The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-06
DELIVERED AN ABLE ADDRESS
AT THE CITY HALL HERE
LAST NIGHT.
Discussed the Issues of the Present
Campaign for Governor and Thinks
Little Joe Will Again Be the Chief
Executive of Georgia.

Ine Joe Brown people had their in
ming last night. Pope Brown has been
70 Glynn county and from the court
house rostrum argued his claims, for
the goyernorship; Judge Spencer r.
Atkinson came and at the city hall
expounded the virtues in the candi-
dacy of Judge Russell for that high
office, and last night Judge John p.
Ross of Macon, told the people of this
city and Glynn county why they should
| vote for Joseph M. Brown for the OK
ecutive office.
The meeting was held at the city
hall and it was not a very large one,
! due, of course, to the very cold
weather. Judge Ross was introduced
| by Capt. w. +. Symons, who made
short talk in which he said he was
"a prohibitionist and would vote
against liquor every time" He then
presented judge Ross ta the audience.
He was cordially received and aHer
telling the crowd how much he liked
to come tdb brunswick. he launched
broadly iqfS9-lis subject.
SIaps at Russell.
Judge Ross did not seem to see
much in Pope Browns candidacy in
Glynn county and he leveled his big
guns at Judge Russell, throwing es-
pecially large shots at plain Dick"
because he had not resigned from the
court of appeals before entering the
race for governor. Every lawyer in
Georgia, who has cases in that court,
according to Judge Ross, is doing his
clients an injustice in voting against
Russell, for in the future the decis-
ions of that court would be made IN
accordance with the vote of that law
yer In the present fight! This state
ment was followed by an attack on
Judge Russell's local option platform
in which he charged Judge Russell
with inconsistency In his speeches as
| being all things to all people," citing
speeches of Judge Russell at Lyons,
Cartersville and Atlanta in substanti-
ating his charges. He poured some
very hot shot into the lean and mar
row Stats of plain Dick" and closed
his excavations of the judge by con-
Guiding that he was just crazy to be
| governor.
After Pope Brown, Too.
Disposing Of Judge Russell, Judge
Ross next held up Pope Brown for
few Knockout jabs, and he handed
them to Pope, to the jaw, to the body,
in the chest and in right and left up
percuts. He referred to the Way
cross speech of Pope Brown in which
4 he mad opened his campaign and in
which he had said never word re-
garding prohibition Later, however,
when Russell came into the race on
the local option issue, Pope came
back with a new code and took the
other tack because he wanted office.
The JUDGE ridiculed Pope's prohibit
ton idea and declared that he and
plain Dick in a drastic effort were
/ endeavoring to force the attention Of
| the people into a side issue, which
ought to have no place in the cam
paign. The speaker pointed out the
fact that the outcome of this fight
would not in the slightest way adjust
or reconcile the great prohibition
question in Georgia.
Hits It Up for Little Joe.
| Judge Ross here disposed of Pope
and consigned him to the category
with Dick as Candidates who were
not in the race" and began to pump
Joe Brown theories to beat the band
(although there was no band). He
stressed the fact that "Little Joe"
wanted to refer the prohibition ques-
ton to the people and grew eloquent
over Little Joe's" statement to the
effect that he would not approve any
whisky legislation changing the pres
ent prohibition law, until the people
of Georgia had passed upon It,
Judge Ross Is an eloquent speaker,
and right here he reached his best
and in splendid fashion referred to
the record OF Joe Brown in the ex-
ecutive office; his treatment of all
public duties; his high regard for the
conduct of public officials: his intelli-
gence; his patriotism-all OF these
things the speaker stressed with tell
| ing force, closing in peroration with
an open challenge to the enemies of
Governor Brown to produce one act
against his official conduct of the
great office he held for two years.
Takes Shot at Hoke.
Like most Joe Brown speakers,