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HUGE RECEPTION
TO T. fl. PUNNED
Chicago in Frenzy Today as
Train Bearing the Colonel
Speeds Westward.
Continued from Page I.
ind Edward W Sims, secretary of th'
tame organization and the man Roose
velt is said to favor for th*- secretary
ship of the national committee if be
controls the convention, will go to the
•rain.
They will have an automobile .there,
a big open car. frcin whose tonneau the
former president ■ an bow and show his
glittering smile, and exclaim: "Bully!"
as he drives slowly through the crowds.
The rest is to be left to the popula
tion. t
The sample of the sort of "red fire"
the populace is prepared to burn has
thoroughly satisfied the Roosevelt gen
erals The yipping in the hotel lobbies
and the gentle epithets of "Thief."
“Burglar" and "Robber" hurled by the
Roosevelt faction at the Taft following
has given the Roosevelt supporter* a
good line on the demonstration their
"simple grettlng" will insure
Taft Negroes Hear
Band Wagon Rumble.
Negro Southern delegates are wa
vering The men sent from the South
to the Republican national convention
and instructed for William Howard
Taft are growing restive. Taft lead
ers today admitted this. Roosevelt
men confidently proclaimed it. The
admission of the Taft men came in the
sudden activity of their workers among
the negro delegates. Loaders of the
Taft camp today talked with the negro
delegates earnestly Plans for tft* lr
entertainment were formed, and negro
politlcalns from the Northern states
were Intrusted with the delicate task of
holding them in line.
Marked indication- that these dele
gates heard a rumble that they thought
was made by the wheels of the band
wagon came with the announcement
that Colonel Roosevelt was coining to
Chicago today. The Roosevelt men
are trying to increase the impression,
and a part of the noisy reception of
the Colonel is designed to Influence
the negroes.
The first definite signs that the bolt
of the negroes from their instructions
came with the adoption of a bolt reso
lution by a thousand of their race in a
meeting in a South Side hall. It de
manded that, in spite of instructions,
the delegate.- support Roosevelt. To
day this resolution, in the form of a
petition, is being circulated among the
delegates and the negroes of Chicago's
black belt.
Negro Returns
Taft Money.
The effect of the noise and clamor of
the campaign, the cheering demonstra
tions for Roosevelt in the hotel lob
bies, the volunteer glee clubs that are
carolling Roosevelt sentiments through
megaphones, have had their effect, on
top of this has come a letter given out
by Senator Dixon, Roosevelt's cam
paign manager, tn which Charles Banks,
a negro delegate from .Mound Bayou,
Miss., returned money given him by
Director William B. McKinley, of the
Taft campaign. This reply to the
charges of the Taft leadei tbe*t the
Roosevelt managers had sent represen
tatives to Alabama to endeavor to
“bribe" ami but Southern votes had a
tremendous effect on the negroes.
Hanks is one of the men seated by the
Republican national committee. He
was expected to vote for Taft. His
open challenge to the Taft leaders has
increased their fear.
They are worried particularly about
Alabama. It was from Alabama that
the first threat of a bolt from the South
ern delegates was received The vote
of that state would ho particularly im
portant to the Roosevelt men
The one question the negro delegates
have been irking quietly and persist
ently ever since they reached Chicago
is. "Who will win'."’
Alabama Key
To T. R. Stampede.
Alabama is the firs: state on the roll
call, it has been rated in the sure Taft
column. If. when it b- called on the
ciax nominations are made. Alabama
should east him a big slice of its vote,
the effect on the other Southern states
would be profound. It might start the
stampede that Taft men fear It would
help negro delegates make up their
minds about the band wagon
The Roosevelt no n are working dili
gently to get part of the Arkansas dele
gat,,.'i also, and if was n-porte.l tod is
that tl.e.x bad -uceeeded
It is to imreas. the impressiveness of
this opening vote that the Roos It
men are laboring with the Alabama
delegates.
