The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-18


it was not Hardwick who told the truth
in reference to that promise to use his
influence with the Governor in the effort
to change the death penalty in the Glover
case to life term in the penitentiary.
Hardwick uses the expression Swat
son hints" so and sol never deal in
hints and every word that | said about
the matter is hereby repeated-Hard-
wick's dare to the contrary notwithstand-
ing (The visit of Gov Smiths son to
Watson's home. Watson declined to sup
port Gov. S. for Senate.) In his frantic
efforts to escape the consequences
of discussion which he brought
upon himself by his uncalled-for at
tacks on me in his speeches, he has
been trying, and is still trying, to drag
Drawer men into the row to do his fight
ing. He would like the best in the world
to get up another fight between Hoke
Smith and myself, in order that he might
identify himself with the Hoke Smith
supporters and have an opportunity to
trade votes.
When he came in that grandstand
manner, accompanied by brass band
and imported partisans to address the
good people of Thomson, what did he
have to say in behalf of his own record?
What aoork for has people could he sho,o
that he has done during the eight gears
that he has draaOn such magnificent
salary? What is 1T that he has done for
his country, or promises to do If he rs
reelected to Congress? 1t was along
that line that the people of McDuffie
county would have been more deeply in
terested than in his scurrilous abuse of
their neighbor. They wanted to hear him
state what he had done in Congress. They
were disappointed. They wanted to hear
him explain what he intended to do for
the country if he was reelected. Again
they were disappointed
The intelligent men and women of that
crowd of my neighbors must have been
disguised aohe7 he spoke of coming to mig
front yard to deliver his TRADE of abuses
and when his language was so violent
that he had to apologize to the ladies.
AS everybody can see, his statement was
equivalent to saying that had Mr.. Ed
WiIkerson and Mr.. John West asked him
to invade my privacy and insult my fam
lily, he would have done it-"So help me
God!'
The Congressman who stoops that low
Is uO CIuo IL representative VI Cho OOCcoA
element of Thomson, of McDuffie county
and of the Tenth district. 1t has not
been IN mig poaoer to loaoer Hardaoick so
much as he loaoered himself last Sotur-
day. The exhibition he made of his lit
tIeness, of his spleen, of his venomous
temper, of his evasion of the most serious
charge against him, and his utter failure
to present any plan by which he intends
to benefit the country have silenced some
of those who before his coming were
loudest in his praise, and have driven
away from him many man who went
to hear him speak, expecting to support
him for reelection.
Now let me beg the good people of the
Tenth district to forget all about me, my
personality, my career, my mistakes, my
faults, and concentrate their minds ON
the true issue inUolued IN this campaign.
Let every man soberly consider within
himself whether he will vote for a man
whose private life reeks with moral filth
and whose public life is barren of fruit
age. In telling the people what I have
recently learned about Hardwick, / feel
that civic duty has been discharged.
roll the responsibility off of mig oeom
shoulders, and put 1t on the hearts and
consciences of the good men and true of
the Tenth district, aoho aoiU decide this
contest.