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-4— The Atlanta Georgian. GEORGIA s.500.m 6.501 ronnlntlon Mil*** of atfam railroad*. Milos of oloctrlc railways _ Cotton fsrrorJos 130, splndlos.. LWjLOOO Union cotton consumed In 190S. 500,000 Value of 1906 cotton crop $100,000,001 VOL. 1. NO. 127. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 21,1906. PPTm?. On Trains FIVE CENTS. ITXWA-ali. In Atlanta TWO CENTS. DINNER SPEECH IS BRYAN’S BEST “IDREAD THE EXPERIMENT BUT IT IS COMING IN TIME' “I have favored'government ownership of state railroads only after a long deliberation. I dread an experiment by which all the station ajjcnts and brakemen and trackwalkers’ will be appointed and directed from Washington. I am a Democrat and I view with alarm the obliteration of state lines and the increasing influence of Washington. “But I see in the future a dual ownership—state railways owned by the states and trunk lines owned by the nation. You need not consider this now—but it is coming in time, oh, my friends, it is coming 1’’ —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Makes His Most Sig nificant Utterance on the Government Owneiship Idea. (n Importance of Issues and Stand He Took, the Banquet Speech Was the Greater. By DUDLEY GLASS. Bryan, the oratorBryan, the matchless leader of men, has never in Atlanta spoken to greater ad vantage than in his address to 400 Democrats at the Piedmont dinner Thursday night. To those who had heard his address of the after noon and believed that Bryan had lost the magic of the past it was a revelation. To Democrats faint hearted with continued defeat it was an inspiration which brought new courage to their hearts and set tho blood pulsing with hope of victory at last. There were those who thought that in his afternoon address Mr. Bryan' had been a disappoint ment. He had delivered a great message, had presented the cause of Democracy in a masterly way, but there had been but little of the old Bryan whose ringing climaxes had placed him upon the summit of oratory. He had been calm, de liberate, dispassionate. There were those who said that with his years had come breadth and stability, and with their coming the fiery eloquence had disappeared. But those who heard the Great Com moner at night learned that the old Bryan was still there. B«gan After Midnight. The greatest efforts of the great Ne braskan have been at night, when oth *r men were exhausted from contln ued war upon convention floors. It was In the gray dawn that he spoke at St. Louis and held a hostile army with the magic of his voice. It was at mid night, w'han other speakers had been Interrupted by the tiring crowd, that Mr. Bryan began his Atlanta addreas before a throng which filled every cor ner of the great dining room and ren il^red the street outside Impassible. In the afternoon Mr. Bryan had ad dressed a great audience of the peo ple. There were women and children, there were men upon whom It was nec- «-Rsary to Impress simple facts. At night the gathering was of veterans In the political arena. Here It was not nec tary that the rudiments of Democ racy be explained. Before Democrats from every section of Georgia, from Dade to Camden, from Rabun to De catur, he sent forth a trumpet call to arms against the onslaughts of preda tory wealth. He was no longer the In structor; he was a leader calling upon hl« captains to lead their forces once more Into the fight. When he con cluded there were no party divisions in that hall. Populists, old-line Demo crats, all were Just Democrats again— and they were Bryan Democrats. Explains Ownership Idess. For the first time since his announce ment of his stand on government own* • r*hlp of railroads Mr. Bryan explain ed his Ideas of how this should be gain ’d iind regulated. He took up the dif ference between national and state •vnershlp and declared himself In fa- ' r of the Individual states owning the|r own roads. He did not hesitate t“ say that he feared the appointive piwer which would result from govern ment ownership, but he declared that h* feared the appointive Influence less ■ hen In the hands of an administration than while under control of a railroad. He dropped the tariff question upon which he had spoken In the afternoon nnd confined himself to railroads. Mr. Bryan spoke for forty minutes, hts hands clenched and his body sway ing as he denounced the corporation ring and appealed to his hearers for a ^weeping reform. His mobile face re flected his every feeling and when he r f »*e to a superb period It was a face transfigured. His climaxes were met 'rith applause which swept the room and was echoed from the street, where f' r hours the crowd had watted for the address of the great commoner. When h* left the hall he was bathed In per- 4 M rat Ion and, as he pushed his way through the crowded corridor to Ids r "im, where Mrs. Bryan was waiting young men and old fought for the right t" grasp his hand. Rome extracts from the address fol low: "Plain Jennings Bryan." I am afraid that 1 have brought too much name to Georgia. Two art •bough. Tonight we have heard from IS KILLED; Dynamite Explosion Ruins Property Val ued at $1,000,000. Scr.tinusd on Page Seven. Special to The Georgian. Knoxville, Tenn.. Sept. 21.