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RIOT AT POLLS IN CITY PRIMARY
the weather
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Fair tonight and Thursday. Tem
peratures: 8 a .m.. 62 degrees; 10
a m.. 66 degrees; 12 noon, 69 de
grees: 2 p. m., 72 degrees.
VOL. XL XO. 51.
FIST FIGHTS
IT POLLS
GILL OUT
POLICE
City Electrician Turner Is At
tacked. and His Defender
Clashes With Assailant.
WOODWARD-CHAMBERS
RACE RESULT IN DOUBT
Heavy Vote Cast in Exciting
Election, and Second Pri
mary Seems Certain.
Intense excitement in the city pri
mary for mayor mid oilier city officers
reached a climax at the Fourth ward
voting precinct, 354 Edgewood avenu* .
Today in a riot, qu-iled only by tlie ar
rival of the police.
V. P. Raoul, .’m . :* tary of tlie .Moving
Picture operators union, rushed into a
:*ovvd :;d knocked R • Turner, city
-iectrn ian and a candidate lor re-> let
on, .i ..isiancc if ten feet. Turner
■ .igg* cd ,t; t a tri ■■ and ft 11 to tlie
ground, ui' ruing to . y<• w itnesses.
Before Raoul had time o be on his
guard, i rod Hart. I- oil -:i)-law ol
Turn' . st’licK hi u o !»'ow on the
’■l'.aii. Raoul staggered Im .Id not fa I.
Police Summoned;
Spectators Intercede.
B. staudvrs help' d Tarn r up ami a
slated him into a nearby drug slur,,
"ther- separated Ramil mid Hail.
Sergeant Whatley v-.tH-.-il tor tin po
lice patrol, v. bile Captain Pool* tom-,
i targe of Raoul, but when the patrol
arrived spectators interceded and Raoul
*as released with a copy of charges.
'‘Turner, you told a d lie.' Raoul
is reported to have said when lie walk
ed up to Turner. He held a printed
statement in his hand by Turner that
lie had fired Rami, .m an examiner for
motion pictur*- opi-ratois because Raoul
had been unfair in allowing coached
men to stand the examination.
I did?" said Turner, calmly.
" ’th that Raoul struck him a blow
in the mouth.
Turner corroborated the story, when
seen today.
Chambers-Woodward
Supporters Clash.
it was hardly fifteen minutes later
when D. W. Yarbrough, a Chambers
supporter, came upon lite scene,, In the
presence of C. P. Goree, a Woodward
supporter, ho denounced any citizen
would support Woodward.
Accoiding to Sergeant Whatley. Mr.
(’free took the statement as a personal
reflection. Ho started for Mr. Yat-
I':'"urli. but Sergeant Whatley, who was
•''landing nom. ran between them and
Ptev- nted another fight.
Ry this time Police Chief Beavers
sud several other officers had l ushed to
flic scene in an automobile.
Over 5,000 Votes
Cast By 3 O'clock.
Hq’iy ~.ona votes had been cast in the
1 ' up to 3 o'clock. There are many
workers at all the polls. Feeling is
ginning high over the contest between
and Woodward for mayor
«nd Turner and Miles for city electri
",n Rut officers are on duty at every
* and serious trouble is antici-
1 ■ '* ’ ontest lor mayor was decidedly
A ' en ’ hambets and Woodward.
■ h were very few workers for either
■'""u or Johns ion at the polls.
and Johnston were getting
biggest votes in the Sixth and
.’ e ’ 'wud> While and
I y, .(Hi ;1J , leading in both of these
11 i> impossible to tell which
v <*i)y them.
I’Mt) >afe that ('hambera
Continued on Page Two.
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TETZLAFFLEADS.
THEN SUITS BICE
MILWAUKEE. Oct. 2.—Tetzlaff went
out of the race in the twenty-sixth lap
on account of engine trouble.
MIIAV.M KEE. WIS., Oct. 2.-—Jump
ing into the lead almost at the start,
Tetzlaff. the Pai ifit coast liver, in his
giant Fiat, electrified more than lun,-
OOii racing enthusiasts for eighteen
laps in tlie Vanderbilt trophy contest
here today.
In the twenty-second lap Tetzlaff
was fully nine minutes in the lead.
DePalina had tire trouble and took 40
seconds out. In this lap Hughes took
third place from Wishart.
