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Recorder
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W. Is. GLESSNEB,
Official Orcan of Sumter County.
Official Orcan of Wcbctar County.
SUNDAY. • NOVEMBER 30. iqpO.
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Dally and Weekly, during tbe year.
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morning except Mondaya, during tbe year,
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Friday mornlag, at 91 U> per year payable
tn advance. Ithaa the largeat circulation
any paper In Soutbweat 0eorgln,circula
ting largely tn tbe countlea of Suniter, Lee,
Terrell, Stewart, Webater, Schley. Marlon’
Macon, Dooly and Wilcox.
Entered at Amerlona Pout-Officeaa accond
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to AMERICUH PUBLISHING CO.
Will the legislature take up the
betterments claim at this session?
The new lessees will take charge
of tbe Western A Atlantic road on
Dec. 27th.
D'd the members of the legisla
ture pay their way to Milledgevllle
and return?
Harrison's administration has
been the most successful one ever
known—in emptying the treasury.
The members of the legislature
who visited Milledgevllle can now
see what their end will be if they
persist in politics.
Mr. Livingston has shaken the
dust of Atlanta from his feet and is
on his way to Ocala, Fla., where
he will rejuvenate his Alliance
principles.
The’Richmond Terminal Com
pany has elected five Gould di
rectors. It is now the proper time
for certain papers in Georgia to
raise a howl.
A paper In Rowell’s district, in
Illinois, says over 8,000 Republi
cans failed to vote in the last elec
tion, which caused Rowell’s defeat.
There Is now no doubt but that the
McKinley bill had nothing to do
with It—it was a lack of votes.
Maj. W. L. (Ressner, o* this city,
has been appointed one of the four
delegates nt large to the Asheville
Immigration convention from tills
state by Gov. Northern Maj.
Glessner, as is well known, is an
enthusiastic advocate of immlgra'
tlou,
GEORGIA'S GOVERNOR
SOME INTERESTING
IDEAS
GITES
On the Great Educational Question—
Some Lumtnou* Points on tbe State
School Oiiiiminelnnerehip Two Pom
mleiloners Needed.
A plato concern now turns out
editorials made to order, and sev
eral Georgia editors have nvailed
themselves of this opportunity to
discard the scissors. Rome who
still use the scissors would improve
their papers by adopting the plate
editorials.
The Brunswick Times wauts
The Recorder to send its never-
falling political prophet to the
Greas Zoo. We very much regret
it, but the gentleman has a short
engagement to All Id Amerlcus be
fore he cau be spared. You know
the city eleotlou Is now on.
, If the present legislature should
allow the betterments claim,
any part of it, It will most effectu-
ally silence some of the cranky
anti-r&lltoad sheets. The present
legislature has a large majority of
farmers, and firmers are supposed
to be opposed to railroads, you
know.
THE CITY PRIMARY.
The sentimeut stems to be pretty
general that the old style go-as-you
please race for Mayor aud Alder
men should go. Home few are In.
dined to look with suspicion on a
Democratic primary to nominate
city officers, because of the fact
that mass meetings cau be packed
and restrictions thrown around prl
marles that will effectually drown
the voice of the majority,
The only way to remove such a
prejudice Is for every voter to at
tend every mass meeting und vote
in every primary. Then there can
be no collusion or fraud.
The Recorder has no pet can
didate to elect, or any particular
aoheme to work In the coming
election, and desires ouly to see the
men elected whom the |>eople
want, and who will beat serve the
people. Tbe mats meeting called
for to-morrow should select men to
frame the rules for the primary
who have only the good of the city
at heart; men who are not;predis
posed to any candidate or to any
movement. If thli Is not done, all
the good that waa hoped to be ac
complished by a primary will be
defeated.
Many of our best citizens advance
Bound uiguments against a prima
ry, And they ttre men who have no'
interest to serve by so doing; they
oppose It solely from principle.
