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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
MONDAY. JT’NF 3. IV*.
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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THE GEORGIAN COMES TO
GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE
"It Is Indeed a desirable thing to be well de*
ecended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”
—Plutarch.
Mr. Alexander and Mr. Fleming.
The Honorable Hooper Alexander contributes to our
columns today his reasons for protesting against Mr.
Floating's speech at Athens. ,
And Mr. Alexander's reasons are always both Inter
esting and Important We commend them to due con
sideration.
They do not, however, convince us that Hr. Fleming
hns been guilty of either unfairness or Impropriety. Ills
speech and Its theme were decided upon long before
the disfranchisement question became so "acute” In
Georgia pollUcs as it Is today, and wo repeat that the
Judgment and tact of Walter Illll and Wllllnm Fleming
In that hour were much more likely to be Impartial
end correct than the Judgment of Hooper Alexander,
the honest but fiery partisan of this hour.
It Is our apprehension that Mr. Alexander In his
eager championship of a candidate Is Inclined to magnify
in this matter the fortunes of tlje candidate to the sub-
ordination of the Issues of the campaign. The success
or failure of Mr. Hoke Smith or of Mr. Clark Howell In
the campaign Is not a matter of approximate Importance
to the greater question whether negro disfranchisement
and revised freight rates shall prevail.
The Issue of disfranchisement Is Indeed "acute,”
but Its very "acuteness' demands tho dissemination ‘ of
every honest view and of every essential fact that can
btf put before the people to clarify their vision and to
simplify their votes. If a gentleman of approved public
character like Mr. Fleming believes that grave public
dangers front the people and the state In certain advo
cated policies, we do not recognise any presumption or
Impropriety In his seeking a great free, Impartial plat
form on which to present bis views moro deliberately
and Impartially than he could speak to a partisan au
dience upon a political platform.
The Idea that a man should be shut out from one
of the two or three Impartial platforms of the state,
simply because he does not agree with everybody upon
an "acute" political Issue, Is a new one, and not In accord
with the spirit and traditions of our fathers.
If Mr. Fleming's argument Is so strong that It cannot
be answered—and this we by no means believe—then
tho state is fortunate In having beard that argument In
a clear and tranquil atmosphere and before a non
partisan company of patriotic voters. We have before
declared that the crying need of the times was such a
platform on which to dlsouss great Issues, unblended
by passion and unclouded by prejudice.
Mr. Fleming spoke perhaps to six hundred people
out of 2,600,000 In the state. The newspapers carried
a small and trivial part of that speoch to the public.
The Constitution, as the organ of Mr. Howell, naturAlly
collected that smalt section which seemed especially to
ngree with Mr. Howell's position. Mr. Fleming's speech
can be answered by Mr. Moke Smith or Mr. Hoofer
Alexander at any time In Athens within this two months
to an audience equally as large and much moro repre
sentative of voters gathered upon the mere announce
ment of replying, and the newspapers will herald and
summarise the answer Just as widely and fully all over
the state as they did Mr. Fleming's speech. The mere
fact of Mr. Fleming's speech on this Impartial platform,
and the comment which has been aroused by tho criti
cism of it, will arouse greater Interest In the question
and In the answer to it, and advertise any speech or
article that may be offered In reply. And so the agitation
awakens the voter and educates him.
There waf nothing to prevent any man from speak
ing on the other side of the question on the university
platform, and It la not the fault of Mr. Fleming, but
the misfortune of the other side of the question that
nobody cared to do so.
So far from Mr. Fleming's speech shutting out the
hearing of both sides of the question, tt simply creates
a greater desire to hear both sides.
The significant and conclusive fact of all Is that while
the arguments of Mr. Smith and Mr. Howell and the
other candidates upon the hustings have not made any
especial sensation at any time because of the partisan
and personal advocacy, this one Impersonal argument
upon this one Impartial platfor mhas created more com
ment than any other utterance of the summer, and It Is
so far from being an argument against free speech at
the university commencement It makes us regret that
there are not other commencements and other orators to
lift this great and transcendent question out of the mists
and miasma of personal politics, and to set It dsarly
before this thinking people from those grtat Impersonal
and Impartial platforms devoted to education and to truth
as they see IL
We stand for such free, brave platforms. We don't
sec where we are to get them If the college and univer
sity chapels are to ba dosed to the discussion of the
great questions, however acute, that vitally concern the
state. ,
Such a discussion with boundless freedom of treat
ment was permitted to the editor of The Georgian upon
the same great question upon the great platform of the
University of Chicago In 1202. and we have good reason
to believe that the truths told upon that ocoaslon have
borne the golden fruit of a better understanding of our
Southern prohlems among all the people of this country.
