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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-01

John worse of Rexburg, Ida, is Wis
itlng his sister, Miss Worse. at the
qoodhue home
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-01

Miss Eva Snow entertained on Tues
DAY for Mrs Henry King of Los
Angeles and Miss Marias Of Portland
the decorations being Shasta daises
ana prizes won by Miss June White
more and Mrs Frank Moyle
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-01

DR. and Mrs w. d Donobor aptor-
tanned at bridge party ON TuesJa,.
night for Miss Brentano and MI
Bersbach OF Chicago, six tables being
played and Dutch supper following
Assisting In entertaining were Mrs.
George Airs and Miss Louise SulH-
van. N'''
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

New York World)

Most of the Southern contests at
Chicago from the start were known to
have little merit They were based
on the hope that the anti-Taft forces
would control the Republican National
Committee and therefore would rec
ognize the delegates favorable to
their plans. As it turned out, the
Taft managers were in possession
and have run things to suit them
selves.
BY abandoning further contests be-
fore the National Committee the al
lies" admit that they are beaten.
Whether they sulk or whether they
present their cases before the Com
mttee on Credentials next week, it
comes to the same thing. The Com
mittee on Credentials will be made up
of one member from each State and
Territory and the Taft people will
have a safe majority, Of which the
Southern delegations accepted as
regular by the National Committee
will contribute fair proportion,
Having won the first fight, when the
convention meets they will not vote
to turn over their seats to the con
testants they have beaten.
1t is the old story in Republican
politics in the Southern States To
control the local organization is to
get the Federal patronage, and one
way for a faction to control the or
ganization is to be recognized at a
national convention and to be on the
winning side AS President Roose-
Welt was in the field with an Admin
istration candidate, naturally the
Federal Offlpp-bOldppC raOop6 Them
selves at his disposition.
How ably the Federal office-hOlders
have served the Administration is
proved by the lists of contested Taft
delegates seated by the National Com
mittee in the four cases so far decid-
ed. From Alabama there are u Fed
eral ofiice-holders; from Arkansas
g. from Florida, 7, and from Georgia,
u. These four delegations count for
IS votes in the Taft column, and not
one of the States they represent will
give a single electoral vote for the
Republican candidate
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12
The Spread of Disenchantment
New York Sum-

An interesting question arising out
of the Georgia primaries is, How far
does the popular dissatisfaction with
the Roosevelt policies extend?" 1t
must be evident that Browns victory
over HOke Smith was animated en-
tirely by the peoples recognition of
the evil effects of those policies. Hoke
Smith. a shrewd unscrupulous poll
tician, found the ferment in active Op-
GRAFTON and used it for the purpose of
his own promotion. He did not or
would not see that the hysteria had
fallen fiat and he ignored the oppor-
tunity to desert a losing cause. Smith
was not an honest fanatic. He did not
believe in prohibition or assaults on
property. His failure, therefore. to
get upon the other side in. time was
a clear case of stupidity or mistaken
bravadO, and the Georgians displaced
him without a qualm. For themselves
they had tried the experiment and
were done with it. Hoke Smith was
not alert enough to stay with them. so
they left him behind and no questions
asked
But does this self-evident disgust
witsh the policies" extend beyond
Georgfiia, and if so how far? Surely
it is not in the State of Georgia alone
that thinking men perceive the empti-
ness OF ROOSeyeltian reforms adopt
ed with such eager haste in different
parts of the South and pushed to
equally fOrlOrn conclusions. The
pinch has been felt in Alabama, North
Carolina and elsewhere. Corpora
lions have been crippled, public con-
venienCe curtailed, Injuries obliterat-
ed and good men in great numbers
thrown out of employment By this
time the people must be wondering
what they gain by it. Smith of Geor-
gia, Conner of Alabama, and others
exploiting private grievances against
other peoples property on the impetus
furnished by the prince of agitatOrs
at Washington have done their best
with the material at their disposal,
but one State has at last repudiated
the barebrained enterprise together
with all it's vicious and destructive
cOllaries, and now it would be interest
ing to know how far the restoration
of sanity has extended Are Alabama.
North Carolina, etc, convinced by
this time that the true way to public
welfare is not over the wreck of
corporations, and that the door to
universal happiness is not framed by
the skulls and bones of capitalists?
For an answer to this interrogatory
we shall perhaps to wait a while In
the meantime we can find some hope
in the spectacle recently presented in
Georgia. Nobody imagines for a
moment that Joe Brown won over
Hoke Smith upon his individual mer-
its. The South loves oratory and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12
The Offices of Honor
Savannah Morning News.)

