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CONVENTION PLAYS POLITICS WITH BENCH
HARWELL MOVE FAILS; GAG ON DELEGATES
By DUDLEY GLASS.
CONVENTION HALL, MACON,
Sept. 26.—At 2 o'clock, when a re
cess was taken, it stood like this in
the State Democratic convention:
The convention was sure later in
the day to indorse the Wilson admin
istration, despite the personal appeal
and velled threat of Tom Watson.
The movement to kave the conven
tion indorse Dorsey’s campaign man
ager, Frank Harwell, for the Supreme
Court apparently was doomed to de
feat, although Hub Dean, of Gaines
ville, the eminent rallroad lawyer, in
sisted that the convention nominate.
Fclitical maneuvering of the most
obvious sort was thrown into the
matter of nominating three members
of the Court of Appeals, and it ap
peared likely that at least one of the
three candicates who polled the high
est unit votes in the primary is
doomed to defeat.
The machine in econtrol seemed to
have centered on John B. Hutcheson
for one of the places, Albert Howell,
of Atlanta, seconding the presenta
tion of his name, amid loud cheers.
Hutcheson ran fifth in the primary.
Stephens Being Frozen Out.
Alex Stephens, of Atlanta, who ran
second in the primary couldn't even
get a Fulton County delegate to nom
inate or second him.
Early in the proceedings a gag
was put on the possible trouble
makers by the adoption of the rule
that all resolutions should be sent to
committee before being read or de
bated.
Some of the Dorsey leaders had
endeavored to suppress the movement
to nominate Harwell for the Supreme
Court on the ground that it would em
barrass Mr. Dorsey, but their protests
were of no avail.
Chairman E. J. Reagan called
the convention to order at 10
o'clock. Every seat was filled and
the gallsry was overflowing. No cre
dentials had been demanded and it
appeared that any one who could find
a seat had the privilege of the house.
Only a dozen ladies were in the gal
lery. |
Hub Dean, of Gainesville, was on
his feet as soon as the opening prayer
was over and nominated J. R. Smith.:
of Atlanta, as temporary r‘halrmanr‘
It went throygh without a murmur.
Judge Reagan appointed a committee
to escort Mr, Smith to the chair., He!
began his keynote address, praising‘
Wilson and the national adminislru-‘
ticn
“Georgla has registered her declsion‘
in such a way that the world uut-i
side, no far as it may be interested,
can make no mistake as to Georgia's
position,” he said ,in beginning. “Oth
er States can not understand Geor- .
gia's problem.”
Gag Rule Adopted. |
The mention of Woodrow Wilson
was marked by cheers. Dorsey’'s name
was followed by continued cheering.
Rules governing the convention
were adopted. These provided that
all resolutions be sent to the resolu
tions committee without being read
or debated. This choked off any at
tempt by a minority delegates or a
Watson disturber to injett an unex
pected dispute into the proceedings.
The rule provided that delegates
must respect the votes of the coun
ties and cast the county unit vote for
the successful candidate in that coun
ty as long as his name should be be
fore the convention After that they
should vote their counties as they
desire,
The nomination for judges of the
Court of Appeals had tenth and last
place on the order of business,
Hiram . Gardner, of Eatonton, was
elected secretary. At this moment the
old order gave place to new, Chair
man Reagan and Secretary Massen
gale retiring from the scene and the
fleld. They took the back bench on
* the stage
W. E. Simmons, of Gwinnett, ob
l‘ Continued on Page 3, Column 1.
Indorsing Wilson Will
Be Insult to Me, Says
Watson in Circulars
MACON, Sept. 26.—Thomas E. Watson made a final personal appeal
to the delegates to the State convention today to repudiate the Wilson
¢ administration.
§ Early this morning circulars printed in Thomson and signed by
% Mr. Watson, of date of September 23, were distributed in the hotel cor
) ridors. Tt was entitleld “An appeal to honest, self-thinking white men
; in the Macon convention.” 2
3 In this circular Mr. Watson did not ask a direct repundiation of
2 Wilson and the Democratic administration, but urged, rather, that the
. convention refrain from any expression at all on national matters.
