The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-26
GAMBLER TO The PEOPLE.
PLOWBOY OF PIGEON ROOST Is A
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR.
In a Ringing Letter lie Says He viii
Not Decline a Party Call. Econ
Omy and Lower Taxation
i'm state Affairs,

Hon, Allen D. Gambler made formal
announcement Of his candidacy for the
democratic nomination for governor of
Georgia Saturday. THE News regrets
that it cannot publish his letter in full
because of its great length--it fills four
newspaper cOlumns-but the following
extracts show upO what a firm ground
he stands:
81 will stand for the democratic nomi-
nation for governor of Georgia, and
in doing so ! will go to the peo-
pie as the candidate of no ring,
clique, faction or combination, but
simply as an old-fashioned democrat
standing on the platform of my party
and believing IN its tenets as declared
by its national convention and expound-
ed by Jefferson nd Jackson; pointing
with pride and confidence to a egisla-
tive record OF seven years in our state
Legislature and eight years in the nation
al congress in which can be found no
vote cast by me and no word uttered by
me not in the interest of the common
people who pay the taxes and bear the
burdens Of government
In my candidacy | will invoke the
support OF all Georgans who believe in
the cardinal doctrines Of democracy,
ACC4AIl9 cSoARiEN NuuL III COIJulbu W III Inc
however earnestly they may dissent from
any of the declarations of the last ma
tioual platform, they believe that for the
people OF Georgia any honest democrat
standing on the platform of his party is
preferable to the asceudency of republi-
canism. Democracy, judged by its record
of a hundred years, stands for that most
sacred right local seIf-govenment,
taxation for revenue only, honesty and
economy in the ADMINISTRATION OF the law,
equal and exact justice to all, special
privileges to none, a sound flexible and
adequate volume of currency consisting
OF the gold and the silver of the cOnstitu-
ton, coined at all of our minis free and
unlimited without discrimination against
either, supplemented by paper circula-
ton sufficient in volume to meet all the
requirements of trade, Tedeemable on
deEand in gold or silver conn.,
II would abridge the rights of no citi-
zen, white or colored, in the full enjoy
ment of lite, liberty, property and the
pursuit Of happiness l would give to
the negro every right and privilege to
to which he is entitled under the law
l would give him all bis rights in court:
would endeavor TO qualify his chill
dren for good citizenship; l would
protect him from the Iapacity OF grasp
ing men; / would let the burtheu of tax
alton fall equally upon him and his
white neighbor, | would each him to
be as honest and inCorruptibe in his ex-
ercIse Of the elective franchise as in his
dealings with bis landlord or his mer-
chant; but | would DOT buy his vote,
AMI t4uS corrupt the ballot ana make
him balance of power to say wh) shall !
rule over the white people Of Georgia.
In the punishment OF crime | would +
mete out the same even handed Justice |
to white and black alike, neither excus- |
ing the one because he is white nor
Furnishing the other because he is black |
In the administration Of the prison laws |
l would keep constantly in view twol
carolina! ideas-ftst, that it is the duty
OF the state TO punish crime, and, sec
ondly, that punishment must be inflicted
with humanity and without unnecessary
cruelty or severity.
Ia expending the public revenue l
would keep constantly in view the fact
that the state never has dollar that is
not wrung from the hard earnings of it's
citizens under its taxing law; that every
dollar it applies to public use was coined
out OF the sweat of one Of its own citi-
zens, and to spend dollar unnecessarily
is to rob its citizens of a dollar. Hence
those charged with the imposition of
taxes and the collection and expenditure
OF thu public revenues should be held to
the most rigid accountability, especial
ly at such time as this, when the cost
of the production of cotton, our leading
staple, is as much or more than 1t will
command in the market, and when hon
est labor clad in rags begs for work at
starvation wages IN order to be able to
buy bread.
''In 1888 the stlte levy was % cents on !
the hundred dollars. In 1897 it was 81
ITO cents. The county levies are on an
average equal to the state rate. Thus
the people of Georgia paid in 1888 in
taxes to the state and counties, when
cotton brought 109 cents a pound, less
than four million dollars, and in 1897,
when cotton was at AZ cents, they paid
nearly six million dollars. A few more
years of annual increase at this rate will
mean to many people confiscation and
ruin.
"In the name of humanity let us put
on the brakes. The people who pay the
taxes are entitled to as much consider
atIon as those who get the benefits of
them
CoL Gambler goes before the public
with 10 pledges to any BODY for any
thing, and "wears the collar of no man
or Set of men. Rather than do this |
would 60 down to defeat" His decla.
rations regarding the political tratfiicl-
ings that have time and again saddled
upon the public incompetent office-hold-
Crs and have for years been a disgrace
This mill NIT
amen from every quarter of the common
NNnaltL In nnnnln slnr he sn1-s.