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OUR NEW GOVERNOR


or folly: a governor without a col /
lar: q governor without machine; .
= governor OF purpose and purity, in /
Who's hands power viii be an nipple /
meut of public good; governor who /
will represent all that is best in Flor /
ida's pas. stand for all that is helpful I
in FIorida's present. and stand for all /
that is worth while in Florida's fu-
ture.
To such Q governor Florida gives
greeting today; and when his term is /
finished ard he steps again into pri- |
vate life, or. called betimes by public /
acclaim TO higher honors, to such a !
governor will Florida speak the mer-
tied verdict: We'll done, good and
faithful servant Tampa Tribune.
Florida has a new governor and
mat he viii make most capable eX-
ecutive is conceded even by those
who voted against him.
Albert w. Gilchrist is a broad-mInd-
e.. well-baIanced man who takes lib
araI view Of the affairs Of state and
peonle and will administer his Office
with view of benefring all instead
Of q favored few.
Governor GiIchrist is we'll endowed
mentally and is. capable of keeping in
touch with the officials and the legis-
lature. It will be his duty TO suggest
/ his views but not to force them Upon
this august body, and in this particu-
/ lar the new governor viii never eX-
/ ercise his prerogative to the limit or
attempt to ride any hobby. Governor
/ Gilchrist in his address reiterated his
statements made before the election
and those who know him best have no
doubts about his carrying out every
pledge.
He will serve the people faithfully
and to the best OF his ability and no
one could do more.
Once again we viii go back to the
days of yore when the state was gov
erned by real men and not machines.
Sanford Herald.
In his inaugural address Gov. Gil
christ makes many suggestions wor-
thy of the consideration of the legisla-
ture and the people of Florida, but
more valuable than any policy that
he outlines is the fact that he makes
them as suggestions. The tone of his
address shows that he realizes that it
is the duty of the legislature to make
the laws and his duty to enforce them.
| It is the duty and the privilege Of the
| governor TO make suggestions to the
legislature, but it is neither the duty
nor the privilege Of the chief execu-
tive to force or attempt to force on
the legislature his views as TO legis-
latfon. The right TO suggest and the
power to veto belong to the governor,
and should be exercised by him as his
Judgment dictates. but he should re-
member that another branch of the
government with powers as great as
/ his own and duties as important as his
own. IS responsible for making the
laws.
L is evident from his speech that
the new governor Of Florida viii not
ride any hobby. He does not so into
Office to accomplish any one purpose.
It is with pleasure that we witness
the advent of a governor whose ambi-
e ton will be satisfied with meeting his
daily duties faithfully and serving the
people Of Florida to the best Of his
ability in every emergency that arises,
keeping always in sight the boundary
that divides his sphere of action from
. that Of the other department of the
government.
| Of late it has become the fashion
: for the chief executive to overstep the
boundaries marked out for him by the
constitution and attempt 70 force his
: views on others entitled 20 views Of
f their own if not actually to usurp the
| duties of other branches of the gov
t eminent In the nation at large and
, in our state we have had men who
were ready to use the whip even when
they did not do things that the law
gave them no authority for doing. We
say deliberately and with full consid-
Grafton that the chief executive who
2 brings the administration Of the at.
B. fairs Of state back to the old time linn
= itations Of law, if ne does nothing else
t worth doing, viii do more Of value for
0 the people than one who failed in this
S and in all other respects never com
;. mitted a fault or made mistake
Times-UniOn.
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