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The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Vse For Results VOL. XL NO. 73. POLL SHOWS SWEEPING WILSON VICTORY Georgian’s Thorough Canvass of Nation Indicates Walk over for Democrats. TAFT AND ROOSEVELT RUNNING NECK AND NECK President Appears To Be Lead ng Mooser in Popular VoP by Narrow Margin. Oil Os 1 • !(, vl i ' . i- .-jsiurni y an<l vl *• presidencyl t ..ecl Shales on N- ve»ii>e: 5 .ias i ■■ r.i -.fieri by a«ior.s. Just • ■ >■< . b a e . ivi.c • ■•! the Denio-I i r.dide.tes nay he and xactiy r » strength of President Taft ti i.onel Roosevelt befcie the peo- P’.e va '/te two questions that ; ? .ed f' - * tl so- poibi' ■’ argu- te questions Tre G-t- s-. --.. ;>nd l’s| » newspapers hare endeavored, I ;gh a conscientious search of po- ; .1 renditions througl’.O':' the fori) I •Ig states, to determin'*, in .’-.is >f. ; ■n- he best political nir.ca of till! ?:• -s in ail states have been cor.-; " . The consensus f opinion is i .’ rovernor Wilson an'l Governor j Hi* a ' e til be swept into office by; •ge«* '.naiorPy in the electoral I ■ "re any 'tier have "eceived since 1 war T■■ lira's of Georgia stows ir-j this state probable will be: 77.b0h, P<-ose"elt 26.000. atiri '.'•>« 10.009. D« ’ted Their Time Ti the Big States. i-tent Taft seemingly ' ill «- » only thirty-nine electoral voter, • California throws he- strength '-on ami Marshall they will re- ■ the balance of the electoral : ze. f In no state, at the moment. *■' •'olonel Roosevelt look like an i>" winner. I’ early was foreseen by the poli ■’s that the big states of New York. Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana and Illi- - would bo the battleground, nnd the attention of al! parties was given to t't'wo commonwealths. As the cam r,'fl?T) progressed, public sentiment ■’ ll ge o heavily toward Governor Wil that today those states can be cinated and still the Jersey gov ' nor wilt win a majority of the elec ’■>-pi vote, as the following table will 'lolid South and South Dakota..ll9 Delaware 8 Idaho 4 Maine 6 Maryland S Missouri 18 Montana " New Mexico. " Wisconsin 1" Arizona 3 Colorado 6 Kansas 10 Kentucky 13 Minnr-ota 1- Nebraska 8 Nevada 3 North Dakota 5 Oklahoma 1 n Tennessee 13 ’Most Virginia 8 Total 267 Necessary, 266. Total. s’l. hi the table of Indicated results it ’ be seen that Governor Wilson is atomised a tremendous popular ma or’ty and that Republican strength ' almost equally divided, with Presi i '“'nt Taft leading Colonel Roosevelt I’’ about fifty thousand votes. It is 1 ~ division of the Republican vote ’ t makes the indicated electoral vote) the Democratic ticket so tremen- I flous. H may be said that the politicians 1 j 611 parties at the moment are at !eil as to the result In th" state of; x «w York. The Democrats art; con- i 'L'tntly claiming it without having any • i knowledge of the Intentions of. l! ‘“ voters.- New York a Bone of Contention on All Sides. 1 independent canvass of lift. s; ' ; iatlon in New York mn<“ for The j •eorgian would show Hies'" results: i p avlng aside the scattering votes for I ’■'>? Socialists and others four years | K ko, the total vote of the state was ’•'■•37.538. The natural increase, as sug- 1 by past experience and present I '• xistratlon. would indicate the total Continued on Page Twt. Artistic Dancing Still Lives, Here, Despite Invasion of the Turkey Trot ATLANTA GIRLS QUICK TO LEARN CLASSIC STEPS Elks Kirmess to Teach Lasting Lesson of Grace. Declares Ballet Master. Artistic dancing is not a lost art in Atlanta despite modem tendencies, the introduction of the turkey trot and other bizarre dances. This at least is l ' | the opinion of F. M. Agostini, who is i ; drilling hundreds of young women so; ’ | the Elks Kirmess. Atlanta girls are remarkably east | ito teach,” said Agostini. “They pici; ! i up the most difficult steps and figures I lof classic dances without the slightest! • hesitation. I am delighted with the j wonde-ful progress they are making. | ■ T b.et seem to take to artistic dancing: I instinctively.” • Professor Agostini explained tiiat his i .conclusions were made from the man-' 'no- j, •. inch his charges grasped tin I inti b ate figures of an elaborate Ki.