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lxi.B ATuAJN 1A tiMJJttilAfl. mmm HOKE SMITH WOULD HAVE EXCLUDED WATSON VOTERS FROM BALLOT BOX IN APPROACHING PRIMARY ELECTION Clark Howell Makes Assertion in Friday’s Joint Debate. SAYS COMMITTEE WAS OF SMITH'S CREATION Charges Profits From Piedmont j Bar Were Applied to Mortgage on Hotel and Not to Charity. In hi* speech In the Joint debate with Hoke Smith at the Peachtree auditor ium Friday night, Mr. Howell eald: Mr. Chairman, Fellow-Citizens ami Friends: Having recognised the fact that In politic*, a* In all other thing*, men mu*t differ, I am glad to addres* vnu tonight, whether you be for me or whether you bo agolnat, me, a* friend* and fellow-citlien* of Atlanta. -jtiat a few word*., fellow-citizens— lust a few word* by way of preliminary In malting a utatement a* to why I miked for a Joint discussion here to night. -My adversary, In * peaking on every Htutnp In this state for the pant year, hill seen lit to attack me, to attack my record in the general aanembly. HI* supporters here In the city of Atlanta, his newspaper organ, has seen lit to attack me from time to time, to mailc- inutile misrepresent me. On every etutnp In the »tate of Georgia, dur ing the past year, my adversary has tern lit to .misrepresent me before the people of the state of Georgia by at tacking my record a* made In the gen eral assembly of this state, for which time I have served the people of my home county: and my record as a member of the general assembly Is an open book for your Inspection. Reason for Challenge. 'Gentlemen, the reason that I chal lenged my adversary to meet me here tonight at his own meeting Is that In his campaign In thin state, covering a period of a year, he has attacked my legislative record, he nas attacked the honesty of my purpose, and I wanted to meet him before the people who know him and the people who know me, In order that, having made the at tacks before this audience, that he haa made In the different parts of the state, 1 might have an opportunity to answer him before my fellow-cltlsens. "He lias spoken, fellow-cltlsens, he has spoken here to you for one hour, and 1 call your attention to the fact that here tonight, that during that en tire hour, he has not put his fingers upon one single vote that I ever cast in the general ussembly of this state showing that I have at any time ever sacrificed the Interest of the people who sent me there. In behalf of any corporation. "Ah. fellow-cltsens, what an easy thing It Is for a man to attack an other man's character without any sperlflc statement, He makes a note now, and I assume, therefore, that It Is his purpose In his lost half hour, when he knows that I will have no opportunity to reply, to attack me, when In hi* first address before this audience he did not have the courage to do so. Wanted Charges Repeated. "He has not repeated to this au dience, my fellow-cltsens, to those who know him, and to those who know me. the charges that he haa made on every other stump In the state of Geor gia. I hnd hoped, fellow-cltlsens, that he would do that tonight In his first speech, so that 1 might haVe an op portunity to reply to him here. I know these iieopte, and these people know me. and these people know him. "Karly In this campaign, fellow-cit izens, long before the primary election In this county was held, I made the proposition on every stump In Georgia on which I spoke that. In order to avoid an unseemlng local conflict here st home between two home candidates, that I would cheerfully leave to my home people an arbitrament as to which of the two should represent them. “I made the statement, fellow-citi zens, that If In such a contest If I could secure his consent, I would with draw from the race in his favor. If I did not carry, first, Fulton county; If I did not carry, second, the city of Atlanta. More than that, I made the pro|H>sltlon that I would withdraw from this race in hla favor If I did not carry the own home ward In which he lives. Would Leave It To Bar. "Who should know him best—who should know him. If ft Is not the mem bers of hla own profession, the mem- bet* with whom he has served here during the past thirty years? Who should know him best. If It should not lie the people of his own county and his own ward? "And yet, notwithstanding my prop osition, repeatedly made to him throughout the state of Georgia, what «a* his answer to It when he first liecame cognisant of It, In his speech at Banders*III*, Qn.T '".Mr. Howell wants to leave the set tlement of this contest to the city of Atlanta: I repudiate the suggestion. He said: 'I repudiate the suggestion because It Is an Insult to the balance of the state.