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PAGE SIX f TIMEB-REC ORD ER f published tan Published by The Times-Record er Co., (inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered u second cleet tuner at the pMtoffi« al Americus, Georgia, according to the Ael el Congreu. The Auoclsted Press Is eiclosirely entitled te the nse for ths tepuhlieation of all new dis patches credited to it er not otharndM credited to this paper and also the local newt published here- In. All right of republication erf special dispatches ere also resorted. National Addetllsihg Representstirw, FROST LANDIS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New York; ’aeries’ Cat Bldg.. A THOUGHT As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. —Rev. 3:19. It is the beautiful necessity of our nature to love something.— Douglas Jerrold. There’s a Row in the Georgia McAdoo Camp There is to be a state conven tion in Atlanta on April 23 to name delegates to the Demo cratic National convention. This convention will be a McAdoo convention, inasmuch as Mc- Adoo carried the state, and this matter was settled before the primary. Every county will be represented by McAdoo coun ties regardless of how it went in the primary. After the election, the county iexecutive committees immediate ly named McAdoos but somebody, somewhere in the McAdoo organization, hied to a back room in Atlanta and ALL the delegates from the 160 counties were appointed from Atlanta, without Consulting the county chairmen or any one else. Overnight, county autonomy was kicked as high a cocked hat. Men who had fought for Mc- Adoo were Side-tracked for those whom the Atlanta head quarters wanted on the Atlanta floor. There must have been strong reasons for so radical a deal and probably there is. But what? • The convention will decide who is to be the national com mitteeman from Georgia. That’s one reason, but probably not THE reason. Have the Atlanta McAdoo tppnagers turned the convention over to tire Ku Klux Klan? A state politician who knows what he’s talking about says this is what has happened, that in the list of delegates from over the State there are many men known or suspected of being klansmen. Mr. Underwood was openly opposed to the klan. Mr. Mc- Adoo skilfully evaded the is sue. Men said to be klansmen spoke in favor of the McAdoo candidacy, is the klan now col lecting? That answer may come from the floor of the state conven tion, in the form of a platform plank—and it may not. At any rate some of the ap pointed delegates to the Mc- Adoo state convention are re fusing to accept places and are raising a row that is being heard from one end of the state to the other. The Journal of Labor, Atlan ta, states that labor was abso lutely ignored in the selection of delegates; that while labor threw its almost unanimous sup port to Mr. McAdoo, possibly holding the bajance of power in labor s hands, not a single out standing laboring man’s name appears among those selected to take part in the state convention. That’s one row in the Mc- Adoo camp that may bring far teaching results. There’ s no kick on the rule that bars Underwood delegates from those counties which were carried by the Alabama senator. The kick is on the manner in which the McAdoo delegates were selected. The Atlanta Constitution, which supported McAdoo, claims the fundamentally sound and democratic system of coun ty autonomy holding each county as a unit in the fabric of Georgia’s governmental system has only been wholly and ig nominiously violated in the man ner and methods employed in selecting the delegates from the 160 individual counties, saying: In all of the wave of discon tent that is sweeping over the state today regarding the auto cratic and wholly unprecedented method employed in naming the delegates from the 160 counties in Georgia to the approaching presidential convention, The Constitution has only one inter est and one concern, and that is the integrity of the individual county’s rights in Georgia’s sys tem of representative govern ment. In the instance at issue not only were the county democratic organizations ignored but county organizations of friends and sup porters of the successful candi date in the March 19 primary ig nored in the selection of dele gates from the respective coun ties. This is a strike at the very vitals of county autonomy, and automatically a strike at the democratic doctrine of state’s rights, and at the fundamentals of representative government. It does not matter what one man, or committee, or secret Cabal was responsible, or whether the appointments were made at the midnight hour, or in the open daylight, the fact is paramount that some person, or some coterie Os persons, appointed, in the city of Atlanta, without consultation with county party authorities or candidate leaders, the delgates and alternates from all of the 160 counties, and announced the appointments publicly without the ratification or verification or sanctioning, or otherwise con sulting with representatives in the respective counties. The Albany Herald support ed McAdoo in the recent pri mary, and its editor, Col. H. M. Mclntosh, together with his as sociated editor, were appointed delegates