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Description: Bronze Bust of Sidney Lanier;
Georgia Politics - Senator Joseph Brown to Speak
Newspaper published in: Huntsville, AL
Source: Library
Page/Column: Page 1, Column 6; Page 2, Column 1
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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A bronze bust of Sidney Lanier was unveiled at Macon, Ga., Friday evening. It was donated by Charles Lanier, of New York.
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GEORGIA POLITICS
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Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, has consented to deliver a speech at the Fair to be held at Macon. This speech is anxiously awaited by the masses of the people of the State of Georgia. It is a strange thing that Jo Brown has such a firm hold on the people of Georgia. During the war no public man of the South was more abused and denounced by Southern people than was “Jo Brown, of Georgia.” It was even charged that he was untrue to the South, at all times and all on all occasions. He was in violent opposition to the policy of Jefferson Davis. Soon after the close of the war, he—this same “Jo Brown, of Georgia”—is found as a delegate to the National Republican Convention that nominated Grant for the Presidency. In that convention Jo Brown was an active and earnest republican, sustaining the policy of the Republican Party.
Soon thereafter, Joe Brown is placed on the Supreme Court Bench of Georgia as a republican. Next we find Gov. Brown a democratic United States Senator from Georgia. “What manner of man is this?”
And now we are gravely assured that the speech that he is to make at the Macon Fair, will make or unmake the chances of Gov. Gordon for Senator. The public press of Georgia are disposed to think that Gov. Brown will cast his “eyes fondly” on the alliance of the State. If this be true, then Gordon’s fate is sealed.