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^ seo^on. i The' 'Atlanta Georgian and’" News i™— VOL. V. NO. 308. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 29,1907. PRICE: COUNTY SCHOOL TEACHER; SECRETARY OF INTERIOR; NOW GOVERNOR OF STATE Hoke Smith’s Career a Long Climb Up Hill. For more than fifteen year* Hoke Smith has been in the public eye, and this day he Is inducted Into the first elective office for which he was ever a candidate. Hoke Smith was born in Newton. North Carolina, on September 2. 1855, and he is inaugurated governor of Georgia Just a few months before he is 52. He was born in the county that hos the distinction of having furn Ished a larger percentage of Its popu latlon to the Confederate service than any other county In the South. When only 18 years of age the fam lly moved to Atlanta. Governor Smith was educated by his father and attend ed no collelge. Both of his parents live with him, and his father, Hilary Hosea Smith, is now 90 years of age. He was a Democrat and slaveowner In North Carolina, although born In New Hampshire. Taught Country School. Governor Smith began his early struggles by teaching country schools in the day and studying law at night. As soon as he was admitted to the bar he gave up teaching school and devot ed himself exclusively to law. By 1887 he had built up a fine prac tice and accumulated some money. He purchased The Atlanta Journal, and held the guiding hand In Its policy and destiny until 1898, when the paper passed Into possession of a coterie of capitalists supposed to be represented then by H. M. Atkinson and the street car company. His connection with the paper made him a potent force In state and na< tlonal affairs. An ardent friend o Grover Cleveland in 1892, he did heroic service to elect' him president. Mr. Smith was called to the Cleveland cab inet as secretary of the interior. Secretary of the Interior, His record there was a fine one, and he is said to have placed that great de partment on a thoroughly business basis. In August, 1896, he resigned Ills cabinet place. It was said then that his resignation was caused by po litical differences with President Cleve land, but It developed afterwards that Mr. Smith came home to save The Journal from financial ruin. He borrowed $50,000 on Wall street, cgme bock to Atlanta and took up tho practice of law as well as tho active management of Tho Journal. Since then, until he entered the lists for gov ernor, he has devoted his energies to his law practice, which Is said to run Into five figures annually. Mr. Smith married Miss Birdie Cobb, daughter of General Thomas R. R. Cobb, In 1880. Their children are Marlon, who is a partner in his fath er’s law practice, and Misses Mary Brent, Lucy and Callle Smith; The new governor Is a Presbyterian and la prominent In secret orders, be ing a Mason, a Shrlner, a Red Man and a Beaver. Physically he Is a giant, with enormous capacity for work. As a stump speaker and a rough-and- tumble debater he is almost without a peer In the South. FROM OLD HOME TO MANSION OF CHIEMMTIVE Governor Smith’s Family Becomes of State Interest. ROCKEFELLER WILL Six Other Officials of Mo nopoly Already Sub- penaed, Chicago. June 29.—Six Standard Oil Company officers have been found and ordered to appear before Judge Landis In July. They are: William H. Howe, assistant secretary of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey: H. E. Felton, president of the I'nlon Tank Line Company: Charles T. White, assistant secretary of the standard Oil Company of New Jer sey; J. A. Moffett, president of the Standard OH Company of Indiana: W. P. Cowan, vice president of the Stand ard OH Company of Indiana: G. W. Stahl, secretary and treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. That Mr. Rockefeller and others of the Standard Oil magnates, for whom subpenas have been Issued by Judge I.andis, will not submit to the wishes of the court and reply to the series of questions was Intimated by Attorney A. D. Eddy, counsel for the Standard Oil Company In Chicago, shortly after word came from the East that six 'of the officers had been served with sub penas. On this, Inauguration day, when with parades and military pageants, with hundreds of flying flags and thousands of enthusiastic cheers, Hoke Smith Is proclaimed governor of Georgia, his family becomes, as it were, a state pos session. Again the walls of the old executive mansion will echo the laugh ter of young people, and the big front yard will be a sort of rendezvous for the little friends of the Smith children, Just as the front yard of the West Peachtree residence, with its friendly shade trees and much envied “play house” has always been. And this re minds us that while the governor’s children have been all along the most ardent and enthusiastic supporters of his campaign, and have been Jubilant ly Interested In all preparations for the great Inaugural, they are heartbroken ut saying goodbye to their old home. The big house and yard have been for years a gathering place for the children of the neighborhood, and the home life there has been the happiest. Rising Young Lawyer. The state at large is interested In the personnel of the Smith family. The eldest son, Marlon, though only 23 years of age, ranks among the most brilliant young lawyers