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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

ed or dissatisfied taxpayer can cor
rect this, every two years, by electing
better men TO fill their places
We believe a city's powers should
be free and when you curtail them as
the code proposes to do, the people
will realize sooner or later they have
made mistake
Compare to day Greenvi1les's prog
ress and Indebtedness with other cities
the same size III the state and you will
see il has outstepped them all and
there Is not one but whose press and
people holds the Queen City of the
Delta Up TO their citizens as the idea
city.
Gentlemen, think carefully over this
matter before you vote the change
or should you do it, and find after
wards it IS against the cityss future
advancement and prosperity, yot
can change back
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
Gov. Davis and the Bucket Shops.

In discussing speculation in his
Russelville speech, Gov Davis said /:
The great danger in this biggest
LOT all gambling concerns is that it
fixes the price of cotton you raise.
The farmers of this state have stood
by me, and | shall stand by them al
ways The bucket shops shall hear
from me when | get to the Senate.
Leaving entirely out of consider
alton the doubtful question OF the eff
lest OF the cotton specializing upon
the price of cotton there are still
ample arguments against the bucket
shops The best argument against
them Is that thousands of men are
virtually if not actually gambling in
these places. Little bucket shops
are beng started in even the ham1ets
Of the South and farmers, county
store keepers and Others are risking
IN the buckets, and often losing in
the buckets, their substance and their
property A farmer can lose in one
day in bucket shop as much money
as he can make by working between
the cotton rows all summer
A distressing feature Of this bust
ness IS that the spread of the bucket
shop is bringing the opportunity to
gamble right to the door of thousands
of persons who might never other
wise think Of gambling There are
probably fewer gamblers among
farmers than among any other class
at men except preachers But nov
the bucket shop III the small town is
inviting the farmer 10 come and buy
~ imaginary bales al cotton.
iaoI esaI< merchant knows
4 8 afe ejssa |
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
TRADE WITH
VICKSBURG

The Greenville Times knows of no
other town but Greenville. It's col
umns are devoted to advocating any
thing and everything that will add to
the growth and wealth of that city.
It's a pity its efforts are not appre-
ciated by the Greenville merchants.
But its efforts to divert trade from
the Sunf1ower river to that city, over
the Delta Southern road will never be
successful, The trade will remain
with Vicksburg, where it belongs, be-
cause the merchants of that city are
just and liberal in their dealings with
the farmers and are also liberal pat
rons of the county papers They
know that they must use the csantry
papers if they wish to reach TIN Dpeo-
pie and do not hesitate to do so.
VicksbNg merchants support three
daily and two or three weekly papers
besides literally patronizins the
country papers but GreenvilIe-well
It's wonder there's any paper print
ed IN notwithstanding Fork Pilot.
We appreciate the above good
words Of the Pilot about the efforts
OF The Times, but we do not at all
agree with that paper in its criticism
OF our merchants. Our merchants
advertise literally enough in our col
umns. and we have noticed many oS
their advertisements in the exchanges
OF this section of the country that
come to our table
But we want proof for the state
ment of the Pilot that the Green
merchants are not liberal with their
dealings with the country farmers !:
we want the proof that they are not
just. The above criticism leave the
suspicion that our merchants are I'M
demanded IN their business methods.
that they are ready and willing to
do the country buyer, and this we
deny emphatlcally. In proof to the
contrary, we will state that Green
VILE, with a population several tl1ous-
and less than Vicksbufg, does more
wholesale and retail t-si.eey han
the city of Vicksburg. We ss-a,r a
larger country trade than yscizs ltrr.
and we are out after more ~ TIE
while, and by fair and honest BIZ =
ness methods. and by delivering tie
goods as advertised. we are going 70
get more Vieksburg and the Roll
ing Fork Pilot may consider the SIM
flower river trade as not belongings
to US, but that does not stop our
reaching out after it.
Greenville merchants support one
weekly and daily white newspaper.
bssIdsS several eolored ~eeklies. ard
the fSot will have another wonder
coming to i when The Times cub
few
sffr n - con-
tI1ua II srsr.sis9ty ,7~ !
n,ent 81 eseet7vile. aes sr-
chants will not allow our eIfsrs. 90
1rS1xxr <1xz1 n.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

moves against cotton gambling2 Is
it likely that Republican senate IS
going TO be very quick about passing
radical law introduced by a new
Democrat senator? Gov Davis has
been chief executive OF Arkansas for
almost six years What has he done
in that time TO drive bucket shops
out of this state? He has devoted
most of those six years to driving
the FIRE insurance companies out of
Arkansas, and at last he has succeed
ed. Which could Arkansas the bet
ter spare, legitimate and indispens-
able business concerns like the insur-
ance companies. or gambling institu-
tons like the bucket shops. AAs
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

lost all over the South in cotton spec
ulation go to New York or other big
cities to fatten the Golfers of few
men who have the safe end of the
game.
The bucket shop proprietor is not
demanding that you allow him to fix
the price of cotton, Gov. Davis. He
knows that he can not fix that price.
All he asks is that you match YOUR
money against his. That is as good
a thing as he wants. He knows that
the percentage of chances in his favor
will make him win much oftener than
he loses
But why does Gov. Davis wait nm
I'll he gets to the Senate before he
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

