Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-16

lowed to come. Naturally the white vot-
ers divide themselves into parties. I
have termed the party with which, am
associated the Progressive Democrats
and the opposition the Reactionaries.'
II do not in any sense apply this term
to all who voted against me two years
ago. There are many splendid men who
did so under a Misrepresentation and who
will support the progressive Democracy
today. BY REACTIONARIES l MEAN
GOVERNOR BROWN, GOVERNOR
TERRELL, COL. jim ENGLISH, JR..
and the leaders who represent the oppo-
sition. Is this not a proper name for
the portion of the Democracy which is
willing to follow them?
During my first administration. we
prepared and succeeded in passing a dis
reimbursement law, which rid the state
of the ignorant and purchasable negro
vote, a measure which will be an ines
Unable blessing to Georgia until that
time when the national government re-
peals the 14th and 18th amendments and
provides in the national constitution that
no man but a white man can vote in
the United States.
when this contest was up, THE
SAME MEN who are the leaders of that
portion OF the white people of Georgia
WHO ARE OPPOSING MY RE-ELEC-
T1ON WERE ACTIVE IN DENOUNC-
ING AND SEEKING TO PREVENT
THE PASSAGE OF THE DISFRAN-
CHISEMENT LAW. They were active
in resisting the passage of the new reg
istration law, and they are now seek
ing so to change II as to destroy many
of its most beneficial features. What can
this conduct on their part be termed but
reactionary?
OPPOSED r, r. LEGISLATION.
when the railroad commission law
was amended, that 1t might extend to
all public service companies and that
the power of the commission might be so
enlarged as to give supervision in Geor-
gia by the state through the commission
the same authority as is given to the
public service commission in New York
state. these men resisted the passage
OF the law, and they now advocate it's
modification to an extent which will
greatly lessen it's value. ..
When the question of releasing con-
victs was before the Legislature in 1909,
THESE SAME MEN LINED UP IN
FAVOR OF LEASING THE CONVICTs.
The bill which they presented and urged
provided for the immediate leasing of
the convicts for five years and addi-
tional leases thereafter. THEY SOUGHT
~ FASTEN A PERPETUAL LEASE
SYSTEM OF CONvICTs UPON THE
STATE HOW NATURAL 1T WAS
THAT THEY SHOULD DO so WHEN
GOVERNOR TERRELL AND col. JAS.
w. ENGLISH, JR., WERE TWO OF
THEIR PROMINENT LEADERS!
They resisted legislation for the pur-
chase Of additional lands at Chattanooga
to make possible the use of valuable
property for business purposes belonging
to the state inside Of Chattanooga. The
purchase of these acreage lands at
Chattanooga by the state is necessary
to give ample room to the w. IL A. rail-
road IL 1t is used independent of the
present switch yards of the N, c. Il
ST. L.. now the lessee of the w. & A.
1t is a business movement essential to
the protection of this great property be-
longing to the state, and, therefore, to
all the people of the state.
THE w. & A. TERMINALS.
THE legislature which has just adj
tourned selected suitable lands and di-
rected the governor to buy them. After
this was done. Governor Brown declined
to carry out the Instructions OF the leg
islature. 1T WAS NOT THE LEGIS-