The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-10
POP CALLS" REVIVED
LITTLE JOE" DROPS IN ON
NORTHEAST GEORGIA AS WAS
CUSTOM IN DAYS OF OLD.
EVERYBODY HAS GOOD Time

Accompanied by Mrs. Brown He
Drove Through the Country, Made
Short Calls, Shook Hands With
| Heads of the House and Chatted
With the Mistresses in Charge.
GAINESVILLE Ga. - Governor
and Mrs. Joseph NJ. Brown turned
back the flight of time few days last
week when they made something like
a triumphal progress through North
east Georgia in the neighborhoods of
GAINESVILLE and Franklin county.
Time was, and not so very long ago,
when to see the Governor of Georgia
face to face and perhaps to shake his
hand, especially when accompanied
by the mistress of the mansion, was
an event altogether as important and
quite as well worth while as seeing
the President OF the United States is
today.
OF course, that was all back in the
''good old days of States rights, "
and that sort'of thing, when Cover
nor was Governor with large &C.
and didn't get his picture in the news
papers or the magazines often, and
before the days of many railroads
and quick means of communication
Makes Long Promised Visit.
Governor Brown had long promis-
ed to visit the good people of Frank
lin, and particularly to bring Mrs.
Brown along, but for one reason and
another things interfered, and by and
by somebody reminded him that his
term was nearing its end, and that If
he Intended breaking bread with the
folks up that way it was time he NOV
ed in that direction.
A promise is promise with the
Governor, and so he gathered togeth-
er Mrs. Brown and Private Secretary
Jesse Perry and he went up into that
country, and rybody had the best
sort of time, in the very old-fashion-
ed way so dear to the heart of the
Chief Magistrate of the State.
At Commerce the Governor was
taken in hand, right off the train,
and with his party was paraded, not
ostentatiously, however, through the
city to the home of Colonel r. L. j.
Smith, where that evening reception
was given in his honor.
Governor Pays Pop Calls.
Next day the Governor and his
party drove over to GAINESVILLE, which
is not on the railroad, accompanied
by few friends from Commerce, and
the delightful day before was repeated
in essential details.
All along the way the Executive
stopped and paid pop calls" of two
to four or five minutes, shook hands
with the head of the house, said few
words to the mistress in charge, and
kissed all the babies rendered for
gubernatorial inspection.
In GAINESVILLE, the Governor de-
parted from his usual custom, and
actually delivered an address in the
court house, which was listened to by
large crowd of men, women and
children assembled from among the
neighboring folks.
Everything was informal, and very
simple, and quite like old times, when
the Governors father was Governor
touring the State and meeting the peo-
pie fas,e to face, hand to hand and
heart to heart.
At Lavonia, another little town
over on the extreme edge of Franklin,
the Governor and his party spent
Wednesday night. The program of
events followed the other occasions in
great measure.
81 never had better time in my
llfe," said the Governor, discussing
his trip
81 love to mingle with the people in
Just the way l met them in Commerce,
in GAINESVILLE and in Lavonia. There
| see the true heart of Georgia, open
as book to the reading, generous,
hospitable and honest"