Tetzlaff took first time out. through
tire trouble and gasoline snortage. at
1:04. but only lost om minute and for
ty-four sei'omis. Wisnart was second
in thi' eighteenth lap. about twelve
miles behind. DePalina was third.
Twice tin- intrepid la-Palma was
obliged to stop for tin repair.
Ralph Mulford an early confeder.
was offlcinlly declared out of the race
in the third lap after having magneto
trouble.
Ther< was no :ie, i, .nt up to the
eighteenth ap. but the • .-.ere several
narrow escapes !>• Palma inis-inu a
crowd at the graxe yard tuin b> a lew
feet.
Tile average time of Tetzlaff for
eighteen laps was 74.3 miles an hour.
BETTING ODDS IN
MAYOR RACE FAVOR
WOODWARD TO WIN
Chess Lagomarsino, well known
sporting man. gave the following odds
as the basis for practically all of the
betting on the results of the city pri
mary today:
Two to one that Woodward will lead
for mayor.
Even money that the result of the
primary will show the standing of the
candidates to be Woodward, Chambers.
Blown and Johnston.
Two to one that Turner will beat
Miles.
Even money that Turner will beat
Miles 1,000 votes.
He said that he had observed scarce
ly any wagers being staked that any
one would get the nomination on the
first primary. He said that odds were
great against Brown and Johnston
leading for mayor and that no bets
were being placed on that proposition.
The odds on Woodward are against
Chambers, he said.
ELECTION EXTRAS
Look out for The Georgian's
•lection extras tonight. The
results will be reported with
speed and precision and the
public may depend upon The
Georgian, as in the past, to
furnish all Ihe news l-'lh'NT.
VLLAXTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1912.
SEARCH IS OK FOR
MISSING TECHITE
J. E. Gillespie, a retired lawyer of
Birmingham, is in Atlanta today search
ing for his son. Tillman B. Gillespie, a
Tech student, w ho disappeared myste
riously from the engineering school on
September 19. Young Gillespie Is known
to have had s2oo when last seen in At
lanta.
Gillespie senior, who has notified the
police of a score of cities to be on the
lookout for the boy. said he did not be
lieve the stories going the rounds at
the school.
"I don’t believe the reports circulat
ed about Tillman s disappearance. He
is a good, clean boy. H.- probably is
on his way to Boston to visit his sister.
I am sure that he will be located
shortly."
Students at Tech who knew Gillespie,
where he was matriculated last year,
say that the youth went to Jacksonville
for a trip He told a girl friend the
/rigtit before lie left that he had S2OO
,'aml was going to travel a bit.
Gillespie did not matriculate at Tech
this year. He arrived in Atlanta on the
due the school opened and made out a
registration card. but failed to pay his
entrance fees. He told fellow students
that In wanted to go to Boston Tech,
but his fatlr-r hail decided that he spend
anotln r year in Atlanta. He lias a sis
ter, Mis. V\ i Towne, living in Brook
line. Mass., where it is expected h» will
be found.
These negroes are being taken to Cumming for trial as the assailants of two
white women and the slayers of one. Live of the prisoners are men. one a woman
Four Companies, of 167 Men, Take
Train at Noon to Take Charge of
Town Under Martial Law.
.Six negroes, handcuffed in pairs,
man bed down the streets of Atlanta
this tnoining in the midst of 167 picked
men detailed to guard them from mob
violence. The negroes are to be tried
in Cumming tomorrow for art attack
upon a white woman of Forsyth county.
The picked men were from Atlanta's
own regiment, the Fifth regiment. Na
tional Guard of Georgia, and will re
main in Cumming until the trial is
over.
Shuffling along with downcast head 4,
tin- negroes weie surrounded by Cap
tain Harrison Jones' company, ami
were specially guarded by a detail of
six men, headed by Lieutenant Rucker
McCarty. Each member of the guard
had orders to shoot at any time neces
sary, and the entire battalion marched
with loaded rifles
The squad of six arrived at the Tow -
er where tin- five negro men and one
woman were brought some time ago in
o tier- to avert any trouble In Cumming,
almost half an hour before the bat
talion arrived. Lieutenant McCarty
signed a n-ecipt fo t - Ihe negroes and
they were ri rrerl over Io tile guard who
waited inside the jail until tire arrival
of the main body of troops. Outside
sove.al hundred curious persons, many
of whom were negroes, gathered about
and peered in at the windows.
