The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-01
SOME RECENT POLITICAL HISTORY RECALLED

commission favorable to port rates
and puts it's arch enemy on the SUI
preme bench, which is the final re-
sort. He can now get port rates
without delay through the commits
sion and pass them on up to Judge
Hill. Fine business.
The most interesting feature is
the historical story of the Brown
Hill-Smith mixup in 1906, in which
Governor Smith expressed his pri-
vate and public opinion of the man
whom he now honors, and Mr.. Hill
in rejoinder gave a like opinion of
the then candidate for governor.
Smiths estimate of Mr.. Hill at the
time and Commissioner Warner
Hills opinion of Governor Smith can
be made clear by quoting from a
speech made about the middle of
June in his campaign in 1906, in
which he referred to meeting of the
state democratic executive commit
tee short time before and said:
" The three leading spirits of
that caucus were Judge Hamilton
McWhorter, political agent of the
Southern railroad; Judge Enoch
| Galloway, corporation attorney
| at times, representing clients poIit-
ically as well as in the court house,
| and Honorable Warner Hill, your
railroad commissioner. There you
| you see the close Identification of
! your railroad commissioner and
the railroad politicians; there you
| see the alliance inside the demo-
cratic organization controlling it.
ITO this Mr.. Hill rejoined:
Notwithstanding the fact that
the executive committee was prac-
tically unanimous in it's decision he
| singles out three members for at
tack. The intimation is that l am
in close alliance with railroad Off
| Gals, and that, as railroad commits
| sioner of Georgia, am Influenced
! in favor of the railroads as against
the people. That statement was
| made by Hoke Smith deliberately,
maliciously and falsely, and he
knew when he made it that it was
false. Why he has chosen to at
tack me l know not, except that l
| prefer to vote for a better man
than he is for governor. | have
remained silent under continued
and malicious charges made by
| 1nnuendo by this designing
and INSCRIPTIONS demagogue, but
l shall remain silent no longer. In
his effort and great desire to be-
come governor he has slandered
nearly, If not all, the state officials
for the last twenty years. Men
whose shoe lashes he is unworthy
to loose are not free from his SLAM
'derous tongue. May the Lord have
mercy upon his malicious and hyp-
ocritical soul And now, having
shown that this INSCRIPTIONS dem
.agogue has maliciously and falsely
represented me before the people
OF Georgia for the sole purpose of
helping elect himself governor l
conclude with the hope (and l say
1t reverently) that God in His in
finite wisdom and goodness will
spare this great state of Georgia
from the reign of this malicious
slanderer and designing dema-
gogue"
But it makes me very happy t,
feel that sanity is once more restore,
in Georgia politics, and that JOS. M
Brown has been INDICATED by tn
man who did him the greatest in
|
: justice ever done him by any man
. for in appointing Warner Hill to tn
supreme bench Governor Smit
could have paid no higher tribute t
4 Joseph NJ. Brown. 1t is a long-de
: layed admission of an injustice. an
, it can be received in no other way
e whatever was the intention"