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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON, GA.
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SENT OUT GARBLED
State MedWith Bis Circu
lar Remarkable For
Omissions. ,
GOVERNOR DENIES
OWN PRINTED WORDS
Claim that Brown Raised Price of
Cotton Denounced by Farmers Un
ion News—Campaign of Bluff and
Deception.
In the closing hours of the campaign
there is being sent broadcast over
the state from Governor Browns
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
, ichemes to impose upon and delude
the voters.
Governor Brown has, In two mes
sages to the legislature, recommend
ed, urged and arg\b£d for a bond issue | the politician whc
to 16^ cents.
This claim is an Insult to the Intel
ligence of the farmers, but it is on a
level with the other claims and the
methods of the politicians who are in
charge of Brown headquarters. Have
the farmers of Georgia received any
more for their cotton than was re
ceived by the farmers of Texas and
all the other southern states?
The Farmers’ Union News, the otll
rial organ of the Farmers' Union, in
Its issue of August 3, 1910, denounces
this political claptrap of the Brown
politicians. In a double-column odi
I torlal headed "Politicians Claiming
j Credit for Better Prices,” it says:
Politicians Claiming the Credit for Better
Prices.
I “Ju8t as was predicted in the columns
j of this paper several months ngo, the
1 ever-watchful politicians from Florida to
Texas, who seek for an excuse for re-
election, will he and are, claiming credit
I for higher prices of farm products. You
I never hear the politicians giving the Far
mers’ Union credit for anything.
I "Cotton was selling for six cents per
r ound six years ago. when the Fanners’
'nlon began their fight for better prices.
! We succeeded in raising the priee*of cot
ton to ten cents, then to twelve, and this
! last season we could sell it at fifteen
i cents. It has sold as high as sixteen and
: one-half cents, and in the face of these
I facts you will find politicians going out of
| their way to (Maim credit for this raise in
prices. If better times, in any State are
due to the administration, it certainly
j is the administration preceding the one
in which the good times occur.
"The politicians will not be able to fool
i many folk with this guile; they know and
I ought to know that we know that no
j State administrations affects the prices
of cotton and other farm products, and
. 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
1 such rot down our throats has not kept
| pace with the intellectual awakening
the
vhere the fi
ing such Insults to
Farmer?
tillers
men
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 thiiB 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
panses of his administration.
Here it the Record.
Here are Governor Brown’s own
words, first appearing in his message
of 1009 and repeated in hlB 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,
and submit to ths people of this State
an amendment to the Constitution au
thorising the Issuance of about 9600,000
of bonds, ttie proceeds of which should be
used tj create a permanent loan fund to
be loaned every spring to the school fund
for the payment of teachers’ snlarle.,
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.—I 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 bis 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 characterise the
campaign methods of a candidate for
Governor?
pondemngd 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. I voted
for that rate. It has never been changed.
The rate Hxed for the Atlantic Coast Line
and the Georg's railroad was 2 1-4 cents
per mile. I v ■ ted against that rate, de
claring it too low."
This is a studied effjrt 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
Union has wrought
of the soil. Kvery-
wlll ho found reBent-
thelr Intelligence, and
attempts it will lose
hundreds of votes among the farmers
"We call upon our readers to look about
them and see win* Is trying to stuff them
with such rot. The attempt Is being
made, and we hnve the evidence. We
are notifying the farmers: they don't
have to take our word for It, but If they
will notice their weekly papers and cam
paign 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 Huch
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 groat staple in
all the countries of the globe. Why
does he not tell the farmers frankly
and truthfully that his administration
has done nothing for them except to
tax their dogs?
Brown's Tressury Always “Broke."
For business methods compare the
administration of Governor Hoks
Smith with that of his successor. No
suggestion of a bond Issue by Hoke
Smith, and despite the loss of a quar
ter of a million dollars of revenue
from liquor licenses, and the 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, hut who 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
purchaso certain terminal properties
In the edge of Chuttanooga, but he re
fused to do so, on the ground that the
State did not have the money; but
when 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,
deception and humbuggery, 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" have
gone into bankruptcy, due he says, to
the fact that the Georgia Legislature
Is still for Hoke Smith’s policies and
refuses to adopt his own!
