Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-09-23
HON. HOKE SMITHS OFFSET

The campaign that is being waged by Hon.
Hoke Smith and Hon. Clark Howell is truly
campaign of education, but the education is
not the kind that elevates and makes better the
masses. 1t aims to inform the people about
matters in the public careers of the foregoing
gubernatorial aspirants
A few days ago the information was given
out by the Atlanta Constitution that Mr.. Smith
had appointed eight negroes to good positions
in the government service when he was Secre-
tary of the Interior and it named good many
other negroes whom he had appointed to minor
positions This information was doubtless
having a tremendous effect adverse to Mr..
Smiths political interests, and the Atlanta Jour-
nal, newspaper somewhat friendly to Mr..
Smith, at once set its Washington correspondent
to work digging out the facts. And what did
he find? Why that Mr.. Smith appointed just
four negroes who had worked for him in Allan
ia and that he offset these four appointments by
appointing 1853 white folks from Georgia who
drew over 100000 year from the fed eral
treasury.
Now what has Mr.. Howell to say to that?
Did his young man in Washington make mis-
take or did the Journals young man get hold of
the record of some other Secretary of the In
terror while looking for that of Mr.. Smith?
There is such difference in thes figures that
the conclusion is inevitable that somebody must
be mistaken.
But what is surprising is that Mr.. Smith
didn't bring forward these 1853 witnesses to his
good will for the white people of Georgia sooner.
They would have offset perpaps the impression
created by his appointment of negroes to Office
and his ownership of an interest in barroom.
Editor John Temple Graves says of Robert
E Lee: AS the years are marshalled into his
tory, the conviction deepens that Lee was the
first American-purer than Washington, finer
than Lincoln, gent1er than Mckinley, greater
than all in that perfect character in which Meth
er friend nor foe has found flaw.
In the same connection the news quotes the
attribute of the immortal Ben Hill on Gen. Lee
as follows:
When the future historian shall come to
survey the character of Lee he will find it rising
like huge mountain above the undulating plain
of humanity, and he must lift his eyes toward
Heaven to catch its summit. He possessed
every virtue of other great commanders without
their vices. He was foe without hate, friend
without treachery. asoldier withCutcruelty, avic-
tor without oppression, victim without MUIR
muring. He was public officer without vices,
a private citizen without wrong, neighbor
without reproach, Christian without hypocrisy
and man without guile. He was Caesar
without his biton, Frederick without his
his tyranny, Napoleon without his selfshness,
and Washington without his reward. He-was
obedient to authority as servant, and royal in
authority as true king. He was as gentle as
woman in life, modest and pure as virgin in
thought, watchful as Roman vestal in duty.
submissive to law as Socrates and grand in bat
tie as Achilles. From page439-Vo1. l, Mes
sages and Papers of the Confederacy.
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