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2 MIL UMS ON NATIONAL UMiyn act Milton Smith Regime on Louis ville & Nashville Blamed for Georgia Strike. Continued from Page One. cause of union labor, which have c,. " ■.I to ship over the Louisville and Nns'i ville and Its allied lines. (>ur light is an uphill proposition, of course, but it is beginning to tell, and the Louisville and Nashville is losing lots of real busi ness through its unfair attitude toward union labor.*’ Upon tile proposed federal employ ers’ liability act. Mr.’ Teal was no lesr emphatic. He said that he was sur prised to learn the number of staunch unloniata who thought the bill aas a good thing. Cites Faults in Liability Act. "<!eod lawyers say that it is urn oii stiutional, because it will dep rive a mat; of ills rights i?i court of equity," he said, “but there m no sense in the uniov laving back on that contingency. II will be much better to kill the bill it. congress. "Senator Hoke Smith was one of tie fl'si to see the dangers of the act, and. with Senator OV'-rnmii and a few oth eis. he is putting up a stiff light against its passage. Indication- ar that the, bill will not pass." According to Mr, Teat, the bill pro vides that a federal accident adjustc: h< stationed in u designated distil. When a railroad employee or other util ity employee engaged In interstate husilles. in iniu <‘d. this adjuster fixes the amount of the employer's liability. J'Ton, 1:1s decision there is no appeal. In other words, a railroad employee under the proposed act has lost his right to institute suit for damages in a competent court of equity and must abide by the decision of th’e federal ad juster, who is an appointee of a United States court. With Teat in his denunciation of the liability bill is Vice President .James O'Connell, of the American federation of Labor; Thomas Fflanagan. vice pres ident of the blacksmiths union, and A. B. Lowe, president of the maintenance of way employees organization, all of whom spoke against the projected leg islation at the labor congress. GETS $lO 000 PROVIDED HE DOES NOT REMARRY DENVER. COLO., Hee. IL-Upon con dition that he does not marry again Emil Jtesserkh will receive the $lO,OllO estate left by his wife, Fannie Uesserich, who died in Denver this week, Mrs. 1 nisse rlch s will was presented for probate In the county court today. In the event that Uesserich remarries half of the estate will revert to his daughter. Julia E. 1 tesserleh, who re ceives nothing ns long as her father re mains single. STRICKEN BLIND. THEN ROBBED BY STRANGER LOS ANGELES, CAL., Dec. 11. Wil liam Collier, 20 years old. a recent arrival from Bakersfield, was stricken blind while drinking ice cream soda in a drug store and robbed of all bis money by an apparently kind-hearted stranger who es corted him to the city receiving station. Physicians said, after an examination, that Collier’s blindness was caused by a hemorrhage and that probably he would never recover his sight. Teii HI Your Real Estate DeaDer You Saw His Ad In The | Georgian Insist that he advertise your property in the paper the class you want to reach read the . most— j That’s The Georgian ■ i Tn this vicinity, because it goes to the man at practically the only I time he has to read —in | the 1 ; Evening Georgian I Quick sales the rule fr< m Georgian Real Es- .. tate Ads. Panama Conference Ponders Over Ship Subsidy URGE CANAL PROTECTION — X * ' ; L ■ > ■ ft fm. W | f \ ■: A .lolm Barrett. director general of the Pan-American Union, a leading lignre in the canal conference. General Evans Repeats Warn ing That Seizure of Big Ditch Would Be Easy. Whether the Atlanta Panama Canal 1 conference shall indorse the passage by I congii.s of a ship subsidy bill designed to increase the nation’s merchant ma rine will be decided today at the third business session of tin- conference at the Piedmont hotel. The subsidy mat ter. left unfinished at yesterday after noon's session, was taken up when tile delegates met this morning, with the prospect that the resolution would not be adopted. President W. W. Kinley, of the South ern railway, addressed the convention today on "The Interest of the Railroads in the Panama Canal," and was follow ed by John W. Sibley, president of the Birrhinghnm Chamber of Commerce, who spoke on "The Iron and Steel In