Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-11
Kenizelos And The King of
Greece Are Center Attacks
For The Onconling Election


September are being regarded witt
great Importance, in view of what has
taken place during the past fifteen
months. 1t is declared, particularly by
the adherents of the former premier
Venizelos, that militarism is in the
balance against democracy, and thai
the divine right of kings is pitteC
against republicanism.
The campaign has already begun
with Venizelos serving both as rally
ing point and as a point of .attack. The
anti-Venizelos journals are calling hin
a traitor, accusing him of having sol,.
his country to the Entente Powers and
proclaiming him as a potential dicta-
tor who would turn his country into
a French protectorate.
The Venizelists on the other hand
have assumed the attitude that the
king has no power under the constitu-
zion, and therefore they are stopping
from assailing him for exercising .
power which they deny exists.
The king is really popular, and
though many Greeks disapprove out
spokenly of the royal participation in
politics, there is no bitterness against
Constantine l., personally. Nor is the
] figure-head late premier Stephen
Skouloudis especially attacked. Those
who come in for attack by the Veni-
zelists are the officers of the General
Staff, the German propaganda Baron
Schenck and ex-minister of Interior
/ Demetrios Gounaris, the eral head oil
the Greek oligarchy.
| There is nothing polite about the
political methods of the Greeks. Strong
epithets are commonly applied to pol
itical opponents in the editorials of re-
sepctable Athenian journals. And al.
though the army is in process of de-
mobilization, it's officers are drawing
every possible political advantage of its
organization while there is yet time
The soldiers of today, who will be cit
liens tomorrow, are harranged, treated
to orders of the day and manifestos
and generally shepherded by their
officers into the anti-venizelist fold.
Each train bringing "reservists" (de.
modified soldiers) from Macedonia is
accompanied by one or more officers
who talk politics to the men until they
split up to return to their homes. Pc.
litical leagues are being formed
among the reservists under the tutel,
age of anti-Venizelist officers, and
every effort is being made to conserve
all the political advantages of mob
ilization after the army has beer
disbanded.
These methods are fraught witt.
menace to any sort of peaceful cleo
tons. Venizelos declared that the
Intervention of the Powers guaran-
tors of Greece on June 81 saved the
country from impending revolution,
and it is said now that the prospect
has not been entirely disposed of,
even yet.
Elephtehrios venizelos, besides be-
ing one of the great statesmen of
Europe today, is also very astute
politician. His personal organ, the
Herald, which appears every Sunday,
has some 100000 subscribers, and the
Cretan writes at least one leading
article every week. His followers are
busy in every cafe as all of Greece
lives in the cafes in the summer.
There is just one topic of discussion
Venizelos and the constitution-or
Gentlemen! The King!
A natural diplomatist says: The
trouble in Greece is not yet over. II
is just beginning. King Constantine
cannot logically accept the elections
calmly, for the elections mean the
return of venizelos. And Venizelos is
determined to make it impossible .or
all time to come for the sovereign in
Greece ever to take the reins OF