Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-05-01

| college professor of Virginia, q former
student of Washington aud Lee
| University and praduate of Columbia
COLLEGE, New York, showing how the
Acknowledgement law works, or rather
is wor ked, in Vrginis, when for par-
tisan reasons they want to shut q
| white mau out from the polls,
R4v. Mr.. Jones was put {, all sorts
OF trouble and inconvenience ty the
registrar who turned him DOM the
hrst time he came to regist and
when he offered for registration the
second time and complied with the law
in detail, he was final'y asked series
of absurd questions most If which
could have been ans swered only by q
trained lawyer and about which even
the registrar himself seemed to know
nothing. One of these questions was
"When does the supreme court have
original jurisdiction IN the state of
Virginia."
81 will venture to say that not man
in this audience could answer such o
question as that as applied to G sorgis,
out side of the lawyers" MIR, Howell
said. "Iknow I could not, and if it
were asked of me I would have to say
'dr. Registrar. / am disqualified;
cannot vote,
The re, uls was the Rev, Mr.. Jones
was refused registration and the right
to vote on The ground that he could
not answer the questions propounded.
MIR. Howell also discussed the dis.
francbieement laws of other states,
showing how in South Carolina one
third of the white voters are disfran-
chised, by Senator Tillman's own ad-
mission. In South Carolina and Ala
bama property q ratification has also
been adopted, which is the next and
logical step following an educational
qualitica ion, and gradually the liber-
ties Of the people are taken away from
them.
Mr.. Howell dealt with the railroad
question along general lines, showing
the absurdity and falsity of the charge
that he stands as q friend of the cor
porations. He showed that he had
never owned a dollars worth of rail-
road stock in his life and never had
any interest whatever IN any railroad
corporation. Not only thai, bot no
railroad corporation was ever, directly
or indirectly, intereated in any enter
prise with which he was connected.
Hts record IN public life, covering a
period of nearly eighteen Years. he
said, spoke for itself, He showed that
he had strongly supported the Glenn
county tax bill, the franchise tax bill
and other measures in the interests of
the people, and that by the statements
of others qualified to speak the success
of thoae measures was, in q large de-
gree, due to his eff ,rts. Though re-
peateGly challenged to do so, his ad-
versarles have never been able yet to
present one single item, not single
vote or speech of his, showing that in
any way he has ever sacrificed the in
terests of the people in favor of any
corporation on the face of the earth,
railroad or otherwise.
"But do not hesitate to say" Mr..
Howell said, "that I would like to see
more railroads built in Georgia. I
would like to see them criss crossing
every county in the state I believe
we should invite here the foreign capi.
tai of all the world, asking 1t to come |
here and help us build up the greatest
8 ate in all the union. Let us invite it
to come with the assurance that it will
r ceive fair and equitable treatment, but
on the condition that it shall treat the
people fairly and Justly, and if it does
not do so the strong arm of the state
will reach out and compel it to respect
the rights and interests of the people.
II do not advocate the policy of con.
fiscation proposed by my adversary, Mr.
Smith, who has announced that he
does not want any foreign corporations
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Rather than have this has he stated that
he would put those railroads In the
state now operated by foreign corpora
tions on the block and sell them out 80
that Georgians might buy them. Such
political lunaoy as that will only keep
foreign capital without our borders and
check the development of our great
state"
Mr.. Howell showed that Georgia was
the first state in the South to create O
railroad commission, and the railroad
commissions of most of the other states
in the union are patterned after the
Georgia commission. Congress is now
about to enact law which will give
the interstate commerce commission
the same powers in the matter of con-
trolling interstate rates that the Geor-
gia railroad commission possesses In
controlling rates within the state,
The Georgia railroad commission.
he said, has already reduced freight
rates in the state more than million
dollars a year within the last year.
There may be still some discrimlna-
tions, and doubtless are, and the rail-
road commission stands ready to con-
tInue it's work of rectifying these when
ever they are brought to it's attention
Mr. Howell showed that no man in the
state had done more than he had, and
declared no one would do more to bring
about the removal of all these unjust
determinations wherever they may be
found.
He was loudly spplauded and cheer
ed at the conclusion of his address, and
mingled with the CONCENTRATIONS that
came from many of his hearers who
q lckly crowded around to shake
hands with him were numerous assur-
amos of warm support IN his race.
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