Judging from the gossip appearing
in the Atlanta papers there are
great many more candidates for the
honors that go with the victory of
Mr. Brown than there are honors. And
as far as we have observed in he
gossip of these papers about all OF
the candidates are in North Georgia.
That isn't at all remarkable There
are more ofice-hungry people in the
northern part of the state than in the
southern part 1t might be we'll to
remember that the victory was not
wholly won in North Georgia. A
glance at the map that the COnstitu-
ton published on Sunday shows that
a great block of South Georgia coun-
ties gave Mr.. Brown a majority, some
of them big majOrities. Chatham gave
him a much larger majority than any
other county
Among those mentioned for dele
gates at large to the Denver conven
ton are Gen Meldrim and Hon. Her
man Myers We do not know that
either desires to be selected for one
of these four places, but we have no
hesitancy in saying that either would
serve the party with fidelity and abil-
nty if chosen and consented to
serve. Mr. Myers was prominent dur
ing the campaign as the President of
the Brown club of the banner Brown
county and Gen. MeIdrim has a wide
acquaintance with distinguished Dem
Ocrats in practically every state. An
other Democrat that shouldn't be
overlooked inu the distribution of
hOnOrs is Representative Brantley He
is a power in his district and is high
ly thought Of throughout the state.
He ought to be one of the delegates to
Denver.
1t is a long time yet before the
next Legislature will be organized 1t
isn't even elected yet, but it is known
who is to compose it. 1t is stated
that there are two or three candidates
in North Georgia for speaker. Here
in South Georgia Mr. J. Randolph
Anderson has been mentioned for the
place. 1t has been many years since
South Georgia was given the speaker
ship. Why shouldn't a South Georgia
man be named for a speaker of the
next Legislature, and who in that
Legislature will be better fitted for
the position than Mr.. Anderson? He
was a member of the last Legislature
and made a reputation he has reason
to be proud of. 1t is certain his
constituents were proud of him. If the
men who are to compose the next
Legislature want to choose wisely let
them give Mr.. Anderson very thought
full consideration.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12
The Moral of Two Bank Defalcations
philadelphia Press)

The paying teller of New York
bank handling 81 900 900 a year, on
salary of $40 a week. shot himself
when he was promoted last week be-
cause he had in five years taken S.
600 for his household expenses. He
received $500 year He wanted to
spend $500. He made up the differ
ence at the cost of honor, honesty and
life
A difference, deep-dyed, exists be-
tween this defalcation and the one in
Pittsburg, where over $3.50 600 have
been poured out in a lavish life and
the reckless gambling of wild specu-
lation. The Pittsburg defaulter await
ing trial and a sure sentence has nc
sympathy. The New York defaulter
has had much More than one New
York paper has advised the bank to
cut its dividends down from IA per
cent. to 10 per cent. and pay better
salaries.
But a better salary never brought
honor and honesty unless both were
already present on a lower pay. The
man who takes 5000 a year, when he
is paid $500. will take enough to
live at the rate of $4,000 when he is
paid $1,000. Just as many defalca-
lions occur among men with more
money than they need to live upon as
among men on small pay as this man
was. Few defaIcations are merely
for a living. Nearly all are due to
vice or speculation, and the German
law which makes it a penal offense
for a broker knowingly to buy and
sell for a bank officer, is wise
1t is not the size of a mans salary
but the attitude of his mind on his
income and expenditure and the
strength of his character, which de-
cides whether he will live within his
income or begin first the implied dis
honesty of needless debt and next the
crime whose temptation so often
springs from indebtedness. If a man
habitually thinks of his income first
and keeps his expenditure within it
he is safe. The man who decides on
the expenditure he wants first and
then thinks of his income, is always
in peril The man who pays April
bills with his June income is sure to
be in trouble. The man who entered
June with enough of his income ahead
to pay his August rent and bills, if
presented, will never find himself as
the New York teller did, a defaulter
and suicide
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12
AS TO SENATOR STEVE CLAY

