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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1912
Page
13
Postal rates and subscription terms for The Constitution published in Atlanta on June 26, 1912. Notices warn subscribers to avoid outside agents, list Washington Bureau contact, where to buy the paper, and delivery options. A collage of political commentary follows with opinions on conventions, delegates, and figures like Roosevelt and Bryan.
The piece contrasts Baltimore and Chicago conventions, noting mudslinging at Chicago and calmer rhetoric at Baltimore. It urges Democrats to learn toleration and party unity, warning that internal strife could erode support as Republicans did in the past.
The Georgia General Assembly begins its regular annual session amid the Democratic convention. Expect limited business today with future focus on reform of insurance and stock laws, banking revision, tax levying modernization, and granting women bar admission. Strong urging for stricter gun controls and constitutional amendment if needed. The assembly is praised for capable lawmakers serving the commonwealth.
A newspaper preview notes Colonel Roosevelt plans to organize a new party from the ground up, warning of a brutal, fast-moving campaign. It predicts inroads against Taft, critiques Hitchcockism and Wickershamism, and foresees a split Republican vote while affirming a Democratic victory looming over a heated 1912 season.
A $300 million foreign loan to the republic of China signals government stability as six major nations including the United States participate. The move acts as an unwritten pledge to preserve the current status and deter dismemberment, while northern and southern factions show renewed harmony guiding peaceful national unity.
A collage of rural humor and political quips from Billville sketches and cabbie verse. It riffs on Dixie memories campaigns licenses taxes weather and local jokes about candidates and public life with satirical lines about elections and a roadside tale ending with a punchy fable about a log saw.
In Ocilla Georgia June James McNeese son of John H McNeese, who killed his father near town last Friday, surrendered to Sheriff W A Tucker and is jailed awaiting commitment trial. He may be released on bond soon. He admitted the shooting, blaming abuse by his father, expressed remorse, and said he will tell the whole truth in court. Public sympathy favors the boy, the youngest and diminutive member of the family. The father’s remains were buried Sunday at Lebanon church.
Jessie W. Mercer, a leading Macon insurance figure who helped erect the Georgia Life Insurance Co. office, died after a brief illness. Survived by widow in a Atlanta sanitarium, four Mercer children in Macon, two sisters, mother, and other relatives. Body to be taken to Albany for funeral and interment Wednesday morning.
The Interstate Commerce Commission upheld grain and grain reductions rates from Minnesota, the Dakotas, and northern Iowa through Duluth, Superior, and other ports to Atlantic ports. The decision was announced today in Washington on June 25.
The opening of Georgia's legislature drew many to the Kimball House lobby as members discussed the Baltimore convention. South Georgia delegates debated the capital removal bill while Clerk Bolfeuillet returned from a southern tour favoring Senator Bacon's reelection. Bankston, a railroad commissioner candidate, boasted wide newspaper support and recalled his editorial days with The Constitution.
Atlanta considers an ordinance to prohibit street music tied to begging. The ordinance committee endorsed restricting licenses for street musicians who solicit alms, following a request from the Associated Charities of Atlanta.
The Cotton Seed Oil Mill Superintendents Association will hold a three day convention at Taft Hall on June 26 27 and 28 with sessions at 9 30 a m Each day A notable auxiliary group under J C Burruss C M Edwards F C Myers and J C Fulford provides officers and a committee including J O Bailey R Jacobs Frank Humphrey L W Kearns and Walter Nash Offices are at 1021 Grant building Planned entertainment features accompany the regular business agenda.
Blackshear Georgia voters approved a bond issue to fund a utility system including water sewerage and electric lights. The measure carried by a large majority with minimal opposition, and after validation and sale of bonds contracts will be signed to start work promptly.
The committee organizing a mass meeting to boost Joe Hill Hall’s gubernatorial candidacy in Macon Georgia has selected speakers for the event at the city auditorium next Monday. Details on the lineup are provided by the organizing group.
Fort Valley hosts over one hundred Georgia college students from Tech, UGA, Mercer, and Emory who have gathered to pack peaches. The town splits into four camps as rival student groups clash in pranks and chants while workers earn about 1.50 a day for eight hours of hard labor.
In Macon Georgia June 25 a traveling man Joseph A Harper and nurse Callie Hates wed unexpectedly on a rural road after meeting Rev J G Harrison who rode in the buggy to perform the ceremony. The unlikely nuptials occurred with only a driver and a farmer as witnesses.
Twenty plus children at Battle Hill sanitarium cannot attend public school while under treatment for tuberculosis. A committee plans to build a schoolhouse and seeks the city council to fund a teacher, with a likely education board request for a special salary appropriation.
The Southern plans to double track from Gainesville to gainesville after a court petition seeks a restraining order against the Gainesville and Northwestern road for trespass on the Southern right of way near New Holland. Judge Pardew set June 29 for final hearing. the order could force the other line to recede and protect the depot relocation, with damages estimated in the thousands.
Georgia's fire fighting contingent representing the State Firemen's Association gathered in Americus on June 25 for the annual convention. Delegates from most towns attended, with Mayor Pro Tem Lee Allen welcoming them and Chief Eugene Burch presiding. The group toured Andersonville in the afternoon, ending at the Country Club and planning sessions through Thursday.
Freight representatives from railroads touching southern seaports gather at the Georgian Terrace for a two day conference. About thirty five railroad men attend focusing on export cotton handling and coordination with steamship lines in anticipation of heavy export trade. Leaders include L Hinton. attendees from Illinois Central Southern Frisco Atlantic Coast Line Central of Georgia and more.
Miss Minnie Redford of Greena boro NC will lead a two day teachers institute for the corps of young Atlantans overseeing four daily vacation Bible schools opening in Atlanta on July under the Men and Religion Forward Movement. Forty hundred children will attend the six week session. Attending teachers include T P Buford Wiles Milner Miss Annie Claude Winn Miss France Kendrick Eva Bridwell and others for both white and colored schools.
The piece blends romantic reflections on kisses with a brief, torn note about the Hagle Park disaster in Buffalo. It lists 39 dead and missing as officials tally victims, reflecting a grim contrast between poetic sentiment and tragic news.
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