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MAIN SHEET— P ; t I'. ALL THE LATEST " V. . jHSR 5^ MAIN SHEET-Part IL ALL THE LATEST NEWS. I i-la *L HIS NEW PLAN TO SOLVE S Noted Mississippian Explains Why He Will Urge Repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment and Modification of the Fourteenth Northern and Southern People Both to Be Pitied for Attitude They Take Toward Question So Vital to the Race, He Declares. WASHINGTON, May JO.—Anent Senator Vardanian'* determination to push resolutions in the Senate to the repeal of the Fifteenth amendment, which gives the negro the ballot, and to modify the Fourteenth amendment concerning the social rights of that race, the noted Misiissippian has writ ten the following for The Sunday American. BY JAMES K. VARDAMAN. U. S. Senator from Mississippi. T HE importance of the * race problem is rightly understood by compartively few people. Ininformed men and women of the North carelessly push It aside with the absurd statement that, "it is a Southern question and should be left alone to the white man of the South to settle.” And on the other hand, there are a great many stu pid men and women of the South who seeing no way around the diffi culty, hold it to be an insoluble problem, and content themselves to let matters drift. For the two classes, I have no other feeling than that of commis eration. Possibly, they cannot help It. They are as ignorant of the real tendency of things—as In capable of understanding the dan gers Involved in the policy of do ing nothing, as the light-hearted child who gathers flowers from the rosebush beneath whose foliage is coiled a viper ready to strike it to death. This question is not a po litical question—it is not a sectional Issue. But, on the contrary, it is a great national question. And its solution rests with the nation at large. No greater question ever agitated the minds of a liberty lov ing- people, the purity of whose blood and the permanency of whose civilization depend upon the right treatment of the question at this time. The Indiscriminate commingling of the races, the enjoyment of equal political privileges and breaking down of all racial barriers—social and political—ultimately result in the amalgamation of the races, that will mean race deterioration, mor al and intellectual decay, and in the end the overthrow and destruc- ton of the civilization which glori fies the beginning of the twentieth century. If I could have my way about things, I should exclude from the United States every race of color, every specimen of man that can not amalgamate with the white race without being a detri ment to the white race. We do not want any people in America that can not be assimilated, that can not be absorbed by the domi nant race without resulting in race deterioration. Great Mistake Is Cited, A great mistake was made when the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments were adopted. Or, perhaps I should state history more accurately if I should say when these amendments were proclaimed a part of the Constitution. They were never constitutionally adopt ed. It is a matter of history, I think, that the voters of (he States never gave their approval to these legislative enormities. They are entirely out; of harmony with the truth, and grossly violative of the spirit of the times. Abraham Lincoln never for one moment in all of his career favored giving the ballot to the negro. In the memor able debate with Mr. Douglas, in which the race question was a burning issue, Mr. Lincoln gave ex pression to these words: “I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the so cial and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters and jurors of ne groes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say, in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races, which T believe will forever forbid the two races living on terms of social and political J AMES K. .VARDAMAN, Senator from Mississippi, who plans to solve the negro problem by abolishing the Fif teenth Amendment. Miss Wilson Breaks An Elevator Barrier Capitol Operator, Apologizing. Lets •Jessie Woodrow’ Ride, When She Presents Card. WASHINGTON. May JO.—“Sorry, miss, but you t an not ride on this eie- vator,” said an elevator operator in the Capitol this afternoon to a pretty, ! fair-haired girl. She was about to enter one of the members* elevators I on the House side. “But 1 was told to go up this way,” she quietly answered. “1 am Mis* Wilson.” "Sorry; it’s against the rules.” he reiterated, but as he took a card from her hand and read Jessie Woodrow Wilson,” he quickly became apologetic and said: “Step right in. miss!'’ And in she stepped and up she rode. Washington Dazed by Half-and-Half Gown Mrs. Gulick Changes Costumes When She Turns Around, and Society Is Startled. WASHINGTON, May 10.- The half- and-half gown of Mrs. M aaon Gulick has again blinded Washington socie ty, which temporarily lost its sight the other day at Mrs. Preston Gib son's cubist gown. Mrs. Gulick appears to be wearing at first sight a pretty creation of blue flowered silk, black hat trimmed with blue and artistic lapis lazuli earrings. Then you look again and behold she has on a gown of plain blue silk, no earrings and a plain blue hat. The reason for this seeming delu sion is that Mrs. Guliek’s gown :s flowered silk on one-half and on that side she weans an earring. On the other side it is plain silk and she wears no earring and the hat is un- trim med. Bryans Hold Party In a Grape Arbor Garden Reception to House Members Hitherto Given Only at White House by President Himself. WASHINGTON. May 10.