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PAST HISTORY 15
INJECTED INTO
MAYDRRACE
Line of Attack Has Shifted
From Personalities to Late
Municipal Affairs.
Th<= mayoralty contest reached such
p degree of intensity today as to be
virtually a probe of city affairs tor
several years back. All th“ faults and
nil the virtues of the city government
of more than passing interest are being
aired through newspaper advertise
ments.
This line of attack, together with the
efforts of the Men and Religion For
ward Movement, has in a measure
switched the issue of the campaign
from the personalities of the two can
didates, James G. Woodward and Aldine
Chambers, about whom the fight has
raged up to the present.
Mr. Woodward has gone deeper with
his charge that a "ring" ts in control of
the city government, and has brought
forth what he terms evidences of mis
management. He has charged that much
of the $8,000,000 of bond money has
been wasted.
Mr, Chambers emphatically denies
that any "ring" exists, and, with a
number of his prominent supporters,
has offered proof that the bond money
has been rightly spent. He declared
that all the faults of the city govern
ment could not be saddled on his shoul
ders. because he has had nothing to do
with a great deal of the work.
Prayer rneettngs were held in a num
ber of churches yesterday afternoon by
women, responding to a call of the
Men and Religion Forward Movement.
The cal! declared that Atlanta faces a
crisis and that the issue purely was a
moral one.
The leaders of thia movement have
gone farther in their fight against
Woodward today, and requested the
minieters of the city to preach on the
mayoralty issue from their pulpits to
morrow •
Saves Leg of Boy.
"It «eemed that my 14-year-old boy
would have to lose his leg on account
of an ugly ulcer, caused by a bad
brrtise." wrote D. F. Howard, Aquone,
N. C. "All remedies and doctors’ treat
ment failed till we tried Bucklen’s Ar
nica Salve, and cured him with one
box ” Cures burns, bolls, skin eruptions,
piles. 25c at all druggists. (Advt.)
THE MEN AND RELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT
IN BEHALF OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE OF MEN AND BOYS
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THE BXFX'mvF. YWUWMYTTF.E RF,PORTS MWNTKLT TO THE EVAW6M/KSAL kHNISTTOAS’ ASSOCIATION.
October 11, 1912.
TO EVERY MINISTER AND PASTOR
IN ATLANTA.
My Dear Brother
We believe that the Churches are approaching the greateet
victory they have ever had.
• Your message Sunday will reach not only this oity but the
world whose eyes are upon Atlanta today.
We ask that, without personalities or bitterness toward
any man, you place the issues of ''Woodwardism'' before your con
gregation, Sunday morning and evening, in such away that no man
oan misunderstand.
Four thousand and mere mon whe are registered did not rote
in the last primary.
If the messages from the pulpits of Atlanta cause one-half
of these to vote according to their conscience Tuesday of next
week, the victory against ’’Woodwardism'• will be overwhelming.
Stress the duty of every men to go to the polls Tuesday
end vote according to hiß conscience.
We shall pray unceasingly for you.
Do likewise for us.
And God grant victory to His people.
Yours as ever,
JNO. J. EAGAN,
Chairman.
Faithful Animal Spends Last Days in Clover
HORSE IS PENSIONED
Other horses in the stables of H. M.
Patterson & Son may answer hurry
calls for the ambulances or draw the
slowly moving hearses out to Westview
or Oakland. There may be demands
which take every animal out of the
barns and necessitate hiring others,
but old Frank still meanddvs peace
fully about the stable or his pasture,
his shoes off and his back unburdened,
thinking only of the corn which comes
as regularly as the day. For old Frank
is on a pension.
Frank would be gray with age by this
time if he were not white by nature. He
was born 30 years ago, on the same day
which ushered Fred Patterson into this
world of sorrow and tribulation. When
k tank and Fred were five years old
Frank joined the firm in the capacity of
carriage horse. Fred didn't become the
Son on the letterheads until consid
erably after.
For 25 years old Frank has served
the firm faithfully. He and the boy
who was born on the same day grew
up together. But a horse's age comes
on him fast, and while Fred is in his
prime, old Frank is weak from age. So
he has been retired on a pension of two
meals a day and his rent.
"He shall never wear the harness
again,” said Mr. Patterson "A horse
which has served as faithfully as Frank
deserves rest and attention for the re
mainder of his days.
“Sell him? Let him be driven to
YOUTH, WORRIED BY
RESPONSIBILITY OF
NEW JOB, KILLS SELF
Worry over the responsibilities of his
new position as chief clerk of the At
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail
road and his own youth led Hugh H.
Mansell to shoot himself In the breast
more than a week ago. He died yes
terday.
