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CANDLER TO
TH£ PEOPLE
Os Georgia, Regarding His
Candidacy and the
State’s Needs.
A STRONG CARD
Written By the Worthy Georgia
Statesman Formally Announc
ing His Candidacy.
Hon. Allen D. Candler Is out in a card
announcing his candidacy for governor.
It i san able and lengthy document, and
is in answer to a call from the people of
Clarke county, who were among the first
to urge Colonel Candler’s candidacy. The
two cards are given in full below:
Athens, Ga., Jan. 18, 1898. Hon. Allen
D. Candler, Gainesville, Ga. —Dear Sir:
We, the undersigned citizens of Athens
and Clarke county, have noted with pleas
ure the frequent and favorable mention
of your name by the press of the state in
connection with the next gubernatorial
election. Your peculiar fitness for the
high office of governor is readily recog
nized by all who know you. Active, able
and honest, you have fully met all the
duties and responsibilities of private life
and public station.
In 1861 you responded promptly to the
call *> arms; and in camp, on march and
battlefield illustrated by your conduct the
fortitude and heroism of the Confederate
soldier, sealing with your life s blood your
devotion to Georgia and to principle. You
volunteered with the first; you returned
with the last. After the termination of
that disastrous conflict you were called to
represent the couty of Hall in the general
assembly of the state. There you acquit
ted yourself with honor.
In 1882, in the hour of its dire need, you
were named by the Democracy of the
ninth congressional district as its stand
ard bearer. In the two preceding cam
paigns defeat and disaster had attended
the result and her chosen champions had
gone down before the fierce assaults of
the opposition. The party was demoral
ized, the opposition, flushed with repeated
victories, was confident. Without solici
tation or knowledge on your part you
were nominated and the convention ad
journed. The result is history.
The man and the hour had met.
After the most brilliant and bitter poli
tical contest in its history the glorious old
ninth was redeemed, and once more the
triumphant banner,s of Democracy waved
proudly and high over her mountain tops.
Your services in congress to your peo
ple and the country at large were emi
nently efficient and satisfactory. At the
end of your congressional career, embrac
ing eight years of continuous service, you
voluntarily surrendered your commission
■to the people without stain or blemish.
After the death of the late lamented
General Phil Cook, you were called to the
honored office of secretary of state. The
duties of this position you have dis
charged faithfully and well. A veteran
yourself, you will not forget the veteran.
One of the common people you are touched
with a feeling of their infirmities. A pub
lic man, you are familiar with the af
fairs of the state. Ripe in experience,
loyal in party fealty and patriotic in pur
pose, you are the man for the place.
Again the man and the hour have met.
Believing that your nomination will heal
all existing breaches in the party and that
your election would be accomplished by
an old-fashioned majority of 100,000 votes,
we earnestly urge you to enter the race
for governor at the next ensuing election.
Very truly yours,
J. E. Aalmadge, J. S. King, D. M. Ken
ney, T. F, Comer, W. C. Ash, William T.
Bryan, J. R. Moore, F. L. Parr, W. A.
McDowell, Warren J. Smith, J. N. Webb,
Louis Morris, E. S. Lyndon, W. D. Grif
feth, James F. Foster, T. W. Reed, Syl
vanus Morris, Edward T. Brown, W. C.
Orr, C. A. Talmadge, J. H. Huggins, Jr.,
J. C. Orr, A. C. Fears, E. P. Fears, J. D.
Baugh. R. C. Orr, M. Sterne, P. Funken
stein, F. R. Griffeth. Jack F. Jackson, T.
A. Burke. W. A. Jester, Hope Hale. Thos.
H. Dozier, George H. Palmer, J. T. An
derson, H. R. Palmer, E. R. Kinniebrew,
W. F. Dorsey. T. C. Conaway. Edwin D.
Newton. J. J. C. McMahon, H. H. Carlton,
J. F. Rhodes, J. N. Booth, J. M. Hodgson,
S. J. Tribble, R. C. Roberts, T. O. Vinvent,
J. C. Hutchins, G. H. Yancey, J. O. Cook.
Henry C. Tuck, W. D. O’Farrall, T. B. F.
Todd, A. H. Saye, E. S. Brown, T. A.
Mealor. J. F. Hamilton, J. G. Gray. J. W.
