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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. '-sZ'-h., -