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Chambers Faction Will Retali
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
i; lative Body.
cf fh* Camber* faction of
tkirftTCOur.cn definitely planned today
to injury* gainst the Woodward ad
nirfrfration if the slate of appoint
ment made up by Mr. Woodward’s
friends la accepted by hint.
Confident that their slate will be ac
rsptei 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 the
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 mcnibe. who think they- are going
to be ab to grab all the pie.
4**- KraOte- tla-ve.-aan* ffi
beoomc -o -ions that a majority of
the rttembers of council will be hope
essly 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.
Ind the Woodward members tn 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, Al] the men who com
pos the element voted for Aldine
Chambers for the mayoralty nomina
tion against Mr. Woodward. The
Woodward men are basing their slate
on this alignment.
Do Not Expect Favors
Os Woodward.
The non-Woodward men are the men
trho 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
end the aldermanic board. They fee!
that if they are left off of the impor
tant places next year it will be personal
revenge. And they are prepared to
retaliate with a similar spirit, and
Sweater effectiveness.
Here are the members of the 1913
council who have been sidetracked ab
solutely by the Woodward slate, and
•e places they hold this year:
John S. Candler, chairman of the
finance committee.
James R. Nutting, chairman of the
tax committee.
( laude C. Mason, chairman of the
waterworks committee.
* r har ><s W, Smith, chairman of the
ordinance committee.
I • J. Spratling, chairman of the com
mittee on hospitals a, nd charities.
Others Sidetracked
B y Slate-Makers.
h„'2 arr " rf ‘ Havert >, chairman of the
l‘ ' ll ° n municipal research.
nf c,7 ,: '' Rsda ' p - chairman of the board
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Kimbroughansa o **’ W ’ D - White, J. T.
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The Atlanta Georgian
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Girl Thwarted in Her
Effort to Elope With
Actor, Shoots Herself
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 tn 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 het
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.
COUNTY COMMISSION
AWARDS $162,131 IN
COURT HOUSE JOBS
Contracts for the plumbing, lighting,
wiring and heating systems for the new
Fulton court house, aggregating $102,-
131, were awarded by the county com
mission today.
The Farrar Plumbing and Heating
Company was given the plumbing con
tract at $41,400; J. M. Clayton, the
lighting and wiring, at $12,843, and the
Atlanta Steam Heating Company, the
heating job, at $46,300. The E. How
ard Clock Company was awarded the
contract for installing a clock system.
This will cost the county $1,588.
In letting the contract for the heating
system, the commission stipulated that
the arrangement must include a com
plete heating plant, so the blds were
ordered for the duplux system. Under
this arrangement the county will have
its own plant in case it cares to dis
pense with the city heat.
COUNTY 'BOARDBALKS
AT PAYING 75 CENTS
FOR ‘INFERIORS MEAL
The Pulton county commission to
day balked on Ordinary Wilkinson’s ex
pense account for election day meals.
Three of the commissioners asserted
that the 75 cents a meal charged by Du
rand's Restaurant Company was exor
bitant for the quality of the food served.
Commissioner Anderson said that he
had heard several complaints on the
quality of the food served to the elec
tion managers on November 8, and it
was his opinion that a good meal could
be served for 75 cents.
The ordinary’s expense bill, for rent,
light and heat on election day, came to
$125.20. Forty-five dollars was spent
for 60 dinners. No supper was served.
The commission authorized the pay
ment of the other items on the bill, and
referred the refreshment account to the
finance committee, with power to act.
RAIN WILL CONTINUE
REMAINDER OF WEEK;
WET RECORD GROWS
Busily engaged In smashing the rec
ord for all past years, the rain fell al
most steadily in Atlanta today. It will
be at least three days before It can
possibly end, and probably the rainy
spell will last a whole week, accord
ing to Section Director VonHerrman,
of the weather bureau.
At 1 o’clock today the rainfall for
1912 amounted to a-little more than 61
Inches. If it rains three more days,
this mark will be increased by at least
two inches.
In 1888 Atlanta had her rainiest pre
vious year. During the twelve-month I
a total of 64.98 inches of rain fell. That
record has been untouched during the |
24 years that have passed, but the
year of 1912 will beat it, the director
thinks.
