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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1. 1906.
The local papers indorse the candidacy of
R. F. MADDOX for County Commissioner,
as is shown by the following articles:
GIVE US A GOOD -
COMMISSIONER.
The office of county commissioner
Is one of the most important public
duties and responsibilities that fall to
a citizen.
It Is more important now than ever
before in the history of Atlanta, be
cause the city and county are con
stantly growing. Their Interests are
multiplying, their necessities are de
veloping, their roads, revenues, police
arrangements, etc.,-are assuming larger
magnitude and Importance every year.
This, too, is the growing period In
the history of Fulton county, and a
period of growth Is one in which things
are done, changes made and policies es
tablished.
For this reason it Is to the last de
gree Important that the people who
have votes In Fulton county should
carefully consider the men who aspire
for their suffrages^or commissioner,
and should carefully and firmly
choose that man whose business ex
perience has been the largest, whose
business repute has been the highest
and whose intelligence and proven ca
pacity In the public service is not a
matter of conjecture.
We trust that this will be the spirit
with which the electors will enter upon
this county election, and we only urge
that every citizen, both of the city and
of the county, who has the interests of
the county at heart, should come out to
the polls and cast a straight, clear and
Intelligent ballot for the man whom he
knows to be the best, the wisest, the
cleanest and the most capable man.
Up to the present stage of announce
ment we know no man whose experi
ence and gaining better fit him for this
responsible position than Robert F.
Maddox.—Editorial in.Georgian.
THE COUNTY
COMMISSIONERSHIP
VACANT
In hereby commending Mr. Robert F.
Maddox for the seat upon the board of
county commissioners, made vacant by
the election of Mr. Hubert L.' Cul
berson, as county treasurer, The Jour
nal of Labor departs from its usual
ruM of non-interference in purely local
politics, In which organized labor Is not
especially concerned.
But Mr. Maddox Is so peculiarly and
splendidly qualified to discharge the
Important duties of this administrative
office that we can not refrain from
commending him to the voter* of Ful
ton county.
The office of county commissioner la
a most Important one. Nearly a half
million of dollars is handled annually
by the board.
It Is an office which calls for the
highest degree of business skill, fair
ness to all sections of the county, and
unyielding fidelity to the public inter
ests.
Mr. Maddox fills these requirements
admirably.
As president of the Chamber of Com
merce for two years this able young
Atlantan won extraordinary and de
served popularity and esteem from all
classes of business Interests.
It Is doubtful, if in the last decide
any citizen of Atlanta has more forci
bly and favorably striven for the pub
lic weal, has shown more public spirit
and genuine devotion to the upbuilding
of Atlanta, than has Mr. Maddox.
He Is a broad-gauge man, liberal and
progressive, believes in giving a square
deal to everybody.
The Interests of the humblest tax
payer will be absolutely safe in his Im
partial hands.
So believing, The Journal of Labor
takes pleasure in commending this
worthy citizen to the voters of this
city and county. In the approaching
election.—Editorial Journal of Labor*
THE MAN WE NEED.
The man whom Atlanta honored by
making him president of its Chamber
of Commerce, and again electing him
to that post, can be safely trusted by
the rest of Fulton county' to look after
their Interests when he becomes coun
ty commissioner; and Robert F. Mad
dox will be elected to that office.
The office demands a man of large
experience in the business and com
mercial world. It requires a man of
large Intellect and wide breadth of
Ideas. He should be a thorough and a
successful business man. He ^should
be a man who Is above partisan feel
ings and petty prejudices. Such a man
is Robert F. Maddox, who has shown
his public spirit In the grand work ha
has so successfully prosecuted on be
half of a world's fair for Atlanta In
1910. The advanced Ideas he presented
while engaged in this noble work will
be utilized in Improving Fulton county,
and we are lucky In securing the ser
vices of such a man to aid In carrying
but the work mapped out in Fulton
county.
South Fulton will show Itself fully
alive to Its Interests when It give*
"Bob” Maddox a rousing majority In
October.—Editorial in Fulton Enter
prise, East Point, Ga.
DON’T FORGET
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3.
YOUR VOTE WILL
BE APPRECIATED.
ROBERT F. MADDOX
FOR COUNTY BOARD
Prominent Banker Announces That He
Will Mako Race to Succeed
Mr. Culberson.
