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The Journal i» the Official Organ of Ware County, and County Board of Education and Trade* and Labor Aasciiibl.v No. I of Way,-
WEEKLY EDITION
WAY0B0S8, QA., FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 1913.
WEEKLY EDITION
PRICE $1 PER YEAR.
Not a Frost But a Freeze Out!
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mMA yor reed admits new charter is not all good
IF I HAD PREPARED IT, IT
A DIFFERENT BILL T
HAVE BEEN
ARE OFFERED”
FINISHIH6 TOUCHES ON THE GATUN LOCKS AT PANAMA
OCATES OF REVISION
FALl DOWN AGAIN IN
BEAUTY PARK
EDITORIAL
The advertised big charter
meeting caused such a drop in
the temperature that instead of a
frost like the Gilchrist meeting,
that did not meet, it turned out
to be a regular freeze last night.
No information could he had
♦luring the day yesterday as to
the speakers scheduled to speak
at what the friends of the char
ter had hoped to make their big
meeting last night. It is under-
t stood that the charter advocates
scoured the city yesterday in
search of some one who favored
l&e'charter, and had nerve enough
to face the tremendous opposi
tion, aud make a speech.
The charter advocates bad hop
ed to inject some new blood into
their cause last night, but after
a desperate all day effort they
had to give up in despair and
stick to their old crowd. So it
wok up to Mayor Harry D. Reed
to make the speech of the even
ing.
What little argument that the
'barter advocates have was pre
sented in a very fair, interesting
and clear manner by Mr. Reed,
but the fact that he was con
scious of the weakness of his
gument gave it but little weight
with the few people who had
H gathered in the park.
^ It was plain to be seen that
fully four-fifths of the crowd of
, about 150 were against the ehar-
*ter. As the speaker pointed out
what he considered the good
points of the charter there was
r no sign of approval on the part
of the audience. A few men,
probably 6 or 7; on two or three
occasions mustered up courage
enough to give a few feebls claps
of their hands, but there was
nothing that could be taken by
the speaker as encouragement.
Mayor Reed stated that he did
not consider all that was in the
charter as good, but that all men
could not .agree upon everything
and that all had to give and take
He stated that if he had written
Jjfce charter that it would have
^een different, but that he con
sidered it much better than n'-
change at all.
V Mayor Reed stated that undci
the present form of government
good service could not be expect
ed because the mayor did not
have enough authority. He said
that he consider'd the provision
of the new charter giving the
mayor the right to name all the
htada of the departments with
the right to discharge them at
will, and giving him other addi-
Vio®* 1 authority wa* a good pro-
| * toon.
j 'll on Tneaday night Mr. W. E.
Ydirmir* acted a* chairman. Mr.
THE FIGHT IS OVER, AND WON
Only a feu remaining allots are to be tired, aud the smoke of
the baitle will have cleared away, aud the charter light ended. The
Journal is sure that* the new charter will be defeated by a tremen
dous majority. A l'liV volt s may yet be changed, but the outcome is
certain today.
in all probability this is the last word the Journal will have to
say to the people during the tight, as it is our last issue, unless we
are compelled to publish •. morning EXTRA tomorrow to answer
“eleventh hour” campaign matter. Before the result of the elee-
tion is announced we want to say that we regret exceedingly that
personalities have been injected into the campaign. There was no
excuse for same, am* the Journal is glad to he able to say that it has
remained clean from such uncalled for practice.
Another thing the Journal has to regret is that during the cam
paign two close personal triends of ours have put themselves be
tween the Journal and the thing the Journal was shooting at. and
these friends may feel that we aimed at them instead of at the char
ter. If such is the case we wish to take this opportunity to assure
these gentlemen, thut our aim has never been at them, and that if
perchance some of our shots have In a way touched them, the fault
has been theirs, and not our*.
Jnst ns some of our frjenda may have been scratched by some
of our shots, so have we been touched by some of theirs. We feel,
as they possibly do, that the attacks upon is have been unjust, but
we are always willing to forgive a FRIEND, and after tomorrow
the charter tight will be a matter of the past with us, and the
Journal will go on working for the good of the city of Waycross.
The greatest injustice that has been done the Journal bv the
advocates of the new charter was making the charge that it was a
personal fight, or rather a fight of the Journal. The attempt, while
it failed, to create the impression that the Journal, or its editor, had
some personal iirteiest in the matter was farfetched, and wholly
uncalled for Reading and thinking people of Waycross know that
the Journal has hem fighting merely as the instrument of the p*o
pie. Most of tin- ideas, and the arguments have been ndvaneed by
o. ople who oppose the charter, and not by the Journal. All
og tin- light the Journal has been in close eommnnion with the
,ic. and the fight that no* been so magnificently won U the vie
tory of the PEOPLE and not the Journal.
