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THE JIMES-RECORDER
DAILY AND WEEKLY
The Americus Recorder, Established
1879.
The Americus Times, Established 1890
Consolidated April, 1891.
Entered at the postoffice at Ameri
cus as second-class mail matter.
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 99.
The Times-Recorder 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
Americas, Ga., March 12, 1908.
WHY HOES AIR. HUGHES SEEK OP
POSITION TO AIR. LEWIS?
If the current rumors are correct,
and there seems to be good foundation
of fact for them, Hon. Dudley Hughes,
while not at this moment a candidate
for congress himself, is especially
anxious to bring some one else into
the field against Congressman Lewis,
who has publicly announced that he
will not be a candidate two years
hence for the position he has so hon
orably and satisfactorily filled.
Especially why Mr. Hughes should
be so anxious to stir up opposition to
Congressman Lewis at this time we
do not understand. It is Mr. Hughes’
prerogative, like that of any other
American citizen, to run for Congress
himself any time he wants to, or to
induce anyone else to run if he can.
But what it will do him, or
what good it will do the Third dis
trict, we fail to see.
Congressman Lewis stands high in
Congress. He understands the meth
ods in Congress and is in position to
do better and more effective work the
next two j r ears than ever before.
Americus is especially interested in
returning Congressman Lewis. We
have a big empty lot back of the
Windsor Hotel, where a government
building must some day stand.
Through Congressman Lewis’s efforts
an appropriation of $50,000 was se
cured two or three years ago for this
purpose. Os this $15,000 went for the
site, leaving $35,000 for a building. It
was seen that this was not adequate
for a building such as Americus wants
and needs, and at the request of the
people of this city work was deferred
until such time as another appropria
tion could be had to supplement this.
We want this government building to
be an honor to Americus, to Sumter
county, to the Third district, and it
must cost not less than $75,000 to
SIOO,OOO.
Congressman Lewis is more apt to
‘ secure this additional appropriation
for us than any new Congressman
would be, no matter who he might be.
This is pure selfishness, of course.
But no doubt Mr. Hughes also has
some personal motive in seeking op
position to Mr. Lewis. There is no
blame attaching either to him or to us
for being governed by a spirit of this
nature. We are all selfish in a great
er or less degree and because we are
• so—and we are not ashamed to say
we are selfish for Americus and Sum
ter county—we want Congressman
Lewis returned to Washington for the
next two years. We want that public
building.
Outside of this the other counties of
the District will not suffer by Cong
ressman Lewis’s retention for another
two years. He is in position to keep
up the good work for rural mail routes
and other things in which the farmers
throughout the district are vitally in
terested.
Os course Americus would like to
see an Americus or Sumter County
man in congress. Maybe two years
from now we may have that pleasure.
But we can hardly'understand why
Mr. Hughes should be so anxious to
have an Americas man run for Cong
ress just at this time. Would it ad
vance Mr. Hughes’ present or future
political ambitions? He may think so,
but we candidly confess that we can
not take the same view of the mat
ter.
It seldom does a man any good to
simply stir up opposition to another
man needlessly, and really there is
no need for any opposition at this
time to Congressman Lewis.
And as for two years hence, well
Mr. Lewis will not be a candidate and
then it may be Sumter’s time. But
perhaps Mr. Hughes may not be so
anxious for a strong Sumter man to
run then as he seems to be now.
$1 Soda Crackers that crackle as good Soda (i
y] Crackers should
I Uneeda Biscuit 1
With meals —for meals —between meals Zj
In dust tight, *
moisture proof packages.
Neper sold in hulk. u
I NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY A
WHY NOT PLAGE THOSE AMERICUS BONDS
Albany has just placed a $73,000 issue of bonds for public improvements.
Two Albany banks took the tntire issue, at 101. Other bids were received
from the North offering a slight premium.
The question naturally suggests itself, why not place the Americus
bonds for public improvements? Our total issue was to be $75,000, the same
as Albany's, and of this S4O,‘)UO was to be used, if we remember correctly,
for street paving, for the betterment of the conditions throughout the busi
ness district. _
Now no one is going to question the fact that the credit of the city of
Americus stands equally as high as that of Albany. If anything this city
is rfiore prosperous than Albany. Without in the slightest degree disparaging
the enterprising metropolis to the south of us, we can at least say that
Americus has a past and a future to inspire confidence in investors, a safe
foundation on which to predicate the belief that its bonds would make a
magnificent investment for any institutions or individuals.
