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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEATHER Fair and colder tonight and Friday. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 56 degrees; 10 a. m., 58 degrees; 12 m., 60 degrees; 2 p. m., 60 degrees. VOL. XI. NO. 82. rnsns now SIFELIII WILSON FOLD -lotbed of Radicalism Fails to Come to the Aid of the Bull Moose. SAFE DEMOCRATIC SENATE MAJORITY Fifty-five Members of That Body Certain to Be With Administration. WASHINGTON, Nov. 7—Kan sas. the hotbed and birthplace of radicalism, the home of Victor Murdock, leader of the agitation that overthrew “Uncle Joe’’ Can non's power in the house of rep resentatives, and home of Roscoe Stubbs, one of the nine Roosevelt governors who induced the col onel to throw his hat into the ring, is now safely within the Democratic fold. Late advices from Topeka state that, although the returns are not complete, they are sufficiently detailed to in dicate a plurality for Governor Wilson over Roosevelt of about i 5.000. Stubbs has been defeat ed for senator, but Murdock is returned to congress. figures on the national election, which resulted in the annihilation of the Republican party, as revised today, showed the following results: The popular vote—Wilson, 6,191,866; Roosevelt, 4,193,580; Taft, 3,536,529; Debs, 795,000. The electoral vote probably will be: Wilson, 400; Roosevelt, 90; Taft, 12. Doubtful, Illinois, 29. Today's returns, however, show that California Is closer than at first believed, and Progressives claim the final figure* will show Roose velt to have captured this state. In Illinois, Roosevelt still leads slightly, but Wilson men claim the state for the Princeton man by 1,500. According to the present figures, the states are divided as follows: Wilson, 37; Roosevelt, 7; Taft, 3. Doubtful, 11. House of representatives will be made up of: Democrats, 296; Republicans, 125; Progressives, 14; Democratic ma jority, 157. United States senate: Democrats, 55; Republicans, 36; Progressives, 3; doubtful, 2 (Illinois 2). The next Illinois legislature will elect successors to William Lorimer and Shelby Cullom. The Progressives will hold the balance of power there. The New Hampshire legislature was still in doubt today, Minnesota remains in the Roosevelt ' olumn and will have a Republican leg islature, Insuring the return of Senator Knute Nelson to congress. Complete unofficial returns today from lowa show that Woodrow Wilson ■ arried that state by 15.981. Twenty-nine states elected govern ors. The parties divided as follows: Democrats, 18; Republicans, 9; Fu '-ionist, 1: Republican and Progres sive. 1. Wilson Leads by 15,000 in Kansas IOPEKA, KAB., Nov. 7 —Complete re urns rom 94 of the 105 Kansas counties n'ooo te the State ha " gone tO W,11,0n by St ubbs, Republican candidate for mted States senator, was defeated by Phompson, Democrat, by 18,000. Capper. an ’ for governor, has less than lead over Hodges, Democrat, and maj be defeated. Unofficial count shows T . n « Republican state ticket has won by a.voo. rhe Democrats have evidently elected five of eight congressmen. An- L"°. ny ’ the Flrst; Campbell, in the third; Murdock, in Eighth, were the Re publicans elected. Senator Smith, of Michigan, Loses DETROIT. ■ utlying districts yet to be heard from, atest figures indicate that, while Roose • nnn Ca . r w led ,he * tate by approximately ' , ' , entire Democratic state ticket ' •< wl,h a exceptions. loudbrldge N. Ferris, Democrat, for rnor bus an estimated plurality of Continued on Pane Two. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Ute For ReeuHe. CREMATDHY BIFTIFOI; FIMII WARTEST Supporters of Woodward and Chambers in Decisive Fight Over Tearing Down Plant. VAN DYKE THREATENS TO HOLD UP THE WORK Rival Forces of About Equal Strength—Two Aidermen’s Support Doubtful. Real tests of the relative strength of the Chambers and Woodward factions in the aldermanic board will be made at the meeting this afternoon. The Woodward faction will battle to prevent the approval of the contract to tear down the old crematory. In this way it can prevent the beginning of work on the new 3276,000 garbage dis posal plant which is to be erected on the same site, and the contract for which James G. Woodward has at tacked as Illegal. The Chambers faction will exert all Its force to save Joseph Shearer, the city hall custodian, his job by making his office elective by council instead of appointive by the mayor. Mr. Shearer vigorously fought Mr. Woodward for mayor and, it is generally understood, Mr. Woodward will drop him from the. pay roll when he takes the mayoralty seat —that is. if the Chambers taction does not succeed this afternoon. Van Dyke Threatens To Hold Up Contract. Both matters have been approved by council and are up to the aldermanic board for final consideration. Aiderman A. H. Van Dyke reiterated his