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Copyright, 1913, by
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1913.
WEATJIERf-Fair to-day.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
M RS. RICHARD BURLE
SON, wife of the Post
master General, and Grand
Marshal of the suffrage pa
rade in New York.
President, Bryan, Moore, Mc-
Reynolds, Sen. Bacon and Rep.
Flood Will Hold Conferences
as to Government’s Next Step.
Japanese Will Either Send Ulti
matum to Washington or Else
They Will ‘Save Face’ Behind
Ineligible Clause in the Law.
Empty War Chest Precludes Any
Danger of Hostilities Being De
clared by Yellow Nation at
Present—Agreement Probable.
SACRAMENTO, CAL., May 3.
The House, after a two hours’
recess, reconvened at 8 o’clock (10
o’clock Atlanta time) to-night and
resumed debate on the anti-alien
land bill.
The measure was finally passed
by an overwhelming majority.
The Senate early to-day passed
the bill by a vote of 36 to 2.
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
(Editorial Correspondence of The
Sunday American.)
WASHINGTON. May 3.—Now that
Secretary Bryan’s mission to Cali
fornia has failed, and the California
Legislature has passed the alien land
bill, the President is inclined to test
In the Supreme Court by some action
instituted or backed by the Govern
ment itself the right of California
to pas% anti-Jap legislation held to
be in violation of existing treaties.
A conference will be called to map
out the future course of this inter
national controversy. The conference
will include President Wilson, Sec
retary Bryan .(if he returns in time),
Assistant Secretary John Bassett
Moore, Attorney General McReynolds.
Senator Bacon, chairman of the Sen
ate Committee on Foreign Relations,
and Representative Flood, chairman
of the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs. Perhaps other Senators and
Representatives an cl diplomats may
be Invited.
The Japanese Consul at San Fran
cisco was instructed to cable the ver
batim text of the anti-alien bill to To-
kio as soon as it passed, and the ad
ministrations of both nations are sim
ultaneously considering the essential
point, whether or not the law violates
the American-Japanes*e treaty now in
force.
A high official in our Government
declares that should the Japanese
Cabinet and the Mikado decide that
the California law violates the treaty
there will bo only two conditions and
only two remedies.
Two Conditions.
First. Japan in order to be con
sistent with the insistent demands
made by her Ambassador at
Washington must send her final
word or ultimatum to our Gov
ernment.
Second. That Japan will seize
upon the slight change in phrase
ology which omits the words “in
eligible to citizenship” to save her
face and will step down from the -
hostile position she has assumed—
as she did once before when Pres
ident Roosevelt sent our battle
ship fleet “to Japan on a friendly
visit.”
In case Japan spends an ultimatum,
two remedies are discussed at the
State Department.
First. That 'the United States,
through the State Department,
should offer to intervene in the
courts and have the constitution
ality of the alien law tested be
fore our Supreme Court.
Second—That Secretary Bryan,
pursuing the policy prescribed by
President Wilson, should invite
pourparlers with the Japanese
Ambassador with a view to bring
ing about a modus vivendi.
The modus vivendi is equivalent to a
gentleman’s agreement. It bad a
precedent on the last occasion when
Japan became insolent and aggressive
over the exclusion of their growfi-up
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FOR SUFFRAGE
Nearly Every State in Union Rep
resented in Huge Parade on
Fifth Avenue.
E«M THAW-
ADMITS LITTLE
Sails for Europe Happy in Com
pany of Child, Two and a
Half Years Old.
GOV. BROWN ON THE PHAGAN CASE
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Let the Law Take Its Course, He Says
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‘Guilty Will Be Punished,Innocent Freed 9
EVERYTHING I S ORDERLY ‘‘CAN PROVE PARENTAGE”
Policewoman Heads One Delega
tion Jauntily Swinging a
Nightstick.
“He’s All My Life; I Will Always
Be Near to Shield Him,”
She Says.
German Diplomat
Wears Fancy Rig
Checks and Loud Stripes Predomi
nate in Costjme of Count
Bernstorff at Horse Shew.
