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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1911.
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(Communicated)
HON. HOOPER ALEXANDER ADDRESSES THE
VOTERS OP WARE ON ISSDES OF CAMPAIGN
Brilliant Orator from DeKalb Points Out
That All Who Believe In Prohibition
as a Moral and Economic Measure
Must Logically Support Pope
Brown for Governor.
The follQwinr addresa waa delivered
at Waycroa* by Hon. Hooper Alexander,
of DeKalb. .
I shall not convince the Judgment or
win the support today of those who be
lieve that the selling of liquor Is such a
fundamental civic right that It ought
not to be interfered with, nor of those
who are wedded to the strange doctrine
that no criminal law or police regula
tion should be passed except In each
county separately for Itself. Including,
os this new doctrine does, the proposal
now lurking In the shadow of the local
option light, that the cities should bo
allowed to adopt license systems for
gambling and prostitution, and so to
convert these evils Into public blessings,
affording sufficient public revenue to
i, and I resent the Imputa- (such a great advantage over the whis
tle would have us believe ky people that It has largely reconciled
whisky man,
tlon." And
that he wants local option only to en
able him to vote dry. What la the
meaning then ot his denunciation of the
prohibition enemies of the whisky pow
er aa hypocrites, and hoiv does he ex
plain those cartoon circulars that cost
his campaign committee, or the agent
of tho liquor trust, or whoever It U
that Is circulating them, thousands of
dollars each. In one cent stamps, to cir
culate, and that seek to persuade the
decency loving and honest people of.
Oeorgls to let liquor come back so as
to raise taxes out of It for tho educ'a
tlon of their children' and the buying of
oka with
day the cltisens of Savannah will be
ashamed of the provincial patience In their school boolcs with the . crime-
which they now permit the lawless tainted tilth of It? Why Is It that these
Insolence of thugs and let the dive same- cartoons appear from Maine to
keeper and the criminal share In elec- California whenever the liquor power
tlon strifes, the counsels of their par- |, financing a campaign or furnishing
ties and rub elbows, on election day, it, brains? If Judge Russell Is respon-
wlth She exclusives who scorn to know sible for those circulars, he Is a whisky
them otherwise. When that day comes, ma n, pure and simple, and no amount
the splendid tho latent civic righteous- Q t violent denial and denunciation can
ness of the masses of Savannah people ru b it out. Neither can his threats or
will make Itself felt, and thug and ex- bis tierce language prevent Its utter-
qulslte alike will retire before the ro- ance. If he Is not responsible for their
bust and awakened purpose of a great circulation, who Is? Is It that man
people, determined to give Its due re- Le W !s thru whom the whisky trust la
buke to anarchy and crime. spending |ts vast funds in Russell’s ln-
I have said, and I repeat, that the terest? Andj )t , 0> „ he he | p i ng r u ,.
real philosophy and reason for the pro-i, e if, campaign W |th the money of the
hlbitlon movement Ilea In the fact that distilleries in any other way? And If
the liquor dealer la^nearty always^a JO( how? Will the money that the
buy the school books of the children calling the sure' aid 'vhl.kvTrust Is.^ndlnglnthiscam:
Those who believe this way will vote alwaysof jmjbfic jr‘»ilege_andwront rtfie^eTlnJh! vMMe^-
Those who believe this way
for Judge Russell. Unless there be
other considerations of greater weight
with them, they ought to do so. Every
honest citizen should vote for the gov-
ornor who will best promote the tnlnga
the sure dependence always of p cnEel ot ttny candidate, and If so,
fakes .always for. whlch on8?
tyrant, and that It rqakes always for, „ hlch ona7
XffiMT; awrffiLtt BLSSftftSSS
StSS.'S T.’jga jg iSE gjJSS WSJgrsM Sttfek"S •■.i-.Aii,
Ized sale of liquor, or the reference of ty „, n y and public privilege have Po aDDrove anv modincaMon thS l^li
every criminal law and levery police reg- foun( i the henchmen they would em- L, pp ° .S h ? y nrohiwf.on
Illation to a separate adoption In each
locality for Itself, as Judge Russell says
should be done. I would vote for tile
whlskv candidate, and I advise all who
feel that way to vote for Judge Ruseeli,
unless there be other considerations
that outwelght these preferences in
their minds.
