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THURSDAY AFTERNOON
WHAT WAS REQUIRED
OF VOTERS IN PRIMARY
Committee Prescribed That
Only White Democratic Vo
ters Could Participate.
From the Macon Telegraph.
A great deal of misinformation,
which is intended to deceive, has
been promulgated in Georgia in re
gard to the qualifications for voters
required in the democratic primary
by the democratic executive commit
tee of the state in 1904. At first cer
tain interests made a bold demand
for a wide open or fusion primary;
some of them are still at it. But a
change in the tactics of others of
them has been made. These latter
are making prominent daily garbled
quotations from what the committee
said on this subject two years ago.
They do not print the preamble to
the resolution, nor the resolution
itself correctly. The committee said:
“At a meeting of the state demo
cratic executive committee, held in
the city of Atlanta, this the 29th day
of February, 1904, called for the pur
pose of taking action whereby the
white democrats of this state may
give expression of their choice for
state officers, judges and solicitors
general, to be filled by the vote of
the people at the ensuing election, it
is ordered—
“ That a general primary election
be held on the 20th day of April in
every county of the state, at which
all white democratic voters (who
have registered in 1903 or 1904 ten
days before said primary) shall have
an opportunity to cast their votes for
the following officers, to-wit.”
Then follows the names of the offi
cers to be nominated by “white dem
ocrats,” or “white democratic vo
ters.”
To be read in connection with this
preamble the resolution follows:
“All white voters without regard
to past political affiliations, who de
sire to ALIGN THEMSELVES WITH
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, and who
will, if the right to participate in
said primary be challenged, pledge
themselves to support the nominees
OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, are
hereby declared entitled to vote
therein, and are cordially invited to
do so.”
Could anything be plainer or better
than this? And yet the Atlanta
Journal, for instance, by omitting
the preamble and by substituting the
words “nominees of the said prima
ry” for “nominees of the democratic
party” has sought to create the im
pression that the last executive com
mittee opened wide the door to all
white voters, “without regard to past
political affiliations,” and that they
were morally bound only to vote for
the nominees of that one and partic
ular primary. In other words, that
republicans, populists and socialists
were allowed to vote only on condi
tion that they vote for the nominess
then and there nominated.
What a perversion of the expressly
stipulated conditions! The provision
was that it was to be a primary in
which “the white democrats of this
state may give expression to their
choice,” and that those who had not
been democrats in recent years, but
who desired to “align themselves
with the democratic party,” and who
would pledge themselves to “support
the nominees of the democratic par
ty” should be admitted as democrats
and allowed to vote in a democratic
primary.
The attempt to dodge and pervert
this program for the purpose of ad
mitting avowed anti-democrats for
factional advantage this year, and at
the same time to make it appear that
five candidates for the democratic
nomination for governor are trying
to invent and perpetrate a rule which
would exclude those who had pre
vious to this year of grace returned
to the party, is simply preposterous
and wicked.
An expression of a desire to “align
j themselves with the democratic par
ty” and pledge to “support the nom
inees of the democratic party,” taken
together, is a pledge of future loyalty
—that is, a pledge that those who ac
cept the terms are not to be admitted
as temporary, or emergency voters
for a factional purpose, but as per
manent democrats. The cry that it
is wrong to pledge them “for all
future time” is a weak subterfuge
and hollow pretense, worthy only of
a bad cause. Any man has a right
at any time to separate himself from
a political party after his primary
pledges have been redeemed, if that
party departs from its former prin
ciples, or if the voter conscientiously
changes his views. Against either
possible contingency no man can
object, or does object, so far as we
know, in the present emergency. But
it is true, and let it be written in big
black letters, that the real democrats
of the state propose to preserve the
integrity of party lines, and prevent
the incursion of unrepented party
enemies who are being martialed
and drilled for the purpose of gaining,
through their votes, a partisan ad
vantage in a family contest. This is
the purpose on the one hand. On
the other hand it is the purpose, on
the part of the incursionists, to enter
a Wedge to disrupt the democratic
party.
The Telegraph calls upon the exec
utive committee, in the name of the
democratic party, not to weaken un
der the fire that comes from a “blind
battery” through the Atlanta Jour
nal, and directed at them, intended
to frighten and intimidate them.
The Telegraph calls upon the exec
utive committee, in the name of the
true and loyal democrats of Georgia,
to stand by the letter and spirit of
the preamble and resolution adopted
by their predecessors.
Before Mr. Watson can be allowed
to vote in a democratic primary he
must shut off his propaganda of so
cialism and populism in his maga
zine, abandon his efforts to build an
opposition party, and express a desire
to “align” with the democratic party
and vote for the “democratic nomi
nees” —put in the plural. The same
rule must apply, of course, to his
followers. If the executive commit
tee yields under the brow-beating
threats of Watson’s new but tempo
rary allies it will bring disaster to
the democratic party, the thing de
voutly wished for by its enemies who
are not even masquerading but who
are openly fighting the Let
any man take a look into Watson’s
Magazine and the purpose of the agi
tator will be seen in clear light. He
makes no concealment of it. Who
has seen a line in the Atlanta Jour
nal protesting against or even point
ing out Watson’s crusade against the
democratic party; and yet the col
umns of that newspaper teem with
box car letters denouncing and villi
fying men who have always been
democrats; and yet the foes of the
democratic party are given an oppor
tunity in its columns to assault lead
ing democrats of the state; and yet
it garbles the democratic records,
and browbeats and threatens the
heads of the democratic party!
It is sowing dragons’ teeth.
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LEND THEM A
HELPING HAND
The Cotton Association Will
Meet Here the Fourth Sat
urday in April.
To the planters and members of
the Southern Cotton Association of
Gwinnett county, and to all classes
and professions we make the follow
ing appeal:
Let every man, regardless of pro
fession, lend a helping hand to the
Southern Cotton Association and aid
in every way possible the organiza
tion in your own county. If you are
not a member, why not ? Will you
not enlist with us and help in this
great struggle between the “bear”
speculators on the one hand, backed
by the wealth of the world and the
very best brain and talent, and the
teeming thousands, who toil from
January till December, backed only
by the helpless but faithful women
and children of this southland of
ours? Help the association, which
raises its voice in behalf of the toil
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clothe the world, to liberate those de
serving ones! You ask how can you
help. You may join hands with the
association, which has been and is
doing so much to relieve the situa
tion. You say you do not raise cot
ton and have none to sell, and there
fore have no interest In the associa
tion. You are certainly mistaken,
prejudiced or woefully ignorant if
you say as much. The prosperity of
the south in general, the business in
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success and happiness of every poor
old farmer depends upon a fair and
legitimate price for the cotton we
raise.
No reasonable man can or will give
an excuse for not supporting au or
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good. An old farmer, God bless
him, nothing but indifference or ig
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true to his friend—“ The Southern
Cotton Association” —unless it be sel
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Do you want a fair price for your
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Then join the association and be loy
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and more food crops, use less fertiliz
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refuse to sell at all. In other words,
let’s be as independent as wood saw
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The next meeting will be held the
fourth Saturday in April. Ljt every
district meet third Saturday, and ar
range to attend the county meeting.
Pay your dues, reduce your acreage
and hold your cotton.
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