WASHINGTON. May 3—There
was one costume no one at the horse
show failed to see to-day. And it
was not worn by a woman, either. It
bedecked the form of Count Von
Bernstofff, the ambassador who rep
resents Kaiser Bill. Here are the
plans and specifications.
Suit of black and white checks;
each check about a half-inch square.
Shirt of white silk with bands of
hand-embroidered, brilliant red silk
ornaments running around the edges
of the cuffs and up and down the
bosom/ Sod s of silk to match in
shade and the hand embroidery, vo
luminous silk tie to match both socks
and embrcJdery; big Panama hat
girded by a sash to match the em
broidery, socks and tie; white buck
skin shoes.
Carnegie Rescues
Bankrupt Golf Club
Millionaire Sends St. Andrew’s Or
ganization $60,000 To Pay Off
All Its Debts.
NEW YORK, May 3.—Andrew Car
negie has come to the rescue of St.
Andrew’s Golf Club, at Mount Hope,
near Yonkers, with a loan of $60,000
to remodel the club house.
Mr. Carnegie is one of the mem
bers of the club. The loan is given on
a five-year mortgage at 4 1-2 per cent.
This will enable the club to take up
two outstanding mortgages totaling
$29,000, pay other debts bf $14,000
and spend $17,000 for improvements.
The present officers of the dub are:
Austin G. Fox, president; Nicholas
Murray Butler, vice president; Henry
F. Miller, secretary; Walter Hodgson,
treasurer, and John Reid, Jr., former
golf champion of Yale, club captain.
Pope iu Bed Again
From Overexertion
His Condition Not Alarming, Physi
cians Say, but Quiet for a
Time Is Necessary.
Special Cable to The American.
■ ROME, May 3.—The Vatican do -
tors have ordered the Pope to "bed
again as a result of overexertion when
he received two cardinals early to
day.
It is not thought the Pope’s condi
tion is alarming, but the physicians
insist upon (julet for the time being.
EX-KING MANUEL WEDS
PRINCESS IN AUGUST
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, May 3.—The wedding of
ex-King Manuel of Portugal to Prin
cess Leopold Hohenzollern will tak^
place in August.
NEW YORK, May 3—Ten thousand
persons—mostly women, of course—
marched ud Fifth Avenue to-day to
make the most effective and orderly
demonstration that America has ever
seen. Nearly every State in the Union
| was represented in the parade. De-
j spite the sweltering heat of 88 degrees
and the added heat from the pave
ment, not one marcher faltered
Ten thousand would appear to be a
fair enumeration. The anti-suffragist
counting machines working Indus
triously at Fifth Avenue and Thirty-
sixth Street registered 9,612. This in
cluded 571 bandmen and . 17 police
men. A private count showed 9.824
in all. ‘At any rate, the thousands
who thronged Fifth Avenue from Un
ion Square to Fifty-ninth Street saw*
a sturdy army of women that marched
with the precision of Uncle Sam’s reg
ulars.
Of the 10,000 there were probably
1,000 men. In these men the sidewalk
mobs saw* written plainly the fact that
the suffragist has long ceased to be a
thing to mock.
Men of Note in Line.
State Senators and Assemblymen.
Judges of the high courts, prominent
members of the bar and the m-tatstn*.
and, with the exception of the mayor,
most of his official family, who re
viewed the parade from the grand
stand, put exclusively at their disposal
by the parade committee, showered
continuous applause on the marchers
as they stepped briskly along in mili
tary fashion past the stand in front of
the public library, where 1,61)0 proud
husbands, including some of the'fore
most political, professional, business
and social leaders of the city^ re
viewed their marching wives. No
women were In the reviewing stand
The special orders of the day. issued
by Miss Inez Milholland, grand mar
shal, were as follows:
If your friends w’on’t march, cut
them dead.
Eyes to the froi i.
No talking or laughing.
Keep step.
Head erect and shoulders back.
Remember you are marching for
a principle.
There was an average of ten police
men to a block from Washington
Square to Fifty-ninth Street, along
Fifth Avenue and special details of
mounted men were told officially to
precede and follow the column to
guard against the possibility of any
such disorder as marked the inau
gural suffrage parade in Washing-
top. V
Mrs. Burleson Starts Pa>«de.
