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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
Mr.. WILSON'S DUE.

Having warned his comates of the Underwood
camp that he will head the Georgia delegation to
the Baltimore convention or know the reason why"
Thomas E. Watson proceeds to press still another
claim for the service he has rendered their cause
He insists that with him must 90 Captain w. s.
West of valdosta, a delegate from the state
at large. a 1850
Now at first glance, this demand may seem
rather exorbitant. Some may argue that Mr.. Wat
son, ambitious though he is should rest content
with the Craftsmanship and not essay to dictate just
how the other places shall be distributed. In these
minor matters, it may be said, the state convention
itself should be allowed some oce 1t may even
be limited by some of the holder bretheren that Mr.
Watson has waxed bit presumrtuous; that he is
trying to hog" the whole thing he himself would
elegantly say.
Any such protest however, betrays pitiful mis-
understanding of this entire situation. Was it not
Watsons work that compassed the Underwood vic
tory in Georgia? Are the so-called leaders of
that cause, from Bankhead down, behoden and
forever to him who carried the sanderpot and
crawed to do the particular sort of labor by which
they won? Not the Interests that poured out
streams of lucre, they so deeply indebted to
Thomas E. Watson, for without him even huge
corruption fund could not have turned the trick"
This, indeed is not simply case of the laborer
being worthy of his hire 1t is case of the chosen
king and leader being worthy of his crown and all
the power it conveys. To his late allies, who are
his subjects Watson may very properly say with
the monarch of old France: AZ am the state" They
have sceptered him and, so, in all fitness there is
nothing for them to do but to him.
Why hesitate, gentlemen? Come squarey forward
and make your due obesance.
Mr. Watson bids you give him the craftsmanship
of the Georgia delegation. You should do So taking
care to present it on Bonded knee
He speaks again, saying, Give me also the priYi-
lege of naming my retinue to the Baltimore
ton" Down quickly, gentlemen, and do your mas
ter's will.
For this is. no day of small things Whatever
Thomas E. Watson demands at your hands, you
should deliver in fulhlmenH of your contract with
him. And why pray should he not name any or
all the other delegates as well as himself? Since
he capained and your battle is he not entitled
to name his staff? "a s-
Verify, this is wondrous in Georgia
Democracy when the party's arch foe and traitor
cracks the whip and makes ready for his drive to
national Democratic convention. But hop in behind,
fine neighbors. You have placed the reins where
they lie; you determined the route and bar
gained for just this driver. Swing as faithful
footmen. Your journey and your windup will be
watched by the state with keen amusement if not
admiration
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
AT the End of the Rainbow
TRYING TO MAKE AMENDS.

TRYING TO MAKE AMENDS.
haven't slept for a whole week. In fact, I never
slept for whole week in my life. What mean TO
say is that for whole week have beeen wide-eyed
and sleepless because of the pangs of conscience
have felt over my treatment of that good Pres
dent Taft : i, 1ia5i.
49, few weeks 1 attended two public dinners
at which Mr.. Taft was the guest of honor One din
in Illinois and the other Pennsylvania.
recently 1t struck me that soon after those dinners
Mr.. Tafts political prospects began am
afraid that in some mysterious way responsible.
didn't know was political Jonah, but begin
to suspect that am, Mr. Taft is concerned.
I had no thought of doing the president injury.
the fact is was greatly tickled to think how prom
nent 1T would make me to sit at the table with
him. They charged double for my meal each time,
presumably because insisted speaking in praise
of Mr.. Taft but 1 spared expense.
Almost Immediately after those dinners Roosevelt
and in both those states Mr.. Taft been
together! had not realized that the voters
observant
feel awful bad about it. Any man who has been
in public life for years. the president mas
can make enough enemies on his account without
anybody else buttng in and FASTING the Indian sign
on him. Just it noised abroad that
the president had been associating with his polt
ical opponents began to make of it his disad
vantage. My unpopularityy1 doesn't hurt biz.
to Mr. Taft
have plan. I hate to put it into effect but I
am determined to do anyway. I've got the presi-
dent in hole, the Illinois and Pennsylvania prima
ries show, so it is only fair for to do what
to make amends I'll go somewhere and oontrive to
be with Colonel Roosevelt-that is. doesn't
me first. I'll indorse his candidacy publicly
length.
1t may be, of course, that Mr. Taft, who is a
ciful man, will want to put punishment
upon his rival If pleads with not to crush
Roosevets chances by throwing my support to Roose
Welt shall keep still talk against the gentle
from Oyster Bay. However, this matter I leave
entirely in Mr.. Tafts hands. 1 feel about my
treatment of him that stand ready to lose Roosevelt
the last friend he has by getting his publicly
linked with mine somehow other.
might intimdate the colonel by sending him a
letter threatening to speak for him if he doesn't
draw peaceably from the contest. Mr. Taft might
consider whether that would be the best way
to help him. I am entirely at his service, for I
a desperate man when get cramp in my conscience
Any who reads this will realize that
likely to be starting political developments
in the net few days.
STRICKLAND GILLIAN
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
Hrnrp1rx AND rrs Pnon1nass.

