The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-09-22
BRYAN FAVoRS HOKE SMITH
FOR PRESIDENT.

The Georgia convention, in raIly-
| ing the nomination of eX-Gcv. HChe
! Smith, who recently won he gu1cr-
Material nomination at the primary.
/ suggested hir. for the pre- sidency.
| And why not? In 1900 am 1908.
whenever Mr.. Bryan's nomination
was suggested the corporation pz-
| pers of the east insisted .hat line
nomination ought to go to The south
Why not give the south chance
now? Hoke Smith is from til south
He is a big man, too. He YVES in the
cabinet; ne has been governor and
will be governor again. Why 90 lie
corporation papers not boom Sm'tf?
Why? Well just read the following
from his speech at the convention
and you will see. He said:
The great corporations in GeOr
gia must keep out Of politics. They
must not be allowed by hired .,olit
ical agents to dominate or control
legislation or administration
That seals his doom, so far as
the corporation papers are concerned
but it ought to strengthen him with
the people. And tAe gold democrats.
Why don't they fly to his support?
He was gold man He was nor
tainted with free silver Why don
they start a boom for him? Because
he made the fatal mistake of voting
for Mr.. Bryan. That ended it with
them. he forfeited his claim to states
manship. .'A'' Ill
But Hoke Smiths boom has been
launched by his own state and we
shall see whether il was a southern
man the corporation papers wanted,
or simply a representative Of the
corporations living in the south
Discussing the attitude of Mr..
Bryan on the subject the Macon
News very forcibly says:
Mr.. Bryans nomination, or in
dorsement of Georgia's nominat on
of Hoke Smith for president of the
United States makes Gov. Smith the
ideal candidate of the democracy for
that exalted station in 1912.
1t is the first instance, we believe,
in which Mr.. Bryan has specifically
named any democratic leader who
would receive his Endorsement as
measuring up to the full requirements
of the post of national party leader,
| and as he further points out, Hole
Smith holds unexceptional creden-
tails from the standpoint of anti
Bryan faction Of the democracy, be
cause the one drawback that Mr..
Mr.. Bryan suggests-that Gov. Smith
voted for Bryan-can, of course, do
MIN NO prejudice If he is sound on
:, u the democratic principles as put
forward by the anti-Bryan faction.
Here is the opportunity offered to
| obviate the one disturbing factor
that inmates against democratic
victory in 19l2-the opportunity TO
cement the party solidly behind a
leader who is unobjectionai5le In his
principles and record to any element
of the party and who Is an ideal ex-
ponent of that harmony the party
alone needs to marshal 1t to triumph
A Cleveland ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS by
the great and only democratic presi
dent in so years to sit at his cabi-
net board; faithful to the principles
of Cleveland democracy and one
among the greatest, earliest and most
advanced leaders of the progressive
! democracy" that is but another name
| for the countrywide movement to re-
| store the government to the imper-
| ishable principles of Jefferson. to
which all factions of the party Yield
! allegiance. Bryan and anti-Bryan
alike. Hoke Smith surely is the ideal
candidate for the 1912 campaign.
But if he is the ideal candidate for
the country at large. what shall we
say of him as the candidate for the
south to center on at this juncture?
The south of late years has com
planned and justly complained, that
while furnishing the bulk of the dem
ocratic electoral vote in the quad
rennial elections she has been dis
eliminated against in the distribu
i ton OF party nOnOIS--uStu as IL lool
bali Ivy the democracy of other sec
tons and punted about very niue!
at the will and pleasure of the east
ern and western players.
But all things come to him wh'
works and waits, we are told, ant
here is the recognized demOcratlC
national leader for nearly two de
cades past--the idol of the west
paying tribute to the foremost south
ern leader of progressive democra
cy" and calling to the democracy o
the east to make good its profession
and array itself under the banner o
the southern candidate.
What will the south say TONI
Bryan's challenge to choose its Tore
most leader and march behind him t.
the doors of the convention hall an,
later to the White House in 1912?
Certain it is that Mr.. Bryan's in
, dorsement of Hoke Smith out of tn
ranks merely of "favorite sons" an