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POLITICIANS SEE
‘BEAD HEAT’ IN
MAYOR RAGE
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Second Primary Probable in
Tight Battle Between Wood
ward and Chambers.
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Today, with the mayoralty primary
but two days off, there is a pretty safe
feeling among the politicians of all fac
tions that a second primary will be
necessary to decide the contest.
Nine men out of ten agree that the
two receiving the highest vote for may
or Wednesday will be Aldine Chambers
and James G. Woodward. One or the
other must receive a majority of all the
votes cast or run a second race.
Should there be a second primary it
would be a bitter fight. All the action
In the present campaign has been con
fined to attacks and counter attacks by
the Chambers and Woodward factions.
Woodward continued today to de
nounce Chambers as the “boss of a
dirty political ring.” He said the
Chambers faction had stooped to inject
mud-slinging into the campaign, a fact
• he regretted very much.
Woodward Attacks Ring.
' "I have charged that this greedy lit
tle ring controlling the city has made a
political alliance with a majority of the
county board of commissioners,” con
tinued Mr. Woodward.
“The people’s money is being wasted.
Every sewer, street, sidewalk, school
house and other public improvement is
a silent but convincing proof of it.
"This is what the ‘Chambers admin
istration' has to offer you as Its- record.
"During my fifteen years of service
as a city official there was no hint of
dishonesty or graft against me. I went
into office poor, remained poor and am
poor now. .
"They have attacked me with a sea
of the foulest personal abuse. But if
every lie that has been uttered against
me were true and put into one com
posite whole, it would be but as a grain
of sand to a towering mountain com
pared to the aggregate filth which
Chambers and his ring vomited upon
the public at the Qrpheum Friday night.
"Both Jim Key and M. B. Young have
uttered false statements about me.”
Chambers Answers “Ring" Charge.
In a long written statement Cham
bers answered the “ring” charge. Giv
ing a long list of’ the prominent city
officials. Chambers declared that these
names alone proved the absurdity of
thfe statement that he bossed them. He
said the charge was a "contemptible
falsehood."
James L. Key, in an advertisement
today, offers affidavits substantiating
his more bitter charges against Wood
ward. Woodward detjjfunced the
charges as false.
Dr. George Brown and Steve R.
Johnston, the other two candidates,
continue to give out optimistic state
v ments of the progress of their cam
paigns and express confidence of vic
tory.
The contest between R C. Turner
and Fred H. Miles for city electrician
almost equals the mayoralty contest in
public interest. Turner has attacked
bitterly the Georgia Railway and Pow
er Company. He now holds the office
and charges that the company is back
ing Miles.
Charles S. Robert is opposing Chief
of Construction R. M. Clayton. Little
interest has been aroused in the con
test.
Warm Contents For Council.
Neither is there much concern over
I the effort of S. B. to oust
I Thomas Evans, city warden
The other contests are for council-
H manic places.
In the Third ward Sam Shep
li ard and A. S. Hadley are op-
I posing Councilman Carl N Guess
In the Fifth ward J. W. Rowe is run
ning against f'ouncllmtyt .1. D. Sisson.
In the Seventh ward A. "TR Colcord is
!■ fighting for Councilman J. H. Andrews'
I ceat. In the Eighth ward Joseph Nut-
■ ®ting is running against Councilman W.
Bg. Humphrey. In the Ninth ward J. P.
■ KWall and W. D. White are contesting
| for Aldine Chambers' place. In the
t (Tenth ward there are three In the race
| for Councilman D. J. Baker’s seat. A.
W. Calloway, J. T. Kimbrough and D.
| J Lee.
k A number of other city officials are
I Tunning for renomination without op
position
T ;With the exception of mayor a plu
rality nominates.
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SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt came to
town Saturday, and Saturday night he
spake unto the multitude, after the
faith of his personally conducted Pro-
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gressive Republi
can party.
There were some
8,000 persons
gathered in the
Auditorium - Ar
mory to hear
him, and the
critical opinion of
one man as to his
speech is merely
one man's critical
opinion. Tastes
differ, anyway, as
the old woman
said when she
kissed the cow in
preference to i
kissing her hus
band.
Vp one side and
down the other, by and large, and with
a sufficiency of qualifying ifs, ands
and buts, it was a pretty poor speech!
It lacked the old-time Roosevelt
"punch," and it. was jerkily disconnect,
ed and ineffectively delivered.
It may have won some hearts to the
Roosevelt cause, but that is very
doubtful.
