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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER, FRIDAY. JANUARY 24. 1906.
THE TIMES-RECORDER
DAILY AND WEEKLY
Tke Americus Recorder. Established
J879.
Hie Americus Times, Established 1890
-Consolidated April, 1891.
THOMAS GAMBLE. JR.,
Editor and Manager.
■C. W. CORNFORTH,
Associate Editor and Assistant
Manager.
1. W. FURLOW. City Editor.
-W. L. DUPREE. „ .
Assistant Business Dept
Editorial Room Telephone 99.
The Times.Recordcr 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, (la., January 24, 1908,
Liquid refreshments will be served
In Delaware at a dinner in honor of
Bryan . Remember Fairbanks.
Newsboys in Chicago were arrested
Tor crying that war had been declared
between the United States and Japan.
Its a little too early for one paper
to try to get a scoop on the announce
ment
Having won a debate on the affirma
tive of the question of capital pun
ishment, a Brooklyn young man was
found hanging to a gas bracket a
few days later: This thing of carry
ing a victory too far has its draw
backs.
VACATED PROPERTY IS QUICKLY
FILLED.
' Savannah's locker clubs were hand
led without gloves by Rev. W. N. Alas-
worthy, of that city, in his Sunday’s
sermon. He declared that they were
little better than the saloons and
were In plain violation of the statu
tes. But the thing which sent a shiv
er over Savannah’s administration was
the threat that the coming' session
. of the Legislature would see the
’ last of the locker provision of the
i. prohibition law.
‘ The Rome Tribune and the Rome
'Herald have coalesced to form the
Rome Tribune-Herald. Two good pa-
. pens will no doubt make one better
»one. It is a happy omen that the
< editorial staff of the two papers has
'-been retained, so that the personality
-of the editorial pages of the two pa
pers -will he preserved. The new pa-
Der will take a full press service and
In other ways show improvement as
• compared 4 with either of its prede
cessor*. The entire Georgia press will
wish the new paper a successful ca
reer. ’
In the news columns of the Times-
Recorder of Tuesday was contained
the statement that the business houses
vacated by the saloons on January
1st, have been rented for other pur
poses. In the majority of instances
stocks of merchandise of different
kinds have already been opened up,
and for the rest leases have been
signed and stocks will be displayed
soon.
AH of this is most gratifying to the
citizens of Americus, many of whom
were fearful that the vacated build
ings might stand idle for some time.
In less than three weeks after the
prohibition law went Into effect, the
ranks have been closed up.
While the tax on the new enter
prises will not be equal to the saloon
licenses, thq money heretofore spent
for Intoxicants will be largely divert
ed to channels where the returns to
the purchaser are calculated to in
crease his earning capacity.
The new industries will greatly
improve the condition along a part
of Cotton avenue and will Increase ’
property values, along that thorough-1
fare. , I
Tiie banishment of the saloons will
hardly be felt by Americus nor will
there be nny signs of "For Rent," to
greet the eye on any of the places. ]
As time goes by the loss of the sa-
oons will not only not be felt in the
city’s revenues, but the number of
new establishments of a different kind
will enlarge the city’s reputation as
a retail center.
The coming year will no doubt he
the banner year in the retail trade.
The wholesale trade wijl also feel
the stimulus of more money through
the territory covered by Americus
wholesalers in the diversion of money
formerly spent fbr liquors Into the
purchases of groceries and other
things. In fact, the coming year
promises to be a prosperous one for
all lines of th,e city’s activity.
I At a convention of spinners held
at Charlotte last week an agreement
was reached that mills in the organi
zation should be shut down for a
month, the object being to curtail
production. It is quite likely that
the scarcity of cotton on hand was
largely instrumental in the shut down
proposed. While foreign spinners
have been taking more than last year,
the home, sales have not been so
large. In fact It Is said that Ameri
can spinners have the smallest stock
for years. The owners of the rem
nant of the crop will hardly be
stampeded by the action of the spin
ners who participated In the Charlotte
meeting.
1’Lotf TO BLOW UP BATTLESHIPS
Dispatches from Rio Janeiro tell
of a plot to blow up one or more
of the battleships under Admiral
Evans, the plan being laid to anar
chists of diverse nationalities. The
vigilance of the Rio Janeiro police has
resulted in the flight of the conspira
tors. TJie Brazilian government is
said to be hot on the trail of the arch-
conspirators.
If the plot was really laid, it is
gratifying to think that If was folleij
before it could be put into execution.
The rumors in New York tbfe lptter
part of last week that the Connecticut
had been blown up doubtless started
from the discovery of the plot. If
there was such a diabolical scheme it
is more than likely that some of
New York’s anarchists'were mixed
up in it.
