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If. J. TAYLOR, Pres A. P. URQUHART, Sec’y W. M. WYNNE. Mgr
PLANTERS WAREHOUSE,
We are fully prepared to take care of all cotton stored with us
p and to keep same fully Insured.
We have the lowest rate of insurance of any warehouse in town
and have a spacious store room equipped with first class
appliances for fire protection.
Our Mr. Wynne, who has had eighteen year’s experience in the
cotton business, is in charge of the sales and ling department.
Prompt, Careful and Courteous Attention is paid to each and
every Customer.
We thank our customers for their past valued patronage, and re
spectfully solicit a continuance of same.
PLANTERS WAREHOUSE,
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COCHRAN: GEORGIA.
LAST EXCURSION!
OF THE SEASON!
—TO—.
Brunswick, St. Simons Island, Cumber
land Island, Jacksonville and Tampa!
-VIA
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
my, SEPT., IST, 1910!
Excursion Train with Separate Coaches for White and Colored, will
1' we Cochran 1 0:40 a. m. and arrive at Jicksonvile 6;00 p. m.,
B unswick 5;45 p. m. and Tampa 6;30 a. m., next morning.
I’rmis'virk . #3.75
St Simons Maud - - #3-7;*
('uiviWrland Island-. s3.7*>
Tickets to Brunswick, St. Simons Island, CumUerland Island ami Jacksonville will be
jpood returninj: on ajiv regular train to stations where scheduled to stop up to and including
t Min leaving Jacksonville 8:00 p. m. and l*runsw:ek 8:35 p. m., Tuesday September oth.
'Pickets to Tampa will l>e uoo 1 returning on any regular train to points where scheduled to
stop, up to and including train leaving Jacksonville 8:05 p. m. Wednesday September 7th.
DON’T MISS IT! Ask Nearest Southern Railway Agent for Com
plete Information.
JNO- L- MEEK, G. R- PETTIT,
A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. T. P. A., Macon, Ga.
Jacksonville $3.75
Tampa ___ $5.75
BROWN’S MESSAGE
SENT OUT GARBLED
State Flooded With Big Circu
lar Remarkable For
Omissions.,
GOVERNOR DENTES
OWN PRINTED WORDS
Claim that Brown Raised Price of
Cotton Denounced by Farmers Un
ion News—Campaign of Bluff and
Deeeption.
In the closing hours of the campaign
there is being sent broadcast over
the state from Governor Brown's
headquarters a class of political liter
ature that the voters may well regard
with suspicion. Its effect is to mis
lead and deceive.
Governor Brown's messages are be
ing garbled by himself or his cam
paign managers and those portions cut
out which he knows the people are
ready to repudiate.
This is but one of a number of
schemes to impose upon and delude
the voters.
Governor Brown has, In two mes
sages to the legislature, recommend
ed, urged and argued for a bond issue
of $600,000 with which to meet a part
of the current expenses of the state,
which would violate the settled policy
of Georgia and set a most dangerous
precedent.
The slogan of “Brown and Bread’’
has become one of "Brown and
Bonds.”
Suppresses His Own Recommendation.
Yet an immense four-page circular,
which is being sent out from Brown
headquarters, containing pretended
copies of the Governor's messages,
omits the twice-made recommendation
of a bond issue.
Why does Governor Brown, in his
messages to the Legislature, call for
$600,000 of bonds with which to meet
the current expenses of the State, and
then in his appeal for votes omit the
recommendation? Is it fair to the vot
er to thus deceive him?
It is done because he knows the peo
ple of Georgia will not trust the
Treasury and the disbursing of over
live million dollars to a Governor who
proposes to plunge the State into a
bond Issue to meet the ordinary ex
penses of his administration.
Here is the Record.
Here are Governor Brown's own
words, first appearing in his message
of 1909 and repeated in his message
of 1910, but suppressed in the mes
sage which he has sent to the voters
of Georgia when asking re-election:
"The General Assembly should propose,
end submit to the people of this State
an amendment to the Constitution au
thorizing the Issuance of about {6(10,000
of bonds, thp proceeds of which should be
used to create a permanent loan fund to
be loaned every spring to the school fund
for the payment of teachers’ salaries,
and returned to this loan fund in Decem
ber when the taxes are collected."
The voters can not find the recom
mendation in the messages going out
from Brown headquarters, but they
can find it in the printed copies fur
nished to the Legislature and in the
printed Journals of the House and
Senate.
Denies His Own Words.
Governor Brown in his address to
the people published August 9th says:
“As to the Railroad Commission,
Governor Smith says that the pres
ent administration seeks to take from
the Railroad Commission the right to
supervise the stock and bond issues
of public service companies. No such
attempt has been made either directly
or indirectly.”
