The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-08-23
EDITOR MARIETTA JOURNAL:

Did you see the Constitution Oh
Tuesday?
/ did.
found interesting reading matter
in it, too.
For instance, l read an account OF
Bill Harris speaking at Alpharetta
on Monday.
That was SOME article! l read it
carefully. read it carefully twice
Then read it some more. Then clip
ped it and put it in my scrap book!
Why? Because it was "some" piece
And the article under the Alpha
retta date line must have quoted Bill
correctly. Quotation marks were US
ed: besides had it not been the Gospel
truth. the Constitution would never
have printed it.
AS you know, Mr.. Editor, candidate
Harris is signing for seat in the u
nited States Senate, like those old
bows of ancient times sighed for the
fleshpots of Egypt, except moreso.
Bill has ceased to sigh-he's gone to
hollering But with all the noise Bill
is making, his noted lady-like mod
esty still bobs up serenely to the sur
face. It's like Banquo's Ghost-it
Just wont stay down.
For example, Bill is quoted in the
above referred to article as saying Of
his brother in France:
"He has been right in the thick Of
the fighting, and has probably done
more of it than any other Georgia
boy now over there"
Those are Bills own words as quot
ed by the Constitution, and | know
Bill must have used them, for old Miss
Nancy (The Constitution is like the
Father of our Country in at least one
respect-it refuses to tell lie!
Therefore say Bill must have used
those exact words.
Listen to them again! "He (Bilps
brother) has been right in the thick of
the fighting, and probably has done
more of it than any other Georgia
boy now over there!
Mr.. Editor, inthe chaste language
of the Hon. Bunk Cooper, "My God"
! wonder if these other Georgia
boys whose names we read every day
in the Constitutions casualty lists
have not done some fighting them
selves. Some of them are dead and
some are mortally wounded, some are
missing, some are captives in the in
human hands of the Germans-worse
than dead, perhaps. What more could
be expected of these Georgia boys
who have given their all for the great
cause of Freedom, and whose bones
may be bleaching on the desolate
plains of France!
Has Mr.. Harris brother done any
more fighting than these dead heroes
of the old red hills of Georgia? If so
Gen. Pershing has been derelict in
making note of the fact in his reports
to Washington.
Mr.. Editor, no doubt Capt. Harris
(Bills brother) is brave and good
soldier, but l believe he himself would
resent, with a soldiers honest heart,
these boastful words of his brother
Bill. do not believe he would say:
"That is right. l have donemore fight
ing than any Georgia boy over there,
more than Bill Tate Holland, or Lind
ley Camp, or Tom Patton, or Tommy
Tompkins, or Jamie Corley, or Glenn
Giles, or Stanley Read, or King Aw-
trey, or Mercer Phillips, who laid his
life down at the bloody Marine, or a
host of other Cobb County boys, and
boys from every other county in the
state of Georgia"
No, Mr. Editor, Captain Harris
would not say anything of the kind.
He is too good soldier for that! He
probably would say to his brother
'Bill, always knew you were fool,
but why do you humiliate your family
with such boastful and foolish TALK"
That is about what Captain Harris
would say to his weak brother Bill.
"YOU KNOW WHO"
(Yes, Lawson, we know who you
are, and we know who Bill Harris is,
or what he is.
Every time he strays aside and says
anything not in his regular piece that
has been approved by his managers
he gives himself away.
But he wont say it many times be-
fore they run him down and tell him
to cut it out, like they did when he
started to telling the people about his
having as much influence in Wash
ington as any twenty-five men.
Don't worry, the people will attend
to Bills case or the 18th of Septem-
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