Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-17
H0ke Smith 5 Speeches at
Ouitman and T'h0maSUllle
Stir Farmers Enthusiasm
Endorsements Given
Senator by One Big Audi
ence After Another Indi-
cate He viii Sweep South
Georgia
Rx ROGERS WINTER
fstaa Correspondent of The Journal

(StaR Correspondent Of The Journa1)
BROWNSVILLE, Ca, April To-
That the Hoke Smith tide is rising
rapidly in Georgia was plainly evil
denced by the reception accorded the
senator in Quitman yesterday morn
ing and brownsville yesterday after
noon. In both of these places he was
heard by audiences that filled the
and his friends in both
were fully confident that he would
carry Brooks and Thomas counties
as the result Of his powerful pres
entation of the issues to be settled
by the Democrats Of Georgia When
they vote next Tuesday in the pres1-
Dental primary.
Neither Senator Smith nor his sup
porters had expected he would carry
Brooks county. The town of Quit
man is not noted for large audiences
or vociferous enthusiasm when po-
Iittcal campaigns are concerned
Practically all of the organized Ell
fort put forth in the city and the
county had been on the side or AT
torney General Palmer. Contrary to
his own and local expectations Sen
ator Smith had an audience that
filed the courthouse to it's capacity,
gave him the most earnest and
friendly hearing, Endorsed unan1-
mously his stand on the League of
Nations, and promised to support
him on next Tuesday.
One of the features Of the Quit
man meeting was the Introductory
speech delivered by DR.. S. S. Gauld-
in, one of the leading physicians OF
Brooks county.
ST cannot agree with President
Wilson in his assertion in his Kan
Bas City speech a few months ago
on his western trip" said DR.. Gaul-
din that the League of Nations is
greater than our government" Here
the doctor read an extract from an
official record of the presidents
speech by way of showing that he
quoted from the text and not from
memory. .-5. u 4, ..a ... i U S.--.s 81 -.
senator ON Aggressive Y
Senator Smith was on the ag'
gresive throughout his speech
knowing that certain of his politi-
caf opponents had been active
against him in Brooks county, and
had utilized to the fullest advantage
the publications put out against
him by such papers as the Atlanta
Constitution and the Macon Tele-
graph. He went after the Brooks
county situation in hammer and
tongs style. The audience was com
posed in the main of farmers who
had come to Quitman for the spe
cial purpose of hearing him pres
ent his side Of the case. There was
also a representative sprinkling of
business mem, lawyers and other
citizens residing in Quitman. lie
cleared away the whole underbrush
of campaign Misrepresentation and
criticism, converted his audience alb
solutely to his position on the
candidacy of Attorney General Pal
mer in the light of it's weakness as
revealed in the Michigan primary
and received a unanimous vote OF
approval when he submitted thu
whole issue in all its phases.
II was forced to, enter, this cam
paign," said Senator Smith, "ta
prevent Mitchell Palmer from tax
ing to the San Francisco a delega-
ton which he would deliver UP to
Endorsement of the League of Ma
tions without reservations and de-
liver up to Woodrow Wilson for a
third nomination. I am fighting fo-
party. am fighting to prevent
Georgia from being exploited though
a false pretense of loyalty into sup
porting program that will break
the party down. If Palmer were
nominated on his platform, indors-
cry other phase Of the administra-
ton, he would be such a load upon
the party that he would break it
down, even in the south. If Presi-
dent Wilson should be nominated
the load on the party would be even
Democrats of Georgia is an indorse-
ment of a program that would cru
city, the party"
Weakness of PaImer's Position
The senator then emphasized the
weakness of Palmer''s position as
Michigan primary. He gave the
facts concerning Palmer's record in
Pennsylvania where Democratic
leaders charge him with boiling the
Democratic nomination for governor
two years ago, charge him with
boiling numerous other nominations,
charge him with costing his party
five out of ten Democratic congress
men by his gross mismanageme of
party affairs, and charge him with
forfeiting the confidence of the party
in his state by his selfish manipula-
tions and habitual desertion OF
Democratic nominees. Though not
in any way personal to MI. Palmer
the senator's discussion of the at
torney generals record was without
gloves and straight from the Shout
der.
Reviewing his fight for the freedom
of the seas to send cotton abroad in
the fall of 1914 and the spring OF
1919, Senator Smith demolished COM
pletely the charge by his enemies
friendship for the Germans. He
showed that the president supported
his position in note to Great
Britain, and that British interests
virtually acknowledged the justice OF
the protest by buying in Liverpool
ment had blocked from the neutral
ports of northern Europe.
His review of his fight against the
price fixing raid by Bernard
more effective, for the history OF
that raid was fresh in the memory
of the farmers in the audience.
Likes President Wilson
In the course of his attack upon
certain provisions of the League OF
Nations, Senator Smith took occa-
sion to say something with reference
to his relations with President Will
son. Get out of your minds the
idea that l dislike the president
said he. "In both OF his campaigns
made speaking tours for him at
my own expense, expending about a
thousand dollars on each of the
trips. [ contributed in his first cam