The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-23
GUERRY AT JACKSON.
He Addresses an Audience Composed
of About Three Hundred and Talks
of Men and Measures.

OF Men and Measures.
Jackson, Ca, Aug 22.--Hon. Dupont
Query spoke here to-day to an audi
ence of about 800, composed mostly of
farmers from Butts and surrounding
counties. He spoke in the Court House
and began his address at noon.
Abiding to the lobby, which he says
infests the Capitol every year, he
promised in the event of his election to
do his duty toward driving this lobby
out of the Capitol. He could not do
this as private citizen, but he could
if elected Governor.
He vehemently declared Terrell to be
the candidate of the whisky dealers;
said wherever he had been he found
that the liquor element was for Ter
rell almost to a man. He said Brown
voted for and against prohibition, so it
was hard to tell where he stood. He
said Pope. was what might be called a
sort of pro-barroom prohibitionist.
Referring to Col. Estill, he said:
Estill was trying to take duBignons
place as South Georgia's candidate.
Mr.. Query summed UP his platform
in the following:
$50 far as 1 am concerned, if my
platform, whose chief planks are pro-
hibition; publication of state politics
and of state government; an abolition
of the chronic lobbyism thatAis degrad-
ing our legislation and disgracing our
state; a dethronement of the ring
headed by the Southern Railway Com
pany and the Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton which now dominates the state;
equalization of taxation, especially
with view to compelling railroad
companies to pay their share of the
taxes, and an honest and economic ad-
ministration of the state government,
so that our expense will not be great
er than our income, cannot stand the
ordeal of years duration it will be
the fault of the people, and not of the
platform"
Referring to the other candidates, he
said:
II understand that Mr.. Brown will
in few days state his position to the
people of Georgia, and as there is only
a short time to wait, l shall say lit
tie about his candidacy now 1t is to
be presumed that he will explain his
attitude on the subject of prohibition,
and such an explanation would GER
tainly be appropriate. He voted for the
Bush bill in 1895, and after voting for
an amendment to submit the anti-bar-
room or Boynton bill in 1897 to a vote
OF the people before it should become
a law, which amendment was carried,
he then voted against the bill when it
came up on its passage.
MIR. Estill announces as his platform
local option, which / have already dis
cussed, and he then informs us that
the balance of his platform consists Of
the constitution and laws of Georgia
AS the constitution and laws of Georgia
are contained in several thousands of
pages of code and statute publications
and lis volumes of the Supreme Court
decisions, l cannot undertake to go
into the details of this part of his plat
form now.
1.-THE main plank, however, of Mr.
EstilPs platform seems to be the South
Georgia idea. He is no more of a
South Georgian than Mr.. Brown or my
self
Il do not discuss Mr.. Turner be-
cause 1 do not understand him to be
a candidate, and for the further rea-
son if there will be any real issue be-
tween him and me, in the event of his
candidacy, l am not now advised as
to what they are.
81 have no doubt that if he should
determine absolutely to- become a cam
didate he will frankly and publicly an
nounce his views to the people of Geor-
gia." tl