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'UEspAy, AUGUST 31, 1920. -
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Fy The Terrell County Hoke Smith Club in The Interest
of Sound Democracy and Constructive Statesmanship
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ke SMITH TIDE
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i NATOR'S FRIENDS JUBILANT
S CAMPAIGN NEARS END.
DORSEY IS LOSING.
As the <enatorial campaign nears
“elose—only one more week in
venes before the ballots—the pre
minating sentiment of observant
rsons concurs 11 the view that the
e is between Senator Hoke Smith
{ Thomas E. Watson with the
ances of the senator brightening
th every succeeding development.
vernor Dorsey’s candidacy appa
ntly is lagging throughout ~ the
te, and in the widely scattering
ots that once looked promising for
im it is apparent from reports that
is weakening. : ¢
The week ending Saturday was
. far the most gratifying and en
curaging experienced by Senator
mith, who spent a great part of his
me on the stump. The effective
ess of his speeches, strengthened
¢ his recognized worth and effi
‘nt service, unquestionably has
.ven to his candidacy an impetus
hat his friends confidently expect
il result in his nomination on
eptember 8. :
Governor Dorsey’s speech-making
forts admittedly have mot operat
d to strengthen his candidacy. He
as been on the defensive all the
ime. His speeches have been mark
-4 by lack of aggresion, due te the
2t that the governor has felt it
ecessary everywhere to defend his
osition with the reference to the
ollection of the illegal tobacco tax,
he payment of exorbitant commis
ions to his appointees and his at
empt to justify his veto of the les
islation designed to relieve the
Crippled Children’s Home from the
payment of an inheritance tax.
Mr. Watson’s candidacy, accord
ing to his friends, has suffered lit
tle. notwithstanding a temporary in
disposition that caused him to cam
ce]l certain of his speaking dates.
He is back on his speaking dates.
He is back on the stump, waging a
vigorous fight and the race is ad
mittedly between him and Senator
Smith,
Senator Smith, who has complet
¢d another week of speech-making,
derives satisfaction from comparing
written reports with his own per
<onal views of the situation, as gath
ered by him on his campaign trips.
The conditions that he found are
confirmed by letters from -various
sections of the counties he visited,
and in every instance the outstand
ing feature of the reports was the
growth of the Hoke Smith senti
ment, with a corresponding shrink
age in the following of Governor
?T\mr:\‘oy.
The written reports coming to the
Smith headquarters confirm not on-
Iy political conditions that the sen
ator himself has found on his trips,
but contain information of unques
tionable authenticity and accuracy
respecting the progress of Govemor‘
Dorsey’s candidacy and the activity
of Mr. Watson’s friends. . |
It is apparent from these written
reviews of local conditions that Gov
ernor Dorsey’s speeches have proved
disappointing not only to his follow
ers in the counties where they were
delivered, but have had little effect
throughout the state.
“DEMOCRACY DEMANDS DORSEY”
(From the Athens Herald.)
“Democracy Demands Dorsey” is
the slogan that Hugh Dorsey’s man
agers have selected as the catch
phrase to boost him to the United
States senate.
The same Dorsey who four years
ago opposed an old Confederate vet
eran when this old war horse, Nat
Harris, was asking the voters of
Georgia to return him to the gov
ernor’s chair for a second and- en
titled term? Yes, the same Dorsey.
Hugh is a valiant defender of vet
erans, Uncle Nat was a veteran.
When the soldiers of the north came
sweeping southward destroying
hotes, stores, factories and leaving
a barren waste in the wake of their
vandalistic march it was Uncle Nat
who joined the hosts of the Con
federacy and offered his life in de
fense of southern womanhood. And
after the cannon had ceased its roar
and all was peace along the Potomac
Uncle Nat, along with his .other
barefoot comrades, returned to the
land of his-nativity and again de
fended the integrity of the south
against carpet-baggers and scala
wags,
He was eleciad governor of hig
state with *he aid of the boys who
with him wore the gray, and after
serving one term as a faithful and
loyal servant 'was kicked out of his
chair by this same Dorsey whom
‘Democracy now demands.” And
Dorsey loves veterans! :
_ “Democracy demands Dorsey.”
The same Dorsey who sent his per
sonal collectors throughout the state
of Georgia demanding an unjust
lax from country merchants and
vaying his hirelings a 20 per cent
commission for their unlawful work?
