The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-06-14
HARRIS GOT ANSWER
7OH|S ATTACK ON
JUDGE iii NORRIS
Is Advised To Look For Job
To Which He Can Be
Appointed

MA. Morris appeared in the Atlanta
Sunday papers.
Marietta, Ca, June 8, 1918.
Hon. W. J. Harris, Kimball House,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Dear Sir: j notice from the daily
press that in your CrawfOrdville
speech, this week you had quite a lot
to saw in criticism of me, and, as !
have seen no reputation by you of
the press articles, presume you were
correctly quoted.
"You state that Judge Morris call
ed upon Governor Dorsey to enter
the race, and l presume that Gov
ernOr Dorsey told him. as he had told
hundreds of others, that he would not
oppose me-"
"To the charge that called upon
Governor Dorsey and solicited him to
run for the senate, plead guilty, and
if he should enter the senatorial race,
if there is any other job to which you
can get appointed in Washington, you
had better get you "a "flivver" and
make a bee-line therefor and not stop
on the road long enough for How
ards wood-peckers to locate you.
A Challenge 'i.' -5 q
"Only a short time ago you were
very energetically endeavoring to get
before the public the conversation
and correspondence between the pres
ident and Congressman Howard in re-
gard to Howard's entering the race
for the senate Now if you will dis
play little of the same sort of en-
ergy and join me in getting Governor
Dorsey to give to the public just what
he said to me in that interview to
which you refer concerning your can
didacy for the senate, | will give 500
to any Red Cross Chapter in Georgia
that you will designate.
GAS to my going to Washington: l
have never gone there to confer with
anyone on matters political, but dur
ing the time referred to by you, you
have done practically nothing but run
backwards and forwards to Georgia
in the interest of your own candidacy,
do not know of convention which
has been held in Georgia during the
past year that you have not "butted
in" on, when at the same time you
we're drawing $4,000 salary from
the government and supposed to be
lookinf after important business for
it.
"You also charge that / got control
of newspaper recently. l SIMPLY
bought stock in a paper which you
then held and now hold stock, but this
paper is not supporting you in your
race for the reason that it is acqualnt-
ed with you and knows that there are
at least one hundred thousand men
in Georgia more capable and better
qualified to represent this great state
in the United States senate than you.
AS To Congressman Lee
'You further state that l announc-
ed that | expected to run against
Congressman Gordon Lee, who had
Loyalty supported the President, IN
peace as we'll as in war Onthe Zotn
day of April, 1917, when the militia
ry bill was under consideration
which provided that an army should
be raised by volunteers, Congressman
Kahn, at the instance and request OF
President Wilson, offered an amend
ment striking out volunteer" ana
providing that an army be ralsedoy
the selective draft system; on the
call of the yeas and nays, as appears
on page 1434 of the congressional
record, Hon. Gordon Lee voted against
this amendment.
This was the most important meas
ure before Congress since the peglh-
ming of the war, and one that( the
President urged most earnestly 70
have passed; Congressman Lee show
ed his loyalty by voting against 1t.
"Mr. Lee at other times showed his
loyalty to the President by voting
against the woman suffrage Dill
which he urged to have passed, and
which was passed by the house; ne
also voted against the bill to prohibit
the sale of whiskey in Washington,
which was also passed in spite of his
vote. This is only part of what the
record shows as to Mr.. Lees loyalty.
You are doing. Mr.. Lee very great
injustice by trying to load him dSwn