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THE TIMES-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.
IV. L. DUPREE,
Assistant Business Dept.,
Editorial Room Telephone 99.
The Times-Rocnrder is the
Official Organ of the iCty of Americus.
Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
Official Organ of Railroad Commis
sion of/Georgia for the 3rd Con
pressional District.
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TIIE TIM ES-R ECO R DER.
Americas, Ga.
Americas Ga., June 20th. 1908.
After Denver will it be —the de
luge?
“Let’s don’t despair,’’ says the Sav
annah Press. Certainly not, when
the watermelon crop is just ahead.
Bryan is picking out the Haws in
Taft’s platform. Billy ought to wait
until the other Billy begins to analyze
the Nebraska planks.
An independent candidate for Gov
ernor of Georgia has made his an
nouncement. Rube Arnold denies that
he is backing him in any way.
“Near beer” was in demand in At
lanta while the convention was in
session. The prohibitionists wanted
to sample it to make sure that it was
not a violation of the law.
The question of the manager of
the Republican campaign is in the
air. Hitchcock who sandbagged the
Southern Republican officeholders,
wants it, but there are others.
Teddy thought he knew a thing or
two about controlling conventions but
when he sees the way the Nebraska
sage runs things at Denver he will
hide his head in sheer despair.
John D. Rockefeller is to publish
a series of autobiographical papers
in a magazine soon. It is needless to
say thal John D. will use the blue
pencil very freely on his own history.
By the way, what has become of
those statements as to how much the
gubernatorial candidates expended in
the campaign and where it all went.
Were we not to have publicitv in
X Georgia?
Atlanta is getting ready for the cen
sus of 1910. Its bounds are to be ex
tended to embrace sufficient territory
to swell the population by 20,000. You
can’t catch Atlanta napping when
counting time draws nigh.
Future political contests are to be
robbed of half of their excitement, if
a bill introduced by the Emanuel
county representative becomes a law.
The bill provides that election bet
ting shall be a. misdemeanor.
Editor Stovall wants Senator Ba
con to be chairman of the Denver
convention. By the way, it might
have been well to have had the two
Georgia senators at Denver as official
representatives of the state. But it’s
too late now.
“It is just as well not to have one
faction in control of the party too
long’’ says the Savannah Press. As
suredly not. More than two years of
Smithism would result in an auto
cratic rule that Georgia would not be
able to shake off in a decade or two.
Stanford University has dropped
* a large number of athletes because of
their poor standing in their studies.
The faculty evidently are not aware
of the changed status of institutions
of learning. They labor under the
ancient idea that boys go to them
to study.
-
Max Banner, a well known South
Georgia drummer, is reported from
Milwaukee to be waging a campaign
at the traveling men’s convention to
get clean sheets and clean linen at
all hotels. He also asks that more
attention be paid by the hotel men to
fire escapes.
In Nashville they have seized bot
tles of gin, mainly sold in negro dives
the label of which held a suggestive
picture of a nude white woman. Yet
some liquor men wonder why so
many people are bitter against their
business. Incidents like this ac
count for some of the public disgust
and increasing animosity.
The Shah of Persia has given the
Czar of Russia a good tip as to the
best way to get rid of the Douma if
it becomes too recalcitrant. When
his legislators proved offensively ob
sterperous the Shah turned artillery
loose and bombarded the parliament
buildings. The Shah uses, his big
stick vigorously and effectively.
It’s a safe assertion that neither
this nor the next legislature will
touch the prohibition question. It
is hard to make some people lielieve
it,' but it looks like a foregone con
clusion that any efforts to modify it
wilt meet with an avalanche of con
trary votes. The governor will not
have to veto any measures of that
sort.
AMERICUS AND THE WATER MATTER
Considerable uneasiness has been aroused by current rumors that the
city is apt to find itself in an embarrassing position at any time with regard
to the water supply. The sumors have doubtless been considerably exag
gerated. Coupled with them there has been asomewhat persistent demand
that something should be done by the city to compel a more rapid prosecution
of work under the contract made with the new company that is to handle
the lighting, water and transportation questions for the people of Americus
hereafter.
