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POLITICIANS SEE ‘BEAD HEAT’ IN MAYOR RAGE I Second Primary Probable in Tight Battle Between Wood ward and Chambers. —_ 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. i r Many Driven From Home. • '-Every year, in many parts of the country, thousands are driven from 1 their homes by coughs and lung dis eases. Friends and business are left behind for other climates, but this is & costly and not always sure. A better ■ way—the way of multitudes—is to use , Dr. King’s New Discovery and cure J ■ yourself at home. Stay right there, * with your friends, and take this safe j medicine Throat and lung troubles find quick relief and health returns I Its help in coughs, colds, grip, croup, 1 wnooping-eough and sore lungs makes A it a positive blessing. 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all B fraggists. ••• (Advertisement.) Mr W. S. Gunsalus, a farmer living neap Fleming. Pa., says he has usee Chafrnberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy in his family for four years., and that he has found it to be an excellent remedy, and takes J pleasure in recommending it. For sale I by all dealers. (Advt.) IJ Your vote and influence If is solicited for R. M. Clay || .ton for Chief of Construc- I tion. To change the horrible conditions of our streets vote for Charles S. Robert for Chief of Construction. 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- L /JB glr< JH W * K ■ 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. J -II 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 ..._ X 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 .vou ’ (Advt.) ’TEMBER 3(1. 1912. I SL through mere I v habit! I Wi * Chew mouth-refresh- I ing first! 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. Georgian Want Ads Bring Big Results 7 wAo you tn, ouArro you Itvc, or you have— WZZ brtMF Rwfo /c a