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THE AMERICAS DAILY TIMEfe-RECORDER: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1891. 1 THE TIMES-RECORDER, Dally and Weekly. Tbs Amkriccs Retokder Established 1879. Till Americus Time* Esta hushed 1890. CoNsoLiDAi ed, April., 1891. SUBSCRIPTION: ailt, Os* Year, fa.oo Daily, Ore Month, Weekly, Ore Year, - l. Weekly, Six Months, i For advertising rates address Basoom Myrick, Editor and Manager, THE TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY, Americus, Ga. Americus, Ga., Sept. 16, 1891. Ameiiicts has come to the front with an enthusiastic Democratic club. The boys aro organizing all (along the line— and each meeting causes some blatant Third-partyite to fill the air with h's ■Illy threats.—Atlanta Herald. Blaise is said to feel better and the Harrison outlook has accordingly drop ped into the gloom about four shades deeper. Katlier queer it seems that Blaine cannot feel cheerful without cor respondingly depressing the whole re mainder of the administration. Yet that appears to be the exact state of the case. The rain-compelling experiments of Melbourne in Wyoming are not carried on at the expense of tlio government, as those at Drycnfortli in Texas are. Mel bourne's experiments are cheap; Dryen- fortb's are costly. Dryenforth wants an extra appropriation from congress to continue his experiments; but he will not he any more successful as a treasury compellur than bo has been as a rain compellcr. The expenditures for pensions for the fiscal year ending June30,1691, as now officially stated, amounted to $124,415,- 951.40. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1800, we paid $100,357,534, while in the year before that wo paid $87,744,- 779.11. In the last ten years our pen sion payments hare amounted to $770,- 282,100.07. The cost of the German army, it may be interesting to note, is for this year estimated at $80,979,733. Besides our pensious our army costs $30,000,000. The People's Party has taken the field In Massachusetts and nominated a state ticket, but It Is safe to say that the new party will out a very small figure In the coming election, owing to the fact that farming is an insignificant industry in the Old Bay State as compared with her enormous manufactures. Aside from this the tariff Is the issuo upon which the Massachusetts people have and are divided and they will support either one or tbo other of the two big parties, instead of heeding such a side show as the third party movement. It is about Bottled that Cl rkson, Quay’s first lieutenant In the last cam- paign, and one of the manipulators of the Wanamaker fund, will take the posi tion as secrotary of war. Harrison is strengthening his fences for the cam paign of 1892. He wants a renomina- tion, and having put Secrotary Foster on deck to secure Ohio, uow he proposes to bring Clarkson luto the field, and thus gather In tho votes of Iowa and some of tbo other northwestern states, where Clarkson Is regarded os a little Republi can "tin god on wheels." Applicants for official positions in tho government departments at Wash ington are so numerous and importu nate and pathetic in their appeals that the appointment clerk of the interior department says he has to keep his heart locked up In tbo safety vaults of tho department as a protection against moving tales of woo that are every day brought before him by the score. Fur ther appointments, just now, he says, are a mathematical impossibility, be cause tliore is neither room nor money for more people than are already en gaged. Still people will persist in struggling for government appointments when they could make much more money in a far more satisfactory way In civil life. Opening a political campaign with a kissing bee by way of Invoking popular sympathy for the wife thus placed upon exhibition is certainly rather a peculiar proceeding. But that performance on the part of Candidate Fassett evidently shows that he intends to conduct his campaign for the governorship of Xew York largely upon the public sympathy for his wife and mother evoked by their heroic fortitude in allowing him to kiss them ou a public political platform. That sort of sentimental blppodromlng may for a time divert attention from the construction of the platform. But it is not a permanent diversion. Doubtless Candidate Fasset was somewhat prompt ed to that domestic device by the furore that Mr. Cleveland's marriage created and the attention it attracted to bis young wife. But political ambition scarcely justifies a man in trading upon hi, affection for bis family or placing them on exhibition to attract votes. CHBlSTOI’llKK COLUMBUS. The Abbe Pressuti, a historian at the Vatican, will shortly publish a pamphlet on the centenary of Christopher Colum bus, in which he will bring to light a point in the history of the great naviga tor hitherto unknown. He will prove by documents never before published that it was mainly through the efforts of tbs Pops’s nuncio at Madrid that Colum bus obtained the co-operation of the Bptnlsh court A IIANCiEHOlS EXPERIMENT. The Tihes-Recordeh has had occa sion more than once to condemn as un wise and Injurious to the state, such legislatiou as is now sought to be enact ed in the Berner railroad bill. This bill, representing the essence of the prejudice against railroads, is now before the legislature by a favorable re port of Mr. Berner's own committee, to which its reference was made, to insure such a report back to the house. That this report was made ouly by a vote of eight to seven, is regarded as equivalent to a defeat of the measure. In fact, foreseeing its defeat in its original extreme shape, its moat danger ous feature, that of forfeiting the rail roads' charters, was eliminated by Mr. Berner himself, who saw too plainly the temper of the people, to persist in the attempt to force so radical a measure through the legislature. It is now sought to have the bill as modified be come a law, under the specious pretense that there is no danger in it. The sole plea in justification of such legislation Is, that the constitution of 1877 demands that its provisions against the destruction of railway competition by combinations “be onforced by appro priate legislation.” All fair-minded people are fully aware that the creation of the railroad commission under the Fort-Itankin kill filled the measure of the “appropriate legislation*' called for by the constitution of 1877; and it is au overwhelming point against the Berner bill that the constitutional convention specifically refused to authorize just such legislation as this kill embodies, on tile ground that it would "bo pro ductive of litigation and blackmail.’’ But apart from the obvious useless ness of this measure, there stands forth a powerful argument against all such methods; and The Times-Kecorder urges the people and the legislature to carefully consider it; It is, that this con tinued and unnecessary agitation affects injuriously the market value of all Georgia securities; thus rendering the development of the state by railroads difficult, if not impossible. But for her development by these railroads tbe.past fifteen years, Georgia would be to-day a howling wilderness; and yet this very bill means in plain English the financial destruction of every railroad company in Georgia. If the Berner bill should by any mis fortune become a law, not a railroad in Geotgla could raise a dollar in the North or Europe to build, equip, improve or develope their property, Capital would steer clear of any state whose laws “en courage litigation and blackmail” against railroads. The people of Southwestern Georgia have little personal interest in any of those lines whose charters or leases are to he directly affected by this bill; and hence Tue Times-Recorher can fairly oppose such measures as pernicious, on tlie high ground that the people of Geor gia at large are made to suffer loss by reason of such anarchical attacks on railway property. The securities iu whicli the people of; this section are mostly interested, are Southwestern railroad stock, and the ! bonds and stocks of tho Savannah, j Americus <& Montgomery Railroad Com- 1 pany and the Americus Investment Com-! pany, none of which are affected, ex-! cept sympathetically, by the attack ou | the the leases and consolidations of tho j lines constituting the Richmond Terml-1 nal Company. Very few'of our people! have any interest in the affairs of this j company, only in so far as wlmt affects it, affects Southern development gener- j ally and Georgia development iu par- j tlcular. Yet everybody hero knows that the ! proposed action of the Legislature since July has materially depressed the securi ties of the Southwestern railroad, the Savannah, Americus A- Montgomery rail' road aud tho Americus Investment Com' pauy, not because they can be affected by anything the Legislature can do; but because the Investing public North and in Europe feel a big financial disgust to wards investments in any state that wilt even tolerate tho serious discussion of such radical measures as are now pend' ing; and capitalists, classing every sort of securities in Georgia in one common category will avoid them all as they would a pestilence. It is true that the financial striugency prevailing since last October Is tho cause of a portion of the shrinkage in Georgia securities; but It cannot be denied that what has keen said in tho Legislature has doue as much more towatjn this de pression. Witness the fact that 8. A. & M. bonds and Southwestern stock drop ped about ten per cent, simultaneously with the adoption of the “investigation" resolutions by the Legislature. The people of Sumter, Dooly, Wilcox, Stewart, Webster and other adjacent counties have too much at stake in the past and future development of this sec tion to remain quiet, and without pro test permit a few demagogues in the legislature to lead Georgia to destruc tion, on the pretense that tho state must be saved by the “crushing of mo nopoly”—a bugaboo existing chiefly in the vote-craving minds of a few embryo statesmen in the legislature, who would put a receiver in charge of every rail road in tho state for a scat in congress. In the interest of the people of Geor gia The Timks-Recohdeii calls upon tho legislators to defeat this useless and dangerous assault upou the railway B roperty of the state, believing in the gbt of experience, that the railroad commission has ample power to stop all encroachments of monopoly; and if it is ever found that such is not the case, then is the time to confer ad ditional power. Let it be remembered that “sufficient onto the day is the evil thereof." FAITHLESS TOM WATSON. j The following comparison is drawn by i the Charleston News and Courier: "In what striking contrast with the j conduct of this faithless ‘Georgia States-' man' it the oonduct of Senator Irby, of South Carolina. Both of them were ; elected as Democrats. Mr. Watson is j going to stand by the Ocala platform 'if j I meet my political death by it.' Sena tor Irby is a member of the Alliance, and favors the Ocala demands from top to bottom, ‘but if,' says he, ‘they are re pudiated by the Democratic convention, then I shall stand by the action of the convention. I will stay in the Demo cratic party if I am the last man left. But Mr. Watson is not a Democrat. No man can be a Democrat who sets the creed of an outside secret oath-bound organization above the creed of the party. The Georgia Democracy will be far better off with Mr. Watson's room than with his company." NEW:GOODS -A.T- Allen & Allen 408 Jackson st. We wish to an nounce to the ladies that our store room is nearing completion and in a few days »ve will be able to exhibit the finest line of Nolions, Novelties, Etc., in the city. We extend a cor dial invitation to all to come and see us. Resp’y, ALLEN & ALLEN. Beall & Oakley’s. We Cordially invite the trading public to call and examine our stock of New Goods. 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Addreu u* at Americus. Wiggins & Herndon. aug2S d£w2m LOANS. Loam negotiated at LOWEST RATES, bay payments, on dty or farm lands. J. J. BAmtaucT, net 5 ly Americas, Georgia.