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2 THE ATLANTA GEORG IAN AND NEWS. OFFERS BEAVERS FIST OF' Attorney Carl Hutcheson, Felder’s Aide, Also Accuses Police of Protecting Vice. Continued From Page 1. thing and it If v N! * jour duty to know, should be diet barged from your high pedestals for dereliction. i accuse you of allowing sim ilar houses to operate on certain parts of Spring Street. AND YOU KNOW IT. If you do not. you should bo removed from office for dereliction of duty. I accuse you of allowing sim ilar houses to operate in a cer tain section of Pryor Street AND YOU KNOW IT. If you do not, you should be removed from of fice for dereliction of duty. I accuse you of allowing simi lar houses to operate on a certain section of Uentral Avenue. AND YOU KNOW IT If you do not, you should be removed from of fice for dereliction of duty. I accuse you of failing to take • ngnizance of a certain house In Ivy Street, to which I called your attention several weeks ago. where young men were inveigled t<< gamble away their money, the mistress thereof being the banker and the recipient of these ill- gotten gains. AND YOU KNOW IT. and should he removed from office for dereliction of duty. 1 accuse you and numbers of your forces with being cognizant of these facts, and yet you, the great crusade leaders, stand Idly by and fold youi lordly bnnde. 1 accuse you with allowing, even *yet, low class hotels in this < ity to exist and prac tice their ne farious games of lowly gain. AND YOU KNOIV IT. and should be removed from office for derelic tion of duty. you can not "turn up” these s. there are hunt? eds of peo- Gio can. I ran use infantile live work and turn up doz- t>f them within a few davs. YOU KNOW THIS CAN UK DONE. And. if you fail to -••1 busy and continue to parade o ur great genius (?) you should b« remove d from office for dere- i: Hon of duty. , Charges Police Protection. ! i< cuse you with protecting •-«* Places because of your lax ' • ' ;od* in keeping "the houses • i bin our midst" closed, AND VOU KNOW IT. and should be removed from office for derelic tion of duty. I act use you of closing Man hattan Avenue and converting our entire municipality Into a red light' district. AND YOU KNOW IT, and unless you change conditions at once you tho'slu be removed from office for derelic tion of duty. 1 accuse you of retaining on your forces men unfit to protect the "decent** citizens of Atlanta. AND YOU KNOW IT. and should be removed from office for dere liction of duty. 1 accuse you of knowing where numbers of houses which exist by Immoral practices are located. AND YOU KNOW IT, and you should be removed from office for dereliction of duty. Do you think that the public will be hoodwinked forever? Do you think that the public Is 90 gullible as to believe all of this "bush-wah" about the great work that you are continuing? Yes, you closed Manhattan Ave nue, but w'hat did you do for the remainder of the city? You and your bunch are very sore because you were unable to ferret out the Phagan murder. AND YOU KNOW IT When the Solicitor General called in outside aid. numbers of your hirelings were very much perturbed and became insanely Jeilous That is why all of this patched-up and hatched-up bunch of lies and slanders have been Issued against Thomas B. Felder, whose shoes you are unworthy t<i untie. AND YOU KNOW IT. 1 1 accuse you of retaining a large number of leather-heads for detectives. Detectives? That is a joke. isn't It? AND YOU KNOW IT. and you should be removed from office for allowing such an army of incompetents to work with your departments. You know, and l know’, that these fel lows secure their offices through political pull and not through ef ficiency They are Sherlock Holmeses when it comes to ar- esting blind tigers and negro • rap-players, but beyond that they would not know a clew If they -aw it tagged. In th Phagan case, the news- pa pc men are the ones who T. e Georgian-American Pony Contest VOTE COUPON Hearst's Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian PONT CONTEST VOTE COUPON. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1913 5 VOTES NOT GOOD AFTER JUNE 11, 1913. Vote for Address CARRIERS' ANO AGENTS’ BALLOT. Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian Pony Contest Vote Coupon, Tuesday, May 27, 1913. 