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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12
SP|CER TRIAL TAKES
SENSATIONAL TURN
Prosecution Charges De-
fendant Hired Negro to
Kill His Wife

Andalusia, July 11.-Witnesses in the
trial of Sam Spicer, .Ir.. charged with
the murder OF his young wife. Mrs. Noble
Spicer, testified today that Spicer had
told various persons he had been disap-
pointed in the woman he had married and
that he was in love with another. Testi-
mony relating TO Spicer's alleged associa-
tion with other women also was intro
duced.
The prosecution charges that Spicer
hired Joe Green. negro, to kill Mrs.
Spicer, alleging his motive was the col
lection of two insurance policies aggregat-
ing $4,000 which Spicer held on her life.
Judge Alston today sentenced II. D.
johnson to jail for two days for con-
tempt of court on the charge that he
bad talked with juror about the case.
The judge yesterday fined Hamp Gun
ter, Spieer's brother-in-law. $25 on simi-
lar charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIMSELF
Is CorOner's Verdict on Negro Found
Dead on Engine Tender

Coroner c. L. Spain. who has been in
vesrigating the death of Albert Williams
a negro. rendered the verdict yesterday
that Williams came by his death by ac-
cidentally shooting himself
The body of the dead negro was found
In the tender of an Alabama Great South
ern engine, pulling train No. /. on the
stretch between Bessemer and McCalla,
In the southern part of the county, last
Wednesday morning.
According to Coroner spain's theory.
the negro had heavy pistol in his pocket
and in some way he slipped and fell in
the tender. The fall is supposed to have
discharged the negro's pistol killing him
almost instantly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12
News of Ensley

Rev. and Mrs. A. X. Wright will leave
Monday for Louisville and later will go to
Washington to be the guests OF relatives.
The first two Sundays in August. Mr..
Wright will fill the pulpit at the Metro
politan Baptist church in the Capital City.
Mrs. j. 4. Francis and children have
gone to Pittsburg where they viii reside
in the future.
Mrs. G. E. Jones Of Ozark is visiting
her son, W. c. Jones, of the Ensley fire
department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12
Weather Forecast

Washington, July 11-Weather fore
cast for Alabama; Local thunderstorm
ers Saturday and probably sunday;
modrate south winds.
Georgia: Showers Saturday and prob =
ably Sunday; moderate south winds.
Mississippi: Showers Saturday; Sun
day probably fair; moderate south
winds.
Tennessee: Thundershowers satur-
day; Sunday fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12
STATE EXAMINATIONS
OVER AT THE CAPITAL

Montgomery, July (Speeial) =
The state medical examinations for
license to practice medicine in Alabama
were concluded Friday morning. The
number of applicants this year was un-
usually large, and eight states We're
represented in the list Of candidates for
medical licenses.
The state bar examiners. which have
also been In progress THIS week, closed
Friday. The number of applicants for
>license TO practice law was not nearly
30 large as the number of candidates
for medical licenses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12
known in Atlanta

Atlanta, July lie. l.. Meyers, who
was found dead in St. Louis today, re-
Gently had been made special agent in the
commercial office of the Southern Bell
and Cumberland Telephone companies
here. He came here from Nashville,
Tenn, four months ago. when the Two
companies were consolidated. but re-
manned barely month on account of
the condition of his health Since then
he has visited several health resorts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12
King George in Liverpool

Liverpool July liking George is Wis.,
iting this city today and all the CONNER
cial exchanges are closed tight. The cot
ton market will be closed also tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12

For Weakness and Loss of Appetite
The Old Standard general STRENGTHENS
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up the system. A true tonic and sure
Appetizer. For adults and children. soc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12
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of The Age-Herald, handsomely printed On
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fsaa uicide

Ma N4iile Jate 11.--Morris Vein
bereeI aaia4i4 Of c. l.. Meyers, who
W ena oday in st. Louis, de-
Atss ghut Nj Meyers took his own life.
ed .has Mr.. Meyers had been in
fAs A for some time and that.yes-
legram was received from
his afiit I three months advising that
81 kd laken a sudden turn Tor the
pof Nr Weinberger left here to-
nl4h 10 bring the remains here for
taa "a Mn. Meyers was contracting
gaV of the Cumberland Telephone
pany and made his home here. He
Is pnarried recently in Philadelphia
Miss Pearl Goldstein of NASHVILLE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12

Prominent Virginian Dead
Woodstock, Va. July 1l.Capt. Charles
F. Shoemaker, former commandant of the
revenue cutter service, died here today,
u years old He had ben retired from ac-
tive service eight years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12
NASHVILLE MAN IS
0J|DDEAD IN ROOM
Is IS Believed to
fkave Tase0 Own Life.
de sseied

st. Louis. 5as b ryers of
Nashville, Ten e as su'de in
a room at a loea etsl apiUe a4e be-
tween Thursday - tsyls AZ
ernoon. His body saaS
when his wife, a bridt tfs
called at the hotel iu ~.
They had arrived ts tffea
days ago and ea e@ srasres
hotel. EARLY Taes wcrpHs Nes
ers went out apH 5ea 81 did -
turn his VIE Hstitefc5 4 scare
him at oties i5o1as sis9 ers suicide rs
attribute la q aersea break down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12
Local Data

For the q hours ending at p. m.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-16
THOMSON, Ga, JANUARY Is, 1913.
Another Proposed Outrage Upon
the American Citizen.