§ He said: “To indorse Wilson would stultify half the white men who
g voted for Dorsey.” He gave several reasons why Wilson should not be
indorsed, declaring “Finally, Wilson is no Democrat.” He said that
§ although the country counties had won the election for Dorsey, the “city”
¢ politicians were planning to control the convention, and that it was
; “their purpose to commit a nonpartisan Dorsey convention to an out
) of-place proposition which is meant to be an insult to me, and the enter
; ing wedge to the cordial relations between Dorsey and myself.”
An organized movement to bring
the cotton mill people of Georgia into
the church was being started at the
‘Wesley Memorial Church Tuesday,
when 50 members of the North Geor
-Bla Methodist Conference met there
to plan definite work among the op
eratives. .
The Rev. John 8. Jenkins, mission
ary secretary, presiding, said that the
mill population in the North Georgia
Conference is 80,000, and that only
from 8 to 20 per cent of these are
identified with any local church,
“We are not here to criticise the
mill people,” he said. “We could find
plenty for criticism on Peachtree
street. We only want to study a
plan whereby they wil come into the
church.”
Dr. John Moore, of Nashville, home
missions secretary, and D. E. Camak,
of Spartanburg, S. C., president of
the Textile Industrial Institute there,
are among those who will talk before
the conference Tuesday afternoon. It
will be in session through Tuesday
evening, and many of the visitors will
remain for the opening of Emory
University Wednesday morning.
. M. o e _". <" .
City Gets Verdict in
.
Mrs. Gunby Suit
A verdict in favor of the city Tues
day was recorded in Judge H. M.
Reid’'s division of the City Court in
the $66,000 suit of Mrs. Elinor H.
Gunby for damage alleged to have
been done her property in Whitehall
street by the changing of the street
grade some time ago. The case re
quired more than a week to be tried.
and was one of the hardest fought
ever brought against the city,
The city was represented by City
Attorney Mayson and Assistant City
Attorney Hewlett, while Dorsey,
Brewster, Howell & Heyman appear
ed for Mrs. Gunby.
Now—
About That
Real Estate
—What is it you wish?
—to buy? Lots of good property advertised to-day.
—to sell? Lots of people advertising for purchases.
—-to exchange? Just look at the opportunities under
‘““Real Estate For Exchange,”’ a few pages over,
All this—and more—on’ the subject of Real Estate
in today's—in every day’s—issue of The
. .
Georgian- American
~the big Real Estate and Want Ad Directory of
Atlanta.
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= The First Regiment of Infantry,
iNational Guard of North Carolina, lo
\cated at Camp Glenn, near Morehead
‘(‘lty, since June 25, rolled into the
Union Statign Tuesday at noon In
three trains, on their way to Fort
Bliss, El, Paso, Texas, for service
along the Mexican border. They
marched in battalion formation from
the Union Station to the Terminal
Station, where they caught the At
lanta and West Point for the trip to
the Southwest,
The regiment is made up of approx
imately 1,100 men, and is in charge of
Brigadier General L. W. Young. The
colonel of the regiment is J. T. Gard
ner, and the battalion chiefs are Ma-
Jor R. L. Flanagan, of the First; Ma
jor W. R. Robertson, of the Second,
and Major James H. Howell, of the
Third.
Colonel Gardner declared that the
Second and Third Regiments have
been ordered to the border by the
War Department and are due to leave
at once, although they probably will
not pass through Atlanta.
