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THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Generally fair today and tomorrow.
VOL. XL NO. 21.
GOLEBLEASE
LEADING BY
ONLY YOB
VOTES
With 100,000 Ballots Tabu-
lated and 20,000 Unreported,
Governor Runs Ahead.
SECOND RACE LIKELY
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Duncan, Third Candidate, Polls
Enough Strength to Prevent
Majority for Either Rival.
COLtTMBLA, S. C., Aug. 28.—With
100,800 votes tabulated and about 20,000
to be received, Governor Cole L. Blease
ts leading his opponent, Judge Ira B.
Jones, by a, plurality of about 200 votes.
If the 20,000 votes do not. materially
affect the standing of the contestants,
a second race will be necessary, for
John T. Duncan, the third candidate in
the race, has received about 1,900
votes.
Excitement her eand throughout the
state Is intense.
A crowd of 10,000 watched the bulle
tins here last night and an equally
large throng paraded the streets of
Charleston. A near-rlot was precipi
tated tn that city and the governor was
requested by long distance telephone to
call out the militia, but he refused to
do so. Rumors here had it that the
ballot boxes had been rifled, but it is
now thought that this Is untrue.
It ts impossible to forecast the result,
for all predictions as tn the counties
which each candidate would carry have
been wide of the mark, Jones’ counties
going for R’ease and vice versa. The
complete returns will probably not be
known until late in the afternoon.
ROBARTS LIVES, BUT
WIFE. SHOT BY HIM.
SUCCUMBS TO INJURY
COLUMBUS, GA. Aug. 28.—Today A
M. Robarts lies in the city hospital in a
send-conscious condition wit a chance
to recover from a self-inflicted wound.
The body of his wife, whom he fatally
shot before turning .the weapon on him.
sets, now reposes in a cemetery. She
died from her wound yesterday after
noon.
If Robarts succeeds in his fight
against death at the hospital, he will
have to fight for life in the courts,
where it will be determined whether or
not he was insane at the time he shot
his wife and himself in their home here
yesterday. Tneane jealousy of his hand
some wife is said to have caused the
shooting, but neighbors declare there
were no tangible grounds for the hus
band's jealousy. They say the woman
was true to her husband in every way.
Public sentiment now Ik against Ro
barts. He has been a popular travel
ing salesman, commanding a good sal
ary. and with an apparently happy
home. He has represented the Pitts
burgh Plate Glass Company in the Co
lumbus territory.
SUFFRAGE FAR FROM
REALITY IN CANADA,
PREMIER CONFIDES
LONDON. Aug. 28.—Canada must do
without suffrage for a while.
That was the substance of the answer
today to a deputation of women by
Robert L. Borden, premier of the Do
minion government, who is visiting
here.
A deputation of women, beaded by
Miss Barrett, a militant leader, called
upon the premier by appointment and
asked him whether or not he intended
introducing a bill in the Dominion par
liament upon his return granting the
ballot to women.
To this Mr. Borden replied that he
had not power to do such a thing, as
the franchise laws there are made by
the nine provincial legislatures. The
women were crestfallen when they de
parted.
14TH DIST. CONVENTION TO
NAME HEAD FOR SENATE
CORDELE. GA., Aug 28—The Four
teenth senatorial district Democratic
< onvention will be held at yienna on
next Monday, September 2, for the
purpose of nominating J. P. Heard, of
Dooly, who was the only candidate for
senator, and to name the succeeding
executive committee. The incumbent
..ffictr'- of the committee are Ed Las
seter. chairman, and .1. Gordon Jones,
soreta■y.
Members of the committee and the
delegates will be entertained by Air.
Heard ala luncheon.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Southerner, Locked in
Box Car Three DaysJs
Found by Fire Fighters
Louisiana Man Unconscious, Dis
covered When Mysterious
Blaze Ignites His Prison.
JERSEY CITY, N. J.. Aug 28. - When
firemen today broke open a box car in
the Erie railroad freight yards to ex
tinguish a fire which In some unex
plained manner had originated there,
they stumbled upon the emaciated and
unconscious form of a man. Upon be
ing taken to a hospital and revived the
man said his name was Samuel Evans
and that his home is in St. James, La
Evans said he had been locked tn the
car for three days. He took refuge
there in Buffalo for a night’s rest and
during the night the car was locked
and sealed.
