Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-20

ed worse than diSloyal Nardaman, treat
ed worse than disloyal McLemore,
treated worse than disloyal Slayden.
AS my party leader, 1 have supported
MIR. Wilson from the day he entered
the White House down to this good
hour [ stood on the floor of the house
and denounced the supporters of the
Cowardly and infamous McLemore reSo>
luton. l came to Georgia and replied
TO Hardwick in the summer of nine
teen seventeen at a time when no other
public man holding elective office in
this state had opened his mouth.
have voted for every single one of the
war measures advocated by the presi-
dent | have labored with all the
strength of my mind and body as a
member of the appropriation commit
tee, getting ready the great war bills
10 finance the operations of the army
and the navy.
And then at the moment when l was
winning and Harris was losing they
tried to take away from me the honor
[ had won by a clean, straight fight. But
the people of Georgia still wear their
hearts where an honest man can find
them. They still believe in decency and
fairness. They still stand by the fun
damental right of state to elect its
own representatives to the national con-
gress and they are not going to stand
1or the cold-blooded murder of a loyal
man at the hands of a discredited po-
litical trickster like Clark Howell
Is Given ovation
AS Congressman Howard closed his
case the audience let loose a volley of
applause that seemed to shake the build
ing. A blind man could have seen that
they were going to render a verdict in
his favor They knew him and liked
him before he started and they liked
him more and more when they had lis
tened to his wonderful appeal.
Viii Carry County
That Howard will carry Epson county
overwhelmingly was the opinion express
cd on every hand as the big audience
poured cut of the courthouse. The race
in Epson has been a contest between
HardwiclI on the one hand versus How
ard and Harris on the other. The
speech here today turned the trick FOR
toward. He could not have had a bet
ter audience and no man could have
made a more powerful campaign speech
than he delivered in an hour and forty
five minutes. Hundreds of men over
whelmed him with congratulations and
assurances of support.
And the triumph he scored at Epson
this afternoon was simply repetition
of the Talbotton meeting except on 4
larger scale. Here is one instance Of
the votes he made with his Talbotton
speech: An elderly gentleman came up
TO him with moist eyes and took him by
the hand and put his arm around Mr..
Towards shoulder. I'm going to vote
Tor YOU boy" said he. Il came here
intending to vote for Hardwick. but
now I've changed my mind. l want
10 tell you that here's one whose going
to put a ballot in the box for William
Schley Howard
Scores of men at Talbotton told Mr..
Howard they had come with undecided
minds, but now they were going to vote
for him. His friends were jubilant and
full of confidence that he would carry
the county. While in Talpotton num-
Der of Marion county citizens urged
him if possible to make another date
for Buena Vista, where he was prevent
ed from speaking Friday night by
cIoudburst that caught him at Ellaville.
Hardwick spoke at Buena Vista Friday
and the anti-Hardwick leaders want Mr..
Howard to go there and take the hide
off, the junior senator, as they express
ed IT.
Game as a thoroughbred in fighting
spirit and keyed to a powerful pitch
of campaign enthusiasm and confidence,
Congressman Howard pulled out Of
Thomaston late this afternoon to spend
the Sabbath resting at home and Mon
day morning he will launch another
week of hard work and haTd fighting.