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ROME’S NEW MAYOR AND CITY FATHERS.
Mayor-elect John J. Seay and
Aldermen-elect A. B Meaner,
I). B. Hamilton, Jr., B. T.
Haynes, Walter Harris and T.
J. Reese will be sworn in at the
Council chamber tomght.
Mayor Sam S . King and Ai
dermen Lindsay Johnson,
Thompson 11 iles, J . A. Gammon,
W. J. Gordon and J. D Hanks
will end their official duties and
r< turn to the ranks of the peo
ple with the opening of tonight’s
council meeting.
The records made by the re
tiring officials are public proper
ty. The people called them, a
majority elected them and the
officials have made records most
acceptable to the people.
But the old ends, and now
comes a new order of things.
Mayor John J. Seay and the
new board of Aidermen come in
as the unanimous choice of the
people, having been elected with
out opposition.
For the ci tv of Rome such a
state of facts is remarkable be
cause it is the first time in the
history of the city that a mayor
and council has been elected
without a hot fight which gen
erally ended in a disgraceful
scramble.
The scenes that were in evi
dence every time a municipal
election was held, became so
disgusting to Romans as to cause
her most public-minded citizens
to band together to put an end
to the corrupt methods that had
begun to obtain.
As a result the John J. Seay
ticket was mined, and, though
an effort was made to precipi
tate a contest, the fomenters
were ‘‘set down upon” early in
the game and so effectually
squelched that they quit the
field.
And why should there have
been a fight on the John J. Seay
ticket? It was made up of as
representative a set of good citi
zens as any city could produce.
The head of the ticket,Capt. John
J. Seay, has been closely identi
fied with Home’s every advance
step for the past score of years,
A whole page of The Hustler-
Commercial could be devoted to
chapters and paragraphs of
praise, and yet the man would
not be made more popular in th*
minds and hearts of the people
of the Hill City who know John
J. Seay and love him for him
self and for his loyalty to them
and the city of Rome.
John J. Seay has filled many
places of trust. lie is a strong
man anywhere and will be a
whole army when it comes to
protecting the city of Rome.
He stands for all that is good
in the upbuilding of the city,
and can be relied upon at all
times to discourage every move
the effects of which would be det
rimental to the common good or
the individual interest of his
people —and by the term of -‘his
people,” we mean all of th®
people of Rome, for there were
none to vote against him.
Os the new board of Aidermen
to be inducted into office tonight,
we repeat, no more representa
tive body has ever been elected
by any city.
Mr. A. B. McArver is the new’
member from the First ward.He
succeeds retirii g Aiderman, Dr.
Lindsay Johnson. Mr. McAr
ver is not a new hand at the
business, having won his spurs
once before, defeating bis oppo
nent with a big majority.
Alderman McArver made a
splendid record when on the
council before. He is a fine
young business man and can be
relied upon to add fresh honors
to the record he has already
made.
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Alderman Frank J. Kane,
head of tbe big dry goods firm
of F. J. Kane & Co., will hold
over from the First ward. Mr.
Kane has served the city most
faithfully for tbe past 12 months
and he can be relied upon to
continue to add the force of
his fine business training and
ability to the strength of the
John J. Seay administration.
Alderman-elect D. B. Hamil
ton of the Second ward, member
of the firm of Hamilton & Co.,
ie also a veteran city father,
though young in years and of
youthful appearance. Blount
Hamilton is a native Roman to
the river city born. He has a
right to fee) proud of his past
record and his friends have a
right to anticipate with pride
the new honors he will add to
the same in this administration.
Mr. Hamilton’s ward mate is
Aiderman Tom Jones who holds
over for another year. Tom
Jones came to Rome a poor,
though energetic boy. In a most
modest manner he opened up a
small stone yard. He had mon
eyed opponents and wealthy
rival concerns, but the honest,
industrious and frugal young
man put gray matters iijto 'his
business and in building monu
ments for the loved ones of oth
ers erected his own business
ability, a monument that any
man might well be proud of.
Tom Jones is one of the most
solid citizens of the Hill City
and a good man for any mayor
to have in his administration.
In the Third ward Aldeiman
elect B, T Haynes, president of
the great Rome Hardware Co.,
will be sworn in. Mr. Haynes
never sought an office, and did
not seek this one. lie was induc
ed to run only as a compromise
1 man, because he, like all good
citizens, preferred a compromise
ticket than to see the city plung
ed into a disgraceful scramble.
After the council of such citizens
as he had prevailed and the pro*
posed candidate from the Third
ward had been found ineligible
then Mr. Haynes was led into
the fortress he had helped build
about the city.
Often before, when an election
was assured him, Mr. Haynes
had steadily refused to run. In
a contest where there was no op
position and hence no contest,
Mr. Haynes led his ticket. He
is quite a voting man yet but,
a 1 the same, lie is one of the )
city’s most conservative and
successful financiers. Os course
he will add strength to the Seay
administration.
’The hold over aldeiman from
the Third ward is Hon. R. A.
Denny, the brilliant attorney
who believes that cleanliness is
next to godliness and who has
proven a “wholly terror” to the
forgetful sweepers of city pave
ments.
