The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-08-21
GREAT CROWD
GREETED SMITH
At STATESb0R0
HUNDREDS OF BULLOCK coUN
/ TY VOTERS HEARD THE Ex.
!. GOVERNOR YESTERDAY - A
j PART OF HIS FINE SPEECH

Statesboro, Ca, Aug 2O.-Ex Gov
encr Hoke Smith was greeted here
today by probably the argest politi-
cal meeting in Bullock county Farm
Hsk came from every section of this
ljoining counties, and hun
istened attentively to t e able
aelivered by the governor,
d .tratiOn accorded Mr..
Smith today practically makes it GER
tain hat Bullock county will roll up
q good majority for mis- Tuesday.
Mr. Smith in his speech, said in
part
! s sGe rgia is the largest state east
~ of the Mississippi river. The resorc-
& es of the state are almost limitless,
the opportunity for diversified agri-
culture probably exceeds that of any
state I'm the Union. The raw mater
q fGr manufacturing enterprises can
aimed in Georgia in greater va
kan in any ether section.
water power are at hand.
tion of Georgia for great
is unsurpassed.
White people are descended
evolutionary heroes. | believe
dity. Our white people can
heir ancertry back and across
ter to the men who have made
Vilizatitn of the world.
Bgress should be our motto.
feyersification of the agricult
and the Iiversiication of indus
J., the establishment of CONNER
relations through our seaports
Ith other portions of the world
his is an ambition to which our peo
pie can we'll aspire. We must un-
derstand the possibilities of our state
better and we must use them with
greater energy and skill.
~ do not believe any other section
the world offers so good an oppor-
unity as Georgia to the well'train
ID man starting with nothing to make
himself Independent. Georgia has
rich fields, but her boys and girls arc
her priceless treasure.
Il believe il Q progressive denCc
nracy in it's broadest sense-one that
\udies the condition of the state and
the people and seeks by legsla-
and administration, to remove
inequality of opportunity and u give
ITO every man a fair chance in the
battle of life. This must be accom-
plished in two ways: By checking
illegal combinations of trade and il
legal trusts and by giving fair and
proper supervision to the great cor
porations which stand at the head of
accumulated wealth, so that they
shall not have the power to take
away the legitimate chance for the
struggling Individual, and to the
same time by better education and
Better training that the Individual
man Re capable of doing and accom-
pllshinS more for himself In this
way We may expect that the growing
wealth Ct the state will not be con-
centrated in the hands of a few, but
will be widely and justly distributed
among the largest number of our cit.
liens.
Progressive democracy does not
attack vested rights but it does de-
mand that the great object of legis-
latlon and administration should be
the advancement of the human race
1t places the interest of mankind
above that Ct money
1T denies to a few individuals tla
right 10 run the affairs of the state
In the interests of a few. 1t oppos-
es machine politics, becaIsa il a state
Is managed by It few H. chine Eoltic.
lans, they naturally ally themselves
with the sefish interests and that
which belongs to the many IS natuc-
ally given to a few. You cannot by
legislation and administration. give
special priviles rs 10 the few unless
you take away something which be-
longs 10 the many.
When Georgia permitted her con.
Vlcts leased and allowed a few men
TO grow rich by their use, Georgia
was dlverting from the great BODY
OF the people nat which belonged to
Nhem. A progressive democracy
placed the convicts upon the public
roads, first, because the state ought
not to give up control of those con-
victed of crime, and second because
the fruits of the labor of the con.
Victs ought to go to all the people
and not to few. The change from
leasing convicts to placing them up.
on the public roads is a logical re.
suit OF enfor ;lng the principlees
OF progressive democracy.
Inc enlargement of the powers