The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-04
THE OTHER SIDE OF IT.

itorial on Peach county was evident
ly based on misapprehension of the
facts, and We Houston county peo-
pie feel sure you will gladly set us
right before your readers.
Justice to ten thousand Georgians
and the life of local self government
are at stake in the November cleo
ton.
The issue has been directly voted
on three TIMES by Houston county,
and once by the three counties of the
senatorial district Each time the
vote was overwhelmingly for Peach
county. because it is local eco
nomic necessity.
Ten thousand people think so
strongly enough to consent to give
up court house, road equipment all
county property; most of the good
roads and every concrete bridge
in the county, leaving all to the old
county, besides paying our part OF the
county debt, and to ourselves bear
the whole expense of starting new
county.
1t costs the state not a penny,
lightens state burdens, because in
creased values always follow new
county development. Locally, we
meet every cost, satisfied we will be
amply repaid in the efficient and eco
nomical operation of compact, hon.
ogeneous county, of small area and in
carrying out our cooperative plans
for model school and road systems,
and running the county on modern
business principles. Look what
Turner has done We hope to even
excel trat record of achievement.
Georgia and Kentucky have the
smallest counties of any Southern
states. And they are the most pro,
gressive. All backward sections
have large counties.
Big business divides more and
more into smaller administrative
units, as witness the chain stor es
branch banks, Standard Oil Company
automobile concerns, etc. Georgia is
but big business organization, the
counties the administrative units,
and the big unwieldly homeopathic
units are the never economically or
efficiently administered.
Peach, as well as Houston, will
have about twice as many negroes
as whites, making a small area i'm
peratively necessary for proper and
efficient preservation of law and or
der
Our fight before the legislature, Of
ficially in the hands of the two Hous-
ton representatives, and the sena
tor, elected on the sole issue, was
conducted for Houston's citizens by
Prof Ralph Newton, superintendent
of public schools, as chairman, ably
assisted by Rev. 10y Warwick and
many citizens.
1t was a fair, clean fight. The legis
lature was dead against us at first,
but after investigating the facts.
every senator but two voted for us
and two-thirds of the representatives
We took it for granted the people
would ratify this action, just as we
assume they will on November 7th.,
ratify the action of the state pri
mary. Both are unbroken precedents
in Georgia. Il
Among those actively for Peach
county are Judge Mathews of the
| Superior court, Judge Riley of the
Houston city court Of Perry, tax re
| ceiver, tax collector, county schoo'
| commissioners, chairman of the coun
| ty commissioners, all seeing and
l'realizing the absolute necessity for
| this division.
Yet all these people, as well as oul
| ministers, TEACHERS, lawyers, farmers.
! bankers, manufacturers, laborers,
merchants, anu the entire citizenship
| of this third of the county, as good
Iu6u anu WUu1eu DIS are i'll G6OTBld.
Villified by the disgruntled minority
opposition as being corruptionists
and most of the Legislators as being
corrupted.
Let all who believe that vote
against us, precedent or no preced
ent
No man can read the opposing
propaganda of abuse and imagine for
moment that these two sections
can ever again live together in har-
money. They prove our case for us.
We differ in business, industrially,
agriculturally, in every way. We
| fight differently. We have never ap-
nealed to the negro vote They ad-
vertise this lis not a primary but
general election" where "EVERT-
BODY votes black italics theirs.
We have never accused them of buy
| ing Hobbies, about which they Seem
to know so much, Or corrupting any
one, though, with Montezuma's help,