Yes, the same Dorsey. And when the
merchants of whom he had bullied
nto paying this $60,000 tobacco tax
discovered that the legislature had
repealed the law and they had been
fleeced of their money, this same
Dorsey out of the bounty of his
heart “offered them 80 per cent of
‘he money they had paid because
nis collectors had taken their 20 ver
cent. Yes, this great and 3!&1: gov
¢rnor, after being informed that he
had collected an illegal tax, refused
‘0 return the entire .amount these
“tax dodgers” and “defaulters” had
vaid and then only when they had
sent in sworn affidaviis. Yes, ;%'
mocracy demands Dorsey,” the same
SHOWING WHEREIN GOVERNOR
DORSEY BLUNDERED.
(From the Macon News.)
If a man be governor of a state,
and during his term of office a law
be repealed, should not he, as gov
ernor, be aware of the fact? Should{
he not know what his legislature has‘
done? Should he mot know what
laws he has signed? l
If a man as governor of a statel
cannot keep track of the laws of
his state, cannot keep track of the
bills he signs, making them laws,
would he be able to keep track of
federal laws if he should be chosen
to the United States senate?
The 'govemorship of a state is a
very high, honorable and responsi
ble position. To fill the office as it
‘should be filled a man should be
able to keep track of what is going
on in the state. If a measure is pre
sented to him enacting a new law or
repealing an old one he would know
what that measure is.
The office of United States senator
4s a very high, honorable and re
sponsible one, and to fill it as it
should be filled a man should be
able to keep up with what is being
done. -
If a man who is governor has fail
ed to keep track of measures that
have been enacted by the legisla
ture during his term of office and
signed by him, would his capabilities
for keeping track of things bhe en
larged by electing him to the Unit
ed States senate?
~ Last year did not the governor of
Georgia appoint a number of special
agents to go out over the state and
collect an occupational tax from
“merchants who sold cigarette tobac
co, who were supposed to be delin
quent?
Was it not discovered that the
legislature, during the year, while
_the present governor was governor
of Georgia, repealed this particular
tax—where merchants selling cigar
ette tobacco did not sell or give
away cigarette papers? But, when
the “discovery” was made had not
the governor’s diligent special in
vestigators succeeded in collecting a
large sum from Georgia merchants,
20 per cent of which they had put
into their own pockets?
Have not these merchants de
manded that this tax, which was il
legally collected- from them, be -e
-funded to them? And how much of
the money has been returned? Some
of them have been paid, after hav
ing made affidavits that they had
paid this tax, but have they not
been forced to forego the 20 per
cent commission paid to the special
investigators, except where those «f
-ficers agreed voluntarily to give up
their commission?
Do the people of the state. want
a man for the United States senate
who is so careless, so negligent, as
not to be familiar with the fact that
a law has been repealed during his
aministration as governor? -
Some very estimable citizens ‘of
Georgia are backing the candidacy
of a man for the senate, who, while
governor, appointed such a commis
sion to collect money from the peo
ple under a law that-had been re
pealed during his term of office.
Georgia needs a man of brains, of
ability, one who keeps track of what
is going on, who does not fall asleep
on the job, in the United States sen
ate. Hoke Smith is the man Georgia
needs in the senate. And if he isn’t
returned to it Georgians will live
to regret it very much.
Dorsey who was §B°ignorant of the
law that he filched hard-earned mon
ey from his people.
“Democracy Demands Dorsey.”
The same Dorsey who vetoed a bill
passed by the legislature exempting
from taxation a fund given for the
purpose of sustaining a home for
crippled children? Yes, the same
Dorsey. This soft-hearted governor;
this humanitarian. When the bill ex
empting the fund for cripple chil
dren was up for discussion before
the judiciary committee of the sen
ate one senator told the story of
how a little boy from his own town
had been sent to the Home for Crip
pled Children and given a new lease
on life. “When he went there,” said
the senator, “he was walking on his
hands and feet like a -lower animal.
But, thank God, when I was leaving
home for Atlanta to attend this ses
sion of the legislature this lad was
the last person I saw at the station
and then he was on crutches, almost
whole -again, and smiling as he wav
ed his hand to me.” The senator sat
doWn with tears in his eyes, We won
der if Governor Dorsey had tears in
his eyes when he vetoed the bill ex
empting from taxation the fund de
signed to make other lads whole
again; brighten the eyes and give
new hope to other crippled children.
