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Senator’s Plea for Re-election on Plat
form of Past Performances To Be
Bitterly Assailed---Brownites Claim
Hoke Has Used Patronage.
{ By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Tn last Sunday’s American, I gave it as my impression that
the campaign for the re-election of Senator Hoke Smith would
be based in largest measure upon his record of service in Congress.
I stated then that it was the evident purpose of the Smith
#ollowing to go before the people of Georgia asking an indorsement
of Senator Smith purely upon his merits as a great Senator in
Congress—as a great United States Senator, as well as a great
Georgia Senator.
The following of Governor Brown
evidently propose to dispute, In spe
cific detall, these claimed merits in
Genator Smith-—and thereby will
bang much of the finer and more
mdroft politics of the campalign.
A Fight as to Fitness.
1 will undertake to-day to outline
pomething of the bedrock politiés of
the Brown campaign as that appears
to me now.
What I say must not he and should
not be taken as an argument for or
against Senator Smith or Governor
Brown. I is deslgned to be neither,
It {8 merely set up hera to show, in
such measure as geems fair and right,
the PLAN of campaign upon which
the Brownitea will proceed—with con
clustfons that may be drawn in re
gpect to it T have no concern.
Tn undertaking, then, to get the
Brown campaign in mind, get these
twoa tentative questions fixed firmly
{n the back of your hesd:
Do vou prefer a Senator who, first,
{s a Senator of the United States,
and then a Senator from Georgla, or
do you prefer a Senator who 18, firat,
g Senator from Georgia and then A
Senator of the United States?
The fight between Senator Smith
and Governor Brown is to ha made a
fight as to fitness. The Sm!th men
already have sald as much-—-and now
the Brown people are saying the
eame thing
Two Definltions of “Fltness.”
The definition of “fitness,” however,
will net be the same in the Brown
camp that it {s In the Smith eamp—
or the other way around, if you pre
for.
The question will be argued as the
matter of fitness touches the entire
problem of the NATION and as it
touches the diract interests of GROR
GIA. The answer may or may riot be
to tha Brown slde’s satisfaction
finally.
The Brown people are freely admit.
ting Senator Smith's nearness to the
White House, his reputation as a na
tlonal figure, and his ahility to cause
the Senate to “sit up and take no
tice” upon any and all sorts of oc
caxions,
But-—they ars asking—what can
{ndividual Georglans figure out to
thefr benefit from all of that, or to
the benefit of the Democracy?
The Brown slda will make an aps
peal—plainly enough--to the disaf
fected office seekers and their friends.
They will say that in the matter of
dlstributing Federal patronage Sena
tor Smith has been high-handed, ar
bitrary and intensely partisan.
Claim Unjust Treatment.
They claim that “he has run rough
shod” over his Georgia colleagues In
Congress, particularly in the matter
of patronage, turning down, time and
again, the nominations of his fellow
vepresentatives because their noml
nees were not, in all cases, branded
{ndelibly and primarily with the mark
of partisan friendship for the Sena
tor!
They are cla'ming, therefore. that
the Smith influence in the White
House, great as it admittedly IS, has
been used to disbar and outlaw all
Georgians of a contrary partisan
echool from that of Senator Smith,
and who may not always have been
of the Smith school; and that he has
gternly, doggedly and persistently re
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elears the air, burns up impurities; so
does 8. 8. 8. arouse action in the blood
It is cleansed, purifie! and Impurities
are converted into substance easily and
quickly eliminated
In the winter time we get our natu
ral purifying agency in fresh, cold, fros
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fect by habits of living And so we rely i
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for it is now that the liver, lungs, kid
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All such troubles as pimples, bolle, |
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other forms of impure bleod will tv‘
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will quickly replace the diseased tissue. |
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fused to recognize that Brown Dem
ocrats, Underwood Democrats, or any
other kind of Democrats save and ex
cepting Hoke Smith Democrats, have,
or have had, any rights In Washing
ton whatever!
