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LUKE LEA IS ELECTED
SENATOR FROM TENNESSEE
EDITOR OF NASHVILLE TENNES¬
SEEAN CHOSEN TO FILL
FRAZIER’S SEAT.
VICTORY FOR PROHIBITION
Wild Excitement Followed Election of
Senator Lea—Decisive Defeat
for Patterson Faction.
Nashville, Tenn.—Striking at the
psychological moment won for Luke
J. ea the United States senatorship in
the fight before the legislature over
.be seat soon to he made vacant by
James B. Frazier.
Mr. Lea is 22 years of age, and
will have the honor of being the
■"baby” senator and holding his first
public office.
His election came on the eleventh
ballot of the legislature, and alter
one of the most complicated fights
in legislative history. In the assem¬
bly are the Regular Democrats, with
65 votes, the Republicans with 34 and
the Independent Democrats with 33.
Not only did candidates have these
three factions to try to fine up, hut
many other influences were at work,
including the prohibition question.
Mr. Lea received practically the solid
vote of the independent Democrats
a ad the Republicans and barely
enough Regular Democrats to push
him over the line. One of these Re¬
publican votes was that of Represen¬
tative Brown, who, with Representa¬
tives Houk and Davis, also Republi-
ean had refused to vote either with
the Republicans or Fusionists.
,\V iien the final vote was taken the
h»i of representatives was jammed
wr:j people, as were the corridors
tekuing to it. When it was announc-
@{J Lea had won an animated scene
followed. The many women in the
•crowd vied with the men in the noisc-
making and filling the air with al¬
most anything they could throw.
The victory of Lea is one for pro¬
hibition and a distinct defeat to the
Patterson wing of the Democratic
party. Though never holding an of-
tue, Lea has been a hard fighter for
prohibition, and has taken part in lo¬
cal fights on the side of what was
usually termed the reformers.
Senator-elect Lea is publisher of
the Nashville Tennessean and Ameri-
can, the morning paper of the Ten¬
nessee capital. He has neen
in Tennessee politics only about five
years. In 1906 he led Lite fight in
the Democratic state convention that
nominated Malcolm R. Patterson
The first year of the Patterson ad¬
ministration he was one of Patterson's
chief advisers, However, in 1907,
they disagreed and Lea, who had just
established The Tennesseean a short
time before, became one of the most
vigorous opponents of the governor.
Senator Lea supported ihe iate Sen¬
ator E. W. Carmack in opposition to
Patterson for governor in 1908, and
after that campaign Senator Carmack
became editor of Senator Lea’s paper.
NEW POLITICAL PARTY.
Progressives of Republican Party An¬
nounce Organization.
Washington.—Organization of the
Republican Progressive league by
Progressive Republican senators, rep¬
resentatives, governors and others—
an organization which will fight for
the establishment of popular govern¬
ment—was announced here. Plans of
the new league, which have been un¬
der way since the assemiding of con¬
gress, were concluded, at a meeting
here, at which a declaraUon of prin-
cipies was signed, a constitution!
adopted and the following officers
elected: President, Senator Jonatnan
Bourne, Jr., Oregon; first vice presi¬
dent. Representative George W. Nor¬
ris, Nebraska; second vice president,
Gov. Chase Osborn, Michigan; treas¬
urer, Charles R. Crane, Chicago; ex¬
executive committee: Senator Moses
E. Clapp, Minnesota; Senator Joseph
L. Bristow, Kansas; Reprcsentaive E
H. Hubbard, Iowa; Representative ir
vine L. Lenroot, Wisconsin; Represen
tative-elect William M. Kent, Calitor
nia; Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania
George L. Record, New Jersey, and
the president, vice president and the
treasurer, members ox-officio.
Famous Author Shot Down.
New York City.—David Graham
Phillips, editor, publicist and novel¬
ist, was shot six times as he ap¬
proached the Princeton Club by Fitz-
hugh Coyle Goldsborough, a Harvard
man, who immediately after commit¬
ted suicide. Mr. Phillips is in an ex¬
tremely critical condition. The body
of Goldsborough, whose career at
Harvard was brief, lies in the morgue.
