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The Washington times., 1908-11-20
Popular Vote

G. C. SIT is impossible to estimate
accurately the total popular vote cast
at the recent national election. But
10 appears practically certain that the
TAFT pluralflies were less than cast for
Roosevelt
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
THE WOMAN AND TIGER
ARE BOTH ON INSIDE
Police Find a Tiger Lair
Running.

The story of the woman and the
tiger is to be retold here, and this
time with Judge Crisp and a jury as
an interested coterie of listeners. For
the police made another raid in the
dark hours yesterday morning and
pulled in Lula Marshall and sixteen
quarts of pure jig water. Lula
operates a villa on north Lee street
and thither Chief Feagin, Lieut.. Bar
row and Deputy Sheriff Fuller hiked
for the booze. They arrived in good
time, as a hackman was just deliv-
ering to the liquidized Lula a case
OF twelve full quarts arriving on the
night express. Along with this loot
the officers found four other full
quarts of coffin paint in Lula's bou-
doir, and hauled it and Lula as well
to the cold storage depot under the
city hall. Lula, as expected, put up
the usual gag about a club party or
dering the booze and having it left at
her castle for distribution, but the Of
ficers claim that they saw her let
go a quart about the time they ar
rived Probably the purchaser was
just paying a midnight debt" of bor-
rowed money, another story that some
times fail to go with a jury
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
REV. MONSON is DEAD,
WAS LONG A PASTOR
Passed Away on Saturday
Morning.

Rev Rufus Monson, one of the
best known Of the colored ministers
in south Georgia died yesterday morn
ing at his home in Americus, the end
following a stroke of paralysis on
Friday For nearly a score of years
he had served Baptist churches in
this city and section and was a man
Of character and influence among his
people. Besides being pastor of
Friendship church in Americus he
presided over Elizabeth church at
Abbeville and New Hope church at
Montezuma, all having large men,
berships. Rev. Monson was also mod
orator of the Southwestern Associa-
ton of Baptists, and president of the
executive board of the State Baptist
Convention, colored. The funeral ex-
ercises will be conducted at 2:30
O'clock Monday afternoon from
Friendship Baptist church on Cotton
Avenue, and will be a very largely
attended He was 50 years of age,
and a member of the colored Odd
Fellows lodge, of this city.
The remains will be carried to
Friendship church tomorrow morning,
where from 10 to o'clock friends
may view it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
A ThR0N6 IN AMERICUS
AND TRADE is FAIR
Cotton Money is Circulated
for Goods.

Americus caught the crowd all right
yesterday and as a consequence of the
presence of uncounted thousands of
people in the stores and streets the
volume of business was large as we'll.
Both Central and Seaboard trains
brought multitude, and the multi
tude brought the money. The snappy
weather induced the purchase of dry
goods, clothing, shoes and other goods
the buying of which is always defer
red until the weather turns a bit
cold, and then the buyers come with
a rush. Such was the situation here
yesterday, and few of the merchants
were there who did not share in the
volume of trade offered. The season
of buying is at hand, and even with
cotton selling at Sh cents the people
will spend about the usual amount in
fall purchases.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
CHECK OF A THOUSAND
COMES TO COLLEGE
AmeTiCuS School is Favored
ThuSIy.

Supt. Collum of the Third District
Agricultural College. has just receiv-
ed check for $1,000 as an INSTALL
ment upon the amount due it from
the State Agricultural Department.
And another thousand still is ex-
pected shortly
Under the recent act of the Iegisla-
ture all fees from inspection of oil.
fertilizers, and proceeds from the
pure food act are turned over to
the district agricultural schools
1t is estimated that this will
amount to $4,000 a year. The actual
expenses of inspection. OF course,
comes out of this fund
The money for the support of the
department of agriculture, the state
chemist and entomologist is now
paid out of the state treasury by di-
rect appropriation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
KANSAS FARMERS
ARE UP-TO-DATE
Telephones, Autos and Free
Delivery Have Done it.

ABILENE, KAN, Oct. 9.-Two
thousand farmers families were eat
ing dinner the other day when 1000
telephones rang simultaneously. Each
gave ten sharp rings, the emergency
call, which ordinarily meant fire,
bank robbery or some other great
event. Two thousand persons rushed
to the receiver, and in moment came
centrals monotonous tones: There
will be political speaking at the Up
land Town Hall tonight at o'clock.
Robert Lovitt, candidate for Congress,
will speak. All are invited-that's ALL .
Two thousand hearers repeated the
message to the families and hired
help" Ten or twelve thousand per-
sons had been notified in twenty min
utes, That is one of the new methods
in country vote-getting The preva-
lence of farmers telephones made it
possible; it could not have been done
four years ago, because there were
few farmers phones.
1t is one thing to manage the
campaign in a crowded ward, where
al! the votes are within q few rods of
headquarters, and quite another to
look after farming community scat
tered over 500 or more square miles,
With the new ideas and the changes
in conditions, it has been difficult for
many experts in the old ways to ad-
just themselves to the situation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
"ADAMlESS" EDEN
ON LONG ISLAND
Farm Enterprise for Bene-
fit of Women.