“Democracy Demands Dorsey 4
The same Dorsey who denounces the
Lodge reservations to the league of
nations in one breath and indorses
them in the next? Yes, the same
Dorsey. And the same Dorsey, who,
when Tom Watson (his gubernato
rial toga maker) was fighting the
administration and the draft act and
everything else during the war dar
ed not lift his voice in protest but
kept his dining dates with Watson
at the Kimbal]l house and now has
the audacity to ”% that he has nev
er “traded or trafficked with an en
emy of the democratic party!”
Does ‘“‘Democracy Demand “ Dor
sey?” We think not. Knowing that
the-people of Georgia are Jovers of
justice and fair play we believe that
the storm of protest that is now
gaining momentum with each hour
will on September 8 sweep over this
commonwealth and riding on its crest
will be the voice of an outraged cit
jzenry, “Dorsey Deserves Defeat.”
Passing with the storm will be the
plighted future of the manikin
whom ‘Democracy Demanded.”
GEORGIA DEMANDS HIM.
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Reports from every section of State assure the re-election of Senator
Smith next week by one of his old time majorities.
Dorsey- Asked 32 Questions,
Approved by His Friends,
Answers Only 2 of Them
Governor Silent on Thirty
Pointed Queries About Is
sues His Supporters Agree
Are Relevant to Campaign.
At Shellman 32 questions were
submitted to Governor Dorsey by A.
S. Perry, a prominent attorney of
Cuthbert. Each question was certi
fied as relevant to the campaign by
two of Governor Dorsey’s support
ers before they were asked the gov
ernor. He replied to only two ques
tions of the thirty-two, holding them
in his hand as he spoke. In response
to questions No. 2 he said ‘“Yes.”
In response to question No. 12 he
admitted he favored certain reser
vations of the league of nations. He
failed to answer the other thirty
questions at all. b
List of Questions.
The thirty-two questions follow:
1. What d{'fl‘eremce is there be
tween the alleged statement of Sen
ator Hoke Smith and the. editorial
from Governor Cox’s paper about
the submarine warfare, both state
ments being made about October 16,
19167
2. Do you indorse the fight being
made by the American Legion on
Thomas E. Watson as a traitor and
enemy to his country during the
war?
3. Was the statement in the edi
torial of the Atlanta Constitution of
April 22 true or false, when it stat
ed that Mr. Watson consistently sup
ported every measure necessary to
win the war?
4. Is it true that you were not in
Atlanta on the last day of the re
cent legislature, August 11, but
were at a barbecue and made a po
litical speeeh in Floyd county?
5. What effort, if any, did you
make to induce the legislature to
pass the water power bills as advo
cated by the Municipal:léague; who
was responsible for the" failure to
pass this measure? = nfi'
6. What efforts did you make to
have the legislature pass construct
ive measures caring for the state’s
finances?
7. Did the legislature do its duty
in failing to pass the watler power
bills and in failing to provide for
the state’s finances?
8. Explain your reason for your
veto of the bill exempting the Ma
sonic hospital from the inheritance
tax?
9. Why did you not return this
bill in time for the legislature to
pass it over your veto, if it so de
sired?
Illegal Tebacco Tax.
10. Explain the alleged illegal
collection: of tobacco taxes.
11. Is it true that you refunded
the money to Calhoun merchants un
der threat of exposure by Represent
ative Owens, of Gordon county?
Explain just what did transpire ' be
tween you and Mr, Owens.
12. Are you for the league of na-«
tions as brought back from Paris by
President Wilson, or do you favor
reservations? .
138. In the event it is necessary to
hold a second primary, and the run
over is between Smith and ‘Watson,
whom will you support? Don’t evade
this by saying there will be no sec
ond race.
14. Did"you visit Mr. Watson be
fore announcing for governor? And
did he shape your announcement or
platform? Did you promise Mr. Wat
son to enforce the Veasey bill?
15. Did you favor the effort to
disfranchise the negro in 19067
16. Whose fault is it that after
several years as governor the state
is flat broke?
THE DAWSON NEWS.
17. What attempt did you make
to have the legislature provide the
necessary measures to care for the
state’s finances?
18. In failing to have the legisla
ture act to provide funds, was it be
cause you were too weak, or was the
session just fooled away?
. 19. Do you®indorse the attempt of
the Macon Telegraph and the At
lanta Constitution to force John N.
Holder out of the race for governor?
20. Did you discharge Frank
Grant, a white man, and replace
him with a negro? Did you then sup
ply the negro with a motor mewing
machine?
21. What is Governor Cox’s posi
tion on reservations to the league
of nations? Does he favor the cove
nant as President Wilson brought it
from Paris, or does he favor reser
vations? .