- .mess number called "The Last of the ! ’ s'stals, a hied is to be the most pre . tentious thing on the program. I ' " i jwl&or ■ HTr JHf will F - IMMT- -I'M' /Mr. J i'fe| JKMWm / //Hr N't A. ■ , W 'i l iflK, - fIK r "».w. * -e' N : „;' HHkwL' TR|3wM/;k i I'SSss®... ' Wi■ W- tWWA-W. j mi T Miss Justine Hen- \\> C* -aMb- ' » lerson, and left. Miss Vi Broth- Yj- MIMb ■ Another 01 the prett.i girls whu vill take pari in the Kirmess. >!he is Miss Anita Lawson. KNAPP AND NEILL TO NAME ARBITER OF GA. RY. Judge Martin A. Knapp, presiding of ficial of the United States commerce court, has been notified by Charles A. Wickersham, president of the Atlanta & West Point railroad, and F. A. Bur gess, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, two of the three arbitrators in the Georgia railroad strike, that they I have been unable to agree on a third arbitrate . and it is now up to Judge Knapp and Dr. Charles P. Neill. United States commissioner, to choose the third man. Mr. Wickersham and Mr. Burgess realized yesterday morning that they could not agree, the choice of one of a dozen or more candidates having nar rowed down to Hoke Smith and Reuben R. Arnold. A telegram was accordingly sent to Judge Knapp, and an answer is expected at any time. LET OUT OF JAIL JUST LONG ENOUGH TO WED | WICHITA. KANS., October 28. L. J ■ Chandler, a prisoner in the county jail, I was released from custody In the county I jail, was released from custody long I enough to go to the office of Probate Judge McCanless and marry Mrs. Bertha ‘ ' Richardson. Mrs. Richardson has been I several times married, and J. C. ‘ Blick •e" Towery, one of, her former husbands, I is now serving a five-year sentence for I shooting at • Slim” McClure, another hus band. Met'lure and Chandler were ar rested together on a charge of violating the prohibitory law. Chandler went back I to the jail after the wedding, and bls i bride went home to wait until he is re- I leased. ( ZOO BEAR SUICIDE WHEN HE LOSES FAVORITE PERCH X’EW I’o'RK. Oct 28. Yogi, a valuable I Himalayan bear, drowned himself in the Bronx zoo because he was prevented from | lodging on hie favorite perch I* ' " ‘' 4 7k //■a i 1 f JBr -aft i /A yM. oh /< wl z *‘' *• wF Mi <s 'r> < C RACING RESULTS ! ' L.— ! 1 l AT LAUREL. First —Phyllis Antoinette. 3-5, first Mary Ann K. 2; Mojawk Giri 8-5. Als<» ran: Mahubah, Huda Maid, Novelist. La- Zuli. LaSalnerella and Viento. Second —Ten Point, 11-20, first; Robert Bradley, 7-2; Federal, 1-5. Also ran: Ger rard and Strenuous. Third —Edith Inez, 9-5. first; Patrick S. 5; Frank Purcell. 4. Also ran: Halleck. Ceremonious. Madeline L, The Scjulrt, Shady, Sir Kearney, Han4jrunning and Mr. Spees. Fourth —Shackleton, 3-5, first; Penob scot, 4-5; Sam Jackson. 6-5. Also ran Barnegat and Sticker. Fisth —Donald MacDonald. 9-5, first; Fred. Mulholland, 3: Adolante. 5-2. .\lso ran: Deduction, Mannasseh. Lord Klam. Blackford. Troy Weight, Spin, Futurity and Henry Hutchison. ! RACING ENTRIES 1 AT LATONIA. FlßST—Selling, maiden two-year-olds, ota furlongs (12): Kelly 107. Kiel 107, I John Huton 107, Ernest H. 107, Bernard I 107, King Stalwart 107, Batouch 110, Kid | Nelson 110, John G. Weaver 110, Royal Amber 110, Roy H. 110. The Cinder 110. SECOND .Selling, two year olds, I mile (11): xLlttle. Waif 92, Ancon 97, Coun terpart 100, Bursae 101, Armor 102, Rock Fish 103. Daisy Platt 103. Toy 104. Silk Day 105. Connaught 105, Carpathla 109 THIRD Selling, four year olds and up. 6 furlongs (12): xSwartshill 97. Gold of ophir 102. Fay <». 