The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-13

,equired to pay the appropriations
Tor pensions, higher education and
common schools.
Wherever | have been able to meet
the people and present these issues
they have rallied to my support, not
only with interest but with enthusi-
asm. My only trouble is my inability
to meet the people and present these
issues.
My opponent, Mr.. Slaton, is engag-
ed in no public campaign on public
issues, and neither he nor his sut-
porters have presented to the people
a single reason why he should be
chosen governor. His campaign so
far has ben almost entirely personal
and secret. An avowed candidate
for governor for more than five
months, he has persistenly declined
to enter into any public discussion
of any question that affects the in
terests of the people, and has been
seeking his election by personal ap-
peals made in personal letters by
himself and in personal efforts of
those at work for him, and by news
paper notices and eulogies. He
seeks by this means, with the aid of
the machine and the politicians and
the railroad and other corporation
interests, together with the liquor
interests, to be elected governor.
Should he be elected it will be by
these interests. They are now solidly
and ere or less openly supporting
hill ID proclaiming his election in
advance in order to discourage those
who are supporting G.
The combination I the lineup
is the most remarkable ever present
ed to the people of this state. Those
pOpuhsts, who are still under the
leadership of Thomas E. Watson, are
now found closely allied with that
class of democrats which they have
always mostly opposed, and who by
Their extremism and Wrong-doing
drove the populists out of the demo-
cratic party and compelled them to
form the peoples party, and after
that, as complained by the populists,
crushed their party in Georgia by
oppressive and fraudulent methods.
1t is the policy of Mr.. Slaton and
his friends to ignore my candidacy
and suppress and eVade the issues
on which it is based, and the latter
are studiously spreading the report
that there is popular demand for
the election of their candidate. But
the people are not being misled. |
have been in a large portion of the
state, met and mingled with the peo-
pie and wherever l have been | have
found that the great masses of the
people are opposed to his election,
and that his chief support is to be
found in the classes already men,
toned.
At this writing Mr., Alexander has
made no declaration, and [ do not
presume to forecast his position.
To the extent to which he may ad-
vocate the principles and policies for
which | contend he can at this late
day only divide the people on the
questions in which they are inter-
ested without any chance of his cleo
ton.
am the candidate of no special
interest or particular element. am
running in the interest of all the peo-
pie of Georgia, and without any I'M
just or unfriendly intention in refer
ence to those who are opposing my
candidacy.
appeal to the people to consider
my position in the light of my record
on all material questions and espe-
cially in regard to the wrongful and
wasteful appropriations of their mon
ey, which | have been fighting, some
times almost alone, in the house OF
representatives for sixteen years.
With the little or no help | have
had | could not prevent to any great
extent this recklessness in the use
of the peoples money, bat as gov
ernor | will have vastly more pre-
ventive power and will not only be
able to discontinue this waste, but to
bring the business of the state to an
economical cash basis, and that with
out more taxation.
And | warn the people now not to
be misled by the bluff and buster as
to the result of the election or the
Misrepresentation of my records
or my position that have been going
on for some months, and that will
doubtless be continued to the end of
the campaign, with the purpose to
deceive the people and defeat their
will.
Go to the polls on the 21st inst.
and vote for the candidate who as
pires to be elected governor of Geor-
gia by the people, and who will be
governor of the people and for the
people, and not for any faction, and
YOU will not vote in vain. Yours
sincerely, JOS. h. HALL.