Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-24
GOVERNOR EXPLAINS
VETO At LEXINGTON
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sionerS an amount of $3.50 per year.
He said that all Of the states
available revenue had been antici-
pated, and that there was not a cent
in sight with which to pay these
appropriations. The governor de-
clared that had he approved the bill
the effect would simply have been
= 10 saddle a new obligation upon the
y state which it could not possibly
Z meet.
He called attention to the fact
that he had paid all Of the old PEN
sioners, about 9,S18, their pensions
= of 500 each, and that this had been
done some time ago, the sum requir.
ed being about 100000.
Governor Hardwick pointed out
that under the appropriation bill
which he vetoed Monday aftern" N
there was created a new class of
pensioners numbering about 6,402,
and that this bill carried increases
IN the old pension payments of 500
issper year to $50 for 1922, IT'S for 1923
asand 200 for 1924. He said that the
.. pension rolls would reach their high
mark, both old and new, in the year
s@1924, when, under the bill vetoed, the
= pensioning would have to be between
.f-$3, 100000 and$4, 100000, a sum which
., he said would equal the appropria-
= tions for the common schools of
y the state.
d. Criticizes Walker
-" After explaining what he termed
the utter folly of appropriating
: money which the state could not pos
sibly pay, the governor paid his re-
: spects to Clifford Walker, his oppo-
-nent, saying that Mr.. Walker was adj
vocating new and increased appro-
priations totaling ,$S,500,000, which
:. added to the $10,500,000 already COM
S posing the states budget, would
: make $19,000,000, He declared that
Walker not only proposed to about
double the state expenditures, but
:. proposed also to cut down its al
.s-ready insufficient revenue.
:. The governor explained this by de-
claring that Mr.. walker favors re-
peal of Ia xequaliZatio law, and OPP
posses an income tax law or any
other form of taxation to take the
place of the equalization law.
in fact" said TIE governor, 'my
opponent proposes to hand out mil
lions of dollars in appropriations
which the state will lot AMI can not
get into its treasury"
He charged Mr.. Walker with con-
Quoting a pussy-footing campaign,
asserting that to the Watson fol-
< lowers Mr.. Walker was claiming to
!. be a Watson candidate, and seek
1 ing such advantages as might &C.
crue therefrom; while the anti
Watson folks he sought to make it
appear that he, was not a candidate
or Watson, but oulc not be banned
because Watson saw fit to look ia.
vorably upon his candidacy.
In other words" he laid, 'Mr.
Walker. by his pussy-f oting cam
!. paign and his failure to make public
! addresses which would place him on
z record, is undoubtedly seeking to be
all things to all men,"
Z Government by Law
- The governor went into his dis
: cussion of the Ku Klux Khan in a
rather unique way, calling attention
Ito mammoth service star flag hang
ing over the rostrum and declaring
:, that "a people who reverence Ia
triotism and have love for orderly
law and government will not stand
ltfor any invisible government"
He said he had always defended
law and order at home and abroad
and that he preferred law enforce
ment by the local authorities; that
!. he would regret to see any foreign
with the affairs of any
county or community.
: He said he felt sure that the peo-
: pie of Oglethorpe county agreed
with his views in regard to the khan,
3 namely: That there must be no
masked men moving about in public
!. and taking the law into their own
!. hands: that there cannot and shall
: not be any organization which regu.
!. lates or. seeks to regulate the con,
duct of any citizen outside of the
81 law. ..i
:. Governor Hardwick was accom-
!. panied from Athens to Lexington by
several automobiles filled with prom.
inent Clarke county citizens, among
ths;n Chancellor David G. Barrow,
sof the University Of Georgia; DIR. S.
". Sanford, of the university fac
ulty: Judge H. F. West. \ Colonel
Henry c. Tuck, Colonel Tinsley
Rucker. w. r. Kendall, Dorsey
! Davis, Judge w. ]. Thornton, Carl
Crossley, Colonel Joe Lumpkin, and
Senator L. C. Brown.
Among those who greeted him III
Athens were Representative Toombs
DuBose. A number of the COVER
nor's friends in Athens told him he
was certain to carry Clarke year
for the first time.
Reception Committee
The governor was taken in charge
! here by a reception committee COM
!. posed Of H. T. O'Neal, cashier of the
Farmers Bank of Crawford; Sheriff
I. E. Watkins, County Commission
er George j. Cunningham; w. p.
Cunningham, prominent farmer; W.
Z. Wall, Jr., Of Crawford; Roy G.
|. Bennett, farmer; A. T. Roland,
banker and automobile dealer; r. M.
Hall, farmer; T. H. FARRELL, farmer:
H. c. Faust, banker and farmer; DR..
w. G. Faust, Sr., w. G. Faust, Jr.,
farmer, and Solicitor Walter Armi-
stead, of the city court.
King Howard, cashier of the Ogle.
thorpe County bank, introduced the
governor. Mr.. Howard is a son of
William M. Howard, of Augusta.
who represented this district in con-
gress for many years.
Judge Joel Cloud recessed the CITY
. court for the governors speech.
Governor Hardwick's campaign in
, TINS county is in charge of James
b. Sheehan, president of the Farm
I ers' Bank of Crawford, and Mr..
Howard, who told the governor that
. they were confident he would carry
Oglethorpe by at least 500 majority.
They told him the county would DOLL
about 1900 votes.
The governor goes from here TO
!. washington, where he speaks We'd
nesday at noon.
Datona Guardsmen