Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-25
DORSEY GIVEN
GREAT OVATION
SPEAKING HERE
Governor Effective in
Campaign Address
Pleases Hearers


given a candidate for any office here
was given Governor Dorsey when he
spoke at the court mouse yesterday
afternoon in support of his candidacy
for the United States Senate, His
audience was not large, but it was
all the court room would hold, prob
ably 600 persons, of whom consid-
cradle number were women. Hearers
were present from all the surround
ing counties and from all parts of
Sumter county. But, from the spon-
taniety of their greeting of the COVER
nor from the start, it was apparent
that most of them were Dorsey sup
porters and admirers before the
speaking began. Therefore, the prac-
rtlcal results of the governors appeal
are problematical. He fully met, and
more, the expectation of his friends.
His talk was we'll handled IN every
respect. He had a supply of humor-
Gus stories to illustrate his points and
these he used to good effect, partic-
ularly in his remarks concerning
Hoke Smith, for whose seat he is
running. He employed ridicule very
! largely in his reference to the sena-
tor, and kept his hearers in an up
roar much of the time when on this
subject.
Governor Dorsey spoke at o'clock
coming by au' omobile from Cordele
where he spoke at II a. m. de was
met at DeSoto by parade of cars
from Americus and escorted into the
city in imposing style. The COVER
nor was personally accompanied by
James A. Holloman, political writer
for the Atlanta Constitution. The
Atlanta Journal was represented also
by a staff reporter, who, however,
4 is not travelling as a member of the
governors party.
Introduced By Ray
Governor Dorsey was introduced
in a most impressive manner by
Neill A. Ray, chairman of the Sum-
ter county board and president of
the Sumter county Dorsey club. Mr..
Ray told his hearers they had come
to hear a Democrat. And when
say Democrat | mean Democrat, not
a half Democrat" he declared; "a
man who stands four-square for De-
mocracy, 100 per cent, all wood and
yard wide; a man who for the last
seven years has stood shoulder to
shoulder with our great president
and today stands on the same plat
form with him and walks hand in
hand with Governor Cox and Mr..
Roosevelt"
The governor began by praislng
! his own administration and discuss
ed in detail various acts for which
he has been criticized in the state
press. The collection of occupatlonal
taxes, amounting to $150,000, he said,
was due entirely to his efforts and
his only regret, he said, was that he
had not succeeded IN collecting
$250,000.
The collection of these taxes, he
said, had been ruled legal by the at
torney general of Georgia but up
on the subsequent ruling of the state
comptroller, these taxes are now be-
ing refunded to those who paid them.
He defended his veto of the bill
to repeal the inheritance tax law
as applied to the Steiner estate which
had been left to Grady Hospital in
Atlanta and certain Masonic insti-
tutions, by asserting the bill was un-
constitutional. He said he is a Ma
son himself and paid tribute to that
order in his address. He then pass
ed swiftly over what he referred
to as the fy-specking tactics of the
Atlanta Journal.
Governor Dorsey pledged himself,
if elected senator, to build canal
from st. Marks in Florida, to St.
Marys in Georgia with federal mon
ey. The League of Nations, he de-
clared, had been means of much bunk
being foisted upon the American
people, and read the acceptance ad-
dress of Franklin d. Roosevelt, Demo-
cratic vice-presidential nominee,
which he declared expressed his atti-
tude toward the league and which
declared the covenant should be
adopted with only such reservations
as shall make the constitution of tlf
United States the supreme law of
sole right to declare war for the
United States.
Breaks Spectacles.
At this juncture Governor Dorsey
broke his glasses and appeal to his
hearers for the loan of another pair.
A pair was quickly supplied by Col.
W. A. Dodson, and he proceeded with
his address.
"The world is tired of war and
tired of rulers who, like the Kaiser
of Germany, by their ipsi dixit can
disturb the peace of the world" de-
declared Governor Dorsey emphati-
cally, while his hearers applauded
wildly. "We can get away from
other nations, and we must either
sell all of our ships and sacrifice
our foreign trade, tax our people
for years to come for the mainte-
nance Of armies and navies, or go in.
TO the League of Nations which can
perpetuate the peace of the world.
We must either join the League of
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