Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-13
POLITICS IS
GETTING down
TO BUSINESS
READY FOR STATE CAMPAIGN
People are Weary Of Having
Lawyers as Governors
(From The Atlantian.)

The campaign for governor seems to
be settling down to business. Joe
Hill Hall, standing candidate for
years past, has at last screwed up his
courage and broken into the game For
years past known as the Great OBJ
jector' in the Legislature there would
be serious danger of the stoppage of
the wheels of government in the event
of his election owing to his chronic in
trinity OF objecting to everything he
does not originate Bro. Hall is
lawyer. John NJ. Slaton like Bro. Hail
has chronic case of wanting to be
governor. He has had a little taste as
acting governor and found it pleasing
to his palate.
Bro. Slaton is a smooth suave,
plausible gentleman. For long years
in the General Assembly he conduct
ed himself with such conspicuous
suaylty as to create no rough edges
and to cut no new swaths hence it is
not surprising to find that he has
been speaker of the House and Pres
ident of the Senate, for it is one OF
our notable characteristics that We
love to honor the amiable-if Incl
dentaily there happen to be ability so
much the better, but above all we
must have the shrewd brother who
pats us on the back, and tries to
make us believe we are smart people,
when We know we are not. Vanity ia
curious thing. Incidentally it may
be mentioned that Brother Slaton is
a lawyer.
Then comes Brother Tom Hudson.
whose coming by the way, has much
disturbed the peaceful repose of the
| other candidates. Brother Hudson
has been Commissioner of Agricul-
ture. Some folks who did not like
Brother Tom tried to put the gaff into
him by way of Legislative investiga.
ton which worked the other way and
Brother Tom secured a clean bill of
health and an immense increase Of
popularity. Brother Tom is a farmer.
and of course is not in the same class
with his skilled legal opponents. but
notwithstanding his bucolic tastes and
pursuits he has picked up few points
on the political game, and the brother
who imagines that Brother Tom still
has hayseed in his hair, stands to
learn quite a few things. We have a
dark suspicion lurking somewhere in
our inner consciousness that Brother
Tom is going to swipe the stakes
There are just "legions" of farmers
In Georgia, and they all know, and
most all like Brother Tom. Then
there is gaining ground the idea that
the lawyers who have governed this
country for century or more have
not achieved such conspicuous sue
cess as to justify perpetual lease,
and so the folks are beginning to be-
lieve that it might be just as we'll to
try an occasional change.
Brother Tom is said to be a good
| farmer. Now, as We see it, it takes
more sense for a man to be a good
farmer than for any other occupation
on earth
A good farmer must know how to
buy everything from an axe or a set
of harness, up to a blooded mare, or
| high-class boar. He must know
how to sell everything from a bunch
of 'ignons" up to bales of cotton or
carloads of fruit.
He must know how and when to
plant and cultivate, to guard against
adverse weather conditions, to know
enough of science to improve his fields
and increase their production. He
must have knowledge of clothing, of
blacksmithing, of carpentry of house
building and two or three hundred
other little things.
A good farmer has sense enough to
I'LL acceptably any office, and they do
say Tom Hudson is a good farmer.
There is a tradition in Georgia that
one of the best judges the state ever
had was farmer whom an old-time
governor insisted on making a Judge,
possibly because he had tried out law
yers and knew when he had enough.