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JOE BROWN WILL STAY
‘LIVE WIRE’ IN POLITICS;
SENATE BOOM IS TALKED
Former Governor Will at Once Be
come Active in State Questions
When He Is Rested From Duties
of Office—May Oppose Hoke Smith.
That Joseph M. Brown Intends
keeping very much In touch with the
trend of events in Georgia, that he
proposes to remain a very "live wire”
in politics, and that he proposes to
thrash to a final adjustment his view
on law enforcement and the labor
Vnlons, at least in so far as he may,
is abundantly evidenced in a re
markable Interview he furnished to
The Sunday American yesterday.
It is very well known that many of
Governor Brown’s friends and parti
sans are urging him to enter the race
for the United States Senate against
Senator Hoke Smith, whose term of
office expires within less than two
years, and who will have to enter a
campaign for re-election within the
next twelve months.
To a Sunday American reporter
Saturday the former Governor gave
the following Interview:
By JOSEPH M BROWN.
I am going to stay at home for
a few days and then I shall run
up to my farm in Cherokee
County, where I will be for the
next week or two.
The duties of the executive of
fice for more than a year past
have forced me to neglect almost
entirely my personal affairs;
hence I must give primary atten
tion to them for some time to
come.
Later I expect to make an ex
amination of the status which In
volves the State’s relationship to
the labor union. If there is a di
vided* sovereignty of this rela
tionship all the people are entitled
to know it so that they can shape
their course accordingly and
choose to which they will yield
allegiance.
If there is but one sovereignty
that fact should be made so plain
that no man and no organization
of men should be betrayed into
acts of attempted usurpation of
that sovereignty.
Unions Have Made Issue.
In my retiring message to the
General Assembly I stated that
the labor union had made the is
sue as to whether or not Its union
label carried more authority In
Georgia than does Georgia’s great
seal of State.
A mere statement of the official
records of these two sources of
authority necessarily confirms my
declaration, viz: Some time be
fore the year 1840 the State
granted a charter to the Georgia
Railroad and Banking Company,
wherein she placed upon that
company and upon future owners
of that railroad the duties of a
common carrier. She imposed
upon the owners of that charter
the obligation to operate trains
for the conduct of the commerce
of the public and of Its power to
travel. As the proof of her sover
eign authority to grant that
charter and to force obedience to
its conditions she placed upon it
her Great Seal of State.
In 1907 she specifically and pos
itively made it the duty of the
Railroad Commission to "order
and compel” the operation of such
train service as the needs of tha
public required.
In 1909 and again in 1912 the
labor union ordered the trainmen
on the Georgia Railroad to ig
nore the State’s mandate and in
stead to prevent the running of
the trains, which it knew would
result in great Inconvenience and
loss to the public. On that order
it placed its union label.
This made the issue between
the union label and Georgia’s
great seal of State square and
plain. No sophistry can obscure
it; no vituperative personal abuse
can wipe it out.
Exactly the same issue was
made ir the strike by the stre'et
car employees In Augusta.
I note that it has been said that
I should not at this late day have
first that has been held since the
stirred up this matter, thus re
newing dissension among the peo
ple; but I call your attention to
the fact that the present session
of the General Assembly rs the
occurrence of the strikes on the
Augusta street car line and the
Georgia Railroad. Hence, this
was the first opportunity I had
for officially notifying the Gen
eral Assembly of these two glar
ing acts of disregard of the
State's authority and of the ne
cessity of enacting such laws as
would protect the public against
their recurrence.
Since the publication of ex
tracts of the message I have re
ceived a multitude of letters from
people in Georgia and about a
dozen other States wherein im
position is indorsed and state
ments are made that the labor
union’s exactions are becoming
almost unbearable
Thus far the labor union and
its few newspaper advocates are
alone in criticising the stand
which the oath of office made it
my duty to take. From these I
note that I have "killed myself
politically.”
Never Considered Politics.
As to that act of so-styled po
litical suicide, I will remark that
it never occurred to me to con
sider any political bearing in the
case. But, now that the point has
been raised, I will observe that
there was a matter of gratitude
to the people of Georgia, which
may even be styled political grat
itude. which. I confess, swayed
me. I refer to the fact that the
voters of this State have twdce
conferred upon me the supreme
honor in their gift.
Nothing which they control
compares in responsibility, in dig
nity and eminence with the gov
ernorship!
Therefore, with my reward al
ready bestowed, they had the
right to expect and demand that 1
would safeguard their interests,
oblivious to inducements or
threats My duty was plain.
Now. .there is one noint which
I must ask you to bear especial
ly In mind. I refer to the fact
that there are thousands of mem
bers of the labor union in Geor
gia who are golden-hearted in
their love of the State and of their
fellow citizens.
