The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-12-19
Gov. n. E. Harris-His Chances.

term today, it might be well TO con
slider for a moment what the governor
has TO contend with in the coming
fight and to take look at his chance
Of failure or success. The Macon Tel
egraDh, published in the home Of the
governor, seems to take rather
gloomy view of the governors chance
and in discussing the situation gives
utterance TO some well-known truths
in connection with the situation.
Here is the way it appears to the
Telegraph;
"The decision on the part of Gov.
Harris TO run for reelection and the
auspices under which the prediction
is semi-authoritatively made that he
will make the race, indicates the pro
hibitionist element in the various state
factions has seen its duty in the prem
ises and is trying to do it For if
ever a faction owed a man anything
the men and the sentiment behind the
present prohibition law owe it to N. f.
Harris, present governor of the state
of Georgia.
With the solid, sincere backing OF
his element and the support of con
siderable number Of his friends OF the
last time the governor can be re elect
ed. II the prohibitonists forget a NOR
al Fnd sentimental obligation that
seems plain and "doublc-cross' the
old gentleman with their suffragcs,
and there is an active campaigner in
the field against him, we are not so
sure bout It. Before Gov, Harris makes
the irrevCcable decision he may well
make up his mind that he will need a
great deal more new strength than any
of his present advisers realize. The
Telegraph, friendly to the governor,
staunch supporter in the past knows
that the men in the various counties,
his organization men, who elected him
last time are either lukewarm this
time or openly hostile. They won't
work for Hardman but they are Liable
to sit down and look on; while the
Hardman men have lost little of their
militancy for the doctor and they viii
work. II is up TO the Fielder Eichel'
berger.Jackson element in the AntiSa-
loon league allied with the Hopkins
Stoval- Sheppard Doris wing in the
goaeral assembly, to get together take
their coats off and pitch in to elect
the governor He saved them from
being placed in the light of being the
most gorgeous and idiotiC lot of jack
asses ever sent TO legislative halls.
Their walkout stunt was like the
squeeze play from third base to home
platc-when il wins it looks like mil
lion dollars. when it fails it looks like
thirty cents less than nothing. Through
the grace of the governor they won
with squeeze play"-they surely
owe him Il reelection. if it is in their
power to give,
The situation is one with unusual
phases. Politically the first term of
Governor Harris has heen n genuine
and unmitigated failure; from the
standpoint of statecraft, that all de
Ponds. If one believes that in amy
case the end iustitics the means then
the one big crisis of his executive ca
rcer he met correctly. Try virtue of
two sessions of the general assembly
big and important things were set in
motion This goes to the credit OF
his administration His political mis-
takes have hccr many they started
with the general ball-up of everything
in the organization OF the Macon con
lVention: his convention. He and those
surroundings him have broken every
Winning rule in the political HoNlo
since he has been in office. He has no
organization at this time. and the pro
Ihibitionists extreme wing of them
must find one for him. The average
political slscr np would say that the
governor is in mighty precarious fix
on the basis Of trying for reelection,
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An Admirable Guide.