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 AuditoTiun1-PIanS
for CoIone'S Stay.

College girls win have reserved seats
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-hammer blows
which he and his local adherents be-
leve will do much toward breaking the
solid South and. carrying Georgia for
the Progressive party.
Womans part in the campaign is to
be recognized. according to those who
have laid the plans for the coloneHs
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. II. Eel
ton, of Gainesville and Mrs Margaret
McWhorter editor OF The Georgia Pa
triot. q 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 viii be in. the audience. Seats
have been reserved for so of them. The
boys Of the Georgia Military academy,
also at College Park will meet the
ex-president at the station with their
band and win entertain Atlantans who
are expected to. gather there to well
come the former president
The Bull Moose candidate viii lead
the simple life While in Atlanta. &C
cording to J. St Julien Yates, promi-
nent Atlanta Bull Meoser- 10 dinners
or luncheons will be allowed and his
fare viii be as simple as that of farm
hand
This is due to orders from Mr.
Rooscvelts manager in New York"
says Mr. Yates, "and they win be fol-
lowed out to the letter. A. NJ Crosby,
Samuel 3 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 viii
put him to bed at an early hour"
ftAccording 10 present plans, the colo
mel will be met at the Terminal station
at 1880 O'Clock Saturday night on his
arrival from Macon. 4. NJ. Crosby
Henry Grady, Bernard Suttler. Bert
Liiienthau Victor c. Terry and w, L.
Tnson 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-wil 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
torium. He has been extended an invi-
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 4:30 o'clock Sunday
afternoon TO continue his trip North
and East,
In the party with him viii be George
ELAN Roosevelt, his cousin, who is a
Wall street banker and who Is manag-
ing the trip, John NJ. Parker, of New
Orleans, who recently addressed Geor-
gia Bull Moosers; Cecil Lyons, national
committeeman from Texas for the Pro-
gressive party, and Frank Harper, the
coloners private secretary.
Samuel B. Jones. A. NJ. Crosby and
Alexander Hamilton have been invited
to meet the Roosevelt car in Macon
and make the trip to Atlanta with tHa
colonel