Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-07-12
GOVERNOR SLATON WRITES
RED HOT CARD TO VOTERS
Candidate for Senate Charges HardWiCkI With Political
Incompetence" and Fielder With DGSGrOn ! HaFdWiCk.
and Fielder Away From Their Posts When Needed By.
State and Nation, Says the Governor.

as books and letters. His access to
the markets of the world was his in
alienable right
Mr.. Hardwick advocated only the
parcel post bill espoused by the Ex-
press Companies.
1t limited the privileges of the PEG,
pie; it promised something and gave
nothing. 1t deprived him of a privi-
lege that any good government was
due its people, and that any citizen
had a right to demand. 1t meant real
and not sham progressiveness.
The Democratic Congress repudiated
Mr.. Hardwick's position, and, thanks to
them, passed a parcel post law that
benefits every man, woman and child
in the United States, whether he live
in city, town or country. 1t is a good
law, and his opposition to it deprives
him of any rightful claim on the vote
of single man in this state.
Thus we find Mr.. Hardwick is
against the interests of the people
and opposed to the principles of his
party in the two most important mat
ters of legislation of recent years. He
was the pronounced enemy of the Cur
rency Bill, and the pronounced antag-
onist of the General Parcel Post Bill.
He expresse no repentance but,
clinging to his blunders, now asks that
he be placed in the United States
Senate, Notwithstanding the menace
of his opposition to them both.
While applauding President Wilson
when it means votes for him, he op-
poses him when his vote would aid
the President in measures of supreme
importance.
If he thinks them wrong, it is his
duty under his oath to move to re-
peal them both, and place the people
of this country in the position they &C.
cupied prior to their passage. Will the
people of Georgia submit to this &C.
ton? Will they elect man with
such pronounced principles in antag-
onism to the President, to the Demo
cratic Party, and to the beliefs of the
citizenry of the entire State of Geor-
gia? He is the embodiment of the re-
dictionary in the most hateful form.
These positions eliminate him from the
contest.
Surely Mr.. Hardwick has not read
the Georgia Tax Equalization Bill.
1t specifically provides the most
powerful remedies for reaching Cor
porate and invisible property, and ir
the county of Fulton one corporation
alone, through the laws effectiveness,
increased its returns on notes and &C
counts nearly one-half million dollars.
presume Mr.. Hardwick in his last
card does not refer to Public Service
Corporations, because the law provid-
ing for their taxation is far more dras-
tic than the Tax Equalization Law. The
power was placed in the hands of that
gallant Georgia Confederate soldie~,
VIM. A. Wright, the Comptroller-G Gen
eral of the State, to assess these prop
critics, and in one year he increased
their returns $32,0Oo000, and since
1880 Gen. Wright has increased Their
returns from $12,OOO,OOO to $13S,OOO :
00O This power of Gen. Wright should
nct be lessened.
The Constitution of the State con-
tains mandate written by Gen. Robt.
Toombs which requires al property to
pay proportionately Mr.. Hardwick,
aspiring to the lifty position of U. s
Senator, opposes the fundamental law
of his State. He assaults the bill which
simply seeks to carry out the Consti-
tuition and provides in it's execution
for simple justice to all. He accepts
the brief of the tax dodger" and de-
cilnes to make him aid in bearing the
burden of his neighbor. He believe
that those who escape their just obi
cations for the maintenance of the