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VOL. XL NO. 3.
WILSON HITS
TARIFF AND
TRUSTS IN
KEYNOTE
Great Crowd at Seagirt as the
Governor Is Officially Told of
His Nomination.
DEMANDS IMMEDIATE
REVISION DOWNWARD
‘‘Trusts Have Flourished Under
Republican Ban, and Regula
tion Is Needed,’’ He Says.
SEAGIRT, N. J., Aug. 7.—-Woodrow
Wilson, governor of New Jersey, in the
presence of several thousand friends
and admirers from many states, this
afternoon accepted the Democratic
nomination for president of the United
States.
The speech of notification was made
by Senator-elect Ollie James, of Ken
tucky, head of the notification com
mittee. In his response, which was a
masterpiece of rhetoric and beautiful
English and full of trite sayings and
snappy sentences, Governor Wilson at
tacked the tariff and trusts and out
lined the things for which he, as stand
ard bearer of the party, stands. He
demanded an immediate reduction
downward of the tariff and real regu
lation of tusts.
The day was beautiful and the lawn
of the "little white house” was thickly
covered with people. There was no
restriction as to who might attend the
ceremonies. Only a small space about
the speaker's stand was roped off for
the committee and party officials, and
the remainder of the lawn was given
over to the public.
Governor Marshall of Indiana, Dem
ocratic nominee for vice president, was
present.
Governor Wilson’s family, his broth
er. Joseph R. Wilson, one of the edi
tors of The Nashville Banner, and his
sister, Mrs. Annie Howell, with her
daughter and baby granddaughter, from
Raleigh, N. C., were also present.
Mr. James was cheered as he con
cluded. A greater cheer arose as Dr.
Wilson arose.
Governor Wilson
Thanks Committee.
Governor Wilson said, in part:
"Mr. James and Gentlemen of the No
tification Committee: Speaking for the
National Democratic convention, recently
assembled at Baltimore, you have noti
fied me of my nomination by the Demo
cratic party' for the high office of presi
dent of the United States. Allow me to
thank you very warmly for the generous
terms in which you have, through your
distinguished chairman, conveyed the no
tification.
“1 accept the nomination with a deep
sense of its unusual significance and of
the great honor done me, and also with
a very profound sense of my responsi
bility to the party and to the nation.
You will expect me in accepting the honor
to speak very plainly the faith that is
in me. You will expect me, in brief, to
talk politics and open the campaign in
words whose meaning no one need doubt.
You will expect me to speak to the coun
try as well as to yourselves.
"We can not intelligently talk politics
unless we know' to whom we are talking
and in what circumstances. The present
circumstances are clearly unusual.
"We stand in the presence of an awak
ened nation, impatient of partisan make
believe.
"The nation has awakened to a sense
of neglected ideals and neglected du
ties; to a consciousness that the rank
and file of her people find life very hard
to sustain, that her young men find op
portunity embarrassed, and that her old
er men find business difficult to renew'
and maintain because of circumstances
of privilege and private advantage which
have interlaced their subtle threads
throughout almost every part of the
frame-work of our present law.
Now Living in
A New Age.
"Plainly, it is a new age The tonic
of such a time is very exhilarating. It
requires self-restraint not to attempt too
much, and yet it would be cowardly to
attempt too litle. The path of duty so
berly and bravely trod is the way to serv
ice and distinction, and many adventurous
feet seek to set out upon it.
"The platform is not a program. A pro
gram must consist of measures, adminis
trative acts and acts of legislation.
"What is there to do? It is hard to
sum up the great task, but apparently this
is the sum of the matter: There are two
great things to do. One is to set up the
rule of justice and of right in such mat
ters as the tariff, the regulation of the
trusts and the prevention of monopoly,
the adaptation of our banking and cur
rency laws to the varied uses to which
our people must put them, the treat
ment of those who do the daily labor in
our factories and mines and throughout
all our great industrial and commercial
undertakings, and the political life of the
people of the Philippines, for whom we
hold governmental power in trust, for
their service, not our own. The other,
Continued on Page Two.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
Tech Students Plead
For Reinstatement of
Pupil *Fired* as Hazer
Charles Porter, Who Tried to Dic
tate Freshman's Headgear,
Dismissed by Faculty.
