The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-05
Hoke directs this mans think

Win man. tioiSoi w Hio P"'"' $50
people and his nation is permitted to
couplg up in the aims of President VIII
son with the socialistic aims of Jane
Adams and herilk He is permitted to
intimate that the president who stood
so strongly for force to the utmost"
for vicory at any cost, for the etern-
al maintenance of American princi-
pies of freedom and liberty and who
now stands the personal spokesman
of that unconqered and unconguer-
able freedom-that made to order ex-
cuse for an editor is allowed to connect
the commander in chief Of the Amer
lean armies with a purpose to permit
the Germans to come back" in ten
to fifteen years and "wallop" France,
eat up Great Britain and then make
the AMERICAN people stink around
the house and run away scared
scared to death! The American army
of occupation in news accounts from
Coblentz yesterday was inclined to
treat the new Rhine republic as comic
opera. This stuff dosen't deserve to
be called ridiculous, much less comic
opera. It is too rotten to be admit
ted to the home of an American cit
izen. And this is true, no matter
what his party affiliation.
Away down here in crackerdom--
the heart Of Georgia, grinding out
that kind of anti-goyernment, anti
law-and-order stuff! Think of it.
This man of deep parts from some
other part is breathing that sort of
stuff into the ears of plain Georgians,
most of them first and for all time
loyal to their government and Amer
lean established institutions. Are the
bomb throwers any worse? They
are seeking to break down establish
ed institutions and the prevailing
goYennment.
And after connecting President
Wilson with all these base motives,
this deep writer frankly cannot be-
lieve" that .the president would
write Jane Adams that he would
modify the peace terms. That being
the case, why such banefhl infer
ences?
We know who Is the "nigger in the
wood pile. 1t isn't paid republican
dope this time, that is republicans
are not inspiring it. Every line of it
is the veriest rot No man but the
bitterest enemy of the president will
ever credit him with thinking and
acting with such motives. This is
great, big voiced Georgian this time.
Let him come out in the open and
fight on principle.
We have never thought President
Wilson had wings. He is man, but
not an ordinary one. You will have
to admit that. Back yonder before the
plunge into the great war; he ran in
to two notable Georgians who had
gone to Washington to run things
their way One of these Georgians
came out in the open and was buried
The other stayed under the cover and
fought the president with all of. his
energies. He is still fighting from
cover, using worse than poison gas.
That is method which can never
win us. 1t cannot win the great
popular approval of voters in Georgia.
We have never seen a thing that
President Wilson did approved by
Hoke Smith. We never expect to see
it, and we are pretty safe in saying
nothing he ever will do will have
the sanction and approval of Hoke.
We would never have to do with
this deep stuff that is being fed to
south Georgians, were it not neces-
sary to tell our voters from whence
it is coming. Principle has been per
mitted TO have nothing to with it.
This stuff is prompted by the most
degrading, most baneful personal
spite and spleen. False and SANDER
Gus is a mild way to describe it.
We have never assumed that Sena-
tor Smith had no right to differ with
the president When principle is in