The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-16
SECOND FIGHT REPORTED
E. G. BUTTS, CANDIDATE
FOR CLERK SUPERIOR COURT.
ADDRESSES CARD TO VOTERS

To the Voters of Glynn County:
1t has been impossible for me to see
each of you in person in behalf of my
candidacy for clerk of the superior
court of this county. in the primary
on next Wednesday; trust. however
because | have rot annoyed you about
the matter. you will not presume that
| will not appreciate your suffrage and
do not want your vote. | do not be-
lieve in. personal solicitation. ! accord
to each voter the right and privilege
of deciding for whom he shall vote
and, having so decided, | want him
| to cast that vote according to the die
tates of his conscience and free from
any outside influence whatever 1t
was on account of my firm conviction
that the voter should be able to cast
his ballot free and untrammeled, that
| opposed the old system of numbering
the ballot, as it enabled the politicians
to afterwards inspect the ballot and
| discover for whom each voter had cast
| his ballot and, while member of the
| Legislature | had bill passed estab-
| fishing the Australian ballot system
! for the city, thereby bringing to a
timely end the BOSS RULE" that
| formerly prevailed, and, afterwards, as
q member of the county executive
committee, l inauguated the same sys-
TEN in the county, and at the last
meeting of the committee passed a
resolution providing that each voter
should prepare his ballot and deposit
/ it himself in the ballot box without
any number or other means of identi-
lication upon it. 1t is under this sys-
TEN that | now submit by candidacy
for your consideration, and | now sol
emnly pledge you that, if ] am elected
| shall always so conduct the office
as to merit the confidence shown in
me by you
The opposition to me is generally
circulating the report that my candi-
dacy has been inspired by the liquor
interests in this community, who were
at odds with the present incumbent,
because he had employed a negro spy
upon alleged negro blind tigers | de-
as entirely and maliciously false My
candidacy was and is inspired solely
and only by my personal desire to
serve the people in this important Of
flee, and because ] believe I am quail
fled to fill it. | know that quite often
when a man has filled the same Of
flee Tor many years, he forgets that
he is holding the same solely at the
will Of the people, and really feels that
he has proprietorship in the position
and that it is piece of presumption
for another citizen to contest with him
for the public's popular favor, and it is
solely on this accord, | believe that
the unfounded statement is made in
reference to my candidacy. | had
hoped that this campaign would be
conducted without unbecoming criti-
cisms, but inasmuch as this hurtful
statement has been made in an at
tempt to prejudice the voter against
| me, | will make this promise solemnly
and unqualifiedly. that if | am elected
| to the office every blind tiger con-
victed and sentenced by the court to
| pay fine, will be required to either
| pay his fine or go to the chaingang
and will not be permitted to arrange
the fine by the giving of promissory
notes, as has repeatedly been permit