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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-24
THE GRIDIRON NAUCATUCK AND
 ALL WATERBURY The Rivals Will Clash Once More in Battle Royal To-Morrow
 Afternoon.

Undoubtedly the biggest crowd that has attended a football game at State league grounds will be present to- morrow when Naugatuck and All Waterbury meet again. Because of the game in the borough on Thurs day considerable interest has been aroused and in all probability much betting will take place. Although Naugatuck swamped the All Water bury rooters with money on the last contest, the Brass city supporters will without doubt be out tomorrow with all kinds of money. It is likely that they will be willing to give odds so eager will they be to make a wager. Ladies will be charged an admission fee of 15 cents.
 The game will start promptly at o'clock. Cars to the grounds will run from l.: until after and those that intend to take in the contest should go as early as possible. Judg- ing from it's game in Naugatuck, Wa terbury should be able to defeat her opponents. as the Brass city eleven seems to be trifle better.
 u0 OuCldlb WHO dCleu III NduSd- tuck are likely to perform to-mor- row. The lineup follows: Naugatuck. All Waterbury. Neary .... .... .... .... Cronan
 Right End. Greenwood .... .. .. Mahaney
 Right Tackle. Crowley ..... Hannan-Wentwor
 Right Guard. Schildgen ... .. Dodds-Porter
 Center.
 Bird .... .... .... ...... Brandt
 Left Guard. Stinson- -Beardsley .... Stowe-Bauby
 Left Tackle. Rooney ..g...... .... .... Riley
 Left End. Burns .... .... .... ... Sheehan
 Quarterback. Cunning Gel ..J. Bagley-Lawlor (c)
 Left Halfback. ASnmOro SnleldS
 Right Halfback. Jacconnelli ... ..... Hayes-Daly
 Fullback.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-24
ANsoNIA WAS BEATEN.

The All Waterbury team played Ansonia last night and defeated her very handily. The following were the scores: 4
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-24
No. "A Grand Street is the right place to buy
 HATS. The Regular Dan- bury Hat Corp. Store

When you wish to make anything good, you must have good material to work with.
 We make all our hats from hat bodies which have made name for themselves from Maine to California, for quality and cheapness. and that is why in every city in the United States you can find Danbury Hat Co Store.
 These are the hat bodies from which we make our hats, and they are sold in Waterbury at "A Grand street ONLY. the regular Danbury Hat Corp Store. managed by c. F. White. practical natter. and member of the United Matters of North Amer tca.
 Hats made to order at short notice.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-24
NAUGATUCK BEAT GILBERT.

The Gilbert team of Winsted went to Naugatuck yesterday, where 1t was defeated by the High school eleven of that town by the score of 22 to 5. The game was much closer than the score indicates, for during the sec ond half the visitors time and again piuughed through their oppohents' line for good gains. Naugatuck made two of her touchdowns in a manner which might be called fiukey. One of them was the result of one of Zwick's kicks rolling over Gilbert's line where the pigskin was covered by one of the Naugatuck players. Another came with only half min ute to play, when Kenny. the Black Diamond" ran seventy yards for a touchdown.
 Gilbert also received it's touchdown in peculiar manner. Naugatuck tried forward pass. which was killed by Gilbertite. who caught the ball and dashed to his opponents goal.
 Naugatuck made two touchdowns and field goal in the first half and scored once In the second period.
 When Gilbert played in this city 1t was defeated 22 to o by Crosby and was sinecure for the team, the visitors never had a chance to score and only once during the contest made first down.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-24
Middletown High Defeats Meriden.

Meriden, Nov 24.-The Middle town High school football team de- feated Meriden High school. II to O, yesterday afternoon at Hanover park. Selby. right halfback for Middletown, made both touchdowns in the first half. Tn the second half the Middle town team made four touchdowns, but they were not allowed by the Meriden ofiicials because of off-side play.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-24

Left back.
 Goals-Fleld, Stein 5, Dyson 3, Flynn 3, Mahaney 2, Bauby ?, Wer- ginger l, Webb l. Foul, Mahaney 2, Stein ?. Wolf 1.
 One point was given the Louisiana team, as one of their players was foul ed while attempting to throw field goal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-24

Goals--Field, Blacker 3, Stahl 3, Brickel ?, Squires 2, Schneider 2, Cass l. Fouls, Schneider 4, Stahl 3, Squires 2 Blacker l.
 The officials for both games were: W. F. Cairns, referee and Goodyear, scorer and timekeeper.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-24
' BASKET BALL
SECOND SECTION
 ENJOY GAMES
'. M. (. A. Courts Was the Scene of Good Conts.ts Games in
 the State.

