The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-06
CAPT. SLADE ON THE
GUBERNATORIAL RACE

Au''o' Columbus Ledger: What
DO we owe Joseph M. Brown that To-
his sake we would disturb tho 49,
edent of the democracy in caorri
of letting the governor serve 80
successive terms, a precedent ~.
presents the least of all the c,ains
Governor Smith has to the seoons
term?
Has Mr.. Brown ever done anvtbinn
for the state or people that sets biro
above any other citizen for the nlaco9
Thousands of men not prominent ara
there who are competent businoss
men, thing he is especially deAc;ont
in, having been fired from everv Of
fee or trust he ever held. He sets ~,
no higher claim to the Succession
than that ne must cut Smith out as
satisfaction for personal grievance
He must be made governor for hi.
vindication. Georgia does NOT choouo
governors to vindicate a man uo
must come and ask the place for tbo
personal sacrifices he has sunoros
for the state or her people. or with
the promises OF some good or ;no
proVement which the people demand
or the correction of evils undor 49,
burden of which the people suffar
and ask relief.
An 0nNQStnr'c notri0%;o
untarnished honor inspiring hope Of
relief under oppression, a fathers
glorious record, a pillar of cloud hv
day and a pillar of fire by night IN
lead the people out of oppression
sometimes furnishes a magnanimoug
generous, talented son, known to he
equal to every demand of business
and capable of trusts, claim upon
people for political honors and
places of trust: for there is as much
in the blood of men as there is in
the blood of horses.
suppose we test Joe NJ by the rec.
ord of his ancestor, Joseph E., three
times democratic governor of Geor-
gia just before and during the Con-
federate war.
While the white south was suffer-
ing under the damnable congression-
al reconstruction, made repulsiyely
effective by two vultures upon our
southern body polite, the scalawag
and the carpetbagger, Joseph E., the
three-timeS democratic governor OF
Georgia turned scalawag and accent
ed federal appointment of justice of
the supreme court of Georgia. Many
of the purest and best of the Georgia
bar would not plead before him, but
advised and accomplished settlement,
without appeal, to avoid having to
plead under his jurisdiction.
During the time he was chief jus
tfce of the supremeIcodrt, so appoint
ed on the 18th of August, 1868, he
made speech to a large assembly
of negroes, in Atlanta, in which he is
reported to have said: "The object
of the democracy is to destroy negro
suffrage in the south.
When did you ever hear of 4, 000,-
600 free men with the ballot in their
hands surrendering it without blood
shed? They would be less than men
if they did.
IF you let them alone they will
vote peaceably; if you don't, my
white friends, you will provoke a
state of things in which you will be
the greatest sufferers. Your houses,
your villages, your towns are pledg-
ed to peace! There are 10000 white
republicans in Georgia-there are
10000 of you, my colored friends
This same Joseph E. Brown prose-
cuted the Columbus prisoners, some
Of her best and highest toned young
men, for fee of IS, 900, treating the
lady witnesses in the most ungentle-
manly manner, ladies whose parents
had shown him unstinted hospitality
whenever as a candidate for governor
he visited our city. Subsequently he
excused himself for taking the 5000
fee by saying he took 1t from the
United States government intending
to save the lives of those young men.
A disgraceful acknowledgment that
should have caused him to be as
barred, an infamous confession for
an attorney.
1t is this father that gives Joseph
M. right to claim the Office Of govern
or of Georgia, God save the mark!
He died rich. Joseph M. was founu
incompetent to do other than waste
the estate, and the legatees had MN
fired from the administration for
wasting the estate.
THE fathers have eaten sour
grapes, and the children's teeth are
put on edge"
The party supporting Joseph M. Is
the party opposed to disfranchlse-
ment of the incompetent negro. ms
sounds as an echo from Joseph H.,
The object of rhe democrats is "
take the ballot from the negro.
JAMES J. SLADE.
LET IT'S HAVE a LOOK AT HIM.