Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-02
SMITH SURE TO WIN,
SAY CONSERVATIVE men
Former Governors Speech
Was a Vote Maker--Cam-
paign News


| campaign which ended yesterday found
! the Hoke Smith forces in better shape
! and more confident than at any time
! since Mr.. Smith announced his candidacy.
according to the statements of Mr.. Smith
! himself and his campaign advisers. They
regard H. Y. McCord's estimate of ITO
counties for the former governor as too
conservative. If anything, but 1T Is evil
dent from their manner that they do not
propose to allow Mr.. Smith to suffer
J from overconfidence.
, The furry of excitement and attendant
uneasiness occasioned by the temporarily
serious and unexpected Illness of Mr.
Smith was counterbalanced by the good
| resulting from the publication of the
! speech Mr. Smith was to have delivered
| at Waycross. No speech ever delivered
/ by the former governor has attracted wi
/ der attention or challenged and produced
| more spontaneous and unanimous in
! dorsement.
! SPEECH ENDORSED.
{ Scores of letters received at the Smith
campaign headquarters yesterday morn
/ ing by the first mail brought letters
! from points within 100 miles radius of
| Atlanta. and without exception these let
: ters commended in the highest terms MI
Smiths Waycross speech. The later
! mails brought more letters commenting
/ on the speech, and the visitors at mead
quarters and at the law offices united IN
! voicing their approval of the former gov
errors utterances. e.. a
/ The Smith men were much amused and
pleased over the evident CONSERVATION the
speech caused in the Brown headquar-
| tiers, as manifested by tn interviw given
! to the press by Campaign Manager. Ed
| Maddox Many a good laugh was enjoyed
| at the expense of Mr.. Maddox and his
comment on the speech. ..
TOO bad Mr. Smith didn't consult Mr..
| Maddox about that speech" laughingly
remarked a travelling salesman.
| such a pity taht the Brown commit
tee isn't pleased with Mr.. Smith straight
| forward discussion of the issues OF the
campaign" remarked another.
THAT thunder which Mr.. Maddox says
struck him upon reading Mr.. Smiths
speech was but the rumbling OF the gath
ering storm that will sweep the state
on August % and land Hoke Smith in
the governors chair" was the comment
of another caller.
| And so it was all day. Hundreds OF
visitors came to the campaign headquar-
ters Hoke Smith men of all degrees or
! enthusiasm and earnestness, and their
! commentator of the speech was gen.
eral.
In all of my experience with politics,
! | do not believe / know of campaign
speech that was better received by the
reading public than was the Waycross
! speech, according to reports we have re-
! cefved by letter and by word of mouth,
| said r. j. Griffin yesterday.
Mr. Griffin was intimately associated
/ with the Hoke Smith campaigns of 1906
and 1905, and he is we'll qualified to make
comparative statement.
MANY PEOPLE CALL.
Yesterday was another busy day at, the
Smith headquarters. Several hundred
people called and, according to the writ
! ten records, they were citizens OF Al coun-
/ ties of the state. There must have been
at least couple of hundred travelling
men in the number, and they brought
Ereports from every corner of Georgia
3 The reports were unvaryingly good. &C
cording to the statements of the cam
paign managers and the personal express
sions to be heard on all sides. Mr.. Nc
Cords claim of no counties for Smith
appealed to many travelling men, whose
familiarity with conditions all over the
state makes them good judges of the
situation. ... Z
Calvin NJ Hitch, who is handling the
bulk of the personal correspondence that
: comes to Mr.. Smith, states that the
Saturday mail was of record-breaking
proportions. On only one or two other
days since the campaign opened has
the mali D6eu clIHeT do VI IhS
reports as encouraging. Mr.. Hitch said.
Counties that we have regarded as
! doubtful are getting in fine shape, and
our confidential reports from all sec
tions of these counties, based on ac-
tuaI convases, make us confident that
1 Mr. Smith will carry many counties
that we. have. heretofore regarded as
! doubtful" said he.
| CLUBS DO GOOD WORK.
! 1.-THE Hoke Smith clubs in various sec
I tions of the state are doing a great
work, and there are very few counties
! in Georgia today that are not well or
ganized. And organization is essential
to success in most instances"
Former Governor Smith spent only
short time at his offices yesterday af-
ternoon, on the advice of his physician.
| He expects to be fully recovered by to-
morrow, however, and will devote all Of
! the time possible to his campaign.
Mr.. Smith has an appointment at
Monroe, Walton county, for Wednesday.
1t is non-polltical. He is scheduled to
make a chautauqua address, and will
| discuss THE South in the Sixties"
En- route to Monroe. he will spend
Tuesday night at Social Circle. and re-
| turning to Atlanta will come via Win
| der