* "He repudiated the suggestion to leave It to you, his fellow cltlsens, men * ho he knows know him. and who know me. He repudiated the sugges tion that the settlement of this ques tion should be left to you, a* an Insult to the people of this state. He did not KENTUCKIANS GOING HOME. A large party of Kentuckians will leave Atlanta tomorrow afternoon at 130 p. m. over the Southern railway in through sleeper for Louisville to at tend "The Home-Coming Week for Kentuckians." This party leaving Sunday afternoon win occupy through sleepers Atlanta to Louisville arrang ed for all who desire making the trip: “Giving Louisville Monday morning * 36. Rate from Atlanta to Louisville and return I13.6S; sleeping car-rate per double berth $*.60. Call at South ern railway ticket office No. 1, Peach- 'tee street, or Terminal station for tickets and deeping car reservations. Southern Railway will also run through sleepers Atlanta to Louisville on afternoon Tuesday. June 12th. Sleeping car diagrams are now open *nd reservations being made. accept the proposition, fellow cltlxea*. because he knew that If he had accept ed It. then and there, would a quietus have been put to his campaign, by his own people here In Fulton county, and yet. fellow cltlsens—and yet, this Is the man. afraid of his own people, afraid to leave to them the settlement of the question of hla candidacy, he has himself gone sowing broadcast over this state, statements about me and my record, which he Is afraid to repeat here to the people of my home county. And this Is the man. fellow cltlsens. who has charged me with sins and with Iniquities of which he knows that he alone Is guilty, and which he tries to put on other shoulders In order that they may be diverted from him. Paid to Fight for Rate Reduetton. "He talks about the freight rate fight here In the city of Atlanta, and I would thank you to recollect what I have tn say on this subject. He preaentuhlm- self to you tonight as the great father of the freight rate fight here In Atlan ta. And the fact remains that before he ever opened his mouth one slngls time on the subject of freight reduc tions I had had fifty editorials on the question of freight reductions, and he never chirped In behalf of reduced freight rates to the city -of Atlanta, through the Atlanta freight bureau, until I wont In my pocket to the or ient of $100 anil hired him to appear for this movement "It Is an easy thing, fellow cltlsens, It Is an easy thing for a man tn. come and try to soil another man's conduct and I charge tonight before this audi ence. that never in one single syllable, directly or indirectly, did he utter one word In behalf of freight rate reduction until, as an attorney, he was paid to do so by. the Atlanta freight bureau, and I went In my own pocket to the extent of 1100 to do It. Somebody called his at-' tentlon to this fact some time ago. and asked him what about It, and what do you suppose was his answer? He said: 'Why. the Atlanta freight bu reau returned Mr. Howell's money, and yet he did not do me the common Justice tn say to his friends tonight In your presence that, that money was not returned to me until every other mem ber of the Atlanta freight bureau was r tld back by the guarantee fund that engaged to pay him, as the|r attor ney, and I was the last man that got my money back. Never Charged HI* People. “I never received a dollar of railroad money In my life. More than that, fel low cltlsens. I never In my life, so help me God. I,never charged the people of my home city one single dollar for de fending them. He has gone over this state, fellow cltlsens, making the charge Indirectly, and by the mean* of alt methods of attack, the unholy method of the highwayman,- the attack by Innuendo, gdlng all over this state.. making It ap pear to the people of this state there was soma kind of pipe line connection between roe and the railroads of this ** "He has not made that charge to night, because he dared not do so, and I state, fellow cltlsens—I state, fellow dtlsene—If that charge has been nude on every stump In the state of Georgia, a a reported In the columne of the At lanta newspaper which , represents him. If he chargee directly or Indirectly tbtt any railroad on the face of this earth has one particle Interest In me, or In my candidacy, or that I am lined up SSd obligated, directly or ‘nrilrjectly- to any railroad on the face of this earth, he tell* a deliberate falsehood. Not a Railroad Stockholder. "I never received a dollar, I never received a fee, I never put myself In a complication directly or Indirectly: I never was a atockholder in any rail road on the face of the earth, even to one'penny’s extent, and no railroad on the tee of this earth ever owned one penny’s Interest In any property In which I am now, or ever have been, ^"ilV’flrst obligation, fellow cltlsens, from the day that I attained the age of man, my first obligation la, and always has been, to this great state, which I love better than any spoi on th* of the earth, and for which I would dl "And yet, let ua look Into the record nowof this man—of this man who seeks to tie me up with the railroad* byasys- tsm of falsehood* that he has scattered broadcast over every part of this state and of which he falls to sustain a sln- gla charge tonight. Whom now, fel- low cltlsens, I charge with having not only been tied up with the railroads of this state for the greater part of the past eighteen yesre. but 1 charge him with having frequently accepted « from the ^Breads of this state, with having put himself under obliga tion to tha extent of loans from ths railroad ow ners of this sute, and more than that, fellow cHlsens, >-charge him with having been the beneficiary ofthe very thing that he atacks