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Jackson Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
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A CONVENTION NOMI
NATION
It begins to look more and
more like the governor’s race
will be settled in the convention.
With four candidates in the field
it is hardly probable that any of
them will have enough votes to
insure his nomination on the first
ballot. Anything is likely to hap
pen in a convention. For in
stance the convention held in
Macon two years ago.
A great many people now be
lieve that Solicitor Pottle, a cous
in of T. W. Hardwick, and a
Hardwick leader in the 1914 Ma
con convention, was put out by
certain interests with a hope of
blocking the convention and of
perhaps finally securing the
nomination.
The following comments will
be of interest to voters who are
interested in the present cam
paign:
It will not take any more
entries in the gubernatorial
race to give such a variety
that, no matter what the
specifications and preferences
of the individual voter may
be. he will be able to pick
his kind from the lot. —Ath-
ens Banner.
But will he? Will he be able
to choose the man he wants for
governor. To “vote” for him,
yes; but how will that vote be
recorded in the state convention?
The Chronicle has had no par
ticular gubernatorial candidate
of its own, so far; at least there
was none whose candidacy we
felt called upon to support; but
we have been doing some think
ing about the gubernatorial situ
ation of late. And we have
about come to the conclusion that
if the people want to have a real
voice in the election of the next
governor, it is about time they
were beginning to concentrate on
one man.
With four candidates in the
field, it looks mightily like a con
vention fight; or, rather, that the
present program —on the part of
the anti-Prohibition forces at
least—-is to throw the nomination
into the convention.
Nor is The Chronicle alone in
this view. We find the Hawkins
ville Dispatch speaking out along
the same line, as follows:
“It now seems like its Gov
ernor Harris against the field,
and if the Prohibitionists
don't stand by him, he’s a
goner. W'ith Dorsey and Pot
tle making raids on Dr. Hard
man's support, we believe
that Governor Harris need
not fear anything more from
the Commerce Jphysician.”
While we are not so convinced
as our Hawkinsville contempo
rary seems to be, that Governor
Harris is a “goner” in any event
—for the people have a way of
taking the political reins into
their own hands occasionally—
nevertheless, it is only fair that
A FORWARD STEP
It is regretted that there is a division of sentiment regarding
the eradication of the cattle tick in Butts county. If the people of
Butts county could get together, co-operate whole heartedly and
work determinedly the cattle tick could be gotten rid of this season.
That would be a considerable saving to the taxpayers.
In this connection it is interesting to read what Col. B. W.
Hunt, of Eatonton, has to say. Col. Hunt is one of the most suc
cessful bankers and dairymen in the state. Replying to the sug
gestion that a meeting be held in Macon to discuss ways and means
of fighting the cattle tick, Col. Hunt says:
“That the extermination of the fever-carrying cattle
is a pre-requisite to successful dairying and to cattle rais
ing has been fully proven to all people who will accept
proof of the actual truth.
“Only those believe the contrary because thev do not
allow their intellectual processes fair play.
“Many oppose because they follow insincere leaders,
who are hindrances of lawful methods and opposers of in
dustrial progress.
“The writer has spent money and time in missionary
work, but he has never secured an audience composed of
the opposers of tick eradication. Those who oppose the
benefits we are trying to extend them will not hear the
truth spoken if it be in favor of tick eradication. They are
willing to read, listen to and follow the leaders of their way
of thinking, hereby saving themselves the risk of hearing
the two sides.
“Believing the foregoing to be the truth, the good that
the Macon meeting may accomplish will be largely by hav
ing the papers of the state publish the resolutions. Resi
dents of counties already free of ticks are interested only
because they hope to benefit recalcitrant communities.
“My own county, one of the first to take up the work,
paid out less money in actual expense in exterminating
ticks than its annual loss from ticks had heretofore been.
Hence, economy is the accompaniment from the initiation
of tick eradication. Respectfully yours,
BENJAMIN W. HUNT.”
attention should be called to the
fact that it is “Harris against
the field,” and that the “field’s”
only hope of beating him is in
the convention.
In further confirmation of this
idea, we find the following in the
Laurens Citizen:
“It now appears that the
governor’s fight will be set
tled in the convention. The
race has developed into a
free-for-all and it will hardly
be possible for either candi
date to get the required ma
jority This fact is probably
what influenced Colonel Pot
tle to get in the race. The
colonel and his friends are
doubtless counting heavily on
being able to manipulate the
convention.”
It is just as well that the peo
ple understand this, right here
and now; that the hope of the
anti-Prohibitionists is to throw
the gubernatorial fight into the
convention—where the politicians
and not the people, may dictate
the nomination. It will be easy
enough for them to “manipulate”
the convention —and this, it is
said, they are prepared to do by
having either “luke-warm” or
even anti-Harris delegates ap
pointed from counties carried by
Harris wherever possible—but it
will not be easy for them to do
it. once the people are onto their
game.—Augusta Chronicle.
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almost unnecessary public officials
paid good salaries, yet the most
important public servants a state
can possibly have, its law-makers,
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