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VOL X. WRIGHT BILL VETOED Dispensary Measure Knocked Out By Governor Candler. “A DELUSION AND A SNARE” Chief Executive of Georgia Differs With Legislators and Gives His Reasons In Char acteristic Style. Friday Governor Candler, of Georgia, notified the house of representatives that he had declined to approve the Wright dispensary bill. He communi cated his reasons to the house in a message, and in that message he char acterized the bill as a delusion and a snare, which would not tend to prohib it, but would increase the sale of whis ky. The following, in part, is what the governor said: While it purports to be in the inter est of temperance and for the restric tion of the sale and use of intoxicating liquors, it will, in my opinion, however good the intent, have precisely the op posite effect. It will open the flood gates in the dry counties and over whelm them, and at the same time set back the cause of temperance in the state at least a generation. If the construction put on it by some able lawyers is the true construction, It is a delusion and a snare, not only damaging to the cause it purports to foster, but misleading in its language and its details. No matter how the election goes, whether for or against dispensary, the result is the same— the sale of liquors in the county, if not in dispensaries then in barrooms. Thts is the construction put upon the bill by some good lawyers. If it is the correct interpretation, the bill is unwise and unfair to the dry counties and ought not to become a law. If not, then the language is ambiguous, and it ought not to go on the statute book, because it would give rise to bickering and vex atious and interminable litigation. It is evident that it was drafted wth special reference to the “wet” counties in the state, and without re gard to those, more than ninety per cent of the whole, in which liquors can not be lawfully sold at all. Its effect would be to precipitate elections in all of the counties which have, under the local option law, prohibited the sale of liquor v.'ithin their borders, in or der to give the wet counties a chance to establish dispensaries; to lose those counties which have been saved in or d<f to save those which have been lost; to damn the redeemed by an awkward device to redeem the damned. Instead of putting a quietus on tne agitation of the liquor traffic it will Inaugurate In almost if not quite ev ery county in the state flerce contests over it." I have heard only three arguments In favor of the bill. One is that it will stop the agitation of the liquor ques tion. This is not true. On the con trary, it will probably precipitate fierce contests over it in every county in the state within twelve months. Another is that it will stop the illicit sale of liq uor in the dry counties and provide for its lawful sale by responsible bonded officers who will not, as do the blind ♦' gers, sell on the da ß* law, nor to minors anTTTlrunken men. There Is some force in this argument, but not so much as those who advance it think. The other argument which has been advanced and chiefly relied on, is that it will be a great source of revenue to the counties and towns in which the dispensaries are located, and will in this way greatly reduce the burden of taxation. It is even claimed that al ready there has been found a county in which no taxes are imposed for county purposes, because the profits of its dispensary amply support the coun ty government. Grant that this is true and that the dispensary in every coun ty will pay ail the expenses of tue county and the people be wholly reliev ed of local taxes, can Georgia, a glo rious state, glorious in her history, her traditions and the achievements of her illustrious 6ons, and peopled by Chris tian people, afford to sanction a law making every county and town in the state proprietor of a liquor shop to de bauch the morals of the youth of the country in order to escape the legiti mate burden of local government? Can she afford to put upon her statute book a law to coin the tears and blood of the wives and children of weak men into dollars to fill the coffers of county and town treasuries that their tax-payers may be relieved from taxation? 