—The ; members of the House and ‘ the la dies of their families,” to quote the ' invitation, were the guests in whose honor Secretary and Mrs. Bryan tapped the flowing grape juice bar- ; rel Thursday afternoon at a recep- ! tion at Calumet Place. Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark were not present, despite the recent ! Clark-Bryan “reconciliation.” Secretary and Mrs. Bryan received their guests in the garden. Refresh ments were served under the grape arbor. Representative and Mrs. Un derwood and other Congressmen helped receive. Heretofore official garden parties have been given only at the White House. ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 11, 11)13. All Atlanta To Be Tagged Monday Pretty Girls to Seek Charity Fund No EscapingtheFair Canvassers! ‘Seers’ Got Million Out of New Yorkers Chicago Attorney Uncovers Work ings of Immense Clairvoy ant Trust. equality. And inasmuch as they can not so live while they do re main together, there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” If we are to have a government by law, there mast be in the law a recognition of tho racial differences. A law stilted to the governments of the white man of America—“the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time”—can not be adapt ed to the government of this civ ilization—veneered savage, but a few' generations out of the barbar ism of Africa. The white man is a self-governing creature. The negro has not sustained the power of self-development. The only civ ilization he ever enjoyed was in culcated by the superior race, and that civilization has lasted with him only so long as he was under the influence and control of the white man who inculcated it. When left to himself the negro has uni versally drifted back to the barbar ism of the jungle.s. %With all the Christian world has been able to do for him in the last hundred years in Haiti, he is to-day the worshiper of the voodoo, and can nibalism is not distasteful to him. nor does it shock his conscience. U. S. Experience Discouraging. Our experience in the United States Is quite as discouraging as the Haitian example. Notwith standing that the white man has built for him schools and colleges, cared ^or his deaf and dumb and insane and his blind, helped him by ♦■xample and precept, the negro race in America is growing more crimi nal. Indeed, it is a hundredfold more criminal in the year of our Lord 1913 than It was in 1861. In the State of Pennsylvania, where the negro is only about 2 per cent of the total population, more than 17 per cent of the male criminals of that State are negroes; and 30 per cent of the females criminals are of the 1 colored race. In the city of Wash- j ington. the negroes are about i 28 per cent of the total popula- Continued cn Page 4. Column 3, i This Section. FOUR FAIR TAC-GERS. Miss Marian Goldsmith. 2 Southern Women Lost in Los Angeles Widow of Confederate Army Officer and Her Granddaughter Missing for Weeks. LOS ANGELES, CAL., May 10:- Lost in Los Angeles by her friends, the Daughters of the Confederacy, Mrs. .1. L, Ailcom. 90 years old, the widow of General James L. Allco.rn. a distinguished Confederate army offi cer and one-time Governor of the State of Mississippi, is being hunted by police detectives. With her is Miss Lillie Ennis, of Friars Point, Miss., her 16-year-old granddaughter. The two women arrved in Los An geles on the evening of April 22 in search of George H. English, a neph ew of Mrs. Allcorn. Failing to locate their relative, they sought the aid of local membership of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Since April 28 nothing has been heard from the two women, despite many inquiries made by the Daugh ters of the Confederacy. Cowgirl Goes From Hospital to Altar Member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Arises to Wed in Arena. NEW YORK, May 10.—Miss Goldie Griffiths, star cowgirl with the Buf- j falo Bill show, who was removed to Bellevue Hospital last night after be ing thrown from her horse in Mad ison Square Garden, left the hospital this afternoon and mounted her cow pony and darted down to City Hall to get a marriage license to wed Harry Smith, a cowboy, in the arena to-night. T allowed I couldn't get well if 1 stayed in that hospital any longer, and besides I didn't want to disap point Harry,” said Goldie to-night as she threw a saddle over a broncho. "We are going to be married on horseback, minister and all, and I sure hope the cayuses don't throw the wedding." Smith and Miss Griffiths are na tive*, a X ban Francisco. Miss Mary Helen Moodv. Sheltering Arms Workers Will Be at Their Downtown Posts Bright and Early. To-morrow morning early every body In Atlanta will be tagged! Society with all its splendid para phernalia of Paris gowns, paradise plumes that will make the bird-lovers shiver, and other accessories to a perfect presentation of fashionable woman, will be on the streets display ing Tag. If some pretty young girl with a smile that is worth a thousand dol lars waves a small slip of