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Walter R. McDonald Candidate
For Railroad Commission
Walter R. McDonald, the blind legis
lator from Richmond county, is a can
didate for the Railroad Commission of
Georgia to succeed Hon. C. Murphy
Candler, who is not offering for re
election.
At the age of thirteen, a poor boy
on his father’s small farm in Richmond
County, near Augusta, the youngest of
seven children, he was suddenly strick
en with total blindness. Realizing that
the light of day had been forever
barred from his vision, the young fann
er boy set out to win an education
and with a determination to serve his
state in spite of his handicap of blind
ness. Having advanced only to the
fourth grade in common school, and
knowing that his family was unable to
give Am an education, he set to work
and, by his own effort, working during
school terms and vacation, earned and
paid for his education, graduating from
the University of Georgia in 1914.
Since that time he has successfully
•'racticed law in the City of Augusta,
■were he is considered one of the
ablest of the younger lawyers of that
section. McDonald is now in his early
thirties.
/dr McDonald is a man whose cheer
fulness is an inspiration to his friends
of whom there are thousands. As an
evidence of his popularity and ability
the voters of Richmond county have
for three successive terms sent him to
the State Legislature over opposition.
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Walter R. McDonald.
In the Legislature, he has made an
active, efficient and ablo member.
Mr. McDonald's host of friends
throughout the state confidently pre
dict his election, and, if elected, Geor
gia will have a capable and efficient of
ficer and the people of Georgia will
have, in this self-made, blind man, an
honest and true public servant.
ORDINARY MAKES DETAILED RE
PORT ON LAMAR COUNTY
AFFAIRS TO GRAND JURY
Gentlemen of the Grant] Jury:—
It is a pleasure and a privilege to
come before you and give to you and
to the people of the county through
you an account of the administration
of county affairs from January 1 to
September 1, 1922, a full and com
plete report having been given for
1921 to the Grand Jury at the last
March Term. You and the citizens
of the county are entitled to know
all about the county’s business and
there is only one' place where this in
formation can be obtained and that
is from the office and books where
the business is transacted and where
the records are kept. I regard %as
a privilege to consult and consider
with any and all citizens who may be
interested regarding county ques
tions, interests and problems and par
ticularly is this true as to the Grand
Jury, whose duty it is to look into
such matters and as a result thereof
to make suggestions and recom
mendations to the county officials.
To far as I am Concerned as an of
ficer of the county any suggestion or
recommendation you may make on
any phase of the county’s interests
will have great weight with me. For
this reason, I want to bring to your
attention at this time a number.of
matters which I want to consider with
you.
The Question of Roads
Whether or not the question of
roads is the most important interest
of the county it is certainly the most
universally discussed and therefore
lam referring to that first. There
are apparently many citizens who
seem to think there is little else for
a county officer filing my position to
do except to look after the road bus
iness, whereas, as a matter of fact,
more than half the funds of our
county arc expended in other direc
tions and for other purposes, all of
which deserve and should receive
equal consideration with the road
question.
I want to admit frankly that our
road work for the first six months
of this year has been very unsatis
factory, not because of any fault of
ours but because conditions which
have arisen and over which we could
have no control. Two tremendous
rains the early part of the year
washed away nearly all our bridges
and did great damage to many of our
roads. For two months our road
force was engaged almost entirely in
this emergency work, and resulting
in a total cost of not less than
$2,000.00.
Following this we were called upon
by the State Highway department to
do certain Work on the Barnesville-
ZebUlon road and on the Bamesville-
Rtrouds road in order to put these
two roads in an acceptable condition
to be taken over by the department.
All this work was done under the di
rection of the officials of the depart
ment and much of the work, particu
larly the grading on the Barnesville-
Strouds road, was done under the
most unfavorable weather conditions,
the incessant rains making satisfac
tory progress impossible. In the
mean time, of course, we were forced
to neglect all the other county roads,
which were in bad condition, due to
the many rains during the year.