Wier, David Gann, J. K. Kenney, C. A.
Coleman, T. M. Booth, S. B. 'Wingfield,
Sr., T. R. Edwards, J. W. Saye, E. I.
Smith. W. B. Burnett, E. P. Lumpkin, J.
J. Hardeway, J. A. Suddeth, W. S. Hol
man, Lamar Cobb, D. C. Oliver, T. J.
Scott, J. B. Fears, S. M. Herrington, J. C.
Bloomfield, Y. F. Cobb, T. J. Shackelford.
Gainesville, Ga., Jan. 20. 189 S.—Messrs.
H. C. Carlton, G. H. Yancy, W. B. Bur
nett, Edward T. Brown, Edwin D. Newton,
J. iM. Hodgson, Henry C. Tuck, George H.
Palmer, Y. F. Cobb, J. E. Talmadge, J. C.
Orr, P. Funkenstein, W. S. Holman, A. H.
Says and others. Gentlemen: I am in re
ceipt of your communication of the ISth
instant, asking me to enter the race for
governor at the next ensuing election, and
in reply I beg to say that when my name
was first sugested about a year ago in
this connection, I for months repelled the
idea because I was not seeking political
preferment and deemed it unwise and in
jurious to the best interests of the people
to participate a political campaign so far
in advance of the election. The sugges
tion continued, however, to be pressed to
the front, and has mea with a response from
both the press and the people that could
but be gratifying however reluctant I
might be to enter the contest.
But it remained for classic Athens of
p-.cvd memories to be the first city in the
state to prefer a formal request for me to
stand for the Democratic nomination. This
is peculiarly gratifying, for it was within
a few miles of her corporate limits that I
spent my childhood, and, as a farmer boy,
learned to drive the plow. It was near her
classic shades that I grew up to man’s es
tate. It was the music of the bell in old
Franklin College that first inspired me
with that laudable ambition without which
life is barren of results. My first ideals of
greatness in the pulpit, at the bar. on the
bench and in the halls of legislation were
her Waddells and Churches and Hoyts and
Lumpkins and Cobbs ami Doughertys and
Hulls. I was a child, but the impressions
of childhood are usually correct. These
were among the greatest Georgians. Their
ashes repose beneath the sod of old Oco
nee cemetery, but their work lives after
them. The most enduring monument is the
exalted character of their descendants and
the descendants of their neighbors whose
character they moulded.
To be deemed worthy by such a city, a
city remarkable for the learning, patriot
ism and chivalry of its citizens, of the ex
alted position of chief magistrate of a
great state is a distinguished honor that I
will cherish to the day of my death.
I recognize among the names signed to
your letter the names of farmers , me
chanics, merchants, manufacturers, bank
ers, lawyers and statesmen, men cf every
calling, who have known me from my
youth; men who were my comrades in
arms when the tocsin of war summoned us
to the field of fire and blood in defense cf
our homes and firesides. These men are
bound to me by bands of steel. Common
suffering and common danger made us
brothers.
But I also recognize other names, the
names of men who, later on, on another
arena, of which you have spoken in your
communication in terms more flattering
than I deserve, endeared themselves to me
as only those can be endeared who, con
scious or right, battle in a common cause
for the common good. In 1882 when the
glorious flag of Democracy, which had so
often been borne to victory, but never to
defeat, by Howell Cobb and Julius Hillyer
and James Jackson and Ben Hill, was
trailing in the dust, having twice gone
down in defeat, the last time overborne by
an adverse majority of more than 4,000
votes, when party insubordination ran riot
in the Seventh and Ninth congressional
districts, and the infection of independent
ism threatened the entire state, and the
champions of Democracy were sick at
heart and had well nigh given up in de
spair, these men, believing in the under
lying principles of true Democracj' as the
martyr believes in the truths of his holy
religion, rallied to re-establish the ancient
faith as the crusaders rallied to rescue the
holy sepulchre.
