Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-26
WOMEN To AID IN
WELCOMING tn.
To ATLANTA
Seats Are Reserved for College
Girls at Auditorium-PIanS
for CoIonel'S Stay.

College girls will have reserved sea $
IN the audience which greets Theodore
Roosevelt when he speaks Saturday
night at the Auditorium: college boys,
200 strong, will be at the Terminal sta
ton to welcome him with a brass band
Three Georgia women who have
taken a prominent part in the Bull
Moose campaign in Georgia will be
seated on the stage when The colonel is
delivering the sledge- hamme blows
which he and his local adherents be
lieve will do much toward breaking the
solid South and carrying Georgia for
the Progressive party.
woman's part in the campaign is to
be recognized. according to those who
have laid the plans for the coIonel's
coming. and even in Georgia, where
woman's political rights are not recog-
nized before the law, women who de-
sire seats upon the stage will be Of
fered them
Mrs Helen D. Longstreet postmis-
tress at Gainesville; Mrs. W. H. Eel
ton, of CartersNille and Mrs, Margaret
McWhorter, editor of The Georgia Pa
tr'ot Bull Moose organ recently
started in her home town, are the wom-
en- whose names have been given out
as accepting the invitation to take
seats on the stage.
College Girls to Hear Colonel,
Girls from Cox college at College
Park will be in the audience. Seats
have been reserved for so of them. The
bows of the Georgia Military academy
also at College Park will meet the
ex-president at the station with their
band and will entertain Atlantans who
are expected to gather there to well
come the former president.
The Bull Moose candidate will lead
the simple life while in Atlanta, ac-
cordng to j. st. Julien Yates promi-
nent Atlanta Bull Mooser. No dinners
or luncheons will be allowed and his
fare will be as simple as that of farm
hand.
This is due to orders from Mr.
Roosevelts manager in New York"
says Mr.. Yates, land they will be fol-
lowed out to the letter. A. M. Crosby
Samuel B Jones and Alexander Ham
ilton. of Rome. will have entire charge
Of the coloners hygiene while he is here
and it will be their duty to see that he
eats only the simplest food They will
put him to bed q an early hour"
According to present plans, the colo
mel will be met a the Terminal station
at 7;3O o'clock Saturday night on his
arrival from Macon. A. M Crosby,
Henry Grady, Bernard Suttler, Bert
Lillienthan, Victor c. Terry and w. J.
Tison compose the committee to greet
him and take him in an automobile
directly to the Auditorium. where the
speaking is scheduled to begin half an
hour later.
May See Mothers Old Home.
Dr. Robert Stuart Macarthur, pastor
OF the Baptist Tabernacle will intro
duce the colonel to Atlantans The
main attraction of the evening the
Bull Mooser himself--will then take
the stage No other speakers are
scheduled.
While in Atlanta Colonel Roosevelt
will stay at the Georgian Terrace He
will go directly there from the Audi
lOlluu. he mas DGen GAleuu6u an IuNI-
tation to attend the Baptist Tabernacle
Sunday morning and he is also invited
TO take an automobile trip to Roswell
his mothers girlhood home. He will be
asked to decide between these two
plans when he arrives. He is due to
leave Atlanta at $50 o'clock Sunday
afternoon TO continue his trip North
and East
In the party with him will be George
ELAN Roosevelt, his cousin, who is
wall street banker, and who is manag-
ing the trip; John NJ. Parker, of New
orleans, who recently addressed Geor-
ga Bull Moosers; Cecil Lyons, national
Committeeman from Texas for the Pro
eresslve party, and Frank Harper, the
ColoneIs private secretary.
Samuel B. Jones, A. NJ, Crosby and
Alexander Hamilton have been invited
10 meet the Roosevelt car in Macon
ana make the trip to Atlanta with tn
colonel