The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1920-01-31
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IN THE INTEREST OF HARMONY.


a movement calculated to disturb the
harmony and the good feeling OF thai
community. We hold it to be the dut,
OF that newspaper to speak out in pro
test against such move.
AT the mass meeting of the social
cd Voters League on Thursday
night with an adroitness really admir-
able, we'll cut and dried plan was
mapped out whereby the present city
administration is to be legislated out
of Office IN the early days of the com
ing summer. The very completeness
the very pre-arranged plan which was
put through like well-oiled machinery
was calculated to satisfy any fair
minded citizen that the good OF the
community is not the real foundation
for this unusual, unfair and danger.
Gus proposition
To start with, il there has been any
real objection 10 the comm sslon form
Of government for Brunswick, we are
frank to say that We have not been
able TO discern ii. AT the first meet
ing OF the new city council for 1920
resolution was unanimously adopt
Cd plcdging the city administration TO
this form of government; since that
TING Mayor llorkine has appointed a
special comm ttee of council to pre-
pare such p bin as kill best meet the
needs Of this community. This commit
te is supposed to canvass the situa-
tion in other cities, and bring to Bruins
wick tho last word in this new system
Of government FROM which our pcpole
are hoping for much. However. MOI
content to lct matters take their usual
course. a few local politicians whose
highest ambition is to hold Office in
this community. gathered together at
meeting on Thursday night and
then and there put through a program
as drastic as has over been put thru
in this community and which, if per
mitted to go TO its conclusion. will
bring upon the people Of Rrunsw OK
al era OF dlscord and factional strife
and bitterness that would rctard the
growth of the community for many
years.
We must cmphatically protest
from Office men who have served to
the best of their ability, and who, in
the face of unfair criticism. have been
| able to make as good q showing az any
men in this city could have done un
der similar circumstances.
| If these wculd-be reformers had IN
their minds justice TO all; fairness t.
the people OF this community and the
material well-being of this city a
heart, they would have been satisfied
/ to allow this new form of government
ito come along as a natural sequence
| after the expression of the popular
will of the people. This would have
meant that, between now and June 70
when the legislature meets, all OF the
people Of the city could have pre-
pared, in harmony and in good spirit
a bill that would have been satisfac
! tory to all interests in which a prefer
cntiaI primary would have been pro
ytdod. after the passage of the 'ac
and to become operative on Jsnusr!
/. 1891. This would have given TN
council the right to serve out I'M
terme for wi, ch it has been elected
It would have been decent, TAR ah'
equitable plan. but We submit. that tn
movement launched on Thur5da
night is rcprehensible in purpose
Dront, in substance and should moi b
tolerated by the real citigcnry of I'M
community. who in the years to om
will have to suffer for the i'll con
ceived acts Of few people oil I'll
present. =
We do not believe the con'cu
,J.tod movement can be done Legally
and even so, it would not be fatr ah
;uet and we must emphaticatly prs
to.t aga INST any such high -hande