Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-16
TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA:

ident Wilson asked : the people of
| Georgia to vote for Harris. In a
telegram to w. j. Harris President
Wilson assured the people of Georgia
that the Government would not in
terfere with our cotton and upon this
political and moral contract the peo-
pie of Georgia nominated w ]. Har-
ris for IT, S. Senator, well knowing
that he was weak man indeed for
this high Office, and was not the
choice of the people, but the fiasco
of the President.
We had faith in President Wilson's
promise to protect cotton planters
against the spinners and spectators
of the North and of foreign countries,
but in three days after Harris was
nominated on this issue, President
Wilson on tn e14th day of September
issued an order directing the War In
l>dustries Board to look into the cotton
situation, stabilize grades and dis
tribution, and If necessary in the
opinion of this unfriendsly board of
Yankees to the South, to fix the price
of cotton and place it under Govern
ment control.
Cotton dropped from 80 cents to %
| cents per pound; millions were lost
to us and thousands of people have
been hankrupted, sacrificed and ruin
| ed. The political and moral contract
| made with Harris and President
Wilson at the September primary has
been broken and is void, and the peo-
| pie of Georgia are now free to act
| and vote as they please in the Noyem-
| Der election for United States SEN
ator. If the President had kept faith
with us on this promise all the peo-
pie in Georgia would be glad to car
| ry out their part of the contract, but
as the President did not keep his
| promise he made in that telegram to
| Harris all the people of Georgia will
| be dislOyal to themselves and their
section if they do not resent it and
elect an independent Senator; and
| fight this unjust and outrageous move
on the part of the Administration to
sacrifice the product of our land la
| Dor to foreign trade and unfriendIy
| interest.
| for one, will opposed it with all
the strength of my soul and being.
The farmers of Georgia are with me
and the lCud-mouth politicians, I'M
scrupulous newspapers and powers to
be can not and will not fool them
again on the first Tuesday in Novem-
| Der.
Mr.. Wilson is a great President. he
| is powerful liar and the best
scholar that has lived since the days
of John the Baptist. He holds the
reins of the Government as no other
man has ever held them When he
pops the whip the Wheels turn or
| the traces break, and we are with him
whole soul and body in the winning
of the war; but, he knows nothing of
the cotton conditions in the South He
| should not hurt US now if he would
not help u.s. in 1914. and has no right
| to dictate the local politics of Geor-
| gia against our judgment and against
our interests. If President Wilson
has not made another political prom
Use with the power to be to sacrifice
| our cotton for political preference in
| doubtful sections for the November
| election, and cares for the interest of
! the people of Georgia and the South
who have served him and his party
| as faithfully as slave could serve
| his master for fifty-three years, why
don't he settle this cotton question
and Keep his promise in that Harris
| telegram He could do it in one day
and save US millions of dollars and
veXation Of spirit.
! A Il ,iY7;e
traticn is against the cotton market,
The farmers of the South are being
made philanthropIsts of to finance
the cotton seed oil mills and other
great interests unfriendly to us.
There is but one reason for this
we have been solid for one party UNI
til we have no political standing in
national affairs. Shall We keep our
hears in the same yoke? If so, we
deserve no better.
No farmer in Georgia has been able
to sell ton of cotton seed since the
September primary. They are scat
tered from the gins back to the far
mers, piled in heaps and are rOtting
og the rhol sands all on acco nut of
unjust dIscrlrn ntions against the
farmer at TIE nc! critical tine in
the history of our being, and the pro-
test of ncmocratiC Senators seems to
be of no avail.
The Macon Telegraph and some
other Newspapers in Georgia that
either know or care nothing of these
conditions, have continually advocat-
ed the price fixing of cotton, but after
I made my announcement on this is
sue, John w. Bennett of Waycross,
in preparing Little Willie's" speech
of acceptance at the Macon Conven-
ton had Little Willie to say for the
first time that he was opposed to
Government price fixing on cotton.
John Bennett is a brilliant Georgian
but he took all the thunder out of
The Macon Telegraph when he made
Little Willie" say this last Thurs
day; but he did not say that he OPP
posed the Government stabilizing
cotton as instructed by President Will
son in the Official U. s. Bulletin of
September oath.
Don't you know Harris will not
oppose anything the President ia
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