The second section of the Y. NJ. C.. A. basketball league got busy again last evening and the games resulted as follows:
 Columbias. Louisiana, Stein ................ Capt Claffey
 Left forward. OJsOu ssss.s.ss .........s.sA fIyuu
 Right forward Wolf ......... ............ Mahaney
 Center. Webb Capt ....... Phelan, Delaney
 Right back. WerZinger ..,, Rauby
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-24
Upson, Singleton 8 Co. !

You can easily afford to own Talking Machine on our easy term plan. Let us explain our system to you.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-24
\ Thanksgiving Dr|vs

If you're going to visit the old home. or if the old home folks srs to visit you, or if you are to grace . friends table, here are all the eood things. from hats to sox. for boya and men to wear.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-08

ocouees the democratic administrator
If fraud. bribery, graft and general
corruption. He is not a democrat.
Rut someone in his defense might
saw: HE was a worthy democrat IN
the days of Cleveland and he has not
announced any change in his party
alignments, and his record in those
DAVIS commends him to democratic Ia
vor and support"
Irnon the same principle Satan
might set up a claim to seat ana d
soction in heaven. At one time Satan
,,as in the high court of Jehovah and
uoe an angel of the highest type, and
uo have nowhere read that he mas
ornounced himself as anything that IS
bose and mean and fendish. The devil
himself is as much like saint or an
oroo, as Hoke Smith is like a demo
uo+ And the devil is as justly entl-
+,od n heavenly favor as Hoke Smith
&c 70 democratic support. And the
devils aspirations and efforts to gam
rosition and power in the Kingdom Oh
Cod are equaled only by the aspira-
lions and efforts of Hoke Smith to
cain influence and Office and power III
the government of Georgia.
cannot vote for Hoke Smith. Ano
Why? :
. Because by public avowals IL
tho nress and on the platform, he mas
assured us beforehand that II ne l.
made governor he will not regard Ms
oath Of Office. He boldly announces
his consent and willingness and pur
nose to perjure himself.
But someone may ask: Are yo'
mt mistaken? Wherein has he g1Vei
evidence of such degradatiOn?"
In his Acknowledgement scheme
ba has repeatedly said his purpose /
"to disfranchise the negro because n
is a negro" and he knows as well d
anv man that such legislation is direc'
" contrary to the constitution OF tn
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-08
a Georgia Preacher on

Tinted States, and, II governor OF
Georgia. he must take an oath to sup
mort the constitution of the United
States. Again, he knows that the
grandfather clause" upon which ne
So constantly harps, is in direct viola
tion of the fundamental law, and yet
he SAYS he will recommend the adop'
ton of such a feature.
| cannot vote for a man VINO holds
his oath of office in such light esteem
He cannot be trusted. Who knows
how soon other whims and fancies
and preferences of his may lead him
n violate other parts of his official
oath?
7 cannot vote for a man whose con-
science is so plant and accommodate
ing.
A prospective perjurer for the gov
ornor's chair! The chair once filled
nv Gordon (whom Smith so honors by
the words of his mouth, but SO de-
GRADES by the purpose Of his heart)-
filed by Gordon who would have sur
fered his body blown to atoms by shot
and shell and dynamite before ne
would have been guilty of the viola
+ions of the oath of office as Hoke
Smith seems so eager to do. In the
chair filed by such stainless men as
Jenkins and Stephens and Colquitt
and Johnson and others equally illus
trious and just as immaculate.
And have we come to this: A self
proposed periurer a candidate for gov
ernor?
Democrats of Georgia, where is your
state pride? Where is your party
honor? Where is your individual con
science?
cannot vote for Hoke Smith. Ant
why?
Because he disregards the ethic
of his profession. He does not hold U
high standard of professional integ
ritv. There are many. members OF tn
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-08
on the Candidacy Of Hon. Hol<e S11i

