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Mmmm ATLANTA rop'Uftti-jn ]jn nryj IW 26,000 if«ln Ha«f of railroad* fievon Mile* of itrett railway* ign Bank!tig capital 122.000,000 The Atlanta Georgian. Popnlntlon GEORGIA .W 2.500.000 Popt MIIm of »tenm railroad! . Mllea of electric rnlhvara 400 Cotton factorl** 130. aplnilea.. 1,500.000 Dales cotton consumed In 1905. 500,000 Value of HHG rotten crop 1100.000.000 VOL. 1. NO. 127. Moraiug Edition. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,1906. Morning Edition. TypTror. On Trains FIVB CENTS. JTAVXA/Jli. jn Atlanta TWO CENTS. DINNER SPEECH IS BRYAN’S BEST "IDREAD THE EXPERIMEN7 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 agents and brakeigen 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 I" —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Makes His Most Sig nificant Utterance on the Government Ownership Idea. In Importance of Issues and Stand He Took, the Banquet Speech Was the Greater. By DUDLEY GLASS. Bryan, the orator; Bryan, 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 Kis 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 aud set the 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. lie 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 thoso 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 wns still there. Began After Midnight. The created efforts of the treat Ne braskan have been at nlsht, when oth er men were exhausted from contin ued war upon convention floors. It was In the gray dawn that he spoke at ht. Louis and held a hostile army with the magic of his voice. It was at mid night, when other speakers had been fnterrhpted by the tiring crowd, that Mr. Bryan began his Atlanta address before a throng which tilled every cor ner of the great dining room and ren dered the street outside - Impassible. In the afternoon Mr. Bryan had ad dressed a great mtidlence of tho peo- |i!e. There were women and children, there were men upon whom It was nec essary to Impress simple facts. A the gathering was of veterans political arena. Here It was not nec- tssary that the rudiments of Democ racy be explained. Before Democrats fram 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 his captains to lead their forces once more Into the light. When he con- • hided there were no party divisions In that hsIL Populists, old-line Demo crats, all were Just Democrats again— ornl they were Bryan Democrats. Explains Ownership Ideas. For the first time since his announce ment of his stand on government own ership of railroads Mr. Bryan explain ed his Ideas of how this should be gain ed nnd regulated. He took up the dif ference between national and state ownership and declared himself In fa vor of the Individual states owning their own roads. He did not hesitate <" say that he feared the appointive power which would result from govern- JMnt ownership, but he declared that he feared the appointive Influence less " hen In the hands of an administration than while under control of a railroad. Be dropped the tariff question upon "hich he had spoken In the afternoon and confined hlmeelf to railroads. Mr. Bryan spoke for forty minutes, his hands clenched and his body sway ing as he denounced the corporation ting and appealed to his hearers for a sweeping reform. His mobile fare re flected his every feeling and when he f"*e to a superb period It wss a face transfigured. His climaxes were met with applause which swept the room and wss echoed from the street, where f >r hours the crowd had waited for the *ddre»s of the great commoner. 11 hen 111 left the hall he was bathed In per- ‘ilriitlon and, ns lie pushed his way through the crowded corridor to his f'sun. where Mrs. Bryan was waiting. Voting men and old fought for the right to grasp hts hand. .. „ , Si one extracts front the address fol low; "Plain Jennings Brysn." '! am afraid that I have brought too m 't'l name t„ Georgia. Two are •sough. Tonight we hava heard from 15 KILLED: Dynamite Explosion Ruins Property Val ued at $1,000,000. Csntinusd on Pass Seven. Special to The Georgian. Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 21.