New York, Oct 10.-Long Island
is to have an .Adamless Eden" Nine.
Dayidoff, native of Russia, but now
a resident Of New York city, is es-
tablishing an experimental farm at
Rellecrest. near Northport, Long
island which will be operated by
women. Men will be barred from
the greenhouses, where fruits and
flowers are to be grown every month
in the wear by the aid of electricity.
While similar experiments have been
made by this and other governments
Nine. Davidoff believes her expert
ments will prove more suceesstul
than those carried on by the bureau
of nlant industry of the Department
of Agriculture.
Nine Dayidoff is a writer for maga-
lines She says the experiments will
he based on the theory that the
growth of vegetable matter, which
caases at sundown, will continue
tbrough the night if proper artificial
Iiobt is SUPPLIED to stimulate the de-
veloping powers OF plallts. lul.s ,l.
and flowers that are grown IN TINS
saction only in the spring and summer
months. she believes, can be cultlVa-
rcd during the entire year by supply
inc tbe necessary artificial heal
through the electrical process thai
will be adopted.
.sThis is not intended as money
making enterprise" said Nine David
off last night. While, of course, We
evnect the experiments to prove sue
cessfuI and the farm to be self-sup'
norting, yet my object is to make
# a philanthropic enterprise WITT
the view of helping members Of m!
own sex. as well as to prove tht
scientific value of the plan with which
have been experimenting for sew
eraI years. There is no connection
bet my venture and the utter
anceg of Sir Oliver Lodge, the Eng
! Iish sayant, relative to the influence
| If electricity on plant life. The tW'
/ systems differ chiefly from the fac
| that all of my experiments are mad
under glass and under certain con
ditions a static machine is uced Il
addition T. dynamos.
/ Acuve work on the farm at Belle
crest will begin, she says, within on
month upon the completion Of tn
necessary buildings and the installa
tion of the electrical apparatus.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
FINAL DECISION ON
MONUMENT SITE
Cannot be Delayed Beyond
Thursday.

viii Miss Baxter, State President
Of the U D. c., order Contractor
Clark to defer preparations for the
unveiling of the Wirz monument until
after the Savannah convention?
Mr.. Clark has allowed the matter to
remain open until next Thursday, but
if by that time he has heard nothing,
he will proceed with all speed to
make ready for the unveiling on Oct.
81.
No developments have been report
ed in connection with the matter for
the past few days, and the exact sta
tus of the voting as reported to Miss
Baxter is only surmissed From re-
ports received by Mrs J. E. Mathis,
of the Site Committee, a majority of
the chapters have not voted for the
change, but it is possible that some
reported to Miss Baxter which did
not report to Mrs. Mathis.
1t has been suggested that the re-
suit of the voting on the matter of
postponement should be reckoned on
the basis of the voting strength of the
chapters. In this case, it would cas-
lily be possible for a minority of the
number of chapters to cast the ma
jority of votes.
AS already noted in these columns.
Macon is laying plans to capture the
monument site, proceeding on the
theory that the question will come be-
fore the Savannah convention. At
lanta is also a contestant, if only the
matter can be reopened.
This week will definitely decide the
location, for reasons already stated.
However the result may be, those
who have labored so faithfully for the
reconsideration of the location will
have the satisfaction of knowing, that
whatever comes of the placing of the
monument at Andersonville-i such
a course be taken,-that they will be
blameless for any results, either in
damage to the monument, or in the
replacing of the offensive signs taken
down in the Prison Park through
courtesy to the feeling of the South
erners.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
what an Elderly Woman Can Do.
Success Magazine


