The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-20
MAX LAND ANNOUNCES
FOR GOVERNORSHIP
coRDELE MAN URGES SWEEP
ING CHANCES AND STRICT
ECONOMY IN STATE.

ment Saturday OF Max r. Land, prom
inent Cordele attorney.
Sweeping reforms in the judiciary
system and sweeping retrenchment in
the states finances are advocated by
the new candidate.
Mr.. and is brother OF F. Z. Land,
who for several years was superln-
tendent Of the Dawson schools. He.
is one OF the leading lawyers OF south
Georgia, a former solicitor general OF
his circuit. and a former mayor oil
Cordele.
With regard TO judicial procedure
Judge Land declares that there are
two classes under the law" and that
everybody knows il, and the issue
should be faced. and the evil correct
ed The administration Of justice. Is
supposed to be impartial, he says, but
in point Of fact there are two classes
before the law-the rich and the poor,
the strong and the weak.
Our courts are in politics and
should be taken out" his statement
continues. He advocates rotation OF
Judges; a law prohibiting candidates
for judgeships to make any canvass
at all: law requiring motion Tor
new trial to be heard aud disposed OF
at the term OF court when the case. IS
tried: a law allowing two-thirds OF a
Jury to make verdict; and law sub f,
iecting the defendant on trial to cross
examination.
Urges Strict Retrenchment.
Drastic economy is urged in all
state finances. Georgia is spending too
much, he declares, and appropriations
should be checked at once He oppos-
es any new form OF taxation, and ia
vors a reduction in existing taxes one
third. He favors law requiring solic- |
itors general to pay to the state all
fees in excess OF 10000 year, and |
recurring all county officers to pay to I
their counties all fees in excess OF So |
900 year.
He favors the sale of the state farm.
On that subject he says:
Il would urge the assembly to sell
the present state farm and buy one
that would be self sustaining or do
away with it altogether and put the
convicts to some other humane work
where they could be self-sustaining |
-Four hundred acres OF good produc-
tive land would yield more than does
the 1000 acres now used. The work
EMPLOYED in keeping up the necessary
terraces if put behind the proper soil |
would yield enough TO feed those who
are not able to work
Abolish Highway Department.
II would urge the assembly to abol-
ish the state highway commission and
allow the gasoline tax and automobile
tag tax to 90 into the counties where
they are sold. | would do this Tor the
reason that the state highways under
the present experiment are not better,
and in many instances not as good as
the county roads maintained by the
county commissioners.
Il am opposed to the proposed bond |
issue of S75,0O0,000 or any other sum
al this time for paved roads. The peo- |
pie are too much involved for this new
extravaganza. The argument advanced |
that the gasoline and tag tax will take |
care Of the bonds is not sound. The
collateral back OF these bonds would |
be the soil and laborous toll Of the
people Of Georgia for years; besides |
gasoline and tags may have passed
away before another decade, but the
bonded debt would be upon the peo-
pie"
Burdens Becoming Unbearable.
Wrong economics, however, well
harm 10 the people than any other
single act Of government.
s'The cost of government in Geor-
pia is too expensive for the income OF |
the state and the producers Of the in
come are stricken with financial pam |
and disaster We are drifting perilous-
Nv near collapse when it becomes nee |
essary to discount the revenue OF the
state for FIVE years in advance to meet |
our payroll At such rate what VIII |
become Of the future: We are again |
behind and our Confederate veterans |
who should always be paid promptly |
on the dot, are now IN need. hese |
veterans are getting very old and IN |
their old age the state should not keep |
them waiting for the small pension |
they so justly merit.
"Retrenchment, economy and sac |
rifce should commence at once or the |
burdens OF the near future Will be
unbearable. Our people who work the
fields, our greatest resources Tor sus-
tenance, are pressed and depressed |
with debt and taxation to the break
ing point and still false leadership
beckons them on to greater eXtrava-
gance and more tax burdens. We have
a great state. the most universally
conditions are now such that we will
have to reconstruct at the bottom;
follow the simple life and work up.
AS to Appropriations
As to cutting appropriations, he ia
vors cutting all Of them one-third, ex-
cept the appropriations for common
schools, Confederate veterans and the
state sanitarium for insane. He would
keep the common school appropria-
ton where it is, he declares, even to
the point Of Withdrawing all appro-
priations from higher education, il nee
essary.
He is opposed to building new
governors mansion in Atlanta or else
where. A modest cottage for the gov
ernor would be more suitable to the
states financial condition, he believes.
He favors full participation by ,wo-
men in governmental affairs, especially
schools. He would have a law requir
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