Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-12
Governor Asks Specifically
Concerning State Finances
and Management-Re
From Walker Urged

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| From Walker Urged
Governor Hardwick's final state
ment reviewing the issues Of the
campaign and expressing his conf
dence in the outcome, and the final
statement Of Arthur Lucas, the gov
ernor's campaign manager, predict
| ing that the governor will win by
an overwhelming majority, and chal-
longing Clifford Walker to state pub
licly that he would not appoint Colo
mel II. H. Dean, Of Gainesville, to
the United States senate if he (Ir.
Walker) were elected governor and a
vacancy should arise, were issued
Saturday from the Hardwick cam
paign headquarters.
individuals and personalities are
Of little Importance, declares Gov
ernor Hardwick in his statement, but
there are certain principles and is
sues Of crucial Importance in the
present campaign.
Among these he mentions the
question whether a governor should
| be given second term in accord
ance with long established prece-
| dent; the question whether the
states appropriations should be linn
| tied to the states revenue; the ques-
ton Of how Clifford Walker proposes
to raise the revenue to pay the in
creased appropriations Of $40 100000
to $19,0000O0 a year which he is
advocating;;'' the question whether
ploy the military forces of the state
to protect life and property where
| the civil authorities certify that they
can not do so; and the question
whether Mr.. Walker, if he had been
governor, would have allowed out
RACES by masked men to be commit
ted in Georgia without exerting him
self to the utmost to. stop them.
Claims of Mr.. Lucas
1.-THE fight is whipped and Gov
ernor Hardwick will be reelected
by an overwhelming majority" de-
clares Arthur Lucas in his head
quarters statement issued Saturday.
He predicts that the governor will
carry at least 125pcounties, and then
goes on to enumerate the number
Of counties the governor will carry
in each congressional district.
"Mr. Walker hos stood for moth.
ing in this campaign and would stand
for nothing if elected governor" Mr..
Lucas further declares, accusing Mr..
Walker Of being all things to all
men," and of taking both sides of
all issues"
He recalls the sweeping claims
made by the Walker forces on the
eve of the first primary in 1920, and
the sweeping claims made on the
eve of the turnover primary for gov
ernor, and calls attention to Mr..
Walkers defeat in both. r.
In conclusion, Mr.. Lucas asserts
that Mr.. Walker, if elected governor
and if confronted with a vacancy
in the United States senate would
appoint Colonel II. H. Dean, Of
Gainesville.
Governors Statement 49,
'To the People Of Georgia:
ION September IS you will be
called upon to elect a governor. The
questions that you must determine,
stripped bare, are these:
81. VIII you sustain an executive
who has given the state the hes.
administration possible, under diff d.
cult circumstances and trying condi-
tons? Will you give him the in
dorsemert of second term in &C.
cordance with tradition hoary, with
age, founded upon wisdom, based on
common sense? No governor can
accomplish much if he is to be
thrown into a political contest be-
fore year of his service has ended,
"2. Will you sustain the PROPOSE
ton that no individual. no state, no
nation can safely conduct it's fiscal
affairs on any basis, except pay as
you go, live within your income
spend no money you have not got?
This is the only safe, sane, sensible
policy in which the affairs of ma
lion can be conducted.
Personalities UnimpOrtant"
"3. Individuals and personalities
count but little in the crucial and
critical crisis of the affairs of peo-
pie; principles count for more and
are vastly more important. No mat
/ ter what Mr.. Walker says on clap.
trap platform, he cannot reduce all
taxes, enact no new taxes, and in
crease all appropriations. He can
not repeal the tax equalization law,
enact no other new tax and at the
same time increase the expense of
the state from 100000 to $19.000,-
600 year, as his so-called platform
proposes. Does he propose to in
crease the present appropriations for
pensions from $1,000,000 per year to
| $3,500,000 per year? If so, where
will he get the money, since he pro-
poses to repeal the present tax
equalization law, and to enact no
new tax. He proposes to appro-
pirate from s2,000,O00 to 100000
per year to match federal appro-
| priations for good roads Where
will he get the money? 1t must be
remembered that he proposes to re-
peal the tax equalization law, and
is opposed to all new taxation
"Does he propose to furnish the
school children of Georgia, white
and black alike, with free school
books? If SO, where will he get SO,
100000 to pay for them? For it
must be remembered that he pro-
poses to repeal the tax equalization
law, and is opposed to all new
| taxes