take the
prisoner back to that city . Whitaker
expn ssed eagerness to get back Io Nor
folk. and readily consented to go wtth
ou a requisition
BOUGHT 12 BARRELS
OF LIQUOR FOR OWN
USE.SAYS AIACONITE
.—.—
MACON. GA., Sept. 9.—Chief of Po-
; lici i hapman today delivered to P .1. |
M< Neli», a saloon keeper, twelve bar- i
. rels of high-grade whisky, valued at*
■ t.itih. which were seized by a policeman ‘
lon Frida.- night. McNeils claimed the’
liquor, declared lie had ordered it fhi
his personal consumption and threat- j
ened to contest the chief’s right to seize 1
and holxi it. The city attorney ruled !
that unless the chief had evidence of a
sale or of the whisky having been kept
in a place of business, the goods.
| though possibly intended for an illegal
| purpose, should be surrendered to the
i claimant.
A polii eman was going through an
alley late at night when he stumbled
on a dray loaded with tiie liquor. When
the negro drive r fteil the polic cman took
the liquor .to the police barracks and
unloaded it.
GIRL’S FATHER HELD
I FORCRIMECHARGED
TO LYNCHED NEGRO
BLUEFIELD W VA.. Sept. 9. A
laic warts threatened in Mercer coun
ty as a result of tile allegation that
Walter Johnson the negro lynched fol
loxvlng an attack upon 16-y ear-old Nita
White last week, was an innocent man
Tiie giund jury begun an investigation
today,
Gordon Whit, father of the girl, who
iv.ti* air -tel Saturday on a charge of
murder, and spirited away to Charles
| tun for fear of negro vengeance, was
i I 'Hight back and arraigned before Jus
tice of the Peace Dillard today White
was held in SIO,OOO bail. On Viis way to
ihe just h e’s offix'e White was surround
• d by 600 while men. lil H friends anti
sympathizers Negroes are making
I li- i lls against w bites
MOB THREATENS TO
LYNCH MAN JAILED
FOR KILLING FAMILY
Dhl ATI R. ALA.. Sept. 9. Because
a mob that gathered mound the jail a'
Hiinisxiiie. Ala., last night threatened
to lynx h W ill Laey, accused of the
murder of Samuel Smith, Mrs. Smith
and their four-year-old child, the pris
, oner was removed to another county
< today. A special guard was kept at
the jail until the prisoner was taken
away. The mob remained at the jaii
until daylight.
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DIVORCE SEEKER SAYS
HIS W£FE CHOKED HIM
i Alleging Mr* Daisy Irene Bogtick
■ choked him last tear and threatened
. to kill him. and adding that he is "in
.i (■ tv fear of dentil at her hands." R.
1' Bostick, a salesman, sued her for
elver, e today in the superior court.
14 alter !' Elliott sued for a divorce'
_ from Mr Willie EUtott because she
I posed as a single woman and had her
I photograph made tn company with an
-1 other man
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MACON "BOOSTER TRAIN”
IS OFF ON ITS FIRST TRIP
II Ai'iiN G \ Sept. 9 Macon's firs:
i "booster special” -ft thia morn.ng for
trip through middle and south Geor
gi.i. T i tradi train carried represen
i tativi * and exhibits from 70 local mer
c ch.nits ..n.. professional firms or corpo
iii itior- The tour will last five days
li.-ivd 4" txiwns will be visits! The drum
mil bugie , s and a quartet equipped
.with special songs were also taken
t laioitg Tiii' tram comprisx'd seven <ars,
| u’l attractively decorated.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANDREWS. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1912.
Short Marriage Ends Reincarnated Romance
LOVE 5.000 YRS. OLD DIES
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Ralph Ott. artist, and his wife, formerly Miss -Jane Schauf-
J fert. who now seek freedom from the matrimonial bonds.
Mrs. Ott Charges Cruelty in
Suit for Divorce Against
Her Artist Husband.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. fl. —The strangest'
romance of modern times has gone the
way of too many modern romances, i
and Mrs Ralph Chesley Ott is suing
for divorce from the artist whom she
married a little more than two years
ago and whom she said she had met '
and loved some 5,000 years before that
in Egypt.