But they have not appreciated
the fact that in resorting to the
process of a strike they have put
themselves in direct rebellion to
the laws of the State. They have
not appreciated the fact that they
are the victims of a system which
holds itself above the law.
The strike status is not of
Georgia It is a foreign impor
tation. Its aims are the securing
of preference by force. Its at
tempts are the control and vir
tual ownership of the property
which others own and upon
which those otheis are required
to pay taxes to the State.
Its concomitant is almost in
variably violence to the persons of
those who obey the laws in per
forming the duties which the
strikers refuse to do, and fre
quently in damage to or destruc
tion of property which they have
temporarily abandoned for use.
but over which they keep a hostile
guard.
No Preference Is Shown.
Among these members of the
labor union are a number of my
friends of a lifetime. To oblige
them I would go to any honora
ble lengths in my power, and I
feel sure that I hold their recip
rocal regard. Yet, probably the
highest duty 1 owe them is to
make clear to their minds the
fact that they should not allow
themselves to be deceived into
doing deeds which In their es
sence are antagonistic to the very
genius of our laws, and which, if
tolerated, will breed anarchy, in
which they will ultimately be
among the worst sufferers.
It Is needless to say that the
State will not allow any class to
have preference over others.
She does not intend that capital
shall oppress labor, nor does she
Intend that labor shall rob or de
stroy capital, and she is very far
from intending that the allies of
union labor shall beat or kill or
drive from the means of making
an honoset livelihood those labor
ers who do the same kind of work
the members of the labor union
do. and especially when union
labor has refused to do that work.
Now as to the claim that the
courts can not reach all cases In
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which labor has rights against
capital. There is really very little
in this claim. But if it were ever
so true, it is the duty of labor to
go to the Legislature and have
laws enacted which will cover
such cases, instead of resorting to
methods which embarrass unof
fending thousands and are too
often attended by destruction of
property and by brutal violence,
and even death to persons.
No man can claim that the
Legislature would shut its ears
and turn its hands against the
proper demands of labor.
Court Is Proper Tribunal.
Therefore, what I have main
tained as executive officer of the
State, and what I plead for as a
private citizen, is that all men go
into court with their differences,
if they can not settle them by
mutual agreement or by arbitra
tion. I insist that no man and
no class be allowed any process
which amounts to a special privi
lege. I insist that if any* man be
deprived of life, liberty or prop
erty. or that if any kind of per
sonal punishment be inflicted
upon him, it shall be by the
hands of the law. and not by self
appointed or secretly Instigated
avengers.
Inasmuch, therefore, as the la
bor union, by obstructing and oc
casionally preventing the opera
tion of the public utilities, has
placed its mandate in opposition
to the State's mandate, it may
become necessary for the State to
protect her citizens against its
acts which bring damage to them.
She now requires insurance
companies to mak' a money de
posit with her before doing busl-
Sermons on Prison
Reform Will Occupy
Georgia Ministers
Movement Started by Atlanta Pastors
to Result in State-wide Dis
cussion From Pulpit.
The mission of the church in con
nection with prisons and their in
mates will be discussed from many
pulpits in Georgia to-day, as a result
of a movement inaugurated by At
lanta clergymen to name July 6 as
Prison Reform Sunday.
The movement started several
weeks ago, when a resolution was
adopted by the Evangelical Ministers'
Association. From the resolution a
significant campaign Issued, clergy
men of all Protestant denominations
agreeing to further the work. To in
terest ministers* all over Georgia in
the movement the following com
mittee of Atlanta churchmen have
been w-orking: Rev. John E. White,
Rev. C. B. Wilmer, Rev. Dunbar Og
den. Rev. W. C. Schaeffer, Rev. W. P.
Lovejoy. Rev. G. L. Hanscomb.
investigation into the efficiency of
the present prison system as to civic
righteousness will be urged. All
clergymen of Atlanta will deliver ser
mons on the subject.
Whites Replaced
By Negroes in Cases
St. Louis Restaurants Plan to Break
Strike With Blacks —Race
Riot Is Feared.
ST. LOUIS. July s.—The white
union waiter;' employed at the Plant
ers, Jefferson. American and Mar
quette hjtels were dismissed to-night
and their places* will be filled In the
morning by negroes.
Fearing trouble. Chief of Police
Young assigned eight patrolmen and
a sergeant to the American, the same
number to the Marquette, and twelve
men to both the Jefferson and Plant
ers hotels.
A race riot is feared. The trouble
follows strikes* in restaurants.
