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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-09
bANKHEAD-0LWER
DEBATE AT FAYETTE
Speakers Draw Big Crowd
and Both Are Well
Received

Fayette, September S.-tSpecialD }
The Bankhead- Oliver debate drew A
large crowd here today at the opening
of the Fayette court and the courthouse
was packed to overflowing. BY agree
ment Oliver opened with a speech of 80
minutes followed by Bankhead, who
spoke for one hour. giving Oliver an
extra 10 minutes.
Mr.. Bankhead enlarged on federal aid
for good roads; Improvement of the
public health, social conditions of rural
communities and rural credits
Mr.. oliver discussed the general prin-
ciples of the democratic platform.
praised the present administration and
promised If elected to faithfully labor
for the benefit of the district Both are
popular here.
This being Bankhead's former home
and Oliver having served II years as
circuit solicitor both men were we'll
received, but it is generally conceded
that Bankhead's friends are in the ma
jority.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-09

to deprive the state of revenue which
might accrue from their hire. of course,
have no power to interfere with the
exercises of the discretion which the law
vests in you to either sentence TO the
pelitentiary or to hard labor in all cases
of conviction for felonies in which i'm
prisonment or hard labor is for more than
u months and not more than two years
You are an officer of the state of Ala
bama, and it is your duty and you should
have the same interests in protecting its
rights and revenues as those of the gov
ernor of the state; and in view of the
well known fact that through the failure
or the omission of our laws county con-
victs do not receive the same humane
treatment as those sentenced to the peni-
tentiary, but are subject to all the admit
ted evils of the contract system l would
assume that you would exercise your
discretion in favor of the state. In the
cases mentioned, however. you had no
discretion. | am willing to assume that
the sentences you imposed We're due to
your ignorance of the law and not from a
deliberate purpose to deprive the state of
its just revenues. 1t is singular how
ever, that in view of the fact that I have
been forced to parole other conviets sub
jected to similar sentences. and have
called the attention OF circuit judges in
the state to the provisions of the statute,
that you should have overlooked this
plain requirement of law. You must be
aware of The fact that the state of Ala
hama is receiving from the Henderson
Lumber company $50 per month for CON
victs, whereas, the county of Bullock that
has a contract with the same company
received only $17 or S1S. Every sentence
for the county therefore, benefits the
Henderson Lumber company, but this is
matter which ought not, if it does,
concern YOU.
You charge me with what you are
pleased to term, Grass ignorance of the
law. inflated vanity and itching pro-
rensity for intermedding have simply
discharged my duty. and the coarse and
vulgar abuse contained in your statement
will not deter me from protecting the
interests of the state. but can only tend
to convince the public that you are entire
ly lacking in that self-poise of judicial
temperament. respect for authority and
knowledge of law so essential in one
holding judicial position.
IN view of your statepent in the Ad-
vertiser this morning. shall give this let
ter TO the press. Very respectfully,
EMMET O'NEAL, Governor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-09
MEMS GRADED UNION
r. A. Slaton and Rev. A. X. Wright
Will Be in Charge Tonight

The regular weekly meeting of the
Mems Graded union will be held this
evening at GAS o'clock in the First
Methodist church. The devotional SER
vice will be under the leadership of Il.
A. Slaton. while the personal workers
section will be in charge of the Rev.
A. X. Wright. pastor of the Ensley Bap-
tist church. who will deliver an ad-
dress on personal Workers Library"
The adult Bible section will be taught
by the Rev. W. NJ. Anderson. pastor of
the 'Fifty-sixth Street Baptist church.
In the superintendents' section there
will be discussion on the Rev.
Wright's address, lead by himself. The
boys department lesson will be taught
by Tom Edwards of the Avondale Meth
odist church.
This morning at 10 o'clock the Wom-
ems Graded union will hold it's regular
weekly session In the First Methodist
church. All Of the members are urged
to attend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-09
GIRLS COUNCIL
West Northside District Has Meeting
at First Methodist Church

The girls council of the West North
side district held a very interesting
meeting yesterday afternoon in the
First Methodist church. The meeting
was presided over by Miss Mary Vir-
ginia Cummins of the First Methodist
church. who is chairman of the district
Progress was reported on the campaign
for organizing classes for teen age
girls.
The council members agreed to serve
as assistant matriculato for the Bible
Training school. which will be held al
the First Baptist church from October
81 to 81. They also adopted the inter-
national emblem, symbolizing purity
and loyalty.
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Local Data
"a hours ending at 7 p. m, Sep
Weather Conditions

