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EDITION
VOL. I. NO. 19.
Copyright, 1913, by
The Georgian Company.
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1913.
OIL LETTERS
KILLED
POLITICALLY,
FI
Exposes by William Randolph
Hearst Responsible for Down
fall, Declares Former Senator
Before Senate Lobby Inquiry.
Folly of Suffrage
Shown by Dresses,
Says Mrs. Marshall
Vice President's Wife Believes Wom
en Can Do»More Good Cor
recting Cabarets.
Official of National Manufactur
ers’ Association Writes Demo
cratic Simplicity Will Mean
Union Label on U.S. Stationery.
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—Slashed skirts
with the silhouette gown and other
freaks of modern fashion are the worst
enemies of the newly made voters of
Illinois, and the cabaret and the tur
key trot are more in need of reform
than Chicago’s First Ward, in the opin
ion of Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, wife
of the Vice President, who was in Chi
cago with her husband.
Mrs. Marshall declared frankly that
she was opposed to the municipal power
recently granted to the women of Illi
nois. Mrs. Marshall said:
"I have never been a suffragist. To
me the fashions of to-day ought to con
vince any one that a woman is not fit
to vote. Some women’s dress is not
only extreme, It is objectionable. A
womafi would do more good by cor
recting the dances In our cafes and
cabarets than in running for office.
“The women In the East are not
strongly in favor of the ballot, and none
of the Cabinet women seems to fa
vor It, with the exception, perhaps, of
the President’s daughter. Miss Jessie
Wilson.’’
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Former
Senator Foraker admitted to the
Senate Lobby Committee to-day pub
lication by William Randolph Hearst
of the famous Standard Oil letters
killed Foraker’s chances for re-elec
tion to the Senate in 1908.
After identifying a letter received
from Martin M. Mitchell, the con
fessed ex-lobbyist, making a report
of political activities in Ohio in For
aker’s behalf, the former Senator
said:
“It was the morning of the day Mr.
Hearst’s disclosure was made public.
An attack had been made on me oy
Mr. Hearst which destroyed my
chances of election, saying I had
acted as counsel for the Standard Oil
Company. This had created a senti
ment in our State very prejudicial to I
me. I continued as a candidate in the 1
campaign only because to retire from
it after I had become a candidate (
would look like an admission that |
there was some justification for the
attack, whereas there waa not any.”
Senator Foraker said Muhall, whom
he had known thirty years, greatly
overestimated his own importance.
No Aid hrom N. A. M.
Foraker said he had never received
aid from the National Association of
Manufacturers and while he received
a fee of $500 for the part he played
in the sale of the Union Pacific Rail
road in 1896, he was not in the em
ploy of either David Lamar or Ed -
ward Lauterbach in an injunction
case against f Union Pacific in
1903.
The House Investigating Commit
tee opened its probe with introduction
of correspondence showing the activi
ties of the National Association of
Manufacturers in fighting labor legis
lation in Congress and various at
tempts to have “conservative" men
named as members of House commit
tees.
Discussing the recent sundry civil
bill, with its provision prohibiting the
expenditure of certain funds for the
prosecution of farmers and labor
urtlor.s under the Sherman law. James
A. Emery, counsel of the N. A. M.,
wrote to President John Kirby, Jr.,
of the association, on March 7, 1913,
‘after President Taft had vetoed the
bill:
“I want to emphasize as hard as I
can the importance of lining up for
a tremendous demonstration when
this bill reaches President Wilson, as
it undoubtedly will, with the same
provision in }t. You will then have
an early opportunity to decide wheth
er the glittering Democratic motto,
'Equal right for all and special
privilege for none,’ means anything
or whether the Administration has
surrendered completely or will merely
turn over the Department of Labor.
Objection to Secretary Wilson.
“I note, by the way, your reference
to a letter from C W. Post on the
question of a protest over the ap
pointment of Wilson (Secretary of
Labor). A protest on this subject
is a mere waste of breath, and on
the whole I am inclined to think
the whole purpose of this depart
ment will be shown up quicker with
the unions in control of it than in
any other way. Gompers will run it
characteristically with a high hand,
and if the whole thing does not smeil
to Heaven within a year I shall be
very much astonished.
