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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-01

That Disfranct1isrnent "F1ul<e"

THAT Disfranchisement Fluke'' is the phrase
that is going down in the history of Georgia poll.
,;cs as the death.cry of the most remarkable cam.
osigu of prejudice, Hypocrisy and fraud ever
waged in Georgia.
THAT Disfranchisement Fluke!" 1t is the last
attack on the creduIity, the intelligence and the
honestv of the white democrats of GeOrgia-the
last link in the chain of evidence demonstrating
corcIusiveIy the Hypocrisy of t1Oke Smiths advo-
cscv of an imported brand of ACKNOWLEDGMENT
for this state.
Even before this the democrats of Georgia were
waking up to realization of the truth fast enough,
heaven knows! Their eyes had first been opened
nv the spectacle of Tom Watson, avOwed popuIist
and hater of democracy being permitted to dictate
the platform OF a candidate for office in the demo-
cratic primary. But they could hardly have ex-
Dected such open acknowledgement of the Fake
and Fraud of Mr.. Smiths ACKNOWLEDGMENT" cry
as has been furnished by Mr.. Smith himself and
some of his most ardent supporters.
This climax came last week when HOke Smith s
supporters in the legislature killed the same "ne-
gro disfranchsement'' bill that Mr.. Smith is so
DANGEROUSLY urging as an imperative necessity in
Georgias election system.
Mr. Smith has been telling the people of every
county he has entered that the adoption of an inn
ported brand of ''disfranchlsement with its edu-
cational test and grandfather clause, is an imme-
date necessity; that every hour of delay is
dangerous.
Them while he was in the very midst of his
vOciferous campaigning, came the disclosure that
when a bona fide opportunity presented itself to
enact Mr.. Smiths "dsfranchiSement' law in the
legislature, the only place where it can be pre-
pared for the submission to the people, HOke Smith
partisans strangIed the bill in committee thus
effeCtually killing it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-01

(From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.)
Editor Enquirer-Sun: My service in
the Confederate army instilled deep
in me love and admiration for the
Confederate soldier that, in my opin-
ion, Justly overbalances any predilic-
ton / might have toward any man as
a candidate for office No true South
erner, whose heart beats firm to the
cause and it's martyrs, can overlook
the mistreatment of Confederate vet
Grams widow, nor of any any other
pure woman.
AS | see it, Hoke Smith has been
convicted of gross reconsideration and
mistreatment of Mrs. Margaret j.
Hampton, who, as l learn from the
public prints, is not only an elegant
lady, of a splendid and well-known
Georgia family, but an aged pensiOner
upon the all too meager bounty of the
state as the widow of a Confederate
veteran.
Mrs. Hampton herself swears this is
true. Hoke Smith has made no at
tempt to deny it, and the loyal de-
Tense of the man who gave him place
by George S. Donnell, the recipient of
Hoke Smiths favor, is neither denial
of the fact nor a defense that can
stand Hence l appeal to every Con-
federate veteran specially, and to
every true Southern man generally,
to Join with me in voting against a
man who has failed in his duty to a
lady, the widow of a Confederate vet
eran, as has Hoke Smith.
There is absolutely no conflict be-
tween the afidavits of Mrs. Hampton
and George s. Donnell on the main
facts of the case.
Mrs. Hampton says she was placed
in the census bureau by Hoke, Smith.
Mr.. Donnell says the same thing.
Mrs. Hampton says she was dis
missed from the census bureau for the
reason (as assigned) that the work
was drawing to a close" Mr.. Donnell
says the same thing.
Mrs. Hampton says that prior to
my discharge Hoke Smith had given
places to negroes, the like OF which
were being filled by white people, and
subsequent to my dismissal negroes
were doing the same work in the in
terror department that was being done
by white people" Mr.. Donnen does
not deny this, except as to specific in
stances in the census bureau.
Mr.. Donnell does say that Mrs.
Hampton was held on longer in the
census bureau than she probably
would have been held ION account or
the fact that Secretary Smith had ex-
pressed the desire that Mrs. Hampton
should be kept in a position just as
long as possible" Mrs. Hampton
shows why Secretary Smith did this,
for she swears that she lin 1893 OBJ
tanned a permanent clerkship at 500
per month in the patent office at
Washington. Subsequently l was
transferred by Hoke Smith to the cen
sus bureau, for the purpose of giving
nv position in the patent Office to one
of his friends, Mr.. Smith giving his
assurance at the time said change was
made that he would see that was
Drovided for, when the census closed.
So there is still no discrepancy in the
two statements, but DOnnell shows
that Mrs. Hampton tells the truth by
stating that Hoke Smith directed her
kept in position" as long as possible.
Donnell affirms Mrs. Hampton = II
she needed affirmation = and no lady
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-01