Mr. Denney has been one of
retiring Mayor Kings’ ablest
lieutenants during the past 12
months and it goes without say
ing that bis experience not only
of the past year but of the terms
lie has served on tie council be
fore. will be worth much to tbe
coming administration.
From the Fourtl’ ward comes
Judge Walter Harrh, and Judge
Harris is no novice in the city
council business, behaving de
feated an opponent in one of the
hottest fights ever witnessed in
a municipal election In Rome.
Judge Harris is a sop of the
Flatwoods and a self njade man.
As a justice of the peach of the
Rome district he has nffde such
a record by ability and fairness
as to make him a fixturain the
office. In the’eity council he can
always be relied upon t) vote
for the just and do the rilht.
Judge Harris’ ward nkte is
Mr. Charles W. Morris, flso a
self made man and also asm of
God’s country, the Flatwiods.
Mr. Morris has served on the
council several terms ami so
faithful is he to every duty of
the office that he has never lien
defeated for that or any otier
office. He is a most successful
business man and carries the
practical business methods of
his everyday life into all tbe de
tails of official transactions.
Mr. Morris is like the other
members of the new administra
tion, in hearty accord with the
mayor in his determination to
give Rome a clean and vigorous
service.
Mr. Tom J. Reese, modest,
quiet, geiral withal, but sturdy
and true is the “new man from
the Fifth.” Mr. Reese is a Floyd
county boy who came to Rome
a few years ago and proceeded
to make a success of business
and build for himself a reputa
tion as a good citizen.
How well he has succeeded is
evidenced*by the fact that he is
member of the first council ever
elected in Rome without a pri
mary or any other kind of a con
test. Mr. Reese is a new member
but his record is going to be a
good one when his two years
term expires.
Deputy Sheriff J. Dallas
Turner, the hold over member
from the Fifth ward, is serving
his second term on the city
council. Mr. Turner was the
first alderman elected to repre
sent the Fifth ward when that
splendid residence section of the
city was first admitted as a ward
in Roma.
Mr. Turner i swol |„, 0B
deservedly popular. He 1 8
spoken and loyal and al ?"
conservatively level-headed T
Fifth ward never elected abett?
man and no
had an abler factor in it s J'
up. mak «
All in all the new council o i
■nayor and ten, i 8 a splend ’
representative set of successful
citizens-and tiny lireall
looking, too.
W ilh such a council, M aVif
John J. Seay may be relied Tn.
on to make history for Rome the
Hill City of the Empire State o f
the South.
CANDLER
REPLIES.
the interest of “greed and avarice”
there were two blls before .he
house “to regulate and restrict
the rate of interest”—one a Re llalfl
bill, the other a house bill. I
thought the senate bill h e 9 t r anJ
therefore voted agai: st the ho u . e
bill. My dear judge, we ought Dot
on y to tell the truth, hut d lt
“whole truth,” even in politics.
AB TO JOINT DEBATES.
You pt ill harp on a “join’ dwu?.
Sion.” Do you know that there are
but two instances in the history of
the democratic party in Georgia
in which candiuatea for the dun
ocra'ic nomination for governor
have engaged in joint diacuigions?
One was in the race between Sen
ator Bacon'and General Gordon.
They met and so bi iter grew the
contest that democratic leaders
took the matter in hand and stop
ped the “j mt debates,” to pre
vent personal collision betweei)
the friends oi tbe two candidates.
The other was in the Evans-At
kinson contest m 189-I,when then
were three—possibly four mee iujs
—when so great grow the buter*
Dess betwi en the supporters of the
two candidate that, the noeeiigs
were called off for the good olds
party, but so serious wa? ihe
damage already done that in the
election Mr. Atkinson who receiv
ed the nomination,fell 4 000voH
behind his ticket and 20.0)0
ieruocrats. were so di.-gus'ea ih>t
i hey remain'd ®way from tbepilk
nd did not vote al ad and eo
deep and lasting were ihe wounds
made in these contests that t»"
years later when G <vernor Atkin
-on had no opposition for tin
nomina ion he fed nearly 9,0(0
votes behind the state ticket.
Still my dear judge. I adhere
to my original propositions that
if after you and your running
mate, Mr. Berner, have made the
xperiment I see that you are right
■ and lam wrong, and that good
may cune to the party out of such
discussions as you propose, I will
cheerfully accede to your propnsi
■ tion. lam always willing to do
anything I can t® acc>mmodut
friends in distress wh-n iu»°
' doing I wih not injure my pony
> By the way, judge, wnen d<> V"U
and your running mate Mr Bl
uer. propose to bogin that “ser’'
of joint de bates throughout t<*
state?” With sentiments of tin
profoundest regard, I am sinew
ly yours. Ai.len D. Candier
Water Tax Notice
The Water Tax for 'he quarW
from April Ist to July Ist 18'A S ■■
now due and must be paid on
before the 16 of April The Boi£
of Water Commissioners order all
ordinances strictly enforced a nd
when water has been shut oil l' ll
non payment, in addition of p ll .'
ing the bill all parties will be
quire to pay a fee cf fifty ceil’
for turning on. Water depat'
ment office in citv Hall- 61t
hours 8. am to 12 m 2. p- m - tu ’ } '
pm.
J. L. Moore, Sec. & Treas-
April 1.
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The genuine Spanish h°°
So.*p at Lloyd’s. Accept noi" 1 *
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