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FOR GOVERNOR
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HON. JOHN N. HOLDER.
The candidate for governor who has
come out squarely against bonds, who
is opposed to plunging the state into
the quagmire of debt, and who is be
ing supported enthusiastically because
of the position he has taken on this
question. His election seems assured.
—Winder News.
BONDS THE OVERWHELMING ISSUE
(Editorial From The Newnan Herald)
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THE one issue that looms large in the campaign overshadowing all
others, is the question whether Georgia shall issue bonds to the
%
amount of seventy million dollars for highways and some twenty
millions more for higher education.
Mr. Holder has taken a firm stand against bonds—a position he
assumed weeks before the campaign opened—and it may be safely
taken for granted that he will not be swerved from the course thus
marked out by the confusion of arguments put forth by his oppon
ents to befog the question. Moreover, unless we mistake the temper
of the people he will be overwhelmingly sustained when the voters of
the state have an opportunity to express their preferences at the polls
on September 8. V
Mr. Carswell, who is believed to have the backing of the bond
advocates, has been quoted as favoring bonds for road purposes “if
it should be found necessary,” but thinks it should not be treated
as a political issue. Deprecating its injection into the race for the
governorship, he would dispose of the question by referendum—but
it is a question that can not be sidetracked in this manner. The peo
ple will not permit it to be done. They are opposed to saddling the
state with a debt of such huge proportions, and they want a governor
in office who agrees with-their views. Mr. Carswell i? said to be a
good lawyer and a fine man personally, but he failed thus far to
strike a single popular note. He is inclined to stumble and hesitate,
where a bold stand one way or another would at least give him some
prestige.
Dr. Hardman caused surprise when he announced for the gov
ernorship several weeks ago and further surprise when he subsequently
qualified by paying his entrance fee. We say this because not even
his friends believe he a chance to be elected, and they should
have been honest enough and frnk enough to tell him so. He is
one of Georgia’s best citizens and his ambition certainly is a laudable
one, but he seems to have been unable thus far to comprehend the
.game of politics as it is played these days, notwithstanding his ex
perience as a candidate in former campaigns. Much as we may dis
like to do so, it is obvious that the good doctor will have to be con
sidered “out of the running,,” so far as tile governorship race is con
cerned.
THE AU,IMPORTANT ISSUE IN THE
GOVERNOR'S RACE
(Editorial From Atlanta Journal)
AS THE decisive -day of September the eighth draws near and the
forces seeking to thrust a huge bond issue upon the State of
Georgia read the handwriting on the wall, their attempts to divert
public attention from the one great question in the governor’s campaign
grow more and more desperate, more and more amusing. Whether
their motives be political or commercial or both, they well know that if
they are to break down the high traditions and override the prudent
policies by which the commonwealth’s treasury is safeguarded, it must
be by devious methods and hidden ways. For in a straightforward
test the people will vote overwhelmingly to keep Georgia free from
that bondage of debt and burden of taxes which would take the heart
out of enterprise and the hope out of thrift and progress.
Sensing this certainty and its fatal import to their ambitions,
these forces become increasingly bitter against John Holder, because
Ift is the one candidate for governor who stands like a rock against
their extravagant adventures. They know that his election will st up,
once for all, schemes to make public credit pull the plow of private
interest. They know, further, that they cannot prevent his election by
one of the greatest majorities, in the annals of the state so long as the
real and vital issue of the campaign remains uppermost in the people’s
mir.ds. Hence,, as their only hope against crushing -and final, defeat,
they are drawing every sort of red herring across the path. No rumor
is toa silly for them, no canard too absurd, no attempt to becloud the
main question and camouflage their designs too ridiculous.
Consider, for example, the utterly groundless assertion that Mr.
Holder as chairman of the highway commission is “promising eight
hundred miles of state-aid roads when he cannot possibly allocate more
than fifty-one,” that he is “bootlegging mileage.” The Klberton Star
tersely comments; “No honest man familiar with the facts can so
charge; and before making such a charge he should familiarize himself
with the facts. * The state system of roads is composed of 5,500 mile
authorized by the laws of 1919 and 1921, plus the miles through cities
and towns of less than twenty-five hundred population, which on Janu
ary 1, 1925, totaled 6,235.9 miles. At the regular session of the legis
lature in the summer of 1925, the act of 1921 was amended by striking
out ‘5,500’ and inserting ‘6,300 miles.’ The effect of this act was to
increase the state system by 800 mile .. Add 800 miles to the miles in
the system on the previous January 1, and we have 7,035.9 miles,all
provided by law. The highway board announces that it has put in
the state system since the last legislature adjourned only six miles,
ar.d ( that in Hart county, but that it intends to put on enough to make
eight hundred milc3 under the act of 1925 as soon as ail -counties ap
plying for additional mileage have been heard from a decision made.”
To the same effect Hon. John R. Phillips, a member of the high
way board, officially declared that the board has seven hundred and
eighty-six miles of state-aid highways to allocate—and he cites the
law under which the allocation will be made. The,people of Georgia
know what manner of man Mr. Phillips is—his integrity, his clear-hf ad
ednes3, his irreproachable truthfulness; and they know, too, that he is
not a candidate In the coming election. Are citis#hs like him and his
cdlleague3 on the highway board, Hon. Stanley S. Bennett and Hon.