And while he we'll knew that this "disfranchise-
ment" bill was pending HOke Smith never once
appeared before the legislature or the committee
to which the bill had been referred-never once
raised his voice to urge the legislature to enact
'disfranchiSement' into Iawl
HOke Smiths supporters who killed this bill
attempt to defend themselves by saying their
action was ga mere matter of routine" What
sort of a trivial excuse is that ? Do they think
they can blind the people of Georgia to the real
facts9 Do they think they can fool the democrats
of this state by that sort of buncombe?
What else does this action mean than that
while they are opposed to this ACKNOWLEDGMENT"
business, they and their candidate are resorting
to it solely as means to play upon the prejudices
of the unthinkiHg in the hope that by so doing
they may land Mr.. Smith in office?
Does this sort of political monkey business spell
a sincere devotion to disfranchisement Does it
spell sincere belief in the urgent need of i'm
mediate Acknowledgement? Does it spell sin
conviction of the possibility of "nigger DOM
inatOn? ''
Doesn't lit, in all honesty, show clearly the
anxiety of Mr.. Smith and his partisans to keep
this incendiary issue in the formers campaign
SOleIy LOT tne purpose OF loOIIn& the people
OF course it does mean that, and nothing more.
HOke Smith and his supporters have revealed in
this one act the absolute dishonesty of their dis
reimbursement campaign.
The people OF Georgia are guaging Hoke Smith $
sincerity all his alleged issues by his absolute
refusal to move for the adoption of his para
mount issue at the first opportunity, They are
pinning the tag of ''buncombe and deception" on
each one of his other tissues" as he has himself
pinned it on his paramount issue.
THAT DisfranChisement FIuke - 1t is the
death knelI of campaign constructed of abuse,
viIification and deceit-AtIanta Constitution.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-01
STEWART COUNTY VETERANS
ON THE MRS. HAMPTON CASE

does with a Southern gentleman.
And we have left, undenied by Hoke
Smith, the fact, and say fact because
this good woman swears to it, that he
transferred Mrs. Hampton from one
bureau to another under promise to
provide for her when the census
closed.
Then we have the fact that Hoke
Smith failed to keep his word in this
regard.
Then we have the further fact that
he treated with contempt the letter
written him by Mrs. Hampton from
the deathbed of her daughter, asking
that he keep his promise.
Then we have the further fact that
he denied Mrs. Hampton an interview
at his office on the subject.
Then we have the further fact
which is the browning indignity of all
that he sent his negro valet, with
a curt message, to turn the needy
widow of a Confederate veteran from
his door.
The case is made out, and Hoke
Smith certainly stands convicted be-
fore an enlightened and chivalric peo-
pie as having fallen short of his prom
Use directly given and of having treat
ed a Confederate soldiers widow in
such a manner as but very, very few
Southern men would treat a negro
woman.
To say the least of it, his lack of
politeness in this instance was not in
keeping with the DIGNITY of promi-
nent Georgian and was entirely I'M
worthy of one who would be the gov
ernor of our splendid commonwealth.
NJ L. EVERETT.
Inmnkin Ga InlY 16 190f.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-01
In Behalf of Mrs. Hampton

JACKSON, GA, July II, 1906
To the People of Butts County: ]
have heard that some of the people
of Butts county have said of Mrs.
Margaret Hampton, , the Confederate
soldiers widow who made the aft
davit concerning her dismissal by
Mr.. Hoke Smith from the Interior
Department, and the appointing OF
negroes to work in said department,
that she was not a lady of honor
and integrity.
| desire to state in her behalf
that such statements are very I'M
just to her.
| was at one time pupil of Mrs.
Hampton, and besides being lady
of fine education, she is possessed
of high and noble traits of charac-
ter, and deserves the respect and
confidence of every one. Knowing
her as l do and knowing her regard
for the right, and being a christian
lady of the highest type, | know she
would not falsify in making the aft
davit appearing in the papers.
make this statement in behalf of
my old teacher, and not to aid any
one in the race for governor.
l don't believe that the people
will accuse me of entering into pol
itics because l enter the columns of
the paper to defend noble christian
lady and confederate soldiers wild
ow. Very respectfully,
MRS. FLORENCE LUNoUEsT.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-01
DID ATLANTA PORT RATERS
ASK REDUCTION ON COTTON

