The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-08
JOS. NJ. BROWNS PLATFORM
EVERY SENTENCE OF ADDRESS
A RINGING DECLARATION.
In Terse and Characteristic Language
He States High Principles Upon
Which He Stands for Election.

He States High Principles Upon
Which He Stands for Election.
MARIETTL, Ga.-Marked with
sanity, clearness and temperate in
tone, yet vigorous in its treatment of
public issues of paramount import
ance to the welfare of the state, ex-
Governor Josheph NJ. Brown today
issued the platform upon which he
appeals to the people of the state for
their suffrage.
The platform is comparatively
brief and clearly within the under
standing of all in it's meaning.
The statement is in that clear and
impressive style characteristic of the
governors writing. In it he makes
attack on no one, and all of the ideas
he advances are of peculiarly con-
structive import.
He declares for the strict enforce
ment of the laws without regard to
class, pull or sentimental appeal, and
pledges himself to again use the par
doning power of the executive Office
with the discretion and conservatism
necessary to making it cooperative
with instead of antagonism to the
courts. Protection to the law-abid-
ing, not clemency to the law-break-
ers, is the primary function of the
governor. We must enforce the
law" he says.
Governor Brown still declines to
allow the other candidates and their !
supporters to force upon him the pro-
hibition and local option issue as a |
part and parcel of the gubernatorial |
question. He ignores it in his state !
ment and in the eleven principles |
which he sets up as things of funda- |
mental Importance in the present
campaign.
The platform in it's entirety is az
follows
To the People Of Georgia: Within
the past few months from thousands
of citizens scattered through every
section of the state have come re-
quests to me to announce my name
as a candidate for governor to fill
the vacancy which it is now authen-
tically announced will soon exist.
These requests, coming from former
opponents as we'll as from former
supporters, seem both an approval of
my efforts to execute the laws impair
TALLY, without regard to the bland
ishments of rank or the allurements
of wealth, and as a mandate to me,
if elected, to be even more rigid than !
before in obedience to the spirit al
well as the letter of our governmental
chart, the constitution. / give you
my pledge, if again honored by your
SURFACES, to be the protector Of the
constitution in executing the will Of
the sovereign people. | also give
you like pledge covering the FOL-
lowingE
Law Enforcement.
First: The strict enforcement Of
the statute laws of Georgia. This en-
forcement will hold the executive Of
fee in cooperation with, instead Of
antagonism to, the courts 1t win
permit such use Of the pardoning
power as will, on practically the
court record, or evidence cumulative
thereto, nullify the verdicts of juries,
and the sentences of judges. 1t will
hold that the trial court, not the
executive office is the forum where
in justice is applied to criminals 1t
will hold that protection of the law
abiding, not clemency to the law
breakers, is the primary function of
the governor That protection, in
conjunction with the judgments of
the courts and the vigilance of the
officers of the law, must so operate
as to protect impartialIy all species
of legitimate property, and as to en-
able any male or female resident of
the country districts, as we'll as of
the cities, to go and come at will,
free of apprehension of harm We
must enforce the laws.
Return OF Rule of People.
Second The return to the people
Of the power to rule in their govern
mental affairs. The trend of events
eliminating in the proceedings in the |
AuditOrium-Armory, Atlanta, in Au-
gust, 1910, and in the usurpation by !
the state executive committee of the |
democratic party, as embodied in the |
unprecedented denial of the right of |
the sovereign people to meet in con- !
ventiO9, to prOmulgate their princi- |
pies as applied to changed conditions |
and to transact the matter insepara- !
bly, connected with the results of a |
statewide ballot-all prove that au-
tocracy and oligarchy, alternating by
joint agreement, have supplanted the !
rule of the people, suppressing alike |
the rights of the majority and of the |
minority.
Educational Advancement.
Third: The advancement, as rap
idly as the states finances will per- !
NIT of the facilities for the educa-