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Newspaper Page Text^^npVMPPH I'HR ATLANTA (iEOIJGIAN. I'lTIIHAV \1 ni sr 11. 19-'* LAST CALL BEING SOUNDED TO GOVERNORSHIP BIDDERS One Week From Next Wednesday Aspirants For Gubernatorial Honors Will Probably Know Their Fate. machinery of primary SET FORTH IN DETAIL "IF BRYAN CANT BEAT TED HE CANT BEAT ANYONE” SO DECLARES TILLMAN. On« week from next Wednesday Georgia will bespeak her choice as to Governor Joseph M. Terrell's successor. five men will go before the voters on August 21, asking for their suffrage. They are: Hoke Smith, Clark Howell, Judge R. B. Russell, Colonel J. H. Ko tin and James M. Smith. Every man who votes In this Dem ocratic primary must accept this pledge primed at the head of the ticket: "By voting this ticket I hereby de clare that I am on organized Demo crat, and I hereby pledge myself to support organized Democracy, both state and national." No ticket will be counted In the final result that does not contain this pledge. If It Is tom froip the ticket or erased, that ballot will be thrown out. Chair man Veontans has sunken In no unmis takable language regarding this mat ter. He says that the state Democratic executive committee adopted this as part of the machinery of the primary, and It Is his duty clearly to see that It Is enforced to the letter. Pledge Cannot Be Scratched. In other words, It Is to be a strictly white Democratic primary. Populists, Republicans, Prohlbltonlsts, Socialists or what not will be accepted, but they must take the pledge. The question arises, how many Pop. ullsts In Georgia will accept this pledge? Tom IVatson has advised them to vote In the primary, and accept the pledge In so far da It relates to the stale election. But If the part relnttng to national elections Is erased, the bal lot will be thrown out, according to strict ruling of Chairman Yeomans. tin August 21, the day following the primary, at noon the Democratic ex ecutive committee of each county will meet at the county court house, con solldate the vote and declare the re suit. This consolidation Is at once trans mitted to the secretary of state, where it ts placed on file. Notice Is also sent to the candidate receiving the plurali ty vote, and such candidate then desig nates to the chairman of tho county executive committee the men he de sires tut delegates to the state conven tion from that county. In the cities and towns the polls open at I o'clock In the morning and close at r, o'clock In the evening: In the rural districts the polls open at 8 o'clock In the morning and close at 3 o'clock In the afternoon, T Only Plurality Necessary. The candidate receiving a plurality In any county Is entitled to name the delegates to the state convention. Each county shall be entitled to two dele gates for each member that It Is en titled to In the house of represents' tlves, and no county can send more delegates than It Is entitled to Individ, ua' votes In the state convention. The following named counties will he entitled to six delegates: Bibb, Chat ham, Floyd, Fulton, Richmond. Tht following four each: Bartow, Bullock, Burke, Carroll, Cobb, Coweta, Decatur, DeKnlb, Dooly, Elbert, Emanuel, Gwin nett, Hall, Houston, Jackson, Laurens Lowndes, Meriwether, Muscogee. Sum ter, Tattnall, Thomas, Troup, Walton, Washington and Wilkes. The other 114 counties will be enti tled to two delegates each. This In cludes the eight new counties, Crisp, Jeff Davis. Turner, Grady, Stephens, Toombs, jenklns, THL While they have no representation In the present legislature, their delegations In the convention will bo based on the mem bers they will be entitled to In the next house, which Is one member each. It has been suggested that It would lie possible for any cnndldnte going into the convention to name any mul tiple number of men to represent the v ies he Is entitled to from counties he carries. That Is. If Fulton should be carried by Howoll, instead of nam ing the six delegates, twelve, eighteen or tv.enty-four, etc., could bo named, though the county would be entitled to only six votes. This would make It possible to pack llto convention and render It so unwieldy that the work would be handicapped. No Packing of Convention. The last sentence In section 3 of the rules, however, makes It impossible to do any such thing. It reads: “No county shall send more delegates than it it antitied to individual votes in said convention." This means, of course, that Fulton can send six delegates and no more. On the basis of two delegates to each member of the house there will be 'hoot jgg forming the