Let us suggest to Mr. Alexander that a better thing
than his crltldsm of Mr. Fleming's use of the university
platform would be a challenge to Mr. Fleming to debate
disfranchisement from their separate viewpoint! on
some public platform In Atlanta. We confidently believe
that Mr. Alexander can answer Mr. Fleming completely
and we are entirely sure that all this unnecessary p:4>-
test over free speech at the university will result In
giving these two able and honest Georgians an audience
of wider scope and of keener Interest than Mr. Fleming
had st Athens.
country may enjoy the economic blessing of tho parcels
post Ths agitation In favor of It, wliilo hot persist
ently pursued, will continue until this rational reform
Is established.
If the tremendous amount o» public documents sent
through the malls by members of congress were once
excluded, together with a large number of publications
which undoubtedly have no right to a second-claBs rate,
the postoffleo department would be well-nigh self-sus
taining, and then the powers that be would find them
selves In a position to give some attention to the
parcels post.
It should be regarded as a logical sequence of the
extension of tho rural free delivery, which has done
so much for the people who live In the country, and
that step forward has given encouragement to tho
friends of the parcels post.
This reform Is no mere experiment It has worked
well In England and there Is aisolntely no reason why
It should not work well In this county.
'incidentally tt may be mentioned that the Universal
Postal Union, which recently convened In Rome, has
ordered a substantial reduction In letter postage by In
creasing the unit of weight. This reduction will become
effective on October 1, 1907. The unit Is to be Increased
from fifteen to twenty grams! and while the postage on
the first twenty grams Is to remain at five cents, every
additional twenty grams Is to be at the rate of three
cents.
This Is Indeed a substantial reduction.
Great Britain and the United States urged that the
unit of weight for them should be fixed at one ounce.
as"1t would be a difficult matter for them to express
the equivalent weight of twenty grams, as they have
not adopted the metric system as yet, and this request
was granted.
This will give the two great countries exceptionally
low rates for the exchange of letters. Under the reduoed
rates a letter to Great Britain will cost five cents for
the first ounce and three cents tor the second ounce,
or eight cents for two ounces. In other words, when the
new rates become effective a letter packet weighing
six ounces can be sent to Great Britain at the rate now
charged for a two-ounce packet.
This reduction Id the International postal rates will
mean a great deal for the American people, but the
crying need In the jnatter of postal reform Is the estab
lishment of the parcels post. .It wilt broaden the field
of our great commercial houses, and will make shopping
by mall an easy snd convenient method.
A prominent member of the senate once said that
there were seven reasons why the law could not be
passed—and. they wore tho seven great express com
panies In this country. They are naturally opposed to
It and will continue to work against It, but before long
the people of the country may rise up and assert them
selves and demand the establishment of the parcels ptvt.
Lord, send us a Rowland HUH
Attorney General Moody will get all the moral sup
port he wants In bis effort to put the Standard Oilers
In Jail.
i
The rebate rascals would get something like what Is
tuning to them If they were compelled to read The
Congressional Record right straight through. »
The Debate at Rome.
Piecing things together out of the wreck of fact and
the riot of assertion which rages through the partisan col
umns of the two Sunday morning newspapors, and relying
upon the Impartial representation of our own spoclal cor
respondent, The Georgian has derived tho Impression that
Mr. Clark Howell acquitted himself much better at Rome
than he did In Atlanta, and that he Is fully entitled to
this statement at our hands.
Our correspondent, Mr. John Reece, who went to
Rome,. Is thoroughly reliable, accurate of habit and train
ing, and Is an advocate of neither of the gentlemen who
engaged In debate on Saturday.
From the coincidence of the reports, where they do
happen marvelously enough to coincide In The Journal
snd The Constitution, as well as from Mr. Reece's accu
rate and Impartial advices, it may be said that Mr. How
ell's effort at Rome was bettor than either his Columbus
or Atlanta speech, and gave moro Just satisfaction to bis
friends than any meeting be has yet had with Mr. Smith.