Apparently insane, he hau a fancied
grudge against the author and sought
his life. He was only Si years old;
Phillips is 43.
IIOMEllYILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1911.
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VILE REPORTS ABOUT SOUTH
LABOR AGENT’S STORIES ARE
SUPPRESSED BY THE SECRE¬
TARY OF COMMERCE.
Revolting Stories About Private Lives
of People in South Told in
Reports.
Washington.—That Secretary Na-
gel of the department o( commerce
and labor has suppressed much of the
reports of agents of the labor bureau,
because of their revelations concern¬
ing the private lives of people in
North Carolina and other Southern
states, was asserted in the senate by
Senator Overman, lie said sonm of
the reports were so revolting in char¬
acter that, if printed, the law prohib¬
iting the circulation of obscene liter¬
ature would prohibit thehir transmis
sion througn the mails.
The statement followed an inquiry
by Senator Beveridge as to the pub¬
lication of the investigation into the
employment of women ai'd child la¬
bor made a few years ago by the
bureau of labor.
It was at this junctuie that Mr.
Overman made his statement concern¬
ing the course of Secretary Nagel.
“I heard of the vile character of
some of these reports,” he said, “and
went to Mr. Nagel about them. He
told me the revelations wfere such that
he felt called upon to suppress them.
It would seem that some ot the agent3
had gone into the mountains and had
taken it upon themseives to investi¬
gate the private affairs of the people,
when the law authorized an inquiry
only into labor conditions ”
“Just so,” commented Mr. Bailey;
"whenever we allow one of these med¬
dlesome officers to get their noses
into the front doors of the homes of
the people, they are liable to go far¬
ther Ilian they should.”
ALABAMA BARS LOBBYISTS.
First Clash Occurs in ths Prohibition
Fight.
Montgomrey, Ala.—Anticipating a
hitter contest over the effort to re¬
peal the prohibition legislation, the
lower house of the Alabama legisla¬
ture, after prolonged debate, adopted
a rule forbidding anybody on the floor
of the bouse while the body was in
session, except members, employees
and active reporters. This shuts out
all lobbyists, of whom there are said
to be not a few here.
The first clash over the liquor ques¬
tion came on a motion in the house
to have all the liquor bills introduced
during tiie session printed This also
provoked a spirited debate and ended
in defeat of the resolution. Both sides
claim a victory and, if it was a vic¬
tory, it is a pyrrhlc one.
Senator Frank S. Moody, known as
"the father of temperance in Alaba¬
ma,” introduced a bill which has for
its object the establishing of a dis¬
pensary in every county in the state.
This is the most far-reaching liquor
bill so far introduced.
The fight over the liquor legislation
has been transferred from the senate
to the house, and it is plainly under¬
stood that the issue in that body is in
doubt. The senate is said to be local
option by a small but working major¬
ity. The house is said to be prohibi¬
tion, but the. local optlonists deny
this. The local optlonists control the
temperance committee of the house,
not a prohibitionist being on it.
The Mobile delegation put in a bill
that allows the sale of liquor in that
county.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLINCH COUNTY.
CLARK NEXT SPEAKER.
Democratic Caucus Chooses Missouri
Representative For
Leader.
Washington.—Champ Clark of Mis¬
souri, chosen speaker of the next
house ol'/representatives and given a
rousing ovation on mention of his
name for the presidency, ways and
means committee, previously agreed
upon, chosen lo name the standing
committees and frame tariff legisla¬
tion for early action of the next con¬
gress; a New York member read out
of tho party, a barrel of resolutions
and a host of speakers—these were
features of the caucus of Democratic
members of the coming house.
Mr. Underwood of Alabama, long
tte lieutenant of Mr. Clark, head* the
new ways and means committee.