convention In Macon on September 4. It will take 185 to name the candidate for governor or a majority In the repre sentatlon. Already the queetlon of who will bear the expense of the primary has worried many. Chairman Yeomans es timates the entire cost of holding It at about 124,000. From the 150 asaeas- ment levied on the candidates by the state Democratic executive committee, and the only assessment they are re quired to pay, the sum of $1,050 waa realized. This sum will be absorbed Itr the printing of tickets, voters' lists. Wanks for returns and such matters. Fully three-fourths of the counties have al ready held county primaries, and there It not the usual Incentive for the local Democrats to pay the managers and clerks. The question now slmpl. re solves Itself Into a question of Demo crats In the various counties going down .In their pockete and paying the expense. Trouble Over Expenses. Glascock county served notice those that go on the state ticket that they must pay a certain amount or their names would be left off of. the bstlot. Chairman Yeomans states em phatically that the counties have no right to levy these additional assess ment s, and that where any candidate's name le left off of the ballot that all so cast will be thrown out. One county has served notice on state house officials that they have been assessed $15 each. If the burden comes equally from all counties It would mean more than $2,000, which Is manifestly unjust. To enforce such assessments would mean that many men could not afford to make the race, and It would become only a question of the man with the most money. Pledge May Cause Row. All these various problems rise up to confront a situation already heated to caloric conditions. Will the votes thrown out for lack of the pledge not cause a tremendous row from the friends of the candidate so affected? Won't the men ao treated bolt the nomination « It should happen not to be their man that gets the prize? Won't Ily Private Leased Wire. St. Loulet' Mo., Aug It.—United State* Senator Tillman, of South Car- ollna, while here today aficaklng of the approaching election, soldi "Theodore Roosevelt Is a candidate for the nomination and he will be sore ly disappointed If the Republicans do not force It upon him. He le Just Itch ing for the place again, nnd Is using every possible means to turn tile senti ment toward him and make the Re publicans force him Jo accept the nom ination again. "I think Bryan will unquestionably be tho Democratic nominee for president. He has excellent chances to win and If he cant beat Roosevelt he can't bent anybody. He Is today far stronger than he has ever hcen with the Ameri can people and there I* scarcely any discord In the Democratic party. Thu leaves tbo parly with n splendid chance of electing Its candidate at the next election." GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPS “BUCKET SHOPS” WILL LEAVE AND NOT CONTEST BOYKIN BILL •pcclal to Thu Georgian. Augusta, Ga., Aug. 11.—The Bovkln bill which pasted the senate Thursday will not affect some of the local bucket Shops, Os It Is believed that one or more of them will move In North Augusta. B. C, which la out of the state of Georgia, hut which Is near (enough to Augusta for them to do huslnsts With the local deal ere, Some of the man agers when seen yesterday, however, stated that they were going to close up at the end of the year, and would leave Georgia, and would drop the'fight. Manager Shivers, Of Miller A Com pany, stated that he had already ra- celved orders from his people that they Macons Change Plans. Special to Tbs Georgiae. Savannah, Ga., Aug. 11.—Plana are being prepared for the proposed Ma sonic Temple to be six stories high In stead of five, as at first projected. The extra story VIII be for the exclusive use of the Scottish Rite Masonry. Brooks Shows Big Inortsst. Special .to The Georgian. Quitman, Ga., Aug, 11.—'Tax Raeelv er Harden haa Just finished consolidat ing the tax returns of Brooks county, and they show an Increase over last year of 61,664,066, which up to date Is uhead of any other county that has re ported. The Quitman .district alone shows an Increase of over $8d0,000. Fire In Negro Quarters. Special to Thu Georgian. Fitzgerald, Go., Aug. 21.—The first fire for some weeks here occurred on Thursday night In the negro tenement house* belonging to It. C. Mosher & Company. Two houses burned com- S letcly and two more were seriously atnaged.. K. P.’s Qive Barbecue. Special to Thu Georgian, Amriicus, Ga.. Aug. 11.