Out of all the noise and disturbance it is to be hoped that we
will all learn that GOVERNMENT IS THE PEOPLES’BPS! NESS,
and not a thing to be buffeted about in fonformity with the whims
of individuals.
JET BOWDEN WILL ADDRESS THE
VOTERS IN BEAUTY PARK TONIGHT
By Wire to The Journal.
Cliicugo, Oct. .'I. -The (Antral
( ompii
l.v today has an ele
phant mi its hands. I* also has
♦everal lions, tigers, an assort
ment of monkeys, snakes and
minller animals. Rice Brothers
’♦dossal show went into bank-
•uptey and Federad Judge Car
penter made the trust company
•in,mis owners do
ing picture shows
r show and others
to the
vail.
iwf h
hpioht
Thim la a
view of the upper Uatuu lock*, taken from tha can tar wall ao4 looking north along uppai
Qotun locka, showing tha almost completed condition of this taction of tha Panama stool. Tha wmtar of tha canal
»oy be aeon on atthar aide in tha foraground, being held book by tha gates. In tha left background la t)u
Ootun lighthouse. Tha unsightly tracks on tha cantar structure will soon ha ram oral, boring bean placed than
only temporarily dorlag tha construction of tha eantar wall.
Woodward Tells About More “Goats” 1
SAYS THEY ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE
THAW’S SANITY
IS IN QUESTION
By Wire to The Journal.
Washington. Oct. 3. It # was
»filed al the state department
today (lint the government would
probably require a trial for the
•sting of Harry K. Thaw’s sani
ty. irrespective of other criminal
litigation involved. The
Daily Journal.
Gentlemen,
room for a
•GOATS’* I
that ••goats” i
suppose
elevating
|>a pi
• Iml
oats
laim to he white
ing that you giv
*l»« I»
i* "goats.”
The editor (supposed to he ed
lor;
says
of i lie Way cross Herald
I am the gout of Mr. Jet
oines to the government through ( Bowden aud the Journal, lie said
un appeal to the federal court at
Boston.
J E. T. BOWDEN.
^ U J. Cooper and Mr. W. W.
r.ambdin i»t on the platform with
the apeakerw.
After Mayor Reed clooed hu
remark* Hon. T. 0. HUlUrd wa*
Who will speak
charter revision at
tonight.
vonld learn
it him talk
u man
k’hile yo
presented to the gudienc
Hilliard stated that hit voice was
bad and that h* would not at
tempt to make a long speech. Hr
made a good old Democratic talk
but said but little about the
charter.
Tonight in Beauty Park, oppo
site the Union Station, .1. E. T.
I’mvden, one of the best known
orators in the state, will deliver
an ufldress against the proposed
charter amendment*, which are to
be voted on in Waycross tomor
row.
His talk is going to be a
straight from the shoulder one,
and he proposes to show up the
charter manipulators from start
to finish. Mr. Bowden has many
friends here who are always glad
to hear him make a political
jpeech, and his spe'eh tonight
will be of special interest in view
of certain developments here in
the charter campaign this week.
Music by the Waycross band
will be furnished before and af
ter the address of the evening.
Every citizen in Waycross is in-
jvited to oome out and hear Mr.
Mr. Bowden. He will discuss the
hart' r amendments and will pay
his respects to those who have
criticised him for the position he
has taken in the charter fight.
The meeting will be the final
one of the anti-ebarter forces and
HELD HUSBAND IN
BED WHILE STRANGER
CARVED HIM UP.
Atlanta. Oct. 3. J. n. Roberts,
a Riverdale merchant who i s at
the Grady hospital, declares that
his wife held him in bed wliih
strange man carved him with
razor.
As the result of his statenu
warrants bav** been issued for his
wife and for a man named Win
ters. Roberts is badly cut, with
wounds on his body, legs and
thighs.
Roberts had been separated
from his wife for about a month
to the cutting, but bad re
turned to her, nnd Mi- Walter*
>u had insisted that he had ii
better right there than the bus
hand. When the husband object
J, he said that his wife and Win
ten* both lit into him
NEW YOR KMARKETS.
By Wire to The Journal.
New York, Oet. 3. Stocks
heavy, with fractional losses at
opening today. Cotton firm, 9 to
15 higher. litter Hfe advtnce
was loat on heavy selling. Oct.
