The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1910-09-06
REGISTRATION LAW
NEEDED IN KENTUCKY
Ed WALTON SAYS THAT OF oEoR
GA HELPS IN HOLDING
HONEST ELECTIONS.


Ex-Gov. Hoke Smith. When I wrote
the letter some three weeks ago II did
look very much like Brown would be
victor, but things changed and he
was the vanQuished instead. | wrote
you'll remember, that people we're for
Smith but the politicians, realizing
that they could not control him, were
against him and for Gov. Brown, who
nothing like so much sta
bility. believe that the political
jugglers would do what | have seer
them so frequently do in Kentucky
thwart the will OF the people. But
they couldn't do it this time. The
registration law, which Gov. Smith
is due the credit OF having passed,
kept people from over in Tennessee
and Alabama from coming over into
Georgia and INDUCING in the right
Of suffrage. This law that all voters
register six months in advance of
elections and it would be a great
thing for Kentucky it such a law
were in force there. In Lincoln coun-
ty il would be an especial blessing,
for it would forever put an end to the
gang just over the line in other coun-
ties crossing over and voting. 1t
would means that the crowd that
usually comes up from around Shelby
City to Stanford would have to devise
other means of making money on
election day.
BY the way, how did you get it into
your Uranium. Brer. Saufley, that
Gov. Brown did not favor the enforce
ment of the prohibition law? From
inquiry of a number of Georgians /
fail to find that he ever even init
mated that he was against the law
and certainly he would not have been
so foolish as to go on record as favor
ing the disobcyance u It. From
what can CLEAN Gov. Browns re-
cord On the whisky question is fully
as good as that of Hon. Hoke Smiths
OF anyone else. He is a big man in
the Baptist church and a Christian
gentleman.
(Our information was gotten from
an associate Press dispatch from At
Lanta.-Ed.
No sooner had the gubernatorial
primary been disposed OF than a race
for mayor and other city offices was
begun. The present mayor, Mr.. r. F.
Maddox. declined to stand for re-elec-
ton but since he took the convention
OF mayors at st. Paul by storm. At
lanta people regardless OF porty Of
filiation, have begun a canvass for
him. The national convention OF may
ors meets here next time and they
want a good man like Mr.. Maddox to
receive and turn the keys of the city
over to the visiting hosts. Mr.. Mad
dox has made a most satisfactory Of
fetal and is one OF the big men of
Atlanta. He is president of the
American National Bank and has the
handsomest home in the suburbs of
this great city. He is man among
men and a mayor of whom the people
are Justly proud.
The present has surpassed all
ether years in building here. At pres
ent over s5,OOO.OOO worth of contracts
are being carried out here and they
incIud every kind of building from a
chap cottage to milIion-dollar hotel
is being constructed at the corner o.
Peachtree and Ponce de Leon AYES 1,
and will be the most beautiful hotel
building in the South, excepting a few,
CT Fagler's Winter hotels in Florida.
Joseph Gatins. an Old Atlanta man
but now one OF New York .City's multi
millionaires. is the promoter. He
loves the city he lived in for years
in and intends TO do a good part OF
1t. This will give Atlanta number
of high-grade hotels including the
Piedmont, the Aragon, the Kimball.
the Peachtree Inn and number OF 9TH
ers. .-. 81, y
Ihave read In the !. j.. several arti-
Giles on the life OF Judge NJ, {. Saufley
and have felt like shaking hands with
and congratulating those from whose
pens they came. l have, added my
amen 70 each Of them and could I do
justice 70 the life OF the honorable
and honored dead would add one
more laurel TO his wreath. He was a
great man and a most reiasrkeble
in many ways. His death is a blow
that will be felt in the good state OF
Kentucky for years to come. May
time assuage the grief OF those who
loved ani respected him who sleeps
in bcangl,A Buffalo cemetery.