1 do not think she can, and for these reasons, and others not necessary to mention, 1 am obliged in the conscien ti°us discharge of official duty to with hold my approval ofrom this bill. Ca NAL COMMITTEE MEETS. ore at Early Date. e senate committee on Isthmian ra ‘-u. was in session Thursday and m'Kaged in a general discussion of the - aragua canal bill, which was Intro meed by Senator Morgan, but adjourn a wlth °ut action, because of the ab ,,ence Senator Hanna. The disposi ion of committee j g to re p or t the pi*! st as early flats. DADE COUNTY SENTINEL. ' EDirORS GIVEN THEIR LIBERTY. Employes of Hearst’s Chicago Ameri can Given Their Liberty Under Habeas Corpus Proceedings, At Chicago Saturday Andrew M. n-awrence, managing editor of Hearst's Chicago American, and H. S. Canfield, a reporter, who were sentenced recent ly by Judge Henecy to forty and thirty days respectively in the county jail for contempt of court, were discharged from custody by Judge Dunne. Judge Dunne admitted tlx* the arti cles and cartoon which Judgft Hanecy objected to were clearly calculated to intimidate abd coerce the court, had the court not already rendered its de cision. Judge Dunne admitted that the cartoon la evidence was probably libelous and the articles probably so. Harsh criticism, Judge Dunne re marked, is one of the incidents and burdens of public life. "I see no reason,” he said, “why a judge should be offered a different remedy for attacks in the public print than a president or a governor or a congressman. Criticism of a public official, if just, will do no good; if un just, will do no harm.” Following is Judge Hanecy’s com ment on Judge Dunne’s decision: “Judge Duune had the power so to decide, but he did not have the right. Any judge has the power to let every prisoner out of the penitentiary, bat they have not the right, nor does any body expect that they will ” The contempt case and the habeas corpus hearing which followed grew out of an effort made by The Chicago American to secure an order for the quo warranto proceedings to compel the People’s Gas Light and Coke Com pany to show by what right they oper ated in Chicago. Judge Hanecy refus ed to allow the quo warranto proceed ings, and following this refusal The American printed articles and a cor toon strongly intimating that the judge had been unduly influenced and that when he again came up for election he would discover that the people had no confidence in him. Judge Hanecy cited Lawrence and Canfield, with others of the paper, for contempt and found Lawrence and Canfield guilty. W. R. Hearst, owner of the paper, Clare Briggs and Homer Davenport, cartoonists, have not been within the jurisdiction of the court, and the con tempt charge still pends against them. PECULIAR WRECK ON CENTRAL. Cars Fall Through Culvert, Killing Two and Injuring Forty-Eight. Two dead, one fatally injured, seven seriously injured, and about forty painfully so, is the sum total of a wreck on the Central of Georgia rail way at the Southern railway culvert, near Ocmulgee river bridge, in the city limits of Macon at 3:30 Sunday morning. The wreck was caused by a defective switch, a portion oi the train going on one track and another part on a different track. Two negro women whose names can not be ledfcaed are the dead. One was killed the other died short ly negro woman was fatally inju%L About of the Walter Main circ. badly bruis ed and cut, but were taken through on ~ —’ -nt out oy the Centr ""u --no""' north. The me 1U K> .o Berger Carnival Company were also slightly injured, but none of them so seriously as to cause them to stop here. The place where the wreck occurred is just on the Macon side of the Oc mulgee river, where there is an em bankment fully 25 feet high. Under this run the tracks of the Southern railway. The second-class coach, in which were the negro women, fell j through this culvert and onto the j Southern tracks below. The front trucks of the other coach remained on the bank, but the other portion of the car was crushed into kindling wood. So small were the parts that the South ern track was cleared by men carrying away portions of the wreck in their arms. No engine was necessary to pull the wreck out of the way. The train was the regular passenger from Savannah and was due to arrive in Macon at 3:45 o’clock. YOUNG FOOTPADS SQUELC- 1 Three Boys Get Ter'- > ''T^ 10 .. tiary JflF.iOUbing Old M At Montgomery, Ala., Jjairday Charlie Hartman, W. J. Bell rm l Frank Smith, three white boys, Me oldest scarcely 19 years of age, vMre convict ed of highway robbery aM given ten years each in the penit*tiary. The trio caught a