Neither shall I convince or win any
nan who believes that beer should con
tinue to be manufactured and sold In
Georgia In defiance of law. The Tip-
pins bill will pass the legislature by the
fourth day of next July. Except In Sa
vannah and Augusta, that bill. If It be
comes law. will stop the law-breaking
hoer saloons and the law-defying brew,
cries from the crimes, which, In some
of our cities, the courts are either un
willing to punish, afraid of, or Incompe
tent to deal with. If Joseph M. Brown
Is the next governor he will veto that
bill, and the filibuster which will at
once follow will probably be effective to
prevent Its passage over the veto, No
other bill adequate for the purpose
Will have a chance for passage In five
vears. If, therefore, I desired the law
lessness of the beer people to continue I
would vote for tho beer candidate, and
I advise nil who feel that way to vote
for e-x-Qovernor. Brown, unless their
opposition to his demand for weakening
the railroad commission law, or their
resentment against his lawless use of
military power to defeat civil lights, or
their Indignation at Ms straddling and
evasive attitude on the liquor question,
or some other like consideration, out
weighs. their satisfaction with his com
plete and servile subservience to the
criminal breweries.
As a matter of fact, those who hold
the first set of opinions I have referred
to. are going to vote for Judge Russell,
nmi I should as soon whistle to the
whirlwind as to try to stop them. Those
who hold the second clasa ot opinions
will voto for Governor Brown, and
nothing that cap be said will atop thorn.
. But there are others, prohibitionists
who expect, to vote for Russell, and
law-abiding cltisens who expect to vote
for Governor Brown. Some of these
know what thev are doing. They either
have a personal grudge to serve, a per
sonal obligation to repay or a hope or a
ploy to fasten their evil power on the
maases of the people, or do the crimi
nal and brutal things that always serve
to repress .the noble aspirations of the
tolling masses.
In democratic governments like ours
n ttoat nnlltlffnl InflilanoA rtf RhoiA '
lature might make to the prohibition
law; and did ho not publicly give, as
a reason for hts pledge,-that the legis
lature understood the people’s will, and
that the governor should respect It?
And when a wave of Indignant protest
swept over the state against his attl
nuclei of crime, ablo generally to de
feat where they can not debauch, have
always tended to repress the better
purposes of the ofllceseeker, to make
the officeholder tend to double dealing
and hypocrisy, and to convert the ma
chinery of tho people’s government Into
the efficient leverage by which privi
lege can plunder and make of govern
ment on obstacle to the very labors It
was meant to sbeed.
During the long years that the peo
ple of Georgia were fighting the liquor
business; fighting In their dry counties
for protection against tha lawless wet
counties that flooded them with liquor
against their will, and In violation of
their laws; fighting for effective tax
laws to make the privileged corpora
tions pay tax on their property that so
long went entirely untaxed; fighting
afterwards to make them return tho
property values of their franchises for
taxation; fighting for relief against the
slave labor of little children In facto
ries; fighting ngalnst the consclehce-
less exactions of the school book trust;
fighting to destroy the Infamous system
of convict lease that degraded honeat
labor and deprived It of an honeat wage,
while disgracing the state ylth Its
cruelties and shames and retarding the
terrified the politicians whose, tool he
was, did he not tuck his tail like a
frightened, person, and flatly re
verse his promise, and pledge himself
before God and man to veto any law
the-leglalature would pass on the sub
ject? Did over a man so shamefully
reverse his stated principles and stultify
himself so Ignobly for an office?
Note, If you please, his first position.
At a time when he might have well be
lieved, aa many politicians did, that the
voters disapproved what come called
the “drastic” character of the prohibi
tion law, or solemnly declared that If
the legislature should modify that law,
he should feel It his duty to sign the
amending bill. When a powerful pro
hibition sentiment made Itself evident
In protest, without stopping to explain
his change of opinion as to the right
of tho legislature to onact law and tho
duty of tho governor to conform to the
Judgment of the people's representa
tives, he faced about and declared his
purpose to veto anything tho legisla
ture did about It.
What sort of a governor could, you
expect who could so stultify hts own
declared opinions? Can n man who
thus abandons his stated principles for
other similar consideration Into a know
ing sacrifice of their convictions on tho
whisky question, or they havo publicly
taken sides and Just lack the courage
to change.
Then there are others still, and 1 am
afraid they are numerous enough to bo
a serious clement of danger In tho In
direct help they give the whisky candi
date, who have been misled and de
ceived. If I can contribute to making
the subject clear to this clas\ I shall
hope to win them to the support of Pope
Brown, and If I can do- so I shall not
begrudge the time and effort. But I
will not for this purpose resort to nny
unfair means or Improper Innguage, nOr
say anything thnt Is needlessly severe.