Never go IN debt tor a luxury OF
an unnecessary article of any de-
scription.>
To be supe the department stores
tell you that if their goods are not
satisfactory you can return them
Sure +! But you have to pay express
or Aeight both ways and you decide
to keep them IF your home mer-
chants goods are not satisfactory
you take thsm back and it costs you
nothing.
Bless the man who is to a rea-
sonable amout, uneasy as long as he
owes a dollar. If you are at some
time compelled by unavoidable cir
Fcun1stances to request your merchant
to extend you credit for a time, m
making your application to him for
it, don't teh him you will pay the
first of the month when, in your
opinion It will be the tenth of the
month before you will meet the OBJ
legation.
If there is one thing in which
churches, as a rule, need to be more
careful, it is the matter of preachers
salaries. With an indifference and an
|insensibility which we cannot under
stand many churches seem to think
that a contract between themselves
and the minister is no contract at all.
They promise him a definite salary
then pay him whatever is convenient.
The gas man, the coal man and even
the sexton must be paid, btu the debt
owing the minister is looked upon as
altogether righteous and proper.
1t does not pay to advertise say
some merchants who have done but
but little of it and that without keep
ing 1t up. The incident of the boy
and the pump illustrates the matter
very well. The boy was sent after
a pail of water He poured in the
printing and poured out as much as
he poured in Then he stopped to
rest and the printing ran down At
ter sometime of alternate, pumping
and resting, he concluded it did not
pay to pump and quit in disgust. The
merchant who does not believe in adj
#vertisIng does it like fhe boy did the
pumping. He advertised few weeks
then stopped a while and allowed the
people to forget him and his business
before he advertised again and then
concluded advertising didn't pay.
We presume that some people
think newspaper men are persistent
dunners- Let a farmer place himself
in similar position and see if he
would not do the same Suppose that
he raises thousand bushels of corn
and his neighbor should come and
buy, the price was one dollar or less,
and says, 4 will pay the amount in
few days. As the farmer does not
want to be small about the matter. he
says, @AH right Another comes the
same way and in time the
whole thousand bushels OF corn IS
trusted to thousand different per-
sons and no one Of the different per
sons concerns himself about il, for It
IS 4 small amount they owe thefarm
er and of course that will not help
him any He does not realize that the |
farmer has fritted away His entire
crop 6f corus and tbaf IA value IS ds1e
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
: STATE POLITICS. X
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/ X kkkkk K Xxx X X X X X X 4
That Political Compact.

Senator a. J. McLaurin is out in
sensational interview, the aninlus
IF which is an effort to prove that |
Governor Vardanan has ruthlessly |
and without warrant violated GER
tain political compact, said to have
)een made between the two men dur
rig the latter's campaign for the
.Governorship.
The editor Of the Register happens
80 know something of this agree
nent. to which Governor Vardaman
vas not personally party.
During the campaign of 1901,
when the race for the Governorship
vas at its warmest, certain friends OF
the two men formed a compact by
which Senator McLaurin was to re-
main neutral throughout the contest.
This pledge was violated soon after
he first primary, when the Senator
came oft III a card saying that he
void cast his vote for Candidate
Crtz Readers Of the Register will
re1nember that this declaration was
printed IL bold type III all of the
Critz organs. and that it was herald
ed far and wide that the McLauriir
influence would defeat Vardaman
Il will be remembered, however, that
Vardaman, carried Rankin County.
the home OF the McLaurln'S, and 10
this coup on the part of the present
Chief Executive may be attributed
some OF, the bitterness pcrmeating
Senator AfcLauria recent interview
In his official capacity Governor
Fariaman ha5 hal occasion to I'M
aIth some IRE sr Iarities connected
with the penitel .te;sry farms, and an
nVes ios,t!t13 Committee, appointed
Dy the recent Legislature, saddled
some of the blame on the McLaurin
administration, involving two or three
of his kinsmen III a well defined
scheme to graft at the expense of the
State This has also added somewhat
to the Senator's dislike for Ward
aman.
The old scores are still unsettled
the ranking memory of numerous
severe castigations inflicted during
Vardaman's editorship of the Green
wood Commonwealth still burn deep
in the Senator's breast, and the spirit
of revenge hobs up Bancholike at
every turn of the political windmill.
In some respects The Register be-
| leves that Senator McLaurin has re-
| formed He is not quite SO vulgar
as in the days of yore, and he GER
F, tainly has better control of some of
!. his abnormal impulses Unless we
are mistaken, it has been several
years since he has tanked up on
blind-tiger booze, cursed out a quar-.
antine officer and begged the prayers
of indulgent Mississippians. He has
been in Washington most OF the time,
however, and there are no blindtigers
and quarantine guards in Washing
| ton.
| Personally, the Senator is the best
| McLaurin in the bunch. This isn't
| saying much. but it is conplimen emit,
nevertheless, and it ought to be APP
preciated
Without the Senator's benevolent
| influence; without his readiness to
defend, and without his prompt de-
NAL of all charges and cauntercharges
against the McLaurin family, some
thing might really happen to them,
! and the font of tear-drops in the
Jackson newspaper Offices wouldn't
go round.-Clarksdale Register.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
Noel Men Everywhere.

