The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-08-24
PAGE SEVEN


and proceeded at to the discussion of the is
sues Of the campaign.
He said that if elected governor he would
his best endoavors to improve and enlarge
public school system and showed the need OF such
action by saying that there were thirty-twO
thousand white people in Georgia who neither
read nor write. He said tat school books should
either bo free furnished at cost; that when he
began the practice Of law, law books cost twice
much then as now; then they printed
school books and sold to the lawyers,
they printed by the State and the lawyers
get them at cost. He declared that he wanted as
much done for the school children OF Georgia as
had been done for his profession in the supplying
Of necessary books. He further declared that Sec
tartan schools receiving public school m0ney1
and affirmed that should he be elected govcrnor
sectarian schools would be cut OF from public
school funds.
The above is clipped from the Gainesville
Herald of Aug 18th. 1t should put at rest all
doubts as to Dorseys being in complete ac-
Brown, and with Guyt NcLendon.
Commenting on the speech, the Editor
Guy Clopton- says:
The people know that he has the power, the
Will, and the determination to bring about law
enforcement in Georgia, which mas become one OF
the crying needs of the day.
The old soldiers heartily endorse his pension
policy and will trust him to for the pension
appropriations, Of which they are in need and
which their glorious deeds so rightly merit, dur
ing his term of office
Those who believe in the separation of church
and State and all true PrOtestants believe in this,
and who are opposed to the illegal manner in
which certain sectarian schools receive public
school funds, believe what he says when he tells
them that, should he be elected governor, the
Illegal payments Of Of money TO sectarian
institutions, from the public school funds, viii be
stopped
In fact, the man himself is greater platform
than all the documents written by those VINO are
Villifying him in this campaign, and who have
sought to overcome his influence and power in
the enforcement of law during his term as soici-
tor-general in Atlanta, because Of the fact that
in the performance of his official duties he was
no respector of persons and believed that the
rich and powerful should suffer the penalty of
the law, after breaking it, in the same manner 40
the poor and influential are made to suffer for
the crimes they commit.
Neither money nor abuse can keep Hugh Dorsey
from being the next Governor of Georgia.
Twenty years ago, I was in Atlanta lend
ing hand in the framing of the Populist
State platform. When the legislature adj
JOurned last week, memory swept back to the
old days when the tempest of abuse. misrep-
resentation and ridicule beat upon our heads.
Gone are many of the old familiar faces
that used to meet and greet me. when I went
to Atlanta for one Of our State Conventions
They passed away before the coming Of
the time of vindication. God rest their noble
souls.
In 1896, we Pops demanded the Statewide
abolition of bar-rooms, and Seab Wright led
the fight for us. 1t ar0s the first time such q
plank had been put into any political plat
f01m@
don't remember distinctly whether Seab
wrote the plank and l assisted. or whether |