Shortly after 2:30 o’clock Mrs.
Richard Burleson, general marshal,
gave a lusty “forward march,” and
amidst ringing cheers the great ar
ray swept forward.
It took the parade precisely two
hours to pass the reviewing stand.
The final platoon of police, forced to
every maneuver to press back the
crowds which would have swallowed
up the little Pennsylvania and Dela
ware delegations at the rear, saluted
the stand at 5:40.
From the very outset when Miss
Milholland nodded in appreciation of
the grand stand applause, the pa
rade promised to be marvellous one.
Behind her a red coated band blared
the “Marseillaise” in a fine swing
ing tempo and clattering between the
statuesque Miss Milholland and the
band came, the chief marshal, Mrs.
Burleson, upon a mettlesome charg
er caparisoned in yellow.
A cavalcade of horsewomen, who
could really ride horses added dig
nity to the vanguard and a band,
ornate in yellow and black velvets,
followed, playing “The Parade
March,” which was composed for the
occasion by Mollie Stern Lithauer,
who walked in the musician's sec
tion.
Generl Rosalie Jones.
Midway in the parade, came Gen
eral Rosalie Jones and her hardy
group of suffragists who followed
her to Washington in February. Col.
Ida N, Craft carried the battle-
scarred banner that surmounted
Elizabeth Freeman’s yellow propa
ganda cart and immediately escort-
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I desire to commend, with all the emphasis at my command, the Hearst newspapers’ timely suggestion to
_the people of Atlanta and Georgia that they remember the sanctity and majesty of the law of the land,
and the sure operation of justice through the courts, in contemplating a recent horrible and unspeakable
murder in our midst. I desire to offer the Hearst newspapers a word of praise in that they—leading newspa
pers of the South—while being brave enough to print the news as it developed from day to day, still were
brave enough to caution their constituency that it was, after all, merely the news of the day, and not evidence
that might be considered competent in a court of law.—GOVERNOR JOSEPH M. BROWN.
NEW YORK. May 3— Mrs. Evelyn
Ne sbitt Thaw, wife of Harry K. Thaw,
sailing for Europe on the Olympic to
day, made public acknowledgment of
her 2 1-2-year-old son. Russell, who
left with his mother for an indefinite
stay abroad. Others in the party were
Mrs. Thaw’s maid and a Miss Spencer.
Though the fact of Mrs. Thaw’s
motherhood had been known for more
than a year to her intimate friends,
to-day was the first time that she
acknowledged it in a public manner.
Mrs. Thaw, still strikingly beauti
ful, though in a more mature and
matronly form, was apparently per
fectly happy in her son’s company to
day. He is a lusty little fellow with
black curly hair and large black eyes.
His mother’s pet name for him is
“Pompom.”
Mrs. Thaw could not be induced to
discuss the boy’s resemblance to her
husband.
It can bt/ stated positively, how
ever, that should Harry Thaw die pro
ceedings would be begun in court at
'once to establish Russell Thaw’s right
to succeed to Thaw’s estate, as his
heir.
Prove Boy’s Parentage.
“I can prove the boy's parentage,”
she said about a mopth ago. “But I
absolutely will not go into any dis
cussion of tlHit.
“I know what the elder Mrs. Thaw’s
attitude toward me is. She hates me.
They have cut off my allowance from
Harry’s estate. That was unjust, but
I can get along without it, though it
would be of livnntage to me in pur
suing my work In seulptute. But I
can support myeelf. I intend, how
ever. to protect the Interests of my
son.”
Mrs. Thaw tried to conceal herself
on board the Olympic to-day and re
mained hidden in hor two state
rooms, but she was discovered by the
reporters.
“I had hoped,” she said, “it had
been my fondest wish that ‘Pom
pom’ here and I might slip away
from New York without notice. I
am trying to bury myself away from
all publicity, but since you have
discovered me, why you must come
in and be introduced, officially in
troduced, you know, to my son, Rus
sell.
“It is the first time that Russell
has been introduced to a newspaper
man and it will be the last if I can
only contrive to stay out of sight.”