FLOOD RENDERS 20,000
BRITONS HOMELESS;
QUEEN STORM BOUND
LONDON, Aug. 28.—Continued
storms added to the seriousness of the
flood situation throughout England to
day. Norwich is marooned, the Wen
sum and Ware rivers, which join there,
both being out<>f their banks. The city
was in darkness last night. At least
7,000 persons at Norwich were driven
from their homes, while dispatches from
other seriously affected points indicate
that the total number of homeless is
over 20,000.
A number of suburbs of London are
suffering heavily from the unprece
dented downfall of rain.
Queen Alexandra. Princess Victoria
and Prince Christopher of Greece are
stormbound off Southwold in the royal
yacht Victoria and Albert.
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston
Churchill, in the government yacht En
chantress, has been stormbound for 24
hours at Grimsby.
WOMAN, THOUGHT TO
BE DEAD, ADVERTISES
SHE IS STILL LIVING
MACON, GA., Aug. 28.--Mrs. Minor
E. Jackson, of this county, is unwilling
for her friends to think that she is
dead, and she has advertised in the lo
cal papers the fact that she is still
alive, although in bad health.
Last week a Mrs. M. E. Jackson who
lived In the same community, died, and
the friends of Mrs. Minor E. Jackson
construed It to be her. As a result, her
husband and children are daily receiv
ing letters of condolence, and an in
surance agent has called to settle a
claim. Mrs. Jackson s husband is la
well known planter at Baconton.
JAIL GUARDED FROM
FRIENDS OF SLAYERS
OF TENNESSEE NEGRO
ALAMO, TENN., Aug 28.—A hun
dred armed men today guard the Crock
ett county jail to prevent friends of
Lonnie Graham. Mose Smith and Ar
thur Key from attempting to rescue
them. The three white men were ar
rested in connection with the killing of
Will Cook, a negro. Friends of the
men say they will release them.
Cook lived in the country, three miles
from here. Monday night a party of
whites rode up to his home and sum
moned him outside. They riddled him
with bullets.
VEDRINES TO TRY IN
AMERICA FOR NEW
AIR SPEED RECORDS
PARIS, Aug. 28.—Pierre Jules Ve
drines, the famous French aviator, said
today in an Interview that he would
attempt to establish a new aerial rec
ord for speed while in the Cnited
States, which" country he intends to
visit soon
"I shall try to accomplish a speed of
122 miles an hour in my aeroplane,"
said Vedrines. "I shall make a number
of flights In the United States and hope
to make some new records above
American soil.”
WINSHIP ASKS RECOUNT
IN 8188. CLAIMING FRAUD
MACON, GA., Aug. 28.—Nat R. Win
ship, candidate for the legislature, who
was elected on the first returns and
then displaced by a recount which gave
Wallace Miller the third place <<i the
Bibb county delegation, today peti
tioned the executive committee to open
several of the ballot boxes and investi
gate newly discovered evidence in his
possession as to alleged fraudulent bal
lots. He claims to have evidence sug
gesting that the boxes were stuffed
with marked ballots after the polls
were closed, and that he was one of the
candidates scratched on these Illegal
votes.
AVIATOR, CARRYING' GIRL.
MAKES A 3-HOUR FLIGHT
LONDON. Aug. 28.—Carrying Miss
Elizabeth Davies as a passenger, Avi
ator Astley today flea from Hendon to
Hardelot. The flight was made in three
i hours.
| Miss Davies has traveled farther .than
any other English woman through the
air. though all her flights have been
made as a passenger. She has crossed
the channel twice
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 28, 1912.
woonnD
OF CHIRITY
EAVE 111
TOPB
Mrs. Lucy Barclay, Who De
voted Her Life to Aiding
Others, Now Helpless.
FOUNDED FIRST ATLANTA
MISSION 25 YEARS AGO
Riches Were Spent Freely for
Unfortunates lnstitutions
Memorials to Husband.
Mrs. Lucy Barclay, once one of At
lanta’s most widely known charity
workers and widow of the late John F.
Barclay, founder of the Barclay mis
sion and promoter of half a score of
other measures of relief for the city's
poor and unfortunate, lies today a help
less inmate of a charitable institution.