292. What difference is there be
tween Mr. Cox’s position on the
league and that of Senator Hoke
Smith?
923. Have you ever bolted a demo
cratic primary and voted for an in
dependent candidate over the regu-
Jar democratic nominee?
24. Do you favor making Liberty
bonds legal tender?
25. In the event you are elected
senator would vou fall heir to Sen
ator Smith’s important committee
places or would the seniority rule
compel you to take mmor places?
26. Have you visited Mr. Wiatson
as a guest in his home since the time
his paper was suppressed by the
gcovernment?
27. In Early county a negro,
Goolsby, killed a white man, was
convicted twice, affirmed by supreme
court and sented to hang. You have
respited Goolsby five times. The
case has already cost the county of
Early. $lO,OOO. What is your reason
for granting these respites?
28. Will you agcept Senator
Smith’s challenge for a--debate Fri
day night in Macen? :
99. What efforts have you made
to prevent the suspension of the
state market bulletin?
30. Did Clifford Walker advise
you that the now celebrated tobacco
tax was legal?
During the war did you make a
single liberty bond speech, Red
Cross or other address along this
line? 7
32. When the pneumonia epidemic
was raging at’ Camp Wheeler and
Governor Catts, of Florida, called
on you to investigate did you go to
Macon and report that conditions
were good and that there was noth
ing the matter at Camp Wheeler?
Did not Governor Catts persist in his
efforts until he forced a rigid inves
tigation, whereupon it developed
that Governor Catt’s charges were
true- and that you had been misin
formed by the officials as to the true
condition at Camp Wheeler?
TAKING A FAIR VIEW.
s
(From the Albany Herald.)
The Herald has mnot, up to this
time, made any claims or predictions
as to the trend and status of senti
ment with reference to the pending
senatorial race, but, if it is any
judge, the Hoke Smith forces are
gaining recruits daily in this neck
of the woods. - 3
Thke senator’s old factional ene
mies have been rather “overdoing
the thing” here lately, and the. cam
paign of malignity, exaggeration and
misrepresentation launched by their
leaders is evidently reacting and cre
ating a disgust in the minds of in
‘telligent and fair-minded men.
o Rl e e
This is no time tc send a boy to
mill.
HOKE SMITH VINDICATED BY
DEMOCRACY OF THE NATION
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(From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun)
In 1896 there was much division
among democgats on the question of
money. Some were in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to 1, while others
opposed the proposal. Among those
who opposed what was known as
“free silver” was Grover Cleveland,
who was president of the United
States, serving his second term.
When the democratic convention
met in Chicago, after much discus
sion, ineluding the great speech of
William J. Brgan, the delegates
adopted: a platform calling for th
free and unlimited coinage of sil’;
ver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without
waiting for agreement with any
other nation, :
This action on the part of the con=
vention was a direct opposition to
the attitude of the democratic pres
ident. The democratic president was
a single or gold standard advocate.
He believed that gold and gold alone
should be the money basis.
But the democrats in convention
at Chicago did not agree with him,
and they acted for themselves. They
adopted a platform that suited them
without the consent of the demo
cratic president,
The. situation among the demo
crats this year is somewhat similar
to that of twenty four years ago.
The democrats of the nation are di
vided on the question of league of
nations. That is to say, they t:.re|
divided as to what the agreement
shall be. In principle there appears
to be mo objection to a league pro
vided the agreement into which we
shall enter with other nations shall
be such as definitely and positively
to state the position the United
States occupies.
The democrats in convention at
San Francisco did not indorse the
league as originally presented to the
senate, but what they did was to
place themselves on record as being
in favor of a league with specific
reservations, |
That is the position of the demo
cratic party today. |
That is the- position that Senator
Hoke Smith took in the beginning.
reservations—such specific defini
tion as to leave nothing in doubt,
as to leave nothing to be guessed at.
The national convention in San
Francisco adopted the view of Sen
ator Smith. This view had been en
tertained by him from the begin
ning, and he has not changed, and
the democratic convemtion at San
Francisco simply indorsed his view.