War against drunkenness Is not tho
principal reason for prohibition laws;
nor Is the need for chocking the Indi
vidual crimes that follow drunkenness
their principal Justification. As I see
It. the chief resson for the prohibition
movement Is to put a stop to the llqurr
business, because It Is a systematic,
law-breaking business, and a never-
ceasing source of political corruption;
because, as a business. It Is the greatest
enemy of human civilization, and al
ways the friend and ally of every form
of public privilege and public wrong
and governmental tyranny, and tho
never falling obstacle to nil Just legis
lation and every Just reform.
I have given reasonably careful study
to the problems of liquor In all the
States for many years, and my obser
vation convinces me that the liquor
business always violates the law that
governs It, no matter how liberal the
law may be; and always goes beyond
the limit that the law permits: and
that whenever a stricter law Is passed
to check Its crimes the law does good*
they falsely represented; fixing and
fastening always off the people unjust
burdens and checking always the nec
essary march of progress?
The thing that always formed the
backbone of the evil conspiracy of paid
political agents; that for years main
tained Its debauching private legisla
tive bar room In an upper ipom of tho
Kimball house, till tho closing days of
every session—when they sometimes
kept Its branch In the capltol Itself;
that always co-operated with the free-
pass agents, nnd furnished the machin
ery for dleburelng the money that cor
rupted elections and debauched polit
ical conventions; was the Liquor Deal
ers'-Association of Georgia, the worst
Instrumentality of political wrong-do
ing that ever defeated the Just demands
ot a righteous people, and repressed,
by brutal power or merciless chicane,
the honorable aspirations ot labor and
alike the longings of a generous people
for a government that was clean and
Independent.
When tho progress ot a political rev
olution flvo years ago purged the civic
atmosphere of Georgia by the light
nings of a fourteen-months' campaign,
and roused the latent power of the
mosses, till the llquor-pald henchman
of the lobby fled affrighted from tho
wratch of the state, tho very first act of
the people's representatives, even then
still menneed by tho wolves of privi
lege and liquor that glared out of the
surrounding thickets to which t)iey had
been driven, was to prohibit forever
the sale of alcoholic drink, and so de
stroy. utterly destroy, tho evil polit
ical power that found the necessity ms
well aa the means for Its existence
In the profits of the fearful tolls It
had so long laid on Industry, and the
cash It had so long coined from the
anguish of pale-faced wives and the
burning tears of hungry babies.
Where were Judge Russell and ex-
___ ------ — — Governor Brown In all that long strug-
Thus, even In Savannah, where once gi e ? When and where did either of
the regulated barrooms always kept (hem lift his hand to smooth the paln-
8 ?K ba h >.' " r°. w , a ful live, of tolling babies In the fac-
.i h * •ojerotton I lories, or strike an honest blow for
will* ,b . at ! decency against the crime and prlvl-
the llo^e^ er nnrT!al7. nL l L n n'',ai lP « 1 ' °* c «' nvlc * ,Bbor »°> d enrlcb I»-
r' m L' * he triguing favorites, or purge the ballot
ror* I nlJei ta. hTh..?. , h Ju " «t the negroes' votes, or put a stop to
Siindav << Thta*la a aiMn < nimmaa >t i>!5|ft M l' as “‘’s, or equalize ratez charged
ft ^progressAnd ™ rert-tinM by P r,vlle « e - or reduce the rates of
lv come, even In Savannah, when the | , ™i! a po 7 !? , ' on he f*. a a * e,, D ™!I c,lc “
shames and flagrant nnnrchy that now p **^J’**”' t
revulsion abou * wl " producc aure X p-mVal went drilled tSilned
I to defeat the public wUl?
