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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. I'm.
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Stalwart Lincoln McConnell Is Here to Preach ||j | [j [
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Pitcher, Detective, Evangelist, He Knows Life IN
T HE big thing is to show the world that its one besetting sin is superficiality; that every man and every
woman has Success and Reward as his gods; that they all must rush and come and go in a mad whirl to
keep up and get ahead; that their heroes are those whose rank is based on nothing more than a transient ap
peal to the senses. The besetting sin is that things worth while are forgotten or neglected, that the world is
superficial, shallow, eager only to get on, to provide itself with the outward show that it has gotten on—
which may be a lie in many instances—and to worship Success, Success, Success.—Lincoln McConnell.
Atlantan Is Slated
For New Judgeship
Governor Intimates He May Name
City Man, Saying He Wants
to Please Bar.
Prisoner and His Counsel Are
Equally Confident They Will Be
Able to Get a New Trial on
Ground of Outside Influences.
Cheers for the Solicitor After
Recesses and Applause in Court
Will Be Principal Points Urged
by Lawyers for Convicted Man.
Big, Hard-Fisted Man of the Gospel Never Has
Sermonized on Hell, and He Loves the
Crowds on Broadway.
Lincoln M cConnell.
Desperate efforts to save Leo Frank
from the gallows, to which he was
consigned by sentence of Judge Roan,
are taking definite shape. The trump
card of his lawyers will be affidavits
or showings of some sort to the effect,
that certain members of the Jury
which convicted Frank were deeply
biased against him by more than one
Incident. Meanwhile, Solicitor Dor
sey is satisfied that the case he made
against Frank will stand.
Argument for a new trial will be
made before Judge Roan October 4,
Just six days before the date set for
Frank’s execution. Then Frank's
lawyers, headed by Luther Rosser and
Reuben Arnold, will exhaust every re
source at their command to obtain a
new trial or to stave off the death
sentence.
Apparently Leo Frank has an Im
pregnable confidence in his advocates-
Occasional bulletins from the Tower,
where he Is held, declare that ne fol
lows the usual routine of his rather
methodical life as closely since his
sentence as before. His attention to
matters of health is scrupulous, In
cluding daily exercises and cold baths
and a careful selection of food. He
directs the affairs of his factory by
daily consultation with his assistants
and associates. He receives his
friends with a calmness that would
make him out indifferent to the fate
that overshadows him*
Business Associates Visitors.
Almost every day Sig Montag and
Herbert Schiff, his associates in the
business of the National Pencil Fac
tory, are his visitors, besides other
friends. His wife and his father-in-
law come also, bearing his meals, and
hardly a minute of the day is he
alone. But never a time during the
day la there any appearance of per
turbation on the part of the prisoner.
Neither have his lawyers exhibited
anv signs of dismay. It is generally
believed that they are confident tin v
can prove the existence of undue
prejudice against their client, and an
element of unfairness In his trial.
This they will attempt to prove by
a chain of incidents, chief among
which will be cheering which attend
ed the appearance of Solicitor Dor
sey outside the courtroom on more
than one occasln, and the applau is
which burst out even in the court
room when the trial was at its most
tense point.
It mav be that the fl&ht of the de
fense will be made along other lines
as well, but none of them has been
revealed, nothing except the charge
of undue influence on the Jurymen.
With the Interest that has grown
about the figure of Frank, the negro
Jim Conley almost has been forgot
ten. However, he was recalled last
week when it was announced an ef
fort would be made to obtain his in -
dictment by the Grand Jury on the
charge of being an accessory after the
fact 1n the murder of Mary Phagan.
In the light of Frank’s conviction and
the negr./s own statement on the wit
ness stand, it is believed this will be
effected without delay.
Await Day of Argument.
Altogether, for the first time since
the murder of Mary Phagan, the case
has assumed something of an un
eventful tone. There is still the en
thralling Interest with which all At
lantans have Invested the case, and
the lawyers involved are laying their
plans without rest. But the interest
must wait and the speculation must be
held up until the day for the argu
ments before Judge Roan.
It appeared at one time last ween
as if a lively Interest In the case
would break out like Hre, when Clara
Bell Griftin, an employee of the Na
tional Pencil Factory, as was Mary
Phagan, was mysteriously missing for
the space of a Jay. Then it was that
speculation was rife, and all sorts if
possibilities were suggested. But the
girl was found at Grady Hospital,
and the suggestion of another Mary
Phagan mystery, and a likely effect
on the Frank case, was driven away.
