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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District
U. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia
Americus, Georgia, AHgust 28. 191*.
PftRAGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING
Some men who cultivate their
voices also believe in irrigating them.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned mother wh o cut her little boys’
hair?
We can hear those American boys
saying every minute, "Berlin or bust,
b’gosh!”
A girl can be crazy about diamonds
wi'hout knowing a single thing about
baseball.
Our idea of a hen-pecked man is
one who has to sit up to open the
door for his wife when she comes in
late at night.
Let’s give the Germans another
good trouncing by licking the stuf
find out of Hardwick on September
the eleventh.
,f i
We’d like to be in Berlin when
those boys in khaki march in and
some of ’em blow smoke in the Kai
ser’s face.
By the way, who is looking after
William Schley Howard's congres
sional duties in Washington while he
is plrooting about the state?
It’s alright to give the soldiers in
France the right to vote, but we have
an idea that they are attending to
business of a great deal more impor
tance.
The people who are always wait
ing for their ships to come in can
explain their non-arrival on the
ground that they were attacked by
submarines.
Excess profit is getting more than
you earn, and if the government takes
over all excess profits it should col
lect the entire salaries paid some of
the members of Congress.
The man who believes everything
tie sees in the advertisements of
summer resorts, and goes to the re
sort on the strength of it, comes back
without faith in human nature.
HARDWICK NEXT.
The New York World says:
There will be general satisfac
tion throughout the country over
the defeat of Senator Vardaman
in the Mississippi primaries by
that fine, loyal American, Repre
sentative Pat Harrison.
For many years Vardaman has
consistently represented all that
is worst in Southern politics. His
record in peace was little if any
•petver than his record in war.
slfhough war served to emphasize
the mac's unfitness to he a Sen
ator in the Congress of the Unit
ed States. The country has seen
no other such example of utter
inconsistency that that of Missis-
WHO’S WHO
aw SUMTER COUNTTt
THE COUNTY UNIT RULE AND THE
PRESENT SENATORIAL RACE.
As long as William Schley Howard
remains in the Senatorial race, there
is a possibility of Senator Hardwick
being re-elected.
The Neill primary law—positively
the most iniquitous legislation ever
fastened around the necks of the
people of this state—gives the junior
senator this chance of success.
The law provides that “the candi
dates who receive the highest num
ber of popular votes in any given
county shall be considered to have
carried such county,” and shall re
ceive the convention two votes for
each vote that that particular can
didate has in the lower house of the
general assembly.
Thus, if Sumter County polled 1,200
votes, and 775 should he divided
equally between Harris and Howard,
and Hardwick should receive 425
votes he would carry this country.
The Neill primary law makes it
possible for the minority candidate
to be tile winner in any race where
there are three or more candidates.
Moreover it perpetuates a convention
sys .cm, and it gives occasion for the
iinpo.jit'on of a second primary on
the people.
In the event no candidate receives
a majoiity 0 f the county unit votes,
another primary will be called.
If Howald’s candidacy therefore,
should prevent W. J. Harris from car
rying enough counties t 0 get a ma
jority of the county unit votes, there
will be a second race, participated in
by the two candidates who received
the highest number of county unit
votes.
This peculiar system, conceived by
Thomas E. Watson for the sole pur
purpose of giving the country vote a
greater prestige and importance over
the city vote, is now actually the law
of this state. It admirably suits
Senator Hardwick’s purpose. It gives
him a chance, whereas under the safe
and sane Democratic plan of giving
the election to the candidate obtain
'ng the most popular votes he would
have no chance at all.
The returns from Mississippi show
that Vardaman would have been re
elected if the Neill primary system
had prevailed in that state. Although
a minority candidate, Senator Varda
man, than whom no senator, not even
Hardwick, has been a more bitter
antagonist of the administration,
would have been elected, due to the
fact that the loyal vote of the state
was divided between two candidates.
Fotlunately for Mississippi, it does
not have this unfair plan, and in con
sequence: Vardaman was defeated, as
he deserved to be.
The Times-Recorder believes tha
the present campaign is going to fo
cus public attention on the Neill pri
mary plan more than ever before,
and that a sentiment will develop suf
ficient to force its repeal by the next
legislature. Indeed, the repeal would
have been accomplished this year if
the opposition had been conducted by
lagislators of conspicuous ability
determined to make it a vital issue.