suppose any sensible persons will dispute the
fact circumstances birth have vital effect
the infant its little eyes open the light
of day, but it would be blind who viii no.
the unborn child already inherits the facial
resemblance and figure and various pecuarites of it's
progenitOrs. because the infant, without its ef
fort, shows these things it's natural color
it after birth While there is only infant
there parents the child draws it's ineri-
from both of them. but the infant have its
hair and its mothers dark eyes matter
how races national types they belong to be-
fore marriage.
We know that children inherit tendency to disease,
although locality and environment have much to do
with health and hygiene We know that criminal
denotes be traced in families well consump
tion, goitre We know that the liquor appe
tite viii be handed down. and diseased mentality will
show up idotic offspring We know that inebriety
will weaken character.
And yet pay small attention any of these
things in seeking our mates mates for off
spring 1t is the outside vain show of wealth and inn
portance, things that perish with the using, which
and sensible protest because of plain
hereditary ailments
The whole land is crowded with weakly mothers
who continually under a doctors the
geon's knife, while people wonder that their
daughters and granddaughters frail their
inert if. indeed, there should be offspring,
which sometimes happens.
the things that angels will desire
into has been the wilful folly of those who failed
study themselves while they only educated in
and languages. belonging the dead nations tina.
have passed out of sight while they had vital study
always at hand; namely, study myself"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
HOW ABOUT THE m1ssrss1rP1 RrvEzq

reading about the Overflows and the loss and
suffering ! conclude that would not buy
any farming land in the Mississippi region, If
had the and it bargain counter offer.
1t is painfully apparent that the river is constantly
filling it's channel and the people there
constantly piling up sand bags to hold back
and when the melt north and the spring
rains fall the old river simply the
side the sand bags and then the mischief is done
The river drains off the water from untold millions Of
of land, commencing away near British Amer
lea and taking immense flow that comes on with
other great tributaries all the down to the gulf
That water must out somewhere and it does
prepos.erous believe walled-in barrier
built securely top of the ground, and especially
with willow wthes and sand bags to do it with.
Unless opening be had above New Orleans
divide the river flow and turn the overflow into
canal with short cut into the gulf the people
will still be sweating sand bags and drown
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17

stand the gloves from their resemblance to
hand. also the Shoes, the galoches the VEIL and tho
twisted warped and skewed with dabs Of ribbon ana
knots of impossible flowers, that would be past him.
He would probably conclude that IT some sort or
beehive or rat trap
that is not to be considered apart 1t is the chief
symbol Of conformity The last place think OF in
dependence is in We revolted, fought and died
gloriousy against the king and law OF England, out
of were ever brave enough to draw the sword
in rebellion against the Halter. To mad as
halter is joke. The halter is absolutely the most
thing one does when he goes crazy is to wear the
wrong kind of hat none. Honestly you con-
ceive of mailman wearing nice. new derby?
So think hats, not isolated
affairs to be perpetuated in bronze marble and pre-
served in museums
painting by great master. done for altar.
is out of place the wall of parlor. SO hat
designed to be the last and topmOst explosion of a,
certain female really ought never to be taken or
Oft it is nightmare of art, mixture OF MENACE
RTE aviary, dollhouse and ribbon counter it is our
darlings sweet self leapng to the verge Of her
personality. yet holding with both hands to the
style in
A man, in his hatness. only conform. Knox, or
Stetson somebody designs the peculiar flare of
brm and convexity of crown are to wear, and we
and buy It, II should dare question its beauty
and fitness the halter would send for the police.
knowing be least anarchists possibly "outpa
tients of Bedlam." But a not only conforms,
she also expresses her Individuality She is twice the
man.
Her hat is not only in style. but herself Bat
tened down is by convention and propriety,
the only chance she has take lunge into personal
ity is to With feather three feet long,
shaped like a milk pail crusted with a
clump of stiff ribbons sticking out like the hair of
native Fiji or misshapen thing that resembles
piece OF chewing gum after taking
US have done then with sneers at angel faces
in personal roofing Let be thankful that her
instinct for crime takes harmless form.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
THE TWO ORPHANS.

