The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-11-02
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and buried pafty-and because they know
there are just two strong Political Parties in
the United States today, and that there will
continue to be Just these two parties for many,
many years to come-the Republican and the
Democratic Parties. So if the voters Of
Georgia feel the need of two strong Political
Parties in this State, they can easily secure
the same by coming into the Republican Party
III sufficient numbers.
This so-called Progressive crowd talk about
spending money on negroes They ought to
know, because il all reports are true, certain
men now working with them and helping run
their ticket, must have spent many thousands
Of dollars on them. When the delegates were
On their way to attend the State Republican
Convention in Atlanta last April, these men
or their agents, met the trains as they passed
through Macon and other points and offered
money and every sort of inducement to get
delegates who were On their way to Atlanta,
to stop Oft and attend their boilers C0nven-
ton III Macon the same day.
They say that the Republican Campaign is
being run under the leadership of Henry
Lincoln johnson and Ben Davis, two colored
men, and try to make you think am the 0nlv
white man helping to run it. and that their
campaign IS being run by white men only.
Now, as a matter of fact, of which I have
absolute proof, Henry Lincoln johnson has
not been in the State of Georgia since last
May, and Ben Davis has taken no active hand
IN the campaign and has not freQuented our
headquarters during the campaign. There
IS not q cOlOred man on our Committee nor
ON our Electoral ticket; and every man con-
nected with our management of the Republi-
can Campaign is a white man of equal or
better standing than the white men connected
with them.
They refer you to the names of certain men
with them. We refer YOU to some few Of those
with us. There is Hon. Roscoe Pickett, State
Senator; Hon. f. j. Allen, Mayor of East
Point; Hon. c. p. Goree, leading attorney;
Hen. ID. g. Carson, formerly manager of the
n. G. & St. L. Railway; Capt. Jno NJ. Barnes,
a former United States Marshal, whom
every man in the State knows and honors;
Hon. j. Eugene Peterson, banker; and Col.
j. I. Dyar, ST., whom all men know as the
highest type of American manhood; Hon. A.
b. Bradley, member Georgia Legislature;
Hon. j. M. Rice, member Legislature; Hon.
j. W. Gillem member Legislature: Hon. J.
b. Mathews, member Legislature; Hon. F. j.
Collins, member Legislature; DR.. E. J. Kei-
fer, j. A. Monroe, Chas. Taunton. E. J. Hin
ton, w r. Watson, Alfred Mack, Thos. r.
Glenn, Fl. d. Bush I. A. Chastain, Geo. G.
Waller, J. H. Overstreet, w. f. Burch. and
we could go on and on, giving you the names
Of hundreds and thousands of the very best
white men in the State who are with us and
aiding our Campaign.
Every white man with them with the ex-
ception of one or two, is an ex-offce holder
under former Republican Administrations, or
an applicant for office; and it is too plain for
disputing that the main thing they are after
now is to try to get back into office in case
Hughes is elected. And they have with them
such negro men as H. A. Rucher, former Col
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