The Brown folks, therefore, are
saying that such a Senator as Smith
has proved to be is NOT the sort of
Senator Georgia wants—be he ever
so powerful in debate or so persua
sive In the Presidentlal presence.
They say that 1t is all RIGHT for
Senator Smith to support the Pres!-
dent on natlonal {ssues—that all good
Democratic Senators should do that
-—but that {t is all WRONG for him
to use his great power and prestige
at the White House entirely to his
own (and his political machine’'s) bhe
hoof, so far as Georgia affairs are
concerned,
Smith's Friends Make Denlal.
Wherefors, the Brownites ask,
“Which do you prefer—a Senator who
will he first a Senator from Georgia
and then of the, rest of creation, or
first a Senator of the rest of creation
and THEN a Senator from Georgia?"
Do you get the idea?
And it may be, as the campalgn
progresses, that this same quentfim Is
to be pressed as It touches other
phases of Smith’s career in the Na
tional Capital!
The Smith people hold, however
and many people agree with this view
~-that Senator Smith has NOT mis
used his patronage prerogatives that
ha has, on the contrary, and because
of s standing with the President,
handled that matter with carefully
consldered tact and justice.
They realize that {nevitably he has
made SOME people “gore” bhecause of
‘the manner {n which Federal appoint
ments have been distributed—they
say that ALI, persons charged with
responsibllity In the matter of patron
‘age fall heir to this same misfortune,
even the President himself, with all
of his popularity and prestige.
The Smith peopla contend that the
mers matter of “soreness”, upon tha
part of a few Adisappointed office
soekery Is a«ffetty small ang petty
thing upon which to predicate a fignt
for a Senatorship —-and they, there
fore, express little alarm that the
Senator s to be defeated because of
the patronage {ssue
Brown's Task Blg.
T still think that Governor Brown
has a tremendously big task on hand
to defeat Senator Hoke Smith, and I
&till doubt that he WILL defeat him—
doubt it decidedly.
At the same tims, T am not one of
those who 1s 50 blind that he will not
see that Senator Smith is {n the mid
dle of a sure-enough fight to retain
his seat in Congress, and that {t jsn't
altogether written In the stars that he
WILL retain it.
Every person who has observed the
activities of the wvarious campalgn
headquarters in Atlanta of late knows
perfectly well that there were more
visitors at the Brown headquarters in
the Kimhall House last week than
there were at ALL of the other head
quarters combined!
It {sn't high treason, either, or any
thing of that kind, for me to say as
much. It is the TRUTH-—and that {s
all I am required to set down here, as
1 am able to see {t!
The race for the short-term Sena
torship shows little change from last
Sunday. It looks to me as If Govern
or Slaton has far and away the better
of that sftuation—and that he likely
will win, handily and decisively.
Running on “Even Keel.”
His campalgn is running on ™an
even keel” and reports from his
friends everywhere are most encour
aging. Certainly, he has gained
greatly of late, because of his clean
cut and unmistakable stand in favor
of a broad and unlimited parcel post,
as contrasted with Mr. Hardwick's
opposition thereto; and ALL efforts
to turn the greatest achlevement of
‘his administration—the passage of
the tax equalization act—against him
‘have failed, utterly and completely,
I do not see how it 1s possible now
for Mr. Hardwick to regain prestige
and strength sufficient to unhorse the
Governor, if, indeed, Mr. Hardwick
ever possessed the same
1 do not wish, however, to be iln
any manner unfair to Thomas S. Fel
der. It may be that his campaign is
making much flner progress than 1
am aware He, at least, expresses
himself as entirely satisfied with the |
h»n-wm status of hs fight.
| Felder's Fight Sagging.
Mr. Felder has not been campalgn
ing in the same vigorous and ham
‘mer-and-tongs fashion that Mr,
‘Hardwlck has, and it s possible that
the results of his work are not go ap
11\:\7':‘n(_ Maybe he is gathering much
strength-—it sometimes is gathered
that way—and mavbe s stronger
than seems to be indicated by surface
evidence.