In that far age she was the Princess
Amneris and he was an artist in the
employ of the haughty Pharaoh, her
father. If was a case of love at first
sight, according to Miss Jane Schauf
fert, the reincarnated Amneris and an
artist model. They met. but alas! They
could not marry owing to difference of
■ rank. '
But in the year of grace 1910 out in
Missouri tilings differed from the Egyp
' tiati order. I.et Ott describe the meet
i ing between the Princess Amneris. now
Miss Sehauffert. nnd himself.
lie had returned from a commission
to study the ancient architecture of
i Egypt by E. G. Lewis, who desired its
reproduction in University City, Mo.,
where he saw his bride-to-be.
At the time of their marriage in St.
Louis they described their unique sit
uation. After speaking of the strange
| day dreams of Egypt that had been
his. Mt. Ott continued
Met in Pyramid.
'•Always there was the Princess Am
neris. who is now my bride. We met in
' the queen's chamber of the great pyra.
mid. That was the beginning of our
, love, in the evenings I met her tn the
palace gardens, and together we would
wend our way to the river, where she
would throw sweetmeats to the sacred
crocodiles
I recall a night that brought great
tragedy to my life. Pharaoh discovered
us. there were torches, and guards who
) seized mt. \fter tl:a mi impressions
arc hazy. I can recall wandering about
through a sandy waste with strange
people—and that Is al:. And now,
when I saw Jane Sehauffert enter the
queen s chamber something inside me
seemed to enap and I was back in un
dent Egypt and in the presence of the
s Princess Amneris.
! it was the same face, the same tig
. tire as that of my dream princess—the
j princess that I had loved in those days '
so long, long past, and when she told
me of her strange impressions of a
previous existence, 1 knew and know
now that we did live together 5.000
I years ago "
Thus Spoke the Bride.
| Mrs. Ott was quite as firmly con-
' vimed of it.
I I know as surely as I am alive
■on r lat 1 litre before thousands of
tears ago in Egypt, sht said. "1 was
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•Facts in the World's •
• Strangest Romance •
a- a
• Characters. a '
a Ralph Chesly Ott .- Artist a
• Jane Sehauffert Model a
• They first met. slip as Princess a
• Amneris. ho as an artisan, in the a !
• great Pyramid, 3088 B. C. • '
• They loved, but were unable to •
• wed, ow'ng to difference in rank, a
a Reincarnated, they met again at •
a University City, Missouri, in 1910 a
• A. D. «
• They were married on Feb. 5, a
• 1910, sure of eternal happiness, a
• after a 5,000-year wait. a
• But 5,000 years of idealization a
• were as nothing to TWO YEARS a
• and SIX MONTHS of actual mar- a
a riage— SO SHE SUES FOR DI- a
• VORCE. «
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the Princess Amneris. 1 have dreamed
of my artist sweetheart thousands of
times. I can remember distinctly how
we used to go down to the river to
gether to feed the crocodiles. I re
member as though it were yesterday
our first meeting in the great pyramid.
"1 had accompanied my father on a
tour of Inspection, twid as I looked into
the queen’s chamber 1 saw the most
handsome man in the world. I loved
him at once and saw that he loved me.
That evening he came to the palace
garden, and our love that has lasted
through the centuries began.
"I. too. hate recollections of beauti
ful nights upon the royal barge, and I
recall quite vfv idly my father s anger
w hen we were discovered together. All
1 know is that here my recollections
break off sharply, and I always feel a
heaviness of hear:
Now I unde - stand it all. Isis, the
ancient Egyptians great goddess,
watched over us through the centuries,
and brought us together at last."
Mrs. Ott charges cruelty in her di
vorce application.
TART REMOVES TWO
POSTMASTERS WHO
SUPPORTED TEDDY
MONTGOMERY. ALA.. Sept. A
specia l to The Journal from Washing
ton says:
Because they supported Roosevelt in
the national Republican convention at
Chicago. Byron Trammell, postmaster
at Dothan. Ala. and J. B. Daughtry,
postmaster at Hartford, Ala., have been
removed from office by President Taft.
