Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-10

app1ause)
"There is one great issue in this
campaign overshadoving/ all others
whether we shall ratify without res
ervations the League of Nations sent
over to us by Lloyd-George. We shall
hear it discussed this evening by one
who has stood against certain OF its
provisions like the rock of Gibraltar.
MI. Towards Speech
William Schley Howard, always a
good speaker, surpassed himself in
his introduction of Senator Smith,
in which he recited some of the nota-
BILE features of the senator's record
and denounced the methods employed
against him by his enemies.
II had hoped" said he. mot tc
appear again in any political role,
but when | saw great and distin-
guished Georgia statesman being
traGuced and lied about, I could no
longer keep silent. (Applause.(
"Georgias triplets of journalism
the Atlanta Constitution, the Macon
Telegraph and the Savannah Morning
NewS-are singing again their hymn
of hate against Hoke Smith. And we
understand the reason, for it is only
necessary to change the psychology
of the present campaign to the cam
paign of 1906, when this great
statesman obliterated a ring of po-
litical high-binders that had held the
state in an iron grip more than
twenty years. (Long and loud ap-
IF Senator Smith had accepted
the treaty brought back from Paris
and had meekly. signed his name on
the dotted line, the journalistic trip
ator Reed. They will go to any
length to get an issue against Hoke
Smith. (Laughter)
And what is the record Of this
public man whom they abuse? He
H.
structive legislation for the benefit
of his state than any Georgian IN
thirty years. AS governor and sena-
tor he has left record of public
service that cannot be blotted with
printers ink or furnished with ha--
tred's implacable abuse. prolonged
''pi-A Service In the Senate.
when the bill establishing the
federal reserve system was before
the senate, who was it that rose and
demanded an amendment increasing
the federal reserve districts from
eight to twelve, so that the south
senator from Georgia. And when
New Orleans demanded the federal
reserve bank of this DISTRICT VINO
was the man we called upon to bring
it to Atlanta? The senior senator
from Georgia. cloud applause.)
when Birmingham had Camp Jes-
up, who was it that snatched the
camp and brought it to Fort sn, MS-
When Admission had Camp Gordon,
it &C out Of their hands and brought
it to Atlanta? Hoke Smith, of Geor-
gia. applause and cheers.)
when the Republican majority in
the house and senate, hating the
south, were about to abolish Camp
Benning at Columbus, bent upon de-
stroying the greatest officers train
ing school in the world because it
was located in a southern state. to
whom did the people of that city
changed an adverse report by a COM
mittee of the senate to a favorable
report, and saved the camp. Aad
when our neighboring city, Amer
Souther Field, who saved it for them
The senior senator.
when Savannah wanted her har-
Dor deepened, when she and other
cities on the South Atlantic coast
wanted ships to carry our southern
rates from the west that would 10,
them compete with eastern ports,
who handled their case, who pre-
sented their arguments? Hoke Smith.
of course. He astonished the coun-
try and won the appropriation, won
demonstrating that the exports of
Savannah were the second largest on
the Atlantic coast, exceeded only
by New York. And the Atlanta Con-
stitution. with it's usual hatred OF
advocated by Senator Smith, disput.
ed the accuracy of his figures on
Savannah exports. Laughter.)
Work for the Farmers
THE farmers Of Georgia and the
ho IN 70 C11 iT1cr fNp
greater champion than Senator
Smith. It was he who liberalized
the parcel post, increasing the weight
of the parcels that could be sent to
the farmers and the parcels they
could send to- their markets. It was
he who delivered in the senate the
first speech in favor Of federal
farm loan system. It was he who
ing farm extension work. It was he
who wrote and passed the act estab-
fishing vocational training; 1t was
he who wrote and passed the act es-
tablishing rehabilitation for disabled
soldiers. Thousands of boys on beds
of pain today are thanking Senator
Smith for that great work.
"In 1914, anticipating our inevita-
BILE entrance into the war, he urged
preparedness; Secretary Garrison
for thinking aloud on the subject it
became necessary for him to resign
from the cabinet. (Laughter.) Then
the president issued his memorable
proclamation that we were too proud
to fight
I'm 1914 and 1915, Senator Smith
demanded the freedom Of the seas
for American cotton. Now he is be.
ing criticized for it, though he helped
to save the south from universal
liquidation, and though the president
| -
some of the senator's enemies de-
nounce the president for demanding
| the freedom of the seas? Gap.
| plause) Then came the sinking OF
| the Lusitania. and who was it that
| urged the people to be calm? Who
was it that asked the senators and
| congressman to go among their PEG.
| President Wilson. And now his enc
| emies denounce the senator for sup
| porting the president in that policy
First they denounce him for differ
| denounce him for supporting the
| president.
Senator's War Record
| "And now I want to say wore
about the war record Of the senior
senator. Less than two years ago
when 1 was candidate, my war rec.
ord as an American congressman was
put in issue, and the proudest thing
in my political career is that my
home people whom I represented ir
the national house, and all of the
counties in my old district, placed
on my record the seal of their ap
prevail.
His war record is Identical will
mine. He voted in the senate sfol
all of the war measures that I voted
for in the house. I supported thu
vigorous prosecution of the war anc
so did the senator. If you approved
my war record, which you did, yol
cannot do other than approve hi
war record.
ale voted for the bill to arm mer
chant ships; voted for the declara
ton Of war; voted for the vast bont
issue bills, having helped to pre-
pare them; voted for the food contro
bill; voted for the fuel control bill
voted for the shipping bill; vote
for the aviation bill. His service
were considered so valuable by hi
Democratic colleagues that they add
ed member on the military commit
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