“By that time Democrats simplic
ity will probably mean a union label
on the White House stationery and
the President conferring with the
Waiters' Union over the appointment
of his steward. At present we havs
nothing more startling in Jeffersonian
simplicity than the news Mrs. Brytn
is making a new suit for the Secre
tary of State, and cakes and ginger
ale will be served at the dinner for
the B ritish Ambassador. Toothoicks
will, of course, be an after dinner
course at all Cabinet receptions, and
the demand for dress suits will be
confined to waiters in the hotels.”
In this same letter Emery advised
Kirby, “if you have any idea '"’aft
would have vetoed this bill of his own
motion, get over It. A list of public*
men who had ‘pie’ in this $113,000,000
appropriation bill included many
prominent men in both Houses.”
Manuel Pawns His
Father’s Decorations
Former King of Portugal Unable to
Struggle Along on Income
of $100,000 a Year.
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SAYS TABLET
New Version of Genesis Found in
University of Pennsylvania
Nippur Collection.
DATE IS FIXED AT 2100 B.
Dr. Arno Poebel’s Discovery Is
Regarded as Oldest Story
of Origin of World.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—Despite his allow
ance of $50,000 a year from King George
and at least that sum from private
sources, it is learned that former King
Manuel, of Portugal, has been forced to
pawn the decorations once belonging to
his father. One of these decorations, a
diamond cross with a large sapphire in
the center, is still in the hands of a
pawnbroker near Richmond, where
Manuel is now staying with his mother,
Queen Amelle.
The fortunes of the dethroned mon
arch will be recouped by his approach
ing marriage. It is known that he is
very extravagant and his mother is none
too practical.
The German Emperor has settled the
puzzling question of how to treat the
exiled monarch’s marriage to a German
princess. He will allow Prince Eitel
Frederick to attend as a special guest,
but not as his personal representative.
Slit Skirts Furnish
Mosquito Clan With
Choicest Barbecue
Callie Hoke Smith
Capital Debutante
Make-up of First Democratic “Bud
Bouquet" Puzzles Washington’s
Younger Set.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The make
up of Washington first Democratic
debutante bouquet is the question that
is agitating the younger set. It is con
fidently expected that Miss Genevieve
Champ Clark, daughter of the Speaker,
will be one of the buds, and Miss Fran
ces Moore, the daughter of Clarence R
Moore, one of the Titanlo heroes, an
other.
Resident society will furnish two at
tractive debutantes, who are not only
socially prominent, but from Democratic
families as well. They are Miss Mar
garet Britton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander Britton and Miss Beatrice
ClovA*. the youngest daughter of Rear
Admiral Clover.
A debutante from the Congressional
set will be Miss Callie Hoke Smith,
daughter of Senator Hoke Smith, of
Georgia. Other Congressional buds are
the Misses Weaver, Church and Duval.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst
Y. W. C. A. Benefactor
Dedicates Camp at Pacific Grove,
Cal., Which Her Generosity
Made Possible.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 9.—It was
a woman who created mankind, ac
cording to a tablet 4,000 years old
Just deciphered at the Pennsylvania
University Museum by Dr. Arno
Poebel, who is at work translating
the tablets dug up in Nippur some
years ago by the museum expedi
tions.
About 37 years ago George Smith,
the English ccholar and explorer,
brought back from Babylonia the
cylinders which gave a Babylonian
account of the origin of mankind and
much of his early history, and these
not only excited great interest but had
a profound effect upon the the6logical
teachings. The parallelism between
the Babylonian story and that of
Genesis developed a new school in
theological criticism. But the cyl
inders of Smith only dated back to
the reign of Assurbanlpal in the
eeventh century B. C. The university
museum tablet dates back possibly
to 2500 B. C., and it is reasonably
certain to be no later than the reign
of Hamurabi. abou^ 2100 B. C.
Female Deity Created Man.
The new account of the creation
and the flood throw’s much new light
on the early ideas of the Babylonians
and Sumerians.
The striking' novel features of the
new’ tablet are these:
That it was a female deity w’ho
created mankind, known as “the
blackheaded,” from the color of the
hair.
That new deities or new character
istics of the gods are discovered in
the original document, although they
have been hinted at in other ways.
The character of the female goddess
is now made important from the ear
liest times and equal with the two
male ruler gods. Later tablets speak
of these as unimportant.
That the first seven prediluvian
cities and the special god of each are
discovered.
That the older Babylonian name of
the Scriptural Noah is Zingidda.
That deluge ruins of the predelu-
vian cities were not afl destroyed,
some not until historic times. Ttrsre
is historic basis to much of the state
ment in this epic.
