Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, November 26, 1912, EXTRA, Page 2, Image 2
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ATLANTA LIKELY
TO GET»
Bishop Keiley and Sisters of St.
Joseph Consider Removal of
School From Washington.
WASHINGTON, GA.. Nov. 26.—Fol
lowing an important conference held
In Washington yesterday afternoon be
tween Bishop Benjamin J. Keiley. of
Savannah, and tin Sisters of St. Jo
seph. at which the rebuilding of the
academy for girls which was destroyed
last Wednesday was thoroughly dis
cussed, another conference in in prog
ress today to determine whether or not
to move St. Josephs academy to At
lanta.
it is understood here that Atlanta
citizens have proffered substantial
financial aid in rebuilding the burned
plant, on condition that the academy
be located in Atlanta. It is expected
that u definit' decision will be reached
this afternoon and the future of the
school ‘ determined. The plan of re
moval to Atlanta is said to be with the
view of giving that city a Catholic
girls' school to occupy relatively tire
same prominent position as the Marist
college for boys.
TIEDMAN NOT TO SEEK
RE-ELECTION AS MAYOR
SAVANNAH, GA.. Nov. 26. —Mayor
George W. Tiedeman. telegraphing from
Baltimore, where he went to consult
with his wife, has advised J. A. G.
Carson, chairman of the committee ap
pointed to take up the matter of his
running again, of his decision not to
make the race to succeed himself.
The telegram to Chairman Carson
suggests tht names of others who might
be prevailed upon to make the race as
the representative of the administra
tion forces. Major W. W. Williamson
is mentioned, among others.
RECORD TIME MADE IN
TRYING ALLEGED SLAYER
ROME, GA.. Nov. 26. What is said
to be a record time in Floyd county in
the trial of a man for a killing- was es
tablished when Felix Rooker faced a
jury. He is accused of killing Son Dan
iel at Lock and Dam on August 17.
The actual trial lasted exactly 88
minutes. During this time several wit
nesses were examined, the defendant
made his statement, and two arguments
were made. But the Jury so far has
not arrived at a verdict.
NEW RECORD IS SET FOR
OHIO RIVER NAVIGATION
PITTSBURG, Nov. 26. Ohio river pack
et owners have had fourteen months of
uninterrupted navigation, which is the
longest continuous period on the river
within the memory of river men.
BUTTS CORN BOYS COMING.
JACKSON. GA.. Nov. 26. — Butts
count? is arranging to send a number
of boys to the Atlanta corn show in
December. The boys will be accom
panied by the local agent, C. 8. Mad
dox, and J. M. McMichael. John Lewis
Moore mad the highest yield, with
144 2-3 bushels, in this county.
• SHOP TALK
In the schedule changes on tho
Southern railway Which became effec
tive yesterday and today. Atlanta was
given a new train, to be operated daily
between Cincinnati and Jacksonville
and to be known as the 'Ohio-Florida
Special.” Southbound, this train will
leave Cincinnati at 11:20 a. m., arrive
Atlanta 2:55 a. m„ leave Atlanta 8:05
а. in., arrive Jacksonville 12:45 p. m.
The trains are to handle most mod
ern day coaches. Pullman sleeping cars.
Southern railway dining cars and will
be operated on fast schedule, making
but few stops between Cincinnati and
Jacksonville.
In addition to the <thio-Florida Spe
cial. Southern railway trains Nos. 5 and
б, known as "Florida Special," hereto
fore operated between Cincinnati and
Macon, have been extended and will be
operated solidly between Cincinnati and
Jacksonville dining the winter months.
The schedule between Atlanta and Cin
cinnati will remain the same
The Chicago-Florida Limited, trains
Nos, 13 and 14, will continue on the
same schedules, with the exception that
train No. 14 will arrive at Jacksonville
at 8:40 a m. instead of 8:30 a. m.
The Kansas <'lty - Florida Special,
Known as trains Nos. 23 and 24, will
continue on the same schedule with
the exception that train No. 24, leaving
Atlanta at 9:30 p. m., will arrive in
Jacksonville at 7:40 a. m. instead of
8 a. tn.