Taft men have found a lot of obsta
cles in the way ol -■* menting the votes
of the Southerners. On*- of tln-lr plans
was called oft bx the delegates them
selves, They bad pl tuned to bring the
Brownsville affair into t , campaign
and there was some talk of inducing
former Senator I'maker to V( ,in« and
talk to tdie delegates about it. The del
egates themselves issm • tn ultimatum
that Brownsville be kept out o' sight.
Unite on Cummins,
Taft Men Plan
CHICAGO, June 15 The jws Fiji!) >f
uniting upon Senator Cummins a> a m
promlw candidate was g.vrn set ■•,.,« ( -,, n .
sideration in lengthy conferm «»•
which Senator Murray Crane, of Mas
sachusetts: Boise Penrose. of l*enn>\lva ■
nia William Barnes, Jr, of Nev* Y \,
and other Taft leaders participate i
Senator \V S Kenyon. Cummins' nisi
ager, also conferred with Senator I’ixon.
the Roosevelt manager, in an effort to
gain support of the Roose\eh men il it
Is found to nominate the ex
president
Dramatization of "Hiawatha” a Hit
INDIAN PLAYERS PRAISED
ftilKLs®
One of the Indian platers in “Hiawatha” and her little
papoose.
Borah’s Speech To Be
Key for Stampede
CHICAGO, June 15.—" How many of
the delegates th.it have been seated in
this convention by the national com
mittee are Federal Joi holders?
"How much are they getting per
year to uphold the Taft administra
t lon ’.’
“That would be of interest to the Re
publicans here."
That, in a general way, will bo tire
tenor of the speech that Senator Wil
liam E. Borah, of Idaho, will make be
fore the Republican national conven
tion next week.
it is designed to be the forerunnei
and the ground work for the Roosevelt
bolt if a bolt shall be found necessary.
It will, In any event, be the keynote of
what the Roosevelt people hope will be
a stampede of the delegates to the for
mer president.
Senator Borah has not entirely com
pleted the speech, but he admitted to
day that he is going to say something
along these lines with a view to open
ing the. eyes of the delegates to what
he alleges Is the real sact —that most of
the Taft delegates from the states are
[H>rk barrel ]>ersons who are influenced
solely by tlielr salary Interest and who
tire unable to deliver anything at elec
tion time.
As it is figured at present. Senator
Borah will allege that there are 179
way-rollers among the delegates from
the various states —most of them from
the South.
There is a force of accountants and
detectives and investigators at work sot
the Roosevelt people, compiling the
exact statistics on the subject. Sena
tor Dixon, the national Roosevelt man
ager. is directing the activities, and the
Colonel's men expect that, before the
opening of the convention, they will
have made up n list of every Federal
office holder among the delegates.
Bryan Twits Colonel
On Fight on Root
IJNCOLN, NEBR.. June 15 W J
Bryan takes a few shots at Colonel
Roosevelt in the current issue of The
Commoner. Mr. Bryan, after hoping
that tile colonel will be persuaded to go
to Chicago to "liven things up." says:
A few years ago Mr. Roosevelt said
he would crawl on his hands and knees
the length of Pennsylvania avenue to
i mak" Elihu Root president of the Unit
| cil States, hut now he is unwilling to
I trust him as temporary chairman of
i the Republican national convention.
I What a change, but It can not be for
gotten that Mr. Roosevelt now de
li un» ■ s as 'crook' a man whom iie
picked as his successor.
"An anti-third term league was or
ganized in Kan is t'itx a few days ago
in anticipation of Roosevelt's nomina
tion. Watch these clubs grow if the
ex - president Is again the candidate."
Illinois T. R. Men
Plan to Undo Taft
<'HlCa<;h, Juno 15. Illinois' 56
Roosevelt delegate? will meet Monday
morning the Congress hotel tn de
termine what steps shall be taken in
view of the national commlth e's un
• iting of delegates via the 'steam
I odor" route.
Tin- meeting was called by Secretary
Itobie: 1: Met' -niick. f ’lowing a de
< tsion 1 v the t 'allfo nia Roosev« Ilians
to bind their presidential electors to
I the colon*-! regardless of Taft’s possi
ble nomination. That the Illinois dtde
gntion may adopt a similar program is
probabh .
.*nu zvI’LANTA GEORGIAN AM) ’NEWS. SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1912.
