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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) - 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