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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30
CONFERENCE
TO Be Held
BY CLARK
WILL Be Held ON SUNDAY
BalIoting Will Be Resumed
Monday Morning
Special to Times-Recorder.)

Baltimore, Md, June 29.-The dem
ocratic national convention adjourned
tonight until Monday morning at II
o'clock after taking the twenty-siXth
ballot.
1t wa recognized that it was i'm
possible to break the deadlock.
Speaker Clark will hold conferences
with his leaders here tomorrow, it IS
stated, but the purpose of the confer
eace was not divulged.
Unless a dark horse is taken up it
looks now like prolonged balloting on
bring an addition to his vote on
Monday,
The Wilson leaders express conf
dence in their ability to mold their
strength and the Underwood men are
still hopeful that the deadlock will
considerable addition to his vote OIL
Monday.
The closing scenes of the night ses
sion were marked by great demonstra-
tions by the Wilson and Clark forces,
and Sunda ywill be given up to con-
feTences and chickering's.
The closing ballot was the twenty
sixth, the corrected vote in it for the
leading candidates being Clark 463 1-2.
Wilson 407 1-2.
The adjournment until Monday
came as the result of a motion by Pal
mer, of Pennsylvania, one of Gov
ernor Wilson's lieutenants.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

Every girl in Americus who is con-
tasting or who intends to contest for
the two pretty prizes offered by the
Council of Safety chapter OF the
Daughters of the American ReVolu'
finn through the courtesy and gener-
ositv of Mr.. C. A. Fricker, should
know that tickets may be secured from
Mrs Fricker. AS there are only a
fow days left before July 2, Tuesday
overv contestant should secure tickets
and get squarely in the game u
win.
The contest is so arranged that on
" girls under twelve years OF age
will be allowed to enter the contest
There are many who have already en-
tered but there is no reason why any
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30
CRISP CLUB
WILL MEET
TOMORROW
TO DISCUSS CAMP PAIGN PLANS
Meeting at 500 O'clock To-
morrow Night

There will be held at O'Clock to-
morrow night at the headquarters Of
the club in the Cotney building here
d special meeting of the Sumter Coun-
ty Crisp club, to wdich is invited every
friend of the candidacy of Judge
Crisp.
The purpose of the meeting will be
to discuss plans for the conduct Of
the campaign in the district. A large
number of the friends of Judge Crisp
will be present to aid in the work OF
outlining a vigorous campaign in be-
half of his candidacy henceforward
until the primary in August.
Judge Crisp himself will come to
Americus as soon as the democratic
convention at Baltimore adjourns, his
duties as parliamentarian of that body
requiring his services there until the
sessions of that body end. +
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tr N Clark. Bryan's open opposition
to Tammany's tactics promises to be
feature of the day; he insists thar
no progressive democrat can afford to
accept the nomination if he is depend
ent upon New York's ninety votes 70
win. Bryan's change of vote awak-
ened tremendous enthusiasm among
Wilson forces. Clark's followers uc-
terly resent the imputation that he is
dependent upon the Ryan-Belmont in
fluence.
Fourteenth Ballot-Clark $50; Will
son 1862. Clark lost 4 1-2 and Wilson
gained votes.
Fifteenth Ballot-Clark 552; Wilson
1862 1-2; Underwood 10 1-2; Harmon
29; Marshall 80; Bryan 2; Kern 2.
Sixteenth Ballot-Clark Ssh; Wilson
1862 1-2; Underwood 112 1-2; Harmon
%; Marshall 30; Kern 2; Bryan l.
Seventeenth Ballot-Clark 554; Will
son 1862 1-2; Underwood 112 1-2; Har-
mon 80; Marshall 1870; Kern 4 IL,
Bryan 1. "a
Eighteenth Ballot-Clark 535; Will
son 361; Underwood 1875; Harmon 30:
Marshall 80; Bryan / Kern 81 1-2;
Absent 4 1-2
Ni,o+oop+L po1Io+ CIorl, 550. Will
son 358; Harmon %; Marshall 3O;
Foss l.; Bryan Z; Kern /.
On the eighteenth ballot Clark lost
the majority, which he had held since
the tenth.
Twentieth Balloto-Kansas desert
ed Clark for Wilson. Clark 512; viii
son 388 1-2; Underwood 121 1-2; Har-
mon 49, Marshall 30; Bryan /; Foss
2; Kern l; James 3. Georgia delega-
tion announced it will obey instruc-
tions and stand to Underwood.
Twenty-frst Ballot-Clark 508; Will
son 395 1-2 Clark lost four; Wilson
gained seven. Wilson has gained
II 1-2 since first ballot. Underwood
11S 1-2; Harmon 29; Marshall 30
Foss 5; Bryan L; Kern l.
At the conclusion of the twenty-firs
ballot Clark people moved to adjourn
Wilson people called for vote anC
the motion carried to adjourn to $3.50
Clark people are working to get TN
upport of the Underwood, Harmon AM
Marshall forces.
Twenty-Second Ballot-Clark sos
Wilson 395 1-2; Underwood 113 IL
Harmon 20; Marshall 30; Foss 5;
James 3; Bryan / Kern l.
Twenty-Third Ballot-No materia
; change.
Twenty-Fourth Ballot-Clark 496
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MAY BE GOTTEN
FROM MRS. c.. A. FRlCKER
itto Girl Who is to Contest For the Two Prizes
Offered By the D. A. R. Should Call on MIS- filcAei
and Secure Tickets at Once.