Students of the summer school at
Georgia Tech are trying hard today to
obtain the reinstatement of Charles
Porter, an upper classman. who was
dismissed by the faculty for hazing.
It all happened because a freshman
wouldn't wear the white cap, which is
a badge of the Tech freshman class,
and Porter tried to make him do it.
Elwln Newbanks, the freshman,
I didn’t believe it was anybody’s busi
ness what kind of cap he wore, and
when Porter tried to enforce the upper
classmen’s ruling a lively scrap fol
lowed. Then the faculty dismissed Por
ter on a charge of hazing. The dismis
sal only affects his standing in the
summer school.
Other students drew up a petition
to the faculty urging Porter’s rein
statement and will submit it today.
SHERIFF, REFUSING TO
RIDE IN NEGRO COACH,
IS EJECTED FROM TRAIN
MONTGOMERY. ADA., Aug. 7.
Sheriff V. A. Spinney of Autauga coun
ty and Josh McCullough, a handcuffed
negro prisoner, who was being taken
I by the sheriff to Prattville to answer
to the charge of assault with intent to
kill, were ejected from a Mobile and
Ohio passenger train at the Montgom
ery railway station because the sheriff
w'ould not obey an order of Conductor
Rogers to take his prisoner into the
negro compartment.
The sheriff has employed counsel
and threatens to sue the road. He de
clares that he had a right to take his
prisoner in the white smoker of the
second-class coach and maintains that
the railroad had no authority to violate
the law by making him ride in the ne
gro coach w’ith the prisoner. He also
says that he railroads permit negro
nurses to ride in first-class white
coaches, and if this exception is grant
ed, a sheriff should be granted the priv
ilege of riding in a white coach with a
negro prisoner.
IJOE HILL HALL AND
' ALEXANDER DECLINE
BID TO SLATON’S ’CUE
II
| Neither Joe Hill Hall nor Hooper
Alexander was present at President
"Jack” Slaton’s legislative barbecue, at
Cold Springs this afternoon, but they
were the only law-makers missing.
Mr. Hall had a speaking engagement
in another town and Mr. Alexander
said he had not attended barbecues
in the past, didn’t even go to the bar
association’s feast, and couldn’t very
well go today, anyhow.
I So Mr. Slaton will not have a rival
j gubernatorial candidate as his guest—
! though both were invited.
JUDGE PENDLETON
i SUES FOR RENT OF
THE ARAGON HOTEL
Judge John T. Pendleton, of superior
court, filed suit In .that tribunal today
against W. C. Hundley. P. H. Harrel
son, the Trust Company of Georgia and
others, seeking payment of $2,022 said
to be due for rent of the Aragon hotel
in July, 1910. Judge Pendleton is ex
ecutor for the estate of G. W. Collier,
who owned the building.
In the petition, drawn up and person
ally filed by Judge Pendleton, he as
serts that the defendants failed to pay
rent for 26 days in July, 1910.
POLITICIAN, BEATEN
IN PRIMARY, FOUND
DEAD NEAR HIS CLUB
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 7.—Michael F. Smyth,
secretary of the Jefferson club, who was
defeated for the Democratic legislative
nomination in the Sixth district yesterday,
was found dead early today. The police
say he was murdered.
His body was found in a gangway west
of the Jefferson clubhouse at 3639 Olive
street. His head was badly bruised and
his skull was fractured.
INNOCENT MAN WEDS
GIRL WHO ACCUSES HIM
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Aug. 7.—Accused
by the sister of his fiancee, sixteen years
old, Vincent Mayrello, protesting his in
nocence, was haled at night before a
magistrate here and given the alterna
tive of marriage or a jail sentence. May
rello, choosing the former, wedded the
girl he did not love.