This special work was heavy and ex
pensive, the bridge work at Potato
creek alone costing $1,172.08. Af
ter finishing the Barnesville-Strouds
road we ‘went immediately to the
other roads of the county and have
been doing splendidly since then, our
force now beginning in the Union
ville district, where it will be for
some weeks to come. Of course,
there is now, has always been, and
perhaps always will be a wide differ
ence of opinion as to how to handle
the road situation and how to work
roads, but as for Lamar county I am
thoroughly convinced that, taking all
the present conditions into considera
tion, we are working now on the
right line and any material change
of system will be an unnecessary
hardship on the tax payers without
sufficient beneficial results to justify
it Under ordinary or normal condi
tions a road force as at present em
oloved will work every road in the
county two to three times every year
and at the same time keep up all th*
bridges', doing along with this a rea
sonable amount of permanent work
by substantially improving certain
roads or bad places and by building
one or two really first class bridges
each year, and all at an expense
which should be around $15,000.00
a year. It is my honest and candid
belief that if.our present policy is
-iven a fair test foe something like
hree years the conservative citizen
ship of the county would be fully
satisfied with the .results and would
not be willing to expend the enorm
ous sums in road work which are
spent by the majority of the coun
iies of the state.
In the statement I made to the
Grand Jury at the March Term I
gave di tailed information as to what
we were paying our force, except as
to the negro labor. For some time
we have been paying negro laborers
$1.25 per day. Some complaint has
been made by farmers of this price
and I have given serious considera
tion to this matter. Some have said
that the price affected the price of
negro labor on the farm and for that
reason, among others, we were pay
ing too much. We employ only six*
or eight men at any time, paying
them for only such time as they can
work, and we do not even consider
the employment of negroes who work
on farms, although we have had
numerous applications from farm
negroes. Of course, we do not fur
nish them meals or anything else.
Grand Juries have authorized an al
lowance of 60 cents a day for jail
prisoners and ordinarily the class
composing the prisoners do not com.
pare at all favorably with the negroes
we employ. Taking this view of it
this would allow only />5 cents for
the labor. Then again, road work is
altogether a different kind of work
to farm work, being much harder and
more difficult. It should not, he a
question as to how low we can
Squeeze the price but what is right
to pay. What do you think is right?
I am attaching herewith a com
plete statement of the cost of all our
road work September Ist, as fol
lows :
Equipment, $3,583.71; Materials,
$4,304.23; Salaries, $4,531.78; Total,
$12,419.72.
Included in above is anew truck
in January costing a difference of
$1,292.55; the Potato creek bridges
of $1,172.08; the Little Towaliga
river bridge of $713.46; two addi
tional mules of $260.00; two addi
tional wheelers of $207.70; thus, not
counting the emergency work, we
may reduce the cost of our usual road
work by $3,647.16, showing an ex
penditure on our roads and bridges
for the ordinary work of only SB,-
772.56.
County Commitiioneri and County
Manager Bill.
At the recent session of the legis
lature a bill was passed submitting
to a vote of the citizens on Septem
ber 13th a bill providing for three
county commissioners and a county
manager. If the bill is ratified threq
county commissioners will be elected
in the November election who will
their duties January 1, 1923,
when these three will elect a county
manager who will assume the duties
provided for m the bill.
I feel that is is my duty to give my
vjews regarding this bill, both be
cause of my official position and be
cause as a citizen I am interested in
every question which involves the
welfare of the county and its people.,
A number of citizens have asked,for
an expression from me and I shall
not hesitate to discuss the matter
freely. My attitude now is exactly
as it was when I was asked two years
ago to assume the duties of the office
of Ordinary having charge of county
affairs. I stated then and I state now
that I am not concerned personally
about occupying the office. I realize
now, with the experience I have had,
more than I did then that there is
neither pleasure nor profit in the of
fice for'me except in the satisfaction
it affords of rendering service to the
people of the county, and if it were
not for the fact that I firmly believe
I am standing between the citizens
and heavy and unnecessary burdens
of taxation in these critical financial
times I would not for a moment con
sider to further carry n the county’s
business. It is for this reason solely
that I state if the citizens express
the wish by their votes tor me to
continue to handle the county’s af
fairs for another year or two I will
do so.