—The Knights of Pythias complimented their frlende with a barbecue at Holly Bprlngs on Wednesday of this week. There was a large crowd present and every one thoroughly enjoyed It. Meets Next In Augusta. Special to The Georgian. Augusta, aa., Aug, H.—The next meeting of the State Horticultural B(\' clety will be held In Augusta, us an In. vltallon was presented at the meeting In Macon which has closed, nnd It was occupied, The Invitations ware from the mayor, the chamber of commerce lota. menL him. He pleaded guilty to one Indict and there were seven against self-sufficient reasons In this not to abide the result It he should be defeat ed. and won't the cry of fraud add to the turgtdlty of affairs In Georgia? All these surmises and conjectures are being asked In sober earnestness by many good men over the state. How much or how little there may be In It remains only to be seen by the events now so near at hand. For hlttcrnesa. fierce denunciation, stinging personalities, character assas sination and all the rabid things possi ble to Inject Into a campaign, this one will go down In history as the most lamentable. The Inexpressible bitter ness of the fight Hoke Smith and Clark Howell have made on each other ts almost without a parallel. It has at tracted national attention and In every part of the union the outcome of the primary of August 22 Is being awaited with keen Interest. Political IndlgopUon. If a people ever had political Indi gestion from over-gorging on the game It Is In tl}ls memorable campaign, which began nearly a year and a half ago. The speeches, the straw polls, j' r f or ! the charges and counter charges, the Interviews, the criminations and re criminations and all the dreary drivel prlntod In thla campaign, If bound Into volumes, would crowd the congression al library—and uplift no reader. Three months ago Hoke Sinlt'h would have swept the state like a prairie lire. Will he do it August 22? His organ will tell you that It will be so unanimous for him, that the show- tng made by the others will be pitiful. His adherents can see nothing to It but Hoke Smith. But there Is another side which will tell you that Hoke Smith cannot go Into the convention with enough dele gates to win on the first ballot, which Is equivalent to saying that he will ba defeated. There be no small minority that assert that Judge Russell will be a dear second when the .vote Is count ed, and a mighty cloee second to Hnku Smith, who, tt Is generally conceded will lend the ticket. Tho Way Wleeacree Figure. Few place Howell better than a third, and many say he will be fourth, Estlll running ahead of him. By common coneent Colonel Jim Smith le put at the bottom of the list, because his ef forts have been confined almost entire ly to northeast Georgia. But with a locked convention hjs delegation may play a potent part In ultimately nam ing the nominee.. Some fifteen months ago Hoks Smith promulgated hie platform at Madison, and from that good day until now no grass has grown under the broad feet of the former Secretory of the Inte rior. Four Joint debates have marked the campaign, debates between Smith and Howell, who, for some common were not going to fight the bill, lie says that mey have never fought them, and that It has been their policy to move to other states where It in al lowed, when there Is a law passed against them. This was the sentiment of the managers of all the alleged shops. Fivs Years For Ssxton. Hpeelsl to Tho Georgian. Savannah, Ga., Aug. 11.—J. E. Kim- , . ... - ... boll, the colored keeper of the colored and. others asking for the meeting to section of Laurel Grove cemetery was ho held here. Water Consumption Incrtssss, Hpcilsl to The Georgian. Augusta, Ga., Aug. It—During lha past year them has been an Increase of practically 60» per cent In the amount of water consumed by the citizens of Augusta, ns the records for July, 1805, ■how that there was' a dally average of 0,540.643 gallons consumed, anil the month of July, 1906, or the month Just passed, show* that there has been a dally average of 9,135,657 gallons used per day. Free School* For Royoton. Mi mv I ill to The Georgian. Royoton, On., Aug. ll.r-In 1006 the census of Royston showed a population of 576. It now has 1,000 to 1,290. On last Wednesday there was an election held to determine whether we would have freo schools, the result being US votes for, and ono vote against them. Tho enrollment for the past year has been about 800. Nsw Bank Opens. Hpeelnl to The Georgian. Rochelle, Ou, Aug. It.