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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 i < plh <1 I \\ ■ '' ontinued; the election u( IHH4 | thuuMhl Little Public Charges Are Happy in the Thoughts of a Bountiful Winter GEORGIANS GIVE FREELY TO ORPHANS ~ I i f W* 11- i ■ | //I - V \ / v iP I ‘ ar A\ I „ i \\ " eAc vlA’L'' ■ • vOWi. W // ‘ rK \\ // , j ■'< ■ -~_ Wl > ’ Ami f // // - J —7 □F \ f K/ V, r ’V / rtf a ' JbPv - • • 4 ” / S A”/ ; * ■<>• i I ■F '?' <z ; ♦ / • / .X ' lr"* ll 1 x 7 z /\\ /7 \ \ Z / 7/ 1 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 Z< i A ff. /J...,, - »/ 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. j=ll [==;![==- II— r 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 |= L 1 r=i r—- irr- u I 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. 5