Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-09-02
PROSPERITY CAME UNDER
THE PROGRESSIVE LAWS
Hon. Henry C. Cohen Seconds
Hoke Smiths Nomination in
a Glowing Speech

Hon. c. Henry Cohen, chairman of the
Richmond county delegation, in second
ing Mr.. Smiths nomination said:
1t has been asserted Of all men and
at all times in the recen, campaign, that
our grand old state, after floating aim
lessly upon the waters of despair and
dependency, had suddenly found per-
manent habltation and home upon the
Arrarat of Prosperity, and that the
birth, the growth and the continuance
of that prosperity were the logical fruits
OF the present administration. That from
the mountains to the seaboard, this song
OF prosperity was sung, and its echo was
heard throughout all the land; but the
people of Georgia, to whom was left the
great question of determining the con-
trolling factor that caused that much
vaunted prosperity to have found an
abiding place on its mountains and In
its valleys, rendered the verdict that
spoke in laundering tones that the con-
trolling factor that brought about that
prosperity, If IL could be charged to
political cause alone was the progress
i've legislation inspired by the patriotic
mind OF Hoke Smith, and enacted into
law by a legislature in sympathy with
his devotion to the cause of the people.
ALL HAVE PROSPERED.
he drawn from the verdict of August
23d. IL was that the corporate interests
of Georgia. as we'll as the common peo-
pie of Georgia, have alike prospered
and progressed under that progressive
legislation that had been so strenuously
charged to be destructive of the common
good. and 1t was this deepseated con-
viction of this conclusion on the part
of the people that made them rise in
their might and majesty. and demand a
restoration of the helm of state to the
strong grasp of that giant of progress
i've Democracy, Hoke Smith.
The country at large, from Maine to
Florida, and from California to the
Cuffs, have determined that If the YER
dict of August Esd conveyed any idea
to the listening public, it wastthat Geor-
gia, with courage and confidence, had
risen to the Importance of the hour, and
presented to the country at large an
ideal leader, not alone for the great
Democratic hosts of Georgia, but an
ideal leader alike for the progressive
Democracy of the entire nation.
PRESIDENTIAL. TIMBER.
When Georgia named its governor on
August 23d, the man that they named,
and held up to the limelight of the ma
tion's gaze was the manner of man out
of which presidents are made; and, when
the day does arrive, as all the students
of the times know ii must arrive-and.
that. too, in the near future-when the
south shall come into her own, and the
Democracy of the entire nation shall
turn inquiringly to it for the most ideal
leader of the Democratic hosts of the
country, and the one whose name spells
victory then will the name. of Hoke
Smith stand far above the rest.
The people of the Tenth congressional
district of Georgia, who have furnished
to its fellow citizens as their chief ex-
ecutive in the past, a Crawford, a
Stephens and a Jenkins, now place the
mantle worn by that illustrious triumvi-
rate upon the shoulders of Hoke Smith,
as a worthy successor to these giant
statesmen, in the supreme eonndeneo
that a page In Georgia histos.' IL being
made that will shine with unaying luster
throughout all time to come.