on this floor tonight That *40000 Loin From Morgan. "Follow clttxens. In hi* address here tonight Ha has attacked the watered stocks of i the railroads of this state. Let me call'your attention to the fact that the only people on the fae of the earth who could have been tl e beneficiary from the watered stocks of the railroads of the state were the stockholders themselves. I never had one penny's stock In any railroad, and 1 defy hlin In his remarks Itr conclus ion tonight—I defy him to deny that he became a large stockholder In the speculative market of the Southern railway, that he negotiated hts *40,000 loan from Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan. Ah, fellow cltlsens, I do not blame him for having gone to Wall street to borrow *40,000 from the owner of the Southern und the Central Railroads, at th* very time that the columns of the newspa per he then owned were being leveled against these railroads operated In the state, hut I do charge that frmr the day that they loaned this amount—and I defy him to produce tonight one sin gle line during the entire pendency of that loan, covering a period of nearly two years—I defy him to produce a sin gle line In the columns of his news paper where any time during the whole two year* he ever attacked Mr. Mor gan or Mr. Spencer In ’ the state of Georgia. Atlanta Journal 8tock. "He tells you that he put up the stock of his paper. The Atlanta Journal, as collateral at that time, he owning three-fourts In said newspaper then, and yet go back to the' tax records of Fulton county and you will find that the collateral that was put up as secur ity for the (40,000 loan, which Mr. Tom Loyless, of The Chronicle of Augusta, declares at ths time he put hts con victions In soak In Wall street, that the stock of the paper that he put up as collateral was sworn here In Fulton county as being only worth *20,000, and three-quarters Interest for the entire loan. "Somebody n moment ago made the statement, ‘What about free passes?' In nil probability, fellow cltlsens, the man was addressing Mr. Smith, and not me, because he knows more about free passes and private cars than I do. (Voice from the audience, 'Tell us where you stand.') Favors Anti-Pass Bill. , "I will' tell you where I stand; somebody asks me where I 'stand. Give me a minute, and listen to me while I reply. I am In favor of the passage of the bill known as the antl-free pas* bill now pending before the legislature of the state and which will pass dur ing the summer session, but I do say, fellow cltlsens, I oo say, that If 1 had ridden all over this country on. free passes; If I had had private cars at my command whenever t wanted them; If I could get a private car at any time 1 wanted It, merely .by touching a bell and having It hitched on 40 some train to carry me from Washington city to Yellowstone Park, I would be the last man In the state of Georgia to turn to another man and'say, 'Sir,.you are a dishonest man, a rascal for doing the same thing I have been doing all my life.' I dare him no*', fellow cltlasna; 1 dare him now—listen tn this and list en to his answer—1 dare him now In hla concluding remarks to deny that he has used free passe* over the rail roads, and I dare him to deny that when In Washington Id tha Interior de partment, when It. was hla duty to pas* In Judgment upon the title to mll- ilons of acres of government lands In the west; I dare him. to deny that when he went out there, he went there In a well-equipped private car over the rail road system along whose very line he was called upon to act; and, fellow cltlsens, If he docs deny.lt; If he does deny II, I will. If he asfca me to do to, produce the proofs, and If I cannot pro- dilce the proofs I will get out of the race for governor. “Th# Hop# of tho 8tato." "Fellow cltlsens, some man In the au dience—I like to get questions from the audience—some man In the audi ence says, 'What about the hope of the state?* I assume you refer to the ne gro question. Now, Just listen a mo ment, and I will tell you where I aland on the negro situation. Tou know where Mr. Hmlth stands now; you know where he atod live yean ago, but I defy any man tn the state of Georgia tn tell where he will stand on this or any other proposition live years from now. "I stand on this proposition Just where I stood live years ago, at th* very time Mr. Smith and I stood hand In hand together before th* general as sembly of your state, urging them to derest the very measure that ha stands before you tonight, with unblushing ef frontery, and tell you that It ought to he passed. Why, why— (voice from the audience, ‘But he has changed hie mind.') Oh, yea, he has changed hla mind; he haa changed his mind, but h* never did It until he became a candi date for governor. “Again, fellow cttlsens, I am opposed to this disfranchisement legislation for the very reason that Mr. Smith and I opposed It live year* ago, because I know that the disfranchisement legis lation that !'