girl who wishes to enter should not
get into the contest now and stand as
good a chance of winning as any who
have already entered. The next two
days will be the very best time to sell
the tickets, as the game does not oc-
cur until Tuesday afternoon.
Interest in the benefit gar,n which
is to be played between the locals and
a picked team not yet chosen, is
very strong, indeed, and the attend
ance promises to be unusually good
There will be large crowd to see the
game Tuesday afternoon especially, as
that will be a gala day, the celebra-
ton taking the place of a Fourth OF
July celebration as regards the local
chapter of the Daughters Of the
American Revolution.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30
ELOQUENT WERE
SPEECHES OF
NOMINATION
AT BALTIMORE CONVENTION
Enthusiasm For Candidates
Very Strong

Baltimore, Md, June 29.-(Special.
The convention reconvened for the
dominating speeches, preparatory to
the crucial test of balloting.
AS the delegates gathered both the
Clark and Wilson forces expressed
the utmost confidence and displayed
intense and continued enthusiasm
throughout the speeches, when telling
points were made by the orators in
presenting the claims of the leading
rival candidates on the party and the
people.
Senator Reed. of Missouri, presented
the name of Speaker Champ Clark.
His address was full of fire, well
calculated to arouse the Clark forces
to tremendous outbursts of approval
Every telling point was the signal
for a new demonstration on their
part.
Said he in opening:
"We are here not to nominate a
candidate, but to select a president
Today we shall contend, each against
the other; tomorrow We must be
brothers in battle for humanity.
ours is a high privilege and sol
emn dutya 1t should be met in
spirit of exalted patriotism. Every
consideration must be subordinated
to the great cause of the people. We
speak not only for a party, but for
a nation, for mankind and for his
tory. We are about to dissolve the
partnership between monopoly AMI
government
Sixteen years has this partnership
levied tribute under the forms of law
1t has taxed the crust upon the lips
of hunger 1t has flinched from the
pockets of poverty. Monopoly has
financed the campaigns of republican
presidents 1t has been rewarded
by immunity from punishment for
violation of the criminal statutes
The people turn to the democratic
party for relief"
The scene that followed his closing
sentences was one of wild and unre-
strained endorsement by the Clark
sympathizers. Reeds closed his fine
laudation of Clark with these words:
THE army of the democracy is
forming in battle array. The sun of
hone glorifies the horizon of the flu
ture and sheds its splendor upon our
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banners. Above us bends the myriad
| hued bow of promise. We have been
led to the very gates of success by
! veteran grown gray in the service.
Let him continue to lead, and the
celestial bow will become an arch Of
triumph beneath which democracy
will march in glorious victory"
No less forceful and convincing and
appealing was the speech by Judge
Westcott, of New Jersey, putting Gov
ernor Wilson in nomination.
The enthusiasm of the Wilson forces
knew no bounds when he declared in
piercing tones that New Jersey will
endorse his nomination by majority
of one hundred thousand of her liber-
ated citizens. We are not building for
day or even a generation, but for
all time. Let not the belief that any
candidate may succeed rob us of sound
Judgment. What would it profit the
democratic party to win now, only to
be cast out four years hence? The
democratic party should be commits
stoned to carry on great construct
i've program, having for its end
complete restoration of the doctrines
of equal rights and equal opportunity
without injury and wrong to any
one. Providence has given us in
Woodrow Wilson the mental and moral
equipment to accomplish this REIN
oarnation of democracy"
Less in volume, but none the less IN
the intensity of it's purpose and the
genuineness of its approval were the
waves of cheers that swept over the
vast armory from the Underwood men
and friends of the Albanian when
Senator Bankhead placed him in NOM
ination.
Bankhead was at his best and pro-
voked cheers of applause from the
great audience regardless of personal
allegiance by his denunciations of re-
bublicanism and tribute to the demo-
cratic party.
He closed with a glowing tribute to
the character of Underwood as man,
a citizen and democrat.
The Underwood delegates while less
in numbers than the Clark and Wilson
forces made a magnificent demonstra-
ton as Bankhead closed with these
words:
knowing him blameless in his pri-
Ivate life; invulnerable in his record
of long public service, imperturable
in action and impregnable in honor.
Alabama presents for the presidential
nomination the name of democracy's
able leader and best asset-Osear w.
Underwood"
Seconding the nomination of Oscar
Underwood for president, Jeffersom
Randolph Anderson, of Savannah, Ca.
a descendant OF Thomas Jefferson.
dwelt on the fact that there was today
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Calvary EpisconaI Church.