On the following day his child-wife
confessed to her mother that Mayrello was
not guilty, and that she had accused
him when threatened by her brother-in
law.
Mayrello will seek a divorce and renew
his former courtship.
IN FAIRNESS TO G. F. GOBER.
The Georgian intends to be fair and
do no one any injustice. It is some
times imposed upon.
We hereby withdraw any reflection
in any way that may be drawn from
what has appeared in our columns
within the last few days upon George
F. Gober, an attorney, with offices at
710-711 Third National Bank building,
Atlanta. Ga. Wo detract nothing from
him as an honorable man and a reputa
ble la wye®
MASSEEWINS
DECISION IN
CAROLINA
COURT
Spartanburg Judge Holds Ten
nessee Requisition for Geor
gia Capitalist Invalid.
MACON MAN SUFFERS
ATTACK OF VERTIGO
Illness Prevents His Appear
ance at the Habeas Corpus
Hearing—Brother There.
SPARTANBURG, S. C„ AuL 7.—W.
J. Massee, the Macon, Ga.. capitalist,
will not be taken to Tennessee to an
swer charges in the courts of Maury
county at Columbia.
This afternoon Judge Thomas S.
Sease held that the requisition on
which Mr. Massee was arrested in
Spartanburg twelve days ago. while
passing through South Carolina en
route to Georgia from an Eastern busi
ness trip, was invalid. He also de-,
clared that the ease appeared to him
to be an effort of the Tennessee prose
cutors to collect a debt through the
criminal courts.
Judge Sease's decision was on habeas
corpus proceedings instituted by Mr.
Massee at the time of his arrest. His
bondsmen were relieved of further re
sponsibility to the South Carolina
courts and all claim against him in
this state was dismissed.
Attorneys for Mr. Massee attacked
the validity of the requisition by which
It was sought to extradite him to Ten
nessee on the ground that the papers
were not signed by Governor Ben W.
Hooper, of Tennessee, having been is
sued by his secretary during his ab
sence from Nashville. On this point
hinged the outcome of the proceedings.
Massee Suffers From
Attack of Vertigo.
Mr. Massee was not present at the
hearing today, being at his home in
Macon suffering from an attack of ver
tigo. He was represented by his broth
er. O. J. Massee. of Macon, and his
attorneys. Felton Hatcher, Roland El
lis and W. D. McNeil, of Macon, and
Sanders & DePass and Cecil C. Wyche,
of Spartanburg.
Judge Sease ruled that as Mr. Mas
see was under SIO,OOO bond, the hear
ing could proceed in his absence upon a
consent order from Mr. Massee agree
ing to that course, which was intro
duced. An affidavit from Dr. H. P.
Derry, of Macon, Mr. Massee’s regular
physician, was presented stating that
Mr. Massee was 111 and would be in
danger of a physical collapse should he
be brought from Macon to Spartan
burg. Before presenting the consent
order and affidavit Mr. Massee’s at
torneys had made a motion for a post
ponement of the hearing, which Judge
Sease overruled.
Mass of Evidence
Presented to Court.
It was noon before the preliminaries
as to whether or not the hearing should
proceed had been disposed of and the
case was taken up on its merits. C. P.
Sanders, one of the attorneys seeking
to have Mr. Massee returned to Ten
nessee, submitted a mass of document
ary evidence, reciting the complete his
tory of the case from the time Mr.
Massee was indicted until today, in
cluding the two extradition hearings
conducted before governors of Georgia,
when Tennessee requisitions were not
honored, and the proceedings in this
state whereby Governor Blease hon
ored a requisition and permitted the
arrest of Mr. Massee as he was passing
through South Carolina, returning to
Georgia from the East.
The original indictment was not in
troduced at the hearing, but the min
utes of the Tennessee court, where the
case was first tried, were Introduced. Il
was held that these minutes did no’
constitute the indictment and were not
as accurate as the indictment would be
if it were in the possession of "the cou’t
here.
