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Governor Considers Calling of
Extra Session of Legislature
for Protection of Interests by
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Meeting Railway’s Maneuvers.
Doubt That Lawmakers Can Help
Is Expressed by Chairman Can
dler, Who Says Law. Puts Geor-l
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gia on Plane With Railroads.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
That official circles in Georgia have
been profoundly stirred by recen
raflroad activities in the matter o‘
paralleling the Western and Atlantie
Rallroad, as related in a series of
news stories appearing lately in The
Atlanta Georgian, is no longer &
question of doubt.
Governor Slaton has been deluged
with correspondence touching the
matter, and has gone so far as to
consider serfously the suggestion of
an extraordinary session of the Leg
islature, to safeguard the State's big
gest property against evident efforts
to depreciate its calue.
The Governor on Saturdey would
not discuss the question of prevent
ing the granting of a charter to the
North Georgila Mineral Rallroad,
which appears to be the Louisville
anA Nashville’s project to parallel §he
W. and A. save to state that, the
question of this activity had glven
great concern, and to admit that
he has consulted with numerous
State House officials as to his duty
and authority in the premives.
“To depreciate the value of the
Western and Atlanti,” sald the Gov
ernar, “would be to cut the State to
its vitals.
“The rental of the road helps hold
down the tax rate, and pays the
way of the ¢ommon schools in large
measure, for the road is in every way
the biggest physical asset the State
has. It must not be injured, if with
in the power of the State to pre
vent.
\ wphis matter has been brought to
the attention of several Legislators,
but nothing ever has come of the
various Dbills introduced to care for
the situation. Whether an extraordi
nary session of the present Legisla
ture would remedy the Immediate
trouble I can not at this time say,
but it will not do to let the matter
go until the mischief has been ac
complished, and then undertake to
remedy it. One can not enjoin a
corporation from doing something it
already has done, you know.”
Candler Quotes Laws,
Chairman Murphey Candler, of the
Btate Rallroad Commission, doubts‘
that the Legislature con do much to
relieve the situation. He points out |
that the Supreme Court has h‘eld!
specifically that the State, In its ca
pacity of owner of a ralilroad, is not
a sovereign, in the usual sense of the’
‘word, but is on the same plane of
legal rights as corporations general
1y owning roads. ‘
Mr. Candler says:
«Under a general law of this State
all corporate powers and privileges to
railroad companies in this State are
granted by the Secretary of State.
Sections 2577, 2578, 2579 and 2580 of
the Civil Code, 1911, set out the pro
cedure necessary to obtain a charter.
“ do not belleve the Secretary of
State has any discretion in the mat
ter, further than to see that all the
requirements of the law, prior to the
filing of the petition for incorporation,
and in the petition {tself, are complied
with.
“After this, his duty appears to be
merely ministerial, the law apparent
ly providing that when it appears that
the petition is in compliance with the
law he shall issue the certificate of
incorporation.
«“The general policy of this State as
to the construction of new railroads
paralleling railroads already con
structed is declared in section 2594
of the Code in the following lan
guage: ‘And nothing herein shall be
g 0 construed as to otherwise change
the general policy of this State, which
requires the genuine direction and lo
cation of railroads sought to be con-
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To Promote Peace and Prosperity, Happiness and Security, Was and Is Our
Object and Obligation, Both in Europe and Mexico
READER of The American writes to ask why
it is that The American so vigorously favors
peace in the present European situation, when
it but lately favored with equal vigor intervention in
Mexico. : .
A motto of The American is that it is ‘‘a %:per for
eople who think,’’ and if our corresgondent d done
g.imself and us the justice to think, he could have an
swered this question for himself.
The American favors mediation in Europe for ex
actly the same reason that it favored intervention in
Mexico—TO ESTABLISH PEACE AND CIVIL
IZED CONDITIONS. ;
There has existed in Europe for a long period
peace and happiness, prosperity and security.
The war immediately plunged Europe into a con
dition of murder and anarchy. Prosperity has been
destroyed there, security has been ended, organized
murder and misery and devastation have taken the
place of human happiness and peaceful pursuits.
The American is laboring now and always to sup
press savagery and promote peace and progress and
civilized conditions.
For a long period in Mexico, however, there had
been not peace and prosperity, but anarchy and mur
der, destruction and devastation, misery and poverty,
robbery and outrage.