“This is ‘Pompom’,” she said
gravely. “H e is my son. He is two
and a half years old now*. Before
very long, he will be old enough for
his little ears to be filled with the
buzzing of people’s tongues. I have
only a few years left in which to
bury all that has passed before these
little ears will be wise enough to
hear.
“All My Life Now.”
“He is now all my life—all my hope
—everything. His baby hand holds
my whole life In Its dimpled palm
—just look what a tiny hand to hold
so serious a burden.
“It will be hard, oh, so hard, to
keep from his little ears what should
not come, though. I shall send him
to an English school when he grows
up. I will always be near him to
put my hands over his ears.”
The boy was born in Hamburg,
Germany, a little less than a year
after the Thaw sanity hearing at
White Plains, in August, 1909.
At that time Thaw lived in quar
ters asigned to him in the court
house at White Plains and was per
mitted to receive frequent visits
from members of his family. It was
some time after this that he and
Evelyn parted in anger.
Georgia’s Executive Gives High Praise to Hearst Newspapers for
Their Stand for Law and Order and Fair Trial for Accused.
Joseph M. Brown, Governor of Georgia, last night gave to Hearst’s Sunday American
the following ringing and significant interview, in respect of the Phagan murder mystery:
By GOVERNOR JOSEPH M. BROWN.
DESIRE to commend, with all the emphasis at my command
The Hearst newspapers’ suggestion to the people of Atlanta
I
and Georgia that they remember
the sanctity and majesty of the
law of the land, and the sure op
eration of justice through the
courts, iii contemplating a recent
horrible and unspeakable crime,
committed in our midst.
I commend all newspapers,
and persons, and influences, and
things that hold fast to the law
in timet; of anxious suspense, and
when wild and irresponsible ru
mor runs riot in a community.
We must hold ever in mind
that the people have established
the processes of law, and that
those processes work through
the courts, with judges and
juries.
Trials of criminals must not be
conducted in the newspapers, on
the. street corners, in the cafes—
not even in the homes.
Trials must be conducted in
the authorized temples of justice,
and not elsewhere. They must
not be based upon suspicion or
hearsay, but upon competent .evi
dence, sworn to by the mouths
of creditable witnesses, or estab
lished upon such combinations of
circumstances as legally prove
the guilt or innocence of the ac
cused. GOV. J. M. BROWN
No elements of class favoritism or race prejudice should op
erate either for or against a defendant or suspect.
The law requires, and jealously, the conviction of a criminal
beyond a reasonable doubt, and neither disconnected nor frag
mentary evidence will do in cases involving the life and liberty
of persons charged with infractions of the law.
A recent dreadful crime in Atlanta has shocked the entire
State beyond expression.
It is known that a young girl, fresh in the flower of youth,
has been foully murdered. That fact, and the place and some of
the primary circumstances of the crime are settled, beyond dis
pute—but, no more.
Certain suspects are in jail—within the State’s custody, safe
and secure. As yet no one has been indicted by a Grand Jury.
That point in the consideration of the matter will be reached in
its place.
Suspicions, street gossip, rilmor, it makes no difference how
seemingly plausible, have no place in shaping a verdict for or
against anybody now.
The process of the State's law has been promptly inaugurated
and is proceeding in order.
There is no reason whatever to doubt that it will go forward
in dignity, and with all due haste, to the conclusion of the investi
gation.
The Coroner's jury now lias the Phagan case in hand, and
is intelligently and fairly sifting the testimony. Where the Cor
oner leaves off, the Solicitor will take it up, and thus on. through
the Grand Jury, to the court house, the judge and the jurv.
This process has been evolved of the long experience of the
Anglo-Saxon race—the highest type of humanity on earth and
the ultimate aim of that, process is, and ever has been, the firm
and certain establishment of the truth, and consequently the in
telligent and thorough application of justice.
hi passing, and in further emphasis upon the necessity of pre
serving calm and poise in the situation discussed, T desire to offer
the Hearst newspapers a ‘word of praise in that they—leading
newspapers of the South—while being brave enough to print tin-
news as it developed from day to day, still were brave enough to
caution their constituency that it was. after all, merely the news
of the day, and not. evidence that might be considered competent
in a court of law.