Outdoor Production Is Given
Realistically on Banks of
Springvale Lake.
If you’d care to see a real Indian
Hiawatha, with a real red-skinned
Minnehaha, as Longfellow himself con
ceived the epic, you have that privi
lege toil ay, for out at Inman Park a
company of real American Indians is
enacting the famous story, with real
grass and groves and trees on the banks
of Springvale lake as a stage setting.
The play is given as a benefit for
the Uncle Remus memorial, fund. Evi
dently the Indians as actors already
have made a hit in Atlanta, for the
performances yesterday were well at
tended ami large audiences are already
guaranteed for the performance this
afternoon and tonight.
The plot of the play follows closely
the lines of Longfellow’s immortal
poem, but the Indians act in panto
mime. speaking no w ord from the open
ing to the closing of the piece.
Reader Recites Lines.
Instead, the narration of the play Is
given by R S. Pigott, at one time a
resident of Atlanta, who formerly was
in the Augustin Daly Company and
with Henry \V. Savage. Mr Pigott
reads the lines as the Indians enact
them.
At yesterday’s performances the en
tire audience declared the redskin
Thespians portrayed their tragic roles
with a remarkable appreciation and
dramatic effect.
The production is under the direc
tion of 1-. E. Moore* The performances
will continue, for the benefit ( >f the
Uncle Remus fund, all next week.
They All Look Good
1 o Their Managers
< HICAGO. June 15. Here are the
latest convention forecasts given to
1 he Georgian today by campaign man
agers of Theodore Roosevelt, President
Taft and Senator LaFollette.
By JOSEPH M. DIXON,
Manager of the Roosevelt Campaign.
Theodore Roosevelt is going to he
nominated. The people of the country
want him to be their president. They
will not stand for the boss brand of
politics that Is b* hind the activities of
the Taft steam roller.
By WILLIAM B. M’KINLEY,
Manager of the Taft Campaign.
President Taft will bo nominated on
the first ballot. Taft has the majority
of the delegat*-- will stick
with him in spite of"ny attempt to
stampede them to the colonel, in the
final analysis it Is an indorsement by
Republicans of what has been a Repub
lican administration.'
By WALTER L. HAUSER.
Manager of the LaFollette Campaign.
LaFollette xvill be nominated because
the Republicans who will be delegates
to the national convention will per
ceive early In the game that the bit
terness het w een Taft and Roosevelt has
become so intense as to make it im
possible for either of them to be elect
ed in November. They max be a dead,
lock for a ballot or two. and then every
loyal party man will see the absolute
necessity of choosing a third man —and
LaFollette. be* ause of his progressive
principles, will be that man.
HONOR FOR CAPTAIN PETTY,
SPARTANBURG. S. Juno 15.
I’aptain Charles Petty, dean of Jour
nalism in South Carolina and associate
editor of The Spartanburg Journal, has
been el* ted a life member of the South
x’a'.'i'lina Press association.
FATHER AND SON
KILLEDJN FEUD
Nephew and Cousin of Dead
Men Shoots Them to Death
in Meriwether County.
WOODBERRY. GA., Juno
W. O. and Oscar Evans, father and son,
were buried today at the old Evans
family burying ground four miles north
of Greenville, one chapter in a Meri
wether county family feud of more than
a year's standing was closed.
Another chapter will be enacted on
Monday morning, when O. C. Walton,
nephew of W. o. Evans, and cousin of
Oscar Evans, is given a commitment
trial at Greenville on charges of killing
the, two Evanses, whom he shot to
death at the store of Fletcher Wheless,
three miles from Woodberry. yesterday.
After the killings, Walton went to
Greenville and surrendered to the sher
iff of Meriwether county, who has him
in custody, but not in Jail, pending his
preliminary hearing.
Ihe trouble between Walton and his
relatives’, the Evanses, began moreithan
a year ago. when they took opposite
sides in a criminal case over a negro in
the city court at Greenville.
Dead Men’s Side.