5 1/ATre NOT GOOD AFTER JUNE 11, 1913. Vote for Add ress SCHOOL BOYS' AND GIRLS' BALLOT. COO R h ef a o n rm e £heaval S % Md ° n Grots Old Friends Ralph O. Uochran, Representative- 1 elect from Fulton County and candi- I date for the United States Senate to succeed Senator lioke Smith, received ! hearty congratulation* Tuesday on a ! speech delivered Monday night at the ! commencement exercise* of the Li- thonia Public Schools. Mr Cochran took "Conservatism” a* hi* subject. He declared really great thing* were accomplished b> cautious individual*. Fie commended conservatism rather than a course of j reform. A large crowd of DeKalb County j citizen* turned out to hear the candi date. Noted Woodmen to Visit Atlanta Camps Two Woodmen of national reputa tion from Omaha, Nebr.. will arrive here at noon Tuesday. They are Jo- Meph Cullen Root, sovereign com mander, and John T. Yates, sovereign secretary of the Omaha order. The local camps and Georgia head j officials of the order will escort the visitors to the Piedmont Hotel. A re ception at Cable Ha 1 Tuesday night be given by J. C. Root Camp No. 80. assisted by other camps In th" city, and State officio « of the order. Sunday. June 1, is the annual Memorial Day of the Woodmen of che World. Florida His Present Address +•+ •I* • *1* •f Forerunner of Georgia Cousin Smiling Rastus, one of Atlanta's welcoming committee, joyously greeting the first visitor from Florida. The Duty of the Grand Jury— Investigate All the Charges of Graft and Bribery ! The Georgian repeats its suggestion that the Grand Jury MUST TAKE UP AND INVESTIGATE THOROUGHLY the charges of graft and bribery that have been made in the news papers during the past few days. And the patter should not end with the Grand Jury. It should be taken into a court of law, Colonel Thomas B. Felder has made some accusations that merit immediate attention. If there is graft in the police department or bribery any where, the public has a right to know about it; and if Colonel Felder or anyone else can establish that, he will receive the thanks of the entire community, and there will be a speedy turning out of the guilty men. The matter is too serious to begin and end in a newspaper war. The good name of the city }s involved. The good name of public servants is involved. Trials in newspapers are never effective. They lead no where. The public is still unconvinced. Trials by judges and juries are final and conclusive. THE PUBLIC WANTS FACTS. There is no reason to believe that the charges against Beavers are true. Even the bitterest enemies of Beavers admit his honesty. He has made a good record. He is entitled to have the charges against him examined by a judge and jury, so that all the facts may be known. Whether Beavers’ attitude is right in putting an end to the segregated district is not an issue. The law does not permit any choice' in the matter. The law does not sanction a segre gated district for the barter and sale of human beings and for the enrichment of a few ringsters. It is not improbable that a little more liberality in some of the laws would be a good thing for the city and all concerned. But the way to get that liberality is to change the present statutes. Beavers has no alternative but to enforce the law as he sees it, and he has no alternative but to compel those who accuse his department to go into court and try the case there instead of in the colunyis of the newspapers. STAND BY BEAVERS AND THE LAW! turned up the first clews of any merit. AND YOU KNOW IT. and should be ashamed of that crowd down there to allow the members of the Fourth Estate to put one over on you; hut vou know news paper men have brains, and brains are required to make de tectives Now vollev <>rth again your promulgation of purity and tel! the people of this great city what large men you are and how you protect the eltize. ry of this great Commonwealth. If you haven't th** addresses of the houses to which 1 refer, call i<t my office within three days and 1 will give you a bunch of them. Friends of mine have advised me against printing this card. Some have feared for my life - hut afraid of you and your crowd? Never 1 am not afraid LOW SUMMER RATES CHICAGO . . $30 CINCINNATI . . $19.50 LOUISVILLE $18 INDIANAPOLIS $22.80 KNOXVILLE $7.90 CORRESPONDING RATES TO MANY OTHER POINTS Tickets on Sale Daily-Good Returning October 31 Best Service to North and Northwest Ly. Atlanta 7:12 A. M. and 5:10 P. M, Daily Through Sleeping and Dining Cars CITY TICKET OFFICE 4 PEACHTREE STREET of anything thAt lays down its firearms and comes at me like a man in fair play. Now. "lay on. MacDuff. and damn'd be him who •first cries. ‘Hold! Knough!’" UAR1, HUTCHESON Atlanta, Ga„ May 27, 1913. Gamblers’ Plot, Declares Lanford. Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford gave out a sensational state ment^ Tuesday morning in which he charged that the efforts to fix accusa tione of bribery and malfeasance upon him were inspired by a "gambling ring," of which C. C. Jones was ihe head. The cause of the fight against Lan ford had been something of a mys tery. Beavers readily explained th? efforts to dispossess him from the of fice of Chief of Police by his war on vice in the city of Atlanta. LanfordV explanation reveals another angle of the crusade against a wide-open town "The gambling ring has been after me ever since I was made head of the detective department ten years ago," said Chief Lanford "No more had 1 declared relentless warfare upon all forms of gambling in the city than 1 : was notified that the gambling inier- ; ests were out to get' me. Severa* I times it was reported to me that I i had been marked for an attack, and once the gamblers succeeded in carry ing out their threats. That was five years ago. 1 was reduced from sergeant, which was th? designation of the hea.d of the depart ment then, to service in the ranks. The gamble! 8 were responsible for it. They gloated for nine months Then II was raised to my former position (again, with the title of chief. Since then 1 have continued my campaign ! against them. "They have been very bitter. They j have threatened me time and again. Now tney have brought these charges | against me." Col. Felder Still Probing In the Phagan Case. In the news columns of The Geor- I gian yesterday it was said that |* , olone! Felder had been eliminated j from the Ffiiagan case. Colonel Fel der says this is not true, rhat he is •is deeplj interested in solving the J mystery as ever, and that he is lend- |ing every energy in that direction. Tht further statement in The Geor- Union Musicians Have Celebration One hundred and fifty members of Atlanta Local No. 148, American Fed eration of Musicians, celebrated the twelfth anniversary of the organiza tion of their local at Turn Verein Hall last night. Many women are active members of the organization. A supper was served and a large orchestra, composed of the members present, entertained. A cornet solo by K. M. Coleman and vocal selections by Miss Sadie Percival. who was accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Mongen F. Smith, were enjoyed. Remarks by Carl Karston. of Local No. 148; S. H. Brady , president of the Atlanta Federation of Trades; \Y. C. Puckett, third vice president of the Georgia State Federation; William Strauss, State organizer, and H. G. Wood, vice president of the Atlanta lgcal. were heard. The Sunday American goes every where all over the South. If you have anything to sell The Sunday Amer ican is "The Market Place of the South." The Sunday American is the best advertising medium. gian that Colonel Felder was be lieved at one time to be interested in ♦he defense of Frank was not in tended to reflect in any way upon the lawyer. It was simply the gos sip of the street, given for what it wiis worth. Colonel Felder’s own statement that he is working sole ly for the public good makes his po sition perfectly clear, and everybody in the city will hope that he will continue actively in the case until the great mystery is disposed of. White City Park Now Open / Water Fashionable Beverage in London Special Cable to TtTe Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, May 27.