Show S SENATOR HOKE SMITH This very terse statement nt of fact is is from th the NEv York Sun At At last time the lion Smith has consented to ac accept pt a transfer from Atlanta t to h. h The Senates Senate's eri te te S 'S loss is Georgias Georgia's gain Hoke e Smith is is a good deal liko like most of us usa usa us- us I a good fellow if everything goes his way war But the moment his ideas are arc crossed then he wants Avants to I smash something In that respect he would make a. a t good runn running ng partner for Theodore Theodoro Roosevelt nith ith the the difference c Hoo o ey a ft n 1 k Jy l. fj i. i e ff fJ b- b bYm Ym For Georgia's Georgias comfort no no doubt there thero AVUS sa fas fa's a joyous election of f him to the senate j for 5 reputation it would have been better for Georgia to bear the ills which she has tas and not make it possible pos sible for lor the to say What brigands and bulldozers those Georgians must be Look at Hoke Smith Before the war ar the so south th had some very splendid did men in in office Think of Alexander Stephens and and old man Toombs They Ther wot would d have hav-c been great in m any country We Pe presume that they have ra m 1 Georgia the same saume class of men today but those men mendo mendo mendo do not choose to servo serve their countr country When the tide comes in in from the thc deep sea it frequently brings in driftwood and other debris which catches and aud holds on n to The piles which support support support sup sup- port the The rhe same thing seems seems to have haAe happened when the tile tide of the civil war cams came rolling roiling in and then rec receded ded an and since then Georgii Georgi 1 s seems ems to have haAe picked her officers officers for for the f deril service service a at from enst least from tho driftwood around th piles Hoke Smith is one of these floaters In Iii Inthe the old days he would have been satisfied with a janitors janitor's position a around the steps of his own tates tate's s 's capitol Now he lie want ant nothing g less than thant t z membership in that t bod body V called tt United States senate enate And despite the the improvements improve improve- ments being made mad in Georgia agriculture despite the he great advance in Georgia cities despite th the St lid hard s sense nse i is the of of l ians some of the i men theY end away to represent lepre sent them are a wound upon their state Hoke Smith Sinith is is a good enough fellow as the average man mangoes mangoes mangoes goes but he never had llad one high thought i in his life and the limit of his vision is about bounded by the die state lines of Georgia When the world becomes civilized enough a afree afree afree free people will Avill only elect such men men mento to represent them as w Avill ivill ll be an an honor to the state and the safety of the state in in any great emergency No doubt when he was AVas elected senator and the legislature adjourned as the tile members went Avent home homo they said saW I what the tho man in Michigan said when he lie returned from the funeral of his mother in which was A Thank God I There is is that much done don |