The widow Vvhose infirmities have
made her helpless occupies a small pri.
vate room. Even that is about to be
taken away from her, and she'will have
to lie in the general ward among a
score of incurables like herself.
She has no children, and when her
husband died about four years ago she
went to live with her nieces, whom she
had reared as her own children. It
was understood then that Mr. Barclay
left a sufficient sum to care for his
widow for the remaining years of her
life.
Several months ago Mrs. Barclay left
her nieces and went to the Home for
Incurables, where she now lies helpless.
She paid a small sum tn order that she
might have a private room. She re
cently told an old friend who found her
there while on a visit that this sum was
almost exhausted and that she would
soon have to become a regular charity
patient. There was no complaint.
Takes Cheerful View
Os Her Misfortune.
"I suppose it’s for the best,” she said
and smiled.
When she was talking she was seated
in a large rocker. Rheumatism had so
bound her muscles that she was unable
to lift her hands which are withered
with age and pain.
A peculiar malady, found occasion
ally by physicians, is slowly turning her
body to stone. Rut the physicians say
she may live for years in that condition
of absolute helplessness.
For many years in Atlanta the name
of John Barclay was as closely asso
ciated with charitable’work as that of
Carnegie is with the founding of libra
ries. The millionaire gives out of his
abundance. John Barclay mortgaged
his home to raise money to guarantee a
certain sum so that a local charity
might not lose a fund promised by a
wealthy philanthropist on condition
that Atlanta raise an agreed sum.
Mr. Barclay was never a minister In
his church, the Methodist, but he
worked as faithfully as many ordained
ministers. In the congregation of the
First Methodist church he and his wife
were noted workers. They aided the
-elief efforts of this church and often
went further in their work than did the
church.
More than 25 years ago Mr. and Mrs.
Barclay founded the first mission In
Atlanta. It was started as a Sunday
school in the factor?’ district out Ma
rietta street.
The old-time residents who occasion
ally went out to aid in the carrying on
of services tell of how Mrs. Barclay
played the little organ in those days,
when even then rheumatism had so af
fected her that she found it the great
est pain to pump the organ.
Called Founder of
Sheltering Arms.
The Sunday school grew and grew
until it. became a regular mission
church. It was afterward called the
Barclay mission.
This was not the only charitable work
that Mrs. Barclay did. There is hardly
a more revered and favored institution
in Atlanta today than is the Sheltering
Arms, a place where little children are,
eared for and taught while their moth
ers labor in the mills. Mrs. Barclay is
spoken of as the woman who was the
real founder of that institution. To
other charitable organizations she gave
her aid both physically and financially.
At the time that his wife was carry
ing on this work and giving her strength
for the poor and unfortunate in a day
when there was no organized effort
for charitable relief here, Mr. Bart lay
was giving his time and money to va
rious similar causes. So quietly and
modestly was his work done that only
after his death did his fellow citizens
know how much h' had accomplished
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PLOUO BROWN
Charge Southern Got Advance
Information on Governor's
Mileage Disapproval.
*Foes of Governor Brown today pre
pared to announce that they had posi
tive information to show that the exec
utive had given the Southern railroad
advance information on his veto of th°
mileage pulling bill.
They further declared that the South
ern had been warned to keep the news
secret so that It could not get to the
newspapers before primary day. The
secrecy was maintained, these enemies
of the governor declare, for fear of the
c/fect of the veto on Jack Slaton's
chances in the primary race.
An alleged telegram from Hamilton
McWhorter, of counsel for the Southern
and once a noted lobbyist, furnished
the basis of the charges. This tele
gram. dated from Athens. Ga., on Au
gust 20, was sent to Vice President A.
B. Andrews, of the Southern. It told
Mr. Andrews that the bill requiring tin
pulling of mileage on trains, for which
the traveling men of the state had been
making a hard light, was to be vetoed
and that plans had been laid to prevent
the newspapers from obtaining the in
formation before the primary election.
The text of the telegram is In the hands
of the men who made these so-called
revelations today.
Governor Brown was out of the city.
BARTLETT-WISE RESULT
TO BE DECLARED FRIDAY
MACON, GA. Aug. 28—The Sixth
district congressional convention will
be held at Barnesville Friday for the
purpose of declaring the nominee of
the recent primary, who, on the fa< e <•(
the returns, is Representative <’. 1..