Both the Chicago-Florida Limited
and the Kansas City-Florida Special
tialns are all year round trains, but it
has been found necessary to increase
the equipment on them and extend the
Pullman lines m order to properlv ac
commodate the increased travel whidh
they cany.
S ch<?ll l ules of Southern railway
trains hme been arranged so that they
connect at Jaeksonvlll. with trains for
Florida Points. Key West and Cuba.
COURT OF appeals OF GEORGIA.
Argued and Submitted.
vs from Lowndes.
xi.li ?'’i' . Vs s,a,e from Coffee
Mallett Duke vs. State from Butts
R H T S,a,e ’ fron ' Thomas.
'-iwards vs. .State; from Floyd.
J,lnp ’ VB . Mate; from Eiovd
from Floyd. l * 1 ’ “ llaS Walu ’ n - State;
Ambrose Thigpen V s. State: from
Lmanuel 1
’’ S| mpson vs state from Pulaski.
Henry Young vs. Cit> of Waycross:
from \\ an l
Grant Bowles vs. Stale; from Morgan
•’ a ‘ k , 1 ijsehal vs State; from Morgan.
Fulton ’ n "'' er Vli - Ci,v ” f Atlanta: from
.1 M Akridge vs. r a> of \tlauu itwo
cases); from Fulton. (Dismissed)
K B Fortune vs. W H. Bras
uelJ; from \\ niton.
K. L. Halliburton v.< Marshfield Bros •
from Bibb.
K. 1). Johnson vk C. i. Thompson* from
Thomas
r. M. Griffin vs. Janies Humphrevs
from < ‘ohpiitt.
•! Il Barrett v.<. Ma\or and Al
derm» n of Savannah: from < ’hatham
Georgia Burial Corporation vs w t
Herrin: frorv Fulton
1» H. Keefer va. C V Pinson: from
r ulton.
Atlant < ast YJne KaKrcad Company
vt L.zzic Wniincy: fr«»ni Lowndes
Accused Attorney and Wife Are on Verge of Collapse
GIBSON JURY FAILS TO AGREE
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Division Said To Be Nine For
Conviction to Three For
Acquittal.
GOSHEN, N. Y., Nov. 26.—The Gib
son jury has disagreed.
GOSHEN. N. Y„ Nov. 26.—The Jury
in the trial of Attorney Burton W. Gib
son for the murder of Countess Rosa
Menschik Szabo Is deadlocked, and bets
were made here today that its delib
erations would result in a disagree
ment. When the jurors were taken out
for breakfast, shortly before 7 o'clock,
they were reported to stand nine for
conviction and three for acquittal.
At 9:47 they again reported no ver
dict. but when they said an agreement
was probable they were sent back to
their room. •
The first report from the jury came
at three minutes after 2 a. rn., or six
hours and twenty-four minutes after
the Jurors got the case. Justice Tomp
kins. who had gone to a neighboring
hotel at the close of the day’s session of
court, was summoned, and J. T. Hit ks,
foreman of the Jury, announced that the
twelve could come to no verdict. They
Were ordered back, and then the fore
man asked:
Jury Interrogates Judge.
"Does the question of guilty or not
guilty hinge on whether Mrs. Ritter
(Countess Szabo) was strangled?”
“It rests upon all the evidence," re
plied the court. "If you find she met
her death at the hands of the defend
ant. then your verdict must be ren
dered in the first degree."
“Must we consider all the other evi
dence in its relation to murder ."’ asked
another juror.
“You must." replied the court.
Attorney Robert H. Elder, counsel for
the defense, jumped to his feet after
the juror had ceased questioning Jus
tice Tompkins and shouted:
"I move—”
Before he could go any further he
was stopped by Justice Tompkins, who
stnd he would not consider any mo
tions at that time.
When the jurors had gone back to
their room the judge returned* to his ho
tel, leaving word that he would accept
a verdict at any time.