Not only had the Mexicans themselves suffered in
this protracted period of anarchy and savagery, but
the citizens of all foreign nations had suffered even
more.
Hundreds of American men had been murdered
in the most cold-blooded and cruel manner.
American women had been outraged, American
children had béen slain, American property had been
pillaged, American refu%ees were fiying in hunted
herds from the country, leaving behind them all that
they possessed and all that they had labored years to
secure, leaving behind them too often, also, the burned
alllld mutilated bodies of those nearest and dearest to
them.
These stricken refugees claimed pitifully the pro
tection of this great country, a protection which had
been definitely and specifically promised to them in
the Democratic platform upon which this present
Democratic Government was elected, a protection
which, with or without promise, is guaranteed to its
citizens by every self-respecting and civilized or even
semi-civilized government on the face of the earth.
There was 120 end to this murder and anarchy, no
limit to this devastation and destruction. ‘
The American favored, and still favors, and al
ways will favor, ACTION on the part of this great and
powerful nation of ours to protect its own people
from murder and robbery and to restore peace and or
der-and civilized conditions in Mexico.
This newspaper labored for the restoration of
peace and civilized conditions in Mexico, exactly as it
is laboring to-day for the restoration of peace and civ
ilized conditions in Europe.
The remedy urged for this evil of murder and an
archy was not the same in both cases, and is not the
same, but the object—the restoration of peace and
happiness—was the same.
The Democratic party adopted a policy of watch
ful waiting, which, in other words, is merely a policy of
indolent indifference, a policy of not fulfilling the
pledges of its platform, a policy of not performing its
duty to its own citizens, its obligation to society and to
civilization.
The Democratic leaders no doubt conscientiously
believed that the Mexican situation would solve itself,
and that when Huerta was disposed of peace would
automatically be restored.
But this conscientious belief was based on con-
G. B. Deans, Alabama
@. 0. P. Leader, Dead
MOBILE, Sept. 26.—Gilbert Bur
nett Deans, formerly of Birmingham.
twelve years United States Marshal
for Southern Alabama under Presi
dents Taft and Roosevelt, State Sen.
ator from Shelby and Chilton coun
ties for several, terms and at one
tin#® a member of the lower House of
the General Assembly, died here to
day.
Deans was a power in Republican
politics in this State.
.
One Dead, Two Dying
‘ . . .
} 0f Ptomaine Poison
. DURHAM, N. C., Sept. 26.—George
‘Pace {s dead, while Allen Brantly, Joe
Robefson and John Williams, em
)ployees of the Larkin lumber camp.
near Middlesex, are critically ill from
\ ptomaine poison after eating salt mul
:let for breakfast to-day.”
l Physicians have little hope for their
recovelry.
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R ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER, 27, 1914
.
Dublin Man Accused
0f Mystery Murder
MACON, Sept. 26.—Edward Mont
ford, proprietor of a pressing club at
Dublin, has been brought to Macon
for safe-keeping, having been arrest
ed there on the charge of Kkilling
Herschel Beacham, whose body was
found in the river last week.
A note written by Montford to one
n* the negro employees of his press
ing club gave the officers their first
clew and the negro's confession that
he had helped Montford dispose of
the bod:{ led to the arrest. The seven
cther men arrested in the case have
been released.
Sentenced Two Hours
.
After Robbing Man
TAMPA, FLA. Sept. 26.—Within
two hours to-day Ralph Carver, 17
years old, of Wellborne, Fla., held up
and robbed a man of $2O and a rall
road ticket, was arrested and sen
tenced to a year In the chaingang.
Nelson Carpenter, of Wilmington,
N. C, was the man robhed.
summate ignorance of actual conditions, as unfortun
ately most of the Democratic policies are. +
Plunder is too profitable for those who are doing
the plundering, readily to be abandoned. Murder and
outrage only too easily become viciously enjoyable
habits.
There never was in all this period of murder and
anarchy in Mexico, a genuine revolution, in our un
derstanding of the term. There was merely the rebel
lion of one faction against the authority of another
faction, and ultimately a rebellion of all factions
against all a.uthoritg.
What has just happened ifi Mexico—another rev
olution—is exactly what everybogiv, except the Demo
cratic watchful waiters, knew would happen,and what
everybody knows will continue to happen until the
United States does its duty and restores peace and or
der and governmental protection to life and property
*in this neighboring republic.
