Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-07-18
ANENT THE GOVERN0RSHIP.


comes to deliver a campaign speech
We say real taste" because DR.. L. G
Hardman's visit was not thoroughly
advertised, nor did he make a cam
paign speech-only contenting himself
with handshaking visit.
But the coming of Dorsey will set
the woods on fire From that day on,
Americas and Sumter county will feel
the torrid shots of a warm political
race. Local feeling will be engendered
and things in general will take on a
more stormy aspect.
Joseph E. Pottle was in southwest
Georgia this week, speaking at Lees
burg Monday He made great speech
a. Townsville, according to the Thorn
asyille Times Enterprise. Pottle is
undoubtedly a great campaigner, and
with his magnificent voice and spon-
taneous eloquence he will make the
hustings ring until September 18th.
| Governor Nat E. Harris stormed the
woods at Statesboro after Dorsey had
several filings" at Governor Nat. 1t
is very probable that the governor will
warm up to the situation in true bar
tie glory when the general assembly
have drawn in their sails. The gov
ernor is not beaten man by any
means. His ire was raised on the
Stripping case, but that doesn't forbid
us from thinking that he should have
COMMITTED the sentence sometime ago.
One thing certain, neither of the
four candidates favor the sale of the
w. & A. road Atlanta has brought a
remarkable pressure to bear, and
somehow our views will not coincide
with the candidates. Prohibition is
history, so far as the aspirants are
concerned. Law enforcement is play
ing 'frant esat" part.
But it's silly spectacle to see
would-be governors of Georgia jump
ing over the state, amid a storm of
welcome-so they say, and tuning
over the pardoning power, the iuries,
the courts, etc. The entire system and
fabric is all right-if men would do
their duties. The same stroke of wis
dom which created the pardoning pow
er gave birth to the jury system.
The Atlanta Constitution, the self
styled STANDARD Newspaper of the
South" has done everything in the
interest of Dorsey's candidacy except
announce their favorable consideration
on the editorial page They have spec
ian staff correspondents" accompany
ing him over his tours of the state. p"
They display his orations with proud
headlines-and the other candidates
barely get into the columns. OF course,
the editor of the Constitution is a
brother of a Howell-who is the law
partner of Dorsey, excuse us-the ex-
law-partner of Dorsey. He resigned
from the law firm; official position
everything.
The Atlanta Journal seems to be
leaning towards Pottle. The Atlanta
Georgian is anti-Dorsey, of course.
The Macon Telegraph IS counting
Governor Harris in the moonlight, but
they have not made serious proposals.
The Macon News is an outright Har-
ris paper, but not loud in its claims.
The Augusta Chronicle is anti
Dorsey, and this leads us to say-that
term classifes more newspapers in
the state than any other distinction.
The Times-Recorder is squarely n
the middle of the road, with anti-Dor
sey inclinations. 1t doesn't intend to
tear its shirt over any political race.
but if the worst comes to be bad
then we will not hesitate.
But the Atlanta Constitution should
come out and quit leaning. By-the-way,
the Constitution has come 10 the res
cue of the Neill primary bill with an
outright endorsement of the unit
rule The Constitution and Tom Wat