A large crowd of Atlantans gath
ered at the Union Station to cheer
the Tarheels as they clambered down
from the dusty coaches. The first
train contained fifteen coaches, pack
ed with 550 soldier lads in Xhaki. The
captain and bugler alighted first, the
bugler sounded a blast on his trum
pet, and the men fell into line and
marched into Wall street, where they
awaited the other units. Each of the
other two trains carried approximate
ly 300 officers and men, all of whom
have been recruited in or around
Asheville, All are in fine shape and
eager to get into war maneuvers or
more exciting pastimes,
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1916. eo o 3 CENT~ 57 3¢ 3075
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BRITISH AND FRENCH
RACE INTO COMBLES
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Southeast Georgia Plans to Get‘
Money for Extension Inde- |
pendent of State. |
i Upon the decision by Governor Har
ris Tuesday not to call a special ses
sion of the General Assembly at this
‘timé to authorize a bond issue to
!flnanoe the extension of the Western
and Atlantic Railrcad from Atlanta to
the sea, a movement was started to
get the proposed extension financed by
Savannah and Southwest Georgia in
terests without monetary aid from the
State. |
The decision of the Governor elimi- |
nates the present propositions of the
Hillyer syndicate and of J. A. J. Hen
derson, president of the Ocilla South<‘
ern Railroad. Their proposals de
pended on Stute bonds for funds. |
It was this condition that caused
Thomas Purse, secretary of the Sa
vannah Board of Trade, to declare
that upon his return to Savannah he
would urge the financial interests
there to extend the State road on
their own resources. He said there
was a chance that Savannah business
men might undertake the proposition.
Call on Governor,
Mr. Purse and Willam Hurd Hill
yer called on the Governor at the
Capitol Tuesday and urged him to call
a special session of the General As
sembly to take up the matter,
“I have every desire to protect the
interests of the Western and Atlan
tic,” sald Governor Harris. “If it was
shown there was an emergency need
for an extension, I would call the spe
clal session for it at this time
“There is no guarantee that the bill
would pass. There is no guarantee
the people would vote the bonds at an
election. And there is no guarantee
that the 1917 Legislature would ratify
the election and order the bond issue.
“The last session of the General
Assembly refused to pass such a bill.”
Under the form of advertisement for
bids drawn by the commission, Sa
vannah, Brunswick or any other port
In Georgia could organize a syndicate
and bid on an extension., While the
emendmen! to the Western and At
lantic act authorized the commission
to consider a proposition for an ex
tension to Jacksonville, the commis
slon has eliminated this port in the
form of bids for this project. The
corhmission took the position that it
would not consider an extension be
yond the State, as the property owned
in Chattanooga has already caused
Georgia much trouble
Lawyer Has Defiance.
The declaration of deflance issued
by the Cincinnati Southern Railway
to the State to enforce the act re
pealing the right of way from Boyce
to Chattapooga is in the hands of W,
A. Wimbish, counsel for the re-leas-
Ing commission Recommendations
for procedure with this matter will be
made by Mr. Wimbish at the next
meeting
The Cincinnati Southern proposi
tion will be dealt with along the same
line as other encroachments on the
State's property, . Murphey Can
dler, chairman of the Western and
Atlantic commission, suggested. The
right of way from Boyce to Chatta
-looga is one«Aifth of the State's prop.-
Continued on Page 2, Column 7.
Overton, Accused of Murder of
'
Alabama Judge, Identified as
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Tennessee Prisoner. |
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. Sept. 26.—
David D. Overton, former Circuit
Clerk of Madison County, and once
ia North Alabama political luq;;. is
iat last under arrest after a“ search
| which lasted since June 17, the day
i that he disappeared from Huntsville
and the body of Probate Judge W. T.
Lawler was found in a slough near
the Tennessee River, |
uUverton was arrested at Smithville, |
Tenn., this morning and promptly ad-‘
mitted that he had been Circuit Clerk
|uf Madison County and had opposed
!.ll'dge Lawler for the probate judge
ship.
| When the news reached his former
zhume excitement was stirred, as it
;ha.s not been since the day that the
‘mur(lered official was discovered. An
i:llll(lnll)bil(f. driven by Chief of Police
| Dias, accompanied by John Lawler,
' brother te the dead judge, hurried to
éSmithville. There Overton was com
!nlr-ie!,\' identified, though he is much|
i thinner than he was when he disap-l
| peared.