Revolt will succeed rebellion, and rebellion will
succeed revolution, and riot and red murder will rei%n
unchecked and unchallenged until at length the
United States, under some wiser government, shall
perform its fllain duty to its own citizens and to civil
ization, or else some other country, weary of the
United States’ neglifince and indifference, shall step
in and do the work which this country, by its inherent
policies and natural position, ought properly to do.
On November 17, 1913, I wrote in this newspaper:
““The United States should intervene in Mexico,
but there is only one course it can pursue, either hon
orably or effectively, either with proper regard for
its ob{igations to its own citizens, or with sufficient re
pressive effect on the state of anarchy prevailing in
Mexico.
‘“That course is to occupy Mexico and restore it to
a state of CIVILIZATION by means of American
MEN and American METHODS.
“‘That course is for the United States itself, not
some incompetent and unrepresentative Mexican fac
tion, to re-establish PEACE and ORDER and CIVIL
IZED PROCEDURE in Mexico for the proper pro
tection of our own citizens and for the best benefit of
all honest and worthy Mexican citizens.”’
In the American of April 27, 1914, I wrote:
“MURDER in Mexico must cease; DESTRUC
TION AND DEVASTATION must end. It is our
duty and our destiny TO END ANARCHY in Mexico
and to dedicate and devote Mexican territory to the
Fl'allgff 'c'af ENLIGHTENMENT AND CIVILIZA
Again, in an interview in the BERLIN VOS
SICHE-ZIETUNG, on June 11, 1914, I said:
‘““The COMPLETE ANARCHY in Mexico, last
ing for several years, has been injurious to the inter
ests of our country as a whole and disastrous and de
structive to the lives and property of our citizens in
Mexico. General Sherman said: ‘WAR IS HELL.'
ANARCHY IS ALSO HELL. In fact, anarchy is
worse than war, as it is more protracted and more
wholly unregulated by the rules and restrictions of
civilized warfare. A great many Americans have been
murdered; some have been tortured and burned to
death; American women have been violated, American
children have been slain—many things have happened
worse than anything that could happen in war.
“‘Our people believe that it is time to PUT AN
END TO THE ANARCHIAL CONDITIONS pre
vailing in Mexico."’
On November 17, 1913, I wrote:
. ““The proposal to install one or another of the
contending Mexican factions in control of the Mexican
government offers no prospect either of peace to Mex
ico or of protection to the citizexs of the United States.
‘“ANY ONE FACTION INSTALLED IN
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Socialist Wendel, Poe
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Of War, in Ranks
BERLIN (via Rotterdam), Sept. 26,—
Herman Wendel, the Soclalist member
of the Reichstag who caused a sensation
during the budget debate by closing his
speech with the words “Long Ilive
France,” volunteered in the Frankfurter
Landsturm battalion and has seen serv
ice in Belgium.
He writes to the Socialist organ that
he could not sit quletly before the fire
while the whole nation was fighting for
its existence. He sald he wished during
his service to work in word and deed
for the cause of humanity, which was
sadly neglected in war time.
. .
U. 8. Marine Chief
Dead at Vera Cruz
Sapi—
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—~Word
reached the Navy Department to-day of
the death at Vera Cruz of Colonel
Franklin J. Moses, U. 8. M. C. Death
was due to pneumonia.
Colonel Moses served with distinction
in the Spanish-American war in the
Philippines, in Nicaragua and at the
relief of Pekin during the Boxer upris
ing.
Two Weeks More to
.
Enter Night School
Owing to unsettled conditlons,
Professor J. N. G. Nesbit, dean of
the free night school at the Geor
gla Bchools of Technology, has de
clded to extend the registration pe
riod for another two weeks.
The date for closing all registra
tion was last Thursday, but Profes
sor Nesbit discovered that a good
many men who wished to attend the
free classes had not been able to
register before that date.
A number of those who have sent
in their applications have not yet re
ported for registration. Those who
have already applied may come and
register and new applications may al
-80 be made for the next two weeks at
Tech, by seeing Professor Nesbit on
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or
Thursdays, between the hours of 7:30
and 9:30 p. m. .