Hon. E F. Noel became 4 subscri-
Der to the Signal this week by pay
ing a dollar. Everywhere we go. and
we have travelled much lately, we
hnd Noel's men. His old friends are
clinging to him and he has gained
more since last election. We have
never decided how we would vote IN
that election yet, but our honest
opinion is that if he does not win
he will be next to the man that does
win TaylorviIle Signal.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
Fearless and Faithful Servant.

Hon E. F. Noel addressed a large
crowd at the noon recess of court
Monday, in the interest of his candi-
dacy for governor He was intro
duced by Hon. G.. L. Jones, in a
strong speech, commencing him to
the audience as an honest, fearless
and faithful servant of the people
and a statesman OF recognized ability
MIR. Noel spoke for over an hour re-
viewing his record as legislator and
factor in public affairs He spoke
strongly in advocacy of the principles
he represents as set forth in his plat
form with which Our readers are
familiar Mr.. Noel declared in tones
that bore the mark OF sincerity, that
political fortunes turn upon men, not
money, worth not wealth. At the
close of his address numbers came
and pledged him their support In
fact, it is the confident belief of his
friends here that he will carry Union
County by a safe majority-New Al
bany Gazette.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
25OOOIN 1910

What will be next? war is over and
the decision in the Hartje case has
been postponed until fall and there
has been no change in the last few
DAYS in the Thaw's attorneys.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

Candidates for Governor are getting
more cautious about committing
themselves to constitutional con-
vention. Only to have announced as
favoring this unnecessary and dan
gerous experiment to the State The
present organic law is all right, and
with few amendments, not even
South Mississippi would have cause
for complaint-Yazoo Herald.
Yes, the gubernatorial candidate
that champions. the constitutional con-
vention proposition is pretty apt to
discover that there is dynamite in it,
SO far as he is concerned, right here
in South Mississippi
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

We hope this aall, when we start
the Daily Times, to receive the pat
ronage the dailies of other cities re-
cenive. Greenville can we'll afford to
support two dailies if Vicksburg can
support three.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
$4,000 IN 1910

Miss Lola Walker. in her breach OF
promise suit against Col. Dick Ed
wards, was awarded $2I.ooo by the
jury This jury must have had IT IN
for the Colonel to have rendered such
verdict if the papers published the
true testimony in the case.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

Put this in your bat; if Greenvllie
don't get good newspapers this tail
put it down that you, the people,
have not given them the support ne
cessNry to make them so.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
25OoOIN1 1911,

There Is moaey in the city's GARD
age business. If you are out OF job
ard have little money to start with
get the city to give you the garbage
privilege and get rich out of it.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

Chancellor Fulton has resigned as
the head OF the State University and
accepted like position with the Mil
Ter Industrial School, near Charlottes-
Vile Va
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

A man often cusses his newspaper
for being no good, when he should be
the one who deserves the cussIng be-
cause of his indifference and lack of
support OF the paper.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
.25OOO 1910

There is a movement on foot to
bring a big department store to this
CITY. Such business would do
Greenville more good than Gov
eminent building
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

Russell Sage's body lies molder-
ing in the tomb, but his spirit goes
marching on in Hetty Green and
other Wall street fnanciers.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

The scarcely OF silver dimes IS due
to the hot weather-they are now all
in the soda water mans till.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
-2N0OIN 1910

Ex-Lieut. Gov G.. D. Stands, dean OF
of the law department, has also ten
dercd his res gnation and accepted
the dean of the law department OF
Tulane University of louisiana
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

From now on until the business
* ason opens up, the advertising pa
t onage of the newspapers IS almost
withdrawn, and as a result a large
amount of the profits of the busy
season is used IN keeping the paper
song
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

There is no place like home" ex'
cept in an oven these hot nights.
o5ooO N 1o1o--s
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

The hot weather has about thawed
Thaw out of the newspapers.
$4,000 IL I9Io-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

