The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-07-13
CLARK AND HOKE.

III years is now WdSlD8 III O0OT
gia. The governorship is the
goal and the candida es are Clar K
Howell. the talented editor of the
Atlanta Constitution, and Hoke
Smith, former editor and owner
of the Atlanta Journal. The lat
ter paper has warmly espOused
the cause of it's former chief and
the editorial sections Of both
papers are seething with red
hot leaders and rOasts, charges
and answers, ordinations and
determinations, etc. The ordi-
nary size type is not now suited
to the purposes Of the am bilious
newspaper men and it has given
way to caps, black face, bold,
italics. etc . to such an extent
that one isled to wonder if Hearst
has not acquired a controlling
interest In both.
Smith. a great orporation
lawyer, d former mem Der Of
Cleveland 5 cabinet and great
disciple Of that man, a deserter
when the loyal support of his
paper and influence were most
needed, evidently in the hope of
detracting from his own record
and course, charges that Howell
is the corporation, railroad ring
candidate. He has not been able
to file a Dill of specifications to
date. preferring generalties and
the usual methods employed to
prejudice and poison the public
mind Howell has replied
charging that Smith borrowed
fifty thousand dollars from Wall
Street upon the endorsement of
Samuel Spencer, president of the
Southern Railway, and further
charges that the Journal 5 oppo-
sitiou to the Southern was imme-
diately Withdrawn. Smith has
confessed that the money was
borrowed, but offers no excuse,
palliation or justification for so
remarkable a course. S N b
charges that corruption, jobbery
and graft are despoiling Geor-
gia 5 institutions and good name.
a fearful Indictment unsuppOrt-
ed by facts, and cites the in
stances of Missouri, Wisconsin
and Philadelphia for Georgia to
follow Howell comes back wi b a
magnificent defense of his State,
its people, its courts, its institu-
tions, a defense which should
give him the Governorship. And
so the fight goes.
There can be but one outcome.
Clark Howell Will be Georgia's
next Governor. Unless his OPP
ponent can satisfactorily explain
that fifty thousand dollar loan
and the considerations therefor
the jig is up IN Georgia and How
ellis candidacy will need unre-
hitting care aud attention from
now on to be even remem bered
in tha also rams" when the cam
paign has been finished The
Journal calls Howell young and |
mex perienced man and says that |
the State cannot afford to elect |
him to SO exalted a responsibility, |
but there are thousands of loyal |
Georgians who have moved away |
from their native State as we'll as /
the entire Southland who believe /
it would be better To elect a /
young aud inexperienced man to /
this position rather than a man 7
in those matters
which are charged to his oppo- |
nent.
Even if these conditions did
not prevail in Georgia this State
could not afford to defeat Howell.
He is representative of Georgia,
her sentiment, her people. her
Institutions. her laws. His life
and work and future are INSOFAR.
ably interviewer into the fabric
Of the States good name and his
record and work attest an exalt-
ed and honorable manhood