The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-05
JUST LISTEN AT Mr.. LUKE
BROWNSVILLE MAN SCORES THE
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Favofs Biennial Sessions of LegisIa-
ture and Reducing Railroad Com
mission to Three Members.

| lure anu Reducing Railroad Com
mission to Three Members.
BROWNSVILLE, Ga.-Hon. Roscoe
Luke, when seen in regard to his
prospective candidacy for governor,
gave out tie following interview:
''It cannot be said with any aer
tainty that there will be a vacancy
in the governors Office before the
end of Governor Smiths term. I do
not want to be placed in the attitude
OF seeking office on a contingency.
Whether there be a vacancy or
not shall try and evoke enthusiasm
enough to induce the legislature, now
IN session, to enact into law measures
for which stand, and which will
serve to make more economical the
administration of the affairs of state
We should have biennial sessions of
the legislature; we do not need more
than three members of the railroad
commission, and there certainly can
be no need of special attorney for
this body-the attorney general
should perform this service.
THE legislature could perform no
greater service for the people than by
enacting into law the principle of
equal taxation as I advocate it in my
platform. I have never heard of this
law being prescribed for this evil
which it will cure, but I do know that
1t Will come nearer making more
equal the burdens of the revenue of
government than any proposed rem
edy. You well know that | have ad-
vocated from the stump for more
than two years the principle of uni
formity of school books, printed and
sold by the state at cost; I believe
they should be furnished free as soon
as that becomes possible.
'The need for regulating the
charges of the express companies is
present, and this company should not
be further permitted to dig US. They
get just as much for handling a pack
age one time and carrying it on
somebody else's railroad twelve miles
as they do for handling the same siz-
ed package several times and hauling
it 800 miles.
Is Signed by the "Committee."
II do not know whether 1 can go
to Atlanta during the session of the
legislature or not; I am very busy
trying to make a living. | am not
favored with enough Of this worlds
goods to quit my business and make
an active canvass for the office of
governor. Some time, however,
when l realize that an ambition to
hold the office of governor is smoth-
cred by the bosses, or rather the
committee who abrogate to them
selves the right to select the few who
| shall offer themselves as candidates,
am almost constrained to announce
and trust to providence and the patri-
ottsm of the free man who casts a
ballot free from the influence of the
committee, rank or station of any
man.
Il occupy a very different attitude
from some Of the other gentlemen
who are being mentioned for the Of
flee; l have never been favored with
the counsel of the practical politi-
clans, have never had political Jobs
and political favors of any sort to
deal out; have had no way of obli-
eating the people to me other than
by remaining ever faithful to the
trust imposed by good citizenship.
IF l do announce for the office I
shall be my own official organ, and
an invitation will be extended all the
candidates to meet in joint debate
and discuss the principles for which
we stand. We shall put an end to
the old cry of equal rights to all
and special privileges to none, etc.
We shall give a remedy for the sad-
mitted wrongs-and if people will
heed and rise in their strength we
shall have such an economical adj
ministration of state affairs that the
professional politician will wonder
| that he has held the reins so long. "
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