The equilibrium was more nearly maintained.
It Is also evident from the concurrent reports, that
the debate was pitched on a much higher plane of dignity
and courtesy than any which have preceded it, and this
Is a matter of general congratulation to the friends of
both parties, and of decent politics In the state. If the
repeated and Insistent appeals of The Georgian to this
end have had any effect upon this happy result, we are
richly repaid for the time and the pains which It has
taken us to make thorn.
It may also be said from the records that Mr. Howell
most happily departed in this debate from the habit of
giving the greater part of his time to the discussion of
personalities, and devoted himself during a much larger
period than heretofore to the discussion of at least one
of the great Issues of the campaign, and while we differ
from Mr. Howell's conclusions upon the disfranchisement
Issue, we reel that, having repeatedly criticised him for
the preponderance of the personal objection In his plan of
campaign, that It Is nothing less than our pleasure and
privilege to commend him for the ract that he has seen
fit to change this policy and -to base his campaign more
upon Issues than It has ever been placed before.
It makes nc difference whether Mr. Howell has been
convinced by our arguments along this line, or whether he
has adopted this policy upon a second thought of his own,
It Is a wise and proper policy, and will unquestionably
add dignity to bis canvass and to his repute.
Whenever we can reach the plane of fair, fearless
and courteous discussion In great political campaigns, we
may be sure that the people will be happier and the gov
ernment more safe.
Upton Sinclair Is working as a day laborer under an
assumed name to get some more Important data. Speak
kindly to the new hired man. ,He may be a muck-raker
In disguise.
“Appreciative But Not Satisfied.” ,
The attitude of the Travelers' Protective Associa
tion toward the recent concession of the railroads In
the matter of mileage books is expressed In the four
words of Chairman R- A. Broyles, which read: “Appre
ciative but not saUsfied."
The traveling men feel that some concession has
been made them and this they appreciate, but they do
not feel that they have received a fair proportion of what
they asked or a proper share of what their claims de
serve.
Mr. Broyles bases his further argument to the rail
roads upon the same foundation as that on which the
editor of The Georgian spoke and wrote In behalf of the
commercial travelers, and that foundation we believe
to be solid and unassailable—the right to purchase any
commodity cheaper In wholesale than in retail quantities.
Neither the railroads nor any form of business un
der the sun will protest this general principle and tho
right of a man who buys from two to ten thou Hand mllca
of transportation to obtain that transportation cheaper
than tho man who buys only a hundred or one hundred
and fifty miles Is perfectly clear and apparent to every
fair minded man in the city or tho state.
The most colld, permanent and steadily profitable
patrons of the railroads are the drummers. Not only in
the matter of their own transportation, but In the routing
of the vast shipments which their orders produce, they
make up a magnificent part of the revenues and profits
of every railroad In tho state, and we confess that public
sentiment will share In part the disappointment of these
commercial travelers that their full demands were not
conceded as they have been In almost every similar por
tion of these United States.
Mr. Broyles makes an admirable point on the railroad
when be calls attention to the fact that baseball clubs
of a dozen mm; that theatrical companies In number
from ten to fifty; and that every convention or group
of prominen. citizens are given cheaper rates than the
drummers are clamoring for at tbo present time, and this,
notwithstanding tho fact that these men produce no busi
ness to follow In their wake, that they come at rare In
tervals, and that frequently extra expense Ib Incurred In
handling them by putting on extra service or equipment
for their trips. ,
The Inconsistency In this treatment seems evident,
and we trust that tho action of the passenger agents last
week Is but a preliminary step toward the concession
in full of tho reasonable and well Justified demands
which have been made upon the transportation compa
nies.
Mr. Longworth In knickerbockers looked very well
He bad been dancing attendance so long' that his silk
stockings were well rounded out
A Battle Anniversary.
Tomorrow, tho 26th Instant, Is the forty-fourth an
niversary of the beginning of the Seven Days’ Battle
near Richmond, Va.
Georgia was represented by thirty-eight regiments
of Infantry, eight artillery- companies and two regiments
of cavalry. On this occasion General Lee's army num
bered 80,000 men and General McClellan's army num
bered 120,000 men, Including ten regiments of regular
United States Infantry, .numerous regular United States
batteries of artillery and one regiment of cavalry.
