Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-18
ATTACKED THE
OPPONENTS OF
PROHIBITION
At MEETING LAST night
Rev. Chester Scored Both Joe
Brown and Russell

All three of the gubernatOrial can
didates came in for due mention in
the course of an address delivered last
night before the Pope Brown club
here by Rev. o. B. Chester, pastor of
the First Methodist church. The City
Hall, where the meeting was held was
comfortably filled during the progress
of the speech made by Mr.. Chester,
which was greeted with generous ap-
plause at its close. The gist of Mr..
Chester's speech was to favor Pope
Brown as the ideal candidate in the
race.
Mr.. Chester trained his guns first on
Ex-Governor Brown, declaring that
the former governor had waited too
late to announce his candidacy, as
Pope Brown had espoused prohibition
and Judge Russell had opposed it be-
fore the third candidate announced,
thereby leaving to the last entrant in
the race no ground upon which to
stand, as there was no neutral position
in the race.
One who votes for Joe Brown, ac-
cording to the speaker, does not know
whether he is voting for or against
prohibition, as the eX-governor's
stand in the race is too uncertain.
In the opinion of Mr.. Chester, if Joe
Brown had entered the race earlier
he would likely have prevented the
entrance of Judge Russell and there
by have saved the cause of prohibition
the attacks that have been and are
being made upon it by Judge Russell.
Joe Browns suggestion of a refer
Tendum concerning prohibition is un-
necessary, said Mr.. Chester, as the
people of Georgia have already voted
in favor of prohibition.
There was no uncertainty about the
words used by Mr.. Chester in attack
ing the platform advocated by Judge
Russell, though the speaker stated
with emphasis that he believed Judge
RUSSELL himself is good man. Judge
Russell, he declared, is undoubtedly
the candidate of the whisky element in
this state. He opposed Judge Russell
on the ground that the latter is help
ing the wicked in the fight for right
eOusness, as the issues so clearly
show in the present gubernatorial cam
paign.
Nothing is doing more to bring the
law into i'll repute, as Mr.. Chester be-
lieves, than the ridicule that is being
east upon it by Judge Russell HIM
self as he travels around the state
and continues to re-iteFate the state
ment that the prohibition law cannot
be enforced. 1t would ge better for
Judge Russell to resign, said Mr..
Chester if he as judge cannot enforce
the law, and allow some one to take
his place who can enforce it ar
Chester then cited instances of judges
in Georgia whom he believes have eA-
forced the law, showing thereby that
II can be done.
Mr.. Chester gave in his opinion
that Pope Brown is not only in favor
OF prohibition and the present pro-
hibitiOn law but also in favor of per-
fecting this law and of making it still
more effective. He concluded his ad-
dress with glowing tribute to the
moral and spiritual greatness of Geor-
gia and the duty the state owes itself
OF stamping out the sale of liquor.
At the conclusion of his speech, MIR.
Chester was the recipient of rising
vote of thanks from the audience for
the spirited address he delivered in be
half of prohibition.
The organization of the club was
further carried out by the election OF
four vice presidents, in addition to
the president and secretary, who had
been previously chosen. The officers
Of the club now are DR.. J. r. Statham
president Mr.. L. A. Morgan, secretary;
Messrs. w. T. Lane, Thomas L. Car
ruthers, E. L. Carswell and Frank T.
Long, vice-presidents.