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THE ATLANTA DEBATE.
A Definite and Decisive Triumph for Hoke
Smith Says John Temple Graves.
Atlanta Georgian Editorial.
Tiie people of Georgia expect from
the Georgian nothing less nor more than
the truth about the Howell-Smith de
bate.
And this the iK'ople shall have in un
varnished and undiluted form both in
the loeal columns and upon the editor
ial page.
Expressed in a sentence, the debate
ended in a definite and decisive triumph
for Hoke Smith. After the first hour
the laurels of the evening were till at
hi6 feet. Let us note the conditions:
The audience was in all probability
the largest and most representative ever
addressed under shelter by any political
speaker in Georgia. It was an audi
ence gat hered upon equal terms. The
occasion was heralded widely as a joint
discussion between the two prominent
candidates for governor. Both sides
had equal opportunity for filling the
hall. So far as all reports have gone
there was no effort on either side to
pack the auditorium in the interest of
either candidate. The jiersouncl of th
assembly was exceptionally fine the or
der and decorum was far above the aver
age of political assemblies.
Before this most magnificent and rep
resentative audience of their home peo
ple these two political antagonists J
appeared to fight out their differences
and measure their merits in thearena of
debate.
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place. The editor of The Georgian has
warned him of this error a dozen times.
Mr. Smith made his bid for suffrage upon
the advocacy of certain pressing and
neccessary changes in the conduct and
personal of the state government. Mr.
applause sreme o wm a\oi o ® r j Howell made his plea upon the idea of and forceful spirit of c
Howell. let ter >c voices o ^ 118 personal depreciatisn of Hoke Smith’s j peace. Mr. Howell’s voii
clansmen were leavier, or w ict ur icy ] sincerity and consistency. Mr. Howell and comoass placed him t
found their throats sooner, or whether
the followers of Hoke Smith were slow
er in limbering np their enthusiasm, the
imression was distictly left upon the
mind of the writer that the primary bal
ance of sound was on Howell’s side.
The basis of applause on both sides
was in the serried ranks of followers
sjioke by the watch six.y-one minutes
without touching an issne—except the
issue of Hoke Smith’s political integrity,
his temperance, his consistency. When
the audience finally demanded by calls
some comment upon pending issues,
Mr. Howell spoke: bv the watch seven
minutes upon freight rates without,
who were ranged behind each candidate lirRument and COIlflllinK him8e lf to the
At the conclusion of Mr. Howell’s
si>eecM his partisan rear guard rose at
him in a volumo of sound that was equal
to anything that had gone before.
But the great central audience were
yet unresponsive. They gave small ex-
t.-rnal evidence of their impressions.
That mighty mass had heard lloke
Smith in comparatively unresponsive
silence. They had now heard Clark
Howell in the same unmoved temper of
attention. They had listened to both
m i now and were ready at last to ex
press an opinion. The great body which
had preserved almost judicial calm was
now ready to return a judicial decision.
It came with a whirlwind of approval
when Hoke Smith rose for his conclud
ing speech. As he rose the whole cen
ter of the house seemed to rise with him.
It was an ovation of swinging hands and
waving handkerchiefs and ringing cheers
—a wonderful and inspiring scene.
Before this tribunal at least, and upon
this presentation rlie campaign of issues
bad triumphed over the campaign
personal objection. The decision was
clear, unmistakable and emphatic.
Hoke Smith’s concluding speech was
il total departure from his first. It was
personal, masterful and thrilling. It
rang with confidence, it sparkled with
satire. It pulsed with dramatic defi
ance. Ho towered in his superb person
ality and swept into further and fuller
enthusiasm an audience which had al
ready committed itself to his canse.
The conditions were unequal for
Clark Howell The editor and the
trained debater were separated by tem
peramental differences as vast as the
disparity in their physical proportions.
Physical differences ure of small account.
Aleck Stephens made that plain with
Toombs and Hill. It was the tempera
ment that told. The militant, intense
concession and
oice in its range
and compass placed him also a great dis
advantage with his robust and sonorous
rival.
It cannot be denied that Mr. Howell
executed his theory of debate with fear
lessness and skill. His personalities
were marshaled ably and he put them
keenly and brilliantly. If they had
been new and fresh to the audience
A STURDY VOICE.
La Pollett’s Not Affected After
Days’ Speech.
Time
“I will pass over this portion of my
remarks,” said Senator La Follette
Monday afternoon, “in order that I
may not detain the senate.”
Inasmuch as ho had been talking
three days, it was considered very
thoughtful in Mr. La Follette
wishing to detain his colleagues.
“How’s your voice?” asked Senator
Carter of him before he began on the
third lap.
“Fine!" said La Follette. “I haven’t
put it to any kind of a test yet. A mere
three days speech is nothing. Once
out in Wisconsin I had talked forty-
eight days in succession, barring Sun
days, an average of eight hours and
fifteen minutes a day. My voice
0 f just ns good when I finished as it
;>s when I began and I lost only
pounds in weight."
“Great heavens!” said Carter,
once talked thirteen hours on a stretch
m the senate, “you make me think I
am dumb.”—Washington Correspon
dence of the New York World.