Being the attacking - party, the Confederates lost
nearly 20,000 men, and the Federal army, though pro
tected by strong fldld fortifications, lost 16,249 men. The
Georgia troops lost 3,374 men. One regiment alone, the
Forty-fourth, mustered 514 men and left 335 men on
the field of battle.
How little thought the youth of our day give to the
history of the period during the early sixties, when the
civilised world regarded In amazed ‘wonder the stu
pendous struggle and fearful losses of both Anierlcan
armies.
Few, It any, people In the world's history ever
Illustrated such bravery and endurance.
Justice for Dreyfus at Last.
A little paragraph, which thus far has attracted no
particular attention, announces that the French court
which has had the matter under consideration, has-de
cided to grant a new trial to Captain Dreyfus, and the
celebrated case which kept Europe In a turmoil for near
ly twelve years Is to be resumed.
It will come as a surprise to many people to learn
that Captain Dreyfus was never acquitted, such Is the
brevity of men's memories. They know that the cap
tain Is frv. after having had a second trial, that he did
not go back to Devil's Island, and they assumed that he
was acquitted.
But such was by no means the case, and It has
been one of the longest, most dramatic struggles for the
vindication of a good name In the history of the world,
by which Captain Dreyfus, whose sword was broken In
the court yard of the Ecote. Militalre on January 4, 1895,
has sought to secure Justice.
Most of his friends and enemies alike are dead,
Zola, the terrible protagonist of the convicted man—the
author of the "J’accuse" documents which were so bitter
that they brought about his exile, has gone to his long
reward. Many of the perjurers and forgers who wove
their net-work of lies about Dreyfus, killed themselves
or have since died a natural death. The whole affair has
almost passed from the minds of men.
But Dreyfus has never rested since the day when
his case was reopened and he was brought back from
his living death. The courtmartlal at Rennes, during
the month of August, 1899, resulted In a verdict of guilty,
with mitigating circumstances. Dreyfus was sentenced
to ten years pdnal servitude, the amount of time he had
served to be deducted from the sentence. The members
of the court martial united In a recommendation to
mercy and on September 29, 1899, he was pardoned by
President LoubeL
But Dreyfus was not content with a pardon. He
demanded a vindication, and he has been struggling for
It ever since. Esterhazy confessed that the bordereau,
on which Dreyfus was convicted, was a forgery which
he had made at the Instigation of a superior officer, and
all the evidence produced at the Rennes courtmartlal
was of the flimsiest character. Everyone knew that the
army was but protecting Itself, after Its own fashion, by
convicting the defendant, and no one believed him
guilty.
So he took advantage of the liberty .accorded him by
his pardon to secure a vindication. 8lx years have
elapsed since he was given his freedom, and ever since
that time he has been endeavoring to secure a new
trial
The unpretentious little telegram of last Friday in
dicates that hts desire has been granted and that he
will .be heard once more In order that the stigma which
resta on his dame may be wiped out forever.
The devotion of the prisoner’s wife and brother, as
well as the Interest of Zola, Maltre Labor! and others,
furnished a few bright spots In the shadowy picture of
the man's life, and those who are yet living among his
friends have never deserted him.
That lie will be acquitted there cab be - no doubt.
Th% odium will be placed where It belongs and the
French army, Instead of one of Its despised captains, will
stand disgraced before the world.
MR. ALEXANDER CRITICISES MR. FLEMING.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I dissent from your position In regard to Mr. Flem-
Ing's speech last Tuesday, and I do so with a respect tor,
Mr. Fleming quite as profound as your own, and a per-'
sonal friendship for him fully as warm as yours.
I have nothing to say as to any question of mere-
good taste on bis part. In making the speech. That Is a
personal matter with which I have neither the right nor
the desire to meddle. But there Is a question back of
that which I conceive affects the rights of the citizens
of Georgia and the alumni of the university.
The disfranchisement question Is an acute present
Issue In Georgia politics upon which the citizens who
support the university differ, and oo which the alumni
differ. Any citizen holding views on the subject has the
right to express them In his own time and place, but
when he Is given the sole opportunity to speak from the
rostrum of tho university and at the annual eommence-
m<-nt, it Is a distinct violation of tin* rights of his fellow
citizens and his fellow alumni to take advantage of the
occasion to promulgate views which cannot be answered
upon equal terms.
