The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-07-06
HokE SmITH-THE PEOPLES
CHOICE FOR SENATOR.

slludtlOn IN georgia points unerrlng-
ly to the elevation Of Governor Hoke
Smith to the United States senate.
While the task of counting noses in
legislative bodies, charged with such
serious tasks as making United States
senators, is always attended with
more or less of doubt, which adds a
touch of uncertainty to the situation,
in the Georgia case the drift of the
public mind towards the big governor
is so strong that it has caught the ap-
prOval of the peoples representatives
in the lawmaking body of the com
monwealth and they are going to re-
spond to the desire OF their constitu-
ents,
The strength of Governor Smith is
strongly evidenced by the fact that
1t has grown with the devices and the
desperate efforts which his opponents
have made to break it. Instead of
waning and yielding to the smart
practices of the trained politicians
who have worn threadbare the yelp
for state primary, bringing into the
matter such fibble-fobble as talk of
refusing to confirm gubernatorial nom
nations in the senate, pending the
outcome of the senatorial squabble
etc, the strength of Governor Smith
has risen high above the hazy sea of
discomfort and like some grand cathe-
dral stands aloft, stately and splendid
in its magnificence.
So intent has been the desire TO
defeat the man who has not even
asked the people for the position and
who Is content to rest his cause in
their hands, is this little coterie of the
ola Terrell gang, that they have wad.
ed down into the cesspools and uuag
mires Of nausea and from it's depraved
recesses they have resurrected Tom
Watson as an ogre to parade before
the lawgiyers of the state in an Of.
Tort to fool the people into the belief
that they would vote for tnis past
master in the art of treachery. if in
so doing their purpose could be achiey.
cd That famous John Doe" resolu-
tion, countless attacks on Governor
smith for exercising the prerogative
OF silence in the premises, forcing
IRON Jack Slaton an ultimatum ex
catnedra as party guftie or regulator
all Of these things having made Gov.
ernor smith stronger with and closer
% the masses of the people than he
has ever been before and against
which his position has been absolutely
However, through this mass of mys. !
flying cloud which has been hurled
against the governor, came laundering
us inaugural address on Saturday
'iain, clear and trumpet-toned IL went
'traieht to the hearts OF. the people,
''iii true to the old moorings was the
Message!
The proper care in the making of
ne franchise laws, the actual neces-
lty of an active, strong, railroad com
mission to safeguard the rights of the
masses, the old theory of port rates
M many other and serious questions
Injecting the very vitals of the state
ne handling of all of these subjects
portrayed to the gathered multitude
ne tact that it was the same Hoke
'mith OF old, only ripened into better
no stronger craftsmanship and more
IeVoutly consecrated to a PEOPLES
ervice. And what was the resuItq
ne political atmosphere responded
0 the occasion and clarified only TO
now the hold outlines of Hoke Smith
ising nigh above the horizon the peo-
les choice for the Hottest gift within
heir power.
so, unless We are in error and had.
misread the weather signals in
Georgia, the people of the state
hrough their delegated representa-.
ives VIII on next Tuesday crown
heir iaVorite son with toga he has
ohg honorably desired and for which
lie is most happily equipped. And
fuly this is most satisfactory sim.
itlon' for if the people of Georgia
Iced Hoke Smith in the executive
mansion, then surely they need him
II Washington and as it is stated
nat he will serve through the lesis.
ative session in any event, then Geor.
pa VIII have the pleasure of seeing