The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-07-18
CALL FOR POLITICAL PEACE.


call to reason the democracy of the
state and while in the past We have
not shared the political affiliafion OF
The Herald in the matter of state
politics. we want to utter a very loud
amen TO what it says now. What We
want is political peace ir Georgia.
We have for five years drunk deeply
of the CALLING cup of bitterness and
strife, and as our Albany contempor-
airy says the people of the state are
in no humor for another campaign OF
bitter personalities:
is the Atlanta Constitution pre-
pairing to lend itself to perpetuation
of the bitter political fac-ionalism
which has existed in Georgia since
1906? viii The Constitution REJECT
the best opportunity which has been
presented in all these years for he al
ing the dissensions which made the
last three gubernatorial campaigns
the bitterest experienced in Georgia
since reconstruction days?
The Constitution advocates the
election of Ex-Governor Joseph NJ
Brown to serve the unexpired tc.'m
to be created when Governor Smith
resigns, and rightly contends tina. q
gubernatorial primary, a regular cleo
ton and a special session of the legis-
lature to install the new executive
will be necessary.
But The Constitution is still indus
triously nursing the crouch !. acquired
when the state democracy refused to
follow its lead in demanding a sena-
torial primary. Those who desired
primary constituted a minority so
small that their combined shouting
created scarcely ripple on the sur
face of the political sea- There was
never even the shadow of popular
demand for the primary, a1d the ac-
ton of the state executive committee
in refusing to order it was overwhelm-
ingly approved. Yet The Constitu. or.
after lamenting the fact that Cover
nor Smiths (senatorial) victory should
have been won with a cloudeJ title.
says: Already popular protest a:
the throttling of the primary has
assumed such proportions as to prac-
tically force Joseph NJ. Blown into
the race for succession 10 the guheI-
Material vacancy
'Poppycock! If Joseph NJ Browu is
called into the gubernatori Il race by
his friends, as now seems likely, il
viii be no more because of The f. ct
that no senatorial primary was neld
than that the moon wansd or the
peach crop failed. The election Of eY-
Governor Brown, or the placing of
his name before the people Us a can
didate, would be based ON his splen.
did record in office and his reouFe.
by his conduct while serving the
people. of the wretched personal pol-
iitcs which has made Georgia he
laughing stock of the nation. Mary
Hoke Smith men would support en-
Governor Brown, should he again be-
come candidate, and Mr. S NTH
himself possibly would no, oppose
the nomination, as the democratic
candidate, of the man whom he de-
feated for the governorship only a
Few months ago. Under the circun-
stances. that would be the dignified
course for the new senator to rurs.e.
II permitted to do so, such an a,:j-
tude of neutrality would most prob. |
ably be his choice.
But The Constitution wants no
such pleasant state OF affairs in Geor.
gia. There has been blood ON the
t-S@'~"i hhOOu III the STATE 1Or live |
years. and more must be spattered |
lest the people forget. Hear the At. |
lanta papers battle-cry:
The throttling of the primary is
at the bottom of 1t all.
The Constitution has time and
again declared that if the peorie
were denied the right to namo their
senator they would make themselves
heard from in no uncertain terms.
Their first opportunity to mn
themselves on record is IN the choice
OF the next governor, and as if indi.
eating that by this method their pro.
test can be made more emphatic than
IN any other way, the tide seems To
De turning with unprecedented ac,iy.
ity to-
joseph NJ Rr1owr Han a..