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To the Voters of 27th Senatorial Dist.
Composed of Walton , Ocone and Barrow
Mv opponent, Jlldson I Moore, of
Bethlehem known as the “Sweet Singe#
of Bethlehem,’’ offers a plot form of
promises based on h statement of pat
e.nt platitudes to a large portion of
which all mankind agrees, as the plat
form is but a restatement of stteh things
as we have embalmed in our laws lor
more than a century. He announces
these century old platitudes with all the
pride of original discovery, having neg
looted to examine the < 'ode of Georgia
or Ihe tonstitntion of the land. He
might as well have claimed authorship
of the Ten <'omrriundiuents or the Her
moll on the Mount. Free speech, free
priss and the right of assemblage is !
ready m the Constitution of the Failed
httates and of the State of Georgia. Any
one can see this by reference to section*
fi.'tTl and bbst of Forks Annotated Code
of Georgia in plain language that can
not in any manner be misunderstood.
Majority rule is an original tenet of or
gam/.ed democracy and every true deni
oernt i' opposed to minority rule of the
affairs of the party or State; a free bnl
lot fairly counted is one of the cssen
tmls of u republican form of govern
meat; separation of Church and State
is one of the cardinal doctrines of our
form of government just as is the eon
Ft it nt ion :i I guaranty of freedom of con
science and religious worship. All of
these things which my opponent sets
forth ns his creed and platform as if it ,
wore snmething now have been a part
of the < 'onat itutional Itiw of t tie I rut
•and States and the several states there
f for h hundred Tears. He further
states that he is in favor of reducing
taxes iippropri.'it iona, a very laudahle
desire, lull immediately tails ns that he
is in favor of free text hooks for the
schools to tie furnished by th State
Did he really menu this! I.et us see
According to the annual report of tha
Comptroller General of Ottotj the ■ tt>
tal revenue of the State is less than
nine millions of dollars, hut we may as
some that it will in l!'21 reach nine
millions of dollars. Hy law already en
acted hy the Legislature of which I am
a member and for which I voted, we ap
propriated for I'd-! to the common
schools of Georgia $4,500,110(1.1)0 and
thereafter the common schools of the
State me to get one half of all the rev
onue of the State. That leaves for all
other State purposes only the sum of
$4,500,000.00 with which to pay all tha
other legitimate claims on the State; to
wit: confederate pensions, $1,750,000.00,
insane asylum *000,000.00, normal
schools, state university and agricultur
al school* of the districts ol Georgia,
if I, lull,000.<10; the interest on the public
debt ,aml charitable institutions for the
deaf and blind and other like matters
take up more than the amount of money
available from year to year. Therefore,
if these institutions of the State aud the
expenses of the State government are
met there is no money with which to
pnv for school books. It he is in earn
•st and wants to furnish free school
iM.oks to Aid. THK OHILDHE.N, let us
go to the School Report of the State sad
woe just what he means. According to
that report, there are in round numbers
Hin.uOO school children in Georgia of
n, hold age and under the new school
laws all of them practically will be ra
iutred to go to school. Avery oonserv
alive estimate of the cost of hooks sad
other school equipment for each child
-an not be less than five dollars a year
and at this rate the amount of money
required to give to each child his school
liooks free would lie 't,200,000.00 LAt 11
YKAK. In this list of school children
wc find from the report that there are
:w,(MKt aegrees and his proposition
would have to apply to them alike with
white children. The negroes now get
hack in schools and teachers more than
four times what they pay into the stats
treasury in taxes and yet my friend,
from Bethlehem states in his platform
that he is in favor of taxing the people I
to the extent of $4 “00,000.00 of which
$1,845,000.00 would be taken to furnish
free books to “niggers’’ for that is ex
nctlv what he must by the terms of his
proposed law expect, as a natural result
if he is in earnest about this scheme
w Inch sounds good on the surface but
is treacherous sand when examined
closely. Btit,ooo niggers at five dollars
j head mean exactly that sum to be
gathered by tuxes for as we have seen
alone the common schools, confederate
pensions, insane asylum, normal schools
and agricultural school* and other in
stitutions require all the revenue now
