The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-15
pEcKIN' ON HokE.

Whlle peckln you lie" INC 'oOP'
Your previous editorial said Sena-
tor Smith was down New Orleans
!, way"--"telling' the wool hat boys and
hill billies that they should hold their
Motion for better prices | asked you
to name those thus designated.
Now, you say those thus slurred are
1.-THE voters at home who eat corn
bread red ripper peas, and work
twelve and fourteen hours day on
the farms. ] though Won said what
you meant and meant what you said.
SO ] asked the question,-Who?
|, | knew that President Wannamak-
.er, Governor Dorsey. Commissioners
]. J. Brown, Harvie Jordan, Director
of Markets Jackson, and other of
ficers of all the cotton farmers organi-
cations interested in seeing that cot
ton brought fair price, as well as
representative farmers from all the
cotton belt were present; so just why
| you should call them wool hat boys"
and "hill billies" aroused my curiosity,
I knew that for many years before
Senator Hoke Smith either held or
| sought office, as well as since, he had
tOuEo IOuSHL lOI d
price for cotton; ! knew these various
farmers organizations so recognizing
him, had invited his address at New
Orleans. So / wondered if these men
were thus slurred at simply because
they invited Senators e. d. Smith, Of
South Carolina and Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, TO address them
You say the boys at home were
spoken to, and this is true solely fer
the reason. as y0u now say. ''it was
the sense of the meeting that the adj.
dress of Senator Hoke Smith should
be printed and distributed"
So Hoke was speaking to hill billies,
etc, at New Orleans, and these same
gentlemen are solely responsible for
the address reaching your hill billies.
etc. OF home.
With The exception of the Wall
Street panic year, these friends dosig
mated as hill billies, corn bread ami
red ripper eaters, recognizing Sena- |
tor Smiths faithful work for their in
terests so that they might not have |
to work twelve and fourteen hours a |
day in the farms, have stuck to him. !
1t is exceedingly likely they will do
so in the future
A red combed rooster stands and |
spurs: an old hen, though set'n on a |
door knob, pecks without rhyme or
reason.
My next question was as to the ire
port that Senator Smith was against
the Peace Treaty for reservations. |
ETC.. on this subject, while still peek
in,," you cant to bet on unilatterial
'set-up" as to what Senator Smith will
and will not do
Just bide wee.
This Peace Treaty was reported by
the Foreign Relations Committee only
the very day of your editorial, Sena-
tor Smith is not on that committee.
There was notparamOunt necessity for
his then being in Washington When
1t gets to the Senate floor to be de-
bated ard voted on, you will likely
hear from him, with no craw fish or
pecktn' in what he has to say.
Yes. one man who is Washing
ton correspondent for certain Macon.
Atlanta, and Savannah papers re
ported Senator Smith as being in
favor of certain reservations in the
| Treaty You admit that 'newspa-
perS have a great habit of coloring
news" Only a while back this same
correspondent reported" Senator
Smith as havlng told Il Virginia preach
err his great regret when his son-in-
! law Joined the Navy when we were at
war, was that he (the son-in-law)
might have to fight the Germans. The
truth being that this son-in-law was
| in the Navy before he ever married
| Senator Smiths daughter, long before
the World War broke in in 1914, and
! still longer before we entered the war.
Many times | have heard my good
friend, the Editor of the Dispatch say.
wait let's see if the Associated
Press; yet all these reports" find
did not come from the Associated
Press; Yet dilth csc reports" find
! easy access To the columns, and even
editorials. of the Dispatch and other
"peckin' on HOke."
did not set out TO discuss. nor will
| discuss. the merits or dement's of
the Peace Treaty and its bowels, the
League of Nations"
If nv amiable friend, We Editor, de-
sires discussion on this line. respect
| fully refer him to the very able Demo-
cratic papers of the state who oppose
it, and which are before him. notably
the Macon News" and our Secretary
of State, Mr.. Lansing. member of
the Peace Commission, selected by the
President.
The Associated Press of today re-
| ports that Mir. Built. an attache of
the Peace Commission. swore before
the Senate Committee on Foreign Re-
| :lations. that Mr.. Lansing told him that,
if the Senate and the American peos
| Pile knew what the Treaty meant it
| would he defeated" =,
But | do not say it should. u re-
! fer you to others for that discussion.
| Take down your million on what Aioke
do a