Both Near Collapse.
At 2:30 o’clock the jury again re
sumed its deliberations. At that hour
both Mr. and Mrs. Gibson were awake
and botli were bordering on collapse.
Mrs. Gibson wept violently in the court
room as the jury retired, and had to be
comforted by two women friends. Gib
son was pale and trembling as he wa
led back to his cell, and court attaches
feared that he was going to faint.
Later in his cell Gibson regained his
composure and sent a reassuring mes
sage to his wife, telling her not to wor
ry. as he was sure "everything would
come out all tight.”
So ke< n was the general Interest in
tin- case that more than 100 spectators
hung about the court house all night
waiting for a verdict.
Wife Barred From Gibson.
While Gibson was eating his break
fast, Mrs. Gibson pleaded with court
attaches to be allowed to see him, bu’
her request was refused. Mrs. Gib
son became so nervous over the long
drawn tension that Dr. G'Rcilley,*one
of the medical experts for the defense,
had to administer an opiate. She told
her friends that she had prayed for at,
hour this morning for her husband’s
acquittal.
The jurors looked pale and disheveled
when they came into court at 9:47
o’clock and reported again to Justice
Tompkins that they had been unable to
agree. Foreman Hieks said he thought
there was a chance of reaching a ver
dict. ;md the jurors were sent baeji to
continue their deliberations.
PLANTA GEORGIAN AND AEWS.TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1912.
Happiness of Senator Tillman Is at Stake
FIGHTING FOR CHILDREN
COLUMBIA, S. Nov. 26.—Hearing of
an action of law which has as its stake
the happiness of United States Senator
Benjamin It. Tillman began today in the
South Carolina supreme court, Chief Jus
tice Gary presiding.
The case Is remarkable because of the
fact that the aged senator, in the bill of
particulars filed with the court, has ad
mitted that his son has been a drunkard,
though he is now- reformed.
The suit is for the custody of the sena
tor’s two grandchildren, the offspring of
his son and his daughter-in-law, formerly
Lucy Dugas, a granddaughter of former
Gorver Pickens, of this state. At present
the little ones are In the custody of their
mother, who resides at Edgefield, but who
is said to be contemplating their removal
from the state.
This will be the second attempt of the
aged statesman to secure the two chil
dren. On the first occasion the court de
cided that the mother was better prepared
to rear the children because of tlie father's
weakness for liquor, which was alleged
by his young wife.
The senator, on that occasion, wrote
into a petition, which he submitted to the
Ex-Star, Stricken With Grouch, Flees Atlanta
SMOKE ROUTS.SEMBRICH
Mme. Marcella Sembrich's ingrowing
temperament cheated her out of an ex
cellent bunch of gate money in Atlanta,
in spite of the cold fact that the ad
vance sale of seats wasn't enough to
pay gas bills. And if Mme. Sembrieh,
speeding toward Cincinnati today for a
concert in that beer and music-loving
city, knew how she had overlooked a
bet the Pullman porter would be hiding
under the seats to escape the overflow
of that once-star's aforesaid tempera
ment. For almost, everybody at the
Georgian Terrace and out Peachtree
way had decided to go hear Sembrieh
and take in the cabaret show after
ward, each being considered rather a
novelty.
The former songbird's temperament
began developing shooting pains short
ly after her arrival In Atlanta Saturday
afternoon. She didn't like the weather
and she didn't like the wall paper in
her apartments. The bell hop's voice
was slightly off the key and the club
sent up a bottle of beer which had been
too long off the ice. She didn't like the
people she saw on the streets and she
didn’t like the way her new gown fitted
across the back. Her left shoe pinched
her toe and the woman she met in the
tea room Insisted on calling her Sem
brick instead of the more euphonious
Som-brree. And, worst of all. she didn’t
like the smoke. That smoke came in
the windows and soiled her collars and
choked her expansive lungs and her ex
pensive throat. It looked like a total
eclipse on a foggy day. and it wasn't
Up and Dotvn Peachtree
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Merely Discussing
The Badge Wearer.
