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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1906
Page
4
An Athens newspaper digest covers expected canal costs and criticism of Panama project managers. It cites editorials on incompetent engineers, government pull, and salaries, arguing the project hinges on capable leadership and fiscal accountability under the Roosevelt era. It also notes Russian Duma findings condemning Jewish pogroms and police complicity.
The piece analyzes Hoke Smith’s shifting political positions across 1901 to 1906, noting calls to purge populists, denouncements of key party figures, and efforts to secure support for delegate races. It questions where Smith stands amid changing tactics and public scrutiny.
The Savannah News notes Mr. Bryan remains steadfast against trusts and will oppose them in the coming years. It says financiers and trust promoters will be excluded from his reception crowd, as Bryan would not be influenced or seen with them. He has warned organizers he will not be associated with trust leaders.
Government appropriation nearly a million dollars for the Jamestown exposition has arrived and work will begin at once. The event will be on Hampton Roads near Norfolk, with improved grounds, cement gutters and sidewalks, honeysuckle fences in colonial style, and new hotels nearby. Contracts have been let and buildings expected to be completed before May 1, 1907, with exhibits assembled.
The Augusta Herald questions President Roosevelts asserted authority in relation to the meat inspection bill and Harper s Weekly’s critique. It argues the President may have prescribed methods of action, suggesting a broad interpretation of recommend authority while noting Congress resisted the measure and public opinion backed the President. It cites demographic notes on Philadelphia and northern cities, highlighting rapid growth of the Black population and concerns over race dynamics.
A Northern shift in sentiment toward African Americans is noted as the black population increases in northern cities. The Philadelphia Ledger warns that social tolerance is deteriorating from goodwill to suspicion, with the negro seen as dangerous and redeeming opportunities for emigration to less populated regions.
Colliers Weekly urges joint action to save Niagara Falls from power companies and keep it a world wonder. The piece notes Congress acted to treat the Niagara River as navigable water, placing New York state franchises under federal control with a three year life for permits, and forecasts a treaty with Canada to seal preservation with Roosevelt pressing for a prompt outcome.
Alabama marks the two oldest US senators, Gen E W Pettus aged 86 turning 87 this year and Senator Morgan both seeking re election amid plans to replace them. Pettus boasts a long career from Mexican War to brigadier general and judge before entering the senate again. deWitt's Little Early Risers advertised.
The Macon Telegraph recounts that Congress settled the Great Seal after designs by Jefferson Adams Franklin and others. Jefferson favored a six quartering shield, Liberty and Justice on sides, eye of Providence, motto E Pluribus Unum, with an elaborate reverse and pyramid motto Novus ordo seclorum. An English design ultimately won approval.
The State Normal School seeks to beautify its campus this summer with convict labor from the prison farm. The Senate has passed the plan and the House is expected to follow. Convicts would be brought after harvest when farm labor is slack, to perform landscaping duties on the state institution.
Care of the state is cited as justification for bringing convicts to this location. The discussion emphasizes that it is no stretch of state rights to relocate prisoners for this purpose.
Wisconsin senator La Follette, praised by the Augusta Herald, plans to aid in New Jersey’s senatorial contest against Dry den and Colby, aiming to shake entrenched trusts, with New Jersey labeled the mother of trusts and the east scene of a spicy, high stakes clash. The piece notes his confrontational stance toward railroads and big business, while contrasting his western reform stance with eastern conservatism.
Dr H R Bernard of this city has been elected treasurer of the Georgia Baptist education commission and will assume duties at once. A well known Baptist worker, he previously aided Mercer University as field agent and edited The Advance and The Religious Forum. The commission, based in Macon, includes W Landrum ex Governor Northen Jamison and Whit J J, and aims to lift Mercer Monroe College and other schools across the state.
A large gathering of Atheniana and Clarke county citizens held a big fish fry on the Oconee. About twenty men participated in a poll on preferences for governor. James M. Smith led with 11 votes to H. A. Russell's 9, showing the people's candidate ahead in the county.
Through J Hoke and the Seaboard Airline, Athens gains new train times to Atlanta. Morning departures include five thirty and seven thirty to Athens, one forty nine and five in the afternoon. Return trips leave Atlanta at seven, noon, five, and nine thirty in the evening. The road aims to be Athens best yet. A hostess serves mineral water at a children’s party, prompting a quip about water preference.
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