John Holder, to be charged with “bootlegging road mileage,” when
they are proceeding in strict accordance with the law and are doing
their duty in the full light of day? The hearings of the board are all
public; and its decisions, if they be contrary to law or to the common
interests, are all subject to challenge and review in the courts. If po
litical “bottlcgging” be the charge, the offenders will be found, not
in th£ clear-lit, straightforward way of John Holder, but amongst those
who by dark and slippery tactics are trying to “sell” the people of
Georgia bonded debt which is wrong in its principle, rotten in its al
liance with selfish interests and which would oppress taxpayers for
generations to come.
Try as they may, squirm as they must, the interests that are
lurking behind the state bond scheme and that are directing from va
rious camps the opposition to John Holder for governor, cannot escape
this, the decisive issue of the campaign: Shall Georgia pay as she
goes, and go with the vigor of a free commonwealth, or shall she
mortgage her great future for a moment's deceptive advantage? Shall
she protect her farms, her industries, her producers, her citizenry’s
rank and file against a crushing, killing weight of taxatiop, or say to
the would-be exploiters of he/ treasury, “Go as far as you like?”
John Holder has answered in terms plain and positive—and he only
among the candidates for governor ha ; answered. He only has met
the issue without quibbling or evasion. He only has pledged himself
unalterably to defend the people’s interests against the folly and the
peri! cf state bonds. And The Journal, because of it-: confidence i:i
the good sense and far-seeing patriotism of the voters cf Georgia, be
lieves that in the election cf September the eighth h and the cause
he r will be carried to victory cn a flood-tide cf their ballots.
OFFICIALBALLOT
State of Georgia Dcmoc'-atic Whit*
Primary September Bth, 1926.
(Erase the names of those for whom
you do .iot vote)
For United States Senator
(Vote for One)
. WALTER F. GEORGE
RICHARD B. RUSSELL
For Governor
(Vote for One)
GEO. H. CARSWELL
L. G. HARDMAN
JOHN N. HOLDER
J. O. WOOD
For Secretary of State
S. G. McLENDON
For Attorney General
(Vote for One)
J. HERRMAN MILNER
GEORGE M. NAPIER
For State Treasurer
W.,J. SPEER
For Comptroller General
WILLIAM A. WRIGHT
For Commissioner of Agriculture
(Vote for One)
J. J. BROWN
EUGENE TALMA DGE
For Commissioner of Commerce
and Labor
H. M. STANLEY
For State Superintendent of Schools
(Vote for One)
N. H. BALLARD
FORT E. LANDr
For Commissioner of Pensions
(Vote for One)
W. SAM ASKEW
JOHN W.CLARK
For Prison Commission
E. L. RAINEY
For Public Service Commissioner
(To succeed Paul B. Trammell,
deceased.)
(For unexpired term)
** ALBERT J. WOODRUFF
(For full term)
(Vote for One)
W. R. FRIER
ALBERT J. WOODRUFF
For Public Service Commissioner
(To succeed J. D. Price, deceased)
(For unexpired term)
(Vote for One)
G. W. LANKFORD
CALVIN W. PARKER
For Associate Justice Supreme Court
(To succeed 11. Warner HUD
H. WARNER HILL
For Associate Justice Supreme Court
(To succeed James K. Hines)
(Vote for One)
R. EVE
JAMES K. HINES
For Judge Court of Appeals
(To succeed O. H. B. Bloodworth)
O. H. B. BLOODWORTH
For Judge Court of Appeals
(To succeed Alex W. Stephens)
(Vote for One)
J. P. HIGHSMITH
ALEX W. STEPHENS
For Representative in Congress
(Vote for One)
THOMAS. M. BELL
HERMAN P. DeLAPERRIERE
For Representaties
(Vote for Two) *
HOMER HANCOCK
J. E J. LORI)
" W. B. RICE
For Executive Committeeman
(Voter write name of choice in blank)
Tobacco Growing in Georgia
Tobacco growers of Georgia ought
to be and doubtless are very happy
nowadays. They have made the best
showing thus far made in Georgia
since the tobacco industry took on
important proportions.
The crop this year will approximate
in value $10,000,000, and it is not so
large crop as last year’s. On the
other hand, it is a crop of better
quality. The margin of profit is
wider—the average price higher.
It has-been interesting and grati
fying to watch the progress and de
velopment of tobacco in Georgia as
an industry. It is relatively young,
but already ithas come to be one of
our outstanding* annual crops. With
in a few years it will be far more
important than it is today.
It ha3 been demonstrated that a
very fine quality of tobacco can be
grown in-Georgia; happily, too, much
of this crop may be produced on
lands which seem ill-suited to any
thing else.
Fortunately, as crop prospects
have brightened and enthusiasm
grown,, conservatism still has been
able to hold its own.
The matter of tobacco growing has
not been overdone!
It requires intelligence and pati
ence to produce a fine quality of to
bacco. The crop must have constant
watching and careful handling. The
grower who plants his crop and lets
it alone “to take care of itself” soon
finds that he has no crop with a
market value!
Marketing conditions, while not
yet all they might be, still have been
sensibly considered and rationally
promoted.
In short, the promising and grow
ing industry has NOT been permitted
to run away with itself!
The same quality of common
sense and intelligence is exercised
for the past few years, then we may
| feel assured that within another de
cade tobacco will be a crop in Georgia
running into many more millions an
nually than it does today!
f
500 to Butter wanted each
week.— Kesler &■ I