! Outbreak To Be Avoided.
| It is announced that requisition pa
pers will be asked immediately hy‘
Governor Henderson, of Alalmmn,mn”
| in the meantime Overton wil be taken
’tn Nashville to await the action of
if‘;n\ ernor Rye on the Alabama Execu
| tive's request,
On the request of the Madison
County officials, it is believed that
when requisition is granted Overton
iwfll be taken to Montgomery for safe.
keeping, it being the general beljef
l?hnt his presence In Huntsville would
!h» the cause of bitter feeling and a
probable outhreak
The murder of Judge Lawler and
the subsequent disappearance of Over.
.1. n and the suicide of two prominent
| Madison County men who had been
in ore or less talked about in the case
| form one of the startling chapters
ir’n Alabama's criminal history,
l After a campaign of the bitterest
rature last spring, Lawler was nom{-
In:nml to succeed himself as Probate
Judge over Overton
Vanished During Inquiry,
Shortly afterward charges of elec
tion corruption were brought. While
| these charges were being investigated
|by the Madison Grand Jury, Jurlxo“
| Lawler disappeared. Two days after
his disappearance an anonymous tele. l
‘y-:«m‘.:- message led the authorities to
| search the Whitesburg slough, There
' the body of the judge was found,
| welighted to the bottom. He had been |
| struck an shot |
| Overton disappeared at this Hm.,l
Lln rapid succession Sherifr l'MHlpnr!
ju hose name had been connected with |
| the case, and Shelby Pleasants, one of
| the most prominent North Alabama
| lawyers, who had also been mention
led, ended thelr own lives
l There is a SI,OOO reward for Over
l“," 8 Capture
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{ Forecast—Fair tonight nndg
‘5 Wednesday.
|4 Temperatures—6 a. m, 64; l;
:‘ a.m, 72; 10 a. m,, 77; 12 noon, 80;
IX p. m., 82; 1 p. m, 83,
Ii Sunrise, 5:29; sunset, 5:30,
All Artillery Record
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Shattered by Allies;
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By CHARLES F. BERTELLI,
Staff Correspondent of the International News Service.
BEHIND THE SOMME LINES, Sept. 26.—For the past
three days and nights, Generals Koch and Haig have beaten all
artillex"y records in this war. There has been scarcely an in
~ stant’s respite,
Hundreds of tons of explosives have battered miles of
trenches into shapeless masses, and villages which last week
were more or less intact, no longer exist. Hundreds of miles
of zigzag communicanitg trenches have been flattened,
The whole German front line has been isolated along a
front of some fifteen to twenty miles. Barleux, Strepign,
Fresnes, Morval and Rancourt have been blotted out by the
French fire.
Combles is only a name. Practically every railroad depot
feeding the Teutons in the immediate rear has been destroyed
and more than ten munitions stores have been blown up and a
great number of batteries destroyed. All this was largely the
work of the aviators who are swarming thick in the air.
‘I was present at the whole of the Verdun and the Somme
battles,”” an artillery officer said, ‘‘but I never witnessed such
a cannonade. There can be few living Germans within our
range.”’
Yesterday evening for twelve miles behind the battle front
the glow was so appaling the whole world seemed aflame. At
this moment there are no infantry attacks,
F. Hit b
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Train; Mule
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FAIRBURN, Sept. 26.—0. . How
ard, a farmer, married and with a
family, living near here, .was struck
by a traln this morning at the Atlan
ta and West Point Railroad crossing
of the Jonesboro road, and probably
fatally Injured. His left leg was
broken, his side gashed, and he suf
fered internal injuries
Howard was driving a mule to a
one-horse wagon, returning home aft
er sclling a bale of cotton. The mule
had drawn the wagon safely across
the track, but Howard, panicky from
the excitement, jumped and landed
in front of the engine.
