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HOKE SMITH WOULD HAVE EXCLUDED •
WATSON VOTERS FROM BALLOT BOX“V
LX APPROACHING PRIMARY ELECTION
Clark Howell Makes
Assertion in Friday’s
Joint Debate.
SAYS COMMITTEE WAS
OF SMITH’S CREATION
Charges Profits From Piedmont
Bar Were Applied to Mortgage
on Hotel and Not to Charity.
In hl« speech In the Joint debate with
Hoke Smith at the Peachtree auditor
ium Friday night, Ur. Howell said:
Mr. Chairman, Fellow-Citizens and
Friends: Having recognized the fact
that In politics, as In all other things,
men must differ. I am glad to address
vou tonight, whether you be for me or
whether you be against me, as friends
and fellow-citizens of Atlanta.
•Just a few words, fellow-citizens—
just a few words by way of preliminary
In melting a Statement as to why I
aiked for a Joint discussion hare to-
nlfhl.
My adversary. In speaking on every
■tump In this state for the past year,
has seen fit to attack me, to attack
mv record in the general assembly. Ills
supporters here In the city of Atlanta,
bis newspaper organ, has seen fit to
k me from time to time, to malic -
• misrepresent me. On every
■tump In the state of Georgia, dur
ing the past year, my adversary has
s-en fit to misrepresent me before the
people of the state of Georgia by at
tacking my record as made In the gen
eral assembly ~of-this state, for which
time I. have served the 1 people of my
home county: and my record as a
member of the general assembly is an
open book for- your Inspection.
Reason, for Challenge.
• Gentlemen,, the reason that' I chat
lenged my. adversary to mdet me here
tonight at his own,meeting Is that In
his campaign In this state, covering a
period of a year, he has attacked ray
legislative record, he nas attacked the
honesty of my purpose, and I wanted
to meet-, him before the people who
know him and the people who know
me, In order that, having made the at
tacks before-this audience, that he has
made In the different parts of the state,
I might have an opportunity to answer
him before my fellow-citizens.
"He has spoken, feflow-ottfzens, he
has spoken here to you for one hour,
and I call your attention to the fact
that here tonight, that during that en
tire hour, he hoe not put his fingers
upon one single vote that I ever cast In
the general assembly of this state
showing that I hare at any time ever
sacrificed the Interest of the people
who sent me there. In behalf of any
corporation.
"Ah, fellow-cltzsns, what an easy
thing It Is for a man to attack an
other man's character without - any
specific statement. He makes a note
now. and 1 assume, therefore, that It
Is his purpose In his last half hour,
when he knows that I .will have no
opportunity to reply, to attack me,
when In his llrst address before this
audience he did pot have the courage
to do so.
Wanted Charges Repeated,
"He has not repeated to this au
dience, my fellow-cltzens,.to those who
know him, and ' to those who know
me. the charges that he has made on
ever}- other stump In the state of Geor
gia. I had hoped, fellow-citizens, that
he would do that tonight In his first
speech, so that I might have an op
portunity tn reply to him here. I know
these people, and these people know
me. and these tieople know him.
“Early In this campaign, fellow-clt-
fzrns. long before the . primary .election
In this county was'held, I made the
proposition on every stump In Georgia
•>n which I spoke that, In order to
avoid an unseemlng local conflict here
tt home between two home candidates,
that I would cheerfully leave to my
home people an arbitrament as to
uhlrh of the two should represent
them.
"I made the statement, fellow-dtl
tens, that If In such a contest If
could secure his consent. I would with
draw from the race In his favor. If I
did not caYry, first, Fulton county; If
I did not carry, second, the city of
Atlanta. More than that, I made the
proposition that I would withdraw
from this race In hts favor If I did
not carry the own home ward In which
he lives.
Would'Leave It To Bar.
"Who should know him beet—who
should know him. If It Is not the mem
bers of his own profession, the mem
bers with whom he has' served here
during the past thirty years'? Who
should know him best, If It should not
he the people of his own county and
his own ward? -
And yet, notwithstanding my prop
osition, repeatedly made to him
throughout th# state of Oeorgla, what
•as his answer to It when he first
became cognizant of It, In his speech at
S.indrrsvIlTe, OS.?
HON..CLARK HOWELL.
Mr. Howell wants to leave the set
tlement of this contest to the city of
Atlanta:- I repudiate the suggestion.’
lie said: 1 repudiate the suggestion
because It Is an Insult to the balance of
the state.'
"He repudiated the suggestion to
leave it to you, his fellow citizens, men
•ho he knows know him, and who
know m e. He repudiated the sugges-
Hon that the settlement of this qties-
’Ion should be left to you. as sn Insult
lo the people of thle state. He did not
KENTUCKIANS GOING
HOME.