from Dougherty, but both refused the appointment because of the steam roller tac tics pursued by the McAdoo mangers (or machine) in Atlan ta. Under the caption “The Mc- Adoo Committee’s Amazing Effrontery,” Colonel Mclntosh flays those responsible, saying: Those energetic and, we doubt not, well-meaning gentlemen who are in charge of the McAdoo ma chine in Georgia, and who are now operating it on orders pro mulgated from Atlanta, have stor ed up endless trouble for them selves and their friends. Pres ently—before the end of the year, perhaps—they will have something else to put over, and when the time comes they may confidently expect to find them selves handicapped by a wide spread resentment of the manner in which the McAdoo committee in Atlanta has packed the state convention scheduled for the 23 of April. There is neither justification nor excuse for ignoring the Coun ty executive committees, in which alone can rest rightful authority to name county delegations to the state convention. It would of course be incumbent upon the county committees to appoint Mc- Adoo supporters, but the county chairman could safely have been depended upon to perform that duty satisfactorily. And they should have been permitted to perform it. As matters stand a county committee chairman who issues credentials to those named as county delegates by the McAdoo state headquarters is simply tak ing orders from a state campaign committee—and the State Demo cratic Executive Committee looks on approvingly, premitting the outrage. On the same principle by which the amazing thing has been done in Georgia, it will be in order for the Democratic National Committee to appoint Georgia’s delegates to the New York con vention next summer. It is a piece of highhanded business that is certian to react against the men who are respon sible for it. It is travesty on Democracy and a representative form of government to have the delegates to a state convention selected by a partisan campaign committee With headquarters in Atlanta, in stead of by the executive com mittee of the counties they rep resent. How do the Democratic voters of the 160 counties of Georgia who cast their ballots on the 19th of March, like to have the an nouncement of the delegates that are to represent them in the state convention come from a cam paign headquarters in Atlanta, instead of from their respective local executive committees? The ignoring of the county ex ecutive committees in connection with the selection of delegates will react on the machine that is putting this stunt over just as surely as human natur e may be depended upon to assert itself. The Columbus Enquirer-Sun, which supported Senator Under wood, is not in sympathy with the outcry against McAdoo’s headquarters, saying what has happened is the "logical result of methods undemocratic,’’ and lays the blame on the rules of the primary, saying: It was agreed and understood that the candidate who won should name the delegates. The object of this rule was purely one of expediency—to forestall the conditions which arose after the Palmer-Smith-Watson contest. It was an undemocratic rule, be cause it eliminated all repri .men tation of the minority. The proposal was undemo cratic, but the Democratic organi zation made it party law. The time to protest was when the regulation was proposed. Under wood supporters and McAdoo followers knew what the rules of the game were. If the State Democratic Executive Committee could obliterate the representa tion of Underwood counties, we see no reason to rail at the nam ing of the county delegations by the McAdoo State Headquarters. Democracy had already been as sassinated when the presence of delegates of the defeated candi dates in the state convention was outlawed; th e method of appoint ing McAdoo’s men is a matter of trivial detail. In taking the action it did in January, the HIE LOT OFIM HOUSANDS® S' t hope lies dead within the heart, v secret sorrow close conceal d. We shnnk lest looks or words impart z What must not be reveal'd. ’Tis hard to smile when one would weep: S'* To s P w^en one s^enl b®’ L * To wtike when one should wish to sleep, J) And wake to agony. € Yet such the lot by thousands cast C Y Who wander in this world of care, And bend beneath the bitter blast, To save them from despair. But Nature waits her guests to greet, Where disappointment cannot come; And Time guides with unerring feet The weary wanderers home. , —Anne Hunter. . j ’ Old Days In Americus < TEN YEARS AGO TODAY. Monday, no paper published. