Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-07-14
MANUFACTURING POLITICAL SEN
TIMENT IN ATLANTA.

Already popular protest at the
throttling of the primary has as
sumed such proportions as to
practically force Joseph NJ
Brown into the race for success
sion to the gubernatorial yacan-
cy.-Atlanta Constitution.
The popular protest" that will
practically force" eX Governor
Brown into the race for the governor
ship is largely manufactured in the
office of the Atlanta Constitution and
a few other papers, acting more Or
less under the inspiration derived
from Atlanta.
AS is usual in such matters, the
trend of the Atlanta Constitution is
to work to get a North Georgian into
the field and keep the office in ne
hands of North Georgia.
If Little Joe" was living in South
Georgia it would be very difficult for
the Constitution and its satellites to
discover the popular protest" and
the public indignation that forces the
former governor into the field. They
would speedily discover reasons why
some other North Georgian should
be the candidate.
1t is always North Georgia that IS
1t has been so for years
and the likelihood is that it will con-
-inue so until South Georgia asserts
itself as a unit and calls halt.
The claim that because Governor
Smith has been elected to the senate
he people of Georgia must put Mr..
Brown back into the gubernatorial
chair to revenge themselves on Gov
ernor Smith for some supposed af-
front, appears to US a piece of polit-
cal idiocy.
Of course, it suits the purpose cfI
he Constitution to create this i'm
preston, to engender this feeling all
over the state. To begin with, i'll
would tend to rehabilitate the Con-
politically if former Gov
ernor Brown could be reinstated in
office through the instrumentality of
he Constitution. and as the Constitu-
ions political influence has suffered
severely in recent years this in itself
S sufficient motive power to d.
'ect its course.
Then the Constitution imagines that
his would be a terrible slap at Sem
tor-elect Smith, that it could be her
.lded as a merited rebuke to him at
he hands of an awakened and out
aged public, etc, and revenge is
sweet"
Add to these two underlying mo-
ives the always prevalent desire inI
Atlanta to keep the office of governor
n the hands of some one either a di-I
'ect resident or closely allied to Att
anita and the chain of reasons that
prompt the Constitution is easily ap-I
parent.
There is going to be lot of manu-
actured popular protest" and pub
ic demand" for Governor Browns
candidacy in the next few weeks. The
the Augusta Chronicle
md few other papers have struck
lands in the common cause. 1t is up
o the people of South Georgia to re-
ent this effort on their part to once
more deprive this vast section of the
state of an opportunity to fill the CUB
chair with one of it's able
sons
South Georgia has men of capacity, |
lifelong, staunch, true and tried DEM
)crats, who are fully capable to hold
Town the governorship with credit oI
themselves and satisfaction to the
state as a whole This initial effort toI
choke off South Georgia, to bludgeon
t into acceptance of North Georgia
again should be resented
at once and defeated. The manipula-
ion now going on should be check
mated, and the sooner it is done the
better.
The propositions" of the popular
largely exist in the magma
zion of the Constitution and its satel-
.ites, And even if there were such a
upheaval of sentiment
against Smiths election to the SEN
ate it could be rebuked without going
to Atlanta or North Georgia for he
next governor.