a i e a* ?iPr , ei'Lri«M tl lfe JliTwoT/n.-'a.-ht" the * ake 0, j0ff1ce. bo expected to keep
rtch the favorites of .PnUtlclua, Wht htll p i|g h ted word on anything? The
fi whit ereat majority of prohibitionists wisely
that rofUB * d ,0 trust him, even tho they did
JJJIJ. nHvi dufth..hMdllie of not *® e th ® tra P thnt his advisers laid In
ends of Privilege and did the bidding of' the worda thay flxad for hlm t0 uae
mini 6 ’ . n’v.rnnic iiv U <UM P iuwu£ M »ny- who were more confiding, voted
mini!. mP.i.Jain^imo^t feilslatora for h,m an* 1 ho wn * olected - Then the
ments, misleading Ignorant legislators | tricic was evident that his shrewd nd-
Into doing what their consciences j v is#rs had laid, and which the liquor
miUt <1 •’ ufl 1 ^“P 1 ® understood all the time to be a
ments understood, seducing wiser leg i anara for prohibitionists. Whon the
Islatorg Into a betrayal of the people legislature undertook to strengthen the
prohibition law, It was calmly mads
plain tor the first time that tils promlso
was to veto anything tho legislature
i did, whether favorable or adverse to the
prohibition law, and then we understood
why the liquor people supported him.
And so the law-breaking saloona and
the law-breaking breweries have flour
ished until now.
What Is It ho tells us now? Surely
tho prohibitionist who wsjks Into his
trap a second time has only himself to
blame, for he says again that he will
veto anything en the subject of liquor.
Do you know what that means? It
means that ho has taken the aide of
beer, as Russell naa taken the side of
whisky, In tbe war between these two
crmlnals- It means that the courts In
many cities are permitting breweries, to
run and beer saloons to operate openly
In defiance of law, and that the beer
people are satisfied with that sort of
beer to the prohibition law. Under the
licenses they hold to sell non-alcoholic
Imitations of beer, according to their
customary habit of going beyond what
the law allows, they are openly selling
beer, and some of them are selling
whisky, in spite of the fact that the
very act under which they are licensed
to do Something else expressly de
Clares that they shall not Bell any
thing in violation -of the prohibition
law. In some Judicial circuits there are
Judges on the bench who have the will
and courage to administer the law In
spits of the ’political power of liquor.
In these circuits the law Is being en
forced, but there are circuits where
hundreds of beer saloons openly defy
the law, and Judges and solicitors and
grand Jurors are not performing the
constitutional functions In the premises
for which they were created. It is a
very humiliating thing* to some people
to see the honor of the state thus
stained, and It will be worth the while
of Judges to remember that the pa
tience of the people has a limit. But
the brewers and the beer sellers are
troubled with no scruples on the sub
ject.
These conditions would not exist to
day In Georgia If Governor Brown had
not been elected In 1901. Hls election
that year was so largely tha work of
the beer and liquor trusts and so
largely accomplished by their money
and their skilled political agents that
both of them felt entitled to hls aid and
comfort. In the beginning of hls cam
paign botb of them had the pledge of
that help In hls public announcement
that I have already referred to. When
he reversed that announcement, as I
have explained, the prohibitionists were
not the only people that were en
trapped. The whisky wing of the liquor
army got It In the neck ns badly as
the prohls did. Nobody won but tho
breweries.
It was perfectly natural, therefore,
that tha brewery Interests should have
continued to support him and that they
are supporting him now; for they were
largely responsible for hls entrance Into
the fight, and In spite of the fact that
tho beor lenders are pretending to tho
whisky leaders to bo supporting Rus
sell, and In fact even contributing with
money to hls election, they are really
back of Joe Brown, and most of them
are going to vote for him. and the whls-
iple know It and are sizzling
about it. but can’t help themselves.
All the beer people wanted was to
get a governor In office who would veto
the Tlpplns bill and so allow beer to go
on with Its law breaking. That was
what their papers began preparing for
ns soon as they foresaw that a vacancy
was coming In tho governor's office. Of
course, they expected to put up some
kind of pretense of advocating some
thing else like local option or the like.
But the whisky people were not to
be fooled twice by the some bait. No
body but prohibitionists like Dr. White
would walk into that trap a second
tlmo. Tho whisky people know there
were counties In Georgia where the no-
gro voto and tho liquor people together
were strong enough to voto back the
barrooms, and they held up to tho eyes
.... Wjp,,,,,] i n
ATLANTA BUSINESS MEN
WANT 1-CENT POSTAGE
Local Committee Organized to
Work for Establishment of
Cheaper Mail Service.
of politicians what had
Alabama with the aid of tholr unlimited
ltlcal skllU and they sent
Into Georgia tho best politician they
had to subjugate tho state, and pres
ently we had a stralghtout liquor can
didate flooding Georgia with the old
threadbare arguments about educating
our'children by a license tax on crime,
and circulating a pamphlet to prove by
statistics that preachers are more crim
inal than barkeepers, and that the few
er barrooms you hove In a town the
more drunkards you hove. Here It is,
Issued by the court reporter of The
Savannah Press.