of the state, having been graduated at the Univer sity of Georgia and admitted to the bar before many of his boy friends had given a serious thought to the choosing of their professions. Young Mr. Smith is heart and soul interested in his profession, and further than the career of his father, has no interest In politics. He will take charge of much of his father’s law practice, and will In time own the magnificent law' library which Hon. Hoke Smith has spent so many years In collecting. A Debutante Daughter. The.second child is Miss Mary Brent Smith, who has spent tho past three years at school at Tarrytown-on-the- Hudson, and in traveling abroad. She charming girl, and during the coming season will be one of the most popular members of the young society set. During the summer Miss Smith will assist her mother in her discharge of social duties at the mansion, and in the early autumn will be informally Introduced by Governor and Mrs. Smith. Miss Lucy Hoke Smith Is still a school girl, the merriest hearted one imaginable, and little Callle Hoke Smith, the youngest child, Is a minia ture of her mother and a general fav orite at homo and among her scores of little friends. Mrs. Hoke Smith, whose loyalty and devotion to her hushund’s interests have been such powerful factors in the success of his public career, finds much of Intefest to say when speak ing of Governor Smith und their chil dren, but asked to tell about herself alwnys replies: “There is nothing which w'ould be worth the telling.” And yet, Mrs. Smith has not only been, In the truest sense of the word, the helpmeet of her husband in poli tics and in the heavy social duties which have devolved upon them during the years In which Governor Smith was secretary of the Interior in Wash ington, and of his political activity at home, but has been tho Ideal mother of four children and the Ideal home maker. An Ideal Mother. “I have never entrusted the children to the care of maids and governesses,” she acknowledges, when asked how she found time for It all, "and I have never had a housekeeper. But a wom an’s kingdom Is often Just as broad as MR8. HOKE 8MITH. femininity she can appropriate a man’s system and administrative ability, she somehow gets on.” These words give the secret of Mrs, Smith's success. She brings to the administration of her public and pri vate duties unusual executive ability, coupled with an evenness of tempera ment which makes her proof against the numerous small worries of the common day. While not In the accepted sense of the term a society woman, her home has been, during the twenty-four years of her residence In Atlantu, the center of a happy and congenial social life, being always open to the friends of herself and her family. The big house in West Peachtree reflects faithfully the strong and sincere spirit of Its mistress Nothing In It is for luxury, and everything for use and comfort and common sense. The spacious rooms are not overcrow'ded with bric-a-brac, with unread booka and choirs too fine and frail to sit In. The house has been really lived in, and were Its walls given pow’er of speech they could tell many a tale of warm hospitality, of strong, sincere friendships; of family rela tions that are ideal. Mrs. Smith represents ono of the oldest and most distinguished families In Georgia. She was Miss Birdie Cobb, man’s) and If without losing her of Athens, the third daughter of the beloved General T. R. R. Cobb, who fell In the battle of Fredericksburg. Mrs. Smith has two sisters, Mrs. Harry Jackson, of Atlanta, and Mrs. A. L. Hull, of Athens. To Keep Open House. It is safe to say that during the ad ministration of Governor Smith tho executive mansion will dispense a lav ish hospitality. Many of the enter tainments given by Mrs. Smith during her husband’s term as secretary of the Interior In Washington wero given much publicity by tho press of the country for their originality and beau ty. Upon one occasion she gave to President and Mrs. Cleveland a dinner at which the menu consisted of famous Southern dishes, which tho old family servant whom the Smiths took to Washington Is an adept at preparing. The decorations consisted of thousands of camelias, sent from the far South, and suspended by Invisible wires from the walls. Instead of the conventional band music, hundreds of native South ern birds In gold cages sang their sweetest. It was of this dinner that Mrs. Cleveland remarked: "I never hoped to see anything so beautiful out of Paradise!” Asked what would be the social pol icy of the mansion during her occu pancy, Mrs. Smith replied: ”1 want Georgians to feel that It is open to the state. It seems that all the state was for my husband, and so I am for all the state.” Tho family servants, Including the famous old cook, will be Mrs. Smith's lieutenants at tho mansion. Early In July Oovernor and Mrs. Smith will en tertain at a large reception In honor of tho members of tho general assembly and their wives, and during the sum mer the members of tho legislature will be received at tho mansion once each week. Tho administration opens with a great public reception, Mrs. Smith tak ing possession of the mansion at 2 o’clock and throwing It open to the public from 4 to 10 o'clock. Beaten biscuit, sandwiches, Georgia hams. Ices, cakes and lemonade aro