He was but twenty years old, and
the place he was appointed to fill was
one heretofore he'd only by men of
much greater experience. Ha was wor
ried about it and talked of It constant
ly. Early in the morning of October 3
he shot himself at the home of his
brother-in-law, Charlee R. Harris, with
whom he lived at 21 Longley avenue.
The funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later.
NEW YORK CAMPAIGN
FOR PURE OYSTERS ON
NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—A campaign
to insure pure oysters has been started
here. Unless holders of oyster sellers
licenses can show that their product is
raised in a healthy locality the licenses
are to be revoked.
THE ATLANTA OEOKGLAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1912.
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death in a negro's dray or haul a ped
dler's wagon around the streets? Not
much. It's just rest and food for old
Frank until he dies of old age."
BAPTISTS TO EXPEL
CHURCH MEMBERS IN
ROMELOCKERCLUBS
ROME, GA., Oct. 12.—That every
church member who is also a member
of a locker club should be expelled
from the church is the opinion of the
Floyd County Baptist association,
which passed resolutions to that ef
fect.
The association in Its resolution calls
on the churches of the city to drive out
the locker club members. One church
has approved the resolution and all
members who drink liquor must get
out.
Every club is shut down. It is be
lieved all the blind tigers have taken to
their heels, frightened by the chain
gang sentences imposed by Judge Mad
dox on convicted liquor sellers.
HEALTH SERVICE WILL
TAKE U. S. RAT CENSUS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—The first
rat census of the United States is to be
undertaken by the public health and
marine hospital service. The object is
to discover the exact amount of dis
ease spread and damage done by rats.
DR. ROLLIN MALLARY,
FOUNDER OF SHORTER
COLLEGE, IS NO MORE
MACON, GA., Oct. 12,—Dr. Rollin
Daniel Mallary, aged 84 years, for more
than 50 years a conspicuous figure in
the Baptist church and educational
work in Georgia, died here last night at
the home of his son, Frank L. Mallary.
Dr. Mallary founded Shorter col
lege. naming it for his friend. Colonel
Alfred Shorter, of Rome. He and Dr.
Albert T. Spalding, of Atlanta, were
the two oldest graduates of Mercer uni
versity. The latter is now the sole sur
vivor of the class of 1851 and the eldest
living graduate.
The funeral of Dr. Mallary will take
place this afternoon
Dr. Mallary was born in Columbia,
S. C., in 1828. He early removed to
Georgia
E. Y. Mallary, F L. Mallary and E. P.
Mallary. the three sons who survive
him. aie among the most prominent
business men in this section of the
state. One daughter. Mrs. J. J. Cobb,
of Macon, also survives
CHILDREN HATE
CfiSTDROII.UGH!
Delicicus “Syrup of Figs”
best for their little stom
achs, liver and waste
clogged bowels.
Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the physic that mother insis
ted on—castor oil. calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it’s different. The
day of harsh physic is over. We don’t
force the liver and 30 feet of bowels
now; we coax them. We have no
dreaded after effects. Mothers who cling
to the old form of physic simply don't
realize what they do. The children's
revolt is well-founded. Their little
stomacns and tender bowels are injured
by them.
If your* child is fretful, peevish, half
sick, stomach sour, breath feverish and
its little system full of cold; has diar
rhoea. sore throat, stomach-ache;
doesn't eat or rest well—remember—
look at the tongue, if coated, give a tea
spoonful of Syrup of Figs, then don't
worry, because you surely will have a
well, smiling child In a few hours.
Syrup of Figs being composed entire
ly of luscious figs, senna and aromatics
simply can not be harmful. It sweetens
the stomach, makes the liver active and
thoroughly cleanses the little one’s
waste-elogged bowels. In a few hours
all sour bile, undigested fermenting food
and constipated waste matter gently
moves on and out of the system with
out griping or nausea.
Directions for children of all ages,
also for grown-ups, plainly printed on
the package.
Bj' all means get the genuine. Ask
your druggist for the full name “Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of Senna" prepared
by the Califorlna Fig Syrup Co. Ac
cept nothing else. (Advt.)
TO THE PEOPLE OF ATLANTA:
The Chambers Campaign Committee has refrained from a mud slinging con
test.
There have been so many truths we could have told—there have been so
many records and incidents we could have exposed—there have been so many un
pleasant things, so many real unfortunate happenings in the private and official
life of the opponent of Mr. Chambers that to have simply recorded them for the
information of the voters would have raised the usual howl of “mud-slinging”
from his supporters.
We believed the citizens of this City had been given a sufficient dose of
the offensive and nauseous records in years gone by.