But tho beer people promptly rear
ranged their plans when Bussell stole
their thunder, and their antl-prohlbl-
tlon newspapers fixed up a new trick
that meant the retention of the open
anarchy of beer, and little Joe promptly
hopped up and said what they told I
to say, and, of course, r ‘
proportion of gulllblo pro]
follow him off.
But he weakened tho whisky candi
date also, and the story goes that pres
ently the whisky trust sent a flag of
trace to the beer trust, and they sent
their ambassadors to meet together in
Atlanta to see If they could make a
peace treaty, and grapevine telegrams
leaked out aa to what took place.
Said Whlksy: "You are dividing our
strength and if you don’t look out Pope
Brown and the prohibitionists will whip
ua both?"
Said Beer: "Well, we ore dividing the
prohls. too. Don't you know there Is
always a lot of gumps among thorn?"
“Yes,*’ says Whisky, “that’s true, but
you fooled them once and you can’t do It
again, at least not many of them."
"But,” says Beer, "well get two or
three that have had their names mixed
up with the prohibition question at
some time or other, and Tho Atlanta
Constitution will repeat their names day
after day, till we will catch hundreds of
muddle-wltted prohls In every county'
where they are not known, and these
will think they are a host, and that they
have some force. Why, we will even
get Judge Hammond, who was once the
president of the Antl-Saioon league."
"Yea,” says Whisky, “but suppose It
leaks out how he wrote a letter to The
Constitution at a critical moment In
I9S7, against the
hlbitlon law, am
they had to keep It out of the papers,
and how they promptly got rid of him.
That will hurt Joe Brown more than
the repetition of Hammond's name can
help him."
"Well," say■ Beer. • "we’ll keep that
story out of the papere. Anyhow, Joe
Brown suits us and we stand pat.”
“All right," *ava I.lquor. "then wo ioae
either way. Now, let ua tell you what
we will do. We helped you elect Joe
Brown once and you got moat of the
rown, and they do not and will not I sugar. Now, you are going to help us
tell tho people of Oeorgia Pope Brown's elect Rnssall or we vote with the proht
- * All
ft condition, a condition which has gqt
to bo stopped by statute, or the people
will havo no other recourse than to
make their disapproval of the attitude
of soma Judges manifest at the ballot
box, and It means that If Joe Brown
la eleoted he will hold you to that
shame.
Never was purpose plainer. This
candidate openly takes sides with an
archy. The licenses under which then
shames occur do not authorize the sale
of the stuff they now dispense. The
courts and prosecuting officers seem
helpless or afraid to check the law-
breakera. The legislature Is going to
pass a supplemental statute to put an
ond to the shames of this condition In
splto of the passive attitude of the Ju
diciary. A candidate for governor open
ly declares hls purpora to veto the law,
and tho law-breakers ate supporting
him with men and money. - And yet,
men who profess to want these shame
ful things ended for the honor of the
state are going to voto for him, de
claring their belief that he Is a pro
hibitionist. I am not able to comment
fitly on their Intelligence.
My- friends, there are thing* happen
ing In this c&ntpalgn that the people of
Georgia are not Informed about Thoae
great city dallies that have always
served the corporations and ths liquor
wer ore supporting ex-Governor
Business men of Atlanta have Joined
In the* fight for one-cent letter postage,
and the local committee for organiza
tion la working to enlist a great number
In the campaign of education that must
be conducted.
The chairman of the Atlanta com
mlttee on organization Is W. A. Parker,
the other members being A. L. Ander
son, P. G. Hanahan. Jj H. Franklin, S,
C. Dinkins, George E. King and J. K.
Orr, all leading commercial captains
and connected with prominent business
enterprise*.
It Is believed that one-cent letter
postage is within reach and Atlanta Is
urged to do Its part as other cities are
doing. Much literature of convincing
type Is being sent out to emphasize the
fact that first-class mall Is being taxed
too excessively. Tho government will
still make a profit on one-cent letter
postage.
In an address at Chicago, James J.
Britt, third assistant postmaster gen
eral, said: ,
"A proper equalization of postal Jaws
would easily make It possible to reduce
letter postage from two cents to one
cent”
Postmaster General Hitchcock re
cently stated to the postal commission
"The present self-supporting conai
tlon of the service 1b made possible only
because other classes of mall, particu
larly first-class, are taxed excessively to
mnke up for the loss caused by an In
adequate charge on second-class mat
ter.