The main body of the material
handled is also masculine-mens
clothes rather than women's; and the
myriad towels and napkins of the
man-inhabited business region. Wo-
mems clothes need washing also, and
are washed but present difficulties to
business development. They are not
only too frail and too profusely dec
GRATED for easily handling, but they
lack the main desideratum-a stand
ardiZation A shirt is a shirt, and
may be so handled, in thousands; but
a shirt-waist is anything from a gos-
samer veil effect to duck jumper.
Still since women wear them and
women wash them, there is no reas-
on why women should not organize
the business; do clean, safe, fine
work, give steady employment and
good training, and make thereby an
honest livelihood What a praise
worthy ambition-deliberat to seize
upon exalt, and establish a neces-
sary industry; making life easier and
simpler for thousands of patrons, and
setting higher standards for the
chosen trade.
Then there are the food trades Ev-
cry City tS6LHS Will OppOIbulllle6 IOl
these. Outside are the producers
farmers, dairymen, fruit-growers, pur-
Yeyors of meat and fish Inside, all
degrees of storing and handling, tc
the last stage of table service This
is one Of the great everlasting bust
| nesses of human .life-to feed people
the natural function of woman. This
she has always done She has in truth
done little else. She has skill, knowl-
edge, experience, and if not specia
! talent at least as much as man.
Every grade of employment is ope1
here, wide open and crying to be fill.
/ ed OF plain domestic cooks we have
| not enough OF simple, comfortable
/ clearinghouse we have not enough
| OF cheap, good eating houses We
have not enough OF dainty, restfu
| little tea-rooms and lunch-rooms WI
have not enough And as to the up
/ per ranks-the management of grea
hotels-princely fortunes are to b,
made in this work
Then there is h0me-making proper
! apart from the eating-this the mucl
praised speciality of women.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
THE DANGER FLAG FLYING!
Washington Post.l

The Republican party is without
doubt losing from two sources and
losing from those two in every sec
ton of the country from Maine to
California 1t may also be losing in
the agricultural vote, but if so it is
so marked in all sections of the Uni
ted States as the heavy defections in
the labor vote and the lighter but
persis tent losses in the votes of the
color@& population.
The Republican correspondents who
have recently made the tours of the
warmly contested States are unani-
nous in their reports of heavy and
serious labor losses in all of the
States they have visited. The calling
of Warren S. Stone chief of the Bro
therhood of Locomotive Engineers;
Patrick H. Morrissey chief of the Loc-
omotive Trainmen, and Daniel l..
O'Keefe, the head of the Longshore-
mems Union, to the White House for
conference with President Roosevelt
is a public recognition of the serious
ness of the situation for the Republi-
can party.
The danger flag is flying as a warn
ing for Republicans all along the
line when there arises, an occasion
that neither Hitchcock, his lieutenants,
the candidates or their friends can
control, but requires the personal
attention, the direct care of the mas
ter of politics, that commander of
statesmen, that ruler of the princes
of finance and captains of industry
the drill master of the Republican
party, Theodore Roosevelt, Presi-
dent of the United States. His quick
eye and ready ear have detected the
false steps and the discordant tread
of the Republican columns. He has
noted the tagging and the saggine
lines and he has started to improve
the situation ere it be too late to recti-
fy the faults of convention, of Con-
4 gress. and of candidates.
He finds the Republican party max
1 ing no progress and, if not in retreat
badly put upon the defensive by the
| resentment of labor at the record o.
4 prominent Republicans and of the
Republican party.
He may be able to hold a portion
I of those who feel offended, but it is
beyond even the power of Presiden
| Roosevelt to replace in the Republi
can lines all of the massed labor vot'
that was there in 1900 and 1904
After trying his hand on the labol
l vote President Roosevelt will fint
| the colored troops sullen and unres
| ponsive to the call of the Republican
party and viii have to take them II
hand as we'll.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
Influence of Telephone

Then there is the telephone. Ter
years ago in one Western county
there We're 50 telephones in opera
ton; today, with no increase in
population, there are 1859 Over
1000 of these are in farmers houses
They place practically every home in
touch with every other home in the
county.
Only recently did the politician
learn what could be done with the
telephone. One state chairman who
had on his hands a "boss-busting''
campaign set the pace He made a
contract with the two telephone sys-
TENS that reached TO every part OF
his commonwealth He secured a list
of names, and sitting in his office
called up the workers He conducted
a months campaign thus-and won
much to the surprise of the opposi-
ton, which depended chiefly on the
mails.
Sometimes 1t is a train of auto
mobiles, four or five of them that
takes party of campaigners, visiting
town after town, and so covering much
more ground than ever before Four
years ago a country campaign in a
motor car would have defeated can
didate because of the prejudice against
the gasoline monster" Now, so
familiar is the motor car, even farm
ers possess them, that it is assumed
to be part of the up-to-date poll
tician's campaign outfit The farmer
and his family are given a ride-pos-
sibly their first in such conveyance
and it looks well to see a big red car
standing at the gate, adding to the
farmers importance in the commun-
itV
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
Direct Primary

