The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-06-27
WAS INAUGURATED
YESTERDAY NOON
SIMPLE CEREMONIES MARKED
THE INAUGURATION or THE
NEW EXECUTIVE.


witnessed by large number Of
friends. Governor Browns inaugural
address was brief. lie said:
Gentlemen of the General Assembly,
Ladies and Fellow Citizens:
In obedience to the mandate OF the
sovereign people. ! appear before you
Tor the purpose OF taking the oath
which binds me to the duties OF chief
executive OF this commonwealth.
Before taking this oath | pause a
few moments TO invoke the blessing
OF Almighty God upon not only the
state we love 50 wen, but also upon
every human creature whose life-lines
are cast within her borders. and to
voice few words of goodwill and of
cheer to all
it is true that clolds of discord have
for time obscured the Sky Of our
peace, that paralysis has stagnated
the warm blood of manly endeavor;
but, emerging from the shadows into
the radiance OF the rising sun, we
know today as we have ever believed
that the heart OF Georgia still beats
true TO the music Of progress, that
the hand OF Georgia welding right
eous power, win ever protect impair
italy and completely all who with
sincere souls place themselves and
their interests under her shield
Ia this hour when our states soma
have assembled to do homage to her
laws, let us look not back upon the
checkerod past, but face the future
and its opportunities with the VIII 70
do Justice and to dwell together in
amity
| must here express The conviction
that ourfathers, IN framing the or
ganic law of our commonwealth, fixed
the executive legislative and judicial
departments as the balance wheels OF
government. Interference OF either
with me others WIS forbidden and
eaeh within its circle was supreme,
save that the governor, by the orderly
exercise OF the veto was invested
with the power to stay hasty or ILL
considered legislation,
pledge my obedience to the consti-
tuition in its entirety shall UNDER
take to execute every duty it imposes
upon me. | shall not attempt TO grasp
any power it directly or by inference
denies to me.
Each citizen filling an Office estab-
lished under the constitution is re-
sponsible for the administration of it's
functions, and no one in another de-
partment IS authorized to interfere
with the exercise of such administra-
tive powers.
Equality under the laws is the COM
mon r'gat Of our citizenship consttu-
tionalism is the password OF the
patriot. justice Yields the sword which
strikes down the wrong, which pro-
tects the pure; and the voice of reason
We perforce must heed, for we cannot
ignore the truth that reason coerees
while 1t coaxes. IN obedience to the
constitution, we fulall duty we secure
pleasure, for while that sreat instru-
ment commands 1t protects
| win not today consume time in
proposing specific plans Of procedure
in our governmental lahors You who
are here assembled know the problems
witch confront us; and at an early
day we will counsel together, we VIII
cooperate IN the endeavor to lessen
the burdens Of the people and TO re-
store economic conditions which will
ENABLE al who work to prosper.
IN the meantime. if there have been
differences Let us put them behind US;
in harmony guide our thoughts and
accord characterize our acts; let MS
bear in mind thar we are Georgians,
and that the interest Of each Ge0rgian
is the interest OF all Georgians, and
let us prove 10 the world that wisdoHs.
endowed, -obeying and
honor loving Georgia holds forever
sacred the guarantee that under her
aaeis abide as reenant forces JUS
tlce. faith and truth.
ask YOU therefore, TO remember
that as great as are our opportunities,
SO great are our obligations. that the
laws Of our state are not enacted 70
confer more power on those named as
onicials. but 20 furnish and apply the
machinery whereby the officials can
protect in equality of rights all the
people, their peers. And in the appH-
cation Of those laws We cannot elimi
nate the personal equation from the
problem for both the official and the
nfivate citizen are bound 20 mutually
responsive action in the protection o.
society. 20 the extent that in all mat
ters Affecting the interest of the pub
lie. the private citizen should hold Ms
word 10 he as weighty with fidelity e
fact as the official holds his oath. Let
us then. to safeguard that protection
discard haste and impulse and with
faith in God ard in ourselves promui-
gate instead the propaganda q dehn-
Grafton ana recinrocal rights, q con
servatlsm ana common sense ana n
rremulea+sng that propaganda VIZ ever
a,o, @l,n FART that khp peCnle are the