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Jackson Progress-Argus
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THE LAST STRAW
By VINCENT JONES
Like other measures that have been
rail-roaded through the Legislature,
the administration’s elector control
bill will not stand up under the light
of careful scrutiny.
The lack of convincing argument
on the part of the bill’s proponents is
appalling. We listened carefully to
those men who supported the meas
ure from the Senate floor and all
they did was explain how the presi
dential electors system works. A high
school student could have done that.
But in spite of the CQinplexity of
motives that gave birth to this bill,
regardless of the political intrigues
and mysteries that its carefully
worded phrases hide, it is not a com
plex bill at all.
It is a simple bill. It simply dis
franchises you, that’s all. And then
as an added slap in the face, it
creates an Election Commission,
headed by the governor, that is above
the law, above any contest or protest
from its decision, since the Governor
of Georgia cannot be sued.
How does the measure disfranchise,
you? Well, in the past, in the General
Election when you voted for Presi
dential candidates, you voted for 12
electors whose names appeared under
the names of your party’s president
and vice presidential candidates. If
you marked the Democratic ticket,
then you were voting: for 12 electors
who were morally bound, not legally
bound, to cast their vote for the
Presidential candidate whose name
topped the ticket.
Now, under the terms of this bill,
the names of the candidates for pres
ident and vice president shall not
appear on the ticket. You will vote
only for Democratic electors or Re
publican electors. Other parties de
siring to get electors on the ballot,
will have to get 200 signatures in at
least 100 different counties before
permission will be granted by the
Election Commission.
Thus, the Prohibition, Progressive,
State Rights and other parties that
have appeared on Georgia’s General
Election ballot, will probably be mis
sing in the future.
Your choice then, in November,
will lie between a slate of unpledged
Democratic and Republican electors.
Maybe you like the Democratic nom
inee but you can’t cast your ballot
for electors pledged to support him.
You will have to vote blind, trusting
that the state's 12 electors and the
Election Commission will see fit to
support the candidate of your choice.
For example, let's say that Estes
Kefauver is the Democratic nomi
nee. You like the man; you would
like to vote for electors pledged to
support him. But you can’t do that
because his name won’t be on the bal
lot. So you take a chance, anyway,
and vote for the 12 Democratic elec
tors, because you have always voted
the Democratic ticket. But those
electors decide to vote for Harry
Byrd for President. Your vote, and
possibly the vote of a majority of
Georgians—if it could be expressed
—has been thwarted.
The same would hold true for the
Republicans. Think of the thousands
of Georgians who would like to vote
for Ike Eisenhower. But his name
will not be on the Georgia ballot.
Only 12 Republican electors, un
pledged, uninstructed. So you take a
chance and vote Republican. But the
state’s 12 electoral votes might just
as easily be handed to Taft, or War
ren, as to Eisenhower.
Hitler used to hold the kind of
elections we’re going to hold in Geor
gia in November. He called them
plebiscites. They were not free elec
tions, because there was no choice.
There will be no choice in Georgia in
November. So Georgia is going to
hold a frosty plebiscite. And we be
lieve that someone else is going to be
left out in the cold when the people
realize what has been done to them.
Someone is going to answer to the
people of Georgia for the infamous
electors control bill. God grant that
those few who opposed it might be
spared the wrath of a people aroused
and maddened at this flagrant
abridgement of their ballot right.
Looking Backward
Through The Files
News of 30 Years Ago
R. C. Thomas displayed a 9-pound
turnip.
G. H. Kimbell was manager of
Jackson theater and three shows
were on the program each week.
Sugar prices were back to normal
with 20 pounds for $1 compared to
wartime price of 35 cents a pound.
A report irom Macon said the
Wigwam Hotel, burned in 1921,
would be rebuilt by Macon capital
ists.
News of 20 Years Ago
City employees included J. A. Mc-
Michael, clerk and treasurer; J. H.
Rooks, head of water and light de
partment; Mrs. W. H. Mallet, tax re
ceiver and collector; C. C. Jinks, L.
A. Brooks, J. T. McMichael, police
men.
Candidates included W. D. Pope
and I. M. Wilson for sheriff; T. B.
McMichael for tax collector; G. D.
Head for ordinary.
Dr. and Mrs. F. L. McCoy of Ox
ford spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. S. B. Kinard.
The cost of living was reported
down 10 pei'cent over 1931.
Newi of 10 Year* Ago
Twelve whites were ordered to re
port at Fort McPherson Feb. 3 and
seven Negroes to Fort Benning Feb
ruary 5.
Chairman W. M. Redman arranged
for party at new gymnasium to raise
county’s quota of S2OO in polio cam
paign.
Home nursing class was organized
under direction of Miss Ethel Smith,
public health nurse, and Mrs. W. O.
Ball.
Sugar rationing as a war measure
was to begin in February.
The marriage of Miss Charlotte
Brown of Milner and Oscar Weaver
Jr. took place January 3.
About 500 persons registered for
civilian defense at offices in Jack
son, Flovilla and Jenkinsburg.
What is needed in Washington and
in every place where lawmakers meet
is the man with sense enough to
know it is good business to watch the
pennies and dimes. Our lawmakers
are obsessed with the idea that it is
smart to think in terms of billions.
Well it takes pennies to make dimes,
dimes to make dollars and a lot of
, money to make billions, and all this
money must be provided by the sweat
and effort of taxpayers. Every voter
I ought to constitute himself into a
; committee of one to demand honest
service for every cent expended.
The Georgia 100 Bushel Corn Club
1 is growing each year. Georgia needs
to greatly increase its corn yields to
take care of the expanded livestock
industry.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Readers Write
Editor, Progress-Argus: Am send
ing our new address. We all enjoy
the Jackson paper so much, and read
it from cover to cover. We had a
“White Christmas,’’ in fact every
thing here has been white since be
fore Christmas. The ice and snow
are beautiful but we are tired of it.
We still have about 2 feet of snow
in the yard and large icicles hanging
from the eaves all around the house.
So far we have had only one “spell”
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of below zero weather. That was i
New Year’s and the temperature was
9 below. We just did leave Montana
in time, the week after we left it
dropped to 35 below.
We surely do miss all of our friends
there. Bob and Allen are so anxious
to get back to see all their friends.
Just keep the paper coming as we en
joy it more than we ever did before.
EDNA JACKSON
3333 W. Alice St., Spokane, Wash.
This should be a great year for
highway construction in Georgia. Let
the work proceed.
Thousands of Georgians don’t
like President Truman and would not
vote for him, but they ought to have
the privilege of voting for him or
against him and are not ready to
turn over the right to vote to some
board or bureau. The “Give Harry
Hell” brigade will answer to the vo
ters one of these days and won’t it
It’s the Season for Bills
In spring, it seems as if all the postman
ever brings is one bill after the other.
Of course, Fall turns the tide, but what
to do until then? We suggest you call
on us for a convenient loan.
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
JACKSON, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1952
be fun to watch them squirm and try
to explain.
“Turn the rascals out” and
courthouse clique” will be heard of
ten during the political campaigns f
the year. Whether true or not,
slogans sound good as campaign oft
tory. i
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