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THE TIMES-RECORDER
DAILY AND WEEKLY
The Americus Recorder, Established
1879.
The Americus Times, Established 1890
Consolidated April, 1891.
THOMAS GAMBLE. JR.,
Editor and Manager.
C. W. CORNFORTH,
Associate Editor and Assistant
Manager.
J. W. FURLOW, City Editor.
W. L. DUPREE,
Assistant Business Dept.
Editorial Room Telephone 9£
The Times-Reeorder is the
Official Organ of the City of Americus
Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
Official Organ of Railroad Commis
sion of Georgia for the 3rd Congres
sional District
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Americus, Ga
Americus, Ga., February 9, 1908.
West Virginia is to join the prohi
bition brigade. The South will soon
be solid again.
Ohio is expected to go “dry in
spots.” As with measles, the spots
are likely to spread.
Bryan has finally and formally bur
ied free silver. Pity it could not have
been buried eight years ago.
Hughes has broken his silence and
taken the public into his confidence
as to his position on public questions.
Silence is not a trait in a candidate
which appeals to the American peo
ple.
New York city still has a horse
car line. Recently one of the horse
lines was converted into an electric
road. Americus is ahead of New York
in having no horse car line, though
the metropolis has a few more elec
tric lines.
Pennsylvania is still worrying over
what to do with the Quay statue.
Perhaps a position inside of the state
penitentiary would really be the most
appropriate place for it. It would be
at ieast suggestive to followers in
Quay’s footsteps.
The Indiana convention declares
that Fairbanks was “calm, gentle,
well poised, deliberate.” Excellent
qualifications for a delegate to a
church conference. Pity his church
threw' him down on account of the
cocktail incident.
The New York World takes things
too seriously. It holds that this'cam
paign involves the question of life
or death for the Democratic party.
This old gag is worked off every four
years and the party continues to do
business, crippled though it may be.
Alice Thaw, now that she is re
leased from the degenerate Earl, it
is said will marry a sturdy American.
Pity that common sense did not sway
her mind before her unfortunate ex
perience with Yarmouth. She points
a moral that may, perhaps, save some
other American girl from making a
fool of herself.
Judge James Hargis, the noted
Kentuckian feudist, has been killed
v, y his son. A violent career came to
an end in a violent and tragic man
ner. The dead man had been accus
ed of having a part in many murder
ers. He was recently forced to pay
the widow' of J. B. Marcum a large
sum for the death of her husband,
though the jury acquitted him of the
charge of murder. Few tears will be
shed by the world at large at the
passing aw'ay of Hargis.
To The People of Americas and Sumter County:
The Southern Life Insurance Company is operating successfully the Sumter County Division, with the
Americus National (tank as depository. Your attention is invited to a few facts, which will appeal to the good
sense of the soundest business man. The Company was organized January, 1906. Has written $2,975,000 00
worth of business Has paid every beneficiary, SI,OOO. promptly. Our plan is the embodiment of the superla
tive features of old line and assessment companies combined.
The Company is held in highest esteem where it is best known.
Protection by any foreign company to the extent Sumter County is protected by the Sumter County Division would tak : from the county
$21,000.00 annually in premiums.
Our force is now well organized, and the Sumter Division will soon be filled.
This division paid one of your citizens t Mrs. Mary Lightfoot, SI,OOO on January 22. The insurance cost Mr. Lightfoot $5.71.
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A SAINTLI SACRIFICE PUNCTURED.
In the current issue of the Weekly Jeffersonian Tom Watson effee
tually punctures the Pharisaical pretense that Governor Smith volun
tarily renounced the United States Senatorship because of a high sense
of public and party duty that required him to remain in his present offi
cial position until all desired reform had been accomplished.
With a brutality that would indicate" that the pleasant ties bind
ing these most estimable politicians had been cruelly severed, Watson
sneers, actually and deliberately sneers, at the pretense that Smith
did not yearn for the senatorship or that he surrendered the prize when
it was within his grasp.
Merely because “Barkis is willin,” cynically comments the sage of
Thomson, was no sign that the senatorial toga was ready to fall upon
the shoulder of the-governor.