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY. (From The Times Recorder. April 7, 1904.) < An Americus lady, last year, sold $370 worth of vegetables from nei own little garden, and thinks that she will even beat that figure this year. The registration of voters for the election two weeks hence pass ed the 1,500 mark yesterday. Only three days in which to register are left to the late voters, and tb-e books will postively be closed Sat urday night next. Perry & Brown, who are erect ing a handsome building on For syth street, have declined to put a theatre annex in the rear. The proposition was to build a plajU house on the ground floor and in rear of the stores now Ibu’ilding with an entrance on Lamar street. There are no sales of spot cot ton in Americus at present; nearly p.ll buyers have gone t 0 Europe or to plowing and the season here is practically over. Local quotations are 14 and three eights cents for middlings, but about the only mid dlings sold here just now dome from the Chicago paegers and go to sustain the farmer who is mak ing more cotton. Rumor has it that the matrimon ial lightning will strike next on i.'e street. There are many homes ihei’.cn where the lightning rods are not up. The Miss ic nary Union of the ’rot.byterian church is in session ih Albany today with quite a number of churcl.es represented. A delogj. ion co.:, h lin -of Mrs. Harrison, Mirs May Davis, Mrs. |Leben, Miss Louise Ci;, pman, Mrs. Walter Brown, representing the Americus State Democratic Executive Com mittee declared itself in favor of the slogan, “To th e victor belongs the spoils,” and threw into the rubbish heap Grover Cleveland’s dictum, “Public office is a public trust.” The Macon Telegraph, edi torially discussing the rules of the primary, says the rules will have to stand because they rep resent the law of the presiden tial primary, adding, however— This editorial has no reference, then, to arbitrary interpreta tions placed upon th e rules by those in charge. If the bosses haven’t “toted” fair, but have played the McAdoo people into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, it is for the McAdoo forces to de termine if this deliverance into the power of the Klan has been done in accordance with the let ter (if not the spirit) of the rules. Before this thing is over, some of the good, solid, sound McAdoo folks are going to wish that somebody else had been allowed to come along—to help compose a bulwark against the white-dapped .tide that may flow into and overwhelm the con vention in the platform writing, if nothing else. Later in another editorial the Telegraph has this to say in re ply to a criticism from the Cor dele Dispatch, of which C. E. Brown is editor: The protest in some sections of the state is based on the fact that their county delegations have been delivered into th e hands cf the Ku Klux Klan. If Mr. Brown doesn’t know this, he eith er ought Io wake up or take something for his liver. This is not the case in Crisp county; it is not the case in various other counties, but it is cer'ninly so-in a number of the counties. When influential, hard-working Mc- Adoo leaders who are non-klans men but who happen to reside in rural or city counties that are klan nests, are absolutely side tracked by (most manifestly the order of the klan, Mr. Brown, down and be good doggie,”, in deferemv to Mr. McAdoo.. Who was it that called the Telegraph to task for not fighting v THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER " church, went to Albany yesterday |t o attend. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY. (From The Times Recorder. April 7, 1894.) A party of local bicyclists will make a pleasant trip Sunday morn ing. They will leave the city at 7 o’clock dine at Magnolia Springs; visit friends in Smithville and l re turn home that evening; making a circuit of thirty five or forty miles. The handsome 'home of Mr. and Mrs. John Windsor on Rees Park was the, scene of a charming gather ing last evening. The ‘At Home” club was delightfully entertafmed by Misses Hattie and Callie Wind sor and on no former occasion has the club been more graciously re ceived. Mr. Jerry Duckworth, a pros perous young farmer of this coun ty, brought in fourteen bales of, cotton yesterday, all that remained of last year’s crop. He has been finally gave up the idea as a hope less one. Misses Georgia Lee Hawkinsj and Lucy Mid Cobb entertained quite a number of young friends at a card party last evening. Tempting refreshments were served at season able hour and the occasion was very much enjoyed. Charles Lingo leaves Monday, for Butler, where he will establish himself in the photograph business for a month or two. He is a goou artist and will meet with success in his new field. Captain Alf Bell will go' over to Webster today for a little rec 4 reation. He thinks a visit to his celebrated mill pond, which of course includes a fine fish Pry the best tonic on earth for forheuma ism, had times an the woes of life in general. ■"the klan more boldly but this same Editor Brown, our good friend down at Cordele? Who was it that has howled about the rotteness and the danger of this thing of th e night and the mask put Charles E. Brown? And now he stands by calmly and watches his own political group being played into the hands of the klan, and offers up this: “Don’t say anything; Mr. McAdoo might object, and it wouldn’t be good sportsmanship on your part.” When we said give the klan a fair chance to prove itself not a menace, Mr. Brown howled. Now we fight to keep the klan off the throat of the Georgia body politic and prevent klannism from being substituted for De mocracy in Georgia, and Mr. Brown howls. We are not in favor of setting up a new party in this state, and we are just bad sportsmen enough to protest against it. We have not said Mr. McAdoo was in favor of such new party, although we