The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-07-08
SOUTH GEORGIAN FOR GOVERNOR


Smith is going to be sent to the SEN
ate, there is by no means any certain
ty as TO who will or who should sue
coed to the governorship. That South
Georgia is entitled to this honor after
all of these years she has stood aside
for the northern section of the state,
there is no question and that she
should demand It and go and get it is
a duty we owe to ourselves.
Along this line, the following from
the esteemed Americas Times-Record-
er is timely and better still it is
true and to the calm sense of justice
of the people of South Georgia The
News sincerely commends it:
ut has been about thirty years since
Thomas N Norwood sat in the Uni
ted States senate as one of the repre-
sentatives of Georgia. During those
three decades no senator has come
from the vast extent of the state
known as South Georgia. Draw line
from Augusta to Columbus and the
richest and most progressive terri
tory in Georgia lies to the south of it,
the section that has been making the
greatest forward steps in population
and material development. That is
the section that has been persistently
excluded from participation in any of
the larger political prizes of the state.
During those thirty years and ex-
tending farther back than that, South
Georgia has been as vigorously exclud-
ed from the gubernatorial chair. No
governor and no senator has been TAX
en- from South Georgia. It's sons,
equal in ability, in character, in sterl-
ing democracy, in power to champion
the cause of the people to the greatest
advantage at Washington have been
ignored by the North Georgia oligar-
chy that has dominated and manpu-
lated Georgia's political affairs.
rs ii always to continue this way?
Is the great giant to lie sleeping all
the time? Is another decade, and
then another, to be added to the three
that have passed, and witness a like
exclusion of the sons of South Geor-
gia from these coveted honors? SEN
ator Bacon cannot in any way be con-
sidered South Georgian. Macon is
a bare hundred to three hundred miles
from Atlanta. The upper half of the
state, in fact, holds the two senator
ships, has held the two senatorships
and the governorship in its grasp for
thirty uninterrupted years.
And now it hopes and proposes to
continue on this program. Governor
Smith expects to be elected senator.
Perhaps he may be. Perhaps not. If
he is it means simply the conttnu-
ance of the two senatorships in the
upper half of the state. And then
President Slaton of the senate, an
other Atlant&n. is laying plans to sue
coed to the governorship in the event
of Smiths senatorial aspirations be-
ing gratified. The chain, they appar-
emily think, must forever be unbroken.
one North Georgian must perpetually
succeed another. Joe Brown, practi-
cally an Albanian, succeeded by Hoke
Smith of Atlanta, who must be sue
ceeded by Jack Slaton, of Atlanta.
Senator Clay, practically an Atlanta
man. must be succeeded by Hoke
Smith. an Albanian. Which Albanian
has his eye on Bacon's seat is not
yet divulged.
This is all wrong and the time has
come to put stop to it. 1t may not
be possible to withhold the senator
ship from Governor Smith, although
that is by no means yet assured. But
1t is clearly within the reach of South
Georgia to stand flat footed on the
proposition that if Smith is elected
South Georgia must and will have the
governorship. This section has been
the door mat in Georgia politics for
a mighty long time. 1t has been the
newer OF wood and the drawer of
water reaching back to the war period.
1t saved democracy in Georgia when
populism seemed ready to overwhelm
it. Its brains and its Drawn and its
money saved Georgia from a reign of
third partyism and kept the offices for
North Georgia. But that era should
now be brought to an end. If South