Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-07
TR AILING
THE NEWS
OF THE DAY
An Interesting Macon Rumor.


An interesting rumor of an al
lance between Senator Hoke
Smith and Mayor Glen Toole, by
which Mayor Toole hopes to be
made governor, comes out of that
city inf this mornings issue of The
Telegraph, which says:f
"That Mayor Glenn Toole and
Senator Hoke Smith have formed
an alliance has been common gos-
sip around the city hall for some
time.
"The senior senator from Geor-
gia is hopeful of obtaining the
solid support of the Toole machine
in the coming senatorial cam
paign, it is said, and the cards are
being played so that if the senator
can reciprocate he will throw his
support over the state to Mayor
Toole three years hence.
"And that talk means that Mayor
Toole is to become candidate for
governor of Georgia. That Ma
cons mayor has been seriously con-
sidering the matter of entering the.
state field with a view of obtaining
the governorship has also been
common gossip around the city hall
for some time.
''How the mayor himself stands
at this time on this proposition is
unknown. The mayor says it is
too early to talk of such matters,
and he adds, besides, I'm not a
politician.
Friends of the mayor insist he
is not only politician but leader
and those in the machine are will
ing to follow and to persuade 9TH
ers to follow.
"The mayor will serve out his
two years more as chief executive
of the city of Macon. It is believ-
ed that he will throw as much of
the Macon machine support as he
can deliver to Senator Hoke Smith
and wait for the senator to make
good on his delivery of the state to
him for the governorship should he
finally decide to enter.
'The mayor through his connec-
tion with the Shrine and in munich
pal affairs of the state has worked
up big acquaintanceship. 1t was
reported yesterday that the COVER
norship boom that has cropped out
is more than local. in fact had its
birth outside of the city of Macon"
And The Miners Cheered Green.
That the coal miners officials
found they were up against the real
thing in the recent strike and that
they accepted the proposal of Presi-
dent Wilson when they knew they
could not buck the government, was
brought out yesterday at the min
ers' delegates convention at Col
umbus, o. The following news re-
port of yesterdays meeting, tells
the story:
q Defending the action of himself
and acting President John L.
Lewis in agreeing to accept Presi-
dent Wilson's proposal for settle
ment of the coal miners strike,
William Green, international secre-
tary of the United Mine Workers,
declared the only other alternative
was disaster and defeat for the
miners organization"
"We could have whipped the coal
operators but we could not, if we
had wanted to, whip the strongest
government on earth-our govern
{ mt, which had just finished whip
Lg Germany.
"lf we had not accepted Presi-
dent Wilson's proposal of settle
ment, the powers of the Federal
Government would have been turn
ed loose on US with greater ferocity
than anything we have ever seen,"
Green continued. "We knew we
had reached the limit" he assert
ed, as the delegates, with applause
and cheering voiced approval of
what he said.
with every mining community
in the country honeycombed with
federal agents, gathering evidence
against our men, our funds tied up
and women and children freezing
and facing starvation, how in the
name of God could we go on with
the striker" Green continued.
49,
Choose Death to "Dry" Era.
One guess as to the occupation of
the first suicide of the new year in
Chicago. Yes, it was former bar
tender, Ernest Kutous, who had a
wife and family and did not think
highly of this prohibition thing. 1t
threw him out of a job for which
he was especially trained and which
he liked. Kutous was 20 years of
age and has been viewing the ad-
vancing wave of prohibition with
much disfavor. To friends he said
that it mean much suffering for
men who would lose their occupa-
tions. So, after thinking over the
entire situation, he shot himself in
the head.
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