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MONDAY, MAY 17, 1915.-
-THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN-
-ATLANTA, GA.3
Roosevelt Grins Broadly as His
Counsel Leads Foe Into
Admissions.
COURTHOUSE, SYRACUSE, N.
Y., May 17.—William Barnes met his
match to-day when John M. Bowers,
chief counsel for Theodore Roosevelt,
took the plaintiff in hand for a gruel
ing cross-examination.
The ex-State chairman, calm, non
chalant and debonnair at the outset,
was ruffled and frowning when the
luncheon recess was taken.
Barnes testified that in 190S Senator
Patrick McCarren, Democrat, enlisted
his aid to persuade Senator Grattan to
vote against Governor Hughes’ anti-
raclng legislation. Grattan s vote was
needed to make the division 25 to 25.
This would defeat the bill.
Barnes said he told McCarren he
would see Grattan. Grattan said he
would vote against the bill if it were
not so amended as to make it effective
at a later date than originally drawn.
Bowers led Barnes to admit that he
was opposed to Governor Hughes in
1908 in tho anti-racing legislation;
that he talked with Senators Grattan
and McCarren. Democrats, about it,
and worked for the defeat of the meas
ure Governor Hughes urged.
Barnes also admitted responsibility
for editorials in the Albany Evening
.Journal in 1908 attacking Governor
Hughes as a '‘bulldozer" and advo
cating the defeat of the Governor’s
racing program.
It was apparent early in the en
counter between the lawyer and the
politician that Barnes was nettled.
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Speaker William H. Burwell, of
Hancock County, the presiding offi
cer of the last House of Representa-
ti\ r es, is in Atlanta for-a day or two.
Mr. Burwell is a candidate to suc
ceed himself in the Speakership, and
the certainty of his election is con
ceded by practically all political ob
servers throughout the State*.
As a matter of fact, it is the opin
ion generally that Mr. Burwell will
have no opposition for the Speaker-
ship when election day comes, al
though there perhaps will\be some talk
of opposition until within a few days
of the assembling of the Legislature.
Mr. Burwell, it will be remembered,
had no opposition in the actual elec
tion last time, although several splen
did members of the General Assembly
were boosted for the speakership for
weeks prior to the meeting of the
same. Representative "Bob” Harde
man, Representative Henry' Full-
bright, and one or two others, all had
a number of votes pledged to them,
j but before the balloting was had it
i was so evident that Mr. Burwell was
I to win against the field that all oppo-
| sition was withdrawn and his election
; was made unanimous.
Mr. Burwell was very popular w’ith
the membership of the last House.
Possessed of a splendid voice and a
fine knowledge of parliamentary rules
and practices, and equipped with a
mind that seemingly is inclined at all
times to conservatism and fairness.
Mr. Burwell piloted the House suc
cessfully through both of its sessions,
notwithstanding the fact that occa
sionally the waters were more or less
troubled.
Because of the large membership of
the Legislature and the great number
of bills introduced, there are always
Representatives who, for one reason
or another,-'are not able to accomplish
smoothly and easily some legislation
they have in mind. Now and then
the Speaker is put to the limit of his
resourcefulness to keep matters
straight.
It may be said to Mr. Burwell’s
credit, however, that throughout both
sessions of the last Legislature no de
cision of his was ever upset, and only
lone appeal was taken from the chair,
I which was overwhelmingly defeated
Mr. Burwell is a young man of
] splendid character and fine mental at-
l tainments. He has a record of twen-
| ty years in the Georgia Legislature,
land it is without blot or blemish
One may not always agree with Mr.
Burwell (in fact, this writer has not
always agreed with him), but it is not
possibly to know "Bill” Burw r ell, study
him closely and fairly, and not con
cede that he is straight and on the
level in all things.
Attorney General Warren Grice, who
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May 18.
$1.50 Round Trip. Two Children
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Train leaves Terminal 7 a. m. Re
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Auspices Central Baptist S. S.
in June wMll conclude a term of serv
ice in office of about one year, will
take up thereafter the practice of law
in Macon.
