Atlanta Georgian, 1912-06-18

------------------------a* - - : New York Starts - - - - Boom for Hughes: - - _ - - CHICAGO, June 18. - New York - - today began the first work for a - - dark horse that has been done In - - the open by any of the inner set. - - Lafayette B. Gleason, secretary of - - the convention and of the New - - York state Republican committee. - - said: - - men can bring about the - - selection of Charles E. Hughes - - If we can get anybody to start the - - real movement the solution of the - - presidential fight will be easy - - New- York's delegation Is not go- - - Ing to break to the colonel." - - Mr. Gleason's statement was - - taken as indication that the » - New York delegation would work - - for a third candidate openly at the - - first possible chance. - MAYOR TO PUT BAN ON STREAMER ADS; CHEAPEN THE TOWN more streamers and banners announcing private excursions or money-making schemes will be permit permitted - ted permitted to cross Atlanta streets," said May Mayor - or Mayor Winn this afternoon. "Permits will be confined in the future to purely charitable enterprises, great civic movements and things of a similar na nature. - ture. nature. I don't care much for these ban banners - ners banners across the streets, anyway. They look like a country town, and Atlanta has outgrown them." Mayor Winn's announcement fol followed - lowed followed a visit to his office by two At Atlanta - lanta Atlanta women who entered a vigorous protest against, an excursion promoter who offered a rival trip against theirs and who had obtained a permit to hang a streamer across Whitehall street. They insisted that his permit be re revoked. - voked. revoked. The mayor declined to do this, but offered the women a permit for their own banner. Then he made up his mind that only in the name of sweet charity should any more streamers cross an Atlanta thoroughfare. MOUNTED POLICEMEN TO AID TRAFFIC SQUAD IN CONGESTED STREETS Police Chief Beavers tomorrow will in inaugurate - augurate inaugurate another Improvement In Atlan Atlanta's - ta's Atlanta's traffic regulations to further relieve the congestion in the crowded downtown streets. The chief will place a special detail of mounted men in the downtown district, and these officers will ride to and fro through the streets to enforce all re requirements - quirements requirements of the traffic ordinances. Par Particular - ticular Particular attention will be paid to slow moving vehicles, which are required to keep close to the curb, but automobiles also will come under the scrutiny of the traffic men. Much complaint has been received by the chief to the effect that slow moving vehicles occupy the center of the streets and block the passage oi autos, causing congestion. Owing to the narrowness of the streets, the chief says the traffic laws must be strictly observed, and that slow moving vehicles as well as autos must keep in their place. CHAS. FRANKLIN DIES IN VIOLENT COUGHING SPELL Arrangements for the funeral of Charles Franklin, the Atlanta archi architect - tect architect who died suddenly late yesterday at his home, 350 Oak street, have not been completed. The remains are at Greenberg & Bond's chapel awaiting arrival of relatives from New York and California. Mr. Franklin had just reached home after a day's work at his office when a fit of coughing seized him. He died shortly afterward and it is thought a blood vessel had been ruptured. He is survived by his wife and one dai'whter. Mist Clara Franklin.

