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VOL. XL NO. 33. GDV. WILSON TOTNKEUP FISHT 01 STUMP Democratic Nominee Abandons Plan to Remain at Home During Campaign.

TO DOUBTFUL TERRITORY Will Make a Trip Each Week Until November, Missing Only Pacific Country. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. extensive series of stumping trips is to be made by Governor Woodrow Wilson. Democratic candidate for the presidency. This was announced by the governor today while he was traveling from Atlantic City to Jersey City to be the guest of a Democratic club.

He stated that he will make a trip similar to the Western trip planned for next week every week hereafter until the campaign is over. The trips are now being arranged by the Democratic Campaign committee and will embrace practically every doubtful state in the union, exclusive of the Pacific coast states. The governor not be able to go to the'eoast. Persuaded By Me Ad -3 To Get. Into Fight.

It whs not the governor's intention at the outset of the campaign to make long trips or to deliver many speeches. He had announced that he would make most of his speeches in the state of New Jersey and that he would visit only a few important points outside of the state. Acting Chairman Mc- Adoo within the last few days has persuaded the candidate, however, that a fairly complete tour of the country is necessary. The governor likes to call them trips rather than tours, however. "A tour takes in a considerable section of the country at one sweep," he said this morning.

"A trip is started from a specific point, going out to another place or places and returning to the original base. In that respect lam like a baseball player. 1 make my start, cover the bases and return to the home plate. "Then I start out again and make some more runs. That will be the idea of weekly trips 1 am to make throughout the campaign." Blind Senator to Succeed McComb 'Hit AGO.

Sept. Thom, as P. Gore is to become chaitman of the Democratic national committee, according to reports about national beadquarters here today. Mi f'ombi has been forced to retire because of bad health, and William F. McAdoo, of New York, acting chairman, has also found it impossible to continue with the work.

Under the circumstances, Governor Wilson has expressed a preferen foi Senator Gone who has devoted mu-h time and energy to the tmpaign M'ADOO DENIES CHANGE. XF.W YORK. Scpi. 11. Acting f'hairman McAdoo of the national Democratic committee denied in the most ci'-itivo terms here todhy that William P.

McCombs was to resign a- chairman of the committee. Few Rule U. Says Gov. Wilson JERSEY CITY, Sept. a small group of persons dictate the government of the United States was the declaration made here today by Governor Woodrow Wilson.

He made a campaign speech before thousands of enthusiastic Democrats while the guest the Hudson County Democratic club. In the course of his speech he predicted the success of the national Democratic ticket in this fall's election. BERTRAM SPENCER MUST DIE IN CHAIR FOR SLAYING GIRL BOSTON. Sept. G.

Spencer, under sentence of death at the h-irlestown state penitentiary for the Hing of Miss Maltha B. Blackstone, a Springfield school teacher, must die in electric chair. Governor Foss refused to refer to the executive council al 'day meeting the petition for the 1 i.ai ion of Spencer's death to that de imprisonment. Spencer ill be electrocuUrtl shortly after midnight Sunday. The Atlanta Georgian Read For WANT For Results.

A STATEMENT 1 members of the Atlanta Web Pressmen's I nion who failed to reach an agreement witli the publishers of the three Atlanta daily newspapers on the night of August 31 have returned to work in the respective newspaper press rooms. I lie Atlanta Web Pressmen I nion for several years has been working under a contract with Ihe Atlanta Constitution, ihe Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Georgian. Failing to renew this contract, the web pressmen retired from the press rooms ot ihe three newspapers and other men filled their places. As all three newspapers had previously been union shops. and as the publishers and the web pressmen apparently coujd not agree upon a new contract, the Atlanta Federation of Trades sought to settle Ihe matter.

At a recent meeting of that body. on the motion of Luther Still, president of the Atlanta Typographical I nion, a committee on conciliation was appointed. Subsequently this committee was given plenary powers to settle all differences between the publishers and the pressmen. It was a joint committee of the Atlanta Federation of Trades and the Atlanta Web Pressmen's Union, composed as follows: S. B.

Marks, chairman; Jones. Luther Still, Carl Karston. A. Jernigan. R.

B. Hackman. J. A. Miller.

T. J. Whit ley. After negotiations, lasting for two days, a contract satisfactory to both the pressmen and' the publishers was entered into. A better understanding was reached, and concessions were made by both sides.

This morning the members of the Atlanta Web Pressmen Union returned to work, and today the three Atlanta newspapers, as heretofore, are being printed by union pressmen. Both the publishers and ihe pressmen feel that without the co-operation of the Atlanta Federation of Trades a satisfactory settlement would not have been effected so promptly. Both sides appreciate the Federation efforts and action in ihe matter. ATLANTA ID DEM BRUNT OF TAX INCREASE City Now Pays Unjust Share of County and State Levies, Declares Nutting. Following the declaration of John S.