dustry and the Canal.” .1. W. Porch, president of the New Or leans Progressive union, will deliver an address this afternoon on “The Mer chant Marine and the Canal.” and E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture of South Carolina, is scheduled for an ad dress on "The Effect of the Canal on Agriculture in the South.” The confer ence will elose with this afternoon's session. Urges Canal Fortification. Robert K. Evans, brigadier general commanding the Department of the Gulf, struck a popular chord at the banquet last night when he declared that Uncle Sam must fortify the big ditch or lose it. His address was close ly in line with an interview he gave The Georgian some weeks ago, in which he declared that the best way to pre serve peace was to be well prepared to tight. "The Panama canal will prove a ver itable Pandora's box of troubles unless the United States prepares to main tain iter right of title by the only right recognized by the nations of the world, the right of toroe," declared General Evans. ‘'We must insure the canal. and the best insurance policy is fortifica tion. In its present condition, it could j be taken by a raiding force.” Among the speakers were Si nor Cae sar Barraneo. of the Cuban legation, who proposed a singularly graceful toa-t to the Uniteik, States; J. E. Le fevre, of Panama; President W. W. Kinley. of the Southern railway, John Barrett, directoi general of the Pan- American union; Jolm W. Porch, of New Orleans; Commander Victor Blue. > f the navy; Governor Joseph M. Brown and Governor-elect John M. S iton Subsidy Threatens Split. The discussion over the ship subsidy resolution at yesterday afternoon's ses >ion threatened for a few moments to split the conference into warring fac tions. It was offered by Sam G Doug las. of Nashville, Tenn., who insisted lint it be put before some committee for action. W W. Finley had been ap pointed chairman of a I;.rye committee ■n permanent organization, but when a motion was made to have this commit tee report also on i. elutions. Mr. Kin ley objected to considering and passing upon the -hip subsidy 'solution. Frank I' Glass, editor of The Bir mingham News ami The Montgomery Advertise',, atr* ■ iw vs the fort most I leims'lals in Alab ...ma. rose quickly I imi il.'d.M that the ship subsidy res | Iv'li'ii w is i d ingrious ennsnre. 1 ‘ I *,. t this i "lit i li' •. oi i!k THE ATLANT? GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1912. press of the South, or the general sen timent of the South favors a ship sub sidy,” declared Mr. Glass. “And it is not the business of this conference to consider such matters.” Up For Discussion. The resolution was nut withdrawn, however, and will lie taken up for dis cussion today. The organization committee, of which President Kinley is chairman, was ap pointed on a resolution by St. Elmo Massengale. and was for the purpose, as Mr. Massengale expressed it, to make permanent the benefits of the dis cussion of the conference. Its person nel is as follows: \\ W. Kinley, chairman, president Southern railway; L. E. Johnston, Roanoke, Vtt., president Norfolk and Western railroad; J. L. Whitney, Bal timore, president Merchants and Min ers Transportation Company; Robert F. Maddox. Atlanta, banker; John W. Sib ley, Birmingham, iron and brick; J. W. Porch. New Orleans, president New Or leans Progressive union; VV. G. Har vey. president Charleston Chamber of Commerce; James F. Gray, Savannah; E. C. Thompson, mayor of Chattanoo ga; Charles C. Hook. Charlotte; W. A. Erwin, cotton mills, Durham. N. C.; E. O. Painter, Jacksonville; •R. V. Taylor, Mobile; K. 1). Aiken, Brunswick; John Barrett director general. Pan-American union; Caesar Barraneo, Cuban lega tion: J. E. I.eFevre, former minster public works. Panama, and J. Moreno LeCalle, Pan-American union. TOM MURPHY HOPES TO BE REMAMED AS POSTMASTER AIGI'STA, GA., Dee. 11.—Postmaster Thomas IX Murphy has issued a state ment hi which he says he believes he has made good as postmaster at Au gusta, and that if he is to be deposed because he voted for President Taft he can not help it. Mr. Murphy has been a Mfelong Democrat and his appoint ment by Mr. Taft was a personal one. He voted for the president in the recent election out of pure gratitude, and he says that be would feel that he was an in grate had he not voted for his bene factor. ■ Hundreds of Tom Murphy's friends are anxious for him to retain the postoffice. GRAND JURY INDICTS TWO LOCKER CLUBS IN MACON MACON, GA., I )ec. 11.