The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-05
MORE ACTIVITY IN
 GEORGIA CAMPAIGN Betting Is About Even on Hoke
 Smith and Brown SMITH IS STILL ILL Contention Between Brown and smttb Forces Is That Each Candidate Used Troops To Queu Labor
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nie this week in both camps, and now that tue stir has started 1t is probable there will be something doing right along until the primary of August 23 brings it | to an end.
 me features which have given this new Ire to 1t are Hoke Smiths speech, which, | although not delivered on account of H. ness, is of especial interest as being the first statement of its kind from either Side involving the issues of the campaign: next. the turn which has been given to the Durham mines affair as the result of the discovery that MT. Smith, while gov ernor, had ordered out troops under some what similar circumstances, and finally, the betting stage of the campaign has been reached with the prospect that con- siderable money will change hands as the result of the election
 A couple of bets of $100O each, even money, have already been made on the result In the state. The Brown men claim they were laying off. hoping to get the Smith men to offer odds, but no such offers were forthcoming, and yesterday | three. bets of s100O each on Brown were | posted at the Kimball house. Only one of them has been taken, but another bet of $l000 was made in the Kimball lobby be- | tween a well-known jeweler on the Smith side and two local business men on the | Brown side.
 Jeweler Posts a Bet
 Hearing that a bet of 5000 on Brown | had been posted at the Kimball, the jew eler went there with 5000 bet on Smith. | lie was looking about for the man In charge of the bet when a prominent
 Brown supporter came up and said: ''Pll take $5O0 of your $1O0O'
 About that time Charlie Jones, . we'll known local sport, came along
 T want to make a 5000 bet on Hoke Smith," said the jeweler
 ''I'll take it," said Jones'
 But this man here has already taken S5OO,' said the jeweler. Suppose I just place the whole bet with your" "No." said Jones; q don't want to take | the other mans bet, but I'll cover your $500 and then I'll bet you 5000 more on l Brown.''
 The jeweler took the 5000 in the two sums of $500 but declined to take the other 5000 which Jones offered The statement Is made by the Brown l men that as so0n as the other 5000 posted at the Kimball IS taken there will be plen- ty more forthcoming, and that the Smith side will be backed to standstill on the betting proposition.
 The only other bets of interest which have been made are $20O even money that Hoke Smith will carry Fulton county, and two bets of s200 to $100 that Browns majoriy In Cobb county will be greater than F votes.
 There is also posted at the Kimball a bet of $200 even that Browns majority in Chatham, county will not go over 1549 votes It has not yet been covered. Smith Is Improving | Governor Smith is gradually improving | from his recent attack of kidney collie, | but he will not leave his home before
 Monday to resume his campaign work. Having been prevented by his illness from speaking in Waycross and Ma con, he has not taken under consdera- ton yet the matter of making speeches at any other points. though, it is said, he will make several speeches before the primary
 His speech, however was published and, no doubt, generally read over the state. MT. Smiths friends here profess to be very much pleased with his dis cussion of tho issues, while the Brown men have labeled 1t a ''voice from the tomb" On the one hand 1t Is viewed as a calm, dispassionate, straightforward and strong presentation of the issues and policies which he has advocated in his three campaigns; on the other, 1t Is pro- nounced an evidence of apparent defeat. It seems generally conceded that MT Smith was not in this speech, as ex- treme as he has been on scarcely any subject, his attitude with regard to the registration law, port rates and some other matters being considerably modi- fed.
 The Brown people profess to be amused over MT. Smiths claims as to his work in securing reduced passenger rates and increased corporation taxes, which, they assert, were brought about under the Terrell administration, pre- ceding his It has always been the view of MT. Smiths friends, however. that those achievements were the result of This agitation in his first campaign. The Brown men also ridicule his claim to having, been instrumental in the aboli- ton of the convict lease system, in view of the fact that the first declara- ton ever made looking to that end was made in the platform adopted by the convention held in Atlanta in June, 1908, which nominated Governor Brown.
 MT. Smiths silence on the Durham mines affair, and the calling out of troops by Governor Brown on account of riot threatened by Italian miners, has provoked the retort from the Brown headquarters that Mir. Smith knew he had called out troops upon even less provocation in case at Aragon, in Polk county, in June, 1908.
 Called Ont Troops
 It is claimed in this instance that Gov ernor Smith called out the same com DanY or tTOOpS tndl 1oNciuOi oIOWu sent to Durham mines, upon the request of c. H. Gorton. manager of the Aragon mills, and a private citizen for the pur- pose of preventing violence to two ne- groes who were charged with the offense of attempted rape. Much ado having been made over the fact that Governor Brown called out troops al the request of a deputy sheriff, instead of the sher- if. the Brown people are making good deal of the Aragon affair, and pointing to 1t as the reason for Mir. Smiths silence about the Durham mines incl dent
 On the other hand. GovernQ Smiths friends state that while the governor received the request for troops fron Gorton, he first had his secretary call up Sheriff Dempsey of Polk county and ask him about the matter, after which he sent the troops.
 There Is a dispute as to whether Sher- if Dempsey asked for the troops. Gt ,- ernor Smiths secretary, c. M. Hitch. stated in effect that the sheriff did make the request Half dozen citizens of Cedartown state the sheriff told them he did not make request but told Mir Hitch over the telephone that he could take such action as he saw fit. based on the information received from Ara ron. as he, the sheriff. knew nothing as to conditions there.
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