Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-09-12

board ever created by CONGRESS-, anu
gave up a salary of $4,000 year, so
as to come back home and enter the
, senatorial race.
No other man in the history OF
Georgia public life has ever taken
such a chance. Others have resigned
their present positions to run for
other places, but none have given up
what Mr. Harris did
His personal character being unas-
sailable, the opponents of Mr.. Harris
and in the ultimate they made
themselves opponents Of the admins
tration-could not attack him on that
score, and so they adopted the mean
and spiteful plan of belittling him and
| ridiculing him. But at this they went
too far-the people could not be fool
ed. The people knew that man who
had been selected by Mr.. Wilson for
two highly important and response
BILE appointments, and who had made
distinguished records in each, and
who could rally to his support nearly
every newspaper in Georgia and
thousands of splendid, prominent cit
liens. could not be other than an able,
worthy man
AS for Senator Hardwick, after he
had thus adopted the course of an
tagonizing the administration and the
president, ne proceeded to go just as
Ear in that direction as he possibly
could C0viuasly laying the basis for
sI-aight-cut anti Wilson and anti
administration campaign. In playing
politics he fC got all about patriotism,
and BY his votes and conduct did ex-
act,v Whit d representative of Ger
many IT. the United States Senate
would have done To that extent Sem
ator Hardwick was disloyal; hot
that he was actually in sympathy
with Germany, but the effect of his
votes and speeches and demeanor was
such that it conceded with the pro-
German view. This was distinctly
incompatible with the well-detined
loyal spirit of Georgia which has
been demonstrated in scores of ways,
and when Senator Hardwick sought
to set up his policy as the one which
Georgia endorsed he brought on the
issue of Loyalty versus Disloyalty.
Loyalty won! 1t was typifed and
personfed in w. ]. Harris, and it be-
came all the more so when Presi-
dent Wilson, believing that Georgia
was in a crisis, appealed to the people
Of this state to support him, and told
them that they could not do so in
any better way than by electing MI
Harris. This remarkable tribute to
MIR. Harris was truly notable and I'M
Drecedented No other candidate in
the United States has received such
an endorsement from the president.
There were times when it did seem
| that the loyal vote was in danger OF
DIVISION, because of the ill-timed and
unfortunate candidacy of William
schley Howard, who was put into the
race bv coterie of professional pol
ticIans and who did not have the
courage himself to withdraw after he
realized his mistake.
For that matter, the Hardwick ele-
ment was noisy and created an i'm
preston that they were more numer-
GUS than they really were. They were
liRc the grasshoppers under the
fern" of whom Edmund Burke
wrote, who made the fields ring with
i their chink, while thousands of great
cattle reposed beneath the shadow OF
The oak. chewed the cud and were sill
ent. Pray do not imagine, said
Bmke, that they who make the noise
are :hc only inhabitants of the felu
....... they are simply the loud and