The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-02
TAE STAMPEDE In GEORGIA.
VARIED REASONS WHY PEOPLE
VOTED FOR HOKE SMITH.
''EIuFrah for HOkel'' the Answer to Argu.
ments-Ge9rgIA Swept with the Slogan
"DOwn with the NeErOi Down win tho
I R1IPOadsr'-TOm watson Looms Up.

"'DOwn with the NegrO! Down win the
R4iIrOadsr'--TOm watson Icons Up.
ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. with the State
Democratic convention which meets at
Macon next Tuesday to nominate Hoke
Smith for Governor and to name other
State officers, there will be brought to an
end the most remarkable political campaign
In the history Of Georgia.
Fanaticism was it's chief characteristic.
Down with the negrol Down with the
railroads." was the slogan. IL swept the
State. giving Hoke Smith majorities in
l2s out Of las counties, while Clark Howell,
long regarded as his chief opponent, came
In with a bare six two-vote counties, scarcely
enough to make it worth while to appoint
delegates to the convention.
It made no difference for what the can-
didate voicing that cry stood in the past.
The answer to the argument Of his record
wal the same.
Hes hghting our fight now and we
must hold up his hands, Tom Watson aid
Of Hoke Smith in his magazine. And some
5000 POpulists Obeyed.
Il am for Hoke Smith because he is the
ablest exponent Of Cleveland and his prin-
ciples in the South to-day a Georgia
banker said, and he declared that
the Palmer and Buckner Democrats were
standing solidly with him..
II was With great difficulty that Clark
Howell carried his campaign for the prin-
ciplee he represented to the end. Every
where It was -Hurrah for Hoke!' There
was no other nswer to dispassionate argu-
ment.
Coming out OF a Howell meeting at Mon
teeurna before the conclusion OF the
speakers address, a man Of so, who seemed
an average citizen, was overheard to
remark:
i've heard enough Of that. I'd vote for
Hoks Smith IL l i knew he stole a horse"
That, indeed, was the spirit which charac-
terized q large percentage OF Mr.. Smiths
following. He was viewed from different
s~tandpoints, but no matter what the view
point the result was always the same. The
auditor found in him a man whose principles
tongued and Rrooved with his own.
An instance OF this was found in a south
Georgia county OF Populist tendencies, but
with q good sprinkling OF the saner sort Of
Democracy.
How can you vote for Hoke SMITH
Don't you know he was mixed up In those
Cleveland bond deals1' n man asked an
old time follower OF Watson's.
yes, I know all about that was the
reply, but he's come to Watson's platform
now, and we're all going TO vote for him.
That's all there ID to it,
Almost In the same block In the same town
the question was asked Of an old line Demo-
crat.
IYou know Hoke Smith has lined up with
Watson, and how a o give him your
support
you've got that wrong was the answer
sWAtaon has come over to Hoke Smith"
Never did views Numerically opposed or
more strongly antagOnistio fall more har-
moniously into line than they did In this
Georgia campaign.
Congressman James NJ. GriGgs Of the
Second district, chairman OF the Demo
cratic Congressional campaign commit
tee, gave his support to Clark Howell in
a uuiet way because he opposed the dis
reimbursement proposition, a. did the ma
jority OF Georeia's Congressmen. But
Congressman 0riggs could not turn his
home county from Hoke Smith.
Il asked a lifelong friend Of mine to vote
for Howell he said. His reply was:
Jim, you know I'd do anything in the
WOrlu loE yOu' OuS 4 O~h vOpo WIN you
this time
Il asked him why.
We'll, you know he said. 'everything's
gone wrong In Georgia
Il asked him n had zone wrong.
~ don't know Of anything particular.
be said. but that's what they say, and I've
Got 70 vote for Hoke Smith
Down In Washington county the day Mr.
Howell spoke there, a dyed in the wool
Populist. and almost n lifelong friend Of Mr.,
Howell'a came 10 him and said:
"T'd like the best in the world 10 vote for
you, Clark, but this is the first chance we
have had to Get even with the Democratic
partv. and we're going 70 do IT,
Another friend Of Mr.. Howell's qualified
q similar statement with his deep rooted