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CHARGES JONES
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Duncan. Defeated Candidate
for South Carolina Governor.
Answers Opponent.
SPARTANBURG. S C.. Sept. 26.
Jahn T Dunean, one of the defeated
candidates for governor, read his an
swer before the subcommittee, n>w
investigating alleged fraud in the re
cent primary , e, t on in S oith f'aro-
Bna. in reply to the complaint filed by
attorneys for Judge Ira B. Jones. Mr.
Dunean made sensational charges. He
asserted that he had been told by a
responsible pers r. that SIOB,OOO had
been spent on the election and this
money was used by friends of Judge
Jones. He said SIOO was spent at one
precinct, and strongly advised the hold
ing of another primary. Mr. Duncan
fttrrished no names in his charges and
•he committee instructed him to pro
xdde these so that they may be exam
ined.
Shortly after Duncan made his
charges, the committee adjourned and
boarded a train for Greenville, where
another session was held. Detective E.
S. Reed and others have been at work
In efforts to determine fraud in Green
rille.
Reed is the same detective who dic
tographed Samuel J. Nicholls, the young
Spartanburg attorney. If Mr. Reed had
come to Spartanburg, it is possible that
trouble would have occurred. It is as
sumed that the committee went to
Greenville in order to get the testimony
of Reed.
The sub-committee accomplished
much real work here, and the riotous
scenes which marked the session the
first afternoon were replaced with a
dignified and orderly session. None of
the men who Tuesday threatened to
cause a riot was present yesterday and
the work was hastened.
W. B. Wilson. Jr, one of the com
mitteemen named by Chairman W. F.
Stevenson to got reports and charges
from all of the counties In the upper
section of the state, submitted his re
port here. In many of the counties he
had evidences of fraud, while in others
he reported that there has been no con.
tests or alleged irregularity.
MAN SHOVELS COAL ALL
NIGHT ON 74TH BIRTHDAY
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Edwin T.
Aiken, of this city, celebrated his sev
enty-fourth birthday by shoveling coal
all night.
“I Like It”
Most Children do like
Instant Postum
the New Food Drink.
But the big fact is that Children as well
as adults can drink Instant Postinn with full
est benefit.
Little folks are usually denied coffee “be
cause it hurls them.”
Wluui Instant Post uni is the [leverage its
delicious, mild. .Java-like flavour pleases all
the family, yet no harm can result to young
or old. for Instant Postum. rich as it is in
taste, is made only of choice wheat and a
small per cent of molasses—pure and free from
the coffee drug, “caffeine.”
Instant Postum requires no boiling.
Stir a leaspoonful in a cup of hot water,
add sugar and cream to taste, and a perfect
dip of Postum is ready instantly.
Grocei's sell Instant Postum in tins
containing suflicient to make about 100
mips at 50e. Smaller tins making about
5(1 cups at 30c.
Coffee Averages About Double That Cost.
A 5-cup Free Sample mailed for
2-cent stamp, to cover postage.
I Co., Lt Pure Food Factories. Battle Creek. 31
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
Complaint is general throughout the
state that the proposed three-foot bal
lot, to be used in the state eletcion in
October, is too long.
As long as it is,
however, it yet is ZjjMHMI"N,
not as long, by a [fUgF’*""
good many inches,
if not feet, as the ” ■-
ballots used in
many other states,
particularly in I* *
some of the sec- /-dgSS
li.ms where the .
r< f- M z
erendum and the 1
recall are opera- Hi y. f i -
five. S
That an ex-
tiaordinariiy long
ballot is not desir. .‘
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generally. It tends
to confuse the
voters mind, and
it is an excellent medium through which
to slip undesirable candidates and leg
islation. It is relatively as easy to
lodge a ■ joker" in a long ballot as it is
to lodge it in a long bill proposed for
legislative enactment.
Theoretically, therefore, the long
ballot is favored by the so-called
"bosses." and they always endeavor to
crowd as much on it as possible. The
logical answer to the problem of the
long ballot, of course, is more frequent
elections. But everybody knows what
a howl there used to be about the many
elections pulled off in Georgia—indeed,
it was to get away from so many dif
ferent elections that Georgia adopted
the policy of combining as many as
possible.
The question of simplifying the bal
lot in the general election is a most
difficult one. In the primary elections,
unopposed candidates might be left off
the ballot, and their nominations de
clared by the party convention. In the
regular elections, however, the names
of all candidates, opposed or unopposed,
MUST go on the ballot. No election
could be legal unless this requirement
of the law were complied with.
A three-foot ballot is most unde
sirable, of course, and the Georgia pa
triot and statesman who will devise a
satisfactory substitute will deserve the
thanks of the people. Just now, how
ever, no such person is in sight.
