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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, ' 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. w m i tax their ti. as? Brown's T r e?.sury F :■ !, .-it., -s • M - 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!