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CLARK HOWELL FOR GOVERNOR.
(Advertisement published and paid for by Mr. Howell’s Chattooga county friends.)
JOURNAL’S ATTITUDE
AND ABUSIVE TIRADES
CALL FORTH REBUKES
Macon Telegraph and Other Staunch Democratic
Papers of the State Aroused Over the Effort
of Atlanta Journal to Start Revolt
Against Democratic Party.
(From The Macon Telegraph)
The Atlanta organ of discord
has completed its record of as
saults upon the democratic party
in Georgia. From design and
for a purpose it sums the party
up as “the ring?’
Let us briefly review its rec
ord in this particular.
It has impeached the demo
cratic governor.
It has assailed the democratic
state house officers. It has at
attacked the courts created by
the democratic party from the
the justice courts to the supreme
court. •
It has denounced the demo
cratic railroad commission.
It has condemned the Georgi:
legislative bodies of “the last
twenty-live years.”
It has impaled upon the petard
of its fervid english the prison
commission.
It has employed its space to
the amount of one page at a time
in an attempt to crush the state
school commissioner without
marking the article “communi
cated” or “advertisement.”
It has made a bitter attack up
on the democratic executive com
mittee and has called upon “the
white people” to assemble in
mass meetings and applaud its
work of party wrecking.
It has stricken from its vocab
ulary the word “democrat” and
employs the word “ring” in its
stead.
Whom it Defends
On the other hand, it defends
Tom Watson. It has apologized
to him for former offenses against
him, because Tom has said so in
a card printed in its own columns.
It appeals to populists, and not
to democrats, to rally to its sup
port in its fight against the dem
ocratic organization.
It attacks the right of the dem
ocratic executive committee to:
say that none but democrats shall
yote m a democratic primary.
It urges that “all white voters”
in the state shall vote in a demo
cratic party primary, assuming
that the primary is not a demo-,
cratic party primary, or that it
shall no longer be a democratic !
party primary.
Its course has caused one of
I its satellites to exclaim: “Show
us an ‘organized democrat and
we will show you a hireling.”
That’s the stuff!
Another satellite demands that
’republicans shall be permitted to
■ vote in the democratic primary, j
Another one urges upon anti- 1
democrats to vote, to take the i
pledge, in the democratic prima
ry in order to help out the Atlan-'
ta Journal in its war upon the ;
democratic party, with a mental
Reservation to “vote for Roose-
VOTER MUST BE DEMOCRAT •
OR SWEAR TO UNTRUTH
(From The Americus Times-Re- i
corder.)
| The state executive committee i
! has met and acted in behalf of
the democratic party of Georgia, !
land not at the dictation of its en
'emies. The man who votes a
'ticket in the state primary must
Ibe a bona fide democrat or a per
jurer. It is to be a white man’s
primary, in the interest of the
democratic party of the empire
i State of the south
velt or Watson in 1908.”
I Another one asserts in the At
lanta Jeu rnal that every appointee
, by Governor Terrell “is as cor-
I rupt as h —l.”
. If this program is not a beauti
ful mess to set before the demo
crats of Georgia we have never
seen any compound crookedness,
or political insanity. We confess
w r e have never seen any so bad.
. What do those old democrats,
who fought through the the re-
, construction era and through the
, populistic uprising, think of “or
, ganized democrat” as a term of
reproach!
What do they think of the prop
osition to abandon party lines, by
admitting into their primary re
publicans and populists without
their becoming democrats? What
do they think of being called
“asses” because they object to
this programme of democratic
dissolution?
The Telegraph has done as
much fighting against rings as
any newspaper in Georgia —it is
always against corrupt rings—
but wTien “ring” is stretched out
to mean the democratic party,
and when to fight it one must in
vike unrepentant republicans
and populists, The Telegraph
draws the line, and will be found
fighting on the side of the so
called “ring.”
What Democracy Stands for
The democratic party has been
the friends of the pople for more
than a hundred years, in spite of
Some of its blunders. It stands
for human rights and individual
liberty. It stands for the rights
of property honestly earned. It
stands for progress. It stands
for commercial, agricultural and
industrial development. It stands
for equity and justice between
man and man. It is not agrarian,
populistic or socialistic —and
more than all, not anarchistic.
