Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
OPEN-TOWN IDEA
WILL BE ISSUE
IN PRIMARY
But Contest Between Mayor Jas
G. Woodward and His Rivals
Holds First Attention.
Continued from Page I.

For your children, you would
refuse that marked disgrace.
And all but a pltiable, blinded
few in Atlanta would do like
wise.
Not 500 men in this city would
petition TO deliver ito turn
their homes over to the tender
merCies Of those who believe that
men have the right to live by
buying and selling women, that
commerce which can exist only by
the seduction Of girls.
But there are thousands who
would be glad to enroll to recall
the man who tried TO knife CHIEF
Beavers for holding his oath Of
Office and his honor superior to
the wishes Of those who have
gotten rich or who desire to get
rich by virtue OF the white slave
trade and the liquor traffic and
their friends.
And they would not stop with
signing the petition.
They would vote
They would so effeCtually retire
the man who tried to dishonor his
home in this way that he would
go down in history as the be
sotted one who thought honor
dead and Christianity a farce in
Georgia.
Recall Was No Accident.
The adoption Of the recall, the
referendum and initiative was no
accident
only another evidence that God
rules in Atlanta.
one man said one thing. An
other another.
None claimed or urged this
greatest of weapons yet devised
for clean and honest government.
But when the votes were count
ed, in some way somehow, those
who believe in deCenCy and hap
piness for all and oppose indie
cenCy and license for the few at
the cost OF misery for the many
found themselves armed with the
same measure that cleaned up
Seattle
They had the red light district
in Seattle.
Mayor Gill believed 1. It and
fostered It.
Three years ago the recall end
ed the disgrace They retired
Mayor GIN. The pimps and pan
derers had to leave. No one has
petitloned to bring the criminals
back
It is significant that the right
OF recall is given us just one year
after Chief Beavers closed our
white slave market God be
thankful for this anniversary gift
II was the one thing needed.
The Chief is safe.
Fight Is Just Begun.
But the fight for clean living
and right thinking has only be-
gun. And here consider not only
the recall but the initiative!
Ordinances can be prepared by
the people.
And there are many thousands
who will count il an honor to
sign a petition to institute legis-
lation that will make II impossi-
BILE to maintain a barToom on the
street that leads TO the Young
Mems Christian Association and
the Baptist Tabernacle.
Why should the reputable peo-
pie of Atlanta who spend thou
sands upon thousands Of dollars
in trying to build up manhood
among our boys and young men
permit their work TO be Contin-
ually torn down and hampered by
these saloons and the liquor traf-
nc?
When the recall and initiative
were written into the charter of
Atlanta, the death warrant of
these traps that are at the bot
tom Of nine tenths OF the crime
and unhappiness in Atlanta was
signed.
The Chief is douhly safe.
Neither he nor those who sup
port him are even nervous.
They are thanking God for the
gift OF a man and fitting weapons
with which to back him.
But the powers OF evil,
They are disturbed.
They say: An accident"
If they are wise, they will ad-
nit the truth.
Centuries ago David wrote it:
The wicked plotteth against
he just
The Lord shall laugh at him:
for he seeeth that his day is com
ing"
"He sect that his day is com
ing"
You can not win against God.
MaVor StirS Up