—The town of Jelllco, Tenn., 64 miles north of Knoxville, was almost totally destroyed early this morning by an explosion of dynamite. It Is known that ten peo ple are dead and fully fifty more or less 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 tho explo sion. A 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. Two reports are current as to the manner In which the explosives were Ignited. One Is that three parties were firing at a mark on the car and i 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. Circue Train Wracked, It Is reported here that John H. Sparks' circus train was standing In the yards and several of the circus employees were killed or Injured and a wild linn was liberated. The Southern railway and the Louis, vllle nnd Nashville railroad are rush ing section gangs to Jelllco to Join In the relief work. It Is estimated that B00 people are homeless. The Knoxville Sentinel has started a relief fund, which Is grow ing. The know dead at noon today were: J. M. Cooke and eon, Joseph Sellers, Walter Rodgers, George Atkins, John Gordon (colored), Sam Sbarp( colored), William Lovett, Ida Rayne, James Rey nolds. Three men—George Hudson. John Knock and Daniel Taylor—are dying and ran not survive the day. The list of fatalities will. It Is be lieved, be largely augmented. Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 21 A dis patch from Jelllco, Tenn., saye two car loads of dynamite exploded there early today. A Standard Oil tank wae destroyed and several buildings were demolished. It Is reported that 15 persons were killed, live of whom have been re moved from the wreckage. A special train carrying doctors has left here The property loss u report ed to be 11,000,000. List of Dead. The following are known to have been killed: JOHN GORDON. JOHN COOK, ear Inspector for the L. & N. R. R. WALTER ROGERS. GEORGE ATKINS, lineman, Eaet Tennessee Telephone Company. Five unldentlfled bodies were taken out of the wreckage. Th explosion occurred on the Louis ville and Nashville tracks at the de pot. Every warehouse In Jelllco along the Louisville nnd Nashville railroad Is totally destroyed and nearly every etore MR. BRYAN. IN VARIOUS ATTITUDES DURING HIS SPEECH AT PONCE DE LEON *1 Coding ATLANTA. OF-TEN" Roosevelt wok .tn$ POPULARITY ONT * democrat 10 PRIATOIPLES bEMOCBTACY IS THE HOPE OF THE NATIOM The sun NEV&R. £CTS AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY (Rkrtchrd from th© Pro** Htnml t»y Hrpworton.) LEAGUE BE Tax Payers and Voters to Organize in Cause. Y MEET DEATH THROUGH ACCIDENT OVER THE COUNTRY Series of Mishaps Which Maim and Kill. or damaged to auch an extent la a ruin. The entire third floor of the Carma- than Inn, a large brick hotel struct ure, was blown off. It Is believed that no prominent white people, business or professional men or their families are Included In the death list. ^ , Some of the business houses either totally destroyed or partly wrecked aI Armour's packing plant, total. Judge and Pinnacle Brewing Compa ny's plant, total. Kentucky nnd Standard Oil Compa- r warehousee. Jelllco Grocery warehouse. Glen Morgan Hotel, badly wrecked. Carmathan Inn, third story off. Link's tailoring house Hoodge Undertaking building. Smith Dry Goods Company. Cumberland Opera House, 115,000 structure badly shnttered. The National Bank la ruined, as Is tn» Baird wholesale dry goods house. Moses grocery store. Central Drug house and M. J. Steinberg’s clothing 11 The postofllce Is partly wrecked, and Bslrd A Smith's furnishing store Is shattered. The Municipal Ownership League. The public Interest In civic owner ship and control of public utilities has reached (his point. The Leaguo Is be ing formed. Already the project has the backing of many of Atlanta's most Influential cltisena, who have rallied to The Geor gian's cause. Within a short period of time It Is believed that there will be 6,000 votere of this city who have signed the mem bership blank. • Jn the recent white primary a can didate running on a municipal owner ship platform polled over 4,000 votes. It Ib expected that 100 per cent of the 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 cast their votes for personal reasons who will Join the movement sweeping Atlanta. It Is on this basis that the conservative figures to tho membership are based. Friday morning a nurnbtr of promi nent citizens were called upon by a representative of The Georgian and asked for their views. In the short pe riod of time It was Impossible lo see a great many of the strongest support- Hpeelnl to The Georgina. Bt. Augustine, Fla., 8ept. II.