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD
ARRANGE SPECIAL PROGRAM
- E. H. LeVert, one of the best known
Woodmen in Georgia, will deliver the
principal address at the entertain
ment and reception of Atlanta Camp,
No. 430, Woodmen of hte World, next
Friday evening.
Mr. Hoyl also will speak. A special
program will be presented during the
evening, and refreshments will be
served.
$2.00 TO CHATTANOO
GA AND RETURN
W. and A. Railroad will sell
round trip tickets from Atlanta to
Chattanooga and return for train
leaving Atlanta at 8:35 a. m.
ThursJay, September 11, 1913,
good returning not later than
train arriving Atlanta 7:35 p. m.
Saturday, September 13, 1913.
C. E. HARMAN,
General Passenger Agent.
A "hefty,” hard-fisted gentleman
named Lincoln McConnell has come to
town to preach the gospel after his
own fashion. Atlanta evidently likes
that fashion, because It has felt the
weight of his preaching once before,
and now he is called to the Baptist
Tabernacle, that agency of militant
Christianity. He will preach his first
sermon as pastor of the Tabernacle
to-day.
Lincoln McConnell Is a big, straight,
powerful man, even more aggressive
than that militant institution, the
the Tabernacle. You have but to feel
the force of his hand-clasp to know
that—a heavy hand it is. too, that
once curved a baseball with a power
that all East Tennessee dreaded, and
that was terrible to the wrong doers
of Atlanta during the four years that
he was a member of the Atlanta police
force, a plain clothes man.
To a Sunday American reporter he
admitted yesterday that his religion
Implied a mission to “clean up.”
Not Enough to Preach.
"It is not enough to preach that
you must be just good," he said, "or
to sit idly by, keeping your hands
out of affairs, saying all the time
that this world is but a station on
the road to something better.
“It is not a station, but a very sig
nificant place itself. It may be the
best place I’ll ever get to, or you. I
wouldn’t ask a better heaven than
Atlanta if the devil would just get
out. and I would be glad to stay here
a thousand years.
“There's the real mission—to get
the devil out. not to preach of some
thing better farther on. That’s what
we are set here for. There may be
no better place and it may be that
we are supposed to make this world
clean enough to fit our idea of heaven
That's why preachers should work
actively to' ’clean up’ their cities
"God Is interested in politics. God
Is interested in everything, your di
gestion. your brain, and politics as
" And so you sense the McConnell
fashion of preaching the gospel. You
know evep without his telling you
that his big work lies in talking to
men, in organizing law and order
leagues and ’clean up campaigns, In
talking logic, and not sentiment
"I have yet to preach my first
sermon on hell,” he said.
Naturally, he will not preae.i
against the fads and foibles of men
and women, against their amusements
or their fashions
"These things are little, trivial, and
are not wrong in themselves, he said
It was almost with Impatience that
he said It. .
A reporter, waiting outside the
Tabernacle yesterday afternoon to
keep an appointment with Dr. Mc
Connell, saw a tall, pleasant-faced,
voung-looking man coming down
Luckie street. The man had his coat
under one arm. his right sleeve rolled
back, and his straw hat swinging in
his right hand. An upstanding Amer
ican citizen he was, who might have
been a baseball player or a lawyer or
a traveling man or a college prOfeS-
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He stopped at the entrance to the
Tabernacle, caught the reporter’s
hand, and said, “Come in, son.” And
the reporter followed Dr. Lincoln Mc
Connell Into his study and heard a
romantic story.
It was the story of Dr. McConnell.
The reporter made sure of that.
Once Athlete, and Worthless.
Once the evangelist was a college
athlete, back in Maryville, Tenn.. and
a worthless sort of person with it, he
confessed. Not worthless because he
was an athlete. Lincoln McConnell
believes firmly In athletes and athlet
ics. But worthless because he was
too well satisfied with the “day-to-
day” ,existence of the son of a well-
to-do family. He studied law be
cause he feit it natural that he should.
Then his father died, and, finding law
little to his taste, he drifted out into
the world to make a living.
He came to Atlanta as Instructor In
a school which was to teach Atlanta
women how to cut patterns and dress
designs Such institutions had a con
siderable vogue 25 years ago, he ex
plained, but the vogue xvas not suf
ficient to support the establishment
with which he cast his fortunes. And
so, from force of necessity, he worked
in Durand’s restaurant for several
years, as a general utility man whose
duties were divided between being a
waiter, caterer and general overseer.