A large patty pf Kentucklana will
leave Atlanta tomorrow afternoon at
t od p m. over the Southern railway
in through sleeper for Louisville to at-
‘‘Tilt ‘ ‘ “* ""
tend -The Home-Coming Week for
Kentuckians.” This' party leaving
Sunday “ ‘ **
Sunday afternoon.will occupy through
sleepers Atlanta to Louisville srrsng-
M for sll who desire making the trip;
Rate from Atlanta to Louisville
sad return. $13.88; sleeping car rate
Per doubJe berth $*.60. Call at Sooth-
ffn railway, ticket office No. 1, Peach-
'fee street, or Terminal riritfah .for
tickets and Bleeping car reservation*
Railway will also run
South,
th
. ... . stocks of the.rail roads of this, state.
because ho knew that if'he had accept-
•S{?J»:^n:«ount f ,_an} SnenSlaiV Horn of
the. railroads'of the. state were: the
stockholdere themselves.. 1 never had
of the question of. his cahdldhcy/He his' RftRW?*** In 'ahy railroad, and
himself • gone sowing -broadcast - over
this a tat*, rftfttemtntjTflhnut’tnn «nrt mv
-HV“F,SV ssvjo III Ulht'il • WUUIU/I M1IU.
yet, ffllow j Citizens—and yel,. this Is
the man, .afraid . of hla own people,
afraid-to leave to them the settlement
rtf IKa /Ilisillnn nf.hle nnhrlMams Ks'hae'
this state. Statements about me and my
record, which, he Is-'afraid to repeal
here to the people of my home county.
And -this 1k the' man. fellow citizens,
who has charged'me with sins and with
Iniquities'of which he knpws that he
alone Is guilty, and,which he tries .td
8 ut on Other shoulders'In.order that
ley may.be diverted from ^Im.
Paid to, Fight for Rate Reduction. '
"Ho talks about the freight rate.flght
here In the city of-Atlanta, and I would
thank you to recollect what I have to
say on this subject. He presents him
self to you tonight as the great father
of the freight rate fight here In Atlan
ta. And the feet remains that .before
he ever opened his mouth one single
time on the subject of freight reduc
tions rhad 'had fifty'editorials on the
miMflnn - of .frAlfpht'r«»f1iirHnna nnH
question -.of . freight ? reductions, and. h<
never, chirped In behalf of reduced
freight' rates to the city of Atlanta,
through the Atlanta freight .bureau,
until. I went In my pocket to' the ex
tent of $160 and hired him to appear
for this movement,
“It IS an easy thing, fellow citizens
It Is an eaiy thing for a man to come
and try to soil another man's conduct
and.I charge tonight, before this audi
ence, that never In one single syllable,
directly or Indirectly, did he utter one
word-In behalf of freight rate reduction
until, as an attorney, he was paid to do
so by the Atlanta freight bureau, and I
went In my own pocket to the extent of
$100 to do lt. Somebody called hts at
tention to this fact some time ago,
and asked him what about It, and what
do you suppose was.his answer;?. He
said: ‘Why, the Atlanta freight bu
reau returned Mr. Howell'e money,',
and ^et- he did not. do me'the common
Justice to say to his friends tonight lh
your presence that-that money was not
returned' to me until every other mem
ber of the Atlanta freight bureau was
r ild back by-the guarantee fund that
engaged to pay him, as tb’elr attor
ney,' and I was the last man that-got
my money back.
Never Charged His Psopls.
"1 never received a dollar' of railroad
money In my life. More than that, fel
low citizens, I never In my life, so help
me Ood, I never charged the people of
my home city one single dollar for de
fending them. He has gone over this
state, fellow citizens, making the
charge Indirectly, and by the means
of alt methods of attack, the unholy
method- of the highwayman, the
attack by Innuendo, going alt
over thle etate, making It ap
pear to the people of thle state* there
was some kind of pipe llhe connection
between me and the railroads of this
state.. . •
“He has not made that charge to
night, because he dared not do so. .and
I state, fellow citizens—1 state, fellow
citizens—If that charge has been made
on every stump In the state of Georgia,
as reported In the columns of the At
lanta newspaper which represents him.
If ht charges directly or Indirectly that
any railroad on the face of this earth
has one particle Interest In me, or ln
my candidacy, or that I am lined up
and obligated, directly or Indirectly, to
any'raliroad on the face.of thle earth,
he tells a deliberate falsehood:
Not a Railroad Stockholder.
1 never received a dollar,. I never
received a fee. I never put myoelf In a
complication directly or Indirectly; I
never was a stockholder' In any rail
road on the face of the earth, even to
one penny's extent, and no railroad on
the face of this earth ever owned one
penny's Interest In any property In
which I.am now. or ever have been,
^AV^Srst'obligation,, fellow citizens,
from the day that I.sitalned the-age of
map, my first obligation I*. and>alw»jns
has been, to this.great state,'which 1
. i.s.*- s».-w.-««'.nnt An
<*h I Would
love better thanany'spot-On the.face
of the earth; - find. for. .wM<
die:' • '•'.-.i 'ir-
"And y^t, iet'us. look Into the record
now of this man—of thle man WBb ewhs
to tie me up wlth-th*. railroads« by a.sys
tem -of falsehoods that he haa scattered
broailcasrover every pert of this Stale
end of which he fall* to suatafn.a sin
gle Charge tonight. ’ Whont'How, fel
low cltlzene. If Charge with ha»lng_not
only been tied/up wjtft *?»>,■
of thle state for- the gftiter- — *•
I defy hlmHn hla remarks, In conclus
ion tonight—I defy him: to deny* that
he became, a largei stockholder; tn the
speculative market,of the Southern
railway, that be negotiated hler$40,000
loan from Mr.iJ." Plerpont Morgan. Ah,
fellpw citizens, I do. not blame hlm for
having gone to.Wall street to borrow
$40,000 from the owner of the Southern
w-su.wwu at will me ure 4 IQ a ui mo ovuiiiniu
and the Central Railroads, at ths very
time.that the columna.of the newspa
per-he theii owned were being leveled
against these railroads operated,In the
state, but I. do charge that frotr the
day that they loaned this amount—and
I defy him to'produce tonight one sin
gle line during , the. entire pendency of
that loan,. covering, a period of'nearly
two years—I defy him to produce a sin
gle line In the columns of his news
paper where any time during the whole
two years he ever attacked Mr. Mor
gan or' Mr. Spencer ' In' the etate of
Georgia.
