The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-09-29

paign Mr.. Watson is our mutual friend Thomas
e. Watson is not unfriendly.'
In other words, my friend, Judge Hines, wanted
my friends, the subscribers to believe that
a party to his sending that letter; that I meant,
and my friends were requested, to fight for Hoke
Smith, and by thousands they did it under that
impression. (Cries of "Hurrah for Joe Brown.'O
Therefore, fraud practiced and the nomi-
nation binds nobody Another thing, as every
lawyer here will tell you you will have to prove
the doings of legislative body Congressional
body, or municipal body, or conventional body, by
the journal by the minutes kept by that body
You cannot go, to save your life, to the minutes,
to the journal, kept by that convention and prove
from those minutes, that Hoke Smith ever
nominated by majority. applause and cheers.)
You cannot do it, Therefore, what? Nobody can
prove that he is the Democratic nominee. CAP
plause and cheers.)
Now, what? We read in todays papers that
Mr.. Bryan had made another one of his mistakes.
Laughter) He has bolted the Democratic party
in Nebraska. daughter and applause.) Bolted.
He ought to be insurged. We not going to
bolt; going to make the other fellow bolt
Laughter) We are just going to insurge inside
the party. We not going to give our house up
to the burglars; we going to drive them out
applause and cheers.)
have been trying to make up my mind whether
certain type of politicians, certain type of
editors, cursed harder more bitterly and more
often when left the Democratic party than when
I came back. CHEERS and applause)
They say I have come back to tear it up
Laughter
I came back at what they call the psychological
moment. (Applause and laughter) When thou
sands inside the Democratic party who real
Democrats were anxious to have me with them
because they are the same kind of Democrat I am.
applause and cheers) I came back at the very
time when it became possible, after twenty years
of effort to get rid of old Lon Livingston (Great
and continued applause and cheers, and cries of
Hurrah for Watson.') If I had timed my
by stop-watch, I could not have got back at
better time to get rid of Pussy Foot Bill Howard.
There is another one we are going to get rid
of before quit. (Applause and cheers.) The
fight is not over: it has just begun. I just
beginning to get my hand in. While the newspa-
pers ignore my meetings. the people turning
out they did in the COS, and such enthusiasm
have never since the soldiers went to war in
the nineties to redeem Jeffersonian Democracy.
(Applause and cheers.)
Now, there are the reasons, various and sufi-
cient, why you can set aside in your own mind the
nomination which was claimed for Hoke Smith in
that convention. Let tell you what you do
You don't have to put up a candidate. Let the
office seek the man. (Voices, "That is what we
want) applause and cheers.) Let the office
seek the Let the people call on a man to
them the first Wednesday in October;
let the people all go to the polls and vote for
Joseph M. Brown. (Great and continued applause
and cheers)
I am authorized to say, and do say, that if you
will help me elect him, if the people call on him,
if they do elect him, he will serve you (App1ause
and cheers)
And today had a long. confidential conference
with J. r. Smith, and I appealed to him in the
name of the people and the interests of our State
to help me and you prevent one-man power
trolling State, from creating dictatorship,
or one-man power in Georgia, and J. r. Smith will