But a party is a man in the col
lective form, and like a man it is
subject to temptations and as
saults from within and from with
out. That subdivision of the
democratic party which has ex
■ iisted in Georgia for a number of
‘ years, is now going through a
' period of temptation and attack.
:It is that insiduous kind which
breaks out within and attracks
the enemies without.
It is a common thing for ene
mies without the camp to attack
when they learn that there are
schisms and dissensions within.
But here is the unusual condition
,of a half baked rebellion within
1 where the insurgents are calling
; frantically to the enemies without
to come and help them take the
. citadel.
; It is time for democrats to re
! new their party faith and party
loyalty, if they do not propose to
surrender.
What Hoke’s Election Would Mean
(From The Nashville,Ga., Herald)
A great many farmers in this
: section of the state remember
Hoke Smith in connection w’ith
j six-cent cotton and certain mid
night bond deals. If Hoke i's
< elected he will make an effort to
i put these same farmers out of
his way by passing his disfran
chisement law and taking their
• right to vote away from them.
Talk about ring candidates all
you w-ant to, but in the opinion of
this humble scribe, Hoke Smith
is the king ringster of this day
i and time.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY MAY 24, 1906.
NO LOYAL DEMOCRET
WILL QUIBBLE WITH RULES
(From The Athens Banner.)
Boiled down to its essence and
* reduced to its final analysis, this
pledge is one that no regular,
. loyal organized democrat will feel
any hesitancy in taking.
It simply says that the voter
in casting his ballot does so as an
organized democrat. Should any
other kind of democrat be voting
in a democratic primary? If a
man is not a democrat and is not
. willing to support the party that
} is holding the primary, then he
. ought not to vote in that primary
The democratic party wants all
. the white people in the state to
- vote the democratic ticket. There
■ is no disposition to shut off re- !
cruiting. Every white man in
; this state who is willing to be
come a member of the party is
welcomed into its ranks.
At the same time there is no
> desire on the part of the demo-1
. cratic party in this state to have
f members of other political parties
voting in its primaries and help
. ing fashion its policies and elect
■ its officers. If a man is a repub
lican or a populist, and has no
; desire to leave those parties, his
; plate of voting is in the republi
can or populist primaries or con
, ventions.
Name of the Guilty Officials.
i (From The Fort Valley News.)
1 The Fort Gaines Sentinel,
1 which has a habit of taking a sane
and level-headed view of things,
' thus calls down those who are
just now engaged in casting
mean insinuations in the state
1 campaign:
1 “What we want to know and
what a good many others in Geor
gia would like to know just about
this time, is, who are the corrup
tionists and ringsters? When
wehear a little two-ply politician
' talking about these things we are
going to ask him this question:
1 “Sir, eftn you go to any man, in
any county in this state, from
1 governor down to coroner, and
' say, “You are a ‘ringster’ and
say, you have corrupted your par
ty and state in the office you now’
hold or have held!”
“Unless he can make good we
will simply treat him as a com
mon liar and slanderer. In oth
er words, the people are getting
powerful tired of these everlast
ing charges which mean noth
ing.”
SI,OOO For the Proof.
In presenting Clark Howell to
a large and enthusiastic audience
a few days ago at Edison, Ga., J.
L. Boynton, who served with Mr
Howell in the state senate, said
of Mr. How'ell “He is a man upon
whose private or public escutch
eon no dark spot can be found.
There has been much said about
a political ring,” said Mr. Boyn
ton. “They talk about a railroad
ring formed to control legislation.
Now, I just want to say a word
to you about this talk of a
railroad ring. I stand ready to
deposit one thousand dollars in
any bank in the state subject to ,
the order of any man who will
produce satisfactory evidence
that such a ring exists. And I will
do more than that. I will depos
it another one thousand d ollars
in the event any such ring can be
: found, to be paid to the man who
can prove that Mr. Howell is a
I member of it. It simply cannot
! be shown, fellow citizens, because
'it does not exist. Now, if you
don’t want to take up my propo
sitions just keep quiet. I was a
, member of the state senate when
. he was, and I know that his
voice and his vote were always on
the side of the people and never
in favor of any corporation in det
riment to the interest of the state. ,
He has always been a standard
bearer of the Democratic party, I
a true and tried friend of the peo-.
pie and an example of the noblest,
work of God —an honest man.”