Bartlett, by a plurality of about 20(i.
Judge Bartlett has appointed his dele
gates from each of the twelve counties,
and thus the convention will be unani
mous for him. In view of this fact, it
is not expected that Candidate .1 Wal
ter WlAe will press his claim for a re
count In certain counties.
Judge Bartlett has appointed a total
of -’O9 deb-gates to repi esent him at the
convention.’the pluralit? rule entitling
him tri name th< delegates even from
the counties carried bv Ills opponent.
CHICAGO IN PANIC AS
WATER MAIN BURSTS;
SIX HURT,SIOO,OOO LOSS
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—Six persons
j were injured, a number had narrow
H escapes from drowning, damage total
ing SIOO,OOO was done and a section of
Chicago turned Into a little Venice to
( day as the result of the bursting of a
' big water main at Thirty-third street
and Wentworth avenue. The water
gushed into the air foi fifteen feet. The
flood poured into basements and under
mined sidewalks and streets. Firemen
and police were called. A fire truck
dashing to the scene of the accident
crashed tlxrough an undermined street
. and pilcht* the members of the truck
company if the street.
1 ACTING GOVERNOR
WILL NAME JUDGE
FOR DARROW TRIAL
t
LOS ANttELES. Aug 28.—Acting
, Governor Wallace will name the judge
who will preside at the second trial of
Clarence S Darrow, labor attorney, on
a charge of bribery. The twelve supe
> rior judges of Los Angeles county re
fused to hear the ease Judge Willis
i set the trial on the calendar for Octo
ber 21. and then announced that Gov
! ernpr Wallace had been asked to des
ignate the trial judge. The decision
of the governor will be announced wlth-
• in a few days.
' OIL STEAMER BURNS
AND SINKS; CREW OF
42 SWIM TO SHORE
i
SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Aug. 28.
Divers ate working off Aleatt iz wharf
to locate the hull of th, steamer Rose-
• erans which sank late yest<M<lay fol
< lowing a fire which wrecked tlie vessel
I to the w ater line
The crew of 42 men aboard the ves
sel jumped into th. water and .swam
ashore. The Rosecrans was an oil-cat
tying vessel belonging to the Asso
ciated oil Company. It was valued a>
, SBO,OOO. and had been in sei vi< e foi a
number of years.
ARTISTS’ PAINTINGS
RUINED BY HEAT AS
BIG STABLE BURNS
f
NEW YORK. Aug. 2x. A spectacu
lar tire, which did SIOO,OOO damage and
, routed the guests of the exclusive
Gainsborough apartment house and
surrounding dwellings, occurred early
today when the four-story brick build
ing occupied as a stable at 225 and 227
West Fifty eighth street wa s destroyed.
So intense was the heat that win
dows in tin Gainsborough wer. broken
: and valuable paintings owned |>y
i .irtistv living in the apartments were
d< .su'.- ’
By l ad
GJRPENTERSDN
COURTHOUSE OUT
r
Men Refuse to Work Overtime,
and Superintendent Bars
I Them From Job.
t -
True to the troublous traditions of
the Fulton county court house, a lock
out of carpenters in the employ of
Moise DeLeon. wealthy contractor
strangely missing since early in Au
gust, was in progress there today.
, No word had been received of the
vanished contractor, but his troubles
’ continued to multiply.
j. Some twenty-five carpenters were not
i working today because of a dispute over
Superintendent H. J. D. May’s orders
for overwoik May says he wanted a
; certain amount of work completed by
. Saturday and asked the men to work
. overtime. They refused, declaring it
was against union rules. Thereupon
) they were locked out by May, who said
ho would not have men in his employ
who did not obey his orders.
The superintendent said today he
would*have a new crew 1n short order,
but in the meantime further work on
th. building is being held up. It was
> worry over the court house contract
• which is said to have led to DeLeon’s
mental collapse and disappearance.
DRUNKEN SOLDIERS
i “SHOOT UP” TOWN;
WOMAN NEAR DEATH
1 WILMINGTON. DEL. Aug 28.’--Mrs.
John Corblt, the heroine who was
wounded white saving the family of
Michael Maher I lorn the regular sol-
1 dlers from Eon Dupont who. while un
der th. influence of drink, shot up Dob
mn<ville, a suburb of Newcastle. Del., is
in a critical condition and may die.