Having studied the bill which will
be submitted to the voters of lamar
on Septemt*er 13th I do not hesitate
to as a citizen I am opposed to it,
for the two reasons which I here
mention:
First—At the very first r.tep it will
increase, in my judgment, the ad
ministrative expense over above
what it is now costing the county at
least $3,000, without sufficient re
sults to justify such an additional ex
pense. That is, the bill will cost the
county ,t.o do the worjf that I am now
doing $3,000 more than it is costing
now.
Second—The ratification of the
bill and the election or three com
missioners almost certainly means the
immediate installation of a chain,
gang system for the county, which in
time will mean practical bankruptcy,
such as a majority of the counties of
Georgia are now experiencing. It is
well known that the people most
strenuously advocating county com
missioners for Lamar are as strongly
committed, as a rule, to the chain
gang system, which, according to my
judgment, would be, the very worst
thing that could possibly happen to
Lamar county at this time. There is
abundant evidence to substantiate
this conclusion'. Let a chaingang
system be hung around the necks of
the citizens of Lamar county and the
day will soon come when they will
surely and sorely regret it.
Before and immediately after I
was elected to this office I had no
other idea than that we would
inaugurate a chaingang system. But
when I began to investigate and look
into the system, securing informa
tion from citizens living in counties
where the system was in operation
and when I found out about the ex
travagance and waste and graft
which almost always went along with
it and when I was told of the almost
constant wrangling and charges and
counter charges among those hand
ling and in charge of the system I
got further and further away from
it until I have reached the deliberate
conclusion that it is the greatest
curse with which the small counties
of the state are afflicted. It is an
evil, expensive and demoralizing, and
I earnestly warn the citizens of this
county against it and appeal to them,
for their own interest, to avoid it,
whatever else they may do.
There is not the slightest doubt
that under the county commissioner
regime with the chaingnng Lamar’s
expenses next year will be nearer
$75,000 than it is $36,000 or $40,000
tiiis year. While I have strong con
victions about the matter, I should
say, perhaps, that it is the people’s
affair and if they want such a system
and so vote they are entitled to it
and I will cheerfully acquiece in it,
for if) will be no worse for me than
for them. t
County Tax and Finance*
I have fixed the County Tax Rate
for 1922 at $ll.OO per $1,000.00. I
had hoped it would be SIO.OO again
this year, as it was for 1921, as our
total expense will be about the same
as last year, but the Tax Equalizers,
very properly, I thin|{, allowed n de
duction from last year of nearly
$200,000.00, confined almost entirely
to personal property. In our ex
pense this year, which we did not
have last year, is the jail of $6,490,
the cost of the City Court of about
$2,000.00, the Potato creek and the
Little Towaliga river bridges, of sl,-
885.00, and the emergency work on
roads and bridges the past spring of
$2,000.00, or a total of more than
$10,000.00, which is special over last
year. My candid opinion is that the
county should be operated next year
at a total cost of $25,000.00, not
over $30,000.00, as a maximum.
1 am glad to report that I have
not had any trouble thus far in fi
nancing the county’s operations, and
not one of our County Warrants has
had to be discounted, every claim
against the county being paid prompt
ly. The First National Bank of
Barnesville, a cou/ty institution, has
provided the funds for financing the
county, but 1 have assurance that I
could finance the county with funds
from without the county if I wanted
to do so. However, it has been my
policy in the operation of the coun
ty to give first consideration to the
people of the county, dealing with
them and giving them the benefit of
everything that might help them and
I will not go out of the county to get
anything which can just as well or
batter be ‘secured within the county.
