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The Red and Black, Wednesday, August 12, 1970
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HY. e se ®k Lieutenant Governor's chair
by Ken Wiliis and
Robert Friedman
l.ester Maddox, the nun-
politican" who won the gover
nor s post nearly (our years
ago. is out after the second seat
in state government this year
and he doesn't have to try har
der because he seems to be the
leading candidate (or the lieu
tenant governor's post
A recent poll clearly shows
that Charlie Jones is running
second to Maddox in the Demo
cratic piirnary. and that Mad
dox hasn't got a majority a
Jones supporter in Athens said
yesterday If the poll is correct,
incumbent George T Smith is
in third and last place in the
Democratic primary
Meanwhile, the two Republi
can candidates for the nomina
tion as lieutenant governor are
running quiet campaigns and
it s hard to tell who is leading
Running are State Sen.
I*rank Miller of Atlanta, whose
major plank is Walk With the
Greatest' (He's had his picture
taken with former President
Eisenhower and late Sen. Ever
ett Dirkseni. and Bob Brown,
mayor ol East Point-Georgia s
seventh largest city.
^ith the two relatively un
knowns in the Republican race,
most of the state's attention
has focused on the Democratic
primary, where one relatively
unknown has jumped into battle
with two kaownt Charlie
Jones in the race with Lester
Maddox and George T Smith
Jones's strategy is simple
He wants to draw enough votes
from his friend Smith to get
into a runoff with Maddox
and his polls indicate he can to
it The problem is that Jones
and Smith appeal to much the
same electorate, splitting the
vote and giving Maddox more
of an advantage
Jones has been saying that
Smith is a fine man. but hasn t
done the job the lieutenant gov
ernor should coordinate the
General Assembly with the
(iovemors office
Jones proposes to bring new
vigor and sense of purpose to
the office
While Jones's polls show him
as leading Smith, the incum
bent lieutenant governor is
touring the state, and support
ers are saying that he'll pull a
surprise victory George T
Smith never has led in a poll,
they say. but he never has lost
an election
Both Smith and Jones are
standing on their legislative
and personal records. Both
came from poor or modest
homes, and both have gradual
ed from colleges
In his ten years as represent
ative of Liberty and McIntosh
Counties. Jones has held the
position of Majority W hip for
three years has been a mem
ber of the Rules. Appropria
tions. Policy and Banks and
Banking committees, and vice-
chairman of the Georgia Tax
Revision Study Commission
While on the tax study revi
sion committee. Jones was
and still is — an advocate of
tax reforms He insists that the
entire revenue system must be
revised and modernized before
new taxes are levied
Smith, from Cairo, served
four years as Speaker of the
House before being elected
lieutenant governor, and has a
history of public service.
Both have similar platforms
They both promise a govern
ment that will be efficient, with
quality education and a crack
down on water and air pollu
tion Jones emphasizes the
need for aiding Georgia's cities
and counties
While Jones and Smith are
battling lor Uie urban-oriented
vote. Maddox is depending on
the same people mostly in rural
areas, who elected him gover
nor
Maddox tried to get the
courts to declare a Georgia law
prohibiting the governor from
seeking a consecutive term
unconstitutional 11 nsuccessf u I.
he decided to run for lieutenant
governor The lieutenant gover
nor would become governor
should the person holding that
post resign
Maddox s main weakness
his opponents say. is his lack of
legislative experience Before
Maddox ran for governor he
had had no formal political
experience Supporters of
Smith and Jones have also
pointed to the unsophisticated
image that Maddox has given
the state as its governor
Democrats have many choices
mnFini mn Irnm ^ 1 'in. r. • .. .. ■
continued from page 1
Carter was a liberal i at least
in Georgia circles i in I9M> He
may still be. bill his campaign
has turned a bit more conserva
tive this time around Political
ly. Carter and Sanders are
much closer than either would
admit
The difference between the
two is in their images Sanders
comes across as the city slick
er Julian Bond lagged him
with the name Cufflink Carl
Carter, despite the best all
around education o( any o( the
candidates - Georgia Tech and
the .Naval Academy — is pic-
lured. not against his will, as
the country bumpkin
It is yet to be determined
which approach will prove
sound Sanders hopes Georgi
ans want a governor they can
look up to; Carter hopes they
want a governor they can iden
tify with
The man who guesses right
will win the election
Jan Cox is a Christ-figure.
His initials are JC. he has a
beard, he's an ex-carpenter,
he s S3 years old ami he says it
might be time (or a good t loixl
I m running a rad* against
time and (oily.' the Atlantan
claims, and he offers some
startling innovations in his
campaign literature
Cox would ban firearms for
the citizenry and the police,
except lor hunting and guns
within the home.