The direct primary has worked har-
moniously with the daily papers on
the rural routes, with the farm tele-
phone and with the automobile The
voter in Wild Horse Township reads
about the candidates and goes into
the booth and votes as he has read; /;
or he sees the candidate who is
whirled to his door in a motor car,
and votes as he sees; or he talks
with the chairman over the phone
and votes as he hears In each, or
all these events he votes directly
for the man, and had no convention
between.
1T spoils lot of fun" bemoans
the country politician. when the
delegates came in we always had a
dinner for them, then a caucus, then
some red-hot speeches while the COM
mittee were working, then hurrah of
nominating and banquet in the
evening when everybody felt good
Now a man takes his lead pencil back
of curtain and makes some marks
and it is over"
Also is over the kind of campaign
ing he used to do before each con-
vention. He drove hundreds of miles
seeing the leaders in every precinct;
he contributed hundreds of dollars
for dinners; his pockets fairly bulged
with passes-but his county always
came to the front as he desired.
In these times he can only guess
and the primary with its speechmak-
ing, with advertisements of candi-
dates in the papers, with circulariz-
ing, with interviews and counter in
terviews in the daily papers, is an
| uncertain quantity.
Country schoolhouse oratory has
| been on the decline for several years
Probably the daily papers have haC
something to do with it. Then the
issues have been less sharp since tht
1896 campaign The spellbinders dit
not like the long drives through thu
! autumn nights, and contented them
| selves with the addresses in tn,
"opera houses" and the courtroom
/ near the railway stations.
But now there are automobiles Il
diminish distance and the primar.
laws make it needful that the candi
dates and their advocates show them
selves to the humblest voter, as vel
as make the acquaintance of the poll
tical leaders of each neighborhood
Hence there is a speaking campaign
this year. II begun with the pri
mary campaign, resulting frequentl
in joint debates between opposing can
didates, much to the delight of tn
i populace. With the fashion started,
will continue through the fall, and "
/ shall hvae education In every vale
and on every hill.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
work OF Rural Delivery

The first shock to the old time poll
tician was the arrival of the rural
mail carrier. 1t used to be easy to
inform the voters as one wished They
received their mail once week, and
the county-seat papers furnished the
chief source of their reading. The
county-seat politicians and the editors
were usually on good terms. Either
each faction had an organ, or there
was only one faction, and all the pa
pers, Of the party stood for the gen
eral political management. In either
case, it was understood by the county
chairman and his friends we'll in
advance of the issue each week, about
what would be the outline for the
fight.
Likewise it was simple for the poll
tician and the candidate to travel over
the county without rivals knowing
just what was being done. Commun-
ication was so restricted between the
various sections that only on rally
days or at the election was it found
what plans had been laid by the gen.
erals.
why once" explained an old-time
politician, back in the 70s we print
ed lot of ballots that were regular
except one name, and scattered them
over the county and sent old Jim
Loyling to the Legislature to vote for
our candidate for United States sena-
tor, when half the folks in the county
didn't know he was a running. Can't
do that now, with the Australian bal
lots. 1t was fun managing politics
then"
Not only does the rural carrier take
| the news over the routes, but he is
the bearer of the daily newspaper.
| That means a great deal | watched
| the seven carriers go out of town
| of 5000, the conuty seat of farm
| ing region, the other morning. They
carried 400 daily papers, most OF
| them printed within ten hours-and
| there are twenty-seven rural routes In
that county, The farmers are thus
kept in close touch with the condi-
tions of the national, state and dis
trict campaigns-little use to try tC
! give them misinformation. Probably
| they know nearly as much about the
| situation" as the chairman himself
This is as true 200 miles west of the
Missouri River as down in Ohio.
Out on the prairie, 10 miles from {
railroad, and only 300 miles from ths
Rocky Mountains, a farmer sat Oh
his sulky plow the other morning.
II see, said he to a passer-by whC
had stopped to talk, that Bryan has
had conference with Kern.
How did you know that-it wa!
only yesterday"
"Oh, we got the morning papel
from the carries an hour ago
4 1t was not noon vet. but he was il
touch with the news of the world vi
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-11
DOORS OF THE TEMPLE
ARE OPENED TO ALL
Services at the Churches
Today.

Rev o. p. Gilbert will fill the pull
pit of First Baptist church today
His theme at II a. m. will be
Dreams. while tonight his topic
will be The City's Safety"
The latter service will especially in
terest young people
Fastening the Day of the Lord, .
will be the topic of Rev. j. L. Irwin at
the Presbyterian this morning, while
tonight he will tell of "The Stranger
at the Door"
The pulpit of Furlow Lawn Bap-
tist will be filled this morning and
evening by DR. A. B. Campbell,
preaching at the usual hours.
Are Sin Disease and Death Real?'
will be the sermon subject at the
Christian Science church this morn
ing at II o'clock.
Golden Text: And he will destroy
in this mountain the face of the COW
ering cast over all people, and the
vail that is spread over all nations.
He will swallow up death in victory;
and the Lord God will wipe away
tears from off all faces"
Rev Bascom Anthony will preach
at First Methodist chuch today at
both services.
At Calvary Episcopal church there
will be holy communion at 1880 this
morning, sermon at II and evening
prayer at 7:30 by the rector, Rev. j.
B. Lawrence.
The public is cordially invited to
all the above services.