Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-09-25
aMorHER wILL PREsIDE.n


while busybody editors and no end
Of individual gossipers have been be.
stirring pen and tongue IN specializing
on the future mistress OF the execu-
tive mansion, General Albert w. Gil
christ has been paying visit TO his
aged mother in South Carolina And,
on his return, be says to The Jack.
sonyille Metropolis:
Mother is enjoying excellent health
at present, and | am glad indeed to
state that she will preside at the
Governors mansion for me when am
indicted into that high Office next
January. Although Florida is abloom
with beautiful and lovable women l
do not think could find one who
would look after the home Of bache-
Tor Governor better than mother
Mother will preside"
There could be nothing more char
acteristic OF this gentle. yet great
hearted man, chosen by his people to
FIJI their highest place, than this
modest rebuttal TO that idle comment
which has coupled his name with
prospects hymeneal.
FLORIDA Is abloom with beautiful
and lovable women"-but none like
Mother.
Not among the fairest OF the sex,
though including many fitted to share
good mans joys and sorrows, 20
make for him home all attuned to
love. could General Gilchrist find one
worthier for the exalted post OF mis-
tress OF the mansion where he win
spend lis period OF power. Mother
Expresses the first, the last. the early
morning, brilliant noon, the shadowy
evening; through all the shifting
scenes from birth 10 death, the quick
ening pulse Of youth, the sturdy
strength Of manhood and the after
years when comes the inevitable hour
when we must watch her tired eye
lids droop 70 final sleep, she is the
ever-faIthful guardian OF our earthly
way, untaillng alike In her loyalty
and her lovel
And General Gilchrist, whatever
feminine charms may lure him TO the
matrimonial altar and point out to
him the sweet possibilities that n
lumine the nuptiaI VOWS with radiant
promise, chooses well and wisely and
bars the besetting dangers that Turk
along his future path when he elects
Mother" the first lady Of his admins.
tration
When official cares perplex, II viii
be Mother" WHO VIII smooth the fur.
rowed brow with the gentle hand that
leads him still and bring the bene-
diction Of her Kiss to lull his troubled
thoughts to rest
When. elated with success, he hears
the plaudits OF his people for some
state service honestly and ably done.
II Will be Mother" who will speak
the commentator sweetest to his soul
and who win breathe the inspiration
to higher purposes and nobler deeds.
However exalted may be the posi-
tons he attains. however wide may
extend the circle OF his influence and
power, he viii be always her boy"
and nor hands win ever guide him
safely and Alright hands which, as
Henry Grady beautifully said. "are
falrer yer to me than the hands Of
mortal woman and stronger yet 70
lead me than tho hands OF mortal
man"
Small danger Of an era of wrong
and deceit az the Capitol with Moth.
err presiding at the Executive Man.
slonl
And with what serene confidence
win the rlghtshinking people he en-.
abled 20 look toward the auhernator.
ial chair when they can know and
say;
IAN Il wen with tho state because
Mother Il there'~~Tampa Tribune.