They wrested the tattered banner from
those who by an unholy alliance had cap
tured and dishonored it, calling on their
brethren throughout the mountain district
to unite with them, they summoned me
from my peaceful pursuits and placing it
in my hands bade me lead them to glorious
victory or honorable defeat. I took the
banner and they swore fealty to me and my
cause—your Yancys and Talmadges and
Burnetts and Carltons and O’Farrells —
and in one of the fiercest conflicts ever
waged in a congressional district, routed
the cohorts of the enemy from the moun
tains of Rabun to the plains of Morgan,
re-established the supremacy of the true
political faith all over Georgia and buried
independentism so deep that the hand of
ressurreetion can never reach it.
These same men, heroes in the cause of
right, re-enforced by the accessions to
their ranks of a gallant young Democracy,
the Browns and Thomases and Reeds and
Tribbles and Tucks and Ashes, desire me
to ask my party for the old flag and under
its folds to lead in establishing the su
premacy of a re-united Democracy in
Georgia. Again Athens, classic Athens,
venerable Athens, nursery of scholars, ju
rists and statesmen, proposes, as of yore,
to stand sponsor for me. I thank her.
She shall be my sponsor and, God being
my helper, I will never bring the blush of
shame the cheek of my godmother.
I will stand for the nomination for gov
ernor of Georgia, and in doing so I will go
to the people as the candidate of no ring,
clique, faction or combination, but simply
as an old-fashioned Democrat standing on
the platform of my party and believing
in its tenets as declared by its national
convention and expounded by Jefferson
and Jackson; and pointing with pride and
confidence to a legislative record of seven
years in our state legislature and eight
years in the national congress in which
can be no vote cast by me and no word
tittered by me not in the interest of the
common people who pay the taxes and
■bear the burthens of government.
In my candidacy I will invoke the sup
port of all Georgians who believe in the
cardinal doctrines of Democracy, feeling
assured that in common with me, however
earnestly they may dissent from any of
the declarations of the last national plat
form, they believe that for the people of
Georgia any honest Democrat standing on
the platform of his party is preferable to
the ascendency of Republicanism. Democ
racy, judged by its record of a hundred
years stands for the most sacred right—
local self-government, taxation for rev
enue only, honesty and economy in the
administration of the law, equal and exact
justice to all, special privileges to none, a
son nd, flexible and adequate volume of
currency consisting ofthe gold and silver
of the constitution, coined at all of our
mints free and unlimited without discrim
ination against either, supplemented by a
paper circulation sufficient in volume to
meet all the requirements of trade, re
deemeable on demand in gold and silver
coin.
Republicanism, on the other hand, now,
as ever, stands for a centralized govern
ment abridging the rights of the citizen, a
high protective tariff robbing the many to
enrich the few’, the fostering of monopo
lies which breed both millionaires and
paupers, the restriction of silver coinage,
and the destruction of all paper money
save only that issued by the national
banks; the subordination of the interests
of the agricultural classes to those of
the manufacturers and money changers
in specially favored districts, and here in
the South now as in the days of :he car
petbaggers, the preferment to offices of
trust and profit to the negro over the
white man.
These are the two parties between which
the people of Georgia have to choose. They
are the only national parties. We must
muster under one of these flags or the
other. No other organization, however
honest and earnest its members, can re
dress our ■wrongs and guard our interests.
We can expect nothing from McKinleyism.
It is our enemy, implacable and unrelent
ing. This has been abundantly demonstra
ted since the 4th of March. To resist it our
people must unite. Such a- union will not
only protect our material, political and
social interests, but will purify our poli
tics. We must have clean methods and
honest elections.
The presence in our midst of a hundred
thousand voters who have never realized
the sanctity of the ballot nor the respon
sibility of citizenship is a constant menace
to our government and our civilization.
A venal vote is the destruction of a re-
MACON NEWS SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22 1898.
public. The use of money to control elec
yons must stop. It is a Republican method
imported into the South by the carpet
baggers. Today we have a federal admin
istration which owes its existence to the
use of money and a purchased vote. This
evil constantly grows in magnitude and it
has reached that point at which a good
man who becomes a candidate for office,
however much he may abhor such meth
ods, is often, from necessity, driven to re
sort to them or go down in ignominious
defeat. Away with such methods. They
are undermining the very corner stone of
our'political fabric.