102, Black Mate 102, J. B. Robinson 102, All Red 102. Jack Den man 105, Imprudent 107. Princess Thorpe 107, Sir Cleggs 107, Helene 107, Ethelda 107. FOURTH Handicap, three year olds and up, 6 furlongs (IO). Curlicue 96. COckspur 96, Sir Blaise 96, Three Links TOO, J. F. Crowley 101, Royal Tea 105, Presumption 105, T M. Green 107. Jim Ba-ey 112. Meridian 126. FIFTH Selling, three year olds, mile and 70 yards >12): Mandy Zane 101, IShlrley O 101. Rossini 104. George Oxnard I 104, John Robert 104. Dynamite 104, Daingerfield 105, Clubs 105, Winifred D. I 105. Ursula Emma 105, Beautiful 105, Hen rietta W. 105. , SIXTH- Selling, four year olds anti up, mile and one-sixteenth (12): xlasils Katz j 105, Brtice Rice 107, Wishing Ring 107. I Sir Catesby 107. John Louis 109, Sweet '•wen 110. Sager 110, Idlewetas 110, Felic- ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. (XTOBER 28. 1912 .. ■„ , , AT LATONIA. First —Star Berta, 6.80. first; Terra Blanco, 8.10; Kallnka, 3.10. Also ran: Red Kos< . Imperial Prince, Higher Up, Esther i Blues, Neville, Gardenia, The Swan, Swift ' Sure and Etta Ray. Second—Kleburne, 7.50. first; Jimmy Gill, 5.40; Prince Hermis, 2.90. Also ran Mimesis, Madelle, Lord Marshall and Gold ! Color. Third —Lady Lightning, 13.00, first: Prince Chap, 4.50; McClintock. 10.20. \ls<>| ran: Guy, Ethel Samson, Salesia, Star Rose, Cynosure, Bonanza and Beautiful. Fourth —Gay Bird. 17.30, first; Miss Thorpe. 3.90; Osana, 5.60. Also ran: Im T»ression, Swannanoa, Reciprocity and Mockler. ities 110, Sigurd 110, Dangerous March 111, Polls 112. « AT LAUREL. FIRST Two «'ar olds, selling, S6OO, ot.. ■ furlongs xPass On 102, Chilton Dance I 104. Insurance Man 104, Cordle F. 104, George Stoll 'O4, x''ontinental 108. Stock ton 107. Aurific 107, Fattv Grub 110 Tweedevdle 111. SECOND Owners' consolation, three year olds and up, selling. SSOO. mile and 70 yards; xToni Melton 101, Tuekj George 101. Mindlnette 10(1. '(olden Castle 108. Monsieur X. 10!', Haldeman 109, Stairs I'D Sidon 104. THIRD All ages, handicap, SSOO. 6 fur longs: Acton 97, tsadore 102. Al'.amana ’O3, Pharaoh 104, Judge Monck 105, 1.0-ehtel ehtel 109, Sebago 110. FOURTH— Three year olds and up, handicap, S6OO, mile and one-sixteenth: Hamilton 99, Cliff Edge 103, Dr. Intenner 113, Carlton G. 115, Superstition 116. FlFTH—Owners’ consolation. three J year olds and up. selling, SSOO. mile and 70 yards: xße 99, xSt. Joseph 101. Cheer Up 104, xßonnle Eloise 106, Pedigree 106, Wenna 108, laid of Langdon 111. Kind Sir 104 SIXTH Owmers' consolation, selling. SSOO. three year olds and up. mile and 70 yards: xf'laque 01, Caliph 104, xChilton • Squaw 106, Adolante 106, Hempstead 106 ' Granta 108, Bea-h Sand 10'.' Beu Wilson 111. FRIENDS FIT FINE FOB JUDGE FITE Cherokee Jurist, Held in Con tempt of Appellate Court, Doesn’t Know Donors. • Dr. R. B. Harris, of Cartersville, a lifelong friend of Judge Augustus W Fite, of the Cherokee circuit, paid to Logan Bleckley, clerk of the court of appeals, shortly after noon today, SSOO in the settlement of the fine assessed against Judge Fite in the famous con (■•inpt case. Dr Harris said that the fine had been made up among the friends of the judge throughout the Cherokee circuit, and that the Judge himself did not know I the names of the subscribers. Judge Fite accompanied Dr. Hai ris ito the capitol, but did not go to Mr. Bleckley’s office. He waited in the of fice of the state treasurer until Dr Harris returned with the official re ceipt. Discussing the incident after the pay ment of the fine, Judge Fite said: "Yes-, some of the good people of the Cherokee circuit have paid my fine, and no doubt many others would have con tributed thereto if they had known of the