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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1906
Page
4
The fragmentary OCR reads The Constitution JB Shed Daily Sunday Tri weekly Fort FC. No coherent event or names. summary constrained by readability.
The column aggregates broad political debate in Georgia, noting figures like Hoke Smith and Tom Watson, editorials on education and suffrage, and national figures like Roosevelt and Edward VII. It references the Georgia constitution and educational qualifications, plus local notices and a hotel and theater listing.
A polemic argues voters should apply consistent motives to all figures in the Hoke Smith disfranchisement issue. It analyzes Smith, Watson, Hardwick, and opposing Georgia leaders on motives, sincerity, loyalty, and past actions, urging readers to weigh genuine public service versus self interest before voting.
Georgia political row centers on Captain Barnes charges that Watson once worked for the Republican Party. The Atlanta Journal and Watson-Smith Organ are accused of suppressing news to protect the Democratic Party’s Georgia voters ahead of the next Wednesday ballots. Barnes presses Watson with pointed questions about past visits to Republican headquarters and alleged “between-season engagement” with Democrats, urging clear answers to avoid overthrows of the party.
The report notes 1880 182 per 100000 1900s 117 and 1908 101 paupers in almshouses, with 71764 in the last year. Decline partly due to housing mentally and physically defective poor in hospitals or asylums and growing rational charity focusing on self support and family placement for destitute children. It also discusses race nativity patterns among inmates and aging concentration, with 59.7 percent over 50 and more foreign born whites in older age groups.
Albany Ga August 18 Special As an example of the campaign of falsehood and trickery by The Atlanta Journal in supporting Hoke Smith and Tom Watsons candidate for governor the Journal published a three column article claiming 300 voters formed a Hoke Smith club and that only about 300 votes were cast in ordinary elections actual count shows 247 names many not eligible or in county some not signed or authorized With 210 votes estimated for Smith in this county and 1 086 registered voters the piece notes confusion over ex populist leaders support while Dr C W Arnold a republican reformer advocates Smith through cards and urging votes for him
A Georgia broadside denounces Hoke Smith's disfranchisement plan as a grave injustice to illiterate white voters while warning that educated Black voters would gain, citing Allan D. Candler and Rev Dr Landrum. It claims Virginia's experience under disfranchisement proves the danger to white voters across Georgia.
A spectator reports a Decatur rally for Hoke Smith for governor with Reuben R Arnold Sr and John Clay Smith speaking. About 150 attended, including Clark Howell and Dick Russell supporters, with a brass band drawing crowds before speakers.
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