Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-04-16
The Atlanta Journals Desperation
(Valdosta Times.)

The Atlanta Journal a few days
ago, paid no attention to the candi-
dacy of Mr. Joseph M. Brown. 1t
hooted at the idea of his opposing
the man who rode in on tide two
years ago. 1t forgot that tides ebb
and flow and that the wave that
swept it's man into power might
sweep its man out. 1t, therefore, treat
ed Mr.. Brown as coke" 1t ridi-
Guided his personal appearance, as
though that were a bar to a mans
holding office.
1t treated him with silent con-
tempt" A man who had been kick
ed out" of office by it's candidate
| after the only tribunal to which he
might appeal had been adjourned
was not worthy of notice But as the
tide began to move outward and the
| straw ballots began to come in,
! it changed its policy, which by the
way is an easy thing to do. 1t be-
gan to call upon the little man. to
come out on the hustlings and make
a noise" Join the Governor in a
joint debate But little Joe" said
in~the beginning that his campaign
was not to be scramble for votes.
1t is to be educative. He would issue
| his "amplified statement" in due
| time and the Journal could gnaW
| upon it.
The reports from different sections
Of the state brought tidings Of dis
| tress and great dissatisfaction among
| the masses of the people. The wheels
of industry are clogged and business
| depression had brought hunger to
wives and children whose husbands
| I
what it was to be without a job.
| Many who have work are working
| at reduced wages, or shorter hours
or fewer days, and all as a result of
| the senseless warfare that has been
made upon the investors of money,
| upon foreign wealth" and the great
| highways that employ labor and carry
| our products to the markets of the
| world
| The Journal hears the rumblings
| of discomfort among the people. 1t
| hears talk of a change and it sees
| an Overwhelming number of people
| in Georgia align themselves under
| the Joe Brown banner. 1t raises it's
| old cry about the "whiskey ring"
| negro domination and the railroads
| to brighten the timid. 1t knows that
| the voters in all parts of Georgia,
! who have decided to vote for Mr..
| Brown have done so without infiu-
| ence from any outside source, and it
| is an insult to their intelligence to
| bring such an accusation against
| them. The Journal utters a Islander
| upon the people of Georgia to say
that anything but the revolutionary
| ideas of Gov. Smith and their disas-
| trous results have had thing to do
| with the uprising against him.
Mr.. Joseph M. Brown has no great
newspaper to meet the Atlanta Jour
| nal in a slandering match, even if
| he were disposed to meet it that way,
| but we believe that he can leave his
| cause with the voters of the state,
who are not received always. There
| is a spirit Of fair-minded manhood
| and Christian chiyalry in this state
| that will not stand for such a cam
| paign as the Journal has taken as a
| substitute for its silent contempt
| policy
In the meantime the hutter of the
| birds usually shows which ones are
wounded. The Journals great cutlery
| is only the shrek of desperation that
| goes up from the drowning man.