The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-10-10

democratic party will permit the peo-
pie to vote upon the alternatives of
removed from distracting complica-
tions than it could have been in any
gubernatorial primary during the past
thirty years inasmuch as only two
offices are to be filled at this time
Also each candidates friends and vo-
ters of varying shades of thought on
other questions will be free to vo
untrammelled. For the foregoing rea-
sons, therefore, l respectfully request
of the state executive committee that
it submit this question to the people
on the ballots in the primary.
With the utmost clearness | will
state that the ascertained will of the
people is to me now, as enunciated in
1908, the highest law. This govern
ment of the people and for the people
is, through very necessity, by the peo-
pie. know no chart, no creed, which
teaches me that there is any earthly
power in Georgia higher than the peo-
pie. Therefore, should the democra-
tic state executive committee permit
the white voters of the state to reg
lister their will on the liquor question
in the coming primary, their mandate,
will be to me the measure of duty.
l was defeated for governor by 1000
votes by a candidate who had three
times announced he would not run.
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allowed to be presented. Suggestions
as to the platform of party principles
were not allowed. By drastic rules,
amendments were not recognized. The
congressional districts in which | re
ceived the majority of votes were not
permitted representation on the exec
utive committee, and 5000 citizens
who voted for me were denied a voice
in the party affairs, as were those
who voted for my opponent, except the
members Of favored clique.
When a successor was to be elected
to fill the vacancy in the United States
senatorship, contrary to all principle
and democratic precedent, the demo-
cratic executive committee now in
power, declined to order primary and
to allow the people to make their
choice for that high office. Their
plea was that the people did not wish
the agitation and expense of an cleo
ton. Yet at the time they knew OF
the active candidacy for that position
of the governor-elect, whose voice had
hardly become silent in proclaiming
that his election and occupancy of
the gubernatorial chair was essential
to the welfare of the state. They knew
that his election would produce an
agitation infinitely more expensive
than the primary for a United States
senator. If the people had chosen
him, the result with it's expense, dis
sension and heart-burning would have
been their sovereign act. But. this
committee now dominant in party
, councils shut It's ears to the popular
clamor and 6o"' 10 sovereign right
of the citizen. Not only that, but my
former opponent retained the office oi
governor after his election to the sem
ate, leaving his seat vacant while the
congress was in extra session at i'm
mense expense to tho nation, consid-
ering the passage of bills which mean
i the reduction of cost of living to the
people of the nation. Not only that
but with knowledge of the likelihood
of his vote being needed, IL his in
| f1uenee and counsel were not, and
with the knowledge that a republican
| yice-president had cast deciding
vote on two occasions within the las
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