Atlanta Journal 8tsok.
"He tells you that he put. up the
stock of hts paper, The Atlanta Journal,
os collateral at that time, he owning
three-fourta In eald' newspaper then,
and yet go back to the tax records of
Fulton county and you will And that
latlon that “he proposed tooliEht In.tly*
Men thst It i* n vote-catcher, will dls-
frunchtse untold thousands ■ of unedu
cated white men In the state r
glu. and that It will put the ballot lh
the hands of untold thousands of edit
cated negroes In this state. •'
Smith's Negro Appointments.
"How does he propose, how does my
adversary propose to disfranchise the
negre? 1 coll attention to the official
record of tho Interior department under
his administration. In which It Is
shown that more negroes were ap
point,-d T.. < illl.-e from the ,'lty ,f \ 11 it n
tn than any other Democratic ad
ministration had ever made since the
civil war. (Voice from the audience,
'He wanted them to wait on him.')'
"Fellow citizens, he proposed to dis
franchise the negro In the state of
Georgia by giving him. office. Some
trtend In the audience suggests that
while he was In Washington he wanted
negroes to wait upon hltn there, and I
coll your attention to the official re
cords of that department In which
Henry P. Turner, of Atlanta, the son
of Bishop Henry M. Turner, wee pro
moted by him to an office which paid
him In salary and expenses $$,000 a
year, his duty being to examine while
pension applicants. Hay* the full record
of these appointments, these salaries
ranged fr,,m jtm, t,, l.’.OOO a year, and
he does not deny It: he ndmlts that he
made these appointments, and What
do you suppose his excuse wrs? He
*„> lie made these appointments be
cause It wos necessary to maks them
in order to get the negro .vote tn eame
of the states out West. An.l > et In the
stale of Georgia, fellow citizens, why
should lie appoint negroes to get doubt
ful states In-the West?
"End Justifies Ihs Msant.”
"Gentlemen, you have heard the story
of a campaign shlbbototh. which Is
plating a consMer.iMe part <n,tl)e cam
paign. and that Is the shibboleth that
the end Justl.'w* the means, and It
looks Ilk,' tonU.it as If Mi Smith's
frtsnds believe It, for they do ndt want
to hear the truth • ,
It Is anything to get votsz—any
thing to get votes;.go over this state
traducing and deliberately lying about
me from one end of tha state.to the
'othar.iand yet when he stands before a
home audience he dorse■ not tell you
the truth, so you can hear him. I
thank <".n,| that I do not believe In that
unholy motto, that ths end Justifies the
means, and It seems to most
strange that a candidate who began
his campaign nine months ago, on the
statement thnt he was divinely called,
should, In so short a time, hnvoito
chnnge hts motto for that unholy dec
laratlon *that any end Justifies an;
means, and that he lm» gotten It over
;,ls audience and his hearers here to
night'. " . . '
"Not/,.IfcMow- citizens, I believe that
nine-tentlis a( the people here tonight
he hlnisclt Will have to admit
‘ Reads Itslwe From Ledger.'
"Listen to this Mr. Hoke Smith,
the-ledger account-pf. the rie,lm<5nt
hotel, a transcript of,Mils made to.Mr.
Hoke smith—this candidate. with the
divine coll. h
■' ‘February $0. two bottles Somerset
liquor. $4.50.' Now, listen to this—I
know the friends of Mr. Bmlth don't
want to hear It, but they have got to
If they have to stay here all night:
'April IT. Mr. Hoke Bmlth, one quart
sherry. $$.M.' One quart sherry, $f.S4;
why, what terribly expensive sherry
Mr. Bmlth must have been drinking:
" 'April 27, one bar account. $*.50
>0th of May, $$.' Listen to this, fellow
cltlsens, 'December 14 (nearly Christ
mas tlms), Homerset whisky. $0, and
water, 40 cents.' .
"Now, wait a minute, end let’s have
this story out; now hear It all: t want
you to hear It all; about Christmas
time, $1 worth of llduor and 40 cents'
worth tof water. He didn't take but
mighty little water with the liquor.
Now, Helen, 'April $1 (and this In red
Ink, now), one bottle of specially fine
liquor, $$.'
“Now, listen to this: Here Is where
the rebate queetlon comes In—I wonder
If this went to' charity?
"December II,' again—ell happened
about Christmas time—here Is the re
bels question, hsrs In red .Ink, figures
approximating about '115. one-third
owner’s rebates—not for charity, but
for the: owner.
(A voice: "What about the freight
rater' Mr. Howell: "1 will tell you
about the freight rate.")
“Bo, you see, tellow-cltlsens, that he
woe the object of charity to which he
made reference In Tallapoosa.
The Freight Rats Question
Now I will fell you about the freight
rate questi i mi, ( .,i„ K t.. K u.-
very plain- statement about the
freight rate question. Thai Is whet Is
Wanted,'but will' you do ms the kind
ness to see that 1 have the opportunity
to make a statement on It? • I hold,
fellow-citizens, that .as far as my life
as a cltlsen-of the town Is concerned,
that as fnr as my record In the rltv Ilf
Atlanta It concerned.' raised as 1 was
to'love this city ana serve Its Inter
want to hear arguments on this ram'
t'.ilgn discussed; we nre here tonight
fur the purpose of entering Into a legit
imate discussion of these lepue* and of
felling the truth concerning-these. Is
Hues. I charge-that my adversary In
not a single charge that he has made
against ime.from the beginning,to the
end, has dono mo the fairness to tsll
the. truth nbout It. and I will add that
the collateral that was put up as secur
tty for the $40,000 loan, which Mr. Tom
Loyless, of The Chronicle of Augusta,
declares at the time he put hie con
victions In soak In Wall street, that
the etock:of the paper that he put up
as collateral was sworn here In Fulton
county as being only worth $10,000, and
three-quartera Interest'for the entire
loan.