Rev. James B. Lawrence, rector
Sunday school at 9:45 o'clock,
Holy Communion at o'clock; Sun
day school at 9:45 o'clock morning
prayer, litany and sermon at II
o'clock; evening prayer at o'clock.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30
DIPLOMAS FOR 1000 AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor, Mich, June 2S-The I'm
"erslty of Michigan today celebrated
''S 6Sth annual commencement ana
,"e 10Th anniversary of its founding
diplomas were presented to nearly
One thousand seniors and honorary
uesrees were conferred.
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First Methodist Church.

Rev. 0. B. Chester, pastor. Morn
ing sermon at II o'clock; evening SER
men at O'Clock Sunday school at
$50 o'clock, T. NJ. Furlow, superin-
tendent. Prayer meeting on Wedncs
day evening at o'clock.
Rev. W. H. Olmstead, of Smithyille,
will preach sat this church today at
both the morning and the evening
services in the absence of the pastor.
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PRESBYTERIAN Church,

Rev. J. ". Stokes, pastor. Morning
sermon at II o'clock; evening sermon
at o'clock. Sunday school at $50
o'clock. L. P. Gartner, superintend-
ent. Prayer meeting on Thursday
evening at 8 o'clock.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

L,w Mass first and third Sundays
in each month at o'clock, a. m,
celebrated by Rev. Father Schonhardt,
of Albany. Low mass each Monday
morning at o'clock, following the
Sundays upon which services are held
in this edifice.
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First RAptist Church.

Rev. Lansing Burrows, pastor. Nor
ming sermon at IL o'clock; evening
sermon at O'Clock. Sunday school
at $3.50 o'clock, T. F. Gatewood, super
intendent. Prayer meeting on Thurs
day evening at 8 o'clock.
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FurIow Lawn Baptist .hurch.

Rev. r. L. Bivins, pastor. Morning
sermon at II o'clock; evening sermon
at o'clock; Sunday school at 9:33
o'clock, R. l.. Maynard, srperinteni-
ent. Prayer meeting on "Wednesday
evening at s o'clock.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

Murray Dunn, Secretary. Reading
room open from until o'clock in
the afternoon. Afternoon services have
been discontinued for the summer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-30

Morning services today at II
o'clock; evening services on Wednes-
dag only.
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IN LOCAL CHURCHES
Catholic Church.