<■ proposed tonight In «lie Idea that It l» a vote-catcher, will dls- franchtae nnlold thousands of unodu- entsd white men In th# state of Geor gia, ami that It will put the ballot In the hands of untold thousands of edu cated negroes In this state. Smith's Nsgro Appointments. "How does he propose, how- does my adversary propose to dlsfranchlsq the negro? I call attention to the official record of the Interior department under his -administration. In which it Is shown that more negroes wsr# ap pointed to office from th* city of Atlan ta tlmn nny other Democratic ad ministration had ever made since the civil war. (Vole# from the audience, ‘He wanted them to wait on him.’) "Fellow cltlsens, he proposed to dis franchise the negro in the state of Oeoririn by Riving him omce. Some frlehd In the audience suggests that w hile he was In Washington he wanted negroes to wilt upon him thsre, and I call your attention to the official re cord* of that department In which Henry P. Turner, of Atlanta, the son of Bishop Henry M. Turner, was pro moted by him to an office which paid him In salary and sxpenses *2,000 a year. Ills duty being to examine white penilon applicants. Says the full record of these appointments, these salaries ranged from $710 to 22,000 a year, and he does not deny It; he admits that he made these appointments, and what do you suppose his excuse was? He says he made these appointments bs- cause It was necessary to make them In order to get the negro vote In some of the states out West. And yet In th* state of Georgia, fellow cltlsens, why should h* appoint negroes to get doubt ful states In the West? “End Justifies ths Mssns.” “Gentlemen, you have heard the story ct a campaign shibbolath, which la playing a considerable part In the cam paign, and that la the shibboleth that the end Justl.'et the means, and It looks like tonlgot a* If Mr. Smith's friend* believe It, for they do not want to hear the truth. "It Is anything to get votes—any thing to get votes; go over thin state traducing and deliberately lying about me from one end of the state to the other, and yet when he stands before a home audience he dares not tell you the truth, so you can hear him. I thank God that I do not believe In that unholy motto, that the end Justifies the means, and It seams to me most strange that a candidate who began his campaign nine months ago, on the statement that he was divinely called, should. In so short a time, have to change hi* motto for that unholy dec laration that any end Justifies any means, and that he has gotten It over Ms audience and hla hearers here to night. "Nov/, fellow citizens, I believe that nine-tenths of the people here tonight wont to hear arguments on this cam paign discussed; we are her* tonight for the purpose of entering Into a legit imate discussion of these iM'ie* and of telling the truth concerning these Is sues. I charge that my adversary In not a single charge that he has made against me from the beginning to the end, has done me the fairness to tell th? truth abput It, and I will add that his campaign from beginning to end Is based upon deceit and mlarepreaenta- tlon. This campaign of deceit gnd mis representation began more than a year ago, and a glaring esample of It was In the answer made to my friend Rufe Hutchins, down here In Tallapoosa, Oa., when he Interrupted Mr. Bmlth with the question,. apropos of what he was saying at the time, 'Mr. Smith, don't you own an Interest In the Piedmont hotel bar In Atlanta?' (Noise and In terruptions from the audience.) "Ladles and geStlemen, It wns un derstood here tonight Hint I was Invited ns the guest of Mr. Smith und his friends. When the statement wns made that they would be entirely responsible for order being kept at the meeting I did not think for a moment It would be necessary for m* to ask that my friends should be given at least half of the representation of those who were to keep order; I had full confidence that when an Invitation came to me to ad dress thla meeting that I would be treated with at taast th* same consid eration that my friends extended lo the gentleman who gave the Invitation to Asks to bs Heard Out. "Gettemen, thla I* a long story, and I am going to tell It; understand that every moment's Interruption Is tnksn out of my tlms, but I am litre for ths purpose of making this atat- ment, and I am going to do It. and I trust you will do m* the kindness to listen to me. "When Mr. Smith was asked In th* town of Tallapoosa by Mr. Rur* Hutch ins If he did .not own a third Interest In the Piedmont bar In Atlanta, he very promptly replied yet, he owned a third Interest In the Plsdmont bar, but, he says, I do not touch on* dollar's In terest of that unholy and that dirty money. I have nothing to do with It; my partner has gotten me Into this Iniquitous business .without my knowl edge or consent. 