Everybody knows that the company is considerably behind time in
complying with the terms of the contract. Everybody also knows that con
ditions that could not be foreseen when the contract was made have arisen
and that it was the part of wisdom, of justice, and of expediency on the
part of the city to deal leniently with the company under the existing cir
cumstances. With a wide spread panic on over the country, bursting un
expectedly when things seemed brightest for the consummation of business
plans of many diverse characters, it was not at all surprising that the
Americus movement suffered in common with enterprises of a progressive
nature throughout the country. The mayor and aldermen and the public
generally hav> taken this into account and there has been no tendency to
take undue advantage of the company by compelling it to push work during
a period of unusual and unexpected depression, or to live up to the letter
of its contract under threat of punishment.
While this is all true, it is nevertheless equally true that the feeling
now is that the company should show a more aggressive spirit and give the
city an adequate idea as to what may be expected in the near future. This
is not at all unreasonable. The company could well afford to make a
statement of its purposes, and show by a spirit of aggressive push hereafter
that the delays have been entirely" incidental to the business conditions, as
every one believes, and not at all the result of any desire or intention on
its part to fail to carry out the contract.
We have great faith in the enterprise and believe that all will come
out right. The public will be entirely satisfied if it but knows that
everything is now to go along smoothly and as quickly as possible toward
the desired end, and that there will be no further long delays in the work
of giving the city a modern electric lighting system, a day current, and a
pumping station adequate to its needs. As for the street car line, while
we want it, it can well wait until everything else has been attended to.
There is no doubt that the city will protect and promote the public
interests in the matter and that the people need not fear that they will be
left in the lurch. But the people do insist that something be done.
If the representatives of the company now in the city manifest an
unmistakable determination to push the various deals to a speedy conclu
sion it is more than likely that the city will grant an extension of time,
if it be -> not too long a one. Americus wants the new water and light
plant and the street railway.
A SAFE AND SANE ADMINISTRATION
The world o*’ finance and of busmess, the world of progress and of dev
elopment, the world of commerce and of industry now knows that after the
next year Georgia is assured a safe and sound administration, that the
era of passionate denunciation and reckless antagonism to corporations
has passed, that cool headed, sagacious, patriotic men will be at the helm,
and that investments in this state will have the same protection, the same
security of safety, the same assurances of welcome, as in other common
wealths that have either not fallen into the maws of political demagogues,
or which have speedily repented and returned to the safer and better way.
The platform and the candidate presented to the world at Atlanta on
Tuesday made a message that needed on explanation. The candidate stands
for moderation, for conservatism, for protection of the rights of individual
and corporation alike, for just and equitable treatment of all interests, for
a policy in which discrimination will play no part, for an administration
that will have ihe upbuilding of Georgia as its end.
The platfo-m is an endorsement of the public utterances of the candi
date, a reiteration of the views on which he fought and won, an expression
of the course that will be pursued while he is Governor to the full extent of
lu's ability. It left no room for doubt. It was clean cut and to the point,
it. was an open invitation to money to flow’ into Georgia for Georgia’s well
being, with the knowledge that it will be given the glad right hand of
welcome and Know no more political ostracism and attacks based on selfish
ambitions and panderings to political necessities.
From one end of the country to the other the plank in the Georgia state
platform of 1908 will tell the capitalist, the investor, the promoter, the
builder of railroads and the leader of industrial life, that this is once more
a safe field in which to place money, a state that is eager and willing to
have its reso .rces developed, a commonwealth where all capital that is
legitimately employed will receive the same protection, the same encour
agement, the same approbation that industry honestly applied in any walk
of life receives as its due meed.
“We pledge not only to citizens of this state, but to citizens of
other states, that all capital invested in legitimate enterprises in
Georgia, whether foreign or domestic, corporate or private, shall
have the equal piotection of the laws and the equal friendly con
sideration of those who administer the laws.”
This is how the convention of Tuesday spoke. It is Georgia’s reply
to the demagogic appeals of the past year or two, it is Georgia’s final answer
to those who have tried to rise and thrive on senseless appeals to prejudice,
to those who "hought they saw opportunities for self advancement in a
ceaseless warfare on capital. It is the well deserved rebuke to the class
rt politicians who are eager to seize every passing opportunity to climb,
:egardless of the lasting effect on the prosperity and happiness of the people.
