The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-11-22
MIR. HowELEs ANNOUNCEMENT.


sents his views on public questions
cannot fail to make favorable i'm
preston upon thoughtful people
whether they are for or against his
candidacy. 1t is free from bombast
hreat and denunciation. 1t is a dig;
nified utterance, travels on a high
plane away from the doctrine OF
damnation and destruction, and
breathes a spirit of true democracy
and patriotism.
The NEWS has not espoused the
cause of any of the several able
and excellent gentlemen who are can
didates for governor, but we cannot
fail to approve and commend the OPP
timism in Mr.. Howell's announcement.
He is in favor of doing away with
such evils as we may have, but in this
period of progress and prosperity,
with eleven-cent cotton and cotton
mills declaring thirty per cent divl-
dends, and with no single malteasance
on the part of the state government
that anybody can point out, which
has been wisely administered by dem
ocratic administra ions for thirty-fve
years past, with a steady diminution
of state taxation, he very properly
considers that we are on the upward
and not the downward path, and
should not be classed with the corrupt
states of the north and east.
Mr.. Howell advocates the continue
ton of the white primary system, and
among other things on this subject
says: "The democratic primary
plan, while instituted for the original
purpose of protecting the white people
of Georgia against possible danger
from the black ballot, in its evolution
and operation has been a powerful in
strument for the protection of the
principles of democracy and for the
perpetuation Of democratic rule in
Georgia"
On the question of negro disfran-
chisement he points out that this
proposition, if adopted, would mean
the Acknowledgement of thousands of
white men in Georgia who could not
meet the educational qualification, and
would be the magnet that would draw
the negroes out of the cotton patches of
Georgia to the negro colleges. With
the voice of a seer and prophet he
saws: "Make the ballot the prize of
education and in ten years time the
negro graduate will haunt that ballot
in the face of every poor white boy in
Georgia whom poverty or misfortune
has deprived of an education"
In the matter of railroad rates Mr..
Howell says that determinations,
wherever they exist, must and will be
corrected. He earnestly declares that
the Georgia shipper must be protected
from any discrimination.
In unmistakable language Mr.. How
ell declares that corporations should
be controlled by the strong hand of
state government that they should
be made to obey the constitution and
all laws passed for their regulation
for the prevention of monopoly, for
the enforcement of reasonable rates,
and for the prevention of rebates and
determinations. He believes that
they should be compelled to litigate in
the courts of this state all questions
arising from their relations to the
state or its people.
Mr.. Howell expresses himself as in
favor of the adoption of law pro-
hibiting the issue of free passes or
complimentary franks to public Off
cials; the election of railroad commits
sioners by the people; liberal and
generous support of the public school
system; liberal appropriation for an
agricultural college to be operated by
an Independent board of men trained
in practical agriculture, and the liber-
al maintenance of the confederate
pension system.
AS token of the sincerity in which
the principles of his platform are de-
clared Mr.. Howell says: II tender
the record I have made in public life
extending over a period of nearly
twenty years. In Office [ have tried
to be true to the people of Georgia,
true to the democratic party, and,
above all, true to my honest convic-
lions"
A JOINT DEBATE.
After publication of his announce