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FORCES UNITETD
FIGHT TAMMANY
Battle Royal in Prospect When
New York Democrats Get to
Nominating.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. I.—When
the delegates filed into the arena
convention hall shortly before the
Democratic convention went Into
session today the political barometer
indicated that one of the bitterest po
litical fights in the history of the Em
pire state would be waged If Charles
Francis Murphy, Tammany leader, at
tempted. by virtue of the majority of
delegates which he controls, to whip
the convention into accepting as nomi
ness whomever he might choose. How
ever, the fight did not materialize at
the opening session, adjournment being
taken at 2:06 p. m. until 2 o'clock to
morrow.
As the result of all night sessions the
many antl-Tammany and progressive
factions in the state had joined hands
under the leadership of Congressman
William Sulzer for the purpose of knif
ing the Tammany crowd and when they
entered the convention hall they car
ried chips on their shoulders and
chanted their battle cry. "Down with
Murphy, Dix and Tammany.” .
Murphy Men Busy.
Murphy held conferences far into the
night with his leaders and after only
a few’ hours’ sleep had breakfast served
in his room and sent hurry calls to his
lieutenants. Just whom the Tammany
chieftain will back for the governor
ship was the big question of debate
among the leaders and delegates out
side the Tammany fold.
On all sides in the progressive and
anti-Tammany camps was heard "Mur
phy has abandoned Dix,” but just prior
to the convention one of Murphy's lieu
tenants made this statement: "Murphy
sticks to Dix.”
Tammany braves. 1.500 strong, ar
rived last night. About 500 anti-Tam
manyites from New York arrived last
night, while the smaller cities In the
state augmented the total with about
1,500 more.
Donate Cotton
To Aid Wilson
MACON, MISS., Oct. I..—Emmet Ca
vet-t. a meber of the legislature of Mis
sissippi, has started a cotton campaign
fund in this state for the Wilson and
Marshall campaign.
Mr. Cavett have a bale of cotton
weighing 499 pounds and says that he
will have most of the big cotton growers
in Mississippi donate a hale of cotton,
to be sold in behalf of the national
Democratic fund.
SUPT. BRITTAIN TO SPEAK.
LEXINGTON, GA., Oct. I—On Fin
lay, October 18, the pupils and teach
es of nine schools of Oglethorpe coun
ty will be addressed here by State
School Superintendent M. L. Brittain.
Th- address will be given at a school
tally, the second of a series of edu
cational meetings recently inaugurated
in the county by School Commissioner
Vi. S. Weaver.
Your vote and influence
is solicited for R. M. Clay
ton for Chief of Construc
tion.
“Correct Cress for Men”
t Hubbard says:
“’T'HE word
1 ‘STETSON’
has passed into
the current coin
» £
or expression.
If a man asks for a
y STETSON ’in any
civilized country in the world, the dealer
knows what he wants. The ‘STETSON’
is the standard. It stands for beauty, dur
ability, efficiency, and all that is worth while
in the line of hats. It ‘ looks’ and it ‘ lasts.’ ”
We will back up what Hubbard says,
so come in and see our splendid new line
of STETSONS for Fall.
SOFT HATS AND DERBIES
$3.50 to $5.00
A size for every head, a shape for every face.
ESSIG BROS. CO.
“Correct Dress for Men ’
26 Whitehall St.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1912.
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
With tomorrow’s election passes for
ever in its legal aspect the present
John M. Slaton-John N. Holder legis-
L t-ig
JAM3L? B XSVDT
lature.
Today Slaton is
president of the
senate, de jure and
de facto tomor
row’ he will be
governor-elect.
If Gove r n o t
Brown desired,
after today, to call
the legislature in
extraordinary ses
sion, he would call
the 1 e g i s 1 a t ure
elected tomorrow,
and it would hr
necessary, befor.
proceeding to
business, that 1*
organize itself.
The inc oml ng
legislature will be noticeable for the
new faces and the new names it will
bring to the public's attention —and
particularly will it be noticeable for
the old familiar faces that will be miss
ing.
