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T7TE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
HUERTA DEFIES U.S.
Cabinet Official
Who Aided Trust
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 1.—"M«*xicS
owes nothing to the United State*
and doe* not propose to he under ob
ligation* to that country."
This declaration was made to-day
to representatives of foreign financial
group* by President Huerta in ex
plaining why Foreign Minister Gam
boa had assumed such a defiant tone
in answering the two notes of Special
Envoy Lind.
The places of Americans are being
tilled by Europeans. Representatives
otf continental mercantile concern* are
showing great activity in getting gov
ernment contracts.
Agents representing European
bankers are holding daily conferences
with Huerta relative to a pacification
Joan. It is believed Huerta will grant
valuable railway concessions in re
turn.
The Mexican President indicates he
is preparing an important statement
of intentions. This may be the dec
laration that Mexico will not recog
nise any American Indemnity claims.
Advisers of Huerta declare there is
no chance of his giving way to the
proposals of President Wilson
Huerta Expected to
Invoke Old Treaty.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—An old
treaty, which has lain In disuse for
66 year*, probably will be invoked by
the Mexican Government In the pres
ent controversy between President
Huerta and the United States.
The covenant, known as the Gua-
dalupe-Hidulgo treaty of 1848, pro
vides that, in the event of disagree
ment between the contracting parties,
commissioner* should he appointed to
arbitrate. Mexico will make such a
demand, it was learned from an au
thoritative source to-day.
This is the first occasion for re
course to the treaty, and through the
obscurity surrounding the instrument
officials in the State Department for
got. if they ever knew, that such a
treuty exi*ted.
Text of Main Clauses.
The following clauses are taken
from the treaty:
Article 21. If unhappily any dis-
*V"T" * hereafter arise be
tween the Governments of the two
republics, * • * the said Gov
ernments • * * do promise that
they will endeavor • • * to settle
the differences so arising, and to pre
serve the state of peace * • * using
for this end mutual representa
tions and pacific negotiations.
And if, by these means, they should
not be enabled to come to any agree
ment, & resort shall not on this ac
count be had to reprisals • • •
until the Government of that which
deems itself aggrieved shall have ma
twrely considered • • * whether
tt would not be better that such dif
ference should be settled by the ar
bitration of commissioners appointed
on each side or that of a friendly na
tion.
And should such course be propos
ed by cither party, it shall be acceded
to by the other unless deemed by it
altogether incompatible with the na
ture of the difference or the circum
stances of the case.
Rules in Case of War.
Article 22. If • • • war should
unhappily break out between the two
republics they do • • • pledge
themselves * • • to observe the
following rules • * •
1. The merchants of either repub
lic then residing in the other shall be
allowed to remain twelve months (for
those dwelling in t v ~ *"* • ' ind six
months (for those dwelling at the sea
ports) to collect and settle their af
fairs; * • * shall have full liberty
to depart, carrying off all their ef
fects • • •
Upon the entrance of the armies of
Ng^ther nation into the territory of the
otfixr. women and children, ecclesi-
asts, teachers, cultivators of the
earth, merchants, artisans, manufac
turers and fishermen unarmed and
inhabiting unfortified towns • • •
in general, all persons whose occu
pations are for common subsistence
* • • shall be allowed to continue
their respective employment • • *.
Nor shall their goods • * * he de
stroyed * * •; but if the necessity
arises to take anything from them foi
the use of such armed force, the same
shall be paid for at an equitable price.
All churches, hospitals, schools, col
leges, libraries and other establish
ments for charitable and beneficent
purposes shall be resnected, and all
persons connected with the same pro
tected • * *
Treatment of Prisoners.
2. * * * all such practice* as
those of sending them (prisoners of
war) into distant, inclement or un
wholesome c'.tricts or crowding them
into close and noxious places shall be
studiously avoided. They shall not
be confined In dungeons, prison ships
or prisons; nor be put in irons or
bound or otherwise, restrained in the
use of their limbs.
