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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-13
SUPREME COURT HITS
EXPRESS COMPANIES
$50 LIABILITY CLAUSE

The trick of express companies in
lodging a liability of more than $50 for
the loss of articles upon which tn
valuation is not placed by the shipper
was pronounced against the public pol
icy of the state by the supreme court
today.
In ruling upon the case of J. c. Melli-
champ, an Atlanta jewelr, against the
Adams Express Company, certified to
the tribunal from the court of appeals
the court said:
I'VE hold that the plaintiff can re-
cover in the proper form of action, and
that his recovery should not be limited
to $50, but should be the actual value
Iof the goods lost"
Mellichamp had expressed diamond
ring valued at $500, which was lost in
transit. In suit for recovery, the ex :
press company set up the defense that
as Mellichamp had failed to fix a value
on the shipment the company was liza :
Bile for only $50 under the provisions Of
its printed contract.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-13

a report of the findings has not been
given out. 1t is considered unlikely
that McElreath's appointment will be
confirmd this session.
The senate confirmed the following
appointments to the board of trustees
of the state university made by Gov
ernor Brown. All the former trustees
were renominated by the governor
Board Members Confirmed.
Henry D. Mcdaniel, of Walton coun-
ty, from state large, for remainder
Of term of Clark Howell, resigned.
W. E. Simmons, Gwinnett county, for
eight years from state at-large, from
August %, 1911
Clark Howell, Fulton county from
Fifth district, for eight years from Au-
gust %, 1911.
j. E. Hayes, Macon county, for re-
mainder of term of Dudley NJ. Hughes,
resigned, for Third district.
G. r. Goetchius, Muscogee county,
for eight years, from August %, 1911.
for Fourth district
John 7. Newton, Morgan county. for
eight years, from August %, 1911, for
Eighth district.
Dudley NJ Hughes, Twiggs county,
for eight years, from August %, 1911.
for Twelfth district.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-13
FIGHT IN COUNCIL
ON IVY st. WORK
Widening of PeaChtree Also Is
Opposed by AIdermen-S Sec
tionaIiSm Seen in Move.

Several members of the council let it
be known today that they would make
vigorous fights against the Peachtree
and Ivy street improvements Their
contention is that too much money is
being spent on the north side
Mayor VIM said today that he would
veto any resolution providing for the
regarding and repaving of Ivy street
unless provisions were made for adj
justments of the side streets and the
property owners gave the city longer
than next year to repay them the
money they have offered to advance to
finance the Improvement. The plan for
the Ivy street improvement to be rec
commended to council by the streets
committee does not provide for the adj
justment of the intersecting streets to
the new grade.
Alderman James f. Warren declared
that he favored bringing Ivy street to a
level grade, but he draws the line on
paying property damages so that
Peachtree street can be widened its en-
tire length. Councilman Orville Hall
is opposed to both projects. Council
man J. J. Greer supported the Peach
tree street plan when it was favorably
acted upon by the finance committee,
but he declared today that he intended
to do all he could to prevent the Ivy
street work at this time.
Mayor VIM has announced that he
would veto any more appropriations by
this years council from next years
revenue
Streets Committee Favorable.
The property owners have agreed %
advance $4,000 to do the Ivy street
work, giving the city the use of the
money without interest and allowing it
the privilege Of repaying it al any time
it sees fit The county commissioners
have agreed to do a great part of the
work. Councils streets committee ia
Vors the plan.
Albert Howell has let the contract for
a 100000 building at the corner of
Peachtree street and Ponce DeLeOn
avenue. If this building is erected it
will be almost impossible to widen
Peachtree street at that point. He Of
feIs to change his plans and donate a
ten foot strip for $4,000. Carl Witt
wants 1900 damages to his property
at the corner of PeaChtree and Harris
streets. The finance committee will
recommend that these obligations be
assumed but that no definite promise
that they will be paid next year be
made
With the details of the plans thus
worked out strong efforts are being
made to get Mayor VIM not to exer-
else his veto power.
The determined fight that has sud-
denly developed in council however,
presents a new condition These i'm
provements mean an enhancement of
millions of dollars in property values.
They were conceived and brought to
definite form by the citizens and not by
the city officials. Every one agrees
that they would be for the good of the
whole city A number of members of
council are determined that they shall
not fail. Sectionalism is the only OBJ
stacle.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-13
PRISON FOR PLOTTERS
ON KTCHENER'S LIFE

ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, Aug 10
Three natives found guilty of completely
in plot to assassinate Lord Kitchener,
head of the British government in Egypt,
Abbas Pasha Hilmi, the khedive, and pres
ident of the council, Mohammed Pasha
Said, were today sentenced to fifteen
years penal servitude.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-13
SENATE FAILS To
( D. k. N ELREATH
Appointments to Board of
Trustees of State University
Are Confirmed.