—Champagne now takes a back seat in London, and ^claret, moselle and whisky an i soda are tiie drinks of the moment. But temperance is a current craze. Barley water in special "brews" may’ be found at the Carlton and Bach elors' Clubs. . few smart men drink plain coi(f water, among others Sir Arthur Walsh and Lord Charles Beresford. The King has cider laid down In hi? cellar, and among cider drinkers are the Duke and Duchess of Teck. th ' Duchess of Leeds, Lord Knollys ana Lord Mount Stephen. Beer is seldom seen at dinner or luncheon, but Iced lager beer Is popular at balls and la.e parties. SLEEPING CAR SERVICE TO TOXAWAY ANNOUNCED Daily sleeping car service between Atlanta and Lake Toxaway for .the summer Reason will be established June 22 by the Southern Railw ay. The | Macon-Atlanta-Asheville sleeping car will be handled on a new train from Spartanburg, arriving at Asheville at 7 o’clock a. .n. Six Thousand Cars of Luscious Product to Pass Through Atlanta on Way North, Men and women of Atlanta, we have with us to-night our old friend. Mr. Watermelon. Just from Florida, dressed in the old-time mottled and variegated garb, flesh pinker than perfection, blood redder and juicier than ever, hanker ing to be split. He has arrived from Florida to tell us there are plenty more where he came from—enough to last four weeks. And by that time the more numer ous branch of the family, the Geor gia watermelon, the most luscious of them all. will arrive in full flush of glory. The Central of Georgia Railway has set apart 6,000 freight cars to trans port watermelons from the South northward. Every oar must pass through Atlanta, and prospects are that at least 1,500 of them will be halted on the way. Tnere’s a regular army of thirsty Georgians here, and it’s hard to run the gantlet. Commission merchants and trans portation officials have a joyful an- nounc ment tc make. The watermelon crop this year will be a bumper, one of the best ever in the State. Let the small boy rejoice and be gay of heart, for he shall be satisfied. And let the old boy come down off of his high pedestal of dignity and rejoice also, for the older he gets the bigger fool he is about the fragrant fruit of the vine. Six thousand freight cars will hold exactly 3.761.942 big watermelons and two small ones. That'll be enough to feed the country at large when the Georgia crop comes in. This year quality will be good and prices just right—high enough to suit the farmer and cheap enough to please the con sumer The season has already started. White City Park Now Open SOUTH GEORGIA FARMS, Dakota, Turner Co. Terms: 10 per cent cash, balance 1. 2, 3, 4, 5 years, 6 per cent. Il lustrated booklet FREE. Write to-day. Edwin P. Ans- ley, Realty Trust Bldg., At lanta, Ga. INCINNATI TWO FAST TRAINS Lv. 6:45 AM., 5:10 PM. DECLARES HE IS OPPOSED C. W. Tobie, chief criminal in vestigator for the Burns Detective Agency, formally withdrew from the Phflgan investigation Tuesday morn ing. The calling off of the Burns forces was announced by Dan P. Lehon, superintendent of the South ern branch, after Tobie had stated explicitly that he would not withdraw from the case. Colonel Thomas B. Felder, vfho brought the Burns detectives into the Phagan case, would make no state ment relative to their withdrawal, but announced that it did not mean the end of his investigation or connec tion with the case. Tobie made up his mind last Friday to drop the Mary Phagan investiga tion—so he said Tuesday—but de ferred action until Monday nigiu, when he announc ed his intention to withdraw to Solicitor General Dor sey. Disgusted With "Fuss.’* Acute disgust at the "four or five cornered fuss” raised by the Phagan investigation was assigned by Tobie as the cause. This disgust was su perinduced by the direct charge and general impression that the Burn* Agency was pretending to ferret out the Phagan case, when in reality .ts purpose in Atlanta was to investigate the police department. \ Tobie said to-day that while he had quit and was going to leave AtlanU. still the withdrawal of the Burns Arency need not be permanent. "If certain features of this case ar* not developed, then ther^ will be one, and maybe two. Burns men back here. I will send them here, but they will work in secret. There will be no more public investigation." Tobie explained he believed Leo M. Frank was guilty of the Phagan mur der and that the "certain features" meant additional clinching evidence not yet published that will make Frank's conviction certain. "How can any house have har mony," said Tobie, "whei. the old man is fighting the old woman, and the old woman is fighting the children, and they are all fighting the hirsd girl? That's the shape this affair has gotten into, only worse. "We came here to investigate this Phagan ca5*p. and for no other pur pose. But the charge was made that in reality we were investigating the police department. The way things were shaped up the police could not help believing that charge to be true. Colonel Felder’s attitude bore that out, so I decided last Friday to quit." "Do you mean, then, that you were dissatisfied at Colonel Felder’s atti tude'.