First and foremost. Joe Hill Hall will
not be there —and a legislature without
Joe Hill Hall will be pretty much like
champagne without sparitle. He is the
dean of the house that dies toebay. Ad
mittedly. he has been a fine influence
on the floor and in the committee rooms.
He has been a brake on much unde
sirable legislation, and a safety valve
that has more than once proved his
right to be listed an extremely fortu
nate circumstance incident to house
proceedings.
Joe Hill Hall had a trv at some
thing higher, and didn't get it; but,
after all, it is doubtful whether there
could be any honor more enviable than
to be or to have been the best beloved
man in an entire legislature.
John Holder, the sneaker, for ten
years a seemingly necessary attach
ment to each and every legislature,
passes into the ranks of private citizens
today. The house will seem mighty
queer without Holder on the job some
where either as speaker or leader on
the floor.
Then. too. Hooper Alexander and
“Old Man” Wilson and Byron Bower
and Mack Johnson and Tippins of Ap
pling and Rufe Baker and "Bill” Jones
—these will not be members of the new
house.
John M. Slaton has been promoted to
the governorship, and probably never
again will be a member of the general
assembly.
Whether he will continue his annual
barbecue is problematical—the incom
ing legislature doubtless is hoping he
will.
He has been a member of the leg
islature continuously since 1896.
Hubert S. Wynkoop, elec
trical engineer of New York
city, has taken City Electri
cian R. C. Turner’s advice as
to wooden covering of wires,
and writes Turner that after
June, 1913, New York will
prohibit wooden moulding in
the city. Is this a qualifica
tion for re-election?
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Amid all the melancholy of the not
to-come-back. however, it is in a
measure consoling to know that John
T. Boifeuillet and Charlie Northen will
be in their old jobs again.
Legislatures may come and legisla
tures may go. but these two go on for
ever!
Says The Athens Herald:
Joe Brown announces that lie
sure will make the race for the
United States senate against Hoke
Smith.
This is highly important—if true. So
far. however, no newspaper man in At
lanta has been able to hear the gov
ernor "announce" any such thing as
The Herald credits to him. although,
of course it frequently happens that
one has to go away from home to get
the real news.
A lot of diplomatic quizzing of the
executive has been indulged in by en
terprising minions of the press around
and about the eapitol, but when the
spirit moves him the governor can re
solve himself into the finest side-step
per ever!
Maybe he is going to be a candidate
against Senator Smith, and maybe he
isn’t. That’s all the Atlanta reporters
know.
The Savannah News approaches the
subject from another angle, and most
likely from the right angle, at that,
when it says:
If Governor Brown has no idea of
being a candidate for the United
States senate, the frequent state
ment of his political opponents that
he is going to get into the race
may finaly result in his doing so.
Colonel Roosevelt’s "The Winning of
the West" made him lots of friends
out beyond the Mississinni and it is
largely a narrative of personal expe
riences. at that.
Maybe he will write “Bumping the
Bumps Through Dixie," by and by, and
that may be another bell ringer.
Any way, as he himself says, he is
"having a fair to middling warm time"
as he goes along, and. while he knows
he is largely in “the enemy’s coun
try,” still, in the. main, he seems to
realize that he is mighty welcome, even
if he does accumulate a few electoral
votes as he goes.
Hls is a most picturesque and engag
ing personality, whatever else one may
say or think of him. and everybody
hopes his tour of the South about con
cluded, wdll be by no means his last.
To change the horrible
conditions of our streets
vote for Charles S. Robert
for Chief of Construction.
Specials at Rogers’
For Wednesday Only
Two Carloads of Extra Fancy
Pumpkin Yams
22Jc Peck
These are the Finest of the Season
Big Shipment of Very Fine
Virginia Green
Cabbage Uc Lb.
Large, Solid Heads; Fresh and Crisp
Another Carload of Delicious
Colorado Cantaloupes
Large size, each 9c; Crate of 15, $1.25. Extra large,
each 121-2 c; crate of 12, $1.25. Sweet and spicy in
flavor ;t hick pink meat. These are probably the last of
the season.
New Sauer Kraut
5c Per Pound
At following stores only: 9 N Broad st., 40 Marietta
st., 72 Whitehall st., 109 Peachtree st., 347 Peachtree
st 309 Ponce DeLeon ave. and 361 Euclid a.ve.