paper be fore you marked “Tag.'’ be sure that you do not clasp your pocketbook tightly and run away, but get out a piece of silver and take your medi cine like a man. And there will be young girls stationed at the corners, and in the public thoroughfares so lovely that even the pagan gods who sometimes visited the earth would have turned and handed them their winged sandals, or magic wands, or whatever they happened to be car rying at the time, just as the modern young man is going to do with his contribution to the Sheltering Arm.), Glorious Opportunity. Tay Day is one of the glorious op portunities one has to do something really good. During all the year no one ever asks for h?lp for the Shel tering Arm a, but when Tag Day comes, they are just naturally ex pected to give something for the up keep of one of the foremost charities in the city. I If everybody knew' what the aplen- (’Hl< AGO, May 10.—Maul-ay Hoyne, Slate's Attorney, asserted in Judge Bosnian* Court to-day thai the so-called “Clairvoyant Trust.” which has been operating in Chicago for eighteen month*, originated in New York City, where its principals had swindled their victims out of $1,000,000. Mr. Hoyne ieft Chicago several days ago with Joseph M. Ryan, alias Professor Charles T. Crane, a clair voyant, who was brought here from Lusk. Wyoming, charged with swin dling. The State’s Attorney said that Ryan had divulged many of the se crets of the clique. “He admits that the w hole business is a swindle.” said Mr. Hoyne. “He admitted dividing the spoils with cer tain politicians. Ryan said that Chi cago had been a good town to work in. owing to police protection.” '. C. A. STELZLE Cut-and-Dried Machine Methods Will Meet With Severe Setback From Commissioners if They’re Attempted by Any Presbyterians. Dr, S, S. Palmer, of Columbus, Ohio, and Dr, Waitland Alexan der, of Pittsburg, Are Leading Candidates Before Assemblies. R EV. CHARLES A. STEL ZLE. one of the leaders in the Presbyterian Assem blies meeting 1 , already well known here. Miss Alice Mav Freeman. did Sheltering Arms women are doing they would be even happier for their gift-giving Once a year these women, assisted by a bevy of beautiful matrons and lovely young girls, engage in the great game of Tag. They do not run around like the little children and say, “I got your tag." They just make themwlves at tractive, stand at some place ap pointed, and modestly hand out a lit tle paper tag, for which you may pay Continued on Fage 2. Column 5, This. Section, Keir Hardie Woos English Suffragist Alleged Love Letters Found Among ’General’ Drummond’* Bomb Plots. LONDON, May 10.—The Daily Ex press says: “An astonishing discov ery was made by the police during their recent investigation of the suf fragette activities ‘In a search for documents in the offices and domiciles of the malignant suffragettes there came into their By REV. CHAS. A. STELZLE. (Who will be a leading figure in the great Proebytorian Assembly.) R ELIGIOUS prejudice dies hard, but religious passion produces ! a devotion which is unrivaled in the affairs of men. Both these sen timents will be typified in the great ten-day congress of Presbyterians to be held in Atlanta beginning next I Thursday, when for the first time in their history there wi.l gather to gether the three leading F’rosbyterian General Assemblies, representing practically the combined Presbyte rian membership of the United States. There are a dozen denomina tions in this country, following the Presbyterian system and doctrine, but the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (Northern), the Presbyterian (•Lurch in the Unit ed plates (Southern), and the United PreRbyterian Church of North Amer- ica. which are to meet in Atlanta, contain about 2.000,000 of the 2,500,- 00ft numbers in the?e dozen denom- j (nations. 1,400 Commissioners. There will be 1.400 commissioners! in the three bodies—half of them lay men. The day sessions will be de- j voted to business, but at night there will be great popular meetings in the- Auditorium, in which the combined warped through prejudice, for, in the a^emblies will unite. first place, these interests could not Politics are aupposed to be tabooed I elect anybody to this office; if they in a general assembly, but novnrthe tried it, such an attempt would aim less there will b*-* some interesting ply invite defeat; and, as already “contests," especially for the modera- stated, a radical could not be elected, torshlp of the Northern Assembly. I< anyway. has frequently happened that the can- It is also rumored that a regularly didate who has been too aggressive organized effort has been under way in his efforts to secure this office for some months, under the direction has been strongly rebuked by the of a group of conservative leaders — commissioners by the election of a that is, conservative In their Ideas ’s “dark horse," and in recent years to methods of work so far as national these aspirants for office have left administrative affairs are concerned— the management of their campaigns to elect a moderator who will smash to intimate and trusted friend.