The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-10-14
HITTING THE BULLsEYE.

A goodly number of the papers of
the state press, former supporters of
Little Joe Brown, have turned against
that candidacy now as a protest
against the plan of the former gov
ernor and his friends to keep up the
political discord in the state. But OF
all of these papers, the esteemed
Americas Times Recorder comes
nearer ringing the bullseye, than any
of the rest, in the following which
We take from it's issue of Thursday;
"a careful reading of the first cam
paign letter of former Governor Brown
convinces one that the chief object
Little Joe has in running is to bring
public rebuke on Governor Hoke
Smith au1 securs a political vindic&-
-tion for himself.
The whole document vibrates with
personal feeling against Smith and
discIoses a sentiment of outraged per-
sonal pride. The sense of wrong per-
meates the greater part of it's para
graphs, and the whole letter is III eff
feet an appeal to the people TO rise
up and smite the Philistine and re
place David in the office from which
he was rejected just a few months
ago.
Personal antagonism TO Hoke
Smith is the issue that Little joe
seeks to arouse. On that issue he
once rode into the gubernatorial chair.
On that same issue he was next de-
feated. Can he, on a third trial, win
again?
There is not new issue that IS
presented for public consideration
Everything hinges on Smith and wh3c
Smith has done. He defeated me ny
only 1000 votes, he refused me recog-
milton in the convention, he refused
to hold the office to which he was
elected and serve out his term, bat
Immediately sought loftier prize.
Therefore ! should be elected gov
ernor as a rebuke to Smiths grasu-
ing political avarice and domineering
attitude That is the tenor.
Governor Smith is not a candidate
for governor Neither has he ex-
pressed any preference for either OF
the two candidates in the field :p.
posed to Little joe There is no rna-
son to believe that if Pope Brown is
elected that he will hold the office as
the tool of Hoke Smith. Where, thea.
does Hoke Smith come in as the
browning issue of the present cam
paign? Why should the people be
forced to resuscitate the old personal
issues of the past when the reason
for them has been removed.
IF Hoke Smith were endeavoring
to force a cadidatne for governor on
the people, of Georgia, a resume of
his political course would have a
striking force. Were Hoke Smith q
candidate for senator before the PEG.
pie at this time there would be a de
cided relevancy in Ex-Governor
Browns letter. But what has it got to
do with the present race? What diff
ference does it make as between Pope
Brown and Dick Russell, whether
Hoke Smith or did not do the things
Little Joe" justly charges.
Little Joe's" candidacy, it seems, is
based simply on two claims: That
Hoke Smith has not acted right, and
that he should be slapped in the face
by electing Little ice" for governor.
Can Ex-Governor Brown make
enough voters in Georgia look at 1t
that way to win? We doubt it. There
is such thing as surfeit, and the
people of Georgia have come pretty
near having had a surfeit of this
Smith Brown business. The perpetual
ton of it would really be reflection
on the common-sense of Georgia"
SwEEpING REFORMS I'M SIGHT