Florida Postmaster Appeals to Atlanta To Find Wife for Him Fame of Georgia "Peaches" Reaches Lonely Man in Everglades State. Down in Harper, Fla., a town of nearly 100 population, is a postmaster who wants to get married. He search searched - ed searched vainly far and wide among the peo people - ple people of his neighborhood for a wife. Then, hearing of the many beautiful women of Atlanta, he made a plea for a lifemate from the land of the peaches. The request came today, addressed to Postmaster McKee. It was just a simple little letter, written hurriedly, for postmasters are busy people, but it contained an appeal that a more lengthy and carefully prepared one might have failed to express. It said: Do you ever see any advertise advertisements - ments advertisements of girls who want to marry? Please send me as many as you can find and you will make a life lifelong - long lifelong friend. I want a wife! POSTMASTER. Harper. Fla. Mr. McKee is in Chicago attending the Republican convention, but Assist Assistant - ant Assistant Postmaster Coles read the letter, placed it on his private file and said he would do anything possible to ac accommodate - commodate accommodate the wife-seeker. 80 PER CENT OF HOGS IN SOUTH GEORGIA DEAD FROM CHOLERA Georgia, more especially the south southern - ern southern part of the state, is battling with an outbreak of hog cholera, said to ex exceed - ceed exceed any live stock disease epidemic ever reported to the sta f e department of agriculture. State Veterinary Peter Bahnsen said today that fully 65 per cent of the hogs in Georgia had died from the disease since January, 1912. The percentage of destruction in Georgia directly trace traceable - able traceable to hog cholera, he asserted, would reach 80. with apparently no abate abatement. - ment. abatement. The farmers, it is said, have not taken kindly to the hog cholera serum manufactured at the Agricultural col college - lege college in Athens and said to be the only preventative for the disease. TWO ''GUN MEN" GO TO DEATH IN CHAIR FOR KILLING GROCER AUBURN, N. Y., June 18. - The "gun men." Ralph Friedman and Jacob Kahn who killed George A. Schuchart, a gro grocer. - cer. grocer. in Rochester. N. Y., while robbing his store on November 10, 1910, were put to death in the electric chair in the Auburn state prison today. Friedman was executed first. He took his place in the chair at 6:07 and was dead in seven minutes. Kahn smiled as he took his seat and interrupted a prayer to call out, "Good "Goodbye. - bye. "Goodbye. fathers." He was strapped in the chair at 6:17 and was dead eight min minutes - utes minutes afterward. EX POLICEMAN, TIRED OF LIVING, COMMITS SUICIDE IN A SALOON MACON, GA.. June 18. - -Henry George, a former Macon policeman, walked into a saloon yesterday aft afternoon. - ernoon. afternoon. addressed a note to his wife, Imply writing. am tired of md sent a pistol bullet into his brain. He had been in ill health for several months. .

SWEETHEART OF BOYHOOD DAYS WON BY DREAM Out in Oklahoma City Charles Si Simons - mons Simons dreamed two weeks ago that the sweetheart in Atlanta he had not seen for 30 years had become a widow and able to keep the vow she had made to him when both were very young. The dream came true last night at 94 Spring street, where Mr. Simons was united in marriage to Mrs. Katie B. Wiggins. Both bride and bridegroom are 50 years old and both are grandparents. Some of the grandchildren saw the ceremony. Simons came originally from Augus Augusta. - ta. Augusta. Ga., and it was there he met Mrs. Wiggins back in 1880 before either of them were wed. They were sweet sweethearts - hearts sweethearts for a year and she had promised that upon her father's consent she would become Mrs. Simons. But her father was averse to the match just then, because Simons was very young in the first place and had mighty slim financial prospects to boot. He told the young man to go West and make some money and then he might marry Kate as soon as he pleased. Made His Fortune But She Had Wed. Simons took the parental advice, journeyed to Oklahoma City, became a contractor, started in to make a for fortune - tune fortune and was just ready to for the belated consent when a letter came to him from the South saying that the girl had wed and had gone to Atlanta to live. Two or three years later Simons married a Western girl himself, and four children were born, all of whom are now grown and married. He lost all tidings of his former sweetheart and put away all thought of his old-time romance to increase that fortune. Dream Tells How She Is Lonely. Simons' wife died. He kept on mak making - ing making money, but now that he had be become - come become a widower he let his mind dwell again upon the girl who had promised to marry him when he was a boy back in Georgia. Four weeks ago he had a dream In it he seemed to see the home of the girl in Atlanta and he saw that her husband was dead, and that she was lonely. She told him in the dream that she. too. was thinking of that old-time courtship. Simons was so much impressed with the vividness of the vision that he be began - gan began winding up his financial affairs next day preparatory to a hurried trip East. He reached Atlanta four days ago, and after two days of searching found Mrs. Wiggins living, truly wid widowed. - owed. widowed. as he had foreseen, at the Sprit, street home. Simons lost no time in renewing the 30-year-old romance. He proposed within 48 hours and Mrs. Wiggins in accepting him admitted that her mind had been much upon just such a cli climax - max climax to that Augusta love affair for several months. Rev. Dr. Hendrix, of the Wesley Me Memorial - morial Memorial church, performed the evening wedding at the bride's home, in the presence of only a few relatives and friends. The couple will reside there permanently, after a brief honeymoon tour.