- As the result of the Bibb county grand Jury crusade on locker clubs, two of the most prominent, the Teutonic and the Macon, have been indieted for violating the prohibition law by selling intoxicants to members as well as non-members. It has been held by Judge Matthews, of the Bibb superior court, that a club violates the law if any money passes over the counter in ex change tor the drinks. TRUSTEES OF MERCER TO PLAN FOR ENLARGEMENT MACON, GA., Dec. 11.—The annual meeting of the trustees of Mercer Uni versity will be held here Friday after noon, and at that time plans will be set on foot for the ultimate enlargement of t the institution. The trustees will endorse I the action of the Georgia Baptist con vention in accepting the proposition made by the city of Macon for rendering help to Mercer in the enlargement project. ANNISTON TO HAVi CORN DAY. ANNISTON. ALA . Pei 11 Saturday will be "show day " of the Calhoun coun ty boys' corn club in this city The ex hibition will bo held in the court house, beginning at 10 o'clock Former Governor B B. Comer has been invited to mak> 'an adiiiess. Many prizi - have been of. FEUD fflß RESTS;! WLfflffii I m n h ji § n r* n WUuNUtLJ Five Brothers and Two of the Marchman Clan Under Peace Bonds at Ashburn. ASHBURN, GA., Dec. 11. -With W. .1. Cochran, Lee Marchman and live of the Cleghorn hoys each unde bon ! of SSOO Jnd the othei two Cleghorns—Tan and Marion suffering from wounds inflict ed by Cochran yesterday aft* rm.on, there has been no fresh outbreak today in the feui warfare between Maicli man and Cleghorn families, growing out of the recent mysterious death of •Minnie .Marchman. sister-in-law of Cochran, sister of Lee Marcliman and sweetheart of Tan Cleghorn. Intense excitement prevailed in Ash burn yesterday afternoon and last night fidlowing the second outbreak of the week of. the feud, when Cochran, ac companied by Marchman, shot fan and Marion Cleghonn, when they and two of their brothers made a demonstration toward Cochran and Marchman, who were about to leave town for theit homes in Amboy district. After the shooting Cochran and Marchman gave themselves up. Officers took the wounded Cleghorns into custody. The others hastened to their home in the country, where officers late last night ariested five members of the (’leghorn family. All were brought to Ashburn without show of resistance and were soon after released under bond, as were Cochran and Marchman. Sentiment here is largely with Coeh :an and Matchman. Both Sides Ready. Cochran and his brother-in-law. Lee Marchman, came to Ashburn early' yes terday morning and were followed by' four of the Cleghorn brothers, who ap parently came purposely to get Coch ran and Marchman. The shooting took place at 2:15 o’clock on one of the main streets of the city and was witnessed by a dozen or more men. "They have hounded me all day yesterday and today,” said Cochran just before starting to get his team to return to his home, “and I may have to defend myself soon.” Cochran and Marchman hadn't gone 50 steps before they stopped to greet a friend and saw four Cleghorn boys ap proaching from their rear. Without a word and in the twinkling of an eye, Cochran drew his gun and began tiling, first at Tan, then Marion, both men falling. Two Other Brothers Escape. The other two brothers escaped through a nearby store. When the smoke cleared up Tan was carried intd the sleeping apartments of a nearby livery stable and Marion carried to- the office of Dr. G. R. Luke. It was some time after physicians were summoned before they reached the wounded men. Tan received a dangerous wound in the thigh and bled profusely. Marion received a .32-caliber ball in the left cheek, which went straight in Sheriff J. A. King was on the scene in five minutes after the shooting and before the wounded men were removed. "You will not have to make any' inves tigation as to who did the shooting, sheriff,” said Cochran. "I did it, and am ready to go with you.” He and .Marchman then handed the sheriff their guns and were taken to the sheriff’s office, where bond was fixed. They have said but little since the shooting. Marion Cleghorn had out his gun when seen by Cochran, but Cochran's work was so quick and accurate that he received a bullet in the head before he could possibly bring his gun into play. Nows of the shooting quickly spread over the city and gieat excite ment prevailed for more than an hour. After Minnie Marchman dii d and her mother accused Tan Cleghorn as the cause of her untimely end, Cochran, who had married her sister, .