LIGHTNING CUTS @ROSS,
GREENFIELD, IND., Sept. 268.—Dur
ing an electric storm the granite monu
ment on the graves of Joseph Talbert
and wife, in Hanover Cemetery, was
struck by lightning and a perfect cross,
six inches long, made in the stone,
POWER WOULD IMMEDIATELY ENCOUNTER
THE ARMED OPPOSITION OF EVERY OTHER
FACTION THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.”
These articles and interviews were uttered in the
interests of peace and order and civilized conditions
in MEXICO. : te
The articles on the European situation which are
appearing from time to time in The American at.pres
ent, are written in the hope of restoring peace and
happiness and civilized conditions in EUROPE.
On the 15th of this month I wrote, in reference to
the condition of murder and anarchy in Europe, the
following lines:
‘ ‘Let us have peace’ and let this great American
nation exercise its power and influence in behalf of
humanity and human progress.
* ““For reasons of selfish interest as well as of hu
man interest, it is America’s duty to exert its utmost
influence to conserve and unite under the banners of
peace and progress the forces of civilization.
' **Let us raise our voices 8o loudly and exercise our
influence so strongly that Europe will be compelled to
stop for a moment and to listen to the voices of reason,
to the appeal of humanity; to consider for a moment
not merely our interests, but their own interests, THE
INTERESTS OF ALL CIVILIZATION—the best in
terests of the WHOLE HUMAN RACE.”
. Are not these words in complete harmony with
the following sentiments expressed on Atpril 27, 1014,
in relation to the MEXICAN condition of murder and
anarchy: .
‘‘Our people are anxious to end the state of an
archy in Mexico, and to end it for the BENEFIT OF
THE CITIZENS OF ALL NATIONS and FOR CIV
ILIZATION AS A WHOLE. They are anxious to
RESTORE PEACE AND ORDER in a country
which is at our door and for which we are in a sense
morally responsible as well as, under our construction
of the Monroe Doctrine, politically responsible. We
are anxious to perform OUR FULL OBLIGATION
TO SOCIETY AND TO CIVILIZATION as the guar
dian of this Western Hemisphere. We are anxious to
make this adjoining country even as the United States
is, a haven of PEACE AND SECURITY for our own
people and for ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE
WORLD.”
Finally, is not the above utterance relative to
Mexico in absolute accord with the appeal for Eu
ropean peace which I cabled a week ago to Lord
Northcliffe, of The London Times, and Lord Burnham,
of The London Daily Telegraph, and which concluded
in these words:
‘‘Can we not appeal to the people of our own
countries, and to the press and people of all countries,
to make one mighl'%i united effort to conzlpel peace and
restore HAPPINESS AND CIVILIZED CONDI
TIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.”
The same sentiment is expressed in all of these
articles, the same object is sought for in all of them,
allxld almost the same words are employed in all of
them.
The duty of our government and of our people and
of these newspapers is to do their utmost to end con
ditions of murder and anarchy in EUROPE and re
store peace and happiness to the distressed peoples
there, and the duty of our government, of our people
and of these newspapers, was, and still is, to do their
utmost to end conditions of murder and anarchy in
MEXICO and restore peace and happiness to tgose
people and %rotection to our own people in that dis
tressed coun ? as well.
Our aim is always PEACE, but peace is an empty
word unless it grants and guarantees happiness and
prosperity and security to all.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
. .
Harp Society Sings
.
)
At Soldiers’ Home
Members of the Sacred Harp Sing
ing Society will gather at the Sol
diers’ Home Sunday evening for their
regular fourth Sunday singing.
The president of the local assocla
tion, Charles Singleton, has issued
an invitation to the public.
Czar Forms New Flag
.
As Token of Union
LONDON, Bept. 26.—Emperor Nicho
las, according to a Petrograd dispatch
to the Reuter Telegram Company, has
authorized the adoption of a new flag
symbolizing the union of the Czar and
the Russian people.
It combines the imperial arms and the
national colors.
"
Son Charged With
.
Slaying Parents
HOMER, LA., Sept. 26.—Leonard Moss
and his wife were found murdered In
their home here to-day.
Their 23-year-old son was accysed of
the crime by the other children,
THIS SECTION CONTAINS
LATE NEWS AND SPORTS
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A.,8.& A.Discontinues
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Two Atlanta Trains
- Beginning Sunday, the Atlanta, Bir.
