The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-08-23

who ever held office He took the
pic" out of the State Agricultural de-
rart,ncnt, thereby giving the farmers
OF Georgia department OF real serv-
ice and not OF graft, he took the pie
OFT OF the census department and
saved the farmers millions of dollars
~ making the cotton reports accurate
and keeping them from being inflared
with linters and giving the spectators
instead of the farmers, the advantage
of fluctuations in the production. Har-
ms record shodld look rather danger
O, : t. the pie" hunters.
Eut. says Hardwick, Harris oidn t
look strong enough-Hardwck says
that. mind you, not to the voters Of
Georgia-so the political ring had to
look elsewhere. They picked out
Howard Now! There is d candidate
that ought to suit them Howard, as
he said himself i'll a speech in Attain
"a. got more military activities for
Atlanta than any other inland city in
America" There's pie for you. III
y1u want. Still those pie hunting poi
iticians were not satisfied 50 they
looked around again and found Dean.
Dean got sick and out of the race SO
they had to look around some more
Did you ever in your life see a bunch
of ring politicians so hard to suit? ?
Hardwick didn't say who the ring
politicians were supporting now SO we
can't enlighten our readers on that
important point.
What the Ring" Wants
Hardwick says the ring politicians
want a senator we'll broken like a
good horse that will stand hitched and
not buck or balk but do just what he's
told and do it quick. That is all very
we'll But the people want senator
that has got a great deal more sense
than horse and great deal more
patriotism, too, and when couven-
ton palms off on them one they don't
want, why they just send him home
next election time and keep him
there.
The candidate made one very per-
tinent remark about this time. He
said that Harris supporters were max
ing a lot of noise and that when Sep
tember 18th came people will wonder
how so few people could make so
much noise. This brilliant and origi-
volume of noise from one corner of
the courtroom, and the writer was
moved to wonder whether the speaker
wasn't right after all-at least in iso-
lated cases.
Hardwick Blows Own Horn
Hardwick now quit criticising Hair
ris and the thousands of his support
ers. and started blowing away at his
own little horn. He put up brag
about his influence in the Senate He
said that when an appointment of a
Judge for Georgia court came up
Tor confirmation, the Senate unani-
mously approved his choice, Hard
wick must have thought that his hear
crs come from long way back i'll the
woods not to know that such an ac-
ton signifies nothing. There is an
law in the Senate called
Senatorial Courtesy" by which
Senator has the right to get his own
man confirmed by the Senate whoever
he may be or whoever the Senator
may be. 1t is simply matter of form
Ii Hardwick had asked to have one of
his speeches continued in the Con-
gressional Record he would have been
granted it with no more objection.
The fact that the people thought he
must think they had come from a long
way back in the woods was evidenced
by the fact that great many got up
and left the room. They had been
drifting out, one by one, even before
this
Says Has Supported Administration
Hardwick was quick to get off the
brag stuff at this "hint" and started
expounding on his patriotism. He said
he had voted for every money bill
for the prosecution of the
war, and he worked up to so high a
pitch of patriotism that he volubly