Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-11-27
RETURN TO SAFE and
SANE GOVERNMENT
Such Opportunity is Now
Offered to Voters.
COMMUNICATED
To The Public:

| an opportunity Is at last offered 10
the citizens of Americas to throw off
the incubus that las hampered the
progress of the city for the past three
years, to remove the discord in its
City Council that has so greatly i'm
paired it's usefulness and prevented
it from becoming, as it should be, a
factor for the development of thle
city.
The names of three men of high
character, of sterling integrity and
of unquestionaIble business capacity
are presented for your ballots. With
such men as l.. G. Council, G. w
Riley and C. j. White placed upon
it's aldermanic board the taxpayers
and citizens of Americus generally
will have the assurance of a municipal
government conducted on business
principles, with its departments ad-
ministered economically, it's funds ex-
pended for the best interests of the
city as whole, and the rancor ano
discussions that have disgraced the
city eliminated from its meetings.
With these men added to Aldermen
Brown and Bolton of the present mem
bershtp, conservative principles will
once more be infused into the affairs
of the city, a harmonious policy of de-
velopment will be outlined, a unity of
action will ensue, improvements IT,
have been checked by the constant
turmoil will DE resumed, confidence
will he engendered at home and
abroad and the evil that has been done
will soon be overcome and forgotten
in the onward march of the city
The time is ripe for a change. The
local conditions demand a change. A
change there must be if the future of
Americas is not to be sadly married by
government founded on prejudices,
conducted with a reckless disregard
of actual conditions, an dwith but one
idea in sight, that of carrying through
the plans of a small clique whose slo-
gan is personal rule or a complete
cessation of progress.
There will not 5e another opportun-
ity offered to the voters such as the
present one presents to redeem the
city from misrule to eliminate the
disturbing element from their control
of its affairs, to elect and install in
office men who will seek to place the
municipal government on a clean fl
nancial basis, whose purpose will not
be the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of themselves
or the bullhAaded execution of their
own plans without regard to the effect
upon the city, but instead, the Wiping
out of the Indebtedness that rests up
on it at this time, the placing of it's
| finances on a business-ilke basis, AMI
the inauguration of system that will
redeem the city from tie effects of
the ceaseless discord that has marked
its Council for the past two years.
No one will question the ability, the
/ honesty, or the patriotism of the men
whose names have been presented
with this object in view. Messrs.
Council, Riley and White are too wen
known in this community to need any
: eulogiums in this respect. They are
men with large aggregate interests
here. Their lives and their interests
are closely identified with Amercus.
! On the development of the city their
own future prosperity depends. They
have no axes to grind. They are not
fanatical. They are not governed b.
passion and by prejudice. They are
cool-headed, sagacious men of bust
ness, devoted to the upbuilding OF
their town, eager to see it maintain Its
position as the leading town of this
section of the state, ambitious for its
future and willing to work zealously
in public life and in private that It's
development may he accelerated and
its supremacy maintained
Men like these are tie ones to be
the city out of the condition into
which discOrd las brought it. Men
! like these can be relied upon to do
their full duty to the taxpayers of the
city, to serve them as ALDERMEN with
the determination that for every, dol
lar expended a hundred cents worth
! III, hn FOL
meetings shall be marked by the spirit
Of Cancellation, that their plans shall
be for the upbuilding of Americas and
not solely and entirely toward the car
rying out of pet scheme whose ben
efts are, to say the least, doubtful
whose expediency can well be ques-
toned, and to carry through which
tho city has not a cent in hand or in
prospect.
This is vital question to every
taxpayer and every citizen of Ameri-
Gus. A mistake at this time means
continuation of the conditions that
now exist. A mistake on next We'd
| neSudy ulednS Ihe IHfotNlhS W th0 Wy
government in the tolls of a greater
debt. A vote at that time for MeSsrs.
Council, Riley and White means re-
turn to a sane and safe government
of your public affairs. There may
be less oratory in Council, less taste
of hot air at its meetings, hut instead
there will be an honest, determined
effort to pay the city's outstanding
floating debt, to keep its departments
on an economical yet efficient basis OF
operation, to make every dollar tell
for the public good, and to unite the
Ceople of Americas in onward move
ments. instead of disturbing and di--
,,:dipo tham with issues that are inn