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tHE WAYCROSS JOURNAL i: * If you fail to get yo paper telephone 64. I * . + If you know any new* • } * telephone 9fi 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! & s 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- l 111 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 l. . , ..._•>-: 1 ..-.nil tm