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PAGE TWELVE HARVIE AND THE EMPEROR. (Continued from Page 9.) met the Emperor Joseph with that air of easy condescension which wins all hearts and lays the shepherd’s crook beside the sceptre. Harvie had not uttered the formal phrase, “Your Majesty,” more than three times be- SUMMARY OF NEWS. (Continued from Page 4.) McCLELLAN’S SIDE OF THE MAYORALITY CONTEST. Mayor George B. McClellan, of New York city, in a memorial to the State Legislature, presented his side in the fight with William R. Hearst, over the Mayoralty. He based his objections on two grounds: (1) Upon the inherent unfairness of the bill itself; (2) Upon the injustice of reopening a contest which has been deliberately prolonged by a contestant for his per sonal advantage, in which each of his claims have been successively proven false, and in which he himself has alone been responsible for deliberately throwing away the opportunity for a speedy recount while such a recount was possible. He further said: “It must be clear to any one who understands the machinery of an elec tion that Mr. Hearst’s rights were fully protected. He had his watch ers on election night in every district in the city. They had full opportun ity to protest such ballots as they de sired. “Cunningly Contrived.” “As a matter of fact they did pro test thousands of my votes, all of which, as I shall subsequently show, were afterward passed upon by the Supreme Court. As to those ballots which they did not protest at that time it is a fair presumption and a legal prosumption that they were hon estly counted. “This bill is on its face dishonest and unfair. It f ails to provide for a full recount and recanvass of all the ballots cast in the Mayoralty election. It generously allows the defeated can didate to pick such districts as he may desire. He may ask for a recanvass in ten districts, in a hundred or in a thousand, as he may deem it advan tageous to his own interest. “On the other hand. I, as the success ful candidate, am denied the right if asking a recanvass in a single one of the remaining districts. I say lam denied this right, because the bill pro vides that an applicant must present his petition tc lhe court within twen ty days after the passage of the act, and at the same time must file a bond for all costs, as a guarantee that the result of the election will be changed. In other words, unless I apply for a recanvass and give a bond that I will not only lose my office but will also I PIANOS FROM $l9O UPWARD I I SOUTHERN AGENTS OF I I Steinway, Knabe, Weber, Everett, Fischer, Hardman I I and other Pianos. Payments by the month or week arranged. I VICTOR TALKING MACHINES--EDISON PHONOGRAPHS I Prices SIO.OO upward, on payments by month or week. I PHILLIPS & CRE/W CO., 37-39 Peachtree St., Atlanta I WRITE FOR CATALOGUES. MENTION THIS PAPER. fore the Emperor Joseph, completely melted and captivated, was heard to exclaim, in the most touching tones: “Harvie, call me Joe!” The by-standers were affected even to tears, and once more spinners and growers came together and slipped money into Har- pay all the costs and expenses of the litigation if I do not, I cannot have a full recanvass of the vote. “How can I act upon the assump tion that I will lose my office? Cer tainly I do not expect to do so. There fore the bill prevents me from taking any action to protect my rights. I can not conceive of a more cunningly con trived scheme to prevent what the contestant contends that he wants — namely, a recanvass of all the votes. “It is easy to see the danger and in justice involved in a partial recan vass of the vote. Let us assume that my late opponent will seek a recan vass of the vote in five hundred of the election districts which gave me my greatest pluralities. This would re quire the recanvass of more than 150,- 000 ballots.” Mayor McClellan closed his argu ment in the following words: “If this fight of mine results in es tablishing the precedent that once the verdict of the people has been prop erly registered at teh polls it is a final verdict, I am content, whatever the cost may be to me personally. If this precedent be not established I fear for the security of our elections in the future. If the vote for Mayor acn be recanvassed twenty months after the election, why not the vote for Gov ernor or for President? “I agree with the Governor that in a question of this kind the identity of the candidates is a matter of small moment. I disagree with him, how ever, in his contention that it is more important to quiet agitation aroused by an unsuccessful candidate by means of special legislation than it is to enforce obedience to and acquies cence in the law. “It has been to my political disad vantage to have followed the course which I have taken. It has been to my political disadvantage to have performed what I believe to be my sworn duty, to have preserved law and order in this city for the past year and a half. For taking that course, however, I feel no regret and I offer no apology.” SCHMITZ ON TRIAL. Mayor Eugene Schmitz, of San Francisco, scored a point at his trial for alleged extortion. Antonio B. Blanco, once proprietor of Delmonico, a French restaurant, from whose own er the mayor and Abraham Rues are accused of having extorted thousands of dollars, was asked: “Did Rues, or WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. Mayor Schmitz, or any one ever tell you that if you did not pay this money you would not get your licenses re newed?” “No. Nobody ever made that threat to me,” answered Blanco. CHESTY JAPS. Popular indignation against the United States has reached a height never known since Japan has had re lations with the Washington Govern ment. Says the Nichi Nichi news paper: “Even traditional friendship will not escape a rupture should incidents like those that have occurred in San Francisco be repeated. Whether or not the sufferers are school children restaurant keepers and the site of per secution be limited to California, it does not alter the fact that our com patriots are victims of anti-Japanese outrages. Japanese go there under treaty protection. President Roose velt’s enlightened message to the last Congress was received here with emi nent satisfaction, but actual develop ments since render it a total failure. What we want is not so many ex pressions of civilized sentiments, but one act of efficient protection of the treaty rights of Japanese. The waste paper box is no destination for a treaty between Japan and the United States.” BRYAN IN NEW YORK. In a speech delivered before the Amsterdam Democratic Club, New York city, William J. Bryan contend ed that the Republican party had stolen not only Democratic thunder, but Democratic lightning, and that Theodore Roosevelt, in his attitude towards the railroads, was doing pre cisely what Mr. Bryan wanted to do Special Offer. For the next three months, we offer the Weekly at 50c PER YEAR in clubs of not less than three. Now friends, interest yourselves in our behalf and help us swell the circulation of WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. SAMPLES !ALL PAPER. S FREE S Write at once for samples of our mammoth 1907 line of wall papers. Largest and finest stock south to select from, ranging in price from 4c to $5 per roll. 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Armed with organized and intelli gent purpose, unanimously indorsed by public opinion, Governor Hughes, f of New York, triumphed over “King Caucus” of the Republican Senators and forced them to adopt as a party measure the plan of re-apportionment prepared by himself and Senator Tul ly. This new plan proposes a “wide open” reconstruction of the present Senatorial lines and will insure the retirement of some of the men most objectionable to the public interest. Few Governors confronted by a hostile Legislature ever achieved such a suc cession of decisive victories as did Governor Hughes, every reform prom ised to the people, except Superinten dent of Insurance Otto Kelsey’s re moval, has been carried out. UTILITIES BILL NOW LAW. Governor Hughes, of New York, signed the Public Utilities bill for the effective regulation of railroad and lighting companies and the bill is now law. 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