Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-19
A big S1.5O value
sheer embroidered white
offered this week
for CSC. Chas. L. Anslev
HOke Smith For Higher Education of
Negroes.

(From Speech by Elk Congressman
Moses.)
Some people have said that they
would not vote for Mr. Brown because
they did not know him. but | am here
to tell you | know it is my duty to
vote against Mr.. Smith because I dc
know his public record like a book
since 1888-20 years ago-when he
was the most radical aIlianceman in
Georgia. Since that time he has flop
ped on every public question before
the American people. He will &C
down in history as the champion
topper of American politics
This little weak man whom the
great war god of Georgia, his own
father could not persuade to vote fol
the sale of liquor in Atlanta when the
strong Mr.. Smith and the majority OF
that city were bowling before his
will.
THE people of the south and o1
Georgia have before this followed Mr.
Smith to their hurt; we followed hin
in 1892 and were led to political de.
structiOn; we followed him and Park.
er in 1904 and we were led to politi.
cal damnation; we followed him il
Georgia in 1906 and God only knows
where We are at
Every laboring man in Georgia
should say, as did old Diogenes tC
Alexander the Great-'Get out of my
sunshine.
Smith FlOpper.
Mr.. Moses proceeded to show how
Mr.. Smith had topped on the alliance
question, on the civil question, on the
question of negro education, on the
disfranchisement, on immigration, OIL
railroads, on home rule for the coun
ties, and many other great ques
tions, and had Topped three times OF
prohibition, and today there is not {
man in Georgia who knows what his
personal opinion is on state prohibi
ton. And the strange thing about al
this Hopping is that it always occur.
red at the psychological moment
when the change would most inure tC
his personal political benefit.
He charges the w and A. boys
with ingratitude when he himsel
abandoned Mr.. Cleveland, when he
saw his administration sinking, anC
when there was hardly a man in the
American congress who would say {
word in defense of the administra
ton.
"FOr fifteen years he has been chic
exponent, high priest, and advocate o.
negro education in Georgia, lover o.
higher negro education and boldly de
clared that it was the duty of south
ern whites to pay for such education
without any help from the north.
During my service in the legisla
ture in 1902-03 | appealed for an in
crease of appropriation for the com
mon schools of Georgia, and urged The
legislature to cut loose from the blacl
body of death and save our own chill
dren. | was denounced by the Smith
element as demagogue.. The ques
ton came up on a bill introduced b.
the Hon. Warren Rice, of Pulaski
and was defeated by not receiving thu
requisite two--thirds majority. | de
livered a speech upon the same sub
ject to more than a thousand people
near Senoia in this county, which wa
heard by many negroes. The Negro
Bishop Turner in speaking at a negrt
church in Senoia shortly afterwar'
told them not to be uneasy about wha
their little local representative wer
saying about negro education; tina
the big men of the state would man
age that question. Bishop Turne
told how the Hon. Hoke Smith ha
presided over a great mass meetini
held in Atlanta in the interest of tn
MorriSBroWn negro college and how
after making a magnificent speech il
its behalf he subscribed liberal sur
to it's endowment"