Opens With Poem.
Dr. Poebel has prepared a careful
Not a move
escapes this
man’s restless
eyes, though
his face
is calm.
Trainload of Winsome Stenographers
and Milliners Have to Tramp
Through Stegomyla Belt.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9 —“All those in
favor of slit skirts, please stand up.”
Millions of full grow’n mosquitoes and
three or four little fellers were rushing
wildly out of their apartment houses
on he Flushing Meadows, about 7
o’clock last night, and took part in the
most rollicking barbacue ever held in
the East.
Right in the middle of the salt grass
waste were five cars of a Long Island
Railroad train, stalled. The lights were
out, men were running up and down
shouting orders and Hushing was two
miles away. After the train had stood
for a few minutes, out of the passenger
cars poured the choicest morsels of hu
manity that Mr. and Mrs. Culex Pun-
gens and the little Pungenses ever saw.
There were stenographers, typewriters,
cashiers, millinery attaches and buxom
matrons. Slit skirts were numerous.
In an endless procession the five hun
dred and more suburbanites trailed over
the ties toward Hushing. There is
some style in the mosquito belt and
every member of the family seemed to
know at once which of the passengers
was dressed a la mode. The squeals
and slaps of the fair ones as they tried
to stop the onslaught sounded like a
tattoo.
The procession lasted for more than
two hours and when the last stenog
rapher reached home a unanimous vote
was taken declaring the mosquito a
pest. Of course, there were some men
along, but what self-respecting mosquito
would bother with them at such a
time?
NEGRO FIRM IN ACCUSING FRANK
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He Describes Slaying of Mary Phagan
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Defense Begins Its Battle for Lite
Leo Frank
in his
seat in
the court
room where
he is
fighting
for life.
DEL MONTE, CAL., Aug. 9 — Asllo-
mar, the splendid new conference
grounds of the California, Arizona and
Nevada Young Women’s Christian As
sociation, which occupies 30 acres of
ground on the ocean shore near Pa
cific Grove, was formally dedicated
with a beautiful ceremony, including a
pageant of 400 girls, typifying associa
tion work.
Mrs Phoebe Hearst, of San Francisco,
whose generous assistance last year and
this did much to make a permanent
camp possible, gave the dedicatory ad
dress and gave the conference grounds
the name of Asilomar, which means “re
treat.”
‘Uncle Joe' Shocks
Staid ‘Down Easters’
Inquires if John Quincy Adams
Were Sport, Then Changes
the Subject.
QUITMAN, MASS., Aug. 9.—Uncle Joe
Cannon, former Speaker of the House of
Representatives, who is a visitor here,
shocked the natives by casually inquir
ing if “one of these immortals had not
been somewhat of a sport.”
He referred to John Quincy Adams,
but the shocked expressions and uplift
ed hands showed him at once that he
was treading on dangerous ground,
whereat Mr. Cannon quickly changed the
subject.
Reporters on local newspapers tried in
vain to g p t Unde Joe's opinion of pres
ent day politics.
Although Conley Admits Some Lying
He Sticks to the Main Story Under
Terrific Cross-Examination—Heat
Causes Suffering in the Court.
The prisoner
is shown
in the
unconcerned
attitude he
assumes
most of the
time.
literal translation of the tablet. It
originally was about seven inches
square, but on such a surface the
ancients could w’rite in Ideographic
signs a long epic poem, and that Is
w’hat this table contained. Like the
first chapter of Genesis, the story
opens with a great poem on the origin
of the heavens as well as of the earth.
It appears that Nintu. a female god,
created mankind, and she is found
lamenting that the other gods seem
bent on the destruction of her sub
jects. She speaks of the human be
ings as “my creations.” It appears
that Anu and Enlll were the chief
gods of pow’er, although they were
among seven of equal rank, the first
being god of heaven and the second
god of earth. Then comes the story
of the creation:
“Nintu created the blackheaded,”
(human race.) • • • “The fields
of the ground produced abundance,
the cattle and the four-legged beasts
of the field artfully they (the gods)
called into existence.”
ADMITS HE’S DECENT IN
ANSWERING MARRIAGE AD
YONKERS, Aug. 9.—Reginald P.
Shennan, editor of The Rye Courier, al
ready has received one reply to the ad
vertisement inserted in his paper by a
“gentlewoman with large tract of land
not far from Port Chester,” who is seek
ing “an unselfish, decent, self-support
ing man for a husband.”