According to friends of the dead men,
Walton, at the time of that trial, drew
his pistol on W. O. Evans. Yesterday
the Evanses and Walton met in the
Wheless store, when the conversation
drifted to firearms and shooting af
frays. W. (J, Evans is quoted as say
ing: "Well, I looked down the barrel
of one pistol, but I'll never look down
another." Walton, it Is said, replied:
"It looks like you are trying to bring
up that old trouble again and want to
fight."
" Ith that* Evans' friends claim, Wal
ton drew his pistol and was about to
point it at the elder Evans when Oscar
Evans drew his weapon. Immediately
Walton, it is claimed, shot young
Evans through the head. The elder
Evans by this time had run to his bug
gy and secured his own gun and Wal
ton went after him. The two raced
around the store until Walton got the
drop on the elder Evans and shot him
down.
Walton's Story Different.
But. according to the other side,
there is a different story to the affraj
Walton claims that he was endeavoring
to avoid trouble, and when the elder
Evans started for his gun he, Walton,
endeavored to escape through a rear
door, but that Oscar Evans stopped
him and threatened to kill him if h<*
moved another step. Then Walton
filed, killing the younger Evans The
elder Evans. Walton claims, pursued
him around the store four or five times
when he turned and shot Evans In self
defense.
Walton is about 25 years old and his
cousin was about the same age. W. O.
Evans was about 50 years old. The
families are well known In this section.
AH Factions for
Progressive Platform
CHICAGO. June 15.—The platform
of the Republican party is to he pro
gressive. Leaders'of both the Taft and
Roosevelt camps have agreed to this
Senator Robert M. LaFollette and
his forces are trying to make it strik
ingly progressive. President I'aft and
his followers have agreed that a num
ber of progressive ideas shall be Includ
ed if they control the convention. For
mer President Roosevelt Is writing his
own platform, and while little has been
given out as to Its probable contents,
ills leaders here are certain that it will
be progressive enough to suit any
member of the party and that it will
definitely promise a number of reforms.
Two planks are pretty apt to be in
cluded In the platform, no matter who
is the nominee of the convention. One
Is for woman's suffrage. One is for im
provement of the Mississippi as a wa
terway. The fourteen-feet-through
the-valley idea has been suggested as a
good bait with which to angle for the
■Missouri voters who have been more or
less startled by the commotion in the
Republican party ranks there.
Bait For “Solid South.”
The plank is also the first real effort
to break the solid South. Louisiana
and Mississippi in particular could be
Induced to view Republicanism from a
different point of view, politicians here
assert. If they could be made to believe
that the Republicans would actually
begin the deepening of the Mississippi
channel, opening a new line for com
mercial activity and offering relief
from the annual floods. There is a
lot of good politics in that plank, these,
men Say.
Pretty much of the rest of the plat
form is left to speculation.
If the Taft men win. one plank will
be for "scientific revision of the tar
iff." with a properly empowered tariff
board to investigate and report to the
-president and congress.
La Follette's tariff plank, should he
be able to write his ideas into the plat
form. and he might through a delegate
swap, would be for revision downward.
LaFollette's Railroad Plank.
Another LaFollette idea that the con.
vention will have to reckon with is his
plank for the physical valuation of
railroads. So far it promises to be the
big platform fight.
William Barnes, Jr . of New York, is
deeply interested in the platform. Nich
olas Murray Butler, of New York, pres
ident of Columbia university, is hewing
some planks for the Taft platform, and
Senator Elihu Root will convey the
president's own ideas to the Taft lead
ers here, at the same time shaping
them Into "platform language."
Former Vice President Fairbanks,
who has been suggested for chairman
of the platform committee, will write
one or two of the planks He has al
ready done some tentative work along
this line.
T, R.'S FIGHT IS LIKE THAT
OF GRANT'S IN 'B2; DARK
HORSE WON THAT TIME
Every political student who has
delved into those musty archives
wherein are kept the records that tell
of great political battles past and gone
must be struck with the similarity of
the pre-nomination fight waged by
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in this
year of our Lord 1912 and that conduct
ed by General Ulysses S. Grant exactly
32 years ago.
Grant's campaign was for the Repub
lican nomination for the third term
after a lapse of four years—so is
Roosevelt’s.