MAYOR WINN BACK
FROM HEALTH TRIP,
HALE AND HEARTY
.Mayor Courtland S. Winn returned
to the city today after a three weeks
rest at Palm Beach, Fla. The mayor
was robust and happy and said he was
feeling 100 per cent better than when
he left Atlanta on account of a threat
ened nervous breakdown.
He said he enjoyed the fishing very
much in Florida, but thaCthe buzzards
were so tame and numerous It took
one-half of his time to fight them away
from the fish that had been caught. He
said he never enjoyed anything better
in his life than the perfume from the
pineapple fields.
ENGINEER'S WIDOW GETS
$14,000 WITHOUT A SUIT
MACON, GA., Dec. 4.—one of the
largest settlements ever made by a rail
road in .Macon was executed today by
the Central of Georgia when it paid'
s| i.nitii to th, widow of Edward l-‘. I
Ad.nns. an engineer who was kided ■
this >eat ill a wreck near Macon. lin I
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ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1912.
BLEJSE SUS
LYNCHERS
WILL GH
FREE
South Carolina 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, non in progress
here, when lie delivered an address in
which he said he would not use the
tnilitia 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 u whits wom-
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"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 lie 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
bqlieve 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 hete for tile fifth
annual governors conference, today vis
ited Norfolk to meet the National
Guard association, by whom they were
tendered an oyster oast at Cape Henry.
Al’ official business was suspended
for tli'’ day. while state executives gave
themselves up to a thorough apprecia
tion of Old Dominion hospitality.
The governors and their wives wiil
i turn to Richmond tonight in time for
the evening session of the conference
when the report of the committee on
organization will be submitted and
lilans 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.
AFTER WICKERSHAM
FOR STAYING ARREST
OF JOHN D. ARCHBOLD
WASHINGTON. Dec. 4.—Represen
tative Garner, of Texas, announced to
day that he will Introduce a resolution
in the house calling for an investiga
tion of the conduct of Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham in staying the arrest
of John D. Archbold, now under indict
ment in the criminal proceedings
against tin Magnolia oil Company, of
Texas. if an investigation he is now
conducting result- in warranting such
pm < eding--.
J. He Nunnally Before
Judge Ellis, Accused
Os Ignoring Jury Call
J. H. Nunnally, president of tile Nun
nally company and at present sup
posed to be a Fulton grand juror, was
ordered under arrest today by Superior
Jpdge Ellis, chaigeq with hawing ig
nored liie jury summons.
Armed with a court order. Deputy
Sheriff Plennie Minor left the solicitor's
office this afternoon in search of the
Atlanta business man.
Mr. Nunnally appeared befo e tiie
court and claimed military exemption.
Judge Ellis instructed him to show up
at the next jury meeting and is. ued a
strict warning to others.
The court’s order 1> a citation asking
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Nunn.dly to give good reason why he
should not be adjudged in contempt of
couyt and igjprrlng the «xist
fact that he was summoned as a juror.
COURT DEFENDS
ALLEGED SUM
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Recorder Broyles Declares
Sloan's Charges Against
Risley Are Untrue.
A plot to sacrifice an innocent man's
life on the charge that lie 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, althougn Risley denied
having any part whatever in it.
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 wa.- 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 heating and did not enter the court
room.
Miss Ch’oe 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.
JUDGE SPEER PASSES
HUFF CONTEMPT CASE
TO ANOTHER JURIST
MACON. GA., Dee. 4.—ln the as
signment of cases in the Federal court
today Judge Speer called the case of
contempt of court against ex-Mayor
W. A. Huff and passed It for future as
signment by another judge.
"If I can’t get another judge to try
this case I'm going to try it myself," de
clared Judge Speer.
Several features of the Huff bank
ruptcy litigation, which has been pend
ing fourteen years, and which brought
about tile contempt proceedings, were
set for trial.
“It will be personally embarrassing
to me to preside in any feature of this
litigation any longer," said the judge,
"but neverthvb ss J will perfo m my
011. V."
The cast was »»■ '•> an indefinite
date in .lanut.i v
Church Fairs Forerunners of Christmastide
BAZAAR SEASON OPENS
OK
Miss Rosetta Wrigley at the doll booth at Sacred Heart bazaar.
