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i, & Saturday, May 26, 1906. S
"Political Pulse Beats, Taken
At Random Over the State.
SMITH 101; HOWELL 8, POLL AT SO
NORAVILLE.
Sonoraville, Gordon County, Ga., May B.
On May the 3rd there was an election in So
noraville, Ga., for the 1026th district,’G. M. for
a member to congress. While holding the elec
tion we placed a box on the outside of ithe! court
house door, and requested each voter to deposit
a ticket in the Dox for his preference for gov
ernor.
Out of 128 votes cast there was:
101 for Hon. Hoke Smith; 8 for Howell; James
M. Smith, Estill, Russell and Nunnally one each.
We are satisfied that our district will almost
go solid for the Hon. Hoke Smith.
Three cheers for Hoke Smith!
(Signed.) W. H. Mentyre,
W. A. Shelton,
D. H. Littlefield.
SMITH 216; HOWELL 0, IN POLL ON
STEAMER.
Brunswick, Glenn County, Ga., May 9'—
Polls were taken last night on the gubernator
ial race on board the steamers Emmeline and
Attaguin, the occasion of which was a moonlight
excursion in honor of the visiting delegates to
the Red Men’s annual convention now being
held at Brunswick.
The result was as follows:
Hoke Smith 216, Russell 3, Estill 1, Non
committal 6.
. - (Signed.) :
A. M. Zellmer,
President Hoke Smith Club, Brunswick, Ga.
J. S. Burns, Fairfax, Ga.
SMITH 41; HOWELL 2, IN POLL AT VIC
TORY.
_ Victory, Carroll County, Ga., May 16.
Hoke Smith 41; Howell 2; Russell 2,
This is the result taken here.
(Signed) - J.B. Word.
Bowdon, Ga. R. F. D. No. 1.
"SMITH 29; HOWELL 2, IN POLL AT
WHIGHAM.
Whigham, Grady County, Ga., May 15,~1
personally polled the town of Whigham, Grady
county, for Governor this morning and found
the following results:
Hoke Smith 29, Estill 13, Howell 2, Nun
nally 3. No One 3.
(Signed) R. R. Terrell.
SMITH 14, NON-COMMITTAL 1; IN POLL
TAKEN AT CORNELIA.
: Cornelia, Habersham County, Ga., May 1
—On taking a poll at the store of J. E. Barr in
a crowd of fifteen we find fourteen for Hon.
Hoke Smith and one non-committal. At the
next store door, Cornelia Hardware Co., a poll
was also taken where 5 gentlemen were talking
and they were all for Hoke Smith. Habersham
is overwhelmingly in the advance for the peo
ple’s candidate.
(Signed) J. W. McConnell,
SMITH 42; HOWELL 1; POLL TAKEN AT
LOWELL.
i Lowell, Carroll County, Ga., May 15.—The
following is the result of a poll taken here today
for the candidates for Governor:
Hoke Smith 42, Jim Smith 0, Dick Russell 3,
Dy. Nunnally 4, Estill 2, Howell 1.
" I certify that the above is correct.
(Signed) John R. Spence, J. P,
P. S.—ln my humble opinion Hoke Smith
will carry this county at least five to one against
the combined forces.
sos _ 3. R. 5
SMITH 111, HOWELL 7; POLL AT BALL
; GROUND.
Ball Ground, Cherokee county, Ga., May 14,
—A ballot box was opened at this place Monday
morning showing returns as follows:
Hoke Smith 111, Howell 7, Russell 3, Nun
naly 2, undecided 2.
Cherokee county will vote almost solid for
‘Smith.
~ (Signed.) J. B. Roberts.
PENDLETON WILL REGRET LT.
A personal friend of Editor Oscar F. Mc-
Rae, called our attention to the following edi
torial arraignment of Editor Pendleton by the
Editor of the Telfair Enterprise, and we like it
so well, and believing that it would be read with
profit by many of our subscribers, we reproduce
it in full,
“Nothing in the present campaign for gover
nor in Georgia has surprised the Enterprise
more than has the peculiar situation in which
the Macon Telegraph has been found in the
matter of democratic loyalty and the party pri
mary pledge.
“Until recently the Telegraph has generally
kept its temper and met the arguments of those
of the press with whom it disagreed in a candid
and fair discussion onthe merits of the issue
between them. But the present campaign has
worked the telegraph into such a fever of excile
ment that it imagines every democratic brother
who enters its presence to be a fiend benton the
dishonor or destruction{of the party unless such
a visitor can show that he has his hands bound
behind him and either wears the ring collar
with a smile of pride or has a gag thrust be
tween his teeth.
“The Enterprise has not at any time asked
that populists, prohibitionists and republicans
who would come into the primary as wreckers
and party cut-throats be invited into the white
primary held ueder democratic management.
