The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-19
ANOTHER COMMUNICATE
FROM EUSTACE c.. BUTTS
Brunswick. Ga, April IS, 1916.

Brunswick, Ca, April is, 1916.
To the Voters of Glynn County:
In the light of the reply of Mr.. dU
Bignon to my former card to you,
feel constrained to address you this
further communication, before you &c
to the polls tomorrow to cast your bal
lot for your choice to fill the office OF
clerk of the superior court of Glynn
county.
| will only deal with the case as il
is made by the admissions in Mr.. du
| Bignon's card which, by the way. has
all of the earmarks of having been
written by our good friend Gilmore
Twitty, and, therefore, not only leaves
numerous holes for attack, but seeks
to distort and twist my humble com
munication to you, until | can hardly
recognize it
In the second paragraph of the card
he tries to make it appear that l am
seeking to arraign the good people of
the county against Mr. du Bignon, be.
cause he tried to break up notorious
negro dives" Fiddlesticks! | never
even mentioned notorious negro
dives" nor notorious white dives
either, for that matter. One is just
as bad as the other in my estimation.
If l had mentioned them in my for
mer card, and l came very near doing
it, | would have state that of the thir-
ty odd indictments returned by the
grand jury at the last term of Glynn
superior cour upont he evidence of
the negro spy, whom Mr.. du Bignon
admits having employed, not a SIN
GLE one of them was against a mo
|TORIOUS NEGRO DIVE" or a 'No-
TORIOUS WHITE DIVE" For some
mysterious reason he was not sent
where the NOTORIOUS dives were to
be found. Why? POSSIBLY THERE
WAS AN UNPAID NOTE! At that
time, so it is commonly known. Monk
street was alive with them. George
Ponder's, Ben McLendon's, and doz-
en- or so others, were operating in
full" and notorious" blast, and yet
may | be permitted to say fiddlesticksi
again?
I commend any man, be he paid
official or merely a private citizen,
for an honest effort to suppress vice
and crime of any character, kind or
description. All the fights ! have
ever made in my public life have been
for right, decency, lawfulness and in
behalf of the people, and not in my
own behalf, and. as you we'll know,
they have cost me dearly in friend
ships and in money. No, "Twit," you
do the good people of Glynn county an
injustice when you state that they
can be arraigned against a man and
condemn him for doing what is right.
They never condemn the right Is it
not you that has mistaken the tenn
per of the people? / did not say that
Mr.. du Bignon was ever wrong in what
he did.
Different men have different ideas
of what is right and what is wrong.
| left it for the people themselves to
construe his motives, and, in my own
behalf, merely stated that if | were
clerk, and knew of the existence OF
thirty odd notorious negro dives as
you call them, and make an effort to
suppress them, | would not start the
prosecution in the superior court
where | knew the cases could not be
tried for possibly six long months
during which time the DIVES would
continue to operate their nefarious
business, but l would bring them in
the city court, which is always in
session, where they could be tried in
| stantly and the wrong Immediately
abated. Where they could be tried
with far less expense to the county
and where the receipts from the fines
imposed would go into the treasury
of the county, to be used in paying my
salary as clerk of the city court, and
thus relieve the taxpayers of at least
| this much burden. And said further
lif such cases were indicted by the
grand jury, | would at least make an
effort to get them transferred to the
city court, for all of the above rea
sons. If | made the effort they would
| be transferred, for | have acted in the
capacity of solicitor general, and, nc
matter what the good judges say in
the letters you publish, any misde
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