—The dally procession of warships en routs to Key West and Cuba speak to the wireless station opposite this city. Yes terday harrowing tales of a ship wreck and suffering were communicated by the cruisers Tacoma and ‘ Cleveland. The former'reported having picked up fouV sailors adrift on wreckage many miles out to sea. The Cleveland reported having pass ed several derelicts. Today the cruiser Newark got In communication with the station here and reported the schooner John Jackson wrecked Frying Pan Shoals. The four men rescued by the Tacoma, It has been subsequently learned, were from this schooner. The Newark also reported passing sunken schooner In latitude 32.66 and longitude 78.06. About 16 feet of tho masts were visible above the water. The Minneapolis was spoken to to day. At the time of opening communi cation she was 60 miles east of Charles ton. She reported that at midnight she picked up James Alson, who was floating on a plank. He was a sur vivor of the schooner Twilight, which he reports was capsized Monday morn ing at 6 o'clock In a hurricane. The schooner carried a crew of seven men, but It Is believed all perished, as the Minneapolis hovered In the vicinity until daybreak without discovering any traces of the crew. New York, Sept. 21.—"Wallace Owen and his machanlclan, while tak Ing their last practlc* spurt today in the 80-horse-power Maxwell ea which they were to enter elimination trials In the Vanderbilt cup race morrow, hod a cylinder head blow out on the East Norwich road at Deud Man’s Curve and were flung out as the ers of municipal ownership. “J Will Join,” Says Hoks Smith. Hon, Hoks Smith was reticent about giving out an Interview off-hand, but It Is well known that he Is one of the stroifgest advocates of municipal own ership In the state. Mr. Smith said; ■it Is against my rule to give out an Interview that I have not written out myself, but you may say I will Join the league when It Is formed.” 8am Jones: "In my Judgment munic ipal ownership Is a coming proposition, and It will be more nnd more insisted upon by the people. It Is a matter I am not willing to be quoted at length on without giving careful consideration to what I say. but I am In favor of the city's owning ami operating those things necessnry to the public." H. A. Boynton, president of the Boyn ton Grocery Company, and one of the committee of live suggested by Aider- man James I>. Key at the past session of council to formulate plana by which the city can own Its ow n gas and elec tric plants, said: "I am strongly In fa vor of municipal ownership. I have not Contlnusd on Page Thro*. BRITISH IN EGYPT London, Sspt. 21.—Continual reports from Egypt Indicating the Increase of Moslem fanaticism and official dis patches from Lord Cromer, the British representative In that country, pointing out the necessity of strengthening the British karri son there, are giving some cause for alarm In England. In the present emergency England Is brought face to face with one of the most se rious problems of the future. NEGRO - III TOWER MAY 6EWR0NG0NE Make Demand Uniform Wage Scale. for Marshal Ryan says that while the negro at the Tower almost exactly flts the description given by Mrs. Kimball, he cannot believe he has the right man In the face of th* statement of Mr. Hughes that the negro was at his home at the time the crime was committed. Mr. Ryan is now working on a clew furnished by Frasier Morgan, who lives nbout half a mile from the Kimball home. Mr. Morgan says that on Thurs day morning a negro exactly fitting the description furnished by Mrs. Kimball I. .... wns splitting wood for him, but quit Birmingham ths existing scale Is about lo or 11 o'clock In the morning, 11.-25 a day. leaving In the direction of the scene of It Is generally believed among the Two hundred and flfty machinists, employed at the Southern railway shops In this city, and perhaps 2,000 on the system are making a demand for Increase In the wage scale from |S a day to 23.25. The proposition Is now In the hands of the executive committee of the Ma chinists' Union, and a meeting will he held within the next few days to form ulate a request to be presented to the Southern railway management. general strike on the system Is probablo. If the demand for Increase In wages Is not granlsd. The contention of the marhlnslst Is fox a uniform scala The claim that THECAUSEOF ASSAULTS? License Inspector Ew ing Wants to Abolish * Them. Pictures, paintings and photographs of white women In the nude festoon the walls of several of the negro clubs In Atlanta. There are eight of these clubs where whisky Is sold and flres the brains of the negro members. There have been mhny attacks on white women In and around Atlanta during the past few months. License Inspector R. A. Ewing has determined to close up these clubs and to that end made an Inspection Friday morning, accompanied by Alderman F. A. Quintan, chairman of the tax com mittee. It Is Mr. Ewing's purpose to enforce the 11,000 retail liquor license tax on all clubs that sell liquor. All of these eight clubs sell