ask for a reduction in rates between
Atlanta and Georgia coast cities on
more than 5000 items which Allan
ia jobbers handle in competition
with Americas, Savannah, Bruins
wick, etc., and entirely ignore cot
ton? If the petition as originally
filed was intended to be governed
by Georgia classification, why dld
you begin with first class and go to
class H. and there stop, when the
very next class was j, which IN
cludes cotton.
And why did you clinch this
commission when you relied the
"port rate" petition, by asking that
it be governored by Southern clas-
sification," which has no class },
but makes cotton "special?" And
why, in asking special" rates on
about twenty articles which Allan
ia Jobs, did you omit cotton even
from that list?
For nearly three years you we're
pressing this commission to grant
reduced rates on over 1000 articles
which Atlanta jobs, and during all
this time you never even amended
YOUR petition so as to add cotton to
it.
Why did you wait till you went on
the stump and began demagoguing
for the votes of the farmers before
YOU ever thought of the rates on
this staple upon which.the prosper
ity of the Georgia farmer is based?
Your silence during these record
making three years was proof that
YOU either thought that there was
nothing wrong with the cotton
rates, or that you cared nothing
for the cotton farmer. Answer the
above questions, for on your answer
hangs your right or lack of right to
the vote of every farmer in Georgia
who raises cotton. Respectfully,
JOSEPH NJ. BROWN,
COroDoi CSiOner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-01

ATLANTA, GA, July q, 1906
Hon. Hoke Smith, Candidate for
Governor:
Dear Sir: You have, in proba-
bly, two hundred speeches, con-
demned Hon. Warner Hill and my
self because we did not, as mem
bers of the Railroad Commission of
Georgia, grant the Atlanta Freight
Bureaus petition for port rates. ="
You were the paid attorney of that
bureau.
Although this petition was de-
med April II, 1903, by this commits
sion, at that time composed of Hons.
Spencer r. Atkinson, j. Pope
Brown and G. Gunby Jordan, yet 1T
was filed again some months after
ward and pressed persistentIy and
vigorously. Within week before
the final decision you made a speech
before the commission, urging
strongly that we grant it. Since 1t
was declined you have sought to
teach the people that it was a petit
ton fraught with blessings for
every section of Georgia, for all the
people of Georgia.
proposed to show that it was
petition which ignored the staple
upon which the prosperity of the
Georgia farmer rests.
Let US look at your record. Your
record is always your enemy. In
this port rate" petition you and
clients, from September 10, 1902, to
May 8, 1905, asked for reduced rates
from Savannah and Brunswick to
Atlanta and in the reverse dlrec-
ton between the same points, on
the following classes: 1, 2, 3, 4, D,
3, A, B, c, D, E, F, H. No classih-
cation was named in the original
petition but, when relied, the same
classes were shown, governed Oy
Southern classification.
Now cotton is not in either OF the
above classes in the Southern classl-
ilcation, but in the Georgia Rail
road Commission classification
cotton is in class J.
Over 5000 items in the Southern
classification are included in the
classes on which you ask reduc-
ton of more than 80 per cent IN
Georgia, although the United States
Supreme Court held that in Nebras-
ka reduction of 294 per cent was
contlscatory and annulled it.
Now, Mr.. Smith, why did you
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-01

Hoke's ideas in regard to controIl-
ing railroads seem to have under
gone a radical change.
Should Hoke be elected he and
Tom will entertain with Punch
and Judy show.
No democrat can give an intelll-
gent reason for voting for Hoke
Smith.
If Hoke should be elected, will ne
or Tom wear Bacon's shoes?
1t will be difficult to get a gooo
man to endorse a fraud.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25
$10,OOO,OOO DEFICIENCY
General Deficiency Bill in Congress
Carries Large Appropriation.

