The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

dailies of the state have since print
ed a correct report of d.. Landrum's
position, out still, The Terrell Coun-
ty Little Joe Brown Club will not be
advised as to the truth. and are now
flooding the country districts of Ter
rell county with circular containing
this false report. Here is the article
from The Telegraph:
DIR. LANDRUM SEES DANGER
THREE YEARS FROM NOW.
If Smith Is Elected His Voting Pol
icy Will Be Fixed On State-Big
Local Option Counties Will Rule"
In order that his position in re-
to the Georgia Anti-SaloOn League
endorsing Governor Smiths candi-
dacy for, reelection may be knoWn,
Tr ". w. Landrum, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Atlanta, has
given out a statement he read d. the
recent meeting of the Headquarters
committee as follows
win the friends of Georgia I,ro-
h'nitjcn law pause for moment and
think?
lust a little attention to think
ing. l;r5le let-uD on excitement tend
ing to partisan politics, is what duty
calls foi now.
Listen: What is the most danger
GUS fact in front of prom; 1itiou to-
day?
IT lies ahead-about three years
ahead No man informed Of the sill
uation believes that the legislature
OF 1905, now being elected nearly
onc-halt already elected, will or can
make changes in the prohibition law
now sanctioned by it's friends.
THE pledge Of both candidates for
governor stands fast in the face of
any changes. in the law.
The candidates for the Legislature
in large majority of the counties
are all prohibitionists up to date and
the issue is not being drawn on pro-
hibition in the legislative contests at
all.
It's dollars to doughnuts that
there will be candidate for gov
ernOr on local option PLATFORM If
Governor Smith is elected in the
present campaign this candidate will
claim to be the champion of his poll
cies-but on a local option platform.
1t will be a national inheritance. Gov
ernOr Smith has never said that he
was converted to the principle of
state prohibition as against local
option. He will not say so. Why?
Because he is not converted. The At
lanta Journal has not been converted
either. Mr.. Reuben Arnold, the
Hoke Smith orator, has not been CON
verified. Mr.. Robert Griffin. the cLair-
man of the Hoke Smith Fulton
County Club, has not been converted
Nj: Thomas Fielder, the senate anti
prohibition filibuster, the Hoke Smith
leader in Bibb county, has not been
converted. These forces will be be-
hind the candidate for governor three
years from now on a local option
platform.
The prohibitionists will have a
candidate standing for tie perma-
nence of the Georgia law. Here they
are stripped for the race. The issue
is clearly drawn-a return to the
local option system or a continuance
of state prohibition.
Now, LISTEN
IF Hoke Smith is reelected the
change of our voting system from
the county unit plan to the popular
vote plan, for which he is RESPONSE
pie and for which he now stands, will
be endorsed and fixed upon us.
Our prohibition candidate for
Governor will face the desperate fact
that six counties with large cities
where the whiskey forces predomi-
nate will be able under HOke Smiths
influence of our voting system to
outvote more than forty rural coun-
ties in Georgia where the prohibi-
ton strength lies.
This is not fancy. 1t is a fact. It
is such fact that long-headed prO-
hibitiOnists are blind indeed if thew
do not see it. The real peril of the
permanency of the Georgia prohibi-
ton law is as clear as noonday to
man who thinks a minute. 1t is the
unfortunate change of our voting
system by Hoke Smith that stares MS
IN the face. 1t will be seen through
three years from now-when it is too
late
IF Joseph NJ. Brown is elected he
stands doubly pledged to give us
back our county unit system, which
reduces the big whiskey counties to
equality with their rural counties.
If Hoke Smith is elected the ire
mendous disadvantage of the rural
counties will be confirmed and fixed
fast on us. The man who cannot
see this now will be certain to see
it later
prohibition leaders would better
see it now"
Mr.. j. H. Ellerbee, a citizen of
Terrell county, whom you all know,
received the following letter from
DR.. W. w. Landrum, which clearly
states his position in this campaign.
The original of this letter is on file
with the Terrell County Hoke Smith