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the weather Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Loca l rains today and probably to morrow. ■"vob. XI. NOJOS. bkown iemeloby JMEMO SEES PLOT Recorder Broyles Declares Ris ley Is Innocent of Sloan’s Slaying Charge. FORCED TO HOLD HIM ON PRISONER’S STORY Wife and Children in Tearful Reunion With Confessed Participant in Crime. A plot to sacrifice an innocent man’s life on the charge that he had commit ted a murder, was indirectly charged by- Recorder Broyles in holding Robert L. Sloan, of Roswell, and Frank Risley, of Atlanta, for the slaying of William Franklin, a peddler who was slugged to death in his Decatur street home. The two men are in the Fulton Tower today. Sloan, in court, reiterated his partial confession of a share in the crime, ad mitting that he had witnessed the trag edy and received some of the spoils. He declared, however, that Risley was the actual slayer, although Risley denied having any part whatever in it. Risley Innocent, Declares Court. Recorder Broyles declared that he did not believe Risley had anything to do with the killing and that he was con vinced of his innocence. He said he was forced to hold him, however, as long as Sloan claimed to have seen him commit the murder. Sloan’s wife and children were at the police station and took part in a tearful and affecting reunion with the pris oner. As Sloan was taken away by the officers one of the youngster’s cried out: “Come on. papa. Go with us.” Mrs. Sloan said she was too much affected to be able to bear the ordeal of the hearing and did not enter the court room. Miss Chloe Austin, the dressmaker Involved, was freed. She admitted that Sloan had brought her some clothes and given her some money, but denied any complicity in the crime. ALL PEACE AGAIN IN LONGWORTH FAMILY, ‘NICK’ INFORMS TAFT WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Represen tative Longworth has assured the pres ident that, although there will, be .1 Democrat in congress from the Long worth district all is once more peace in the Longworth family. Mr. Longworth told the president that Mrs. Longworth, who, as all the world knows, was Miss Alice Roosevelt, took a cool thousand dollars out of the Long worth family treasury and bestowed it on the Bull Moose party as a free gift. While this was going on Mrs. Long worth, the representative's mother, was expessing an opinion of Mr. Long t'orth's father-in-law. which was more forcible than complimentary. In his "ffort to keep on speaking terms with ""th branches of the family. Longworth " ""t bow to campaign and lost his district. After the election, Mrs. Longworth, i., was satisfied with Roosevelt’s de- f “at. and Mrs. Longworth. Jr., was sat '•'fied with a Taft defeat. AUGUSTA HOLDS CORN AND CANNING FESTIVAL s I A, GA.. Dec. 4.—Augusta's annual corn and canning testi ng held this week. More than VoJJQft i< r< Ik n' • given away in premiums, n to a grand piano, two bug " s2<*o mule. Prominent ag ' xperts are here, including O. itm. in charge of the corn club 'be United States; Dr. An 4oule, president of the State 'sriculture; Professor A. G. -i.il harge of the corn club work ln ,South Carolina. Cl f, ~ '"oie than 200 boys, members ' b» »n Hancock, Baldwin, Put " "nee counties, are here. To day • 11 ,K ‘ "Girls Canning Club BAN ycL GIVEN SEVE N EARS AT HARD LABOR J 'mW ‘ ! . X,>II,S ’ MICH - Dee. 4. I i: • "'ben. former cashier of the ” : Kuiltv■ i'^L ba " k of Mani «ee. plead '■" bezzii, ' ni,ed States court to from tin Kiiiik .m<l (.-■ t. .. ' ,y Ju<1 K e Sessions to htiM.r a, id six months at Port L< " ' ill ‘ bederal prison at n "°rth, Ka tl9 The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. Girl, Thwarted in Her Effort to Elope With Actor, Shoots Herself Miss Gussie Harmon Lies Dan gerously Wounded at Lovett, Ala., From Suicide Attempt. WEST POINT. GA., Dec. 4.—Miss Gussie Harmon lies critically wounded in her home at Lanett, Ala., just across the Chattahoochee river from West Point, as the result of an attempt to commit suicide. Thwarted in her at tempt to elope with a stock company actor who played here last week, she sought to end her life. Miss Harmon, an attractive sixteen year-old girl, became infatuated with the handsome young showman. He was her matinee idol. The glare of the footlights attracted her. He pro posed that she elope with him.when the troupe left town. She agreed. The show folk had gotten as far as Ope lika, Ala., when pursuing' relatives overtook them and brought the girl back to Lanett. Hardly had Miss Harmon reached her home before she went to her room, lock ed the door and shot herself with a ,38-caliber