Long arguments were made by attor
neys on both sides at each point in the
case and it was exceedingly slow in
reaching a decisive point.
GIRL PITCHER WINS A
BALL GAME FOR MEN
NEW YORK. Aug. 7.—With Miss
Helen Pawling in the box for the sin
gle men of the Adirondack Glee club,
they were able to defeat their married
antagonists yesterday afternoon at
Robin Hood grounds, Concord, S. 1., by
the score of 6 to 4.
Miss Pawling is an expert swimmer
and oarsman, and takes especial de
light in putting on the gloves with her
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1912
Athens Belle Is Bride in Surprise Wedding
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INSORSNCE FIRM
Stockholders of Rome Life Co.
to Receive Remaining As
sets— Merger Stands.
ROME, GA„ Aug. 7.—Three receivers
will take over the remaining assets of
the Rome Insurance Company and di
vide the proceeds among the stockhold
ers, through an order issued today by
Judge Maddox in I'loyd superior court.
The receivers are T. K. Scott, of Au
gusta, president of the Georgia rail
road; E. W. Butler, of Madison, and R.
A. Denny, of Rome. The receivers rep
resent a committee appointed by stock
holders as Intervenors, with the excep
tion of Mr. Denny, who was named in
place of a non-resident committeeman.
Judge Maddox dissolved the order,
previously issued, dissolving the mer
ger of the Rome company with the
Cherokee Life Insurance Company, on
the ground that it would leave no pro
tection for the reinsured policyholders
of the Rome company.
The court disallows the petition of
John W. Miles, of Baxley, Ga., who had
brought an injunction suit to restrain
the Cherokee company from taking
over the Rome company.
Receiver Butler today i. sued a state
ment in which he declare, he had been
badly treated by the old oificers of the
Rome company and that h< intended to
go to the bottom of alleged fraudulent
deals made in the name ct lite com
pany.
Popular North Georgia Girl and
Milledgeville Youth Marry,
Then Tell Families.
ATHENS, GA., Aug. 7. —Miss Jennie
Dußose, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Toombs Dußose, and Marion H. Al
len, of Milledgeville, a member of the
senior law class of the state university,
were the principals in a romantic mar
riage in Lexington, Ga., yesterday aft
ernoon.
The young couple made the trip to
Lexington in a motor car from Athens,
where they had met about noon. They
went to Macon after the marriage,
sending a telegram from that city to
the bride’s parents, which was the first
news the family had of the surprise
wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Dußose issued
a formal announcement of the marriage
this morning, which will be received
with interest over the state.
The pretty bride is one of the most
popular girls in Georgia. Her father,
who is representative from Clarke
county and is at present attending the
legislature in Atlanta, is a prominent
and wealthy citizen of Athens and a
member of one of the most prominent
families of the state. Through her
mother’s family, the bride is descended
from a famous Georgia family, being a
great-grand-niece of Robert Toombs.
She made her debut two seasons ago,
having spent a part of the past winter
in Atlanta. The groom is a son of
Judge John T. Allen, of Milledgeville,
and a member of the A. 'l'. O. fraternity.
The romantic marriage was the out
come of a desire on the part of the
young people to have a wedding out of
the ordinary. After a bridal trip, the
couple will be cordially welcomed home.
TURKS MUTINY;
REVOLUTION ON
General Djemakey Declares
War Against Sultan—Orders
All Officials Slain.
SALONIKA, EUROPEAN TURKEY,
Aug. 7.—The Turkish gendarmes in the
garrison at Okhrida, Albania, mutinied
today and their commander, General
Djemalrey, declared war In the name of
the Young Turks against the present
government. The commandant gave
notice that he would lead an army
against Constantinople and issued a
proclamation calling upon all loyal
Young Turks to join his standard. The
rebels will-attempt to force the abdi
cation of tne present sultan, who took
the throne when the Young Turks rose
up against Abdul Hamid’s regime sev
eral years ago.
