The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-31
Ky The Terrell County HOke Smith Club i'm The Interest
OF Sound Democracy and Constructive Craftsmanship
SHOWING WHEREIN GOVERNOR
DORSEY BLUNDERED.
(From the Macon News. }


If man be governor of state,
and during his term of office law
be repealed, should not he, as gov
ernor, be aware of the fact? Should
he not know what his legislature has
done? Should he not know what
laws he has signed?
If man as governor of state
cannot keep track of the laws of
his state, cannot keep track of the
bills he signs, making them laws,
would he be able to keep track of
federal laws if he should be chosen
to the United States senate?
The governorship of a state is a
very high, honorable and RESPONSE
BILE position. To fill the Office as it
should be filled man should be
able to keep track Of what is going
on in the state. If measure is pre-
scented to him enacting new law or
repeating an old one he would know
what that measure is.
The Office Of United States senator
lis a very high, honorable and re-
sponsible one, and to fill it as it
should be filled man should be
able to keep up with what is being
done.
If a man who is governor has fail
ed to keep track of measures that
have been enacted by the legisla-
ture during his term of Office and
signed by him, would his capabilities
for keeping track of things be en-
larged by electing him to the Unit
ed States senate?
Last year did not the governor of
Georgia appoint number of special
agents to go out over the state and
collect an occupational tax from
merchants who sold cigarette tobac-
co, who were supposed to be deiln-
quent?
Was it not discovered that the
legislature, during the year, while
the present governor was governor
of Georgia, repealed this particular
tax-where merchants selling cigar
cite tobacco did not sell or give
away cigarette papers? But, when
the discovery" was made had not
the governors diligent special in
vestigators succeeded in collecting
large sum from Georgia merchants,
20 per cent of which they had put
into their own pockets?
Have not these merchants de-
manded that this tax, which was IL
legally collected from them, be "e..
funded to them? And how much OF
the money has been returned? Some
of them have been paid, after hav--
ing made afidavits that they had
paid this tax, but have they not
been forced to forego the 20 per
cent commission paid to the special
Investigators, except where those Z f.
ficers agreed voluntarily to give up
their commission?
Do the people of the state. want
a man for the United States senate
who is SO careless, so negligent, as
not to be familiar with the fact that
a law has been repealed during his
administration as governor?
Some very estimable citizens Hof
Georgia are backing the candidacy
of a man for the senate, who, while
governor, appointed such a comnls-
sion to collect money from the peo-
pie under a law that had been re-
pealed during his term of office:
Georgia needs man of brains, OF
ability, one who keeps track of what
is going on, who does not fall asleep
on the Job, in the United States SEN
ate. Hoke Smith is the man Georgia
needs in the senate. And if he isn't
returned to it Georgians will live
to regret it very much.