•Til be willing to wager—And I am
frank to admit that I thought the Bull
Moose would win, s.i I’m not betting easy
money,” said a well known Peachtree
street stroller ‘that there are citizens of
Atlanta who feet like they are undressed
unless they are wearing one of these con
vention badges that look like the battle
standard of some Central American re
public.
"Take Walter Cooper for instance.
How many days in the year do you think
he goes around the city without some
thing Happing on the lapel of his eoat
that informs the public that he is a re
ception committee, or an entertainment
committee, or a delegate or something
"It's the price of being a prominent citi
zen. If you are a common ordinary man.
nobody will notice you unless you have a
hole in your trousers. But If you've got a
badge of any kind that's as sure a sign
of distinction as a blue eye is of pug
nacity.
"Atlanta has countless conventions each
year and Walter Cooper as secretary of
the Chamber o. Commerce is an ex-of
tie i member < t all of them. He has to
have general supervision of the welfare
court, a pitiful appeal. “We love them,”
he wrote In the midst of the formal legal
paper. "We love them dearly and we will
care for them tenderly.”
Despite all his personal popularity and
influence, however, the court decided in
favor of Mrs. Tillman, Jr., holding as
just her allegations to the effect that
young Tillman was a drunkard and was
unable to support their children. The sen
ator was much downcast by this finding
and for a long time refused to discuss his
son’s failing. He was overtaken by a
paralytic sfroke which nearly cost him
his life. During his convalescence he
called for the children continually, mourn
ing their loss in his delirium.
In the summer of 1912 Mrs. Tillman, Jr.,
got a divorce in Ohio from her husmand,
the senator’s young son, and since that
time slse has lived in Edgefield. It was
in 1910, two years before the divorce de
cree, that the children were granted to
her by the South Carolina supreme court,
after a severe fight against Senator and
Mrs. Tillman and B. R. Tillman, Jr.
In the South Carolina court today the
case was begun in which the Tillmans are
making their last effort to get the chil
dren away from their mother.
sterilized. Perhaps Mme. Som-brree
might have rallied her’ couragp and
borne even a bum box sale, but she
couldn’t swallow the smoke and be hap
py. So at 5 o’clock on the evening of
her concert she packed her grips, sum
moned her maid and sent a hurry call
for a taxi to the train.
It wasn't the first time that a concert
sopiario had called off an Atlanta date
after reading the sales sheet and seeing
mighty few seats taken in advance.
Mme. Gadski, a favorite in the Metro
politan company, came South for a
concert a season or so ago, took a
glance at the seat sale and threw a fit.
Five minutes afterward her physicians
diagne sad it as tonsolitis or refriger
ated tootsies, and she blew the town in
disgust.
Manager Russell Bridges, of the Alk
ahest Lyceum bureau, tried hard to
convince the former star that it was
her duty to carry out her contract, even
if nobody were there but two deaf and
dumb enthusiasts, the janitor and the
program boy. But argument was of no
avail.
But wliy should we be expected to
pay $2 a seat to hear one soprano
whose voice may be more interesting
as a relic than as a tone producer?” say
Atlanta music lovers today. “We pay
only $5 to hear the whole Metropolitan
company. Atlanta lias paid its money
to hear several of these ex-stars of the
opera in recent years, and usually it
found out the real reason why the 'ex’
went before the star.”
of the delegates and they reward him by
pinning things on his manly form.
"In a period of a few brief weeks, he
has been an International Chemist, a
Farm Expert, a Weather Bureau shark,
a Kirmess dancer, an Automobile Acces
sory and an Appalachian flood Road. Ard
next month he will be a Tanaina Canal,
Santa Claus and a few other things.
It s ti great thing to be a prominent
citizen, hut it must be the dickens to
wake up every morning and wonder what
you happen to be today."
Kerosene Fails to
Make the Auto Go.