'Homebody a moment ego. made the
statement,. 'What about free passes?’
In all probability, fellow cltlsens, the
Jnan waa addressing • Mr. Smith, and
not me,'because he knows more about
trespass** ahd-prlvate cars than I do.
(Voice from the audience,- 'Tell
where you stand.’)
Favors Antl-Psss Bill, '
I will tsll you where I standi
somsbody asks ma whore I stand. Give
me a minute, and listen. to m*..while I
I am In* favor of .the passage of
A known ss the anll-free pess
bill now pending before the legislature
of the. state'and which will paaa'dur-
Ing the summer session, but I do say,
fellow cltlsens, I uo say, that If I had
ridden all over this country on free
passes; If I had had private cars at
my command whenever I wanted them;
If I could get a private car at any time
I wanted It, merely by touchlrtg a bell
and having It hitched on to some train
to carry me from Washington city to
Tellowetone Park, l would be the last
man In the etate pf Georgia to turn to
another man. and say, 'dir, you are a
dishonest,man, a rascal,for doing.the
same thing‘I have been doing all my
life.’ I dare him now, fellow cltlsens;
I dare him now—listen to this and list
en to his answer—I dare him now In
hla concluding remarks to deny that
he has used free pessea over the rail
roads, and I dara him.to deny.that
' ' Interior de-
when in Washlngton-ln the
pertinent, when It 'was his'duty to
pass In Judgment upon the..tltle to mil
lions of acres - of government' lends In
the west; I dare him to deny that when
he went out there, he went there In a
well-equipped prlvate.car over the rail
road ayatem along whose very line he
was called upon, to-net; and, fellow
citizens. If he does deny It; If he does
deny 1 It, I'will, If he ask* me to. do so,
produce the proofs, and If I.cannot pro
duce the proofs 1 will get opt of the
race for governor.
.. “The Hope of the St«t«."
"Fellow cttlzegs, some man 1 n' t ft•- au
dience—I - llke;-Lto get, qttesiinns ^from
the audience—p«me;/man.'ln»U»e-.audi
ence seys/'^What hbuuCflA- 'Oope'pT the
ffate^?’ 'I'aeenhie you*i»Jhf ; to life ne
groquestion.' How; Just'listed V'mo
ment, and I will tell you where I-etaod
•pn the rjegref^situation You:know
where Mr. Smith slnjuJa,, no*■. .you
kfiow-were, lie etod five'yea re's go. bln
I'defy any man In the etate of Georgia
to-’teil wherd. he will .stand pn'thls or
any other proiAsItlen flW> year* from
now. • ~ ■) ■' , r", *. '
, "I stand-on.' this proposition * Just
where 'L stoodcfivez.yeare ago, nr the
very:ttlrie' Mr. Bmlth and. 1st; .! hen.I
! together before Ills'generil ae-
of your .-rate,-urging thc/n to
V, ^ t-eest' ena O u I eo - 1 Hfl t t,A slo nil m
oi m» t\r7r, i *. " ii.Ue (<#§[ t^t rify, rwaiurtfltfet fa" patronized th* Plrfli v
e S5S8f n »+***■Vou. tonlsht. with4jnblu*Kln*«f- b5 ofcr* JlJ?
him fr-nt.-ry, Wlnll jrw'tfcat It'yijgM to hjfn H*r*.*tn*th4 (SimM
fee* frJn 'W WAy, why—, /from and on every dollar* wo*h
wlth having- put him*«UjHPdar<»bl , g a- a audit net. '3qt he t^s-tn.irr^d hl« in-tKe'llaMnr.tEit-he^houghtrtfrtn
tkm tn the-talent;of-UJM* ba*“W:.ingijJ hulflio Piedmont'hotel, too
rallroade.owr.etj.nf UU.ltjM;. . f r;lnd - ha* ch*.r.ge<r hln^nlnd. b-jt Ho owr.^rV dlJicoimt: Ju*t* wA|t ftothlmite.
than tlw^** dUzettf^J^iagrt^nUn j navfr’dldif ?hlllpo r b«cam ° aVandl- [1 want'to you tW fncta:/I *avn
,v|th having b«fr- the tvenrf. J iw' °l' t 'V data.for gnVffcmr. v A- -W ^v»t dealing, in gmterUig'a-ncralitl^.. I
,> n jhfioWj ctltfena^Lam-opposed t>f»dge you I tU> *^at^m«-nt about
>•. j to^hiC-dlafr^nchivenient Uirli*iift)«f for Mf. Hmlth^tonlght or>any- iT»un* ln‘the
That $40,000 Loan From Morgan : i„. t?.at Mr .S ..rth- vn-l I ntv -f rje-irgU ?!-.*. no:
' m.hlsteddress h»redSEoeS*.Jt7 fi.*• ye^ry, • zlw„ oe hv/.h. .«»«
f , .-■ lAt *-ej r Lji vnsjw that'
hi, campaign from tn-glnnlng to end ls
based upon iierrit Mini mlsrepresenta-
'I oi This cntiipulgn ..f dr it and ml*-
represenlat'on began more than a year
ngn, and a glaring example of It wael
In the answer made to my friend Rufe
Hutchins, down here In Tallapoosa, Ga.,
when lit- Interrupted Mr. Smith with
the question, apropos of what he was
saying nt the lime, 'Mr. Smith, dpn’t
you own an interest In the Piedmont
hotel bar In Atlanta?’ (Noise and ln-|
terruptlnn* from the andlem-e.)
