The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-08-03
UNDER WHICH FLAG, BENTON?

! Natural CAUSES MAKE anu uUmdhe pO-
litical issues, but the character, the
disposition and the temperament of
men are as fixed as the stars!
Today, the people of the great state
of Georgia have before them two men
aspiring to the lcftiest political en-
inence that the people have to give
the governorship. They are as vastly
different as the Antipodes and their
records are open books to the people
of the commonwealth. In the one
we have towering figure OF strength
brains and ability-a man whose pro-
gressive spirit has been felt in the
affairs of the state and the nation,
of industrial aggressiveness, in order
that the state may grow and develop
to that state of perfection for which
she was fashioned. He is con-
structive statesman, with an exper
fence rich in years aud inca!cnlaDle
in real value to the state. During the
administration of the office as
governor, covering brief two
years, he wrote into its
statutes, some of the most whole
some laws yet placed upon the rec
ords of any state. A trained lawyer,
a successful business man, a deep
and profound student of the econom-
ical questions of state and nation, he
stands today the most logical man
within the borders of all Georgia, to
guide well and truly her ship of
state. The man, who of all others in
the length and breadth of the repub- |
lie, caught the eye of tine Immortal
Grover Cleveland, and was placed in.
charge of the great interior depart
ment of the federal government,
where he served with distinction and
with pronounced degree of ability
is surely worthy of the vote of his
fellow citizens for the office of COVER
nor of Georgia.
And such man, fellow Georgians,
we have in the Hon Hoke Smith of
the county of Fulton, who asks at
your hands that he may be permitted
to complete work, for which the
people thought they were selecting
him in 1906 and who in simple JUS
| tice is entitled to that consideration
at the hands of the people whom he
has ever served with an answering
fidelity,
On the other hand, we have man
without business, legislative or exc
cutive experience, who admits that
he is a student of Greek, and by his
works is best known as prose-poem-
list, who by appointment reached the
Office of railroad commissioner, from
that of a general passenger agency
of a railroad owned by his father!
His election to the office of governor.
was borught about by condition Of
affairs that perhaps could not or will
not happen again in a generation of
years and since occupying that Office
FIR more than a year, his policy has
been to tear down, rather than to
construct, to repeal good laws, placed
there by his predecessor, without
giving good reasons therefor or with
out supplying safe ones to take their
place, Here we have a governor,
whose close relationship, perhaps. to
his fathers railroad, has taught him
the bond issue route. and he has the
hardihood to recommend TO the SOW
ereign people of the empire state of
the south, a bond issue to meet cur
rent obligations. when careful, de-
finite and business-like administra-
ton of the affairs of the state would
always supply it with funds for fixed
and contingent purposes, leaving a
handsome treasury balance to nOct!
Without disparaging Governor Brown
in the least and in the broadcast spirit
of charity, it ought to be said that he
is the mere creature of an upright
eous circumstance that swept him
into a position for which he is neit-l-
er fteed by disposition ability or ex-
perience!
The little coterie OF political adj
visers who form his Kitchen cabi-
net and practically dictate the pol
, icy of the administration, is headed
, by Joe Terrell, who wanted to place
on the supreme court bench that
prince of railroad lobbyists Hamp
McWhorter close second is James