Let tbs meeting to-morrow be well
attended, and the proceedings de
liberate, or otherwise tbe very ob
ject It to hoped to aooompllsh will
Md **■ ■
Said be:
“I conelder that office more lm
portant than my own. The Stete
School Commissioner formulates
•plans. I simply execute tbe plsns
of other officers. If the education
of children is of paramount Impor
tance, the office of State School
Commissioner is of paramount lm
portance. I am really startled by
considering the meagre education
al facilities that we have in com
parlsou to tbe great work to bs
done. Why, we have a tromen
dous superstructure with a little
bit of a base—and the thing won’t
move. It is like trying to raise a
mountain with a hand lever. Tbe
result Is that ignorant children all
over the state are staring us In
tbe face with vacant looks that
ought to melt us into educational
generosity.
SOME POINTED COMPARISONS.
'It seems that less attention has
been paid to this than to any of the
States’ great guardian duties.
We have one State School Com
mlssloner and a little clerk. We
have a principal keeper of the pen
iteutiary and an assistant keeper of
the penitentiary. Is it indeed more
important to look after tbe State's,
criminals than to educate the
State’s sons?
We have a Commissioner of Ag
rtculture,an Assistant Commission'
er aud numerous clerks. Does It
require more effort, more money
and more men to raise a pumpkin
than to raise a boy?
I do not objeet to the number of
officers lu these other departments,
but I do think that there is prime
necessity for an enlargement of our
school facilities and of ’lie powers
of tbe commlssionerahip so that
this office may arouse the Slate to
its educational needs."
THE MAN THAT IS NEEDED.
“Now, this is my idea," the gov
ernor continued:
We should have a slate school
commissioner und an assistant
commissioner, with the importance
of the one ubout as great as the im
portance of tho other.
"That office needs a mail of prac
tical experience, marked origlual-
lly, superior planning ability—a
man who thoroughly understands
the details of school work und
knows how to Impress his informa
tion upon other teachers—a perfect
office man to study systems and
methods and mako his office a sort
of headquarters for education.
. “It needs also a mail who can go
out and set the woods allre with
edueatloual talk; a muu who could
go, lor instance, to a county fair
aud tell the people he was going to
make a speech on education during
the noon intermission—tell them
In such a way that they would feel
that he wns goiug to have some
thing to say and wish for dinner
time to come so they could hear
him. Then he would so make his
speech that when he gets through
Jones would say to Hmlth:
“I,ook here, Hmlth, there’s no
use talking, we must have a school
hcniift over the creek. I’ll give $25.
How much will you give?" Aud
Hmlth will give $15 more, and the
school house will be full of chil
dren lu two weeks,
“I tell you we want a man that
can so put the question to the peo
ple that everybody will want to be
educated before night.
“Now the question Is: Cau a
man be gotten that can do both
this office work and tho ouluide
work? Iu the first place, no one
man would have time to do It all.
Besides, I doubt whether the man
lives who combines all the necessa
ry qualities.
CONTEMPLATES A SPECIAL MES
SAGE.
“I have looked the state over In
search of a man. I think we
should by all means have two
school commlsslouers, aud I am se
riously contemplating a special
message to the legislature setting
forth my views.”
I suggested to the’ governor that
life appoint himself stale school
commissioner and. carry out excel
lent Ideos. Aud he smiled as if he
intended to consider the suggest
ion.
HONOR ToThM HONOR 1$ DUE.
Amerlcus was never more pros
perous than she now Is, and It be
hooves us to continue with united
efforts to, press forward In the
marce of progress. From a strag
gling and oppressed village our
town has become a great city, with
• grand future and splendid po-al-
blllties. If I was asked to point
out the one man who baa done most
to contribute to the growth, pro
gress and prosperity of Amercus, I
should answer that while many
have done much, our present wor
thy Mayor has done more.
Upon him, for tbe lest dozen
years or more, great responsibili
ties have devolved, and manfully
has he met them. Contrast Amer
lcus when he was first elected with
tbe Amerlcus of to-day, and see
the result. Wheu the great 8. A.
A M. R. R. was projected, no one
worked harder to promote It than
he. Day In and day out he tolled
unceasingly. 'He was foremost In
the system of waterworks and sew
erage, and he is tbe projector o(
the street railroad, electric plant
and gas works.