The officers shall enjoy liberty on
their paroles • • • and common
soldiers shall be disposed in c anton-
men's * * *
The value of all which supplies
(furnished prisoners) shall * * *
be paid by the other party, on a mu
tual adjustment of accounts for the
subsistence of prisoners * • *
And it i* declared that neither the
pretense that war dissolve* all trea
ties nor any other whatever shall be
considered as annulling or suspend
ing the solemn covenant conveyed in
this article. ♦ • ♦
rams OIL WORKERS REST
TRUST'S IE, TO CELEBRATE
• a* »*«*'
.JAMESC. McREYNOLDS
Lind to Take Side
Trip, Awaiting Orders.
VERA CRUZ, MEXICO, Sept. 1.—
Unless he receives orders from Wash
ington which would interfere with his
plans. Special Envoy John Lind will
leave here to-morrow for Terra Blan
ca to visit S. M. Emery, of Minneap
olis, who is manager of a sugar plan
tation owned by the Companies Azu-
caeraray Mercantile de Vista Her-
mosa. He will be accompanied by
Louis Danton, counselor of the Unit
ed Htates Embassy in Mexico.
It is not believed Mr. Lind will re
ceive any definite orders before Wed
nesday when Dr, William Bayard Hale
is expected to lay important informa
tion before President Wilson and Set’-
r«uu-y Bryan.
THE PLAY
THIS WEEK
Seven Good Acts at the Forsyth.
Tjabor Day week at the Forsyth is
going to be an event in the opening
of the new theatrical Henson. The man
agement ha-H gathered seven of tho most
representative acts in the Keith circuit,
and collectively the bill should prove one
of the most entertaining that has yet
attracted capacity testing gathering*
to the busy theater.
The atar offering will be "The New
leader,” presented by 8arn Mann and
his company. This is a story , of stage
life. It deals with actual and supposed
happenings at a vaudeville theater at
the Monday morning rehearsals. Mr.
Mann will be the leader of the orches
tra. his company will appear as stage
hands and performers, and an interest
ing story is told.
A comedy feature will be "Flinders’
Furnished Flat," the funniest farce in
vaudeville, again introducing Willard
Simms, one of the star comedians of
the theatrical profession. There are
other fine features.
This morning at 9 o’clock the treatri-
cal season was formally opened when
the doors of the Atlanta Theater were
thrown open and the sale* of seats
began for Wednesday night’s first per
formance of "Mary’s Lamb." This mu
sical comedy wift play at the Atlanta
Wednesday and Thursday mgnts with
a matinee Thursday, the opening being
two weeks in advance of that in pre
vious seasons.
The force at the Atlanta is practi
cally unchanged. Richard Arrowood is
again treasurer, with J. R MacKach-
ron, Jr., as his assistant. Dan Webster
has charge of all advertising, other
than the newspapers: while the stage
crew is that of last season, with Howard
Norman in charge; A. V. Ryinski, elec
trician, and Cliff (Sill property man. The
house is under the management of Ho
mer O. George, who represents Klaw
A Krlanger and their syndicate part
ners.
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The Lyric Reopens.
The Lyric Theater reopens for the
season to-day. after being dark all sum-
, mer. with Miss Emma Bunting and her
i company as the attraction. It is said
that Miss Burning hs» appeared in At-
'lama in at hast ft v „ hundred per-
I 'orownce*. and the advance sale of seats
indicates that there has been no dlminu-
, tion of her popularity with Atlanta nl.v
h'eers The plat which the liule ac'ulL
offers this week is a comedv m ( . i
acts called -The Circus GW" Ge‘r«
M hitaker. the leading man, also has ; * ’
agreeable role. The character in ■ M
Girouk Girl’ which Miss Bunting * #
portray gives her an opportunity to wear
some striking now costumes.
At the Bijou.
| The second week of the Jewell Kelley i
j Company’s engagement will begin this
j atternoon at the Bijou, presenting the
} very interesting comedy drama. "The
I Man frojn the West." This play is in
four acts, the first representing Matthew
Lawton’s drawing room, the second a
garret in New York Citv. the third
Matthew Lawton’s office, and the fourth
Matthew Lawton’s drawing room. The
story of "The Man from tin West" has
j to do with an attempt of Matthew
j Lawton’s enemies to ruin him b\ de
preciating the stock of the San Diablo
(mine, which is owned b\ .Matthew Law-
I ton. Brilliant scenic effec ts will give
j the production a metropolitan air and
| every detail of the staging will be care
fully carrlefl out.