More han 80 years the play of THE Two Or
phas acted by Kate Claxton, the sensation Of
entire winter, especially after the Brooklyn play
caught fire during Of her performances
a number of persons burned and trampled
death. But facts stranger than fiction. When
the Titanic fitting downwards to the bottom of
the a pale, haggard to boat just pushing
off with little tots in his and years old.
wrapped in saloon blankets and dropped them in the
boat where ladies already sitting There
for the and the great ship quickly
disappeared and all those who had
cape went down.
surmised that the a wfdower,
bringing the moth erless children to friends this
side of the Atlantic but all else is mystery
here stated by the press reports told by
the rescued.
a kind lady has taken them home with her and the
little orphans will be cared for but who
the agony of that despairing father when
gave his little darngs into the hands of strangers
knowing his own DOOM without a word explanation
giving even name for direction to their fu-
In the haste and darkness parental love hrs
only motive, and the beginning of little
phans' lives tragedy They children,
bright and joyous, and hope good luck
may be theirs from to the end!
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
Texas Turned Over
Dallas Times-Herald.

Dallas TfmeS-Herald
The effect of a Woodrow Wilson victory in Texas
will perhaps change the political of the on
all sides it is conceded that the result
sibIe bearing the contest for governor.
But there are other political complications that
naturally bob up If, as mutations point the viii
people dominate the Houston convention Senator
Joseph w. Bailey will meet his Waterloo in a Texas
convention for the first time in Since the
Galveston convention of years ago, when the Demo-
Gratis, the solemn protest of then Congressman
Bailey, declared for modest policy of expansion the
latter gentleman has been the bright particular of
every Democratic gathering in Texas. He has been
named delegate to national convention from
Texas since the days of Cleveland and while he has
frequently been challenged, his has been
the less forthcoming
With Texas going for Wilson all this will be chang
ed. The Big Four the Big Eight, will not contain
the of j. w. Bailey. The convention may offer
him place the delegation, but those who know Bal
ley do not in degree expect that he will accept
favors from Woodrow Wilson convention Senator
Bailey of will sulk but Senator Bailey will
have nothing to do with building a Woodrow Wilson
dwelling. He will allow the Wilson men to buid the
house before he his shiEs at the Wilson fresGc
That much is certain
1t is recalled that Senator Culberson ardent
supporter of the New Jersey in the contest Of Sat
urday This entities the senior to the head of
table. He will doubt assist in building the VIII
home and will be first to welcome all late
it is. Senator Culberson will head the Big Four
or Big Eight from Texas
it Texas politics has been revolutionized
by Jersey professor. Old things have passed
away-all things have become new.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
A FEMININE DIFFERENCE.

~ In England yesterday there began what is per-
haps the serious and deermined prosecution of
those militant danes and damses who resrot vio-
methods in their campaign to secure the ballot
Three of the doughtiest Of all the suragettes
arragned the charge of having conspired together
TO incite the malicious damage of property" and as
the emboIdened attorney general declared, to launch
a movement which, had it succeeded. would have
meant nothing less than anarchy"
The British males at length plucking up
courage Heretofore they have rested content with
simply imprisoning their pugnacious Amazons and
forcing them, wynilly to eat The prevailing opin-
ion. however. has been that it would do to take
the suragettes too seriously to treat them other
wise than with bored liberation. What If they did
throw bricks officers Of the house of commons and
break upon the proceedings Of that great body with
their treble din? The men should preserve an aus
tere and truly masculine dignity. They should not
be drawn into more than a cursory rebuke of such
conduct
But when the women went so far as to throw
bricks at pIate-glass shop windows. why, then the
tsme for drastic reproof had arrived. And so the
prime movers in the famous London foray are now
on trial and If convicted they viii be punished in
turiy exemplary fashion
The curious thing about the sunragette cause in
England is that il seeks such uncomfortable means
accomplish its ends. In six more states of this
country, the ladies have the precious privilege
of voting without the slightest recourse to turbulent
or painful methods. Is this because our own suf-
frage leaders fairer to look upon than their
English cousin OF because they essentially
feminine in their tactics and hence potent in
their appeal to the trousered half of society? We
recall that in certain western commonwealth, the
ladies dispensed cherry pie among the voters just
prior TO the election that decide the suffrage
issue. Doubtless, the English danes would get
farther andare better If they followed this deecta-
bic example
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
Is Ir no b rEpnY OF. rArr7