After spending 80 minutes in execu-
tive session today. the senate a sec
ond time failed to confirm the appoint
ment of Emmett McElreath to the
judgeship of the city court of st.
Marys
The McElreath appointment was
fought strenuously by Senator w. W.
King, of the Fourth district. Kings
charges against McElreath have been
Investigated by a senate committee, but
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04

In half dozen words he says he
would have liked to hand over his pro
nunciamento 10 the financial leader Of
his day. for discussion, criticism. blue
pencilling. anything that leader willed.
Blatantly he offered to sell his birth
right TO this man, was willing 10 turn
over to him the affairs of nation.
and would have done so had Hartman
not happened to be in Europe at the
time Roosevelt was preparing that let
ter Of acceptance,
What manner OF q man is this for
reform" president: He offered to be
tray his people once; il will be easier
for him TO do it again Roosevelt
could write that kind OF a letter to the
financial king of Wall street, but he
could not sit at meat with LOrlmer;
he could write that kind of letter,
but he could not tell the truth when
past acts are reSurrected before him,
he could write that kind Of letter to
a Hartman, he can accept money from
Perkins, Morgan. a Munsey and
the Standard Oil, he can bulldoze a
gracious, confiding soul like Lyman
Abbott into thinking and publicly stat
I
his own record throws the lie into his
own face-his skirts are dirtier, his
associates more Nenal. his habits more
unclean. his insincerity greater than
that Of any other politician of any
PARTY before the American public to-
day.
Roosevelt's career is on the wane.
With all his bluff and buster, all his
cant. rantings. noise and canard, such
man as he is some time found out
| by the American public, and that day
of enlightenment is now breaking.
He has lied, but he can lie no longer
with the old success: he has fumed
and yelled and howled, pushed himself
| forward, relegated brainier men to the
| background, maligned characters and
| broken careers, but no longer will be
the blind rallying to his call, for the
real man, the man of deceit, untruth-
| fulness, lies, cant, insincerity and cor
ruption, putrid to the heart, Wanting
himself as the saviour of the people
when in reality he is the peoples
traitor, is being found out.
And when the handwriting on the
wall blazes forth this passing of a pop
ular idol, emblazOned before the Amer
lean public so all may see and read
and know the true fulness of all theil
meaning should be these words:
AT present there is nothing for me
to see you about, though there were
one or two points in my letter of &C
eeptance | should have liked to discuss
with you before putting it out"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04

Lippincott's can always be relied on
for good Authorization which is not
only clever in form, but which-a
vastly more important item-touches
live sentiment. The October issue
is noteworthy in several respects. For
one, 1t contains complete novelette,
Of swift movement and compelling in
terest, by famous British author, H.
B. Marriott Watson, whose new story,
"The Picaroon," describes the surpris.
ing things that happened to an auda'
cious, res0urceful young yachtsman
who believed in taking short cuts
when he wanted anything.
Arthur Morrison, author of "Tales
OF Mean Streets" contributes char.
acteristically good story Of low life in
London, entitled lilies Unregistered
John Reed Scott, writer of THE Col.
onel of the Red Huzzars," 'The Last
Try" and other "best-sellers," stands
sponsor for "A Quarter-to-Eight." q
short-story OF society. Other short.
stories are "An Optical Delusion,' "
by Lowell Edwin Hardy; I'm Such
Night as This" by Atkinson
Kimball; Discipline" by Frank E
Verney: Among Thieves" by Robert
Adger Bowen: Eat the Stroke Of the
Clock" by Joseph Hornor Coates; and
'The Catch of the Season." by Mabel
Moore Macdonald. Forbes Lindsay
furnishes an article on THE Prospect
for Mexico.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04

