The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-10-10
HON. JOS. M. BROWNS CARD.

ment of Hon. Joseph VI. Brown. for
governor. which has been advertised
over the state generally and which
win appear simultaneously with its
publication in The News, in many of
the pabers Of the state. In the pest
Governor Brown has made a reputa
ton for being some card -w.:5er and
in his pa 8: vCrk there was 4 degree
Of lash and &c cnco n MS efforts
along that line. However, the coLdi-
tons have changed and along with
the other evolutions comes the
changed tenor of this the frst formal
announcement Of the former chief
executive.
AS The News has intimaCed al
along there is no earthly excuse for
the candidacy of Joseph VI. Brown IN
the present fight, save and aside from
the fact that he wants to be gu .-nor
and that he AID .is political ceh)f.s
are anxious to ever up an old score
with Hon Hoke Smith, who is not
even a factor in the present fight.
There is but one issue in the coming
gubernatorial race, figure that as you
may and above and beyond the hoii-
zon of political battle in the impend
ing contest is the prohibition quts-
ton. The News regrets this IL the
case and entered strong protest
against it, when the effort was being
made to make liquor the one issue IN
the fight! Governor Brown says the
liquor question has no place in tire
campaign. But like the prisoner be-
hind the bars, whom his lawyer told
could not be jailed, it's there And
there is no more vital matter nov
before the people of Georgia than is
this same false issue" which GOV
ernor Brown seeks to dodge and be-
hind which he would hide in his di-
minutive little figure. No law ran
ever be a positive factor in the stat
utes of great state, until her people
have passed upon it with direct vote,
and if the issue is sufficiently drawn
in the coming fight, what would be
the need of the executive committee
of the state providing for the local
option or prohibition expression from
the people. as is suggested by Mr..
Brown? The fact of the matter is
that Governor Brown knows and
knows well, that the whisky question
is an issue and before election day
will be a burning one and he is not
even adroitly, but rather boldly, en-
deavoring to escape the responsibility
Of committing himself upon it!
The rhetorical protest of Mr.
Brown against the methods of Gov
ernor Smith make very nice reading.
but as this is not a school of card
that clause of his statement
will fall Nat with the man who does
MS own thinking for his ownself. III
he governor of Georgia-the man who
defeated Little Joe" with the ma
ehinery of the state, the party organ
cation, ETC., in the hands of the lat
-er, did not elect to go to Washing
.on when elected senator just when
Ioe Terrell wanted him to. why that
S a matter between Governor Smith
and the people of Georgia who elected
him, and surely has no place in this
and besides Governor
Smith at the proper time will perhaps
De in shape to take care of his own
battles as he has managed to do in |
The past.
The card of Governor Brown fails
absolutely to deal with issues now
confronting the people of the state. |
His campaign is intended to keep alive
he discord with which the state has
been afflicted for FIVE years and it's
ligh time the sovereign voters oil
Georgia We're rebuking this sort of |
hing, and unless We are mistaken in |
he present political indications in
Georgia they will do so in no uncer |
ain manner when they next go to the
POLLS to elect a governor to succeed
Hon. Hoke Smith, United States SEN
ltor-elect.