The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-29
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Hoke Smith Will Make an Ad-
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GOVERNORS MESSAGE
Governor Brown Explains Why He Sent Troops to Durham Mines And Clears Up Several
 Disputed Points

Atlanta, July 2S.-(Special)-At last there Is promise of little life being ln- jected Into the state campaign.
 Former Governor Hoke Smith will make at least three speaking dates at which he will depart from the customary talks on education and discuss real politics.
 His first appearance will be at Way cross next Friday morning at Il o'clock. Saturday night following he will speak In Macon, and Saturday night week he has decided to speak at the auditorium armory in Atlanta, that time having been selected because of the expressed desire on the part of a large number of travel ing men, who come in only at the week end, to hear him.
 MT. Smiths speeches will be of more than ordinary political interest; he will present for the first time his view of the issues In the campaign, and he will also, unquestionably, have considerable to say regarding Governor Browns &C., ton in connection with the Western and Atlantic terminal case and the Durham mines affair, involving the calling out of troops in connection with the Italian la bor dispute.
 Governor Browns friends feel confident that in his two messages to the general assembly dealing with these subjects he has taken all the wind out of the sails of his opponents. It was generally com mented on over the state following the message on the w. and A. terminal matter, that there was no ground left for his opponents to stand on; that It prac- tically removed 1t as an issue in the campaign.
 In his message dealing with his action in calling out troops as the result of the trouble at Durham mines, Governor Brown made clear three points: First, the request for troops came from a dep- uty sheriff. an authorized agent of the sheriff of the county; second that the Italian laborers, who were armed to the teeth with firearms. dirks, daggers and stillettoes, had menaced the Georgians employed at the mines, and that the &C., tion of the troops was simply in protec- tion of peaceable labor there, and, thirL that the Italians were not driven from the state by the militia, as has been so consistently stated, but went of their own free will and accord, as result of their agreement with the company
 In the light of these facts which the governor has set forth for the first time in his message his friends say they do not see how any further ob- jection to his action can be justly maintained.
 Nevertheless 1t Is practically certain that MT. Smith will in his forthcoming speeches attack both of these messages and the ground taken by the gov ernor. To do this he has the affidavit of Sheriff Garmany of Walker county, who appears to have repudiated his deputy Mitchell, after having appoint ed him and who makes the assertion that there was no trouble at the mines of sufficient size or import to warrant the calling out of troops.
 While 1t Is said that the governors action has caused criticism in organized labor circles chiefly in Atlanta it is pointed out that the presence of the troops probably averted a threatened attack of the Italians upon other labor CTS at the mines.
 
 number of letters. some of them from former supporters of Hoke Smith, who so state to the effect that they pro- pose to support him on account of his action in the Durham mine case and that in their opinion organized labor should support him because of his ac- ton in maintaining law and order. | So far as the registration law is con- cerned it seems now to have been lost sight of as an issue in the campaign | Everyone Is in favor of a law that will shut out the venal vote; the only question seems to be as to what is a reasonable time for the registration books to close in advance of the elec- ton. MT. Smith maintains that 1t should be six months as the new law requires; others think that from 30 to SC days is more than enough for all purposes of purging the lists. It is not unlikely that MT. Smith will have something to say on this line in his speech es.
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