The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-12
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! tOTial III lnlS paper dpouI the ai'ii
| ing lack of party support Senator
Smith nlaniiests for democratic is
sues involved in the present admins
tration's effort to bring peace to
the. world. ......-.....
liz. .sss4ty poho fun at the editorial.
That is his privilege. He has no ar
guments, just some questions that
he axis, but in the asking has another
purpose than the asking of questions.
Judge Crum wants to know who are
the hill billes" and the wool hat
boys" Senator Smith addressed at
the big cotton meeting down at New
Orleans the other day.
We know Them RE knows them,
too. They are the voters back here at
home, boys who eat corn bread
and red ripper peas and work twelve
to fourteen hours a day in the farms
Senator Hoke was speaking to them
intending political fences among the
boys by whooping up cotton. None of
the "hill billies' and the wool hat
L. l. h
went to New CLEANS wore high collars
long tailed coats and shoes that liter
ally perspired under the effects Of a
high concentration of polish. But
Senator Hoke was speaking to the
hill billies" and the wool hat boys"
back home We have had the impress
sion that the senator ought to be
speaking to them,-1or doing some
thing in Washingtno so loudly that
they could hear him working These
same chill billies' and wool hat
boys" will be after him some of these
days and they will want to know why
he couldn't help his party put the
peace treaty through the republican
opposition in the senate at time
when all the world has its eyes on the
work of democratic administration,
at time when failure means party
ruin.
The fact that Governor Dorsey
presided over the New Orleans
meeting did not have a thing to do
with Senator Smiths effort to gain
political strength at home by attend
ing at cotton meeting even If it
was far away in New Orleans.
Three hundred thousand farmers,
if there are that many in Georgia,
will have an opportunity to read the
address They will get it, of course,
because il was the sense of the meet
ing that it ought to be printed and
distributed.
We are asked to say who has re
ported" that our senior senator from
Georgia is opposed to the peace
treaty. The majority of the Sunday
papers out TO Macon, Atlanta, and
Savannah carried the story last Sun
dsy. From these we gathered the
report" and so credited it as re-
port. because newspapers have a
great habit of coloring news.
We are not going to say it is so, but
we will go set-ups with anybody who
wants to take issue that Senator
Smith will not say now, or at any
time say, write or publish that he
intends to vote for the ratification Of
the peace treaty,-that he will never
be caught doing one single thing to
help his party accomplish this great
est of all word missions, We could
pledge million dollars each for
every led -blooded effort he has made
in support of party issue or party
measure in settling the world war
and bringing this country back to
normal, and never be in danger of
losing a dime. Do you not think he
ought TO - speaking to the wool
hat b vs.?
Georgians. plain, average, everyday
people. hundreds of thousands of
them, want the peace treaty ratified
and normal conditions to return. Some
of them do not know that Senator
Smith is one of the STALLED" demo
Gratis who Jest naturally will be