"Ladles anil gentlemen. It was un-|
derstood hero tonight that I was Invited
as the guest of Mr. Bmlth and hie
friends. When the statement was mode
that-they would be entirely responsible
for order helng kept nt the meeting I
did not think for a moment it would he
necessary for me to ask that mv friends
should he given At lekst-half of'ths
representation of-those who ware, to
keep order; I had full confidence that
when an Invitation came to me to ad
dress this meeting thnt I would be
treated with at leant the name conetd-
erntlon that my friends extended to the
gfntleman who gave the Invitation to
me.
Asks to be Heard Out I
"Oetlemen, this Is a long story, end
I.am going to toil It; understand that
every moment'a Interruption la taken
out of my time, but I ain here for the
purpoee of making thin atat- mrnt, and
I am> going to do It, and I trust you
will do me the klndnese to II,ten to me.
VWIisn. Mr. Smith was asksd In the
town of Tallapoosa by Mr. nufe Hutch
ins If he dld not own a third Interact Ini
the Piedmont-bar In Atlanta, he vary
Interest In the Piedmont bar,‘but, he
■aye, I do not touch one dollar's In
terest of that unholy and that dirty
money, I have nothing to do with It;
my partner has gotten me Into thle
Iniquitous business without my knowl
edge or consent.
8mlth’e Bar Account.
'Now, fellow cltlsena, I have got eome
very Interesting records tonight - to
show now. This Is a small thing, per
haps Mr. Smith may think, but- Ist'a
se, the truth of the Piedmont bar bual-
ness, and' If he mlsrepresenta that Is
sue why Isn't It likely, that he haa
misrepresented ev*ry other campaign
atatement that ha has made. He stated
that he had only a third Interest In
the Piedmont bar, but he-had nothin*
whatever, to do with It; that ha would
give that money to charity; now let'*
aee what became of this one-third. In
terest In the,, profits ; nqw hsre are
the facta and hsre are tho figures, and
I charge that not one elngie do)tar of
h|a one-third Interest In the Piedmont
hotel, bar haa gone to any other pur-
pooe on the face of the earth .except
to -pay hie mortgage Indebtedneae on
the loan which he negotiated'.for the
building of the Piedmont hotel. More
then that, I produce here tonight an
exact transcript from the ledger of the
Piedmont hotel. (A voice: 'It makes
no difference where It went.*) t (Mr.
Howell: That's right, . tt makes 'no
difference,where It went, but It didn't
go to . ebartty.) But hefe le a nan*
script from the ledger of Lhe Ple^mont
would not hmvo'aaetngle -man
In-thla audience think I nm.as-satnt,
because I am not: yet you 'know' ll,
and I know; It-' and’the Only dlIterance
between - Mr. Bmlth and myself .le tljst
e Is,-'a saim; and'you'don't
Mnk so. T'T ; '
. Transcript'. From HpteJ . Ledger.v
, "Now, ftUow.clGsens, here Istlhe rec-
ord 'of- the Piedmont' hi^el,-bar, taken
from (he ledger of Uie,PleAfnont'hottli
hevwould not'have the dirty mtmey.fbyt
he 'Would, give his third tp,ccfcarityC
Here*I* an lt*ynt<sd > Jicb(ot: fromjttW
to the fplloWJUg Naveeibrn Mr. Bmlth
' * ' anT hotel -bar on
■cfoughf-eletpers Atlanta to X-otilsvllle ] bmlgbt
® »ftefaoon Tuesday. June 12tlz.
r; din i? ram * are now upon
ifon* boltiK m.ide.
affo, »#♦« w i
me—.f, ..itz.ii* tn.hU'a'tores* ner* wajoseo jc ; it- year.- hv *v" iiuy, wsrosa tarn rot hr-hy.' the -
, r ! r ,' k^wlbat •tke'dLfSzJrhleWiftnt >i?i MBKnv or fh«^Sffictat.nree«HSji
,v t. - k'»k i; * ••'it'e. V: T ".' ' :
ved ln thla city.-should be Zufildent
pledge to you to know that nb Interest
ever begun and no 1 movement - ever
started In this city for the welfare ■
thle rlly could have other than my
undying dovotlon and my every effort,
and as far as' this freight rate ques
tion Is concerned, I will let Mr. Smith
and*no i other man on the'face of• the
earth make-any Issue with me'on the
fr.-luhl rale question.
•T will allow- no man tq- go further
than'I will go In the statement that no
movement ever Instituted by lhl« town
Jo reduce freight ratOe, If your freight
Miles are I,.., high, and thc> are, If t "U
have been discriminated against, and
yoU havo, In some Instances, • I will
stale that no.man In.the city of-At
lanta has .'gone further,-or will ■■
further, than I will, go to • protect you
against. any unjust discrimination.
Favored Freight Rate'Fight. .HP
"When, the buslneee men of this city,
through the Atlanta . freight bureau,
undertook this movement In,behalf.of
lower freight rales, Its ootnmlttee-came
to me for a subscription to help carry
on this work, and I cheerfully :rt
eponded. I make the statement now.