-wore to avenge her death. He used no dra matie vendetta, oath taken as he stood above the Amboy belle’s tuidy. Brother-in - Law Vowed Vengeance. He simply declared that he was going to see that the girl’s wrongs were avenged. His first step was to resort to law. When he had failed to prove that the girl’s death had resulted from poison given her by her sweetheart he resorted to arms. Sunday he met Tan Cleghorn on an Ashburn street. His shotgun spoke and Cleghorn fell, dead his friends thought. It was afterwards declared that lie would survive. Cochran was not satisfied. When he was released on bond, he reloaded that sanqe gun. Feeling was at that time running high between the ('leghorns, the Cochrans and the Marchmans. Yesterday when Cochran left home with shotgun on his shoulder lie was accompanied by Lee Marehtnan. Both knew the mission on which they were bent. (’leghorn was encountered. A fusil lade followed. When the smoke cleared Tan's brother was being taken away and physicians declared lie could not live. Cleghorn Loyal to Brother. Marion Cleghorn was Tan’s most ar dent defender. When the Marchman girl died and Tan was in hiding with feeling running high against him as the entire countryside searched for him, the brother repeatedlv declared Tan was innocent and time and again as serted that lie would even up matters with tile people 11« called his brother's traducers. At tlie same time, Cochran was urg ent in his claim that Tan Cleghorn wa responsible for 'he girl'- death, and , pledged himself not to rest until Jus- I the had been meted out I I Hiring tlm weeks that have pa.~-• d sine. Minnie M.'irchman’s death, feel ling Inis grown b, tovn the family. From The Neto York Press HEARST SAYS REPUBLICAN PARTY IS UN-AMERICAN (Irganizatiou That Confuses Majority Rule with “Mob Rule'’ Was Repudiated by Voters, He Explains. Because Leaders Lost Faith in the People. (>n Saturday everting Mr. Frank Moss made a speech at the Young Republi can club, in which he discussed the re cent disaster to the Republican party. Mr. Moss' speech was illuminating, not perhaps so much on account of what he meant, but at least on account of what he said. Mr. Mogs spoke with sorrow of the gieat defection of the radical or popular vote from the Republican party at the late election. He paraphrased the farmer's descrip tion of an automobile, and said that the Republican party reminded him of a "pair of pants” walking down the street vi ithout anything inside of them. Then Mr. Moss continued his speech, and in the course of it made another noteworthy remark. He said that he did not believe in the recall of judges, and the :eakon that he did.not approve of this idea was because he did not be lieve In "tuning the courts over to mob rule.” • There is a lesson in these two para graphs of Mr. Moss’ speech which Mr. Moss teaches to the discerning, but which lie himself and most of the Re publican leaders seem too obstipate and opinionated io recognize, even in the face of the educational experience of the i ecent election. Why does not Mr. Moss realize that 'there may be a very definite connection —-a certain consecutjveneSs of cause and effect —between the two paragraphs in his speech? Why can not Mr. Moss see that the reason there are no popular legs in th? "pants" of the Republican party is be cause of the unpopular. un-Republican. un-American actions and opinions and expressions of the leaders of the Re publican party? Perhaps it is useless to attempt to approach or affect the mind of the old fashioned reactionary Republican. That mind is hard set in the grip of his prej udices. It is like tiie skeleton of some extinct animal, buried in the stratum of a geological period that is past. It is like one of the fishes hidden in the da’, kness of the Mammoth Cave —a fish which has been so long without light that it has lost the means of detecting light if ever a ray should reach it. But Young