General Djemalrey Issued orders to
his followers to slay without quarter
all the present Turkish authorities.
"String them up to bridge—to any
thing that offers the service of a gib
bet,” declared the fiery leader.
Young Turks Rally.
Reports reaching here from other
quarters throughout European Turkey
state that the revolutionary movement
is concerted and that Young Turk lead
ers are rallying troops at a number of
different places.
The present movement against the
government Is an outgrowth of the con
duct of the war against Italy. It has
been hastened by the tyrannical treat
ment of Turkish subjects by Turkish
officials throughout European Turkey.
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PLATFORM
IS HELD OP
ON I. H.’S
ORDERS
Hitch in Convention Program
Because Many Drafts Fail to
Please the Colonel.
PENDERGAST MAKES
NOMINATING SPEECH
Calls Rough Rider the Most
Lion-Hearted Citizen of the
Entire Nation.
CONVENTION HALT* CHICAGO,
Aug. 7.—The name of Theodore Roose
velt was placed before the National
Progressive party convention this aft
ernoon by William A. Pendergast, of
New York, who delivered the nomi
nating speech he had prepared to de
liver in naming the colonel at the Re
publican national convention. Owing
to an unexpected delay in finishing the
platform, to expedite matters the con
vention proceeded to hear nominating
speeches.
The working plans of the convention
were given a sensational upset when
an eleventh hour hitch occurred over
the platform. It had been completed
and turned over to Colonel Roosevelt
for his approval, but certain sections
had to be revised before he would ac
cept It and the resolutions committee
asked for more time.
The convention officers were notified
that It might be possible for the com
mittee to report by 2:30 p. m.
Early Drafts
Displease Colonel.
It had been planned to effect the
permanent organization and adopt the
platform with a rush and then proceed
with the nomination of Colonel Roose
velt and his running mate.
Colonel Roosevelt had looked over a
draft of the platform late last night.
Then he had suggested changes. The
committee labored all night and made
the changes he had suggested. The
new draft was turned over to the colo
nel about 9 o’clock. At 10:45 o’clock
he gave It back to the committee, sug
gesting changes that required the re
writing of five paragraphs. The mem
bers of the committee, already worn
out with the work of the night, were
disposed to adopt a grouch, but they
went to work again.
The convention took a recess from
12:28 p. m. to 1 o’clock.
Temporary Organization
Is Made Permanent.
At 11:30 o’clock. 30 minutes after
the time set for convening. Chairman
Beveridge called the convention to or
der to go on with what work might be
accomplished. Just before the chair
man stepped to the front of the plat
form, a trombone quartet played “On
ward, Christian Soldier,” and the dele
gates sang it with a will.
Rabbi Gerson B. Levi pronounced the
invocation.
The report of the committee on per
manent organization then was heard.
Charles E. Scott, of Alabama, chair
man of the committee, recommended
that the temporary officers be made
permanent.
A motion to adopt the report was
carried unanimously.
The report of the committee on rules
was then called for.
Medill McCormick, of
chairman, was greeted with cheeraTand
the call of the moose as he stepped to
the front of the platform to deliver the
report.
The first rule was greeted with more
cheers. It was:
“This party shall hereafter be known
as the Progressive party.”
Representation To Be
By Party Vote.
The next rule was an innovation. It
provided for representation in conven
tions based on the vote for the party at
the preceding election. The basis was a
delegate to every 10,000 votes for the
Progressive having the highest number
of votes.
The pronouncement on primaries was
equally strong. It directed that dele
gates to the national convention should
be chosen by primary in states having
such laws, no matter whether the law
was mandatory or optional.
The rules outlined at length the order
of business for the convention, stating
specifically that the report of the reso.
lutions committee should be adopted be
fore candidates for president and vice
president should be nominated.
The duties of the national committee
were outlined fully. It was provided
