The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-11-17
ISSUES Of PRESENT CAMPAIGL
DISCUSSED BY COL. POPE BRC' y

for the office of governor, but since
that time he had made two amend
Tnents.
The first is, favor the abolish.
ment OF tiie court or appeals, which
was established a few years ago. 1t
has been demonstrated that there is
no use for this court Judge Russell
one of the candidates for governor.
who is a member of this court has
stated that, during his campaign he
has not neglected his office Il he
heVe his statement" said Colonel
Brown, therefore we must conclude
that he has no duties to perform. con-
sequently the court is not needed and
the S25,OO0 annually which it takes to
retain It can be saved to the state nv
the adjustment of the court He
said that he did not believe in too
many courts, anyway, and while he
was not lawyer, he had noticed that
often the court of appeals and the
supreme co1Tt We're passing on the
same thing at the same time.
INC FFotHpltton Question.
another question which has been
injected into this campaign since I
first announced is that of temperance
Il has been said that | was slow in
bringing up this issue. did not bring
II up. Why should / raise an argu-
ment about my hat until some one
tries to take it from me?" asked the
speaker. q favored the probib on
law ard it was not my place to bring
II into the campaign until some one
tried TO take from the state what had
been written as a law; it was the
place Of the man who wanted the law
removed Russell made the issue. /
mel. IL, and Joe Brown lodged it."
Colonel Brown then went into a
discussion as to Russell's attitude tell
ing why he had announced 70. l,caf
option. He said that two GEORGIA pa
pers, the Atlanta Constitution and Tho
Macon Telegraph, had fought the nc
fE'iion bill, and when the campaign
hfsl started bon these paper, con-
tinually announced that a new man
EcEld get into the race on a local
opiicn platform, but before he could
do t, Russell, thinking 1t a popular
issue, came out for local option. The
candidate, he said, which these two
papers had tied out and were later
TO bring into the race was the little
fellow on the Cherokee farm. Then
Brown came out and said leave it TO
the people. He said the former gov
ernor Just had no convictions, made
no predictions, but just wanted IL
leave it to the people" He said tha
Russell had made the assertion that
he was not in favor Of whisky. but
that he just favored local option.
Mr.. Brown discussed this question
IN detail. He said ttiat the statement
had been made that the governor mad
nothing to do with the question, but
in his opinion the chief executive had
an to do with it. 1t was said that
the legislature which would serve at
the next session had already been
named, and that the governor could
make no change This is a mistake,
said the 4 3eaker, because a repre-
sentative is supposed TO vote as his
people vote and, If they favor local
option, then a local option bill can
be passed at the next session Of the
legislature. This proposition to leave
the question to the people comes from
the two newspapers mentioned.
Colonel Brown humorously discuss
ed a whisky circular recently sent out
from Russell headquarters, showing
that Georgia was purchasing her
whisky from the other states, with
picture of man up a tree, sup
posed to be a tax-collector, saying thai
if this revenue We're received by Geor
gia, school children could better be
provided with books. There is not
man in Georgia" said Colonel
| Brown, who cannot purchase school
books for his children, unless he is
a drunkard Russell says educate the
children b. going into the whisky
business say we can do it without
going into the whisky business"
Discussing Joe Browns position on
the question, he said in 1908 Brown
came out and made a bid for the
whisky vote and that he got it, while
his friends in Atlanta maneuvered
around and got him in on plank
called dry" Some say today they
are voting for him because he is fol
whisky and others say they are voting
for him because he is against it.
He said that it was his opinion thai
Russell and Joe Brown were running
on the same platform. One of tht
Joe Brown speakers a few days age
/ charged t5st Russs,. had 'Swiped Joe
Browns platform, therefore, it is evi-
dent that the man whom they were
holding back to enter on local op.
ton platform was Brown, and, Rus.
sell coming out ahead Of him, he JUS
decided to straddle the issue, and thai
lgnow the local optionists had two can.
/ didafaa in tho fioId