Robert F. Maddox, vice president of
• the Mnddox-Rucker Banking Company',
and one of the most prominent and pro
gressive of Atlanta’s citizens, hAS yield
ed to the request of a large number of
friends from all sections of Fulton
county, and consented to stand for
cqunty commissioner for the full term,
beginning January 1, 1907.
Hubert L. Culberson had already
been elected for this term, but In view
of his recent election to the office of
county treasurer, will retire at the end
of the year.
Mr. Maddox is hlmslf absent from
the city on a holiday, but he has been
Importuned by wire and letter to per
mit the use of his name, and it was
announced Friday morning by a num
ber of his friends that he had given
them authority to announce his cnndl-
dncy. Mr. Maddox Is In no sense an
applicant for the place, but so many
of his friends from every part of the
city and every district In the county
asked him to run that he finally au
thorized hlr. consent.
Mr. Maddox, In consenting to run,
authorized his friends to state that he
was willing to contest either In a pri
mary or In the regular October state
and county election. He was specific
to say that he hnd no suggestions
to make as whether a primary should
or should not be held, and would cheer
fully abide any decision reached by the
Democratic authorities of the county.
Mr. Maddox is one of Atlanta’s best
known and most respected young men.
He has been president of the Chamber
of Commerce, and is now chairman of
the committee of fifty which has charge
of the question of the exposition of
1910. He Is a prominent hanker, a
splendid business man and the worthy
son of his gallant father, the late
Colonel Robert F. Maddox.—Atlanta
Journal.
MR. MADDOX FOR
COMMISSIONER
In the absence of Mr. Robert F.
Maddox from the city, a number of his
former associates In the chamber of
commerce have Instituted a movement
to have him fill the vacancy on the
board of county commissioners occa
sioned by the election of Hon. Hubert
L. Culberson a a county treasurer.
As the last president of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Maddox
brought to bear a combination of abil
ity, enterprise and energy which made
his administration perhaps the most
successful one in the history of that
organization. When the exposition
movement was begun, a little more
than a year ago, Mr. Maddox, As pres
ident of the chamber of commerce, waa
selected to head the temporary organi
zation, and largely an the result of his
Indomitable energy over $300,000 was
subscribed, when the summer season
Interrupted the work of the canvass,
which Is to be resumed with the renew
al of business activity this fall.
Mr. Maddox is out of the city, but in
response to telegraphic inquiry, has
stated that If he can be of service to
the public as county commissioner he
will consent to mnke the race.
No better selection could be made,
and It would be a graceful tribute to
one of Atlanta's most prominent, active
and forceful young business men If he
were tendered the position wlt $o'ut op
position. Certain it Is that no man
could be selected who would discharge
the duties of the place with greater
credit to himself, or more satisfaction
to the county, than Mr. Maddox.—Edi
torial in Constitution.
POLICE COUR7 OF MORNING
LASTED BUT 40 MINUTES-,
HE A VY DROP IN BUSINESS
The session of police court Monday
morning proved to be one of the llght-
*-i in the history of the municipal
tiibunnl, in striking contrast to the av
erage Monday morning court.
fieri; Preston placed on the recor-
r.ir's docket a total of only 55 enses
!"i both morning and ufternoon ses-
.‘i"U.s . f Monday’s court, while the uv-
eiiur*- is ir.o cases. In the 55 cases are
ropi-fx nted several raids. In which a
number of people were arrested at one
tlmq and for the same offense.
The morning ?ourt convened at 8:30
o’clock and adjourned at 9:10, a ses
sion of only 40 minutes’ duration. This
Is a tecord-hrenker, something unpre
cedented In the history of the local po
lice court.
Recorder Broyles and police officials
attribute the decrease in the number of
cases mainly to the enforced prohibi
tion In Atlanta.
CLANSMAN ACTORS
CHEERED IN STREETS
8|.t-« i;d to The Georgian.
N'-w Orleans, bn., Oct. 1.—In the pres-
nf tunny public officials and tie* lira tut
“'*t gathered in the Tula tie then-
ter "The nnnsnmn” wus eiithiiHlnstlcnHy
sel.*,»med to this city Sntnrdny night. New
brlentu had refused to ftnr the play, in*
Uor»lti^ the attitude of Acting Mayor Me*
o >< ken and the entire newspaper pro**,
''lii'li fa Id in effect that to prohibit a
i* v]ny n Southern town was an
K\ery sent la the house was
•k la the Afternoon.
