Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-11-17
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recommendation to the legislature look
ing 10 the abolition OF the beer business.
and to get in closer touch with the sher-
ifIs. solicitors, and law enforcement Of
hcials, urging them TO see TO Il that the
law was better enforced, urging that as
governor he could make the prohibition
law more effective this way. he replied
u CANNOT MAKE ANY RECON-
MENDATIONS TO THE LEGISI.A-
TURE. IL win pay no attention 70 me-
and I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH
THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAW. There
are other officials who have taken an
oath 10 administer the law. and IL is
their duty. 1T is NOT THE COVER
NoR'S DUTY TO ENFORCE TI5E Law.
UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF
GEORGIA THE GOVERNOR is MERE
L,Y FIGURE HEAD. He cannot even
suspend an officer for not doing his duty.
The only officer who can be suspended Is
a railroad commissioner. Get behind the
legislature with an amendment to the
constitution making IL the duty or the
governor to suspend derelict ofncers' ana
then I win see TO IL that the law rs en-
forced. or get other officers s.rat VIII en-
force it,"
That Governor Brown does not repre-
sent the prohibition side in the present
fight is shown by the fact that at re-
cent meeting of leading prohibiuonists
held at Woods Whites office, in Atlanta
for a conference touching the political
situation. Dr. John E White, one of the
visitors present, made. in substance, the
following statement:
There are points of action that the
league might take. One Is that the pro-
hibitionists keep out of political contests.
Another Is, that If they go into II at All,
4 ehaxy xrn Nj
having been drawn into a political hghC
And the third point is. that If they do
go into the coming campaign that II be
done voluntarily, settling upon some clear
cut prohibitionist, centering all the pro-
hibitionists on his election, and go INTO
the fight determined TO win
Touching Ex-Governor Browns posi-
ton I do not know whether he will en-
ter the race or not. Personally l would
prefer that he would not II he does en-
ter the race DO NOT RELIEVE He
WILL DO so AS A PROHIBITIONlSI.
He win not run as a local optionlst. Tor
he is too much OF gentleman 10 do that.
He win probably run upon the neutral
position taken by him before. HE CAN
NOT CONSISTENTLY RUN AS A
PROHIBITIONIST, HAVING BEEN
ELECTED BEFORE LARGELY By
THE LIQUOR FORCES AND THE
CORPORATIONS, but upon the PROPOSE
ton TO sustain the prohibition law as II
stands without change for the present
HON. HOOPER ALEXANDER.
GREAT PROHIBITION LEADER
SUMS UP THE SITUATION
The question to be settled In TINS
election is whether the prohibition
ward. Pope Brown favors an advance
The other two favor reaction. am
aware that Judge Russell, who is cir
cuIating printed dogers asking the
PEOPLE to raise money out of liquor
license tax for buying school books.
denies with very violent language that
he is a liquor man. and "hurls the false
mood back" with melodramatic fervor
into somebody's teeth, and / am also
aware that Governor Brown still cal
culates upon impressing the easy
marks of the prohibition party with
the idea that prohibition is not an is
sue. But am also aware that Cover
nor Brown stands pledged to veto the
Tippens bill that the Legislature is go
ing to pass next summer, and that the
campaign for Judge Russell is being
conducted upon a scale of extravaganza
never before seen In Georgia. with the
entire sympathy and aid OF the nation
customary political agent has come
from the north TO Atlanta for this cam
paign. and mas been here ever since
II begun. TO tell Georgians how to man
age their affairs. I am also aware OF
the fact that the brewery interests
prefer Governor Brown. and the whis-
ky interests prefer Judge Russell, and
that the brewery people have been
whipped into line for Russell by the
whisky people. upon the threat that
IL they did not swallow the Russell
PILL. the whisky people would refuse
any more help 10 the beer people IN
Georgia. and like some blind Samp-
son, pull down the pillars of the tenn
pie of anarchy that shelters both OF
them. Cartoons and circulars by the
hundreds of thousands are flooding
Georgia in Judge Russelrs interest,
telling OF the evil of liquor shipments
from without the state. and the ex-
pense of them is paid for out of mon
ey that is furnished by the very men
who are making the shipments. And
also know that there are guileless
and simple men. like Judge Hammond
and Barlow Willingham, VINO are GO
ing to help Russell and the, whisky
party by voting for Joe Brown. AMI
/ others OF the same sort who viii vote
for Dick Russell. / suppose the Lord
makes some people that way For the
greater part however, I nope and be-
lieve that the people of Georgia have
common sense enough to distinguish
colors. and give some attention TO the
plain evidence OF their senses
1T is a matter of common rumor.
II is not even seriously doubted by
anybody who uses his senses. that Gov
ernor Brown mad the promise OF the
brewery interests. when he entered this
race. that they would not only help
with the fund that he insisted should
be raised for paying off mis- old cam
raien debts Of 1910. but would con-
/ tribute a large sum for this campaign
The general understanding is, and I
have no doubt whatever of it's truth.
that the brewery interests did help
pay off the old debt. but If they have
helped Governor Brown further. they
are carefully concealing the fact from
their whisky allies, who are agrees
sively aiding and supporting Russell.
The brewers and the beer dealers would
OF course IKE to have even wider license
for crime than they are now ENJOYING
but they know they can not get any thing
more than they now have, and therefore
thev are content with a candidate who
pledges himself. as Governor Brown does
20 veto any effort for the hetterment
Of conditions. Thew occupy what might
he called a ''conserva tive" pttitrde or
y a