The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-01
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
5GHT ON UNJUST RATES
REMUNERATION OF
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30.-In an editorial,
lnta Journal to task
charges the News
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neighbor, the At
ournal. prints on yes
rial which comes to
a surprise. This de-
host explicit terms de-
Savannah News, the
the Macon Telegraph
ta Chronicle as rail-
sWnder the influence and
pas the railroad interest of
and seeking by far from
Vile trick to obscure the real
pde in the struggle of the Atlanta
eight Bureau and its fight for fair
eight rates. This is a very serious
siIarge, and will doubtless not be rel
ished by the able and reputable jour
nails to whom the allusion is made"
Further along the News comes back
ut the journal with this pointed
statement:
THE Journal, for instance, may be
reminded that Mr.. Alex King, one of
it's board of directors, we are in
formed, drew the bill of the Central
Trust Company, which has already
held up the freight rates promulgat-
ed by the Railroad Commissioners by
temporary injunction and is seeking
to made it permanent; that additional
~ he led the fight for the Georgia
Railroad, which has just obtained a
decision which will deprive the state
of $4,000 a year franchise tax.
will the Journal now proceed to
take its own director and their repu-
table counsel to task as being 'domi-
mated and swayed by corporate in
terests and resorting to far from ad-
mirable tricks to obscure a great COM
mercial issue?
THE Journal might be reminded
again that Mr.. II. NJ. Atkinson. a
large and very powerful holder of it's
bonds and. perhaps, with a more i'm
mediate interest. is a director in the
Seaboard Air Line Railway, which
with the other roads, is fighting the
action of the railway commission in
the matter under discussion. viii
the Journal proceed to describe Mr.
Atkinson as it describes its esteem
ed contemporaries? 2"
Will Sell No Pools.
Through the Police Committee the
City Council this afternoon refused a
petition from several Atlantans, in
Guiding two or three of the gamblers
recently fined and threatened with
the changing If they continued gam
ing, for permission to sell pools and
run a barroom at Piedmont Park dur
ing a fifteen-day horse-racing meet i'm
October. Council was almost on the
point of granting the permission two
weeks ago, but the strong protests of
ministers and many of the Christian
people led the city government to take
a different view of the matter.
The refusal to permit pool selling and
TO license a barroom means the pro-
posed racing meet will not be held.
Had Voting scheme Fixed.
An alleged plot to defeat the object
of the Australian ballot system i'm the
coming city primary on oct. was
brought to light to-day. 1t was stated
the heelers for one of the candidates
for Mayor had arranged to secure a
dozen or more of the official ballots
These properly marked were to be fur
nished to voters. Such voters were to
bring back their blank tickets secured
inside the polls. This would create
sort of endless chain system. and
would be practically guarantee that
the voter had deposited the ballot fixed
for this candidate
The city Executive Committee de-
clares. however. il has taken such pre-
cautions that no such plan can pos
eibly be worked. It's members declare
- the primary will be as nearly fair in
eNery respect as il is possible TO make