♦
Anticipating the protesting bellow of
Bull Mooses galore that one should
make statements so transparently
treasonable as the foregoing, it must
be admitted frankly that Colonel
Roosevelt spoke Saturday night under
disadvantages that would have embar
rassed seriously the most hardened and
seasoned of stump speakers.
It was the last speech of a strenu
ous week of speech-making, and the
third of the day. &
There is a limit to the physical en
durance of Roosevelt —even Roose
velt!
Besides that, the crowd in the rear
of the big Auditorium-Armory was
most noisy and disorderly—not de
signedly so, of course, but noisy and
disorderly, nevertheless.
There was a persistent tramping
anound and shuffling of feet. At one
time Colonel Roosevelt turned his
head and asked somewhat protesting
ly of Dr. MacArthur, in his rear, if
those people were "trying to get up
front.”
Realizing something of the dampen
ing effect of the uneasy and shifting
audience, Colonel Roosevelt mounted a
table eventually, and a.'/vcssed the
gathering during the latter* half of his
speech from that improved point of
vantage.
Despite the careful stage settings,
and the appealing mottoes on the walls
—"Thou Shalt Not Steal." conspicous
among them —the dramatic effect, pal
pably, never was obtained.
Coitipared with the suave, smooth,
scholarly, calm dissertation of Wood
row Wilson, delivered in the same
building several months ago. Colonel
Roosevelt’s speech Saturday night suf
fered much!
And Wilson's speech infinitely was
more persuasive than it was eloquent
or argumentative.
And, curiously enough, it was about
Woodrow Wilson that the finest and
most thoroughly Rooseveltian incident
of Saturday night’s speech centered.
When the former President first
mentioned Wilson’s name a storm of
applause broke forth and lasted for a
time sufficient to challenge the speak
er’s pugnacity and gameness.
Like the old-time Roosevelt,
aroused and called sharply to give an
accounting of himself, he arose in
stantly and splendidly to the moment.
Standing with his right arm up
raised. that brave, if "unpretty." bull
dog smile on his face, he waited pa
tiently for the pause that must even
tually give him his opening.
And when it came, the first word he
snapped back’ at that crowd—like the
"pop" of a firecracker—was “Mr. Wil
son!”
He dared the audience to do it again
’ —and he got away with it! It was
game, all right—it was Rooseveltian!
The crowd, failing in its opportunity
to "rub it in." if it wished to, hesi
; tated. and was lost.
; Immediately the colonel hurled a
‘ Wilson sentiment at it he knew it would
’ not approve, and then he asked, soar
ing up into the staccato, falsetto man-
■ ner and tone he affects when most sar
• castle, "Why don't you applaud THAT
statement!”
The audience, realizing that the
colonel had beaten it at its own game,
came across gallantly and generously,
( and the colonel then and there received
, the one and only unanimous round of
■ applause accorded him during the en
t tire evening.
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As for the high and mighty purposes
‘ of “our party," after all the talking
was over and the last word had been
! said, there must have been precious
A FINAL WORD TO THE VOTERS:
Wednesday you elect a MAYOR. During the past week we have been deluged with speeches and literature, replete with such words as FILTH, LIARS GRAFTERS
conduct a dignified, gentlemanly campaign and will appreciate your vote. I did not seek this office of my own volition. I WOULD NOT HAVE
IT IF I HAD TO GET IT BY MUD-SLINGING. I was urged to enter this race by MY FRIENDS. I served you, to the best of my ability, for four years in Council and
even those who oppose me say I was a faithful public servant; they have told ME so. If you want me as MAYOR for the next two years, all I ask you to do is to SAY SO at
the polls, Wednesday. IAM ABSOLUTELY SATISFIED WITH THE SITUATION. I BELIEVE THE CONSERVATIVE BUSINESS ELEMENT ARE TIREDi OF
THIS MUD SLINGING BUSINESS AND WILL VOTE FOR ME. IAM CONFIDENT OF MY ELECTION. I am"not compelled office but if you want an
HONEST, CLEAN, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY’S AFFAIRS, WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR, VOTE FOR ME AND I PLEDGE IT. “
Respectfully,
STEVE R. JOHNSTON
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MON DAY, SE
few who had gathered from the colo
nel’s remarks an intelligent idea of
why the Bull Moose party exists, unless
it be exclusively to elect Colonel
Roosevelt president—or to defeat
President Taft.
