The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-09-29


owner If he should turn up after seven years.
Similar occupation Of vacant lands would give
the title to the occupant If he was there for
twenty years in continuous, exclusive and peace
able possession. The true might turn up,
but if it after twenty years he could not get
back his property. He had slept over his right.
Now the country counties for more than thirty
years have been in continuous peaceable and
elusive occupation of that right, more than
hundred counties through which maintain their
proportion of power and protect themselves from
the preponderance of population in the big cities.
Nobody during the last campaign, had told the
country counties that they were in that danger.
Nobody had told them if they voted for certain
candidate, they were voting away their liberties
and their rights. Nobody had limited to them that
they were voting to do something that would de-
prive them of their constitutional power. On the
contrary, they were assured that that issue
considered settled and the candidate who got the
majority vote would vote to preserve that right.
You were given to understand that not
issue at ALL that it was settled; that there would
be renewing the attack the country
ties that made in 1908; and you not
put on notice that certain candidate intended to
insert in his platform declaration against the
small counties, rush it through convention with
out anybody knowing it. believing in the enthu-
siasm of success there would be hereafter. For
getting that the people might resent the fraud
practced upon them and set aside as null and
void nomination obtained
Now, don't you see, if they had allowed the
majority to hear that platform reported and
caught the meaning of that plank, to know that
the country counties being attacked again,
don't you know that the delegations from those
small counties would have been indignant; would
have felt outraged, and would have rebeled, and
would have done of two things, compelled that
convention to have struck out that plank or they
would have gone over to Joseph M. Brown and
nominted him Governor (Great applause and
cheers.) Do you the trick? (Appause)
Voices ''Yes.'D
You know why the majority were deprived
of the privilege of knowing what measures were
being introduced; you know why the right of de-
bate was denied; you know now why they
deprived of the right to appeal from the decision
of the chair. You know why they were not al
lowed to discuss the platform amend it. You
know perfectly well had that plank come under
discussion sufficient number of the Hoke Smith
would have gone over to Joe Brown to have
struck out that plank of the platform if they had
not taken the nomination from himself (Applause
and cries of eyes, yes")
Under these Infamous rules, which RUDE Ar
mold did not cOncOct; under these outrageous, I'M
heard of rules, one-man power established;
one-man power is established; one-man
power is over you, and at the next convention
body need go to the expense and trouble of going
except one man and he will be already here, he
will not have any car fare to pay. (Laughter.)
When you propose way of doing things
people say you cannot do it that way. When Co.
lumbus asked the learned doctors of Salamanca if
you could make egg sit up on end they said, of
course not. He took egg and hit the larger
end of it a rather smart blow the table and
there it STOOD and the doctors of Salamanca said
any could do that; and Columbus said, $50
they could, after they saw how" Laughter)
When Columbus went from court to court and
from prince to prince, from king to king, asking
somebody to take stock in his theory that he might
reach the east by sailing west, vice versa they