Grant was a soldier of achievement—
as is the hero of San Juan Hill.
Grant’s campaign followed a world
girdling trip, during which he received
the welcome and praise of strange sov.
erelgns and peoples—Roosevelt has but
lately returned from his African hunt
and a triumphant tour through Europe.
Grant Was Idol of People.
And Grant was the popular idol of
the. people—a claim made for Colonel
Rcoaevelt by his supporters.
But net alone are the two cam
paigns similar in these particulars. The
construction of the Grant and Roose
velt campaigns has many points in
common, for Grant was opposed by
Blaine —even as Roosevelt is opposed by
Taft.
The fight in the convention hall was
one of the bitterest in the annals of
Republican party history.
The convention convened in Chicago
on June 2, 1880. with more than 10,000
spectators lining in the galleries to
watch rhe battle royal. And for over
a week th? Blaine and Grant forces
battled together before Garfield, a dark
horse, won the nomination.
Conklin opened the nominations by
presenting the name of Grant, and he
did it with an imperial grandeur and
with a degree of eloquence that was
impressive. Had he been as discreet
as he was eloquent his speech would
have been a perfect exhibition of im
pressive oratory; but Conklin, inspired
by’his love of Grant, antagonized the
Blaine delegates by his pungent satire
anent the Blaine cohorts who disre
garded their instructions to vote as a
unit for Grant.
, Speech Weakened Grant. *
He referred to Grant as a candidate,
"without patronage," without emis
saries, without committees, without bu
reaus, without telegraph wires run
ning from his house to the convention
hall, or running from hfs house any
where. His speech, however, left Grant
weaker instead of stronger.
Following Conklin’s speech for Grant
and Garfield’s speech for Sherman, the
name of Blaine was presented by Joy
Joy's advocacy of Blaine was tame and
disappointing, beside the masterly ora
tions of Conklin and Garfield. But
Blaine’s candidates were strong, and
were firm in their conviction of ulti
mate victory.
The balloting began. Three hundred
LUXURY IS FORCED
ON A MILLIONAIRE
BY COURT’S ORDER
NEW YORK. June 15. —ln a court
order County Judge Fawcett, of Brook
lyn. not only designates the amount of
money to be spent each month for the
maintenance of a millionaires house
hold. but specifics in what manner the
money shall be spent.
The order was in the case of Samuel
E. Haslett, a Brooklyn recluse, declared
Incompetent. For years he lived in an
old mansion and permitted it to go to
decay. He boarded his wealth and
received no visitors of any sort.
Haslett has an income of $40,000 a
year, s Judge Fawcett allowed the com
mittee SI,OOO a month for his mainte
nance. it is specified that part of the
money be used to pax* one physician to
be in constant attendance, two nurses,
one cook and one porter.
MARIETTA HAS A LAUNDRY.
MARIETTA, GA.. June 15. Marietta
has a steam laundry now. It will be
open for business in about ten days.
Officers of the company are: V. S.
Phillips, president and general man
ager; J. J. Black, vice president, and
H. R. McClatchey, secretary and treas
urer.
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and seventy-eight votes were necqgsary
for a choice. On the very first ballot
Grant received 304 votjs, while Blaine
was given 284. Sherman got 93.
Garfield himself got one vote on the
second ballot. Blaine lost two votes
and Grant gained one. And so the fac
tions struggled* on for 33 consecutive
ballots.
For 33 ballots Grant never got more
than 309 votes, Blaine never more than
285, Garfield never rose above two
votes in all.
Grant's Supporters Loyal.
The thirty-fourth ballot began—the
second week of the convention—and
the delegates, worn out with the strug
gle, prayed fora compromise candidate.
It was here that Garfield began display
ing strength, fte was indeed the only
logical compromise candidate, though
many favored Senator Windon of Min
nesota. His landslide started when
Wlndon's delegates met in caucus, a
minority deciding to vote for Garfield
in preference to their candidate.
At the end of the thirty-fourth bal
lot Garfield's vote registered 17 instead
of 1, Grant got 312 and Blaine 275. Still
no one had reached the 378 necessary
to nomination.