all the sophistry that has been thrown
about it. expressed in simple language
he is the owner and operator OF a
bar-room.
I don't care what he does with the
profits. He may use his profits to any
winding sheets and to bury his vic
tins, or to buy books for their chill
dren, or to pay an honest debt for
money borrowed to build his palatial
hotel of which the Piedmont bar is
part: or he may, in his prayers, as did
one of old, take the profits and put
them into the Lords treasury.
I don't care what he does with the
profts. There is the damnable and
damning business-and the use or
abuse he makes of the profits does not
change it's nature, or neutralize its re-
suits or throw robe of honor about
It. Whether on Decatur or Peachtree
street. in Devils Dip or in the Pied
mont Hotel a bar room is bar room.
Whether owned by denizen OF the
alley where the patrons revel In riot
and roll in rottenness, or owned by a
Arst-class gentleman on Peachtree
where a young manhood is infiamed
bv wine-kindled passions and robbed
of it's beauty and cast to the dogs, its
ownership, and furnishings, and enVir-
onments and patrons make no diner
ence. it is the gate to hell and the man
who owns it, holds it open and helps
to push the inexperienced youths
through the portals into the miserable
pit.
cannot vote for HOke Smith. And
why?
< Because he is careless in the use
of words. He makes assertions about
other men that he cannot verify. He
makes charges that he cannot substan-
tate. He brings accusations that can
not be proven. And when reminded
Of the unfair and untrue insinuations
he declines to make the amende hon
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-08
To the People of Georgia:

To the People of Georgia:
A few years ago l regarded Mr..
Hoke Smith as a model in all the
spheres of life and was ready to sup
port him, and did commend him as an
example worthy the emulation of our
Young men. He was at that time
loyal Democrat-identified by vote
and speech and spirit with the Demo
cratic party. He was a successful and
l believed, honorable member OF the
bar observing the ethics of the pro
iession and contending for fairness
and truthfulness in all the processes
and privileges of the court room. IN
private or professional life l consld-
cred him clean, exemplary IN MS
walk, and apparently sincere in MS
work in the Sunday school and in the
church. In his courtesy and regard
loT others-for men and women-he
seemed to me to show as high consld-
grafton. He seemed to hold his tel-
'o"Inen as gentlemen, and it appeared
mat he regarded woman as sacred
creature, whose person and character
anu reputation should not be touched
Ut Soiled by any vile insinuation.
Such Mr.. Hoke Smith seemed to be
few years ago and was ready to
vote for him for any office. But
CANNOT VOTE FOR HIM NOW
And why?
l. Because he is NOT a democrat.
ne Goes not follow democratic lead
IT'S. He does not accept democratic
p'hciples. He does not submit to
democratic methods. He does not sup
DoFl democratic usages. He does not
NURSE a democratic administration
ne government. But on the con-
.'Iy' he abuses democratic officials.
ne rejects democratic doctrine. He
'Onuemns democratic methods. He
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-08

OTdUIS.
Nor is he content with making dec
Iarations that would besmirch the hon
or and reputation of men who are in
the political arena, but he has gone
into the sacred circles of pure woman
hood and dragged her-(and he had
as we'll as called her by name), good
name into the mire and filth of his
dirty campaign. Spotless as virgin,
as innocent as babe, as helpless as
an infant, yet forsooth because of her
marital or blood relations, and in some
of her kin standing in the way of his
selfish ambition, he lays charge at
her door that would forever shut her
out from decent society.
A man so goaded by an unguided
and insatiate ambition as to have no
regard for manliness in his fellow
man, no pity for infancy starving be-
cause the Piedmont bar has cut of
supplies, a man who has no regard for
HIS OWL WOIu Vi oOiSAAlA1 SC"SAA's 49,
has no veneration for age and no re-
spect for womanhood, should not be
governor of Georgia.
If rough shod and reckless he runs
readily over all that is right and pure
and true and good, and pauses not to
consider the ruin he has wrought-all
this to get into the governors chair;
what would he not do to get into an
office of higher honor or greater sal
airy? Put behind him the force, and
Napoleonic ambition would be
eclipsed. Clothe him with the power,
and the tyranny and oppression of the
car of Russia would be duplicated on
the soil of Georgia. Place before him
the opportunity, and the duplicity and
venality of the unspeakable Turk
would be reproduced in the Empire
State of the South.
No! No! cannot vote for Hoke
Smith.
A GEORGIA MINISTER,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-08

