The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-20
Candidates, Pnliniaa-

Editor Morning News: No doubt there
are number of gentlemen who would
like 20 90 to the legislature for one reason
or another, from Chatham county. 1t is
an honorable ambition and no one need be
ashamed or modest in so declaring such
an ambition. But legislation the enact
ing of wise and good laws, demand
thought, a certain habit of thought, good
analytical powers and clear perceptions
Men are not born legislators any more
than they are born editors, lawyers, doc
tors or machinists. Mere success in ones
business does not necessarily declare a
bright mind, for that man is very much of
a fool who, after training his mind to run
in one rut of thought ten or twenty years
cannot grasp and comprehend his own in
terests. One idea men are poor men for
anything out. of their peculiar line of
thought.
Your writer knows something of the
workings of the brain power in men, and
where you find one original man or
thinker, you will find hundreds without
an original thought. Legislation requires
peculiar talent in man; a suggestive tai
emit; an inventive talent; creative tai
ent a talent of analysis and synthesis.
and the ability of drawing at win lines
between eXpediencies, policies and prin-
ciples. Plain, practical. common sense
should be conspicuous also. But the ques-
tlon may be asked, where can you find
such men2 They can be found, but they
are known as not available men, - ''pop.
ular men," Misunderstanding and whisky
drinking men for popularitys sake. Too
many of the Misunderstanding class find them
selves in the legislature, or my past OBJ
servation of twenty years is at fault,
when my business threw me daily with
legislators.
Men of broad ideas are wanted as leg
islators the legislature is not exactly the
place to send young men to learn to be leg
islators, but if any young man shows that
he has the elements in him to be legis-
lator, give him a fair showing; but do not
bank upon what you think he or any one
else is or may be, but let all such go be-
fore the people and tell what they know
what they would do and how they would
go about to do it; give to the people ideas
and do not seek to follow any current of
thought. A legislator should be thinker
and something of a leader My idea is
for every one who wants to go
to the legislature to announce
himself and tell the people what
he would do, or at least try to do To
send mon to the legislature without some
| clear-cut ideas in his head is very much
like fellow going fishing without any
| bait. AS TO talking men, some have a
"cacoethes logundi,o or a diarrhea of
words, which weaken more than anything
else, and the less they are heard the
better for themselves and the public.
Thinking, pratical, common sense men
with well-rounded brains are those
wanted as legislators; not men who can
buy legislative honors, for they are dan
! gerous men, as the present and former
! congresses have demons trated an what
is true of congress is equally true of state
| legislatures.
Let there be free field in the coming
election and let those be sent who i'm
press the voter that he will be the right
man, or men, in the right place. Evans
and Atkinson threw themselves before
the people, not by any especial desire the
people had for them, but they had the
! courage of their ambition and went be-
fore the people, and for that reason re-
spect them. They groomed themselves.
and though they BAN boozled and hood
winked the people with national instead
| of local issues and policies, and as no one
has declared himself clearly on state
policies, the people will vote for the nom
inee by the democratic convention, or
choose Judge Hines.