It is true, however, that, so far
as current comment and observation
goes, and, at least, so far as expres
sions from the passing throng in At
lanta goes, Felder's campaign IS sag
ging badly—and has so sagged ever
since he sald whatever 1t was he real
v DID say in Grifin, in the early
stages of his fight.
Nor do 1 wish to have it thought
that 1 believe Mr. Hutchens is cut
ting no figure whatever in the short
term race I think he IS-—and 1
think he wil! get, princ’paliy perhaps
because of Mr. Watson's support,
many votes—but I d¢ NOT believe hle
has the remotest chance to be nomi
i nated
{ And, it might be stated, too, that
an interesting but not at all impor
tant circumstance of the short-term
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uffragists Arque
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Against Women |
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Riding in Trains
NI:;W YORK, July 18.—S8uf-/
¢ fragists are in the midst
! of a unique campaign of |
ism:re. The following from the
{ pen of Alice Duer Miller in The |
New York Tribune is a sample of /
! their activities: {
WHY WE OPPOSE WOMEN /
{ TRAVELING IN RAILWAY ¢
§ TRAINS. {
; I.—Because traveling In tralns |
5, is not a natural right. $
' 2.—Because our great-grand- §
! mothers never asked to travel in :
( trains. §
| 3.—Because woman's place Is in |
_the home, not In the train. §
{ 4~—Because It Is unnecessary; {
{ there Is no point reached by a ¢
| train that can not be reached on '
; foot. S
| s.—Because It wlll double the )
Z work of conductors, engineers and |
) brakemen, who are already over- ?
{ burdened. g
{ 6.—Because men smoke and
! play cards In trains. Is there any §
! reason to belleve women wlill be- {
have better? {
Senatorial situation 1s the perfect and
completa succesa attendant upon Can
didate “Bunk” Cooper's vociferous ef
forts to enact the role of :ampalgn
clown!
Race for Governor.
The CGovernorship race Is narrow
ing more and more every day. 1t ap
parently is glven up to be a fight be
tween Mr. Anderson, of Chatham, and
Judge Harrlg, of Bibb,
It generally is agreed that the biz
meeting held in Atlanta recently in
the interest of Mr. Anderson’s cam
paign, at which time W. W. Os
borne, his campalgn manager, pre
sided, was one of the most convine-
Ing arguments so far gubmitted of
the real progress being made by Mr.
Anderson.
It served to demonstrate ONE
thing clearly--the suggestion offered
early in the campalgn to the effect
that South Georgla would not back
Anderson was a mistake.
For a time it was not apparen’
that Mr. Anderson would be the only
South Georgia man running—but
since 1t has narrowed down to An
derson In that section, South Georgla
is rallying to him notlceably.
Indeed, as one Nurth Georgia news
paper recently expressed ft, North
Georgia seemingly desires to notify
South Georgia that if South Georgia
really means to stand up to its “fa
vorite son” this time, why, then,
North Georgia will cheerfully lend a
helping hand!
Unable to Pick Winner.
Tt looks as if North Georgia and
South Georgla are running strongly
to Anderson nowadays, while Mid
dle Georgia i= running just as strong
ly to Judge Harrls. |
Ylt would be an extremely hazard
ous undertaking to pick efther goh-‘
tleman at this time as a sure wir
ner—but it MTIGHT be safe enough
to wager a wee hit, anyway, that
one or the other will be the winner
eventually!
Partisans of Judge Harris claim
that he has captured the nomination
already, and that it is all over but
the shouting. Partisans of Mr. An
derson are just as enthuslastic in
claiming the earth and the fullness
thereof.
But—-palpably partisan statements
are not convincing, and it probably
is true that neither man has the race
won as yet.
As a matter of fact, there are
thousands of Georgians, so the com
ment of the hotel lobblas seems to
indicate, who have not yet made up
their minds which of thess two gen- |
tlemen they will support, {f either.