Os course, there is no probability of
a situation like the one now existing
ever confronting Georgia again, but
the system itself is so unfair, so un-
Democratic, so preposterous, in fact,
that it should not survive, and it
should be wiped from the statute
books as soon as the general assem
bly convenes again.
sippi in having Vardaman in the
Senate as a colleague of John
Sharpe Williams.
The beneficial public effect of
Vardaman’s defeat is not likely to
be confined to Mississippi. It
will help to keep Blease out of
the Senate from South Carolina,
and cannot altogether be without
influence in relation to Hard
wick’s candidacy for renomina
tion In Georgia. The South can
find no better time to clean house
and get rid of its profressional
demagogues and blatherskites. In
eliminating Vardaman it has
made a splendid beginning.
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY?
WmEßlcc.£t> w.vIES-RECORDE!f EPS
WHAT HOWARD WROTE THE
PRESIDENT.
In April William Schiey Howard
wrote the president this letter:
“My Dear Mr. President:
"Should there ever come a time dur
ing the campaign when my with
drawal is necessary to accomplish
the defeat of Mr. Hardwick, I assure
you that I will gladly and willingly
do so, and throw all of my support
to that candidate who may be in the
race that will make his defeat cer
tain.”
That time has long since passed,
but Howard remains in the race in
spite of the deliberate promise that
he voluntarily made the president of
the United States. In this matter, as
in many others, William Schley How.
ard simply lied.
lit? curious feature of the How
ard candidacy now —curious in view
of the sentiments expressed in the
foregoing letter concerning Hard
wick—is that the Howard campaign
is directed most pointedly at Harris.
7' e Howard fight is not on Hardwick
at all, but on Harris. It has the ef
fect of co-operating with Hardwick,
for every vote taken from Harris
strengthens Hardwick just that much.
Indeed, it is a significant fact that
in many counties the Howard and
Hardwick forces seem t o have a
working agreement. It is significant
that Howard pays more attention
to Harris than he does to Hardwick,
and that Howard is spending thous
ands of dollars in advertising attack
ing Harris, instead of going with
equal vigor after Hardwick’s scalp
There is no escaping the conclusion
that the men behind Howard’s cam
paign, and who are chargeable with
his unfortunate and ill-timed candi
dacy, are seemingly in some sort of
collusion or secret sympathy with
Senator Hardwick and his advisers.
However, in spite of this palpable
attempt to deceive thousands of loyal
Georgians, by seeking to induce them
to vote for Howard, Harris stands
today, as he has stood from the first,
the strongest candidate, the most log
ical, and the one most certain of elec
tion. He stands so high that he has
received from President Wilson him
self the strongest endorsement ever
given a senatorial candidate, an en
dorsement that is equivalent to an
appeal to the people of Georgia to
elect him.
Howard wrote the president that he
would withdraw when it became nec
essary to do so in order to insure the
defeat of Mr. Hardwick, but when
the president wrote Editor Clark
Howell and suggested that the people
of the state should combine on Mr.
Harris in order to consummate this
object Howard laid down on his
pledge and began to abuse the pres
ident. by accusing him of interfer
ence in Georgia’s internal affairs —
doing so, too, when he was the first
t c inject the president into the cam
paign.
Give a woman a vanity box and a
powder puff, and she is happy as long
as the powder holds out.
MATINEE IDOL NO
MATINEE IDLER
Star Besieged by “Notes”
Kenneth Harlan, who plays oppo
site Mildred Harris in that UAfcst
Lois Weber production, “The Price
of a GOod Time,” is six feet one, blue
eyed and brown-haired. He is twen
ty-two years old and is a product of
Boston.
With Gertrude Hoffman he scored
in “Sumurun,” with Eva Burrows-
Fontaine in vaudeville, and on tour
with Brady’s “Way Down East.”
With various stock companies he
appeared as leading juvenile, and
gained the reputation of matinee idol
and no matinee idler.
He receives something like one
hundred pink notes daily and as
many requests for photographs.
When Plante Do Not Thrive.
Bury a small piece of beefsteak close
to the roots, or lay a piece of raw po
tato on the surface of the ground near
the roots. If there are worms around
the roots, they will come to the meat
or potato to eat. and may be easily
removed
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY I
DR. N. S. EVANS, Realist
Established 18 Years
Jackson St.—Near Kress. Americas,
ped offices In
I have engaged the services of Dr.
E. E. Parsons, a dentist of many years
experience, who will be with me <n
the future.
We Are Prepared to Do Anything
and Everything In Denlstry and at
the Right Prices.