The caucus developed considerable
difference of views as to the method
of selecting committees, but, when
the time came for voting alignment,
various resolutions were voted down,
the Fitzgerald resolution to leave the
committees to the speaker s selection
being beaten, 29 to 166, and the Fos¬
ter resolution placing that power in
the ways and means committee carry¬
ing by 166 to 7.
EXPRESS RATES REDUCED.
Radical Cut in Express Charges on
Through Shipments.
New York.—Officers of the Canadi¬
an and American Express companies,
in conference here, announce a reduc¬
tion in through rates soon to talio
effect between all offices of the Unit¬
ed States and many of Canada.
All the. important express compa¬
nies were represented, including the
Adams, Canadian, American, Nation¬
al, Northern, Southern, Western, Pa¬
cific, United States and Wells-Fargo,
and the New York and Boston DiS'
patch.
ORIGIN OF HOBBLE SKIRT.
North Carolina Farmer Is Responsible
for New Style.
Iredell, N. C.—It transpired that the
hobble skirt was first worn in Lin¬
coln county many, many years ago,
long before the idea ever occurred to
gay Paree.
’Squire D. A. Barkley of Iredell gays
that old man Howard of Dry Pond,
now Denver, Lincoln county, first sug¬
gested the hobble when hs required
his girls to wear a two-foot string tied
to their ankles when dropping corn
in the furrows in order to preserve
a regular graduation of the stalks. This
imposition which foced them to step
just two feet regulated cue dropping
of the corn and very quickly gravitat¬
ed into the hobble skirt.
NEW ORLEANS SCORES.
Southern City Endorsed for Location
of Panama Exposition.
Washington.—New Orleans won the
first round of the fight for the location
of the Panama exposition when the
exposition committee of the house by
a vote of 9 to 6 decided in favor of
it as the site for the fair to celebrate
the opening of the Panama canal in
1915. No appropriation tor the pe¬
cuniary aid 6f the New Orleans fair
is authorized. ,
Woodrow Wilson's Man Wins.
Trenton, N. J.—The Democratic
members of the legislature in confer¬
ence took a vote on the United States
senatorship with the following result;
James E. Martine, 33; James Smith,
Jr., 14; Congressman William Hughes,
2; Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr., 1; ab¬
sent 1. Governor Wilson is confident
enough men will be won over to in¬
crease Martine’s vote from the 33 re¬
ceived in the conference to the 41
necessary to give him a majority on
joint ballot.
COTTON GINNED IN
EACH GEORGIA COUNTY
GOVERNMENT STATISTICS SHOW
APPROXIMATELY 95 PER
CENT. OF LAST YEAR.
PRODUCTION FOR THIS YEAR
Total Number of Bales Ginned in
Georgia to Date is
1,706,816.
—Atlanta.
The statistics of cotton ginned to
December 13, showing approximately
95 jer cent, of last season’s yield,
show within a few hundred bales what
the total production for the year will
be.
The total number of bales ginned
in Georgia up to the date indicated
was 1,706,816, as compared to 1,766,-
070 in 1909 and 1,876,963 in 1908.