I repeat now what I said before, that
I’had numerous editorials on this-sub
ject. Fellmv-i ulzi-ns, ns to the freight
rata question, I say-there le not a man
In Ihls-audlenca who knows me, there
Is not a member of the Atlanta freight
burenu today who know, me, but'Who
knows that my heart Is In the work. ' It
has always been there. - .
"I havo co-operated with-them from
tho beginning to tho end of It, and I
repeat now tho statement that I made
In tl"- Winning "f lhose n-imirks, Him
I was engaged In this fight long before
Mr. Bmlth ever opened hi, mouth on
the subject, and that'he did not appear
on the scene of action until I paid
him to do It. Ha can not engago mo
in a discussion before this nuulenco
by making It nppenr to you that I om
here to defend high freight rotes, while
he la here to maintain low freight
a tee; nothing could be further from
e truth. -
■ -'Howell Heavy . Freight Payer.
T am Just as. much'In favor of low
freight rates for. the city of Atlanta
as he le—a thousand times more then
he. For where, fellow-cltsens, he pays
one dollar freight to bring hie goods
Into the city of Atlonto. 1 pay one
thousand dollars. There Is not a man
on'this stage, there Is not a man In
this town, that loves this beloved clly
of mine greater than I do. There Is
not a man In this audlsnce tonight
who would dO more for the clfy of. At
lanta, or Who has-tried to do more,
than l have dons, and there Is not a
man hsrs but who khow, that there
haa not lieen a time when the calL for
good cltxene to eome out In defense
of the business Interests of th, city
came that I have not always cheerfully
end gladly responded by effort and
by subscription.
"How do I eland on freight rates,
you say? There la my record In my
newspaper, where I have fought for
reduced freight rates ever since I
have been old enough to write a line.
I challenge him tonight to take one
elngie line that ever appeared In the
editorial columns of The Constitution
and: show wherein I was not Just as
earnsst In behalf of freight rate re
duction as he he* been, and without
charging the city of Atlanta one sin
gle dollar for my services.
That Reprinted Editorial.
"He has paraded before thle audience
tonight something that he says appear
ed In the. columns of The Constitution
as reprodutsd from the columns of
The Macon Telegraph. Why, fellow-
cltltens, do you suppose, does he sup
pose, that I am rasppnslbls for every
reproduction th*t appears In the col
umns of my newspaper 'from eome
other paper? No, more, fellow-cltlsens,
than the editor of hla newspaper or
gan Is responsible for whatever may
appear In the columns of that news
paper as coming from another news-
>nper, and In .reference to the special
lem to which he rffAs. I never, even
saw ‘it in The, Oodstjtuiion until',-he
read, it on thtm.ieaVitm tMitfti >• '
"Hq.we a 111 make'no |e*ue T about- the
railroad qdeetlep,'V*r,»boht We matter
of railroad’ rates, bscltuSe-1 tell you
that 1 ;!- am JUst aa-fonteallr. in favor
bf’ll.-ahd I Will*do Justus much: as
he haaidon*.. er.Jusl fie much, as be
tan do. to bflng-W«tn about. - .
AMERICAN DENTAL PARLORS
19; Peachtree Street, Atlanta, 6a.
OVER ftCHAUL A MAY.
Or. C. C. NEEDHAM, Prop.
$0.50
Rubber Plates
22-K Gold Crown...
Porcelain Crown
Bridgework, per tooth
PAINLESS EXTRACTING
TEETH CLEANED
MP
FREE!
Hours, 8 s fn. till 8 p. m.
Sunday, 9 s. m. till 4 p. m.
WE TAKE IMPRESSION AND PUT IN YOUR TEETH SAME DAY.
sens, that freight rates have been re
duced and through the Instrumental!!;
of the Atlsnta freight bureau, whlc.
Is true. It Is a noble organisation.
Nothing In this world can be done
without organisation. There never wax
a-better-organisation In We city of At
Ionia, and I never contributed to
work more cheerfully In my life, end
am here tonight to add teetlmony l
the fact that the, admirable army of
figures which they presented to the
railroad commission did contribute
largely to the action of the commission
In reducing railroad rotet, and they
did good work tor It, and the.attorneye
who were engaged In * that servlet,
and for which wo paid out of our own
pockets did good work also, but t re
spectfully submit that they did not do
the whole business.
Defense of State. Offiolals.
"Now, fellow cltlzeris, thle campaign,
begun nearly a year ago, haa been
based upon the principle that there
were only a few honest men'In Geor
gia. and that We officials-of thle state,
aa a general .thing, your courts, your
legislature, and your county officials
now and for tho past twenty-five years,
have boon more or leas corrupt. Now,
I.am sufficiently optimistic,-fellow clt
lsens, to look'upM-the-brlght'slds of
things, and to believe Wat this old
world, of ours Is not so'bod as somt
peopls would picture It.
"I believe In the honesty of man
kind. I would.rather.believe that any
man.on this earth le an honeat man,
unlese It can be proved by absolute
specification that he la a dlehoneet man.