‘mingham and Atlantic Raillroad will
‘discontinue trains Nos. 15 and 16 be
‘tween Manchester and Atlanta, and
‘Nos. 21 and 22 between Manchester
and Roanoke, Ala. Permission to
make these changes was granted Lhe
road last week by the State Rallroad
Commission.
In lieu of trains Nos. 21 and 22 the
road will inaugurate mixed train serv-
Ice with a train leaving Manchester
at 6 p. m. and arriving at Roanoke at
9:06 p. m, and leaving loanoke at
8:15 a. m. and arriving at Manchester
at 12:15 p. m.
.
Alaska Coal Leasing
.
Bill Passes Senate
WASHINGTON, Sept, 26.—The Ben
ate passed the Alaska coal lands leasing
bill with only a few dissenting votes.
Thare was no roll-call,
The bill provides for the htlllnl:n:z
fheyert, Givamnes of 8,
‘tigl«u thersof, but in no onse uoeodln.l
2,660 acres,
GREAT PEAGE
MEET 0T 4
IT ARMORY
WILL DRI
THOUSANDS
=
In the ~ Auditorfum-Armory next
Sunday afternoon, thousands of Ate
lantans will gather in the cause of
peace in Europe, to give a vast‘and
dign!fied expression of the sentiment
that has swept this country—that the
present war should cease,
The hour will be 4 o'clock. ‘The
move is the conversion of the regu
lar organ recital of the Atlanta Musie
Festival Assoclation into a tremen
dous service in accord with procla
mation by President Wilson that Sun
day, October 4, ahal.l be set apart by
the people of this nation to pray for
Peace to be given their war-stricken
neighbors across the sea. ; ]
Edwin Arthur Kraft, the organist.
has ben devoting himself, with Colo
nel W. L. Peel ‘and other officers of
the Music Festival Asoclation, to a
program that will include suitable
organ numbers, a vocal sole,: and.
hymns by the Festiva] Chorus and the
- of a number of Atlanta
churches united in a great . chorus of
250 voices. Bishop Warren A. Can
dler will offer prayer, and R. B. Wes-~
sels read the now-famous “Peace Pe
titien” submitted to and approved by
President Wilson following'the his
toric editorial of William Randelph
Hearst, “Let There Be Peace.” x
Peace Task Inspiring. g
The service is one of gigantic im
port, and it is certain that the caao
ity of the great auditorium will be
tested as rarely before. ’
Mr. Kraft has devoted most of his
time for the last week In selecting
the organ numbers and hymns for the
occasion, and rehearsals of the great
chorus will occupy the coming week
“It has ben a wonderfully interest
ing and inspiring task, and a demand~
ing one,” Mr, Kraft sald Saturday. “Se
many of our finest hymns are found
ed on the subject of ‘Peaces,’” but many
of them—most of them, I should say
—touch on the ‘peace that pasesth
understanding;’ the personal and
spiritual peace of the individual
“Still, some of the very finest dead
with the peace of nations, and from
these I have chosen the program,
ending with that wonderful hyma
written for the centennial celebratiom
in 1876.” :
| Poem to End Program.
Folxgwing are the verses of that .
now celebrated composition by the
Rev. D. C. Roberts and Ur. G W,
Warren:
“God of our Fathers, whose almighty
| hand o
Leads forth in beauty all the starry
band
‘Ot shining worlde in splendor through
| the skies, %
Our grateful songs before Thy throne
i arise.
“Thy love divine hath led us in the
past, s
In this free land by Thee our lot ias
cast; v
Be Thou our ruler, guardian, guide
and stay,
Thy word our law, Thy chosen paths
our way. J
“From war's alarms, from deadly
Futuence.
Be Thy strong arm our ever sure de
fence;
Thy true religion in our hearts ine
crease,
Thy bounteous goodness nourish us
in peace. N
“Refresh Thy people on their tollsome,
way,
Lead llyl from night to never-ending
day;
ill all our Hves with love and grace
divine,
And glory, laud and praise be ever
Thine!
Sole Is Chosen,
An searching for a suitable solo for
the occasion, Mr, Wraft was peculiar
ly successful in dcediing on the come
positlon of George Graff, Jv. and
Ernest R, Ball, “Let Us Have Pease.”