We want the public improvements badly. The paving of- the business
section would do more to stimulate Americus than anything that has happen
ed in recent years. If we could lay vitrified brick throughout the business
section this year, and at the same time have our street railway system
inaugurated, It would make a step forward that would revolutionize the
city, that would concentrate the attention o: . ? < . do ■ \ -u-l.t upon Americus
as a place that believes in doing things.
So far as we knov/ there has been no effort made to find whether our
bonds could he placed or not. The success of Albany in disposing of its
recent issue at a smaU premium would indicate that beyond any reasonable
doubt Americus could speedil’ do the same.
We are sleeping on our rights, we are deferring our progress, we are
holding Amer s cus back, when we fail to place ihese bonds and make the
improvements they were authorized for. We can make the summer of 1908
memorable if we will only issue the bonds, use the proceeds for the desired
improvements, begin the fall and winter season of 1908-09 with the business
streets paved and the trolley cars running through them. Then we will
have a city that will look like a city, a city that will be up-to-date, a city that
ill speak for itself to every visitor, a city that will begin a rate of progress
such as it has never known before.
Are we going to sit supinely down and let opportunities pass us by or
are we going to take time by the forelock, place the bonds and inaugurate
the “Greater Americus.”
Our business men generally should start to work at once. There should
be a united demand for the sale of the bonds and the paving of the streets.
The voters almost unanimously authorized the issuing of the bonds and the
use of the proceeds for paving and schools. Let the matter be attended to
without further delay.
AMERICUS MUST HAVE THAT
CENSUS.
Elsewhere we tell of the action by
the Americus Board of Trade, re
questing the city authorities to have
a census taken of the population in
order that Americus may take its pro
per place before the public.
We do not see how the Mayor and
Aldermen can fail to grant this reas
onable request. Americus today is
suffering because of the fact that its
progress has not been heralded to the
world. In the various annual publi
cations dealing with statistics of cities
it still is put down as having less
than 8,000 people. We canot blame
the publishers. The fault is with Am
ericus itself. If we have got twelve
thousand people and are not willing
to go to the trouble to prove it and
to advertise it we can blame no one
but ourselves. We certainly cannot
expect the publishers to send here and
have a census taken if we are too
indifferent to our own good to do
it ourselves.
Americus has got anywhere from
11,000 to 12,000 population at this
time. The latter is probably nearer
the mark. But we ought to be in a
position to state exactly what it is.
And when the census is taken it
should be taken carefully. We do not
want any fictitious figures, any
claims that canot be sustained, any
statistics that will be knocked to
pieces when the government takes
the census in 1910. What we want is
just as close to the exact number of
whites and negroes in Americus as
can be ascertained.
The truth of the matter is, this
census should be taken at least every
two years. The city has plenty of
employes who could be utilized tem
porarily for this purpose without the
public interests suffering.
The police, assisted, perhaps, by
three or four others, ought to take
the census quickly. In any event
we ought to have the census, and the
best and least expensive way to get
it is to have the city order it done
by its employes, as requested by the
Board of Trade.
GOV. SMITH AND THE REDUCED
FREIGHT RATES.
“The same principle that would have
sustained a reduction of railroad
freight rates in 1905 may not justify a
reduction at the present time.”—Gov.
Smith, at Decatur.
Gov. Smith holds that inasmuch as
the railroads have been seriously af
fected by the business depression this
is not the time to slash the freight
rates. This is the gist of his com
ments on that line.
If this is his position, then we
should have a sliding schedule of
freight rates, higher rates w r hen
business is poor and income impaired,
and lower rates when business is
brisk and income expanded.
Gov. Smith and the railroad com
mission seem to have learned, after
all, that it is not so easy a mater to
arbitrarily manage the affairs of the
great railroads of the state from the
point of politicians wishing to stand
in with the people.
It also shows how foolish it is for
a candidate to promise to save the
people of a state four to five million
dollars the next year on freight rates,
when he canot possibly know the
conditions that Will exist.
The Montgomery Journal wants can
didates who have the courage, and
the ability and the power to do things
after they 'are elected. The great
trouble is that they all have
these qualities, according to
their utterances on the stump.
Our friend, Gov. Hoke Smith, for
instance, was going to save the peo
ple of Georgia four to- five millions
in freight this year, but the public
finds that its hunt for the millions
it has saved is about as fruitless as
that of the women for the needle in
the haystack.
