Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-07-26
WHERE THE PEOPLE COME IN.


history and you will know how vote for and
welfare the primary August law is to be val
the public good produces by the public service
he renders Measured by this fair and reasonable standard what
of the Hoke Smith Brown
administration show9
of state administration found
appropriate six hundred thousand dollars than
before appropriated and dollar the PAID
This its interest the of education and at the same
time its careful of the states finances At the close
year which really the of Hoke Smith nan
ca administration because under him that the bill liking
the and appropriation for that passed. the state
commanded million dollars than'it owed
other hand Governor Brown has proposed to yoke up
on the taxpayers hundred thousand dollars
the when Governor Smith had
shown could actually be paid increase OF SIX
dollars without to the state
income furthermore has encouraged the pubca
ton untrue represented Georgia bankrupt
when matter surplus of over two
millions The administration produced definite results for
the schools administration has only made rutess ana
proposals The managed the finances IN
economical manner other has Ebeled the treasury
Under Smith there passed election law and
the negro law The first enables the real citizens OF
Georgia to control the polls and guarantees to every
bona de his ballots full power The second TOOK out
politics hundred thousand who they had Oen
organized designing politicians could have elected judges mem
the legislature justices of the and other puoc OIL
cials in than half the counties of Georgia
On the hand the present administration has sought to
repeal which passed when Hoke Smith
or and which by his vigorous determined eff
this its state executive committee has invented and
thrust upon people of arbitrary and confusing rules The
prorang rule contved to thwar popular Will by
throwing just nominations possible into convention
where few politicians instead of the electorate at large select
the public officials The rule that prohibits sngehong
under any and all circumstances instances force cit
zen to candidate whom he positively oppose or else
deprive him altogether ballot for that particular office The
public is earnestly protesting against these unjust and undemo
cratic rules executive committee representing Governor
Brown absolutely refuses to hear heed So much for the differ
When Hoke there occurred strike among
the the Georgia railroad Certain interests urged MN
to send troops dispense the who felt that they mao
TO be rghted he yielded to these requests nere
would undoubtedly have been But he kept cool head
and steady plunge the state into danger AS
result the strike settled by peaceful arbltraon
Governor Brown pursuing directly opposite policy, dis
matched soldiers Durham Ga and drive from the
handful of inonsive workngmen who had had dlsa
with their employer question of wages Thereby
he needessy contrary law thrust military force INTO wna'
was purely n economic issue.
M Hoke Smith administration enacted a railroad commits
sion law that guarantees equal the corporations and to
the public logic this law that the merchant and the
manufacturer whether small entitled
TO lust much protection from the state is railroad or any
other pubc service company that freight rates should be reason
able in order products of field and factory may be dStro
ued throughout reasonable cost 10 the
and that freight should also be fair and not dis
;m;naye in order each town in Georgia. according to
its natural advantages may have equal opportunity OF pros
perng in other states This law Is IN no sense aeu
against corporations simply aimed in favor of the people
Governor Brown has sought to have this very law repealed
Why undo piece of legislation that protects
the public the time fair corporaons New York
and just Georga
the of those thriving Why
then hostile law that the people
as we'll the railroads.
This difference between these two administra
lions Chattanooga terminals The
administration opened clear and for the
valuable and needed lands that city Gov
refused obey the legislatures positive command
that lands and offered substitute proposition
SO that he himself must have known could
be accepted
Under administration of Hoke Smith and result of his
determination the conv taken from
they producing wealth for few and
work building good roads for all the people AS
result of this law children of the country will find easier
the farmer will find it easier to get to town with