It is assured that Trammell will be suc
ceeded by J. VV. Renfro, and that J. N.
Chancey will replace Daughtry. Tram
mell and Daughtry were the only two
Alabama delegates to the Chi< -.go con
vention who Stood by the Hull Moos.
GIHLI SUICIDE; i:
Birmingham Man’s Story Thais'
He Met Typist Accidentally -
Being Investigated.
i,
Roy D. W hitehead, an insurance man '
from Bli i.iinghaau. is held today in the | '
police station for examination follow- I '
; ng ti: suicide pt Miss Cia'ra Cameron. 1
of Columbus, while w Ith Whitehead in I '
the Terminal'station. last night. The I
g’rl drank a bottle of carbolic acid ini
the corridor of the station last night |
just aftei saying good-bye to White- j ,
head, who turned, caught her in his I
arms, and aided in hurrying her to I
Grady hospital, where she died a few I
moments later.
Whitehead told the polige today that
Miss Cameron was a stenographer in
his Birmingham office, tnat she had
left eight days ago on a vacation trip;
that he came to Atlanta on business i
and met the girl by accident yesterday
in the Tetminal station and talked
> f shop affairs these. Whitehead says
he had no intimation of anything
w rong.
W'hitejiead is the agent for the
Standard Home Company at Birming
ham. Ho is married and has one child.
He appears to be about 25 years old.
Girl Came Here Three Days Ago.
The girl came to Atlanta three days 1
ago and .registered at the Terminal ho- '
tel. Employees there say sjte was quiet 1
and retiiing, spending most of her time
in her room and having’ no callers. She
registered as from Birmingham, but she 1
had hi her bag a card bearing the name 1
of E„ 11. Cameron. Columbus, Ga., and
the police think Columbus is her home*. I
Whitehead says he believes she came *
from Columbus. i
it is believed the girl was without 1
funds. She paid her bill of $6 at the >
hotel yesterday afternoon, and when :
her bag was opened after her death
only 80 cents was found.
The night matron at the Terminal i
station savs she noticed Whitehead
and the girl talking in the waiting room :
and they seemed to be intimately ac- i
quainted. i
E. H. Cameron, brother of the dead 1
girl, arrived today from Columbus, and
had the body of his sister removed to 1
the undertaking parlors of P. J. Bloom
field. It Is probable that an inquest 1
will I* held in the chapel there late in
the afternoon. Funeral arrangements ‘
have not been made.
Girl Came From Boston.
I’tILUMBUS. GA.. Sept. ■9. Miss
Claire Cameron, who killed herself in
Atlanta last night, lived in Columbus
until two months ago going to Bir
mingham with her father and mother.
Her father, John A Cameron, was for
merly superintendent of transportation
of the Columbus Railroad Company.
She has two brothers in Columbus. Earl
H. Cameron, paymaster of the Eagle
and Phenix mills, and Roy Cameron, of
the Majestic theater.
Miss Cameron was twenty years old
and came to Columbus with her par
ents ten years ago from Boston. She
was held in high esteem by a large cir.
I of friends.
GEORGIA GIDEONS IN
SESSION AT AUGUSTA;
ATLANTANS PREACH
AUGUSTA, GA . Sept. 9 The Gideons I
of Georgia held their annual meeting in |
Augusta yesterday. Leading Gideons con- i
ducted the services In all of the promi
nent churches here. At 5 o’clock yester
day afternoon the Gideons had a busi
ness meeting.
At the St. John Methodist yesterday
mornig C. F. Burge, of Atlanta, con
ducted the service.
At the St. lames Methodist /X. F. Todd,
also of Atlanta, made the address of the
occasion.
W. \V. Williams, another Atlantan, was
at the Second Baptist.
The welcome address at the meeting
vesterday afternoon was delivered by Dr.
H. M. Dußose. of this city, and was re
sponded to by Edgar Oliver, national vice
of Atlanta
Last night at St. John Methodist, the
religious services were conducted by the
visiting Gideons.