The figures for each county, as an¬
nounced by the bureau of the census
follow;
Appling 4,672 hales, Baker 6,394,
Baldwin 10,457, Banks 10,160, Bartow
17,014, Ben Hill 7,173, Berrien 11,625,
Bibb 10,580, Brooks 9,346, Bryan
2,731, Bulloch 26,598, Burke 35,495,
Butts 12,134, Calhoun 13,128, Camp¬
bell 10,846, Carroll 30,590. Chattahoo¬
chee 5,601, Chattooga 7,745, Cherokee
8,617, Clarke 10,291, Clay 10,287,
Clayton 10,297, Clinch 718, Coweta
30,551, Crawford 5,830, Crisp 14,391,
Dawson 1,301, Decatur 11,120, DeKalb
8,822,-Dodge 22,589, Dooly 26,416,
Dougherty 12,317, Douglas 7,471,
Early 14,385, Echols 375, Effingham
3,143, Elbert 10,015, Emanuel 25,079,
Fayette 12,805, Floyd 14,624, Forsyth
8,345, Franklin 21,330, Fulton 2,303,
Glascock 2,497, Bordon 9,078, Grady
5,542, Greene 13,862, Gwinnett 19,467,
Habersham 1,010, Hall 12,902, llan-
cock 14,453, Haralson 9,320, Harris
22.440, Hart 17,619, Heard 14,835,
Henry 23,604, Houston 16,713, Irwin
12,558, Jackson 34,832, Jasper 20,428,
Jeff Davis 2,712, Jefferson 20,819,
Jenkins 14,922, Johnson 13,910, Jones
13,803, Laurens 37,233, Lee 11,887, Lib-
erty 1,441, Lincoln 7,417, Lowndes
7,585, Lumpkin 453, McDuffie 7,709,
Macon 11,499, Madison 19,516, Marion
6,970, Meriwether 32,299, Miller 3,195,
Milton 8,321, Mitchell 20,651, Monroe
2,249, Montgomery 16,679, Morgan 21
843, Murray 1,554, Muscogee 6,745,
Newton 18,393, Oconee 13,387, Ogle¬
thorpe 17,483, Paulding 8,740, Pickens
1,953, Pierce 2,810, Pike 20,714, Polk
12,322, Pulaski 20,867, Putnam 11,512,
Quitman 4,567, Randolph 18,736, Rich¬
mond 6,641, Rockdale 6,008, Schley
5,898, Screven 22,139, Spalding 15,275,
Stephens 4,934, Stewart 12,404, Sum¬
ter 25,754, Talbot 10,467, Taliaferro"
7,386, Tattnall 12,128, Taylor 9,641,
Telfair 11,758, Terrell 27,023, Thomas
15,781, Tift 7,867, Toombs 9,396, Troup
24,298, Turner 12,471, Twiggs 10,387,
Upson 12,844, Walker 3,846, Walton
30,465, Ware 835, Warren 8,623, Wash¬
ington 23,264, Wayne 2,415, Webster
4,258, White 203, Whitfield 3,358, Wil¬
cox 16,586, Wilkes 19,833, Wilkinson
5,774, Worth 17,242, all other counties
73;.
Liquor Dealers Not Sheltered.
President Taft has acceeded to the
request of Representative Adamason
and other representatives of dry states
to issue an order requiring the com¬
missioner of internal revenue to mod¬
ify his instructions to collectors of in¬
ternal revenue regarding compliance
with the act of June 21, 1906, and
hereafter a certified list of the per¬
sons paying the Federal tax required
of rfetail and wholesale liquor dealers
will be furnished state officials on
written demand.
Smith Issues Statement.
Governor-elect Hoke Smith has giv¬
en out an extended statement, em¬
bodying his ideas of financial reforms
and changes in the management of
the state’s affairs, which, in his judg¬
ment, would put the state on a round
financial footing. One of his leading
ideas is the inauguration of the gov¬
ernor on January 1, with a ten-day
session of the legislature then to in¬
stall the chief executive, name com-
mittfes and introduce certain bills,
to he followed by a forty-day session
at the same time as is now the case.
In issuing the statement he begins
by saying; “I wish consideration by
the public, and especially by the leg¬
islature, of measures whicii may come
before the legislature' next summer.
