The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-08-06
THE JEFFERSONRAN

Southern women are looking to you,
depending on you"
My countrymen! an appeal like that was
never made In vain to any person who is. in
fact, "a Southern gentlenaa1l."
TO her efficiency as Postmistress, Mrs
Longstreet produced overwhelming evidence,
from the patrons Of the office; and not single
one OF them testified to the contrary
Let me lay another testimonial before you
plcturing the woman WHO owes her ruin to
Hoke Smith
Atlanta, Ca, November II, 1908.
To the President of the United States
Washington, D. c.
My Dear Mr. President: I have just learned
that the term Of office postmistress at Gaines
Vile, Ca, Of Mrs Helen D. Longstreet expires on
December 8 next
have known Mrs Longstreet since she was a
child. knew her father, who represented one
Of the highest classes of our lawyers-one of the
ablest and cleanest in the State
Mrs. Longstreet, as you know is the widow of
one or the greatest generals Of the Confederacy.
Entirely outside of this fact, she is splendid
little woman with lofty purposes and thorough
courage. AS to her efficiency i'm office the records
Of the department will speak
L, believe her retention in Office will be recog-
nlzed as another one of those acts your part
that touch the hearts of our people.
SINCERELY YOURS. HOKE SMITH
Emphasis mine
You can see for yourself what Hoke Smith
begged President Roosevelt to do
You can see what he then thought of Mrs.
Longstreet
Now, how did he treat her, when the
Republicans lost power, and he himself was
the Goliath of political patronage?
| take the liberty of quoting Mrs Long
streets letter to me-
Dear Sir: have been here sick all fall and
winter, and am only now getting able to trv to
gather up the broken threads again
Under separate cover l sending you the
Senate Committee report in the hearing granted
me after I was kicked out of the office by the
Hoke Smith-Woodrow Wilson-Georgia Railway
and Power Company gang.
[ was sick at the time the hearing was granted
me; barely able to stand before the Committee.
My statement was therefore rough and disjointed.
had not the opportunity to properly revise and
correct it, as you will discover in the reading.
Hoke Smith undertook to prevent the printing
of the report indicating me. He able to
hold up the printing of the report and [ was
detained in Washington about three months.
There is no more consummate scoundrel in the
world today than Hoke Smith And he is danger
Gus because of his ability to accomplish wrong
He pretended that he my friend and [
counted on his support with Woodrow Wilson.
In my struggle to retain the commission of the
Gainesville office; the patrons Of the office, ninety
five per cent Of them, with me. They did
all that men and women could do to secure my
reappontment. Joseph Patrick Tumulty locked
the doors CT the White House against me, in the
interest of Jack Spalding, of the Georgia Railway
and Power Company.
The only single line file against by
patron of the Gainesville office, was written by
H. H. Dean the hired lawyer of the Georgia
Railway and Power Company. He charged that
I got up the Talu1ah Falls Conservation Associa-
ton for the purpose of getting hold of the peo-