Washington, June 25.-The general
deficiency appropriation bill was COM
pleted by the house committee On ap-
preparations today and reported to the
house. The bill carries total Of $1O,-
24o.5O9, to supply deficiencies in the
various departments of the government.
The chief items included in the bill
are as follows:
Under the. state department: Trans
portation Of diplomatic and consular
officers, under new law, for 1907, $780,
O0O; contingent expenses, foreign mis-
slons.- $4,000; contingent expenses at
consulates, $4,000; payment to Ger
100000.
Under the treasury department: Col
Letting the revenues from customs.
100000; engraving and printing.
$23,332; collecting internal revenue. ifs.
cal year, 1906, $80,000 collecting inter
nal revenue, fiscal year 1907, $50 900.
public buildings on Pacific coast, re.
pair Of, $6O1,S17.
Under the war department: Statue
of liberty. New York harbor, equip
ment and lighting, $62,S00; payment to
state of Texas of money paid state
troops from 1855 to 1860, $375.4ls:
state or territorial homes for soldiers,
$4,000. >
Under the military establishment:
Mileage, officers Of the army, $4,000:
replacing military stores, ETC., destroyed
Continued on I'd Page, 5th Column.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25
CARRIES $3.50, 900
FOR MINNEAPOLIS
Fletcher and Andrus Secure Com.
mittee's Consent to More
Money for P. @. Site.
BY w. w. Jermane.

Washington, June 25-The public
building bill, which is to be reported
to the house late today, contains an ap
preparation of $25O,00O for a site for a
public building at Minneapolis.
broached by Representative Fletcher,
the committee determined to allow Min
neapolis only 100000. Fletcher was
persistent, however, and pulled every
increased. Among those who used their
influence with the committee was Rep
resentative Andrus of Yonkers, N. Y,
who has property interests in Mime
apolis, including the Andrus building,
and who was DESTROYS Of having the
city provided with a suitable postof6ce
| building.
Senator Nelson has presented an
amendment, to the. public building bill
of cost, of the site by $250,O00, which
would bring the total cost up to $780,
coo, which he would insist upon having
put in by the senate. Those who claim
to know of the intentions of the SEN
ate committee say it will not increase
the total of the bill materially. If this
decision is adhered to the amount al
lowed by the house for Minneapolis
will only be increased after hard fight
~ Mr: Nelson ana perhaps not then.
Other items in the bill are 100000 for
a new building at Red Wing, put in by
Representative Davis, md $4,000 for
a site at Brainerd, W Itch Mr. Buck
man asked for.
Representative Stevens gets $780,
900 for further work on the st. Paul
building. Representative Bede has
urged provision for increasing the ca.
pacity Of the Duluth building, but
whether he was successful could not
be ascertained. Representative Mar
shall secured $125,O00 for additions ia
the building at Grand Forks. '
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25
CONGRESS CANNOT i
GOVERN INSURANCE
Senate Committee on Judiciary So
Rules in Report Submitted
by Spooner.

Washington, June 25.-Congress has
no right to regulate insurance, accord
ing. to the senate committee on the
Judiciary. A report from that COM
mittee was presented today to this ef-
feet by Senator Spooner. The report
was made on a resolution Instructive
the committee to inquire whether con-
gress had such a right. The report was
very brief and ran as follows:
"The committee on the judiciary
begs leave to report that it is the unan-
imous opinion of the committee that
the congress is without authority, under
the constitution, to supervise and regu-
late the business of marine, fire and
life insurance, except in the District
of Columbia, the territories and the
insu]ar possessions Of the United
States.'
The committee promises to give its
reasons at a later date. The report
went to the calendar.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25
JOHNSON TO PRESIDE
AT BRYAN MEETING

New York, June 25.-Mayor Tom I.
Johnson of Cleveland has accepted an
invitation to preside at the reception
to William J. Bryan in Madison Square
Garden on Mr.. Bryan IS return to this
country. Henry Watterson will deliver
an address on behalf of the south, and
will speak in the name of the east.
The name Of the speaker for the west
has not been announced. 1870. -..-o
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25
ICEMEN Sent. TO
THE WORKH0USE
Toledo, Ohio, Cases Result in Stiff
Sentences for Five
!. Dealers heal = =

Toledo, Ohio, June 25. - Five ice
were Sentenced in the oea nDp1 pleas
court today to pay fine of $4,000
each and each man to serve one year
in the workhouse. - e
The men were guilty of conspiracy
in restraint of trade. They are
Joseph A. Miller, who was convicted;
R. A.. Beard, r. G. Lennon, III p.
Breining and Peter IL. Waters, who
pleaded guilty The Judge said the
sentences might be- n,itigated in event
the men made restitution.sa7 ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25
oummins Trusts in the Courts.