- who ’the tendency in some of the boards are both wise and discreet. No doubt I toward specialization and modern “ef- a dozen or more men will cyme toi rt ‘‘ lenoy m «* thods -” the contention be- the assembly with their "moderator’s ; lng that these boards have no r, K bt sermon” packed In Iheir grip foL to have new ,deas on old P roblerr ' s - who can tell which of them may be but that they muSt continue th * ,r called” to preach on next Sunday work In the same manner that It has « Mifu* Marion Acheson. hands a bundle of letters which proved not to be bomb plots but the outpourings of an overflowing heart. They were notes from a love si^k Socialist member of Parliament to a lady who for some time has taken a prominent part in the militant move ment. “Naturally the police will not di vulge the contents of these previous letters, but It can be stated that they are of an astounding character. There seems to be little likelihood that the letters will ever reach the public, but the police have had at least an amus ing experience.” The Daily Express does not men tion the names of the parties to the correspondence, but it Is reported in newspaper circles that the So cialist M. P. Js Keir Hardie and the lady “General” Flora Drummond. morning as the first man In the j been done for 50 years church—and incidentally to have his Much Campaigning, sermon most heartily commended by It is said that a definite visitation one group and most fiercely crlti- of Presbyteries and individual mln- clsed by another—for there Is every isters has been In progress to further shade of belief on every subject this movement, for some time, but among these very human commis- that this effort became so ponderous sioners. And that’s what makes an that it has fallen of its own weight. assembly meeting so mighty inter eating. Nothing Cut and Dried. There is nothing set up—nothing cut and dried—nothing like a slate. If anyone suspects that a “machine” is But even if It is not already dead, It would be unmercifully dealt with as the assembly itself for, be it said to the credit of the entire Church and to that of the commissioners who will be in Atlanta this week, trying to put over any measure, IF* every b ° ard and eVery ° fflclal and every Individual member get* an ab solutely square deal at the assembly, and no “movement" no matter how sincerely organized, or how worthily promoted, will stand a ghost of a chance if by sny possibility it re sults in the unjust injury of any man a sure sign that the measure will ne ripped to pieces in order to find the motive bark of the ''job.'' Now, In the mnttcr of the moder- | atorship— which, by the way, has be- | come an exceedingly important of fice, and requires that this officer shall , , _ be traveling throughout the country ! or organization in^the ^orch. during practically the entire year— j much depend** upon a man's theologi cal opinions. It's* a foregone conclu sion that a radical will not win, but neither will an ultra-conservative. The tendencies are all toward pro gressiveness. but ati out-and-out rad ical stands no sort of a chance. A Probable Candidates. Now as to some of the candidates who are being mentioned. The race will probably be confined to two, al though ethers may run. First there is Dr. S. S. Palmer, of Columbus*. Ohio, who has been active as a member of the assembly’s evangelistic commit- Admits a Chemist Can Create Life Britlzh Scientist Thinks It Must Be of Low Form, and Cannot Diapel Religion. sane, middle-of-the-road man will j tee and in several other important have the best chance. Opinions dlf- national enterprises, and who has fer as to which of the candidate* been regarded as one of the most being suggested is most satisfactory satisfactory all-round pastors and In this particular, for all of them preachers and executives in the eoun- Special Cable to The American. LONDON, May 10.—Professor Sims Woodhead, lecturing before the Royal Society of the Arts, discussed the origin of life. He said he agreed with Professor Schafer that It was quite possible a very low form of life might be cre ated by a chemist, but he insisted that was “no reason to change our belief in God " would, no doubt, insist that the,' measure up to this standard. Bodies Behind Radical. It was recently charged by a Pres byterian newspaper that a definite at tempt is being made by Union Theo logical Seminary, of New York, the Board of Home Missions and the Presbytery of New York to capture the assembly by electing a radical to the moderatorship. although this, pa per was wise enough not to name the candidate of this alleged combination. The movement was characterized by this newspaper as the most daring attempt to control the church since the days of “the early Roman See." But such a charge could be made only by a strongly partisan Individual, whose good judgment has .become try. He has been called to many leading churches, but has persisted in remaining in Columbus to develop a big church and institutional work in that city. Dr. Palmer will have the strong support of the Middle Western section of the country. Then comes Dr. Waitland Alexan der, of the First Church of Pitts burg, who has the reputation of be ing a “millionaire minister"—at any rate, he is said to be very wealthy, but the fine thing about Dr. Alexander is that he spends large sums of his own money, and, it is reported, all of his salary, in sensible social work among needy people in Pittsburg and elsewhere But aside from tjiie Dr. Alexander is a successful worker among men and he Is aieo a popular