I
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
A STRICT PARTY AFFAIR
(From The Griftin New’S.)
The state democratic executive
committee has determined, so far
as lay in its power and by a large
majority, to make the coming
primary on August 22 thorough
ly an affair for organized democ
racy. The committee is to be un
qualifiedly indorsed for taking
this stand.
Losing
(From The Thomaston Times)
It is generally conceded
throughout the state that Hoke
Smitn is rapidly and surely los
ing out.
Real Intent Disguised.
I . i
(From The LaGrange Graphic)
You know, if it is just called
what it really is, an educational
qualification, instead of “negro:
! disfranchisement” it would never
have secured even as
! many followers as it has.
A Fake Exposed
(From The Thomaston Times)
Hoke’s negro disfranchisement
fake to catch votes is rapidly be
ing exposed, as it should be.
Unjust to the Old Vets
(From the Darien Gazette)
If Mr. Smith has his way 3,-
600 indigent Confederate soldiers
will be disfranchised along with
the ignorant negroes. Will the
good people of Georgia stand for
that? We say no, a thousand
times no.
Disfranchisement
(From The Fitzgerald People)
The disfranchisement of the
negro is as perfect in Georgia as
it can be made without the re
peal of the fifteenth amendment,
and no challenge is issued for the
cutting of congressional repre
sentation, as would result from
the adoption of Hoke Smith’s
plan.
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Exagerated Reports A Boomerang
(From The Dahlonega Nugget)
If all the write-ups about Hoke
in The Atlanta Journal are mis
represented as badly as the one
appearing in that paper of the
18th instant concerning his
strength in Lumpkin county, he
is the hindmost man in the field
for governor.
Clark Howeils Motto.
(From The Senoia Gazette.)
“Peace and prosperity, build
up rather than tear down,” has
ever been Clark Howell’s plat
form, and it is one that will not
down. He has done more for
Georgia than all the other candi
dates put together.”
Extracts From Howell's Speeches
Clark Howell in many of his
speeches after exposing Hoke
Smith’s disfranchise fraud, says,
“Before I would endorse a plan of
disfranchisement that would de
bar one poor, uneducated white
man from the privilige of voting
I would get out of the race for
governor. ”
Clark Howell says: “ If you
doubt what I say about Hoke I
Smith appointing those negroes
to office over worthy white men i
while secretary of the interior, i
have an investigating committee I
appointed to go to Washington i
at my expense and examine the i
records and if they don’t find ■
what I say about it to be true I |
will get out of the race /or
governor.
Again Clark Howell says,
,‘During my the eighteen years,
I served in the house and state
senate if you will find a single
vote on record that I have cast
against the poor, uneducated
man and in favor of railroads and
corporations 1 will get out of the
race for governor
HOW WATSON SCORNED
WHITE MEN WHO TALKED
OF “NEGRO DOMINATION”
Below is an extract from Thom
as E. Watson’s Fourth of July
speech, delivered at Douglasville,
Ga., in 1893, as published in his
I own paper the People's Party
I paper:
“I believe in the Jeffersonian
creed with all my heart and think
that all the aims of good govern
ment can be covered by that one
sentence: ‘Equal and exact jus
! tice to all men. ’
“To the rich and the poor; to
the farmer and the merchant; to
i the banker and the miner; to the
scholar and the ditcher. And I
emphasize here what I have been
iso misrepresented and blamed
for saying before, that this re
! public will never reach its true
grandeur as long as 'a dead line
is drawn between one section and
another, between one color and
another.
“I yield to no man in my pride
of race. I believe the Anglo-
Saxon is stronger in the glorious
strength of conception and
achievement than any race of
created man; but from my very
pride of race, springs my intense
scorn of that phantasm manu
factured by the political bosses
and called ‘negro domination.’
“Socially I want no mixing of
races. It is best that both should
preserve the race integrity by
staying apart. But when it
comes to matter® of law and jus
tice, I dospise the Anglo-Saxon
who is such an infernal coward
Effect of Agitation
of Disfranchisement on
Farm=Labor Problem
The one and only visible speck
on the horison of pr ogress in
Georgia - previous to the opening
of of the gubernational campaign
—has been the labor problem.