We buy all nur lumber, foed stuff
and material of every kind, when it
can be obtained, from Lamar county
people.
Our Jail.
I am proud of our new jail, which
is meeting every need of the county,
and which will provide every needed
facility for perhaps ten yearn, the
total cost of which is less than SO,-
000.00. J could have gone out and
bought a lot and had a building
erected at from $30,000.00 to $50,-
000. QJ), which would not have answer
ed bur purposes any better, if as well,
considering the convenience as to lo
cation. The county has been heartily
congratulated on having been able
to secure such a jail at such a nomi
nal expense. It is your duty to in.
spect it and I hope you will be
equally an well pleased with it.
Our-Pauper Lit.
One of the most difficult problems
which I have to handle is that of
county help for our paupers. Ap
peals are being constantly made on
behalf of the needy, either to be
placed on the permanent list, or for
temporary relief. I never act fa
vorably on any application without
its approval by one or more white
citizens but even then it is some
times difficult to know just what to
do; lam atta' , hinc' a list as at pres
ent composed and ask that you cloa#
ly inspect it and advise me of anjr**f
revision which you may think neces
sary.
Expense* to Date
Herewith I give you a statement
of our expenses in all department*
for this year, from January 1 to
September 1:
Roads and bridges $12,419.72
Superior Court 1,313.6§
City Court 1,473.47
Public buildings „ 381.23
Sheriff expenses 547.28
Ja-il expenses, including
new jail 4,837.78
Books and stationery 495.7#
Paupers 439.91
Lunacy trinls 156.0#
Miscellaneous 2,574.30
Total - $24,648.11
We owe practically nothing except
a bill for hooks of $1,260.00, which
came over from last year by agree
ment of purchase, and a bill for Cul
vert of $1,500.00. We have on hand
and paid for oats, hay and other
similar material amounting to be
tween $1,000.00 and $1,250.00. Un
less some unforseen misfortune over
takes us, our expenses for th 6 entire
year, closing with December 31,
1922, will not exceed $35,000.00 and
will be well'within our 1922 tax rate.
In Conclusion
In concluding this statement I can
not refrain from expressing my
gratification over the results of La
mar county’s first year’s operations.
We levied a Tax Rate of SIO.OO. In
spite of the fearful financial condi
tions and the had crop conditions the
Tax Collector has collected the sum
for county purposes of $37,571.25.
To this should be added road tax of
$1,391.40 and receipts from Superior
Court fines $366.15, making a grand
total of $39,328.80. The Tax Col
lector tells me that he is practically
certain of collecting $1,000.00 more
for county purposes, which will run
our total from 1921 to $40,328.80.
Our total expenditures for all pur
poses for 1921, including commis
sions to officers and claims of every
kind, can not run beyond, at thn
maximum, $38,000.00, which will
leave a net balance for the first
year’s existence of Lamar epunty of
$2,000.00. It is a record, which, I
believe, will ever stand to the credit
of the county and its citizens.
We have a fine people and a fine
county and if we Will be patient,
cautious and conservative we will
not make mistakes which other coun_
ties have made, and our people will
be greatly profited thereby.
B. H. HARDY, Ordinary.
September 5, 1922.
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J. E. Palmour
for
R. R. Commissioner
Wff M I
To the People of Georgia:
I am a candidate for Railroad Com
missioner, for the six-year terra made
vacant by Hon. Murphy Candler de
clining to offer for re-election.
I have served the State for several
years as Representative from Hall
County and Senator from the 33rd Die
trlct. I am a business man and thor
oughly acquainted with the needs of
the business and farming interests of
the State. I will appreciate your vote
and influence in the coming primary
and It elected pledge my best service
in your behalf.
Respectfully yours,
J. E. PALMOUR.
Gainesville, Ga.
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