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Show TIIAT STATES1IA1J, nOIIE SMITH. . Hoke Smith, candidate for Governor of Georgia, generally approves the negro . disfranchisement scheme. What may be his object? Is not the negro sufficiently disfranchised in the South t What proportion pro-portion of them vote and have their votes counted nowt Is Hoke afraid that if he cannot arouse the old race hate there will be enough sensible men left in Georgia to defeat him! It really looks so. It looks as though Hoke was saying to himself : " I must distract the attention of people from myself. If they " knew me as well as I know myself, not one in a hundred hun-dred would vote for me. I must do something to turn the limelight away from myself." Of course, a little matter of a Constitutional amendment would no more stand in Hoke's way than would a solemn covenant made by the Mormon church to 'secure Statehood stand in the way of a Mormon apostle. - |