Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-27
HOOPER ASKS FOR PEACE
AS HE TAKES Oath
Republican Governor Is lnaug-
urated in Nashville and
Urges the Best Laws
- Aroelstea pres..l

NASHVILLE. Tenn. Jan. 5.-BenjaHrin
W. Hooper. who headed the Republican
ticket In this state last November. but
Grew the support OF thousands Of voters
OF various political afiliations. today
was inaugurated governor OF Tennessse.
PLEADS FOR PEACE
Governor Hooper's ina1xural address
opened with plea for the cessation OF
political strife IN Tennessee. Z do DOT
seek q political Arcadia-A civic milfen-
fazn.- he declared. but do beg ofs ne
people Of the state and their legisiH-
tive Representatives that we advocate
and practice the settlement Of our polit-
icaI differences within legal and sconAti-
tutionai limitations
The Inauguration took place In the by
man auditorium, instead OF at the cap
itnl. I'm order that the thousands OF Cit
lzens who came to Nashville to wit
ness the exercises might gain admit
Members OF the state senate. the
house OF Representatives. the supreme
court and the Inaugural COMMITTEES oc-
cupied seats on the stage A short
fs-eEen address was made hy the re-
firing governor. M R Patterson when
the oath was administered 10 Governor
Hooper by chief Justice J. X shields.
AFTER TAXING the QAln OF ULxAEfa| A1OA~
ernor Hooper delivered his inauguraf sd
dress. IN which he said:
1T does not behoove Us to soothe our
selves With. self-laudatlon, either on ac-
count OF our glorious history and ira
dftfurs or because OF the magnificent
nRrural resources of our state. We are
eatitled 70 no credit either for proud
o. distinguished ancestry or for the IN
sfceIled variety Of our climate. products
r. a.
which we are conserving and develop
ing our resources and 1.-The degree Of
liberty. Enlightenment and opportunity
that We are giving our people that can
confer distinction upon our citizenship.
establish our rank as a state. and nx
our place In history
In referring to the public school sys-
TEN, Governor Hooper declared that
conservation OF forests and mines sink
into Significance when compared with
the conservation OF the minds OF our
shovs and girls" He advocated good
roads improvement In the states agri-
cultural department. which he said
should not be made rest-curs, for
down-and-out politicians. and urged that
every hand In the service of the state
srcwernmemt work for business admin
istration
DISCUSSES PROHIBITION.
In couclu3lOu+ DC tQoA ~ ne e-e@S~e
OF prohibition, saying
.-T,he isolated offenze OF an occasional
bootIerrsr, isa small matter, but the
open public and unhIndered sale OF whis-
Ky In the saloons ofsoar.eities In viola
tor. OF Law IA anarcif and cannot be toll
Grated BY the xPlf-rezpecting eiti7enship
81 q soVereiEn state
.-Tke question that Is before US now
does not 30 much involve the wisdom OF
the prohibition law = II does the ao-
visibility OF permitting y community 10
decide what laws II viii obey and what
statutes 1t wtn ignore and nnliify' The
doctrine OF the state notification was
cruAhed ~ Andrew Jackson many years
-zzo. rRd the doctrine OF city nullincation
deserves no better fate"
Governor Hooper Is neither the only
Republican governor Tennessee has ever
had. nor IS he the only Republican who
has held this once outside OF tne GAYS
Of reconsfruction. Once before split IN
the ranks OF the Tennessee Democrats
put a Republican in the chair OF the
states chief executive. he was Alvin
Hawkins who Was sworn in January IL,
ISL serving two years and sustaining
distinct defeat when be attempted
10 b reelected. He was beaten BY Gen
william B. Tate. a Democrat, HaW-
kins was q native Of Kentucky.
9E A100A 49,
Governor Hooper is q native OF Cooke
county. He was born October 10, 1870
and was reared and given his early edu-
cation IN schools Of Newport and Knox
VILE When a youth he attended Car
son and Newman college al Jefferson
City, Tenn. where he won recognition
for his scholarship. He began the prac-
tice OF law in the early nineties-
His first political office was that Of
member OF the state legislature from
Cooke county In 1891. In 1888 he was
commissioned q captain IN the Sixth
Immune United States volunteer infan-
Try and served in Porto Rico.
In 1906 he was appointed assistant
United States district attorney for east
ern Tennessee and voluntarily resigned
early last year He became a receptive
candidate for the gubernatoriai inaugu-
ration a few days before the state Re
uuhlican convention last September and
won ower A. A Taylor. brother Of
United states Senator r.. L Taylor.
The latter was subsequently nomi-
mated by the regular Democrats and
Governor Hooper defeated him in No
vemher-