The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-11-01
BRANTLgYs GREAT SPEECH.

me notable address of Congressman
Brantley, delivered at the democratic
rally at the city han on Friday night.
was one of the most eloquent. yet
forcefuI and vigorous arraignments of
republican policies we have had the
pleasure Of hearing in many years. 1t
is a great pity that the Grafton in
question could not be put in pham-
phlet form and scattered broadcast
over the country. 1t was a vot1maker
and was such an utterance that Of
necessity must cause the thoughtful
mind to pause and reflect on the wild
and dangerous pace in which the ma
ton is moving to ruin at the instance
Of q corrupt political oligarchy. the
Blaything Of the moneyed barons and
The protected owners Of predatory
wealth and ill-gotten gains. The re-
buke delivered to the promoters Of
he TAFT Prosperity club in Georgia
and elsewhere in the south was timely
and opportune As The News mas said
IN frequent occasions in this cam
paign, Mr. Brantley was at a loss to
understand how Taft could bring to
the country any degree Of prosperity !
when Taftism had destroyed that very |
article, when It was at the flood tide
of its presence The class of pros
perity was also located by Mr. Brant-
ley, as belonging to federal oGicehold-
ers in the state. consisting of feastz
at the piecounter. soon to vanish in
the event Of the failure of the repub-
lican party.
The News compliments the brilliant
on the attitude he has
assumed with reference to this new
brand Of Taftism, which has found
It's way into Georgia, generated by the
republican party of the east and fan
ned into existence by the enemies Of
southern institutions In the south. He
voiced absolutely the sentiment Of
The News In his peroration when he
declared that as long as memory lasts
he would be found in the ranks Of the
democratic party. Taft Prosperity
clubs or not.
And he is correct!
Beware of the Greeks bearing
gifts. How long since has the party
that presents William Howard Taft
to the American people been the friend
of the south? Is it not the same party
that sent Thad Stevens to this same
southland OF ours with a mission to
destroy. humiliate and degrade? Is
it not the same party that fastened
the pernicious carpet Dagger, and
through him the negro, on the people
OF the south Immediately after the
civil war, and that too at a time when
this section of the country was a dew
astated wilderness made so at the
hands and through the fundamentally
of this seft- same republican party?
Do our friends who have been led
into new and unsound political anchor
age grounds so easily forget the at
tempt of the republican party to bur
den the people of the south with the
Ubiquitous force bill, which meant fed
eral bayonets at elections held in the
south?
Have they overlooked the fact that
at the last session of congress the
republican party arbitrarily passed a
bill il the lower house, providing for
a decrease in southern representation /
in congress and in the electoral col |
lege, and that it was only killed in
the senate because democratic mem |
bers Of that body literally talked it
to death?
Oh, the softness, the piGle of it
all!
Congressman Brantley also exposed !
the corruption of the So called pro |
tective" tariff, of the extravagancies |
of the government in the matter of
war and pension appropriations, etc.
Ii was an able, clear indictment of
a corrupt political dynasty and it ought
to bear good fruit
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