raised by the State. At the present
rate of ndvalorem taxes allowed to the
State bv the Constitution five mills, the
total sum raised for all purposes is slight
\v over $4 ,500,000.00 ami if Brother
Al no re is in earnest about Ins free school
hook* to nil. niggers included, then he
■will have to pass n constitutional
■ • ent to DOUBLE lii I iA \
HA ft FOB THK STATE I'O TFN
M ILLS which additional tax of five
mills would till be needed to mi*> hie
$4,200,000,011 to increase the privileges
of the negroes who now get more than
four times what they pay into the state
for school purposes alone. Do you want
your state taxes doubled! If so, than
you have a line opportunity if my oppo
nent is aide to place his scheme of free
school books on the State as he says he
is m favor of doing according to Ins
platform when analysed. If he is sin
cere then, when he says he wants to re
duce appropriation' and taxes when in
the same platform he tells you that he
wants to increase the demands upon the
State nearly lifty percent, or in the sum
of about >4,500,011(1.00, to furnish free
books, or is he simply mistaken about
the whole matter? State finances arc
now and will for several years need thv
services of experienced men and not the
hands of the inexpert willing to experi
iiient in financial legislation wilhout
first examining the records and counting
the cost. He didn’t mean for his pro
posed law to have this effect, of course,
but thal is what the result of it would
he. - -c e*. ess j,
My opponent uses Iu every part of
the District t tie statement that he was
and is willing to confine the race to Har
row county and by direct statement and
by inference says that he wished tti*
race run in that manner. I would not
mention this matter but for the fact
that he lias made that one of his main
‘‘planks’’ over the District. Prior to
Itlbs. Hnrrow county was in the ddrd
Senatorial District, where the rule now
is and has been that the county, furnish
ing the senatorial candidates along
should vote in the nomination. That rule
for HAS NOT I’KKV A I LKI) In
the 27th District and when Harrow Cos.
was in I!HS transferred to the 27th Die
triet and out of the 83rd District, Bar
row came into the 27th District subject
to such rules e* were then in effect or
might thereafter he put into effect by
the K.XWTTIVK COMMFTTKK OF th*
DIS I HICT. We have executive commit
tees for national, state and county mat
ters under organized democracy and
when the K\ KOI "FIVE COMMITTEE
met to nominate Hon. .lostiih Blssin
game on September 2oth, 1!• IH, long be
fore either of us was a candidate or cv
en a prospective candidate and at that
meeting on September 20, 1!*1 S, the rule
was promulgated by the KXKCI T TIVE
COMMITTEE continuing the ml* that
has prevailed in the 27th District for
years and the effect of the rule is to BE
yi IKK the candidates to run in the
whoel district and it permits all the
people of the district to vote on the sen
ators. The candidates have no right ie
change or complain of the rule and they
certainly have no right to disfranchise
people whom the committee in the ever
cise of its proper authority permitted to
vote on the question. That rule is in
the possession of Hon. K. L. Almond of
Social Circle and neither I nor my op
ponent had anything to do with its pas
sage nor can we hy snv agreement
change it two years after its passage
even if we so desired. He complains
at the rule although he knew of it he
fore he announced and we discussed it
before his announcement. If the rule
did not suit us wo were not compelled
to make the race. If the Committee
had fixed the rule as to limit the vote
to Harrow county I would have been
content .and would have been in the race
I will go further; If the committee had
limited the vote to the corporate limits
ot the town of Bethlehem ! would hare
been content and would have made the
race. I am and have always been of
the opinion that a candidate of any par
ty for any party favors is subject to the
regulations controlling the nomination
he seeks. Indeed, without such regula
tions a nomination would he worthless.
Neither he nor I have any right to
run as candidates for this nomination
except under the prescribed rule and
however much he or 1 might desire to
Public Speaking
JOHN I. KELLEY
of Lawrenceville, candidate for
Congress, will address the citi
zens of Barrow and the sur
rounding counties at County
Line School House on
Saturday Night. Sept. 4th
at S o’clock.
Mr. Kelley will discuss the
issues of the campaign in a
straight forward manner.
I'he ladies especially invit
ed to be present.
