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RICH MEXICAN BLAMES NEW YORK
BANKERS FOR HUERTA'S TROUBLES
BARTOLO RODRIGUEZ AND HIS SONS, BARTOLO, JR., RAFAEL, JAMES.
Candidates Noncommittal, but the
Fight for Commissionerships
Overshadows Aldermanic.
That the control of Atlanta’s Police
. Department is playing a bigger part
in the charter and councilmanlc cam-
paign® than anything; else was re
vealed Thursday by a story of one of
the shrewdest games of inside poli
ties ever played in Atlanta.
It bring® out again the law enforce
ment policy of Police Chief J. L.
Beavers as the crux of practically all
politics in Atlanta at present, de
spite the careful avoidance by all
candidates of making a public declar
ation of their positions
The story that throws new light on
the situation involves the Seventh
Ward aldermanic race and the nam
ing of a successor to Police Com
missioner J. N. McEachern. Its chief
significance lies In the fact that
Seventh Ward politicians are more
concerned over the election of the
Police Commissioner than they are
over the naming of an Alderman.
Coup for Anderson Rumored.
Dan W. Walraven and Jesse Armis-
tead had announced for alderman to
succeed F. J. Spratling. The race
seemed clean-cut. despite rumors of
complication* by the entrance of
Marcellu® Anderson. But out at a
Masonic barbecue at Battle Hill
Wednesday it was openly stated that
both Walraven and Armistead would
withdraw in favor of Anderson.
Persons who posed as speaking for
Mr. Walraven let it be known that
they had engineered the deal and j
that for giving up his chances to be
alderman Mr. Walraven would be
mad Police Commissioner.
The only obstacle in the way of the
plan seemed to be that Councilman
Colcord. the only hold-over represen
tative from the Seventh Ward, had
pledged his support to Fred Lester
for Police Commissioner. Mr. Lester
was chairman of a recent charter
reform campaign committee. E. L.
Dallas, the candidate for the other
councilmanlc seat from that ward,
and Marcellus Anderson, alderman-
to^be. are strongly allied with the
old charter crowd. Their support for
Walraven was said to be assured.
Incentive Not Revealed.
It was not made quite clear just
what the incentive for Mr. Armistead
to withdraw was to be, but it was
said his withdrawal was in the hands
of Alderman F. J. Spratling.
The whole scheme was exploded,
it would seem, while Its creators still
were hopefully at work. Hearing the
report, Mr. Armstead paid his $75
campaign entrance fee and announced
that he was in the race to sfay.
(’lose on this a report was cir
culated that friends of Alderman
Spratling claimed enough votes to
elect him to the police commission.
Mayor James G. Woodward, sup
posed to be lending his aid to Mr.
Walraven. let it be known that he
would support Mr. Armstead for
Council and Fred Lester for the police
commission. This would lead to the
natural conclusion that Armstead, if
elected, will support Lester.
Hard Fight for Lester.
If Lester should be elected, it would
be Mayor Woodward's first victory
over the Mason police regime. It is
.‘•afe to say he won’t be elected with
out a hard fight. It is generally ex
pected that Alderman Bpratling will
be put forward as the Mason candi
date.
There is a fight going on for the
Eighth Ward police commissionership
that is just as spirited. Robert
Clark's term expires next year, and
Alderman A. H. Van Dyke is out
for the seat. Both of. them are op-
po.*ed to Chief Beavers, policy.
Strange to say, it was made known
Thursday that both of them are for
W. A. Hancock for Alderman against
John S. Owens. Mayor Woodward
has been friendly to both.
Tf Mr. Owens should be elected
Alderman neither of them would be
likely to get the place. Neither of
them are particularly suitable to the
anti-Wood ward crowd in Council.
Except in extreem cases, it has
been the policy of Council to elect
such board members as were nomi
nated by a majority of their ward
representatives. But the present fight
has become so intense that precedent
may be said to be obsolete.
King and Johnson Up.
A. R. King. Ninth Ward Police
Commissioner, and George Johnson.
Sixth Ward Commissiioner, also will
be up for re-election next year. Mr.
King, as the Councilmanlc represen
tative from his ward, is a strong
supporter of Chief Beavers. Mr. John
son has shown signs of opposition
to the Chief. His Councilmanlc rep
resentatives are for Beavers. Mr.
Johnson likely will prove strong op
position.
If the new charter is adopted the
whole Police Commission is abolished
and a new one elected. In "hat event,
there will be a merry scramble for
every place.
Under the present laws. Chairman
Carle* First Ward Com-
lnisaiofa*', be re-elected. The
(.option of 30 v. > charter will jive
iun a chance the reat.
I.. B. 8 I. SILE
HELD UPB< DEBT
Special Master Gives Receivers
Until October 7 # to Allot $5,-
000,000 Certificates.
Foreclosure sale of the Atlanta.
Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad,
ordered by Judge Don A. Pardee, of
Ihe United States Circuit Court of
Appeal®, is proving to be a compli
cated undertaking. V. I* Smith, spe
cial master appointed to conduct the
sale, has been forced to postpone un
til October 7 determination of the
proper allotment of receivers* cer
tificates.
The receivers have assumed $5.-
000.000 indebtedness, for which they’
have Issued certificates. The A. B.
A. consists of three parcels of
property, the railroad proper and two
terminal corporations, the Georgia
Terminal Company and the Alabama
Terminal Company.
What proportion of the $5,000,000
debt should be assumed by each of
the*** three was to have been decided
by the master this week, but, after
two days of hearings, at which at
torneys for the Old Colony Trust
Company, of Boston, representing the
bondholders, and attorney® for the
holders of the receivers' certificates
were present, it was found that vital
data were lacking.
The auditors' office has been given
until October 7 to prepare these nec
essary figures.
ODD FELLOWS AT ETON.
DALTON. Sept. 12.—Hundred® of
Odd Fellow® have assembled at Eton,
Murray’ County, to-day for the open
ing session of the fall convention of
the Eighteenth Division.
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All-Southern Auto Route Trail
Blazer Reaches Calvert, Tex.,
in Downpour.
CAT.VERT, TEXAS, Sept. 12.—
Pathfinder Ferguson and his party
finished the lap of the all-Southern
• ranscontinental highway that ends
at Calvert to-day by covering several
miles of road submerged in places by
a foot or more of water.
Despite the downpour between Cal
vert and Hearne, Mayor J. W. Do-
remus, F. J. McGuirk, editor of The
Calvert Picayune; Guy Townsend and
Tom Field motored nine miles to
Hearne to meet Mr. Ferguson. A
rousing though drenching reception
w T aR tendered the pathfinder and he
was the honored guest at a chicken
dinner after his arrival.
Mr. Ferguson left Hempstead
Thursday morning and stopped at
Navasota College Station, Bryan and
Hearne before reaching Calvert for
the night and was given an enthusi
astic reception at each place.
At Bryan, near which the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College is lo-
(ated, the pathfinder met, besides
County Judge J. L. Maloney. Repre
sentative J. L. Fountain. City Engi
neer A. B. Carson and L. M. Howit,
secretary of the Commercial Club,
and R. J Pools, professor of highway
engineering at the college.
Atlanta Motorists
On Pathfinder’s Trail.
MOBILE, Sept. 12.—Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Paquette, of Atlanta, who are
following the all-Southern transcon
tinental route being mapped out by
H. L Ferguson, arrived here late last
night.
They left to-day for New Orleans
via Gulfport.
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Says His Countrymen Consider Wilson Crazy-
Here to Put Sons in Military College.
Charging that the bankers of New
York City are behind the present
trouble in Mexico, and that the Mex
ican people consider President Wood-
row Wilson of the United States “as
crazy a man as Francisco I. Madero,”
and a tool in the hands of the great
American financial interests, Bartolo
Dodriguez, a wealthy landowner and
ranchman of Tampico, Vera Cruz,
Mexico, who is in Atlanta to put his
three sons in the Georgia Military
Academy, told an interesting story
Friday morning of conditions in the
southern republic.
Mr. Rodriguez declared emphati
cally that reports emanating from
Mexico are garbled and distorted. He
declares that, with the exception of
roving bands of Constitutionalists and
followers of Zapata. Mexico is quiet.
‘‘If it had not been for the bankers
and financial interests of New York
City,” Mr. Rodriguez .said, “the trou
ble in Mexico would have been over
long ago.
“It is these same big bankers, de
sirous of controlling the country and
grabbing all the vast resources of the
republic, who have caused the trou
ble.
“It was they who caused the send
ing of the special envoy. John Lind,
to Mexico City to bulldoze President
Huerta; it was they who caused the
garbled and distorted reports of con
ditions in my country to be spread
throughout the United States; it was
they who tried to induce your Presi
dent to send the American army into
my country; and they were behind
the proclamation issued by President
Wilson asking Americans to leave the
country.
“Their reasons for trying to stir up
a war between the United States and
Mexico can be plainly seen by any
one who will take the trouble to look.
Mexico is one of the richest countries
on earth in natural resources that
need only development. Thousands
of American® have invested their cap
ital in my country, and are making
fortunes.
“The control of many of the great
industries slipped from the hands of
the financial interests of New York,
and they started the trouble to
frighten Americans into selling out
their holdings and leaving Mexican
industries in their control and to
prevent any more Americans from
going into the country
"You ask me what the people of
Mexico think of your President,
Woodrow W’ilson. If I am placed in
jail for uttering it I must speak the
truth. Francisco I. Madero was de
throned as President of Mexico be
cause the people of Mexico did not
want him. They regarded him as an
irresponsible man; a crazy man in
the control of the American financial
interests.