He turned the letter over to the ad
vertiser, whose identity is being guard
ed carefully. ..The letter bore a Brook
lyn postmark.
AUTOS EMPTY CHURCHES,
SAY COUNTRY PREACHERS
MANHATAN, KANS., Aug. 9.—
The dwindling of the congregations ot
country churches, due to the new era
of automobiles, w’hich makes it easy
for the rural residents to attend serv
ices in nearby towns and cities, will
be discussed at the Conference ot
Rural Leaders. July 21 to 25, at the
Kansas Agricultural College. Mem
bers of the organization declare that
Kansas now has about 1,200 aban
doned churches in the farming dis
tricts.
Jack London Puts
Joke on His Appendix
Novelist Tells the Latest on Former
Part of Himself and
What’s Left.
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 9.—Here is
the latest Joke Jack London, the fa
mous author, is telling on himself:
London was* operated on recently
for appendicitis. After the ordeal
the surgeon held up the severed ap
pendix in his fingers for the patient
to see. The author looked at it
thoughtfully then grinned and said:
“It was a case of all alone in Lon
don, wasn’t, it. doc?”
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By TARLETON COLLIER.
Leo Frank’s lawyers, beginning their fight in his defense, di
rected their case into an attack on the testimony of the State’s wit
nesses. Most of the testimony they produced was in contradiction
to tiie circumstantial evidence brought to bear by the prosecution,
and in denial of many statements already made.
The State practically closed its case with the evidence of Jim
Conley, the negro sweeper, who declared that he helped Frank
dispose of the body of Mary Phagan, the girl whom he swore
Frank killed. The testimony of the few State witnesses who fol
lowed the negro was much of an
anti-climax, coming as it did
after a story that was thrilling;
in the extreme.
C. B. Dalton, who said he had
been with Frank in several esca
pades in which girls were con
cerned, and Dr. II. F. Harris, of
the State Board of Health, who
testified as to the, condition of
Mary Phagan’s body, were the
important witnesses who fol-
owed Conley for the State.
Negro Endures Ordeal.
But Conley’s - testimony em
bodied the prosecution’s
strength. The negro, a man of
the most common African type,
burly, thick-lipped, anthropoi-
dal, sat for three days in the wit
nessed chair, and endured the
most exacting ordeal ever forced
upon a witness in a court of law.
The cross-examination of Luther
Rosser and Reuben Arnold, law
yers for the defense, was sav
age and pitilesa at times. The
negro, in spite of an apparent
lack of intelligence and brain-
force, showed the strain. He sat
unmoved of body, but perspira
tion beaded his face. The ex
amination told on him.
But he stuck persistently to
the main part of his story.
Coolly, calmly, almost nonchal
antly, he admitted that he had
lied time and again in his testi
mony, that he had not told tha
truth in making affidavits dam
aging to Frank during the in-,
vestigations preliminary to the
trial. But his significant accu
sations against the white man,
his former “boss,” he maintain
ed were true.
Of his testimony that remain
ed unshaken when he finally wa»
discharged Wednesday after
noon, these facts were promi
nent:
On the morning of April 26, at Frank’s behest, he had
taken his station at the door of the National Pencil Company
building, to watch.
Frank was upstairs in his office, at the front of the build
ing.
Mary Phagan entered at his door and went upstairs.
He heard footsteps as if someone walked from the front of
the building to the rear, upstairs.
Soon after he was summoned by Frank, who told him that
a girl was hurt.
He found Mary Phagan in the lathe room, at the rear of
the building, dead.
Together he and Frank bore the body to the cellar.
With numerous details the negro embellished this story. Time
and again Luther Rosser forced the negro to admit that he had
lied about this fact or that, but, although coaxed and browbeaten,
the negro maintained steadfastly his main charge against Frank.
Words Have Dramatic Force.
He repeated it persistently, with the appearance of earnest
ness that is common to the ignorant members of his race. He talk
ed and gesticulated in a manner to show that he was indeed illit
erate and ignorant. But in the very simplicity of his words and
manner there was a dramatic force, particularly when he was
telling his story under the direction of the Solicitor General.
“I wrapped up her body like a bundle of dirty clothes,” he
said. It was one of many of his statements that, told with simple
directness, thrilled those that heard.
The prosecution allowed him to tell his §tojy unchecked. But
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