I an article published in the Chicago Tribune
in its issue of December 81, 1912, it is
stated that it is "the purpose of our legisla-
tors to set aside fund of from half million
to possibly several million dollars, for the
purpose of assisting new coming immigrants
to find the farm lands suited to their needs"
None of this money is to be used to assist
American citizens who have drifted to the
cities, to get back to the farms.
The proposed appropriation of American
dollars is to be used for the benefit of none
but foreigners.
Are We Democrats going to stand for such
thing as this?
Would it not be fancy spectacle to see the
rff-raff of European cities riding around
throughout the United States, at the expense
of our taxpayers on the pretense of looking
for farms?
If the foreign immigrant is able to pay for
a farm, and able to pay transportation across
the ocean, why should he not be able to pay
for railroad ticket, after he gets here?
Already, one of the curses which rests
heavily upon us, is the foolish liberality with
which we have permitted undesirable fOrei On
ers to land on these shores.
Certain portions of Europe are simply
moving over to this country, and many of our
clues ana country dlSUIlclS are IOrel9n IN
language, habits, ideals, mode of life and con-
ception of government.
Not long ago one of these newly arrived
foreigners enthusiastically wrote home to his
relatives and friends, urging them to emf
CRATE.
He said: "In this country you not only
have the privilege of voting, but you are paid
to do it,"
What Juror there would be, throughout the
underworld of Europe, Asia and Africa, if it
became understood that the United States not
only opened it's arms to the foreigner but
opened it's purse to him, until he could travel
around, sample hotel hash in the different
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-16

The Handbook of Politics by Thos. E.
Watson, is book every American citizen
should read. Contains every party platform;
fourth edition almost exhausted. Price, 59c,
postpaid The Jeffersonian Publishing Com
pany, Thomson, Ga. ..-..-s..A-..,.-r. .s,-44s....
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-16
Lost, Strayed or Stolen The Com
SsEtgztaOEa OF the United
States.

SI2TGSs
SOMETIMES am tempted to believe that
- Governors Attorneys General and Judges
OF our higher courts consider the Constitu-
lions of the various States as dead letters
Here we have Supreme Court in Idaho
sending editors to jail for criticising one of
their fool decisions, although the Constitu-
ton of the United States, and presumably
that of Idaho, also declares that the freedom
of the press shall never be curtailed nor
abridged
Not many months ago, the Court of Ap-
peals in Georgia sentenced Judge of the
Superior Court to pay fine or 60 to jail for
having censured a thoroughly technical
decision in favor of negro rapist
[ regret to say that the victim of this out
rage submitted to it, although he is a better
lawyer than any member of the court which
condemned him.
In New York, the Appellate Division of the
Supreme Court has upheld the constitution
ahty of the legislative act which requires that
a householder may not keep a pistol in his
dwelling, without a license; he must pay
tee before he can keep weapon in his home
for the protection of his house and it's in
mates.
Such a statute is as clear violation of the
Supreme Law of New York and of the United
States as it is possible to conceive.
In the old days, in the Old Country, where
death penalties were visite0sby feudal courts
upon the poor people who killed a rabbit or
deer in the nobleman's park, there were harsh
feudal laws enacted which forbade the keep
ing and bearing of arms by the yeomanry
These class-laws had CALLED our forefathers
to such an extent that, when they came over
here and established, as they thought, free in
situations where every man would be the equal
of every other, before the Law, they put 1t
into the Supreme Law of the land, that the
right of the citizen to keep and bear arms,
should never be abridged.
AS have before told you. in the Supreme
Law Of every State and of the United States,
there are certain reserved rights of the people
which can never be legally trenched upon.
One of these is, perfect liberty of speech;
another is, perfect freedom Of the press; an
other is, the unlimited right to assemble and
to discuss all public questions; another is, the
right to keep and bear arms for our protec-
ton; another is, the perfect freedom of con-
science.
Our Supreme Court, in sending editors and
labor leaders and other public men to JAIL are
violating the highest law known to the land
Our governors, in ordering out troops to
declare what they are pleased to call Martial
Law, when there is no such thing known to
the Law-thus permitting the military to
override the civil authority, are violating the
Supreme Law of the commonwealth.
Surely the limit of American patience has
been reached, and we must demand the RIGHT
to expel from office public servants who SO
grossly abuse the constitutional rights Of their
masters.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-16
THE eJEFFERGONIAN

States, test our climate, examine our farms
until he either found one that suited him, Or
returned home chuckling over the fact that
he had toured America, at the expense OF the
American taxpayer
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-16
An Open Letter do tine Youngest
nzezaaH9er-E Elect TO line NeXa
Legislature OF Georgia.
HON. GROVER G. EDMONSON:

IL S!N. lJtI( Y LII Y. EDUONCON:
Some time ago [ received a letter from
you, stating that you would send us a COM
munication on the subject of "A New Consti-
tutional Convention"
I dictated prompt reply, inviting you to
do as you suggested Possibly my letter went
astray. At all events, I am glad you have
made it public through the Atlanta C0nStitt-
ton, and that the article received editorial
comment.
We certainly need q re-assembling of the
people of Georgia, III their sovereign capacity
as supreme law makers.
Public servants need to be retold what their
duties are.
The tendency of our public servants to
usurp authority and to trample the laws
under their feet is one Of the most disquieting
signs of the times
The tendency Of the judges to make laws
through their decisions, is public evil which
needs the promptost and sternest correction.
Inasmuch as [ belong to the Old School of
Jeffersonian Democrats, and have had an ex-
perience of more than thirty years in public
affairs, | am going to take the liberty of adj
dressing to you some suggestions concerning
the proposed new Convention.
In the first place, it should be called during
an off year, when there are no candidates for
other offices.
Only under such conditions is it probable
that the people, without excitement, and actu-
ated by an intelligent appreciation of their
opportunity, select their very best men as
delegates.
At the time Robert Toombs was selected to
take part in the Convention of 1877, he was
an outlaw, an un-reconstructed rebel, dis
qualified for any other office
Ex-Governor Jenkins had been in retire.
The same statement might be made of per-
haps majority of the delegates chosen
1t was, perhaps, the most truly representa-
tive body that ever assembled in our State
They gave us great Constitution. but GOV
errors, judges, and military officers have so
changed it that General Toombs would not be
able to recognize it.
For instance: One of the grandest speeches
made by General Toombs, was in favor of
giving to jurors the same right to say what
was the law in a criminal case, as they had
to say what were the facts.
The Judges have simply nullifed that
clause of our Constitution; it should be re-
written SO as to restore to juries that ancient
right.
common, unlettered, poor man is not
being tried by his equals-his peers-as
Magma Carta declared he should be. when
the jury, taken from the same walks of life
as himself, are not permitted to say what law
should be applied to the facts.
The Constitution declares positively that
the jurors shall be judges of the law, just as
they are of the facts.
1t should be the province of the Judge to
instruct the jury as to which of the various
statutes might apply to the facts, but he has
no right to say that the jury must take the
law from the Court
No criminal is allowed to plead his ignor-
ance of the law, yet the Jurors are treated as
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-16

The JeffersOnians cannot assume response
bility for unsolicited manuscripts or letters
sent Them. When found available, they are
published; if accompanied by stamps for re
turn postage, they returned if not avail
able.
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-11
THE JEFFERSONIAN
What is your mental reservation?

What is your mental reservation?
If you owe an allegiance to a foreign
prince the pope, which, upon the happening
Of such contingency as you imagine, COM
pels you to obey the pope rather than the
Government, how can you claim to be true
American citizen, entitled to the rights of
citizen under our Constitution and our laws?
Answer: have no mental reservation We do
not want war; but shall never produce peace
by betrayal of Christ's church
You need not fear The Catholics Of this coun-
try will generally be with the majority and the
ajority will rule. There will never be a
between Catholics and Protestants again The
latter hors de combat. Catholics are ruling
the world everywhere today, and their rule is
everywhere gentle and sweet They are the most
lovable people earth when you know them.
The United States is unanimously Catholic today
and will become more and more so every day.
(Signed.) D. S. PHELAN.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-11
Birthday RemenbranceS.

AT 81, one is nothing if not sedate. I ana
"A 81, and am sedate.
When one is Is, he dreams dreams; and
his fancy dwells in marble halls Or floats
with the summer clouds that drift along the
distant sky.
At that age, one commits to memory choice
bits of prose and poetry, declalms 1t to the
silent woods, imagining the audiences that
the Future will bring. Thus, day by day, the
of the good ship, Life, which is to set sail,
soon. and beat her way into the big waves
and cross currents of the world.
Then, when the voyage is almost done, and
the vessel laboring to port-much Worsted
by the storms, perhaps, and the brilllance OF
its decorations quite faded-we take things
resignedly. beaten into a certain pliancy and
half-scornful acquiescence, by the rude buffet
ings of memorable Fate
Anyway, at 81 one builds no more chateaux
in Spain. The spendors of youthful dream
ing are forever gone. The loom weaves no
more Cloth of Gold; but serge and sackcloth,
only.
And yet, one need not be gutter, nor
sluggard, nor one Of these eXasperating bugs
called a new-thOt pesslmst
When pessimism becomes a kings excuse
for making ones self, and everybody else
miserable, 1t IS good thlng TO give TO your
enemies
Enemies? Yes; my son, enemies: for if
you have ever been worth hell's room to any
cause you espoused, you've got 'em
So, even at 81 one needn't be gutter,
sluggard or pessimist. One can be philo-
sopher, worker, doer of things, even
though the day of the r-castles be past, and
the number of the grinders be few. And if
much of what we planned came to nought,
and we got many a wound where we least
expected it, one can reflect that maybe it's the
same way with the other fellow, and that
our tribuIations are not quite as bad as those
of Job, and Lot, and Jonah, and ADAM and
a whole lot of folks who had their try at this
old world, when it was young and fresh.