pistol. The bullet entered the left breast and came out under the left shoulder, penetrating the left lung. The shot attracted members of the fam ily, who broke open the door, discov ered what had taken place, and hur riedly summoned physicians. While the wound is dangerous, the doctors believe she has a chance to recover. GAS MEN DECIDE TO MEET IN 1913 IN PHILADELPHIA Visitors to the National Gas conven tion spent today in looking over the ex hibits in the auditorium, no business meeting being scheduled. A. F. Kripp ner. of St. Louis, will make an address this afternoon on artificial gas for house heating, and John S. Welch, of Phila delphia, will taik on methods of develop ing large consumers. The next convention of the gas asso ciation will be held next December in Philadelphia, the delegates from that city having won the 1913 meeting in a spirited contest. President C. L. Holman entertained a number of guests last night at a dinner at the Piedmont hotel, at which old “black mammies” were the waitresses and a real pickaninny played mascot. Mr. Holman was presented with a handsome loving cup by the directors. St. Elmo Massengale, one of the best known advertising men in the country, will address the convention tomorrow. There will be no official entertainment to morrow night. GOVERNMENT SEEKS GAME WARDENS FOR RESERVE IN GEORGIA The government is in need of a num ber of bright young foresters to act as administrative assistants, in game pres ervation, or, in other and simpler words, game wardens, in the great 30,000-aere reserve in north Georgia. The reserve soon will be completed. It is expected the government will stock it with game. The salary of each man will be $2,500, and he will be eligible only for Georgia. The examinations will be held at all civil service offices in the United States. The examination will be difficult, as the place requires a man of education and training and one who has made an exhaustive study of importing foreign birds, maintaining bird reservations, han dling correspondence and preparing re ports on game protection. The examina tion will take place at the postoffice on December 30. HIS BOY SHALL HAVE AS GOOD A COACH AS JOHN D.’S GRANDSON CHICAGO. Dec. 4.—When William Barry, of Winnetka, learned that John D. Rockefeller’s grandson. Fowler Mc- Cormick. 15-year-old son of Harold F. McCormick*, was being coached by Mor decai Brown in the art of shooting "ins” and "outs,” he announced that his son, William Burry, Jr., prospective Har vard student, would be put through his paces Immediately, possibly as a pupil of Christy Mathewson, the New York Giants’ star twirler. RECEIVER IS NAMED FOR $33,500,000 FIRM DENVER, COLO., Dee. 4.—The Cen tral Power Company, the largest gen erating concern in Colorado, capitalized at $22,500,000 and bonded for $11,000,- 000, was placed iti the hands of a re ceiver by Federal Judge Lewis on peti tion of a New York trust company. The petition states that the company lacks $150,000 of having enough to pay in terest charges and that officials have permitted heavy liens to be filed against the property. SIOO,OOO RARE STAMPS FOUND IN WASTE PAPER PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 4.—EdwaJd D. Hemingway, junk dealer, found more than SIOO,OOO worth of rare stamps in $5 worth of waste papef. He has sold them to a syndicate. RED-HOT INGOT KILLS BOY IN STEEL WORKS GARY. IND., Dec 4. —John White, sixteen years old, employed at the Gary steel works, was instantly killed when a red-hot ingot weighing two tonstop pled over on him. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNENESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1912. BLEUSE SAYS LYNCHERS WILL GO FREE South Carolirra Executive to Protect Avengers of As saults on White Women. NO SOLDIERS TO DEFEND BLACK BRUTE FROM MOB Defends Liberal Use of Pardon Power That Has Character ized His Administration. RICHMOND, VA., Dec. 4.—While Cole L. Blease is governor of South Carolina he will permit lynchers of ne groes who assault white women to go scot free in that state. He made this declaration before the fifth annual con ference of governors, now in progress here, when he delivered an address In which he said he would not use the militia of South Carolina to protect ne gro assailants, would not punish lynch ers and would continue to exercise the pardoning power in the liberal manner that has thus far characterized his ad ministration. Here is what he told his fellow gov ernors: “I have said all over the state of South Carolina, and I say It again now, that I will never order out the militia to shoot down their neighbors and pro tect a black brute who commits the