The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-06-27
The HokE SMITH ApmiNIsTRA-
TIM

With the setting Of yesterdays sun
the administration Of Governor Hoke
Smith passed into history. It has in
many respects been one Of the most
notable in the history of the state,
strenuous and even spectacular to the
very end.
Il VIII be recalled that Governor
Smith was elected as reform gov
ernor and it's perhaps very doubt
ful If ever any public official came
as near to carrying out to the very
letter his platform pledges and rec
concentrations as has been the case
with him. 1t is also true that his ad-
ministration will have a place in the
history of the state for the adoption of
some very fruitful and beneficial leg
islation, all of which are too fresh in
the public mind TO be specifically re-
ferred to at this time. Like most men
of positive disposition, Hoke Smith
has thousands of good, strong and
devoted friends all over Georgia, who
admire him for his character and for
the magnificent quality Of his intel
lect He also has an army of very
bitter enemies who from the first an
nouncement of his candidacy up to
this good hour have bounded him and
have attempted to discredit his every
public act. Indeed so strong became
this organization, coupled with active
support and assistance from the cor
porate interests of the state, that it
succeeded in encompassing his defeat
before the people last summer by a
small majority.
Not content with this, the railroad
organs in the state, in a most dis
gusting and nauseating manner have
continued their tactics to yillify him
in the eyes OF the people. Indeed
they have lost no opportunity to do
this in season and out, The result be-
ing that they have made the man
more popular with the people than he
perhaps would have been il they had
sseathed the sword after the bloody /
battle. In the face OF these facts
Governor Smith, in dignifed manly
fashion, has gone ahead and with |
signal ability and splendid equilibrium |
has discharged his official duties with
an eye single to the best interest of (
the commonwealth. The pack OF
hounds at his heels have not deferred /
him one inch from the proper course
and deaf to their snarling be has /
continued from day TO day to bring
to the service Of the state an ability
it has perhaps never had in the past
and will not have very soon In the
future unless happily the people Of
Georgia give 10 him that vindication
at the polls he so richly merits at
their hands. So, in these closing
hours Of his public service he has by |
that steadfast devotion to the cause |
of the state challenged the admira-
ton of all fair minded people and he
can in truth and in pleasant refec-
ton realize that he has been true to
every trust which his official position
imposed and that his administrator
will so on record as one Of the most
as well as one of the most
useful in the history of the state.
So far as Governor Brown is con
cerned, while he did not have cur
support he shall have our hearty CO.
operation if he shall labor for the best
interests Of the state, which we have
40 reason to doubt will be the case
He comes of good stock, is talented
and that he will be the governor of
all of the people is a consummation
levoutly to be desired
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