Women Begin Annual Culinary
Campaign For Funds For
Holiday Festivities.
Bv Evelyn Wren
The Christmas spirit is in town and
the bazaar season is open.
That’s why tiie stores along Peach
tree street left’temporarily vacant are
being filled with women as busy as
bees, draping counters with linen cov
ers and spreading out cakes and dough
nuts and fudge. The women are pre
paring to earn money for theii
churches, the Sunday school Christmas
trees and the stockings for the little
folk who might otherwise find no gifts
on Christmas morning.
The men have a thousand ways of
making money. Ask a mere man to
give to a Christmas fund and he either
says he hasn’t the money or digs down
in his pocket and pays it over. But the
women must earn theirs.
Find Fun in Running Bazaars.
No, it's not because they haven’t an
allowance or because their husbands
are stingy. But every woman likes to
feel that she Is giving something of her
own, something actually earned, not
merely distributing a part of the money
her husband gives her. That is the
reason for church festivals and bazaars.
And they’re fun, too. They give Mrs.
Adams a chance to see Mrs. Brown and
meet Mrs. Copp and observe what Mrs.
Dobbs and Mrs. Evans are wearing.
They give Mrs. French an opportunity
to talk over Mrs. Grant's party with
Mrs. Higgs. They furnish a chance to
learn the recipe of Mrs. Ingle's famous
sponge cake, and Mrs. Jackson's raisin
pudding, and so on through the whole
alphabet and back.
And what if the materials and the
gas and the cooking do cost as much as
the price the cake brings, what differ
ence does that make? They are
charged iri the regular grocery bill any
way and nobody feels the difference.
Several Bazaars Opened.
Several of the Christmas bazaars
opened today. The Ladies Aid society
of the West End Presbyterian church
is holding its sale at 64 Peachtree
street. The Sacred Heart church is
holding its bazaar and restaurant at 168
Peachtree street, and the women of St.
Philips opened theirs at the cathedral,
with a midday luncheon as a drawing
card for busy business men.
The Ponee DeLeon Baptist commit
tee opened its bazaar at the home of
Mrs. Rutherford Upscomb. Park Street
church will have its sale today and to
morrow, and Westminster Presbyterian
will begin its annual bazaar next Fri
day. Others are being announced every
day and they will continue until a day
or two before Christmas.
Tiie girl you danced with last night
is wearing a white apron today and
ready to sell you a pound cake, a Dutch
collar, a jabot or a rag doll with a face
made of a much-abused golf bull. The
matron under whose mahogany you
slipped your patent leathers at yester
day's dinner is ready to charge you a
cash pri'ee for a luncheon today , war
ranted just as good, though in fewer
WOODWARD MEH
BUSY AT POLLS
Heed Nominee’s Warning to
Vote and Defeat Socialist-
Negro Conspiracy.
James G. Woodward, Democratic
mayoralty nominee, said today that lie
was> going through the third election
degree today, and that it had decided
him against third degrees. He said the
two primaries were enough, but to “be
pestered by the Socialists was unbear
able."
Voting in the general election today
indicated a response to Mr. Wood
ward’s warning that there was a con
spiracy to defeat him. More than 1,000
votes are expected, and that is quite
unusual for a general election.
Early voting indicates that the prop
osition to deed Lakewood park to an
exposition corporation for the purpose
of Issuing $500,000 of bonds to build a
fair grounds will be defeated. Mr.
Woodward urged that this project
should be rejected by- the people. A
majority of the members of the general
council favor it.
There was no excitement around any
of the polls and there will be no elec
tion extras this afternoon, unless Mr.
Woodward’s fears of a heavy Socialist
negro vote materialize.
City Clerk Walter Tay lords in charge
of the election. "Everything was going
well.” he said this afternoon.
MRS. ROBERTGOELET,
ENTERTAINER OF TWO
KINGS, DIES IN PARIS
PARIS. Dec. 4.—Mrs. Robert Goelet,
the noted New York society- leader, died
early today in her Paris home as a re
sult of heart disease. Her death was
indirectly brought about by a tumor
which she was found to be suffering
from last August.
