Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-06
H. H. PERRY, CANDIDATE
FOR THE UNITED STATES
SENATE, ADDRESSES THE
VOTERS OF STEPHENS
COUNTY.
(From The Toocoa Reoord)

(From The Toccoa Record
Judge H. H Perry. of Gainesville
who is a candidate to succeed Hon.
A. O. Bacon in the United States SEN
ate, addressed the voters of Stephens
county in the court house last Friday
during the noon hour recess.
Judge Perry was introduced to the
audience by Colonel Claude Bond who,
among other things. said:
Il have had a great many pleasant
relations with Judge Perry during my
association with him at the bar and
otherwise ! have heard a great deal
said about his character as a gentle
man and about his private life, and
have never heard anything said against
either. He is clean, Christian gen
tleman. so far as l know or have ever
heard But you have known that fact
longer than I have, and it is useless
for me to try to tell you anything
about Judge Perry's life. OF course, 1t
would be but natural that we people
in this section of the state who have
lived near him all our lives and know
something about his character, and
know 1t to be good and know some
thing about his ability as a statesman
it would be but natural that we should
feel inclined to support him for any
office to which he might aspire.
don't know a man better qualified to
occupy a seat in the United States SEN
ate than Judge Perry. We all reCog-
nize him az one of the ablest men we
have in the Northeastern circuit. He
has represented his home county in
the legislature and in the senate, and
don't believe he has ever asked his
home people for anything that he didn't
get, and now that he is asking the
state, l think that we here can call
ourselves his home people, take
pleasure in introducing Judge Perry
Judge Perry then spoke in part as
follows:
Friends and fellow citizens: I feel
complimented by your presence here
today and I thank Colonel Bond for
his kind words. I only wish l was
one half worthy of them but inasmuch
as he has seen fit to refer to me so
kindly. it will always be an inspira-
ton to me to so live as to be worthy
of such words
"Gentlemen, I am not an office seek
err and have never been one all my
life.
The people first elected me, and that
put me on the firing line. l began to
study public questions, and ! saw what
a grip the money power had on things,
and I saw that the time had come when
the people of America must break il
up. So I have been deeply interested
in the great fight that has been going.
on to preserve the ideals of American
citizenship. We have seen the money
power-the special nterests-dominat-
ing our councils in Washington, and
often our state legislatures We have
seen them build up through their agents
in our very midst a great standing ar
my to do their bidding. until it looks
as though government by the people
had persisted from the earth.
Nov, back in 1916, in the Revolu
tionary days our forefathers resisted
foreign oppression with heroic hearts,
and shall We their descendants, calm
~ sit back and submit to the DONNA
ton of money aristocracy? Is the dan
ger any less because it is within our
gates? Now, as then, the oppressors
heel is on our shore, and I can not
see how any man can fail to do his
share in this great struggle that is
now on from the Atlantic to the Pa
cif1c
q am not talking through my hat
There is not a thinking man in the
United States today out what recog
nizes that we are at a juncture in our
affairs Even President Gary the pres
ident of the great steel company, the
greatest corporation that ever existed
in the history of the world said in
speech in New York that unless the
leading men of the United States would
go TO work and find a remedy for the
evils of the day, in a few years Amer
lean institutions would be swept away
by revolution.
I'VE saw recently that great strike Of
the mill operatives in Lawrence. Mass.
where women We're shot down in the
streets. and where the military was
brought out to control the strikers, that
President Gary was right, and that rev
olution is certainly what we are coming
to unless these~evils are made right.
The governor of Ma sachusetts came
out in a card and it is published in
the New York papers, in which he APP
pealed to congress. and said that the
people who work the hardest are paid
the least. and that unless congress re-
duced the cost of living by taking off
the high tariff on the necessaries Of life.
they were facing a revolution and dis
turbances all over the United States
said he. These people, working hard
from one weeks end TO another are
unable under the present conditions to
earn anything like a living on account
of the high prices produced by your
tariff and I appeal to congress TO re-
duce it There * not a thinking man
in the United States today but sees
what we are face to face with, and is