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HON. SEABORN
WRIGHT ANNOUNCES
FOR THE SENATE
TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA:
I make this announcement to suc
ceed Senator Watson.
I confess that sentiment has
something to do with my action.
In 1896, I ran as a Prohibition
Democrat for Governor of Georgia,
endorsed by the old Populist Party
on a platform written by Senator
Watson, Chancellor Walter B. Hill,
and myself.
I have lived to see practically
every plank in that platform of prin
ciples moulded into law.
Senator Watson and Chancellor
Hill are both dead. I believe the
great crusade began for the better
ment of the common people, ought
not to end amid the wrangling of
politicians, who never loved either
of them.
In making this announcement for
the Senate, I am going to do what
1 have always done, what every man
should be mado to do, speak my posi
tion plain upon questions immediate
ly before the American Congress.
I never had any patience with
politicians who play for positions or
wrangle for the spoils of office. They
are the curse of Democracy. Times
like these demand in office men with
conviction of public duty with the
courage to live or (lie for their con
victions v/ifch a smile on their faces.
What, are these questions in their
relative order of importance which
will immediately face the successor
of Watson?
First: It took the Christian men
ant) women of this country a hun
dred years of unceasing warfare to
outlaw tho leg4iizcd liquor traffic.
The great fight ended with the
Eighteenth Constitutional Amend
ment.
This amendment is safe. , '
It will never he repealed.
There is no issue before the peo
ple as to the repeal of the Eighteenth
Constitutional Amendment, —But —
There is an issue immediately be
fore the National Congress which
strikes at the heart of the Amend
ment, through the Volstead act, pro
viding for the modification or repeal
of this Act, defining intoxicating
liquor.
This question is a pressing issue in
practically every state in the Union
today.
The enemies of the Eighteenth
Amendment to the Constitution are
as alive today to destroy our great
prohibition laws as ever in the past.
The danger is greater today than
ever before.
The people of America face the
return of saloons in a form as in
sidious and deadly as ever before.
Is there a man or woman in Geor
gia who does not. know that a five
per cent beer and ten per cent wine
saloon in the hands of the old crim
inal class who ran the straight sa
loons would sell a hundred per cent
liquor, adding anarchy to criminali
ty?
During the four-year term of of
fice of the Senator who will be nom
inated in the coming primary, this
question will be fought out and set
tled ail over America.
Is it possible that the Christian
men and women of the great State
which was first in the South to pass
prohibitory laws are blind to their
peril?
God forbid.
On this issue, there should be no
question, no shadow of doubt as to
the attitude of the man elected in
the coming primary.
Second: The next immediate
question before the American Con
gress is the question of Bonus to the
soldiers of the Great War.
My position, broadly speaking, is
this:
I favor a bonus to the soldiers of
the Great War—but in the manner
of its giving, 1 would oppose any
Bill which by a vicious system of in
direct taxation would place the bur
den upon the shoulders of the masses
who received it. I would not stand
for any jugglery whereby a horde of
hungry Shylocks could tap the gift
before it reached the hands of the
men who earned it.
Third: I stand with Washington
for friendly relations with European
and all foreign countries, but against j
entangling alliances with any which
would destroy or impair the com
plete sovereignty of the United States |
and with the framers of our Consti- ;
tution 1 stand for complete separa
tion of church and State, freedom of
speech, press and the peaceable as
semblage of the People.
I am opposed to the cancellation
of European debts to our Country.
Fourth: The question of imigra
tion—while not immediately before
the American Congress is at this
time of such importance that the
position of candidates should be
plainly stated".
I believe that all labor troubles
come directly from our loose immi
gration laws.
Foreign immigration should be ab
solutely stopped until there is a job
for every laboring man or woman in
America at living wages.
When there are two laborers for
every job in the fight to live in
evitably on the wage of every work
ing man and woman is beaten down.
It is worse than folly to preach
patience to jobless men looking into
the faces of their wives and children.
I believe that higher moral stand
ards should be fixed in our immigra
tion laws. We fail against foreign
anarchy and lawlessness broadcast in
the Republic—the cowardly politician
in all parties cringing before the for
eign vote are responsible for it —
I know and you know it.
Woe unto us if we do not realize
that our fathers were right when
they declared that the only enduring
foundation of the Republic is a vir
tuous and intelligent citizenship.
Fifth. One other question re
mains undisposed of.
What is known as the Dyer Bill,
pending in Congress, and from its
unconstitutionality has in it the taint
of the- efforts repeatedly made by
Northern Politicians since the Civil
War, to meddle in the domestic af
fairs of the South.
Except in instances like the pas
sage of the Eighteenth Amendment
to the Federa 1 Constitution where
the STATE FIRST PASSES UPON
THE QUESTION, thereby giving to
the Federal Government the right to
interfere —I say—except in such in
stances, all rights of the State should
be jealously guarded.
In concluding this announcement,
let me say—-This Republic faces since
the Great War inevitable changes,
the character of which depends en
tirely on the man whom the people
put into office.
There should be no place in office
for the pussy-footing, card-stacking
politician.
Since the death of Senator Wat
son, I have watched the undignified
playing for position, the bickering,
the almost childish scramble for the
highest office in the gift of the peo
ple. No mention by the candidates
of their stand upon any principles
vital to the people. They seem dead
to the spirit of the times.
As to myself, I have little to say.