THE BARROW TIMES, WINDER, fSEORGIA.
change it we have no power to do so
even by agreement or in any manner. 1
again state that I would have been wil
ling to run out in Harrow county alone
nr even in Bethlehem, his home, if the
executive committee in 1!H8 had so
prescribed. 'I his comment would have
been omitted except for the misleading,
statements made by him and his friends
All I want is for the voters to have the
facts. Hon. J.. 1,. Arnold of Social <’ir
He, Secretary of the Executive Com
nut tec for the District, will be glad 1
hiii sure, to substantiate these stale
merits if any one so desires.
My opponent undertakes to pitch his
campaign on national and international
issues, either forgetting or not knowing
that the scope of the activities and du
ties of it member of the General Assetn
hly of Georgia is confined to questions
pertaining to the Mate or counties
thereof. A member of the Senate of
Georgia lui' no more to do with nation
al and international questions than the
crow ing of the cock had to do with fhe
avarice of Judas or the perfidy of Pe
ter or the final scheme of salvation.
Last seek 1 gave a few of the mat
ters of a general nature about which I
was active as a member of the legis
lature but. as all of us know, the bulk
of the legislature is of a purely local
nature, .lust a few words about local
legislation for Barrow county:
1. 1 introduced and passed a bill at
lowing the City of Winder to extend it•
water and light facilities to the people
in the suburbs so that surbnrban resi
dents may now enjoy all of the privile
ges of school, light and water that the
people of Winder enjoy .
2. In response to the recofmendation
of the grand jury at March term of
court, I introduced and passed a bill
providing for County Commissioners.
However, 1 did nut feel like assuming
the burden of making such a change in
the administration of the county affairs
without the consent of the people and
believing in that good democratic doc
trine of the rule of the majority I plac
ed s provision in the bill making it nec
essary for a majority of the voters to
consent to it* operation before it be
voted on by the people on September X.
conies effective. That measure is te b*
A. T also introduced and passed s bill
abolishing juries at the .Tune term of
Superior Court end this will save to the
countv costs twelve hundred or more
I dollars a year without Impairing the
work of the court. This action was tsk
jen after consulting with .ludge Cobb
who approved its passage. A like rule
prevails in Gwinnett and Clarke comi
ties where the litigation is heavy.
4. I also introduced a measure to re
cover from Gwinnett county the lost ter
ritory awarded to Gwinnett by the See
retary of State hut was unable to get
the measure through. I intend to press
it again from the vantage point of the
seriate next year, if elected, as 1 am
tk people very confident from the ex
prtissioHS of the people I will hy
Any local leg station that may h* de
sired by the people of any portion of
the count' -‘i >’il I be brought to -he at
tention of the representative or senator
and I will he glad to consider very
carefully say such requests..
If elected, as 1 am almost certain,
it will be lie my pleasure to serva all
the people of thy district to the eery
Ties! of my ability, with an eye single
to llie best interests of tha State and wf
the District and the people thereof.
> ours for service,
<?. A. JOHNS,
Winder, Ga.
VOTE for W H QUARTERMAN
FOR SOLICITOR GENERAL.
STATE OF GEORGIA.
HOFtiK OF KKFREKFNTATIVKB
Atlanta, August 10, 1920.
I Hon. G. A. Johns,
House of Representatives,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Dear Sir:
We. the undersigned Senators of Geor
gia, in response to your inquiry of this
date as to the method by which the Sen
ators of the several districts represent
ed bv us are nominated, do hereby cer
tify that in each ease of the several
rlistrie.ts represented by us noted by
numbers below, the Senators were nomi-
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nated by the people of the Districts in
stead of by the voters of the particular
counties wherein the Senator resided at
the time of the election and that this
method of selection has been in opera
tion for a considerable time.
(Signed)
Fred Kca, Kith District.
11. tbe Stieur, 2.’ird District.
H. H. Killers, 2nd District.
W. K. I,'eece. 11st District,
W. H. Dorris. 48th District
.1. F. Hogg, 24th District.
F. K. Adams, 90th District.
.1. K. Clements, 4th District.
TTTVRSDAY. SEPT. 2.
\V. H. Reynolds, 50th District.
M. M. Kendall, 47th District,
.losiuh Blasingatue. 27th Dist.
This letter is published to refute
the statements made by my opponent
that the rule permitting the people of
entire district to vote is not in force
elsewhere or that it is anew thing. It
is an < i)d rule. G. A. JOHN’S.
Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Stewart left
last week for a several weeks’
\isil tn relatives and friends in
Virginia.