nameless crime against a white wom an. “Therefore, in South Carolina let it be understood that when a negro as saults a white woman, all that is need ed is that they get the right man, and they who get him will neither need nor receive a trial. Defends Use of Pardon Power. “I walked through the penitentiary of South Carolina and found It a tuber culosis incubator, where poor devils were dying at their tasks, making money for other people; poor devils who had no choice but to stand and work or take the lash. “Just the other day. Jim Roberts, a negro from Charleston, stopped me as I was walking through and respectfully asked permission to speak to me. He told me that he had been kept in jail for 22 years for stealing a $27 watch. I said. ’lf you are telling me the truth, you will eat your Christmas dinner with your folks at home.' He said. ‘Gov ernor, I have no folks.’ ’Then,’ I re plied, 'you will eat it away from here.' And he will. “Another negro had served eleven years and seven months for stealing $9; a judge wrote to me that he had sen tenced to death a man when he did not believe the man had been convicted beyond a reasonable doubt: another wrote me that he sentenced to death a man whom he did not believe should be put to death —he did not believe it at the time, nor does he believe it now. “These are the errors of injustice I am trying to right with my power to pardon. lam proud of my record.” Governors Enjoy Oyster Roast. Accompanied by Governor Mann, of Virginia, and his entire staff, the 23 governors assembled here for the fifth annual governors fconference, today vis ited Norfolk to meet the National Guard association, by whom they were tendered an oyster roast at Cape Henry. All official business was suspended for the day, while state executives gave themselves up to a thorough apprecia tion of Old Dominion hospitality. The governors and their wives will return to Richmond tonight in time for the evening session of the conference when the report of the committee on organization will be submitted and plans for a permanent organization dis cussed. The appointment of an execu tive committee for the coming year will also be made at this session and a large amount of miscellaneous business at tended to. / ' 400-POUND TURTLE FOR BANKERS' BANQUET SOUP NEW YORK, Dec. 4. —A 400-pound turtle that will go to make soup for the American Bankers association banquet was brought here today from Bermuda. WANTS GIRL’S WEDDING TO POOR MAN ANNULLED BEVERLY. N. J., Dee. 4. —Because she married Charles E. Roberts, a poor machinist, the parents of Miss Albertine Bidwell, society bud, have asked for an annulment of the ceremony. Mere Man’s Rhapsody on Pickle and Preserve Show SUCH JAM! SUCH JELL! AH-UM! . Jf / < HI./ j \ \ w A ' Jr . i \ < \ z ' I Ik. A ' 1 I • * 1/ I wrf * ■ > FEW VOTING IN ELECTION TODAY Not 1,000 Votes Expected To Be Cast— : Mr. Taylor Sees No Reason to Worry. Polls were opened for the annual city election this morning, but the managers in charge of the boxes outnumbered the voters so far. There is no promise of excitement or fights and there will be no election extras'. Yet, a mayor is be ing named along with a number of other city officials. It is one time when bad weather doesn't affect the vote. James G. Woodward, the Democratic nominee for mayor, remarked that the activities of the Socialists made it un pleasant for him because the Demo crats were taking so little Interest in the race. But Walter Taylor, the city clerk who has charge of the election, viewed with dignity the conduct of the various polling places and remarked that everything was going well. The vote will be very small, not more than 1,000. But it will be large enough to make this formal election legal. The one matter in which the people will really make a decision will be whether council shall have the right to deed the Lakewood park property to an exposition company for the purpose of issuing $500,000 in bonds to prepare for an annual fair there. Mr. Woodward says he is opposed to giving up the title to this property. The general council favors the plan. ELEVEN PASSENGERS STEAMED TO DEATH IN DEBRIS OF R. R. WRECK ZANESVILLE. OHIO, Dec. 4 Three more victims died today as a result of last night’s wreck on the Pennsylvania lines ten miles east of here, near Dresden, Ohio. The list of dead now reaches eleven. The dead and injured were brought here. A passenger engine, westbound, on the Zanesville division, plowed into the rear coach of a train bound for Zanes ville from the Cleveland division. The engine and ear were telescoped. The entire length of the car was piled on top of the engine and extended from the pilot to the tender. Without a moment’s warning the crash came. Passengers were hurled from their seats, and every avenue of escape cut off. They were literally cooked alive from escaping steam from the engine beneath them. ALIENISTS EXAMINE CONDEMNED SLAYER AUGUSTA, GA.. Dec. 4.