The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-04
WATSON is GETTING WARM.
Is GREATLY DISPLEASED WITH
STATE ADMINISTRATION.
For the Election of Which He Feels
Largely Responsible. Says the
Pledges to the People Have
Been Forgotten,

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magazine contains a very caustic
criticism of the action of the demo-
cratic executive committee in calling
an early primary in the face of the
reform pledge against it.
The editorial is written by Hon.
Thomas E. Watson, who says that
the populists gave Mr.. Smith their
support in 1906, and made him gov
ernor on "a distinct contract that GER
tain things should be done
But" continues Mr.. Watson,
the devil was sick and the devil a
saint would be- and, the danger
passed, the hooking and the plum
dering of the people goes on as be-
fore
Continuing further, Mr.. Watson
says:
.'Was Hoke Smith Afraid?
Zone of the loudest complaints
against the Old Gang was the early
primary.
THE Hoke Smith reformers de-
nounced this early primary system
as a game in which snap judgment
was taken on the people by. the poll
ticians
"Hoke Smith and The Atlanta
r,,,, a t,,,odo +bo uc!izjn ring with
clamors against this early primary
even in his speech in Telfair
county in November, 1907 Governor
Hoke Smith was still condemning
the early primary, and pledging him.
self to give the people fair chance
to express themselves, after a full
discussion of men and measures.
THAT was only four month ago,
and now Hoke has Topped.
And, of course, The Atlanta Jour
nal Topped, too
These two always flop together
Hoke and The Journal.
Locking arms with the Old UaMe.
the Hoke Smith reformers have
called the state primary for the first
week in June.
Here's your early primary. with
a vengeance where are Hoke's
pledges?
"Why has Governor Smith gone
hack on those who fought his bat
ties? Why has he broken faith with
the people? ..Ao+
apparently the governor felt that
he, too, must take snap judgment
on the people, or he would nave 1or-
midable opposition in running Tor
a second term.
Couldn't Afford It..
"The Atlanta Journal told us last
summer that the state could not al
ford so expensive thing as an eX-
fra session of the legislature.
THE following clauses in the con-
tract of the reformers remained un-
fulfilled:
4. We had no anti-lobby law,
as we were promised.
80. We had no corporation fran
chise tax law, as we were assured
we would have.
"3. Nothing had been done to OPP
pose and break up the illegal owner
ship of the Central railroad by COM
petitive lines.
a Nothing had been done to
save us a single bale of the $4,000
bales of cotton which Mr.. S. q. NC
Tendon proved that we were losing
every year in being made to pay
dividends upon fictitious railroad
capitalization.
.'Mr. McLendon made his estimate
in cotton; Hon. Hoke Smith maze
his in dollars and cents. According
to Mr.. McLendon the annaul robbery
amounted to $4,000 bales of cotton
we assume, were oOO
pounds each, class middling. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Smith the yearly rob-
bery amounted to 100000.
Both of these gentlemen are
able. conscientious men. They did
not make those charges recklessly.
They did not misrepresent facts IN
order to win votes. And they were
not talking idly. They were address
ing people who understood them TO
mean that if Hoke Smith was elected
governor he would put a stop to that
robbery. And the Hon. Hoke Smith
meant that very thing at that time
"Why has such a change come
over the spirit of our dream?
"Why was the Legislature not con-
vened to finish the work which the
Hon. Hoke Smith was publicly ana
solemnly pleged to do?
rs yearly loss of $4,000 bales
of cotton a less serious matter to
the people of Georgia than it was be-
fore Mr.. S. G. McLendOn went into
office on that cry?
us the annual loss of $4,00O,OOO
in the payment of dividends on
fraudulent railroad stocks and bonds
less a hardship and crime than
when the Hon. Hoke Smith was rid
ing into office on that cry?'
Be careful about that little cough.
Get something right away; some
good, reliable remedy that will move
the bowels. Kennedy's Laxative