The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-30
sTOVALL VS.. SMITH.


nah Press, in speech before the Ag-
ricultural Society at its recent session
in Albany, among other things said:
"No section is more inviting.
There is no real enmlty between
the people and the corporations.
The farmers of Georgia aided Rob
ert Toombs to establish the rail-
road commission with its rate
making power. [ believe in the
theory and practice of government
regulation, but the feeling IN the
land should be one of sympathy
not suspicion. We are told that
the railroads this year have levied
tribute upon the people of Georgia
to the amount of 100000, 900, and
vet the tax digest shows that the
wealth of Georgia, by leaps ana
bounds, has increased 800, OOO,Ooo
The state is prospecting; the peo-
pie are growing richer; let the
railroads spread out to render the
people better service, and to prove
to the world, by their earnings,
that the state of Georgia has not
ouarantined against capital, but
guarantees good returns upon in
yestments. There is no place mere
for the stegomyia of antagonlsm
to wealth.
Hon. Hoke Smith does not take Ed
itor Stovall's CHEEKY view. He re-
CARDS railroads as oppressive guilty
of high crimes and misdemeanors, and
calls upon the railroad commission
not to "permit good returns on invest
ment' that Editor Stovall would have.
The latter opposes the policy of Geor-
gia being stung by "the stegomyia OF
antagonism to wealth." "No quar-
antine against capital coming into
Georgia" is his view. This view IS
the opposite of what Mr.. Smith set
forth in his opening speech at Madi-
son. In that speech. announcing his
platform, he said:
mo nonresident and no foreign
corporations should be allowed
to operate in Georgia, and if the
legislature would pass law to
that effect it would force the rail
roads to sell to Georgia corpora
tons or lease to Georgia les
sees"
This was the remedy he put forth to
save the state. He and Mr.. Stovall
are wide apart. Mr.. StOvall believes
in through lines, rapid transit, better
service, more railroads and no quar-
antine against nOn-residents, so that
we may have good service and fast
movement of freight. He thinks the
time has passed for short lines and
slow trains. Mr.. Smiths environments
in his home city, perhaps, have caused
his views to assume shape so different
from this. Atlanta, his home, has
for years been persistent in demand
for a special port rate to and from the
sea. Three times before the commits
siOns has she insisted on this demand.
The decisions of the former commits
sion and the present one turned down
her port rate demand, as granting it.,
they said, would ruin the business of
the wholesale houses nearer the sea-.
Failing before both commissions
Judge Spencer r. Atkinson, Hon.
Pope Brown and Hon. Gunby Jordan
the first commission that
refused Atlantas request-the freight
bureau of Atlanta has taken the case
to the hastings, demanding of the peO-
pie governor who will appoint COM
with opinions and a sense
of duty at variance with those who
have turned down, more than once,
the port rate demand for Atlanta.
Hon. Hoke Smith has said publicly
his first act, if elected, will be to Dust
Joe Nj. Brown, who has stood like a
stone wall for special privilege to
none.
The matter is before the people, the
biggest issue for public decision. The
interests, unfortunately, of Atlanta
and the wholesale houses south of her
clash. Those nearer the sea will in"
sist on their port rights. The Atlanta
freight bureau demands the right to
extend Atlanta's trade to the sea re-
CARELESS of wholesale houses in the
intervening territory. The freight bu-
reau of Atlanta appeals to the people.
The combat is on.
INVITATIONS announcing the mar
riape of Hon. FOndren Mitchell and