Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-04-05
viii Soon Be the DOminGGr-
ing Half of State in Pop
uIatiOn, Wealth, and
Power.
Wonderful Story of Progress
and an Equally Remarkable
Shouting of the Political
Dead Line

DGud A~iSaS
MAP and article prepared for Sa
vannah Evening Press by Thomas
Gamble, Jr)
An old writer says that when the
English pioneers found they could no.
raise corn on some of the stony pieces
of New England land they planted
school houses and raised men
A study of Georgia politics leads one
to believe that the North Georgians
profited by the example of the Puritan
colonists, and where they found they
could not raise cotton and corn thef
planted an old filed-school and raised
politicians.
An Unfailing Crop.
One thing, at least, is certain, wheth-
er this be the fundamental reason o.
not, the crop of North Georgia polite
ians has never been known to fail
Seasons of flood and seasons Of
drouth, seasons of peace and seasons OF
war, have alike been utterly void OF
effect upon it.
The seed planted has been Of the
prolific variety, free from blight, free
from wilt, free from black root free
from all other depressing forms OF
disease and disaster The original stock
being hardy, even cross breeding foes
not seem to have affected the Virility
of the output.
One generation of politicians has
been succeeded by another, and so for
a half century or more practically al
Of Georgia's state offices have been
filled by the leaders of that section of
the state
The pertinacity shown by the Vir-
ginia school in maintaining its grasp
on the presidency was ort-liyed and
feeble compared with the grasp the
North Georgia school has maintained
on the United States senatorship, the
governorship, treasurership, comp
trollership, attorney generalship, and
ether offices of high degrees.
Fortunately for other sections, the
districting system for representatives
III congress came in time to save some
thing to them or the seats in the lower
house at Washington would also doubt
less have been pre-empted by ,he indie
fatigable leaders of that excessively
absorptive section.
Always on sIle Job. ~ "S"t'""'"'"'
So inoculated have the North Geor-
gians been with the idea that The milk
and the honey of politics is their pc
ouliar birthright that seldom has an
office been created, or a vancacy APP
peared, but eager hands have been out
stretched form that section. The spec
tacle of a South Georgian aspiring to
place has meant ruffled bTows, dark
ened countenances, or quizzacel smiles
and half-concealed amusement, a
drawing together of the clans in
caucus, concentration OF strength on
a candidate, and the speedy elimination
OF the unfortunate aspirant from be
low the dead line.
The appeal of the Hebrew prophet OF
old, How long 0 Lord how long?"
may today awaken an earnest response
IL the breasts of South Georgians.
South Georgia has not bowed down to
craven images nor followed, but never
theless it has been kept III leading
strings, its leaders relegated to the pc
sitions of kindergarten children. 1t has
been a comparative stranger at the
feast, almost an outlaw at the melon
cutting. With the strength of a grow
ing giant, it has submitted to being
bound with green withes, not realiz-
ing that it could snap them with one
switch of its mighty frame But the
scales have been dropping from is
eyes; it is standing upright in its
power and majesty and the day is
drawing rapidly nigh when ii will not
only demand, but receive, that which
is its just and long withheld portion.
The map and the statistics combine
to tell the story of the course of Geor-
gia politics and Of South Georgias
growth that will soon put it in cons
handing position, put it in the saddle
if you will. 1t may be delayed a few
years, but decade more will lind this
portion of Georgia with the majorit}
of the population, the greater part of
the taxable wealth. viii it recall the
half century OF showing aside VIII it
act as North Georgia has acted? Nc,
that has never been South Georgia's
spirit It's people are dominated By
generous and just impulses
Past censuses enlighten all as %
what the future has in store. What
more significant than these figures
Pop of South
Pop. Of South Georgia S