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After traveling 500 miles over-land in
a covered wagon from Clinton, la., to
Lebanon, Iud., iu order that she might
die at her old home, Mrs. Gertrude War
ren passed away a short time after her
arrival there. She had been on the road
on the stage and in the nearby adjoin
ing galleries. In front sat the vast body
of the audience, the quiet, thoughtful
people, seemingly neutral, impassive
and watching developments—apparent
ly the balance of power in the debate
and in the election. Up to the close of
Hoke Smith’s first speech they made lit
tle demonstration and gave no tangible
sign of their preference and sympathy.;
Hoke Smith’s opening speech was a !
strong, clear, bold argument upon the 1
issues of the campaign. It was in no
sense a remarkable speech. Neither in
eloquence nor in logic was it out of the
ordinarv run of political effort. Its!
power was m its directness, its definite
ness, and its unmistakable commitment
to positive reforms. Mr. Smith spoke 45
of his 00 minutes ably and exclusively
upin the issues. He devoted, by the
watch, only 15 minutes to a discussion
Of Mr. Howell and his record. The im
pression made hy his speech was that
a great political campaign was pending
in Georgia that issues vital to the im*o-
ple were at stake, and that lie bad fixed
and clear-cut views upon these issues
and powerful reasons for the faith that*
was in him. It was meat for voters to
feed upon. It suggested statesmanship.
It implied a grasp of affairs. It promis
ed a reformer in the Georgia capital
capable to conceive and jiowerful to exe
cute the iieoplo’e will. He not only as
serted principles and proclaimed atti
tudes, but he argued, reasoned and plead
in effective advocacy for his convictions.
If not a great speech, it was a strong
speech, a vote-winning speech. It was
received with strong approval and ap
plauded widely by his cohorts in the
rear and oil the sides, and moderately
by the audience in front.
But the mighty waiting mass iu the
center sat compareutly reserving their
tl.ev would have made a sensation and fonr weeks ’ !iud 1,ad beel1 k «P* alive b ?
assertion that he had always beeu on
the side of cheaper freight rates. Then
he drifted back to the personal discus- !
sion of Hoke Smith. Called again by
undivided requests from the audience, i
Mr, Howell gave six minutes by the j
watch to the strong assertion, without I
argument, that Mr. Smith’s disfran-'
chisemeut plan would disfranchise
thousands of white men. Then he re- !
turned to Hoke Smith’s record and stay- 1
ed there uutil his peroration closed.
This is accurate statement carefully 1
and judicially measured, watch in band,
and absolutely without prejudice. '
There are the two plans of political
campaign, set side by side for trial and
experiment. < hie man debating strongly
the economic and racial issues of the
hour, the other man discussing chiefly '
the personal unfitness of iiis antagonist.
We have never had any doubt for a i
moment that the debator of issues was
on stronger and more hopeful ground,
and we have said so..
If Mr. Howell is not in accord with
Mr. Smith's views on railroads he has
powerful ground for argument on that
side. Charles Pendleton, of the Macon
Telegraph has made that fact dangerous
ly clear to the Atlanta Journsl in these
later days.
But we lay down here the proposition
as a fact and a philosophy that if a man
gets on the peoplo’s side of a public
question and advocates it powerfully
and consistently you may abuse him
till doomsday and convict him of a
dozen inconsistencies,, b it you can’t
shake the faith of the peo.ile in the fact
that he is right now, and they are going
to stand by him.
If there is any winning strength in
nngh{ have turned the scale iu his favor.
But the fact that they had all been re
hashed in the prints and replied to in
kind made them stale, flat and unprofit
able iu a skirmish so near to the ond of
the war.
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Eatonton, Ga., June 13.—A wind,
and rain storm swept Putnam Tues
day. Rain fell in torrents all day lo»g
and until early Wednesday morning.
Last night the wind reached an uu-
Hoke Smith’s campaign it. is due to the ugnnlly „ igh velocity, uprooted trees,
fact that he has convinced the people blew down limbs and damaged the
wa KBHUBnwis..., that they need negro disfranchisement fruit croD aud coru fleldg esnecially
decision uutil they had heard the other . . ^ . f . „ mm cro P ana corn nelas especially.
The mass had not yet committed d regulation of freig rates, A large aud very flne fie i d of corn be-
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itself.
Mr. Howell was received with an ap
plause from his own immediate ranks
fully equaling the reception given to Mr.
Smith by his rear guard
great opportunity. He
gain and little to lose in a contest in
which public opinion had already cred
ited his experienced antagonist with
superiority in debate. If Mr. Howell
lmd made a strong, dear presentation
cf definite views upon the great and
pressing issues before the people in this
campaign, if ha lmd illustrated convic
tions and the courage of them upon the !
things that were moving as realities iu j
the public mind—even if these convic- j
tions had beeu counter to their own— '
the people would have applauded his de-1
flniteness and respected his honest opin
ions.
Mr. Howell made here the same fatal!
mistake which he has made all through
Ins canvass of pitching his campaign
purely andjsimply upon the idea of prov
ing Hoke Smith to be unworthy of the
and that he is the man to get it for them.
If there is any weakness in Mr.
Howell’s campaign it is dne to the fact
that he lias devoted more time to dis
crediting Hoke Snflth than lie has to
i tioutii a i ma kiu K dear his own convictions and
ia mui i to j ntent j 011B on ti iege great questions.
The two plans of campaign—the two
theories of candidacy had at least a fair
experiment last night.
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1 Wednesday the Eatonton Telephone
' system was out of business, with line-
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and crossed wires.
Reports from over the county bring
tidings of swollen streams, and water
damages. County roads and bridge
Itang out early looking after most seri
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