My desire is to obtain that criticism
which will aid in securing wise ac¬
tion. There are other measures es¬
pecially pertaining to rural schools
and agricultural progress which I will
submit later. I ask for co-operation
free, implish from partisan bias that wo may
acc the greatest possible serv-
ice for the people of the state.” He
then goes on to outline his plan for
paying teachers promptly. First, he
wants thd borrowing power of the gov¬
ernor increased from $200,000 to $500,-
000 per annum. Second, advance the
time for the payment of taxes by rail¬
roads and public service corporations
to September 1. He makes no sug¬
gestion as to advancing t'ne time for
payment of general taxes. He points
out that after pensions, schools and
the public debt payments are met
that the state is in financial straits
from about August 1 to late December,
when taxes begin coming in. “The
proper management of the state’s
finances does not materially differ
from the proper management of the
finances of any other large enter¬
prise,” he states, “and as large busi¬
ness enterprises need at some periods
of the year a borrowing power pro¬
portioned to the volume of business
done, so the state can properly be
given a larger borrowing power now
than was permitted by the constitu¬
tion of 1877. By increasing the tem¬
porary borrowing power of the state
to $500,000, the opportunity will be
given to the governor, or those au¬
thorized to use this power, to provide
funds during such portions of the
year as the treasury may need to be
replenished, if the further suggestion
1 have made of advancing the time,
for paying railroad and public service
companies taxes, is carried out. The
loans should be made for only a short
period of time, to be repaid as soon
as the money comes in from ad valo¬
rem taxes.” He points out that rail¬
roads and service corporations pay the
state about $750,000 per annum in
taxes, and by advancing the time for
them to pay, the state’s stringency
in money matters would be relieved
at a time when it was most needed.
Then he declares: “December 20 has
been made the time for payment of
taxes generally because so large a
number of our taxpayers are farmers,
and they depend upon their fall crops
for cash with which to meet taxes.
This reason does not apply to rail¬
roads and service companies. One pe¬
riod of the year would suit them as
well as any other period.” He does
not think that any hardship would be
visited on the corporations by this
plan, nor that it would meet with any
groat objection. With the $750,000
from this source and the borrowing
power raised to $500,000, the state
would have ample funds to meet all
obligations promptly. Governor Smith
uiso suggests that the governor, the
comptroller general and treasurer be
constituted a state finance board, with
general supervision over the collec¬
tion of taxes, (he deposits in banks
and the borrowing of money when
that is necessary. This board should
have the power to employ an auditor
and assistants to chock over finances
and keep matters running smoothly.
Ho declares that there is much waste
now in the administration of state af¬
fairs, moBt of which is unintentional.
He thinks the kind of board he sug¬
gests would eliminate all this. His
argument then passes to the issue of
inaugurating the governor and state
house officials on January 1. .A ten-
day session could be held of the as¬
sembly, beginning the first Tuesday
in January. He also suggests that
the October elections be abandoned
and that all state house officials be
elected at the same time as the con¬
gressional elections are held. The fact
that Governor Smith is taking such
live action and interest in state af¬
fair, and in mapping out probable leg¬
islation he will urge, is taken as an¬
other intention to stick to the gov¬
ernorship and stay out of the sena¬
torial race.
Soldiers’ Superintendent Suspended.
At the annual meeting of the Sol¬
diers’ home trustees, the suspension
of Superintendent A. W. Force, be¬
cause of an attack on Veteran Few,
was made permanent. W. J. Hudson
of Cobb county was elected superin¬
tendent. Veteran Few has been sus¬
pended from the home. Judge Bell,
president; Dr. Amos Fox, purchasing
agent, and W. H. Harrison, secretary,
all were unanimously re-elected in
spite of Tom Watson’s attacks on
them and the management of the
home. The trustees will ask the next
legislature to increase the appropria¬
tion' to $30,000, as so many old veter¬
ans are in the hospital tnat the cost
of their care is heavily increased. No
cognizance of Watson's attacks on the
nome was taken during the meeting.
Atlanta Journal in Trouble.
On the charge that sample copies of
the semi-weekly Atlanta Journal were
mailed on several days in 1908 as
though they were copies for subscrib
ers, a United States grand jury indict¬
ed the Atlanta Journal company, J. R.
Grya, president of the company, and
John D. Simmons, C. H. Babb and
V. P. Harper, employees. The amount
involved is said to be $700 postage
charges. In October and November,
1908, the semi-weekly Atlanta Journal
issued special editions, wuich were
mailed not only to subscribers, but to
a large number of other people. It is
claimed by the postoffice authorities
that sample copies of those editions
.were sent through tho mails at the
rate of 1 cent a pound, the rate charg¬
ed for newspapers sent to regular
subscribers, whereas the regular rate
to sample copies should have been 4
cents a pound.