drunken country man in an alley one night and relieved him of about $6. Bell is from Mobile, Hartman from Georgia and Smith from Louisiana. All were birds of passage in Montgomery and happened to get together on a lark. SWITCHMEN LOSE FIGHT. All Pittsburg Railroads Affected Are Doing Usual Business. All Pittsburg, Pa., railroads that were affected by the strike of the switchmen now have the full number of crews at work and the officials say that so far as they are concerned the strike Is at an end and that whatever trouble and Inconvenience there has been is at an end. TRENTON. GA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 13.1901. UNDER MARTIAL LAW Race Trouble Brings on Crisis In Two Alabama Towns. STATE TROOPS ARE CALLED OUT Twenty-Fiv* Negroes Incarcerated In Jail at Andalusia, Under Charge ef Murder, Object of Mob’s Wrath. A Montgomery, Ala., special says; Sheriff Bradshaw, of Covington county, Friday afternoon wired Governor Jelks that he had positive information that a mob from Opp would attack the jail at Andalusia for the purpose of lynch ing the twenty-five negroes implicated in the killing of the town marshal and ft merchant at Opp. The sheriff asked that soldiers be sent to Andalusia without delay. Im mediately upon receipt of this telegram the governor ordered the military com pany at Greenville to proceed by train to Andalusia, and arranged with the railroad company for a special. Cap tain Gamble, of the Greenville com pany, replied in twenty minutes that his company would leave for Andalu sia at 5 o’clock Friday afternoon. The distance from Greenville to Andalusia is about sixty miles. Military Were Sent. About 3 o’clock Friday afternoon Governor Jelks received a second mes sage from Sheriff Bradshaw, stating that he had the situation in hand, and would not need the Greenville com pany, which had been under arms. Twenty minutes later he received an other message from the sheriff that the mob was already formed at or near Opp, and would certainly attack the jail. The military were at once order ed to the scene. Under Martial Law. A special to The Montgomery Adver tiser from Andalusia, Ala., says: “The governor sent troops tonight to aid Sheriff Bradshaw in protecting the negro rioters in jail here, and the town is now under martial law. .a sheriff is fearing an attack at any mo ment by a mob from Opp, and Is pre pared to protect his prisoners at al! hazards. “Three negroes, names unknown, were caught and killed by a posse of citizens near Opp Friday for alleged complication in the riot, and the whole country is in arms against the ne groes.” BABY BREAKS A WILL. Novel Suit Is Decided In Fulton Su perior Court In Atlanta. A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says: The Alexander will contest came to an end Friday morning in the superior court with a victory for Mrs. Minnie B. Alexander, widow of the late W. H. Al exander, over which a legal fight has been waged, is now revoked by the verdict of the jury, and as a result Mrs. Alexander comes Into possession of an estate valued at $45,000. The fact of the birth of a posthumous child to Mrs. Alexander during the present year broke the will, the law providing that the birth of a child sub sequent to the making of a will, in -’’ich such an event is not contem pt. ' - invocation cf the will. WILSON DIED HARD. After Execution His Body Wriggled In Coffin and Eyes Opened. Bud Wilson, a convict wh R. H. Naylor, a ena*-’ '* ...e xei jn ty convict cauip, last Septemb' , was hanged Friday at Danville, A k. The trap was sprung at 9:45 r Jock and at 10:05 the body was lo T into a coffin. Before the lid we r .aced upon the coffin the body h n moving about. Wilson opened 1 .-yes and his whole frame shook v tremors. He was ta ken from t’ coffin by deputies and carried u’ Jie steps to the scaffold for the pu r ,ose of hanging him again. W' n the platform was reached the be became rigid, remaining so for a ment and then became limp. SUICIDED IN TREE-TOP. Self-Murderer Adopts Unique Plan tc Outwit His Friends. Nelson Culver, during a fit of de spondency of temporary Insanity, ran from his home at Hamilton, Mich., Thursday, climbed to the top of a tall tree. When he saw his friends at the foot of the tree trying to rescue him, he pulled his gun and blew hie brains out. His body dropped and was caught on the lower limbs of the tree, fifty feet from the ground, and dangled there while his life blood ebbed