Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-22
POLITICS IN THE FIFTH DISTRICT


Evidently things are warming up in
the Fifth District and old Col. Lon
Livingston has a race ahead Of him
again that viii make the old war horse
turn loose the best that rs in him. A
willy old politician like Lon, though, is
never dismayed By the appearance of
opposition. 1t simply lends zest to the
political game and gives him an OPP
porJunity Of demonstrating again that
when it comes to shutting the cards
so that all the aces will be in his hand
the Colonel can Guido Bret Hartes
noted Chinaman
Already several prospective candi-
dates are being discussed. If there
are two or three in the field Living
ston's fight will be Just that much the
easier. He will doubtless see to It
that there are sufficient candidates
against him to divide the opposition.
One Of the candidates appears to be
thinking of starting a newspaper 10
promote his candidacy. or rather re-
wing one, probably the little daily
that recently persisted Of inanition in
Atlanta. Of course he viii find this an
expensive operation. No one ever sub
scribes for a paper whose sole purpose
is too boost some one for Congress.
The candidate must bear all the ex-
pense, and unless he has a gold mine
behind him he speedily discovers that
pay days and bills come around with
clock work regularity. This partic-
ular candidate hopes to affset this BY
selling stock. Shares in an Oklahoma
town lot scheme would be preferable
as a losing investment The Coving-
ton News tells of the scheme as fol-
lows:
That the race for the Office of Con-
| gresham from this district Will be a
warm one is an evident fact, and ev-
/ cry day it shows up stronger. The
| last thing to develop in this is a letter
! being sent out by a gentleman from
! Atlanta, which is being circulated in
| this city and we suppose in all sec
/ tons Of the district In the Letter he
| states that newspaper, which has
! had one or two beginnings viii be re-
| Vived. He begins his letter by stating
| that the name to whom it is addressed
/ was given him by Mr. one of
| the candidates for congress, and that
| his object in writing is to sell some
stock at SO per share. He offers to
take the stock back at any time it is
not wanted, paying full price for it
and he VIII also give the purchaser a
| years subscription to the paper. He
winds up his letter by stating that the
| new paper viii be friendly and viii
| support Mr.. - in his race for
| Congress.
1t would seem from the letter re-
! ferred to that the congressman aspi-
rant mentioned would have a paper in
which to tell the people of his district
| about his candidacy and to throw mud
! at his opponent We can conceive of
| no other motive for wanting one.
| Should this paper be started again in
Atlanta it will begin under difficult
! circumstances. A paper published
| solely for political purposes can never
| hope to have the respect of the peo-
| pie and without this essential there is
| nothing to a periodical From our OBJ
/ serYatlon q paper operated ON this
scale is In itself a farce. and generally
| the person editing it is so morbid in
his desire to make money that he viii
write stuff according to instructions,
sometimes the veriest rot, simply be-
cause the asDirant for the office pays
him the price. Could you expect a
man Of this ealibre to give you cor
rect news and views ON any question?
If man can be bought to write ed
itorial matter on one thing he will sell
out on another, and is a disgrace to
The neMspaper fraternity.