The traln stopped and Howard was
taken abonrd and carcied to New nan,
where he was placed in a hospital,
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Klotz, Wanted in
Waycross, Arrested
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—Charles Klotz,
35 years old, sald to be under indict
ment in Waycross, Ga., on two charges
of larceny, was arrested here today
and is held by the Chicago police
pending word from the Waycross au
thorities,
Fort Worth Keeps
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Texas County ‘Wet
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Sept. 26,
All but complete returns indicated to
day that Tarrant County had voted
wet by a majority of about 1,400, The
couny voted dry, but Fort Worth piled
up enough wet votes to decide the re
sult,
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LONDON, Sept. 26, ~Undaunted by
the loss of two Zeppelins 48 hours
earlier, the Germans made another
raid over England last night and
early today, killing 29 persons.
General French, commander-in
chief of the home forces, reported the
casualty list today,
A number of houses were wrecked,
but the aerial invaders were unable
to get near industrial centers because
of the high-angle fire and the attacks
of British airmen,
Seven Zeppelins took part in the
rald, according to an official an
nouncement, and two separate areas
were attacked, one In the northeast
€rn counties and the other in the
southern countlies,
Many bombs were dropped, but
Zeppelins have begun to lose their
power to terrify since three have
been shot down,
Seventy-four persons were killed
and 152 wounded in the Zeppelin raids
over England on Saturday and Mon
day nights, according to a revised!
casualty list issued Ly the War Of
fice this afternoon, The damage was
slight,
The Zeppelins brought down dur
ing the first rald were the L-32 and
L~33, one belng shot down by an
aviator and the other by high angle
fire. Both were of the latest and big
gest (ype
Thir‘y-eight were killed and 125 in-
Jured in Saturday’s rald and 36 were
killed and 27 hurt in the uoolv raid,
[ BY SYDNEY B. CAVE,
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service.
LONDON, Sept, 26.—Smashing
their way forward in a series of joint
asraults, the Allies have won a big
victory on the Somme front by pene
trating the important town of Com
bles. Desperate hand-to-hand fight-
Ing is now raging in the streets be
tween the Anglo-French troops and
the remnants of the German garri
son.
The British already have brought in
1,600 more German prisoners, and
more are arriving at the collecting
stations.
Attacking the German positions si.
multaneous!ly from the north and
south, the British and French wvied
with each other to be the first to an
ter Combles, the honor falling to Gen
eral Haig's men. However, the
French were able to occupy flfi
scuthern outskirts and Combles cem
etery, on the eastefn edge of town. To
the east of Combles the Germans were
rolled back from fortified villages
which they strove stubbornly to hold,
By the capture of Fregicourt, a mile
east of Combles, by the French, the
Allies forged a steel ring around the
town and cut the only line of com
munications that the Germans still
held. The Germans tried unsuccess
fully to lessen the pressure on the
Somme front by attacking south of
Bethune, but these attacks were res
pulsed
On the eastsrn front the Russians
are again flying in great masses of
troops against the Germans and Aus.
tro-Hungarian positions and violent
pbattlies have developed, particularly In
the Carpathians
Savage fghting continues at many
points along the battle line in Greek
Macedonia, On the western end of
this front the Bulgarians made strong
counter attacks which the French,
Russian and Serblans have cheked.
In add!tion to sky actions over the
battie front, both the Allies and Gep
mans carried out raids, British alp
men hombarded Central Belgium, and
the Germans again attacked England
with Zeppelins, killing 29 people.
The revsolutionary movement in
Greece is spreading and now extends
to Corfu The commander of the
(Greek garrison at Corfu deserted his
post and has gone to Saloniki to join
the revolutionaries
Combles Abandoned,
Germans Announce
BERLIN, Sept. 26.-Combles, one
of the three prineipal German bases
on the Somme, has been virtually
abandoned by the army of the Bava
rian Crown Prince In admiting nm-'
clally the conquest by the Allles of
the villages on the Gueudecourts
Bouchavesnes lines, the German War
Office prepared the public for the loss
of Combles
The offilal admission of the latest
reverse on the Somme !s coupled with
Continued on Page 2, CQ'MMO“.