General J. P. Graves
Nears 96th Birthday;
Friends Honor Him
General James Porterfield Graves,
who for some time has been making
his home with John Temple Graves
ln New York, but is at present with
Major Hal T. Graves in Washington,
will celebrate his ninety-sixth birth
day Wednesday.
, A host of Atlanta friends are ex
pressing good wishes in a postal
shower for General Graves, one of
the South's best known men and an
inspiring type of a rapidly fading
generation. The general’s present ad
dress is Bureau of Pensions, Wash
ington, D. C\, Major Graves being in
the Government service. Friends have
been urged to Join in the testimonial.
Hymns for Cabarets
Idea of George Ade
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—George Ade
has returned from Europe with im
pressions of folks ln foreign places.
He said he found a beer garden in
Berlin where the waiters distributed
to patrons hymn books—at least, they
looked like hymn books—filled with
German songs. When a number was
put up on the stage the patron* found
the corresponding number in the
book, the orchestra played and every
body solemnly sang the piece,
Ade says he doe* not know what
the songs were, but they sounded like
hymns to him, and that the spirit be
hind the anthem* certainly reminded
him of the good old days out in In
diana when lie joined in the singing
in the meeting house near the old
farm.
Slaton Party Visits
Wyoming Governor
Governor John M. Slaton and party,
consisting of Mrs. Slaton, Colonel
Paxon and Mrs. Paxon, spent Sunday
and Monday In Cheyenne, Wyo., the
guests of Governor Carey, according
to a dispatch received by Major Har
dy Ulm, the Governor’s secretary,
Monday morning. The party will
leave Cheyenne Monday evening
probably and will reach Atlanta Wed
nesday.
Governor Slaton’s visit to Governor
Carey of Wyoming was the result < f
a warm friendship which began dur
ing the early sessions of the Govern
ors’ Conference at Colorado Springs.
Pope Joins Fight on
Dread White Plague
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Sept. 1.—The Vatican Is the
latest agency to be enlisted in the
universal war against the white
plague. Pope Pius X to-day ordered
that all persons in Italian convents
afflicted with tuberculosis be sent at
once to the new sanitarium.
The Pope is also sending recom
mendations to all the bishops to have
hospitals for the treatment of con
sumption of the lungs built in their
bishoprics.
Jersey Setback for
Votes for Women
TRENTON. N. J., Sept. 1.
Woman suffrage in New Jersey has
received a setback of at least one
year through an opinion of Assistant
Attorney General GaskiU that the
failure to properly advertise the pro
posed changes in the State's constitu
tion renders impossible the ratifica
tion of suffrage by this winter's Leg
islature.
Crop Was 14,167,000
Bales, Hester Says
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 1.—Hester,
n his annual estimate, posted in the
windows of the closed Cotton Ex
change to-day. makes the commer
cial crop for 1912-1913 14,167,000 bales,
against ltj.i3S.000 for the preceding
year and against 14,090.863, the Gov
ernment estimate.
By States, the crop, according to
the secretary of the New Orleans Ex
changes. was;
Alabama 1,390.000
Arkansas 820.000
Florida 6&000
Georgia 1,920*00
Louisiana 39(v00
)klahoma 1.051*00
Mississippi l.etjlhgt
Mis
N
S, C
Texas
Tennessee, etc.
Total . . * . ,
TaOOO
1.2ft 1,000
ft,82f
371000
, .14,161000
United States Attorney General
Says He Advised Corporation
How to Evade Law.
NEW TORK. Sept. 1.—FoRewin*
the revelation that United States At
torney General McReynolds had been
counsel to the National Fuel Gas
Company, a Standard Oil concern, in
a scheme to circumvent the “seven
sisters” act of the Sherman anti
trust law, the New York Press to-day
prints the following
Washington, Aug. 31.—That
Janies C. McReynolds soon will
resign as Attorney General of the
United States was a positive
statement made to-day to the
correspondent of the Press by a
Senator to whom McReynolds ex-
presHed this intention.