Gov. Smith says the railroads of
Georgia ar e owned out of the state
and then says the abolition of free
passes saved a great amount of money
to the people of Georgia. How he can
reconcile this puzzles us. It rather
looks as though it saved that awful
“Wall street gang” a lot of money and
took it out of the pockets of the Geor
gians heretofore using the passes.
But the Smith logic is very often in
comprehensible.
“Gov. Hoke Smith tells the people
what has been done during his ad
ministration.” This is the heading
in the Atlanta Journal. The people
have only got to look at their bank
accounts to know, without being
told. Facts speak louder than .words. *
A Warning to the South.
(New York World.)
The platform adopted by the Ohio
Republicans yesterday, which fore
shadows the platform that will he
adopted by the National Convention in
June, declares:
We believe that the civil and poli
tical rights of the American negro
should be upheld in every State, be
lieving as we do that his maxwellous
progress in intelligence, industry and
good citizenship has earned the res
pect and encouragement of the na
tion, and that those legislative enact
ments that have for their real aim
his disfranchisement for reasons of
color alone are unfair, un-American
and repugnant to the supreme law
of the land; and we favor the reduc
tion of representation in Congress
and the Electoral College in all States
of this nation where white and colored
citizens are disfranchised, to the end
that the fourteenth amendment to the
Constitution of the United States may
he enforced according to its letter
and spirit.
This is another plain warning to
the South. Back of this declaration
of the Columbus Convention is some
thing more serious than a shrewd
political desire to conciliate the negro
voters who have been disgruntled by
the Brownsville order. It is the
expression of a strong and growing
Republican sentiment.
The Republican National Convention
of 1904 advocated Congressional ac
tio to determine whether special dis
criminations against the negro in
Southern States warranted the reduc
tion of representation. The conven
tion of 1908 will undoubtedly declare
boldly in favor of such reduction, and
some day, if the Democratic party
remains impotent, a Republican pres
ident and a Republican congress will
make this reduction on accomplished
fact.
Thanks to Bryanism, New York
City is the only Democratic stronghold
left in the North, and even here Demo
cratic majorities are dwindling. Ex
cluding the representation from this
city, there are only thirty-eight Demo
crats in both houses of Congress from
all the Northern and Western States,
and in Kentucky Bryanism has just
cost the Democrats a Senator.
The Republican invasion of the bor
der States has begun, and if the blight
of Bryanism continues the South
will be left alone to fight its political
batles. It will have to submit to
such legislation as Republican Con
gresses drunk with power and arro
gance, see fit to impose. There will
be no Democratic party left in the
North, except in name, to which it
can appeal for assistance.
The South can prevent the nomina
tion of Mr. Bryan at Denver. It can
compel the nomination of a Democrat
like Gov. John A. Johnson, whose can
didacy would rehabilitate the party
in the North and West and hold out
to the rank and file some encourage
ment of success.
If the South refuses—if it imposes
four years more of Bryanism upon the
Democratic party—it will have only
itself to blame if the Sixty-first or
the Sixty-second Congress carries out
the fourteenth-amendment resolution
adopted yesterday at Columbus.
If you don't think the people want
paved streets ask them. ~v
More proof that Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound re
stores women to normal health,
Mrs. Mattie ( open haver, of 315 So.
21st St., J’arsons, Ivans., writes:
“For two years I suffered from the
worstformsof feminine ills, until I was
almost driven frantic. Nothing but mor
phine would relieve me. Lydia E. Pink
liam’4 Vegetable Compound brought me
health and happiness, and made me a
well woman. Every sick woman should
benefit by my experience.”
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Fink
ham’s Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of I
women who have been troubled with ,
displacements, inflammation, ulcera
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency,indiges
tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration.
Why don’t you try it ?
Don’t hesitate to write to Mrs,
Pinkham if there is anything
about your sickness you do not
understand. She will treat your
letterinconfidenee andadvise you
free. No woman ever regretted
writing her, and because of her
vast experience she has helped
thousands. Address, Lynn, Mass.
.. Demonstrations of the Soul Kiss
(Philadelphia Pres.)
They are playing up the soul kiss
rather numerously in New York these
days. The newspapers are full of
descriptions of how it draws crowds
and holds up business in different
ways and in different parts of the
city.
