The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-22
GAMBLER is A CANDIDATE.
He WILL STAND FOR THE NoNiNA-
TION FOR GOVERNOR.

He Believes in Even-hnndcd Jus
tice.
Atlanta. Ca, Jan. 21.-Allen D. Gambler
Secretary of State, announces that he
will stand for the nomination OF The Demo-
cratic party for Governor in lengthy let-
ter in reply to a communication addressed
to him by many citizens Of Clarke county.
After acknowledging the receipt OF Their
Communication and paying them aomDI-
ments on their firm stand for Democracy
in the past. ne says;
4 will stand for the nomination Tor Gov
ernor Of Georgia, and in doing SO VIII go
to the people 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 con-
vention and expounded by jefferson ana
jackson; and pointing with pride and con-
fidence to a legislative record Of seven
years in our state legislature and eight
years in the national congress in which
can be found no vote cast by me and no
word uttered by me not in the interest oil
the common people who pay the taxes ana
bear the burtheus Of government.
In my candidacy l viii invoke the sup
port of all Georgians who believe in the
cardinal doctrines of democracy, feeling
assured that in common with me, however
earnestly they may dissent from any of the
declarations of the last national platform,
they believe that for the people OF Geor-
gia any honest Democrat standing on the
platform of his party is preferable to the
ascendancy of Republicansm. Democracy
judged by its record of a hundred years
CT sacred
elf-government, taxation for revenue
only, honesty and economy in the admin
istra alton of the law, equal and exact JUS
tice to all, special privileges to none, a
sound flexible and adequate volume Of
currency consisting of the gold and silver
of the constitution, coined at all OF our
minis free and unlimited without discrim-
ination against either, supplemented by
paper circulation sufficient in volume to
meet all the requirements of trade, re-
deemable on demand in gold and silver
coin.
Repubicanism, on the other hand, now
as ever stands for a centralized govern
ment abridging the rights of the citizen,
a high protective tariff robbing the many
to enrich the few, the fostering of mo-
nopolies which breed both miiOnaires and
paupers, the restriction of silver coinage,
and the destruction Of all paper money save
only that issued by the national banks;
the subordinaton of the interests of the
agricultural classes to those of the man
ufacturers and money changers In specially
favored districts, and here in the South
now as in the DAYS of the carpet-baggers,
the preferment to offices of trust and profit
of the negro over the white man.
These are the two parties between winch
the people of Georgia have 10 choose.
They are the only national parties We
must muster under one of these flags or
the other. No other organization, how
t1farG
redress our wrongs and guard our inter-
ests We can expect nothing from Nc
Kinleyism. 1t is our enemy, implacable
and unreenting. This has been abundant
ly demonstrated since the Attn of March.
To resist it our people must unite. such
a union will not only protect our ma
terial political and social interests, but
will purify our politics We must have
clean methods and honest elections.
The presence in our midst of a hundred
thousand voters who have never realized
the sanctity of the ballot nor the respons-
Utility of citizenship is a constant menace
to our government and our civilizations.
A venal vote is the destruction of 4 re-
public. The use of money to control cleo
tons must stop. 1t is a Republican meth
cd imported into the South by the carpet
baggers. To-day We have a federal ad-
ministration which owes its existence to
the use of money and a purchased vote.
and it has reached that point at which a
good man, who becomes a candidate for
Office, however much he may abhor such
methods, is often, from necessity, driven
TO resort to them or go down in ignom-
NOUS defeat. Away with such methods.
They are undermining the very corner
stone of our political fabric.
/ would abridge the rights OF, no citizen,
white or colored, in the full enjoyment of
life, liberty, property and the pursuit of
happiness / would give to the negro ev-
cry right and privilege 10 which he is en-
titled under the law; / would give him all
his rights in court. / would iendeavor to
qualify his children for good citizenship.
! would protect him against the rapacity
of grasping men. l would let the burthen
of taxation fall equally upon him and his
white neighbor | would teach him to be
as honest and incorruptible IN his exer-
else of the elective franchise as in his
business dealings with his landlord or his
merchant. But / would not buy his vote,
and thus corrupt the ballot and make him
q balance of power to say who 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 excusing the one
because he is white, nor furnishing the
other because he is black In the admin
istration of the prison laws l would keen
constantly in view two cardinal IDEAS
urSl, tnal IL Is the uuty OF the state "a
punish crime, and, secondly, that punish
ment must be inflicted with humanity and
without unnecessary cruelty or severity.
In expending the public revenue 1 would
keep constantly in view the fact that the
state never has a dollar that il not Wrung
from the hard earnings Of it's citizens un-
der its taxing law; that every dollar it APP
plies to public use was coined out Of the
sweat of one of its own citizens, and that
to spend a dollar unnecessarily is to rob its
citizens of a dollar. Hence those charged
with the imposition of taxes and the col
lection and expenditure Of the public rev.
enues should be held to the most rigid ac-
countabiIty, especially at such a time as
this, when the cost of the production OF
cotton, our leading staple. is as much OF
more than il will command in the market
and when honest labor clad in rags begs
for work at starvation wages in order tc
be able to buy bread.
know that the Governor of the state
has but little power in the imposition OF
taxes. but he has some. He can WELD q
Wholesome influence in the direction Of
economy and the constitution and laws
make it his duty 10 advise the legislature
II this fails to protect the tax payer Inc
hos the veto wisely given him 10y the PEG.
pie to protect them against hasty and In.