Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-11-18

Hon Clark Howell makes formal an.
nouncement of his candidacy for gov.
ernor in the following platform:
To the Democratic Voters Of Georgia.
In making formal announcement of my
candidacy for the democratic nomination
70 the office of governor, I shall content
myself with a brief statement of the
principles which control my conviction in
those matters of party policy which an
pear to be. at present, issues in demo.
cratic counsels. and with a distinct ex-
preston of those convictions which will
control my conduct in office in the event
Of my election.
First of all l tender a devoted and un-
sullied allegiance to the cause Of the
democratic party, to whose principles the
people Of our common country are p,oet
indebted for the full enjoyment of the
rights of equality and liberty, and to
which the people of our particular COM
monwealth are under especial obligations
Georgia's Debt to Democracy
During the era of adjustment and re-
Mobilization following the chaotic condi-
ton of 1865, the democratic party was
the inspiration which enabled the people
Of Georgia and her sister southern states
to overcome difficulties apparently in
surmountable, to adjust adverse condi-
tions which of themselves seemed hope
less and to build monuments of COM
mercial. agricultural and industrial VIZ
tory upon the graves which marked the
battle fields of defeat.
Throughout and since that trying era
the history of Georgia has been the his
tory of the democratic party in the state.
and now that the eliminating triumph of
a brave struggle has beer assured. democ-
racy is entitled to its full share of glory
in the results that have been accom-
plshed.
When the white people of Georgia, i'm
poverished by the destruction Of their
property and desolated by four years Of
civil war, set to work to mend their
ruined fortunes, they were harried by
scalawags, harassed by carpet baggers,
and hampered by the machinery of the
party in power-the republican party-to
which the people of the south had always
been inimiea1.
When the voice of the vanquished south
was too weak to be effective in the halls
Of the national congress to protect her
people against contemplated confiscaton
and proposed abuses advocated by ex-
treme partisans of the party in power, re-
lief not contemplated came in most un-
expected but effective manner.
The constitutional amendment declaring
that Representatives Gn congress) shall
be apportioned among the several states
according to their respective numbers,
counting the whole number of persons in
each state, excluding Indians not taxed"
co inc +ho -
representation in the south as to restore
her legislative power in congress, and to
defeat the pending measures intended for
her ruin.
1t has been said that the one great po-
lical blunder perpetrated by the republi-
can party has been the Acknowledgement
of the negro by the adoption of those
amendments, and no careful observer of
national affairs will dispute the DISPOSE
tion of the republican party to welcome
any statute that would lead to a reduc-
ton of representation in democratic
states.
The negro, measured by any standard
is the inferior of the white man. The
negro race is utterly incapable of polit-
tcal or social equality, and no party,
however powerful, can establish and Sc
cure an equality that is abhorrent to
natural law. From these reasons the
republican amendments failed of their
intended purpose.
The White Democratic Primary.
When the white people of Georgia were
confronted with ignorant hosts of ire
sponsible negroes, drunk with the intox-
ication of newfound freedom and fran
chlse the democratic party, by one bold
StPAka H0GtPOVR6 all nf
domination, and by the legal and effec-
tive application of the primary plan ac-
omplished the permanent assurance of
white supremacy in Georgia. This was
done without disfranchising a single
white voter and without enfIanchising a
single negro.
Under this fair and practical plan the
provisions of the federal constitution
have remained inviolate, the basis of our
congressional representation has been
unimpaired. and the menace of black
rule has been destroyed without recourse
to fraud force, or Illegal manipulation
of the election laws.
The democratic primary plan while in
stituted for the original purpose of pro-
tecting the white people of Georgia
against possible danger from the black
ballot, in it's evolution and operation has
been a powerful instrument for the pro-
lection of the principles of democracy
and for the perpetuation of democratic
rule in Georgia.
Under it's provisions, democrats have
settled ali differences arising within their
own ranks and have. in campaign after
campaign presented solid front IN the
suecessfuI support Of the party nominee
when division carried beyond primary
aT7t Ft q wiz r.
for the enemy
Whence Opposition Comes.
w. this reason the democratic primary
c4on has met the determined opposition,
rot only of the republican party, but OF the
noruIis4 leaders of today who. ever alert
n contribute to democratic division, are
yvorl,ing along the same line, determines
to overthrow democratic domination In
Georgia, and to paralyze the party as
national factor
As white man. ana Geof-
eian I am strongly in favor OF the
,,ndfsturbed continuation or the Whtte
democratic primary plan. AS dem
ocrat my support of that plan Is cohhrH
- and strengthened by the ardent per-
s,s+ence with which certain shrewd lead Lead
ers or Tne populisl party, hho"h W S
,,,o celebrations to be bitter ana releh'-
loss foes of the democratic party, tre
rassing the proposition To substitute tor
-. rresAnt plan an Illegal subterfuge
r,Ni.,t has been twice overWheihllhsly
.'.,ssetna bv tsae general assembly ana
..,hto,, p-o. e It could be enacted Woulu
s,-fror rcs, 80 white fnea. and positively en-
sra,chiea the"sar4s OF negroes, VINO are
rou nraet4eaEg, aai Legally 60 dlsfrdn-
chised. r.aasroent
- nean discord and division amens
tns ~ou'U waxe people of the state and the n,
voIuntary rr1 renunciation by the state O.
voau'11s sS Use ana just plan by which un-
she aoara+ie supremacy has h&SD