There is some tendency to crit
icise the stand taken by Senator A.
S. Clay in the recent state election.
Some of the more intense Brown
partisans are inclined to severely con-
denim the senator because he announc-
ed his support of Gov Smith. What
ever may have been the motive that
prompted Senator Clay in giving his
support to the Smith ticket, we do not
deem it a cufticient justification for
more than passing dissent We
couldn't expect all of the public men
of the state to line up on the side of
Brown, and in what he said and did
Senator Clay was moderate and en-
tirely decent as he is in all things.
Senator Clay will be renominated at
the approaching convention at Allan
ia for his third term in the Senate,
and will, of course be overwhelmingly
elected at the fall election He has
given the state twelve years of good
service, and, if he lives can be relied
upon to give it six years more of eff
cient and faithful work He is always
at his post, is attentive, to his duties,
small as wei las great, and is the
champion and advocate of Georgia in
terests at all times 1t is not belit-
Ting Senator Bacon to say that Sena-
tor Steve Clay is invaluable to Geor-
gians who want things done at Wash
ingtOn. He is not afraid to work, nc
matter how humble the constituent
who apeals to him. or how apparently
insignificant the cause in which he
is enlisted
Candidly, we like Steve Clay. He
has something that tells more pow
erfulIy than great intellect in the ong
run, a sound heart full of kindly SEN
timent toward his fellow men Some
one has described him as a great big
school boy, overlooking with good
feeling toward everybody. He can be
proud of such a criticism. 1t is the
finest sort of praise. We hope the
time will never come in his life whe
bitterness of politics, the chagrins
and discomfitures of everyday eXis-
tence. will mar the serene spirit that
has a warm hand grasp for every
Georgian and a willing ear to hear
his troubles.
Here's to Steve Clay, a Georgian to
the core and senator for the next
term. We wish he had been for
Brown, but that don't count much, af-
ter all Good men sometimes go as
ray, and Clays conscience no doubt
acquits him of the error into which he
fell. He is a good man where he is
and Georgia does we'll to keep him
there
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12
TAFT HAS MORE THAN ENOUGH.

Taft has finally landed more than
enough delegates to nominate him on
the first ballot at Chicago next week
While such result has been reason
able certain for some time, it requir-
ed the final roundup to make it alb
solutely sure.
1t is necessary to get 491 votes to
nominate, and Secretary Taft on We'd
nesday corraIed "a, which gave him a
total of Sol A total of ninety-four is
yet to be considered by the national
committee, and Taft will no doubt
land a good share of these.
So the only question of Importance
before the convention, which has not
already been settled, is that of a
platform. While Roosevelt is backing
Taft, it is regarded as probable that
the platform may be considerably less
radical than the utterances of the
President.
With Bryan and Taft as candidates,
the latter as spokesman for Roosevelt,
the policies of the leaders will be
more nearly similar than has been the
case for a long time, if ever before
So the keynote of the fight has yet
to be picked out. The tunes, thus far
sound to the unframed ear as very
much alike. Perhaps the platform
next week will sound the missing
chord.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

The Albany Herald desires to call
a halt in ''boot-licking" in honor of
Watson 1t says:
Hoke Smith and his supporters slop-
ped over and made themselves dis
gushing in soft-soaping Tom Watson
two years ago, and now it looks like
Joe Brown and his crowd have start
ed out to do the same thing
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

personal presence. Hoke is big,
handsome, and vociferous. He stump
ed the State, alluring, melodious,
fraught with gesture. Joe Brown is
small, unpleasant to look upon, with
few personal friends and an Ingram
ed objection to display. As a matter
of fact he didn't make a speech or
appear upon a platform from the be-
ginning to the end He stayed at
home and kept his mouth shut The
reaction from Roosevelt and Hoke
Smith must have been bitter indeed
when Georgia took Joe Brown into
her arms and made of him a protest
and q refuge.
Now what of Alabama, North Caro-
lima and the rest of them?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

BY single vote the candidate for
Coroner of Chatham who had asked
for a recount, was defeated. On the
face of the returns he was votes
to the bad, and put up $500 for re-
count, and was handed another lem
on. So near and yet so far
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