Traffic .on an uptown street was
completely blocked by a thousand or
more appreciative persons who had
assembled to witness a prolonged soul
kiss demonstration in one of the rooms
of a hotel, the curtains of which had
not been lowered; a transatlantic lin
er was delayed by a three-minute soul
kiss on the dock between a passenger
and a lady who had come down to
see him off; crowds in a subway sta
tion were held up and trains delayed
by a soul kiss taht had to be pulled off
there afr an inconvenient time because
it was so ripe it wouldn’t keep until
it could get to some other and less
public place.
These are not 411. The news
of the metropolis is a cold and un
seasoned failure on any day that it
is not trimmed up with at least one
soul kiss, with all the frills, thrills
and paroxysms, in some one of the
busy boroughs. Often there an sev
eral in a single day. No section of
the city is exclusively favored, and
there is no time of day when the
soul kiss is not seasonable, if not
reasonable. This system of oscula
tion may have been handed out from
the stag*., but it has not cooled in its
passage over the footlights. The stage
has been outdone. The soul kiss as
described in the vrud and bright red
words of the newspapers, and as the
public sees it here and there without
paying for admission, is the omy real
thing. Ml others are imitations.
New York is a practical city. The
soul kiss must be a practical thing,
too, or it could not thrive there; but
as tnere is no money in it there is
difficulty in understanding why New
York should give so much attention
to it.
We resent the insinuation of the
Columbus Ledger that Col. Tom Hud
son is a political acrobat. Tom is a
genial, horny handed farmer whom
the people delight to honor. Musco
gee must not he envious because Sum
ter is thinking of furnishing the next
governor of Georgia.
HAMILTON
&CO.
Lamar Street,
Opposite Windsor Hotel
Extra Special for
MONDAY and
TUESDAY
***************
40 Inch Sea Island
6c yard.
Fruit Loom Bleaching
Per yard 10c.
36 inch Long Cloth,
worth 17 l-2c, as a
Leader for Monday
12 l-2c yd.
40 inch White Lawn,
short length, worth 15
and 20c per yard,
10c.
***************
$3 Jeffersonian Hats
Monday
$2.49.
SI.OO Corsets, 50c.
50c Corsets, 39c."
New Waists, New
Belts, on sale Monday.
***************
Big line sample Hats,
$1.50 to $2 values, 98c.
***************
Hamilton,
Sells It For Less.
Headquarters for Southerners in N. Y.
Broadway Central Hotel
f Third Street
IX THE I OF XEW YORK
Sp 4 'i given
to I
Special Kates for .Summer
OUR TABLE is the foundation of
our enormous business.
American Plan $2.50 to
European Plan, SI.OO upwards
Send for Large Colored Map aud
Guide of New York, Free.
TILLY HAYNES DANIEL 0. WEBB
Proprietor Mgr., Formerly
of Charleston, S. C.
The Only New York Hotel Featuring
AMERICAN PLAN
Moderate Prices
Excellent Food Good Service
Wed & Sat.
It Matters About
the
Nothing adds so much to
the attractiveness of a pretty
home as does pretty matting,
and the season BLpproaches
when the sitting room, the
parlor and sleeping rooms as
well should be given their
new spring dressing. From
the standpoint of attractive
ness and sanitation, nothing J
equals matting as a floor cov-*
ering.
The A. W. Smith Furniture Co.
Makes a Speciality of the Finest Imported Mattings and can please
the most exacting and fastidious buyer.
Beautiful lines of JAPANESE and CHINA MATTINGS, imported
for this house have recently been opened and now await your inspection
If you contemplate purchasing matting do not fail to inspect this superb
stock and get prices.
DURABILITY AND QUALITY ARE ESSENTIAL FEATURES IN
OUR GOODS. <
A. W. SMITH FURNITURE CO.
Next to having money, the most
important thing is how to take care
of it —how beet to invest it.
A Banking Institution of this kind
cannot only care for your financial
interests in a careful, conservative
way—giving you abundant banking
facilities in every department of fin
ance—but can also give you valuable
aid and advice about investments and
securities. Open an account with
the Bank of South Western Georgia’s
Savings Department and enjoy the
advantages that accrue.
DnYCURES
nUA QUICK
These Sweet Tittle Chocolate Coated Tablets
cure private diseases quickly and permanently
when Capsules, Copaiba, and other remedies fail.
Complete treatment Ji.oo The only safe.sure cure
Rembert’s Drug Store, Americus, Ga.
Shoes Repaired.
I pick the stitches and preserve tin
welts. I also repair shoes according tt
the standard rule. I xrse nothing but
the best of sole leather on the market.
Special attention given to ladies and
childrens shoes. All Work Hand
stitched or tacked if desired.