Garage owners and auto repair men
have reaped a rich harvest In Camilla and
all over Mitchell county and a radius of
a hundred miles around since the arival
of a certain ear of liquid there a week or
two ago. according to the agent of an oil
company who came back to Atlanta to
day after an inspection trip. And the
circumstances thereof furnish a sidelight
on the efficiency of at least one of the
state's official oil inspectors.
"That tank car. branded gasoline, came
In to Camilla and the Inspector looked at
it. tested it I reckon, and passed it." said
the agent. "Then the local dealer ac
cepted It. Then h« eouuueu'.--•> k> sell U
i‘SHOP EARLY’IS
SHNTJ'S PLEA
Ik.
Days pf Trouble For Girls Be
hind Counter Only Worry
of Old Fellow.
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Continued From Page One.
spirit of Christmas and unless I am
able to make every one merry on that
one day, unless I am able to make
every one forget self and realize that
they are all brothers and sisters, unless
there is no twinge of pain caused by
the holiday, my work is a failure.
"Sometimes I have almost succeeded,
but there can not be a perfect Christ
mas as long as Christmas is responsi
ble for a single weary heart on earth.
"I have laughed as I saw the man of
wealth and the woman of position un
i bend for a day and become as the chil
| dren they strive to please.
"I have chuckled as I have seen my
spirit loosen the strings of a miser’s
purse and make him know that his
happiness depends on making a dark
day bright for some of his fellow men.
Rejoices to See People Happy.
‘.‘My joy has be4n unbounded when I
saw my spirit move strong men to cast
aside their daily duties and work for
weeks to make it possible that I would
overlook no home.
"Mv very soul shouts when I watch
my spirit spread ove. an entire family
seated around a groaning board and
there would be no sigh save a sigh of
happiness.
"I have been with every merry party
for years. I have decorated a billion
trees. My fingers have been scorched
a trillion times as I played snap dragon.
I have consumed enough eggnog to
make a thousand colonels seasick.
"My ears have listened to carols as
sweet as a maiden's first kiss. I have
always lived in a forest of hollyberries
and mistletoe.
“You'd think my two thousand years
of life has been one round of song and
cheerlness. But I know that my Christ
mas still gives pain. Until I rob it of
this sting I can never rest.
He Can’t Do the Buying.
"X need human aid in my work. My
spirit Inspires their acts, but it is their
agency. Without their aid I can do
nothing. I can't buy a doll, or a tur
key, or a diamond ring. I can’t even
buy a Christmas card. And that's the
rub.
"If I could do the- buying, all would
be well, but I must depend on humans,
and I guess humans have not yet for
gotten how to err,” and the old man
sighed.
"If they would just buy early! If
they would just realize that there is no
peace on earth, good will toward men
during the Christmas season for the
girls who work in the shops!
"If they knew what days of torture
the days that should be full of joy are
to the young women behind the coun
ters! If they just realized that in ad
dition to the purchase price, their pres
ents always cost a heartthrob!
"If at the end of the rush and crush
to purchase Christmas presents they
could see these girls, wan, tired eyed,
feet dragging, worn by their work un
til the late hours of the week before
Christmas, turn their face homeward
with no thought for the glories of the
day to come, but just a longing for bed
and rest, I think that the humans
would be SKire to do their shopping ear
ly. I think they would take care to
see that Christmas would be a merry
one for everybody.
“And then, God bless you, I'd be hap
py."
OLD RED LIGHTNING
ASKS HOW TO VOTE
WASHINGTON, NV. 26.—01 d Red
Lightning, a Yankton, S. Dak.. Indian,
who tacked onto his signature “that’s
me,” has appealed to the Indian bureau
to tell him how to vote for president.
The octogenarian said he was able to
vote yet and was the man that spilled
all the whisky that was brought to the
Yankton agency fifty years ago.
out to retailers and automobile owners in
four counties.
"Two days after that every car in those
four counties was stranded in the road.