Mr. Fleming has infercntially justified this invasion
of the equal rights of bis fellows by n vague reference
to free speech, and The Georgian reinforces the plea by
asserting that •
"The university rostrum is or ought to be one of the
great free platforms of the state."
Precisely so, Mr. Editor, but how Is It a free plat
form when but one side Is permitted voice there?
In tho very nature of things. It Is impossible at tho
commencement to give a hearing to both sides. There
fore when the alumni, among whom there are acute dif
ferences of opinion, invite one of their number to ad
dress them at their annual convocation, every consider
ation demands that he abstain from making the occasion,
on the very eve of batUo. an Instrumentality for giving
the slightest advantage to one aide over the other upon
an issue which they have laid aside for the time being.
In order to renew the filial and fraternal memories of
youth. *
To make an address for or against either side on
such an occasion Is no vindication of the right of free
speech. It Is a suppression of free speech. It is not an
assertion but a denial of that great right
Mr. Editor, both you and Mr. Fleming Infercntially
admit the wrong of which I complain. Mr. Fleming says
In his card to The Jourffa! that he mentioned no manjs
name, and you say that the discussion Is all right
“So long as the dlscussI6n steers clear of personal
allusion or partisan alignment, os this discussion
ran.”
Both of you thus admit that partisan advocacy at
such a time and place is wrong. But both of you deny
that Mr. Fleming thus offended.
Such a subject, Mr. Editor, cannot be discussed In
Georgia In Juno, 1906, without being partisan. Mr.
Fleming might Just as well have argued from the univer
sity rostrum that Georgia towns have fair freight rates
or that the state has no right to regulate them. The
one argument would have been no more partisan than
the other.
Moreover, Mr. Editor, you are both unfortunate to
your assertions as to the personal quality of the speech.
It Is quite true, as a mere literal technicality, that Mr.
Fleming, as he said, “called no man’s name,” but Mr.
Fleming Is a man of too much frankness to deny that he
meant Hoke Smith when he spoke of “prominent lead
ers, openly announcing, etc.,’’ and ho will be equally
frank to admit that all that portion of his speech which
referred to disfranchisement by state legislation was an
argument, and was Intended as an argument, against
tho platform upon which Hoke-Smith Is now running.
And when that admission Is made, how can you say, Mr.
Editor, that this discussion was “free from personal al
lusion or partisan alignment?” There were nearly three
columns of nonpareil type In The Constitution report
of this speech that was a distinct and avowed argument
against the position of a prominent candidate' for gov
ernor, and with exact personal references.
And this, Mr. Editor, was from the university ros
trum, without opportunity for-reply, and distinctly
charged on all of us who differ with Mr. Fleming, the
Instinct of Injustice and the purpose to defraud.
Upon this subject I Bay that Mr. Fleming had no
right to make such accusations or such argument at such
a tlmo and' from the university rostrum.
I say moreover, that both he and The Georgian
gravely misunderstand what “free speech” Is, If you
call that free speech. And the want of freeness in it
Is the more manifest when the opposition candidate for
governor headed a committee to select next year's or
ator, and they chose such a man as Dr. Hadley, of Yale.
These things do noUcommlt the university to f^ee
speech. They bind tho voice and suppress free speech.
Mr. Fleming had the right to speak from his own ros
trum alone, or challenge an adversary to debate the
question, and either course would have been .within bis
right, but when he-made a political argument from the
university rostrum to which his adversaries could not
reply, he wronged them.
I do not say these things because I consider the ar
gument likely to Injure the cause he attacked. I have
no doubt In the world that that cause Is going to suc
ceed. Mr. Fleming made Just as good an argument on
the subject, os can be made, and his personal character
Is high enough to give It all the weight It deserves, but
It will fall. The people of Georgia have made up their
minds and they are going to eliminate the negro as far
as possible from politics, and I think they are right, and
so far as that question is concerned I care nothing about
Mr. Fleming's speech.
But I do care for the university and I do love fair
play and free speech, and because I love the university
and free speech, and because I respect and esteem Mr.
Fleming, and because I am his friend, I take advantage
now of this Occasion to protest against the university .
rostrum being ever again made the-partisan advantage
of one political faction.
HOOPER ALEaANDER.
JUOGE REID INDORSE8 "BREATHING 8PACE8.”