Republicans have as yet the eyes to see and the ears to hear, and I would like to place before them some plain facts in contradiction of Mr. Moss’ sentiments. The initiative, the referendum, the recall, direct primaries and the other items of the Progressive program are only exercised- in practice through the political expression of the will of the majority, and the majoiity of tlie Amer ican people is not a mob and majority rule is not mob rule. The whole government of this Ameri can nation is based on the p inciple of majority rule, and the whole of major ity rule is based on confidence in the wisdom and intelligence arid patriotism of the mass of the people. If you, Mr. Moss, and many other Re publican leaders, consider majority rule “moli rule,” you naturally hesitate to allow a majority of American citizens the same control over their public prop erty and public employees that all in dividuals are allowed in their private business. Therefore you object to the referen dum and the recall. If you Republican leaders believe that tlie majority is a mob and that ma jority rule is mob rule, you naturally object to a free expression of this ma jority rule in the nomination of your candidates. Therefore you oppose direct nomina tions and popular primaries. Therefore you hold packed conven tions. Therefore you nominate men that Un people do not want and reject the men that the people do want. If you Republican leaders are con vinced that majority rule is mob rule, you naturally oppose the unhampered operation of that principle in politics. Therefore you have depended in elections upon the power of money, the pull of political machines and tlie sinis ter secret influence of the privileged in terests. Therefore you have been guided by I the selfish shrewdness of the favored i few and not by the wisdom and tlie I judgment and tlie patriotic spirit, of the I majority of the people. | Therefore you have been disastrously and deservedly defeated. Mr. Moss and gentlemanly leaders of the Republican part) in general, the reason there are no popular legs in the Republican pair of "pants" is because tlie people have no < onfldeiice in tlie pa i triotism and capacity of tlie Republi can party. And the reason the peopk have no i confidence in the Republican party is because tlie leaders <xf tlie Republican party have no confidence in the pa triotism and capacity of the people. It was not Mr. Roosevelt who defeat ed the Republican party at the late election. It was not Mr. Wilson who defeated the Republican party at the late elec tion. It was the well considered determina tion of the competent and eonscieiitiou voters of this nation to repudiate i party which had repudiated tile peoph , to rebuke a party which had ceased to Serve the people, to depose a party which had lost faith in the people. The first great leader of the Republi can party led ids party to a splendid ind supreme success because he had an abiding and impelling and inspiring faith in the worth and wisdom of the people, in u government . f tin i "ph, bj the pl'- and for the peoph You Young lb pilblli ,u:- haw lual. t i 1—... « ia.-' t II so "tten i - n i a lips of shallow and insincere politician? that it has become almost a meaning less commonplace. Imagine what those words no-ant to Abraham Lincoln, and what they should and would mean to you if you heard them for tlie first time, uttered witli all the fervor of conviction and Inspiration by tlie man who not only gave freedom to the slaves, but restored popular lib erty and civic conscience to the nation, and established the eternal right of the majority to rule—by the man who not only retained our territory undivided, but preserved the principles and pur poses of our republic undefiled. It is impossible to conceive Abraham Lincoln referring to majority rule as "mob rule," and tile difference between the Republican party of Lincoln’s day and the Republican party of today is exactly as great as the difference be tween the ideas and utterances of Lin coln and tlie ideas and utterances of the Republican leaders of today. There will never lie any popular legs in the Republican pair of political “pants' until there is a change in the pattern of the "pants,” until there is a change in tlie character of Republican principles, until there are Republican leaders who do not believe that a gov ernment of the people, by the people and for the people is “mob rule.” 