He has ever been a true friend
and promoter of tho public school
system. He has ever devoied his
time and bis talents assiduously to
Amerlcus. Personally it has uot
profited him. He is a poorer mau
to-day than wheu be assumed his
office. His work has been unselfish
and patriotic. , Why should he he
turned out now wheu his services
are so much ueeded. It would seem
that a grateful people with one
accord would say, "‘Well done,
gcod and faithful servant;’ we will
keep you yet another term.”
We are doing well enough—let
well enough alone.
Old Citizen
TAT,IT OF THE PROPHETS.
WHO WILL BE SPEAKER OF tHE
FIFTY-SECOND HOUSE T
Seme ot tbe rrti-no.Ueatlon. That Axe
Already Betas Made Despite the Fact
That the Meeting of tbe Next Coesxeu
II a Fall Tear Off.
[Special Omreepcndeaca.1
Washington, Nov. 27.—Wo are to
have a new speaker a year hence—a new
king upon the legislative throne—and
already the prophets are trying to guess
bis name. It is not surprising that so
much interest should this early be taken
in the contest, for the speaker of the
boose of representatives is without
THE REAPPORTIONMENT.
If the reported official count of
population iu each county in this
state be correct, then in re-appor
tioning the representatives under
the constitution, Fulton, Chatham,
Richmond, Bibb, Burke and Floyd
will each be entitled to three rep
resentatives, aud Muscogee, Thom
as, Washington, Coweta, Cobb,
Carroll, Mumter, Houston, Merri-
wetber, Bartow, Troup, Decatur,
Gwinnett, Jackson, Monroe,
Wilkes, Dooly, Hall, Walton, Jef
ferson, DeKalb, Hancock, Greene,
Oglethorpe, Harris aud Pulaski
will each be entitled to two repre
sentatives. The remaluiug 105
counties will each have oue repre
sentative. The counties are named
according to population, commenc
ing wlrb tho one having the lar-
gest.
Dooly and Pulaski gain aud Put
nam aud Pike lose each oue repre
sentative. Pulaski wins over Pike
by only 210.
THE NEWS IN WESTON.
Weston, Nov. 27—Mrs. W. H.
Mercer, who has been iu Atlauta
for some little time, returned
home to-day much Improved In
health.
Messrs. C. J. Handers and W. H.
King spent last Sabbath sway
from home. Where were they?
Echo answers where?
Mr. Tate, ageut for Carter Bros.’s
nursery, Montgomery, Ala., has
been 111 town severul days In the
interest of his firm.
Messrs. W. H and O. Hinis went
hunting last Tuesday aud came
back with their game bag full of-
alr.
M!s» Belle Grifflu, of Dawson,
visited relatives iu Weston this
week.
Mr. John H. Burch, of Leary,
speut lust Hutidiiy afternoon in the
city.
Mr. G. K. Deunard had his leg
btuLuu just above the aukle lasl
Friday moimug ut the Allien •«
warehouse, lie was rolling cottou
aiul u bale fell ou Ilia leg.
Hou. J. P. Walker visited his
famny iu Ibis city last week.
Dr. It. E. L. Barnum, of Richland,
attended church iu Weston last
Mo»dav.
Messrs. Brown and Johnson, of
Richland, were In the burg last
week.
Mr. Alien Kenyon, of Lumpkin,
visited his brother, Dr. O. T. Ken
yon, of this plane, this week.
KILLS AT SOLITAIRE,
doubt next to tho president of the
United States in power and inflnenco in
this government Mnch depends, of
course, upon the man, but in the speak
er’s office a man of active brain and tree
qualities of leadership need novgr fear
that any one, the president alone ex
cepted, will overshadow him. This is
distinctively a government by congress.
Some one has said that it was a govern
ment by bureaus, but that is not trhe.
The executive departments not ouly
derive their authority from congress,
but tho scope of their powers, their func
tions, are from day to day regulated by
congress to shit its own fancies. This
applies to details as woll os to funda
mentals. What will congress think,
what will congress say, what will con
gress do? are tho questions tho chief
men of tho departments are always ask-
ing. In congress the majority body, the
more important branch, is pretty well
under the thumb of the speaker and the
men who made and sustain him. Tho
houso is more powerful than the senate,
not only for constitutional reasoift, but
because it is nearer the people, because
it is composed of the men who are the
real leaders of public opinion in this
country.
