Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-07-15
NOW FOR THE NEXT GOVERNOR.


lect his successor sixty days after his
withdrawal from the executive posi-
ton. 1t is intimated that he may re-
sign after the legislature adjourns,
which would throw the election of
governor over into October. If he re-
mains in office until the end of No
vember, as has been intimated might
be the case, the election of his sue
cessor will go over until February
1912.
But whichever course the senator
elect may adopt, the gubernatorial
campaign may be regarded as now on
Prospective candidates will be lining
up their forces, appraising their
strength, sizing up the elements OF
support and opposition, and preparing
for the battle at the polls. From now
until Governor Smiths successor is
elected, Georgia will be more or less
in the throes and turmoil of a polit-
ical campaign. 1t would be undoubJ-
edIy far better to have it on and over
within the next three months than
to have the long prolonged agony OF
contest carried along until the first
part of next year After such a long
drawn out argument, Georgia might
almost need another two-year's rest.
But no matter how long deferred
the election of Governor Smiths sue
cessor may be, it is the paramount
duty of South Georgians to see to it
that the long continued discrimina-
ton against this section be put an
end to. Forty or more years have
passed since South Georgia has had
look in on state politics, at least
so far as the gOvernorship is con-
cerned. Already North Georgians areI
laying the lines and pulling the wires
to keep South Georgians out OF the
office for an indefinite further period.
ShreWd manipulators, far-seeing pOli-I
ticians. never-ceasing workers, are
these North Georgia statesmen, in and
out of jobs. Scrap among themselves
they sometimes will, but the tendency
SENS trong among them to unite when
it comes to downing the pretentions
of aspirants from any other section.
Georgia politically they seem 70
think, belongs to them by virtue CT
long possession. And if South Geor-
gia is willing to further submit their
pretensions along that line will be-
come more deeply founded and hard
er to break down.
Never has there been more OPP
perfume time for South Georgia LoI
nave than at the present. North
Georgia has secured the senatOrship,
it holds the presidency of the Senate
and the speakership of the House, i'll
has had the governor for forty years.
There is everysreason why this Sec
ton should stand forth with deter
mined protest against continuance
of this absorption of all the prize byI
one little section, and why North
Georgia should either have the deceH-
cy to acknowledge the claim or bel
whipped into acknowledging it, Fol
be sure, there will be the usual et-
forts to becloud the issue, to stir
South Georgia into opposing camps,
to lead this section to believe that
Ex-Governor Brown or some other
North Georgian must save the state, -
and all that sort of rot. But if South
Georgia shows its teeth and has the
grit to stand to is guns, there is no
any other North Georgian making the
fear of former Governor Brown or
fight against this section.
South Georgia has ample good men
to put forward Commissioner Of Ag-
riculture Hudson, former State Treas
urer Pope Brown, Congressman Brant-
ley-these and other names will nat
urally suggest themselyes-all the
peers in every respect of any man
North Georgia can name. But to win
South Georgians must stand togeth-
er, must not permit the Atlanta pap
ers and politicians to stampede them
into believing that there is any wide
spread popular demand" for a North
Georgia candidate, no matter who he
may be. The Atlanta papers are al
ready working on this line The South
Georgia papers should meet the is
sue by calling on their people to
stand shoulder to shoulder against
the continuance of the sectional con-
troll of the state that has marked lis
political history almost unbrokenA
since reconstruction days
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