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PERTINENT ISSUES
Which Hon. Hoke Smith
Advocates.
Here are some of the issues which
Hoke Smith advocates:
First: Equal rights to all and
special privileges to none.
Second: Theabolition of railroad
and corporation domination in Geor
gia, the abolishing of free passes,
establishment of just freight rates
without discrimination between the
interest of the common carrier and
that of the people.
Third: Tke permanent disfran
chisment of the negro.
Fourth: The formation of better
laws, and the rigid enforcement of
the same, against the buying and
selling of votes.
Fifth: He advocates higher and
better education for the children
of Georgia.
Sixth: He stands for a Railroad
Commission that owes its allegiance
to the people, and that will see to
it that farmers and business men
of Georgia do not continue longer
to pay 36 per cent more freight than
is required of the people of the six
surrounding states.
These and many such noble prin
ciples are being advocated by the
people’s candidate, and they contain
the pith of the reasons why it is
the duty of every patriotic Georgian
to cast his vote for him on August
29
Nice Mess of It.
If Dick Russell should succeed in
his scheme to exempt all negroes from
taxation and giving their children free
school books out of the taxes paid by
the whites, we will have a nice mess
of it, indeed.—Griffin Daily Call.
A Jokesmith Recommended.
If the people of Georgia want a joke
smith for governor, instead of Hoke
Smith, they will make no mistake in
electing the Hon. Richard B. Russell.
—Newnan News,
We desire to caution our friends to
beware that the designing politician
who may offer to kindly prepare your
ticket for vou does not run his pencil
through the wrong Smith’s name. Be
sure to gee that Hoke's name is there
without a blemish.
Remember that it has been a real
long time since Georgians were given
an opportunity to place at the head of
state a genuine piece of presidential
timber, who came into life amid south
ern pines, who has aiways breathed
the air of Southern independence, who
has since early manhood lived and
thriven amid the red hills of the
South’s empire state, and the state of
his own adoption. If, therefore, you
have not already remembered to reg
ister, make haste to prepare vourself
for casting one of the most important
ballots of your life.
Put an Estill, Howell, Russell and 2
Hoke Smith man in a crowd together
and every one in the bunch will jump
on the Smith man. “ A fellow feeling
makes us wondrous kind.”
SR RS T A
if you want to vote for men who
favor white supremacy over negro
domination; who want to reduce the
freights that the farmers have to pay;
who oppose buying up county officers,
members of the legislature, judges,
chiefs of police, and all officers who
can be used with free passes; if you
oppose ring rule, rottenness in office
and every thing of that mnature, then
vote for Hoke Smith.
Stop exposing your ignorance by
saying that if the negroes are dis
tranchised a lot of white men will be
also. Any man who has read the Ala
bama law knows such a statement is
a lie, cut from whole cloth. Don’'t you
believe it, because it is not true.
What manner of a white man is he
who favors keeping the purchaseable
negro in politics? They are often
used to defeat the will of the best
white man, in such elections as on the
whisky and fence questions. Why not
knock them out once and forever?
General Toombs said when the Con
stitution of 1877 was made, “If the
people do not control the railroads,
the railroads will control the people."i
Vote for Hoke Smith for Governor Aug. 4
This Space Is Owned by the Te/rell Cointy Hoke Smith Campaign Committee.
Hon. Hoke Smith, Georgia’s Next Governor,
Who Will Be Nominated on the 22nd Inst. Nuf Sed.
Mrs. Hampton Retained as Long as Public Service Would Permit
George S. Donnell Makes Affidavit
In connection with Mrs. Margaret J. Hampton’s state
ment that she was dismissed from employment in the cen
sus bureau by Hon. Hoke Smith, who was at that time
secretary of the interior, Hon. George S. Donnell, of Mis
sissippi, secretary of the fifth civil service district of the
civil service commission, who was chief clerk of the cen
sus bureau during Hoke Smith’s administration as secre
tary of the interior has furnished an affidavit, which cor
rects the impression that Mrs. Hampton's statement might
produce. Mr. Donnell assumes all responsibility for the
dismissal of Mrs. Hampton, and says that she was given
employment just as long as possibie and was finally dis
missed because there remained nothing for her to do.
Mr. Donnell’s affidavit follows:
‘‘Georgia. Fulton County: In person appeared bhefore
me, George S. Donnell, who, on oath, says. that during
the administration of Hon Hoke Smith as secretary of the
interior department, he was chief clerk of the census bu
reau. The census bureau at that time was the only bureau
in the interior department which was not under the civil
service. In this bureau the secretary of the interior had
the right to appoint clerks and copvists.
““This was the only bureau of the interior in which he
could appoint clerks or copyists: in the other bureaus of
the interior department the clerks and copyists were ap
pointed by the civil service commission.
‘“‘Deponent is acquainted with Mrs. Margaret Hampton.
Mrs. Hampton was given work in census bureau at the
request of the secretary, Hon. Hoke Smith. Mrs. Hamp
ton was Kept in a position for about 12 months.