The people of this State ought to
know me reasonably well. My name
has been more or less connected with
every reform in Georgia since I en
tered the legislature at the age of
twenty-one. Strange as it seems,
those very reforms, now the laws of
Georgia, because I fought for them
when they were unpopular, tainted
me with a radicalist that was almost
repugnant to my nature.
1 am not a radical.
Neither am Ia conservative.
1 will have no part with the vast
code of law-breaking un-American
radicals swarming larger and larger
into the Republic.
At the same time I would oppose
to the limit of my power any effort
similar to tire Daugherty Injunction
denying to any man or organization
of men, rights guaranteed to all men
under the Constitution.
1 have no love for that class at the
top whom Roosevelt called the crim
inal rich. Because of their intelli
gence, their power, their utter want
of principle, these are the men who
are the real anarchists in this coun
try, who will destroy the Republic
if not checked in their insane passion
for money.
I stand with Henry George when
he said in his famous speech in New
York: “I am not the friend of the
rich man, I am not the friend of the
poor man. hut I stand for justice and
Equal Rights to ALL MEN.”
As I see it, the only hope for the
future is that the millions of toiling
men in this country will paw out of
their organizations the radical an
archists which infest them that the
honest rich, the honest business men,
the heads of our great industries,
will realize that they, too, must drive
out of their ranks the original and
anarchists which infest it.
The Ship of State is Forging ahead
between the rocks on either side.
It is no time for shifty politicians
at the wheel.
If ev**r fearlessness and honesty
are needed in polities, it is now.
Whatever, even my enemies may
think of my ideas on public questions,
whether with me or against me, they
do know that I have never been
afraid to do the thing's I thought
right.
(Signed) SEABORN WRIGHT.
HON. JAS H. BOYKIN
ENDORSES WRIGHT
Hon. Jas. H. Boykin, of Lineoln
ton, Editor of the Lincolnton Jour
nal. and well known business man,
who was a staunch friend and con
fidant of the late Senator Watson,
makes the following statement en
dorsing the candidacy of Hon. Sea
i born Wright.
Shortly after the death of the late
Senator Thomas E. Watson, I re
ceived numbers of letters from
friends of the lamented Statesman
requesting an opinion as to who
would be a suitable person to fill the
unexpired term in the United States
Senate.
To all of these letters I replied
frankly that I did not know. I stated
that no one need expect another Tom
Watson, that there were none to be
had, but added, that there were many
men in the rank of the Watson
forces, true and tried, and with am
ple ability and courage to make a
good Senator.
I suggested in reply to those per
sonal letters, and also in cards to
several of the daily newspapers, that
as many of the Watson Democrats
as could conveniently do so, meet me
at the State Convention at Macon,
October 4th, to counsel together one
with another.
It was pointed out that Senator
Watson, above everything else, stood
tenaciously for principles, which
fact, even more than his wonderful
personality, was the secret of his
large political following. The peo
ple trusted and followed him because
thly knew he would not desert them.
I went to the Macon Convention
predisposed towards no one for the
Senate. I sought diligently to ascer
tain the wishes of the several hun
dred Watson men who were there
from every section of the State. At
the first of the several conferences
that were held one thing was agreed
on: that no one but a friend of Sen
ator Watson, personally and political
ly, should be voted for to fill his un-
expired term. Several names were
discussed, among them being Judge
J. J. Flynt, of Griffis, who it was
finally agreed was the logical man to
make the race.
Wednesday afternoon it* was gen
erally understood that Judge Flynt
would run, and it was announced in
the press, but early Thursday morn
ing he telegraphed me at the Demp
sey Hotel that, after considering the
matter carefully upon his return
home, he found it would be impossi
ble for him to wage an aggressive
campaign on account of pressing bus
iness and professional engagements,
and therefore had decided not to per
mit the use of his name.
Hon. Seaborn Wright, whose name
was favorably mentioned by the Wat
son men at the Convention, was noti
fied of the declination of Judge
Flynt to run and he immediately
qualified as a candidate himself. So
much for that.
Now as to the candidate: First,
let me say that I do not arrogate to
myself the right to speak for the
Watson men. I enjoyed the confi
dence of Senator Watson. He was
my warm personal and political
friend. Not for my right arm would
I attempt to mislead a single one of
his devoted followers.
I merely say this: Of the candi
dates who have announced, Hon.
Seaborn Wright, in my opinion comes
more nearly standing for the Watson
ideals in politics than any one of
the others.
I know personally that Senator
Watson had a very high regard for
Mr. Wright There was never a
break in their long friendship, and,
broadly speaking, they were together
on bed-rock, fundamental principles.
Mr. Wright is an able, brave and
patriotic Georgian.
He is not a dodger nor a trimmer
nor a time-server.
What he says you can rely upon.
He is an honest man, and like our
late lamented illustrious Chieftain,
no power on earth could swerve him
from the path of duty as he sees it.
As I view the situation, Watson
Democrats are given an opportunity
in the candidacy of Mr. Wright to
help keep alive many of the essential
principles for which they have been
long contending. If they rally to
his standard like they did in the
memorable campaign of 1896 when
he was the candidate for Governor
of the Old Populist Panty, there is
not a shadow of doubt of his over
whelming election. And if he is
elected, it will after all, be a Watson
victory. Personally, I shall take
pleasure in giving Mr. Wright my
support, with the earnest hope and
prayer that all the followers of Sen
ator Watson will agree with me in
the conviction that it is the best way
to carry on the great principles for
which Senator Watson fought and
died. (Signed)
JAMES. H. BOYKIN.
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