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THE PASSING OF A GREAT AMERI.
CAN.
’Twas said of a prince struck down,
‘Taller he seems in death.’
As time passes and the proper pers
pective comes greater will loom the
figure of Grover Cleveland on . the
pages of American history.
The personal animosities that poli
tics engenders, the belittling of vir-|
tries that intense partisanship breeds,
the hatred that emanates from dis
appointed ambitions and foiled plans
—these will be laid in the tomb of
time and a future generation will
study the life of the ex-president, bis
character and his deeds, unbiased by
vindictive spleen and the gangrene of
disappointment, and award to him a
place second to few, if any, of our
presidents and statesmen.
The few years that intervened be
tween his retirement from the White
House and his death had considerably
mollified the bitterness that his
sturdy manhood and determined ad
herence to duty as he saw it produc
ed. But still the sting rankles in
many breasts that were filled with
hopes of personal preferment at his
hands, or the memory of defeated poli
cies rankles in the minds of those
who conceived and engineered them
in legislative halls. Death may stay
the flood of carping criticisms, the
fact that the vast public had come to
appreciate the man for what he was
may check the voice of political cal
umny, and the bitter minority that
has dogged his career, even in re
tirement, with something akin to
malicious vindictiveness, may be still
ed, but their antipathy to the man
and to his policies will remain as a tri
bute to his undaunted courage, to
the clarity of his vision, to the saga
city that marked his career from his
entrance into the political arena to
the dying hour at Princeton.
In bis death great men do him
honor. But the monument of appre
ciation that coming generations will
build will far exceed any that his
own time will accord him. His place
in history is secure and memorable.
Ignorance of Biblical Allusion
(Macon Telegraph.)
Professor W. L. Cross of Yale, in
complaining that students of litera
ture are greatly hampered in their
work because they are grossly ignor
ant of the English Bible, merely adds
his testimony to that of many another
observer in recent years. Though the
Bible is the most widely distributed
book in the world, it now seems to be
one of the least read among the edu
cated classes, who show an ignorance
to Biblical allusions, whether in lit
erature or in speech, that would have
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astonished their fathers and grand-fa
thers.
The writer who characterizes this
disuse of the Bible, all apart from
any religious considerations, as “one
of the great calamities of the age,”
does not go too far. In former per
iods even those who questioned the
religious authority of the Bible re
cognized not only its civilizing in
fluence but its great literary strength
and beauty. Thus Huxley wrote:
“Consider that for three centuries
this book has been woven into the
life of all that is best and noblest
in English history; that it has become
the national epic of Britain, and is as
familiar and simple from John-o’-
Groat’s house to Band’s End as Dante
and Tasso once were to Italians; that
it is written in the noblest and purest
English and abounds in exquisite
beauties of mere literary form, and,
finally, that it forbids the veriest hind
who never left his village to be
ignorant of the existence of other
countries and civilizations, and of a
great past stretching back back to
the farthest limits of the oldest na
tions of the world.”
The time seems to be near at hand
when the professors of literature in
the colleges will find it necessary to
inaugurate a regular course in the
systematic study of the Bible as the
greatest and most neglected of books.
New York Losing Trade
(New Orleans States ..
The recent abandonment of the
port of New York by five ships of the
White Star line in favor of Montreal
where grain can be loaded two cents
and a half cheaper per bushel, has
had the effect of opening the eyes
of the self-centered New Yorker to
the unwelcome proof of the enter
prise and success of the Canadians in
commercial competition.
Although Montreal is a thousand
miles from the sea, the Canadian
government has for quite a long
period been spending millions of dol
lars each year making the St. Law
rence river available for steamships
of heavy draft, and through the adop
tion of liberal policies encouraging
the development of commerce with
the interior, of which Montreal is
now the port.
The New Yorkers as a result are
confronted with the fact that unless
their enterprise proves to be more
than a match for the activity and
competition of the Canadians Mon
treal is sure to become the outlet not
only of the great British-American
northwest, but also of the northern
grain fields with the boundary of the
United States. Indeed the latter
are even sending their products to
the Canadian port, and the business
has grown so large that the White
Star line found it more profitable to
withdraw and enter them in the Mon
treal trade.