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ness in her borders. These com
panies represent capital. If she
would make the same require
ment of labor organizations, with
the fund to be forfeited to the
State in the event these organiza
tions do deeds which damage the
public, she would be but treating
labor and capital alike—and who
can say that this would be un
fair?
Again, the public utilities are
chartered to serve the public—all
the people. Their tolls and gen
eral conduct are regulated by law.
Therefore, they are, in great
measure, public institutions.
Hence it would certainly con
duce to the public interest if
every member of the labor union,
which assumes to control the
working powers of the utilities,
were required to take an oath be
fore a State official to the effect
that he would do no act which
would obstruct that utility for i
which he works from performing
the functions for which It was
chartered. The penalty for viola
tion of that oath should be the
forfeiture of the right to service
yi any public utility in the State
ft r the period of one year. The
ne penalty should be made to
ui>ply to any officer of the utility i
HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATT,ANTA. GA, SUNDAY, JULY fi, 1913.
150 at Ole Georgia Barbecue
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Lawyers Dine Atlanta Judges
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Witty Speeches Feature Feast
Judge Marcus W. Beck, of the Supreme Court, at top, and
below, left to right, Howell C. Erwin, chairman of the day; Charles
Gramling and Thomas L. Bishop, chairman of barbecue committee.
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Merely Views of Citizen.
Os course, the foregoing views
are merely those of a private citi
zen. Yet 1 recognize that, hav
ing entered as a public official
upon the presentation of the ques
tions which the labor union has
made an issue with the State,
it is not improper for me in any
capacity to make a searching ex
amination into this question in
volving the rights of each citizen
of Georgia. This 1 will undertake
to do after I give proper atten
tion to my private affairs, which
have been placed in the back
ground for several years. .
Wedlock Shown as
Incentive to Suicide
Reports Declare Bachelors Lead in
Every Crime Save in Ending
Their Own Lives.
NEW YORK. July s.—Unmarried men
are more often criminals than married
men. according to the figures in a report
of the work of the District Attorney’s
office. The same i 3 shown in regard
to women prisoners
While the percentage of unmarried
criminals is big’’ in practically < very
sort of crime, the report shows that
i suicide is an exception.
Three times as many married men at-
I tempted suicide and were tried for it in
[ 191? as unmarried.
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Big Outdoor Dinner at Woodward
Springs Entertains City’s
Judiciary Hosts Royally.
A drizzling rain, which set in di
rectly after the special car reached
the end of the river line, did not
minimize the jollity of the annual
barbecue, tendered the judges of the
various Atlanta courts by the mem
bers of the Atlanta Bar. More than
160 judges and lawyers fraternized
together at the big barbecue at
Woodward Springs Saturday after
noon. and good “eats” and witty
speeches were the order of the day.
The judges were carried out to the
barbecue grounds in automobiles.
The majority of the lawyers went
out in a special car, tendered by At
torneys Hughes Spalding and Wal
ter Colquitt.
After a regular Georgia barbecue
dinner, in which lamb, pork, veal and
I real old-fashioned Brunswick stew r .
w’ith fruit punch and lemonade, was
served, Honorable Howell C. Erwin,
chairman of the day, introduced va
rious speakers, who entertained the
crowd. Among those who spoke were
Judges W. T. Newman. W. D. Ellis,
J. H. Lumpkin, Marcus Beck. Eugene
Black, Arthur Powell and H. M. Pat
ty.
Judge Lumpkin made an earnest
plea that the laws and the courts of
the land be respected, and especially
urged that the legal profession Set a
good example in this respect.
Among the prominent men present
were Thomas Ripley. Lamar Hill. Roy
Donehoo. E. Z. Arnold, C. B. Atkins,
Judge J. F. Golightly, E. S. Croft,
W. S. Dillon. Thomas B. Felder,
Alonzo Field, E. C. Kontz. J. C. Har
kins. E C Hill, H. Hirsch, F. M.
Hughes, J. K. McDonald ,E. W. Mar
tin, J S. McClellan, P. C. McDuf
fie, P. L. Lindsay, E. M. Mitchell. A.
i A. Meyers, W. Napier, J. H. Porter,
z C. w. Seidell. W F. Phillips, C A
Stokes, J. E. Warren. C. W. Smith,
i H. H Turner. J. M. Wood, H. M
Patty. Sheriff Mangum and others.
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STR REGIMENT
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ST ST. SIMONS
Drudgery of Camp at Anniston
Last Year Will Be Forgotten
at Seacoast Outing,
The Fifth Regiment. Georgia Na
tional Guard, composed of twelve
companies with 580 officers and men,
will leave over the Atlanta, Birming
ham and Atlantic Railroad Tuesday
evening in two sections at 8 and 8:30
for an outing of ten days at St. Si
mons Island.
