Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-30
HARRIS RESUMES TOUR,
SPEAKS At HAMILTON
Makes Vigorous Attack on
HardWiCk and Is Well
Received

| hAMlLION, ga, aug. te.-N lIIldHl
J. Harris, candidate for the United
States senate, in opposition to Thomas
! w. Hardwick, renewed his speaking
campaign tour, after two days recess,
! by speaking yesterday afternoon to
| Harris county voters in the Harris
| county courthouse at Hamilton
| Mr.. Harris bitterly arraigned the rec
ord of Senator Thomas w. Hardwick,
calling attention to the numerous wal
measures that Hardwick had opposed
and the numerous instances in which
| Hardwick had opposed Woodrow Wilson
and the farmers and business men. MIR.
Harris made his usual declaration that
the voters who stood up to Hardwick
were stabbing our soldier and sailor
boys in the back"
Colonel A. l.. Hardy, a prominent at
torney of Hamilton, introduced Nj.
| Harris, and the candidate was received
with applause.
MIR. Harris launched into his speech
by telling his audience that he had al
ways felt interested in Harris county
| on account of the name-Harris.'
He followed this remark by declaring
Our country is at war with the great
| est military power the world has ever
| known. But they are the most unscrup-
/ ulouS people. When we sit down to our
meals we bow our heads and thank GOD
for the food that is put before US to
nourish our bodies. But the German
! military officer, What does ne do? He
| lifts his glass of wine and says: Here's
to the day when Germany shall rule the
world! And my friends, that is the
reason we are at war today That's why
our soldier boys are over there. If
Germany should win the war, what
would happen? She wouldn't ask for
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Hill
| nois because they are manufacturing
states and Germany has all the manu-
! featuring plants she needs. But she
! would say: Give me Georgia, Alabama,
| Mississippi, the cotton-growing states.
And Germany would make you farmers
| slaves and unless you would bow eter-
nally to the monument of the kaiser,
German military guard would stick
! bayonet through you"
Tribute to Wilson
Mr.. Harris then paid tribute to
Woodrow Wilson, declaring him to be
the greatest man the world has ever
known.
when you oppose Woodrow Wilson
and Woodrow Wilson is not a mere man
he is the commander-in-chief of your
army" said Mr.. Harris, you are stab
bling your soldier and sailor boys in
the back and you can't make anything
else out of it.
Bitterly arraigning Hardwick's rec
ord, which shows that he opposed prac-
tically every measure designed to push
the war to a hasty and successful con-
clusion for our country, Mr.. Harris
said: II want it understood that l am
not denouncing any one in this race.
That is out of my line of business.
Every candidate in this race is saying
false things about me. 1t is hard Tor
me to stand it all sometimes. But |
have conducted my campaign on high
plane. | have RETAINED from mudsling-
ing" Hardwick's bills that provided for
the discharge of all American soldiers
the day they were thirty-one years old
and that would have restrained Amerl-
can soldiers from fighting on foreign
soil were scored by the speaker, who
again declared: IF the kaiser had been
seated in the United states senate he
would have voted for those bills and
would have prayed God for their pas
sage, because he knows they would
have done more than any other meas
ures to help his country win the war.
Iardwick's action in boiling the Demo-
cratic caucus and otherwise opposing
passage of the shipping bill brought
forth the remark from Mr.. Harris that
his actions along this line had cost the
farmers in Harris county alone $780,
900.
His Own Record
But I'm not running for office on
Hardwick's poor record" said the
speaker. Don't vote for me unless you
think l can do moEe for your soldier
and sailor boys. more for your com
mander-in-chief, for your business ana
agricultural interests.
You folks don't know anything
about me You have been reading these
false statements that have appeared
daily in the newspapers. l am poor
man and lost every dollar 1 had saved
four years ago.
But 1 felt that you people needed
me in the United States senate. l sac
rificed a good position in order that
could help to bring your soldier and
sailor boys back to their mothers and
bring my three brothers, all in the war.
back"
Mr.. Harris then went into a review
of his own record.
"All through south Georgia you will
find that the people are going to vote
for William J. Harris because they know
he is going to stick up to your soldier
and sailor boys and to your commander
in-chief," the speaker said. And Il
wouldn't make the race If the soldier
and sailor boys were not for me.
"I used my influence to get Schley
Towards brother a job in the census
bureau and during the entire time that
SchIey Towards brother was under ME.
Schley Howard was prais1ng me as one
of the biggest men in Washington.
"Mr Howard is a good man and \
loyal man, bat he talks too much and
he sometimes doesn't care whether he
tells the truth or not j. r. Smith, the
Atlanta contractor, is against me and
all the other contractors who are MAX
ing. money out of army contracts are
against me. They know they can't
dictate to me-"
Mr.. Harris then repeated his state
ment about Tom Hardwick riding into
office on the coat tails of Tom Wat
son, Woodrow Wilson and others; made
an attack on Emmett Shaw and Newt
Morris and drew a mental picture as
to what would happen if the kaiser and
Woodrow Wilson could vote in the
Georgia primary.