Every farmer in this state knows
how difficult it is to secure suf
ficient negro labor to make his
crops and for the present, at
least, we must depend upon the
gro. The average farm hand has
no hesitation in jumping his con
tract, leaving the farmer to put
his own children to work, or let
liis crops rot in the field. Are
not these facts?) Will they not
be confirmed by every conscien
tious white farmer in the state?
If the situation is troublesome
with the negro disinterested in
politics and ho has been a po
litical dead herring for many
years what will it be with the
negro stirred up by the revived
prejudices of the white race and
those of his own? Where it is
now difficult to get his labor, will
it not then be impossible?
What will become of the now
elusive farm-laborer when it is
made to this interest, by the dis
franchisernent proposition, to
educate himself and his children
for the ballot? Can you keep
either of them in the cotton fields?
Hardly. The. bare agitation of
the question has been sufficient
to drive them in hordes to the
school room.
Classed Populists With Negroes.
(From The Lawrenceville Herald)
When Hoke Smith spoke at
i Lawrenceville during the Atkin
son and Hines race, for governor,
he said that the niggers and pop
ulists had gotten together in the
same boat, where they belonged,
and should be allowed to stay to
gether. Now he is begging for
their support. Upon what ground
can an ex-populist who has a scin
tilla of self-respect vote for him?
as to deny legal rights to any man
on account of his color, for fear
of ‘negro domination. ’
“ 'Dominate' what? ‘Domi
nate’how? ‘Dominate’ whom?
It takes intellect to dominate.
Haven’t we got it?
It takes majorities to domi
nate. Haven’t we got them?
"It takes wealth to dominate,
haven’t we got it?
"It takes social, financial, leg
islative, military, naval, ecclesi
astical and educational estabtab
lishments to dominate. Haven’t
we got them?
“For a thousand years the
whites, the Anglo-Saxon have
had all these advantages. Armed
with the garnered wealth of ten
centuries, equipped with all the
mental advantages of school sys
tems, hoary with ages, holding
all the land, all the avenues of
commerce, all the sources of
political power, outnumbering
the blacks eight to one, and con
tinually gaining on them, what
words can paint the cowardice
of the an g 1 o-s axon, wh o
would deny ‘equal and exact jus
tice to the ignorant, helpless 1
povery-cursed negro in whose
ears the clanks of chains have
scarcely ceased to sound, upon
the ground that he feared ‘negro
domination.’
“Away with such contemptible
timidity of counsel.
“Right is everlastingly right,
wrong is eternally wrong!”
k And what finally? Simply this:
n It will be the child of the white
K farmers to go between the plow
-11 handles, and to grow up mind
'•|and soul uneducated. It will
s | mean an eventual shortage of
■■ | crops, by reason of insufficient la
s bor under even these shameful
11 conditions; and from the addi
-6 tional reason, that many white
s farmers in Geogia will sacrifice
their crops and a portion of their
t incomes before they will deprive
t their children of educational ad
vantages.
* Nor must it be forgotten that
disturbed labor conditions in the
agricultural sections stretch
( their blight over every industry
" in the state. Not a one but
' would be affected by this addi
tional complication of a situation
' already serious. This is not to
j reckon with the fact that the ad
vocates of disfranchisement have
! been utterly unable to prove that
their ‘programme ,would not
disfranchise more white than
‘ negro voters.
It is for the people of Georgia
> to consider these facts carefully
t i from the standpoints of duty and
,| of self-interest. It is for [them
y to ask of themselves, honestly
f and candidly, if we are even re
t, motely threatened with dangers
j that justify these insidious prop
ositions.
- - - - -
(From The Athens Banner)
I The trouble with the “divinely
t called” candidate for governor is
that he is unable to see any good
in any one but himself. All of
his opponents in his eve are cor
rupt men, who would not hesi
tate to stoop to any kind of fraud
to win the race. Happily thepeo
(. pie of the state are not of that
j mind. They do not think that all
the i ntegrity of the state is covered
? beneath the skin of Hoke Smith.