The above statement is astounding
in the face of the following quotation
from Governor Brown’s message of
July 1, 1909, page 27:
"Railroad Commission.—l respect
fully call your attention to the amend
ment, or addition, to the Railroad
Commission Law, approved August 22,
1907, regulating the issuance of stocks
and bonds by common carrier corpora
tions. The theory upon which the
above amendment was founded is, on
the surface, quite tenable, but an ex
amination by you will show that the
result will be the practical stay in
railroad building in Georgia save of
branch or short lines.”
Does Governor Brown read his own
messages? Is he simply forgetful? Or
is he afraid of his own record and try
ing to mislead the. people?
More Instances of Omission.
He has in his messages recommend
ed that the Railroad Commission be
weakened by reducing the membership
from five to three: that its rate ex
port be taken away and its special at
torney be cut off; by taking from it the
power to regulate public service cor
porations other than the steam rail
roads; and by taking from it the pow
er to prevent the watering of stocks
by public service corporations.
All of which is omitted from his big
circular of campaign literature.
Is that treating the voters with the
fairness that should characterize the
campaign methods of a candidate for
Governor?
Condemned Again By the Record.
Governor Brown, himself in his ad
dress to the people published in the
newspapers of August 9th, says of the
reduction in passenger fares:
"The reductions in passenger rates were
made by the railroad commission while I
was a member of it. The rate fixed for
the Central and the Southern railway sys
tems was 2 1-2 cents per mile. 1 "voted
for that rate, it has never been changed.
The rate fixed for the Atlantic Coast Line
and the Georgia railroad was 2 1-4 cents
per mile. I voted against that rate, de
claring it too low."
This is a studied effort to mislead,
for the minutes of the Railroad Com
mission show that when the various
amendments had been voted upon and
disposed of and the only question be
fore the commission was that of re
ducing railroad fares, Commissioner
Joseph M. Brown voted “no” and the
reductions were made in spite of his
vote.
Claims Raised Price of Cotton.
In the big circular referred to the
absurd claim is made that Governor
Brown has raised the price of cotton
to 16% cents.
This claim is an insult to the Intel
llgence of the farmers, but it is on £
level with the Other claims and the
methods of the politicians who are ir
charge of Brow’n headquarters. Have
the farmers of Georgia received anj
more for their cotton than was re
ceived by the farmers of Texas and
all the other southern states?
The Farmers’ Union News, the offi
cial organ of the Farmers’ Union, in
Its issue of August 3, 1910, denounce?
this political clap-trap of the Brown
politicians. In a double-column edi
torial headed “Politicians Claiming
Credit for Better Prices,’’ it says:
Politicians Claiming the Credit for Better
Prices.
"Just as was predicted in the columns
of this paper several months ago, the
ever-watchful politicians from Florida to
Texas, who seek for an excuse for re
election, will be and are, claiming credit
for higher prices of farm products. You
never hear the politicians giving the Far
mers’ Union credit for anything.
"Cotton was selling for .six cents per
pound six years ago, when the Farmers'
Union began their fight for better prices.
We succeeded in raising the price of cot
ton to ten Gents, then to twelve, and this
last season we could sell it at fifteen
cents. It lias sold as high as sixteen and
one-half cents, and in the face u f these
facts you will find politicians guing out of
their way to claim credit for this raise in
prices, if bettor times, in any Ftate are
due to the administration, it certainly
is the administration preceding the om
in width the good times occur.
"The politicians will not U aide to fool
many folk with this guile; thev know and
ought to know- that wo know that no
State administrations affects the prices
of cotton and other farm products, ;(:: 1 1
yet they have the audacity to insult the
cotton growers by claiming the responsi
bility for higher prices for cotton.
’"The politician who thinks he can cram
such rot down our throats has not kept
pace with the intellectual awakening
which the Farmers' Fnion has wrought
among the tillers of the soil. Fverv
where the farmers will be found resent
ing such insults to their intelligence, and
the politician who attempts it will lose
hundreds of votes among the farmers
"We call upon our readers to look ahout
them and see who is trying to stuff them
with such rot. The attempt is being
made, and we have the evidence. We
are notifying the farmers; tiny don't
have to take our word for It. hut' if they
will notice their Weekly papers and cam'*
pHign literature, they will see that the
attempt we mention is being made."
Governor Brown claims that he was
elected by the farmers of Georgia. If
so why does he feed them upon such
chaff as that he has raised the price
of cotton, that he has done for them
that which they know they have done
for themselves, assisted by the grow
ing demand for our great staple in
all the countries of the globe. Why
does he not tell the farmers frankly
and truthfully.Uiat his ydmiristr_tj OI)
LVhat Smith’s Administration Accomplished in Two Years.
