The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-28
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT
6. H. WILLIAMS, OF DUBLIN, announces
CANDIDACY FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR
ADVERTISEMENTS
10 THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA

40 THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA
I am a candidate for the United
Wtates Senate to succeed T. w. Hard
wick and to defeat w. ]. Harris.
In q letter to Clark Howell, Prest
Aent Wilson asked the people Of Geort
Gia to vote for Harris. In telegram
to w. J. Harris, President Wilson as
gured the people OF Georgia that the
Government would not interfere with
moral contract the people of Georgia
nominated w. ]. Harris for U. S.
Senator, well knowing that he was
weak man indeed for this high office,
and was not the choice of the people,
but the f1aSco of the President.
We had faith in President Wilson's
promise to protect cotton planters
against the spinners and speculation
OF the North and of foreign coun-
tries. but in three days after Harris
was nominated ON this issue, Presi-
dent Wilson on the 14th day of Sep
tember issued an order directing the
War Industries Board to look into the
cotton situation, stabilize grades and
distribution, and if necessary in the
opinion of this unfriendly board of
Yankees to the South, to fix the price
OF cotton and place. it under Govern
ment control.
Cotton dropped from 35 cents to 20
cents per pound; millions were lost
to us and thousands of people have
been bankrupted, sacrificed and ruin
ed. The political and moral contract
made with Harris and President Will
son at the September primary has
been broken and is void, and the peo-
pie of Georgia are now free to act
Der election for United States Sen
ator. II the President had kept faith
e1th us on this promise all the peo-
pie In Georgia would be glad to carry
out their part of the contract, but as
the President did not keep his prom
Use he made in that telegram to Har-
ris. all the people of Georgia will be
disloyal to themselves and their sec
ton it they do not resent it and elect
an independent Senator; and fight
this unjust and outrageous move on
the part Of the Administration to sac
xifice the product of our land labor to
foreign trade and unfriendly interest.
/, for one, will oppose it with all
the strength of my soul and being.
The farmers of Georgia are with me
ana the loud-mouth politicians, I'M
ecrupulous newspapers and powers
to be can not and will not fool them
again on the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der.
Mr.. Wilson is a great president, he
81 powerful man and the best schol-
ar that has lived since the days of
John the Baptist. He holds the reins
OF the Government as no other man
has ever held them. When he pops
the whip the wheels turn or the
traces break, and We are with him
whole soul and body in the winning
OF the war: but, he knows nothing Of
Che cotton conditions in the South.
He should not hurt us now II he
could not help us in 1914, and has no
wight to dictate the local politics of
Georgia against our judgment and
AGAINST our interests. If President
Wilson has not made another politi.
cal promise with the powers to be to
sacrifice our cotton for political pref
prence In doubtful sections for the
November election, and cares for the
interest of the people of Georgia and
the South who have served him and
his party as faithfully as a slave
could serve his master for fifty-three
years, why don't he settle this cotton
question and keep his promise in that
Harris telegram? He could do it in
one day and save us millions Of dol
lars and vexation of spirit
All the world knows this Admins
tration is against the cotton market.
The farmers of the South are being
made philanthropists of to finance
the cotton seed oil mills and other
great interests unfriendly to us.
There, is but one reason for this-we
nave been solid for one party until
We have no political standing in ma
Sional affairs. Shall we keep our
beads IN the same yoke? If so, we
deserve no better.
No farmer in Georgia has been able
to sell a ton Of cotton seed since the
september primary. They are scat
tered from the gins back to the farm.
ers. piled in heaps and are rotting by
the thousands, all on account of un-
Just determinations against the farm
er at the most critical time in the
history OF our being and the protest
Ct no avail.
The Macon Telegraph and some
other newspapers in Georgia that
either know or care nothing of these
conditions, have continually advocat.
ed the price fixing Of cotton, but after
I made my announcement on this is.
sue. John w. Bennett, of Waycross.
IN preparing Little Willie's" speech
ton had Little Willie" to say for
the first time that he was opposed to
Government price fixing on cotton
John Bennett is brilliant Georgian.
but he took all the thunder out Of
the Macon Telegraph when he made
Little Willie say this last Thurs.
Gay: but he did not say that he OBJ
posed the Government stabilizing cot.
ton as instructed by President Wilson
IN the Official U. S. Bulletin of Sen.
TENDER gath. ICY
Don't You know Harris will not OBJ.
pose anything the President favors?
Don't you know that statilizing
cotton means cheap cotton?
Don't you know that every agency
and committee appointed by this Adj
mlnistration in connection with the
ton and cotton seed is being useS
CeSs the price?