movement, and had an opportunity to do so. "At first 1 protested against their I payment of the fine, but finally con sented for them to pay it, feeling that it was my duty to them as well as to myself, to do so, as it shows their ap proval of what 1 have done. “I may not know much law, but I do know that 1 am not In contempt of court. "However, my ease is now in the bands of the good people of Georgia, land they will take care of me and my . reputation." THE WEATHER Forecast: Fair tonight and Tues day. Temperatures: 8 a. m,, 56 de grees; 10 a. m., 62 degrees; 12 noon, 66 degrees; 2 p. m,, 70 degrees. NIGHT IDITION - i3®:' • >< ‘'MiiW-A ( I ■" V Vs «';kj / I j) Kiglil l<> .'■■ll, Misses iiladxsi Sands. Allie Knins.'iur. Lorena ; Brotherton. Eloise Peek. Ruth; I’olds. Irean Hollis. , I 'ORF W IS I CRY IN CLUB ■ Efforts Are Centered on Pro-1 hibiting Serving of Drinks on Sabbath. Backers of the locker club reform movement, encouraged by the success they have already won. declared today that they would center their efforts on the establishment of a permanent dry I Sunday in Atlanta. With the license of every club, in cluding the powerful Capital City, held up by the veto of Acting Mayor Candler and the subsequent action of council, a handful of organizations seem certain of losing their permits, but the real fight will be waged about the question of a closed Sunday. Atlanta was dry yesterday. Aiderman John S. Candler, who, as acting mayor, vetoed the permits of all locker clubs on the grounds that all were illegal, has since declared that the most Important point in the enforce ment of the locker club law w-as to stop the serving of drinks on Sunday. He said such a system made a club crimi nal as a tippling' house. Chambers’ Law Goes to Committee. Councilman Aldine Chambers ha » had referred to the police committee of council an ordinance prohlbitfhg the sale of drinks on Sunday In all chibs. It hns developed that the upahot of the whole locker club probe now in progress will be a fight to stop the serv ing of drinks on Sunday. A number of clubs will be closed, of course, as was originally intended. But the most seri ous probable effect on the real social clubs will be the banning of Sunday drinks. The law is already reasonably clear on the subject, but council has been si lent. Council may or may not decide to much noise in making the decision, noise in making the decision. Aiderman Candler said he had re ceived many letters from citizens liv ing in nearby towns congratulating him on his veto of locker club permits and urging him to stop the sale of tlrlnks in Atlanta on Sunday Come to Atlanta Sunday to Drink. He said that these citizens com plained that their young men came to Atlanta to spend Sunday and drink. Aiderman Candler said he felt that At lanta owed it to her smaller neighbors to stop the dispensing of intoxicating drinks on Sunday. However, the nomination of James (J. Woodward for mayor was considered a. plea, from the voters for a more liberal town. There is argument that a real : locker club has as much right to serve drinks on Sunday as on any other day. Also, it is pointed out, there are many citizens in Atlanta whose religious doc trine does not designate Sunday as the sacred day of the week. Council Is divided on the subject by two very positive opinions. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE A O Y RE NO FATAL WRECK LAID TO OLD FRIEND OF ! COSTNERS Farmer Boarder in Dead Engi- i neer's Hamc Arrested as Widow Plans Big Suit. ACCUSED DECLARES HE IS VICTIM OF A PLOT Neighbars in West End Tell of Row. at Home Before Crash. ■ 1 <<■<' .:b sriwkin.e Southern I-' st M.ii' No. ■!:: on tit in ning 1 .' 12c- Ili ber 4. nidi ■.■ost'Lid in n - dent!' of I Incob <'"stiivr. the engineer-—Edward’ ; Renfroe, tor yuif an nntimu.e friend j of Costner ai d his n ife. is he Id in the liabf -anni county jail at Clarkesville itodax. Ito wa.