Newspaper Page Text
Hon. G. R. Hutchins’ Views On
County Unit Plan
Editor Jeffersonian:
[D
SEE some criticism of the
County Unit Plan, adopted by
the State Committee at its
recent meeting. I am very
sorry to differ with this criti
cism, and I beg that you will pardon
me for a few observations on the
subject.
First of all, I desire to say that
my natural inclinations are such that
I feel more kindly disposed towards
the people outside of the cities and
in the country, and if anybody has
a political advantage, I think it
ought to be the farmers and country
people, who are our main producers,
and who labor from early morn
•till dewy eve, and by so doing, feed
and clothe themselves and families,
and besides this, feed and clothe
the world. They are the great bur
den bearers of our government, and
they have had practically little con
sideration at the hands of most of
our. legislation. While great pro
fessions are made in their interest,
the people of the country have re
ceived very little substantial benefit,
except in a few instances, such as
the Parcels Post, and rural mail de
livery, and very few other things.
These people in the country are not
subject to be bought and sold; they
practically furnish the independence
and stability of our government, and
by reason of their stable qualities,
as citizens, are competent and
worthy.
I favor the County Unit Plan for
all State wide offices, leaving the
Judicial circuits, senatorial districts,
and counties to be governed by plu
rality vote; that is, for these later
offices, whoever gets the most votes
to receive the nomination. I favor
the County Unit Plan for State wide
offices because it prevents the large
cities from absolutely controlling
the politics of the State, and thus
running over the country people and
the country counties.
I will now proceed to give you a
few figures: Take the election, in
which Governor Brown, and the
Hon. Pope Brown and Judge Rus
sell were candidates for governor.
In that election, Fulton County cast
8,270 votes, Haralson County cast
674 votes, so that we see Fulton
County cast more than twelve times
as many votes as Haralson did; con
sequently,' on the plurality plan,
Would have had twelve times as
much power in the final count.
Whereas, under the County Unit
Plan, Haralson County had two
votes in the convention, Fulton
County only six, which gave Fulton
County only three times as much
power as Haralson had, as against
twelve times as much under the
other plan.
In that election Fulton County
cast eleven times as many votes as
Appling, 40 times as much as Ba
ker, 25 times as much as Bryan, 19
times as much as Burke, 20 times as
much as Banks, 15 times as much
as Campbell, 80 times as much as
Chattahoochee, 21 times as much as
Crawford, 15 times as much as Clay
ton, 45 times as much as Catoosa,
30 times as much as Clay, 60 times
as much as Charlton, 35 times as
much a sCamden, 30 times as much
as Columbia, 30 times as much as
Clinch, 50 times as much as Dade,
50 times as much as Dawson, 20
times as much as Early, 50 times as
much as Echols, 40 times as much as
Fannan, 20 times as much as Lee,
25 times as much as Liberty, 4 0
times as much as Lumpkin, 70 times
as much as Mclntosh, 25 times as
much as Murray, 25 times as much
as Miller, 50 times as much as
Union, 60 times as much as Web
ster.
Whereas, under the County Unit
Plan all those country counties, in
place of having from 1-5 to 1-50
Fulton’s strength, have 1-3, and
again, take the twenty-nine coun
ties that I have named above, in the
THE JEFFERSONIAN
election above referred to, there
were cast altogether 7,710 votes,
and less votes in these twenty-nine
counties than were cast in the coun
ty of Fulton, and it seems to me
strange that any of the country
counties would desire to surrender
this advantage, for the Lord knows
H is about the only advantage they
have.
Again, the County Unit principle
is the basis upon which our State
Government is formed, guaranteeing
fair treatment, both to the majority
and minority, and I think, by all
means, the safest, best method of
making nominations in this State.
With best wishes, I am,
Yours truly,
G. R. HUTCHENS. ’
P. S. It will be noticed that about
the same proportion of the regis
tered vote in Fulton as the other
counties was cast, substantially so.
HOW MANY MEN ARE IN THE
SAME FALSE POSITION AS
THIS ONE?
My Dear Mr. Watson: I need
hardly tell you that I have for many
years been one of your sincere
friends and admirers, and I have
witnessed your political and civic
struggles for justice to the masses
and to mankind, with a great deal of
sincere regard. We have often ex
changed letters —especially while I
was doing editorial work, as you
doubtless recall.
I think I know something of your
feelings, and when I read of your
being arrigned as a result of this
service, I felt that a Just God would
bring you through any of the inge
nious schemes of the enemies of hu
manity, as God has so graciously
done.
Fighting the battles of the people
is not always a thankful task. Often
the people themselves oppose, just
as an irrational man objects to the
surgical service that will make him
well. The people often have to wait
for years, until the service has shown
its benefits to them, when, alas, too
often the worker of that reformation
has died unheralded and unsung, and
that is especially true in a work like
you are doing.
Take your opposition to missions.
I am a member of a Protestant
branch of the church that requires
me to take the obligation to support
its institutions. I am not opposed
to foreign missions any more than
I believe you are —but I AM
opposed to their mode of pro
cedure and their extravagant
waste of money that can do a better
work in this country. I realize that,
in these days of blind religious zeal,
men and women will anathematize
any man who opposes what their
“church” dictates. Yet, Mr. Watson,
every time I give up to foreign mis
sions and find myself later compelled
to turn down some wayfarei' at
home, I feel the sense of the reli
gious intolerance that makes such a
course possible in this free land.
