Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-12-01

.CIIlZN'S CLUB NAMES
TICKET FOR COUNCIL
All Stand for Municipal
Ownership.
Enthusiasm Is Great.
Meeting One OF Una
ninity--Terse and
Strong Platform.
LEE ALLEN.
&. III. RODGERS,
I. =. R0IT0N

Such Is the aldermanic ticket put
n nomination at an enthusiastic and
largely attended meeting of the Cit
izens Club, held last night at the
Armory. More than one hundred OF
the business men and working men OF
Ameffcus attended, and the assembl-
age was a thoroughly representative
one
The meeting was organized by CALI
ing Mr.. j. e. Mathis to the chair, with
Mr.. r. E. Allison as secretary.
Chairman Mathis briefly outlined
the object of the meeting He spoke
of the marked success which had ever
characterized the work of the Citizens
Club, and the great unanimity of this
meeting, he declared. presaged VIC
tory Gnu December Sth,
Upon motion, the chair appointed a
committee of three, consisting of
Messrs. w. w. Dykes, George M.
Bragg and Hollis Fort, to prepare and
present a platform. The following was
presented and unanimously adopted: (:
We the committee appointed by
he Chairman to draft a platform, rem
respectfully submit the following!
We favor the municipal ownership
of all public utilities
suggestion was made, and heart
lily favored, that the platform contain
plank pledgiAg the support of the
Carnegie Library in the appropriation
promised by the city council, but as
ct withheld. This, however, was dis.
posed OF In resolution offered by
Col. j. E. ID. Shipp and unanimously
adopted; to-wit:
We pledge ourselves to an econ
omical administration of the citys
affairs and the prompt payment Of
all honest obligations the city has
assumed"
Mr. Frank Sheffield expressed the
opinion that the resolution was suffi-
;ient Only one member of the coun-
ell, he said, opposed the Library obli-
cation. the others, very generally, fav-
)ring the carrying out Of the citys
'greement. J.
Chairman Mathis expressed the firm
belief that this matter, and all others
affecting the public veal could be
,rusted to the ticket named.
Nominations being next in order
Mr., Frank Sheffield nominated Mr.. Lee
Allen Mr.. Arthur Rylander placed
Mr.. j. S. Bolton in nomination, while
MFR. Hollis Fort presented the name of
Mr. G. NJ. Rodgers. The nominations
were received with greatest applause
and enthusiasm as the candidates
were named
Col. ]. L. D. Shipp, in an eloquent
and ringing speech, seconded the NOM
ination, the entire assemblage rising
in this voting.
He pleaded for the control of the
city institutions; it's waterworks, it's
schools, fire department, its lights and
other public utilities, by the city, and
for the good of it's citizens. Take all
of them out of the hands of grafters
and let the people, directly, or
through its copuncil or a commission.
control them, he said.
Col. Shipp lauded the personel of
the ticket just nominated which, he
declared, would stand unpurehasable
as against corporate greed and private
interests.
The gentlemen thus honored by the
support of the Citizens Club accepted
the honor in brief and well-timed
speeches. Mr.. Allen reviewed his
stand upon public questions during
the current year, and particularly the
matter of the lighting company seek
ing a contract from the city. his utter
ances roundely cheered,
The meeting was one of the larg-
est and most representative political
gatherings held in Americus in recent
years and the unanimity and deter
mination of those present presaged
a winning fight, ia was said.