See the power tho presiding officer of
tho houso has within his grasp, in the
very nod of his head. •
Two members are on their feet beg
ging recognition. Oue, more eager than
tho other, has walked down the aisle till
ho is within a few feet of the speaker’s
dais. There ho lifts np his voice and
waves his arms, crying: “Mr. Speaker!
Mr. Speaker!” But the speaker does not
soo him, is apparently oblivions of his
presence. What the speaker does see is
a gentleman away off in tho corner of
tbe hall, who is not making so mnch
noise, bnt who gets the recognition
which ho wonts, just the same. Tho
speaker’s failure to see and recognize the
somewhat frantic person directly in
hunt of him may forever bury in tho
great legislative tomb the bill which
that gentleman had in charge; may
affect favorably or unfavorably the
fortunes, tho happiness, of many indi
viduals or large communities. The
speaker’s eye is a son which falls not
upon all alike, bnt here blights and
there canses blossoms to spront and
flourish. Tbe president of the United
States may veto legislation with his pen.
Tho speaker of tho house prevents legis
lation by looking over, under, around,
through a man, and seeing him not
“ No wonder, therefore, that a largo
number of prominent members of the
majority party in the noxt house are
ambitions to be speqker. Already there
is a plentitude of candidates, open or
covert The list of possibilities includes
Mills of Texas, Springer of Illinois,
Crisp and Blount of Georgia, McMillin
of Tennessee, Breckinridge of Ken
tucky, Bynum of Indiana, Hatch of
Missouri, Ontbwaito of Ohio, Wilson of
West Virginia, and Lockwood of New
York.
Tho prophets are saying the next
naturally aind by opznmGn_coiisent reo-
cgntoed as the commanding officer. Tho
long IDpees and then the death or Mr.
Bendsll, and'tie promotion of Mr. Car
lisle to tho senate, left Mr. Mills In
actual as well aa in nominal leadership.
Mr. Mills is a very able man. Sin
cerity and earnestness are his predom
inating characteristics. He is incapable
of indirection, of deceit, of falsehood.
He is even too honest to be diplomatic.
Frankness is one of his faults or one
of his virthes, as you please. No man
in this country is more devoted than he
to tho cause of tariff reform. It is his
ambition, his dream, to soo tho nation,
relioved of what he conceives to be tbe
burdens of a false system. There are
throe other men in this congress as well
informed as he on the philosophy and
the details of the revenue reform cult:
Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Wilson of West Vir
ginia, a*l Mr. Brcckinridgo of Arkan
sas. But none of these displays tho en
thusiasm nor tbe depth of feeling which
are characteristic of the great Texan.
When tariff reform is np Mr. Mills is as
happy as tho parent of a boy who has
won first honors at college: when tariff
reform is down ho gloomily but cour
ageously takes refuge in his faith in its
ultimate trimnph. No man in this coun
try has done more than ho to keep the
followers of this principlo strong and
faithful.
If, as tho wise men say, tho result of
the recent elections- was a victory for
that principlo which Mr. Mills has so
long and so valiantly contended, surely
his reward should bo the speakership.
But it may not 1» so. Some of tho
members of his party say Mr. Mills is
too radical to bo speaker. Others say
ho has too hasty a temper. Bnt whether
speaker or leader ou tho floor, Mills is
sure to be one' of tho great commoners
of the next congress ns ho is one of tho
most admirable men in public life.
Mills is a comparatively poor man. He
has his salary as congressman, a farm in
Texas, and in Washington lives in ono
half of a rented bonso, tho other half be
ing occupied by Jndgo PayBon, of Illi
nois. Mr. Mills has a fine private char
acter, looks like a bluff and ugly cus
tomer, but has ono of the kindest of
hearts, and is inordinately fend of spend
ing his evenings alone at homo surround
ed by books on tho tariff, and occasional
ly amusing himself at solitaire.
