The age-herald., 1898-02-23

for their hind feet. and my lash along when 1 wanted to move them up.
 The field for fun in the political arena of Georgia today to me is almost irresistible.
 That is my platform, gentlemen-some- thing that men only can stand on: or in other words, the underplning of a man.
 Ills PrincipIes and Policies
 Now, my principles and policies of gov ernment are:
 First. Equal rights to all men.
 Second. Down with extortion-even the extortion of sovereign state, by which it extorts more taxes from her people than she gives them good government in return or value received.
 If couldn't run Georgia better than 1t Is run today half the funds that they are running 1t with, I would resign be- fore my term of office was half out.
 I am in favor of . laws that protect the innocent, provide for the mpotent, and foster and protect industry and enterprise. I am everlastingly against any statute that paralyzes industry and flinders prog ress
 l believe in penitence for the past and glorious hopefulness for the future. be- lieve in the lessons learned from experi- ence, and base all future wisdom upon the facts of the past.
 I am everlastingly against fellow draw ing his salary for anything, from gover- nor down to bailiff and pocketing the
  sciousness that he has no more earned his salary than the tramp at your back door has earned his breakfast that you hand out to him.
 I believe that official conduct ought to be as sacred and as pure the private conduct of any citizen in the land. be- lieve that a governor ought to be as pure as preacher; a judge as incorruptibie as a saint; chief of police as unpurchasa- ble as Paul.
 Gold and Silver
 I would not lug in this campaign gold buggery and silver-diggery and the tarin issue, for the governor of Georgia and the state house officials have no more to do with the enactment or non-enactment Of laws on that question than the frosts of Alaska have to do with the oranges or Florida.
 Let's pen up the jackasses for awhile in the back lot and trot out some thorough breds.
 Wants Joint Debates
 If am a candidate one hundred times I shall speak from the platform as I speak from the pulpit denouncing wrong and championing right, and handle pap-suck- CTS and pot politicians just as l handle Pharisees and hypocrits in the church Of God Gentlemen, I believe I can get hearing if this candidacy lasts and if we can have a few joint debates there will be blood and hair and the ground torn up for five miles around the speakers s platIorn. Some of the politicians will be like MT. Bryan, whom I saw at the hotel in Ha- vana, H., after I had spoken at the Cha tauqau in the afternoon. I said: MT. Bryan, when did you get here?'
 Last night" he said.
 I said: "Why didn't you come out to the lecture this afternoon?"
 He said: ''Why, I was there; I heard you"
 ''Where were your? I asked
 He said: "I was sitting out on the edge of the crowd.''
 said: "Why didn't you come up and sit on the platform, like you ought to have done?"
 He said: "I wasn't going to have that crowd laughing at me-"
 told him: "I would have let you re- piled to me-
 "Ch,'' he said "Jones, man can't reply to a joke
 know a heap of jokes on the politicians of this state, and I would love to meet them before crowd. The only thing is a crowd scares me.
 If I don't run, gentlemen, these are my principles. If I should run, these are still my principles. If I do run, I am for my self. If I don't run, I am for Allen D. Candler. SAM P. JONES.