Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-14

P. d. Wright, brother of Hon.
Seaborn Wright, has declared for
Hon. Joseph M Brown for governor,
in statement in which he says:
What was the condition of the
business interests of Georgia, when
Governor Smith was made governor?
How stood the manufacturing, the
laboring and farming interests of
the country? Were they not taxing
the railroads to their last limit to
move their products and give them
employment? Were not the railroads
leaping out in all directions and de-
veloping the country? Was not for
eign capital flowing south and the
greatest prosperity in the history of
the nation browning the efforts and
energies of the people in every ave-
nue. of commercial industry? Look
today at the thousands of industries
that have closed their operations, the
thousands of laboring people that are
begging for work to keep the wolf
from the door. Look at the farmer
who produces the food we eat and the
rainment we wear, who is now askedto
sell his cotton at something like the
cost of production. But they say you
can't fool the farmer, that it is the
organic law of supply and demand
and that is bringing down me price of
cotton, that if it is not this it is the
result of stock gambling. This is one
time the stock gamblers failed to get
in their lick first. The price of cot
ton today and the thousands of par
alyzed industries is traceable in my
Judgment to a great extent to lot OF
demagogues, who are seeking the APP
plause and support of the masses by
appealing to their prejudices and pas
sions. widening the breach of capt.
tai and antagonizing the efforts and
conservative business methods OF the
country.
Can we safely trust the business in
terests of Georgia to these so called
reformers? Will not the election of
Governor Smith continue to disrupt
and antagonize and in this way con-
tinue to block the channels of capt.
tai that has been flowing from the
north and east into Georgia, who by
their investments in railroads and
productive industries were tunneling
our mountains, developing our rich
fields of coal, iron and timber and
Harvesting our streams for power to
better enable the south to push her
manufacturing industries and give to
thousands of laborers a just reward
for their toll and sweat? This is the
one great question now before the
people, shall we continue to develop?
Shall we continue to open new helds
for labor? Shall we serve the best
interests of the farmer, upon whose
shoulders rests the burden of feeding
the world and shall we encourage
foreign capital, by conservative and
business methods, and in this way
overcome the possibility of panics and
save the destruction at least OF the
value of the products of the farmer
and the legitimate value of the la
borer?
las | have already said, it is no
longer a question of prohibition. Many
god and honest statewide prohibi-
tionists understand this question ell
minated
I'm this campaign there is no
question of disfranchisement. If the
negro continues to vote, it will be
| the verdict of the people that gives
him the right This question, with
| that of prohibition, is not an issue in
| this campaign, and it is not the many
other insignificant side issues you are
| using in your appeal to the people
that demand the attention of the
people 1t is the one all-absorbing
question, shall We bring back to the
state the prosperity it deserves, start
again the wheels of industry, bring
| back to the farmer a legitimate price
| for his cotton, give labor chance to
| feed, clothe, and educate their little
ones, give US a network of railroads
in the south? Let us deal honestly
| and conservatively and in business
way with all interests, that we may
| demonstrate that in unity there is
| strength, and that the states good
and prosperity depend upon the CO.
| operation of capital and labor and
the preservation of the union of in
| terests of corporations, farmers, la
| borers manufacturers, and all other
| classes and institutions, and when we
have done this, in my judgment, il
will have been done through the con-
| sentative and business-like methods
now advocated by Joe Brown