When my pastor passes the foreign
mission envelope I give. I give how
ever, exactly with the feeling that,
the man holds who suddenly finds
himself face to face with a 41 Colt’s
in the hands of a highwayman who
says, ‘Stand qjid deliver.”
Now I know no blessing can come
to a man with such an attitude to
ward the institutions of his church,
but I give feeling -assured in my own
mind that I am contributing to fat
ten a slumbering Senegambin or a
slant-eyed Celestial who knows lit
tle and cares less for religion, but
who assumes any outward and ver
bal obligation imposed on him by
the eccentric, fanatical and oft times
hysterical missionary, just to get the
benefits of the missionary’s “easy
money.”
It would surprise you, Mr. Watson,
to know that one of the most distin
guished military officers in the U. S.
Army, and a man who is himself a
devout Protestant churchman, in
formed me that during the Boxer
War in China the looting BY THE
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES TN THAT
COUNTRY WAS TERRIBLE.
And yet, if some man brave
enough like yourself, had not come
along and told us of things abroad,
we would never have ceased to yield
to the blind appeals of the church
for foreign missions. I do not sus
pect the clergy of our own land—
they are misled by the enthusiasts
who go abroad and come back with
stall-fed stories of nations in dark
ness. I think the return of “re
formed” China to C'onfuscianism is
the greatest blow to the boasted,
vaunted valor of our missionary
spirit ever known in religious cam
paigning. ’ If I were the head of a
propaganda that had worked so long
and with so much expenditure to
convert a country—and then it
unanimously voted against the prin
ciples of my propaganda like China,
when “reformed” into a “Republic
like the U. S.” (for that was the
missionary boast,) I would call off
my campaign and acknowledge my
self incapable or the object of my
campaign unworthy.
Keep up the fight. Read the en
closed marked • reference by Bighop
Lambuth of the M. E. church. He
speaks of an expenditure of $20,-
000 for a little shortening of a route
up the Congo with as much aban
don of money as I would refer to
double postage on a parcel post pack
age of prunes. It may be seeming
sacrilege, but, Brother Watson, I
wouldn’t give $20,000 (if I had to
take it away from the Caucasion suf
ferers of this country) to OWN
EVERY BLUE-LIPPED STENEGAM
BIAN in the whole African domain.
You will please omit my name and
address if you use any part of this
letter as I am held as a sort of hos-
I Thu growth cf Wateon’s Magazine e
Has Been Marvellous I
People Want to Know the Historical Truth of |
th© Roman Catholic Hierarchy
I The Editor of Watson’s Magazine is a scholar who
has spared no pains nor expense to get in
every case the authorities from which
he has drawn his information
THE MAY NUMBER OF WATSON’S MAG- |
AZINE HAS MANY UNIQUE FEATURES |
-- — .- ■ ■ ..._.. ——
A large number of handsome illustrations have
been made especially for this number, and the
i Table of Contents is unusually interesting
! M
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
FRONTISPIECE—King Henry VIII. [j
EDITORIALS AND SPECIAL ARTICLES—TIios. Ez Watson:
DID THE POPE LOSE ENGLAND BECAUSE HE REFUSED A
DIVORCE TO HENRY VIII.?
DOROTHY DIX WRITES ABOUT MONTICELLO, THOMAS
JEFFERSON, AND JEFF “LEVVY.”
THE FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS OF CATHOLICITY.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
“S. O. S.” (a poem)—Joel B. Fort.
HOW INDIA HAS BEEN MISREPRESENTED BY MISSIONARIES.
Satyasaran Sinha, B. Sc. M. A. S. A.
A ROMAN CATHOLIC STRATAGEM. —Peter Hicks.
OUR DESPICABLE PRESS.—“Americus.” f
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
■ ' I’
J THE JEFFERSONIAN PUBLISHING CO., ThomsonTGaT |
tage and I would be ostracized should
my views be known. And there are
just thousands of us in this same
position; we admire your campaign
and give you our God speed in your
vzork. But we cannot come out in
the open—more’s the pity for our
cowardice.
Sincerely yourg,
THE MAY WOMAN’S HOME COM
PANION.
Two very important articles in
May Woman’s Home Companion pre
sent many important facts about the
care of children that will both in
terest and help mothers. One is
entitled “The Safeguarding of the
Child,” by Julia C. Lathrop, chief of
the Children’s Bureau in the Depart
ment of Labor of the United States,
and the other \is enticed “Good
Teeth and Vision for Your Baby,”
by Dr. S. Josephine Baker, director
of the Bureau of Child Hygiene of
the Department of Health in New
York City.
Other entertaining and valuable
'articles in the May issue are: “The
Freedom of Self-Expression,” by
Mary Heaton Vorse; “Conquering
the Kitchen,” by Christine Terhune
Herrick; “The Pleasures We Take
Captive,” by Ralph Waldo Trine;
“Better Babies for All America,” by
Anna Steese Richardson; and “Your
Furnace in Spring,” by C. K. Far
rington.
Splendid fiction is contributed by
Alice Brown, Sophie Kerr Under
wood, Molly Elliot Seawell, Georgia
Wood Pangborn, and Anna McClure
Shell. Special art and music fea
tures are contributed by John Rae,
Walter Jack Duncan, Bliss Carman,
and Louis Ayres Garnett. *
The regular Fashion, Cooking,
Young People’s, and Home Decora
tion and Handicraft departments are
filled with good reading and' beauti
ful illustrations.
PAGE THREE
