Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-05
M'NELLY A BROWN
MAN DISGUISED AS
A SMITH FOLLOWER
Attended Brown Meetings,
Talked Brown Until He Had
Dark Taste in His Mouth,
Mr.. Davies Declares

What w. G. McNelley says the ma
chine politicians plan to do to Hoke
Smith by binding the people" is as chaff
before the wind as compared to what
Mr. McNelley himself would do to the
people concerning his attitude in the gu
bernatorial race, according to Reuben R.
Arnold, chairman of the Hoke Smith
club Of Fulton county. This Mr.. Nc
Nelley whose lamentations moved him to
quote poetry and denounce the clap-trap
methods of the machine politicians, who
are supporting Governor Brown, IL him
self a Brown mana Brown sympathiz-
er and a Brown scotcher, things Mr.. Ar
mold. This Mr. McNelley who deplores
the manner in which the machine Is
fooling the people himself would deceive
the people, If he would have them be-
Ieve that he is for Hoke Smith. Mr..
Arnold opines. This Mr.. McNelley, who
thinks something may yet happen to
save Hoke Smith from defeat" is the
same Mr.. McNelley who has consistently
fought Hoke Smith since his first cam
paign for governor four years ago; Is
the same Mr.. McNelley who talked Tor
Governor Brown two years ago until he
had "a soft Brown taste in his mouth"
says Mr.. Arnold.
Mr.. McNelley is well qualified to
speak of the machine politicians ana
tn cir support of Governor Brown, accord
ing to Mr.. Arnold, in view of his long
and close association with them ana
knowledge of tn cir methods.
MR.. ARNOLD'S INTERVIEW.
Anent the McNelley interview, given
to the press by Mr.. Ed Maddox, Cover
nor Browns manager, Mr.. Arnold SAID;
ed Maddox, Governor Browns cam
naien manager, has erupted again He
Is whistling to keep up his courage. as
never talks of any issues OF the COM
narrative merits of the two candidates
and does not even say what his own
opinion Is. His method is to seize upon
something somebody else has said or
done and claim it to be an admission
that Hoke Smith does not feel conf
dent of election. He seems to think the
people are disregarding issues and plat
forms. and that they will heed only that
candidate who shouts the loudest, I
will win
This time Mr.. Maddox appears in
the Atlanta Constitution of Thursday
and seizes upon an article purporting to
be written by a Mr.. w. G.. McNelley in
the Gwinnett Journal.
ITO begin with, this article should
give him scant comfort, for while Nc
Nelley fears the machine politicians
will win, he admits that it will be be-
cause the people are fooled and are be-
ing imposed upon and misled by clap
trap.
But there is something deeper than
apbears on the surface in this article,
and il justifies my prediction of day
or two ago that all sorts of tactics are
going to. be resorted to in the effort to
bolster up Governor Browns waning
cause.
HAD FOUGHT SMITH.
was McNelley really Hoke Smith
man and was this article really and gen.
timely written by a man who believed
in Hoke Smiths principles? 1 attach be-
low to this interview a letter written by
Mr. Leslie M. Davies, which discloses
that Editor McNelley was an active sup
porter of Clark Howell in 1906 and at
that time editor of the DeKaIb New Era
of Decatur, Ca, and vigorously fought
Mr. Eoke Smith 1t shows further that
McNelley was a member of the Howell
campaign committee of DeKalb county. 1t
shows further that in 1907 he severed
his connection with the DeKalb New Era
and went with the Atlanta Newspaper
Union and that in 1908 he was an active
supporter OF Governor Brown, and Mr..