CAVALRY GETS PERMIT
TO ATTEND STATE FAIR
MACON. GA., Sept. 9.—The war de
partment has granted permission for
Troop A of the Eleventh United States
cavalry to appear at the Georgia State
fair in Macon next month. The troop
will “hike” from Fort Oglethorpe, at
Chickamauga park, to Macon, leaving
on October 1 and camping en route.
They will spend two days in Atlanta.
During the fair the cavalrymen will
give daily maneuvers and exhibitions of
horsemanship. They will he under the
command of Captain E. M. Leary. Troop
A is possibly the government's most
famous cavalry command.
CORN 82.1 PER CENT ON
SEPT. 1. SAYS U.S. REPORT
WASHINGTON. Sep;. 9 \ repot-
issued today by the crop reporting
board, xiepartment of agriculture, esti
mates the condition of crops on Sep
tember 1 ns follows:
<'orn. 82.1: spring wheat. 9'>.S; fall
wheat, 84.3; oats. 92.3; barley. 88.89.
AND FUNERALS
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
W. R. Pylant.
The funeral of W R. Py ant. 27 years
old. who died at a .sanitarium yester
day. was held at the Hoxveil Station
residence this afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Interment was at Sylvester.” He is sur
vived by his widow and one child.
Mrs. Francis Parker.
The body of Mrs. Francis Parker 66 i
veais old. xx ho died Saturday night, was
buried at Oakland cemetery tlfis uft-
11. moon at the conclusion of funeral
is rviees at Greenberg A- Bond’s chapel
Mrs. Parker resided at 319 North
I 1.11• ku-i*n st ro*'t
• Six Miners Failed to •
• Wear Union Buttons; •!
• LOOO Go on Strike-i
. .
• POTTSVILLE. PA.. Sept. 9. •
• One thousand miners went on •
• ’’il; at the Lehigh Coal and Nav- •
• igation Company’s No. 10 colliery •
• at Coal Dale today because half a • '
• dozen mine workers failed to wear • ■
• a union button when the miners •
• appealed for work. ' •
® This was button day at the col- •
• liery, and the wearing of a button *
• indicated that their dues had been o '
• paid for the quarter. • j
NEGfiMEN
INGONOTIDN
Governor Brown Welcomes the
Colored Odd Fellows of Na
tion Gathered at Armory.
The Grand United Order of Odd Fel
lows of America, a negro organization,
began its sixteenth annual convention
today with welcome addresses by pub
lic officials of Georgia and Atlanta and
responses from their own delegates.
The six days session opened at the
Auditorium at 11 o'clock, with the wel
come address by Governor Joseph M.
Brown.
Governor Brown talked of the impor
tance of the national meeting and spoke
of the work the lodge has done for the
race. He extended a welcome to the
delegates and wished them a successful
meeting. E. H. Morris, of Chicago, re
sponded to the address.
Following the talks, Mayor Court
laid S. Winn, representing the city,
made an address of welcome. Others
who spoke were W. R. Morris, of the
supteme court of the lodge; welcome
address in behaif of the Odd Fellows of
Georgia, Dr. C. T. Walker; in of
the households of the city, Lucile Den
nis. Dr William F. Penn spoke for the
Odd Fellows of Atlanta.
Henry Lincoln Johnson, registrar of
deeds of the District of Columbia, pre
sided at today’s session, tilling the place
of the grand master, E. H. Morris, of
t hicago. Henry Lincoln Johnson is
known to Atlanta people as one of the
Republican leaders of Georgia.
Several thousand delegates* are at
tending the convention. Many of them
arrived in Atlanta last night from the
North. East and West, and today spe
cial trains from various points in
Georgia brought others. At the close
of the convention an excursion train
will carry the delegates to Tuskegee,
Ala., where the large negro school is
located.
MRS. J. R. M’LEAN DIES
DESPITE PHYSICIAN’S
RACE TO HER BEDSIDE
BAR HARBOR, MAINE. Sept. 9.—Mrs.
