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Hoke Smith and the July watermelon campaign
The piece shows Secretary Hoke Smith touring Georgia during July to promote sound money, distributing watermelons to draw crowds, and facing backlash from the Carlisle speeches aftermath. It cites a Lamaro Mill postmaster's rebuke and Smith's counter move with watermelons.
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