away. TO STOP RATE CUTTERS Was Object of Meeting of Wholesale Druggists In Birmingham. It developed in Birmingham, Ala., Saturday that the purpose of the con venticn there of the wholesale drug gists of the southern states is to de vise some means to squelch the cut rate druggists. The cut raters, It Is alleged, are de moralizing the business, as well as monopolising it. Official Organ of Dade County ■iUtlit PASSES DEPOT BILL. QeorgU Representatives Dispoeft bf Muchly Discussed Measure By Favorable Vote of 107 to 55. Bj a vote of 107 to 55 the muchly discussed Atlanta depot bill passed the house of representatives Thursday af ternoon and is new up to the senate for cotniderfttion. I'.tvuraMe action was had oh the measure after several hours of debate and at the end of a session lasting from 9:30 in the morning until shortly after 4 o'cirnk in the afternoon. The bill, as .'i• 1. oduced by Representative Gress, of Wilcox, and providing that the slate should appropriate $500,000 frem the yearly rental of the Western and Atlantic railroad to erect a hand some new passenger station on the state's property in Atlanta, was passed With six amendments. These amendments in no wise de tract from the strength of the meas ure. The first amendment was by Mr. Johnson, of Bartow, and provided that the members of the committee to be appointed to have charge of the mat ter of building, shall be paid for their services from the money appropriated for the purpose of building the new station. Another amendment by Mr. Little, of Muscogee, provided that the modification of the lease contract should be assented to by the lessee of the state road before any steps were taken to build the new depot. A proviso was added to this by Mr. Johnson, of Bartow, to the effect that the modification of the present lease contract should not be construct ed as giving the lessee any right or claim to any betterments or claims. An amendment by Mr. Lane, of Sum ter, provided that the building com mittee should keep its records open at all times for public inspection. Sev eral minor amendments were also adopted. The bill passed amid great enthusi asm. The friends of the measure in the house cheered and applauded for several moments when it was announc ed that 107 had voted for the bill, and D\ audience in the gallery Joined in the general demonstration. Speaker Little and Mr. Morris, of Cobb, who presided as chairman of the committee of the vlhole while the de bate on the bill ..In progress, both acquitted themselves with distinction. Their rulings were clear cut and decis ive and were instrumental in eliminat ing all superfluous discussion calculat ed to delay matters. The measure provides that a com mittee of seven —four from the house and two from the senate —of which the governor shall be chairman, shall be appointed to investigate the ques tion of building anew depot, secure plans and estimates and consider the items of damage that may arise from the erection of the passenger station. According to the bill the new depot is to be completed by July, 1905, and the $500,000, which is to be appropriated, will cover all costs and damages. As soon as the bill was passed, Mr. Slaton, of Fulton, moved that It be transmitted immediately to the senate. SEVEN AMENDMENTS PASS. The Georgia Senate Acts on Proposed Constitutional Chang. The Georgia senate Thursr By passed v ~ two-third majority seve jf the proposed Jonal ame aments as follows: * Putting all pension. l jn an iftfii ,nt basis. 2. Extending the juris .ction of jus tices of the peace to t' re r cases un der SIOO. 3. Providing for a < nge of venue where there '’"nger lynching. 4. iuakinr jr >f office county o'” ,ir ' ,rs. 5. Requ. •* e general ar priatlo" 1 i the govc least ten ° final .n --ment of .. as'semb’ 6. Re ~:ng t i sectic which pro hibits .anishme t and ipping a pun ish ent for ex /ne i. Providing t v .t two-thirds of the voters shall c leide a local bond elec tion instead c two-thirds of the voters registered. CARNEGIE JFFERS TEN MILLIONS Will DonaJs That Sum to United States Fjlr Educational Purposes. President Roosevelt has received a letter from Andrew Carnegie in which the latter offers to make a donation of $lO 000,000 to the United States. The letter will be referred to congress. Mr. Carnegies gift is for the pub pose of establishing in Washington a university for higher education. It if somewhat on the line of the bequest of James Smithson, the