Headed by Major J T Catron, the
four picked companies comprising the
flower of the Fifth, arrived at the Tow
er at 11 o’clock and the negro** w-ere
placed In the center of the second com
pany. The entire battalion swung down
Hunter street to Peachtree, and from
Peachtree to the Terminal station,
where a spe.-iaj train was waiting. At
12 o'clock the train left After a flf
teen-mlle hike from Buford the troops
and negroes will arrive in-Cumming at
6 o'clock tonight, where martial iaw
will be proclaimed.
I he armory presented an appearance
rarely seen, except In times of actual
warfare, w hen the men assembled from
all parts of the city to gather their
kits together and report to the com
manding officers.
fentg and every accessory for camp
life ate included in the baggage which
will be taken by the national guards
men, and during the entire trial they
will bivouac just outside the Forsyth
county jail, determined that no lynch
ing shall take place The whole city of
Cumming will be under martial law
and the troops will supersede the sher
iff and the police.
Tile guardsmen have been picked for
theia .bility and reaponsibiilty and the
offic’-r* of the battalion are confident
that they will be able to prevent any
Continued on Page Two.
HOHL
tPITIOH
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
Gl. RAILWAY
PIMLBEDi
STRIKERS
FIRM
Big Road Completely Tied Up
by Walkout of Employees.
Some Mail Moved.
UNION MEN HERE MEET:
DECIDE TO HOLD OUT
No Real Attempt Is Made to
Break Strike and Road Still
Hopes for Settlement.
Not » wheel hag turned on the Geor
gia railroad between Atlanta and Au
gusta since the strike order went into
effect last night at 6:30 o'clock, except
for those trains which had already be
gun their runs at that hour. The Union
station In Atlanta Is quiet today, with
a passenger train waiting under the
shed tor men to operate, it. There is
no indication that service wifi be re
sumed today; no sign of a strikebreak
er The road seems absolutely tied up.
The order for the strike wae* issued
yesterday at Augusta by Vice Presi
dent T. A. Gregg, of the Order of Rail
way Conductors, and Vice President
James Murdock, of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, and was at once
put into effect. It followed
tiatfons between unions and road offi
cials. About 3(Pi men are said to be af
fected by the order and It is reported
that every man went out.
Oan't Say When ) 1 /
Trains Will Run.
The Strike was caused by th* dis
charge some months ago of Conductor
J. T. Paschal, of Atlanta, on the charge
that he violated the sixteen-hour labor
law by allowing his engineer to take
his train to its destination after the
expiration of sixteen hours of continu
ous service instead of side-tracking it
and reporting to the dispatcher The
union demands the reinstatement ol
Paschal, with full pay for the time ha
was laid off. and the railroad officials
refused to accede to this demand.
Strikers Decide # f
To 'Stick It Out.”
About 100 striking conductors and
trainmen met at 10 o’clock today ire
the hall of the Order of Raii-waqr Con
ductors in the Hlllyer building in Ala
bama street. For two hours bits of
eloquence and rounds of applause float
ed over the transoms, but a sentry was
posted at the doors to seq that news
paper reporters and others heard noth
ing that was going on.
After the meeting members of the
conductors said it had merely been a
■’social session.” at which the men had
gathered to talk things over.
“We shall stick It out,” said ore of
them. “The unions have plenty o<
money in the treasury and the national
organizations are backing them up. A
national officer of the trainmen, James
Murdock, wIH arrive from Augueta to
morrow and take charge of the local
situation. Os course, any negotiations
will be handled at Augusta, headquar
ters of the road.
"There won’t be any dtaorder. We
are not looking for trouble and do not
want any."
The strikers will meet every day at
the O. R. C. hall as long as the strike
continues. There are a number of At
lanta men tn the employ of the road
and perhaps SO men from Augusta ami
other points were <-augh( tn Atlanta
when the strike order went into effect.
"When can I get a liain to Augusta?’
the ticket agent was asked today.
"You’d better take the Central to
Millen and change there for Augusta."
was the answer. "Can’t say when we ll
have a train out."
"Any chance of a Georgia train to
day? How about going as far as Li
thonia ?"
"Nothing doing," returned the agent.