Broadly speaking, both are admit
ted to be mighty good gubernatorial
timber, and {t is the Impreulon‘
among manv that the State would be
run in a safe and sane manner, no
‘matter which of the two won the big |
prize contested for. ‘
| Harris’ Chances Not Good. |
| The cheap stuff about Judge Harris '
Deing a “fossil” and Mr. Anderson
belng “too near the interests”™ appar
‘ently moves few people. Both men
‘have clean, patriotie and worthy re-\
cords In public life. and both are
sons of Georgia of whom the State— |
the entire State—probably can af
ford to be genuinely proud. 1
Dr. Hardman's headquarters In
Atlanta professes to he most opti
mistte. Unquestionably, the doctor
WILIL get many votes—the total, in
deed, will be one of which he may be
in no wise ashamed, It does not seem
likely, however, that there are to be
0 very many Hardman delegates in
the convention—and the same may be
sald of Willlam J Harrls,
Mr. Harris' campaign never has
managed to ‘“get on its rfeet,” some
‘how or other.
He has many friends throughout
Georgin—a great many friends, and
wellwishers—but T have met preci
ous few who belleve he really has a
“look in” on the nomination—and I
‘have met only one man, excepting
' Mr. Harris himself, who professes to
belleve he will win,
It tsn't that “Bill” Harris is not all
right, clein and manly, either. It
somehow is that he—well, that he
'just naturally HASN'T shown that
form as a candidate that he was ex
pected to!
Incidentally, it may he stated (and
this is important), that the primary
which will settle all of this business
takes place exactly one month from
to-day!
.
Woman Suffrage Aide
.
Urged for Legislature
Attorney Leonard J. Grossman,
president of the Georgia Men's League
for Woman Suffrage, announced Sat
urday night that he is considering the
advisability of entering the political
arena as a candidate for the House of
' Representatives.
| Mr. Grossman was petitioned to
make the race by four suffrage or
ganizations with a membership of
1800 men and women of Fuiton
County. They are the Atlanta Equal
Suffrage Association, the Georgia
Woman Suffrage Association. the
{ Woman Suffrage Party and the Sec
jond Ward Suffrage Association. He
z\\i‘x: make known his intentions at the
| convention of the Georgia Woman
Suffrage Association, which will be
heid in Atlanta July 2L .
AEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1914
Union Labor Replies to Brown‘
InOpenLetterSharply Worded
Continued From Page 1.
satraps, denouncing him and them in
flaming, indignant - and eloquent
words, and declaring the era that
Joseph M. Brown was attempting to
usher In was fraught with more dan
ger to the people of Georgia, more
subversive of constitutional rights,
more destructive of the principles of
the great Magna Charta for which
our English forbears go nobly died,
thun ths radical era of military usur
pation at the close of the Clvil War,
which brought forth from the immor
tal Benjamin Harvey Hlill his famous
“Notes ofi the Situation,” which then
saved the bleeding and prostrate
South,
And Mr. Watson, stating that he
who had “worn himself out to a fraz
zle” in helping to elect the Governor,
and for whom he had vouched to the
peope of Georgia in public addresses
in nearly every mill district in the
State, begged the Governor to quit
violating the law; to digband his mili
tary; that the Sheriff of Richmond
County (a gallant Confederate vet
eran) was amply able to command the
peace; and that his (the Governor’s)
fatuous, fatal scheme of things was a
menace to American liberties and
American institutions.
Mr. Watson's friend, Governor
Brown, has not recanted his false and
dangerous heresies. The keynote of
his recent letters, and of his patform,
shows that he 1s stlil obsessed with
the dangerous notion of millitary as
cendency over civil law.
“Organized Labor Is Not Foreign
In order to create prejudice, the ex-
Governor declares that organized la
bor is a “foreign importation.” We
say it Is not.
In Georgia, fully 95 per cent are
natlve Americans of good old Anglo-
Saxon stock. G o
Barring, possibly, the Miners’ Union, |
every labor organization in the United
States Is composed chiefly of Ameri
can cltizens,
A “foreign importation?” What
does he mean by that? From the
earliest ages, wherever and whenever
men were not ahject glaves, some sort
of labor unlonism prevailed. It was
sn in anclent Rome and Greece—in
their golden eras of greatest llberty
and power; the labor guilds were the
chief malnstay of the English barons
in thelr fight for Magna Charta; and
across the English Channel, they
struggled against the tyrannies of the
kings of France, making possible the
ibertjes of which Frenchmen boast to
day.