I-call your attention now.-to tbe fact
that In this' entire campaign of tra
duction. covering a period of a year,
Wat in not -one, elngie Instance could
this man -put hie finger upon one single
dollar ofithe state's money gone wrong
nor a single piece of maladministration
during all this-time, and'we are-enjoy
lng today a greater degree of prosper
mown, and I aubmlt that these honest
public servants’of Oeorgla during-the
Mst'.twenty-fiyryaara-deserve at least
their, mite, of praise. In bringing thle
about, rather,than that they shpuld be
lamatrung- wtt
nllted to.them
without, having - had eub
one single specification
, 'ot only . has the good name
of . your etate .been-traduced, been held
up. before the world as an object of
contempt- and ridicule; not only that,
but your Democratic executive com
mittee today has been held up before
the contempt of the peqple of thle etate
for Its'action a few weeks ago. If. you
will do me the kindness to .hear me out
we will see who Is responsible for It.
The Yeomens- Committee.
'Your committee, the organised com
mittee of your party. In' simply. de
daring that Wla should be a Democrat-
rlmary. In which only Democrats
should vote, without regard to' poet
political affiliations whatever, every
while man In the state of. Georgia was
Invited ,lo. come In, whether Populist
or Democrat or whatnot In tlia past—
the gates were thrown wide open to
Pemqarate and all Invited to partlcl-
>ate with the simple statement that
they ere Democrats.. , Now, having
taken that action, Mr. Hmlth'e paper
taMMMMiilklliMMnlltei as. hav
ing ssceeded lie authority. Ms. Smith
himself tonight has attacked hie party
organisation, It having been this action
| which he says has shut out a great
many Populism In the etate of Georgia.
- ‘‘Listen to what. I am going'to tall
you, and I want svary man In this au-l
dlence to.hear It, and I want him to
'. Credit /orfladuotion of Rates.
■Stolls you In hi* remarks tonight
that, tl'-r raltroqd .coqunlsslon In ire-
spons* to so'ms statement* 'of mine In
made' We>e»»*m»njdhet ;We
coramUstfin -during ths
,—lread cotamUMffn -during ths past
yearned;reduced rate*;•,he telle.you
Itt was nOt'so, that the ■railroad', com-
mteeton-riuDf n6r reduced-rates; -and
than lh-th»gery 'neat-bredth.hw nditiHa,
tbe *aatn» jientfinfS JaFmqet, trta ,
*~ materially re
I'ihv,etty-of -Atlanta'during the
He- says then that, the
Ilssloo , bad ' * reduced
but J)e days 'that- the
aiffncs io s nrAr ii, ana i warn nim 10
hear It. This executive committee was
elected two years ago. Ho says that
Mr. Yhomans, who Is Its chairman, ap
pointed eome corporation repreasnta-
Ivea on the committee, leaving the In
ference that the whole committee was
appointed by the chairman. The truth
of the matter was that thirty-eight
members of this committee were elect
ed by the state convention and only
four from the etate at large were ap
pointed by the chairman end the
hlriy-elfht men elected by the state
convention were elected by the state
convention which was absolutsly dom
inated by Mr. Bmlth when he Instruct
ed tne convention for Judge Parker.
Wanted to Bleak Watson’s dame.
‘‘We have not got to tha Interesting
part of thle proposition yet. Here is
ha whole story now, I have Just begun
It: This convention elected thle com
mittee; at that time the present state
administration, the governor and oth
ers, were strongly against Instructions
of (hat committee to Its delegation to
go to the Ht. Louie convention, prefer
ring that they be sent unlnstructed. 1 It
happens about that time Mr. Watson
was strongly supporting Mr. Hearat.
end Oovernor Terrell end others were
In favor of Hearat and an unlnstructed
delegation. Mr. Smith presided over
the caucus that mat at the Kimball
house and the word went out that no
one but Parker men should go. Mr.
Griggs w*a . defeated, the vote to In
struct the delegation was carried, and
among the first }o revolt was Mr. Wat-
Watson Attacked “Smith Ring. 1
‘‘Mr. Watson a tow days'after that In
a speech here In the city of Atlanta at
tacked the ring headed by Mr. Smith,
Mo was, responsible for suppressing
the vote of .the people.’ It transpired
then th»t ■ Mr, Smith .dominated* the
Democratic ring In the state-of Geor-
gla, which had euppreaeed*the voice of
the people, end forced upon the people
an Ins traded Parker delegation and
Mr. Watson, In thla very -city, made a
■peach In which .he 'lambasted Mr.
Bmlth from- top to ,bottom as being
the. head of the-machine. Now, let's
•ea how the story developed. Mr. Wat
son. dlswittsfied' with the action of tha
national - Democratic convention In
dominating- Judge Parker. Immediately
announced hlmielf ae a candidate ’ for
president against Judge Parker and as
the Populist nominee for president.'Mr.
smith took-tne .platform In'Oeorgta In
-behalf of'Judge Parkqr. tor whom he
a u .
gijstfO^ which he'charged Mr.'Watson
lng the Instrument of the Re-
tber'dW'eo M-the '"lOrat of the At-
unt freight Mireau. and that he‘com-
p!l,-rente,, th* Atlanta *freight' bureau
fOr 1 Its vroA/.m-,which heja emlnently
'^l3fereA*re. •W* admlta,” fellow citl*
Democratic party.
Wanted "Pop*" Barred.
'He comes beck.to the city of Atlan
ta and the first thlng'.he ddw when
tfh, gate .back here, now, fellow citizens,
and-f defy hlm-now to deny on* single
charge that I am going to, make—I
want: Hoke, tot heir IMBt-li rhrfdge -that
he-came back lo the city of Atlanta,
goes to the telegraph office, •end* \
telegram to Mr. Yeomans, the chair
man of the stale Democratic e:i-< ti
tle# committee, then as he le today,
the same chairman elected by Mr
8mlth*s convention, the same chairir. ,n
that Mr. Smith Is now denouncing -
and telegraphs Mr. Yeomans to t'lc-'-s
come to Atlanta tomorrow, I am an*
loua lo see you. Mr. Yeomans, the
chairman, comes. He has a confer
ence with Mr. Smith at the Piedmont
hotel, and now what do you *upp"*«
Mr. Smith telle him; what do you *ui>-
poae he wants with htm? He says:
“ 'Mr. Yeoman# I have sent for you
to ask you to call the state executive
committee together Immediately.'