—Tho (TUIsens 1 Hank opened Thursday with a capital of $25,000, and Is chartered under the laws of the state. Its dopostts for the first day was more than $20,003. Tho officers of the now bank are J. B, D. Wnodburn, president; Dr. W. G. Ford, vice president, nnd J. W. McNamara, cashier. Impulse, linva been considered the lending figure* and open and avowed political enemlas. In only one of these did Howell show to advantage. Hnd he done so well In Columbus, Atlanta or Albnny as In Rome, there might have'been some dif ferent ' history written op August 22. The Home debate was clearly a How ell vjetory. for where the Smith pen- pie had apparently run the Howell ad herents to cover, the story of the af fair In tho Rome opera house read an other way. Bussell's Remarkable Race. • In many reaped* Judge Russell's race has been one of the most remark able In tho hlntory of the slate. When he decided to enter the lists he gave up without a hesitancy a judgshlp, nnd Jumped Into the arena filled to the brim with fight. And It has been a gallant fight, too. Without the prestige of Influential newspapers ho has gone over the state steadily winning friends nnd adher ents to his banner. Some of the other candidates sneered at him for a while, but they gut beavllfully over that feel- Ing. When tho vote Is counted out on tho evening of August 22 the Russell Vote Is going to be an eye-opener to some people. And throughout the.state you hear nninnitu rtf nant.fa Itrinlti* Mint If mill HON CRA WFORD WHEA 7LE Y ON LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Speech Delivered in Senate Advocating His Bill. failed lo elect, and In that event a!one la the power Of election vested In the general assembly. It In a further fact that In voting for state senators the people have n> thought or Intention that thira -ena- tor* shall elect any one to the . xalie.l position of governor, lro,-nr brief may he his tenor* of orflee. On the other head, should the govern or be removed from nfllre through death, resignation dr disability, prior to six months of the explr ' of the by law to call i_ tltm for the purpose of electing governor, and the state Is put to the expense and Inconvenience of this election, together with the accompany ing trials and tribulations Incident to a gubernatorial campaign. As a mat ter of fact, under our pie sen • hold tw The following speech was delivered In Ihc senate ibis week by Hon. Craw ford Wheatley In advocacy of his hill to create the office of lieutenant gov ernor; Thla Is one of the five kindred bills, Introduced by me, the object of which Is the creation of the office of lieuten ant governor; to define his power, du- ' l R;rimnT?,«'i , m.*h!!| r e. , ^ , " ,U !LT n '.e I'» WW rtaUy hold two election nectlun 1 oi thlii bill cfeMtei* In® of» [ f ( w. n th|H vAciincv could be filled fie* of lieutenant governor of this state 1 ™ ny toum ne niieo. and provides for his election by the people. It also provides a salary of $400 i>cr annum fur this ... r. really only Involve* an exiiendlluro of $250 over and above the amount which Is now paid under the existing law. Tho lieutenant governor Is ex-officlu president of the sennte and Is not re quired to live at the sent of gnvorn- ment; except during the session of the ,'oate ts i.il elec- HFor the regular election would he preceded by the inevitable wht'» prt- mary, held under the same torn - * law, and which Itaalf would he m all probability, preceded by a atruggh i.u tween the contesting candidates, to gether with a heated canvass HM 'sh out the entire state. The expense of these election* " > i’d I i bo In the senate except In can of a tie. The bill also provides that In rase of death, resignation or disability of the or the lieutenant governor shall govarnor ' Doe of omment and succeed to the governor. The real neresslty for the juissag* of this hill arises from ti.s fact that owing lo the change from the winter to the summer session, an Interregnum exist*, which, should the governor he removed from office by death, resignation nr disability, there would be absolutely no one to succeed to the governor's chair or order a new election for that purpose. It le a wall-known fact that the pre siding officers of both the senate and house die with these bodies, and, as the law now provide*, should the gov ernor be removed from office, these two officers alone are empowered In call a new election to fill the uncxpIrcO term, there would be absolutely no one to take charge of the affulre of slate, and provide for the election of a new governor. The reasons why thla nfflre should exlet are many, and why It has not long thousands of people hoping that it will be a locked convention, and that no man now In the race will be finally nominated. And to mention “dark horse” la to see loom one name nbove all others— John C. Hart, attorney general of Georgia. Charter Applied For. 8pedal to The Georgian, Covington, Gw, Aug. 11.