Defiance, Ohio. Sept. %, 1912.
Washington Standard, Olympia, Wash

Defiance, Ohio. Sept. %, 1912.
Washington Standard, Olympia. Wash
ington:
Will you please give me credit on
subscription account for the Enclosed
draft for SO; and allow me to say that
Mr.. Murphy's reminiscent papers are
growing continually more interesting.
Since he has successfully tapped the
springs of memory it Is to be hoped
that the stream may flow Indefinitely.
His history of the Mercer enterprise
was intensely interesting and throws
much historic light on the ten-chapter
story in the Youths Companion, dur.
ing the early summer entitled Julia
Sylvester" by C. A. Stephens, !
think. who made Mr.. Mercer one OF the
heroes of the story.
Those of your readers who take the
Youths Companion would do well to
compare the fiction with Mr.. Murphy's
account. Both were read with much
interest here, and we hope Mr.. Muir
ply will continue to accumulate and
save such good material from Oblivion.
1t would prove q rich provision for
romance, and be Of incalculable value
to the historian.
Respectfully.
CHARLES SEYMOUR.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04
ROOSEVELT ASKED
FUND OF HARTMAN
Financier's Agents Testify to Col
onel's Request to Raise
$4,000.

WASHINGTON, Oct. All the cor
respOndence between President Roose-
welt and E. H. Hartman, covering the
to the Office, in 1911, until Mr.. Harri-
mans difference was placed in evil
dence this week before the senate COM
mittee investigating campaign expend-
lures.
Out of the scores of letters covering
every subject, from exhibits of Indian
pictures to the appointment of federal
judges and territorial governors in
Arizona, the senate committee was
able to obtain new light bearing
on the subject of campaign contribu-
lions or the disputed question of
whether President Roosevelt had speci-
fcally asked Mr. Hartman, in 1904,
| to raise $4,000 for his campaign.
| c. c. Tegethoff, now agent for the
Hartman estate, and former private
secretary to Mr.. Hartman, and
Charles A. Peabody, president of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company and
personal attorney for Mrs. Hartman
in the administration of the estate
both testified that Mr.. Hartman had
told them the raising of the big cam
oaign fund had been undertaken at
President Roosevelt's request, state
ment which Mr.. Hartman made
before his death, but which was de
MED by Roosevelt.
| A most significant letter was that
written by Roosevelt to Mr.. Hartman
September %. 1904. which read:
| AT present there is nothing Tor me
to see you about, though there were
one or two points in my letter of &C
ceptance which l should have liked
to discuss with you before putting il
out"
Charles A. Peabody, president of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company and
legal adviser of Mrs. Hartman, testi
fed that he talked with Mr.. Hartman
in November, 1904, about the cam
paign fund.
He said he had been in Washington
and that the president wanted him to
raise some money for the campaign
He said he was giving $4,000 and
hoped to get the rest-I think he said
the whole fund was to be $4,000
While was there he talked over the
telephone with another man who was
to contribute"
| C. c. Tegethoff next took the stand
and produced series of papers from
the Hartman estate file.
The first was receipt signed by C.
| N. Bliss as treasurer of the national
| Republican committee, dated 1904. 1t
was for $4,000, which Mr.. Tegethoff
said was Mr.. Harriman's contribution
to the Republican campaign fund OF
1904.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt and ]. Pier
pont Morgan stepped into the spot
light later this week, the financier ap-
pearing Thursday and Col. Roosevelt
today.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04
New Map Of Alaska.

A map showing the mineral re-
sources of Alaska has just been issued
by the United States Geological Survey
and has been placed on sale at 10 cents
a copy, or Sc hundred copies. The
map is II by "a inches and by the use
of a number of colors graphically por-
trays the known information regarding
areas and high-grade bituminOus coal;
those which may contain such coal;
those known to contain low-grade BIZ
luminous coal and those which may
contain such coal; those known to con-
tain Ignite. All these different classes
of coal lands are shown by separate
colors for their respective areas, and
areas of gold and silver quartz, gold
placers, copper lodes, tin deposits, Pc
troleum areas. and gypsum mines are
indicated by various symbols in red.
Marble quarries are also shown.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04
POOR PRIMARY LAW.

