Pike County GaArchives News.....Pike Voters Have Smith Rally August 18 1906
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The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Georgia, August 21, 1906

HON. J. M. STRICKLAND DIVIDES TIME WITH RUSSELL SPEAKER--SMITH CLUB FORMED.
WILLIAMSON, Ga., Aug. 18 -- On last Monday Judge R. B. Russell spoke to a crowd 
of about 150 voters at Williamson, Pike County, while yesterday the Hon. Hoke 
Smith supports mustered twice that number at a rally for their candidate.  A 
delightful community barbecue was served and several speakers engaged.  None 
came except Hon. J. M. Strickland, of Griffin.  Several hundred voters greeted 
him and for more than an hour he held their intense interest, and at the 
conclusion of his address he polled the crowd and nearly to a man they stood 
and pledged themselves to Hoke Smith.
After this, as is the custom of the Russell followers, they insisted on one of 
their speakers being allowed to speak, and it was arranged for Hon. J. J. Flynt 
to speak for thirty minutes for Judge Russell, and he was to be followed by T. 
E. Patterson, a Hoke Smith supporter for thirty minutes.
When Mr. Flynt's thirty minutes was out he did not wish to stop, and announced 
that he would continue in the road, and went out into the road and got into a 
buggy.  He was followed by 20 or 25 men, a few boys and 20 or 25 negroes who 
were in the crowd.  This caused so much commotion that the voters paid no 
attention to any further speakers, and the meeting was broke up.
HOKE SMITH CLUB.
A strong Hoke Smith club was formed, as follows: 
We, the undersigned white voters of Pike county, favor the nomination of Hon. 
Hoke Smith for the office of governor of the state of Georgia, and hereby 
pledge ourselves to give him our support and to use all honorable means to 
secure his nomination.

J. F. Nipper
J. H. Parker
J. S. Thomas
J. J. Cook
J. W. Williamson
J. L. Cole
G. C. Martin
J. F. Allen
E. L. Dingler
R. W. Hale Jolly
F. W. Steger
W. L. Beauchamp
J. H. Ballard
Hick Wood
A. P. Dickinson
T. E. Drewry
J. B. Bevil
C. L. Huckaby
F. L. Smith
B. A. Moore, Jr.
B. A. Moore, Sr.
R. R. McLeroy
R. S. Ballard
M. L. Ballard
B. Z. Alin
Andrew McGehee
B. S. Alin
N. J. Slade
H. D. Huckaby
B. C. Wilson
W. D. Terrell
Jas. C. Collier, Jr.
V. L. Collier
J. W. Milner
J. C. Irvin
E. L. Hooten
J. C. Hudgins
J. R. Buchanan
W. J. Segrams
J. H. Shackleford
J. S. Kendrick
N. H. Wilson
E. H. Baker
W. L. Thrash
E. T. Green
J. E. Nichols
W. J. Barnett
J. I. Bootring
Ellis Moore
J. S. Sullivan
A. J. Cochran
E. M. Crawford
D. S. Allen
R. C. Pogue
G. H. Green
R. B. Crawford
J. B. Driver
B. G. Allen
G. Pryor
A. R. Pryor
D. W. Story
W. W. Banks
M. S. Bullock
W. F. Gresham
J. H. Mitchell
R. P. Wallace
J. R. Pitts
J. H. Hudson
D. P. Black, Mayor Concord and county commissioner
N. Phillips
J. W. Harrison
A. V. Hudgins
L. J. Green
J. B. Hunter
J. B. Hunter, Jr.
T. C. Sullivan
T. B. Lyon
J. C. Wood
E. W. Carroll
G. E. Dominick
D. B. Nelson
M. G. Harrison
R. S. Dupree
S. W. Dunn
H. J. Smith
A. J. O'Neal
J. C. McGehee
M. D. Nunnally
J. A. Allen
D. W. Miams
J. C. Peters
H. E. Grisham
S. M. Sapps
J. T. Baker
Jesse Clark
W. E. Drewry


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