8mlth’s Bar AeeounL "Now, fellow cltlsens, I havs got some very Interesting records tonight. to ■how now. Thla la a small thing, per haps Mr. Smith may, think, but let’s see the truth of the Piedmont bar busi ness, sind - If he misrepresent* that Is sue why Isn't It likely that he haa misrepresented ev?ry- other campaign statement that he has made. He stated that he had only a third Int-rest In th* Piedmont bar, but he had nothing whatever to do with It; that ha would give that money to charity; non- let’s see what became of this one-third In terest In these profits; now there are th* facta and here are the figures, and I charge that not on* single dollar of hi* one-third Interest In the Piedmont hotel bar has gont to any other pur- poee on the face of th* earth except to pay hi* mortgage Indebtedness on th* loan which he negotiated for the building of the Piedmont hotel. More than that, I produce her* tonight an exact transcript from the ledger of the Piedmont hotel. (A vole*: 'It makes no difference where It went.’) (Mr. Howell: That's right. It makes no dlffersnct where It went, hut It didn't go to charity.) But here. la a tran script front the ledger of the Piedmont hotel. I would not have a single man In this audience think I am a salat, because I am not; yet you know It, and I know It, and th* only difference between Mr. Smith and myself Is that he thinks he Is a saint, and you don't think so. Transeript From Hotel Ledger. "Now, fellow cltlsens, her* le the rec ord of the Piedmont hotel bar, taken from the ledger of th# Piedmont hotel; he would not hare the dirty money, but he would give his third to charity. Here I* an Itemised account from the Piedmont hotel books, showing thet from the second day of February, I M2, to the following November, Mr. Smith patronised the Piedmont hotel bar on hla own personal acconut, charged to him here, to the estent of about *IM. and on every dollar's worth of Inter est in the liquor that he bought from the Piedmont hotel he got one-third owner's discount. Just wait a minute. I want to give you ail th# facts; I am net dealing In glittering generalities. I pledge you I make no statement about Mr. Smith tonight or any man In tha state of Georgia that le not borne out hr hi* own record* or by th# sworn testimony or the official records which he hltnaelf Kill have to admit. Reads Items From Ledger. “Listen to this: Mr. Hoke Smith, the ledger account of the Piedmont hotel, a transcript of bills made to Mr. Hoke Smith—thla candidate with the divine call. "•February 20, two bottles Somerset liquor, 24.BO.* Now, listen to this—1 know the friends of Mr. Smith don't want to hear It, but they have got to If they have to stay here all night: •April 17, Mr. Hoke Smith, one quart sherry, **.**.’ On* quart sherry, tt.SO; why, what terribly expensive sherry Mr. Smith must have been drinking! ••'April 27, one bar account, 87.80: 20th of May, 21.' Listen tn (his, fellow rltlxen*. 'December 14 (nearly Christ mas time), Somerset whisky, **, and water, 40 cents.’ "Now, wilt a minute, and let’s have thla atory out: now hear It all; 1 want you tn hear It all; about Christmas time,,(» worth of liquor and 40 cents' worth of water. He didn't take but mighty little water with the liquor. Now, listen, 'April 21 (and this In red Ink, now),' one bottle of specially fine liquor, *>.'' "Now, listen to this: Here Is where the rebate question-come* In—I wonder If this went to charity? "December 16, again—all happened about Christmas time—here Is the re bate question, here In red. Ink, figures approximating about (26, one-third owner’a • rebates—not for charlfy, but for the owner. (A voice: ' What about the freight rater' Mr. llowell: “I will tell you about the freight rat*.").' "So, you see, fellow-ettlxen*, that he waa the nbject ot charity to which he made reference In Tallapoosa. Th* Freight Rata Question. "Now 1 will (ell you about the freight rate question. I am going to give you a very plain statement, about the frotght rate question. That la what Is wanted,: but will you do .me the kind ness to see that 1 have the opportunity to make a statement on It?, I hold, fellow-cltlsens. that as far aa my Ilf* as a citizen of the town Is concerned, that aa for as my record In th# city of Atlanta I* concerned, raised aa I was to love this city and serve tta Inter ests—1 wish to say that my life, as lived In this city, should be sufficient pledge to you to know that no Interest ever, begun and no movement ever started In this city for the welfare of thla city could have other than my undying davotlon and fny every effort, and aa far as this freight rate ques tion Is concerned, I will let Mr. Smith and no other man on tha face of the earth make any Issue with me on the freight rate qusetlon. "I will allow no man to go further than 1 will go In the statement that no movement ever Instituted by thla town to reduce freight rates. If your freight rates are tod high, and they are, If you have been discriminated against, and you have, In some Instances, 1 will state that no man In th* city of At' lanta has gone further, dr .will gi further, than I will go to protect you against any unjust discrimination. Favored Freight Rat* Fight. "When the business men of this city, through the Atlanta freight bureau, undertook this movement In behalf of lower freight rat**. Its committee came to me for a subscription to hslp.carry on this work, and I cheerfully re sponded. I make the statement now; I repeat now what I said before, that I had numerous editorials on this sub ject. Fellow-etUaens, as to the freight rate question, I say thsre Is not a man In thla audience who knows me. .there Is not a member of the Atlanta freight bureau today who knows me, but who knows that my heart Is In the work. It has always been (here. "I have co-operated with them from the beginning