statement today that he would use his aldermanic prerogative and hold up the crematory contract for two weeks if he could not get enougn votes to dis approve it. He said the contract to tear down the old crematory gave the contractor 40 days to do work that should only require a week's time, and that no bond was required. "They say that my action will cause delay,” said Aiderman Van Dyke. “1 want to know why so much time is al lowed.” Agents of the Deatructor Company of New York, which has the contract to build the crematory, are in the city and have offered to guarantee that the old crematory will be torn down and work started on the new one within two weeks. James G. Woodward has urged the aidermen to delay the beginning of the work until he can complete his tour of Investigation of garbage disposal plants In the East. As the line-up of the aidermen is ex pected to have great weight with Mr. Woodward when he comes to appoint his councllmanic committees next year, the meeting of the board this afternoon is particularly Interesting. How Board Is Expected to Line Up. Political critics declare the tentative line-up of the aldermanic board to be as follows: Woodward Faction —Van Dyke. Mc- Clelland, Warren, Everett. Chambers Faction —Maddox. Nutting, Spratling, Johnson. Doubtful—Candler and Ragsdale. The aldermanic board a?o will de cide whether Peachtree street is to be torn up again for a sewer. Property owners between Baker and Ivy streets have petitioned for a sewer. Chief of Construction Clayton said that there was no sewer in this part of Peachtre® street. Council has approved the ordi nance authorizing a sewer there. This part of the street has not been torn up during the regrading work on Peachtree street, but It adjoins the part of the street that has been torn up. ft Is important only because the street has been impassable for many months and Is about to be reopened for traffic again. It Is expected that the repaving will be completed within ten days. The building of the sewer would not block traffic, but It would take up a good part of the street where traffic will be most congested after the reopening. American School Girls to Cruiser CONSTANTINOPLE. Nov. 7.—A1l the students at the American School for Giris in Scutari, across the Bos phorus from Constantinople, were to day sent on board a British cruiser for protection. Among them are s number of Bulgarians, I ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7, 1912. Elks Parade, Delayed by Rain, To Be Given Friday Night KIRMESS PREMIERE TONIGHT « Mw .Bi Hk Iwi! T/ffifrW. I- 1 K V; J 0 A WM AV" Wli of its' \ v 1 ft jr JI ** ■iwl 1 > //Sm ISUfI I~Jt 1w f Ss s Wr ' JLa wWKwWI WW ' 'TLA Wgpw* JmWwflO Yo ••• • jnljal > *j - I I Spanish dancers hi the Kir mess. The senoritas, left to right, are Miss Albert de Tour, Miss Evelyn Roane and Miss Sarah Kelley. “The duke.’' in center, is Harry Bickford. PLENTY OF JOBS OFFERED TO TAFT WASHINGTON, Nov. 7:—Delayed nearly an hour by the heavy rains in the Alleghenies, President Taft reached Washington at 9:30 a. m. today, going Immediately to the white house to com mence the preparations for his annual message to congress and to attend to’a number of other official duties which he has been forced to neglect during the past month. Chief among these are the appoint ment of a successor to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry of the department of agriculture, and the naming of an Indian commission. Upon arriving at the white house the president found awaiting hiffi a large number of letters and telegrams com plimenting him upon the good fight he had waged and sympathizing with him in his defeat. In addition, there were at least a dozen communications frfm commercial establishments of several different kinds offering him employ ment after March 4 and begging that they might have the honor of announc ing him in connection with their firm. Will Practio® L«w. The president, having answered the letters of sympathy, declined with thanks the offers of future employment, saying that he intended to practice law in Cincinnati. Governor Hadley, of Missouri, who reached Washington on the same train with the president today, called at the white house this afternoon in connec tion with the still undecided question of the successor to James S. Sherman on the defeated Republican ticket. Gov ernor Hadley, who boarded the train at Harrisburg, Pa., lost night, was un aware that he was traveling with Pres ident Taft until he accidentally met him in the Union station today. When asked at noon whether he would accept the honorary post of running mate to Taft, Governor Hadley replied: "I haven’t been asked yet.” It is not though|. however, that the Missouri governor would accept If re quested to <l<> so. All the cabinet officers now in Wash ington also tailed on the president. Players in Benefit for Christ mas Fund