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ND DEMAND MADE
ON MORGAN FOR
T.N.-MIEICH
Man Quoted in Story of Tele
phone Call by Harriman De
nies Its Authenticity.
WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—Wayne
MacVeagh. of Bryn Mawr, Pa., from
whom is alleged to have originated the
story that President Roosevelt de
manded more money from J. P. Morgan
and E. H. Harriman during the 1904
campaign and that Morgan' referred to
the president as "that blank blank ma
niac in the white house,” arrived at the
senate office building unexpectedly just
before the senate committee, investi
gating campaign funds of the last eight
years, convened today, and demanded
tc be placed on the stand.
When placed on the stand he denied
the stories told by Charles E. Russell
and Judson C. Welliver, in which he
was quoted as telling of a telephone
conversation overheard by him between
E. H. Harriman and J. P. Morgan, in
which a demand was made on Morgan
in Roosevelt’s name for a large cam
paign contribution in 1904. He ex
plained that the story seemed to have
been a misunderstanding of names.
Senator Clapp called the committee
to order at 10:07 o’clock. He stated
there would be no session of the inves
tigation body next Tuesday.
Mr. MacVeagh was the first witness
railed. He immediately denied the
fundamental fact of the testimony
given by Charles Edward Russell and
Judson C. Welliver concerning the al
leged request of President Roosevelt
for additional campaign funds from J
I’. Morgan by telephone in 1904.
MacVeagh was the authority given
by both Welliver and Russell for their
version of the story. He said that be
ing on very friendly terms with Mor
gan. he was very probably in Morgan's
office on one or two occasions during
1904.
Morgan Not In It.
I have no recollection, however,” he
said, "of ever hearing Mr. Morgan hold
a telephone conversation. I went there
and came into his office as 1 saw fit. He
always sat in the open and was easily
accessible to any one who wished to see
him.”
"During any visit you made to him
during the fall of 1904, did you have
any conversation with him concerning
am campaign contributions?” asked
Senator Clapp.
He never mentioned campaign eon
tributions to me during that month or
'! any other time." MacVeagh replied.
■MacVeagh was told by Chairman
Clapp to tel! of any incident which lie
be mve<! might account for the Morgan
story.
He replied that the only incident
might have related to Welll-
' inch would account for the story
- i <arsay, and added:
it comes through two dead men.”
I v. as in the office of H. McK.
1 ’nbly. said MacVeagh, "one day in
I.liter part of October. 1904, on an
■ti 1 from President Cassatt, of the
I’ nsvivania railroad.”
Just How It Was.
'V hile there, Mr. Twombley was
called to the telephone. When he re
turned bp told me that he had been
i'tng with Mr. Harriman and that
Mr. Harriman had been called to Wash
>’~ion by Theodore Roosevelt, and had
found .Mr. Roosevelt very anxious that
t considerable fund be raised for the
mpaign. It had resulted, Mr. Twom
*’ ' y said, in Harriman agreeing to raise
a fund and give to Mr. Bliss $240,000.
1 wotnbley said Harriman was trying to
fl'e $50,000 and expected him to give
like amount. Harriman also said,
1 cuing to Twombley, that lie ex
i'‘ ‘'tt'd to get another contribution from
third man and 1 got the impression
'he third man was Mr. Morgan.
I wotnbley said there was no extra
of more money: that Roosevelt
sure of his election; that all these
contributions were a waste, and he
edded. But I can not allow Mr. Har
"nn to lose by his promises to raise
$240,000.* »•
li there any other fact to which
■>ur attention had ben called, that you
'member and wish to testify to?"
I here is one incident which I re
vaguely. Mr, Twombley told me
'bat he had been invited to the White
H" e with Mr. Erick, where they dined
i Attorney General Knox as Inter
mediary He gave the impression that
byth lie and Mr. Frick had contributed
terward to Colonel Roosevelt's cam
! | tgn fund. 1 think the bank records
1 ■ iiecks of these gentlemen would
this more accurately than my
testimony.”
Chauncey Depew Called.