Inasmuch as gubernatorial candi-
dates talk politics, why not proclaim
positions, proclivities and promises
from the hustings? The gum shoe
campaign now on has all the dement's
of screaming farce in it. For re-
freshing change lets have the real
drama put on.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

Tamany will endorse Bryan.
2S00O ~ 191e-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

What about the Greenville-Le-
land interurban
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

TIE next man who tells you that
he knows who will be the next gov
ernor of Mississippi, pin liars but
ton on him, or tag him as fool
Ind Enterprise.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
25ooOIN 1910

All are not wives that flitter-CoL
Dick has no doubt realized tips by
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
-25oooIS 1910

There is no other paper In the state
more loyal to its people than The
Times for we have repeatedly turned
DOWN paying advertisement of out
os-town merchants that came III COM
petition with our home business, and
We think our city Daily has done the
same.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

Who wants rer's
TIE I'D = ties
he pTessv ssrls.
Tie frctfal children,
The worried fathers.
The jolly young men.
In fact, everybody but council
man.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
FISCHEL'S CIGAR STORE,
3o7 Main st.

We are selling sc straight and j
Tor csc cigars At Toe straight.
soc straights we are running I'll ]
Tor 75c-
Get them while they last
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

Our Che e for u. S. Senator
COVERING fAS. K. VARDAMAN
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11
ABOUT ONE THING AND ANOTHER

Never go in debt for luxury OF
an unnecessary article of any de-
scription.>
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-11

$4,000 IN 1910
The Washington herald., 1906-10-23

There is sad news from Texas to tell.
II is no unhappy climax Of undertaking
curiosity in the private business affairs
OF Senator Bailey. Il is no tale of
disaster by field or food II is no calami-
Jous failure of crops. 1t is no awful ac-
count of fresh and extended ravages by
the boil weevl. Indeed. it is as q sigh
compelling. tear-persuading piece OF
human-intcrest intelligence immeasurably
sadder. 1t is, as many Washington peo-
pie viii mourn 10 learn, concerning Col.
Bill Sterett We poignantly note through
his own pen that Col. Sterett has come
to the sere and yellow leaf. the lean and
sHppeTed p1ntalOOn time Of life. Racon-
teur without peer, connOisseur in a class
all by himself: like Falstaff the match
less hero of his own inimitable narra-
tives; the Yorick Of many roaring table.
we all do we'll recall how we were wont
to crowd about him, stepping upon each
others feet in our eagerness to miss no
word he uttered as he told Of the fish he
caught and how he landed them. and
generally Of good things to eat and how
he ate them. But now the cracking
fires of fun in him have turned, we fear,
into moldering cinders and charred
pieces of pessimism. Good things to eat
no longer taste the old sweet same to Col
Sterett as when they used to set going
his tripping tonic tongue. The way of il
and the how of it are best understood in
his own words. 1t should be remarked
that Col. Sterett. since he left Washing
tOn-and a huge gap appeared thereby in
the corps of Washington newspaper cor
respondents-to return to his home and
farm az Dallas, has resumed his relations
with the great Texas press as editor of
the State Press column of the Dallas
News. Through this medium he has
habitually impaired ingenious condolences
10 his brethren, and one of these just ut
hand it is that c0nvinces us that Col
Bill Sterett is gTievously changed.
A few days ago the Laredo Times burst
into Il paean on the yellow-leg chicken. The
effect upon Col Sterett was all the more
The Washington herald., 1906-10-23
Wal Strcct and Insnrnncc-

The recent attempt of the Hartman in
terests, including President Peabody. Of
the New York Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, 10 get control Of the Illinois Central
Railroad, which failed temporarily through
President Stuyvesant Flsh's refusal To
carry out an agreement with E II. Har-
nman as 10 the election OF directors, is
a sequel according 10 welI-nf0rmed Cos
sip. of a contest for control of one OF the
big New York life insurance companies in
which Hartman was worsted. In that
contest Fish was on the side Of reforms
In insurance management and opposed TO
Hartman methods. From that day Fish
has been a marked man. Hartman is
man interests has been invoked to reduce
him 10 subsection.
This incident is not without bearing
on the contest now going on for control
of the great insurance companies. It
throws a vivid sideIight on the methods
which have hitherto characterized the
management Of those companies. and sug-
gests strongly the desirability OF a change
from Wall street management 10 manage
ment by the policy holders through a
directorate chosen by themselves. Unless
some such change is made. there is no
guarantee that in the future the vast re-
sources of the insurance companies may
not be used 10 further the ambitions of
a Hartman or a Rockefeller. or some
other captain Of high finance,
Emancipation from Wall street control
would put money into the pockets of
policy holders instead of diverting it TO
the unworthy purposes of high hnanciers.
Every policy holder should remember this
when filling out his ballot and cast his
vote for the policy holders ticket. He will
thus best subserve not only his own in
terest, but those of the company In which
he Is a policy holder.