ROGERS’
36 PURE FOOD STORES
BARONESS. ADVOCATE OF
PEACE. TO VISIT ATLANTA
Dr. J. .1. Hall, director of the American
Peace society for the South Atlantic
states, received word this morning from
the world's peace congress at Geneva,
Switzerland, showing that the cause of
universal peace is progressing, ami that
leading men and women of the world are
backing it.
The coming visit of the Baroness Von
Suttner of Austria to Atlanta. Dr. Hall
said, should be made a great occasion, as
she easily stands in the very frortt of the
ablest advocates of world peace.
IS YOUR CHILO'S
TONGUE COSTED?
If Cross, Feverish, Bilious, Stomach
Sour, Give "Syrup of Figs” to Clean
Its Little Clogged-Up Bowels.
Mother! Don’t scold your cross,
peevish child! Look at the tongue!
See if it is white, yellow and coated!
If your child is listless, drooping, isn't
sleeping well, is restless, doesn’t eat
heartily or is cross, irritable, out of
sorts with everybody, stomach sour,
feverish, breath bad. has stomach
ache, diarrhoea, sore throat, or is full
of cold, it means the little one’s stom
ach. liver and 30 feet of bowels are
filled with poisons and foul, consti
pated waste matter and need a gentle,
thorough cleansing at once.
Give a teaspoonful of Sytup of Figs,
and in a few hours all the clogged-up
waste, undigested food and sour bile
will gently move on and out of its little
waste clogged bowels without nausea,
griping or weakness, and you w ill sure
ly have a well, happy and smiling child
again shortly.
With Syrup of Figs you are not drug
ging your children, being composed en
tirely of luscious figs, senna and aro
matics, it can not be harmful, besides
they dearly love its delicious taste.
Mothers should always keep Syrup
of Figs handy. It is the only stomach,
liver and bowel cleanser and regulator
needed —a little given today will save a
silk child tomorrow.
Full directions for children of all ages
and for grown-ups plainly printed on
the package.
Ask your druggist for the full name.
"Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna."
prepared by the California Fig Syruif
Co. This is the delicious tasting, gen
uine old reliable. Refuse anything else
offered. (Advt.)
Do not allow yourselves to
think that City Electrician
R. C. Turner is a demagogue
and radical, just because he
is taking sides with the prop
erty owners, tax payers and
poor people to force the Oc
topus to give a square deal.
That is why the Georgia
Railway and Electric Com
pany is fighting him for re
election.
To the Public
Notwithstanding the continued and unwar
ranted attacks made by Mr. R.C. Turner against
the properties 1 represent, in an effort to help
his personal candidacy for City Electrician, I
have thus far refrained from entering into any
controversy with him. But such attacks can be
carried so far that simple self respect demands
that they and their authors be repudiated, and
Mr. Turner’s have reached that point.
The public fully appreciates the fact of his
unfriendly and unfair attitude toward our prop
erties. It is perfectly plain to everyone familiar
with the facts that his prejudice against us is
such that he instantly and violently fights any
thing however fair and reasonable in which we
may be directly or indirectly interested.
Mr. Turner basis his candidacy not
upon his competency or fitness for the
office, but upon the claim that he, single
handed and alone, secured the reduction
in rates for light and power. Mr. Turner
does not deserve nor is he entitled to the
credit for this reduction. It was the re
sult solely of an amicable agreement be
tween the mayor and general council and
the power company. These reductions
were voluntarily and publicly assured by
the power company to the railroad com
mission months prior to any agitation on
the subject. They were made possible
through the development of Tallulah
Falls and other plants of the company.
t
The statements of Mr. Turner that circulars
have been sent out by me or this company are
absolutely false. I emphatically deny that any
such documents have been circulated with my
knowledge or consent.
1 have been called out of the city on business
and will be away until after the election, and
make the foregoing statement in the full confi
dence that the people of this city, who have al
ways manifested a disposition to treat us with
fairness, will rebuke Mr. Turner’s method of
campaign.
P. S. ARKWRIGHT.