I " r: " v 3 o'clock in til.' nftornnou. '
'•"lupntiy arrived only nit hour he*
"tiie performance, having l»eeii delay*
in —ntral Alabama by the hurrienne
V" ,,u ' boolsvjlle and Nashville.
1 • '•‘t-Hnge* containing the netors were
• ,i . 1 th '\ ***** from the station to
mi- and when the currniu rose on
, *' , a, ‘t. the aiidlenee stood up nnd
n * pm i'it*d vigorously.
To Leave Hawkinsville.
■i^lid t.» The (Jeorgiau.
Hawkinsville. On., Oct. 1.—Colonel
Fort and family will go to
ho»?« i. lo mako their future home.
u4! h, *r tay nt more than a year in
„.!L\ kl , n ? v,, ! e ’ Lionel Fort has made
*nd« whose good wishes follow
nitt r h 9 * xce,,em family to their
MANY MULES BURNED
DURING STABLE EIRE
Roanoke, Va., Oct. 1.—The stables
of I). \V. Fllckwlr, a Roanoke railroad
contractor, located near Forest depot,
were destroyed by fire last night.
Twenty-two mules and a large number
of farts and quantities of provender
were consumed. There was $4,500 in
surance on the building nnd contents.
Commission to Fix Rata.
Hpeclnl to The tlcorglnn.
Hinvkln.vllle. Oa„ Oct. 1.—The coun
ty cotnmlBHlonere of Pula.kl will fix the
tax rate for this year at lla meetlnx
Tueailuy. It la believed by Ihoae post-
ed on the neoeaaary revenue to be
ralse.l to defray the expenae of roada
and brldgea, that the rate will be made
$15.2(1, which added to the .tales rate
of $I.Rft, will amount to $20.00 per
thousand. ^
"You are the only .Irl I ever loved!"
he declared, passionately.
"That’a nice," she anawered. "But
really, you know, tt’a a lot more lm-
portant for me to be assured that I m
the only girl you’re ever going to love.
—Cleveland Leader.
FURNITURE and HOUSEHOLD
GOODS AT AUCTION
T*o line lots of furniture; one from Windsor street and the other
'• Fair at rent, will be sold Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 10 a. m. at 123 White*
, ‘J street without reserve: 2 oak and 1 walnut bedroom «uit, cherry
inlying bed and metal folding bed, etdeboard. wardrobe, dining table,
roii-top desk, refrigerator, Eclipse gas stove, kitchen safe, small Iron
cas h register, computing scales, cook stove, heater, standard
Jawing machine, rockers. Iron beds, odd dresser and washstand, pair
one POrtters, antique table, kitchen utensils, etc.
order of the consignor.
LEO FRESH, Auctioneer.
I,- f IMIlUM
MARYE TO DESIGN
Noted Architect Offers Ser
vices to Jamestown Com
mission Gratis.
The Georgia State building at the
Jamestown Exposition will be design
ed by the well-known architect, P.
Thornton Marye.
Mr. Marye, who is a native Virginian,
though long a resident of Atlanta, ten
dered his services to Mr. \V, N. Mitch
ell, chairman of the Georgia James
town commission, free of charge, and
Mr. Mitchell gratefully accepted his
services.
The Georgia building will be colonial,
and It Is proposed to have some ten
or twelve rooms. Fund* to erect this
building will he raised among Georgia
cities, and it is the purpose to name a
room for each city contributing. For
instance, the Atlanta room will be filled
with products of this city.
Under the resolution of the legisla
ture appropriating $30,000 for the
Jame.stmvn Exposition, no part of this
fund can he used for a state build
ing. Chairman Mitchell believes, how
ever, that the cities of Georgia will
willingly contribute an amount suffi-
Icnt to erect an Imposing building.
Architect Marye Is now at work on
the design and will have it ready to
submit In a short time. He was the
architect of the Atlanta Terminal Hta
lion. He also designed the ntw term!
nals In Mobile and Birmingham nnd the
mlJllon-dollar city hall In New Or
leans, now In course of construction.
