Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-23
.RUSSELL'S ELECTION
SIGNAL FOR law
BREAKERS TO BEGIN
so SAYS DR.. CHARLES w. DANIEL
IN RINGING SERMON AT THE
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH..
He Arraigns Joe Brown, Too, and
Calls on People to Support
Pope Brown.

"IF JUDGE RUSSELL is ELECT
ED GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA, 1T
WILL BE A SIGNAL FOR EVERY
LAW-BREAKER IN THE STATE TO
GET BUSY AND BREAK DOWN ALL
LAWS.
NO ATTORNEY FOR A BREWERY
OR DISTILLERY COULD HAVE
WRITTEN PLATFORM MORE
ACCEPTABLE TO THE LIQUOR
INTERESTS THAN THE PLATFORM
UPON WHICH FORMER GOV. 10
SEPH NJ. BROWN is RUNNING. 1T
is AS STAND PAT (STANDSTILL)
A PLATFORM AS EVER OLD JOE
CANNON STOOD UPON.
POPE BROWNS PLATFORM IS
A STRAIGHTFORWARD DECLARA-
TION FOR PROHIBITION - TO
KEEP THE PRESENT LAW, PER-
Feet AND STRENGTHEN AND EN-
FORCE IT.
ONE PROPOSES TO GO BACK
WARD.
"ONE PROPOSES TO STAND
STILL AND KILL ANY EFFORT TO
STRENGTHEN OUR PRESENT LAW
BY ALLOWING NEGROES TO
VOTE
"ONE PROPOSES TO STRENGTH,
EN- AND ENFORCE PROHIBITION
IN GEORGIA."
In this way DR.. Charles w. Daniel
pastor of the First Baptist church OF
Atlanta, summed up the issues in the
present gubernatorial race in Georgia
before a large congregation Sunday
night
In part, Rev. DR.. Daniel said:
The use of Intoxicating liquors is
the damning vice of the Anglo-SaXon
race. There are more men and women
going down in drunkard's grave in
America every year than the number
killed in war since the time of Christ.
Fright now, here in Georgia, to-
day, the whisky interests are crying
for local option, but right across in
Kentucky they are fighting teeth and
all against the adoption of local OPP
ton by that state.
Time and again have the prohibi-
tionists of Georgia asked permission
to express themselves on this ques-
ton, but each time the whisky inter-
est pleaded for more suitable time,
and the prohibitionists waited, only
to find that the whisky interests were
fighting to keep them from having an
expression. Finally, one of our white
legislatures, elected by white men OF
Georgia, passed the bill outlaWing the
traffic in this state.
Now that we have a prohibition
law those same whisky interests
which before prevented vote are
crying that the question be left to a
vote of the people-not vote OF the
white men, but vote of all-dlsrep-
utable blacks and whites.
ut is impossible to have vote on
the prohibition question alone. We
cannot have a vote on the liquor
question without other matters en-
tering into the campaign. 1t was so
in Alabama, and it will be so in
Georgia. The liquor interests will in
iect other issues; they will cloud
the real issue, and office-seeking poll
ticians will take advantage OF it.
There are esteemed men in this
congregation who do not agree with
me in these views. There are good
men throughout the state who have
their eyes closed to the issue, and
will not allow their influence to damn
this curse of the liquor traffic.
I'VE would already have outlawed
the near-beer business had it not
been for the adroit filibuster OF the
LIQUOR interests in our legislature last
summer.
"'The whiskey men know too we'll
that they cannot head off the Tip
pins bill unless they elect a governor
who is pledged before election to
veto any measure passed which would
affect their interests-and they have
two candidates in this race so
pledged.
Either Means Liquor.
"They know that all the money
and influence they can scarpe up can
not bride our present legislature-a
legislature which was elected prior to
this campaign, and pledged to protect
our present prohibition statute
THEIR HOPE lies in electing either
Judge Russell or FORMER GOV. 10
SEPH M. BROWN, EITHER OF
WHOM, IF ELECTED, WOULD
VETO THE TIPPINS BILL To out
law the beer business in Georgia this
summer in that case, it would be nee
essary to have enough votes to pass
the measure over the governors
veto.
PROHIBITION IS THE PARA
MOUNT ISSUE OF THE DAY IN
GEORGIA NOW. 1t was not kept out
of this campaign, and the election
of any of the candidates would be
significant. Their platforms are fixed
and we must believe that they will
stand firm upon them.
Sometimes we have to make al
Iowances for platforms when we know
the character of the candidate. Some
platforms are formed for easy riding
s-+o ofHoo which reminds. me of an