When he was appointed Attorney
General, Mr. Grice’s home was in
Hawkinsville, where he enjoyed a
splendid law practice. It is stated
that he has been offered some splen
did inducements to locate In Macon,
and he has decided to do so.
For a time it seemed likely that Mr.
Grice, after leaving the Attorney Gen
eral’s office, would locate in Atlanta,
and it is a great disappointment to the
people of this city that he is not to
do that. During his twelve months’
residence in Atlanta he has made a
great many friends, and has demon
strated his unusual ability as a law
yer.
No Attorney General of Georgia
ever worked harder than Warren
Grice, and no one ever obtained better
results. He is very quiet, very mod
est and very unassuming, and Macon
may congratulate itself that he is to
be a citizen of that municipality.
Warren Grice would be a fine acquisi
tion to the citizenship of any town.
Judge Fred C. Foster, of Morgan
County, who will be a member of the
next Legislature, spent several days
in Atlanta last week.
The Judge, although getting along
somewhat in years, is the picture of
health and, as he has been for years,
the pattern of good fellowship. He is
perhaps the very best story teller in
Georgia, and his supply of tickiesome
yarns seems unlimited. For a good
two hours the judge entertained a cir
cle of his friends in the Kimball
House, telling one story after another,
all of them apparently new. One mem
ber of the party said he believed the
judge made up his stories as he went
along, which may be true.
Judge Foster, who is an able lawyer, j
is particularly interested in the mat
ter of land titles, and one of the prob- |
lems he Is studying now (with an eye i
to legislation this summer) is the j
question of a more certain and defi
nite system of registration of land ti- \
ties than that now prevailing in Geor
gia. The judge is not settled in his j
ideas as yet as to the character of j
legislation along this line he will ad- i
vocate, but he has been looking into
the laws, not only of other States of
the Union, but other nations of the
world, particularly those of Denmark, I
with reference to this question. The |
judge gives it as his opinion that Den
mark has perhaps the best system of
land title tegistration in the world.
Sheriff Plenriie Miner, of Fulton t
County, is of the opinion that the sen
timent opposed to capital punishment
is growing stronger and stronger in
Georgia every day.
In a recent panel of jurymen sum
moned on a capital case in Atlanta
Sheriff Miner noticed that exactly
half of the panel went off because of
the fact that every man composing
this half announced himself as op
posed to capital punishment.
As a matter of fact, in every capital
trial in the State of Georgia a great
number of the men refuse to qualify
for jury service, upon the ground that
they are opposed to capital punish
ment; and this reason for not serving
on juries trying in capital crimes is
being advanced more and more in
Georgia all the time.
People who have kept careful tab
upon the trend of events throughout
the nation and who have gone to the
trouble of gathering truthful and de
pendable statistics with regard to this
matter are practically unanimous that
not only has Apposition to capital pun
ishment increased in the United
States, but that, almost without ex
ception, wherever capital punishment
is abolished, it results thereafter in
less crime than theretofore.
It will be, perhaps, a good many
years before all forms of capital pun
ishment are prohibited in Georgia, but
it will not surprise some people pro
foundly if within the next few years
capital punishment in Georgia is re
stricted to one or two forms of crime—
particularly criminal assault.
There will be a bill introduced in
the next Legislature designed to pro
vide not only for one central place of
execution in the State, but for the
substitution of the electric chair for
the gallows. Whether this bill will
pass is problematical, but it will have
some very strong support in the next
Legislature.
Former Representative and Senator
William H. Ennis, of Floyd County,
who is now Solicitor General of the
Rome Circuit of the Superior Court,
is in Atlanta.
Mr. Ennis has been kept pretty busy
throughout his circuit of late, and,
while he has had little time to visit
the capital, he has had time, neverthe
less, to study the conditions of the
country.
He says that, in his opinion, busi
ness conditions are decidedly better
than they were a few months ago, and
there is every prospect that times will
get better still. The farmers have
recovered in a measure from the shock
of their cotton losses last fall, and
their crops are exceedingly promising
at this time. He thinks that the cot
ton acreage has been cut perhaps 15
to 20 per cent in his section of the
State.