FIRST PORTIA HERE OPENS WAR FOR RIGHTS Mrs. Georgia Mclntyre Weaver, of 340 Courtland street, who graduated at the Atlanta Law school last night, is today planning a fight for admission to prac. tice on the Atlanta bar that may reach the supreme court of the United States. The first steps Mrs. Weaver will take will be to have a bill amending the present law introduced in the state leg legislature - islature legislature the latter part of this month, and if it passes her fight will be of short duration. But a similar bill was introduced last session and was receiv received - ed received unfavorably, and if the same fate befalls the new one Mrs. Weaver will apply to the court for admission to the bar. Failure to secure a place will bring an appeal to the Georgia supreme court, and if the petition is refused there it will be carried to the United State- supreme court. Declares Men of Georgia to Blame. "I am going to have a place on the bar if 1 have to work ten years to get it," said Mrs. Weaver. have just as much right to practice law as men. and I mean to take the lead in giving them this right. are allowed to practice in all but three states of the Union, and in most cases the petitions for admission reached the United States supreme court. I mean to carry mine there if necessary. "I believe I would win there, for it is not so much the law that keeps women from the bar as *it is the fight the men lawyers make to keep us from it. They may prolong the effort to keep this privilege from us. but I think we will win in the end. "Constitution Not Aimed at "My belief is based on former opin opinions - ions opinions of the supreme court, in which it was said that all men have a right to the pursuit of all avocations, all hon honors - ors honors and all professions, and that be before - fore before the law this right to the choice of an avocation can not be said to be abridged on account of sex. "Certainly the framers of our con constitution - stitution constitution intended no such results and surely the legislature never intended any such purpose. It is not possible for us to believe that the legislation was enacted in reliance upon any sup supposed - posed supposed rule of the common law, which would exclude women from the enjoy enjoyment - ment enjoyment of any such rights ' Court Advises New Lawyers. The members of the graduating class appeared in first division of superior court today and were granted law li licenses. - censes. licenses. The ceremony was short. Judge W. D. Ellis approved the list of grad graduates - uates graduates and spoke briefly. He said: law is a learned profession, and it is an exacting nn< Remember a li license - cense license to practice law is not a liven- to make a living by tricks rdher than by hard

CONVENTION STORY TOLD BY ARTHUR BRISBANE By ARTHUR BRISBANE COLISEUM, CHICAGO. June 18. - In five minutes the convention will open. Twelve or fourteen thousand are crowded in a big hall. The band is playing I Am Growing and there are bells and human voices mixed with the band. William Jennings Bryan sits at the reporters' table looking very well and busy with a little pink flower in his buttonhole. A thousand banners are in the hall, and five men make it their business to remain constantly under each banner. But in the street sad-eyed men out of work are temporarily busy carrying banners that denounce the enemies of Roosevelt. They are trying to keep step, but can't. A well-fed band leads them.. When it's over, they will still be sad-eyed and worried - and the band still well fed. The only news at this moment is the announcement that Senator Borah is not to make the T. R. fight against Root for temporary chairman. Francis McGovern, governor of Wis Wisconsin. - consin. Wisconsin. is to be the candidate opposed to Root - at least, the wise ones say so. Roosevelt Cheers Most Common. The band, having finished with "Darling, I Am Growing Old," plays something gay, but no one notices the difference. The moment to open the big fight has arrived. Those that came to the convention with real, interest are serious and about one per cent of the total. The other 99 per cent are cheer cheering. - ing. cheering. The chief and most easily heard words In the roar are "Roosevelt, he Is all Not all his friends think so. Many fear the honor of organization, A few fewhours - hours fewhours or possibly minutes and it will be known where the power lies. The contest is between the tremendous popular disorganized enthusiasm for Roosevelf and cold, well-planned, or organized - ganized organized scheming by the machine. The convention is called to order at one minute past twelve. Victor Rose Rosewater. - water. Rosewater. head of the national Republican committee, pounds with his gavel and actually gets comparative silence. He !? a small man with much curly hair, low on his forehead, a big. useful nose. His friends proudly say that he has all the "nerve" needed to run a steam roller. His success in almost silencing the crowd pleases him. The yelling stops as it does when a. prize fight is about to start. The crowd does not want to miss anything. After the opening Os proceedings a gentleman named Stone tried with a megaphone to get the aisles cleared. For a long time this could not be done effectually. The period of dullness was enlivened by a colored gentleman from Mississippi making what looked like a good speech The convention cheers when told that Rev. Father Callaghan will ask a Continued on Page Two.