bar who assert that he canont be safe
" trusted in the methods of practice
agreed upon in court circles. More
than once, so rumor has it, his loose
ness in the practice of law has been
discussed in legal circles as deserving
of public rebuke, if not of permanent
disbarment. He does not stand well
with his professional profession re-
nowned for it's leniency in judgment
upon its members. If they regard him
as persona non grata in their genial
and forbearing ranks, how can plain
man, who believes in frankness and
candor and fair dealing, take him into
his confidence? A lawyer under a sus-
picion by his fellows at the bar is no
fit representative of great people
who despise littleness and trickery
and deceit.
If in professional life, because he
had the power and the opportunity, he
played tricks to his advantage, as has
been often rumored, who knows how
long it would be before he would be
using his official opportunities for per-
sonaI aggrandizement? If members OF
the bar-his own profession-have but
little confidence in his professional
integrity, could we expect governors
and officials of other states to have
confidence in his gubernatorial integ-
rity?
His incumbency of the governor s
chair, with his present reputation as a
LAWYER, would be no honor to the state.
If democrats would hold the state OF
Georgia in the sisterhood of states as
fair and clean and high minded they
dare not place Hoke Smith in the gov
ernors chair.
cannot vote for Hoke Smith. And
why?
4. Because he is engaged in bust
ness that should be below the honor
and dignity of a governor Stripped
of all it's technicalities and relieved Of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-08

ously menace white supremacy. In
any event, we would be forced to adopt
the property qualification in addition
to the educational, and this would de-
bar all poor white men from voting,
and it is not at all unlikely that this
would give this grand, old, peaceful
state an army of disfranchised men at
least fifty thousand strong, with their
shotguns and Winchesters on their
shoulders, marching to the polls. |
would feel rather like joining themy
wouldn't you, neighbor?
Mr.. A.: Mr.. Smith says that six
other Southern States have legally and
satisfactorily disfranchised the negro.
Is this so?
Mr.. B.: 1t is true that they have in
a way DISTINGUISHED for the present
perhaps more than half Of their ne
aroes, and by resorting to various SUBJ
terfuges manage to allow the whites
to vote; but let the negro become pre-
pared to assert himself, as he surely
will, and carry mis- case before the Fed
eral courts, and you will see him get,
without delay, the right to vote just
like the white man votes. No, my
friend, there is not one of those states
that would not be glad to be placed in
as good condition as Georgia is now.
Besides, | don't believe that any of
them would have embarked on this
dangerous expedient had similar condi~
tons prevailed with them as exist i'm
GEORGIA. Mr.. Smith Is a recent, but
not mysterious, convert to the doctrine
of negro disfranchisement. Only
short time ago he was with MIR, Howell
and others, fighting it as strenuously
as MIR. Howell is now. And it was not
until Mr. Watson was prepared to tell
his party friends to vote for Mr.. Smith,
because he is helping us to do what we
can't accomplish, that he changed his
mind. Now, what is this thing that
Watson is so anxious to accomplish.
1t is to temporarily disfranchise the
negro, and Tom is smart enough to
know that it can't be done permanent
ly. Then he knows that the whites
will lust as surely divide as water will
run down hill. Then the negro, with
his help, will have come into his own,
and Watson will be triumphant.
Mr.. A.: Your logic seems to be
sound, and if the Smith-Watson COM
bine is successful, have no doubt
that future events will prove the cor
rectness of your conclusions. What OF
the other candidates in the race?
Mr.. g.: haven't time to discuss
them now. Some of them, no doubt
would make good governors, but
neiuhbor, not one of them has a shad
ow of a chance to carry this county
and we don't care to throw away ouI
votes.
Mr.. A.: My time is limited, too, bu'
would like to say before we part thai
all you say compels belief, but
must insist that you take the Con
stitution out of class with the At
lanta journal. Don't you think you
have been little hard on the Consti-
tuition?
Mr.. B.: guess you are right, neigh
Dor. The gIaring Inconsistencies OF
the journal, the outgrowth of its con-
nection with Smiths campaign, would
have caused me to vote against him
if had had no other reason.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-08
Good morning, Mr.. 3.