believe humankind born with the racing
spirit inside them. little will
between flee dogs. will race
at the risk of life and limb after they gray
headed
Anybody who has covered their three-score and ten
years ought be willing to take life easy but find
myself looking in the daily newspapers count up
votes between Teddy and Taft 1 am told the
small boys clutch at baseball and that pretty
girls nearly wild watching baseball game
in big company suppose when watch the race
between T. and T. Tens of thousands like myself
watching the
1 may be mistaken but think Teddy will make the
trip when the Chicago convention holds it's meeting
month. However there is nothing certain in mod
politics. When young / often heard it said
everything might be relied but the decisions of
petit jury and later have often been told that
nothing certain death and taxes; but politics
surprises. The rupture between Teddy and
o grow and widen From being strong and embracing
they nearly arrived the "cussing
of dislike and disagreement all of which makes
sad but interesting.
To come down brass lacks, Mr.. should he
willing stop off with years in the White
lie is neither washington Andy Jackson. a
big general like Grant a war president like McKn-
10y. is good timber for a judge. modern JUICES
60 but he is big star in White House armament
/ him.
If hadn't been for Teddy's favoritism Taft
wouldn't been in it at all, it makes sort
If Teddy gets left may it down in his
make mistakes in his political selections.
if Taft gets left he may set it down that four
years was aplenty him. and he should have
way of the folks who have aided his ambi-
tons hitherto
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
PLANT FooD CROPS, rARnERsl

When Irish potatoes sell 81 a bushel and corn
brings S1.25 time, the value crops is ap-
parent the dulest mind, the LATEST farmers
If you plant either corn potatoes you
thing sell that will bring good money. 1t seems
wifi be off perforce cannoy
get crop planted in time for a crop we GER
tainly both and potatoes, planted by
July later. Out in the potatoes are a
crop because potatoes bring price per
busheI. Because the shorter than
southern potatoes will where cot
cannot grown profit.
seems that farmers would do well 10
that food stuffs will higher prices
long fail to make abundant food crops on our
own With plenty of for bread for stock and
price like paying, should have abundant
corn crops With potatoes that will bring even 81
per bushel there will be a chance get mohey for
use taxes.
When you are satisfied that the season has be-
come unfavorable cotton then plant corn and
potatoes the limit
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
TALK TO YOUR HEARERS, NOT TO YOUR or1z-
IONS


In speaking Of able ministers a wise said:
"a is absorbed in his subject while B is only
cerned with his hearers"
The pulpit has too much self-absorption and too
little of appeal and application and the elaborate
lminares of pulpit exercises too often dead
weight on the sermon. The prelimnaries general
y half the exercises. fashionable pulpits 80 mill
utes sometimes consumed with choruses solos, vol
untaries and chants, etc. before the text is
ed The singing is generally done by proxy and with
flowers, music preudes and interludes, fine clothes
and handsome surroundings the hour is spent
quietly in pomp and state and then the folks dsperse
for dinner and the water of life" remains stagnant.
If somebody should come in the door with hands
aloft crying Seek pardon of God today for Death for
you is waiting, it would give the most of the women
hysteria and the men nervous preservation
And yet, the only certain thing in life is the coma
ing death. If divnes believe there is safety
outside of Gods pardoning mercy, why do not they
cry aloud and not? Save the perishingi' Get
in the feboat for fine ship is sinking under
you"
There is great deal said Of the growing and
era indifference to religious exercises and the
ity revival and that young prefer to
anywhere but to church Sunday mornings of desc
Grafton Of the Sabbath of lack of for
things, and the worship of wealth, yet the land is
filled yes, crowded with ordained preachers and cost
ly churches The fault does lie in lack of oppor-
tunity 1t lies deeper, and this question is always
pertinent: "Yhy neglect great salvation?" My
opinion worth but little know, but the Salvation
army which seeks the poor and suffering in by
ways open streets to the gospel call
than any great religious organization of time.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17

phrase VI TIC RAAAAOoCE--N--
sidered apart from the feminine
creature beneath IT, apart from
it's fellow-mi1linery. apart from
this seasons styles. apart from
everything, viewed alone, set up
on a pedestal in the court house
or on a fence post in the front
yard, the female headgear woula
be indeed spectacle. 1t would
be no sin TO fall down and wor-
ship It, for IT is like nothing On
EARN, nor in the waters under ne
earth, nor in the heavens above
the earth. A philosopher, coming
back to life. having once abode n
Greece, where they knew every
thing, and meeting the missile
newest hat lying on the bed
where she always puts 1t when
she comes home from an after
Moons social adventure, would be
stumped. He could, as he stood
in the bedroom, possibly under
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17

ing in spring overflows 100 years hence.
The silt and debris that is deposited by the strug
Cling torrent will continue to fill the
channel and the prospect good Cor bad) make
big lake after awhile and widen the river proper
tionately because of the fillup.
When there is less of flood there
crops made this rich black soil but when the
gets bender there is nothing but distress and
destruction it is proven the year 1912
The old red hills of Georgia get to be very poor
but you don't need skiff tied your back door TO
escape with your life
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
WOMEN'S HATS AND
SOMETHING ON THEM
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE

A good many things have been said that should mo-
have been said, good many things have not been
said that should have been said, about womens mats