prepared for thousands, and In the hearts of Gov ernor and Mrs. Smith there will be room and to spare for all who come. DONT GET LONE80ME when away. Just order The Georgian and Newe. Sent to your new address daily. You will have a real vacation if you do. 45 cents a month, 10 cents a week. Phone 4928 or write circulation department, The Georgian and News. No trouble to change address. LONG AND BITTER CAMPAIGN FOLLOWED HOWELL’S DARE; HOKE SMITH’S GREA T FIGHT PHIL COOK COUNTY IN THLASSEMBLY Big Fight in Legislature Expected on This Bill. Most Strenuous Race in History of Georgia. Opposition, fierce and strong. Is develop ing against the proposition which will be submitted to tho present legislature to ere* ate the now county of Phil Cook from por tions of Mouroo and Pike counties. Representatives Persona and Hill, of Mon roe, and Representative Strickland, of Pike, are unalterably opposed to the proposition and have refused to Introduce the bill. They declare thnt It is proposed to take the moat aluntolo territory In theso two counties and create the now county. The onlv people who aro In favor of this proposition." said Representative Persons Friday, “are tho people of Bnrnesvlllc nnd those living in tho territory which will uinposo the new county. The rest of the d of those two counties whore there isn't u stream nor a bridge to be kept uti. They would get the most desirable sec tions of tin; two couutles, which would work a great injustice upou tho peoplo of *ioth." It Is sntd the bill providing for the cren tlon of the new county will bo introduced by Mr. Candler, of DnKnlb. PICKED UP IN LOBBIES Hon. Joe Hill HaU, the etrenuous and sometime, vitriolic member of the lower house from the county of Bibb, which I. located around Macon, in this Mute, had the gaff thrown Into him Thursday on a constitutional point during the Joint session of the house and senate, and as a result, the Bibb statesman has It laid up for President Akin, of the senate, who did the gaff ing. If there la anything which the gen tlbman from Bibb abhors more than anything el.o, it Is to be unhorsed on a question Involving the Interpretation of tho constitution of the stato of Geor gla. Mr. Hall knows this necessary legislative Instrument from cover to cover and can go through It backwards, ver batlm ad llteratuin, and when he meets with opposition In hi. Interpre tation thereof the raging Hons of Nu- mlilla nro tame In comparison. Thu. it happened that when Presi dent Akin called the Bibb representa tive Thursday nnd turned him down on the constitution, there was much won derment among tho spectators when the latter culmly submitted to the rul ing and gave vent to nothing more than n half forgotten expression which he picked up somewhere In the Sunday school books years ago. '-you are losing your fighting nerve, Mr. Hull,” remarked a newspaper man, as Mr. Hall passed the press box. '•Just watt," grated the gentleman ftotn Bibb as ho bit savagely at the end of his cigar. “You can’t do anything with this senato now, but Just wait till a little later In the session, and then we'll see. we’ll see,” and from tho ntnnner In which he whirled his chair around and sat down there were Indi cations that breakers are ahead. That Representative Rogers, ths ne gro member of the house of representa tives, will not lose his sent In the con test Instituted by Mr. Atwood unless there Is abundant proof to ehow that he was Illegally elected to represent the county of McIntosh, Is very evi dent from the comment that has been irtade upon tho case by various mem bers of tho lower house. You will have to show me," Is the spirit In which the majority of the representatives look at tho matter. Mr. Atwood contor.de that two precincts HERE IS A GROUP OF THE GOVERNOR’S CHILDREN AVOMEN AID ITALIAN STRIKERS Ferrara, Italy, Juno 29.—It 1s now estimated that fully 60,000 peasants are on strike In this and neighboring provinces. One of the features of the strike situation Is the active part the women are taking. They are doing every thing In their power to strengthen the spirit of the men and to prevent those of the strikers who show signs of fal tering from returning to work. PYTHIAN OFFICER VISITS ATLANTA Grand Chancellor David J. Bailey, of the Knights of Pythias, of Georgia, Is In the city. Friday evening he attend ed the ceremonial session of Klbla Temple, No. 123, of the Dramatic Or der of the Knights of Khorassan at their temple In the Kiser building. On Friday afternoon he was the guest of the Knights of Pythias at Newnan, Oa., where he attended a big barbecue and Pythian rally. On Thursday he fnade an official visit to the following lodges at Columbus, Ga.: R. E. Lee, Stonewall and Electric City. While he "*as in Columbus the rank of knight in amplified form was conferred on a class of twelve candidates. Mr. Bailey Is a hustler and Pythian- ■*m is being stirred up all over the •tate. A dare unde Hoke Smith governor of Georgia. A daro born out of s long and deadly political enmity between Hoke Smith aud Clark Howell. For years lines had been laid and poli cies shaped to make Clark Howell governor of Georgia. Mr. Howell wanted it as the crowning of his public service of many years. He had been president of the sen ate, was the Georgia member of tho Na tional Democratic executive