Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-08-13

for the minutes of the Railroad Com.
mission show that when the various
amendments had been voted upon and
disposed of and the only question be.
fore the commission was that of re-
ducing railroad fares, Commissioner
Joseph M. Brown voted mo" and the
reductions were made in spite OF his
vote.
Claims Raised Price of Cotton.
In the big circular referred to the;
absurd claim is made that Governor
Brown has raised the price of cotton,
to 1914 cents. !,
This claim Is an insult to the intel
ligence of the farmers, but it is on a.
level with the other claims and the
methods OF the politicians who are il
charge of Brown headquarters. Have
the farmers of Georgia received any
more for their cotton than was re
ceived by the farmers OF Texas ano
all the other southern states?
The Farmers Union News, the Off
cial organ of the Farmers Union, in
it's issue of August 3, 1910, denounces
this political clap-trap OF the Brown
politicians. In a double-column edi
torial headed Politicians Claiming
Credit for Better Prices" it says:
Politicians Claiming the Credit for Better
Prices.
Gust as was predicted in the columns
OF this paper several months ago, the
ever watchful politicians from Florida to
Texas, who seek for an excuse for re.
election, will be and are, claiming credit
for higher prices of farm products. You
never hear the politicians giving the Far
mers Union credit for anything.
Cotton was selling for six cents per
pound six years ago, when the Farmers
We succeeded in raising the price Of cot
ton to ten cents, then to twelve, and this
last season we could sell it at fifteen
cents. 1t has sold as high as sixteen and
one-half cents, and in the face of these
facts you will find politicians going out OF
their way to claim credit for this raise in
prices. II better times, in any State are
due to the administration, it certainly
is the administration preceding the one
in which the good times occur.
THE politicians will not be able to fool
many folk with this guile; they know and
ought to know that we. know that no
State administrations affects the prices
of cotton and other farm products, and
cotton growers by claiming the RESPONSE
bility for higher prices for cotton.
suc he oFP qatSa4 WIG s3kks hs G aot
pace, with the intellectual awakening
which the Farmers Union has wrought
amQng the tillers of the soil. Every
WneTe the farmers VIII De IOunQ resent
ing such insults to their intelligence, and
the politician who attempts It will lose
hundreds of votes among the farmers.
I'VE call upon our readers 10 look about
them and see who is trying to stuff them
with such rot. The attempt is being
made, and we have the evidence We
are notifying the farmers; they don't
have to take our word for it, but if they
will notice their weekly papers and cam
paign literature, they will see that the
attempt we mention is being made"
Governor Brown claims that he was
elected by the farmers of Georgia. II
so why does he feed them upon such
chaff as that he has raised the price
of cotton, that he has done for them
that which they know they have done
for themselves, assisted by the grow.
ing demand for our great staple in
all the countries of the globe. Why
does he not tell the farmers frankly
and truthfully that his administration
has done nothing for ghem except to
tax their dogs?
Browns Treasury Always "Broke."
For business methods compare the
administration of Governor Hoke
Smith with that of his successor. No
suggestion of bond issue by Hoke
Smith, and despite the loss of quar-
ter of a million dollars of revenue
from liquor licenses, and the increase
in the appropriation for education, ev-
cry obligation was met as it matured
and the surplus was increased about
100000; while Governor Brown, af-
ter a little more than year in office
sent to the Legislature on August
special message announcing that by
September l the State Treasury would
be practically empty
Wonderful man, who can raise the
price of cotton throughout the civil
lied world and bring prosperity to all
North America, but who can not man
age the finances of the State without
the incessant cry that the treasury is
"breke."
Would Not Buy Terminals.
The Legislature of 1909, desiring to
protect the interests of the Western
and Atlantic railroad, directed him to
purchase certain terminal properties.
in the edge of Chattanooga, but he re-
fused to do so, on the ground that the,
State did not have the money; but
when the Legislature demanded a.
better reason he declared he had re-,
fused to buy because thirtyfour years,
ago, when the heart of Chattanooga
was flooded by an overflow of the,
Tennessee river, and the floor of the
passenger depot itself was submerged,
the property in question was alsoi
partly under water. Yet people are
today building homes on that land.
Campaign of Bluff and Deception.
This campaign of bluff and buster,
deception and humbuggery, has taken
the form of interviews and statements
from pretended Hoke Smith men.
whose utterances it is hoped will in
fluence voters This fraud has been
repeatedly exposed, but look out for it,
it is the last desperate effort of po-
Iitical syndicate whose candidate gar
bles his own message and suppresses
his own recommendations, and whose
campaign promises of 1908 have gone
to protest, and whose reforms" have
gone into bankruptcy, due he says, to
the fact that the Georgia Legislature
is still for Hoke Smiths policies and
refuses to adopt his own!
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