Before the meeting of the state executivecom-=
mittee we advocated allowing and inviting the
participation in the democratic white primary of
every white man in the state who would honest
ly pledge hiwseli to abide the results and in
good faith support the nomiaees of the primary
in which he took part. We believe still that no
harm would have come to the party by such an
invitation, but that instead of weakening it would
have tended to strengthen and build-up the
democratic organization in Georgia.
“But the issue between the Enterprigse and
the Telegraph has been confined to the pledge
of loyalty to two years in advance to the nation
al party organizations is an outrage on the dem
ocratic manhood of the state—that, with pres
ent and past national party conditions and plate
forms staring the democrats of Georgia in the
face, a pledge of future loyalty to the national
party organization, nesessitates the surrender
of every principle in national matters andde
mands blind loyalty to party name. We con
tend that the state committee had no right to de
mand of organized Georgia democrats sucha
pledge to the national organization.
“Our condemnation of theaction of the exe
cutive committee for its recent action has been
wholly because of the humiliating and danger
ous outrage committed against the true and
loyal organized democrats of the state.
“We saw in that pledge of future
Loyalty to the national party not the
closing of the democratic state pri
mary against the 23,000 podulists
and independents who voted for
Tom Watson in 1904, but an open
attempt to drive out of the demo
cratic primary thowusands of con
scientious and life lond ordanized
democrats.
“Pendleton may take that pledge with the
avowed purpose of bolting the national organiza
tion before the next national election, and salve
his conscience over with the sophistry that the
bolters and himself are ‘‘our national democ
racy.” But he will find that many democrats
are unable to consider a pledge as loosely as he
regards this one in its bearing on his action as
an individual ‘‘democrat’”. In fact, we believe
that so many of the pledgers will keep that
pledge to the letter that Editor Pendleton would
feel rather lonesome in the first election after
his “national democracy” had been organized
—should he bolt out before that pledge to
the present national organized democracy is
carried out.
“1f Editor Pendleton feels justified in bolt
‘ing the national democratic party of 1908 after
taking that pledge, we fail to seec why a former
populist could be charged by him with dishonor
or bad faith, for taking a like view and similar
action in the matter. However the Enterprise
believes that both the editor of the Telegraph
and those former populists who go into the
next primary skould keep the pledge in good
faith and vote with the conglomerated national
organization of which Hon. Clark Howeli is an
executive committeeman—for that pledge is not
oue of intention, but one of direct and uaquali
fied promise.
“phe Telegraph has no right to undertake
to make the Enterprise responsible for the
views and expressions of the Atlanta Journal,
por for the views and actions of those who in
1904 voted for Tom Watson. As a matter of
fact the Telegraph must have noticed that the
Journal has kept absolutely quiet on that phase
of the committee’s action to which the Enter
prise has been objecting:—the injustice in re
quiring democrats (not populists) to pledge
blindly to support the national nominees and
platform of over two years in the future.
“The Telegraph may now dodge and squirm
and misrepresent our sentiments and expres
sions, and it may take the pledge with the in
tention of disregarding it two years from now;
but the day will come. and that shortiy, when
the Telegraph will regret that it encouraged
and defended the state democratic executive
committee in its partisan and revolutionary ac
tionin making that future loyalty pledge and
forcing it down the throats of loyal and true
Georgia white democrats.
“That pledge rule was the work of
real and powerful party wreckers,
asthe near futurewill show if their
purpose is not forestalled by the de
termined action of the white demo
crats of Geordia inthe approaching
democratic white primary.’’
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The Coffee County executive committee offers
the following gentle rebuke to the state com
mittee,
“Voters not willing to take the pledge as
prescribed by the state committee for the
state primary may vote for representative and
county officers by detaching that part of the
ballot covered by the state primary. Persons
voting under such conditions pledge themselves
to the nominees for representative and county
officers in this election only, and all white voters
regardless of past political affiliation will be per
mitted to vote and cordially invited to do so.”
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The umrprecedented weather together wit%
Prof. Klepper’s illness made it practically im
possible to hold the closing exercises of the
graduating class of the high school as billed to
take place at the opera house last night.
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It is claimed that strawberries will cause
insanity, The editor of the Enterprise has
been eating them three times a day for several
months. We do not know what connection that
fact has with the announcement of the insanity
theory.
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The Howell men can vote for Estill and the
Estill men can vote for Howell, or they can
vote for the same man-it won’t matter here how
they scatter or concentrate. Hoke Smith is
going to carry Crisp county, sure Peter!—Cor
dele Rambler.
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Harry Stillwell Edwards who is the head of
the republican machine in Georgia, at least he
stands close to the administration, says the re
publicans can not vote in the state primary,
connot afford to vote as it commits them to the
democratic party in national as well as state poli
tics.
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In the issue of October 5, 1904, of Collier’s
Weekly, Mr. Clark Howell says: “With the
negro vote eliminated, the white voters of the
South would divide along political lines just as
they did before the war, which would be in finite
ly better for the white man and the negro as
well.”’—Thomasville Press.