—The town o( Jelllco, Tenn., (4 miles north or Knoxville, xu almost totally destroyed early this morning by an exploaion ot ynamlte. It la known that ten peo- ile are dead and fully fifty more or jess seriously Injured. Every house on the Kentucky side of the town Is wrecked. The buildings on the Ten nessee side are damaged without ex ception. Not a window glass In the town remains Intact. Many chimneys have fallen as a result of the explo sion. car loaded with dynamite, and standing In the yards used jointly by the Louisville and Nashville and the Southern railroads, was Ignited, caus ing the catastrophe. Wo reports are current as to the manner In which the explosives were Ignited. One Is that three parties wero firing at a mark cn the car and a bullet penetrated It, striking the dyna mite, with fatal effect. Another re port says the cars were being shifted In the yard, and a switch engine sent a car loaded with pig Iron Into the siding on which the dynamite car was standing, and the pig Iron car struck the explosives, with the result already stated. Circus Train Wrtekad. It Is reported here that John II. Sparks' circus train was standing In thp yards and several of the circus employees were killed or Injured and a wild lion was liberated. The Southern railway and the Louls- vllle and Nashville railroad are rush ing section gunge to Jelllco to join In the relief work. It Is estimated that 500 people are homeless. The Knoxville Sentinel has started a relief fund, which Is grow ing. The know dead at noon today were: J. M. t’ooke and son, Joseph Sellers, Walter Rodgers. George Atkins, John Gordon (colored), Snm Sharp( colored), William Lovett, Ida Kayne, James Rey nolds. Three men—George Hudson, John Knock and Daniel Taylor—are dying ami can not survive the day. The list of fatalities will, It Is be lieved, be Hrgely augmented. Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 21.—A dis patch from Jelllco, Tenn., aays two car louds of dynamite exploded there early today. A Standard Oil tank was destroyed and several buildings were demolished. It Is reported that 15 persons were killed, five of whom have been re moved from the wreckage. A special train carrying doctors has left here The property loss Is report ed to be $1,000,000. List of Dead. The following are known to have been killed: JOHN GORDON, JOHN COOK, car Inspector for the L. ft N. R. K. WALTER ROGERS. GEORGE ATKINS, lineman, East Tennessee Telephone Company. Five unidentified bodies were taken out of the wreckage. Th explosion occurred on the Louls- vtlle and Nashville tracks at the de- pot. Every warehouse In Jelllco along the Louisville and Nashville railroad Is totally destroyed and nearly every store In the town Is either blown to pieces or damaged to such an extent that It Is a ruin. The entire third door of the Carma- than Inn. n large brick hotel struct ure, was blown off. It Is believed that no prominent white Iieople. business or professional men or their families are Included In the death list. Some »f the business houses either totally destroyed or partly wrecked Armour's packing plant, total. Judge and Pinnacle Brewing Compa ny’s plant, total. Kentucky and Standard Oil Compa ny warehouses. Jelllco Grocery warehouse. Glen Morgan Hotel, badly wrecked. farmathan Inn. third story off. Link s tailoring house. Hoodge Undertaking building. Smith Do' Goods Company. Cumberland Opera House, IJj.OOO structure, barfly shattered. The National Bank is ruined, ns Is th* Baird wholesale dry go«*ls house. Moses grocery store, Central Drug house and M. J Steinberg's clothing P The postofflce la partly wrecked, and Baird' ft Smiths furnishing store Is shattered. MR. BRYAN IN VARIOUS ATTITUDES DURING HIS SPEECH AT PONCE .DE LEON "I am: ¥o ATLANTA OFTEN* Roosevelt won- «i$ poPtaARlTY on DS? MOC ratio PRINCIPLES tjeMOCBTACY i s THE HOPE OF TH6 NATION •The sun NEVfis. Sets on AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY^ (Sketched from the Press Stand hj Itrewerton.) MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP LEAGUE BEING FORMED Tax Payers and Voters to Organize in Cause. ALDERMAN J. L. KEY, Who