Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-27
IS 1T HEAPING GOALS OF FIRE,
OR?

The recent appointment OF Warner
Hill to the Supreme Court is hailed by
the adherents of former Gov. Joseph
NJ. Brown as in effect a vindication by
Gov. Smith of his former opponent.
Warner Hill was an ardent advocate
of the election of ex-Railroad Com
missioner Brown as governor, was
bitterly opposed to the policies enun-
ciated by Gov. Smith, and was de-
nounced by Smith as in collision with
the corporation interests. All Of this
makes good reading, when recalled IN
connection with the appointment just
made. 1t shows that political realIgn-
ments make old enemies close
friends, and that there is absolutely
nothing stable in state, any more than
in local, politics.
Papers are re-publishing, with much
gusto, the severely caustic criticisms
of Hoke Smith by Warner Hill when
the governor made his first race. Moth
ing more severe could be said Of
candidate for high office than was said
of Smith by the man he has just ele-
waited to the Supreme bench OF the
state. Hil's remarks grew out Of
Smiths accusation that in the caucus
of the Democratic executive committee
Warner Hill was hand-ingloye with
Hamp McWhoIter and Enoch Gallo
way. political agents of railroad and
other corporations" The reply OF
Hill was severe almost to the point Of
being savage. Said he:
Notwithstanding the fact that the
executive committee was practically
unanimous in its decision, he singles
out three members for attack. The
fntimation is that | am in close alli-
ance with railroad officials, and thai,
as a railroad commissioner of Georgia,
| am influenced in favor of the rail-
roads 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 no. except that | pre-
fer to vote for a better man than he is
for governor. | have remained silent
under continued and malicious charges
made by innuendo by this designing
and INSCRIPTIONS demagogue, but l
shall remain silent no longer. In his
effort and great desire to become gov
ernOr he has sandered nearly, if not
all, the state officials for the last
twenty years Men whose shoe latchCS
he is unworthy to loose are not free
from his slanderous tongue. May the
Lord have mercy upon his malicious
and hypocritical soul. And now, hav-
ing shown that this INSCRIPTIONS dem
agOgue has maliciously and falsely
misIcpresented me before the people
of Georgia for the sole purpose Of
helping elect himself governor, l con-
clude with the hope land l say it rev.
erently) that God in His infinite wis
state and goodness will spare this
great state of Georgia from the reign
of this malicious slanderer and design
ing demagogue,"
Yet here, less than five years after
the utterance of these singing COM
mcnts, Smith is found appointing
Warner Hill a judge of the Supreme
Court. Naturally the query is going
the rounds, have they learned to ad-
mire and love each other since then, or
is there shrewd politics being played
with this and the appointment of Paul
Trammell as railroad commissioner
but two of the initial moves Be
what it may, seldom, even in the kali
eiloscopic political history of Georgia
does one find a governor, charged with
being an INSCRIPTIONS demagogue,
malicious and hypocritical soul" ant
a man of slanderous tongue" appoint
ing the man who so assailed him to q
post of high honor.
Is it a case of "Heaping Goals of fire
on ones enemy's head or a slicl
move to be fruitful Of results favor.
able to Senator Smith later on?
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