Then he stood the regula^ examina
tion for applicants for * ie police
force, becoming a supernumerary and
later a full-fledged detective.
“Criminal Class” la Fiction.
“There is no criminal class,” he
said. “A man becomes a criminal be
cause of conditions of heredity or
force of circumstances. We are all
potential criminals. I am, I know,
with my temper, which is as hot as
the devil ever wanted a man's tem
per to be. I might have been a mur
derer, you see. So might we all.
There is no criminal class, so called.
‘There is so much good in the worst
of us,’ you know.
“And there is not a man alive who
can not be saved by the power of
God.”
All this he learned from his study
of men. which began when he was “on
the force.”
A rather kaleidoscopic career his
was until he was converted, about
1893. Dr. McConnell gives nimself no
credit for inward grace on account of
the conversion, but attributes it alto
gether to his wife.
“A good, brave wife is one of the
greatest moral forces,” he .^aid, and
began to talk adoringly of Mrs. Mc
Connell.
Founded Wesley Church.
He received later his license to
preach in the Methodist Church, and
served in that denomination for many
years. It was as a Methodist preacher
that he was in Atlanta and founded
the Wesley Memorial Church. That
Institution stands to-day at Auburn
avenue and Ivy street, a monument
to his zeal. Building the church, Dr.
McConnell started without even a
congregation or a place to hold a
meeting with the few men and wom
en he collected.
For several years Dr. McConnell
has been a traveling evangelist and
a lecturer under the auspices of a
lyceum bureau, with his headquarters
on his farm in South Georgia. Sev
eral years ago he became a Baptist.
Now he is in Atlanta to preach his
sermons of compelling logic, on such
subjects as “Who Was Christ—a
Man or a God?” and to tell his con
gregation, as he told the reporter
yesterday:
“Christianity is a fact, a scientific,
living fact that can be logically
proved.”
“More men ran be reached, in re
ligion as in everything else, through
pure logic. Christianity Is on a log-
President Elliott Declares He
Will Improve System and Equip
Line With Steel Coaches.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Sept. 6.—
While the Interstate Commerce Com
mission investigators of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford
wreck were hearing a story of lax
discipline and disregard for rule or
ders and signals to-day, President
Howard Elliott, of the road, issued a
statement in which he promised
sweeping reforms in the manage
ment and improved equipment, in
cluding 900 steel nassenger cars. In
the opening he said:
‘‘1, of course, deplore more than
any words can express the terrible
accident of Tuesday last, and 1 shall
use all means In my power to create
an organization and to provide fa
cilities that will reduce to am inimum
the danger of such occurrences.”
During the investigation it was
brought out that wealthy commuters
of the road have an arrangement
whereby they are provided with all-
steel cars to and from New York.
These are equipped for card playing
and the serving of drinks, and their
users paid $3,000 yearly for them in
addition to the regular fare. The
general public is not permitted to
use these cars.
There are half a dozen In the serv
ice, according to A. B. Smith, gen
eral passenger agent. A dramatic
conclusion was given to the hearing
when Eingineer A. B. Miller, pilot
of the White Mountain Express,
which plowed through the cars of the
Bar Htfrbor Express, asked permis
sion to testify again. He then swore
that he had been forced to do the
work of another man as well as his
own for a week previous to the
wreck.
In his pledge of reforms, President
Elliott said that the most radical
would be made on that branch of the
system where wrecks have been most
frequent.
“As rapidly as a close study of the
situation will permit,” he added, “ar
rangements for closer supervision on
other parts of the road will be ar
ranged for, if it seems necessary.”
Mr. Elliott said to-night that he
had no idea who would succeed J. P.
Morgan * Co. as financial agents of
the road, but that he believed Mr.
Morgan would retain his position as
director of the system.
That an Atlanta attorney will re
ceive the appointment to the new Su
perior Court judgeship created by the
last Legislature, was indicated Sat
urday night by Governor Slaton, who
declared he wanted to select a man
pleasing to the members of the At
lanta bar The appointment will be
made early next week, following a
hearing Monday of representatives of
the Atlanta bar.
“I am endeavoring to select a man
for tiie new judgeship who will har
monize the various interests of the
Atlanta bar,” declared the Governor,
“for there Is no better bar in the
United States, in my opinion. I have
granted a hearing to some of these
gentlemen Monday, and expect to
reach a decision in the matter early
next wek.”
Among those prominently mention
ed for the place are Colonel Edgar E.
Pomeroy, of the Fifth Regiment, and
Judge L. S. Roan, of the Stone Moun
tain Circuit. Superior Court. The new
appointee will be forced to run In
the elections next year.