*" w as astyed. "We were dissatisfied with that part of it, yes." was* Tobie s reply. Tobie Himself Through. Tobie reiterated he ended the Inves tigation himself. "I called myself off," he said. "Dan S. Lehon. our Southern superintendent, was close to Atlanta. It was as near for him to pass through here on his way back to New Orleans as it was for him to go any other way. I was in charge here, but, as* you know. I do not belong to this territory. As a pure formality and a matter of courtesy, and because I knew he was coming here to visit his uife’s relatives, I sent him a message inviting him to confer with me. When he got here I told him as a courtesy that I had decided to quit the case. He approved it. Had I told him I would continue, he would have approved that, too. "This is the worst mlx-up I ever saw anywhere, at any time. It’s aw ful. Everybody is fighting everybody else, and 1 am through with this four or five cornered fracas, except that if more Burns men are sent here I shal* send them here and they will report to me." Bribery Charges Denied. Rumored attempts to bribe w;:- nesse* were given strong denial it; many circles, particularly by those whose names were connected by ru mor with the alleged bribery attempts C. C. Sears, superintendent of the Atlanta branch of the Burn' detect ive agency communicated to Chief of Detectives Lanford the announcement of the withdrawal of the Burn? forces from the Phagan case. Chief Lanford authorized the fol lowing statement on the departure of Tobie: “Tobie. I believe, is straight and honest. He was victimized by Felder. I am convinced Mr. Tobie was work ing toward the interest of those seen. Ing to clear the mystery." Praises Superintendent. A girl employee of the pencil fac tory has w’ritten the following state ment, which upholds the working conditions of the factory and cham-' pions the character of the imprisoned superintendent: "Nothing has ever been said of the girls of the pencil factory until after the terrible murder, but since then there has been one continuous talk, just as if we were to blame. We are just as anxious to see the guilty pun ished as the rest of the public, and we all loved Mary Phagan Just a* much as we possibly could. "If the public only would interest itself to look into other factories and stores they would find the girls in the pencil factory are just as good as any other working girls. "It looks mighty hard that we have to work in the place where our little friend was so horribly murdered. But we are only poor working girl®, try ing to make an honest living, and we try not to think of the tragedy any more than possible: and we have the interest of the factory too much at heart to desert in times of trouble. "We all hope and pray the guilty will be punished and the innocent given freedom, for we all think our superintendent has a soul himself and that he would not think of such a thing, much less commit such a hor rible crime." Swallows Poison as Walker Did; Saved ORLANDO. FLA.. May 27.—That bichloride of mercury is not always? fatal was* demonstrated here when £. ' Walters Howe, cashier of the Statp National Bank, swallowed a tablet, mistaking it for a headache dose. As the tablet passed down his throat it contracted the muscles so violently that he discovered his mistake and hurried to the city physician, who a once used the stomach pump and gave antidotes. Howe has experienced no harm. ‘WITHIN THE LAW’ IN LONDON LONDON, May 27.—"Within the Law" is running at the Hayrnarket Theater and gives promise of estab lishing a record. YOUR NERVES NEED Hersford'i Acid Phosphate Especially recommended for physical and men tal exhaust on, nervousness and Insomnia. Adv We have Beautiful Bedding Plants 3c each. Atlanta Floral Co., 555 E. Fair Street. Tuesday i Wednesday Kingan's Sliced Bacon, Package, 31c 104. Pail Pure Lard - - $1.19 Van Camp’s fil r Soup V2C Dry Salt 4*)L Meat i^2V •5° c ffQ r |. Broom “ 1913 Honey, 4 in sections • “2C Pure Coffee, C the 25c kind Pure Mocha and o ol, Java Coffee 33jc 10c Can Velva and Aerio Syrup 24-lbs. Self- "JCZg* Rising Flour ■ "C 24 ills. Gold Medal Flour - - 87c WYATT’S C. 0. D. 73 South Pryor St. Atlanta Phone 947 Bell Main 4926