At last the Atlanta Journals scare
head line on June 5, "Mangum Is
Sheriff has been confirmed. Sheriff
helms adds his endorsement to the
famous legend by saying: Mr. Man
gum won a splendid victory" 1t
took some time to confirm the story,
but we fully believed that the Jour
nal would be indicated.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

Roosevelt is said to be insistent that
his anti-injunction views be a feature
of the Chicago platform. In the mean
time ''eminentIy respectable" leaders
of the party are kicking against such
a step. The Republicans have trou-
bles of their own.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

A would-be Savannah suicide, who
was defying the police with an open
razor, folded up his weapon when
invited to come and take a drink. 1t
was evident he was crazy, else he
would have known that he could not
get a drink in Savannah.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

The Johnson managers assert that if
is now impossible for Bryan to secure
a two-thirds vote on the first ballot,
and that then there will be a break to
other candidates. Many of those COM
mitted to Bryan, they claim, will
feel justified in leaving him after the
first ballot or two
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

Senator Dolliyer, of Iowa, is
talked of as Tafts running mate He
is said to be a spellbinder. With
Taft, Dolliver and two democratic
candidates whooping up things Am
erica will get a liberal dose of poll
tics this summer and fall.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

Tom Watson has been placed in
nomination by the Atlanta Constitu-
ton for the second place on the Demo-
cratic ticket Some of the other
state papers are very properly ask
ing when did Watson qualify for a
Democratic nomination.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

President Woodrow Wilson, of
Princeton, is an optimist at heart
and is not Joining in the direfuI
predictions as to the future of this
blessed land. Said he to the recent
graduates: The great awakening
we have just had to the moral as
poets of so much of modern bust
ness is but the beginning of change.
The moralist will dictate both to the
lawyer and the man of business"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

The New York Sun says the day Mr.
Cleveland was elected the Republican
party was not in a hundredth of the
dancer that it is in today We hope
the Sun Is prophet, and not of the
stuffed variety.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

Tom Burrows, the Australian club
swinging champion, kept his club go
ing the other day for over 81 hours
Roosevelt skins him to wealth. He has
kept the big stick in motion for six
years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

Popular confidence in the integrity
of the judiciary is fundamentally es-
sential to our constitutional form of
government" says Senator Cullan, of
Illinois. Many of the leaders of the
Republican party are putting sly
digs in between RooseVelt's ribs about
the recommendation that the courts
injunction powers be considerably
limited
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

Says the Atlanta Constitutions "The
melody of reOpening mills is the
sweetest music borne to the listening
ears of thousands of Georgians since
the dawn of 1908
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12
AmcricuS. Ga, june 18th, 1908.

Macon is nearly unanimous about
a new union passenger station Messrs.
Hanson, Parrot, Scott and Finley
have not yet voted.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

Hitchcock sums it up that there
will be seven hundred votes for Taft
on the first ballot Hitchcock has
worked the ropes beautifully.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

Bryan's manager figures it out that
he needs but 40 more votes to make
the necessary two thirds Will Geor-
gias delegation be in the As?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12
Belittling An Opponent
(Danyille, (Va.) Register)

There are other cases on record.
however, where an aggressive candi-
date who undertook to belittle his
opponent discovered too late that the
people were not in sympathy with
such a course.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

The Marietta Journal signs for
those dear straw ballots" upon which
its mental pabuIum was fed with
such riotous frequency.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

The female suffragists of Vassar
college held a meeting in a cemetery
the other day. That is where female
suffragists ought to stay.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12

Hughes is the only new Congress-
man from Georgia. While we oppos-
ed him we have no doubt he will
make a good representative.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-12
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-14

Yesterday afternoon Miss Tenie
Acosta and Mr.. Charles Marmiou
were married at the Catholic church
by Father Lee. They then drove to
the residence of the brides sister,
Mrs. j. ]. Ayraud, where they were
welcomed by intimate friends and rel
atives. The party vas ushered into
the beautifully decorated dining-room,
where dainty feur-course luncheon
was served. The happy couple left on
the Frisco for Francis, Okla, where
MIR. Marmion has accepted a position
as telegraph operator, and where they
will make their future home. The
bride was formerly from Donaldson
vile, La, and the groom frtm Vie
toria, Texas. Both are we'll known
here, where their many friends wish
them much happiness Beaumont
(Texas) Journal, Nov 8