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Copyright 1909, by C. E. Zimmerman Co.-Mo. 3
MOVING
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GOVERNOR HOKE SMITH.
What 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 on the registration lists.
Passed the law enlarging the Railroad Commission and increasing
its powers; sustained it in reducing passenger fares, 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
•f demurrage and complaints, so that shippers are now given prompt con
sideration in these matters where formerly they were wearied out with
delays.
Cut off free passes, an insidious form of bribery, which was the
chief stock in trade of the lobbyist.
Passed the law to prevent corporations from contributing money to
politics.
Passed the law to compel candidates to publish their election ex
panses.
Passed the law to prevent snap judgment on the people by the call
ing of early primaries, so that no primary can be held more than two
months before the regular election.
Paeeed the new regietration law which prevents the registering of
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
whosa name is cut off by the registrar* to have his case heard and his name
restored to the list, which was impossible under the old law.
Abolished the Convict Lease System and put the convicts on the
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 $100,000 by refusing to buy the aforesaid
farm, which was the only one the Prison Commission would recommend,
though it was wholly unsuited to the purposes, and was exorbitant in price,
even if the State had needed a farm—which if 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 on the Treasury paying every claim
due teachers before the year closed.
Increased the taxes paid by the railroads half a million dollars, thus
lightening the burdens of the people, yet working no injustice to the cor
porations which had escaped the payment of their proportionate share of
the taxes.
Relied successfully on the local authorities to preserve order during
the Georgia Railroad strike and thereby prevented riots and bloodshed,
forcing an arbitration between the corporation and its firemen, whose
places were being given to negroes.
Being a man of idea*, he announced his principles. Being a man of
the people, he stood for the people. Being a man of his word, he kept his
promises. Being a practical man of affairs, he conducted a business ad
ministration, met the expenses as they fell due, never advertised to the
world that the State was facing a deficit when the Treasury balance sheet
•howed the conditions to be two million dollars the other way.
AND HOKE SMITH NEVER SUGGESTED A BOND ISSUE TO
meet current expenses.
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Carrollton, Ga.
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In Memory
Miss Mattie Whitehead was
born Feb. 14th, 1891, was mar
ried to Mr. Cleve Horton on
Feb. 20th, 1910, and died July
13th, 1910.
She had never united with
any church, yel she nad been
converted. On Saturday before
the second Sunday in May last
she went to preaching at old
Tallapoosa Primitive Baptist
Church with intention of joining
but her mother not being pres
ent she decided to wait until she
could be present. While she
missed the joys that belong to
the children of God in making
an open profession and letting
the world know they are not
ashamed to be cal ed a servant
of God, we leel sme that the
sweetest joys of Heaven are
hers.
Although we hrd only known
her a short time her genii ,
kmd, and affectionate disposi
tion endeared her to our hearts.
She was a devoted wife, an
obedient daughter, a loving sis
ter and a good neighbor. She
bore, her afiictions with patience
that only a child ol God can
possess. There’s a place made
vacant in the home, her loving
voice we hear no more, the
hands that toiled so treely for
those she loved are gently fold,
ed across the loving breast, and
beckoning her lovta ones to
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Beautiful hands at the gate
way tonight,
Faces all shining with radiant
light,
Eyes looking down from yon
Heavenly home,
Beautiful hands ihey are
beckoning come.
To those of her loved ones
whojhave not put on Christ we
would implore you to accept him
now and be ready to meet prei
cious Mattie for we know not
when the isummens may come.
We know all that mortal hands
could do was lovingly done to
restore her, yet God, who is too
good to be unkind, and too wise
to err, called her home. It
seems as though I can see her
now, when just a tew hours
before her spirit took its flight
she clapped her hands and said,
‘‘Mamma, mamma, I am goiog
to Heaven, I see the angels com
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Then let us pray God to direct
our lives so that we can have
the blessed assurance she had
when crossing the dark liver of
death. A Friend.
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