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twenty-Seventh Year.}
C.p.iig.t 1906
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GREAT AUDIENCE
GREETED HOWELL
Distinguished Georgian Given Welcome
In Americus.
Greeted By Enthusiastic Throng of Sumter’s Yeomanry.
Introduced by Judge Charles R. Crisp—Mr. Howell
Discusses Fully the Facts and Exposes the Fallacies
of Campaign—His Able Address is Well Received by
People of Several Counties.
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HON. CLARK HOWELL.
The r< cepMou accorded Hon. Clark
Bo well at ibebaidsof tbe people of
Sumbr yesterday was mos-t cordial
*nd enthua astio. It was characterized
by tl a‘ eiLeeri y whioh is ever calcu
lated to lend lutpitatiou to a cause and ,
especially when that cause is launched
tn bihalf of the people. Mr. Howell
has tie cietiLctun of being the first
one of ihe Gubernatorial aspirants to
thus honor the per p e of Sumter, and
the impress left np< u Lis appreciative
audience and the community as well
was of a nature lasting and e fiectivc*.
Mr. Dowell came not as a stranger,
seeking the suffrage of the voters, but
as a friend to ihe house of his friends
to diicnßß with them the politnal is
sues of the day and enlighten ihose
who may not have fully understood
the questions at iesne.' Anl to this
extent his address turned a flood of
light into tbe dark oorners of the
hobby, disfranchisement, and others
forced into equal prominence by ihose
praying npou the prejudices of the
people.
Mr. Howell arrived at an early honr,
and from 8 to 11 o'clock held an infor
mal reception at The Windsor where
a host of citizens of both town and
county called npon him. At 11:30
o’olock Mr. Howell was escorted to the
opera house, where his audienoe
awaited.
Mr. Howell’s appearance in the
house was the signal for loud and en
thusiastic applause, whioh continued
as he proceeded to the stage with
Jndge Charles R. Cri6p, who intro
duced him. In the meanwhile Jndge
Littlejohn had adjourned court that
all might have the privilege of hearing
the distinguished Georgian, and the
theater was packed to its oapaoity.
Many ladies graoed the occasion,
while hundreds of the sterling citi
zens of Snmter, unable to obtain seats,
stood thronghout the address of nearly
two hoars.
In presenting Mr. Howell to the
really magnifioent audience, Jndge
Crisp said:
It is with sincere pleasure that I ap
pear before you today to formally in
troduce to you our distinguished guest.
Iu reality,he needs no introduction for
he is known to all Georgians, if not
personally,certainly by reputation. On
otoaeions of this character propriety
permits a few words from the one oc
cupying my sphere, but I crave your
indulgence and pardon if I trespass
upon yonr time and patience longer
than is necessary.
Oar visitor has long been in public
life, having served his state and people
for eighteen years in both branches of
our legislature, and has had the honor
of being chosen the presiding officer of
the House and Senate. He is well both
versed in the affairs of state and well
qualified for the honorable position to
whioh he aspires. All during his ser
vioe in the legislature his brain,energy,
votes and best efforts were without ex
ception always used to advance the in
terests of the masses of our people and
against granting special privileges to
any.
While a heated oampaign has been
!in progress over Georgia for the last
year or more for the honorable position
be seeks, his able and astute opponents
have not been able to point oat a single
vote or act of his prejudicial to the gen
eral welfare or good of our people.
The sucoess, greatness, happiness
and prosperity of any nation is most
largely dependent npon the condition
of its agricultural classes, the great
producers and not the distributors of
wealth. Therefore, anything that aids
or fosters the interests of the farmers,
i benefits all mankind and adds to the
glory and greatness of the common*
I wealth, „ .....