We publish this week two attacks
on the state primary law, one by a
Republican newspaper which advocat-
ed it's passage. the other by Thurston
county Democrat. Both agree in that
it is failure, both demand change,
and both express the prevailing opin-
ions of thinkers in all the parties.
There is no question about the asser-
ton that the law was Republican
measure framed to uphold that party s
supremacy in the state and designed
to discourage and tc kill off gradually
the members of the other parties. This
it would be folly for the Republicans
even to attempt to deny, for the fact
is too well known.
1t has one absolutely useless feature
one that thwarts its very aims and
renders whatever value it has entirely
negligible, and that Is the second
choice provision. 1t has another
equally as useless, the party primary
clause which makes the primary q
special and not general affair, and
which the Republicans designed to pre-
serve their own party lines but which
has actually worked to defeat that de-
sign.
The law as it stands is farce and
a 'delusion, absolutely worthless, mex
pressive of the popular will, contrary
TO American ideas of popular govern
ment through it's being class and not
a general affair, and ineffective be
cause these very provisions kill of
the interest Of the vOforS
Whom the Democrats gain control OF
The coming legislature, the first thing
they should do should be to repeal thi.
inane and asinine measure and to en-
act sane, consistent and real pri
nary law. They should eliminate first
of all the second choice feature, ant
hey should remove the stigma of class
by providing for a general primary
md one ticket upon which shall b,
placed the names of all the candidate.
If all the parties participating. .Thes,
two, at least, it should change-Heavel
knows there are enough others tina
need fixing.
Let the one of the two or three o.
five or eight candidates for the ofic
who receives the most votes be tn
nominee-he Is entitled to be-and re
move the hazard the present law hold
forth that the weakest or the leas
kncwn candidate to whom the electo
throws his vote because he does no
know where else to put 1t, may sill
around the corner as the chosen O
the people"
There Is no valid argument why tn
primary should not be general as tn
election is general; there is evel
greater argument that it should RI
ceive the general vote, II it needs b
that one or the other must be divided
Give the voter the opportunity to res
lister his preference for the man h
wants for particular Office, no mat
ter to what party that man happens t
belong. and the party lines will
more specifically kept, If that is tn
object, as the experience of the ger
eral election illustrates.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04
TO WHAT USES HAVE THEY COME
AT LAST?

While we may witness with toler-
able equanimity Tacoma contractors,
employing Tacoma and Italian labor
ers, grading many of our streets; a
Tacoma gas company pumping Taco
ma gas to supply our people while the
local works" lie idle; and two Ia
coma papers seeking not only to thrust
their fingers in every pie as it is on its
way to the pantry, II not to appropri-
ate it wholly on the way to the festal
board, we surely must be pardoned for
interposing a vigorous protest when
we find it is openly admitted that Per
kins has adopted Cor may it not be
said that the public has only just
found out the fact?) a plan to recoup,
to some degree at least, his losses in
maintaining the disreputable twins in
their nefarious traffic.
1t will be difficult to excuse from any
point of view the levy of $40 fee
announcement in print, or per cent
of the first years salary if elected to
office, as condition for Quasi-support,
even though it may not develop into
IN active stage. While the comatOse
state may not be less effective, it must
be admitted that it can hardly be al
Legged as valid guild pro quo for a
semblance of service. Can it be view
ed in any other light than that of the
highwayman who, with pistol at your
ear, demands contribution from your
pocket for immunity from disaster? Is
it justifiable from any view of social
IT moral ethics? Can it be excused
even in the heat of partisan rancor or
business rivalry, to achieve that fox
fire k-o'lantern-success?
No. verify! How much more repre-
hensible it is, when it becomes the re-
sort of demagogue to perpetuate his
infamous witchery! Is it not simply
a chance to supply means for tiding
over the shoals encountered in the eff
fort to find safe harbor for a craft
which flies the skull and cross-bones
as it's flag?
Let it be understood that the candi-
date who buys his support is guilty Of
the worst species of bribery and is no
better than the person receiving the
bride. 1t is in keeping, however, with
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04
DRY TOWN A FAILURE.
Two Years Experience Changes Everett
Minister'S Views.

