Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-11-03
10 THN PnoPLR on QpOR0IA

i AIN D CAnUAO1tG AOt IAc ChA'OV
states Senate to succeed T. w. Hard
wick and TO defeat w. J. Harris.
In q letter to Clark Howell, Presi-
dent Wilson asked the people Of Geor-
gia to vote for Harris. In telegram
to w, ]. Harris, President Wilson as
sured the people OF Georgia that the
Government would not Interfere with
our cottcN and upon this political and
moral contract the people OF George
Senator, we'll knowing that he was a
weak man indeed for this high ofice,
and was not the choice of the people,
bat the fiasco of the President
We had faith In President Wilson's
promise to protect cotton planters
against the spinners and speculation
OF the North and of foreign coun-
was nominated on this issue. Presa-
dent Wilson on the 14th day Of Sep
4ember issued an order directing the
War Industries Board to look into the
cotton situation, stabilize grades and
distribution, and II necessary in the
opinion Of this unfriendly board OF
Yankees to the South, to fix the price
Of cotton and place 1t under Govern
ment control
Cotton dropped from IS cents to 20
cents per pound; millions were lost
to us and thousands OF people have
been bankrupted, sacrificed and ruin
ed. The political and moral contract
made with Harris and President Will
son 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 Novem-
Der election for a United States Sen
ator. II the President had kept faith
with us on this promise all the PEG
pie in Georgia would be glad to carry
out their part Of the contract, but as
Ehe President did not keep his prom
iee he made in that telegram to Har-
rts, all the people OF Georgia will be
disloyal to themselves and their sec
ton II they do not resent 1t and elect
an independent Senator; and fight
this unjust and outrageous move on
the part Of the Administration to sac
rtAce the product of our lan0 labor to
foreign trade and anSrt0adly interest
I, for ons, will oppose 1t with all
the strength OF my soul and being.
and the loud-mouth politicians, I'M
scF1lpulous newspapers and powers
to be can not and villa not fool them
again on the FIRST Tuesday in Novem-
Der.
Mr. Wilson is a great president, he
Is a powerful man and the best schol-
Ar that has lived since the days Of
John the Baptist. He holds the reins
OF the Government as NO other man
the whip the wheels turn or the
traces break, and we are with him
whole soul and body Ia the winning
of the war; but, he knows nothing OF
the cotton conditions In the South.
He should not hurt Us now if he
could not help us in 1914. and has no
right to dictate the local politics Of
HA~PWSa fIRA
against our interests. If President
Wilson has not made another politi
cal promise with the powers to be to
sacrifice our cotton for political pref
erenes 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 IS a 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 dol
lars and vexation of spirit
All the world knows. this Admins
tTation 10 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 until
we have no political standing in ma
tiOnaI affairs. Shall we keep our
heads 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 farm
ers, piled in heaps and are rotting by
the thousands, all on account of I'M
just determinations against the farm
or at the most critical time in the
history of our being and the protest
of Democratic 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
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 no made
Little Willie" say this last Thurs
day: but he did not say that he OPP
posed the Government stabilizing cot
toa as instructed by President Wilson
ID the Official u. s. Bulletin of Sep
TENDER Path
Doa't You know Harris will not op-
pose anything the President Havors?
Don't you know that statilizing
cotton means cheap cotton?
DoR't you know that every agency
and committee appointed by this Ad-
M4nAs&Fation in connection with the
c9e@A and cotton seed is being used
to Ge@Reas the price?