Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-06-03

fight made by me in 1908, GEORGIA BIAS
THE LATE PRIMARY, AND ALL THE
FARMERS CAN TURN OUT IN AU-
GUST TO VOTE.
In Missouri was seen the evil of the
numerical vote, counted irrespective of
territorial units. Stone was the choice
of st. Louis and Kansas City; Folk, of
nearly all the country counties-and
Stone, the gun-sh oe man, beat Folk, the
reformer. THE FACt THAT THE
COUNTIES OF GEO4.GIA STILL EN-
Joy THE PROPORTION OF POWER
GIVEN THEM BY OUR CoNSTITU-
TION OF 1877 IS DUE TO THE
FIGHT WE MADE ON The HOKES
AND HARDW1CKS IN 1908.
IIARDWICK JOINED HANDS WITH
THE CITY POLITICIANS TO ROB
THE COUNTRY COUNTIES OF RIGHTS
WHICH THEY HAD ENJOYED FOR
THIRTY-ONE YEARS. 1 fought for the
county people, and 49, won the battle.
And. of course. there are certain politi-
clans who hate me for it. I hope. how
ever. that the country folks do not share
the enmity
1t is q piece of reckless audacity for
Hardwick now to denounce me for my
position in the campaign of 1908, WHEN
THE COUNTRY COUN LES WHOM HE
ENDEAVORED TO ROB OF CONSTR
| TUTIONAL RIGHTS WILL DECIDE
THE CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST. 1
sincerely trust that every country voter
will remember who espoused his cause
and fought his fight two years ago. And
it will be but just that they recall the
fact that had Hardwick been victorious
in that combat THE COUNTRY COUN-
TIES WOULD HAVE LOST THEIR
PREPONDERANCE OF POWER.
AS tn his Dublin speech. a few words
wfS1 suffice
THAT DUBLIN SPEECH.
The substance of the congressman's
address was reported to me by a local
friend who heard it. The offensive por-
tion of 1T was THE DENIAL TO ME- OF
HONESTY AND SINCERITY. Mr.. Hard
wick virtually charged that my course
was not dictated by devotion to princf-
pie, but by malignant hatred of the
Democratic party. AS he had been reap
ing, for years, where L had sown. and
as he had pretended in private CONVEX
satfon and correspondence with me to
/ hold practically the same views for
which / have labored so long, 1 was
deeply hurt at his unprovoked attack
upon my motives. IN VIEW OF THE
FACT THAT HE HAD URGENTLY IN
VITED Me TO VISIT HIS HOME. JUST
| A FEW DAYS BEFORE HE DELIVER
| ED HIS SPEECH, IT SEEMED TO ME-
! THAT HIS CONDUCT IN ATTRIBUT-
! ING DESPICABLE MOTIVES TO ME-
| WAS PARTICULARLY INDEFENSI-
BILE. Evidently he is Of the opinion
that a gentleman has no cause to be Of
Tended whe en- one of his pretended friends
/ implicitly accuses him of being unprin-
! cip1ed and INSCRIPTIONS.
! AS to my "crazy candidacy" it all de-
ponds upon the point of view. A MA
! JORITY OF THE COUNTIES OF THE
] TENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
| 1NDORSED THAT CANDIDACY. Were
| the people of those counties "crazy?"
! Was every man who supported me in
! Glasscock. Jefferson. McDuffie. Column
bia. Warren. Taliaferro and Lincoln
| crazy.
| Mr.. Hardwick must have become
singularly obtuse If he does not know
that HIS ALLUSION TO MY "CRAZY
i, CANDIDACY" IS A FLAGRANT IN
suit TO THOUSANDS OF AS GOOD
! CITIZENS AS EVER CAST A BALLOT.
BY what criterion does Mr.. Hardwick
adjudge the candidacy to have been
| "craZy?"
1 stood for the principles of Thomas
! Jefferson and ante-beIlum Democracy.
My effort was to voice the protest of
the south against the outrageous treat
ment which we get from the federal
| government. With all my strength 1 en-
| deavored to arouse my own people 70
! the dangers Of social equality Demo
cratic candidate and to the unwisdom of
being counted, all the time, as the GER
tain asset of any one political party. We
| hemently I contended that the south
should insist upon better terms than
were accorded her in the Denver con-
| vention. THE INSULT TO THE GEOR-
CIA DELEGATION, THE DERISIVE
/ SINGING AND PLAI ING OF MARCH
ING Trough GEORGIA." AND THE
KISSING OF THE NAME OF GENER-
AL LEE WERE INCIDENTS OF THAT
! CONVENTION WHICH APPEALED TO
ME- AS PROVING HOW LOW THE
SOUTH HAD FALLEN IN THE MA
/ TIONAL SCALE.
| is OFFICE EVERYTHING?
Against the political leadership which
had brought us to that pass, 1 most ear
nestly protested; and If Mr.. HardwicE
thinks me crazy in having done so, that
fact is but cumulative testimony of his
| entire lack of the very first elements
of patriotism. In his eyes, the office is
everything-the principle nothing. In his
eyes, the men who will stay in a hope.
less minority, rather than surrender oil
barter convictions, are ''crazy." Unless
| the candidate has a chance to win the
race, he is a lunatic who richly merits
the scorn of the office-getting Hardwicks
| Judged by that rule, the three men who
met at night by the Alpine lake, ages
ago, and swore that Switzerland should
gain be free, were crazy. Measured by
the Hardwick test, every little group, in
church or state, that has STOOD out in
protest against the majority, devoting
their lives to the correction Of prevail
ing wrongs, were crazy.
Happily for the world. there have al
ways been men and women who were
so wooded to convictions that they would
live and die for an idea. That Mr.. Hard
| wick should be unable to understand such
| people is not so much his fault as his
| defect.
10. In like manner, Mr.. Hardwick tries
| to confuse the issue of veracity, raised
by him in his Louisville speech. He stat
ed that fell out with him because he
refused to desert Hoke Smith when Wat
| He meant to be understood, and was I'M