EVERETT, Oct. 4.-Rev. Frank E.
Herthum, pastor of the First Christian
church, is an open advocate of licensed
saloons in Everett.
Everett is anything but dry CITY,"
says the clergyman. I'VE are a
laughing stock to our neighbors.
IF we are willing to tolerate and
sanction what we call evil going up
and down our streets on four wheels,
stopping at our own or our neighbors'
doors. besides licensing the manufac-
ture of it in our own front or back
yards, then as right-minded, right,
loving men and women let us be con-
sistent in our attitude toward all"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04

SPOKANE. Oct. 4.-National Com
mitteeman John Pattison has announc-
ed that the following have been ap-
pointed members of a committee to
handle the national Democratic cam.
paign in Washington:
Clay Allen, of Bellingham, Edwin C.
Ewing, of Seattle, Francis Garrecht,
Of Walla Walla; Julius Zittell, of
Spokane, and John Pattison, ex-officio
chairman.
George E. Ryan of Seattle, will act
as secretary for Western Washington,
and G. S. Garfield, of Spokane, for the
eastern part of the state.
This committee will route all ma.
tional speakers through the state and
probably will decide on the disburse.
ments of campaign funds.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04

Tacoma methods and is an evidence of
the base uses to which Tacoma does
not hesitate to reduce our people.
The twins can smell the odor from
the f1eshpots whenever they bubble
and there they may be ever found,
Twist-like, holding out their spoons
for more. j. NJ NJ.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04

has already been used by the president
as an excuse for delay and this excuse
has cost the country several huECrec
millions. The tariff board, however
honestly intended by some, is farce
and a fraud. After postponlng action
until the board reported the RepuD-
licans would not accept any findings
that justified reductions and the Dem
ocrats would not accept any findings
that justified existing rates. Congress
and congress alone can settle the tariff
nueSt ion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04

Davenport Tribune. Democratic.)
We find in Governor M. E. Hays
campaign pamphlets that the state is
out of debt for the first time in it's
history. We also have in our pos
session the annual report of State
Treasurer Lewis which says the state
for the coming biennium must appro-
pirate more than $25O,000 to care for
interest and principal of existing state
obligations, and that the states out
standing and unpaid bond indebted
ness is S1,101 900. and that the states
outstanding warrant Indebtedness is
100000. Which is the greatest
official and which is the greater liar?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04
Roosevelt Is E..iniiinc,.

(Vancouver Columbian. Republican,
SO long as he posed as d friend OF
the people. fighting their battle as a
free, thinking public man. Roosevelt
deceived many people who thought
him worthy of admiration. AS a dis
appointed candidate for office, boiling
and doing all he can to destroy the
party which made him, he begins to
dwinde nightly in public esteem. He
is headed for a very small hole. where
soon he will be hidden tilaly.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04
Hitting Hard.

Governor Wilson delivered a telling
blow to Roosevelt's prepOsterous claim
to leadership of the real progressive
thought of the country when, at Sioux
City, he showed that the Roosevelt
plan for regulating" trusts, instead
of preventing them, originated with
Gary and Perkins. These gentlemen
are not interested in the people and
they are planning for the people. The
interests of Gary and Perkins are
wrapped up in trusts and Mr.. Roose-
welt is their agent to carry out their
plan.
Governor Wilson is also right in op-
posing the tariff board as a motion
for a continuance" The existing board
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04
The Country Editor.

The Country Editor.
(Bickleton News. Republican,
1t is rather odd that so many editors
of country newspapers in Washington
have placed the name of Roosevelt at
the head of their editorial columns
and are whooping for the Bull Mooser.
The country editor is usually rather
sensible and far-seeing in the matter
of politics, and it is queer to see him
carried off his feet by bluff, buster.
and bulldozing, and Teddy seems to
have strange hold" on many Of the
otherwise sane scissors manipulators.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04
Democrats, Get Into 1t.
Now 1t IL Flynn.

(Creston News. Republican,
Flynn of Pennsylvania was boss Of
bosses till Penrose sidetracked his SEN
atorial aspirations. He was willing
to spend a million of his own money
for the honor" of a toga. Lorimer's
friends spent only one-tenth of that
amount of his, and Theodore was so
hurt about it that he couldn't sit at
meat with him. But he didn't act as
discreetly as Flinn-become an
apostle of civic righteousness.