t» the eml of It, and I repeat pow the statement that I made In the beginning of these remark*, that I was engaged In this fight long before Mr. Stnllh ever opened hi* mouth on the subject, and thnt he did not appear on the scene of action until I paid him to do It. He ran not engage me In a discussion before this audience by making It appear to you that I am here to defend high freight ratps, while he I* here to maintain low freight rates; nothing could be further from the truth. Howell Heavy Freight Payer. “I am Just as much In favor of low freight rate* for the city of Atlanta aa he Is—a thousand tlmea more than he. For where, fellow-cltsens, he pay* one dollar freight to bring hla gooda Into the city of Atlanta, I pay on* thousand dollar*. There I* not a man on thla stage, there Is not a man In thla town, that love# this beloved city of mine greater tl\gn I do. There Is not a man In thla audience tonight who would do more for the city of At lanta, or who haa tried to do more, than I have done, and there la not a man here but who know* that there haa not been a time when the call for good cltsens to com# out In defense of the business Interests of the city came that 1 have not always cheerfully and gladly responded by effort and by subscription. "How do 1 stand on freight rate*, you say? Thsre Is my record In my, newspaper, where t have fought for reduced freight rates ever since 1 hare been old enough to write a line. I challenge him tonight to take on* ■Ingle line that aver appeared In th* editorial columns of The Constitution and allow wherein I waa not Juat as earnest In behalf of freight rate re duction a* he has been, and without charging the. city of Atlanta one sin gle dollar for my servlca*. That Reprinted Editorial. "He has pdraded before thla audience tonight something •.hat ha aaya appear ed In th* column* of The Constitution aa reproduced from the columns of The Macon Telegraph. Why, fellow- cMKena, do you suppoef..does he sup- poee, that I am responsible for every reproduction that Appears In th* col umns of my' newspaper ■froip some other paper?/ No more, fellow-cltlaene, than th# editor of hi* newspaper or gan la responsible for whatever may appear In the column* of that news paper as coming from another news paper, and In reference to the special Item lo which he refers, I never even saw It In The Constitution until he read It on thla platform tonight. "So wa will make no laau* about tha railroad quastion, or about the matter of railroad rates, because I tell you that I «fh Juat as earnestly In favor of It. and I will do Just sa much as be has done, or Juat as much as h* can do. to bring thsm about. Credit for Reduction of Ratos. “He tells you la his remarks tonight that the railroad commission In re sponse to some statement* of mine In which I made the statement that the railroad commission during th* past yaar had reduced rate#, he tells you It waa not so, that the railroad com mission had not ksducad rat#*; and then In the yery nest breath he admits. In the same seatence almost, that freight rates have been materially r#-| dured In the efty of Atlanta during the t year, lust aa 1 claimed they had Jt reduced. He says then that th* railroad commission had reduced freight rates—but he says that tha railroad commission deserves no credit whatever for having done so, because they did so at th* request of (he Al lan! freight bureau, and that be com pliments ths Atlanta freight bureau for Its work. In which ha la eminently AMERICAN DENTAL PARLORS 19J Peachtree Street, AtlallTa, Ga. OVER tCHAUL A MAT. Dr. G. C. NEEDHAM, Prop. Rubber Plates P A c[| 22-K Gold Crown.... V #i0U Porcelain Crown ^ I Brldgework, per tooth 1 PAINLESS EXTRACTING r n C C | TEETH CLEANED » n L L. Hours, 8 am. till 8 p. m. Sunday, 9 a. m. till 4 i WE TAKE IMPRESSION AND PUT IN YOUR TEETH SAME DAY. sens, that freight rates have been re duced and through the Instrumentality of the Atlanta freight bureau, which I* true. It Is a noble organisation. Nothing In this world can be done without organisation. There never was n better organisation In the city of At lanta, and I never contributed to a work more cheerfully In my life, and I am here tonight to add testimony to the fact that the admirable army of figures which they presented to tho railroad commission did contribute largely to the action of the commission In reducing railroad rates, ami they did good work for It, nnd the attorneys who were engaged In that service, and for which we paid out of our owa pockets did good work also, but I re spectfully submit that they did not do the whole business. Defense of Stats Offiolsls. “Now, fellow cltlsens, this campaign, begun nearly a year ago, haa been based upon the principle thnt there were only a few honest men In Geor gia, and that the officials of thla state, as a general thing, your courts, your legislature, and your ronnty officials itow nnd for the past twenty-five years, have been more or less corrupt. Now, 1 am sufficiently optimistic, fellow clt lsens, to look upon tho bright sldo of things, and to believe that this old world of ours I* not so bad as some people would picture It. "I believe in the honesty of man kind. I would rather believe that any man,on