—Messr*. Jamen It. Stephenaon. It. H. Stephen son and D. A. Thompson, Jr., have ap- pllod for charter under tha caption of the Stephenson Hardware Company. The cnpltal slock will be $10,000. The ■corporation will lie composed of some of the best known business msn of our town. SPLENDID GATHERING OF YOUNG BANKERS AT CONVENTION OF WITHAM ASSOCIATION RECENTLY HELD AT WARM SPRINGS, GA. er* of coinprehenelon. Thirty the xtatM In tho Union ulrendy have llmitennnt governor*, *11 of whom nr# elected by direct vote of the people, and thin almost universal provision naulnst a vacancy In th# executive chair by ‘ “ i*• an officer who hna been duly by a vote of the people to suc ceed the governor without a new elec tion for that purpose, shows, not only ths need but the wlsdbm of such an amendment In 'our state constitution. In addition to this, the United HUtes hna such on officer in the person of the vice president, who Is elected at tha soma time and by the same presiden tial electors, who elect the president. That Is to sav, tho people, nnd not the United States senate, elect the officer who Is to preside over the sennte, end who Is to succeed to the presidency fn case of the death of tho president. Again, by providing for the election of A lieutenant governor by tho people we obviate the necessity and trmiblo of electing n president of the sennte by that body, ss under the provisions of this bill, the lieutenant governor Is ex- officio president of the senate. He rep resents no dlutiict, but la elected from the state nt large, nnd thus bv virtue of the fact that ne Is a state officer, all local preferences nre eliminated. It Is n practical' Impossibility for a prealdlng offleer who Is elected under the present sysjem to mnks hla ap pointments without favoring thnan bv whose votas he was placed In office. It's human nature—It Is not only human nature, hut It Is right to take care of your friends; nnd nil other things be ing equal, the tnnn who voted against you Is sidetracked and the man who voted for you gets the plum, nnd It will a Iwnya remain thla way until th la bill or a similar one Is enacted Into law. Not only this, but should you elect n lieutenant governor by ths people, he will be elected fully six months befort he Is colled m$on to art ns president of the senate, dtirlne which time he can select his committees, nnd announce them on the flre» dnv nf the session, thereby sovlng about s week r»f valua ble time to the state, which Is, under the present svstem, rrartlmllv lost. Further than this, I desire to state., with all due deference to the frnmers, SUiV.. 'JmP $ | added the expense end Inconvenience he \* performing „ f « n extra session of the legislature, the duties of goverbor, and rids no w>ts called to count the votes, declare the ■ ■ ■ - “ ■ ' result *nd Inaugurate the new gov- ernur. I am told, on good authority, that till* rx|K>hM' to the state would not tall abort of $100,060, to any nothing of the coat lo tlie Individual candidate* of a Democratic primary. All thl* trouble and expenae tt 111 be obviated, ehould the provision* of thl* bill be enacted Into n Inw. Why ran not Georgia have «•» good it law In till* particular a* Al—- bamu, Arknnuit*, California Colorado. Connetlcut, Delaware, Idaho. 1111- nolH, Indiana. Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky. Loulelun*. Msssnchuseit*, Michigan. Minnesota. MI»»U»lj>pl, Missouri, Mon tana, N*bra»ka, Nevada, North Coro- llnu, South Carolina. North Dakota. South Dakota, New York, New Jirtay, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texan, Utah, Ver mont, Virginia and WI»con*lnV What, I n»k you, would have hap pened II few year* ago <had Kcntu-ky boon burdened with the pre»ent Ge u- § lu law, when Bill Goebel lay dying, y (hr bullet of an assassin? What Report en Johnson Case. Hpeelnl to The Georgian. Augusta, GA. Aug. 11.