They voted again. This time Garfield
jumped to 50 votes, Grant got 343 and
Blaine Icjst 18, falling to 257. The thir
ty-fifth ballot was called and the storm
broke. The Blaine column swerved to
Garfield almost unanimously.
When the votes were counted it xx*as
found that Garfield had 399 votes in all.
Grant 306 and Blaine 42.
The dark horse—Garfield—had won.
Grant’s supporters had stood by him
with marvelous fidelity. He started
with 304 votes, never fell below 302,
never rose above 313 and ended on the
final ballot with 306. He had the
ablest galaxy of leaders that ever ap
peared at a national convention in sup
port of any one delegate.
MY NEW PLANS
TN MY OLD OFFICE I DID NOT HAVE
* sufficient room to give attention to
many diseases that I knew needed especial
attention and so the
majority of our work
R was with Diseases of
Men.
But when I moved
wMf to my new offices I
wen * to large ex-
Wm pense to equip one
Mi the very best pri
vate laboratories in
fl the South with a view
devoting more
time and attention
Hmlll to various chronic
j diseases that I know
need that attention
to detail so essential
to their proper diag-
J nosis and Er a-irent
in order that they
IMFMO— VI may get not only re-
DR. WM. M. BAIRD. iief, but a cure.
Br °s6 n Mar’le« l a h St?eet din9 ' Diseases of WOmCtt
Atlanta Ga have been largely
left to the surgeon’s knife when by proper
attention to detail and with proper care
many of them can be cured without opera
tion.
The same is true of Piles, and Rectal
diseases in general.
I KNOW that this office affords the
best opportunity for relief and cure possi
ble.
I KNOW, too, that this office is the
best equipped for doing good work of any
office south of the Mason and Dixon Line,
and there is none better in the United
States.
Don’t, then, let someone influence you
against an advertised office, but call, and
see for yourself if every statement I make
is not correct. We all do our best for our
patients, and spare no time, trouble or ex
pense to be of real benefit to them.
Perfect work is the aim of this office
and we want those who will appreciate
this to call and see us.
Pamphlets sent free on request.
11 V I V 'Jfl Krl)
\\ . [I 13 Wvv i V| y;
56 Marietta St., Brown-Randolph Building
Atlanta, Georgia
BAPTISTS TD AID I
OF BESSIE lira
Atlanta Churches to Work Tol
morrow to Raise Their Part I
of College Endowment.
Baptist churches in Atlanta will r>b-*,.
serve tomorrow as Bessie Tift college
day. Following talks in the various’
pulpits by prominent speakers, an in-;
dividual canvas among Baptists of the,
city for their part of the $360,000 en
dowment fund will be made.
A large committee of laymen and'
members of the Atlanta Baptist Minis-?-
ters association will co-operate with
the officials of the college In this work?
The ministers who will occupy the
pulpits are:
First Baptist church. R. A. Lansdellg
Second Baptist church, in the morning
A. R. Moncrief, in the evening, J. R
Gunn; Ponce DeLeon Avenue church
J. R. Gunn; Capitol Avenue, in tht
morning, H. C. Bucholz, in the evening
R. A. Lansdale; Jackson Hill church
J. R. Sammons; Temple Baptist church
in the evening. J. E. Sammons; Wes
End Baptist church. A. Chamblee; Oak
land City church, in the evening, A
Chamblee; Klrjcwood, church, In the
evening. O. H. P. Bloodworth; Wood'
ward Avfenue church, in the morninj
and evening. J. S. McLemore; Centra
Baptist church, Will D. Upshaw; Gor
don Street church, in the evening. A. J
Moncrief, and Grant Park church, ir
the evening. Will D. Upshaw.
The Tabernacle Baptist church wil
observe the Bessie Tift ceremony or
Sunday, June 23.
The workers in charge of the Atlants
campaign are Miss Mattie Morris (a
graduate of Bessie Tift and president
of the Alumnae association), Rev. R.
A. Lansdell, Rev. J. R. Gunn and O. H.
B. Bloodworth.
They have opened campaign head
quarters in the Atlanta National bank
building.