JOSEPH M. DUDLEY.
312 Jackson Street,
JOHNSON & HARROLD.
Cotton Warehouse
and Commission Merchants
AND DEALERS \TN
Heavy Groceries ard Fertilizer*
Plantation Supplies Furnished
on Reasonable Terms.
/I PYRiGHT. A,p
THE MORNING BATH
with a go<t hot water supply, is one
of life's luxuries that can always be
had without expense..when you have
an up-to-date hath room in your home
fitted up with sanitary plumbing,
closet, foot .and bath tub.
1 Also have your house wired and
covered with metal shingles, and one
gcod coat of paint put on roof by
C. P. PAYNE.
FISH TALES are often exaggerations.but
we have no need ot stretching the truth in
our business as FI*H DEALERS. Fresh
ness Is an absolutely indispensable quality
in unsalted or unsnaoked fish and we nandle
noi e about which there mav betheslightest
doth".. We keen every kind in season from
the gamely trout to solid mullet. And we
don’t try to make a fortune on every pound
ot flsbjwe sell either. SHBRLOCR & CO.
Phoue'No. 32
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L. G. Council Brest. R. J. Pkbky, Vice-Treat. C. M. Couscn.. Cashier.
« lhe Planters Bank
of Americus
Total Resources, - $500,000
With well-established connection, oir
large resources, and every attention con
sistent with sound banking, ye solicit
——
A. W. Smith, Pres. G. M. Eld ridge, Y. P. - N. M. Dudley, Cashier
Bank of South-Western Ga.,
Americus Ga.
Security, Liberality and Courtesy Accorded Its Patrons.
DIRECTORS:
C. L. Ansley, G. M. Eldridge, It. J. Perry
W. A. Dodson, Tlios. Hnrrold, A. >V. Smith,
N. M. Dudley, H. It. Johnson.
J. W. SHEFFIELD, President, FRANK SHEFFIELD Vice-Ties.'
E. D. SHEFFIELD, Cashier.
BANK OF COMMERffi
Americus, Ga.
A general banking business transacted and all consistent
courtesies extended patrons. Certificates of deposit issued
earning interest.
L. A. LOWREY, President. M. M. LOIYHEY, Cashier.
CRAWFORD YYHEATLEY, Vice. Pres. R. E. McNTLTY. Asst, tasliier.
AMERICUS NATIONAL BANK
The Only National Bank in This Section.
CAPITAL $100,000.00. IT. S. BONDS $100,000.00.
Under the supervision of the
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
Accounts of firms, individuals and coporations invited. Certificates ol
deposit issued bearing interest.
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Current Schedules Corrected to date
Arrival and departure of trains at Americus Ga. —Centra! of (.coreia l’ B ' j
way Passenger Station. 90th Meridian Time. j
Arrivals. Oepa ture*.
Prom Savannah, Augusta, For Macon, Atlanta, August!' JI
Q Atlanta and Macon, Bir- j and Savannah : |
r,*.tninjfh«m, Columbus and j For Albany, Dothan. I
O Fort Valley *lO 40 pm ' Troy and Montgomery ••• I
From Lockhart,, Dothan, Al- “ Albany, Dothan, I
bany, Troy and Mont’ery *lO 40 p m Troy an(l Montgomery. I
From Lockhart, Dothan, Al- “ Macon ami Atlanta I
bany, Troy and Mont’ery. *1 57 pm “ Macon, Atlanta, Savannah I
From Atlanta and Macon *2 07 p m aI1(1 Augusta *' j () p $ J
From Avgusta,Savannah,At- For Columbus
lanta and Macon, Birming- ForColumbus and Binning- fl
ham and Columbus and ham
Fort Valley *5 32 a m ForColumbus Birmingham, pBI ■
From Columbus and interme- via Fort Valley *in-40 P 1 * I
diate points j-700 p m For Albany and Inter, points 1
From Columbus, and
intermediate points *ll 30 am
From Albany and intermediate
points *4 40 a m I
Daily. (Except Sunday. ttSuhday Only. . mArie® 1 I
Sleeping cars between Americus and Atlanta on train leaving Am it j ,|
10 40 pm,, and arriving at Americus 5 32 a. m. Connects at Macon ■
sleepers to and from Savannah. For further information, apply to
J. E. HIGHTOWER, Agent, Americus, Ga. , ..
fJOHN W.: BLOUNT, District Passenge Agent, Macon* Ga.