Then Watson proceeds to flay the governor’s pretension that all- he
had to do was to reach out his hand and take the tempting and juicy
prize for which his soul has longed these many years.
Watson maintains that a man w'ith a record as a gold bug, as an advo
cate of national banks, as secretary of the interior under Cleveland,
so forth and so on, would have stood a mighty poor show before the
people in this year of financial depression, trade stagnancy, and popular
discontent. All that was necessary, he intimates, was to expose the record
and the people would speedily do the rest.
Judging from this editorial in the Jeffersonian one does not have to go
far to find why Hoke Smith decided to remain in the gubernatorial
chair. It was that or nothing. The editorial is practically a public an
nouncement that Watson had served word on him that he could not be
elected Senator, that Watson and the old populist contingent, which
lined up solidly for him in the gubernatorial campaign, would be found
opposed to him.
A word to the wise was sufficient, and hence the Smith letter of some
days ago. declining to enter the senatorial contest.
But, as Watson points out, Barkis was “willin.”
And now the public wants to know whether the Watson-Smtih
partnership has been severed, or merely fractured for the time being.
THE PROTECTION OF DEPOSITORS
No matter what may be thought
of other measures advocated by
Bryan, public opinion is being stead
ily educated ih favor of some plan
whereby depositors in banks may feel
that their money is absolutely safe
and such a thing as “runs” be made
an unknown factor in the banking
world. Once this is done the probab
ility of a financial stringency, such
as the country is yet passing through,
will be reduced materially.
Everything bearing on the protec
tion of depositors is read with decided
interest throughout the country. When
it is remembered what a vast mass of
the people have deposit* in national
and state banks and in savings insti
tutions, the importance of the subject
cannot well be overestimated. It
comes far closer to the average indi
vidual than the tariff question, or any
other that is of public interest.
Bryan is decidedly in favor of the
Oklahoma plan. Referring to it he
says:
"I think that the most important
thing to do is to protect depositors
and thus draw money into circulation
which is now in hiding. The Oklaho
ma plan furnishes protection to de
positors without liability to the Gov
ernment. The Oklahoma law author
izes the banking board to collect a
tax of 1 per cent, of the deposits and
then the board is authorized to collect
such additional assessments from
time to time as may be necessary to
restore the fund in case money is
drawn from it to pay the depositors
of the banks.
“The power of the board to assess
without limit puts the assets of all
the banks behind each bank and
makes the depositors absolutely se
cure. In Oklahoma the national banks
are allowed to take advantage of the
State guarantee fund, and if a nat
ional law was passed, State banks
should be allowed to take advantage
of it in States having no guarantee
system. The Oklahoma plan will, I
think, protect all banks from runs
and thus lessen the number of fail
ures, and the taxes which the banks
will have to pay will be a small bur
den compared with the benefits which
all the banks will derive from the
drawing of money from hoarding and
hiding.
“This plan, therefore, gives protec
tion to the depositors and security to
the community, while the bank pur
chases a large benefit at a small price.
One objection to it is that bank of
ficials would be careless if depositors
were guaranteed against loss. There
is no weight in this, because the of
ficers are selected by the stockhold
ers and these stockholders would lose
their capial and surplus and be sub
jected to the 100 per cent liability be
sides, before the other banks would
suffer from the failure. If the offi
cials are criminal they must be pun
ished by criminal laws, and when all
the banks are liable for the loss of
each bank then all the banks will be
in favor of more strict regulations.”
Senator Culberson is scoring Sec-
Cortelvou so rhis course in the recent
financial panic. The Senator declar
ed that the report of the Secretary
to the Senate raised an issue as to
whether the national banks of New
York used the $75,000,000 of public
money deposited with them for the
purpose of strengthening their reser
ves or in furnishing money for specu
lative schemes. It is also charged that
the law w r as violated in issuing the
Panama canal bonds, as the money
was -not needed for that purpose. The
secretary’s distribution was also
inequitable, and the proceeds were
used by the banks for speculation, it
was declared. Cortelyou will have
to talk fast to reply to the charges.
To ask the husband of the woman
slain to sign an application for the
pardon of the murderer was the nervy
move of friends of a Savannah con
vict now serving a life sentence in
the state prison. This thing of get
ting signers for petition for the par
don of convicted criminals is get
ting to be a public nuisance and
calamity as well.