NO saluteIs fTreo
TO GREET MR, ROOT
Washington, Oct. 1.—"I have had a
most Interesting and most instructive
visit among the people of the South
American countries,” said Secretary
Root last evening, shortly after his
return to Washington. He had com
pleted the trip of 16,000 miles, covering
a little more than three months, during
which time he has visited practically
every country of the Southern hemi
sphere and been received with a cor
diality and expressions of hospitality
and friendship that could not have been
exceeded hnd he been some crowned
head.
The secretary of state reached the
navy yard yesterday afternoon aboard
the United States yacht Sylph. There
was no ceremony In the reception of
Mr. Root upon his arrival. The marine
guard was not turned out and on ac
count of a naval regulation governing
the observance of Sunday, no salute
waa fired.
BY SPECIAL ORDER
DF MRJOOSEVELT
President, Starting For
Washington, Vetoes
Demonstration.
Oyater Bay, N. Y., Oct. 1.—President
Roosevelt’s vacation officially ended at
9 o'clock this morning when he boarded
a special train on the Long Island
Railroad and began his journey to
Washington. He Is due to arrive nt the
national capital at 4:15 p. m.
At Long Island City he will take a
special boat belonging to the Pennsyl-
anla Railroad Company for a little
cruise around the lower end of New
York. At Jersey City the presidential
pnrty will board a special car which
will be attached to the regular train
leaving nt 11:15 a. m.
Villagers at Station.
The president la accompanied to
Washington by Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss
Ethel, Archie and Quentin, Acting Sec
retary LattA, the members of the cleri
cal force who have been employed at
the executive office during the summer,
several secret service guards nnd rep
resentatives of the newspaper press as
sociations.
About 100 villagers were at the sta
tion to say goodbye to the president.
Much to the disappointment of the
"leading citizens" of the town, the
S resident vetoed a proposition to give
lm a "send off." They were prepar
ing to shoot off fire crackers and ora
tory and marshal the school children at
the station. The children were to
render "Ood Be With You TUI We
Meet Again.”
He Vetoes Fireworks.
There was to be an effective waving
of flags and then divide honors with
the president on the platform. The
president intimated that he’d be tickled
to death to have this come to pass, but
after ail he would like It Just a little
better if there waa no demonstration
at all. He’d be glad, however, to
shake hands with any of his old friends
and neighbors who wished to come
down to the station.
As the president usunliy has his way
about most things he had It In this and
the oratory, firecrackers, songs and
flags were put away for future use.
Shakes Many Hands.
The president shook hands for two
or three minutes, the crowd gave u
hearty cheer, the engine tooted and the
train pulled out.
‘Goodbye and good luck.” cried the
president from the rear end of the train
and the town of Oyster Bay proceeded
to settle back for a time In Its sleep.
AT DECATUR GETS
Methodist Ministers Discuss
the Shortage of
Preachers.
MAUD.
Nearly $7,500 of the $8,000 necessary
tor the building of the Atlanta dormi
tory at the Decatur Orphans’ Home
waa reported ns collected In the Meth
odist churches of the Atlanta district
Runday at the Methodist ministers’
meeting Monday morning.
This gratifying showing Is the re
sult of hundreds of people giving the
earnings of their Saturday’s work to
this worthy cause.
For hi* work In agitating the "work
day" and presenting the cause of the
orphans the ministers tendered their
thanks to Major R. J. Guinn, and
through the superintendent of the
home, Rev. H. L. Crumley, the trustees
and the Inmates thanked the preachers
of Atlanta for their co-operation In
the work.
The discussion of the morning was
on the same subject as last Monday
the shortage In the supply of preach
ers. The discussion was led by Dr.
C. E. Dowman, pastor of *the First
Methodist church. In his opinion—and
it seemed to be the opinion of most of
the otb*r preachers present—there are
a* many Idle preachers In Methodism
at least, as there ore unoccupied pul
pits.
"Where there Is a really desirable
pulpit vacant, there are plenty of men
'called' to that place," said the speak
er. "Of course Methodist preacher*
are placed by the bishop und are not
called, nor do they openly let It be
known that they are candidates for
certain of the better charges.
"I feel that I would make an egre
gious failure If I had to preach a trial
sermon and be sampled like a bale of
cotton, one trouble Is that so many
preachers do not keep themselves fresh,
hut get to be moss-backs. The con
stant study of the theology of 100 years
ago to the exclusion of other things
has this tendency.