Colonel Roosevelt’s New Orleans
speech and his message delivered to
Georgia Saturday afternoon through
The Georgian were appealing. His plea
to the South, for the South’s sake, his
invitation to the South to join him,
rather than follow him. were adroit,
politic and more or less convincing.
Far more so. indeed, than his Satur
day night's reading of Wilson into the
Ananias club and his rambling and
general remarks concerning salvation
to be achieved after some sort of in
definite fashion, byway of his political
party newly organized.
Watching him Saturday night and
comparing him then and there with
what he seemed to be w’hen he held the
power and prestige of the presidency
in the hollow* of his hand, many peo
ple, no doubt, were moved to wonder,
much ps th£y wondered of “Jim" Jef
fries, "Jim” Corbett and "Bob" Fitz
simmons. if, after all, the once mighty
Roosevelt can "come back!" —to spec
ulate w hether it is a still unconquered
Alexander or the former champion
heavyweight president of the world
who is battling for the Lord!
And, after Colonel Roosevelt's inces
sant and tiresome repetition of
"friends" this, and that, Saturday
night, his concluding reference to Ar
mageddon was disappointing.
From the gloomiest chapter of Rev
elation he snatched Armageddon—and,
considering the lack of ginger and the
weight of vague appeal in Saturday's
oration, it would have been more fit
ting, because so unlike the old-time
Roosevelt, for him to have harked to
the sweeter and more benign Tenny
son, and admonished his audience
finally, lastly and good-naturedly—
“Howe'er it be, it seems to me
’Tls only noble to be good!
True hearts are more than coronets —
And simple faith than Norman
blood!”
WIFE POKER FIEND. SAYS
MAN IN DIVORCE TRIAL
CLAYTON. MO., Sept. 30.—Frank R.
Young, of the Park hotel, a traveling
salesman, testifying in his own behalf
in his divorce suit, at Clayton, said that
his wife, Mrs. Carrie Young, was a
poker fiend.
"She wanted to play poker ail the
time," Young said. "She was contin
ually asking me to stake her to $5 aftd
$lO for her poker games. When I got
tired of giving her money to lose in
games she called me an ’old cheap
skate, - and heaped other forms of abuse
upon me.”
ROMANTIC LOVE CURSE
OF AGE, SAYS MINISTER
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NEW YORK, Sept. 30. —Rev. Earle
Wilfiey. in a sermon here, said that “ro
mantic love is the curse of the age.”
and that love can not thrive on leas
than S2O a week.
CORN SHOW DEFERRED.
DALTON, GA., Sept. 30.—At a meet
ing of the Boys Corn club held here it
was decided that in view of the green
ness of the corn it would not be ad
visable to gather all of'lt and hold the
annual show at the Whitfield county
fair next week. The boys, however,
will gather one-eighth of the crop and
make an exhibit.
‘W OF FIGS” FOR INDIGESTION.
BILIDUSNESSANDCONSTIPATION
Better than castor oil, calomel or cathartics to cleanse
your stomach, liver and 30 feet of bowels. Harm
less Laxative for men, women and children.
Primitive folks did not need laxa
tives. They’ lived outdoors, ate plenty
of fruit, and all of their food was coarse.
We modern people are different. W«
exercise too little, eat little fruit, and
our food is too fine —too rich.
We simply can’t have our ten yards
of bowels clogged up, liver choked with
sour bile and stomach full of foul effete
matter and feel well It means that the
food and waste retained in the stomach
and 30 feet of bowels ferments —-decays.
The decay creates poisons, gases and
acids, and those poisons are sucked into
the blood through the very ducts in
tended to suck in the nutriment. Then
we have sick headache, become dull,
bilious, tongue coated, nervous, meals
don't digest, and we feel miserable all
over. So we must make our choice. We
must live like primitive folks, else we
BOODLING BAREO
IN NEOMS
Detectives Uncover Gigantic
Frauds in Books While Poli
ticians Quake in Fear.
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 30.—A graft
exposure of the first magnitude, in
volving high political bosses in New-
Orleans and other cities of the state, is
impending and may break any hour.
Graft running far into the millions is
charged.
Behind the movement ate Governor
Luther E. Hall, of Louisiana. and Dis
trict Attorney St. Clair Adams, of Or
leans parish. Reinforced by a squad
of about 25 operators from the 'William
J. Burns Detective Agency, an investi
gation which has been under way for
two months has corpe to light.
