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6 CHARGES JONES MEN WITH FRAUD Duncan. Defeated Candidate for South Carolina Governor. Answers Opponent. SPARTANBURG. S <’ Sept 26. John T Duncan, one of the defeated candidates for governor, read his an swer before the sub-committee, now investigating a'leged fraud in the re cent primary ejection in South Caro lina. in reply to the complaint filed by attorneys for Judge Ira B. Jones Mr Duncan made sensational charges He asserted that he had been told by a responsible person that $108.00(1 had been spent on the election and this money was used bx friends of Judge .Tones. He said SIOO was spent at one precinct, and strongly advised the hold ing of another primary. Mr. Duncan furnished no names in his charges and the committee Instructed him to pro vide these «o 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 ville 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 Greenvrlle In order to get the testimony of Reed The snh-eonimittee 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 get reports and charges from all of the counties tn 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 hag 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 .91’ night. “I Like It” Most Children do like Instant Postum the New Food Drink. Bui the big fact is that Children as well adults can drink Instant Posfuni with full est benefit. Little I oiks an* usually denied coffee “be cause it hurts ilieni." hen Instant I’ostnm is rhe beverage its delicious, mild. Java-like flavour pleases all the family, yet no harm ran result to voting or old. for Instant Postum. rich as it is in taste, is mad'' <>nl\ of choice wheat and a small per (-cm of molasses pure and free from the coffee drug, “caffeine.*’ Instant Postum requires no boiling. Stir a teas|ioonful in a (-up of hot water, add sugar and cream to taste, and a perfect cup of Postum is ready instantly. ifroeiT' sell Instant pobliini in tins containing sufficient to make about 100 • ups at 50c. Smaller tins making about 50 clips at 30e. Coffee Averages About Double That Cost. A 5-cup Free Sample mailed for 2 cent stamp, to cover postage. MjMac. n\ in, ,' o |, tf j p u toil.. Battle ('reek. Midi SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS Complaint is general throughout the state that the proposed three-foot bal lot. to he used in the state eletcion in October, is too long. Z*73| [J JAtctC" a ». > ' -rw As long as it is, however, it yet is not as long, by a good many inches, if not feet. a« the ballots used in many other states, pa rticu lar I y In some of the sec tions where the initiative, the ref erendum and the recall are opera tive That an ex traordinarily long ballot is not desir. . able is admitted generally. It tends to confuse the voter's 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—lndeed, It was to get away from so many dif ferent elections that Georgia adopted the policy of combining as many as possible. Th* question of simplifying the bal lot in the general eiection is a moat difficult one. In the primary' elections, unopposed candidates might be left off the ballot, and their nominations de clared by the party convention in tho tegular 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 w ith. 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 ih. xrts- of the people Just now, how ever. no such person is in sight. Discussing the long ballot. The Co lutnbus Enquirer-Sun says: Th, re Is no reason « hy 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 most 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 ths people was passed by the general as sembly of 1896-97. That was a famous legislature in many ways, and particularly wag II 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 lhe 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 gdy 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 hut take the medicine prescribed. Tile i onstitutiaonal 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 he 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 he 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 t>y 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 cleat bur 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 Mi-s Anna ('nielli, who was killed in the wreck of his automobile on August It. was responsible for het death, accord ing io testimony given by the girl's sister at a hearing bet re the secretary of state. She said that he lost control of his steering wheel when het sister resisted He testified that his actions were "highly proper" and that the accident was unavoidable. GIRL ARRESTS YOUTH FOR CRITICISING TIGHT SKIRT - " - —— NEW YyiRK Sept 29 Bessie Kaplan, an athletic eighteen-year-old girl of the Bronx arrested a young man in a Brook lyn "1. car arid 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 bad made comments on the tightness of her skirt that were heard by the other passengers of the cat He gave the name of Max t'haSowitx. and was held under S6OO bat! THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 26, 1912 'SAW JTTOW OVERTURN BOAT Farmer Says He Witnessed Drowning of Countess Szabo in Lake. r 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 w’hich 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 w’ho 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 —2 * _ 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 like blisters from Are burns. They itched and burned something terrible, which caused mo to rub them and they burst, then sores appeared which disfigured my face. My face was all full of sores. The disease spread . from my face to my neck and back. When anything touched them they would burn and V* f V 1 / \ \y / stick to my.clothes, which kept me from sleeping and made mo suffer terribly. “1 used home remedies, then they be came worse so I was obliged to undergo a treatment and I used a salvo 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 mo.'' (Signed) Edward V. Thomas, Mar. 26, 1912. 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Tetterine can be nad at any drug store, or will be sent on receipt of 50c sent is the Shup tnne Co . Savannah, Ga SPEEDER IS FINED BY PHONE; REMITS IN MAIL OMAHA, Sept. 26.—" You are fined $5 and costs.” eaid 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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