'I lie Republican party and the nation need leaders who. like Lincoln, have confidence in the capacity of the peo ple to regulate all functions of gov ernment, to control all public officials and to direct the destinies of this great nation for the best interests of all. \\ hen the Republican party can fur nish such leaders, it may hope to re gain its place in the public confidence and esteem. i WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. SUICIDES IN CALIFORNIA 752 IN JUST ONE YEAR SACRAMENTO, CAL., Dec. 11. -Sta tistician Leslie, of the state board of health, hrs prepares a report on suicide in this «tate for the last five years. Les lie has found that men i.icline more to self-destruction than women when ad versity comes. The suicide toll last year was 752,, an increase of 48 over that of 1910. The annual average is put at 705. 5) jlr WE IIL w / <sl lib v " s Warn Will there he Music and Surprise Like this at Your Christmas Tree? Read this picture of Christmas Morning by the owner of a Virtuolo "It was Christmas morning a year ago. The 'thiy m were up and shouting, ’Santa Claus’s been here!' “I jnit on my Santa Claus wig and rig and st"..- ,io stairs. I lighted the trie and fixe I all tile thing- arotir. • “Then I opened tlie beautiful new m ihoganc Vi tii" with a big thrill inside of me, wondering went to ,i • say. None but 1 knew it was there. I had sent the away the night before, and smuggled it in. "Said 1, 'l’ll just play a piece as they come down to j tree.’ So I put 'Way Down South in Dixie' into the Vi tuolo —the stirrjngest piece I had —and shouted to lb. in to ‘Come down!’ "Give you my word, I never heaid such a liot. I’ l b lieve the kids hit a single step on tlie way down. An my wife was so nappy she had to cry. "We never had such a happy (.'hi istnms. \.: o 1 ■ "i< buy a Virtuolo every C'liiistnias.” (Name on iequest.> • Why shouldn't you have a glorious surprise like iln- 1 your family' at your Christmas TreeA when you can i.'■' Virtuolo as low as $575, and have trVcv years in wh eli t" pay for it? The HALLET & DAVIS VIRTUOLO The New Instinctive Player-Piano is the newest Invention in i»layer-pianos and Hb tivst •' genious. It does awa\ with the mechanical sound. I r - away with need of following fixed guides and ir.stru ’ the roll, which cause the mechanical 'U r -<l. We will put a \ irtuolo in your home over the h"lßi;i\s i trial without expense or obligation to you Cali us -:p on phone anti make arrangements today. If you put it off or wait until you “get around to it x forget, so phone now, before you forget. HALLET & DAViS PIANO CO. 51) North Pryor Street Established 1839 Wm. CARDER, Manager CHATTAHOOCHEE Wnl FLINT R1 VER SCITItI plan canal P.vLvJ being made for a ■ opening of the St. An,lnn 7- n "'fl n»li>. the celebration w i„_, ' <3fl and be eon.luded in I Il is proposed to obtain . ■ barge on the (’hattah .. ' ".''fl riv. rs and Pave them fl Hus and, after tilting exu> ( .: ' diqM eed down the river. 51..H..G fl Points where suitable .. ' r fl carried out. it is expe.-0,, ■ can be easily complete,i months and the plans 0.,. ,"?fl will be pushed as the w... ~ „ n ,'^ ra fl advances. Congressman Henry |, , H Third Alabama district fl sm>. ,f the Fourth indorsing the eejebrati. 'L'fl sentiment for it that . it '\" h fl and at other points /.'fl h.'.'.'io'e river ami q.,,. ' a! W seems assured, • Professor O. R Lan. ■ The funeral of l'r„f-,7.. ■' , e ' . . ■ who died I lies,lay, was .7' ‘"fl mg at 1" o’clock in I’att.7 '."fl Interment was in dakL.ii,, ■ ! THE ATLANTA Also Thurs.. Erl. ami 5., ; . Xi L ■ I hurs. ami Sat q■■■ .. ■ KLAW & ERLANGIiI; I’REsiat■ Trail of the Lone ome Pine I CHARLOTTE WALKER I Nights, 25c to $1.50; Matin,.... t „ £d.jar Afcheson-E!y 6 Co I ’ VIIKONA WINTER fe’.l Dc.t Fa una- Van Ossman I Ronair & Ward-Lydeil c s«ire ■ Butturworlh-Martini 0 n aximilon : q" ■ NfXf IVEEK GUS EPWARDs" ' r " is I FORSYTH w D E E E c K 9 or BUS] [ Miss Bunting and the Stock Piiyenl Presenting ■ “The Three of Us" I A Play That Will Be Appealing. I Next Week. “The Little Gray Lady."fl LYRIC WELKI Matinees Tuesday. Thursday and; Saturday. The World’s Greatest Musical Success MADAME SHERRY (iriginal New York Production. Star Cast and Beautj Cli.rus |