It was the nrganized crafts of Bos
ton. and other points in New England,
which, in large part, constituted the
“minute men” of the Revolution, and
who o grandly alded in securing our
independence.
And even the Miners’ Unfon had for
vears at Its head a native-born citi
zen, a man of large braln, of great
henrt, of exalted patriotism—a man
whom the bhest and most exalted peo
ple in the world respect and honor—
the man who refused the offer of the
Pemocratie nomination for the Vice
Presidency-—John Mitchell.
Orpanized Labor Not Lawless.
Tx-Governor Brown save organized
lahor 1g lawless and anarchistie. The
anly partieular instance eited In.-his
“platform” is the Colorado mine “war.”
Wa frankly admit that American
workingmen, In . their struggles
amainet greed and tvranny to secure
a llving wage, and shorter hours. and
hetter working conditions, do things
cometimes altogether regrettable—
things that were better left undone.
Qa do all other large human aggrega
tlons struggling for a cause, however
meritorins, vea, even divine.
The church of God has often arred,
has done grievois things in the name
of tha blessed Christ.
It in a wealkness inherent fn hu
manity.
None of us are perfect, or alto
gother law-abiding. As heretofore
chown, even “Little Joe.” In his crude,
ahortive efforts to uphold what he er
roneously concefved to ba law, vio
ated the aw, ran roughshod over
constitutions and statutes.
Wa onlv know that organized labor
s the only practical method vet de
vised by the bratnz of freemen to
got a modicum of justice in their
atruggle for bread In our industrial
life.
We further know that orsanized
lahor. instead of being anarchistic, as
“Tittla Joe" declares, is a great con
servative force. By the only practi
cal principle of “collective bargain
ing.” thousands of strikes and other
Alsagreements are averted, which
wonld otherwisa cccur hetween large
hodles nf unorganized employees and
their emplovers, -~
Qtatistics Indubltahy show that not
5 per cent of the milllons of organized
working peonla go on strike Aurine
the years which coma and o, and
‘hat strikes are growing less frequent
in the passing vears
Immligration Laws.
The ex-(Governor mavs in his nlat
form that he iz in favor of stricter
fmmieration lawe
Does he not know that the Ameri
can TFederation of Yabdor has for
twenty vears been the one hig active
agency annealing for better immiera
tion laws? The great corporations
want the “open door” kept open S 0
as to continue to bring in the pauper
lahor of FTurona to cheapan and beat
down the wages of American work
ingmen. That was the trouble at
Walker County, Georsia Georela
horn miners were supplanted by Ttal
fans hired from the slums of the
Fast Side, New York Citv, by “Little
Joe's” personal and nolitical friends,
the owners of the mines,
Then why should this little man
condemn and criticise organized labor
bhecanse his friends and allles and the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
bring in foreigners to take the jobs
of American citizens?
1t is true that, in self-defense, and
as matter of common sense. the mine
vnions endeavor to unionize the best
of them to keep them from being
used as clubs to destroyjnative-born
workers.
Compulsory Arbitration,
“I,ittle Joe” savs that if elected he
will work for the passage of compul
sorv arbitration laws. He says that
fe the way to put a stop to strikes
and alleged lawlessness of strikers
And he would compel labor unions to
incorporate
Well. organized labor has alwavs
heen in favor of mediation and arbi
tration of labor disputes. In nine
cases out of ten when strikes are
trreatened or occur, it is the employ
ees who freely offer to submit their
grievances to fair. unhlased arbitra
tion. In mine cases out of ten it is
| the “bullhead” corporation (as Wat
isun termed the Georgia Raflroad In
[?*:s Jeffersonian, attacking the ex
| Governor's unlawful use of the mili
tary) which trucculently declares:
| “There is nothing to arbitrate!™
| Witness the pending strike of the
mill operatives of Atlanta and the
lnlusal of the Elsases to arbitrate. It
{s the employee out of a job, with his
empty dinenr pail and empty stom
ach, who suffers most in strikes. In
nine cases out of ten striking employ
oes have real, not fancied, grievances.