Discussing the long ballot, The Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun says:
There Is no reason why voters of
this section of the state should vote
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
for judges of the superior courts
and solicitors general in the other
circuits of the state. The voters of
each circuit, it seems, should be
permitted to name their own so
licitors and judges.
There is a mffst interesting story be.
hind that provision of the law which
requires that all judges and solicitors
be voted upon by the entire state, rath,
er than by the people of their respective
circuits —a story involving something
of the injustice of partisan politics and
the queer byways into which It some
times leads otherwise fair-minded peo
ple.
The law taking the election of judges
and solicitors from the legislature and
putting it directly into the hands of the
people was passed by the general as
sembly of 1896-97.
That was a famous legislature in
many ways, and particularly was it
different from other legislatures in that
the membership of the house was
about one-fourth Populist. There were
forty-odd "Pops" in that house—so
many, indeed, that the Democrats rare
ly moved without previously caucusing
strictly among themselves.
Those days saw the floodtide of Pop
ulism in Georgia!
When the law putting the election of
solicitors and judges into the hands of
the people was reported to the house
originally, it provided for the election
of those officers by the people of their
respective judicial circuits, and with
out in any way considering the votes
of people outside those circuits.
Just before the bill came up for a
vote in the house, however, some enter,
prising Democrat discovered that, un
der the operation of such a law, Geor
gia likely would find itself soon the
proud possessor of some half dozen
"Pop" judges and solicitors—hence he
proposed an amendment requiring that
these officers be voted upon by the
entire state, after they had been nomi
nated by the people of their respective
circuits!
Os course, that knocked all Popu
listic judicial hopes galley west, and
the Democrat proposing the amend
ment was voted a hero and a wise guy
in an emergency, and was promptly
canonized, as those things go political
ly!
The "Pops” were as mad as hops
when they found out how the old re
liable Democratic caucus had "steam
rollered" them again, but there was
nothing to do but take the medicine
prescribed.
The constitutiaonal amendment pro
viding for the substitution in cities of
20,000 and over, in the wisdom of the
legislature, of municipal courts for the
present justice courts, seems likely to
be ratified by the people in October
almost if not quite unanimously.
The justices of the peace in the rural
and less populous sections generally
favor the change, now that they have
come to understand that it applies only
to the few cities in Georgia of more
than 20,000. Indeed, if the amendment
should be rejected, it likely would be
followed by an effort to wipe out the
entire justice court system of the state
—a thing not at all to be desired in the
country districts.
The justices of the peace in the larger
cities also favor the amendment, on its
merits. Here in Atlanta, four of the
five justices are heartily supporting the
proposition.
The entire thing is a sincere and
carefully considered effort to provide in
the larger cities a method of handling
minor court proceedings along better
and more equitable lines.
The bar of the state, as a practical
unit, indorses the proposed change in
part of the justice of the peace system,
as provided in the constitutional
amendment to be submitted in Octo
ber. »
Right on the eve of Mr. Roosevelt’s
visit to Atlanta it is interesting to note
that Senator O’Gorman, of New York,
predicts that Wilson will get 532 votes
in the electoral college.
As there are only 532 votes in that
more or less mythical rah-rah thing
known as the electoral college. Colonel
Roosevelt should feel pretty badly.
The law enacted by the last legisla
ture, making the terms of all the coun
ty school commissioners of the state
uniform, has been construed to mean
that all commissioners whose commis
sions are not dated 1912 must qualify
and go before the people at the regular
October election, if they desire to re
tain their offices.
The attorney general has rendered a
decision that the intention of the law
is not clear, but that the sure way is
to have the voters to elect commission
ers.
ATTEMPTED KISS DEADLY
TO GIRL IN AUTOMOBILE
HARTFORD. CONN., Sept. 26.—An
attempt by Howard P. Halsey, a
wealthy business man. to kiss Miss
Anna Carelli, who was killed in the
wreck of his automobile on August 14,
was responsible for her death, accord
ing to testimony given by the girl’s
sister at a hearing before the secretary
of state.
She said that he lost control of his
steering wheel when her sister resisted.
He testified that his actions Were
"highly proper" and that the accident
was unavoidable.
GIRL ARRESTS YOUTH FOR
CRITICISING TIGHT SKIRT
NEW YORK. Sept 26.—Bessie Kaplan,
an athletic efgbteen-year-old girl of the
Bronx, arrested a young man in a Brook
! lyn "I," car and personally haled him to
the New Jersey avenue court several
blocks away.
There she charged him with having
brought public humiliation to her because
he liad made comments on the tightness
of her skirt that were heard by the other
I passengers of tile ear He gave the name
(of Max '’hasuwitz, and was held under
S6OO ball
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 191
SAW ATTORNEY
OVERTURN BOAT
Farmer Says He Witnessed
Drowning of Countess
Szabo in Lake.