—Secra Goodrich, of the board of houltli. i full report on th* matter of (lie grn undertaker, Johnson, keeplr _ . body out of the ground tno long of our pr**eri constitution the law of nfler the negro scksiwlMlgsd hi* «ucree*lon lo the gubernatorial chair I* t Ing In the fault ini ' •( or** chair? I believe It would have re quired b detachment of Federal tro.p* lo have held an election for govern■" in Kentucky nt that time. What would have happened In Ohio a few (lay* since, when l'ntll. ui did. If that «tsle had hnd the Georgia low ' Ohio would now lie In the throe* i u gubernatorial election, and no douln would elecl » Republican govern w to fill the unexplred term of a Democrat! Every senator on thl* floor will re call the turmoil and strife Inn. hn u till* «t»te wn« plunged by the tintlnviy death r>t Alexander H. Stephen*, dol ing hie occupancy of the governor'* chair. The then president of the senate be came temporary governor, and cell'*! it npeclnl election for governor t<> mi tho unexplred term. In which eentesi he himself was n candidate. You win recall how the legislature w«* called together In extraordinary ****lon. and the dlfflcultlee under tvhleh It labored before a compromise was ranched, re sulting In th* election of Governor Mc Daniel. I trust thl* elate will never nguln be salted upon to un«b rgo n similar experience, end yet only tbo life of on* mart stand* between ople and i ppy day*. Mr. President nnd Senator*: Thl* bill should pns*. Georgia need* a lieu tenant governor. Every other state of first magnitude hn* such un officer, and Oenrgln should not allow any etntc in thla mighty 1,'nton to surpass her. Hli« should be IN FACT, II* welt a* IN' NAME, tho Empire Slate of the South. , First Bale ef Cotton. Hperlal to Tha (Imrgtnn. Mlllrn, Ga., Aug. If,—Th* fir of 1106 cotton sold In Jenkln. waa brought her* Friday liy a nnd was rulaod on the pluntntlo H. Daniel. Round Trip — Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain $4.10, via Western & Atlantic R.R. Battlefield Route. Short ext Line and Quickest Time. Ticket* on tale every Saturday; good *dl Tueiday following. An opportunity to vlait Cblckamau- ga Park during the encampment of the Georgia State Guard. For ticket], echedules and further information, call on J- A. THOMAS, City Pasx. & Tkt. AgL 'Phonax 169 M. Bell; 153 Atlanta. C. B. Walker, Depot Ticket Agt. 'Phone 215 Main, C. E. Harman, G. P. A. The 160 bankerr attending the an nual convention of the Wltham Bank- era' Association at Warm Spring* re cently brought together a group of young men conceded to be one of the strongest gatherings of Georgia' man hood ever nssem'deil In thl* state. These young man. cashiers of the 75 Wltham banks, represented every Sec tion of the at a to. They met for the purpose of discursing ways and means of th* banking buslne**. end also to exchange Idea* and experience! for meeting many problems arising dally In their financial Institution*. Among the dlstingufehed speaker* at this convention were: Hon. John Tem ple Groves, editor of The Georgian; Hon. G. Gunby-Jordan. Columbua, Ga.: Mr o. R Dooly, cashier of the Home Savings Bank, Macon, Ga.: Mr. A. P. Cole*, cashier of the Central Bank and Trust Corporation. Atlanta, Ga.:' Hon. George f. Jone*. of the firm of Hardeman * Jones. Macon, Ga.; Mr. Charles T. Smith, Concord, Oa.; Hon. \y. L. Phillip*. Louravillc, Ga., and many others.- Growth of With am Bank*. To shttw the growth of thl* assorts- lion and what II la accomplishing tbe following I* taken from tbe address of W. D. Manley, of Atlanta, secretary of tbe association: . "Eighteen yearn ago ibis country bonking association was begun. "Eighteen years ago we had $25,000 capital stock. "Eighteen years ago we had no sur plus or undivided profile. "Today we have over a million and one-half dollars' capital, "Today we have nearly three-quar ters of a million dollars of surplus and undivided profits. "Today we have about two million and one-halt dollars of OUR OWN MONEY. "The aggregate annual business of the Wltham banka exceeds fifty mil lions of dollars." The Atlanta office of the Wltham banks, which in headquarters, handle* over $6,006,006 annually, and la con ducted by W. 8. Wltham, president and financial agent, and a large corps of abla, and experienced assistants. A unique and Interesting feature of the Wltham banks Is th* depositors’ guarantee fund, which Insure* the de posits against loss. There nre no other bank* In th* world that offer this pro tection. There I* e bill pending In the present congress for the adoption of thla plan to senna national banks. This Is not only a great compliment to Mr. Wlthara’s genius as a financier, but the highest possible indorsement of his method* of money handling. In addition to this the Wltham banka have created the cash emergency fund of $2*4.000. and this, together with their financial barking, gives each bank a direct foreign booking of over $750, tho banks, In many Instances, docs not exceed $25,000. Benefit Rural District!. The Wltham bank* have been of In calculable benefit to the rural districts of Georgia, nnd have accomplished more In the way of substantial nnd permanent