Governor Cox, the democratic
nominee for the presidency, has
taken the same view. The governor
advocates) the league as proposed
with “interpretations” insuring good
faith and understanding. He de
clares that these ‘‘interpretations”
should state “our interpretation of
the covenant as a matter of good
faith to our associates as a precau
tion against any misunderstanding
in the fture.” The governor sug
gests two specific “interpretations,”
one declaring that America’s con
tinuance in the league should de
' pend upon the league’s use as an
‘agency for world peace, and the oth
er, the misunderstanding that this
nation could act only within the con
stitution, which is unalterable by
any treaty. |
That is the position of Senator
Smith taken in reference to the
league in the beginning, and when‘
his opponents assume to criticise !
him for standing where Governor
Cox is standing, and upon the plat
form adopted by the democratic con
vention in San Francisco, they are‘
'doing nothing more than showing
their ignorance. |
The senator, without taking a
course opposite to that which he has
pursued from the beginning, could(
not do otherwise than support the
democratic platform and the demo
cratic candidate, since both have
come to his way of thinking con
cerning the proposed league of na
tions. They have come to him. He
has not gone to them. They did not
“pack up’ the president, as the op
‘ponents of Senator Smith are de
claring they did, but they are back- |
ing up the position taken by Sena
tor Smith in the beginning of the
Jeague controversy and which he has
consistently maintained until the
present, and which he will continue
to maintain.
Then why all the effort to dis
credit Senator Smith when the rec
ord is as clear as the noonday sun?
Why try to make it appear that he
has done one un-democratic thing,
an unholy thing, because he has pur
sued the course he has, which course
has been indorsed by the national
democratic convention and the dem
ocratic nominee for the presidency?
President Wilson himself has accept
ed the league of nations plank, and
is now in accord with Gevernor Cox.
That onght to make it unanimous.
In 1856 the democracy of the na
tion did not go to Grover Cleveland
on the money question, and in 1920
the democracy of the nation has not
gone to Woodrow Wilson on the
league question. The difference, in
this particular, between Cleveland
and Wilson is that Cleveland did
not stand by the action of the dem
ocratic convention in 1896, while
Wilson is standing by the action of
the democratie convention of 1920.
In view of the aetion of the con
vention and its aceeptance by both
the presidential nominee and the
democratic president Senator Smith
stands vindicated of all charges of
disloyalty to the president and to
the party before the democracy of
Georgia and of the nation.
Hoke Smith stood by the democ
racy of the nation in 1896, resign
ing his high office in order to do it,
and the democracy of the nation is
standing by Hoke Smith in 1920, as
evidenced by the record it has writ
ten in its comvention, by its nomi
nee for the presidency and by the
president himself. :
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SUCKER IN EACH HILL MEANSI
1,000 BUSHELS AN ACRE.
MILLIONS ARE USED. :
- WINNIPEG, Man.,, Canada.—
Suckers are the raison d’etre, as it
were, of the wonderful potato crop
grown around Dryden in Ontario.
Sounds weird? Back of that simple
statement lies a tfliscatorial tragedy.
“Suckers by the million infest
Lake Wabigoon,” said John Bran
don, of Dryden, a farming center
along the Canadian National rail
ways. “These fish, weighing two and
three pounds, and not good to eat,
go up the creeks to spawn, Every
little stream emptying into the lake
swarms with them.
“Wle don't waste time catching
them with a hook and line or even
with a seine. We use a pitchfork or
shovel. It’s no trick at all to wade
out into the shallows and shovel out
a couple of wagon loads of suckers
in an hour.
“Farmers at potato planting time
bury a sucker in each hill of gota
toes. The fish are rich in phosphate,
which is the basic element of all
good fertilizers. Qur potato crops
are phenomenal. One man in the dis”
‘trict raised 1,014 bushels to the acre
last year. A number of otkers did
almost as well. In most parts of the
world 500 bushels to the acre are
considered a bumper crop.
‘ “These worthless suckers are mak
ing the farmers in the Lake Wabi
‘goon distri¢t rich.”
| OIL PRODUCERS.
Wells have been drilled for oil in
38 states, while only 16 states can
be regarded as oil producers from
a commercial point.
For Re-Election
as
Judge of the Court of Appeals
OF DeKALB COUNTY
SUBJECT TO THE "DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
Judge Smith should be re-elected because:
1. He is in every way qualified to fill the office. .
2. He resigned the judgeship of the Stone Mountain
Circuit to accept the place he now occupies.
8. His service on the circuit bench gave him the ex
l|))eri¢la'nce needed to fill the place on the appeliate
ench.
4. He is serving only the unexpired term of the t
mented Judge Wade, and should have the chance
prove his fitness and ability.
5. His opponent had a place as ludge of the Court of
Apgeals and voluntarily gave it up to accept a place
paying more money. " .
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PAGE SEVEN
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