All Ready for the Opening Performance. The Elks’ Klrmess. in which 750 young Atlantans will take part, opens tonight and hundreds of poor children, for whom Santa Claus’ visit is always a problem, will be assured of a happy holiday as a result. Nothing has been left undone to make the Klrmess a stu pendous success. • The monster parade, which was to have signalized the opening, postponed last night on account of the downpour of rain, will be held Friday night. Major J. O. Seamans has ordered ex actly the same conditions to prevail then as if the rain had never Interfered and It is expected that thousands of Atlantans will view the pageant. The procession will move at 7:30 o’clock, and all the principal down town streets will be traversed. In the .line of march will be mounted police, the sturdy regulars o' Seventeenth Infantry, the entlrr Georgia reg iment, the Governor's Horse Guard, the Atlanta Artillery, the Arab dressed Knights of Khorassan, the Elks them selves and the brilliantly costumed performers. Every detail of the gigantic production has been worked out and the 750 players last night Closed their strenuous weeks of drill at dress re hearsal which went off smoothly. Tick ets can be obtained at the Auditorium. Reserved seats are 11, gallery 50 cents and prices for Saturday's matinee just half the night prices. Perhaps the most Interesting feature of the Klrmess will be a short repro duction of the familiar scenes in "The Bohemian Girl." Mrs. Carthew-Yors toun, known in grand opera as Esther Boone and who sang recently at the Sunday concerts, will feature this pro duction. With Mrs. Yorstoun will ap pear an exceptionally well drilled chorus. The Yama-Yama feature, an eccen tric number danced by a score of girls of the younger society set, will get lots of applause. The dancing in this num. ber probably will be the cleverest seen in the Klrmess. WEATHER MAN BAYS ■’FAIR." Fair weather today, tomorrow and for the football game Saturday is the promise of the weather man. and he also declared that it. will not be very much colder for several days to come. OBEAH TO URGE CONSTABULARY Adjutant General William G. Obear will recoinmend in his forthcoming an nual report to the governor the estab lishment in Georgia of a rural constab ulary, to assist the militia, when called upon bj' the governor, and to work in dependently of the militia, upon the proper call of the authorities. It is the adjutant general’s idea that Georgia should have a rural police or ganization, modeled somewhat after the fashion of the one that now exists, and works so satisfactorily, in Pennsyl vania. Recent events in Georgia have dem onstrated to the adjutant general the necessity and desir Ability of a rural po lice force, and he has worked out a plan whereby he thinks the state can afford it. It is his Idea to distribute the ex pense between the state and the coun ties in such wise that it will fall heavily on neither. If the governor approves the recom mendation of the adjutant general, he may. In his retiring messages to the legislature next June, urge upon that body the creation of a rural police force In Georgia as soon as practicable. The farmers of the state are thought to be in thorough sympathy with such a movement. GUESTSAT LOWRY GOLDEN WEDDING TO VIE IN RED TIES "Lowry red” neckties will flash on Atlanta streets Monday. Colonel and Mrs. Robert J. Lowry have issued invi tations to their golden wedding anni versary at the Capital City club, after noon and evening, and the occasion will call for a good many of the neckties which aie the joy of the colonel's There will be dress clothes in abun dance, but many will violate the con vention* by wearing crimson scarfs. Several hundred guests gathered a few years ago to celebrate the colonel's birthday and one guest dared to wear a red tie with his evening clothes. Since tliat time he lias been the colonel's best friend. 55,000 FILL 111 BATTLE, SULTAN FLEES ID B ALLIES ATTACK CAPITAL Forty Thousand Turks and 15,000 Bul gars Killed or Wounded in Bloody Conflict—Salonika, Ottoman Port, Taken by Greeks and Servians. 1 Terrible Situation Prevails in Constantinople;* Moslem Soldiers and Officers Mutiny and' Desert: Many Executed; Christians in Peril; International Fleet to Land Marines. Turkey is in the last throes today. eßports from nople state that the sultan, Mohammed V, has fled across the Bos phorus into Asia, the situation in the capital having become des perate. From Sofia come reports of a great battle between Turks and Bulgars east of Adrianople, near Bunarhissar. in which 40,000 Turks and 15,000 Bulgars fell, either killed or wounded. The Turks were routed. 