whls)<y and beer In re tail quantities. "This will also affect the whit* clubs," said Mr. Ewing, “but that can not be helped under the present laws. Certainly every respectable white club would be wilting to pay the license rather than have the negroes Infltmed by liquor and Indecent pictures." The clubs now pay the state tax. E T OFF Senator Brackett An nounces There Is To Be No Contest. the crime, and that he had not returned for his pay. This Is the man whom the county of ficers are now hunting. Mr. Morgan saw the Clayton negro ut the Jail Fri day morning and said he was not the man whom he had employed. Form of Ballot Announced. Special to The Oeorglan. Maeon, Go., Sept. 21,—Judge A. I,. Miller has announced the official form of the ballot to-be used In the election for Judges In the appellate court at the [primary set for October 3. Three men, and only three, must be voted for. car swung over to the side of the course. Neither of two men was seriously hurt. Owen telephoned to Krug's ho tel for help. Walter White, in a big White touring car, headed one rescu ing party, while Christie In his tlO- horse-power Christie started with his mechanician, formed another. Both had a narrow escape from collision as they came along at a terrific clip In oppo site directions. While had to put on his brake, throwing all four of the oc cupants of the car to the road. None as hurt. Victoria, B. C., Sept. 21.—'The steam ship City of Seattle, from Seattle for Alaska, via Victoria, Is ashore on Trial Island, held fast, broadside the shore, hlch Is rocky. She went on during a fog today. The passengers were landed and have ar rived here. The salvage steamship Salvator and the mb Pilot hare gone lo the aid of the stranded vessel and a tug will he sent from here to Port Townsend. . Pulaski. WIs., Sept. 21.—A work train on the New Northwestern railroad line ran Into n workmen's sleeping car here, killing Ed Were and George Madden, >f Pittsburg, and Injuring fourteen oth ers. Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 21.—Word has Just reached here of a dynamite ex plosion on thi right of way of the Grand Trunk Pacino railway, near tin- mark, New Ontario, In which five men ere killed and six others Injured. 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 years ago a strike exist ed for thirteen months at the Bouthem shape here. New York, Sept. 21 Senator Brackett announced that there should be no contest of the Russell Sage will. The senator Intimated that a financial settlement had been effected, hut he refused to give out any Information re garding It. He said that one of the attorneys for the estate would give out a statement. Brackett represents Edison Conrad, 8 years old, of near Troy, who Is a great grand nephew of the late millionaire. Attorneys tor Mrs. Sage today Issued the following statement: "Assuming no contest of Mr. Sage’s will, Mrs. Sags has Intended and In tends to give to each of Mr. Sage's rel. atlves who are beneficiaries under his will an additional amount equal to his or her legacy, and to do this as soon as'possible after her qualification as executrix.” Had Jawbone Broken. Hpedal to The Ueorgtsn. Athens, Ga.. Sept. 21.—Henry. Jr, the little 10-yei»r-old son of Henry T. Comer, was thrown from a horse yes terday and had severkl teeth knocked out, his jawbone broken and his knee badly lacerated. TYPHOON L NOW NUA Hongkong, Sept. 21.—It Is now ea were lost In the recent typhoons. M tain that ths entire fishing fleet, of 6 stroyed. Dead bodies are being cremated t engaged In this work have succumb ror of It all. )EA TH LIST VIBERS 10,000 1 mated that not less than 10.400 lives 1st of these were Chinese. It Is cer- 90 vessels and 6,000 men. were de prevent a plague. Many of those id to the dreadful stench and the hor- AUGUSTA NURSl RESCUE STA New York, Sept. 21.—Rescued after having drifted In a wrecked schooner for live days without food or water, with a sick crew. Captain R. J. Robin son, of the schooner Flora Rogers, told a thrilling story of suffering upon his 1 AND DOCTOR RVING SAILORS arrival on the Clyde line steamship Al gonquin In New York. The captain and crew were rescued by Miss Jacqueltna Rowe, a trained nurse, and Dr. S. S. Hammond, both of Augusta, Ol, who rowed a boat from the Algonquin. SUES MOTHER FOR $5,000 DAMAGES; QUARREL OVER NU SPELiN CAUSE Elkhart, Ind, Sept. 21.—Henry Commens has tiled an action sgalnst his mother-in-law, Mary Peas, for 26,000 for alienation of his wife’s af fections. The trouble originated In a quarrel over bis criticism of Presi dent Roosevelt for championing spelling reform.