Charges that the family of T. P.
Shonts brought over dutiable goods
without paying duty, have been drop
ped. Acting on information received,
the collector of the port of New 7
York searched the Shonts home and
found alleged dutiable goods. Miss
Shonts is to marry the Due de Chaul
nes in a few’ days.
There is one billion, two hundred
millions of dollars on deposit in the
banks of the United States—or rather
supposed to be on deposit. This is
decidedly more currency than is in
existence in the country. But then
fortunately we do not all want our
money at the same time.
It will not be many years before de
positors in banks, national and state,
will be insured against loss. That
is one of the certainties of the future.
And Bryan will deserve due meed of
credit for agitating it, no matter who
originated the idea.
Morsels fortune w r as sw'ept aw'ay
inside of five months. The ice king
and steamship king is now' so poor
that even the courts do him no rever
ence.
Female residents of Canon, Ga.,
horsewhipped the school teacher Fri
day. He must have felt as if he had
been fired out of a cannon.
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And still the lawless deeds of the
Kentucky night riders continue, with
shooting of men and burning of
bacco warehouses. The last outrage
was committed Thursday night at
Adams, Tenn., just across the line.
A tobacco grower and his son were
wounded and a negro severely whip
ped. This thing ought to stop. If
the states are unable to control these
lawless parties, then it is time for
the regulars to be called into Ken
tucky. This insurrection against the
law should be stamped out with an
iron hand.
The spirit of mob violence has not
been absent from Georgia and other
states, but the work of the night
riders of Kentucky partakes of the
character of an armed insurrection
against law, being continued through
months. The farmers who are in
this thing may be estimable men in
many ways, but they have been led
astray by evil leaders. This is no
time for sympathy. Stamp out the
rebellion. It will then be time for
sympathy, if there is any. deserved,
for the men who have been so delud
ed. „
Three rich New York women have
subscribed SIO,OOO each for a college
for harem girls at Constantinople.
And at the same time the distress and
suffering among the poor of the
metropolis grows greater daily. Sure
ly benevolence might well stay closer
to home for the time being. .
Macon police have compiled a new
city directory. Jt contains only the
names of unemployed negroes. Chief
Wescott is determined to rid the city
of loiterers, both white and colored.
His idea is to force them all to go to
work or leave town.
“What will the poor conservatives
do?" asks the Philadelphia Record.
With a radical heading each of the
great party tickets it may be neces
sary for them to rally around their
own flag. A sort of Palmer and Buck
ner performance repeated.
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INSCRIPTION NOT TO OFFEND
An official statement has been
given out by the United Daughters
of the Confederacy to the effect that
the inscription for the monument to
Major Wirz has not been decided upon,
and that the discussion of the in
scription which emanated from a
Savannah source was premature.
There aye excellent grounds for the
belief that nothing will be placed
on the monument which will prove
offensive to the north.
The delay in adopting the inscrip
tion by the executive board of the U.
D. C.. which met in Atlanta this
week, will no dotibt result in*a care
ful consideration of the proper in
scription before it is placed on the
monument, which practically insures
a very different one from that pro
posed by a Savannah member.
If the location can be changed from
Andersonville to Americus, and with
a less redical inscription than that
proposed from Savanah, the whole
trouble will be happily solved.
Judge Speer will hold court in
Savannah next week and the “locker
clubs" are quaking with fear. Judge
Speer has already stated that it
was his opinion that each member
would be liable for the Federal tax.
If he thus charges the grand jury the
alleged locker clubs will receive a
shock from which they will never re
cover. The club members are hunt
ing the cyclone cellars already.
When the principles of self-govern
ment are spreading throughout the
world, the imperalism of the Roose
velts and Tafts over the * Philippines
is a wretched anarchism. Thus
holds the Philadelphia Record.
Numerous proposals by women are
reported in the papers of the North.
Up there the girls take advantage of
the leap year prerogative. In the
South the fair maidens still prefer to
be “wooed and won.”
Atlanta built r» canal from the Mis
sissippi to the Atlantic at a banquet
the other night—or had almost done
so when the pipe went out.
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