The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1906-10-10
The PLATFORM ADOPTED AT
THE PEOPLES MASS MEETING.

The mass meeting held Monday
night by the citizens generally to
name a ticket for mayor and members
of the city council to be submitted
to the white primary to be held ut
the call of the city democratic execu-
tive committee had the forethOught
to adopt a platform of principles upoa
which TO make its fight. In these
days in the game Of politics it has
become to be a self evident fact that
the party with a sound platform gen
orally wins The people have learned
to study the many perplexing econc-
mic problems of the day; they have
learned to do some thinking on theii
own account and we are really pleas.
ed that the mass meeting has gone -
the people with a broad and com
prehensiye platform of principles.
The question OF municipal owner
ship is now live one in every CITY
in the United States. and likewise is
attracting great attention in Bruins
wick The mass meeting has declar-
ed for that plan with reference to
the public utilities here in Brunswick
and we are inclined to endorse that
section of the platform.
The great city of New York came
within a rev hundred votes of elect
ing a candidate for mayor committed
to that very idea in the last munic,
pal election, and the indications are
That the plan will prevail the next
time Gotham go to the polls. AT
lanta is in the throes of Just such .
fight, and as we stated above the
entire country is giving its ear to it.
The platform is also broad in It's
treatment of other matters of public
interest and is one upon which an
real good citizen who has the inter
est of mis- city al heart can wcll al
lord to stand
For the information of the public
and in order that all people may have
a second opportunity to study it, we
are going TO print that platform again
this morning and we cordially invite
the voters and tax payers of Bruins
wick generally to give ii few mo-
ment3 sound study and see Il they
can not adopt It,
Here it is:
Whereas. Brunswick is now in the
midst OF the greatest industrial
growth in her history, in which tbs
entire people should join and whereas
in the past the proper spirit of pro
gress and enterprise has not beer
displayed in the matter of permanent
DEVELOPMENT In this city, be it, and il
is hereby
Resolved, BY the taxpayers ane
voters of Brunswick, in mass-meetins
assembled, That the people of this
city view with pleasure the tendenc,
of the times toward municipal owner
ship Of public utilities, as a safe
sound and expedient move towards :
healthier civic growth and develop
ment and that they favor the opera
ton Of such a plan in the city o
Brunswick with reference to electric
lights gas and water utilities. Be i
further
Resolved, That it is the sense o.
this meeting of the electorate OF the
city Of Brunswick. that the present
franchise covering electric lights, gas
lights and water be not further ex
tended for the reasons named above
Be It also resolved, That this mass
meeting of the people OF Brunswick
pledges its nominees FOR mayor an.
aldermen to an administration of the
public veal TO be characterized by !
genuine spirit OF Progress and Pros
perity"; liberal treatment of legiu
mate CAPITAL seeking investment here;
to the general upbuilding of Bruins
wick upon broad and comprehensive
lines II is also
Resolved. That the voters and tax
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