- a. rested In Atlanta by i.ipecial agents of .ho Southern railway* 1 upon mfoi mation that he iia 1 been seen lin the vicinity of he wreck for several (days before 111- eatr.strophe, and he ad hits that •!“ was there, tlioutrh denying .any complicity in wrecking rhe train. ; Tom Tankei'iey, a count. x boy. Is alsoi ■ held on the same charge, and it la said. ! ue confessed that he. with a party of I others, op ened the switch while on a drinking spree. He has not Implicated Renfroe in the crime, according to th* off leers, ; ft has been r-ported to officers of tha i railwaj that Renfroe, who had lived at j the Costner home. -103 Gordon street, | -R!1 Aanuu Coatner be- Renfroe stated today, in ills cell In the Clarkesville jail, that he left the Costner home on Tuesday, several days before the wreck, because he was drinking. I Mrs. Costner Plans * 8 Suit For $50,000. Mrs. Minnie Costner, widow of th* engineer who was killed, has retained Moore & Branch as attorneys in her proposed civil suit against the South ern railway, and they expect to file a suit for $50,000 damages, based upon Costner’s earning power of more than S2OO a month, and on the ground that the wreck resulted from spreading rails or imperfect machinery, and not by the deliberate act of a criminal. In the lat ter case no recovery could be had, as the road would not be liable. It is, therefore, to the interest of the railroad to prove the wreck was caused by the act of criminals and to Mrs. Costner to establish that it was caused by im perfect rails or machinery. The fact that Renfroe, a former rail road man, had lived at the Costner home for several years and had long been on intimate terms with the fami ly, and that he was seen in the vicinity . where the wreck occurred without a> reason satisfactory to the officers of the road led to his arrest. They look upon It as a significant coincidence. J. IV. Connolly, chief special agent of tha I Southern, has been working on tha case for several weeks, and C. NV. Burke, the local special agent, haa had. charge of the case in Atlanta Renfroe Brands Charges All False. I Interviewed in his cell at Clarkes-* vlllo today. Renfroe said: '"The charge that I helped wreck the train o r was Implicated in any plot ta wreck it is absolutely false and with out the slightest foundation. It is n charge hatched up by the railroad de tectives. “It is true that I have boarded wltft the Costners. I boarded with Mrs. Cost ner before she married Jake, who was her second husband. She was Mrs. M. W. Logan then, and conducted a board ing house at Greenville, S. C., where railroad men stayed. Logan died of Brights disease on May 18, 1910, and his widow married Costner in Decem ber, 1910. They moved to Atlanta in January. 1911, and took the home at 403 Gordon street. I came to Atlanta , when they did, and took a Job in tha | ygrds there. I had boarded with Mrs. I Costner’s mother-in-law, Mrs. R. S, Lo i gan, in Greenville, years ago, before I Mrs. Costner took charge of the house. ' "I left their house on Tuesday and ' got on a spree. The wreck occurred, on Friday morning. ’ Renfroe is described by a man who ’ I knows him as a rather rough man, of I about 45 years, who was frequently out • of work, and who was given odd jobs i ■ of carpentry around the Costners’ home 1 I in Gordon street. ; ■ The Costners are well-to-do, having I a handsome home in the best street of I West End, and owning several auto- • mobiles. One, a fine blue roadster. Is f said to have been purchased very re . cently. Mrs. Costnar. was driving her p husband to his work at. the Terminal station about a year ago when her car struck a negro in Whitehall street and killed him. The courts found the ac cident an unavoidable one.