Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-10-26 | Page 12 | Hoke Smith and Principle

HOKE SMITH AND PRINCIPLE. One of the reasons why Hoke Smith was elected Governor of Georgia is that on the stump he "openly proclaimed his purpose to subvert a portion of the Federal Constitution on the suffrage question by fraudulent administration of the proposed State law, and gave his audiences detailed explanations of how this affair was to be perpetrated." It seems that that was enough for a majority of the Georgia voters. Hoke Smith held one of the highest appointive offices in the gift of President Cleveland. He has been honored beyond his deserts; he has repeatedly taken an oath to obey the laws of the United States, and j'et, when a candidate for office in Georgia, he openly proclaims that it is his intention to subvert the Constitution of the United States. It is not surprising that he has done that, because be-cause no man ever looked in his face and believed that he was a true man. He was given an office by President Cleveland because Mr. Cleveland wanted to convince the South that all his sj'mpathies during the war were with the Confederacy. He showed it in a thousand ways. In his veto of soldiers' pensions, pen-sions, in his appointment to office of old-time copperheads copper-heads in the North, by his going fishing on Memorial day, and by his own- photographs.