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Twelve hundred feet above the
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UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
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RAILROAD SCHEDULES.
Arrival and departure of passenger
trains, Americus, Ga.
Central of Georgia Railway.
Trains Arrive.
From Columbus
(Seminole) *12:10 a ■
From Jacksonville
(Seminole) *t:4o a ■
From Atlanta-Macon * 6:22 a i
From Albany ••....* 6:40 a m
From Columbus ! 110:00 a m
From Columbus 11l :45 a in
From Anlanta-Macon • 2:17 p
From Montgomery-Albany *.2:17 p.m
From Columbus J 7slop m
From Macon *7:25 p n
From Montgomery-Albany *18:52 p m
Trains Depart
’jr Jacksonvjue
(Seminole) *12:10 a n
For Chicago (Seminole) ..* 2:40 a m
For Montgomery-Albany * 5:22 a m
For Macon-Atlanta * 6:40 a
For Columbus ! 7:10 a m
For Macon and Atlanta ...*2:17 p m
For Montgomery Albany ..* 2:17 pm
For Columbus ..! 23:00 p m
For Columbus ! 2:80 p m
For Albany * 7:86 p m
For Macon- Atlanta *10:52 p ir
•Dally. ! Except Sunday. !!Sunday
only.
Seaboard Air Line.
Leave Americus for Savannah and
intermediate station 8 and points east:
12:31 P. m. 1:20 a m.
Leave Amencug for Helena and in
cermediate points
6:15 p tn
Leave Amecriue tor Colo ibue,
Montgomery and points West
3:08 p. m.
G. S. & F. RY-
Cffeetlvi* May 12th 1818.
Trains ,ea»< Cordele:
2:00 P M.—For Jacksonville and
Palatk?, via Valdosta.
6:35 P. M—Local for Tiftcn.
3:08 A. M.—Jacksonville and Palat
ka, via Valdosta cr Tifton.
4:50 A. M.—For Jacksonville, vis
Tifton, connecting at Tifton for Va>
dosta.
2:10 P. M. —For Macon, connecting
lor points North.
8:50 A. M. —Local for Macon, con
necting (or points North.
2:2b A M.—For Macon and points
Nerth. “Dixie Flyer.”
2:08 A. J*. —For Macon and point-
Nortta, “The Southland."
Schedule shov»u as Information to
the public; not guaranteed.
W. JAMISON, C. B RHODES,
Agt.. ?. T. D. Macon. 0«. O. P Jk.
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
L. G. COUNCIL, Pres. T. B. BOLTON, Asst Cashier.
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashie J. M. BRYAN, Asst. Cash’r.
INCORPORATED 1891.
(THE PLANTERS BANK OF AMERICUS -
Resources over one and*quarter million dollars
aggJpjM §1 large resources, and close
fISwS w ft' Bf Bwo ft personal attention to details,
la r? Cl Jr Uu fp Will al we that we can render
.. JaE ile our CUBtomera the beat of
commercial and B&vtngs.
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400 reasons I
for using out
“King Bee”
Oil Cooking Stoves
WHY?
Because they are equipped 'with
KEROGAS BURNERS and consume 400 gallons
of air to one of kerosene oil— they make fuel cheap.
Williams-Niles Company
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Telephone 706
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I MONEY 51%
MfIMFY f SiiUn on * arm * an( k at 5 1-2 per cent
j ITIUiIL I LuililLU interest and borrowers have privj
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period, stopping interest on amounts paid. We always
have best rates and easiest terms and give quickest set;
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA^
s
J. W. SHEFFIELD, President E D. SHEFFIELD, Cashier.
FRANK SHEFFIELD, Vice Pres’t LEE HUDSON, Asst. Cashier.
Bank of Commerce
A Commercial Banking Business
High Grade Bonds and Investment Securities. Traveler’s
Checks for Sale
The Accounts of Individuals, Firms and Corporations
Invited.
BANKING HOURS 9 A. M TO 2 P. M.
Americus Undertaking Company
Funeral Directors and Embalmen
Nat LeMaster, Manager
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Day Phones 88 ana’23l "Night 661 'andj 13.
ALLISONUNDERTAKING CO.
ESTABLISHED 1908
Funeral Directors and Embalm
Auto and Horse Drawn Funeral Cars
OLIN BUCHANAN, Director
Day Phone 253, Night Phones 381-J, 106, 657 I
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MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1918.