Birmingham, September 8. 1913, & p. m)
The pressure is relatively high over the
eastern portion of the country on to-
nights map, and as a result the weather
has been cooler over all sections north
of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi
rivers. Areas of low pressure overlie the
gulf and the western half of the country
generally. and in those sections temper
atures have risen slightly
Rain has occurred over vide area
of country during the past "a hours, the
southwest and the lower Pacific slope,
the extreme northern states between the
Rockies and the st. Lawrence river, and
the middle Atlantic states being the only
sections where no rain fell The amounts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-09
LOVE AFFAIR DRIVES
YOUTH TO SUICIDE
After Requesting Sweet
heart to Attend Funeral,
Boy Ends All

Dothan, September S.--tSpecial. }
After writing letter giving directions
for his funeral and requesting his
sweetheart whom he had been pre-
vented from marrying on account of his
youth, to be present at his funeral,
Frank Hall, the 17-year-old son of Jes-
Sc Hall, a we'll known miller living
eight miles west of Dothan, sent bull
let from a small rifle through his heart.
The tragedy occurred at the home OF
the boys parents yesterday Afternoon,
about o'clock.
The young man left home during the
morning in buggy and returned in the
afternoon when the other members OF
the family were away. A passing
neighbor discovered his body.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-09
GOVERNORS WILL BE ASKED
TO GOOD ROADS MEETING

Montgomery, September s.-(special)
The governor of every state in the south
will be invited to attend the annual meet
ing of the Alabama Good Roads associa-
ton, which will be held in Mobile No
vember 90 q and p. This announcement
was made this afternoon by Governor
O'Neal, following a brief conference with
Capt John Craft of Mobile, president of
the Alabama Good Roads association, and
Prof. G. n. Alltcham of Auburn, mem-
ber of the state highway commission.
Governor ONeal viii write a personal
letter urging the attendance of the gov
ernors of Georgia, Mississippi, Florida,
North and South Carolina. Tennessee,
Louisiana and other southern states, and
an effort will be made to make the meet
ing the most successful in the history OF
the association.
The officers Of the association have in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-09
sweltering heat of Washington mid

sweltering heat of a Washington mid
summer, have steadfastly remained at
their posts of duty. and occupied their
time with such trivial and unimportant
matters as the passage of a tariff and
currency BILL in line with the pledges
of the democratic party, to learn that in
the opinion of Capt. Richmond Pearson
Hobson Sthey have, by their attention to
the public business deserved the con-
temptuous appellations of seat warm
ers, cloak room loungers. and that
their time has been occupied. according to
the captains unimpeachable statement.
.boozing around the capitol and telling
smutty jokes
After his frank explanation we now
understand why the immaculate captain,
who occupies pedestal of purity and
to drag his lily white garments around
the purlieus of the capitol and have his
snless soul polluted by association with
such hopeless reprobates as in his opin-
ion, constitute the American Congress.
1T is indeed pitiable that man who
has such lofty conceptions of his own
immaculate purity, who continually boasts
of his own heroic deeds, of his strict tenn
perance and of his exemption from the
faults and foibles of humanity, shall al
low epithets to fall from his snless lips
that shock the sense of propriety of every
citizen of the state ] commend to the
gallant captain the words OF our Divine
Master, who says, mot that which goeth
into the mouth defileth a man: butsthat
which cometh out OF the MOUTH inns de-
fileth a man.
"Although Captain Hobson has been
recognized as visionary, too much in
clined to indorse every silly political
theory which furnished the opportu-
nifty of gaining votes. too much OBJ
sessed by an insufferable egotsm and
lust for office too little acquainted
with the fundamental principles of gov
ernmene and of true democracy, there
was a time when the people of Ala
bama believed that lts was man of
high ideals and honest impulses. That
such belief no longer exists Captain
Hobson has no one to blame but. him
self. He is the author of his own uI
doing:
!" Twas. his own hand that struck the
fatal blow,
And helped to plant the wound that
laid him low"
"He has undertaken to repeat about
himself every stale campaign canard
which in two elections the people OF
! Alabama have branded as false and
slanderous
And now / am done. The duplicitg
the hypocrisy, the reckless disloyalty to
truth, the unblushing effrontery OF THIS
Bombastes Furioso, this Pecksniff Of
! Alabama politics, this past master ir
|Sthe art of billingsgate. has forced me
| from a deep sense of public duty and
| in self defense. more In sorrow thar
rim anger, to gibbet him, and from the
| elevation of infamy upon which Cap
! tain Hobson's own undisputed record
| has placed himself ] predict that his
friends will not easily take him down
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-09
AFTER LONG ABSENCE
WOOD ENTERS GAME