2.800 of them taken prisoners and 42 rapid fire guns captured. The allied forces attacked the outposts defending Constantino ple today. The situation within the city is desperate. Soldiers and officers are deserting and mu tinying by scores, and a perpet ! tial courtmartial sits to try these .under arrest. Many have already ;been executed. The international fleet assembled at Constantinople 1# pgepunng to land a i great army of marines to protect for ■igners from the massacres that would be sure to follow the fall of Constanti nople were the Turks to be unre strained. r I Salonika, one of the principal Turk- I i.sh ports, fell today and was occupied j by Greek and Servian armies. 55,000 Fall in . Great Battle SOFIA, Nov. 7.—-A great battle, in which 55,000 Turks and Bulgars were killed or wounded, has been fought near Bunarhlssar. Dispatches telling of the engagement were received here this evening. They stated that he Bulgarians captured 2,800 prisoners arid 42 rapid-fire guns, many REVISED VOTE FOR PRESIDENT| Following is the election result by electoral votes, revised according to the indications of the latest returns: Roose - State. Taft. Wilson, volt. Alabama 12 .... Arizona 3 Arkansas 9 .... California 13 . .j_. Colorado 6 .... Connecticut., .... .... 7 .... Delaware 3 ' .... Florida 6 .... Georgia 14 .... Idaho 4 .... .... Illinois (doubtful) 29) Indiana 15 .... lowa 18 Kansas 10 .... Kentucky 18 .... Louisiana 10 .... Maine 6 .. Maryland .... 8 .... Massachusetts 18 .... Michigan 15 Minnesota 12 Mississippi 10 .... Mistiuri 18 .... Montana 4 .... Nebraska 8 .... Nevada 3 .... New Hampshire 4 .... New Jersey 14 .... New Mexico 3 .... New York 45 .... North Carolina 12 .... North Dakota 5 .... Ohio 24 .... Oklahoma .. .. 10 .... Oregon 5 .... Pennsylvania 38 Rhode Island 5 .... South Carolina 9 .... South Dakota ~4 5 Tennessee 12 .... Texas 20 .... Utah .*. 4 .... Vermont 4 .... .... Virginia 12 .... Washington 7 West Virginia 8 .... Wisconsin 13 .... Wyoming 3 .... | Totals 12 400 90 I HOHL I EDITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p^ w N g ° standards and a military train full of supplies. It was a most desperate ef fort of the Turks to the east of Adrian ople to capture Kirk Killisseh. A Turk- . Ish column marched southwestward from the Black sea coast and was joined by all the Ottoman forces en countered en route. After a long artil- ' lery due! the Bulgars charged, break ing the Turkish ranks, and the Ottoman soldiers fled southward toward ”.i* Chatalja forts. Thia was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. The Turks lost 40,000 killed or wounded and the Bulgarians 15,000. Sultan Flees to Asian Turkey VIENNA. Nov. 7.—The complete overthrow of Turkish power in Europe is at hand. Czar Ferdinand’s Bulgarian army in three columns is understood to be making a general assault uppn the Chatalja forts guarding Constanti nople today. Sultan Mohammed is re ported to have fled from his palace in Constantinople last night and taken refuge on the Asiatic side of the Bos phorus. A Greek and Servian army has cap- , tured Salonika, the most Important port. in European Turkey, and the occupation of the city has begun. Dispatches from Balkan points tell of terrible cruelties perpetrated upon defenseless men, women and children by fugitive Kurd and fleeing Turklsn soldiers. Hundreds are being slain dai ly. Ip Constantinople and throughout Asiatic Turkey the situation is danger ously acute. A great massacre, which will drench the Asiatic portion of the Turkish empire in Christian blood, is imminent. Christians and foreigners in Constan nople and other Turkish centers are sending out agonizing appeals for aid. Foreign warships are gathering in Turkish waters and a great internation al army of marines will be landed at Constantinople. Cities Filled With Refugees, Outbreaks of the fanatical Moslems have taken place in the interior and the cities are full of refugees. But the Turkish cities offer less security than the isolation of the interior, for they are full of Turkish soldiers who are on the point of mutiny. It is not believed tkat the Turkish government can hold' out many days longer. All the powers of Europe are speedily preparing for peace. It may prove necessary, however, for a group of European powers to take the reins of government at Constantinople until prevailing chaos and anarchy through out the empire can be put down. Awful scenes of carnage are reported from Rodosto, a Turkish port on the sea of Marmora. After the rout of the Turkish army, the Ottoman soldiers ransacked the city. It was partially destroyed by fire. The Turks allowed their hatred against the Christians to flow unchecked. Dispatches say that Turks tossed bound women and chil dren and helpless old men into the flames. Turk Officers Shot for Mutiny CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 7.—Muti ny lias broken out in the Turkish army at the front and many officers and sol diers in the ranks along the Chatalja defense are being put to death dally, according to information which reached Conttnuod on Pago Two.