thla earth Is an honest man, unless It can be proved by absolute specification that he Is a dishonest man. 1 call your attention now to tha fact that In thla entire campaign of tra duction, covering a period of a year, that In not one single Instance could tills man put Ifla finger upon one single dnllnr of the state's money gone wrong nor a single piece of maladministration during all this time, and we are enjoy ing today a greater degree of prosper ity than this great old state has ever known, and I nubiqlt thnt these honest public servants of Georgia during the past twenty-five yenrs deserve at least their mite of prnlse In bringing this ..bout, rather than that they should bo hamstrung without having hnd sub mitted to them one single specification of wrong doing that they might nn- H-ver. Not only 1ms the good name of your stale been traduced, been held up before tho world as an object of contempt nnd ridicule; not only thnt, but your Democratic executive com mittee today has been held up before the contempt of tho people of this state for Its action a few weeks ago. If you will fin me the kindness to hear me out wo will sen who Is responsible for It. Th# Ysomsns Committe*. “Your committee, tho organised com mittee of your party. In simply de claring that thla should bn a Democrat ic primary. In which only Democrat* should vole, without regard to past political ntllllntlons whatever, every white mnn In the stale of Georgia was Invited to rome In, whether Populist or Democrat or whatnot In tho past— the gates were thrown wldo open to Democrats nnd all Invited to partici pate with the simple statement thnt they are Democrats. Now, having taken thnt notion, Mr. Smlth'n paper tins denounced thnt committee ns hav ing exceeded Its authority. Mr. Bmlth himself tonight has attacked his pnfty organisation, It having been this action Which he says has shut out a great many Populism In the state of Georgia. "Listen to wlint I nn. going to tell you, nnd I want every man In this au dience to hear It, nnd I want him to hear It. This egecullvn committee was elected two years ngn. Ho says that Mr. Yeomans, who Is Its chairman, ap pointed some corporation representa tives on the committee, leaving the In ference that the whole committee was appointed by the chairman. Tho truth of the matter wns that thirty-right members of this committee were elect ed by the state convention nnd only four from the state at large were ap pointed by the -chairman and the thirty-eight men elected by the state convention were elected by the state convention which wa* absolutely dom inated by Mr. Hmlth when he Instruct ed the convention for Judge Pucker. Wanted to Block Watson’s Game. "We have not got to the'Interesting part of this proiaisltlon ykt. Here Is the whole story now, I have Just begun It; This convention elected this com mittee; nl thnt time th* present state administration, Ihe governor and oth ers, were strongly ngnlnst Instructions of that committee to Its delegation to go to the Ht. louts convention, prefer ring that they be sent unlnstrucled. It happens about that time Mr. Watson wns strongly supporting Mr. Henrst, and Governor Terrell and others were In favor of Hearst nnd ail unlnstrucled delegation. Mr. Hmlth presided over the raueus that met at the Kimball house and the word went out that no one hut Parker men should go. Mr. Griggs waa defeated, the vote to In struct the delegation was carried, and among Ihe first to revolt was Mr. Wat- Watson Attacked “Smith Ring.” Mr. Watson a few days after that In a speech here In the city of Atlanta at tacked the ring headed by Mr. Smith, who was responsible for suppressing the vote of the people. It transpired then that Mr. Hmlth dominated the Democratic ring In the state of Geor gia, which had suppressed the vok-e of the people and forced upon the people an Instructed Parker delegation and Mr. Watson, In this very rlty, made a speech In which he lambasted Mr. Hmlth from, top to bottom as being Ihe head of the machine. Now, let's see how the story developed. Mr. Wat son. dissatisfied with the action of the national Democratic convention In nominating Judge Parker. Immediately announced himself as a candidate for president against Judge Parker and as the Populist nominee for president. Mr. Hmlth took th* platform In Georgia In liehaW of Judge Parker, for whom he had had this delegation Instruetifd. "He himself spoke In the city of Au gusta. In Which he charged Mr. Wataon with being the Instrument of the Re- publican campaign committee to divide th* Democratic party. Wanted “Pops" Birred. He comta back Ml the city of Atlan ta and tha Aral thing he doe« when i ■ . he get* back here now, fellow cltlsens, J ernor today offered a pswi and I defy him now to deny one single ! for tho • rr< * t °f John u charge that I am going to make—I well-known white citizen ,>f want Hoke to hear this—I charge that who Is charged with the nvi he cam* back to th* city of Atlanta, » II* Jones, a n*gr. goes to the telegraph office, sen-l- telegram to Mr. Yeomans, the ■ hair man of the state Democrat I r>.