Manchester N H., September S.--Joe
Wood, the leading pitcher for the Bos-
ton Red Sox, got into the game today
for the first time since he was injured
two months ago. and the American
leaguers defeated picked team from
the manufacturers league in an exhibi-
tion game here today, to l. Wood
pitched three innings and allowed but
one hit, a single. Leonard replaced
him and allowed seven hits.
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vited Vice President Marshall, Secretaries
Houston, Burleson and McAdoo, Senator's
Bankhead and Clayton, and all the Ala
bama congressman, and indications are
that nearly all of these prominent men
will be present
Captain CART when IN Washington last
week called OH Vice President Marshall
and the cabinet members, and he declares
they will assured him they would make
am effort to attend the Mobile meeting.
The date of the meeting was originally
set for the first week in December. but
was changed in order that the Alabama
congressman and other representatives at
Washington might attend. Congress as
sembles December !, and for that reason
the date of the good roads meeting was
changed.
Governor O'Neal will shortly issue a
proclamation calling upon the people of
the state to attend the meeting, and he
hopes to have six or eight southern gov
ernors present on the occasion of the
convention.
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reported were usually light, but Okla
homa City and New Orleans recorded
amounts equaling or exceeding one inch
Temperatures rose slightly over the
southern portions of the cotton belt and
fell slightly over northern sections. Rains
prevailed in all districts. except western
Texas and the Atlantic states
In this section unsettled conditions
with probable showers are indicated for
the next "a hours, and temperatures
should change but little.
Summary of observations made at Uni
ted States weather bureau stations Sep
tember s. 1913:
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MRS. |. N. STRATTON
KILLED IN RUNAWAY
Prominent DOthan Woman
Meets Tragic Death in
Fitzhugh, Miss.

Dothan, September (Spscial. "A
telegram received here today announced
the death of Mrs. L. M, Stratton. for
merly Mrs. P. NJ Carlises, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. j. r. Crawford or this
place. who was killed in runaway ac-
cident at Fitzhugh Miss. today. Mrs.
Stratton was member of one of the
wealthiest families in Dothan and her
tragic death was quite shock TO
friends of the family here. The remains
will be brought to Dothan for burial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-09
Hettinger Pleads Guilty

New York, September s.-Released in
a state court on a suspended sentence
after pleading guilty to the charge of
running a baseball pool, Emil c. Het-
finger, today walked into the arms of
federal inspectors, who assert he used
the mails fraudulently in carrying on his
business. Hettinger was taken before a
United States commissioner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-09
Weather Forecast

Washington, September s.-Forecast for
Alabama Mississippi: Local thunderstorm
ers Tuesday and Wednesday.
Georgia.; Generally fair Tuesday
Wednesday showers.
Tennessee: Local showers Tuesday
Wednesday fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-09

Arouses the Liver ana Purines the
BLOOD
The Old Standard general strengthen
ing tonic, GROVES TASTEI4ESS chill
tonic, arouses the liver to action, drives
Malaria out of the blood and builds up
the system. For adults and children. soc.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-16
STRIKES AT SENATE
PRESIDENT DRANE
Resolution Desires to Know
if the States Insurance
Business is Awarded
Through Competitive Bid
ding and'if it is True One
Agent Has Handled all Of
the Business Since 1908.
BY FRANK |. HuFFAkER.