“The people of Mexico regard your
as Francisco Madero ever was. They
regard him as a tool—an unwilling
tool, perhaps, and an unknowing tool,
but a tool, nevertheless—in the hands
of the New York banking interests.
“There is not now and there never
has been, any necessity for American
interference in Mexico. There is not
a ‘situation 1 to cope with. Mexico
is as orderly as the United States.
“It is true there was rebellion when
Porfirio Diaz was ejected from the
country, and when the insane Madero
was dethroned by General Huerta.
“But now the Huerta government
is established; it has control of the
great public utilities; the railroads
are running all over the republic and
all of the States are under the con
trol of the Government.
“It is true that there are roving
bands of highwaymen and robbers,
called Constitutionalists and Zapa
tista. But does not your United States
have robbers and highwayman? The
Constitutionalists and the Zapatists,
for all their high-sounding names, oc
cupy the same plane in Mexico that
your bands of burglars and thieves
occupy in the United Stdtes.
"President Huerta is one of the
most maligned men in the world. He
has been lied about in America be
cause he win not bow down to the
New York bankers and let them con
trol our country.
“The Mexican people consider Pres
ident Huerta somewhat in the light
that Americans consider George
Washington. He rescued the republic
from almost certain ruin. He h-cs
been handicapped by your President |
Wilson and your Mr. Lim’ but ev n I
with their interference he has done
wonders for Mexico.
“American newspapers have print
ed much about the demands of your
President Wilson and your Mr. Lind |
that President Huerta shall not be a
candidate in the coming elections. The
Mexican people know, and have al
ways known, that he has never in
tended to be a candidate
“There is only one man in Mexico I
who has the approval of all factions
and who can be elected President.
That man Is Felix Diaz.
“Americans who live In Mexico did
not approve of the orders of President
Wilson that they leave the republic.
They laughed at him. There was
never any reason why they should
leave Mexico. Americans are in no
more danger in my country than thev
would be in their own, and In most
case® are in less danger.
“It Is perhaps true that Americans
have been killed in Mexico. Does
anyone expect thousands of them to
live in a country and never get in
trouble, when they are of all classes 7
Are not Mexicans killed in the United
States?
“In my own city of Tampico, a city
of 80,000 population, where, there arc
sentatlve members of the American
colony went to the United States Con
sul and told him they did not ap
prove of President Wilson’s action in
attempting to interfere with Mexi
can affairs.
“Not an American of the better
class left Tampico during the trouble,
and but very few Americans left the
entire republic. The only Americans
who left Mexico and who took ad
vantage of the American offer of free
transportation were the bums and th»
loafers, who seized the chance to get
back home for nothing.
“To start a war with Mexico would
be the worst thing the United States
could do. It would embarrass thou
sands of Americans who are living
happily and making money in my
country.
“No nation is more friendly toward
the United States than is Mexico, and
I do not think there will ever be any
necessity for America to send an
army across the border.”
Besides his three sons. Bartolo. Jr.,
Rafael and James Mr. Rodriguez
was accompanied to Atlanta by An
tonio Ohirinos and his two* sons. Se-
varo and Porfirio.. also of Tampico,
who will also enter the Georgia Mil
itary Academy.
His own action in sending his boys
to America to be educated and the j
fact that the majority of the wealthy !
citizens of Mexico send their sons to
this country instead of to Europe, Mr.
Rodriguez declares, is proof that the (
better class of Mexican® entertain I
nothing but friendly feeling for Amer
ica.
Tampico, where Mr. Rodriguez has
extensive business interests, and near
w’hich is located his large cattle ranch,
is one of the largest cities in Mex
ico. It is located on the Gulf, in the
State of Vera Cruz, and is one of the
greatest oil-producing points in the
world.
Mr. Rodriguez says $300,000,000 is
invested by 62 companies in oil wells
and equipment, most of which is con
trolled by Americans. The wells yield
on an aVe r age 110,000 barrels of
crude petroleum a day.
FANATIC DEPORTED.
NEW • YORK. Sept. 12.—William
Houghton, English, was deported here
for persisting that he was the Mes
siah.
GOOD JOKE ON LOCAL
SUPPLY COMPANY.
Through the carelessness of their
printer®, 10.000 wholesale Catalogs
of the 35 Per Cent Auto Supply Com
pany, No. 236 Peachtree street, which
were intended for wholesale trade,
were bound in the covers printed for
their retail Catalogs, but as part of
the issue was mailed before the er
ror was discovered, the company de
cided to stick by the prices until a
new Catalog could be issued.
It is stated that the printers who
made the blunder are making good
the losses rather than stand suit
Meanwhile numerous automobile
owners who have secured copies of
this Catalog (No. 36) are profiting by
the mistake and getting their tires
and supplies at wholesale prices. Adv.
“The Darby”--
L. C. Adler’s new English derby, is not only correct,
but is the snappiest thing shown in 1913 hats. Come
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