.... ~ Z ~t,f1
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-06
THE WOMAN VOTE

There are soO,OOO women voters in Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming and California, states which control 37 electoral votes, in a total of 531. Theoretically this vote might control the next election for preSi- dent Practically it is not likely to do so. There is no reason to war rant the assumption that the woman vote will be differently divided than the male vote upon the election of a president. Therefore we may expect their vote to be cast in accordance with the predominant sentiment in their several states, all of which went Republican in the last election, eX- cepting Colorado, save only the ex- pected change to Democracy in those states, through a sentiment affecting both men and women.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-06
Ex-MayOr HendriCk
 Dies In New Haven
Had Also Been Chief of the Fire Department in That
 City

New Haven, Feb. 6-Ex- Mayor and ex-Ffre Chief Albert c. Hendrick, who had been critica ly i'll at his residence in Bristol street for some weeks, died shortly before 3:3O this morning. He was within one month of being 79 years of age. It was through his work as head of the fire department during it's formative period that the basis was laid for the present ex- cel1ent department New Haven now boasts.
 Chief Hendrick was in charge of the department up to January 31, 1892. He was elected Mayor the Repub- lican ticket in 1S94, which office he held for a single term.
 Since then he had kept out of active life, although he had always taken a great interest in public affairs. and especial y in matters relating to the fire department, where he had been frequent and always welcome vis- itor
 A few years ago he donated to the department a valuable and interes ing collection of fire relics and medals which he had gathered in the course Of his life. The collection has been placed in handsome oak and glass case, and stands in the main office at fire headquarters
 MT. Hendrick was not married.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-06
MIR MELLENs VIEW OF GOVERNMENT AND RAILROADS

goverum mentaI participation in rail road management. So drastic a rem l edy would seem to imply a certain existing mana gem ents. Indeed. the New Haven is an ex- ample in point, for here is a corpora tion enjoying a monopoly of trans portation-railroa railway and water-in the richest and most popu- Ious territory of the United States, yet in years of normal prosperity its revenues are insufficient to meet it's expenses and dividend accounts, with out enormous deficits.
 Some such view is apparently i1 MT. MeIlen's mind
 There has been much gossip about the falling off of earnings on the New Haven road. Do you attribute this to the slump in business?'' he was asked.
 The earnings have not fallen of they Lave increased. But the op- erating expenses have increased also, and out of all proportion to the earnings he replied.
 MT. AIelIen is correct upon the first point and in error upon the second The earnings have increased. But the expenses have not increased 'out of all proportion to the earnings
 The New Haven Railroad makes a yearly report to the State of Connec- ticut.
 In 1901, John M. Hall president, sL.f- enues were 69.S9 of operating reve- nues.
 In 1910, MT. MelIen president, the report shows that operating expen- ses were only 6S.z4 of operating rev. enues.
 Since the figures are given under oath they are probably accurate, and entitled to precedence over MT. Mel lens casual recollection of the rela- ton between expenses and earnings.
 The difficulty in the fiscal arrange ments of the road is not due to dis proportfonate increase of expense ov- CT earnings. but to other causes.
 Doubtless the key to these 10th CT causes'' may be discovered when ever study shall be made of the mer- ger of 1907, when the New Haven Railroad heretofore one of the strongest steam railroad companies in the world was merged into and be- came the Consolidated Street Railway Company, under the name of New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road Company.
 When the history of that merger is fully written, and the conditions precedent and subsequent are fully known, it may appear that govern ment interest in railroading has been too long delayed, and that the sup
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-06