Has In Council Led the Mu nicipal Ownsrship Fight. The Municipal Ownership League. The public Interest In civic owner ship and control ot public utilities has reached this point. The League Is be ing formed. Alrendy the project lias the barking of many of Atlanta's most Induentla! citizens, who have rallied to The Geor gian’s cause. Within a short period of time It Is believed that there will be 5,000 voters of this city who have signed the mem bershlp blank. i the recent white primary a can. dldate running on a luunlclpul owner ship platform polled over 4,000 votes. It Is expected that 100 per rent of tho men who voted for municipal owner ship will Join the organization and push Its purpose to success. Aside from those who by their bal lots expressed their views, there are hundreds of others who east their votes for personal reasons who will Join the movement sweeping Atlanta It Is on this basis thnt the conservative figures as to the membership are based. Frldny morning a number of promi nent citizens were called upon by a representative of The Geotglan and asked for their views. In tho short pe riod of time It was Impossible to see a great man)- of the strongest support ers of municipal ownership. "I Will Join,” Says Hoke Smith. Hon. Hoko 8mith was reticent shout giving out an Interview off-hand, but It Is well known that ho Is one of the strongest advocates of munlelpul own ership In the slate. Mr. Smith said- KEY GIVES REASONS FOR NEED OF LEAGUE “The time lx ripe now for a municipal gas and electric light plant. All that lx necessary to get It lx for the people to crime together and say they want It, and the battle lx practically won," said Hon. James L. Key. "The people are greatly indebted to The Georgian for it* effort* and they Hnve confidence In The Georgian. "The Municipal Ownerxhlp League lx the thing. It will give the public nn opportunity of getting together on this vital issue. Every public xplrlteil man of every shade of political belief on other lines can here find common ground and can co-operate for the public good. "It lx going to be a long, hard fight, of course, but the fight will win In the end. "The street railway company and the gas company will fight It. Everybody expects that. They think they have everything they want, and they will not want any one—not even the city—to entrench upon whnt they consider their own private preserves. And then the street railway company that owns the gas and electric company, has $7,000,- 000 of watered stock that they must pay dividends on, and they will want to scrouge everybody else out In order to do It. "The public are willing to pay dividends on actual Investments, but are not willing to pay on the rake-off of the speculators. “The legislative committee In New York reported that gas could be produced at 61 cents a thousand in the city of New York, where labor, material and everything else Is Very high, and where the cost of any sort of public Improvement In very great. Here I am satisfied gas can be produced at a much lower figure ani the people are entitled to It. "A gas plant such as we have hare could be reproduced for somewhere between $500,000 and $750,000, and the gas company Is financed on a basis of $2,000,000. We have got to pay on a whole lot more of their water. "Another thing, people are willing to pay for the gas they use, but don’t want to be held up and arbitrarily forced to pay the bill whether they have used the gas or not. "Thnt Is one of the conditions that must be remedied, and can be. "The matter of an electric light plant Is simple. "The city »nn utilise the power at the waterworks pumping station and ft already has the conduits and most everything that Is necessary to operate Its plant. "The thing for the city to do Is to do Its own lighting ns soon ns the present* contract is out, and then the thing will grew of its own accord.” Make Demand for Uniform Wage Scale. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP LEAGUE APPLICATION BLANK. I hereby wake application for membership In the MUNICIPAL OWN ERSHIP LEAOl.'K. I favor tho ownerahlp of a gas anil electric lighting plant by the city of Atlanta. Remarks: Date 190.. Name Aildress Occupation Sote.