Candler, acting mayor, that the city tax rate should be increased five mills and the action of the county commission in increasing the county rate one-half of one mill, city and county officials are wrestling with the need of general tax reforms. Aiderman James R. Nutting, chairman of the council tax committee, said tlie city is badly in need of more money, but that an even worse condition was the fact that Atlanta was-paying far too large a share of the taxes of Fulton and DeKalb counties and of the state, of Georgia. He said Atlanta's proportion of taxes had increased this year from one-seventh to one-sixth of the entire amount. Atlanta pays practically all the taxes of Fulton county and a good portion of DeKalb county.

The increase in the county tax rate means that the property owners of Atlanta must pay the bill. Other Cities Suffer. Aiderman John S. Candler today explained the cause for the discrimination against Atlanta by the state and county tax systems. He said that Atlanta was not alone, but that every city in the state suffered for the same reason.

In the cities property is taxed on assessments fixed by city officials. In the country the county tax receiver receives property at the assessment of I he ow ner. Property in Atlanta is assessed at HO per cent of its real value. The county tax receiver then takes three-fourths of city assessment for the state taxes, or at 45 per cent of value. Tlte returns to the state comptroller show that while Atlanta contains only about one-twentieth of the state's property value, this year the city will pay approximately one-sixth of the entire state taxes.

The city rate is 1.25 per cent, the rate now .65 per cent and the state rate .50 per cent. At the meeting of the county commissioners yesterday afternoon the problem was to get more money for the Fulton court house. The building will cost more than The commissioners alreadj have provided $450,000 of this amount. County Owes No Money. H.

W. Palmer. S. B. Turman and Tull C.

Waters were much opposed to ihe increase at first, but finally voted for it. The county owes no money, except a incidental amounts. It was urged that what "as needed more than could be provided from the regular income should be borrowefi. It could be secured at four per cent Interest. The increase provided will mean an increase of 50 cents per Sl.uOO of assessment.

It is figured that it will bring an additional income of about into the and Increase the income to about $900,000. The commissioners provided that $150.. 000 should be set aside for the new building from next year's income. L. Anderson said that passing raws that may or may ATLANTA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1912.

BANK FRIENDS SEEK MINI HERE Fear Expressed That Herbert McVicker, of Ellenwood, Has Been Slain. Believing that 1. Herbert McVicker, cashier of the Bank of EllenjWood, Ellenwood. who has been strangelymissing since Monday night, has met vflth foul play, several friends of the young man came to Atlanta today from Ellenwood to aid the police in a systematic search for him. So far, however, not the slightest trace of the young cashier has been found, and every effort to unearth a solution of the disappearance has proved futile.

Police, bank officials and friends of the missing man are baffled by the mystery. McVicker left his home In Ellenwood Moday night to come to Atlanta, but whether he ever arrived has not been ascertained. He was to return to Ellenwood Tuesday morning and open the bank. An all-day search Tuesday followed his failure to show up. and then, when this brought no results, an appeal to the Atlanta police was made Tuesday night.

Bank's Affairs All Right. A. M. Stewart, of McDonough, president of the Bank of Ellenwood, today opened its doors and took personal charge of its affairs. The bank had remained closed all of Tuesday as result of the failure of the young cashier to return to Ellenwood.

President Stewart told The Georgian today that a hurried examination showed the books and accounts of the bank to be perfectly straight. He said hat a thorough investigation would be made at once. the surface, everything appears to be all right, and there is no reason apparent why McVicker should voluntarily he said. McVicker has always been regarded as a straightforward, exemplary young fellow, and was held in high esteem by the officials of the bank and the people generally in Ellenwood. Think He Has Been Slain.

The prevailing sentiment there today is that he has been murdered, or that harm of some kind has befallen him. The whole town is stirred. McVicker is single and lived with his sister. Miss Katie Lou McVicker. When he started for Atlanta Monday night he left the bank keys with his sister.

I but as she is not acquainted with the I bank's business, made no attempt to i "pi the doors yesterday. It was Miss 1 McVicker who reported the disappear- 1 ance to the police. not be wanted by the people of the county, the state legislature puts about $25,000 a year increased expenses on the county. The new building will be completed within about one year. The point was made that if the county borrowed the money instead of increasing the tax rate, it would take the county until 1915 to pay off the indebtedness.

Friends of the county commissloneis ate joking them today because they i boasted that they would build a 000 court house without issuing bonds or raising the tax rate. They blame the weather, the increased cost of maintenance of the government and unexpected delays as the causes for the shortage of funds. PHONE GIRLS FORGE THEIR CHIEF TO QUIT CITY G. S. Kennard Leaves Cartersville for Atlanta After Threats Are Made.