Although he feels he has been
subjected to unjust criticism, said
McReynolds to this Senator, he
also believes hf* presence in the
Cabinet is a handicap to Presi
dent Wilson’s administration and
he Intends to retire from his of
fice.
“It is too much for me,” said
McReynolds to his visitor, “and
I feel that I must retire.”
Says He Has Been “Goat.”
As he further explained his po
sition he ha* been worried by
criticism of his conduct of the
Union Pacific-Southern Pacific
dissolution case, of the Dlggs-
Caminettl case, of several of his
recommendations for appoint
ments and for his advocacy of
certain pardons, to say nothing of
minor affairs.
^ He maintained he has been
right in every instance and he
resents being made the “goat” of
the administration.
Attorney General McReynolds stands
revealed afi counsel for the Standard
Oil. He admits that while employed by
the Government to break the iniquitous
Anthracite Coal Trust, and while
under consideration for the high of
fice he now holds, he advised the Na
tional Fuel (Jas Company how r to cir
cumvent the “Seven Sisters’’ Anti-
Trust law. This company is a $16,-
000,00 subsidiary of 26 Broadway.
More amazing still, the very law
that Mr. McReynolds was asked to
circumvent is one formulated by his
present chief, President Wilson, then
Governor of New Jersey. Its express
purpose Is to crush just such monop
olies as the National Fuel Gas Com
pany. *
In the company John Rockefeller
is chief stockholder. Ho owns 11,000
shares. William Rockefeller holds
3,195 shares; John D. Archbold, 1,275
shares.
Rogers Once at Head.
At one time its president was H.
H. Rogers. Walter Jennings, a di
rector in many Standard Oil subsid
iaries, is now president.
President Wilson has publicly stag
ed that he would be glad to see a Fed
eral statute similar to the “Seven
Sisters” act take the place of the
Sherman law.
From the beginning of its career,
in 1902, the National Gas Fuel Com
pany went into the business of gob
bling up gas companies in northern
and eastern Pennsylvania and in
northern New York State.
Independent oil men, such as Pierce,
of the Waters-Pierce Company, de
clare It has assumed such formidable
proportions as td completely control
business in its territory.
In fact, it had created such a mo
nopoly that it feared to face the
"Seven Sisters.” Then Mr. McRey
nolds was called into consultation.
When seen in Washington Mr. Mc
Reynolds said:
“1 do not recall going to the Stand
ard Oil Building, at 26 Broadway,
during the latter part of the winter
to confer with the officers of the com
pany, of which Mr. Walter Jennings
is president.
“It probably was the National Fuel
Gas Company. They wanted to know
what they could do and what they
could not do under the ‘Seven Sisters’
law.
Calls it “Muck-Raking.”
‘‘I am not sure whether the seven
bills which constitute this law had
been enacted or whether they were
still before the Legislature. It is suf
ficient to say the legislation had, in
the opinion of the officers of the com
pany, made It necessary to seek legal
advice as K> future operation.
“I was a practicing attorney at the
time and did not see any wrong in
giving legal advice where it was
asked.
"Just about this time I had been
employed by the Government in t!**
anthracite coal suits, but that had no
possible connection with the ques
tions presented to me or the New
Jersey law.
"I consider this only another effort
at muck-raking. For the life of me I
can not see how 1 can be criticised."
"Will you give any of the details of
the advice tendered Mr. Jennings and
his associates?” was asked.
“Further than that it related, as I
recall, tb the transfer of certain stock.
It would be unprofessional for me to
ta'k about v.hat took place at the con-
«’Tcnce.” replied the Atto nev General.
"!>< you Tx call who asked you to
confer with the officers of the com
pany ?”
"1 do not remember.”
"The conference did take place in
the Standard Oil Building at No. 26
Broadway?”
“Yes.” _
Annual Holiday Observed Quietly
Without Parade—Hundreds
Visit Parks and Picnics.
Labor I>ay la being celebrated in
Atlanta by a complete surcease from
labor by the men who earn their
bread by the toil of their hands—
as well as a host of others.