—Drs. J. W. Mobley. E. M. Greene and N. P. Wal ker, who were sent here from the state sanitarium to examine into the mental condition of J. Edward Brazell, who is under sentence of death for the mur der of Carrie Bell Duncan, have re turned to Milledgeville. They will make their report direct to Governor Brown. It is believed here that the physicians will report that Brazell is insane. \ JW/ \ \ -a-** 1 / Miss Lillian McElroy, of Fayetteville, Ga., one of the nmg girl exhibitors at the Corn Show. Georgia Girls Handiwork, Dis played at Capitol, Makes Optimists of Pessimists. By a Mere Man The boys com show in the capi tal is most interesting and highly creditable. Every Georgian must be proud of the youngsters re sponsible for that splendid exhibit, and everybody who attends the show applauds and approves the same. Nevertheless and notwithstand ing, to my mind the girls pickles and preserves show is even better. It is more Immediately Interest ing, anyway. The pickles and preserves show comes upon the visitor as more or less of a surprise, for one thing. He isn’t looking for anything of the kind, for not much has been said about It in the newspapers. Be fore he knows it, he stumbles upon it—and then his “ohs,” “ahs” and “urns,” bursting from him involun tarily and actually before he is well aware the why, bespeak his ready recognition of the beautiful and the genuinely good. Nothing Like It in the Stores. No fancy grocery store In Atlan ta today can, or does, show such fine specimens of the pickling and preserving art—an art that runs the scale from sour to sweet and back again—as this girls exhibit shows In the state capital. It whets the appetite to stroll through it. The blackberry jam calls up vi sions of “the good old days," when battercakes were the solids of which breakfasts inevitably were built, and jam the cement with which the glorious whole was held together until the initial act of as similation took place! Shall such eating be provided for mortals again in this world—shall the tender grace of the jam that is gone ever come back to me? Like Grandma Used to Make. Mayhap, and the girls pickles and preserves show make that profound and lasting impression upon visi tors it surely should! Such pickles—like grandma used to make—you know! And every thing that can be canfied, for that girls show has been canned—to matoes, wax beans, corn, butter beans, all sorts of berries, beets, even Irish potatoes. And pickles— cucumbers, artichokes. peaches, green tomatoes and cauliflower. As for mixed things—one may be puzzled to know what to call them, but one knows they are ticklish to the palate, all right! There are fruit juices and jel lies on display in the girls show that would put to shame the ordi nary' commercial articles. All the way from the pale and delicate un ferniented juice of the scupper nong grape to the deep and royal HARD UP, PACKERS FORMED TRUST TO NEGOTIATE LOAN ST. LOUIS, Dec. 4.—That the pack ing companies were hard up In 1902 and were forced to organize the Na tional Packing Company in order to ne gotiate a loan was the principal point in the argument of Attorney Ralph Crews, of the packers' counsel, in his reply to the charges raised by Assist ant Attorney General Revelle, of the state of Missouri. Crews, in his argument, declared that in 1902 Charles Armour, Edward Mor ris and Gustavus F. Swift, beads of the three packing companies whose Missouri owned concerns the state is seeking to oust, were hard up and were forced to negotiate a loan from Kuhn. Loeb & Co., to meet an obligation of $8,000,000 due the First National bank of New York city. The National Pack ing Company, which took In the St. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision Company and the Hammond Packing Company of St. Joseph, was organized by Armour, Morris and Swift as indi viduals. the stock being held by them and in their names. That the organ ization of the National Packing Com pany was necessary to secure the loaji constituted the chief argument raised by Mr. Crews. SIDEWALK FIREWORKS STANDS PUT UNDER BAN MACON. GA., Dec. 4. —Co-operating with the citizens who are conducting a campaign here for “a quiet and a safe and sane Christmas,” Mayor John T. Moore has prohibited the operation of sidewalk fireworks stands during the approaching holidays, apd council has forbidden the discharge of a cracker or torpedo more than two inches