Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-08-13
BROWNS MESSAGE
sent OUT GARBLED
State Flooded With Big CirCu-
lar Remarkable For
Omissions.
GOVERNOR DENIES
OWN PRINTED WORDS
Claim that Brown Raised Price OF
Cotton Denounced by Farmers Un-
ion News-Campaign of Bluff and
Deception.

Deception.
In the closing hours of the campaign
there is being sent broadcast over
the state from Governor Browns
headquarters a class of political liter
ature that the voters may well regard
with suspicion. Its effect is to mis-
lead and deceive.
Governor Browns messages are be
ing garbled by himself or his cam
paign managers and those portions cut
out which he knows the people are
ready to repudiate.
This is but one of a number Of
schemes to impose upon and deIude
the voters.
Governor Brown has, in two mes
sages to the legislature, recommend
ed, urged and argued for bond issue
of 100000 with which to meet a part
of the current expenses of the state
which would violate the settled policy
of Georgia and set a most dangerous
precedent.
The slogan of Brown and Bread
has become one of "BroWn anc
Bonds"
SURPRISES His Own Recommendation
Yet an immense fourpage circular
which is being sent out from Brown
headquarters, containing pretended
copies OF the Governors messages
omits the twice-made recommendation
of bond issue.
Why does Governor Brown, in his
messages to the Legislature, call fol
Nf DO hin1 m
the current expenses of the State, anC
then in his appeal for votes omit the
recommendation? Is it fair to the vot
er to thus deceive him?
1t is done because he knows the PEG
pie of Georgia will not trust the
Treasury and the disbursing of ovel
five million dollars to a Governor whC
proposes to plunge the State into {
bond issue to meet the ordinary eX
penses of his administration.
Here is the Record.
Here are Governor Browns owl
words, first appearing in his message
of 1909 and repeated in his message
+ of 1910, but suppressed in the mes
sage which he has sent to the voter!
of Georgia when asking reelection:
1.-THE General Assembly should propose
and submit to the people of this State
an amendment to the Constitution au-
thoriZing the issuance of about 5000 200
of bonds, the proceeds of which should be
used to create permanent loan fund tc
be loaned every spring to the school FUND
for the payment of teachers salaries
and returned to this loan fund in Decem-
Der when the taxes are collected"
The voters can not find the recon
mendation in the messages going out
from Brown headquarters, but they
can find it in the printed copies fur
nished to the Legislature and in the
printed Journals of the House and
Senate.
Denies His Own Words.
Governor Brown in his address tC
the people published August 9th says:
AS to the Railroad Commission
Governor Smith says that the pres
ent administration seeks to take from
the Railroad Commission the right to
supervise the stock and bond issues
of public service companies. No such
attempt has been made either directly
or indirectly"
The above statement is astounding
in the face of the following quotation
II VI
July 1, 1909, page 27:
Railroad Commission.-I respect
fully call your attention to the amend
ment, or addition, to the Railroad
Commission Law, approved August %
1907 regulating the issuance Of stocks
and bonds by common carrier corpora
tons. The theory upon which the
above amendment was founded is, on
the surface, quite tenable, but an ex
animation by you will show that the
result will be the practical stay in
railroad building in Georgia save OF
branch or short lines"
Does Governor Brown read his own
messages? Is he simply forgetful? Or
is he afraid of his own record and try
ing to mislead the people?
More Instances of Omission.
He has in his messages recommend
ed that the Railroad Commission be
weakened by reducing the membership
from five to three; that its rate ex
port be taken away and it's special at
torney be cut off; by taking from it the
power to regulate public service cor
porations other than the steam rail
roads; and by taking from it the pow
er to prevent the watering of stock:
by public service corporations.
All of which is omitted from his big
circular of campaign literature.
Is that treating the voters with the
fairness that should characterize the
campaign methods of candidate fol
Governor?
Condemned Again BY the Record.
Governor Brown, himself in his ad
dress to the people published in the
newspapers of August 9Th, says of the
reduction in passenger fares:
1.-THE reductions in passenger rates were
made by the railroad commission while
was a member of it. The rate fixed fol
the Central and the Southern railway sys.
TENS was 2 1-2 cents per mile. l voted
for that rate. It has never been changed
The rate fixed for the Atlantic Coast Line
and the Georgia railroad was IA cents
per mile. I voted against that rate, de-
claring it too low