Editor of The Georgian:
More than for anything else In your editorial record
In this city, brilliant as It has been and Is, you jleservo
credit and commendation. In my judgment, for your per
sistent and unremitting Insistence on breathing places
for the people. Skyscrapers are all right; let them reach
the sky! Walls of brick and mortar and marble and
Iron, bespeak wealth and prosperity and commerce, and
they make loyal citizens proud and Intensify the At
lanta spirit of Atlantans, but the real beauty and aspira
tion of lift must be found in nature—It can never be
found anywhere else. Why not keep the woods with us
and let the trees and the grass and the birds and even
the murmuring Insects and. In tbe necessary absence
of the rippling brooks, artificial fountains teach us tho
happy, bright lessons of life and cuggest the more sol- .
emn thoughts of destiny. No people were ever great who
left nature; no people were ever spiritually refined, to
whom it was denied to see the stars through overarching
branches of tbe trees, and who have not heard In the soft.
twilight, as evening melts Into night, the myriad-voices
with which. In harmonious lullaby, the setting sun puts
ttiA sintr te\ slonn
the day to sleep.
Sentiment may not make money, but it alone makes
life worth living, and all things that contribute most to
Its proper development should be nurtured and encour
aged. And besides, If so called practical minds demand
practical considerations, these same breathing places
will add more to the health of the city, or as much at
least, than any other similar regulation.
. Keep the fight going. Our city fathers will finally
see its wisdom and multiply small parks, to the beauty
and the prosperity of the city. Very truly,
H. M. REID.
June 21, 1906.
TO A HUMMING BIRD.
(By J. Vlvloa.)
Whence, spirit bright, that touchest even fiow’ra
With dainty protest, nectar graceful scorning?
Thou seemest not a thing of time; thine hours
8eem measureless by evening or by morning.
What eve and morning, linked, thine advent numbers?
What eve can close thy superfine career?
Time's nice alembic, yet, distills a tear
For thee as all, In love of cosmic weal.
To gem unfound doth tear of thine.congeal?
In the mute night, while thy wee plumage .slumbers.
Ah, whither Bits thine astral? Can ll be
.More exquisitely patbed, more rare, than thee.
That feed'st on flow’r-dealt fragrance, poised free;
That turn’st, disdainful, back the great sun's ray
From thy rich breast, more brightly various-gay?
Cholly
Knickerbocker
Gossips About
People.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, Juno 25.—Bishop Henry
C. Potter lines not agree with Uncle
Russell Sage on the vacation ques
tion. He believes that even the preach
ers are entitled to their summer rest.
He declares:
"It tlie city rector does not take his
summer vacation of three, four, sis
or eight weeks, lie will go mad or he
will deteriorate Into what his con
stituents least desire, a mere machine.
• The rector may carry on a work
undlmlnlshcd every hour In the dav
every day In the year, but eventually
one of the two alternatives will come.
The demand of tho city parson for a
vacation Is an equitable demand."
The bishop Is also Interested In the
layman who Is left at home and who
may or may not get a vacation re
gardless of his needs in that line.
This good advice Is given to him:
"If deserted by family and friends
during the summer months, do not fall
Into vagrant habits. Do not join In with
questionable companions In question
able occupations, in this sort of seml-
vagabondnge, with the excuse that you
Sre left very much alone, and to be a
great deal alone Is to be very 111 off."
Society folk In Germantown and
Ogontx are discussing the elopment
of Miss Helen Brooks Lewis, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard Lewis,
Jr., of Ogontz, and G. Henry Stetson,
the youngest son of the late John B.
Stetson, the millionaire hat manufac
turer.
They were wedded last Friday after
noon. and the first Intelligence either
of their families had of the event was
received last night, when telegrams
came from New York. Mrs. 8tetsnn Is
18 years old; her husband Is 20. They
had been engaged for two years with
the approval of their families.
When Mr. Stetson celebrates his
twenty-first birthday he will come Into
possession of several millions ,ot dol
lars. There was a provision In his
father's will which provides that If he
married before he came of age the
allowance was to be substantially In
creased.