After a series of preliminary clashes, Hadley was declared out of order, as was also his appeal from the decision of the chair. After the attempt of Hadley to bring the delegate issue before the house immediately had been frus frustrated, - trated, frustrated, the names of Elihu Root, the Taft adherent, and Governor McGovern, of Wisconsin, for the Roosevelt forces, were nominated for the temporary chairmanship. Struggle To Bring Hall to Order. Chairman Rosewater's gave! banged at 12:01, just one minute behind the schedule. It was still banging five minutes later as Sergeant-at-Arms William F. Stone, with a megaphone, ordered the police to clear the aisles and prepare for a photographer to take a flashlight of the scene. The bitter fight over the nomina nomination, - tion, nomination, the climax of a campaign that had seen a former president and a president trail through half the states of the Union, was reflected in the attitude of the delegates. Crowded in the aisles, standing on their chairs, one state cheering and an another - other another answering with its own discor discordant - dant discordant reply, the men refused ter come to order so that the photographer might work. In the meantime speakers, prepared to say suave words of the party's 60 years of history, were delayed. The program could not go on, The ser sergeant-at-arms - geant-at-arms sergeant-at-arms struggled with the crowd. The police helped here and there. Finally the picture man let off the blinding flash. The chairman's gavel brought a sem semblance - blance semblance of order. The chaplain uttered hjs two-minute prayer. The conven convention - tion convention was finally under way. Just as the flash was made the band broke into the "Star Spangled Ban Banner," - ner," Banner," and the delegates and host of visitors sprang to their feet and the most vociferous cheering of the day swelled from the throng. Gov. Hadley Gets The Floor First. Slight confusion was caused when one of the flags near where the flashes were filed was thought to have caught fire. The flag was quickly torn down by a man sent up among the rafters. Rev. Father J. F. Callaghan pro pronounced - nounced pronounced the invocation. Secretary William Hayward then read the call for the convention. During the prayer and reading of the call cries of "sit down" were heard. Just before the flashlight was taken Stone threw up his megaphone and

pointed it at Assistant Chief of Police Schuttler. "Clear the aisles," cried Stone. "Clear them at once, Chief Schuttler." The assistant chief got busy. The aisles were soon cleared. At the end of the reading of the call. Governor Herbert S. Hadley of Mis Missouri - souri Missouri arose and was recognized by the chair. When Governor Hadley arose he said: "I rise to a question of informa information." - tion." information." Hadley wav escorted to the rostrum. Delegate James Watson, of Indiana, also came to the stand and was given a seat. Delegate Watson arose to a point of order. He asserted that until the convention was properly organized no matter of business should come be before - fore before the house. Governor Hadley then made a short address. He said he had arisen on a point of information. Hadley moved that the Roosevelt list of delegates en bloc be substituted for the secretary's temporary roll. Great cheering by the Rooseveltians. Watson's point of order was renewed and Rosewater ruled Hadley out of or order. - der. order. However, not to appear arbitrary, he decided to hear arguments. He granted each side twenty minutes to present their arguments. Governor Hadley began the argument in behalf of the Roosevelt roll. Hadlej' told of bis experience in the national committee. "I don't say the charges of thievery are true. 1 do know some of them are true. Let us settle It here; let us know what they have to, When he said that you couldn't set settle - tle settle the question by raising a point of order, the delegates yelled wildly. Demands Sift of Fraud Charges. "We contend the convention should not proceed to the transaction of any business until the charges of fraud have been Hadley exclaimed. When Hadley finished. ex-Governor Fort of New Jersey took up the argu argument. - ment. argument. Fort replied for the Taft peo people. - ple. people. When Fort finished, James Watson, of Indiana, yielded ten minutes of his time to Congressman Sereno Payne of New- York. Payne spoke in behalf of Taft. Hadley interrupted Payne. Payne refused to allow Hadley to ask him questions. Payne finished and Watson then spoke. he said, "has only asked you to consider these mat matters - ters matters for yourselves He is not attempt attempting - ing attempting to dictate. He is the agent of the

ROOSEVELT LOSES FIRST 8MI8H ; STEAM ROLL DELEGATES TO STAND COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 18. - Fighting desperately at every move, adherents of President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, rival can candidates - didates candidates for the Republican nomination for the presidency, are this afternoon engaged in the most strenuous battle that a national con convention - vention convention has known for years. The fighting was opened by the Roose Roosevelt - velt Roosevelt forces, led by Governor Hadley, of Missouri, who. immediately after the reading of the temporary roll, moved that the unseated Roosevelt delegates be substituted.