The battleship Maine was the last
warship to be blown up and the re
sult was a war which gave lnBe-
pendence to Cuba. Brazil is of course
a friendly nation, and would not have
been held responsible for the work
of anarchists. Any serious disaster
lo tiie fleet would no doubt have re
sulted in turning back of the whole
squadron.
In the present state of public mind,
only ono nation would be considered
the gainer by the abandonment of
the trip, and that is Japan. Hence
the feeling against that country would
have been intensified.
The Rio Janeiro incident will serve
as a warning for future stops of the
fleet for fuel- and food. More cau
tion can be observed! in port and the
vigilance of the police doubted.
For the fleet to make the trip with
out mishap will be a triumph: for
disaster to overtake it, would be a
great notional misfortune.
SAVANNAH OVERREACHING HER.
SELF.
The advance guard of what prom-
The black republic of Haytl is
again the scene of revolt. The genius
of self-government does not He in
the island. Unless a strong govern
ment takes charge there is little pros
pect of peace and prosperity. Free
dom has a fine sound, but that life
liberty and the pursuit of happiness
have some advantages the unfor
tunate republic has been taught
for a quarter of century by a baptism
of blood.’
Bad cooking on the part of the wives
of workingmen has been assigned by
Justice Greenbaum, of the New York
Supreme Court, as a prolific cause
of drinking on the part of the hus
bands, in an address before a cook
ing school. However that may be,
it is certainly a fact that poor cook
ing la a dangerous accomplishment
on the part of a wife who must attend
personally to that department
Congressman Edwards, of the. Sav-
anah district, has. evidently the self-
assured task of making congress earn
Its pay. He has offered a resolution
that Congress shall meet at 9 a. m.,
Instead of 12 m„ and with an hour
for .luncheon, to remain in session
until C o'clock. For a one-nlght-
stand show, Edwards is certainly the
limit
Savannah has been charged with
having been the main cause of the
passage of the prohibition law for
Georgia, by reason of ^he flagrant
offenses ^of Its saloonkeepers. And
now that city is making Just as cer
tain a repeal of the locker provision
of the prohibition law by its loud
smelling abuse of the locker elub
privilege.
Hardly had the new law gone Into
effect before a crop of alleged lockers
sprang into being. So cleverly did
the liquor element in that city think
they had hoodwinked the prohibition
law, that they took more and more
liberties. A glance over the names
of the patron saints of these alleged
locker clubs reveals the fact that the
ex-saloon keepers practically mono
polize the field.
Naturally enough the law abiding
citizens wpre outraged at the
opening of the saloons under the name
of “locker, clubs.” According to the
belief of these citizens, a saloon un
der any other name would smell Just
as loudly. Hence, when Rev. Dr. Ains
worth, a prominent minister, attack
ed these alleged locker clubs in i
sermon no one was surprised, ^hough
Mayor Tiedeman was able to put up
a bluff bf injured innodence when his
administration was accused of licen
sing "clubs’’ which the smallest in
vestigation would have shown _to
be merely saloons under a thin
disguise.
The Times-Recorder was not
advocates of the prohibition law, but
after'it was passed this paper has
Insisted on the law receiving a square
deal. This has been the general at
titude of newspapers all over the
state.
But in Savannah the effort seems to
be to take all the liberty possible with
the locker club, and the city adminis
tration lets the saloon men run over
them, showing either incompetence in
the' administration, or a blindness
which is quite as tyid.
If the locker club provision is tak
en away,—and at the present sitting
such a course seems almost assured—
Savannah will have al the honor. In
stead of submitting to the prohibition
law, and obeying It in good, faith, it
has been made a farce: It may be
funny for awhile, but the coming Leg
islature will fall to see the Joke.
In blundering stupidity, Savannah
has brought down the vials of the
wrath of the temperance sentiment
of the state. In short, the city has
overreached herself, while her offi-
cials doubtless thought they were
playing a sharp trick.
I A unique plea was made before the
_ , Georgia Railroad Commission this
ises to be a host of colonists for week on a hearing of th'e application
Sumter county, arrived Wednesday, 1 of the Georgia Railroad for leave to
at Huguenln, as told in the Times- ; discontinue the running of two trains.
Recorder. Twenty-seven were In which were being operated at a loss,
the party, and it was stated that the <** the road alleged. One of the op-
chances were that the great majority l>°nents of the discontinuance of the
would locate here. Other parties are train claimed-that the road s officials
to follow j were tnlstaken in their estimates of
Sumter county offers great Induce- the cost of operation. ,
ments to northern farmers, who. 1* the duty of this commission
have been accustomed to struggle, to save the roads from their manage-
with worn-out lands, and also to con- ment," said tbe.opposer. The rail-
tend against the severe winters which* roads, if left alone, will starve them-
make life so disagreeable during. selves.”
a large part of the year. *8““ an at > surd P r °P° sltl » n couId
Few spots In the country are so hardly have been give* serious con-
happily situated for the farmer, dr' slderatton by the commission. But it
COLONISTS TO SUMTER
. IT IS TO LAUGH
can promise such returns for labor.
