The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-03-01
FOR CONGRESS.
To the People of the Third Congress

Georgia, subject to the action Of the
Democratic Primary, wish to make
mention Of certain points to be en-
phasized and elaborated in addresses
before the people.
The matter of negro balance OF
power in politics is certain to assert
itself in the Southern States within
the course Of very few years This
will be due to the then existence Of
more than one party in the South.
Two parties are desirable, bu tnot be-
fore the repeal Of the fifteenth amend
mnt to the Constitution Of the United
States. Negro balance of power has
already exemplified its iniquity in
many sections of the North IS we'll as
in the South. The timeis ripe to de-
mand repeal of this amendment, and
thus do away with the national, con-
stitutiona1 right of the negro to vote
The repeal Of this amendment will
set the whoe nation right in its own
eyes and in the eyes of all the ma
tons of the earth If elected; If I do
no other one thing during my tenure
of office, l shall consider the time
we'll spent in effecting, OF in aiding to
effect, this ore end.
The insidious inroads of Roman
Catholic design, fostered in the heart
of foreign potentate at Rome, upon
the integrity and Protestant purpose
Of free institutions, can no longer be
ignored | shall introduce the proper
measure looking toward an amend
ment to the Constitution of the
United States excluding from civil
service and national office, as we'll as
from the right to vote in national cleo
tions, all persons who claim or ac-
knowledge or in fact owe allegiance
either directly or indirectly, to the
Pope at Rome.
| favor an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States forever
outlaWing the manufacture, sale, bar
ter or purchase, except for we'll de-
fined and strictly limited humanita-
rian and artistic purposes, of intox-
icants. AS penalty for violation of
such law, when enacted, | shall con-
tend for straight Jail or Changing
sentence applicable to the second or
subsequent offorse, the judge to ever
else no discretion in fxing the penal
ty upon conviction, except in fixing
the time i1nir e. the Sc temce wI.lnr
certain legally defined bounds; the
purchase" provision of this law not
to apply to confirmed drunkards who
are physically unable to resist the
temptation to drink.
Militarism is curse to be Stunned
in tree country, yet reasonable pre-
paredness IS necessary in order to but
Tree our yeomanry (of whom | Gomez
against the possibility of war at home
or from afar. While it may be ne
cessary to expend an additional sum
per annum for ornaments, it is high
time that a definite probe be insti-
tuted by the Congress with a view to
ascertaining the names of persons,
firms, or corporations who have
Systematically diverted from leeiti-
mate channels a large portion of the
Sz900O0000 per annum heretofore
spent for defensive purposes through
out number of years. Ii we are not
prepared to fight somebody or bodies
have made our Great White Fathers
house a den of thieves
| favor votes for women when
majority of the women of the white
race demand the vote. While this is
properly a state issue, when it as
sumeS an irresistible national scope,
shall bitterly oppose equal suffrage
until the fifteenth amendment to the
national Constitution is first re-
pealed.
subscribe to the doctrine of ru-
raj credits as a matter of course
favor the probe of the illecitimate
methods employed by the New York
lotion Exchange for the purpose of
depressing the price of cotton. I de-
piore the lack of power in Southern
congressman to effect these and 9th
er agricultural measures intended pri-
marily for the benefit of the South
None OF them will ever be effectively
enacted into law until the fifteenth
amendment is repealed and the South
shall have returned to her onetime
status in national councils by reason
OF the existence, following the return
OF legal, white supremacy of suffrage.
OF more than one party in the South.
believe in the democracy as a
MP ter OF principle, but l do not sub
Sc y to that encrusted misconcep-
ton in some quarters, miscon-