The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-15
POURED HOT SHOT INTO PENDLE-
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POURED HOT SHOT INTO PENDLE-
TON.
The Democratic primaries will be
held In Georgia tomorrow week, Au-
gust %. There are three candidates
for Governor-Joseph Brown, the pres
ent Governor; Hoke Smith and Judge
Hall. The campaign has sol far been
conducted in a very decent way-for
Georgia. AS rule, the newspapers
have refrained from the disgusting
tactics pursued by them in the CAM
paign two years ago, and the candt-
dates themselves have not hdulged
generally In violent speech. 1t was ex-
pected that Governor Brown and Judge
Hall would observe the proprieties; but,
surprising as it is it must be said in
fairness that Mr. Smith and his par
tisans have gone through the campaign
down to the present time with greater
moderation than many persons antici-
pated
| The first serious break in tho rather
evengtemper of the campaign wac made
at Macon on Friday night, where Mr..
Smith spoke to public meeting COM
posed of about 1880 persons, many OF
them his partisans, 1t is said, who were
brought in from nearby counties. The
headline part of his speech, as we In
fer from the report printed inSrhc Ma
con Telegraph, Of which old Pendleton,
a very respectable and quiet person
so far as we have been able to judge by
looking him over from time to time,
is editor. and, by no wish
of his own, the present chairman
of the Democratic Executive Commit
tee of the Georgia Democracy. Friday
morning, old Pendleton, in the exercise
of his office as editor of the Telegraph.
| addressed an open letter on tho edl-
torial page of his paper. signed inghis
own proper name, to Mr. Smith. put
| ting a5number of questionsto Mr. Smith
touching certain Of the things Mr..
| Smith did as Governor or failed to do.
1t was evident from the general trend
LOT these Inquiries that old Pendleton
I does not think that Mr.. Smith accom-
Iplshed very much OF substantial value
to the State and the people of Georgia
when he was Governor. and did not
1 succeed even in achieving the things he
claims to have done.
The story seemed tqbe complete, and
1--WE have not been impressed by Mr..
| Smiths answer to the questions, or the
4 charges, as you please. 1t is true that
i! he spoke of old Pendleton as this un-
4 fortunate creature" ian unprincipled
4 man." and as being .beneath my con-,
4 Tempt; but he said these things about
4 old Pendleton lin no feeling OF anger"
and, as we'll as we can judge by the
report in Pendletons paper OF what
/. took place. he did not make effective
i reply to any of the questions Pendle-
4 ton asked some of which were where
4 do you stand in 1910 on the prohibition
lquestion, a question on which, accord
ling to Pendleton, Mr. Smith has been
boxing the compass steadily ever since
d 1907; whore do you stand on the labor
4 question and what have you done to be
4 of real service to the workmen; how
could you claim to have benz
Gifted the railroad employees when
tho figures show that during
4 the Arst year of your admins
tration the railroads of Georgia paid
4 s2,0S2.765 less for material and labor
than in the year before your admin
Il istration began. and in the second year
of your administration sS,660,933 less
"A than before you began, two-thirds OF
these amounts representing approxi-
mately the loss ofiyour two years In
s. the Governors Office by the railroad
employees of the State. Pendleton
asked some other questions of like
tenor. but it does not appear, from the
report of the Smith performance al
Macon, that he made definite reply tc
s anything that Pendleton tried to tint
out. or course, he must have had some
satisfaction In telling the croWn VIA
he thought of Pendleton, who IL no
J drumming for any office, and Is 8onl!
i Observation-Disclosures by chance; but Al
j the questions seem at this distance Z
{ have been perfectly germane to tn
9lsltuation. 4 DO not not. see zee that Mr. sHaih