YOUNG WOMEN TOOK EXCEPTION TO CRITICISM Manager Says Loitering Youths About Office Caused Trouble. Meant No Offense. Because he was said to have criticised the actions of two young women telephone operators, daughters of Sheriff N. Smith, of Barlow county, and Warten Donahoo. prominent Cartersville citizen, G.

Kennard, manager of tin Cartersville Pell Telephone Company, was forced to quit the Bartow county metropolis last night to escape bodily harm at the hands of a mob of forty enraged men and is in Atlanta today. Only the quick action of C. E. Wood- I ruff. district manager of the Bell company.

ho hut ried from Rome at urgent rail, saved the young manager from harm Woodruff prevailed upon Sheriff Smith and Donahoo to hear Kennard's version at an impromptu trial called by Mayor Young, of Cartersville. Although I- nnard asserted that his criticism of young women had be eq, solely becat. of infractions of the company's arid was business criticism. Smith and Donahoo hot It demanded that Kennard leave town gt once, and Kennard left for Atlanta. Said Young Men I Held Up Service.

According to the story as related by Bell Telephone officials, complaints had been made on the night service in Car tersvllle. Kennard told Major Young at the trial that lie had discovered that young men had been hanging around the Cartersville exchange in th evening talking to the operators and interfering with good service. He took the information to Miss Don ahoo. the chief operator, with the request that the conversations be brough to an end, as they were a direct vio lation of the rules. According to Kennard, the young women mistook his meaning and complained.

Sheriff Smith and Donahoo. enrage over Kennard's actions, wont to th' telephone exchange last night and ordered him to leave lown. They wen backed up by forty Cartersville citizens. When C. E.

Woodruff arrived on scene, Mayor Young was called into conference, and Sheriff Smith and Mr. Donahoo agreed to hear Kennard's side of the affair. Both left the trial not satisfied with the explanation. Official Criticism Only, Says Kennard. Kennard came to Atlanta last night, but.

according to officials at the South- I ern Bell Telephone exchange, had not called on the superintendent morning. Mr. Woodruff held a short I conference with the superintendent, and a statement was issued in behalf It. said: "Mr. Kennard says that his criticism was made concerning the company I business entirely.

He found an infrac lion of the rules, he maintains, and at- tempted to correct it, because he had received continual complaints from people in Cartersville about the night service. He asys he meant no reflection upon the character of the young ladies." No action has. been taken by officialof the Southern Bell to replace Ken- nard at Cartersville, and it is likely I that no action will be taken until th' -tgSllfc. nt subsides. Kennard will n- i main away fronn'ai i tt-uipi ar.

ly. at hast it is understood tiiat Mayot Young i Two Prisoners at Tower in Slide for Liberty DOWN A ROPE 5 STORIES notodiagram showing- how two prisoners tried to escape from tilth floor of Tower rope Ajjjk shown stalled on ledge of third floor window. The prisoners cut through a bar with a meal saw and one slid safely down the five floors ihe "covered" as he reached the iWe third floor. J' hK 4 sT -1- guw ilgw- 1 fraiw: 1 .1 i VI advised the manager to leave the town last niglil to avoid troubh Ki nnard, il -alii, is nnt tnplating bringing legal Helion. One Forced to Sit on Window Ledge for an Hour Before Both Are Recaptured.

James Bailey and Oscar Forrest, Federal prisoners in the Atlanta Tower, are locked Inside their cells today after a daring attempt to break jail instead of having the freedom of the kitchen. if Night Jailer Gilliland had not happened to look out of a window last night the two prisoners would be half way back to the north Georgia mountains today. They were on the of liberty when discovered. Bailey ahd Forrest are both awaiting trial tn the United States court here. Bailey is held as a moonshiner from Fannin county, while Forrest, whose home is in S.

is accused of defrauding the mails. They have been in the local jail tljree weeks. Through a window on the fifth floor of the south wing, squeezing out of a narrow opening made by the cutting of one bar, the two men climbed down a slender cord to the court yard below. They were ready to scale the wall surrounding the yard when Gilliland, making hie rounds, happened to look nut of the window He saw Forrest In the court yard, ran down the stairs and notified Jailer M. Suttles in the main office.

When Suttles called on the moonshiner to surrender, he show ed fight for a moment, but the sight of the jailer's revolver made him take a second thought and sullenly went back to his cell. Sat on Window Ledge for Hour. Up on the third floor, sitting on the ledge of a window. Jailer Suttles spied Bailey, dismayed at the capture of his partner. a good mind to take a shot at you.

he remarked, pointing his gun up at the now trembling prisoner. "Oh, Lordy, do that," cried Bailey. So they let him sit there for an hour and Anally pulled him in and hack to his cell. Bailey and Forrest, held in the county jail as boarders at Uncle Sam's expense, were awaiting trial set for October. Soon after entering the Tower they were given the envied places of cooks and had the freedom of the kitchen on the fifth floor at the end of the south wing.