It Is a holiday, but quite different
from many Labor Days of Atlanta’s
history. No parade has served to
draw huge crowds to the principal
streets; no demonstrations of any
kind were planned. But labor is en
joying itself. Scores of picnics are
being held, while ball games, theaters
and amusement parks draw enormous
crowds.
For the first, time in fifteen years
Jerome Jones, Southern organizer for
the American Federation of Labor,
editor of The Journal of Labor and
president of the Southern Labor Con
gress, is not scheduled for a Labor
Day address, and instead of partlcl-
f jating in any labor demonstration he
a resting quietly at home. He has
been 111 for some time. Thousands of
other members of unions are also
making a quiet home day of it.
Many Picnics in Parka.
With the approach of fall but a few
weeks away, many of the workers
took advantage of the holiday to give
their last picnic of the season. Be
fore 10 o’clock Grant Park was alive
with a dozen picnic crowd*, and each
car was bringing more. Piedmont
Park, Lakewood, White City and the
other amusement places have bee.i
thronged with crowds a 11 day.
The morning game at Ponce De
Leon attracted a great crowd, while
the afternoon game is expected to
prove the record-breaker of the
Southern League. The determination
to show Birmingham up in baseball
attendance has caused thousands to
plan attending this game.
Crowds Throng to Lakes.
The cooling waters of Lake Clara
Mere at Piedmont Park proved at
tractive to a great throng all day.
At 5 a. m. a large crowd of early
morning bathers were .»ut while their
numbers continued to increase as the
hours grew. Out at Lakewood things
began to liven up at an early hour.
Many picnics were planned, many
locals having arranged for social
gatherings and a dance.
While all of the theaters have sold
out and the movies have done a rush
ing business all day, the downtown
section of the city has been compara
tively,quiet.
Suffragists in Parade.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Prosperity of
working people caused the Labor Day
parade to number less men and wom
en in its line than last year. Of the
25,000 persons in line nearly 5,000 were
women. As practically all the women
are suffragists, they took advantage
of the occasion to advertise the
“cause.” They carried banners with
such inscriptions as the following:
"Equal work, equal pay, equal say and
votes for women.”
Three thousand members of the
Women’s Trades Union marched In
white dresses and straw hats.
“Holy Day,” Says Gompers.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1—Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, to-day issued a
Labor Day proclamation, in which
he characterized the national holiday
as "a holy day,” consecrated to the
cause of labor.
President Plays Golf.
WINDSOR, VT., Sept. 1.—President
Wilson is observing Labor Day by
golfing on the links at Hanover. N. H.,
and by touring around the country
side.
Hundreds of people in thig vi
cinity alone have stopped the use
of dangerous calomel when their
liver is acting slowly, and take
Dodson's Liver Tone instead.
Dodson's Liver Tone is always
safe and has none of the bad aft'
er-effects w r hich so often follow the
use of calomel. It is a pleasant-
tasting vegetable liquid that starts
the liver gently and surely, and
relieves constipation and bilious
ness and causes no restriction of
habit or diet.
Many preparations have sprung
up that imitate the claims made
for Dodson's Liver Tone, but re
member Dodson’s Liver Tone is
the tried and tested remedy that
has proven such a good medicine
and is so satisfactory to every
user—is the reason these imita
tions are on the market.
} Dodson’s Liver Tone can not
hurt anyone, and if it fails to do
all that is claimed of it, all drug
gists who sell it will give your
money back with a smile. *
Mercer’s Trip Taken
As Dismissal Omen
The mysterious departure for
Washington Monday morning of Fish
and Game Commissioner Mercer was
said to be a further indication that
Mr. Mercer eventually will be dis
placed by a new appointee by Gov
ernor Slaton.
Mr. Mercer Is a warm personal
friend of Hoke Smith and those who
are keeping in close touch with the
affair say he may have gone to Wash
ington to get a plum at the hands of
the Georgia Senator.
Should Mr. Mercer be relieved from
the duties of Fish and Game Commis
sioner he will retain office, probably,
until October 1. when the new’ Com
missioner will be sworn n.