"The profit on letter postage last year
was over 968,000,000, and the loss on
second-class was over $70,000,00p."
The National One-Cent Letter Post
age association, with headquarters at
606 Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland,
Is strictly an association of business
men for the sole purpose of securing a
reduction In letter postage from two
cents to one cent with as little delay
as possible.
Tho Atlanta committee on organiza
tion Is seeking to secure as many mem
bers as possible for the One-Cent Let
ter Postage association.
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lodge of sorrow was held by the local
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tho Elks home. Tha services were In
charge of Exalted Ruler S. H. Dunson
and over 100 members of the lodge were
present. In addition to about the same
number of friends. The memorial ad
dress was delivered by Rev. Dr. Henry
D. Phillips, of. St. Mark Episcopal
church, this city, while the music for
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. _ jpe Brown's
side of this campaign. All the other
dallies except one are keeping hand* off
In the fight, and that one has only a
hltlonlsts to pass the Ttnplns bill and
but vou out of business.”
Then Beer said: "You've got us: we
fen- days ago come out for Pope Brown, surrender nnd ve will support Russell.'
and Pope Brown's side of this cam-j And Whisky was very happv and
They are a great people In Savannah. , ° n , a *‘v, palgn has bad no newspaper champion, thought It was all right. And Beer
Justly proud of a long nnd honorable 1 to warn the people of Georgia of what'sent nut orders for Its saloon keepers
record of civic virtues. Tbe very «n- f•* bc, "s Prepared for them or din Into’to vot* for Russell, nnd told the mes-
tlqulty of their traditions makes them “)® „?, l *' a 5, u " *“ f. r iP p ® their ears the shameful things that are aenger to wink when he delivered the
pr .ud of their stubborn Independence; ' 0,r *®™**** ; happening within her borders. My fee-1 message. And he winked,
and the fact that these traditions date, £J d h ® *" * b .™ th ? r ^i ble voice can reach but few, and what! Then after a while Ralph Smith'stet-
back to a time when liquor drinklnr ® er J ! b ® d ®*il say can only appear In print when It iters began tn appear, and he told how
was the necessary accomplishment of mand ror a reform of the francWse and pa i d for . ' i the beer eellers were supporting Joe
every gentleman has, for them, put a|f_ ^ *. r t 0, w p ^ ' 0 J e *^i .Butyou ought to know, and the ped- 1 Prawn, and Whisky got very angry ami
clamour around the calling of the puhll-j U he not today doing the will of. thelpi, of'the state ought to know, that ] began to suspect that Little Joe and
1 an that begullea the better Judgment i P»tloB»l whisky traat In Seeking to de-1 there Is a httter war In progress In i the beer sellers hsd put'one over on
of better men and makes them the ztrey the prohibition lawe of Georgia ; these United State* between the na-1 them, had hoodooed them so to speak;
champions of law-breakers. A Deonie and so to Invite the corrupting power tinnui beer and whlskv trusts and.thnt . and then tblngs happened that corrob
orated the grapevine stories.
champions of law-breakers. A people and so to Invite the corrupting power tlonal beer and whliky trusts and that
who are as Justly proud as Savannah whisky’s limitless corruption fund } utt now Its hardest battle Is being
P'OPl* are of thdr history naturally for the regiiiratlon of negro vote* In fought In Georgia, the whisky peonls
tend to become provincial, and we 1 the counties rf heavy negro population, backing Russell and the beer neonle
Georgia Crackers, as thsy call u *. In order to force whisky back upon tt,e|b«ckini[ toe Brown •
whose harder lives have kept us state? Has not the most skillful po-l The passage of the Georgia prohlbl-
of a progressive world by mica! manipulator that serves the na-1t| on law was a hard blow to both theee\ Russell should'be beaten, all that side
knotting..out of u » ,h * curious nar- tlonal whisky trust been sent Into liquor trusts, both In their pockets and !n the legt.’ature would support ths
ind D r?ii!lfi k .'i? p * Bfvannah backward Oeorgia with llmlt.esa fund*, and does In the curbing of their political power.. Tlpplns bill and put beer out of busl-
growth must he not now hold headquarters In At- But the present unfortunate passive ness And the beer dealers didn't bluff
broadly b* ludulgent to the foibles of lanta to debauch the state for Ruseeli? attitude of some of our court* and court! worth a cent and Just went on talking
a generous and gallant people. Some Ah, but. says Russell, "I am no ofilcers has given to the beer people for Joe. And then the leading antl-
llttle while the leading antl-
nrnhlMtlonlat In the senate came down
to Atlanta and gave out an Interview
to the newspapers, and he said that If
prohibitionist In the house gave out an
interview In the newspapers and said,
yes, that's what they would do, Just
like Ennis said. And they do toll It
that one of the boys said that If the
beer people kept sticking to Joe, Rus-
sell'e friends would put up to Alexan
der, and the rest of the fool prohibi
tionists, the chance to pass stricter
laws than anything yet proposed, and
see If they would have tho nerve to
pass thorn. Well, let me say to them
right now that they’d better be a lit
tle careful about It, for If they come
along with nny sort of a proposal to
enforce the law I'll be apt to Jump on
It like a duck on a June-bug.