| Tallahassee, May 15.-Desiring to
know why Senate President Herbert ].
Drane should have had practically a
monopoly of the states fire insurance
business on the capitol, colleges and
other buildings since he was a member
of the house in 1903, or a year or two
j thereafter Representative p. r. B. Kite
of Alachua, today introduced the fol-
lowing resolution calling on the board
of state institutions for information as
to why the insurance business should
have been turned over to Mr.. Drane
year after year:
Resolved by the house Of represen-
tatives, That the board Of state insti
tutions be and il is hereby requested to
furnish the house with the following
information:
First. Is the states fire insurance
business awarded through competitive
bidding or is it handled entirely by one
agent?
Second. What agent handles the
states fire insurance business?
Third. If the states fire insurance
has been handled since 1903 or shortly
thereafter, by one agent, how much has
that agent received in premiums from
the state since that time?
Fourth What is the insurance
valuation OF the capitol, colleges and
other, structures OF the state?
Fifth. What amounts have been
paid by the state in insurance pre-
mlumS since the legislative session or
1903?
Sixth Would not the letting OF the
states fire insurance contra cts through
competitive bidding prove beneficial to
the state and also give taXpayfng fire
insurance agents throughout Florida
an opportunity to claim a just share
Of the states business?"
Records of the board Of state insti-
tutions show that Senator Drane has
done as he plea sed with the states fire
insurance business year after year, and
it has been stated by one of the best
known state officials that the business
was turned. over TO him because he
CDTane) had agreed to look after the
states interests In the fire insurance
line, and make no charge other than
the commission which he received from |
premiums. A prominent member of
the house stated that Senator Drane |
had allowed him to handle some of the |
state insurance. and that he divided a |
portion of it among other friends.
Representative Kite and others, how /
ever. can't understand why the position |
Of insurance expert" isn't transferred |
once in while to some man who is
Just as able a the senate president. |
and why the members OF the state
board Of institutions cant look after
the business themselves
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-16
NO CONCESSIONS TO
SPECIAL INTERESTS
President Says He Regards
it as the Duty of the Dem
ocratic Majority IN the
Senate to Enact the House
Measure Into Law--Ru-
NOR of Veto if any
Changes are Made.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington, May 15.-President Will
son today announced emphatiCalIy t
a conference with newspapermen that
he was not considering compromises
of any sort on the free wool and free
sugar in three years schedules of the
tariff bill; that he stood squarely be-
hind the measure as passed by the
house, and that he regarded it the
duty of the democratic majority in
the senate to enact the house measure
into law.
The presidents statement was to
counteract rumors that concessions,
would be made in the two principal
schedules to satisfy the opposition.
The statement was taken formally to
mean that Mr.. Wilson considers the
arguments from the special interests
as closed, but he smilingly refused to
express an opinion on the public
hearing fight in the senate. There
were even intimations that he would
veto the bill if it comes from the SEN
ate with wool and sugar amendments.
The senate today agreed to vote to-
morrow afternoon on the motion to
refer the Underwood bill to the finance
committee and an amendment to re-
quire public hearings. The sugar
schedule was again the subject of an
enliVened debate. Senator Thomas, of
Colorado, discussed the threats of
business depression if the bill became
a law.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-16
Refugees Reported an Awful
Carnage in Fighting at Guayamas
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Nogales. Ariz.. May 15.-Remnants
of the federal army under Gen. Gil are
believed to have reached Empalme, a
suburb of Guayamas, according to ad-
vices received here today. Sunday the
federals abandoned quantities of am
munition and supplies to state troops.
American refugees arriving today
confirm the report of General Obregon,
state commander. that 500 federals
were killed in the fighting south of
Guayamas, while sixty rebels were
killed and thirteen wounded. They at
tribute the heavy federal losses TO the
disorderly retreat.
Refugees from the front report that
only 1900 of the federal army, which
numbered $500, reached Empalme,
south of the state troops base at Or
tiz, were communication is interrupted
and the general confusion thus far
has permitted few details to reach
HermoSillo.
1t is asserted, however, that the
state troops will attack Empalme and
Guayamas If the assault is not al
ready in progress
xAlNsro 0hregon has been made a
5rigadler general by Gov. Carranza. of
Coshuiia. head of the rebel army.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-16