The Cummins men are consulting le-
gal talent and say the courts will pre-
vent the recalling of the conventions.
Precedent, however, favors the Perkins
men. Cummins' manager says he dan
undoubtedly recarry the twenty two
counties four to one, but he fears that
contests will be instituted on any old
ground, and the delegates kept from
new development makes the guberna-
torial fight the biggest mixup Iowa has
ever known
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25
100000 TO EXTRADITE
GREENLAND GAYNOR

Washington, June 25.--It cost the
government $4,000 to extradite Green
end Gaynor and bring them to trial
This statement is contained in a letter
by Attorney General Moody to Chair
man Tawney explaining request for a
Se sans IS to paid to
counsel in this case. Their services,
he said, began several years ago and
were completed during the current ifs.
cal year by the return of Green and
Gaynor to Savannah for trial.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25
WOMAN is LIABLE
TO DEATH PENALTY

Stockton, Cal, June 25.-Mrs. Emma
Ledoux, who has been on trial for kill
ing her husband, A. N. McVicar, on
March 13 last, by giving him poison
and then placing his body in trunk
to take the remains out of the city, has
been found guilty Of murder in the first
degree, the penalty for which is death.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25
NEW SENSATION
IN IOWA'S FIGHT
Standpatters Move to Have Con.
ventions in twenty-five Coun-
ties Declared Invalid.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. e..
Des Moines, Iowa, June 25.-The big
est sensation yet in the governorship
fight was sprung today when 1t was
given out on the authority of the state
committee that the standpatters have
twenty-five counties be recalled on ac-
count Of alleged illegality.
The counties named are all in north
ern and northwest Iowa, and mostly in
the tenth and eleventh congressional
districts. The claim is made that con-
ventions were held and delegates in
structed prior to the call of the state
central committee, which apportions the
delegates according to the last presi-
Dental vote. IT
AS the state central committee is
| thought to be extremely likely that the
plan to recall the conventions in a
score of Cunmins counties win go thru.
This will throw the gubernatorial con-
test into the greatest confusion and
/ will probably result in an appeal to
I the courts by the Cummins men for in
functions in each, county.
The state central committee call was
issued on April II, and prior to that
date conventions were held in the fol
Marshall, March %; Kossuth. April 6;
Woodbury., April 16; Hancock, April
16; Greene, April II; Winnebago,
April II. Il. 80:
Would Contest Each County.
Out Of these counties Cummins SO.
cured ninety-two instructed delegates
and Perkins thirty-nine. The alleged
plan is to recall the conventions and
institute contests in each county, and
thus do away with a Cummins majority
in the state convention.
The following counties held their
caucuses prior to the state call: En-
NETT, Pocahontas, Dickman and Cerro
Gordo. Total vote in state convention,
forty-seven, all instructed for Cum
Minis. ~" f.. -e.- So 4
In Mitchell, Osceola, Madison, Clay
ton, Humboldt, Crawford, Palo Alto,
Guthrie, Floyd and Sac counties the
county call was made prior to the state
call, altho the conventions were held
after the state call. These, too, the
standpatters say should be declared
invalid. .t\
All are Cummins counties except
Madison and Osceola, with twenty-one
delegates. All told, Cummins has 24O
delegates in the counties proposed to be
recalled; Perkins had 60. -
If the fights can be carried by the
Perkins men to a successful issue in
each county to be recalled, they will
gain 100 delegates and control the state
convention absolutely. IF each county
is contested, according to the alleged
plan, the Cummins men will at least
lose $50 votes in the organization Of
the state convention.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25
PROBE ORDERED
FOR GRAIN LINES
LsaFollette Gets Resolution for In
quiry into Grain Traffic
Thru Senate.

Washington, June 25.-The senate to-
day passed Senator La Follettess joint
resolution, extending the scope Of the
inquiry now being conducted by the
interstate commerce commission, under
the Tillman- Gillespie resolution, so as
to have it include the transportation
and storage, of grains.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25

Warsaw, June 25.-In the suburb of
VIOLA yesterday band of terrorists
shot and killed two policemen and
wounded another policeman and gen
darme. An hour later the same band
shot and killed police sergeant.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25
FOREST FIRES RAGE . /.
=: IN THE SOUTHWEST

Ell Paso, Tex, June 25-Forest fires
are burning in the lumber tracts near
Magdalena, Sonora, and the town of
Magdalena is threatened. It is said that
several mining camps have been de-
stroyed. The region is thickly populated
with American miners - - -