'■ 'What forr aaya Mr. Yeomans
"Smith says:
'"I want the stale executive commit
tee to meet here and act' on Watson s
for president as the Populist nomlr
against Judge Parker.'
"Mr. Yeomans says:
'"What do you want It to do?"
'Smith replle
* — nag
Smith's “Anti-Pope” Resolution.
1 want It to paae a resolution de
claring that every man who votee for
Thomas E. Wataon shall not vote In the
Democratic primary to be held In thm
year l$08l‘
“Mr. Teomans, the chairman of tha
committee, to|d hlpi that the Demo
cratic party In the etate of Ooorgln bud
never taken any retroactive steps look
ing to the binding of a vote by retr
active measures. He eald, we have
got a perfect right to eay that a man
cannot vote unless he votes the Demo-'
cratlc ticket now. Mr. Smith says, w a
must suppreee thle Populist vote If a
man votes for Watson we must put him
on notice that he cannot vote in our
S rimary next year. Mr. Yeomans gneal
> Oovernor Terrell and tetla him what
Mr. Smith had aald, and he aski-d the
governor what he thought nbout it.
The governor «aya, 'You cannot do It;)
It will be unjust/ Ha then goes to
Warner Hill, Mr. Hill woe the chair
man, I believe, of‘the committee on
resolutions of the state convention He
asked Mr. Hill about It, and Mr. mu
tells him the same thing that the gov
ernor has, and then he goes to Ja.-k
Spalding, who on thle stage haa been
criticized by Mr. Smith tonight as be
ing In the employ of a corporation, and
the state executive committee by .'
Smith hlmeelf, and Mr. Bmlth was
caucus with Mr. Spalding before
was made the .vice chairman.
Took Part In Cauouz.
Mr. Smith waa In the Parker cnu<
the night before Mr. Spalding w
made vlca chairman. Mr. Hmlth a
Mr. Grady were In caucus with h
and he waa made vice chairman
day, and Mr. Smith now Jump* on a
man that he made vice chalrmaa. tt/h
goes to Spalding with the same prowl*.
■Ition, and ha says;
,'"Mr. Hpalillng. you are a Parker
man like Mr. Bmlth. what do you think
of Mr. Smith's proposition?'
- “Tt won’t do*' said Mr. Bpaiding. «*
can’t do It. You would have n" right
to take this step.' and Binlth waa noti
fied by Mr. Yoemane that he would
not cell the executive committee to
gether.
"Now, fellow.eltlsene, In conclusion,
let me say l shall not detain you much
longer. Let me eay that the first lesson
that I ever learned In the city of At
lanta wae the lesson that I learne
The
out I _ _ _ _ _
came to me In a letter written
dey that I achieved the age of man
hood, $1 years of age, whrn dear old
Henry Grady, the man that I loved Let
ter than any men that ever lived on tho
fees of thle earth aside from m>- own
Immediate family, when on that day.
writing me congratulating me upon
having attained the estate of manhood,
he made use of thin expression:
Grady’s Advice to Howell.
'"You do what you can to build up
your city; do what you can to build up
your etato; remember, always, that
there are plenty of men In Georgia
who can be depended upon to do alt'
the tearing down that le neres-.iry.’
(Great applause.)
‘‘And so, from that day to this,
whether or not 1 have always lived up
to the spirit of that suggestion, though
I have always done my best to do so.
there le one thing that I can say. and
that Is, that from that day to this
never have f said anything against tho ,
honor or the good name of my native
■late. Aa old again today as I whs
the day that that letter was written. Its
golden sentftnents burned Itself deep
nlo my soul, and fired every Impulse
of my manhood with a aplrtt of eternal
devotion 'to my mother etate—Geor
gia. •
"I have trod these hills end these
rales when ae an Infant refugee In my
mother’s arras, not knowing whether
my father was alive or dead on the
battlefields around this very town I
wos born to love my state; I was born
to love my city. I love the old Demo
cratic party. It has done more for
the protection and salvation of »nr
people than all other Instrumentalities
put together, and so with every Impulse
of my soul, with every breath of my
body. I shall dsfend my stats, and I
will defend my party so long a* I may
live.
"They tell us the time has come f -r
the Democratic party to die. I do not
believe It, and now la the time wh-n
we must all raSy lo the party end
stand by the party aa we have in the
past. . 'la
."The time has not come for It ">
die, and It will not die. neither by sui-
clde nor by assassination."
TWO MORE CONVICTS
E8CAPE FROM CAMP
Special to The Georgian. h
Rlelng Fawn, Ga. June I.—Two more
convicts escaped from the furn„.i
camp a few days since. This run:, f -.
number.up .to five tn tha past tht<-c
yeara.
Two have been apprehended *n-l re
turned to thh penitentiary. *
REWARD 18 OFFERED
FOR ALLEGED MURDERER
Special, to The' Georgian
Montgomery, Ala . June t.—Th*' gov
ernor today offered
>r the arrest of Jol
well-known white cltl
who Is charged with t
lla Jones, a negress.
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