Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-12
COPELAND REPLIES To
LETTER WRITTEN BY SHAW
President of Floyd Smith Club
Answers President Shaw
of Brown Club

ROME Ga, Aug. ST. w. Copeland,
president of the Hoke Smith club or
Floyd county, has issued the following
statement In answer to letter written
by President Walter Shaw. OF the Brown
club of Floyd county:
CoPELANDs STATEMENT.
Hon. Walter Shaw, president OF the
Floyd County Governor Brown club, has
written a letter. a wonderful letter. and
has mailed a copy of 1t to practically
every voter in the county.
This remarkable letter tells the people
that the country prospers under Governor
Brown, regardless of an unfriendly leg
islature, a legislature that just won't at
tend to it's business, that will not do as
Governor Brown says. but persists IN
standing for the principles favored by
Hoke Smith and which have been partly
enacted into law and the remainder VIII
DO after Governor Brown has been dis
posed of.
This Is an astounding statement or
Brother Shaw, that the country prospers
since the negro has been disfranchiseo,
II prospers since the convict lease sys-
tenn has been forever abolished, II pros
pers with the registration law requiring
registration to be made six months be-
fore the election, 1t prospers with free
passes abolished. it prospers with passen-
ger rates reduced 1t prospers with
railroad commission Of Ave members. In
fact, Brother Shaw should have told the
people that his governor had been sly
ting there with his hands tied by an UNI
friendly legislature that persisted In rep
resenting the people Of Georgia and not
the special interests, and that they with
their immediate predecessors acting IN
conjunction with Governor Smith had laid
faHHn q
states prosperity, and that upon that
foundation the state was prospecting, not
under Governor Brown, but In spite OF
him. The dog tax law is one new law
signed by Governor Brown.
s'But there is a little more prosperity
that the people want, and that tney are
going IN get. They are still insisting that
the. lobbyist be banIshed or at least tag
ged. How does Governor. Brown stand
on this? He has written two annual
messages to the legislature and several
special ones and has never mentioned
ii. Does he believe in letting well enough
oIone9 Or has he any convictions on the
PEOPLE WANT PROSPERITY.
"rha people want passenger rates to
remain reduced. How is Governor
Brown on this? Has he experienced
any change Of heart since, when as rail-
road commissioner he opposed any re-
duction and voted against reductionE
"They want freight rates adjusted so
as to prevent discrimination and re-
duced to fair basis. How is Governor
Brown on this?
They want the Louisville and Nash
willie railroad to either quit using the
Western and Atlantic railroad from Car
tersville to Atlanta or that II be COM
PEELED to pay the people. the owners OF
the property for the use thereof. HOW
is Governor Brown on this question:
Sneak I'D, Brother Shaw, and tell the
people of Floyd county, when Will Gov
ernor Brown undertake to put the
Louisville and Nashville on the states
railroad?
when will he indorse low freight and
passenger rates? Brother Shaw says
every manufacturing plant is busy.
What about the Floyd cotton mills.
Brother Shaw? Tell the people how
many days in the last IL months the
operatives at the Aragon mills have
had no work? How long did II run four
DAVIS only in the week? How long, that
is how many days has the Lindale mills
been shut down during Governor
Browns administration, and this mill is
recognized everywhere in the south as
being one of the strongest and best ad-
ministered mills in the south?
Tell the farmers why the mills say
they can't run on full time? Give them
the answer that the mills will give you,
that is that the price of cotton is too
high And tell them the truth that the
mills all over the country from the
north to the south are curtailing their
outpu, and shutting down In an effort
on their part to force down the price of
the farmers cotton.
Don't generalize so much. get int