Most of them were old models, any way,
and the owners just decided they were
ready for overhauling, and had them
dragged into the garages and taken to
pieces. They tell me there wasn't but one
car in Camilla running same as usual, and
it was a two-cylinder affair of the vint
age of 1909.
"Then some fellow began, to kick on the
gasoline, emptied his tank and made a
test on his own account. Nary an ex
plosion when he touched a match to it.
Just a flare-up. that's all.
"Come to find out, that car branded
gasoline was a tank of low-proof kerosene
oil. tine*for oil stoves and lamps but not
worth a hang for automobiles. That's
why I've been a week down there trying
to straighten out things."
“I Never Closed My
Eyes Last Night"
How often have you
been forced to say
these very words. You
evidently have never
tried
Tutt’s Pills
which gently regulate
your system and stir
your liver to action.
Sugar coated or plain
■ —at your druggist.
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B . NEVI3T.
Governor Brown sent out last night
souvenir copies of his Thanksgiving
proclamation to' ail the governois
iff'-
jahM a
throughout the
Union.
It is customary
among state ex
ecutives to for
ward certified
copies of these of
ficial documents
to one another, it
seems, and tin
governor’s mail
has been all but
swamped w i t r
them of late.
Most of the cop
ies are prepared
in elaborate sty!
—some of them,
I n d e ed, being
beautifkil speci
mens of the pn-
g’, a ver's art.
For the most part. Thanksgiving
proclamations seem to run £o the sim
ple and direct, with little display of
rhetoric and ostentation. Some of
them, however, run riot in language
and. considering the high cost of white
paper, would seem to be unnecessarily
expensive.
Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New
Jersey, sent out a proclamation re
markable for its conciseness.
Byway of preamble it says, merely:
Another year of peace and pros
perity has passed by. The life of
the state and of the nation has
been undisturbed by war or pesti
lence or disaster of any kind; we
have been free to choose our own
ways and have gone through the
varied action of a great political
campaign without violence or pas
sion. The hope of our people has
risen with the increase of their life,
anil God has been very gracious to
us in all His dealings.
That is all, except the “Therefore, I.
Woodrow Wilson,” and so forth.
Governor Baldwin, of Connecticut,
recites many reasons why he should be
thankful, among them that everything
is prosperous and bids fair to continue
that way. notwithstanding that fact
"that the nation, by a minority vote,
lias decreed a party change in admin
istration at Washington.”
Governor Foss, of Massachusetts, is
sued his proclamation "by and with the
advice and consent of the executive
council,” and the governor of Rhode
Island signs himself officially, “Gov
ernor of Rhode Island and the Provi
dence Plantations!”
The governor of Nebraska flunks the
good Lord that a Democi atic president
has been named “by a majority of the
nation’s voters”—which isn’t true, of
course! . ,
B. G. Lastinger, of Valdosta, will be a
candidate for the position of United
States marshal for the Southern dis
trict of Georgia, the position now held
by Marshal George White, of Macon,
and his appointment will be vigorously
urged before President Wilson when he
goes into office next March.
Mr. Lastinger is one of the original
Wilson men in Georgia, and did effec
tive work for the president-elect. He
)s excellently qualified for the place
and is being indorsed by leading Dem
ocrats in eveiy section.
Charles S. Barrett, president of the
National Farmers union, started Mon-
PASTOR URGES ALL
BACHELORS TO WED
AND FOUND HOMES
Picturing a bachelor’s life as selfish,
Dr. Hugh K. Walker, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, declared in his ser
mon yesterday morning that every sin
gle man should marry and establish a
home.
He was speaking of the note of sadness
in modem life.
"We will cast off the shackles of world
selfishness If we sing the song of Christ
m our hearts,” he said. "Sacrifice is
not only the right course of life—it is
the happiest course. Every bachelor
should found a home unless a toother or
sister dependent on him has given him a
paramount duty."
J. B. Hogue.
J. B. Hogue, Sr., aged 84 years, died
at the Soldiers’ home last night after a
long illness. He Is survived by four
sons. Frank, John, Hunter and Vai Hogue
all of whom live in Atlanta. The funerai
arrangements will be announced later
Health
And Success
are such intimate relations that no
one can be expected to be well
acquainted with success who does
not keep good hold on health.