GOSHEN, N. Y., Sept. 26.—More than
50 witnesses are expected to be called
when the hearing of Attorney Burton
Gibson, accused of the murder of
Countess Menschlk Szabo, begins Mon
day. Startling evidence, in which an
eyewitness of the countess’ death states
that Gibson jumped from the boat in
which they were rowing on Greenwood
lake at the time of the tragedy and
rocked it until it overturned, has been
secured by District Attorney Rogers, of
Orange county.
The new witness who has just been
found by County Detective Moore Is
John Minturn, a farmer of Sterling
Forest, on the shore of Greenwood lake,
where the countess met her death. So
impressed is Mr. Rogers with the farm
er’s story that he has subpenaed him to
appear on Monday, when Gibson will
be examined.
Mr. Rogers said he has two other wit
nesses who will testify to practically
the same thing.
SKIN TROUBLE
DISFIGURED FACE
Blisters Itched and Burned. Rub
bed and they Burst. Face Full
of Sores. Kept from Sleeping.
Suffered Terribly. Cuticura Soap
and Ointment Completely Cured,
3107 Foster Ave., Baltimore. Md.—
“About five months ago little blister*
appeared on my face. They looked Ilka
ynpT-'A blisters from fire bums. They
Itched and burned something
~ terrible, which caused me to
r J* ? ru b them and they burst, then
r sorca appeared which disfigured
my face. My face was all full
A, A l\ of sores. The disease spread
\ \ |V / from ray face to my neck and
\ \ I / back. When anything touched
them they would bum and
stick to my clothes, which kept me from
sleeping and made me suffer terribly.
"I used home remedies, then they be
came worse so I was obliged to undergo
a treatment and I used a salve but it did
no good. I suffered about three months
then 1 saw the Cuticura Soap and Oint
ment advertised and I thought I would
send and get a sample and try them. I
used the sample of Cuticura Soap and
Ointment and they helped me a great deal,
so I bought some and used them about
two months and they completely cured me."
(Signed) Edward V. Thomas, Mar. 26, 1912.
For treating poor complexions, red, rough,
hands, and dry, thin and falling hair, Cuti
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the world's favorites for more than a gen
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each mailed free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Ad
dress post-card "Cuticura. Dept. T, Boston."
«"Tender-faced men should use Cuticura
Soap Shaving Stick. 25c. Sample free.
A Phone in Your Home
Only 8 Ide Per Day
This price places the
greatest of modern con
veniences within the reach
of every one.
It leaves no excuse for
borrowing your neighbor’s
telephone.
It is rapidly increasing
the great army of those who
“ Shop by Wire, ” very
many of whom use our
service exclusively.
Atlanta Telephone
and Telegraph Co.
A. B. CONKLIN, den. Mgr.
Would You Pay 50c to
Be Cured of Eczema?
Yes. indeed you would. You pay ona
hundred times 50c to be cured, and yet
many persons suffering for years with
awful cases of eczema have been cured
by a 50e package of Tetterlne. Tettertne
can be nad at any drug store, or will be
sent on receipt of 50c sent to the Shup
trlno Co., Savannah, Ga.
SPEEDER IS FINED BY
PHONE;_REMITS IN MAIL
OMAHA, Sept. 26.—" You are fined $5
and costs,” said Police Judge Foster
over the telephone to A. D. Northrup,
caught speeding last night.
In the morning mail today Judge
Foster received Northrup’s remittance
of $7.50.
TO OPERATE HOTEL.
VALDOSTA, GA., Sept. 26.—A local
corporation has been formed here to
lease the new Valdes hotel as soon as
improvements now under way are com
pleted. E. D. Ferrell, Jr., T. E. Herri
ford, J. R. Dasher and O. D. Dalton are
actively interested in the lease.
. Is Your Bank Our Bank?
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New Neckwear: Hosiery Specials
A charming collection of the new Women's extra fine Silk Lisle Hose, with
Neckwear fads and novelties is now on high spliced heels
view. and double soles OlzC
There are dozens of very fashionable , , r . , ~ „ TT
Robespierre Collar Effects, new Lace Col- Women s Mercerized Maco ( otton Hose,
lar and Cuff Sets, Jabots and novelties with purple tops; o
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On a special table at 25c for choice are ~ , r ,.„ ,
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The new styles in Ladies Shoes are beauties. Famous Keely-Zieglers and other
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Keely Children’s Shoes are noted for style, durability and perfect fit. This latter
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The new styles ready.
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BAR KISSING IN TRAINS
BERLIN, Sept. 26.—The Bavarian
state railways have issued an order pro
hibiting kissing in their trains. Even
husbands and wives are included.
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