The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-05-09

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tation to the white voters of Georgia,
and its continued vigilance in pre-
serving the party's integrity.
Unnecessary and Unwise," Says the
Georgian.
The prescription leveled against the
returning forces of the populist par
ty is unnecessary in policy, and IN
worthy in gratitude.
, Weighing the whole matter from a
dispassionate and impartial stand
point, without any personal interest
at stake, or any motive to subserve
bevond the interest of white suprem-
acy, and the democratic party, there
are lust three concluions which the in
telligent and impartial mind can reach
as to the motives which actuated the
committee in making this proscrlptlve
Limitation of the ballot at this time.
First. The democratic executive
committee in its majority vote favored
the candidacy of one of the aspirants
for governor in preference to all the
rest, and was willing, for the sake OF
obliging and helping that one candl-
date now to repudiate the rules and
| regulations of other executive COM
mittees which have been vindicated in
previous elections.
Or, second. The democratic ex-
ecutive committee of today is so par
tisan in it's rancorous opposition to
one of the political candidates in this
campaign that they are willing now
to repudiate the precedents and rules
of past committees in order to hamper
and handicap in every way the Will OF
the general white voters, In making
that candidate their nominee for gov
ernor.
Or, third. The present democratic
executive committe is either directly
or indirectly so much influenced by
the will and the wish of the great
Transportation companies and other
corporations, whose keen preference
is known in this campaign, that,
without regard to the personal inter
est of any candidate, they have revo-
luhonized and repudiated democratic
precedents and policies of past COM
mittees in order to adapt themselves
to the will and the wish and the in
teresU of the corporations as the cor
porations see it in this campaign.
1t is difficult, however, for an hon
est Georgian, without prejudice and
without partisanship, to construe
either malice or corruption in con-
nection with the characters of gentle
men so eminent and so well known as
those who compose this state commit
tee. We prefer to believe that such
committee has erred in judgment rath-
err than in motive; that it has been mis-
| led by the clamor which was made up
of sound rather than sense.
democratic Integrity Vindicated' Says
the Atlanta News.
The fires of democracy have been
/ lighted all along the lines, from RAJ
bun Gap to Tybee Light.
The standard of party integrity has
been fixed far beyond the design OF
party wreckers-and the question OF
good faith in party utilization has
been fixed so clearly that one may run
and read
The action OF the state executive
committee, in its session of yesterday,
was a splendid display of democratic
patriotism that makes a glorious
epoch in party history in Georgia.
That committee decided that none
but democrats be put on guard.
Despite the unseemly threats, the
vulgar intimidation, and the unwar-
ranted suspicious of disloyalty, which
partisan papers have from time to
time hurled at the committee, by the
most detestable of methods, that of
covert insinuation, the committee did
it's duty as brave, loyal and determin-
ed democrats were expected to act.
VIII Promote the Party's interests Says
the Savannah News.
Doubtless there will be some criti-
cism of the action of the state execu-
tive committee, but hardly by demo
Gratis who have the welfare of the
democratic party at heart. 1t is pro b.
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