Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-06-27 | Page 10 | Georgia Self-Restraint

GEORGIA SELF-RESTRAINT SELF ELF GOVER GOVERNMENT ELF tENT In Georgia Is S SELF GOVERNMENT not just now a particularly attractive attractive at at- spectacle The governor g of ot otI I that commonwealth polished able coura courageous and and brilliant Is In danger dang of his life lire because with a fortitude as rare as it is pleasing he dared to rescue from the gallows 5 a 0 condemned man who ho never should have stood in their black shadow Governor Slaton is a lawyer laer of or wide experience c. and splendid attainments Viti With the tho record of or tho the Frank trial beCore before be- be fore Core oro him hire wholly disassociated from tho ho atmosphere of ot tho the courtroom and swayed by bp none of or the tho prejudices with which that atmosphere vibrated the governor earl early convinced himself the accused had not been proven been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of ot the death eath of ot little Mary Governor Slaton stands but low no nov In n tho the estimation of the tho Atlanta mobs none one of ot whose members doubtless had read the tho evidence or knew mew the tho the circumstances of tho the case He feels that his future in Georgia Is dark Indeed that he hc Is marked for tor obscurity because ho he had tho the courage to listen to o the dictates of reason and of or logic rather than the the Inflamed passions of or orthe he tile hour Georgias Georgia's mob Is s a sample of ot Georgias Georgia's government were Georgia a apure pure democracy Georgias Georgia's governor go governors Is s a a. sample of ot Georgias Georgia's government under tinder a representative democracy Georgias Georgia's governor gave his people what the they ought to have rather than what the they thought the they ought to have If It self government is ls a success in Georgia today it is because Georgia for a moment lacked self