The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29
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THE NEXT GOVERNOR.

THE NEXT GOVERNOR.
Gov.-eIect Roberts is spending his
time in Nashville getting an intimate
knowledge of the affairs of the state
which he will soon be called upon to
administer. The governor-elect could
not mere profitably devote his efforts
than to this task. He is taking
commendable course and he will find
that personal and intimate knowl-
edge of the details of state govern
ment will assist him very much in
safely guiding the ship OF state dur
ing the coming administration.
1t Is hoped that the governor will
approach all problems with an open
mind, that he will draw no line be-
tween those who have been his poll
tical supporters and those who for
good reasons supported his opponent
in the democratic primary. Some OF
the ablest and most disinterested
democrats in Tennessee voted for Mr..
Peay. Their advice and assistance
will be most valuable to the new
governor. He should go even further
than this. He will be the governor OF
all the people Of the state and should
appeal to the best in the republican
party to give him aid.
The Herald does not take much
stock in the reports current about the
hotels Of Nashville to the effect that
Judge Roberts has marked for
slaughter those faithful servants and
good democrats who did not support
him for the primary nomination. 1t
believes and will continue to believe
until tile contrary is established, that
the goyernor-elect is too broad a man
and has too high a conception of his
duties as the holder of the highest
office in the state to enter upon mar
row and partisan course of proscrip-
ton. 1t does not believe that he will
do anything in malice or seek the poll
tical destruction of any man because
he exercised the right that the gov
ernor-elect has always claimed for
himself. On the contrary manifestly
the wiser course would be to call in
to counsel those able servants Of the
state who in the exercise Of their
rights as democrats preferred an
other, rather than to seek to incur
their hostility.
Nor does The Herald subscribe to
the idea that. Judge Roberts will seek
to dominate the legislature; to destroy
the constitutional functions of that |
body by unwarranted interference
with a coordinate but independent
branch OF the state government. |
Friends of the goyernor-elect who are
making statements to this effect are1
plainly doing the incoming governor
an injustice. The judge is an able
lawye- and no one in Tennessee has
a higher appreciation of the neces-
sity for that system OF checks and
balance provided in the organization
of Anglo Saxon governments through
the institution of the legislative and
judicial departments as independent
branches.
No one has ever assumed the reigns
of government in this state who had
e. finer opportunity for service-real,
genuine, patriotic and disinterested
service for all the people than Judge |
Roberts. There will be many prob
lens during the reconstruction period
that will tax the patience, the ability
and the craftsmanship of the ablest of |
patriots. Judge Roberts holds to an
unusual degree the confidence and
good will of the people of Tennessee
and with their assistance he can give
the state an administration that will
prove an honor to him and a profit
to them.