She was 58 years of age and the wid
ow of Robert Goelet, who died in Na
ples in April. 1899. The body will be
sent to America.
Mrs. Goelet was one of America’s
most famous society matrons. She
numbered among her guests at various
times Emperor William and the late
Edward VII.
SON GIVES 2 QUARTS OF
BLOOD TO SAVE FATHER
.MACON. GA., Dec. 4 —ln an effort
to save the life of his father. Fred
Stewart, an employ ee of a rairoad here,
today gave two quarts of liis blood in
an operation at the city hospital. The
transfusion was successfully accom
plished and it is believed that T. J
Stewart, the father, will live.
I HOHL I
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE ’ij.r
GOVERNMENT
BLAMED FOB
PANICS BY
M’VEAGH
“Business Crashes Constantly
Threaten While Currency
System Is Unchanged.’’
“WHOLLY UNNECESSARY
AND EASILY AVOIDABLE’*
Disaster, Under Present Plan,
Inevitable After Certain Con
ditions Are Reached. <
WASHINGTON. Dec. 4.—" As long
our banking and currency system re
mains as it is. the immeasurable dis
aster of a panic will remain a possi
bility. The system under which we are
living not only would not prevent a
panic, but after a certain point In ths
generation of panic conditions is reach
ed will make it inevitable. So that, aw
long as the flanneial system created by
our Federal laws remain unchanged
and unreformed, the government will be
exclusively responsible for the commer
cial, Industrial and social disasters
which flow from panics.”
With this strong warning, backing up
an urgent plea for immediate banking
and currency reform. Franklin Mac-
Veagh, secreta-y of the treasury, opens
his annual report on the finances of
the nation, which was sent to congress
today. Continuing, Secretary Mac-
Veagh says:
"This responsibility Is a fixed one.
It is \m?.voidable, and ought to be
frankly recognized and acknowledged.
The people are helpless. The charac
ter of their responsibility is better un
derstood when it is realized that the
effects of financial panics are not at all
confined to the banks and the larger
business world. A panic such as 1907
or a lesser panic reaches, directly or
indirectly, every town and hamlet of
the country and every family and indi
vidual. It nationalizes itself long be
fore It has gone far, and its interrup
tion of the business movements, largo
and small, its fracture of the organiza
tion under which commercial and in
dustrial life go on, and the resulting
social suffering, are prolonged into
years.
Panic Unncessary
And Avoidable.
"These facts intensify the signifi
cance. of the delays and postponements
of the government. A panic is as un
necessary - and avoidable as an epidemic
of smallpox. You can have an epi
demic of smallpox if you disregard al!
that science has provided as a pre
ventive. You can not possibly have an
epidemic of smallpox if you will apply
the simple means that science has pro
vided. So we will continue to have pan
ics only so long as we refuse to ap
ply the simple preventives which ha
who runs may read.
“Not only does the system establish
ed by the present Federal laws promote
and develop panics, but at all times the
country is carrying the needless and
heavy burden of an unfit and wholly
insufficient banking and currency sys
tem. This system never permits en
tirely free commercial, financial or in
dustrial action at any time, because its
liability to sudden constraint and re
striction is always a part of the na
tion’s financial consciousness. There
never is a time when there is any long
look ahead, except when we are in the
midst of a panic, when there is a long
look of disaster ahead. There is never
a long look of ease and convenience and
prosperity ahead. This is true even in
the quiest periods of the year.
“Fortunately, the banks have been
able, unaided, to carry on this autumn
the financial operations necessary to
the movement of our vast crops and at
the same time to finance the operations
of the general business expansion
even in the face of a European dis
turbance. I should have been sorry to
feel it necessary for the treasury de
partment to intervene at such a normal
period as this. But, of course, it would
have assisted if it had become neces
sary.
Suggestion for
Relieving Situation.
“It is not my intention to speak of
the details of this urgent relief meas
ure—this banking and currency legis
lation. But the general features of the
new system—if that system shall be at
all adequate to the emergency—must
include among its necessary features
provisions for never-failing reserves
and never-failing currency and for the
perfect elasticity and flexibility of
both: tor the permanent organization
and organized co operation of the
banks, which are now suffering and
> ausing the nation to suffer by reason
of their unorganized state for a cen-
