The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-10-12
ADVERTISEMENT
HON. SEABORN WRIGHT AN
NOUNCES FOR THE
SENATE
TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA:

TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA:
/ make this announcement to sue
coed Senator Watson.
/ confess that sentiment has some
thing to do with my action.
In 1896, ran as a Prohibition De-
mocrat for Governor of Georgia, en-
dorsed by the old Populist Party on
a platform written by Senator Wat
son, Chancellor Walter B. Hill, and
myself.
l have lived to see practically every
plank in that platform of principles
moulded into law.
Senator Watson and Chancellor
Hill are both dead I believe the
great crusade began for the better
ment of the common people, ought
not to end amid the wrangling of poll
ticians,. who never loved either of
them.
In making this announcement for
the Senate, I am going to do what |
have always done, what every man
should be made to do, speak my posi-
ton plain upon questions immediate
ly before the American Congress.
/ never had any patience with
politicians who play for positions or
wrangle for the spoils of office. They
are the curse of Democracy. Times
like these demand in Office men with
conviction of public duty, with the
courage to live or die for their con-
victions with smile on their faces.
What are these questions in their
relative order of Importance which
will imediately face the successor of
Watson?
First: 1t took the Christian men
and women of this country a hun
dred years of unceasing warfare to
outlaw the legalized liquor traffic.
The great fight ended with the
Eighteenth Constitutional Amend
ment.
This amendment is safe
1t will never be repealed.
There is no issue before the people
as to the repeal of the Eighteenth
Constitutional Amendment-B But
There is an issue Immediately be-
fore the National Congress which
strikes at the heart of the Amend
ment, through the Volstead act, pro-
viding for the modification or repeal
of this Act, defining Intoxicating
liquor.
This question is a pressing issue
in practically every state in the Union
today
The enemies of the Eighteenth
Amendment to the Constitution are
as live today to destroy our great
prohibition laws as ever in the past.
The danger is greater today than
ever before.
The people of America face the
return of saloons in form as in
sidious and deadly as ever before.
Is there man or woman in Georg-
la who does not know that a five
per cent beer and ten per cent wine
saloon in the hands of the old crimi-
nal class who ran the straight saloons
would sell hundred per cent liquor,
adding anarchy to criminality?
During the four-year term of office
of the Senator who will be nomi-
mated in the coming primary, this
question will be fought out and set
tied all over America.
Is it possible that the Christian
men and women of the great State
which was first in the South to pass
prohibitory Laws are blind to their
peril?
God forbid.
On this issue, there should be no
question, no shadow of doubt as to
the attitude of the man elected in
the coming primary.
Second: The next immediate ques-
ton before the American Congress
is the question of Bonus to the
soldiers of the Great War.
My position, broadly speaking, is
this:
| favor bonus to the soldiers oil
the Great War-but in the manner
of its giving, l would oppose any
Bill which by vicious system of in
direct taxation would place the burd
en- upon the shoulders of the masse!
who received it. l would not stanc
for any jugglery whereby a horde
of hungry Shylocks could tap the
gift before it reached the hands OF
the men who earned it.
Third: stand with Washington fol
friendly relations with E,rcpoo,, -,