Years ago, when the Farmers Alli-
AMERICUS, GA.. TUESDAY MORNING, MAA i, 1906.
ance was organized, tnd all great
movements inaugurated from that day 1
until now, including the Southern Cot 1
ton Growers’ Association, to promote
the welfare of “tillers of the soil,” has
had the active, earnest and cordial
support of the Atlanta Constitut or, a 1
newspaper whose policy was directed 1
and controlled by the orator of the 1
day, He is and ever has been the fai'h- ’
ful friend of the farmerp, and long be- ■
fore he became a candidate for any (f 1
floe he and his paper have always <s '
pjused the cause of the masses a. d 1
against the classes. <
We have enjoined upon n 3 by Holy *
Writ, “Honor Tby Father.” No mat- <
ter what my many frailties and weak- 1
nesses may be my friends, you know f
that I honored, loved, revered and *
almost worshipped mine. His sacred 1
memory and unsnilied life and jepnta- 1
tion is all that is now left me of him, 1
Here at his old home, talking to h s 1
neighbors and warm friends, who I
know, loved him, permit me to say the >
gentleman who will soon address you 1
was one of his truest and best friends.
When my Father was a candidate for (
the Speakership of the United States 1
House of Representatives, he being I
the only man who served in the glori- 1
ous Confederate Army to be elected to
that office, our guest of today was
with braiD, pen and newspaper, in
season and out of season, working for
him, while another Georgia newspaper,
controlled by a gentleman now asking
your suffrage, was opposed*to him.
Again, when father was a candi
date for United States Senator from
Georgia, our guest again vigorously,
fearlessly and ably fought for him. I
would be a base ingrate, a traitor to a
loving father’s memory, and nnworthy
to be called a mat), if my heart was
not full of love and gratitude towards
him and I did not do all I honorably
oonld for him. I believe yon, too, ap
preciate bis services to your departed
friend.
He is free from affectation and deceit, ,
affable and easy of approach, always
the same courteous gentleman, able
honest and worthy. I earnestly implore i
yon to give him a kindly hearing and !
on election day your votes, and I as- i
sure you when he is elected Governor,
we will have a Chief Executive of
whom we may all be proud. I now ;
have tbe honor of presenting to yon
Honorable Clarke Howell of the ooun- 1
ty of Fulton, who will address yon. i
Judge Crisp’s remarkp, and more es
peoially the reference to his distin- (
guished father, were greeted with gen
erous applause. Mr. Howell immedi- ;
ately followed and in one of the most i
clear out, logical and convincing i
speeches ever delivered here. Wholly
free from vituperation, he clearly and
lucidly presented facts as they abso
lutely exist, and to the end held the :
wrapt attention of the vast assemblage.
After making pleasing referenoe to
Americas and Sumter county and to
those, living and dead,who had labored
with him for the Empire State, the
epeaker launched into a discussion of ’
tbe issues of tbe campaign for Governor
? Air. Howell’s strong and foroefol
argument against the disfranchisement
| fraud was presented with telling
effect. Many of the reasons given by
him why the proposed disfranchise
ment legislation would prove danger- *
( ons and harmful to Georgia, were new{
to his bearers, and not only ar6used •
new train of thought npon this sub
ject but won many friends for the
cause whioh he ably advocates. <
“They tell you that this legislation
proposes to disfranchise the negro,”,
, Mr. Howell said, “and yet the word
] negro is not mentioned in the bill for
(that would make it dearly unconstitn- .
tional. It does not propose to diß- j
franchise the negro, bat to pat the'
franchise on an educational basis
which, as I am going to show yon,
would not only disfranchise thousands
of good white citizens in Georgia, but
admit to the ballot box the votes of
many thousands more of edaoated ne
groes, bringing the negro again in to
politics from which he is now abso"
lately (xoladed in this state, making
the negro vote a balance of power and
meaning a return to the turbulent and
trying days of reconstruction timep.”
The grandfather clause as adopted
in North Carolina, and other fraudu
lent expedients, Mr. Howell showed,
would never stand the test of the Su
preme Coort of the United States and
would thus prove wholly ineffective
for the purpose for which they were
intended—the protection of tbe illiter
ate white vote. North Carolina recog
nizing this fac L , provided in the same
amendment to its constitution, that
the grandfather clause should expire
on January 1, 1908, before the courts
l could have opportunity to pass on it,
and at that time North Carolina goes
|to a strictly educational basis when
the anedneated white man must stand
! by, powerless, and see the educated
n gro cast his ballot.
| “A’ready 1 am ii farmed, ” Mr.