“*The work of the census was being wound up and the
force was being daily reduced. We were giving up train
ed and experienced clerks. Mrs. Hampton was not a
trained zensus clerk. We kept her just as long as the
W ASHINGTON, D. C., July 21, 1906.
Editor of the Journal:
1 was the private secretary of Hon. Hoke Smith during
the first half of hls administration as secretary of interior.
I remember Mrs. Margaret J. Hampton very well. She
wrote a number of pathetic letters, which are still on file
in the department. She wrote first from Rochester, N. Y.,
Marech 18, 1893. She wrote again in April, stating that
she had stood the civil service examination and failed to
pass.
I have thoroughly examined the records of the interior
department concerning Mrs. Hampton. She never had a
position in the patent office and was never detailed to the
patent oftice for work. It is, therefore, obvious that she
is mistaken when she says that she was transferred from
the patent office to the census office.
Mrs. Hampton was given a position by Secretary Smith
in the census bureau in January, 1894,
The letter by Mrs. Hampton from the bedside of her
daughter is dated September 3, 1894. In this letter she
begs Secretary Smith not to allow her discharge.
On November 10th Mrs. Hampton was recommended, in
a batch of twenty-nine, by the director of the census bu
reau for dismissal. The census bureau was being woundl
up and clerks were being discharged every week. An ex-
In the speech at Fayetteville Monday Mr. Smith said:
In reply to the continuous misrepresentations by my oppo
nents of the treatment which Mrs. *Margaret J. Hampton
received while I was secretary of the interior department,
I wish to make the following statement.
In a division of the interior department, called the ap
pointment divison, is kept on file all correspondence and
all records which bear upon applications for positions
in the department. Probably 300,000 letters were received
and answered vearly in this divison of the department.
In this divison they now have on file a letter from Mrs.
Hampton, applying for work. She was given a position
in the census bureau in Januarv, 1894. This was the first
position she ever held in the department. She is mistaken
in supposing she held a position in the patent office. The
position in the census bureau was given her by my direc
tion.
The appointment divison contains her letter, written on
September 2, 1894, from the bedside ot her sick daughter,
begging that I prevent dismissal. The letter was answer
ed by my secretary. On November 10th her dismissal was
recommended with 29 others, by the director of the census
bureau, Carrol D. Wright. The records show that I refus
ed to approve her dismissal at that time. This was my
answer to her letter. |
On December 31. 1894, she was again recommended for
dismissal with 95 others. This time, on the recommenda-
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Truth About Mrs. Hampton Is Told by Hoke Smith.
Claude N. Bennett Gives Facts.
public service would permit.
*“The chief of the division in which' she was working
recommended her for dismissal on a number of occasions,
and I. as the chief clerk, turned down his recommendation
on account or the fact that Secretary Smith had expressed
the desire that Mrs. Hampton should be kept in a position
just as long as possible.
“\Mrs. Hampton was not really suited for the work dur
ine the time that she was retained in the department. I
tinally approved the recommendation of the chief of her
division for dismissal and gave her up, because I could
not longer conscientiously retain her in the census. There
was nothing that she could do.
“*No negroes were being given positions except where
servants’ work was required.
“‘There were a number of negro clerks and copyists in
the service when Mr. Smith became secretary, but in a
very short time all these negroes were dismissed, and
white men and women were given the places, no positions
were given to negroes in the census except where servants’
work was attached.
**The negroes, Henry C. Hawkins and Harrison Hamp
ton. whose pictures are published in the circular, purport
ing to be negro appointments by Secretary Smith, were
connected with the census bureau. Harrison Hampton
was a wagon driver and loader, and Henry C. Hawkins,
who was an assistant messenger, did laborers’ work, and
was appointed at the instance of Hon. Johr D. Alderson,
the democratic congressman from West Virginia.
**No work done by a negro could have been done by a
lady: it was heavier work, and more menial work than
any white men did in the bureau.
“*Sworn to and subscribed before the undersigned, this
the 12th day of Julyv. 1906. GEO. S. DONNELL.
“‘WALTER E.. ORMOND, N. P., and Ex-Officio J. P.”’
| amination of this list shows that Secretary Smith person
‘ ally disapproved of the dismissal of Mrs. Hampton, and
' thereby acquired her retention.
| On December 31, 1894, she was again recommended for
dismissal with ninety-four others. A memorandum was
imade under Mrs. Hampton’s name ‘‘Saved once by the
| secretary.”’
| When this second recommendation come from the census
| bureau for the dismissal of Mrs. Hampton, with many
| others Mr. Smith did not again override the recommenda
l,tion of the director of the bureau. He had saved Mrs.
' Hampton for two months, having turned down the first
l recommendation for her dismissal. He approved the sec
ond recommendation about four months after her appeal
of September 3rd. The approval was then made only be
’cause the dismissals of the large batch of ninety-five was
| based upon the fact that nothing more remained for them
to do.
