The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-10-14
interesting Interview with
the Congressman on Po-
liticaI Situation
Duly OF ALL DEMOCRATS
They viii Have to Get Majority Of
All Votes Cast in the National
Election and There are Four
Tickets in the Field.

Congressman Brantley was seen by
q representative of The News yester
day and he talked very interestingly
of the political situation. The con
eressman says that the democrats in
Georgia do not realize the Importance
OF big vote in the November election
and he urges them to register and
vote. During the conversation Mr..
Brantley said:
On November 8tb next the presiden.
tial and congressional election occurs,
and | am afraid that some OF our dem
oorats are not giving as much atten.
ton and consideration to it as it's i'm
portance requires. There are five
presidential electoral tickets to be vot.
cd on in our state, towit: Democrat.
is republican, popuIist, prohibition
and socialist and, under the law, the
electoral ticket that carries Georgia
must receive a majority OF all the
votes cast.
We all know that the republican
ticket will receive a considerable vote
and that the prohibition and socialist
ticket will got some votes. No one
appears to be able to estimate the
vote that will be cast for the populist
ticket, but great many believe that
it will receive a large vote. Mr.. Wat
son IL quoted in the public prints as
claiming that his ticket will carry
Georgia.
One thing appears to be evident,
and that is, unless the democrats turn
out better on November 8th than they
did at the state election this month,
the democratic ticket will not receive
the requisite majority vote.
There is no question about Georgia
being overwhelmingly democratic, and
there is no question about the Elev-
enth district being Overwhelmingly
democratic. Neihter the state nor the
district. however, will be democratic
or election day unless democrats vote.
My information is that in Or district
there was but small negro registra-
tion for the state election, but that
the negroes have been constantly reg
istering since the state election. The
tax collector of Glynn county informs
me that he has recently registered
negroes who paid as high as twenty
and twenty-four dollars each of back
taxes in order to register. We have
now registered in Glynn county lit
tie more than six hundred white vot-
ers, with more than two hundred ne
gro voters have registered and there
will probably be many more OF them
to register before the registration
books close.
The white registration is ridiculous
~ small and there is not much time in
which to increase it. The registra-
ton books close on the 18th of this
month, and very much hope that
scme effort will be made to induce a
larger white registration before the
books close.
My information from other counties
IL the district is that, in some of
them, there is quite a large negro reg.
istration. / have a letter this morn
ing advising me that in one county
alone nine hundred and thirty negro
voters have already registered.
The Eleventh district is so strong
ly democratic that the possibility of
anybody but democrat being elected
to represent it in congress does not
CT cur to many people. Perhaps, many
Of our people do not even know that
there is a republican candidate in the
field this year, and yet, Mr.. A. b. Fin
ley, of Douglas, is such candidate
and is flooding the district with repub-
lioan literature. If we only had demo-
cratic and republican electoral tick
cts In the field, there could be no pos
sible question as to the outcome OF
the election, but with three other cleo
toral tickets to be voted on, and
among them the populist ticket, we
have no way Of telling on how many
OF these other electoral tickets the
name Of the republican candidate for
congress will appear.
We should not only avoid trouble,
Tut even the possibility Of trouble,
and the only way to do this is for
all the democrats in the district to
register and turn out and vote on cleo
ton day.
There is another thought to which
the attention of our people should be
called and that is, IL the next house Of
! representatives is republican by 9