-. live committee, then aa he Is today, f the same chairman eleoted by Mr. Smith's convention, the same chairman that Mr. Hmlth I* now denouncing - and telegraphs Mr. Yeomans to pic,-a eomo to Atlanta tomorrow. I am anx ious to see you. Mr. Y< a m- h? chairman, comes. He haa a confer ence with Mr. Hmlth at the piedmont hoiel, and now what do you su; a Mr. Hlnlth telle him; what do you -op pose he want* with him? He says: “ ‘Mr. Yeomans, f hare sent r to ask you to call the state committee together Immediately.' "What for?' aaya Mr. Yeomans. "Smith aaya: "■Fwant the state'executive commit tee to meet here and act on Watson s announcement that he Is going to run for president aa th* Popuilst nomine- agalnst Judge Parker.' ".Mr. Yeomans says: " 'What do you want It to do?" "Smith repllea: Smith's “Anti-Pops" Resolution. ; ‘l "‘I want It to pass a resolution de claring that every man who rote? for Thomas K. Wataon shall not vote In the Democratic primary to be held In the year 1*04!' , , "Mr. Yeomans, th* chairman of tha committee, told hlpi that the Demo cratic party In th* state of Georgia had never taken any retroactive atepalook ing to the binding of a vote by retro active measures. He eald, we hate, got a perfect right to say that a man cannot vote unlesa he votes tho Demo-, cratlc ticket now. Mr. Hmlth suys, we must suppress this Popuilst vote, if a man votes for Wataon we must put him on notice that he cannot vote In our; primary next year. Mr. Yeomans goes, to Governor Terrell and tells him what Mr. Bmlth had said, and he asked tho 1 governor what hs thought about it.i The governor aaya, 'You cannot do It; It will be unjust.' lie then goc* to Warner Hill, Mr. Hill wa* tho . hair- man, I believe, of the committee on resolution* of the state convention. He naked Mr. Hill about It, nnd Mr. Mill tells him Ihe eame thing that the gov ernor has, and then he goee to Jack Spalding, who on this stage hm been criticised by Mr. Hmlth tonight ns be ing In the employ of n corporatloa and yet waa made th# Vico chairman of the state executive committee by Mr. Hmlth himself, and Mr. Smith was In caucus with Mr. Hpaldlng before ho wa* made the vice chairman. Took Part In Caucus. "Mr. Hmlth wa* In the Parker raucua the night before Mr. Hpaldlng won mode vice chairman. Mr. Hmlth and Mr. Grady were In caucus with him and he was made vice chairman next day, and Mr. Bmlth now Jump- on a man that he made vice chairman, llo goes to Hpaldlng with the eame propo sition, and he says; "•Mr. Hpaldlng, you are a Parker man like Mr. Hmlth, what do you think of Mr. Smith's proposition?* '"It won’t do,’,said Mr. Hpaldlng. «« can't do It. You would have no right to take this step," and Hmlth wan noti fied by Mr. Yoemana that he would not call the executive committee to gether. "Now, fellow rltlxen*. In coni luslon, let me say 1 shall not detain you much longer. Let me say that the first fenson that I ever learned In the city of At lanta waa the lesson that I learned to love my city and love my state. The best advice that I ever got tn my life eame to me In a letter written on th* day that I achieved the age of man hood, 21 year* of age, when dear old Henry Grady, the man thnt I loved bet ter than nny man that ever lived on the, fare of this earth aside from my own Immediate family, when on that day. writing me congratulating me upon having attained tha estate of manhood^ he made use of this expression: Grady's Advise to Howell. "‘You do svhat you ran to build up your city: do what you can to bond up your state; remember, alway there are plenty of men In who can be depended upon to that! orgl*| •> all! -ary. (Great applause.) "And so, from that day whether or not I have always to the spirit of that suggestion, I have always don* my best to 0„ there Is one thing that I can say. and that le, that from that day to thla never have I eald anything ag: honor or Ihe good name of m state. As old again today as i »«« the day that thatletter waa written. Its golden aentlmsnla burned Itself deep llnto my soul, and fired every Impulse of my manhood with a spirit of sternal idevotlun to my mother state- Geor- fill, "( have trod thee# hill# and these vales when as an Infant refugee In my mother's arms, not knowing whether my father was alive or d-.ul on tho battlefield# around this very tow n -I was bom to love my state; 1 wns horn to love my city. I love the old Demo cratic party. It haa done more for the protection and salratlon nl iur people than all other Instrumentalities put together, end so with every Impulse of my soul, with every breath ■< my body. I shall defend my state, and t w ill defend my party so long as I may live. . .1 "They tell u* the time ha* com.- for the Democratic party to die. 1 do not believe It, nnd now la th# time when we must alt rally to the party and stand by the party aa wa have In the * "The time haa not com# for II to die, and It will not die. neither b> sui cide nor by TWO MORE CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM CAMP Special lo The Georgian. Rising Fawn, Ga.. June I.—Two more convicts escaped from the furnace camp a few day* since. This runs tha number up to five In the past thr-e years. , Two have been apprehended and re turned to the penitentiary. REWARD IS OFFERED FOR ALLEGED MURDERER Special to The Georgian. Montgomery, Ala . June • Th,- gov- ,f lie# '■'.nt* of LU-