Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-08
H[XON FINDS
WHOLE COUNTY
LINED UP FOR
PAVING BONDS
Trouble Makers Trail is Found, But
Steps Are Taken to Combat
Their Work

GlgnC 0unureu ana LWenLy-S VOLe3
must be polled for bonds wednesday
| if the issue is to carry. This was re-
vealed today when the count of the
names on the registration list, after
the purging had been completed, was
announced. The total registration for
the county is 1850, nearly 100 less
than had been expected. The law re-
quires than two-thirds of those voting
must favor the bonds and this num-
Der must be a majority of the total
registered The registration by dis
tricts follows:
18th, 1874; Old 18th, 81; New 10th, II;
18th, liz; Old Goth, 14O; New 26th, So:
2Sth, 131; 10Th, AZ; 9th, SIS.
Reports from all over the county to-
day were most encouraging to the
workers for the success of the issue,
although word came from at least two
district that trouble makers had been
at work spreading false reports in
tended to do harm to the cause of
paved highways and the bond issue.
Immediate steps to combat an? harm
they had done were undertaken at
once by Judge ]. A. Hixon, chairman
of the campaign committee, anG it was
believed that when the truth has
become known, which the committee
intends it shall before the polls open,
the counter effect of the false p1opa-
ganda will increase the vote for the
| bonds.
Chairman Hixon declared this morn
ing that the vote in some of the set7
Elements which have been declared the
seat of the worst opposition, will be
surprisingly high for the bonds. Judge
Hixon yesterday visited every district
in the county and organized teams to
work for bonds at the polls.
Il found very little opposition" said
he. In fact, | was surprised at the
way they are coming to the front ev-
erywhere for bonds. We have a
most loyal lot of workers in the 18th
district, where some opposition has
cropped out, and they tell me they are
going to vote two to one for bonds. The
only danger to the success of the is
sue that / can see is in failure to i'm
press the farmer with the necessity
of voting, but l think they are suffic-
iently aroused to see to that"
Chairman T. M. Furlow, of the 9th
district (Americus), has arranged for
fifty workers at the polls all day.
THE 9th district will go almost
unanimously for bonds" he said.
There win be few men out of the
city, as is always the case who would
vote for bonds if they could be here.
But I predict that between 80 and SO
per cent. of the vote cast here will be
for bonds"
Election officials were being appoint
ed in all districts today by the local
justices of the peace. In the 9th dis
trict, Justice McMath today appointed
the following officials: e. L. Gam
mage, Berry Rouse, J. P. Cannon, Joe
Day Stewart and Willis Hawkins.
In the rural districts the polls will
be open from 9:37 a. m. to 3:37 p. m,
and in the 9th district from 6:37 a. m.
to 6:37 p. M, this corresponding to
the legal hours for sun time.
The bond campaign committee today
fired last broadside at the opposi-
ton, answering two campaign false
hoods which have, been industriously
circulated at the last minute through
out several districts by at least two
men known to be actively engaged in
fighting bonds. These answers appear
in two full page advertisements in to-
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