Howell said, “by prominent North
| Caro'imanp, among them Assistant
General Manager Hughes of the Bab
cock Lumber Co., of Baboock. Ga ,
where I spoke a few days ago, that tbe
while people of that state are begin
ning to divide, and tbe two factions
are playing now to catch the educated
negro vote when the t:me comes that
will moke it available for political pur
poses
“What then must be the mevi’able
rerult of such legislation in thii state?
I would mean tbe disfranchisement of
no less than 30,000 good white citizens
in this state, every one of whom today
has tbe power of the ballot, and the
enf-aut hisement of more than twice as
mmv i(1 nested negroes not a one of
whom under our system of today, can
vote,”
Mr, Howell showed ihat under the
P r *sent system in force in Georgia,
not a single ntgro eDjoys the privi
lege i f the ballot. The constitutional
pri.vi ion requiring the payment of all
taxes since tbe adoption of the consti
tution of 1877, coupled with the white
primary system, has more t ffeotnally
diif auchued the negro in Georgia
than could possibly be done by any
d sfracobistment law that could be
passed. Georgia has already disfran
chised the negro by the only legal
me hod and the grave danger lies in
substituting for this method a new, a
doubtful and au illegal system.
‘ Thousands of our old Confederate
Veterans, and I have it from the Pen
sion Commissioner, John W. Lindsey
himself,” Mr. Howell said, “have to
sigh iheir applications for pensions
with a cross mark. Pass this Jaw and
you will say to these old fellows who,
dropping their grammar and spelling
books shouldered their mnskets and
went out to fight the battle of their
country, and who returning to find
their homes in ashes and their country
desolkted went to work to build it up
again. You shall pay your taxes and
stand your part of the public burden,
but when it comes to saying who shall
make yonr laws and who shall levy
those taxes, you shall have no more
right than the barking dog that wakes
the stillness of the night.”
There are more negro male children
in school in Georgia today than there
are white children, Mr. Howell showed.
The very agitation of this disfran
chisement question has had the effeo;
of increasing the attendance on the ne
gro schools. The ma:ay negro colleges
on the hilltops around Atlanta sup
ported by northern philanthropists,
have greater endowments and turn out
more giaduates ever:) year than all the
white institutions of higher education,
male and female combined. These
negroes are all preparing themselves
for the day when the ballot shall be
placed in the hande of the educated
black.
Mr. Howell showed that labor con
ditions in Georgia are in a more dis
turbed state today, particularly on the
farms, than they have ever been be
fore, and nothing has contributed
more to this disturbance than has the
agitation of the disfranchisement ques
tion daring the past year.
“Why shonld we even consider the
question of ohanging a true and tried
system, the very mention of which
has bronght evils npon ns, at a time
when white supremacy is more firmly
established in every couuty and every
section of the state than ever before
since the days of reconstruction?” Mr.
Howell asked.
“Let me tell you where those who
are most londly advocating this pro
position stood only a few years ago,
There was Mr. Thomas E, Watson who
said a few years ago that the Anglo-
Saxon who would stand np and advo
cate disfranobisement in Georgia on
the ground that we are in danger of
negro domination, was an infernal cow
ard. And bat little more than a year
ago Mr. Watson denounced this “phan
tasm ol the danger of negro domina
tion,” as a delusion and a humbug.
Five years ago my adversary, Mr.
Smith, stood with me before the legis
lature fighting this very measure with
all the earnestness he could command
because he said it was dangerous, un
wise, unuecesssary aud unjust,because
he said it would disturb labor condi
tions and would disfranchise thous
ands of whites and admit the ballots
of thousands of educated negroes to
tbe ballot box.
“The difference between Mr. Smith
and me is that I stand exactly where
I stood then supporting an honest con
viotion, and he has changed an honest
! oonviotion, to get the support of Mr.
Watson,”
; Mr, Howell read a signed statement
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from Rev. Toomis Jesse J ue°, a
prominent Presby teriau miniver and
ooliege professor of Virginia, a former
student of Washington and Lte
Uuiversity and a era->uate of Colombia
College, New York, fnowmg how the
disfrauchisement law works, or rather
is wotked, in Virginia, when for par
tisan rea-ons they W9nt to shat a
white mau out from the polls,
Mr. Jones was put t > all sorts
of trouble and inconvenience t y the
registrar who tamed him down the
first time he came to regist r and
when he offered for registration the
second time and complied with the law
in detail, he was finally a* ked a series
of absurb questions most- if whioh
oould have been answered only by a
trained lawyer and about whioh even
the registrar himself seemed to know
nothing. One of these questions was
“When does the supreme court have
original jurisdiction in Ihe state of
Virginia?”
