The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-01
PAGE TEN
ing, but "th0ught' he would introduce an
amendment for direct loans on cotton.
Col. Harley says

After the editorial of the 3oth had told us
how, at Senator Smiths request, the editor of
The Chronicle and other prominent men of Au-
gusta had gone to Washington to confer with the
Senator and others to proposed legislation as
relief for the Souths cotton problem, it stated:
Senator Smith was doing everything in his power
to aid the Southern cotton planters, factors mills
and banks, by emergency Legislation if necessary;
even going SO far as to tell the Augusta commit
tee that he willing to introduce amend
ment to the emergency currency bill for direct
loans on cotton He frankly stated he did not hope
to get his amendment through, considerable
opposition to the direct loan plan, any other
form Of direct government aid, had developed
among the Southern Senators and Representa-
tlVeS Notwithstanding a number by
but that he thought he would introduce his
amendment anyway, sort of pusher Con-
gress and the government, in the hope Of forcing
some sort of remedial action"
That is The Chronicle and other Hoke
Smith champions, were telling the people to
vote for Smith, because Smith was doing
everything in his power for everybody, when,
as The Chronicle and others knew he wasn't
doing a thing for anybody, except for Smith.
He hadn't even introduced the amendment
which he ''thought Of i16r0ducing,' -to-wit,
to have the Government 90 into the ware
house business and lend money direct to the
farmers on their cotton.
OF Senator Smiths "plan'-or his before
election 'thought'' of plan-Col. Harley
says
Gle confessed he knew (this plan) would not
pass. Why? Simply because it an effort by
one Senator to commit Democratic Administra-
tion to sub-treasury plan, worse than anything
ever advocated by the Populist party, and with
out the protection to the farmer the govern
ment which the Ocala platform provided
can see our old-time political adversary smil-
ing, after having dictated the nomination Of
+io fOrT Opo 4lo.o
Bloody Tenth" he reads in the Hoke Smith pa
pers of their eXultaton the prospect of the
Senator's "forcing'' Congress to adopt his sub
treasury plan with its best features left OUT
Sour old-time political adversary" who
can be seen "smiling" at Hoke Smiths efforts
at craftsmanship, IS your Uncle T. 3. W.
Col. Harley says he can see me "smiling:"
it takes a philosopher to do much smiling,
when he sees cheap and small men reaping
political honors and rewards in the fields
where we old Pops sowed "A years ago
Continuing, Col. Harley says
Senator Smith knew his amendment would
fall but he thought to introduce it as "pusher."
Even then he only Thought to do such foolish
thing as 'pusher." Let us think of a Senator
from the great State of Georgia, the State of Alex
ander and Linton Stephens, Toombs, Crawford,
Cobb and Lumpkin, having learned of
the highest legislative body earth than to pro-
pose to 'pusher'' to force it into unwise
chimerical, undemOcratic financial scheme, such
as was never dreamed of in the widest vision of
Populism.
These things remind us of the editorials of The
Chronicle and other Hoke Smith supporters, about
a month before State primary, the ad
vantages of having in Washington such big
Senator Hoke Smith. We wonder what will
be claimed for the little Hoke Smith Senator,
hear nominated at Macon-the Baby Sena-
tor they call him-the one who claimed that he
the popular choice of the State and received
5000 or 10000 votes less than Ex-Governor
Brown, whose vote he ridicued.
Lot rnl OF Snnnt0r Inlrn Smith'c