Tiie Self - Appointed Senator
Hoke Smith Must Accept tine
Challenge, or Stand
Branded as a Liar
and a Coward.
(concluded from page one.)
tyrannical to the Protestants who work under
him ?
(I refer to A. G. Hart.)
(5.) V, as he the Senator who influenced
the A ar Department in favor of the Roman
Catholic College of Atlanta (the Marist) by
appropriating a teacher and military sup
plies for this religious school?
(6.) Bby does lie not call up the Burnett
Immigration bill, and have it acted on?
The Italian pope is opposed to that bill,
and some secret influence has chloroformed it.
is that secret and WHY
HAS IT CHLOROFORMED SENATOR
HOKE SMITH?
(7.) Does he not intend to have his
Atlanta Journal return to General Long
street's widow the betrothal ring which the
old hero of the Confederacy placed upon the
finger of the “splendid little woman” whom
Hoke Smith said to Roosevelt, “’I have known
since a child?”
Has that engagement ring no sanctity in
the eyes of the Self-Commissioned Senator?
Does his paper need money so badly that it is
compelled to levy on and sell the betrothal
ring of the simple old Confederate, who
fought under the Stars and Bars, all the way
from First Manassas to Appomattox?
Senator Smith's paper charged the widow
'Longstreet large sums for printing her arti
cles defending Tallulah Falls from a piratical
Po wcr Company,
HOW MUCH DID IT CHARGE FOR
PRINTING THAT INFAMOUS EDITO
RIAL IN THE LEO FRANK CASE?
(8.) Why did he speak and vote in 1912.
to give to the American Coast-wise Ship
monopoly the free use of our Panama Canal,
which has cost our people four hundred mil
lion dollars?
. The interest on that money, and the yearly
cost of keeping the Canal will amount to at
least sixteen millions of dollars. Why did
Hoke Smith vote to put all that expense on
the people who cannot use the Canal, and to
exempt from all expense those who can use
the Canal?
What were his reasons for believing that
those Americans who own vessels engaged in
profitable trade should be the only Americans
that must not pay a dollar toward the neces
sary expenses of the most expensive Canal in
the world ?
On this question, he flopped this year; but
when the question comes up again in the next
Congress, as it surely will, he may flop back
to his original position.
What guarantees can he give that he won’t?
Who can trust a man who in so short a
time was for and against the Parcels Post,
for and against the Cotton futures bill, for
and against Canal tolls?
(9.) What substantial good has this Self-
Commissioned Senator accomplished, except
for himself and his millionaire friends, by
having his'own national bank in Atlapta
made the Regional Bank of this section of
the country ?
(10.) Why was he afraid to face the peo
ple in 1911? Why did he refuse to allow the
white voters their right to say who should
fill out Senator Steve Clay’s term?
(11.) Why has he broken his word so
often on the county unit plan; and why has
he made soHnany efforts to place the country
people under the feet of city politicians?
(12.) Does he endorse the position of
Jerome Jones on the Labor question? Does be
believe that when the field-hands quit the
THE JEFFERSONIAN
farm and turn the mules back into the lot,
those hands have a right to prevent the far
mer from hiring other labor?
Let us understand one another. Let Sena
tor Smith the people plainly whether or
not he endorses the attacks which Jerome
Jones has made on the position of ex-Gov
ernor Joseph M. Brown.
(13.) Was Senator Smith aware of the
secret deal which President Wilson admits
was made with the Republican negroes, under
which these negro Republicans arc being kept
in high offices?
If the Senator had known of this secret
deal, would he have supported Wilson for the
nomination?
Now that President Wilson confesses the
secret deal with the Negro Republicans, does
Senator Smith feel free “to fight” these Negro
office-holders?
Under this secret contract, will it not be the
duty of Senator Smith to side-step all negro
appointments, just as he side-stepped Link
Johnson and Bob Terrell?
(14.). Was he the friend of Union Labor
when he proposed to displace white mill
hands with negroes; and when, after that
scheme was tried in South Carolina and
failed, he went with Gunby Jordan, the manu
facturer, to Europe and made arrangements
to “flood Georgia with cheap labor?”
(15.) Did he not as Governor send to Polk
County, over the protest of the civil officers,
the same company of troops that Governor
Brown ordered to Dade?
(16.) How does he stand on the infamous
bargain that Bryan has made, to pay the
Roman Catholics of Colombia tweniy-fice
million dollars of our Protestant money,
because the Roman Catholics of Panama exer
cised their reserved right to separate
from Colombia?
LET SENATOR SMITH FACE THE
PEOPLE, AND QUIT DODGING BE
HIND DUMMIES!