14.10; Jan. 13.78.
will undoubtedly go down in his-
tory as one of the warmest polit
ical meetings ever held in Way-
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this because I called tlu» Herald
hand about what they wrote
about the Dcenwood charter
meeting, so this wonld-bc editor,
.V. It. Rhoads, called me a goat.
You know when u man stinks
himself he can’t tell whether any
body else really stinks or not,
he editor of the Hernld being a
’goat” thinks every body elm
links because he does himself.
Now the Herald called me- i
'goal,” but lie cannot prove it
aru a laboring man, but T rem!
notigli to keep up uitli wlml !«.
going on and am of rours*
* this nice little charier two
deals,
By Wirl to The Journal.
Washington, Oct. 3.—President
Wilson pow plans to sign the tar
iff hill 4t nine o'clock tonight in
the presence of the finance com-
niit|*-e of the senate and* ways
and means committee of the houae
and others. If is expected that
ic hill will he enrolled aud pass-
I in I lie house this afternoon,
t-i'iililicuiu uia,. filibuster and
•lay ;hr measure until tornor-
w hut this is not expected. Con-
ess is now- beginning the active
nsiderntion of the currency
bill.
of III.
•Imrte
to accept
too trails-
see that in
were ae-
certain one
4 KILLED IN
TRAIN WRECK
1 to The Journal.
I hr-
met
vrotc for till' per
pie.
1 suj that the editor of the
Herald is a “goat" and can prov
'if there is any one who do*
t already know it.) The edito
the Herald is the "goat” «i
ic L. J Cooper, who owns th
Herald.
There is no use for the editor
the Herald to try to dispute
that he is th. "gout” of L. J
Cooper because the few peopl-
read the Herald know that
Herald is always doing the
hing that Cooper is doing.
From what folks tell me the
editor of the Herald has never
been anything else but a “goat."
No one seems to know where he
came from or where he had been
all of his life, the first time the
people of Waycross heard about
him he was over at Quitman
bleating liks a "goat," so from
.lull nr folks l»lion of him ;i
goat ” is n lmt he is.
We Georgia •‘crackers” know
bat “goat
"t pn\ any intent
what Coo,
ml .1*. in lave
will not have any effcei
I to say that I am not tin
any man, hut that frou
1 read tin* amendment 1
he trick your gang si
.skillfully tried to cover up in or
to get the pcop|.
i. hut the cover ii
parent. Any one can
sc the amendments
pt< d you could gd a
of your gang who has a political
germ in his system for mayor and
our favored few would he well
fixed, but your little scheme will
not work, the peopl* arc strong
against you.
Tin; resolutions of tin* D*cn-
wood Club were introduced by
me to show your gang that all
the people of thin part of town
arc against tin* new charter ( do
n«*t know anything about parli
meiitary laws, as my oecnpatioii
does’ not require any such law’s,
but I do know that wlun 75 or
100 men vote on a question and
then* w only one dissenting vote
the question carries by a consid
erable majority, and there is no
use for your paper to contradict
it The f.w people who did fa
vnr the amendments have chang
ed their minds as fast im they
have heard the amendments EX
PLAINED, the more explaining
Ihe worse they get.
In conclusion I want to say
that Mr. Cooper said in his speech
at Dcenwood that he had a po
litico! germ in him, and he guess- McREYNOLDb
1 it would stay there until it I REMOVING men
as token out. Well the most
Stevens, Ark., Oct. 3.—Four
men were killed and three badly
injured when a Cotton Belt
through freight crashed into a
work train today. Engineer
Smith, who was one of those kill
ed, disobeyed orders according to
the announcement of the road’s
officials
FLOOD GROWS
WORSE TODAY
y Wire to The Journal.
Austin, Tex., Oct. 3.—The tlood
tuntion in Texas has grown
°rse today. The Colorado river
rising rapidly with no indica-
ons of falling. The damage to
til roads alone is already placed
-cr $2,000,000 Many thousand
acres of farm lands are covered.
Much cotton is being swipt away
Vople are fleeing to high ground.
of that germ will b<- taken out in
charte* election Saturday,
and the balance of it will be ‘ab
out the next time he pops up
his head for something.
Yours truly,
A. H. WOODARD.
By Wire to The Journal.
Washington, Oct. 3.—Corneli
us Murnana, of the district court
at Nome, Alaska, was today re
moved from office by Attorney
General Me Reyn olds. He bod re
fused to resign
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