Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-18
HARDW|CK SAYS HUGHES
WAVED BLOODY SHIRT
Georgia Senator DenounCeS
Candidate for Trying to
Stir Up SeCtionaIiSm
BY RALPH SMITH.


! WASHINGTON, u. c., Aug. 10
Charging that Candidate Charles e.
Hughes is seeking TO stir the passions
and prejudice in certain sections of the
country ''by waving the bloody shirt
and CRYING aloud the south Is i'm the sad
die" Senator Hardwick today addressed
the senate in reply to Hughes speech at
Butte. Mont. last Saturday in which he
charged that the Democratic party is
dominated by sectionalism and naturally
favorable to pork barrel legislation.
The senator declared that if Hughes
Is acquainted with the organization of
congress, as he processes to be. he must
know that both Craftsmanship and MEM
bership of committees in both houses
are not constituted along sectional lines.
He pointed out that the rule OF seniority
applies In both houses and in both par
ties.
IF southern senators and southern
representatives have received many re-
sponsible committee assignments said
the senator. "it is simply because of their
long service and not because of their
residence in any particular section OF
the country"
ONLY NATIONAL PARTY.
Senator Hardwick declared that the
Democratic party is in fact the only
national party in the republic, because ii
has in both houses representatives from
every SGGNluu u the NOuhNANs anu AAOAn
almost every state. He said a casual
examination of the minority representa-
ton on committees shows that an even
more sectional situation would arise in
congress II the Republicans should win
the election. Not a single Craftsmanship
would be held by the south, he said
"If the Republicans come into power "
ne said, two of the most important
committees in the senate-appropriation
and judiciary-would be held by two SEN
ators from a single western state, so
small in wealth and population as to
suggest a pocket borough Yet 1 will
not descend to that level because know
full well that the two distinguished SEN
ators from Wyoming, to whom allude,
would be chosen for their places not be-
cause they represent a small western
state, but because of their long expert
ence and distinguished service"
Mr.. Hardwick said ii was beyond him
to understand why the republican presi-
Dental candidate cannot be equally can
did and fair and that the only hypothesis
that accounts for his attitude is a de-
sire to wave the bloody shirt by ap-
pealing to sectional passions and preju-
dices.
ENEMY TO HIS COUNTRY.
81 had thought that the day for this
sort of performance, north or south. ha
passed forever" he said. "It had SEEM
ed 10 me IndL once more we ndu a re-
united country and a homogeneous pep
pie. and that the man who would under
take, in the north or in the south, TO
relight the smOuldering embers of Sec
tional prejudice, was not only not a
broad-minded American patriot but was
an enemy to his country and a foe to
its truest interests
The senator declared that the day for
this sort OF performance north ami
south. has passed forever. He recalled,
with pride, and recounted with spirit,
the patriotism of the south during the
Spanish-American war, dwelling upon
the fact that the first American life
given in that war was that of a gallant
young North Carolinisn. He referred TO
McKinley's speech to the Georgia legis-
lature at close of that war, proclaim
ing the death of sectionalism and the
rebirth of a nation. He recalled the
patriotic utterances of both Roosevelt:
and Taft on this question.
''Ah. Mr.. President" he said, when
you call all of these things and when
recall the proud-spirited, high-strung,
long-suffering people of my own section
anxious to feel that they are in fact at
peace forevermore with their brethren
and that they are indeed welcome back
in the house that their fathers built and
when 1 recall the brave just and gene
EOuS people OF every state IN the north
and west, who have extended the live
branch in good faith and who DO not
approve Of these attempts to revive ami
rekindle sectional hatred, then 1 cannot
help but feel that any party that would
teach the American people to hate each |
other is not fit to serve the American
people and is not worthy of being trust |
ed by the American people, and L can |
not help votes would stoop to appeal to |
not big enough or brave enough in heart
or in mind, TO be a worthy president of |
the whole country and of a reunited peo- |
pie