Automobile Thieves
Set Atlanta Record
Three Cars Stolen In Week—C. E.
Corwin Is Latest Victim of
the Robbers.
HURST GREEK
THEATER SCENE
OF ART TRIUMPH
Miss Margaret Anglin in Sopho
cles' 1 Electra' Wins Glory Be
fore Audience of 10,000,
Roosevelt Outlines
South American Trip
Itinerary Includes Exploration of
Forests of the Amazon for Nat
ural History Museum.
Three automobile thefts within a
week is Atlanta’s record. The car of
C. E. Corwin, with the F. A. Hardy
& Co. firm, was the third to be taken.
Mr. Corwin left the machine in front
of the Grant Building Saturday. When
he came out of the building the car
was gone.
The car is a 1912 Hudson, with
license number 18944.
G. A. Howell, one of the other vic
tims of the auto thieves, found his
stolen car a few miles from town with
a broken axle.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, tv Tho
Hearst Greek Theater of the I niver-
sity of California, Berkeley, attained
its crowning glory to-night when, be
fore an audience of nearly 10,000 peo
ple. Margaret Anglin asserted her
right to rank among America’s great
est tragic actresses.
The play was the “Electra.’’ of
Sophocles, upon the production of
which Miss Anglin had devoted
months of hard and exhaustive study,
rewarded with a triumph only
equalled by her performance of “An
tigone” on the same stage three years
ago..
Patient, painstaking and specialized
effort and genius reached back across
the centuries and lifted out of another
vanished civilization the great work
of the greatest Greek tragic poet and
placed it before a vast audience in
exquisite perfection.
It seemed almost like working a
miracle, and yet It wa.s done through
the ambition and studious labor of
Maragaret Anglin. In artistry and
interest, the performance surpassed
all expectations.
Miss Anglin’s “Electra” was a tri
umph. The costuming and scheme of
color, designed and supervised by
Livingston Platt, were remarkable ex
amples of stage detail. The musical
setting, specially composed by Wil
liam Furst, was interpreted by an
orchestra of 50 pieces under his di
rection.
The proceeds approximated $10,000.
DR. C. A. RIDLEY PREPARES
FOR HIS SPECIAL SERVICES |
Dr. Caleb A. Ridley, of Central Bap
tist Church, will speak on “The King- |i
dom of God and Money” at the morn
ing service Sunday, and at night he .
will deliver another message prepar- ||
atorv to the series of meetings soon
to begin in Central Church.
MERRY MAIDENS CO.
IN MUSICAL COMEDY
AT BONITA NEXT WEEK
With a bunch of beauty show
girls and not r. dull moment ts
what is promised by the Merry
Maidens Musical Comedy Compa
ny at the Bonita next week.
There will be fun and frolic
from mart to finish, all good, all
clean^ all clever.
Forget dull care by a visit io
the Bonita—a good antidote fof
the blues.
leal and demonstrable basis, and men
can be shown just why, and where,
and what for.”
“You are pot going to talk about
card playing, or dancing, or theater
going. or slit skirts, or the scarlet
woman, then?” the reporter asked.
Dr. McConnell smiled. There were
worlds of scorn and disgust In his
smile.
Describes “The Big Thing.”
“The big thing is none of these.
The big thing is to show the wor’d
that its one besetting sin is super
ficiality, that every man and every
woman has Success and Reward as
his gods, that they all must rush and
come and go in a mad whirl to keep
up and get ahead, that their heroes
are those who are in the popular eye
as successes, and whose rank is based
on nothing more than a transient ap
peal to the senses. The besetting
sin is that things worth while are for
gotten or neglected, that the world )9
superficial, shallow, eager only to get
on, to provide itself with the outward
show that it has gotten on—which
may be a lie in many instances—and
to worship Success. Success, Success.
“This world is very much wonh
while, and life is very much worth
while, and striving is very much
worth while, so that there should >#j
no place for envy or for the struggle
Just to show' off or to achieve the
public eye.”
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Colonel
Roosevelt has announced the outline
of his coming trip to South America.
The Colonel will leave October 4 on
the steamship Van Dyke and go direct
to Rio Paneiro. From there he will
go to Sao Paulo, Buenos Ayres, Cor
dova, Bahia Blanca, Valparaiso and
back to Santiago.
He expects also to make a tour
through the Amazonian forest, ac
companied by two naturalists. This
part of the journey will be under the
direction of the American Museum
of Natural History.
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