But this talk of compulsory arbi
tration in the despotic sense which
ex-Governor Brown would inaugu
rate is just a little wild.
Mediation, yes. Friendly, impartial
arbitration, certainly. The white
light of publicity to beat upon em
ployers or employees who refuse to
abide the findings of such boards—
most assuredly, In few Instances
would elther dare to reject the find
ings of such impartial boards.
But compulsory arbitration, in the
sense that any law can be passed by
State or Federal law-making body,
which can compel an employer to
entploy those he does not wish to
employ, and which wil compel any
workingman to work for any em
ployer any longer than he is willing
to do so, passes our comprehension.
No compulsory arbitration law can
ever be passed in free America, and
at the same time be constitutional.
Involuntary servitude, except for
punishment for erime, is unthinkable.
Compulsory arbitration laws are
mere figments of the brain of un
thinking people—it can not and will
not work out in actual practice.
It is merely an illustraion of loose
talking and loose thinking, which,
if attempted to be carried into literal
execution, would utterly fail.
And if labor unions can be com
pelled to incorporate, so can farmers'’
unions and other organizations, for
the law can not discriminate against
one in favor of the others, as they
all have one common object, the
mutual betterment of their members.
Better far that the real friends of
progress and human uplift shonld in
augurate a propaganda of juster
treatment of the man who earns his
bread In the sweat of his face; of
kindller relations between employee
and employer, based upon a falrer
division of the joint profits or pro
ducts of capital and labor; and that
when they disagree, to leave their
disputes to friendly and impartial
madiation boards, than to indulge in
:;mseless talk of compulsory arbitra
on.
“Cheap Bid for Farmers' Votes.”
The Ex-Governor (who, like “Joey
B.” of Dickens fame), thinks he is
“devilish slv,” speaks of the “wide
difference between such organizations
as the Masons or Knights of Pythias
or Farmers’ Union,” etc., and organ
-Ized labor. Aha! “It is to laugh!”
Of course, there is no particular
_simflarity between either labor’ un
fons and farmers' unions, and such
fraternal and beneficent orders as the
Masons and Knights of Pythias, etc.
“Little Joe” mereiy waiited an ex
cuse to mention the Farmers’ Union,
in order to try and prejudice the
country urdonist against the city un
fonist, But his little game won't
work!
While we do not pretend to speak
for the Farmera' Union, having no
more authority in that behalf than
has “Little Joe,” yet we confidently
belleve that our co-laborers and un
fonists of the farm will gee through
his little game. |
We belleve that the members of the
Farmers' Union—that 18, the rank‘
and file who have no political axes
to grind—clearly recognize that they
are allied by a certain community of
Interests, “strong as Heoly Writ,” with
their urban brothers in toil
Certainly organized labor feels
most kindly toward the Farmers'
Union.
We have eco-operated with them
in many ways for mutual protection.
Shoulder to shoulder we have
fought with them at Washington to
prevent farmers’ and labor organiza
tions from being unjustlv declared to
be “trusts” under the Sherman law,
or to be placed in such unfair cate
gory in the pending Clayton bill in
Congress.
By aid of the union label, it has‘
been our pleasure in many sections
of Georgla to patronize Farmers’
Union members in the sale of their
farm products.
The Farmers’ Union, as we un
derstand the principles and purposes
of that splendid organization, are co
operating, as we are, to get fair re
turns for the frults of their toil
To crush one organization would
probably mean in the end the undo
ing of the other.
One can not be the sworn enemy
of the one and a true friend of the
other.
And, unless we are very mistaken,
the cunning efforts of the Ex-Gover
nor to seek to met the votes of the
Farmers’ Union by endeavoring to
prejudice union labor in their eyes
will *rall utterly flat. ‘
We briefly refer to the grossly un- |
{ust effort of Ex-Governor Brown to
ug in the negro in order to further
prejudice organized labor.