I would abridge the rights of no citizen,
white or colored, in the full enjoyment of
life, liberty, property and the pursuit of
happiness. I would give to the negro
every right and privilege to which he Is
entitled under the law; I would give him
all his rights in court. I would endeavor
to qualify his children for good citizen
ship. I would protect him against toe
rapacity of grasping men. I would let the
burthen of taxation fall equally upon him
and his white neighbor. I would teach
him to be as honest and incorruptible in
his exercise of the elective franchise as in
his business dealings with his landlord or
his merchant. But I would not buy his
vote, and thus corrupt the ballot and
make him a balance of power to say who
shall rule over the white people of Geor
gia.
In the punishment of crime I would
mete out the same even-handed justice to
white and black alike, neither excusing
the one because he is white, nor punish
ing the other because he is black. In the
administration of the prison law’s I would
keep constantly in view two cardinal
ideas —first, that it is the duty of the state
to punish crime, and, secondly, that pun
ishment must be inflicted with humanity
and without unnecessary cruelty or se
verity.
In spending the public revenue I would
keep constantly in view’ the fact that the
state never has a dollar that is not wrung
from the hard earnings of its citizens
under its taxing law; that every dolMr it
applies to public use was coined out of the
sweat of one of its own citizens, and that
to spend a dollar unnecessarily is to rob
its citizens of a dollar. Hence those
charged with the imposition of taxes and
the collection and expenditure of the pub
lic revenues should be held to the most
rigid accountability, especially at such a
time as this, when the cost of the produc
tion of cotton, our leading staple, is as
much or more than it will command in
the market, and w’hen honest labor clad
in rags begs for work at starvation w’ages
in order to be able to buy bread.
I know that the governor of the state
has but little pow’er in the imposition of
taxes, bwt he has some. He can wfleld a
wholesome influence in the direction of
economy, and the constitution and laws
make it his duty to advise the legislature.
If this fails to protect the tax payer, he
has the veto w'isely given him by the peo
ple to protect them against hasty and in*
considerable legislation.
I know that our legislatures have diffi
cult problems to solve and numerous
plausible demands to meet. I know that
appeals have been made to them well nigh
irresistible for many worthy objects. I do
not believe that >a dollar has been dis
honestly applied to an unworthy object.
But the fact remains that the people of
Georgia are today paying higher taxes
than have ever been exacted of them be
fore in the history of the state; and at the
same time the poor man has to give more
of his labor for a dollar w'ith which to pay
his taxes than he ever had to give before.
A spirit of extravagance seems to have
grown up, not only in our state, but in
the county and municipal governments.
As the prices of property and of labor and
of products of labor have gone down year
after year, our taxes, state, county and
municipal, have constantly gone up year
after year.
I know’ it will be difficult and in most
cases undesirable to reduce the allow’ance
now made by law to the various state in
stitutions and objects of appropriation.
Our schools must be maintained, our needy
poor soldiers who breasted the storm of
battle for the protection of our homes
must be provided for and the honor and
credit of the state must be protected at
whatever cost. But we can stop leaks
and put on the brakes, and see to it that
this annual increase in the tax rate stops.
In 1883 the state levy w r as 25 cents on
the hundred dollars. In 1897 it was
52 1-10 cents. The county levies are on
an average about equal to the state rate.
Thus the people of Georgia paid in 1883 in
taxes to the state and counties, when cot
ton brought 10% cents a pound, less than
four million dollars, and in 1897, when
cotton sold at 4% cents, they paid nearly
six million dollars. A few more years of
annual increase at this rate will mean to
many people confiscation and ruin.
. In the name of humanity let us put on
the brakes. The people who pay the taxes
are entitled to as much consideration as
those who get the benefit of them.
These are my view’s. They are honestly
entertained and deeply rooted. They are
the doctrines of true Democracy. Planted
on them I will go to an intelligent and
patriotic people wearing the collar of no
man or set of men. I have made no pledge
to anybody for anything and I will not.
I w’ill sooner go down in defeat.
If I am nominated an delected I will
have no political debts to pay; no friends
to reward, no enemies to punish; but .will
be free to give the people of my native
state a clean, honest, economic business
administration, without any effort at os
tentation or show.
Thanking you, gentlemen, and through
you the Democracy of Athens and Clarke
county, which has ever stood by me with
a loyalty second only to that of my own
faithful and beautiful little elty, for the
distinguished honor you have done me,
and for the courteous language in which
your invitation is extended, I am, faith
fully, your fellow’ citizen,
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