Cut Through Bar With Meat Saw. Last night the two men prevailed on the prisoner- turnkey on their floor to let them go to the kitchen after hours, making the plea that they wanted to prepare for breakfast. They locked themselves in. took the meat saw used In the kitchen and sawed through a bar of the small window. Then they took from a place of concealment a big coll of slender tope, a bed cord used In the jail and which they had stolen some tint" In the past month.

Down this slender cord Forrest slid, past the windows on the floors below, and reached the ground in safety, with his pal close behind. They had only a wall to scale and this would have been easy. Within a throw of the jail lay the railroad tracks and open freight cars, offering quick transportation from the city. But their plans were frustrated by discovery and they went back to imprisonment. In the Tower at the time of the attempt to escape were the five negroes brought from the Marietta jail last night to avoid a possible attempt at lynching by the same mob which slew a negro at Cumming yesterday afternoon.

The men were sent to Marietta for safe-keeping last Saturday, but the ferocity of yesterday's mob made the authorities fear an attempt to storm the Cobb county jail. The prisoners wefe brought to Atlanta by automobile last night am! locked In the Tower. TO FINE POWER COMPANY WHEN SERVICE IS POOR MACON. GA Sept. 11 a resolution entailing a pecuniary forfeiture on the Macon Railway and Light Company every time, the yity lights do not shine or street cars do not run because of a lack of current has been passed by the city council.

The resolution provides the shall be deluded from ihe amount due from the city fur its light bill. HOHL EDITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE IMS IN CUMMING: MCE RIOT FEIRER Negroes Reported To Be paring for Inflames Whites. I ANOTHER NEGRO RUSHED IN AN AUTO TO ATLANTA Incendiary Fire Raises Passions to the Danger Mark. Many Arm Themselves. CUMMING.

Sept. that the negroes two miles south of ummtng are rising and arming themselves has led almost to a panic among the women of the little town, and the conservative men feat that the lynching of yesterday and the burning of a store today are merely the first movements In a race war which may sweep the county and bring death to many, citizens are arming for trouble Old squirrel rifles, shotguns, ancient and modern, and every variety of pistol possible are being loaded and held in readiness. The rejatri of the rising has not. been confirmed, but the terror among the negroes has made them desperate, and a meeting with armed white men might bring almost any result. It was reported at ihe court house that troops will be sent to the scene, but there are no soldiers nearer than Gainesville and Marietta, and so far nc official appeal has been made to the governor for assistance.

The troopa which were here last Saturday were ordered back to their homes next day. Another Negro Rushed to Atlanta. A third negro Implicated in thb assault and murder of a girl near ths town last Sunday was discovered, today, arrested and sent flying toward. Atlanta In an automobile, with Sheriff Reid as his escort. He will arrive late this afternoon and be placed in the jail for safe keeping.

The name is Ed, Collins, and he confessed. Bloodhounts are still on the trail of the men, believed to be negroes, who burned the store of W. J. Dulce at an early hour today. The posse has not been heard from since It began its chase.

The trail led into a remote part of the county, far from telephones. The burning of the store was plainly Incendiary, and it is believed to be the work of negroes, in retaliation for the lynching of Rob. Edwards afternoon. The posse in chase Is composed of private citizens from the countryside, and should they catch their prey there is little likelihood of a trial save that before Judge Lynch. Cumming Still Filled With Hillmen.

Cumming is far from quiet today. The men of the mountains are still in town, armed and sullen. They are not satisfied with having dragged Ed Collins, slayer of a young girl, from the jail and hanged him to a telephone post. The burning of the store has led them to believe that the negroes are tn sympathy with the assailants of womw. It will take but a little more to fan their fury into an attack on the blacks, which will mean a race war.

There is no love lost between the mountaineer and the negro at the best, and their hatred has grown even more violent in the past week. Rob Edwards, confessed accomplice of the slayer of an 18-year-okt girl last Sunday, was the only victim the mob was able to reach, all other prisoners arrested in the recent troubles having been sent to jail in Atlanta or Marietta. Edwards was brought to the Cumming jail yesterday afternoon and locked in a cell. An hour later a mob of 1,000 men. In broad daylight and without effort toward concealment, marched on the jail, battered down the door sledgehammers and crowbars, tore the negro out of his cell and hanged him to a telephone post before the courthouse door.

His body swung there until it was cut down by the county authorities a few hours later. It is said that the negro was dead from the rain of bullets poured into his cell before his body was hung from the pole as a lesson to other negroes. All the men accused of crimes against white are now in the Atlanta Tower, a building too strong and too well guarded by city police for its jailer to tear the attack of a country Federal Prisoners in Futile Attempt to Escape From Fulton Tower.