tn length. Plans have been perfected for a parade of the public school and Sunday school children through the streets on Christ mas eve night. purple of the Concord, the girls pickles and preserves show has in finite variety. , Conquest Is Complete. My hat is off In admiration and great respect for those splendid girls! It may be that 1, a mere man, have been reached via a familiar road —a sort of primrose path, as it were—whereon womankind for many moons has walked to con quer. It matters not—the con quest is complete and the victory abiding! The girls pickles and preserves show is a wonderful thing to see—a sight that turns pessimism into op timism and doubt into a hope that will not be denied. One will do well to tal(e his lunch with him if he expects to linger long in the pickles and pie serves show. It is sure to arouse in the specattor a mighty and a powerful desire to eat! w 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p m a or«° COUNCIL O! CERTAIN IF SLATE IS ADOPTED > I Chambers Faction Will Retail- ■ ate For Attempt of Woodward Men to Corner Power. SIDETRACKED MEMBERS HOLD THE WHIP HAND Mayor’s Hands Will Be Tied if . Strife Disrupts Legis lative Body. / ' ■ _________ p Members of the Chambers faetthn of the city council definitely planned today to insurge against the Woodward ad ministration if the slate of appoint ments made up by Mr. WoodtvawTM friends is accepted by him. Confident that their slate will be ac cepted by their chief, the Woodward men expect to be in absolute control of the council committees next year. They believe that to the victor be longs the spoils. But the move of tho opposing faction promises the Irony of fate. They are to be left off of the Im portant places, but they have a consid erable majority of the members of council and they plan to disregard com mittee recommendations or appoint special committees to handle the more important matters. Council Holds / The Whip Hand. The laugh will then be decidedly on the members 1 who think they are going to be able to grab all the pie. Moreover, the breach threatens to become so serious that a majority of the members of council will be hope lessly antagonistic to Woodward from the very first day of his administration. Council holds the whip hand and the power to tie the hands of the mayor. " And the Woodward members In council are planning to arouse the opposition of the commanding majority of this body. The non-Woodward element Is called the Chambers faction solely for want of a better name. All the men who com pose the element voted for Aldine Chambers for the mayoralty nomina tion against Mr. Woodward. The Woodward men are basing their slats on this alignment. Do Not Expect Favors / Os Woodward. The non-Woodward men are the-meti who hold the Important committee chairmanships this year and have no reason to expect any special favors from Mr. Woodward. But they control the general council, both the council and the aldermanic board. They feel that if they are left off of the Impor tant places nevt year it will be personal revenge. And they are prepared to retaliate with a similar spirit, and greater effectiveness. Here are the members of the 1913 council who have been sidetracked ab solutely by the Woodward slate, and the places they hold this year: John S. Candler, chairman of the finance committee. James R. Nutting, chairman of th< tax committee. Claude C. Mason, chairman of tho waterworks committee. Charles W. Smith, chairman of th« ordinance committee. F. J. Spratling, chairman of the com mittee on hospitals and charities. Others Sidetracked By Slate-Makers. Clarence Haverty, chairmah of th® bureau on municipal research. I. N. Ragsdale, chairman of the board of firemasters. George H. Boynton, chairman of the committee on libraries. Albert Thomson, chairman of the committee on parks. James W. Maddox, chairman of the committee on buildings and grounds. J. J. Greer, chairman of the commit tee on bridges. Jesse Wood! chairman of the com mittee on claims. A. H. Baskin, cahirman of the com mittee on benevolences and pensions. S. A. Wardlaw. chairman of the com mittee on freight rates and transporta tion. Roy Abernathy, chairman of the committee on minutes. Also J, D. Sisson, W. D. White, J. T. Kimbrough and Sam Shepard. The following members of next year’s council are those who voted for Mr. Woodward for the mayoralty notnins tion and the ones to whom the ward slaters have confined tip' committee appointments; W. G. Humphrey, A. H<" John E. McClelland, Janx" , J. B. Everett. C. D. K” Hall. Claude L. AslU' A , he J. H. Harwell anti A « i But it is all quallfit. r “if” being whether J. —*• ward will approve the »