McKee Hargrett would have
run on the American Independ
ent Party ticket, but he didn't
Former Gov. Carl Sanders
want to fight the hassle of get
ting his third party on the bal
lot He is an ultra-conservative,
the closest man politically to
Lester Maddox, in this cam
paign. but the jeers he received
before Stoner entered the race
have disappeared
Hargrett and Maddox, along
with C B King, led a walkout
of a Stoner speech last week,
and the jesup d<xtor won many
friends among people who had
heckled him previously. Yet. he
remains as irascible as ever
‘ I'm running on principles
set forth by George Wallace in
his bid for the presidency, be
cause the rank and file of real
Georgians are not going to vote
for Lyndon Baines Sanders or
Teddy Kennedy Carter
Thomas Irwin remains an
enigma to political observers
Besides being a non-practicing
lawyer without a degree, he
claims to have taught math at
Oklahoma State University,
despite the fact that he has no
college diploma
When asked his motivation
for running, he related that in
the 1930 s he was given a pair of
red suspenders bv Eugene
Talmadge. then running for
governor himself
He proposes $10,000 bonuses
for Southeast Asia veterans
who are Georgians, and wants
the money to be used to create
a giant vouth sanctuary in
Atlanta where ' good'' young
people can stay He did not elab
orate
C B King, an Albany attor
ney. debated until the last min
ute the primary in which he
should run He would have been
politically wise to run as a
Republican, where, with a
massive black turnout, he
might have copped that priina
ry which promises to draw only
about 100.000 voters
But. he remained a Demo
crat where a million vote* are
expected, and his chance* are
slim He is the rnosi eloquent of
the hopefuls although his law
ver s delivery is much too slow
for the rapid-fire world of poli-
tics.
King, perhaps due to his de
livery. perhaps because of his
stoic exterior, always seems on
the verge of dozing off. and
although he has won many
white supporters, he is not ex
citing enough to pack blacks to
the polls in number sufficient to
get him into a runoff
Carl Sanders, for those of
you who just tuned in. was gov
ernor before Maddox He wants
to be a United Suites senator,
but while he awaits that oppor*
lunity. he has set out to prove his
popularity with Georgia s voters
Sanders is shackled with all
the advantages and disadvan
tages that automatically fall to
an ex-officc holder.
His record as governor, in
comparison with those of other
recent chief executives, was a
good one. Few people criticize
it What many people especial
ly Carter, do harp on. though, is
the fact that Sanders was a
man of m"derate means before
he was governor and is a
wealthy man today.
No one has suggested any
wrongdoing, and there probably
is none, but Sanders is faced
with the fact that he profited
more during his term as gover
nor Hum did the state It is not
the major point that reporters
have made it out to be. though,
and Sanders probably will not
be hurt by the charges
Sanders is the front runner
because of his past record, and
the fact that he wen a lot of
county courthouse support
while governor that the other
candidates cannot match He
has walked this road before,
and he knows wiiat it takes to
win
('. F Swini has hardly been
seen since he paid his fees to
make the* race for governor. He
entered, he says, solely to see
that Jim Gillis is run out of
Georgia politics, because "he
hasn't done right by the peo-
pic
Swint s hopes may be dim
Gillis. long-time highway
boss is supporting Sanders,
and Sanders is one of the few
candidates that has not publicly
condemned him
Gillis may prove Sanders'
albatross as the campaign
wears on
The race* is going to be excit
ing and unique A movie may be*
made of the campaigns.
Sean Connery will play Carl
LT. GOV. GEORGE T. SMITH
. .incumbent seeking re-election
Sanders
Jimmy Carter will be por
trayed by Mickey Rooney,
sporting elevator sh<x*s
C. B King role will be
grabbed by Lee Marvin
Garry vhxtrc is a dead ringer
for J B Stoner and will surely
jump at an opportunity to pldv
his part
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., another
science fiction writer, will be
Jan Cox.
Red Skelton would make a
good McKee Hargrett
And Thomas Irwin. Charles
Swint and Adam Matthews will
lx* played by actors whose faces
you will recognize, but whose
names remain on the tip of vour
tongue
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Bentley, who supporters say
*s ihe only one able to beat Carl
Zanders, says his experience
'makes him more able to
streamline the government,
reduce taxes and provide more
services Bentley has been
Comptroller for the past four
vyars leading battles against
rising insurance rates ami ar
son
On specific issues both can
didates promise much the
same. Both believe in freedom
of choice Bentley has blamed
the loss of freedom of choice
partly on the inaction of the
former Sanders administra
tion.
Both have pledged to fight
ihe drug problem, and both
have promised to pay increased
attention to the problems of
Georgia cities, ignored mans
times by predominantly rural
legislature
J3oth would allow campus
protest, but only to the point
that it doesn't interfere with
others rights
While Suit and Bentle\ have
similar platforms, their back
grounds arc different
Suit, a leading career broad
casting newsman, has acquired
his political knowledge by ob
serving the state government
and attending newspaper semi
nars which analyze politics and
society. Bentley is a career pol
itician businessman who ac
quired his political knowledge
through experience
Both are young for guberna
torial aspirants and both are
family men. Bentley is from
the rural city of Thomaston;
Suit hails strictly from urban
Atlanta
J C. Jep Tanksley is the
third candidate tor the Republi
can nomination
Tanksley. a Superior Court
Judge on the Atlanta Judicial
Circuit, has promised to firmly
enforce the law. crack down on
pollution, provide the be*d edu
cation possible, rid govern nent
of dishonesty, and streamline
the government
Tanksley, a family man. is a
West Point graduate who lost
both of his legs and his left eye
in World War II He hits served
for several years as treasurer
of the Georgia Bar Ftxindation
and the State Bar of Georgia
He has also been secretary and
treasurer of the Council of Su
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