Lot me say a word, my friends, as to
prospects. I am not of the number of
those who can forecast results, or are
bold In their predictions.. I shall not
risk my reputation by positive assor
tlon. I do not know how this thing Is
going to turn out. I only know what I
believe about it. I have talked to many
people and been In many sections of
the state, and I am high In hope and
belief that Pope Brown will carry the
election. Everywhere It seems to me
that the fixed, calm purpose of the
masses points, evident, that way.
If I should be mistaken and the divi
sions of our ranks result In Russell's
election, I have strong reason to hope
that the paper* which carry the news
of hla election will carry a rallying cry
for the friends of decency and law to
re-form their lines at once upon another
leader for next year’s primary. I am
sure of this, that peace will not come
on this question till the liquor business
Is dead In Georgia.
And, ah, my friends, will you not
stop to look and understand what this
thing means to Georgia? Do you not
understand that back of all this tumult
Is tbe purpose ot the liquor trust and
the brewery trust of tho great North
west .to debauch and humiliate the
state, to stain again your lists of voters
with a mercenary herd of negroes
bought and paid for as sheep are at the
stockyards, and, thru thdr registra
tion and the lodgment again In Geor
gia of the corrupt and corrupting den*
of private vice and public debauch-
ment of tbe ballot, to bring back the
lobby that long disgraced the state, and
the old alliance of Ignorance, privilege
and vice, and paralyze again your legis
lature for oil purposes of good, and re
new the effort that Governor Brown
constantly demands to destroy the
righteous power of your railroad com
mission, and again enthrons tbe merci
less oppression of the privileged cor
porations and their allies of tbe Uquor
trade?
Do you not know that today the na
tional liquor trust Is conducting a cam
paign thru Its own agent, sent Into
your state to control your government,
and that- the breweries are fighting In
another way and thru another candi
date to do the eame?
For the honor of Georgia, on ghe 7th
of December, write your just decree
that Georgia will expel these foreign
mercenaries and direct her own af
fairs; that ah* wUl not permit these
meddling Interlopers to defeat her will
or fix her policies, nor endure that any
son of hers shall parity with them or
accept their old; that Georgians them
selves will first destroy, utterly root
out, both factions of. these anarchists
and then determine for herself, In her
own way. exactly when and where and
how liquor shall be handled In her bor-
* i. If ever or at all, and without the
dent Intervention of foreigner*. •••
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CONFESSION OF YOUTHS
CLEARS JJP_ A MYSTERY
Chicago, Dec, 5.—Solution of the
Frederick Wenneratrom automobile
murder, which has mystified- the re
gion about Cary, III., since September
4, when the Chicago automobile driver’s
body was found In tbe Fox river and
hls blood-Stalned garments were lo
cated nearby In the country school
yard, wa* solved today by the confes
sion ot two young men that they took
part In the killing along with five rob
ber companions.
Of the seven members of the band
remaining after Wennerstrom’a death
on August 30, the confessors said, one
had been alkln since by the other six.
Thuee met accused in the confessions
were In jalr today and three were be
ing sought by the police.
If the confessions could be credited,
the seven robbers, all of whom are
youths, surpassed the car barn bandits
for.cold-blooded murders. Apparent
ly they did not have even that thing
known aa "honor among thieves."
200 Girls Escape Fire.
Jersey City, N. J.—The paper box
factory of Janies Leo & Co., 251 Va-
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fore noon, with a loss of $260,000 Three
hundred men and 200 girls were In the
building at the time, but all escaped.
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