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6 CHARGES JONES mm run 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. .‘ «■ 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 cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment have been the world's favorites for more than a gen eration. Sold everywhere. Liberal sample of 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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They’re stylish in appearance, light in weight, comfortable and thoroughly rainproof. We have a special lot of new styles in tan and gray, ladies’ and misses’ sizes, real $5 values, to sell tomorrow Very Special at $3.75 Ladies' and Misses Rubberized Raincoats Children's Rubberized Rain Capes, sizes in better qualities than above, at for ages 6 to 12: </»✓- & 1 o e* Gray striped with plaid-lined hood $1.50 ana So.S(J Navyblues2.so 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 without name. P er P alr .■ ••••• •■ ■ • 3 pairs for SI.OO. See the display. —, . - Women’s Maco Hose in light, medium and 25c 1 able heavyweights; * per pair On a special table at 25c for choice are ~ , r ,.„ , new Bows, -Jabots, Lace Collars, Ties, etc. Men s > ilk-I laited Half Hose, in black am —the daintiest neck fixings you ever saw ” e st colors; e at the price. perpair Boys’l by 1 and corduroy ribbed Hose, all suc table sizesuptoll; Qte Another big table of pretty Neckwear <xtra quality at s()c for choice includes new Lace Col- Boys' and Girls' 1 by 1 ribbed 1 X - lars, Bows, Jabots, Windsor Ties, etc.— Hose, per pair-* unusually good values, 2 pairs for 25c, The Correct New Shoes The new styles in Ladies Shoes are beauties. Famous Keely-Zieglers and other makes in tan, plain, patent and gun metal leathers. Style, comfort and durability combine to give these shoes prestige. $2.50 to $6.00 Keely Children’s Shoes are noted for style, durability and perfect fit. This latter feature is emphasized because improper fitting of children's feet causes endless suffering in later years. The new styles ready. SI.OO to $3.00 KEELY'S BAVARIAN RAILWAYS 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. To Qrive Out Malaria . and Build up the System Take the Old Standard GROVE’S TASTE LESS CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form, and the most effectual form. For grown people and children. 50c. (Advertisement.) Why do they ah say. "As good as Sauer’s?” SAUER’S PURE FLAVOR ING EXTRACTS have received thir teen highest American and European awards. (Advertisement.) The Men Who Succeed as heads of large enterprises ar, of great energy. Success today 1 mands health. To ail is to fat?' 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