County Police Signal
System Nearly Ready
Workmen were busy Monday in
stalling in the county police office in
the courthouse the switchboard for
the new police telephone signal sys
tem, which is expected to be complete
and in operation within the next few
days.
This new system, the first to be in
augurated by any county in the
United States, was ad >pted by the
Count# Commission with the double
purpose of increasing the efficiency of
the county police force and of making
greater the police protection for The
outlying rural districts. The system
is to be used by the police and also by
citizens in cases of emergency and on
police business.
Driver of Cab Sues
For Auto Collision
Henry Wilson, driver of a cab for
the Atlanta Baggage and Cabb Com
pany, Monday brought suit for $5,000
damages against E. A. Kroft, as the
result of an automobile accident at
Peachtree and Eighth streets.
The petition, which was filed by
Attorney Thomas B. Brown, set out
that Kroft's automobile collided with
the rear of the cab, hurling Wilson
out and injuring him.
State Grants Charter for $1
000,000 Line From Savan
nah to Milledgeville.
A new railroad, the Midland, will be
constructed shortly, penetrating for 150
miles the rich farming and turpentine
section of Southeast Georgia, running
from Savannah to Milledgeville.
Charter was granted the proposed
road, authorizing capital stock of $1,-
000,000, by Secretary of State Phil Cook
Monday. Founders of the road, who
were the applicants for the charter, in
cluded \V. M. Exley, J. D. Johnson. W.
H. Webb, C. M. Leitner and C. A. John
son, ail of KfTIngham County; J. A.
Davis, of Burke County; and H. O. Bu-
man, of Chatham County.
The central office of the road will be
in Savannah, according to the applica
tion for a charter, from which point the
road will run northwest through the
counties of Chatham, Effingham, Bul
lock. Emanuel. Johnson, Washington
and Baldwin.
Mrs, Oldknow Will
Be Buried Tuesday
The funeral of Mrs Elizabeth Old-
know. 45. wife of William Oldknow. the
theatrical man. who died Sunday after
noon at the home. No. 416 Cherokee ave
nue, will be held there at 4 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon. Interment will be
in Westvtew.
Mrs. Oldknow came to Atlanta from
England forty years ago She was a
leader In church and mission work and
had a wide circle of friends. Surviving,
besides her husband, are two sisters.
Mrs. John Tapham. of Atlanta, and Mrs.
Harry Roffa, <>f New York; a brother,
Sandy Wheals, of Atlanta, and one son,
Oscar Oldknow
Out of respect to Mrs. Oldknow. the
Savoy Theater on Peachtree street,
which is managed by Mr. Oldknow.- will
be closed all of Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs,Lawton,Taken Ill
At Reception, Dead
The funeral of Mrs. W. J. I^awton,
42, of No. 64 West Tenth street, who
died there Sunday after a paralysis
attack at the opening Saturday night
of the Atlanta Athletic Club, at East
Lake, was held Monday from the
home, the Rev. Richard Orme Flinn,
pastor of the North Avenue Presbyte
rian Church, conducting the services,
and the interment was in Westview
Cemetery. The pallbearers were
Judge E. C. Kontz. B. H. King, H. M.
Patterson. Sam T. Weyman, Henry
Ray and Charles Schane.
Mrs. Lawton was sitting in a group
of friends when she was seized. She
w’as given immediate assistance, and
later sent home In an automobile.
Surviving Mrs. Lawton are two
daughters. Misses Ruby and Lucille
Lawton, and a brother, J. Cliff Par
ker.
OBITUARY.
The funeral of Mrs. W. J. Lawton, 42,
who died Sunday at the home. No. 64
West Tenth street, was held there
Monday, the Rev. Richard Orme Flinn,
pastor of the North Avenue Presbyte
rian Church, officiating, and the in
terment was in Westview. The pall
bearers were Judge E. C. Kontz, B. H.
King. H. M. Patterson. Sam T. Wey
man, Henry Ray and Charles Schane.