Crisp of Georgia is a stalwart. Ho
has a largo irame, a Webstcrian bead,
which, however, is very bald. He was
a fighter m tho war and is a fighter in
congress. His coarago, stability and
forco are undoubted. A great lawyer
and a deep thinker, he has a habit of
considering well in advance the ground
ho is to hike. Ho therefore makes few
mistakes, and lias tho right to bo stnb-
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Tuesday, December 2nd:
enragement extraordinary.
When a newspaper champions a
tnan It should be sure lliui be Is
worthy of the respect of his fellow
citizens. Does The Amerlcus Re
corder see the point?—Brunswick
Times.
Tiik Recorder will have to con
fess It does not. That is, where
the point is applicable to The Re
corder. Will the Times please
point out tbe point?
Notwithstanding tbe fight made
on him, the election of Gordon to
the Senate seems to have given
general satisfaction.
To the Buffering.
Over one hundred columns of
voluntary eertifleaies have been
printed In the Atlauta Journal from
such people as Rev. J, B. Haw
thorne, Rov. Sain P. Jones, Hou.
H. yy. Gradv, Maj Chaa. W. Hub*
ner, late of the “Christian Index,”
Gen. James Longstreet, Col. VV.
Avery, l»t« editor Atlanta “Constl*
tlou,” and hundreds of prominent
divines, editors, doctors, specialists
and others, certifying to rcmakable
cures performed by Dr. King’s Rov-
al Germatut r, after eminent ph/ei-
WILSON, THE STUDENT,
born, as he is. II q has a full, melodious
voice, the voice of a leader, and he wonld
make a good speaker.
Springer of Springfield is a remarka
ble man. Activity in mind anil body
nre his sterling characteristics. Ho is
one of the men who seem to see every
thing. to think of everything, to say
everything. Though apparently nerv
ous, restless, scattered, nothing escapes
him, and at every crisis lie is really cool,
thoughtful, vigilant. It is only his man
ner that causes observers to doubt his
calmness. As a parliamentarian he is
ono of the greatest men in the house.
During tho last session lie gave Mr.
Reed more trouble than all the other
Democrats together. Wheu the speaker
was educating tho house in use of his
new rules Mr. Springer was on his feet
about half the time, It used to lie a say
ing in the gallery: “Springer is np again.
Sick him! Sick liiui, Springer!"
Tho Illinoisian with tho snapping black
___ __ eyes and grizzled mustache and beard
speaker wiifbo Mr. Muis",°Mr!”crispi j l 1 " 0 ' 1 , 0 ' 1 no such encouragement. It was
Mr. Springer or Xlr. Wilson. Tile first 1 * or With a dozen books of
named is, undoubtedly, tho leader of his ■ ra’fi-rt-uci: spread out before him, and one
party in the present house, and accord- 1 “8 volume in his hand, ho cited the law
ing to tradition succeeds to the speak- i ilm " u -‘ authorities and lienined over his
oisliip. It was Mr. Mills who first sug- ! B P” ctjlc ‘es J 1 ** onlookers shook their
gee ted Carlisle for tho speakership, nnd ! B1 _ wlt " laughter. Springer is a fight-
the remarkable friendship between these 1 cr ’ *°o, and last spring had the courage
two men I have already noted in theso . Btan , up and defy Reed. For a tinio
letters. When Col. Morrison, of Illinois, 1 he an ’> tho "Ppaher were on very bad
the former chairman of the committee I J® 1 ’®* personally, but near the close of
on ways and means, was defeated for ' , ® session they sat down together one
day iu the rear of the ball and talked
things over for an hour. They parted
good friends. No two men in the pres
ent congress have fought each other
more fiercely than Reed and Springer.
The latter lias been often irTThe chair.
If he were three inches taller, weighod
forty pounds more and had a louder
voice Wilson, of We*t Virginia, would
make almost on ideal speaker. He U a
atrdent, a judicially —-•*, a born
judge. It has been said of Mn Carlisle
that ho has a mind so constituted it is
impossible for him to make a wrong de
cision. Perhaps this is a strong state
ment, hut Carlisle nover yet had a de
cision overruled. Wilson is mnch like
Carlisle. Though brilliant and eloquent
orators, neither cares much for publio
speaking, neither likes the contention
and word bandying of the contests that
Both ore fond
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