Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-19

the nSnt Tor FEDERAL AID Tor gOOd rOadS.
They murder me because of my work
for rural credits. They murder me be-
cause L have supported every measure
proposed by President Wilson since he
was inaugurated, excepting only two
bills-the canal tolls bill and his veto
/ of the literacy test for immigrants.
They murder me because 1 voted for the
declaration of war, voted for the selec-
tive service, voted for food control,
voted for fuel control, voted for railway
control, voted for the sedition bill They
murder me because l worked for sixteen
hours a day for five months and twenty
four days assisting in the preparation of
the appropriation bills that placed our
country on war basis"
In this connection Mr. Howard pre-
Sented his audience some thrilling in
formation of general nature concerning
our magnificent progress in preparing
! for war arousing his audience to a high
! pitch of enthusiasm. ....
he gave mastery presentation of
| the arguments against the volunteer
| system and the arguments in favor of
| the selective service system, which also
struck a very responsive chord.
| He delivered tremendously effective
| arraignment of Senator Hardwick' s poll
| cy Of waiting, until Germany crossed
! the seas to invade us from Canada and
! Mexico before we lifted our arm to
! strike in defense of our. national ex-
| istence, showing the utter folly of such
/ course of action.
/ He raised storm of applause with
| his reply to Hardwick's assertion, in a
recent speech that we are not con-
cerned with the sediment of European
| boundary lines.
| Besides the above-quoted passage in
| reference to William J. Harris, Mr.
| Howard spoke also in highly humorous
| vein of that gentleman's attempt to de-
! liver great patriotic address at Blue
| Springs, near Albany, on July the
Fourth. The audience evidently had
heard about it, for they laughed up
roariously at every mention of ''Uncle
Henry McIntosh's barbecue arranged in
honor of Mr. Harris" and the trouble
that Mr., Harris carburetor developed in
| exactly eight minutes" -,.- .
Harris Campaign Fund
! He says my campaign is a complete
! collapse" said Mr.. Howard "He says
I'm not getting any crowd anywhere 1
! go. He says I'm not arousing any en-
thusiasm. But he spent $4,000 last
week trying to drive me out of the
race. If l amount to so little. why
should he worry? And if I am really
such a small fry candidate as he claims
! don't you think he ought to be bored
| for the hollow horn for wasting $4,000
| on my hopeless campaign? Why doesn't
he invest the money in Liberty Bonds
I if l am not amounting to anything in
this race? Do you know that the fed
eral law limits a senatorial candidate
! to an expenditure of $500 in a cam
paign, and do you know that he has
already gone beyond that appropriat ton
| by several thousand dollars, and that
! every dollar he spends from now on is
| a violation of the law"
Replying to the claim of Mr. Harris
that the preachers are supporting him
because of his intense prohibition activ1-
l ty," Mr.. Howard directed attention to
the members of the Harris speaking bu-
reau.
Look them over. my fellow-citizens,"
he said. You know them all-Speckled
John Bale Blue John Bennett, Pompa-
dour Bill Burwell. (Laughter) You
know as well as l do that if those three
! fellows had their way in Georgia every
hat-bottomed batteau in the state would
be floating in liquor instead of in water
(Uproars of laughter) I thought you
people here in Colquitt county claimed
the honor of having a citizen who did
the real pioneer work for prohibition
(referring to Judge w. A. Covington),
but Mr. Harris has taken the credit
away from him. Laughter and ap
plauseO He will claim anything in the
world If you walked up to him and
said you understood the Bible to say
that Gabriel would blow his horn on
the final day of judgment, he would say:
/ Why yes, I made that trumpet and
made Mr. Gabriel a present of it. He is
now supporting me for the senate q"
| prolonged shouts of laughter)
Speech Made Many Votes
1t was certainly bear cat of po-
liticaI speech" to quote the language of
a number of men who Joined in the gem
eral hub bub of congratulatiOn and COM
ment when Mr. Howard finished They
fingered in the court room and shook
hands with him. followed him down.
stairs and kept him on the courthouse
lawn. went with him to the garage
where he was having some repairs made
on his automobile. Fis friends told him
that the speech would carry Colqutt
county There were too many men to
get anything like a complete list Of
names of those who congratulated him,
but here are few:
R. G. Clark. clerk of court; DR.. c. b.
Harrell. Judge w a. Covington; Sheriff
w. w Byrd. Henry Murphy, tax collec-
tor: John A. Clark, Jr., planter; w. f..
Oneal. planter: r. NJ. Robinson, capital
list: ]. a. DeBerry, lawyer; G. K. Porter,
Miles Monk, Sr. Joel Norman, planter;
w V Snellgrove planter and many