Mrs. I^awton is survived by two
daughters, Misses Ruby and Lucille
Lawton, and a brother. J. Cliff Par
ker.
Mr*. R. Upchurch, 72. died at her home
at Fairburn, Ga.. Sunday evening.
She is survived by seven children,
John E., Lon and Will Upchurch, of
Atlanta; Edward anil Walter Up
church. of Texas: Robert Upchurch,
of Birmingham, and Mrs. A. W. Kil
patrick. of Atlanta. The funeral will
take place Tuesday at 11:30 o’clock.
Interment In the family burying
ground in Fairburn.
The funeral of Mrs. Bessie Dabney, 30,
who died Sunday night at the home,
No. H5 Courtland street, was held on
Monday from Poole’s and the body
was sent to Jonesboro for interment.
Mrs. I>abney is survived by her hus
band. 1. T. Dabney.
The funeral of B. L. Williamson, aged
56, of No. 998 Grant street, who died
Monday at a private sanitarium, will
he held Tuesday afternoon at 3
o'clock from Antioch Church, and
the interment will be In the church
yard. Mr. Williamson Is survived by
his wife, two sons, C. E. and Julius
Williamson, and five daughters. Mrs.
G. W. Rawson, Mrs. F. M. Hudson,
Misses Lois and Evelyn Williamson,
of Rome, and Mrs. Wesley Swann, of
Armuchee.
ATHENS, May 17.—It was true
irony of fate that sent Farmer Pat
ton. a leading Clarke County planter,
to Colonel Jof*eph M. Hodgson with a
protest that properly should have
been lodged with the Law and Order
League.
Farmer Patton had wme to Athens
to buy a lot of hay seed, and what he
saw was so positively shocking that
he ran to Colonel Hodgson.
"Did you see that lady going up
College avenue with her—with her
dress at her knees?”
”Oh, you must have seen some of
those college boys diked out.”
“No, I'm positive, Saw It with my
own eyes. There was another lady
walking with her.”
Colonel Hodgson assured Farmer
Patton that the pair were students
enjoying the pleasures of Initiation
into the university’s honorary socie
ty, the Sphinx Club, and that on? of
the Initiates was none other than his
own son, Hugh Leslie Hodgson,
dressed as an Indian maid.
Hugh finished his three days’ pil
grimage Sunday night at midnight,
and Monday was wearing the badge
of the order. He Is one of the few
university men Joining practically ev
ery worth while organization in col
lege, Including Sphinx. Senior Round
Table (literary). Junior Cabinet arid
Phi Beta Kappa (scholarship). In
addition, he is a leader in the Chi Psl
fraternity, manager of the champion
ship baseball team, and still up in the
singles and doubles tennis matches
now being fought. He has found
time to give numerous piano recitals
during the year.
WIFE CHARGES DESERTION.
Guy Seale, whose home Is said to
be in Chattanooga. Monday was made
defendant in a divorce suit filed by
Attorney Don. K. Johnston In behalf
of Mrs. Ida E. Seale. The wife charged
that Seale deserted her In Septem
ber, 1910.
American Refugees, ;
Besieged by Yaquis,]
Ready to Escape
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON. May 17.—Admiral
Howard to-day notified the Navy De-J
partment that the Americans who!
were besieged In the Yaqul Valley In
Mexico had concentrated on the rail
road and could leave at any momentj
if necessary. The Indians have with-j
drawn and the Admiral said there
was no cause for anxiety at present!
Officials of the Navy and State Dei
partments frankly were relieved when
the cablegram was received. They
admitted that it would have been nec
essary to send a landing p*rty of ma
rines and bluejackets in and to the
relief of the colonists had the situa
tion continued.
The cruisers New Orleans and Ra
leigh for the present will j-emain in
touch with Gua.Vmas, thl nearest
seaport to the scene of the battle,
SUMMER NORMAL OPENS JUNE t
VALDOSTA, May 17.—The sum
mer session of the Teachers’ Training
School at the South Georgia State
Normal College her will open June 1
for a session of four weeks.
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