"Of course I don’t mean to say that
a preacher should try to run away
with the wagon, but he should keep
from being run over by the rest of the
team.
Soma Churches Want Hell-fir*.
"Another thing which has largely
been responsible for the shortage Is
the varying standards of preachers and
churches. So many preacher* want t$>
preach all love and sweetness when
the church which they serve wants
them to preach hell, and preach it hot.
Then sometimes It’s the church that
«'"*»t» the sweetness preached. There
TO BUILD RAILROAD
IN NORTHEAST GA,
Special to The Georgian.
Athens, Ga., Oct. 1.—It is said that a
contract has been made to build a line
of railroad from some point between
Marietta and Blue Ridge to the Frank
lin mines, located at Hightower on the
border of Forsyth nnd ('herokee coun
ties, and had virtually promised to ex
tend It on to Frogtown In Forsyth
county. It appears that the promise has
been given the proprietors of the mines
to give them a road. From a point
near Ballground, on the Atlanta, Knox
ville and Northern division from Mari
etta it Is said that It would not cost
a great deal to build the line proposed.
It does not appear os If the Gainesville
Midland Railroad, which will soon en
ter Athens, will he content to allow the
ither end of its line to stop for any
great length of time at Gainesville, and
while there is as yet nothing positive
about future movements of the roads,
It seems as It the time will soon come
when the Gainesville Midland will be
extended, making connection with the
>ad that will he built from Ballground
nnd going on through to Knoxville, giv
ing a through connection with the
West.
ure not too few preachers, but may be
too few available.
"But, granting a shortage, one rea
son Is a failure In thla day and time to
recognize a divine call to the ministry.
A cajj does not have to come in dreams
and visions, but In most cases Is from
a combination of a man’s conscious
ness that there Is a place for hltn to
fill and the efforts of others to fill that
vacancy.
"Other things which have had their
effect In creating any shortage which
may exist are the commercial spirit of
the age which measures success by
dollars, and the heavy demands of the
social life In the circle in which the
pastor’s family has to move."
One of the ministers present read
statistics to show that as a matter of
fact there had been no shortage In
the Georgia conference, and that the
supply now was even better than It
had been In some years past.
Subscription List.
Here are the amounts subscribed..by
the members of the various churches
of the city to the Orphans’ Horhe at
Decatur:
Trinity $2,300
First church 1,600
St. Marks 70:)
Park Street 500
Grace church 300
Wesley Memorial 260
College Park 203
Walker Street 200
St. Johns .. .. 150
St. Paul .. 120
Inman Park .. 100
Battle Hill 60
Payne Memorial .. .. 61
West Side 40
St. James 26
Copenhlll 25.66
Anbury 24
Dunwoody 20
Vininc* 15
Kirkwood .. •• .. 11.50
John Carson Disappeared
Saturday—Police Aid
Wife in Search.
With a little child in her arms and
an expression of worry on her face,
Mri. John Cat son, a young woman re
siding at 117 Main street, near the Ex
position Cotton Mills, walked Into the
police station Monday morning and
asked the police to be on the lookout
for her husband, who has been missing
from home since Saturday morniny.
Mis. Carson stated that her husband
left home with the statement that he
was going to Social Circle, but she said
he had failed to arrive there* and that
nothing had been heard of him in any
way In that place.
Mrs. Carson has six children to card
for and is much distressed over the
disappearance of the buaband and
futher. The entire police force wlU bf
put on notice of the disappearance.
STUDENTS'CLOTRING
BURNS IN DORMITORY
Rpeetnl to Tito Georgian*
Hamilton. Ain., net. 1.—The dormitory
of the West Alabama Agricultural school
burned List Thursdny night. The flames
were first discovered In the celllug of the
second story, and, notwitb*tamUug the rain
Mint was falling, the buildlug soon went
down. The building wus next to the largest
In town, and the great toss was only per*
tlalljr covered by Insurance.
The students lost a great deal, many
of them InMiik left only that which was
on thefr hocks.
Tin* cause of the fire Is not kuowu.
CROWNS, BRIDGES, PUTES.
BEST ON EARTH
$3, $5, S7
4TLANT& DENTAL OFFICES
39i WhitehaU St.
Phon« 23C3-J. (or Dr. Lanier or Dr.
Lorclaco.