‘ Mrs. Hampton says that thirty days later she was
again given work under Commissioner Wright in the in
terior department. Ido not recall the facts about this
reemployment, but evidently another place was looked up
for Mrs. Hampton in compliance with the original direc
tion given by Secretary Smith to do everything possible
for her. CLAUDE N. BENNETT.
tion, her dismissal was approved. Under her name at the
time of the dismissal. the assistant chief of the appoint
ment division wrote ‘‘saved once by the secretary.’’
Mrs. Hampton states that she was given work again in
the interior department for three months, beginning Feb
ruary 1, 1895 under Carrol D. Wright. So that, Mrs.
Hampton was given nearly seven months’ employment in
the interior department by my direction after she wrote
the letter from her daughter’s bedside. The census was
being wound up, clerks were being discharged each week.
Mrs. Hampton was kept as long as possible.
I' do not recall ever having seen Mrs. Hampton in
Washington City. I learned that an aunt of Mr. Chick
Niles, who was a widow, desired work, and I directed the
chief clerk of the census bureau to do all he could for her.
The positions she held were due to this direction by me.
I never heard that Mrs. Hampton called at my house
until she recently referred to it. There were 14,000 em
ployes connected with the interior department. It was at
the department, and there only, that I was able to see
members of the force and applicants for positions. It was
utterly impossible for me to see them at my private resi
dence.
Mrs. Hampton worked about eight weeks ago for two
weeks in my offices in Atlanta. I never hearda complaint
from Mrs. Hampton until it was used by my opponeats in
this campaign.
Another Lot of Clarlf s,
ell Dirty Negro Circi Hoe
Sent to Dublin Un{"
‘ “Frank No. 153
| Dublin, Ga., Aug. ,
j}The Atlanta Journal, Atlanta;
Gentlemen: 1 herewith h
another one of the dirty camp
iculars that Clark Howell. h
‘flooded this county with. Tc
his supporters here he has s '
1,000 by express under ‘i
1536 You will note that Hel
copies of this circular can be had .
applying to “Clark Howell's campait
headquarters, Atlanta, Ga.” Thus yc
will see that Clark Howell does n«
use his individual or newspape¢
“frank,” but the express company ac
tually furnishes to his campaign con
mittee free transportation for hi
dirty campaign literarure. And
Howell has the audacity to tell
people of Georgia that “he has no
line connection with any of the cor
porations of Georgia!” How any man
with any sense of decency, or regard
for home and fellow man can swallow
Clark Howell, or his running mates,
Russell, Estill and Jim Smith, is more
than I can understand. Ido honestly
believe the people of Georgia are go
ing to rebuke at the polls Clark How
ell and the filthy methods he and his
brother running-mates have used in
this campaign. Yours truly,
E. S. BALDWIN.
' The Hon. Thomas Watson in his
speech at Thomson a few days ago
announced his intention not only to
vote for Hoke Smith, the people’s
candidate, but to support the nominee,
and, in addition, to vote for Bryan in
1908. He also referred to Mr. Smith
'as ‘“the ablest Georgian that lives,
‘the strongest man in the state.” What
‘more could you ask of Mr. Watson at
this time? He knows that Mr. Smith
is advocating issues that mean much
‘to the state, and that he has the man
‘hood and determination to push those
issues to a conclusion when he be
comes governor. We are willing to
welcome Mr, Watson, the prodigal son
of Democracy, back to its spacious
household. He is well worthy the
“ fatted calf,” so it’s = whoop, hurrah
for Watson!
Forthwith Sorry He Spoke.
| When Hoke told Clark that the poor
children of Atlanta got their school
‘books from his part of the Piedmont
‘bar, very likely Clark was forthwith
sorry he spoke.—Marietta Courier.
We are in the fight for Hoke Smith
and real reform in Georgia, and have,
therefore, no time to spend in belit
ling or heaping ridicule on our fellow
citizens at home whom we are per
fectly willing to credit with being just
as good, just as patriotic, just as God
fearing, and just as worthy of the nu
merous offices they have enjoyed for
so long a time as are we Hoke Smith
ites who are not officeholders, but
plain, everyday citizens.
Nowadays the people want men for
office who represent something be
sides their selfish ambition. Clark
Howell is a dead cock in the pit, and
everybody knows it, hence the change
of pocketbook and passes from Clark
to Dick. Howell men are now Russell
men. Anybody to beat Hoke.
ST G SR
When a politician gets to that stage
when he lays claims to an office, he
will bear watching—there is a mouse
in the meal tub, and a darkey in the
woodpile. You need not stick a pin
here; just drive a tem-penny nail in
to it.
Did you say that Hoke Smith would
not be the next governor of Georgia?
One hundred and ten counties of the
state will tell you a different tale on
the 22nd. Don’t smile, but mark the
prediction.
S i
They called it a “fatherless’ circu
lar. We read very carefully their la
bored reply and were inclined to the
thought that it was without either
masculine or feminine ancestry.