The “nigger” question {s generally
the last and most desperate resort of
demagogues to win votes,
“Little Joe” says organized labor
fe “afMliated” with negroes, and help
ing them form unions, and that this
will lead to “social equality.”
A more false and cowardly asser
tion has never been made. ‘Little
Joe” knows that there {s not a single
white labor unionist in Georgla, or
the South, who would stand for that
gort of thing.
We know, of course, that this is *“a
‘white man’s country.” We know that
God Almighty made the white race
superior to the black race. We know
‘that there never can be, there never
'should be, social equality between the
iwhites and blacks. We, the organized
labor white men of the South, would
‘shed the last drop of blood in our
‘veins hefore we would submit to that
| indignity.
~ The negroes know this as well as
'does “Little Joe.” There has never
been, there will never be, any letting
ldown of the bars on that score in the
dealings bdetween white labor unions
and negro labor unions.
. Ninety-eight per cent of organized
’hhar in Georgia is composed of white
people.
l It is true that we see no harm in
negroes forming unions among them
’sel\'es in certain of the trades. They
are human beings. Whatever will
tend to make better citizens of them
selves benefits not only the black race,
but the whites. The best white people
in the South hold forth a helping hand
to this unfortunate people in things
material and moral.
This is as it should be. And {f,
as in the case of the whites, the
blacks can better their moral and ma.
terial condition by forming co-opera
tive labor organizations among them
selves, we say, in God's name, let
‘zhem do it. Besldes, if we were ut
terly heartless and wisthed to treat
them worse thap brutes, we would
gtil! want to see them organized where
their labor would not be used as a
club to beat our wages down—swhere
'white employers could not use thmj
as "scabs” and "strike-breakers” We
are sure our white fellow-citizens
agree with us, and that this puerile,
contemptible effort on the part of the
ex-Governor to arouse the prejudices
of the country voter will fail to its
unworthy purpose.
Ex-Governor Brown cnarges that or
ganized labor sets its union above
“the great seal of the State.” Such
charge is absurd. Positively pusil
lanimous. The members of labor
unions have sense and patriotism
enough to know that the laws of the
nation and State are supreme over
any organization whatsoever,
In every community in America it
{s well known that the organized
workmen are among the most skilled,
intelligent, respectable and law-abid
ing of the various crafts, trades and
vocations. It is so in Georgia. It is
s 0 everywhere. And the little man
from Marietta knows it. His con
stant reference to the sacrosanct
character of “the great seal of State”
is very touching. It has served to
round off many an_eloquent period in
his multitudinous polemics.
But his silly attempt to characterize
thousands of hig fellow-citizens as
law-breakers and anarchists, etc., be
cause here and there violence is
shown In strikes, will fail of its grace
less purpose, viz., to get votes.
~As heretofore shown, “Little Joe”
himself, violated the law in his wan
ton, unconstitutional use of the mill
tary. And so dild Ammons, of Colo
rado. Ditto, Glasscock ,of West Vir
ginia. As to the horrors perpetrated
by the mine owners and Glasecbck's
militia, in the Paint Creek district of
West Virginia, sea the condemnatory
report of the Congressional commit
tee, recently published. The Waest
Virginia “death speclals” were quite
as murderous as those of the Colorado
horror,
Glasscock! Ammons! Brown!
Truly, a great triumvirate.
It is such men as these, inveterate
mossback reactionaries, who would
set back the clock of progress a hun
dred years,
Given power, they would plunge
the country in seas of blood, through
their shortsighted, misguided poli
cles.
Let the ex-Governor (for we bear
him no malice) take a day off and
commune with himself. He will per
haps see the grievous errors of his
ways political.
We will rightly conclude that men
are not successfully led or driven by
hate and bitterness, inspired either
by efforts to acquire or by that un
holy political ambition which for
gelfish ends would sow the dragon's
teeth of discord and prejudice among
different classes of smociety. He will
thus become a wiser and a better
man, and be deserving of the great
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