That was a manly thing to do. It renewed and rejuvenated
my persistent faith in the fairness of Georgians, and in their ever
present desire to work justice to all and injustice to none, no mat
ter how high or how low, or of whatever creed or cult, sect or
faith, color or condition.
The law holds the scales evenly, between the State' and thf
accused, and at all times its eventual aim is justice. The State
exacts justice for herself and accords it to the accused.
I have been moved to say this much to you, and through you
to the public, in the interest just now of fair play, of law and or
der—all so dear to my heart, and to the ljearts of a vast majority
of Georgians.
We must bear in
mind that the State
is quite as anxious to
fix upon the right
party the responsibil
ity for this great
crime as any man
can be, and that the
State is infinitely bet
ter equipped to do
this than any indi
vidual, 'of his own
motion, could be.
Georgia Takes Part
In Ghent Centenary
General Mefdrim Goes to New York
to Attend Treaty Celebra
tion Conference.
AVIATOR PLANS FLIGHT
FROM ENGLAND TO INDIA
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 3—G. M. Dyot, a
well-known aviator, is planning to
fly from England to India in October.
He plans to go by way of France,
Sicily, the North of Africa, and thence
to Aden and Kurrachee.
SAVANNAH, GA., May 3.—General
Peter W. Meldrlrn left to-night for
New York to attend a conference to
commememorate the centenary of the
Treaty of Ghent, or 100 years of peace
among the English-speaking people.
General Meldrim was appointed ly
Governor Joseph M. Brown to repre
sent Georgia The conference opens
on Monday. •
After the flve-da v session In New
York, the delegates will visit Phila
delphia. Washington, Chicago and
Detroit. In Washington they will be
given a reception by President Wood-
row Wilson. England, Ghent. Can
ada and Australia will be represented,
several noblemen attending.
Atlanta Men Start
Knoxville Vice War
Rev. Dunbar H. Ogden and Dr. Stew
art Roberts to Tell of
Campaign Here.
KNOXVILLE, TENN., May 3.—
Rev. Dunbar H. Ogden and Dr. Stew
art Roberts, of Atlanta, are in
Knoxville to-night to deliver ad
dresses to-morrow afternoon at a
mass meeting to inaugurate an anti
vice campaign in this city. The At
lanta visitors will tell of the war
on vice that resulted in closing the
restricted district of Atlanta. and
make suggestions on how to conduct
a similar campaign here. Dr. Ogden
arrived last night and Dj\ Roberts
came to-night. The campaign here,
like that in Atlanta, is to be more
educational than otherwise.
Dr. Ogden was formerly pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church here.
He will also preach from that pulpit
to-morrow.
Grand Jury to Take Up
Phagan Case To-morrow
The uncertainty that has marked
every phase in the case of Mary Pha
gan probably will be somewhat re
moved w’hen the new Fulton County
Grand Jury for the May term of thaP
Superior Court meets to-morrow. Def
inite action by that body is antici
pated after the Coroner’s jury, which
also resumes its sessions to-morrow\
has reached a decision.
The action, it is believed, will he
the result of the efforts of a small
army of private detectives regained by
the authority of Solicitor General
Dorsey. The number of the detec
tives could not be determined, but ;t
i is the opinion in official circles that
• the county and the State are readv,
l if necessary, to spend an unlimited
| sum to bring the murderer of Mary
Phagan to justice.
1 The State has taken a hand In the
investigation, co-equal with the city,
and every force at the command of
the Solicitor General has been em
ployed to unravel the mystery. It
was at the request of Solicitor Dor--
sey that the investigation of Coromv
Donehue was suspended last Thurs
day afternoon, when more than 20«i
witnesses had been subpenaed. that
he might make a thorough examina
tion for himself before all the facts in
the hands of the police were made
public, and before any possible clew
j^ot cold.
It was for this reason that a con-
! ference was held yesterday, at which
were present the Solicitor Genera).
Chief Lanford of the detective force
and Coroner Donehoo, after which the
party went to the scene of the tragedy
for a personal investigation. In the
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