Englishman, who gave $1,000,000 for the establish ment and maintenance of what Is known as the Smithsonian institution. RECEIVER TAKES CHARGE. Judge Speer Places Barnesvllle Con cerns in Hands of Col. J. J. Rogers. Colonel J. J. Rogers has been ap pointed temporary receiver of the Barnesvllle, Ga., Manufacturing Com : pany by Judge Speer. Colonel Rogers has taken full possession of the plant, and also the Hanson-Crawley Corn pan. It is believed he will put the property on Its feet and running In a short time, JUDGE SLAYS PARSON A Sensational Sunday Tragedy In Brookside, Alabama. REVENGE OF ANGERED JUSTICE At His Church Preacher Referred to man, Who Subsequently Slew Him, as a Bearer of False hoods and Slander. A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says: Justice of the Peace R. D. Coffman, at Brookside, in the western part of the ccunty, shot and killed the Rev, J. W. Bradford, pastor of the Methodist church at that point Sunday afternoon. The shooting took place in the pir sonage after Rev. Bradford had or dered Coffman to leave the piace. Three shots were fired, one taking ef fect, going into the minister’s right temple and coming out on the opposite side of the head. Several months ago a feud broke cut in the Brookside church, and Coff man withdrew, being a leader of one of the sides. It is stated he was expelled from the church, a charge being made that he struck his wife. The North Alabama conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, met at Anniston last week and the Rev. Mr. Bradford was sent back to Brookwood. At Sunday school Pas tor Bradford addressed his con gregation, saying he was pleased to be back. He said it was not his custom to preach the first Sunday on his re turn from conference, but .he desired to take this opportunity of expressing the hope that the coming year would be a prosperous one. He said it would be if such men as Coffman were kept out and so prevent ed from “lying on the church and the pastor,” it being told that Coffman had been indulging in much talk about the church and the Rev. Mr. Bradford. This address was communicated to Coffman and late Sunday afternoon the latter called at the parsonage to see the minister. The minister ordered Coffman to leave the place, when Coffman fired three times, as stated. Coffman surrendered to Marshal Sor rel, claiming tne minister attempted to shoot him. Warrants had been sworn out before Justice J. T. Sellers charging Coffman with murder. The Rev. Mr. Bradford died two hours after the shooting. His family is visiting in I-ouisiana at present. MARSHAL JOHNSON RESIGNS. Leader of Georgia Republicans Turns Over Party Affairs to W. A. Pledger. Walter H. Johnson, United States marshal for Georgia, hd* resigned his position as chairman of the republican state central committee. This action on the part of Mr. Johnson was brought about by a circular sent out by Attorney General Knox November 22, in which he stated that it was contrary to the spirit of the civil service lows for any officer of the department of justice to act as chairman of any po litical organization. The resignation of Chairman John son leaves the state affairs of the par ty in the hands of W. A. Pledger, of At lanta, the well-known negro leader. Pledger is vice chairman of the com mittee, and as such will probably di rect the affairs of the party in Geor gia for a nun °r of months to come. TEXAS PUI UING A TRUST. Suit Is Brought Ag ’nst Alleged Com bine With Thirty k 'lions Capital, special from Aust Texas, says: 'amous Kirby Lr Company, was recently for ♦ou,d()0,000 under uie i., Texas, has been sued for damages on the ground that it is operating in violation of the anti-trust law. The charges are that the said com pany has violated the law in freezing and buying out competitors. The pen alties amounting to $770,000 are asked for. WITH TWENTY-FIVE PRISONERS. Alabama Sheriff Makes Wholesale Ar rest of Negroes at Opp. Sheriff Bradshaw returned to Anda lusia, Ala., Thursday with twenty-two negroes who are accused of complicity in the killing of J. W. Dorsey, a mer chant, and Fale Atkinson, city mar shal at Opp, Wednesday evening. The negroes were chased with bloodhounds and captured by the sheriff and his posse. There is great excitement at Anda lusia and there are fears that the friends of the dead white men will at tempt a wholesale lynching. DEWEY DENIES REPORT. 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