Passed the Disfranchisement Law, which removed the negro from
participation in the political affairs of Georgia. The registration of whites
this year is 261,145, while that of the negroes is but 11.285, a number of
counties not having a dozen blacks cn the registration lists.
Passed the aw enlarging the Ra iroad Commission and increasing
its powers; sustained it in reducing passenger tares, so that the people of .
the State are now saving a million dollars a year on that item alone.
When Joseph M. Brown was Railroad Commissioner he voted against
reducing passenger fares.
Compelled the railroads to treat shippers with fairness in the matter
of demurrage ard complaints, so that shipoers are now given prompt con
sideration in these matters where formerly they were wearied out with J
delays. k
Cut off free passes, an insidious form of bribery, which was the J
chief stock in trade of the lobbyist. I
Passed the law to prevent corporations from contributing money tcH
politics. I
Passed the law to compel candidates to publish their election ex£
penses. " JH
Passed the law to prevent snap judgment on the people by the caIHH
ing of early primaries, so that no primary can be held more than twoS
months before the regular election.
Passed the new registration law which prevents the
purchased votes and imported voters on the eve of an election, and gives
time and opportunity for purifying the registration lists and for any voter ,
whose name is cut off by the registrars to have hi? case heard and his name i
restored to the list which was impossible under the old law.
Abolished the Convict Lease System and put the convicts on thet
public roads despite the efforts of the opposition to provide for leasing part#
of them and putting some on the Wimberly farm.
Saved the State nearly SIOOOOO by refusing to buy the aforesaid
farm, which was the only one the Prison Commission would
though it was wholly unsuited to the purposes, and was exorbitant in price,
even if the State had needed a farm —which it did not,
Established Juvenile Courts, inaugurated a Parole System for Pen
itentiary convicts, pardoned and set free many incurably sick and helpless
convicts, freeing the State from that burden and turning them over to
their friends: established a State Sanitarium for consumptives; added
$600,000 a year to the School fund, and for the first time in the history
of the public schools drew warrants ot, the Treasury paying every claim
due teachers before the year clostd.
Increased the taxes paid by the railroad? half a million dollars, thus
lightening the burdens of the people, yet working no injustice to the cor
porations which had escaped the paymont of their proportionate share of
the taxes.
Relied successfully on the local authorit'er to preserve order during
the Georgia Railroad strike and thereby prevented riots ard bloodshed,
forcing an arbitration between the corporation and its firemen, whose
places were being given to negroes.
Being a man of ideas, he announced his principles. Being a man of
the people, he stood for the people. Eeing a man of his word, he kept his
promises. Being a practical man of affairs, he conducted a business ad
ministration, met the expenses a? they fell due, never advertised to the
world that the State was facing >a deficit when the Treasury balance sheet
showed the conditions to be two million dollars the other way.
AND HOKE SMITH NE|VER SUGGESTED A BOND ISSUE TO
MEET CURRENT EXPENSES.
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tax their ti. as?
Brown's T r e?.sury
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Sn.iih. and ii- theWg^|B
ter of a million of
from liquor licenses, andgrhe increase
in the appropriation for education, ev
ery obligation was met as It matured
and the surplus was increased about
$400,000; while Governor Brown, af
ter a little more than a year in office
sent to the Legislature on August 1 a
special message announcing that by
September 1 the State Treasury would
be practically empty.
Wonderful man, who can raise the
price of cotton throughout the civil
ized world and bring prosperity to all
North America, but w-ho can not man
age the finances of the State without
the incessant cry that the treasury is
“broke.”
Would Not Buy Terminals.
The Legislature of 1909, desiring to
protect the interests of the Western
and Atlantic railroad, directed him to
purchase certain terminal properties
in the edge of Chattanooga, but he re
fused to do so, on the ground that the
State did not have the money; but
w-hen the Legislature demanded a
better reason he declared he had re
fused to buy because thirty-four years'
ago, when the heart of Chattanooga
was flooded by an overflow of the
Tennessee river, and the floor of the
passenger depot itself was submerged,
the property in question was also
partly under water. Yet people are
today building homes on that land.
Campaign of Bluff and Deception.
This campaign of bluff and bluster,
deeeption and hmnbuggery. has taken
the form of interviews and statements
from pretended Hoke Smith men,
whose utterances it is hoped will in
fluence voters. This fraud has been
repeatedly exposed, but look out for it,
it is the last desperate effort of a po
litical syndicate whose candidate gar
bles his own message and suppresses
his own recommendations, and whose
campaign promises of 1908 have gone
to protest, and whose “reforms” ’ nave
gone into bankruptcy, due he sa to
the fact that the Georgia Legi R | at ’ ur( ,
is still for Hoke Smith’s polie ies an( j
refuses to adopt his own!