Did the Democratic Leaders
Make a Secret Trade With
the Italian Church ?
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE.)
lion bill which provided for these chaplains
and made them officers in command.
With the rank of Captain, a Romanist
shave-head can order Jew’s, Baptists, Meth
odists and Lutherans to attend the papal
worship where bread is made flesh and wine
is made blood.
Mr. Tribble thought that the new law gave
the chaplain too much power. He also com
plained that out of 23 of the chaplains named,
on.lv three were native born Americans.
Further, Mr. Tribble said—•
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The Secretary of the Navy asked the naval com
mittee for twenty-four welfare secretaries. He
said, in part:—
“I would not advise any rank for chaplains or
any other religious officers or workers; but it is
a condition, and having had this rank a long
time, 1 do not wish to make any recommendation
for a change. 1 think there is very great need on
our snips of young men, —-young men who are
interested in religion and what you call social
welfare. I believe that in this work the young
man would help us tremendously in the educa
tional policy. I do not want him to have any
status, and I do not want him to have any pen
sionable rights. I do not expect him to stay per
manently.”
Why was not this request granted? The secre-
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taries were not granted the Secretary of the Navy.
I did not desire to discuss this issue, but gentle
men insisted upon forcing it on me. I will not
express my opinion, but read you the record which
others made and which is printed as part of the
proceedings of this House. From page 325 of
the hearings 1 will read you the following let
ter:—
* “Cardinal’s Residence,
“408 North Charles St.,
“Baltimore, Jan. 15, 1914.
“Rev. Lewis J. O’Hern, C. S. P.,
‘‘Apostolic .Mission House, Washington, D. C.
‘‘My Dear Father O’Hern: As our representa
tive in matters pertaining to Army and Navy
Chaplains, may I ask you to personally call on
the members of the Committee on Naval Affairs,
both of the Senate and the House of Representa
tives, and urge upon them the necessity of more
chaplains for the Navy? Explain to them that
the projKised scheme of substituting ‘welfare sec
retaries’ for chaplains docs not meet with the
approval of the American Catholic Archbishop.
“Most faithfully yours, in Xt.,
“J. CARDINAL GIBBONS,
“Archbishop of Baltimore.”
So, you see, our Government wanted “wel
fare secretaries,” but had to yield to Cardinal
Gibbons.
“Most faithfully yours in Xt.” ‘‘''Docs not
meet with the approval of the Ahurieaa.
Catholic A rchbishop.”
This papal lobbyist, O’Hern, stays in
Washington all the time that Congress does,
in order that Congress may not inadvertently
do anything which “does not meet the
approval of the American Catholic Arch
bishop,” Gibbons of Baltimore.
N hen Cardinal Gibbons, the Archbishop of
Baltimore can issue his orders to our Gov
ernment in that way, and veto anything that
does not meet his approval, where does such
a power leave your President and your other
churches?
B hen this popish lobbyist, OTlern, was
before the Naval Committee, he was asked
about the character of the religious services
under these “Captain” chaplains of Rome.
He replied that the Captain chaplain would
determine that, for himself.
Upon this point, Mr. Tribble said:
It is not. determined by the Naval Committee
or the Navy Department or anybody else but the
chaplain. He is an officer of rank, and his com
mand is law, and I say that this authority given
to these chaplains is going too far. Mr. Chair
man, the Constitution of the United States pro
vides that every man can worship God in this
country as he pleases. That is a privilege the
Constitution gives him, and I say there should
not be any encroachment upon that privilege.
i
Mr. Tribble's point was well taken. When
the chaplain is made an officer over the sail
ors. he can order them to attend his services,
and the Lutheran can be forced to worship
the Italian pope, the Jew can be ordered to
worship Christ, and the free-thinker can be
made to act the hypocrite, or suffer punish
ment for disobeying orders.
Because Mr. Tribble made the very sound
objection to enforced religious worship, every
Roman Catholic paper has been savagely
abusing him.
This bitter abuse does not come from any
other church than the Roman Catholic.
Why?
Because no other church is systematically
engaged in the campaign to capture our
Na vy.
Where were the other Georgia. Congress
men when Mr. Tribble was making this
fight ?
Where were Edwards. Lee, Bartlett. Hard
wick ?
Where was Senator Smith when the bill
reached the Senate?
I have a copy of a letter in which he said
that he did not even know that such a clause
was in the bill.
What are we to think of (he indifference
of our public men, our Protestant papers. and
our Protestant clergy, when Rome can enforce
her demands on our Naw in this way ?
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