The legislators might well appoint
a commission to report a new bank
ing law for Georgia. Such rotten
failures as those at Waycross and
Macon point the necessity for such
action. And the commission need
not be afraid to make the punishment
for rascality too severe.
“Baldwin” and “CokMial” Refrigerator,
Quality From 8
Best. $75.00
A. W. SMITH FURNITURE CO.
Corner Jackson Street and Forsyth Street.
Next to having money, the most
important thing is how to take care
of it—how best 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.
HEALTH, CLEANLINESS,
COMFORT, LUXURY,
all are combined in the modern bath
room, but without the modern system
of sanitary plumbing the modern bath
room would be an impossibility.
Therefore when you desire to
equip your house with plumbing of
the right kind, go to the right kind
of a plumber. C. P. Payne has a
reputation second to none, based on
practical experience and scientific in
telligence. For specifications and es
timates for plumbing, electric wiring,*
gas fixtures, roof paints, gutter and
tin work, see
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FISH TALES are often exaggerations bu*
we have no need of stretching the truth in
our business as FISH DEALERS.
nesß is an absolutely Indispensable quality
In unsalted or unsmoked fish and we Handle
none about which there may be the slightest
doubt. VTe keept very kind In season from
the gamely trout to solid mullet. And we
don’t try to make a fortune on every p">und
of fish we sell either. SHFRLOCK & CO.
Phone No 3?.
People of this Age
realize more and more the need of
providing for the future by systemat
ically saving and adding each week
a feW T dollars to their bank account.
Others spend all without giving a
thought to their future needs.
Don’t be classed among the latter
—have a Savings Account at Our
Savings Department, increase it oft
en—such “smartness” pays!
4 per cent, interest paid on Sav
ings.
The Planters Bank of Americus
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FANCY GROCERIES
of all the best varieties are here in
'TBH plenty on our shelves and counters
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—■ w /'"•V'i wn&rl, we have it of the best and at the
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prompt attention.
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A. W. Smith, Pres. G. M. Eldridge, 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, R. J. Peri#
W. A. Dodson, Thos. Harrold, A. W. Smith,
N. M. Dudley, H. R. Johnson.
L. A. LOWREY, President. M. M. (,oWJ’k’i; Cashier.
JRAWFORD WHEATLEY, Vice. Pres. R. E. Me M T * Y. Assf. Cashier.
AMERICUS NATIONAL BANK
The Only National Bank in This Section.
CAPITAL $100,000.00. U. S. BONDS $100,000.00.
Under the supervision of the
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
Accounts of firms, individuals and coporations ißvited. Certificates of
deposit issued bearing interest.
J. W, SHEFFIELD, President, FLANK SHEFFIELD Vice-! res.
E. D SHEFFIELD, Cashier.
BANK OF COMMERCE,
Americus, Ga.
A general banking business transacted and all consistent
courtesies extended patrons. Certificates of deposit issued
earning interest.
L. G. COUNCIL, Pres. Inc. 1891. C. M. COUNCIL, Cashier.
R. J. PERRY, Vice-Pres H. S. COUNCIL, Asst. Cashier.
rgp The Planters Bank
wSftMf of Americus
Jiff •yjly l|! !§§[- 8Z- 8 jfi Lfra Total Resources, -- - $500,000
. I ?fi ” }* i 1 '**• •, With well-established
?•' B !i'o : • « tiolls , our large 'resources. and
S M B s&.i a ■ ory attention consistent with M'uml
banking, we solicit your patronage
££» f 'ißgs' :'a ! Interest allowed on time cert it
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Depertm/ent for Savings
Shoes Repaired. | ~JgL („ jjjj,
I pick the stitches and preserve tht / 11 ’
welts. I also repair shoes according to W/i/ll Knv nf CPI I
the standard rule. I use nothing but * ▼ 1/11
the ) : ■ t sole leather on the market / .
Spec l - attention given to ladies and nnvr aaL 1? f*C ll
childrens shoes. All Work Hand aRY /KIOCI OT IV La I
stitched or tacked if desired.
JOSEPH M. DUDLEY.
312 Jackson Street, IW./L. ENGLISH
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