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Show HOT TIMES IN OLD GEORGIA.' Things are getting very warm in Georgia. The quarrel commenced there on high grounds some months -ago, but it has degenerated into personalities. personali-ties. Now Dorsey, Brewster & Howell, attorneys f r the Southern railway, acting for S. D. Demsey, have brought suit against Hoke Smith, former Secretary Sec-retary of the Interior, and candidate for Governor, to recover $1000, out of which it is alleged Hoke Smith defrauded Demsey in settling a case which the latter had against the railroad. Albert Howell of Dorsey, Brewster & Howell, had charged Hoke Smith iin a card with defrauding Demsey. Hoke Smith retorted that if Albert Howell swore to the charge he (Smith) would put Howell in the penitentiary peni-tentiary for perjury. Howell's answer is the sui. Albert Howell is a brother of Clark Howell, editor of the Constitution, and also candidate for Governor. He published a card which contains a vile charge against Hoke Smith. One-paragraph will show the character of the card, as follows : "The first time I ever heard of him his name was reeking with the slime of so foul a scandal that fond mothers stopped their daughters' ears when his name was uttered, and idle schoolboys, vying with one another in vulgarity, wrote his name on back fences and outbuildings. From that to this his name has been the synonym of selfishness, duplicity, .hypocrisy and cowardice. Today he stands branded in the columns of the public press and in private letters by eminent citizens of Georgia, who have exhausted ex-hausted the range of English adjectives from razor-back razor-back to hypocrite and from character assassin to common liar in their efforts to correctly characterize character-ize this swaggering swashbuckler with whom no man's reputation is considered sacred. No pen can paint the pitiful picture of this captious charlatan, ; who has never in his life been consistent save in the discord he has sown and the ruin he was wrought."- There is more of it, but that is enough. In the j old days this kind of thing would mean in Georgia that somebody was-going to be killed, and it is a clear case that if it is the truth somebody ought to be killed. "When Hoke Smith was a member of Mr Cleveland's Cabinet, every stranger from the "West who ever saw him obtained the impression that in his appointment Mr. Cleveland was determined to get someone who would never overshadow himself in point of ability or courtesy, and the most vivid recollection that anyone ever brought away with him was of the size of his feet. Hoke's head-piece never impressed a stranger half so much as did his foot-pieces. foot-pieces. "We suspect no one will be killed in Georgia over (him, and still it is an interesting suit. The only serious feature about it is that the party who named Hoke Smith for Governor can't be very much better than Hoke himself is. |