committee, and editor of the most Influential morning pa per In Georgia. No one will ever know what evil spirit moved Mr. Ilowell to Issue that swoeplng defl to Hoke Smith to enter the race, ft cornea mighty straight that Hoke Smith had resisted 1 countless appeals to enter up to that time. But thnt dare from the ancient enemy aroused all the fighting blood In him—and no tlmo lb beginning ono of the most re markable campaigns Georgia ever saw. Was a Long Fight. Madison was selected for the opening speech of Mr. Smith. It was thirteen months before the date for the primary, nnd In that great address ho laid down the principles for which he stood. DlsfrnU* ohisement, a strict accounting of corpora tions to tho people for their acts, aboli tion of rnllrond passes and special privi leges of all kinds, nnd the people In the' saddle, formed tho basic planks upon which, bis campaign was wnged. It was some months later that Clark Howell formnlly entered tho race. He ngrend to a Joint debate, which was held In Columbus. Afterwnrds, Joint debates were held In Atlanta, Albany, Macon and Rome. It Is all pnst history now, but few there are who will not admit that in each of these joint disputes Hoke Smith had the ad vantage of his adversary. As a matter ot pled with a powerfu ness of temperament to a marked degree. Mr. 8mith’s Endurance. In that thirteen months. Mr. Smith epoka in 144 counties out of 145, and delivered 225. separate speeches. He spoke In halls, In auditoriums, in churches, school houses, and In the open. He traveled on fast trains, on slow trains, on Pullman cars and In freight cabooses. He drove hun dreds of miles in private conveyances, through sunshine and storm. Exposed to all kinds of weather and taking what came without complaint, his campaign will al wnys be notable in the history of the state. And he came through thnt gruelling work as fresh and clear-voiced as when he en tered It. Apparently the hardships that would have wrecked a less ragged physique only served as a sett to him. Tho primary came on last Angust, and with it one of the greatest political land- slides In the annals of the state. Not only did Hoke Smith defeat tho ancient enemy, but he saw Clark Howell run third la a field of fire. Hoke Smith’s popular vote In thnt memo rable campaign was 91.41*7, while hi* near- cst competitor. R. B. Russell, received A* Mr- Howell’s popular vote waa ZUK, ; I i THE GEORGIAN & NEWS will be sent to anybody any where to rany length of time by notifying the circulation department. Phone 4928, Standard 4401, 45 cents per month, 10 cents per week. MISS CALLIE HOKE SMITH. MISS LUCY HOKE SMITH. MARION 8MITH. MISS MARY BRENT SMITH. should be thrown out of the election anfi that If this la done he will be elected. He haa retained Attorneya' Hill Clifton and W. R. Atwood, of Mo- , Intosh, to represent him In hla contest • before the committee on privileges and i elections which will be named by Speaker Slaton within the next fow days. Representative Rogers has employed Judge Howard Van Epps to look after Ills Interests In the contest. Although Rogers la the only negro member of the house, he has tho re spect of every other member because of his conduct during the seven years which he has spent In the bouse, and he will not lose hie seat from any irejudlce or bias. The only speeches togers made In the house last year were on the appropriation of a sum for erecting the monument to General Gor don and the child labor bill, both of which be advocated strongly and well. An Insurance bill providing for the appointment of a commutes of five representative cltliens of the state, whose duty It shall be to Investigate the need of Insurance legislation and report the same to the next session of the leglelature, will be Introduced In the lower house of representatives at an early date by Representative Barks, dale, of Wilkes. The committee provided for In the measure Is to be known as the “bureau of Insurance legislative Information.” nnd will be crented for tho purpose of gathering Information on the subject of Insurance lawe, both from the stand point of the policy holder and the In surance writer, with a v|ew to draft- Ing a report upon which the legislature may intelligently pass Insurance bills which will he of mutual benefit to both parties. The senate pages for the first twen ty-five days of the session are: Dewey Knight, Nashville, son of Senator J. P. Knight; Homer G. I Wilkes, Moultrie, son of Senator J. A. Wilkes; Lawson Stapleton, Amertcus, son of Senator J. R. Stapleton; Robert , McDonald, Atlanta; Isadora Stono, VU- i Rica. Lawson Stapleton Is head - page. i Ex-Senator Crawford Wheatley, of j the Thirteenth, was on the floor of the senate Friday greeting his friends. During his service Mr. Wheatley made J a fine record, and was one of the most ■ popular members of tho body. 1 J. F. L. Bond, president pro ten ot , the senate of 1905-00, was a visitor to the capltol Friday. President Akin Is determined to pre serve order In the senate chamber dur ing the sessions. Friday he called the doorkeeper sharply to account for allowing visit ors to stand and tallr at the rear of the senate chamber. He finally said: "Mr. Doorkeeper, If yon desire to re tain your Job you must preserve order In order that senators may hear pro. ccedlngs."