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®Sr EW K TfTE ATT. ANT A GEORGIAN ANT) NEWSL 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. T 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. GIRLS! CLEAN ANO BEAUTIFY -25 CENT INE Stop Washing Hair! Try This! Makes It Glossy, Soft and Abundant. Surely try' a “Danderlne Hair Cleanse” if you wish to immedi ately double the beauty of your hair. Just moisten a cloth with Dander- ine and draw it carefully through your nan*, taking one small strand at a time. This will cleanse the hair of dust, dirt or any excessive oil—in a few minutes you will be amazed. Your hair will be wavy, fluffy and abundant and possess an incomparable softness, luster and luxuriance. Besides beautifying the hair, one application of Danderlne dissolves every particle of dandruff; invigo rates the scalp, stopping itching and falling hair. Danderlne is to the hair what fresh showers of rain and sunshine are to vegetation. It goes r.^ht to the root®, invigorates and strength ens them. Its exhilarating, stimu lating and life-producing properties cause the hair to grow long, strong and beautiful. You can surely have pretty, soft, lustrous hair, and lots of it, if you will Junt get a 25-cent bottle of Knowlton’s Danderlne from any drug store or toilet counter and try it as directed. 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 in and try one on. President Wilson as a man as crazy 110,000 Americans in business, repre- lid PEACHTREE GOODYEAR RAINCOAT CO.- ‘From Maker to Wearer” FREE FREE! Waterproof School Bags and Waterproof Hats SATURDAY and MONDAY To-morrow and Monday. September 13th and 16th, with every purchase made at this store or by parcel post, we will give a waterproof school bag and waterproof hat for man, woman, girl or boy, ABSOLUTELY FREE Gigantic Bargains Saturday and Monday The supreme value-giving effort of our ca reer begins to-morrow morning at 8 o’clock. 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