Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-01
DAVIS ONCE BOLTER,,
CUT BRYAN TICKET
Fartv Nominee Refused to 'Swal-
low Free Silver Issue Dur
in 1896 Election
BY HARRY B. HUNT
NEA Service Writer

WASHINGTON, September l.
There ought to be a feeling u
oamaraderie between Robert La Fol
,atte and John W. Davis.
Davis, of course, is now party
..raoular." He's deep-dyeo
democrat. Being the parry $
lombard bearer, he couldn't weh
.orfess to anything else.
But according to friends ana
aoigbbors out in Clarkspurg, W.
Va Davis at one ~time' even II
va "' face of violent opposition tr ia
tis fotber who was an extreme
n Ili1 partisan, ditched pafV3
regularity and voted tof an IN
dependent candidate.
Since La Toilette is now run
n;no as an Independent" he is
not asking party regulars in Yot-
inc for him to do anything more
beretical than the present Demo
cratic candidate did back in 1896.
It's an interesting, perhaps even
satvric. play of fate that gives Da-
Wis as running mate for the presi-
5ency, the brother of the man
whose candidacy he is said to have
"cut."
For John WIS detection came III
William Jennings Bryan's first
campaign, when free silver" was
the big issue.
Democrats who couldn't stand
Bryan's free silver doctrines met
1t Indianapolis in September, '96,
and under the name of the Ma
tional (Gold) Democratic Conven-
ton nominated John M. Parker of
Illinois and Simon B. Buckner Of
Kentucky, to run independently.
Davis, now the regular Demo
cratic champion, supported Parker
and Buckner, the Independents. :"
In Stafford and Prince George
counties, Virginia, justices of the
peace, before whom local violators
of the prohibition law are brought
for trial, are "tempering justice
with reason"
Most of the arrests are OIL,
charges of making or selling
"moonshine" by small farmers
lack in the country. These men,
most of them with large families,
always have difficult time "mak-
ing ends meet" financially. Crop
are usually scant and cash scarce.
Instead of sending those can
victed forthwith to Jail or tn !
workhouse, some of the magis-
trates have been pronouncing ser
tence, same to become effective
this fall after the crops are
harvested
Get your crops taken care of and
all in by Nov. Is, so your women
and children will have something
to live on, and then report to mo
here ready to begin sentence of 90
days" is frequent order.
These sentences are said to find
high favor with the violators, for
they are able to provide for their
families before going to jail and
are assured of room and board for
themselves during most of the
winter.
Birds of feather flock togeth-
er, but fine feathers don't make
brave birds.
Ihls was demonstrated in thu
courtyard at the Freer art gallery
the other day when a band Of
English sparrows, perhaps object
ing to the upstage attitude of a
brilliantly plumed peacock, dc
Scended upon him en- masse and
put INN ANONYMOUSLY to flight.
Bill Donovan has been chosen by
Attorney General Stone to assist
IN the administration of federal
criminal laws, other than antitrust
and prohibition cases.
Not wild Bill' Donovan, but
Colonel Bill" of Buffalo, N. Y.
Donovan was one of Stones
crack law students a few years
ago in Columbia Law School. For
ms part in the war he won the
Congressional Medal of Honor, the
Distinguished Service Cross and
The Distinguished Service Medal.