Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-23
End Of the Great Fight Between
Clark Howell and Smith
In Georgia
a SPECTACULAR CAMPAIGN
Hoke Won on Anti-lRaiIway Domino
ton Of Party Politics, Which Became
Real Issue-smith's Wife Given
Credit for Forcing Him Into the Sue
esssful Contest.

s
ed in a victory for Hoke Smith, can
didate for governor. Out of 145 coun-
\ ties he has carried probably 10. BY
the returns thus far available
!, Clark Howell carried six coun-
ties, j. H. Estil of Savannah ., r. b.
Russell s, and James M. Smith g.
leaving 16 to hear from. This result
will give Hoke Smith 219 votes in the
state convention out of total of 366.
Mr.. Howelrs paper, the Constitution,
In its first edition, Comedies more than
100 counties to .Hoke Smith and says
his nomination on the first ballot is
practically assured.
Il There was little opposition to the
present incumbents of other state Of
fices and none at all to Senator Bacon
whose reelection seems certain.
Hoke Smith and Clark Howell, the
candidates for Georgia's gubernatorial
honors, are both known in. Iowa, both
+ having appeared on the lecture plat
4 form in Des Moines and at other points
In the state. Both have made a spec
+ tacular campaign, the natural heat of
the political struggle being intensi-
fed by long standing personal ami
mostly.
One of the arguments advanced by
q Howell ws.s that Smith, when secretary
gof the interior under Cleveland, dis
missed charwoman whose home was
In Georgia His claim then, several
il years ago, was that she was too old to
+ do the work Despite this, she appear
ed on the, stump with Howell at a
number Of. places to show that she was
still able bodied Howell decried this
act Of Sraith's to a Georgian, especi-
ally when she was the widow of a vet
cram.
Rivals in Business.
Smith, altho lawyer, was formerly
editor of the Atlanta Journal, which
he founded, and Howell is editor of the
Atlanta Constitution. The old bust-
ness rivalry stirred up the enmity Of
the two, so when Howell, who had an
nohnced his candidacy for governor
some months previously, learned that
Smith was being urged to run, he gave
an interview in which he practically
= dared Smith to make the race
Mr., Howell made some remark about
Smiths record and suggested that il
the. latter. wanted to know just how po.-.
litically dead he was in Georgia, he
could find out by announcing for
governor Hoke Smith, it is said, was
disposed to let this defiance by Howell
pass unnoticed, but Mrs. Smith saw
I the interview, and it stirred all the
fighting blood in her-and she has lots
OF 1t Friends of the family say that
she gathered her numerous children,
and with them marched upon her hus-
band in his study. Holding the paper
containing Howelps defiance in her
hand, Mrs. Hoke told Mr.. Hoke that
she didn't see how he could face his
children if he rested tamely under
Howells dare.
You owe it to me and my children"
the wife urged, ITO enter the race for
governor and make Clark Howell sorry
he ever gave out this interviews
The fighting spirit Of his wife moved
Hoke Smith, and the next day-more
than a year ago-he formally announ.
ed that he was a candidate.
Railways an Issue.
Smith made railway domination of
+ the democratic party in Georgia his
tofore been heard in that platform, it
was nevertheless real issue in the
state and Smith made it a popular one.
He also endorsed the plank providing
! for disifranchisement of the negro and
profited by the racial prejudice.
But better than all, from Hoke' s
Standpoint the disfranchisement plank
give him the support of Thomas E.
! Watson, the famous Georgia populist.
Watson has been clamoring for the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the negro ever
since he was defeated for congress
years ago. He has always claimed
that the democrats voted negroes and
dead men in order to defeat him.
The campaign was bitterly personal,
rs was inevitable. seeing that Clark
Howell and Hoke Smith hate one an
other SO cordially. Clark Howells dis
like for Hoke Smith is legacy left
by his father, the late Capt. Evan p.
Howell, who was associated with Hen
~ Grady in the ownership Of the At
lanta Constitution, and the son in
creased his inheritance.
sHoke Smith attacked Howell as a
tool Of the railroads and their candi-
date. On the other hand Clark How
ell tried to show that Hoke Smith,
judged by his record, was unfit to be
governor of Georgia. Smiths record
Is rather striking. He was in Cleve-
lands cabinet and hated the populists
and free silver. Yet he is now in al
lianee with Tom Watson, who hated
Clev Gland and the gold democrats. Mr..
Howell has shown that Hoke Smith,
while secretary of the interior, had
hundreds Of negroes under him in fat
government positions; yet Smith
preac hed from every stump in Georgia
that the negro is not good enough to
vote.
4. Htoke Smith has always been prom
inent in church work. He is super
intendent Of a Presbyterian Sunday
school in Atlanta and has been a great
preacher Of temperance and voted for
prohibition; yet Hoke owns third In
terest in the Piedmont hotel of At
lanta which boasts the finest barroom
in the south. The charges We're rung
by the anti -Hoke Smith papers on this
barroom in an attempt to turn the
pronibitionists-and there are lot OF
them in Georgia-against Smith. A
feature Of the Piedmont bar is foun-
tain in the middle Of the room in
which stands a Georgia Venus, nude
save for a girdle of grapes about her
middle The Venus has been dubbed.
sHrhe Girl in the Fountain" by the op-
porlents OF Hoke and she has been
0eclfdc subject for cartoons.
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