This camp will be a picnic com
pared to the strenuous times of the
State militia at Anniston, Ala., last
year, when the entire time was de
voted to military maneuvers. Then it
was work, work. work. Realizing the
fact that too much work and no play
might have the same effect on the
soldiers that It did on Jack, it was
decided to give the boys an outing,
at the same time make it worth while
from a military viewpoint.
The work at St. Simons will be very
light, but the discipline will be rigid,
and the little details so necessary to
the life of a soldier will be strictly
observed. The work will be guard
mount in the morning, dress parade in
the afternoon and camp patrol duty.
But the officers will not escape so
easily. A practical school of instruc
tion will be Inaugurated, and it will
require the services of the officers
for at least four hours each day, and
it is the opinion of the adjutant gen
eral that the regiment will be in bet
ter shape when it returns than it
has been In years.
Governor John M. Slaton will pay
an official visit to the regimental
camp at St. Simons Island this week.
In the Governor’s party will be ex-
Governor Joseph M. Brown, Adju
tant General J. Van Holt Nash and a
dozen or so colonels of the Gover
nor's staff. Brigadier General Evans
and Colonel Barth, of the Department
of the Gulf, also will be guests of the
regiment and accompany the official
State party. A number of women
will accompany the officials, includ
ing Miss Cora Brown. Mrs. Frederick
J. Paxon, and other members of the
families of the officers.
The party will leave next Friday
night and be received officially by the
Brunswick Board of Trade the next
morning. On arrival at St. Simons,
an official Governor's salute of sev
enteen guns will be tired. The guests
will remain until Sunday afternoon.
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coats of lavender, blue anil beautifully trimmed in lace, embroidery and Ratine
rose Ratineand at a collars and cuffs, made with the popular colored
wonderful saving, for coats and white skirts. Also a lot of fine French
Monday and Tues Linen Dresses in the modish coat effects. sls to $22.50
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Camp Wyanoke Not
Open Until Tuesday
Carpenters Unable to Complete
Sleeping Quarters for “Hello
Girls” In Desired Time.
Formal opening of Camp Wyanoke,
where the telephone operators of the
Southern Bell Telephone Company
will spend their vacations this sum
mer, has been postponed until Tues
day. because of the Inability of the
carpenters to complete the sleeping
quarters. It was planned originally
to throw the camp open to the girls
Monday.
The camp was built by the tele
phone company with the sole idea of
giving the operators a vacation in
the open, and arrangement? have
been made whereby every woman
employee of the company can spend
some time at the camp. The actual
running expenses will be paid by the
girls themselves, the assessments not
to exceed 50 cents a day. Mrs. Mat
tie Kirkpatrick, of Decatur, will be
matrod.
Fellow Officers Aid
Yancey Family Fund
Few Minutes’ Collection Nets *33.50
for Relief of Slain Deputy
Sheriffs Children.
Tribute from the men who worked
with Dave Yancey, the Deputy Sher
Iff who was killed in the attempt to
arrest a negro desperado, was paid
in a substantial form Saturday when
they supplemented the fund for the
benefit of the dead officer's family by
333.50.
The sum Is the result of a few min
utes' collection from Yancey’s fel
low officers. Each of the men sub
scribing announced his intention of
working to increase the amount.
Dave Yancey was beloved by the
men with whom he worked, and was
admired as being fearless and con
scientious.
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CORPORATIONS'
HOLDINGS GROW
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a Now Own Property Worth Total of
$143,614,140 in Georgia, Big
Gain in Year.
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8 Total estimated value of corpora
, tion property in the State of Geor
j gla, according to the report of W. A.
) Wright, Comptroller General, which
> has just been completed, amounts now
t to 3143.614,140. This shows an in
. crease of 35,593.026 over the valuation
, of last year, to which are to be added
the returns of one or two minor cor
porations not yet made.
Following Is the valuation of cor
poration property returned to the
Comptroller General:
Atlantic Coast Line .... .314,721,189
. Central of Georgia 22.808,346
Seaboard Air Line 13.873,223
Southern Railway 18,243,563
• All other railroads 33,902.096
Street railways 17,497,021
Telegraph companies .. .. 1,455,998
Telephone companies .. .. 7,211,505
Express companies 1,013.074
I Pullman Company 771,578
Electric light and power
companies 5,896,305
* Gas and water companies. 4,678,825
I Steamboat and steamship
companlek 2,541,433
ROBINSON’S BLACK BITTERS
Will Be On Sale Monday at
COURSEY & MUNN’S
Cor. Broad and Marietta Sts.
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