cood morning, Mr.. B. |
inst got through with my press
ma work on the farm and "av'"s bee"
ing "" - keep up with the political
100 w. -, and knowing you to be a
'.''' # oood general information ! de-
ma" .ore over for little chat
with YOU ..iohbors are
~ m this gubernatorial race
q" If them seem to be almost
'"' ...r m the subject of politics, or
a. should have said, over men.
:. them are for Hoke Smith,
Will. others are for Howell and It IS
distressing to see them turn
The face and get mad with each
M whenever anything is said
's,,,st ones candidate. Now don't
..,d 10 any great wisdom, but
,,1 this is all wrong. | have always
.h+ that a man should be patriotic
WV" ''o, TO calmly and dispassionateIy
I The facts in the face and decide
WV .hsn, as to what would best pro-
w. ~. t,e interest of all the people.
Nv" Mo,y neiqhbor, have made such
lam sosech you are beginning to think
.S.t want to do all the talking. Not
have come to you to learn all the
w. ~, Without bias or coIoring in favor
- .rv candidate, so that ! may be able
~ east my ballot inteIligentIy. If you
,oree with me as to what | have SAID
,5opt existing conditions, please ex'
oIain. if you can, how it all came
about.
Mr.. g.: have listened to your re-
.+,I with pleasure, and yet am
r.ired to say that what you have said
:. univ too true. personally know
NJ numbers of good men supporting
.i4.rent candidates who have allowed
themselves to become partisans IN
stead of patriots, and while it may be
in a measure reflection upon their
intelligence and patriotism, the reason
is not far to find.
This fntolerabIe campaign of Vtu-
oeration and SANDER could not nave
sxisted but for the two leading Atlanta
newspapers, which, as everybody
knows, are in a death struggle for the
sscendency, the columns of neither
one of which is fit place to seek IN
formation about this campaign. And
vet men drink down their vile stuff, the
tesiun of which is to besmear and
backen character. And, not content
with this, shrewdness, coupled with
eloquent oratory almost equal to the
task Of making the listening multitude
believe that the blacklist falsehood and
most maIiqnant abuse were Heavens
eternal truth. Do you wonder, them
that men have seemingly, for the time
being, lost their heads?
MIR. A.: No, looking at it in that
light it is not so remarkable that it is
SO; but, oh! the pity of it is that in
tegent men should be so warped as
to unfit them for the exercise of SUI
frage.
But, coming down to the main ques'
ton that have to decide, want 20
know what these candidates for gov
ernor stand for. If all hear of Mr.
Howell is true, he must be bad man.
They tell me that he is just now the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-08


Mr.. A.: | see from the Dawson
News that MIR. Smith says that the
negro can be legally and constitution
ally disfranchised without disfranchis-
ing a single white man. Can this be
done? If so, can't see anything OBJ
iectionabIe to this part of his platform.
All of us think that 1t would be good
thing to eliminate the negro from poll
tics.
MIR. g.: Just so, my friend, but do
you know that there are about thirty
thousand iIliterate white men in Geor-
gia, every one of whom he would Of
fend by this plank? So you see he is
obliged to make this contention; but
you ask, Can it be done? Let's see If
it can. The Fifteenth Amendment to
the Federal Constitution reads thus:
"The right of the citizens of the Uni
ted States to vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States, or
any state, on account of race, color,
or previous condition of serVitude." II
not another line was written or an
other word was spoken, this is sutfi-
cient to convince any intelligent man
that it can't be done, so long as this
is the fundamental law of the land,
and no one knows this better than Mr..
Smith.
Mr.. A.: But can't this barrier be
gotten rid of?
MIR. B.: The amendment would have
to be repealed.
Mr.. A.: How can that be done?
Mr.. B.: 1t requires two-thirds vote
of both branches of the Congress, their
act being ratified by the legislatures of
three-fourths of all the states of the
Union. It is quite safe to predict that
this will not occur in the twentieth
century, and it is very probable that
it never will be done.
Mr.. A.: Surely, MIR. Smith has some
plan by which he expects to overcome
this obstacle, for it seems to me that
he would render himself ridiculous in
the estimation of thinking people If
he has none.
Mr.. B.: That is exactly what he has
done, except in cases where people are
not informed or are so blinded to the
truth by rank craftsmanship as to be
unable to see it. But Mr.. Smith makes
bold to give his plan in his public ut
terances. 1t is the grandfather clause
and registrars to have the power to
say whether or not any man is quail
fled to vote. 9The plain English of this
is: "Circumvention by fraud" MY
friend, what do you think of a candI
date for governor who, for the sake o.
office. would make criminals of the
people? How would you like to haV'
your right to vote depend upon tn
caprice of corrupt board Of regis
trars, no matter to what political part.
they might chance to belong?
Mr.. A.: am quite sure that thu
people of Georgia will not submit t.
such disgraceful subterfuges as these
but suppose the state should enact
Acknowledgement law, with really lega
and constitutional qualifications, lr
what condition would we find our
selves?
Mr.. B.: We would find about thirty
thousand white men DISTINGUISHED
which would reduce our voting
strength below that of the total adult
male negro population, and thus serI