Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-20
He Speaks to 700 People at
ThomaSton and to Over 800
at TaIbotton, Winding Up
His Most Successful Week

THONIASTON. Ga. Aug. 1.-Two
more brilliant campaign triumphs were
scored today by Congressman William
Schley Howard in speeches at Thomas
ton this afternoon and TalbOtton this
morning. The audience mere, which
filled the magnificent new Epson county
courthouse to overlooking. was said &c
be one of the largest ever gathered in
that structure. Estimates ran from
seven hundred to thousand. Owing
to tire trouble, MIR. Howard arrived
here one hour and thirty minutes be-
hind his schedule, but the audience
waited and gave him one of the great
est ovations of the whole campaign.
At Talbotton, this morning. he spoke
to all audiencc of nearly three hundred
in the Talbot county courthouse and
they would vote for him with keen de-
light and perfectly clear conscience.
The fact that Clark Howells iutel
ference in the senatorial race has made
Congressman Howard a great deal
stronger candidate than he was a week
ago is now established beyond any ques-
ton or dispute. In the present week
he has delivered no less than twelve
speeches, beginning at Macon and run
Fayetteville, Hampton, Zebulon, Ro'
berta, Fort Valley. Montezuma, Ella
ville Talbotton and Thomaston. No
where this week has he encountered the
slightest trace of disco m n
among his friends. Nowhere this week
has he been able to discover by frank
and careful inquiry single trace of
growing strength for William j. Harris.
Nowhere this week has he been told
that Editor Howells interference has
damaged him at all
On the contrary, everybody tells him
that he is gaining and Harris is losing
and the size Of his audiences coupled
with the warm receptions he has been
accorded bears out the fact.
Effect on Harris
So far as William ]. Harris is con-
cerned, it is now generally conceded
that the Clark Howell letter has placed
on his shoulders a dreadful load from
a campaign standpoint. If Towards
record of loyalty could be attacked on
n single point, the Harris situation
would be totally different. but the How
ard record is above reproacn and every
body knows it. And the presidents attl-
tude heretofore was strictly neutral be-
tween loyal candidates.
So far as Thomas w. Hardwick is
making 1t powerfully hard FOR the farm
era ct Georgia to cast their ballots for
the Junior senator on the eleventh of
September His attack on the junior
senator's record with regard to meas
ures affecting the agricultural interests
of the state is growing in power as the
DAYS flash by like mile posts past a
RAPIDLY moving train And his attack on
the Hardwick war record Is likewise
making it extremely uncomfortable for
any Who think they may cast their bal
lots for the junior senator.
The senatorial campaign is now en-
tering the home stretch. All of the
candidates undoubtedly feel the strain
of their arduous labors and the fright
full weather. Howard feels it to a de-
gree; Hardwick showed it Friday night
when he rolled up to Ellaville; Harris
has been resting several days TO recu-
Derate his strength. But while it eats
ND the last remaining atom of physical
endurance for William Schley Howard
10 make n speech owing to the hard
and trying schedule of three a day, has
driving power as a campaign orator
is growing every day. The speeches to-
day at Thomaston and Talbotton ware
certainly as good as any he has made.
In many respects they went beyond any
previous efforts.
The Issue Is Plain
THE issue on the war is simple and
plain" said Congressman Howard, in
opening his barrage at Thomaston this
afternoon, "either we are going to throw
into this struggle the ultimate resources
of our great strength and wipe the Hun
off the face of the earth; or we are go
ing to make a dishonorable and dis
graceful peace and pay indemnities that
will weigh upon the backs of our de-
scendants for three genera tons; or we
are going to wait and hold back AMI
live in a fools paradise and finally
stretch our necks to receive the yoke Of
Prussian autocracy."
Then he presented the senatorial
issue in equally plain and forceful Ian
guage. The question for you TO de-
eide" said he. lis whether you are
going to allow Clark Howell to advise
the president whom you should send to
the United States senate"
Declaring that Hardwick and himself
were the only two candidates with any
public record, Congressman Howard
SAID: II am going to show you farm
ers that you cannot cast your ballots
for Senator Earowick unless you are
simply detevm ned to have a man who
has always been the enemy OF your in
terests. 1 am going to show you that
Hardwick's FOLEY of prosecuting the
war would have raralyzed the arms OF
this great nation. if a majority of his
colleagues in the senate had supported
his position. Then l am going to show
YOU my record of absolute and I'M
swerving loyalty to my country my
party and my president. And finally, for
dessert I will blow of the foam and
have something left about the size of
maraschino cherry IN the person of Will
liam J. Harris"
Instantly tho audience broke into
volley OF applause.
Pursuing the lines laid down in his
opening remarks. Congressman Howard
thereupcn proceeded TO show the farm,
ers in the audience that Senator Hard
wick, as he expressed it, has always
given them stone when they asked
nim for bread. He showed them that
when their farmers union asked him TO
give them the parcel post FOR the spe-
c!al benefit and advantage Of the agri-
cultural and rural interests. Senator
Hardwicl gave his support to the ex-
press companies that were fighting the
parcel post and maintaining powerful
lobby in Washington.
Hardwick's Votes
He showed then that when President
Wilson and Sec. McAdoo asked Senator
Hardwick to give them an appropriation
to purchase eighty-one ships for the car
rage of cotton to foreign ports in the
fall of 1914, at the very time when
southern farmers we're flat of their
backs and facing bankruptcy, Senator