ONLY THING TO
RESTORE PEACE
Stirring Declaration Made
by Returned Missionary
From Mexico, Who Says
lie Has Been Unable to
Return to Field Of Work
on Account of Revolution.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

st. Louis, May 15.-"Armed inter
vention by the United States is the
only thing, in my judgment, that will
restore peace in Mexico" said Mission
ary r. ?. MahOn of Morelia, state of
Nichoacan, Mexico, in an address be
fore the Southern Baptist Convention
today.
II have been unable TO return to my
wosl in Mexico for two months on ac-
count of revolutions and revolutions
a gainst revolutionists. The country.
in absolute chaos. is Vithout hope of
getting together if led by any of its
own people.
"a governor OF a prominent state
told me he hoped missionaries would
establish a school in every village in
his dominion, as he believed only a
system of education like that of the
United States would redeem Mexico"
I'm the light of these facts. the only
hope / can see for. Mexico is armed in
tervention by this country continued
Mt Mahon. More than so per cent
OF Mexico's population never has
learned to read or write any language.
More than 10 per cent OF Mexican men
are unfaithful TO their families
j. w. Lowe and A. Y. Napier, mis-
sionaries from China, said the new
Chinese government welcomed the
schools
Secretary Lansing Burrows said Mis-
souri, by 10000 and Oklahoma by 5000
had increased in the number of mem
bers during the year. Membership in
crease in Georgia was 5000; in North
Carolina 5000, and Tennessee 10000.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-16
DEMOCRATS MEET
IN WASHINGTON
National Committeeman Will Meet
There Today and Discuss Plans for
Coming Campaign.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, May 15.-Democratic
national committeeman will meet here
tomorrow TO plan for the next cam
paign. The purpose is to talk over
what steps will be taken in connection
with or independently of the demo-
cratic congressional committee looking
to effective work in the congressional
fight two years hence.
The executive committee. composed
of Representative A. Mitchell Palmer
OF Pennsylvania; Cato Sells, of Texas;
Fred Lynch. of Minnesota: Clark How
ell of Georgia, and Homer Cummings
of Connecticut. will confer with Pres
iderlt Wilson and later with Represen-
Tative LLOYD of Missouri. chairman of
the democratic congressional commit
tee. regarding an increase in represen-
tation in senators in that Committee.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-16
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, May Is. - President
Wilson has arranged to confer with
Secretary Bryan early tomorrow before
the cabinet meeting to draft reply
to the formal protest by Japan against
the California anti -alient land bill
which Gov. Johnson has announced he
will sign.
The note will be submitted to the
ca binet and then delivered to the Jap
anese ambassador Indications are that
the attitude of the federal government
toward the legislation itself as well as
questions of discrimination raised by
Japan viii! be fully defined.
WASHINGTON. May 15.-Gov Johnson's s
decision to sign the California anti
alien land bill despite Japan's protest.
was unofffcialfy. communicated today
to Viscount Chinda, the Japanese am
bassa dor, as a after. IS information
with the understanding that Secretary
Bryan may later present Gov. john
sons answer officially with such COM
ment as he may wish to make in be-
half of the federal government.
Mr.. Bryan is in New York, and in his
absence the subject will be considered
by Counsellor Moore to have it ready
for the secretary to lay before the ca b.
met at tomorrow's session, when an eff
fort may be ma de to reach a final de-
terminat tion on the line of policy for
negotia tions with Japan.
When the amh3SSa dor has received
Secretary Rryan's formal communics
ton it will he necessary for him to
ii to the foreign office at
Toxic and receive instructions before
preparing A rejoinder. so that probably
a week will elapse before the negotia-
tiCnS- can proceed
Interest has been excited by Gov.
Johnson's quotation of thai part of the
California law which appears to limit
his action. so far as it recognizes Jap
anese rights to the existing treaty of
1911. and there is some speculation as
to whether that was intended to fore
shadow a refusal on the part of the
authorities to he bound by
of any treaty that may
hereafter he negotiated between the
United States and Japan that would
appear to be in conflict with the pro-
visions of the new law.
officials here fail TO discover any
Bryan when he was in Sacramento,
ance to the fact that the present state
in terms sanctions and
even requires the enactment of such |
egisIation a the Webb act.
The ia ct that though announcing his |
Intention to sign the act Gov. Johnson |
las not actually affixed his signature |
s regarded here as an act of courtesy. |
Intended to hold the door open to a |
asst word from the administration if it !
should desire to communicate further /
With him before the final act of ap- |
)rOval.