Six months ago the Democratic bosses
of Louisiana received a shock. In a
three-cornered fight for governor. Hall
was elected. For a couple of months
the bosses shivered every time the
name of Hall was mentioned, but w hen
he made no move toward an investiga
tion they grew bolder, and went even
so far as to say that "Hall was safe."
Today there is not a politician, from
the minor ward boss up to Robert Ew -
ing, the Democratic national commit
teeman, w’ho does not believe Governor
Hall is going to "clean up."
City Records Demanded.
It became known several weeks ago
that Burns was working on the case,
but the situation was not realized by
the politicians until Thursday, when
District Attorney Adams called a spe
cial grand jury to force Martin Behr
man, mayor of New’ Orleans, to turn
over to an auditing committee of citi
zens all the records of the city. The
mayor had refused to do this.
"It’s just politics," shouted the bosses.
“Just to show you that it isn't," re
turned tfie district attorney. “I’ll ad
journ the grand jury until next Wed
nesday, the day after election. Then I’ll
proceed.”
The auditing committee got the
books of the board of education. It
took just half an hour to discover tha'
a certain plumbing firm held a blanket
contract to supply all plumbing mate
rials without competition and got
about $500,.000 in this manner.
Another small item of $2,000 a year,
known as the "charity fund," and han
dled by Michael Rooney, chief clerk to
the mayor, was investigated. Mr.
Rooney's explanation is that he gave
the money to mendicants w ho asked for
alms at the city’ hall
Graft in Canal Tolls.
The state of Louisiana some ten years
ago built a canal from Lake Pontchar
train to New Orleans. Canal compa
nies operating barges were charged
tolls for tonnage.
It is now found that the Jahnicke
Navigation Company, a contracting
company’ doing the largest business
over the canal, had boats equipped with
false bottoms. Boats drawing 500 tons
only paid on 250 tons.
The New Orleans levee board is
found to have paid a certain man $1
a square foot for his land when a dolla
a front foot would have been proper.
An investigation of the Belt railroad,
owned, and operated by the city!, is said
to show that when Hampton Reynolds
had a levee contract for $200,000 lie
used cars which the city hired from the
railroads to carry his earth over the
belt road. The cars were badly dam
aged in this work. The city paid the
bill and charged it up as demurrage.
Stanley Behrman, son of the mayor,
was the foreman on the levee work
must take artificial means to move the
excess bile and waste matter on and out
of the system.
The safest, most harmless and,effec
tive stomach, liver and bowel cleanser
and regulator for men, women and
children is delicious Syrup of Figs,
which doesn’t irritate, gripe or weaken.
Its effect is tiie effect of fruits. It is
composed entirely of luscious tigs, senna
and aromatics. Don’t think you are
drugging yourself. Syrup of Tigs can
be constantly used without harm.
Ask your druggist for "Syrup of Fig
and Elixir of Senna," and see on the la
bel that it is prepared by The California
Fig Syrup t'ompan.i This is the onlvj
genuine the old reliable. Refuse, with
conterißit, the so-called Fig Syrup imi
tations sometimes offered to deceive I
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’TEMBER 3(1. 1912.
I SL through mere
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I Wi * Chew mouth-refresh-
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f \ Now light up! Notice
I how c^ear y° ur throat is—
V taste the better flavor of
your tobacco.
t Keep the beneficial morsels
\ in your pocket. Give regular,
help to palate, breath, teeth—to
appetite, nerves and digestion.
BUY IT BY THE BOX
—of any dealer. It costs littU by
the package but /eu by the M
Look for the spear The flavor lasts
Robert’s Strong Appeal to
Voters of Atlanta
You. know the horrible condition of the streets, the sew
ers and the sidewalks of Atlanta. The desire of every citizen
is for improvement of these conditions. The past must be ac
cepted as an index of the future unless radical, sweeping
changes are made in the CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT.
So unbearable have these conditions become that the city
press has stepped aside to condemn the conduct of our street
department.
Any change in the Construction Department must be an
improvement because conditions could not be worse. I am a
candidate for Chief of Construction on the broad platform of
‘ IMPROVEMENT.” My past experience of twenty years as
Civil Engineer and fourteen years as County Surveyor amply
equip me for the position. I can benefit the city, and if
elected will remedy the evils in the Construction Depart
ment of which everybody in Atlanta has suffered.
I will appreciate your vote and your influence.
Respectfully,
CHARLES S. ROBERT,
Candidate for Chief of Construction.
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