Improvement* than any other agency with ten time* the amount of capital they employ. This association works for the up building of the flniinclat strength of the stute, and it* aim and object are not solely money making. Mr. Wltham believe* In the development of the young men of the slate, and takes pride In giving every worlhy young man the opportunity to become prominent In the devebqsnent of Georgia through Ills Institutions. The highest distinction was paid The Atlanta Georgian In thl* convention In a resolution, which was unanimously adopted by n rising vote. Indorsing thla paper for Its clean Journalism. Thla reeolatlon Is probably tbe strongest in dorsement ever given a newspaper In thl* country by an organization of xuch power and Influence. It read* as follows; Indorsing The Georgian. Whereas, Tbe Wltham ^banking sys tem. having banks located In a large number of the counties In Georgia, the __ same being mar iged by boards of dl- 0*0, although the Individual capital of rectors, composed of about (0* of the most prominent and Infiuentlal citizen* In their respective counties, and In dorsed by more than 26,660 friendly depositors; and Whereas, "Money getting" I* not th* sole purpose of our existence, and this widespread Influence has always been, and will be used for and In behalf of clean government, Christian education, temperance, highest standard of com mercial Integrity and for pure litera ture; therefore. Be It Resolved by the Wltham Bank ers' Association In convention assem bled at Warm Bprlngs, That wa wel come Into the arena of Journollsm The Atlanta Georgian, because It come* as a co-worker with us In the upbuilding of our commonwealth. Because It come* a* an enemy of | hurtful and sensational publications, refusing lo print for pay Iniquitous, advertisements and lifting Its standard above what Is gsnerally known as "yellow Journalism," . Resolved further, That w« use our [ Influence to Introduce The Atlanta 1 Georgian and other publications of like moral Influence Into our banks, and , Into the homes of tho officers and pat rons of the Wltham banks. Resolved further. That we today Join ! hands with the management of this clean newspaper In Its effort* to elevate | the tone and character of tbe press of •. the state of Georgia, and wish them j evrredlnrtv rend* and ciimhersom*. Under th» present law. should ihe governor be Secioced from nffira through death, resignation or dlsohlmv. 'within six month* of the sanitation of his term. Ihe nresldent of Ihe senate becomes gov«rnor. nnd serves oul the remainder of the term: dnrlna all of which lime the srMna g-vernor cai oerform nil Ihe ftinrllon* of a rerqlsr I" elected governor. In snlln of Ihe fart that he lie* been elrrled by Ihe vote* of -oplv fortv-fonr nerscft*. for the house of representative*, lha non nine bode, hn* no vole* whatever In the election of this lempdrnrv govern or. Worse still, tvrentv-three men out of forty-four mnv posslblv have mails ltd* governor, who may r n w be called upon lo exercise some of the most lm- nortant function* of this rreut office. He mev he called noon lo fill vacancies In high offices of Ihe slate, both exec utive and Jiidlolal. Th* pardoning pow- cr Is also his, and It m*v ha nereasa- ry for him lo suppress rlois nnd put down Insurrection, nnd deal with many delicate and vl# matters touching our relatione with (Tie Federal government or with other states. In view of these facts. 1 feel sura that our peonle want no man In Ihe governor's office unlees he has been elected lo that high nosltlnn by direct vote*. A* a mntter of fan, our consti tution never delegates this power, ex cept where the people themselves have thought that th* body hnd her halmril before It loath-II hori, decided to let th* rase drop. MUST QUIT CHOIR I I I K- THIS MONTH AF Hpeelsl to The Iirefills(!. Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. II. From the recent edict uf the pop* of the Catholic church women will not he al lowed to sing In ihe choirs "f the Catholic church her* after Bcptomher I, excepting In a few cases where in.iy singers have contract* extending to Hip first of the year. The bishop "f this diocese ha# decided to begin a tempo rary arrangement to test the matt.r, as It I* said that th* edlcl Is optional Ith churches. ARION PIANO (187.50 Cash. Where time la desired Iho price will bo slightly advanced Guaranteed for ten years. Write for any further Information. H. H. HALE, 170 Peachtree 8t., Atlanta, Ge. At the‘Roll Call VULCANITE Will have the call. It's got it already. Good on ail buildings, flat or steep roofs. TOUCAN PUT IT ON’