Cotton is the great staple, while
gardening, fruit growing, and the
production of cereals are most pro
fitably carried on.
The coding of the immigrants will
be a boon to the farming industry in
this coudty. Intensive methods of
farming will be more generally in
troduced and earth will yield a wealth
many times greater than heretofore.
The Influx in population of such a
desirable class will also be a great
advantage to this section.
Sumter county and Americus extends
a warm welcome to the newcomers.
shows to what absurdities the critics
of railroad management are forced
In order to bolster up untenable posi
tions.
Following the fixing of-the date
for the State Democratic primary,
which will be decided on the first
week in February, the political pot
will begin to ebulliate. With the
large number of county and state offi
cers to be chosen, the citizen will find
"candidates to the right of them, can
didates to the left of them.”
CLEARING SKIES
Some practical Joker started a re
port that Bryan had written the mana
ger of his publicity bureau that if
the opposition to his candidacy could
muster one-third of the delegates to
the Denver convention that the Peer
less would step down. Though it
vyas entirely unnecessary, the mana
ger sent out an official denial. The
only vote that will chill the ardor
of the Nebraska Colonel will be when
he receives less than enough to .nom
inate.
A glance over the pages of the news
columns of the larger dallies nearly
any day will show evidences that the
financial situation is really clearing
up. It is not merely the shout of
enforced optimism which Is seeking
thereby, to restore confidence—it is
the recording of cold facts that tells
the story.
On Thursday the Bauk of England
reduced its rate to 5 per cent, which
is fully normal. New York banks
are practically back on a Cask basis,
Atlanta iq calling in the clearing house
certificates, while smaller Qeqrgla
cities are taking similar action.
In the industrial world industries
are starting again, and in many cases
the labor supply has been found in
adequate. especjally in the Pennsyl
vania coal regions, which the exodus
of foreigners decimated. ' .
It only remained for the price of
cotton to advance to complete the
prosperity of the. South, and this
has been accomplished within the
last three days.
The money hoarder is how no bet
ter than a common .miser.
Tax returns show that Governor
Stnfth is one of the wealthiest men
in Georgia. In his own opinion there
Is one thing lacking to fill,his cup to
the brim, pardoning the metaphor.
«
Pennsylvania had provided a statue
of Matthew Stanley Quay, which
will be placed in the state capitol.
Gov. Stuart, has been troubled to
find a suitable place to set it up.
How about putting it down in the
cellar?
Ex-Gov. Beckham of Kentucky, is
having a hard time-to secure the
Senatorial toga. Ex-Gov. Bradley,
a Republican, has nearly as many
votes and hopes for the best. Beck
ham is charged with holding a snap
primary some time ago, at which he
was declared the nominee.
The Texas' Railroad Commission
has revoked its order reducing pas
senger fares from 3_to 2 1-2 cents In
that state. It was stated that the
present was an inauspicious time for
such a reduction.
Depositors in New York savings
banks on Tuesday received their semi
annual interest payment, amounting
to about forty millions. The banks
of deposit have notified the savings
banks that no more money can be used
as their vaults are full. It looks
like the situation is fully, normal at
the money center. ,
Bryan is trying to eject Beckham
i Sena&r from Kentucky. In reply
to suggestions that he miglit hurt
his candidacy he said: "I am not
afraid of hurting mysell when the
Interests of the Democratic party
are at stake.” He probably imagines
thht he is the party.
A preacher who addressed the Mod
el License League at Louisville a
day or two ago, Is quoted as saying
that the church and the liquor trade
should stand “shoulder to shoulder.”
Generally the church and the liquor
traffic have a shoulder fight, but not
in the chdmmy manner suggested.
It is tipped off by the Macon News
that Chairman McLendon, of the Rail
road Commission, is the administra
tion candidate for Governor. The
conservatives ought to be able to
bqwl him over as easily as anybody
else.
As an explanation of his presence
in a room at 3 a. m., a New York thief
claimed that he had broken into the
house to pay a debt of three dollars
he owed a boarder. Somehow .the
man's story was not believed by the
Judge.
Two prominent Republicans are
Bending out appeals to Southern Re
publicans to send uninstructed dele
gations to Chicago. Who Is the dark
horse?
I ~~
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vears. $11.70 or $5 85 by the year; at the age of 20 years, $10 35 or $5.«7^J>y the year. Com
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