Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-05

Mr.. Smith. He entered campaign head
quarters in the Peters building early in
the afternoon, bubbling and chortling
with good humor.
IT felt bully all the way back from
waycross,' said he, but when / got
home and read in the morning paper
what Ed Maddox. manager of Governor
Browns campaign, had TO say about
Hoke Smiths speech prepared for de-
livery at waycross, was ready TO bust
with hilarity.
MY friend Maddox says he is thun-
derstruck at the mildness OF Mr.. Smiths
speech. / don't doubt IT. The only
question In my mind is, IF HE IS THUN-
DERSTRUCK NOW. WHAT Wild HE
BE WHEN THE LIGHTNING STRIKES
ON AUGUST q?
..It's a pity Hoke Smiths speech wasn't
strong enough to suit Brother Maddox
and his colleagues and the Brown cam
paiSn committee. They are hard folks
10 please these days. But let them try
TO be patient, for about three more
weeks and they'll find II strong a plenty.
WHY THEY'RE DISAPPOINTED.
'T'u tell you why they're so disappoint-
ed at what they call its 'mildness. Inc
cause OF progressive Democracy as rep
resented by Hoke Smith has a platform
crammed and damned with definite. prac-
tIcai principles. It is standing for GER
tain laws and business policies under
which the people Of Georgia have pros
pered and which the reactionaries are
now trying 10 split TO pieces. Hoke smith
Is so earnestly concerned for these laws
and principles that he talked or them
alone. He didn't need to talk OF any
thing else for these are the things the
people are going TO vote on ana the 'HiHso
they are interested IN.
s~rhe opposition on the other hand is
standing on a platform that's as bare OF
any practical policies or DEFINITE results
for GeorEia's welfare as an eel 10 Oh
WHISPERS. Their administration has done
nothing since Il came into office except
TO libel the states treasury, propose 70
saddle the taxpayers with oonoeo oeOt
kof $500, 900, send troops TO oVera"e
handful OF inoffensive workingmen ana
trv to repeal the good laws passed wnlle
Hoke Smith was governor. The fact Is
their administration can't point TO SOIL
tarv thing Il has ever done or even at
teu1nted to do for the everyday pracu-
cal interests Of the people.
.srherefore. their only hope was that
this campaign might be pitcheo on q
plane Of low and irrelavent personalities
They hoped to save their skins oy nav
ing this great crusade OF the people tur-
"a into a rock battle. Well, they can
.S-or all IN. rock they want to and all
the mud. We haven't the time or the
sastro for that sort of stun Hoke
srntth's speech prepared for delivery at
Waycross and published in the press OF
the state was so true TO facts' SO iuii
OF -prtncIpie and so free OF personal-
ties that IL has given the Brown cam
nairn committee absolutely nothing 10
talk about
THE wAYCRoss SPEECH.
..Thev ind they can't possibly butt
into this conversation with the people
about the peoples affairs. And so they
are suIking of in their little corner
alone in silence, except to pipe with
We're literally thunderstruck; Hoke
smith is entirely too mild; how disap-
pointingP
"Campaign Manager Maddox actually
saws that Hoke Smith ignored the issues
in his waycross speech. For goodness
sake. tell us what one issue he didn't deal
with He showed how the progressive
democracy had passed a negro disfran-
chisement law, how 1t had passed pure
election law to give the real citizens or
Georgia the full rights OF their ballot
and to guarantee popular instead OF ma
chine rule at the polls. He showed how
the railroad commission law had con-
served the business interests Of the
merchant. the manufacturer, the
shipper, and the public at large,
AT the same time doing full Justice to
the railroads and making conditions
genuinely safe and sound for capital in
Georgia. He showed how his admins
tration had passed through the convict
lease whereby the convicts were taken
from private interests and put to work
building good roads for every county in
this state He showed how, under the
progressive administration the states
treasury had been managed so well that
II closed the year with a surplus OF two
million dollars or more and that the
schools had been paid six hundred thous-
and dollars more than ever before.
THE DURHAM INCIDENT.
He says for instance that Mr.. Smith
was silent on the Durham incident, the
occasion when Governor Brown, contra
~ to law, rushed a company OF soldiers
to interfere in a business difference be-
tween an employer and employees.
WELL. THEN GOVERNOR BROWNS
CAMPAIGN MANAGER CONSIDERS
THIS ONE OF THE GREAT ISSUES
OF THE PRESENT CAMPAIGN, DOES
HEP For the life Of me don't see why
he wants to make II an issue or how
it's going to help Governor Brown. A
few days ago some OF the governors
friends were so rash as to let loose a sto-
~ that during the preceding administra-
ton Hoke Smith had sent troops to Ara
gon, Ca, just as Governor Brown sent
troops TO Durham.
This story has really done them more
harm than even Governor Browns act
itself did, for when the facts are known
they serve only TO show the vast diff
ference between the present governors
illegal and dangerous procedure and the
former governors legal and conservative
methods. Governor Smith. as the vouch-
ers and the records in the executive Of
fees at the capitol will show. never or
dered the soldiers to Aragon until he had
held two conferences with the sheriff of
the county and the sheriff authorized the
sending of the militia to save a human
life. Governor Brown, on the contrary,
rushed troops to Durham without ever
consulting the sheriff or anyone else ex-
cept a so-called acting deputy sheriff."
who was really an employee in the pay
Of the mining company and who was
represented at the telephone by the
president of the company himself Gov
ernor Smith refused to send troops on
the request of a private citizen. Governor
Brown did send them at a private citi-
zen's request.
Besides this. however, the trouble at
Durham was purely OF a business char
acter and the courts should and could
have settled II. The trouble at Aragon
was one likely to result i'm a lynching I'M
less the state tuferfered