' r -MacVeagh was excused at 11:15
b'ck and ex-Senator Chauncey M.
1 "‘pev.. of New York, was called to the
Hand.
k’ new told of his campaign contri-
1 "ions in 1904, saying:
' the beginning of the campaign of
1 Governor (j'JJelt told me of the
ilty of raising funds, and 1 gave
" ' ' Later in October of that year,
Iwonibley called on me and told
Harriman was raising some $200,-
for the national committee, but
for use in New York state, if
trihuted to this fund it was not
than SIO,OOO.
■''till later. Mr. Twombley told me
the committee was short $17,000
n emergency fund amounting to
• n $240,000 and $250,000. and he
' seesefi me. I gave him a < heck.”'
sajd Senator Clapp, "to the
>“U! i ('collection, you gave a
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Ruth Timms, one of the wee motherless “mothers” at the
Decatur home. She’s fixing up the “child” for a party.
NATIONAL GUARD TO
MEET IN MACON TO
DISCUSS PAY BILL
The National Guard association of
Georgia has been called to meet in Ma
con at noon October 19. The armory
of the Macon Volunteers is the place
named for the meeting, and the na
tional guard pay bill will be the chief
subject of. discussion. Brigadier Gen
eral R. E. Evans, of the Department of
the Gulf; General Clifford L. Anderson
and Congressman Dudley M. Hughes
w ill be among the speakers.
The association will urge that all
national guard officers will aid in the
effort to have the pay bill passed at
the next term of congress. Reduced
rates will be given by all roads to Ma
con because of the state fair.
everybody was for me. but I knew that
when everybody seems for you it is the
time to go to work. So I worked hard
and lined up my friends. In December
a messenger came from the state head
quarteis and told me that the state
committee had directed that I could not
go back to the senate, but that I could
have the ambassadorship to France. 1
told the committee I would rather try
to go back to the senate. The next I
heard of It was in January, after I was
elected. President Roosevelt asked me
to come to the white house and discuss
the New York appointments. T there
thanked the president for his tender of
the ambassadorship to France. He
looked surprised and asked where I got
that information. J told him that 1
had been offered the ambassadorship to
France, provided I withdrew from the
{senatorial race. He replied that it was
a good thing 1 had not dropped out of
the race, because I could not have re
ceived that diplomatic position -that h
had another man in view. It occurred
to me at the time that to have been
tricked out of a seat in the senate by
the offer of an ambus idor-hip which I
could not get, would have been an ex
pensive Joke on me "
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TEESDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1912.
MEMORIAL TABLET
TO PROF. BASS TO BE
UNVEILED FRIDAY
The unveiling of the Professor \V.
A. Bass memorial tablet will take place
next Friday afternoon at 1 o’clock in
the chapel of the Boys High school.
Speeches will be made by James L.
Mayson, president of the Boys High
School Alumni association; \V. M. Sla
ton, superintendent of schools, and by
former pupils of Professor Bass.
The memorial has been erected by
the alumni association of the Boys
High school, in which Professor Bass
taught for 37 years. Death ended his
services as a teacher in 1911. Cecil
Meyer, the vice president of the alumni
association, and W. A. Fuller, the sec
retary. actively aided in the work of
erecting the tablet and the pupils of
the old teacher responded readily.
Forrest Adair, who was in the first
graduating class under Professor Bass,
will be present at the unveiling, as will
Clark Howell and A. A. Meyer, both
pupils when Professor Bass first began
his work in Atlanta.
TROUP NEGR^KILLS'WIFE
AND MAN FOUND IN HOME
LA GRANGE. GA.. Oct. B.—Finding
Willis Meyers, a negro, in his hme on
the Hastings Farm Company planta
tion, near Trimble, Ga., Silas Lowe, a
negro employed on the plantation, shot
and killed Meyers in the house, and kill
ed his own wife as she ran to a neigh
bor’s dwelling. Sheriff Florence, of
Troup county, went to the plantation,
arrested the negro and brought him to
this city to await preliminary trial.
