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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. In the first five minutes after the eti-, trance of the candidates the volume of P 1 Pure, high-grade materials, finely ground and thor oughly mixed by improved modern machinery. That’s what makes Lucas Paints go further, look bet ter and last longer. These paints have been sold continuously for over sixty years—a proof in it self of their honest making and the satisfaction they | give. Ask your dealer. John Lucas & Co Philadelphia Sold by Culver & Kidd, Druggists. 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. who There is no need worrying along in discomfort because of a disordered di gestion. Get a bottle of KODOL FOR DYSPEPSIA, and see what it will do for you. Kodol not only digests what you eat and gives that tired stomach a needed rest, hut is a corrective of the greatest efficiency. Kodol relieves indi gestion, dyspepsia, palpitation of the heart, flatulence, and sour stomach. Kodol will make vour stomach young and healthy again. You will worry just in the proportion that your stomach worries you. Worry means the loss of bilify to do your best. Worry is to be avoided at all times. Kodol will take the worry out of your stomach. Sold by all druggists. 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. sheer force of will power. A few min utes after she reached her aged mother, she passed away. Samuel Evans, SONS & COMPANY Warehousemen and Commission Merchants Bring us your Cotton. Highest Market Price Always Paid. Liberal Advancement on Cot ton on Storage. Car load Florence Wagons. Samuel Evans’ Sons & Company. The sworn statement of the manufac turers protects yon from opiates in Ken- Summed up iu a nutshell here are the 1 nedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar—the equations : A robust personality, a strong tem perament, a forceful conviction, against likeable personality, a lighter tempera ment and indefinite convictions. Issues against assertions. Polices against personalities. It is any wonder that in a political pitched battle the victory went to the stronger temper, the impression convic tion and the definite issue? cough syrup that drives the cold out your system. Sold by all druggists. of epopee F^iuer /T\ills (INCORPORATED) Water Power, Stone Ground, Old Style, CORN fl EAL^ All up-to-date grocers sell it. Solicits patronage from the trade only, MILLEDGEVILLE, GA Professional Cards O. F MORAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Building West of Central Hotel Sell or Exchange (39) Millkdueville, Ga. Late Mattie Liner t Libel for divorce in Babi ys win Superior Court, Lucius Liner ^ July Term, 190(1. To Lucius Liner, Greeting: You are hereby notified that libel for : divorce in the above stated case has been 1 filed iu the Clerk’s office of Baldwin j Superior Court, and returnable to the ; July term, 1906. And the defendant, 1 Lucius Liner, is hereby required to be i Office hours: 10a. m. to 12 m., 2 to4 p.m DR. T. B. PERRY, Surgeon U. S. Marine Hospital Service. Office in Horne Building. Telephone 266. I desire to go business, and will exchange for real estate in or near Macon. out of the merchandise sell at a sacrifice. Will in Milledgeville, or HINES and appear at.the Superior Court, of said county on the 2nd Monday in July next to answer this petition. Walter Paine, Clerk Superior Court. Moore & Moore, Plaintiff’s Attorneys. eow 4t Mileedoeville, Ga. JNO. P. ATKINSON, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. DAMAGE DONE CROPS AND PROPERTY IN PUTNAM. Office Over R. L. Wall’s store, deuce—home of late Dr. W. R. : ison. Milledgeville, Ga. Resi- Rob- 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- m&n 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. Hump Back SCOTT'S EMULSION won’t make a hump back straight, neither will it make a short leg long, but it feeds soft bone and heals diseased bone and is among the few genuine means of recovery in rickets and bone consumotion. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemisu, 409-415 l’earl Street, New York. 50c. and f i.oo; all dniggiats. large and very longing to Jndge T. G. Lawson, ad* joining lits home, was this morning ly ing fiat on the ground. The Eatonton Electric Light Com pany’s wires were badly damaged, the city aud residence lights going out | during the gale. 1 Wednesday the Eatonton Telephone ' system was out of business, with line- ! men in every direction repairing broken 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 ous points. T. M. HALL, M. D. 7 1-2 East. Hancock Street. Office Hours, 10 to 12 A'. M.; 3 to 5 P. M. DR. W. A. ELLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office over K. P Hawkins’ Drug Store. Residence Phone No. 181. MISSES CARRINGTON, FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS. Tiie Best Companies Represented. Office at Residence. Phone No. 262. Lumber Lumber ^Yards on Jackson Street, near Central Railroad Rough Lumber, from the Cheapest to the Highest Grade. All Orders Given Prompt Attention. w O. HAWKINS Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 17, 1906. tf Phone 106 LONG TENNESSEE FIGHT. For twenty years W. L. Rawls, of Bells, Tenn., fought nasal catarrh. He writes; “The swelling and soreness in side my nose was fearful, till I bogau applying Buckleu’s Amice Salve to the sore surface: this caused the soreness and swelling to disappear, never to re turn.” Best salvo in existence. 25c at Culver & Kidd druggist. C. H. ANDREWS & SON,! 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