I John R. McLean, w ife of the millionaire
j Washington and Cincinnati publisher, died
lat 5.15 o'clock today. She had been ill
I for some time with pneumonia, and suf
. fcred a sinking spell yesterday, from
I which she failed to rally.
The great race made to save Mrs. Mc-
I Lean’s life by Dr. Llewellyn Barker, of
Johns Hopkins university, who reached
her bedside at 8:30 p. m., after traveling
. 131 miles from the North Carolina woods
in less than forty-one hours, was in vain.
At her side when she passed away were
her husband, their son. Edward B. Mc-
Lean. and Mrs. McLean's sister. Mme.
Bakhrnetoff. wife of the Russian ambas
sador.
Dr. Barker's journey from the South
was undoubtedly one of the fastest, long
est and most spectacular races against
death ever known.
The rail portion of the journey was
made at an average of 72 miles an hour
and shattered all records.for train speed
along the Atlantic coast. It was such a
journey as no physician ever had before
undertaken. On the way Dr. Barker rode
on three special trains, a mountain wag
on, an automobile, a taxicab, a motorboat
and a livery carriage.
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EW5' UNION
mODDM
NEWS
Georgia Man, Re-elected Presi
dent. Declares Organization
Is Rapidly Gaining Power.
President Charles S. Barrett returned
today from Chattanooga, where he pr -
sided last week over the eleventh ar
nual national convention of the Farn
ers union.
Mr 7 Barrett xvas elected to head the
organization for the seventh consecu
tive time, and before leaving so. hi.,
home in Atlanta entered actively into
his new y ear’s work.
President Barrett speaks modestlv of
the directing part he played in the big
convention just concluded, but he ta'l*
most interestingly of the great organ
ization he heads, its past and its tn
ture.
Under a wise and watchful admfrita.
tration. the Farmers union has dex,’.
oped into by far the most militant and
aggressive organization the farmers of
America ever have had. Its Chatta
nooga convention was attended by del
egates from every state in the Union.'
Hard Class to Organize.
Discussing the organization and work
of the Farmers union. President Bar
rett said:
’lt must be understood that the m ~'
difficult class in America to organize
and keep organized ie that class whi
comprises the fanning population. Id
all the stages of history the farmer h-.s
in the very nature of his calling been
more or less an Isolated and independ
ent part of the people of all nations.
"When the Farmers union was first
organized in Texas, in 1902, it had to
reckon with these circumstances.
In addition’, the founders had to
"ombat the distrust of all organiza
tions of such character, because of trie
many failures in the past. Such fail
ures could be traced to several causes.
Foremost among them, perhaps, un
selfishness on the part of leaders, wlm
were bent upon using the farmer to
advance their own personal fortune-,
whether running for governor, sheriff,
congressman or even in the channel.', of
commerce. Once such men had won
what they were seeking, the organiza
tion, which they had harmed rather
than helped by their influence, speedily
became a secondary factor in their
lives. Efforts to organize the farmer
had previously failed, too. because the
members, encouraged by their short
sighted leaders, went to pieces on the
rocks of.partisan polities.
Now Has 3,C00,000 Members.
"We have in our present organiza
tion. in the face of temptation and po
litical bribes, steered clear of engaging
directly in politics. Here and there we
have found it necessary to formulate
legislative programs, both state anil
national. Where this has been done it
lias been without reference to parties
or party alignment, but simply and
solely for the advancement of the
farmer, irrespective of the political
creed he might embrace.
"We have approximately 3,000,000
members, and they include all class*-
of farmers in this nation, from the poor
cropper to the wealthiest owner of his
oxvn acres, not to count the physicians
tiie teachers, the editors and other*
who an eligible to membership and
who are giving us their financial and
moral support.
"I know. too. and this is an impor
tant gauge, that from the standpoint
of dues actually paid in tiie F'armei
union is larger and more powerful than
since its founding.
"1 am convinced, from my personal
observations taken in traveling ever:
American state for several years in
the service of these people, thift the
Farmers union is the greatest anil most
practical organization of farmers in
history."
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