Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-09-08
SOUTHERN WOMANHOOD

.ernor. has been squarely marked by
I'continued charges that the issues
Ihe squarely as to-a Confederate Vet
eran and Southern Womanhood. To a
conservative Georgian who desires to
do justice to all concerned, it would
be folly to discuss the matter for one
moment.
Chivalry is synonymous with the
South, and there is not Georgia who
thinks otherwise.
Hugh NJ Dorsey is being posed as
the protector of Southern womanhood;
the epitome of all that is good. high
and noble; the everlasting song of the
"sumum bonum"; yea a chiyalric
character whose sworn duty should be
his credentials as governor of the great
state of Georgia. Bosh! Pooh! Alas
and alack!
The idea is ludicrous, comparing
the brilliant young" prosecuting at
torney who convicted man for MUIR
DER on cireumstantial evidence, and a
Confederate Veteran.
When the campaign managers and
admirers of Dorsey repeatedly publish
in their Atlanta morning organ that
Dorsey and his nomination means
protection for Southern womanhood"
they so far leave the fields of truth as
to make their cause childish, forlorn
and sickening.
The idea of imputing such as their
intimation do-to such men as Gov
ernor Harris, DR.. Hardman and JOS
eph E. Pottle Neither one of these
three men have candidacy born of
blood, passions and prejudice.
The Macon Telegraph tells a deep
and thoughtful story in the following
excerpts from an excellent editorial
in their yesterdays paper:
1.-THE time has passed in Georgia for
the injection into control of the poll
tics of this state of the hand of Big or
rather Corrupt Business with selfish,
INSCRIPTIONS ends to serve, organiz-
ing carefully the issues of the dema-
gogues to wheedle and swindle COM
for its servants from the
mass of the people. 1t has lately
passed. but it past. The day is coming
now of the cleaner men, the more pa
triotic men, the real issues, the con-
structive forces and the redeeming of
the state from its educational 1neff1c-
iency, its sad marketing inefficiency
and all the things that have been neg
leeted by public servants in the past
because they have been so busy serv
ing private matters.
Dorsey is the last of the line. His
is the last attempt in Geor-
gia to seize the reins of government
by private interests through appeal
ing to the passion and prejudice OF
the people. 1t is what Blease is doing
in South Carolina-but what Dorsey
Is falling to do in Georgia. Harris is
the winner, and yes-we say It'll
proudly. not furtively, nor slyly, but
gladly and truthfully-he is the man
to beat Dorsey with. Pottle has a good
many counties, counties that may be
depended on to stay with him. This
day and the next one is the day for
Hardman, Pottle and Harris men toI
get together, decide on Harris and
pass the word down the line in their
counties that the Democrat precedent
O! election and endorsement by re-
election to another term must not be
broken in Georgia, except under a
good deal more provocation than has
been furnished in this instance. The
time is short and the victory is sure.
Hugh NJ. Dorsey will never be Gov
ernor of the state of Georgia Some
day South Carolina will see the light
and Blease will find the chief office in
that state too high and holy for him
and his kind. In the meantime we
must all put our shoulders to the
wheel and bury this candidate whose
only appeal is that he hanged a guilty
Jew, that his victim was little girl
and young, that his line of right to the
Office is hangman's moose, his foun-
dation for approval the trap door of
gallows, his crown of achievement the
black cap of the condemned.
THAT may go in South Carolina
gentlemen-that sort of thing. But not