cannot keep the Cordele editor from ’ drawing his own conclusions. A ruthless steam roller has been run over the Democratic voters of the state. County or ganizations have been kicked in to oblivion. As high-handed a I piece of political trickery has I been played as was ever wit nessed in Georgia, and, of course, Mr. McAdoo is fully cognizant of what is happening and WHY. The Times-Recorder suppprt ed Underwood and Sum* county gave him a majc .. vote. Under the rules of the primary the delegates from this county should be McAdoo sup porters but they should have been appointed by the SUM TER COUNTY executive com mittee and not by unknown persons in a back room in At lanta. There must be and there is strong reason for so undemo cratic, unfair and wholly unten able performance. “HOW FAR DID YOU SAY IT WAS, JOHN? , ,» )».. ■ J i ft Il ) i MV- ' Tra-Z <- : Ip .Apple PRIZE Who should pay the cost of broad casting radio programs? For the best answer of this question a prize of SSOO will be paid by American Radio Association, 50 Union Square New York City. If you want in formation, write to that, address The contests closes July 20. In England the government makes eath owner of a receiving set buy a license. The money goes mostly to broadcasting. Such a law could not be generally enforced in our country, with millions of young radio fans. Its fairness is also disputable, though it’s much like buying records for a phono graph. * * * KILLED Nearly 2500 American coal min ers were killed in 1923, final check-up shows. This means that one miner gave up his life for ev ery 237,000 tons of coaf brought to the surface. Fortunately, the death rate among miners is gradually drop ping. It was reduced almost a tenth last year. Protective laws, won after long and intense cam paigns by newspapers and othev agencies, are -bringing results. 'More than half of accidental deaths in and around mines are due to falls off roofs and coal. • * * IMPERILED A crop worth over two billion d’d lars a year is imperiled by the “borer” insect now advancing west ward into the corn belt. If a foreign nation started fight ing us to make us pay that much indemnity a year, every one would rally against it. Why do we submit tamely almost indifferently, to insect enemies while similar onslaughts from rival nations would start us enthusiasti cally on the warpath? One reason is that professional patriots, war bankers, munitions makers and pro pagandists can’t make large and sudden fortune rousing the mob against insects. RICHES The national wealth of our coun try now is about 320 billion dol lars, according to the way Uncle Sam figures it, including money, real estate, autos, homes, farm animals, mines, oil under the earth, railroads, etc. If all this were divided evenly, there’d only be about S3OOO for ev ery man, woman and child. How much does your combined family average below or above this fig ure? An error in the government estimate is that it doesn’t include the greatest form of national wealth—man r -ver. Without hu-< man labor, r..i other forms, of wealth are worthlc . Labor is the beginni’ '? ai d the end, Alpha and Omeg . * » » BORED orn crop now is imperiled U e “borer” insect, just as cot by the boll weevil. The corn borer came from Eu rope. It was discovered first in I A I\IS made on improved I’K«farm1 ’K«farm lands at cheap est rates for terms of 5,7 or 10 years with pre-payment option given 3 oney secured promptly. We have n >w outstanding over $1,100,000 on fawns in Sumter county alone, with plenty more to lend. jiIIDDLETON McDONALD Conwpondent Atlanta Trust Co., in SMpiter, Lee, Terrell, Schley, Macom. Stewart, Randolph and Webstar counties. 21 Planters Bank Buildii Sr /mericus, Ga. Phone 89 W 211« :■ MONDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 7, 1924 our country in 1917 among broom corn of eastern Massachusetts. At tem ptsto “quarantine” it are fail ing. The borer is moving west ward into the big corn belt at the rate of 100 miles a year. It is said to be the most difficult of plant life pests to combat. A titanic struggle between man and insect life is gettting under way. So far, insects have not be come as great a menace as disease bacteria—plant life, cousyis, of toadstools. • ♦ • PERFUME Lilac has become the lavorite American perfume, outselling all others. Jasmine is second in popu larity among women, delicate violet third. Musks and other violent per fumes have lost favor. They were invented originally to conceal the wearer’s need of a bath, back in tihe days before running water and modern plumbing. A golf ball leaves the club head at about 135 miles >an hour, which is about as fast as the golfer leaves the office. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Day Phones 88 and 231 BRIDES TO BE Spring is here, wed ding dates will soon be announced, and brides to be are now choosing their pat terns of silver. Real social leaders prefer the FAIRFAX pat tern for all occasions. If you see this pat tern you will buy it. You will like it. Americus Jewelry Company Phone 229 i Wallis Mott, Manager L. G. COUNCIL, President. ' T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. 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