Colonel Huff Injured
By Fall Down Stairs
MACON, Sept. 1.—Colonel W. A.
Huff, former Mayor of Macon and
widely known as the chief antagonist of
Judge Emory Speer, who was rendered
unconscious and painfully hurt Sunday
by falling down the : airway of his
home on Hardeman avenue, is confined
to h1s bed to-day and probably will be
for some time. He was found sev
eral hours after the accident by an ear
ly rising member of the family. Colonel
Huff was delirious for several hours. It
has not been determined yet whether he
was injured Internally.
As he is 82 years of age. Colonel
Huff’s relatives and friends are appre
hensive lest the accident may prove *e-
rious.
Joyner in Macon on
Hunt for Incendiary
MACON, Sept. 1.—W. R. Joyner, of
Atlanta. State Fire Inspector, is probing
the recent burning of the old Plant
home, a $15,000 residence on Mulberry
Street. He states that it has already
been definitely ascertained that the
house, w’hich was unoccupied at the
time, was fired with kerosene.
The officers have a clew’ to the iden
tity of the incendiary. Captain Joyner
is leading in the investigation.
Gets Napoleon Set
That Cost $20,000
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1.—-The
most desired collection of works on
Napoleon. "The History of Napoleon.”
has been brought here by Charles
Lessler from Europe, where it was
compiled forty years ago at a cost
of $20,000.
USE OF CALOMEL *
PRACTICALLY STOPPED !
Dangerous Drug Giving Way for
Safer, More Reliable Remedy.
Big Firms Pay State
$100,000 in Taxes
An additional $100,000 in corpora
tion taxes was received Monday
morning by State Treasurer Speer.
The total amount now paid in Is
something like $400,000.
Mr. Speer said Monday he expected
to receive the remainder of the tax
this week. The corporations pay in
about $700,000 this year.
OBITUARY.
The body of Harry Robson, a former
Atlantan, who died Friday at Cuba,
Mo., arrived in Atlanta Mondav
morning. Funeral service** were
held at the chapel of Barclay &
Brandon immediately after the ar
rival of the remains. Mr. Robson
was the manager of an amusement
park at Cuba. Interment was at
Oakland.
The funeral of Mrs. Dell Tyler At
wood, who died Saturday at the
residence, No. 107 Glennwood ave
nue, will be held at Barclay &
Brandon’s chapel Monday after
noon at 3 o’clock. She was 79 years
old, and Is survived by her hus-
v band, H. L. Atwood. Interment at
Westview.
The funeral of James E. Small, who
died Friday at a local hospital, was
held Monday morning from the Sa
cred Heart Church. Interment at
Westview.
A. L. Maddox, who died Saturday
night, will be burled In the Dora-
vllle churchyard Monday afternoon
following funeral services at the
church at 3 o’clock.
Mrs. Virginia Richardson, sixty-eignt
years old, died Sunday at the resi
dence, No. 478 Courtland street. She
is survived by three children, M. G.
Robertson, Mrs. W. L. Harrison
and Mrs. Luke Langford, of Thom-
asvllle, Ga. Funeral services will
be held at 3:30 o’clock Monday aft
ernoon at Patterson’s chapel, the
Rev. J. B. Robins officiating. In
terment at Oakland.
The funeral of Mrs. Henrietta Cueen,
who died Saturday at the residence,
No. 373 Formwalt street, will be
held at 2:30 Monday afternoon at
Poole’s chapel. She was twenty-
two years old. and is survived by
her husband, J. L. Queen. Inter
ment at Westview.
The body of F. E. Timmons, a Con
federate veteran, who died Sunday
afternoon at the Soldiers’ Home, is
at Poole’s chapel pending funeral
arrangements. He was eighty-two
years old.
CHIEFISANISSUESLUMMERS ARE'
IF CHARTER IS
Continued from Page 1.
Police Commission and the controlling
spirit in the body, is for It, though it
hazards a continuation of hls undis
puted sway.
Mayor James G. Woodward has
been bitterly opposed to It, but the
fact that its passage would give him
and his supporters an opportunity to
get control of the police department,
a department in which they have been
an insignificant minority, is said to be
working a reversal of attitude.
