The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-06

and not sacrificed to this band of
gluttonous, greedy-eyed plunderers
of the east.
Third. l am opposed to the tariff
system as a system. I never shall
agree to getting the money to run
this government from the taxing of
what the masses OF the people must
have. l shall never agree that it is
right to raise revenue to keep the
wheels of governmental graft going
by penaizing hunger, want, misery
and rags, Such a system is born of
hell, and should be done away with
by the American manhood at the
ballot box. | am will always be for
reducing the tariff to the lowest
point, and for doing away with the
system if it is possible to do so. Our
present system is built upon the tar
if as the cornerstone, and I am for
putting all raw materials upon the
free list, and making the cornerstone
of this government an income tax.
! l, as a Georgian that wears clothes,
would not agree with those demo-
Gratis who were led by Underwood to
place duty on raw wool for the
purpose of carrying for democracy
in 1912 a few sheep-raising states.
The people Of this country are, or
should be, more interested in obtain
ing the necessities of life cheaper
than they are as to who shall have
the job of naming the postmaster for
the four years following the fourth
OF March, 1913.
Fourth. 1 am opposed to wasting
money on a great useless and need
less navy. If congress will give the
president the power to take half the
size navy we have now, and run on
half the expense, and say that not a
pound of beef or wheat shall go to
Europe for six months they will
! hands-up and surrender to us any
reasonable thing, and we need not
fire gun. What the average Amer
lean needs who represents the sweat
ing class is not so much representa-
ton in big steel sided, steel bottom
ed battleships upon the briny blue,
but more men in congress who will
represent their interests and who
will stand by the principles of DEM
ocracy as taught by the fathers.
Sixth. l am for selling the Phil
ippines-for giving them away if
they can't be sold, and for throwing
them away if we can give them to
nobody. I am opposed to expansion
beyond the northern end of the West
ern hemisphere.
Fifth. I promise every voter of
this district that if | am elected |
will not forsake principle for pie. l
will not trade with the plunderers
and give them a vote against the
homes of America for the prettiest
pOstottice building they can turn
loose. If you want a man to help
you hold a job or to get a piece of
graft for you at the cost of an honest
conviction you need not vote for me.
l am not your man.
l will, if elected, do my duty as I
see it regardless of building a wall
around my job; regardless of wheth-
er l am ever sent back to congress or
not.
l will not try to please any partic-
ular set, clique or clan. l shall do
my duty as best l know, and make
the best fight possible for the prin-
ciples of democracy and the interest
of the masses of the American peo-
pie, forgetting anything about wheth-
er or not | shall continue in congress.
shall, regardless of results, if elect
ed or not elected, have no political
enemies to punish or any political
| friends to reward at the cost of an
| honest conviction.
1t matters but little whether or
not | or any other individual man
is elected to congress or is left at
home, but it does matter much
whether the people of this and every
other district of the union has a real
representative of the people or not.
l have no political leaders to sup
port me. l have no strong arm of
wealth to back me. l cannot spend
and will not spend more than my an
nouncement fees and the cost of en-
! tering the contest-nOt more than
! $1,000. l shall not write letters and
maintain an Office. The stamp bill
and stenographer hire would cost too
much. l shall go out upon the hust-
ings of the district and ask you to see
me and hear me, and then make the
! verdict as you see fit. 1 promise, if
sent, that if I cannot represent you
so as to make you glad you support
ed me 1 will so represent you and
conduct myself as to never make
you sorry.
l shall not begin canvass until
January. 1t would tire the people,
and is unnecessary. l am going on