Charles Sanger Mellen has discuss ed in an interesting way. in The Out look, the existing relations between government and business. He says that suspicion and uncertainty are the dominant clements in the situa- Edon. In short, MT. Mellen brings to the discussion what may be termed the railroad presidents view, which Is a natural human resentfulness at whatever interferes with ones plans and purposes. His proposition that the government should be represent ed in the directorates of railroad companies will doubtless be approved by those who are not prepared for government ownership of railroads. and who realize that the public must be better represented in railroad man agement than it is at present.
 Not so fortunate are his references to the initiative and referendum. MT. MeIlen says:
 The advocates of the initiative and referendum and recall have recognized their opportunity and are pressing for these and other so-ca led reforms on ahe plea that they mean the restora-
 
 every thinking man must realize that with vast population like ours, such a thing as direct popular rule is out of the question. We have grown up under representative government; why change 1t? You know that even a Massachusetts town meeting elects of hcers to whom it intrusts the towns 8 business. It doesn't attempt to do that itself; it can't.
 What would become of a railway like that over which preside, If all IL 1 N,- J- 7afr1f a6 every time we spent a. hundred dollars on the repair Of a freight-house? The Stockholders elect to their directora te a small body of men in whose busi- ness judgment they have confidence and these men run the road. And even in that little managing group there must be one responsible head. If an emergency confronts me as presl- dent. I can't always wait to call my directors together before acting I have to do what appears to me w1Sest under all the circumstances, and a ter report it to the directors and ask their approval.
 Under the initiative and referen- dunn the stockholders of state have far less power than the stockholders of the New Haven Railroad, for in- stance. for there is no system of checks and balances between the rail- road stockholders and their presi- dent and directors Railroad officers may take their own heads if they choose. but in doing so they remain responsible to their directors and stockholders, and if they blunder the penalty is sometimes proportionate.
 Perhaps it would have been better For the stockholders of MT. Mellen's railroad had they attended little closer to business themselves.
 The railroad situation certainly does moi impress MT. Mellen as be- ing all that he could wish, since he looks SO favorabIy upon the Idea of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-06

owned, or controlled without owner ship by neighborhood monopolies, as gas and electric light.
 Most thoughtful men will find their sympathies increased toward LaFoI- Iette by the unpleasant persecution to which his latest speech has sub jected him. They will be made fa- miliar, as they were not before, with a fearless and honest man striving 70 convey to the American people som e necessary truths that they ought to know. His undiminished courage is occasion seized by him for that pur- pose was an assemblage attended by many men who would keenly resent the presentation of his facts.
 When newspaper publishers become so resentful of criticism that they cannot hear it at a private banquet from the lips of a single man with out overwhelming him in their pub lications it is time to pause for in quiry.
 fundaments of the Amercan system of government.
 Free speech includes the right to criticise the press. and it is proper that newspapers should be instructed, and disciplined if need be, by that sentiment which passes fp5m lip to lip.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-06

Senator LaFolIette made a speech at a banquet of publishers, Saturday evening. in Philadelphia. He became in just after the close of his remarks and little later was removed to a hospital for treatment This incl dent has been seized to show that becar ge of his illness the senator rnadZ remarks that were not n themselves justified, that he would not have made, had he been in as good health as usual. Beyond a cer- tain acerbity in his utterances to a number of persons who interrupted him, the senator's speech, as printed shows no lack of preparation, or of containing utterances due to tbS irri- tability of a sick man.
 His remarks upon the relation be- tween newspapers and the money power show every evidence of having been carefully considered. They are intended to apply. only to portion of tho newspaper press, and as far as they go, seem to be true.
 No intelligent editor of a free news paper but will admit that certain newspapers, some very large and some small, are closely associated with certain financial groups. The SO called Morgan publications are espec- tally we'll known. Locally newspa- pers are frequently owned, partly
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-06

has reported. Its facts show conclu- siveIy that the -enornous> tariffs have put wooIen clothing out of reach of the workers, have served to enrich MT. Wood and other wool barons, have made woolen clothing cost twice as much in this country as in Eng land. and have otherwise injured the country by producing thousands -of miserable and impoverished workers and a few sweller and dangerous for tunes.
 The Underwood-LaFollet bill tu revise the wool schedule has been ve- toed by the president. Stand-pat politicians continue to Iaud the presi- dentiaI act as wisdom and patriot ism consolidated.
 Leading the van in this chorus of praise is Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill. who believes that the palladium of our lib- critics is threatened whenever some body proposes that the wooIen and cotton workers ought to have more pay, the American people better clothing and MT. Wood less profits.