—Cut out and return to THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. Two hundred and fifty machinists, employed at the Southern railway shops In this city, and perhaps 2,000 on the system are making a demand for Inrreuse In the wage scale from $3 a day to $3.25. The proposition Is now in the hands of the executive committee ot th* Ma chinists' Union, and a meeting will be held within the next few days to form ulate a request to be presented to ths' Southern railway management. A general rtrlke on the system Is probable. If the demand for Increase In wages Is not granted. The contention of the marhlnslst Is for a uniform scale, Ths claim that In Birmingham the existing scale la $3.25 a day. It 1s generally believed among lbs conservative leaders of organised labor here that the demand will be granted without necessity of a strike. Local unions held meetings Thurs day night and discussed the situation About three >eai*H ago a strike exist ed for thirteen months at the Southern shops here. ASSAULTS? License Inspector Ew ing Wants to Abolish Them. Pictures, paintings and photographs of white women In the nude festoon the walla of eeveral of the negro clubs In Atlanta. There are eight of these clubs where whisky Is sold and Area the brains of the negro members. There have been many attacks on white women In and around Atlanta during the past few months. License Inspector R. A. Ewing has determined to close up these dube and to that end made an Inspection Friday morning, accompanied by Alderman F. A. Qullllan, chairman of the tax com mittee. It Is Mr. Ewing's purpose to enforce the $1,000 retail liquor license tax on alt clubs that sell liquor. All of these eight clubs sell whisky and beer-ln re tail quantities. "This will also affect the white clubs," said Mr. Ewing, "but that can not be helped under the present laws. Certainly every respectable white club would be willing to pay the license rather than have the negroes Inflamed by liquor and Indecent pictures." The clubs now pay the state tax. Senator Brackett An nounces There Is To Be No Contest. New Tork, Sept. 21.—Senator Brackett announced that there should bt no contest of the Russell Sage will The senator Intimated that a financin' settlement had been effected, but hf refused to give out any Information re garding It. He said that ona of the attorneys for the estate would give oul a statement. Brackett represents Edison Conrad, I 'Ora old, of near Troy, who la a great grand nephew of the late millionaire. Attorneys for Mrs. Saga today Issued the following statement: "Assuming no contest of Mr. Sage'i will, Mrs. Sage haa Intended and In tends to glye to each of Mr. Sage's ret. stives who are beneficiaries under hit will an additional amount equal to his or her legacy, and to do this as soon as possible after htr qualification at executrix." Had Jawbone Broken. Hpeeltl to The Georgias. Athens, Os., Sept. 21.—Henry, Jr, the little 10-yesr-old son of Henry T. Comer, was thrown from a horse yes. terday and had several teeth knocked it, hla jawbone broken and hla knet illy lacerated. myself, but you may say I will Join the league when It Is formed." 8am D. Jones, president of Chamber of Commerce: "In my Judgment munic- I pal ownership Is a coming proposition, und It will be more and more Insisted U|s>n by the people. It Is a matter I am not willing to be quoted at length on vlthout giving careful consideration to "It Is against my rule to give oul an i what 1 say. but 1 am In favor of the interview that I have not written out city’s owning and operating those things neoessnry to the public." H. A. Boynton, president ofthejlmm; ton Grocery Company, and'otie ,.f the committee of five suggested by Aider- man J antes L. Key at the past session ..I council to formulate plans by which the city can own Its own gas and elec tric plants, said: "I am strongly In fa vor of municipal ownership. I have not Continued on Pago Three. TYPHOON DEA TH LIST NOW NUMBERS 10,000 Hongkong. Hept. 21.—It Is now eotlmated that not lets than 10,000 Ilvea were lost In the recent typhoons. Most of these were Chinese. It la cer tain thnt the entire Halting fleet, of (00 vessels and 6,000 men, were de stroyed. , ., M Dead bodies are being cremated to prevent a plague. Many of those engaged In this work have succumbed to the dreadful stench and tbs hor ror of It all. AUGUSTA NURSE AND DOCTOR RESCUE STARVING SAILORS New York. Bept. 21.—Rescued after having drifted In a wrecked schooner for five days without food or water, with a sick crew. Captain R. J. Robin son. of the schooner Flora Rogers, told s thrilling story of suffering upon his arrival on the Clyde line steamship Al gonquin in New Tork. The captain and crew were rescued by Mlaa Jacqueline Rowe, a trainee nurse, end Dr, S. 8. Hammond, both of Augusta, Go., who rowed a boat from the Algonquin. SUES MOTHER FOR $5,000 DAMAGES; QUARREL OVER NU SPELIN CAUSE i Elkhart. Ind., Bept. 21.—Henry Comment has filed an action against his mother-in-law. Mar)- Peas, for $1,000 for alienation of his wife's af fections. The trouble originated Ig ■ quarrel over hla criticism of Presi dent Roosevelt for championing spelling reform.