The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-06-06

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'~+7 spoke in the court house We'd
coo 5ov in the interest of his candidacy
Ioi ,i.bonob he arrived in the city
n1.dov afternoon unheralded and
o1onnounced, and there was but lit
~ Ln' time to advertise that he would
W. ,oL next day, from 300 to $50 Ter
sII county voters were present We'd
.-dov morning when he began what
I'' ,,nivorsallv conceded to have been
of the strongest, most impressive
ood hest political speeches ever heard
in Dawson 49,
n outlining his platform Judge
7,nssoII discussed and declared him
.of as favoring tax regulation, en-
Iorcoment of the common school fund,
local self-government, state control OF
aornorations, regulation of railroad
snofabt rates, 2-cent railroad passen~
,.or fare extension of the states rail-
9ood to the sea, separation OF convict
and free labor, and the child-labor
bill.
He Maid his respects to both Howell
and Smith in humorous and telling
manner. saying that both had been in
the same trundle bed and favored the
some men and measures the past =
years. 49,. r,,,o Retoroers
"If there is any reform needed In
Georgia." Judge Russell said, when
Won 90 to select a crusader to work it
ont ifvou 90 to the fold of the rich men
in their fashionable surroundings, ON
Peacbtree street you will wipe out the
whole testimony of experience. No
trne reformer ever came from the con-
cested centers of population.
His likening of Howell and Smith
to Punch and Judy show worked on
the same string caught the crowd.
zone hand holds them both," he said.
zone is the friend of Pierpont Nor
gan: the other is the bosom cOmpan-
ion of Sam Spencer. Where do the
common people come in?''
Only a Sham Battle.
He declared the fight between them
was only sham fight and after it
was over they would get together at
the Capital City Club and over their
vine laugh at the manner in which
they had bamboozled the common peO-
pie.
Judge Russell favored negro dis
reimbursement, but said it was not an
issue and never would be an issue in
the election of a governor; that it was
question that would be settled at the
ballot box by the people themselves,
and that in the settlement of it the
governor would have only one vote
the same as any other good citizen of
Georgia. God Almighty had decreed
that the white man should rule this /
country, he said, and nobody could |
scare him by shouting 'nigger" at
him. The people could disfranchise
the negro by constitutional amend
ment if they wished, but this was not
an original proposition with Smith
Tom Hardwick found it, and it came
to Smith as one of the assets in the
deal with Hardwick and Pope Brown, |
he said.
In answer to the charge of Mr.. |
Smith that he was running in the IN
terest of another candidate he showed |
that months before Smith entered the |
race every grand jury in his judicial |
circuit had unanimously endorsed |
him for governor, and that the Asso-
cated Press, upon his authority, had |
announced that he would resign |
from the bench and enter upon an
active campaign for the governor
snip. This was three months before |
HoEe Smith had been called by God |
" man, exclaimed Judge Russell.
One of the things he said that
caught the crowd was that if he, Rus
sell, was elected and anyone came to
Atlanta to see the governor on any /,
@no Of business they could come
right in and get a direct answer Of yes
or no on their man without his first
having to telegraph home to see how
.-e vaccination would take with the