The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-08-16
RESOLUTIONS BY FARMERS|
CENSURE sen. SMITH FOR VA
CANT SEAT AT WASHINGTON
Deplore Fact That He Took Advice
and the Views of Republican and
Caused Defeat of Free List.

HAWklNSVILLE, Ga.-At a mass
meeting, composed principally of far
mers, held in the court house here,
speeches were made censuring Hon.
Hoke Smith for refusing to go to
Washington to assume his duties as
senator, after which the following
resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed with the request that they be
sent to the state press for publica-
ton:
Whereas, in the national congress
lat this time there are bills pending
which are of vital interest to the peo-
pie OF the south in that they seek to
greatly reduce our tariff burdens
placed upon us years ago by the plu-
tocrats who control the republican
party;
And whereas, The house of repre-
'sentatives, controlled by Southern
men, has passed several of these bill
which if adopted by the senate will,
mean more to the Southern people
than any legislation within our reach
III a score or years;
And whereas, The great fight is
now on in the senate, where the EN-
pire state of the South has only one
senator, the Hon. Hoke Smith having
up to date declined to accept the
place to which he was elected some
weeks ago by the general assembly
of this state
Therefore be it resolved: First,
That we deplOre the situation which
deprives Georgia and the South and
the democratic party of a much need
ed vote in the senate of the United
States at this critical time, when the
the lines are so nearly evenly drawn
in that body.
Second: That we regret to see from
the public print that our Governor
Senator Smith prefers to take the adj
vice and to adopt the views of the
republican senator from Wisconsin,
La Toilette, instead Of the advice of
that leader of the democratic party in
the senate, Senator Martin of Vir-
ginia, and particularly do we regret
that he has seen fit to approve the
La Toilette bill as a better measure
than that framed and passed by a
democratic house, controlled by
Southern men, and which received all
the democratic votes of the senators
save one. The house bill putting
meat and bread on the free list, and
the La Toilette bill adopted by the
senate as a substitute retaining the
tariff tax thereon.
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that the differences between the two
houses in congress will go to confer
enCe, in which case a chance yet re-
mains to place bread and meat on the
free list Gas this provision was lost
in the senate by only one vote), we
call on the Hon. HOke Smith to pro-
coed at once to his post of duty at
Washington, believing that he will
yet be persuaded to vote with his
Southern colleagues for free bread
and meat and against the republi-
cans who wish to place a tax thereon
to further swell the Golfers of the
trusts. And that Georgia will be
happy and prosperous under the ad-
ministration of Hon. John M. Slaton
and his successor chosen in the COM
ing primary.
Fourth: That if the governor
senator declines to proceed to Wash
ington that we call on the general
assembly of Georgia to proceed at
once to the election Of a United
States senator to fill the vacancy now
existing.
Fifth: That we call on the people
generally all over the state, and the
farmers especially, to come together
in similar mass meeting and express
themselves on the existing situation.