Newport Is to have a most distin
guished city government. It Is to be
In the hands of a representative com
mittee after January and among the
members of the committee will be Renr
Admiral French El Chadwick, Rear Ad
miral Stephen B. Luce, Colonel Rob
inson, Robert Walton Goelet, Charles
Wilson Goelet, Colonel Addison Thom
as, Edward R. Thomas, R. Livingston
Beeckman, Professor Agassis, I. Town
send Burden, James A. Swan, Edward
H. Bulkly, Louis L. Lorrilkird, Royal
Phelps Carroll Lorillard Spencer, John
B. Drexel, William Watts Sherman and
James Brown Potter.
Little old Philadelphia will con
tribute two handsome matrons to this
season's Newport beauties, Mrs. Jos
eph M. Widener and Mrs. El Moore
Robinson. These two are very be
coming foils to each other and It Is
always a pleasing addition to the land
scape to eee them together.
Little Mrs. Wldenerte brunette type
Is the complement to Mrs. Robinson s
beauty. Mrs. Robinson Is constantly
being quixzed by her less fortunate sis
ters as to her method of preserving
her complexion. Society still remem
bers what a pretty showing these two
made at the horse show last year as
they sat side by side In Mrs. Joe's box.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
By rrlrste Leased Wire.
New York, June 26.—Here are some
of the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—H. Chlpley. W, C. Cole
and wife, Mlaa E. Cole, F. -B. Dabney.
J. H. Hilsman, J. W. Hoyt. Mrs. C. D.
Knight, B. C. Martin, H. H. Leech, E.
N. Mullln.
AUGUSTA—A. K. Clark. C. Hlllyer
and wife. J. W. Hitt.
MACON—W. F. Bunchanan, C. 0.
Smith. _ _
SAVANNAH—Mra. Gibson. S. R-
Harris and wife, Mias I. Henderson, J.
Morrison, W. A. Smith, J. "•
Thomas.
THIS DATE IITHISTORY.
JUNE 25.
1060—Diet of Brlxen, held by Henry 1Y,
deposed the pope and elected
Clementine III.
1530—Confession of’ Auaburg present
ed to King Charles V.
1689—Franpe declared war against
England. King Wllllam'a war.
1736—John Horne Tooke, author of "Di
versions of Purley,” born.
1788—Virginia ratified the Federal con
stitution.
1795—Union College, Schenectady, N.
Y., Instituted. •
1813—Hampton, Va, raptured by the
British.
1841—Brigadier General Scott •PP 0 [" t :
ed general In chief of the United
States army.
1846—Louis Bonaparte, ex-klng of Hol
land, died.
1856—William Walker, elected ptcsl-
dent of Nicaragua.
1864—Federate repulsed at battle or
Roanoke Station, Va.
1870—Abdication of Queen Isabella n
of Spain.
1876—Battle of Little Big Horn—me
Custer massacre.
1863—Shore end of the Bennett-MacX-
ay cable laid at Watervtlle.
1889—Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes died.
Born -August 22, 1821.
1893—India closed her mints to tns
free coinage of silver.
1895— Princess Helene of Orleans mar
ried to duke of Aosta.
1896— Lyman Trumbull died. Bom Oc
tober 12. 1812. •
"BEST PAPER IN THE 80UTH.”
(South Pulton Enterprise.)
The Atlanta Georgtan continues to be the newsiest
and brightest paper In the South. The management Is
sparing neither pains nor expense to give the people a
paper which Is first class In every detail, in view of
the fact that The Georgtan has openly declared for all
thing* that tend to uplift humanity and ha* refused to
countenance those things which have a tendency to de
grade and drag men down. It Is the bonnden duty of all
who profess to stand tor right and principle to give their
support and encouragement to this paper for which they
have been clamoring. Of coarse The Georgian Is already
a big success, but The Enterprise simply wants to go on
record as giving the "glad hand" to its founders In their
noble work.
Thsnks From the Home Comers.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
On bohslf of the Georgia itate W
. dealre to thank you for the beautiful
editorial on the "Home Coming
Georgians," which appeared In *
Georgian yesterday. ,«, t
The home coming will be a
event I look for thirty to foro thou
send visitors from other state* In m*
two days.
With best wishes, 1 remain.
Yoursveratmly^
Secretary and General Manager.
Atlanta, Ga, June 21, IKK
A double-header state convention
will be held st Burlington. Vt, ™
Thursday of this week. The iDemo
crate will meet In state convention ana
there will also be an Independent r<m
ventlon to nominate P. W. Clement for
governor. An effort will be nufcde
have the two convention* fu** o»
Clement ticket.