HAMMERS 2 NAILS INTO
BRAIN. SEEKING DEATH
ST I.oris, MO., Oct. 8. Although
he drove two nails into his brain in an
attempt to (onimlt suicide, Henn
Boerschit. of 210 Adella street. Luxem
burg, has a chance to r«<ov, , ft was
stated nt the City iioHpltul, when In |y
Here are some eheerful milkmaids at the Decatur Orphans
home and Black Diamond Happy and Kat. which is some name
for an inoffensive cow. The maids are. left to right, Sadie
Ransom. Alma Stribling, Aera h Havs, Yardie Stribling and
Lula Wallace.
Beer Club Members
File Suit to Force
Manager to Reopen
Metropolitan, of Rome, Shut
Down When Seaborn Wright
Started Crusade.
ROME, GA., Oct. B.—Claiming that
the Metropolitan club was closed
against the orders of the directors, the
members of the organization, a, beer
drinking club, have brought a suit of
equity against Manager George Tram
mell and Steward Wiley Trammell to
reopen the place.
The suit is unusual. There is no real
feeling against the manager and stew
ard manifested in the petition, but
the suit was brought simply as a test.
It is alleged that the directors should
have given their consent to the closing
of the club. In the papers a full de
scription of how the members are
served is given. It is claimed that no
law has been violated.
The Metropolitan club closed follow
ing the action of Seaborn Wright in
bringing an injunction against the Elks
club and will remain closed until the
settlement of the Elks suit, on October
I 25, unless Judge Maddox grants its pe-
I tition next Saturday.
BODY WAITS WHILE NEGRO
UNDERTAKERS ARBITRATE
ROME, GA.. Oct. B.—While the dead
body of John Townscl, a negro boy
killed by an ice wagon, lay waiting
for an undertaker, a committee of white
men was deciding which of two negro
undertakers should have the corpse to
prepare for burial.
Shortly after the boy was killed, two
negro undertakers arrived almost si
multaneously. Both said they had been
given the job. They almost had a fight
over the matter, hut finally agreed to
hold a conference and let a eommitte
of white men decide.
BRUNSWICK MUNICIPAL
CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY
BRUNSWICK. GA.. Oct. B.—With the
opening of the city registration books
yesterday and a mass meeting of the
voters of the Fourth ward in orange
park last night, the city campaign was
formally opened. This week it is ex
pected there will be two announce
ments for mayor and several to suc
ceed the four aidermen w hose terms ex
pire the first of the coming year.
Aldernun E. Eeo, from the Fourth
ward, ami J H. Hopkins, from the
First, will he In the race for mayoralty
honors. Eustace C. Butts, the present
mayor, announced several weeks ago
b • would not seek re-election.
PRIZE COW MOTHER OF
FULL HOUSE OF CALVES
WAUCOMA. IOWA, Oct. 8. Jose
phine, <> W. Trines’ prize Durham cow,
within 21 months has presented her
owner with a full house of calves—
thre< queens and a pair of kings.
Homes for Fatherless Are Mak
ing Useful. Intelligent Citi
zens of Buffeted Waifs.
Boys and girls at the Decatur Or
phans home may rest assured there
will be food and fuel in plenty for the
winter ahead, for "Work day," cele
brated last Saturday, brought a neat
sum to Be divided among the orphan
ages of the Methodist denomination in
Georgia. Full reports have not been
received, but it is shown that the gifts
of that day. when every Georgian was
urged to give one day's wages or in-
come to the fund, brought excellent re
sults.
The little folks at the home don’t
look at all like the poor orphans of the
days when Dickens wrote "Oliver
Twist.” and the unfortunate charges of
the parish were fed on gruel and not
enough of that. Every youngster in
the home may play Oliver Twist and
ask for “more” as often as he likes,
and he’ll get it. And it will be good,
wholesome food, too. Many a child
whose parents are living has less of the
good things of this world than the fa
therless tots at the home Just outside
Decatur.