Most serious sicknesses start in
minor troubles of the digestive
organs. Thousands know by
actual experience that health and
strength —and therefore success—
Are Increased
By Use of
Beecham's Pills in time, and be
fore minor troubles become deep
seated and lasting. This famous
family remedy will clear your sys
tem, regulate your bowels, stimu
late your liver, tone your stomach.
Then your food will properly
nourish you and enrich your blood.
You will be healthy enough to
resist disease —strong enough to
take due advantage of oppor
tunity after taking, as needed,
BEECHAM’S
PILLS
Sold everywhere In boxes 10c., 25c.
day on a swift swing around the c
that will carry him as far West as Orj:
gon, and get him back to Notth Caro
lina for a big state meeting of th?
union on December 10.
It will require some lively hustlin •
to get that swing over with succeG
fully and make stops at Louisv!Y>
Kansas City, Salina, Denver and Ba
kersville, Oregon, the ultimate point
West, before he turns back, but Ba -
rett likely will make it, as he is an old
hand at the business and knows how
make time traveling.
The national president has served as
head of the union for seven years now
and so acceptably that no mention o’
opposition to his re-election eve:- •
heard from any quarter.
The Cartersville News, published ir
Judge Fite's home town, says he mav
be an applicant for the attorney gener
alship of Porto Rico under Presideni
Wilson, and adds that he will hav<
strong backing if he does become i
candidate.
The Nyews specifically names “Geo:
gin's two senators and Congressman
Lee" as sure to be for the judge.
Commenting upon the matter, Ths
News adds:
The judge was asked about this
talk and said he had heard many
pleasant words from his friends
along this line and didn't know
what might happen.
Judge Fite has been presiding magi?
trate of the Cherokee circuit for sixteen
years.
• Among those who have been men
tioned in connection with the collector
ship of the port of Savannah, when the
anticipated change is made with the in
coming administration, are M. M. Hop
kins and J. S. Neidllnger. The latte:
has been connected with the custom
house since the days of Cleveland. He
is being backed in his ambitions by a
strong coterie of friends.
Robert M. Hitch is being spoken of in
connection with the office of United
States district attorney for the South
ern district of Georgia, and Charles
Russell for assistant.
There likely .will be many appli
cants for the district attorney's place.
The friends of Colonel Robert L. Ber
ner. of Macon, already are at work in
his behalf.
J. Ben Wilson will be an applicant
for the position of United States mar
shal.
“Take it from me,” said a well known
Floyd county man, discussing thing? in
the lobby of the Kimball today, "that
the next postmaster of Rome will be
John M. Vandiver, the former postmas
ter under Cleveland—and the best post
master Rome ever had.
"Vandiver is the choice of four-fifths
of the people of Rome, in spite of the
fact that some most excellent gentle
men will oppose him for the office.
Vandiver has been a Democratic war
horse in Floyd and the Seventh con
gressional district a long time—he was
fighting for the Democracy when tire
negro was a power in politics in Geor
gia, and Rome people remember that
He has demonstrated his business abil
ity and executive capacity in the post
office and in the tax collector’s office
He will be Rome’s next postmaster
mark the prediction!”
Governor Brown's mind wasn’t alto
gether oq affairs of state today.
The fact of the matter is, the govern
or is intensely interested In the experi
ment he has been making on his Cher
okee county farm in the matter of dy
namiting land for cultivation.
Today they are "blowing up" ten
acres on the governor’s farm, and he
wishes he were there watching the pro
ceedings, rather than in the capitoi
deep in the affairs of state.
“I am going to put nine acres in corn
next year—l experimented exclusive!)
with corn on my one acre this year—
and 1 am going to try one acre In cot
ton,” said the governor today.
“I believe the cotton yield per acr«
can be greatly increased in Georgia b)
cultivating the staple on dynamited
ground.”
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