Aids Chance for Passage.
These two conditions, the fact that
Council wants the charter to pass to
stave off radical charter reforms and
the fact that the Woodward element
may support it In an effort to get con
trol of the police department, greatly
strengthen the chances of the char
ter to pass. A vigorous opposition to
it by the Men and Religion Forward
Movement is expected.
The present Board of Health, the
Park Board, the Smoke Board and
the Cemetery Commission are abol
ished by the charter and their author
ity transferred to new commissions.
But little significance is attached to
these changes.
In the councilmanic races the old
crowd will endeavor to get men fa
vorable to them elected. If the new
charter passes, practically all of the
present membership of the Police
Commission will ask for re-election.
It’s a fight, more or less, of the "outs”
against the “ins.”
Real Test in Election®.
After all, the real test will come in
the election of the five aldermen and
ten councilmen, for should the char
ter pass the new Council will decide
who shall compose the Board of Pub
lic Safety. The requirements for
election to this board will b? the at
titude of the Chief of Police.
The list of candidates so far is:
C. B. Alverton, for First Ward
councilman; C. D. Knight, Second
Ward councilman; C. H. Kelley, Sec
ond Ward alderman; James E. War
ren and J. C. Harrison, Third Ward
alderman: Orville Hall, Third Ward
councilman; R. E. George and A. W.
Farlinger. Fourth Ward councilman,
Albert Thomson, Fourth Ward aider-
man; Jesse B. Lee and Dr. W. M.
Ethridge. Fifth Ward councilman;
Jesse M. Wood, Sixth Ward council
man; Dan Walraven &nd Jesse Armi-
stead. Seventh Ward alderman; Frank
Reynolds, Eighth Ward councilman;
John S. Owens and W. A. Hancock,
Eighth Ward alderman; Charles W.
Smith, Ninth Ward councilman, and
Claude C. Mason, Tenth Ward coun
cilman
Him
Declaring that the men behind the
Federal prison bars are so imperfect-
ly trained as “animal curiosities” is
to positively shrink when gazed upon
as monstrosities, Julian Hawthorne,
prison poet and philosopher, ln Good
Words, the official prison organ, sa
tirically criticises the so-called “slum-
mers” who invade the secret clois
ters of the unfortunate convicts.
No doubt the science of penology
advances by leaps and bounds as a
result of such methods, the noted
prisoner declares sarcastically, and
the resemblance to the zoo is notable,
but, he adds, there is one difference
between the two, ln that some of the
criminals have retained some of their
uirregenerate human sensibilities and
can’t stand public stares.
The world, he says, having in its
wisdom and profound understanding
of the needs of human nature^ cre
ated these populous hermitages wher«
crime and vice may be miraculously
extracted from the body corporate of
the community—the world, having ac
complished this signal act of sagaci
ty and benevolence, is presently be
set by the curiosity to see how the
charm works.
How Visiting Parties Act.
"Even as slumming parties,” he de
clares further, “are organized in the
cities to observe the peculiarities of
crime In its making and effervescence,
so does the solicitous citizen, with
family and friends, betake himself
cheerfully to the penitentiary to mark
its aspect and conduct when under
constraint. The men don their come
ly afternoon attire, the ladies enhance
their native attraction* with the
chromatic charms of fashionable toi
lets. and in groups of from two to
twenty they storm our battlements,
invade our secret cloisters, cells, hos
pitals and studios, peer curiously into
our factories and workrooms, where
the happy operatives warble at their
tasks; stream through the portals at
the dining salon while the animals file
in to their provender, keeping time
to the stately strains of the band, and
finally stray out in the grounds sur
rounding the mansion, where they in
spect the tuberculosis camp and
watch those of us who ire agricul
turally Inclined disporting themselves
among the melon patches or the hen
neries.”
Prisoners Want Solitude.
Instead of rejoicing, in short, as
the zoo animals doubtless do, he says
in closing, the men behind the bars
actuallj r incline to shrink out of sight
and wish that, while they are objects
of ignominy, they might be left to deal
with it under no other supervision
than that of their masters and of one
another. t
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Anyone reading this ad who can suggest to me the name of a
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