Fresh air and plenty of exercise are
among the joys of the home. There is
work, too, for those big enough to
work. The photographer caught a
snapshot of several little girls playing
milkmaid in earnest and learning to
make themselves useful around a farm
house. They are taught all kinds of
work which will make them good
housewives some day, while the gar
dens give exercise and employment to
the boys. The kiddies at the home are
growing up into useful, educated citi
zens.
THREE GIRLS WIN SI,OOO
IN CROSS-COUNTRY TRAMP
CHICAGO, Oct. B.—Three young
women who set out from Madison, S. D.,
to win a SI,OOO prize by walking to
Chicago In four months arrived here 2b
days ahead of schedule. They are Ce
leste Maynard, nineteen years old; Ori
etta Regas, twenty years old, and Kath
erine Nelson, eighteen years old. All
are daughters of ranchmen.
PILES QUICKLY
CURED AT HOME
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Pyramid Pile Remedy Has Made the
World Glad.
Many a bad case of piles has been
cured by just a trial package of Pyra
mid Pile Remedy It always proves its
value and you can get the regular size
50 cent box from any druggist, but be
sure you get the knd you ask for
Simply send your name and address
to Pyramid Drug Co., 448 Pyramid
Bldg., Marshall, Mich and you will re
ceive a sample package of the great
Pyramid Pile Remedy In plain wrap
per. by return mall, all charges pre
paid.
Save yourself from the surgeon’s
knife and its torture, the doctor and
his bill. Pyramid Pile Remedy will do
it, and thousands of testimonial!* will
tell ,'ou cmplinticiily it Is th" world’s
remedy for piles.
NO DIVDRGES ON
TIME-WORN PLEA
“Incompatibility of Tempera
menfNs Not Recognized by
This Hard-Hearted Jury.
Those famous divorce pleas, "incompati
bility of temperament” and its twin, "lack
of affection on the part of husband or
wife, or both,” got a hard jilt from a
divorce jury in second division of superior
court today.
In terms unmistakable the jury' told
Mrs. Eula Jackson, who sought freedom
from S. L. Jackson on the grounds that
he lacked affection, sympathy and various
other husbandly attributes, that she would
have to come into court with stronger
reasons. Mrs. Jackson left the court con
vinced that she had facet! a hard-hearted
Jury.
In her suit for separation Mrs. Jackson,
who was denied a first verdict in July,
set forth that she married because she
was promised a good living. She thought
Il was a wise move, she said.
After a brief spell of matrimonial ex
istence. she asserted, she discovered that
she had made a grave mistake. Her hus
band utterly lacked affection. He treated
her in a manner "both cold and business
like." He refused dally to bestow upon
her any of the little attentions that she
had been led to believe a husband be
stowed upon his wife.
He accepted her as his wife and pro
vided for her liberally, but something, af
fection or sympathy, was always lacking
in his demeanor and actions. She told
the jury she could not stand it.
Mrs. Jackson, alone, among a score of
women who asked the court for. freedom
for various reasons, was refused. First
and second verdicts were granted in twen
ty cases.
HUMANS 1-58 AS ACTIVE
AS FERMENTING YEAST
NEW YORK, Oct. B.—A human hus
tler. no matter how hustling, is only
1-58 as energetic as a cake of yeast
when fermenting, Dr. Max Hubner, sci
entist, told an Academy' of Music audi
ence.
Fite to Answer Writ
Os Contempt
CARTERSVILLE, GA., Oct. B.
Judge A. W. Fite, of the (Sherokee cir
cuit, who was served yesterday with a
summons to appear before the court of
appeals Saturday' to show cause why he
should not be attached for contempt for
having criticised the decision of a high
er court reversing a decision of his
own, says:
“I will go to Atlanta Saturday to
answer the writ, though I do not regard
the matter as serious. I did not mean
to reflect upon the personal or official
integrity of the court in the cards I
wrote to The Atlanta Constitution.
Both those articles speak for them
selves, and I stand by them.”
Judge Fite is in consultation with
half the lawyers of Bartow county pre
paratory for the contempt proceedings.
