The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-08-30
.HOKE smith OF GEORGIA.
A PARTY REVOLUTIONIST With SPOILS OF VIC
TORY IN HIS HANDS

good and THE CITIZEN endeavors keep the
of thought of the day. but call attention those
articles literature dealing with and things of
Importance In this connection should overlook the article in
the August Hoke Smith, by Herbert Quick Here
figure truly Importance whose only appearance
the aphheatre of national politics cabinet officer under
the aed second Grover Cleveland We quote
paragraphs condense the balance of Mr. Qucks article
he people United think they know Hoke Smith of
Georgia popular 1t grows of his having been
in Cevelands cabinet This association with the Motons Lannon'S
and Caryses corporation affiliations is the medium through
which we see Smith having mind SNUG lawyer who
pae the gtterng generales of generation thinks himself
Democrat either sae and sane puocratc depending
upon the common who chooses the In either the
citizen will be of the truth Hoke Smith is not SNUG
and conventional conservative He has corporation collar
He is party revoon with the fruits of victory his
hands what of trusbusng have
merely been talking about these LaFo has
been through baptism of fire and political rebellion as he He
stands for every any them advocates He has been
through cyclone campaign against corporate influence OF
them ever opposed He controls the legislature OF
GEORGIA and every of the Democratic executive committee
which He the most radical platform ever adopted
with perhaps exception by state convention OF either OF the
two great parties these times He named the ticket on which ne
was governor And this pyramid Of achievement he stands
with the fragments of the railroad machine under his feet and his
face turned again toward Washington Watch Hoke Smith
Here follows brief Governor Smith, who is stated to
lie years good for and more work than the
average man human plant battery OF boilers
driving whole systems dynmos He the OF New England
scoonaster who married of that family of North Carolina
Hokes which furnished the Conederacy some OF its most ds
gshed soldiers The gigantic grayeyed ron-scled Sedu
minded resolte this the OF 10 or So went
Georgia and engaged Yankee fathers profession OF school
teaching studying law at nights until he able to go to Atlanta
a licensed practitioner. -
He has been most successful lawyer and all through lite IN
which politics. cabinet position owning farming and the
public functions public educator have had large place. oAe
Smith has been primarily lawyer and econdary business man
His success fatterng He worth something on the D
ink side of a million dollars - . |
Although goldstandard man. Smith resigned from Cleveland
cabinet to support Bryan whose election he preferred 10 e
back of Mark Hanna's campaign for Mckinley
After retiring from cabinet he resumed the successful pracce
of the law and at one owned the Atlanta Journal
bree wears ago no one would have thought the RED clay o
Georgia good soil for IaFoletm Since reconstruction re W
state had been hamstrng hog-tied gagged bound uled anu ~
by corporations, with the railways IN command 90, o.
The railroads had slated Clark Howell editor OF the Atlanta C
ton possessing national reputation and Of mblemshed cha
t f - At this iunc1re an editorial in the Journal drew
picture of an ideal governor and although no name was
the business men Atlanta called on the editor 70 see Il nc
horized to name Hoke Smith. This led TO onli
Against him in the primaries Clark Howell james on
d pser and Colonel Esll Smith beat them all combined Dy
20 900 majority CARRYING of the 146 counties OF the
In the succeeding convention he was nonlld'eu 80 Nr
elected as a matter HE dlctated PId'ioin'
Quick (which aliens him with Bryan in the Roger ou i
H. ,o+ the nartv and government must De PuIgeu
of men who renreent special interests; which calls LOT
shall nominate by popular vote all officers mcus
senator's: which demands the abolition OF workers dt W pms
he disfranchsement of men found guilty OF buying OF s
at anv election; which promises stringent eorruP 49,
which makes pass-givng paadng crime; winch
compulsory donestication of Georgia railways anu tt
: -. :. 4he end that the Georgian shall preserve the
constitutional privilege having his case tried BY jury
cnaee which denounce lobbyist as criminal; winch ,a
watered stocks the great Of excessive 1egn d 60 ;
governmental regulation of issues OF securlues VIM" IL
t - h fd hv strong elective railroad COMMISSION ana ue
~ tbt ; rates. are those which will pay reasonable returns
- - invested exclusive of watered stock wnich cans
CT & Atlanlc IdlWdy, iio'i -