Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-08
GOVERNOR HARRIS LAUDS
WILSON AND DEMOCRACY
Speaks to Good Crowd Of
CIinCh County Voters at
bonneville
Especial Dispatch to The Journal

Especial Dispatch to The Journal
BONNEVILLE, Ca, Sept. 6.-Gover-
nor Harris drew a big crowd to hear his
address this morning here, several hun
bred voters of Clinch county turning out
to the speaking.
of Pembroke, in Bryan county, yester-
day the biggest crowd the place had
ever known More than five hundred
voters, many of them from over in old
Liberty county, were in the audience.
The governor was introduced by w. L.
Slater, solicitor general and former
representative, who delivered a glowing
eulogy of the executive.
In the audience here today were a
number of men identified with the Wat.
son following in recent years, but who
said frankly they did not propose to
follow his banner in this campaign.
In the governors address he made ref
erence to the nationaI campaign and the
cessfully answered his critics and met
the MANY difficult moments of his ad-
ministration so effectively.
"One of my opponents has asked, in
his speeches, why l have not defended
the president against the attacks upon
him and why / have not lavished praise
upon him. Had I been in any other
thar a solidly Democratic state, my
friends, there might have been soma
reasonable demand for a statement of
my position regarding our Democratic
president and his administrator, but we
are all Democrats here, I take it, and
the president needs not the praise which
which no man than 1 would be quicker
to accord him.
ut has not been my practice. my
friends, nor will it be, to wave the
American flag for the sake of gaining
cheers, and it is not necessary that
depart from the issues of the Georgia
campaign to defend a great man VINO
needs no defense among Georgians.
Perhaps if I had not a lifelong record
of staunch and unwavering Democracy
to stand upon, if 1 were aligned with an
element that is not Democratic, might
feel called upon to assert and protest
that l was Democrat. But think you
all know that l have never departed
from that faith and there is no occasion
for me to proclaim it anew"
REVIEWS HIS RECORD
The governor first took up his record
as a member Of the house and senate
for several terms and reviewed especially
his work for the cause of. education He
spoke of the Georgia School of Tech
nology, the greatest technical nstitu-
ton in the United States save one in
Boston which has an enormous endOw-
ment. He showed how he had intro
duced the bill creating it, had worked
until finally it was passed and kept
on working for it until the present He
is still at the head of the board of Lrus-
tees and is known by 10000 graduates,
in every corner Of the country,
as "the father of Georgia Tech
The governor, in speaking of his edu-
cational work, said he was a trustee of
the University of Georgia and of Wes-
leyan college. He had aided, as COVER
nor, in the passage of the bill providing
for compulsory education and free
school books for those who could not
provide them for themselves. He had in
stituted the system which pays school
teachers their salaries promptly for the
first time in years.
''As to the finances Of your state" he
said, 81 have guarded them well, and
there has been no criticism of me on
that score. The state is not down to
the bottom of its treasury. It's bills are
paid and we have enough to last until
taxes come in. The new audit system
tells you just where your money goes"