“I will venture to say that not a man
in tlrs audience oonld answer such a
question as that as applied to Georgia,
out side of the lawyers,” Mr, Howell
said. “I know I oonld not, aud if it
were asked of me I would have to say
‘jlr. Registrar, I am disqualified; I
Cannot vote,” ’
Tbere.ulc was the Rev, Mr. Jones
was refused registration and the right
to vote on <he ground that he oould
not answer the questions propounded.
Mr. Howell also discussed the dis
franchisement laws of other states,
showing bow in South Carolina one
third of the whi'e voters are disfran
chised, by Senator Tillman’s own ad
mission. In South Carolina and Ala
bama a property qualification has also
been adopted, which is the next and
logical step following an educational
qualifies ion, and gradually the liber
ties of the people are taken away from
them.
Mr. 110 weli dealt with the railroad
question along general lines, showing
the absurdity and fulsity of the charge
that he stands as a friend of the cor
porations. He showed that he had
never owned a dollar’d worth of rail
road stock in his life and never had
any interest whatever in any railroad
corporation. Not only tha f , bot no
rsi'road corporation was ever, directly
or indirect!.*, interested in any enter
prise with wbioh he was connected.
His t( cord in public life, covering a
period of nearly eighteen tears, he
said, spoke for itself, He showed that
he had strongly supported the Glenn
county tax bill, the franchise tax bill
and other measures in the interests of
tbe people, and that by the statements
of others qualified to speak tbe snooess
of those measures was, in a large de
gree, dne to his effirts. Though re
peatedly challenged to do so, his ad
versaries have never been able yet to
present one single item, not a single
vote or speeohof his, showing that in
any way he has ever sacrifioed the in
terests of the people in favor of any
corporation on the face of the earth,
railroad or otherwise.
“Bat I do not hesitate to say,” Mr.
Howell said, “that I would like to see
more railroads built iu Georgia. I
would like to see them oriss crossing
every county in the state I believe
we shonld invite here the foreign capi
tal of all the world, asking it to oome
here and help ns build up the greatest
s ate in all the union. Let us invite it
to come with the assurance that it will
r cetve fair and equitable treatment,but
on the condition that it shall treat the
people fairly and justly, and if it does
not do so the strong arm of the state
will reach out and compel it to respect
the rights aud interests of the people.
“I do not advocate the polioy of con.
fiacation proposed by my adversary, Mr
Smith, who has announced that he
does not want any foreign corporations
to operate railroad lines in Georgia.
Rather than have this has he stated that
he would pnt those railroads in the
state now operated by foreign corpora
tions on the block and sell them out so
that Georgians might buy them. Such
political lunacy as that will only keep
foreign capital without onr borders and
oheok the development of onr great
state.”
t Mr. Howell showed that Georgia was
the first state in the South to oreate a
railroad commission, and the railroad
oommissionsof most of the other states
in the onion are patterned after the
Georgia commission. Congress is now
about to enaot a law whioh will give
the interstate commerce commission
the same powers in the matter of con
trolling interstate rates that the Geor
gia railroad commission possesses in
controlling rates within the state,
The Georgia railroad commission,
he said, has already reduced freight
rates in tbe state more than a million
dollars a year within the last year.
There may be still some discrimina
tions, and doubtless are, and the rail
road commission stands ready to con
tinue its work of rectifying these when
ever they are brought to its attention.
Mr Howell showed that no man in the
state had done more than he had, and
declared no one would do more to bring
about the removal of all these unjust
discriminations wherever they may be
found.
He was londly applauded and oheer
ed at the conclusion of his address,aud
mingled with the oonera*ulations that
came from many of his hearers who
q t ckly crowded around to shake
hands with him were numerous assur
ances of warm support in his raoe.
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