Pursuing this course, we had a right to expect that the men shooting from
ambush—the men hiding behind Candidate Woodward—the men whom nobody
knows and to whom, for that reason, no responsibility can be attached—the Wood
ward Campaign Committee—we say we had reason to believe that no vilification,
no serious misrepresentation, no deliberate attempts to deceive—in short, no
“mud slinging”—would be resorted to by them.
We believed this, because, as we said in the beginning, there were so many
truths we could again call Atlanta’s attention to.
But have you observed their vicious, malicious, deliberate attempts to muddy
the campaign by vituperation? Have you observed how, by falsifying, by misrep
resentation, they have tried, in their desperate straits, to overcome the defeat which
is staring them in the face?
For instance, have you noticed some pictures used in their misleading ad
vertisements—pictures of a mule and wagon apparently mired up in a muddy
street? Os course, there are muddy streets in Atlanta. There always will be some.
But, will you read the affidavit herewith submitted in which the sworn state
ment is made that the picture was a posed picture for the deliberate purpose of
misleading the voters of this city? That two boys were paid for their time and
services to go out to this street—the muddiest one they could find after a rain—
and, with a poor old mule, made to look like he was pulling for dear life, when, as
a matter of fact, he was being held in check by the driver—they sought to make it
appear that this was an everyday occurrence, and that MR. CHAMBERS WAS
TO BLAME FOR THIS CONDITION.
How ridiculous, and how manifestly unfair!
For several days the Woodward Campaign Committee has tried to make it
appear that Mr. Chambers had classed as a “Common Blackguard” every man
who voted for Mr. Woodward. Mr. Chambers made no such statement. Read for
yourself what he said. Mr. Chambers has said repeatedly that he knew many
misguided but good men—men who had only the interest of Atlanta at heart—
had been misled into voting for Mr. Woodward.
Mr. Chambers did say that Mr. Woodward was a common blackguard. For
this, his Campaign Committee have no apology to make. Without being charged
as “mud slingers,” but simply to prove to those that might not personally know
the man, we quote a few lines from one of Mr. Woodward’s last appealing, mis
representing statements—at least a statement prepared by his mysterious, unknown
committee. It says:
“Mr. Woodward has the utmost reverence for God, the Church, and things re
ligious.”
Only two days ago he boldly walked up to five good citizens on Broad
street, and, in a voice loud enough to be heard fifty feet away, denounced the
workers and those interested in the Men and Religion Forward Movement in
this city, in language so vile, so obscene, so profane, so contemptible and disgust
ing that it sickened those who heard him.
It was not an expression containing simply a damn or an oath or two, which
is characteristic of some “cussin’ ” men, but the language was as foul as ever
came from mortal lips—so obscene that, of course, it can not be printed nor re
peated without bringing the blush of shame to the man repeating it.
We had cherished the hope that his statement regarding his “reverence” was
true, but we fail to reconcile his two statements —one printed, the other spoken.
We can produce affidavits from those to whom this language was used. They
are such men as Nym. McCullough, Frank Bell, Howard Pattillo, John McCul
lough and A. Wasser—men, however biased, you know well enough to know they
would tell only the truth.
These are some of the things we have had to combat. This is the style of
campaign this mysterious Woodward Campaign Committee is conducting.
But the people have their eyes and ears open. They have rallied to the battle
cry, “CHAMBERS AND ATLANTA!”
Again the committee desires to return thanks to the hundreds and hundreds
of volunteers who have so cheerfully come forward and tendered their services
in this campaign. We will not soon forget you and your interest and your good
work will be remembered by Atlanta for all years to come.
J. R. SMITH,
Chairman Chambers Campaign Committee.
THE FOLLOWING AFFIDAVIT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF:
GEORGIA, Fulton County:
Personally appeared before the undersigned, L. L. McGahee.who, being duly sworn, deposes
and says he is a retail grocer, at 347 Peters Street, and the photograph published in The
Atlanta Georgian over the signature of the Woodward Campaign Committee, showing a mule
and wagon, apparently stalled, is misleading and untrue. The mule and wagon belonged to me,
and my son is seen in the wagon. The negro holding the mule is my driver. The negro driver
stated he was paid to pose for this picture, and for driving into this hole to have the photo
graph taken, according to his own statement, the place being specifically selected for the posing
of this picture. lam informed by my driver that they were not stalled, nor did they experience
any difficulty in going out of this bad place, which was caused by a terrific rain.
I make this statement for the purpose of being perfectly fair in this campaign.
L. L. M GAHEE
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 11th day of October, 1912.
GEO G FARRAR,
Notary Public, Fulton County, Georgia.
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