The private- were from the Eighty
first eomii’anv , i oast artillery. White in-
I toxicated, the? tired upon the village
with arm? rifles loaded with ball car
tridges earl.v yesterday. Six soldiers
are under arrest and will be tried by
court-martial.
RICH. BUT HER DAUGHTER
GOES TO COOKING SCHOOL
NEW YORK. Aug 2s.—Mrs. Elnmr
i Illai’k. ow n> r of a great fortune, has
sailed fm Europe with her daughter tn
t'O' . iio- lattet in au English cooking
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BROYIES TO
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111 JUDGE
SICE
Atlanta Recorder’s Action Will
Make Pottle’s Nomination
Unanimous at Macon.
WM. J. HARRIS OF POLK * r
PERMANENT CHAIRMAN
Price and Brown Expected to
Fight It Out for Office of
Soil Commissioner.
f
MACON. GA., Aug. 28.—Judge NanVi
R. Broyles has announced he will with
draw in favor of Judge Pottle, the tat
tor’s nomination to be made unanirrwous,
MACON. GA.. Aug. 28.—With Judge
Robert Pottle a probable winner over
Judge Nash Broyles in the court of ap
peals race, a stiff fight certain between
Price and Brown for the agriculture
commissionership and a referrence of
the Gilmer county fraud charges to the
new executive committee, the Demo
cratic state convention opened here to
day.
William J. Harris, of Polk, is to be
the permanent chairman of the con
vention and the new executive commit
tee. Hardy Ulm, of Fulton, is to be
the secretary of the convention and of
the state committee. W. S. West, of
Lowndes, is to be the temporary chair
man.
Pottle seemed to have out-generated
Broyles completely in the political
frame-ups arranged over night In the
Hotel Lanier. Not until daybreak this
morning had the slates been made to
stay put, and even as the convention
assembled there was a lingering doubt
that everything would go through as
programmed, especially with respect to
the commissionership of agriculture.
Pottle s plea that he should be nomi
nated because he had Broyles beaten in
the popular vote had been a winning
card. Besides, south Georgia seemed
suddenly to have awakened to the fact
that to put Broyles on the court of ap
peals bench would make that court vir
tually a solid north Georgia court, with
two judges from Atlanta.
People Remember
Broyles’ Platform.
The plea that Broyles can win now
only by insisting on technicalities, when
his platform specifically declared sot
Justice first and technicalities after
ward. also has come home to roost in
the final showdown.
The state department of agriculture
is openly fighting for Brown for com
missioner of agriculture this morning
with the supposed backing of the en
tire administration. Tom Watson is
reported to have demanded of the state
administration its backing of Brown for
commissioner of agriculture. Brown
needs so few votes to win the nomina
tion that the effort to land him may
succeed. Commissioner Connor aggres
sively fought for Brown this morning,
and department patronage is being
promised in quantities sufficient to
swing delegations where it can be done.
Blalock may not be able to control
enough of his own delegates to force
Price's nomination.
The odor of guano has been pretty
successfully attached to the Brown
boom, and it is hurting the Elbert coun
ty man. Blalock, too, is openly fa
vorable to Price, failing himself, and
Blalock seems to stand no chance what
ever of the nomination. - *
The Gilflier county mess has affected
all the races and it was that that kept
lhe politicians juggling all through the
weary night In Macon. The convention
is unquestionably strongly antl-Morris,
and if it ever gets hold of the Morris-
Patterson question firmly, Morris will
be steam-rolled sure. But the Gilmer
returns are so essential in other races
that they will be validated, the dele
gates seated and the judgeship row
passed along to the new executive com
mittee.
The lobby of the Lanier was a seeth-
Mr. and Mrs. Slaton
In Hotel Lobby.
ing mass of humanity until well'after
midnight. There were lights galore alt
over the place and the jugglers were
at work in the private rooms.
John VI. Slaton came down last night
and mingled with the crowd in the lob
by until 1 o'clock this morning. Mrs.
Slaton, who has achieved a reputation
here of being an even betetr politician
than her distinguished husband, was
with the governor to be in the lobby
talking freely and animatedly with the
delegates. Slaton side-stepped every
discussion except as it pertained tn his
own nomination, however.
The oratory is to oe cut out today.