HUMORS IN THE BLOOD
When the blood becomes infected with any unhealthy hum or the effect is
shown by some definitely marked disorder like Eczema, Acne, Tetter, Pso
riasis, Salt Rheum, etc. Humors get into the blood usually because of an
inactive condition of the system. Those members whose duty it is to expel
all refuse matter do not properly perform their work, and an unhealthy ac
cumulation is absorbed into the blood. Then instead of performing its
e natural function of nourishing the skin the circula
tion irritates and inflames it because of its impure
condition. A thorough cleansing of the blood is
the only certain cure for any skin disease; external
applications can only give temporary relief. S.S.S.
goes into the circulation and drives all humorsfrom
the blood, and in this way makes a permanent and
complete cure in every form of skin trouble.
S. S. S. supplies the blood with the nutritive qual
ities necessary to sustain the skin and preserve its
natural texture and perfect appearance. S. S. S.
cures Eczema, Acne, Tetter, Salt Rheum, and all other skin eruptions or
diseases. Book on Skin Diseases and medical advice free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC C 0„ ATLANTA, GA.
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Established 1861
THE
n Lowry National Bank r
OF ATLANTA
Capital and Surplus . . . $2,000,000.00
Undivided Profits .... 224,000.00
Haven't you valuable papers and pre
cious belongings that, if lost, could not
be replaced? And haven’t you worried
both at home and away from home be
cause you feared that in some way they
- would be lost or stolen!
, And after all this worry, why should
there be a moment’s hesitation about
placing them in our splendid fire-proof
and burglar-proof vault? It will cost you
but a few cents a day, and insure perfect I
peace of mind for you and perfect pro- r
teetion for your valuables.
Designated Depository of the United States, the
County of Fulton and the City of Atlanta
=, Under Government Supervision |=
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JUDGE FITE CITED
ON CHARGE OF
CONTEMPT •
Appeals Court Wants Explana
tion of Bitter Attack Made
by Cherokee Jurist.
Judge Augustus W. Fite, of the Cher
okee circuit, has been cited to appear
before the Georgia court of appeals, to
answer to a charge of contempt, as an
nounced In yesterday's Georgian.
The sheriff of the court of appeals, P.
W. Derrick, left late yesterday' after
noon for Cartersville to serve the sub
pena, yvhich was placed In his hands
shortly after 3 o'clock.
The Cherokee judge is summoned to
appear before the court of appeals Sat
urday to show cause why he should not
be punished for contempt. The maxi
mum penalty that the court of appeals
may inflict, if the judge is found to be
in contempt, is a fine of SSOO and ten
days’ imprisonment.
The differences between Judge Fits
and the court of appeals are not alto
gether new. The Cherokee magistrate
has been outspoken in his criticisms of
the higher court, time and again.
Scores High Court. ,
Recently, however, the court of ap
peals reversed Judge Fite for the sec
ond time in a felony case from Gordon
county, and the appeals court judge
handing down the reversal used lan
guage to which the Cherokee judge took
violent exception.
Judge Fite issued a newspaper card
in which he severely criticised the
higher court, directly charging that its
reversal of his judgment in the Gordon
county case was the precipitating cause
of a recent race riot near Plainville, in
which several negroes were killed.
Immediately upon the publication of
Judge Fite’s bitter card, the court of
appeals decided to cite the judge for
contempt, because of its publication.
His Career Spectacular.
Judge Fite is one of the best known ,
judges in the South, and has presided
over the Cherokee circuit for many
years. His career has been extremely
spectacular, as he has never hesitated
to take a hand in all sorts of contro
versies, political or otherwise.
Several years ago he ran for congress
in the Seventh district against Gordon
Lee, and he waged a campaign which
will not be forgotten soon in that vicin
ity. He charged a conspiracy between
Lee and the former congressman, Judge
Maddox, now presiding over the Rome
circuit as judge of the superior court,
and said that Maddox quit congress for
a consideration from Lee, and in Lee’S
favor.
Lee defeated the judge overwhelm
ingly, but bite never lost any of his
erstwhile pugnacity because of that.
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