Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1911 — SNAPSHOTS AT NOTABUS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Hoke Smith, New Senator From Georgia.

Hoke Smith, the new United States senator from Georgia, was governor of the state when elected to the federal legislature. He succeeds Joseph M. Terrell, who was appointed to Uli the unexpired term of the late Alexander S. Clay. Mr. Terrell, a former governor of Georgia and political foe of Mr. Smith, resigned as soon as the latter was elected. This action was unprecedented, as it has been usual for a senator to serve until his successor appeared and took the oath. Another senate record will be broken when Senator Smith takes his seat. He will make four of that name in the upper branch of congress. Never before in its history has the senate contained four Smiths. The other three Smiths are William Alden of Michigan, John Walter of Maryland and Ellison Dußant of South Carolina. Senator Hoke Smith is a native of North Carolina and is fifty-six years old. He is a lawyer by profession and was secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Cleveland from 1893 to 1896. He was twice elected governor of Georgia, his first term expiring in 1909.

Foe of Adulterated Foods. Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry. United States department of agriculture, is probably becoming accustomed to attacks on bis skill and probity as a public official. The most recent charge against him, technical violation of law, failed to disturb his equanimity, and, like the sturdy fighter that he is, he made ready answer to his foes. His friends say that the latest assault on his integrity was the result of a secret campaign waged by the in-

terests to oust the chief enemy of impure drugs and adulterated foods from the government service. Perhaps no other public servant is better or more favorably known than Dr. Wiley. His determined stand against unwholesome food adulterants has won the confidence arid friendship of the people and a sincere belief in his efficiency and honesty of purpose. Dr. Wiley is a native of Indiana nd is sixty-seven years old. He received his degree of M. D. from Indiana Medical college and then took a postgraduate course at Harvard. From 1874 until 1883, when he entered the government service, he was professor of chemistry at Purdue university and state chemist of Indiana. He is the author of several Itooks and several hundred scientific papers. I

DB. HARVKY W. WILEY.