NO. DIO.
TAFT WANTS CANAL
TO BE FORTIFIED
PRESIDENT BEGINS CAMPAIGN TO
SECURE PROTECTION FOR
ISTHMUS WATERWAY.
WOULD VIOLATE NO TREATY
Taft Says He Is Lover of Peace, But
Realizes That Peace Is Long
Way Off.
New York.—President Taft began
in earnest his campaign for the lor-
'.tfication of the Panama canal. His
entire speech at the annual banquet
■'f the Pennsylvania society in New
York was devoted to this subject. He
was in high hope that congress, at
:his session, will declare in his .favor
‘ind appropriate $5,000,000 to begin
the work.
In the senate the president has been
told the sentiment for fortification is
hlmost two to one. The aouse seems
pretty evenly divided, but no along
partisan lines. Most of we members
appear to have an open mind, how¬
ever, and are willing to be convinced
by the side that makes ihe better
presentation of its case.
President Taft will bring ail of his
Influence to hear in favor of fortifica¬
tion.
In his speech he said there were
absolutely no treaty obligations in the
way of fortifying the canal; that the
United States had every right and
reason to protect what was purely an
American waterway.
The president said he yielded to
no man in his love of peace and ha¬
tred of 'War. lie said he hoped to
submit soon to the senate arbitration
treaties of a broader nature than had
ever come before that body or any
other legislative body of '.he world.
At the same time Mr. Taft caution¬
ed his hearers that universal peace
was still a long way off, and he could
not conceive of any patriotic Ameri¬
can being willing to allow an attack¬
ing force free and equal use of a
waterway which was built by Amer¬
icans largely as an instrument fop the
defense of this country.
REBEL GUNBOAT SEIZED.
United States Cruiser Deprives Hon¬
duran Rebel Leader of Asset.
Ceiba, Honduras, Via Wireless to
New Orleans.—Great excitement was
caused here when it became known
,t'nat the United States cruiser Taco¬
ma had “arrested” the revolutionary
gunboat Hornet at Truxillo. The Hor¬
net recently sailed from New Or¬
leans.
The Hornet is being ‘ detained” on
instructions from Washington, be¬
cause of alleged violation of the neu¬
trality laws.
Commander Archibald H. Davis
made the seizure after two hours of
defiance from Gen. Manuel Bonilla,
leader of the Honduran rebels.
After Commander Davis seized the
Hornet he cast the rebel crew ashore,
manned her witn American gunners
jand 'the engineers and o-dered her out of
inner harbor
The Hornet’s recent movements up
and down the coast weie taken in
the light of threatened hostilities,
against Honduras by Commander Da-
vis.
As soon as the Tacoma put into
1’ruxillo, Commander Davis sent an
officer hearing a message to General
Bonilla and declaring his intention of
aking charge of the vessel in accord¬
ance with instructions from the Wash¬
ington government to prevent bom¬
bardment ot Honduran ports where
American property was in peril.
Bonilla answered in defiant mariner
and then Commander Davis seized the
Hornet.
New Air Record.
San Francisco.—San Francisco's av¬
iation meet produced a new American
endurance record when Parmalee. pi-
oting a Wright biplane, remained
aloft for three hours thirty-nine min¬
utes gud 45 1-5 seconds. The best pre¬
vious endurance was ethal ol A. J*
Welch of St. Louis, who established
a record of three hours, eleven min¬
utes and 55 seconds. At Los Ange¬
les the late Arch Hoxsey was credit¬
ed with an unofficial record of three
hours and seventeen minutes.
No Extra Session.
Washington. — When Republican
leaders In congress have been asked
if there was likely to he an extra
session because of the congested con¬
dition of the calendars In both branch¬
es, and wh n that question has been
asked frequently within the last week,
they invariably answer in the nega¬
tive. They insist, in spite of the
extra session gossip, that the pres¬
ent short session is not jammed more
than was the short session two years
ago, so far as appropriation bids ar»
concerned.