The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-23
SCRAPPY CAMPAIGN FOR
SENATE OPENED SATURDAY

structure of the country and to dis
rupt business.
Consumption as a means of raising
an army he opposed because his
honest conviction was that the ma
jority of American people believed
this would be a naval war, but when
men were necessary he adhered to
the principle of using the regular
army first, then the national guard
and then volunteers. So long as he
could he opposed going into the war
st all, but when Germany fired on
our people and our flag and we had
TO go TO war to preserve the self
respect of our nation the question Of
method was one which he had ex-
/ ercised the dictates of his conscience
and taken no orders. That same pol
icy he has followed in all his courses
and will continue to follow. The peo-
pie did not send him TO Washington
! to take orders ard be a messenger, he
said, and he recognizes no master
( save the sovereign people of Georgia.
Paying his respects to w. J. Har-
ris, whom he referred TO as Badly"
Harris, he said that opponent has
T PROMISED the people he will go to the
white house every day to see what
! the I1esident wants DONE but Mr..
Harris will be in a powerfully bad
fix if the president dies, or, anyway,
when the presidents term ends.
"The sole cause of our engagement
in the war is the vindication of Amer
lean rights and honor and the pro-
lection of the people who live under
/ our flag, and when anybody tells you
it has to do with European bounda-
! ries they lie,' he said CHOSE who
tell you we are in it to make the
world safe for democracy are mis-
taken, else we were slackers and cow
ards when Belgium was butchered,
! when Alsace and Lorraine were bled.
/ We are fighting for American rights
and nothing else"
The senator charged that there is
something behind the opposition of
the newspapers to him. The people
1 Of this country have been paying 2
cents for every letter and 1 cent for
every post card they mailed for forty
years. The newspapers we're getting
a rate of 1 cent per pound. AS a
wan measure President Wilsoa want
ed to increase revenues by increasing
Ithe postage rate ami had sent for
| Senator Hardwick, asking that he
take the bull by the horns" and
straighten it out. The senator, after
letter postage had been increased so
per cent and post cards rates 100
per cent, sought to get something
/ out of the newspapers. For years,
| he said, they had been grating S70,-
! 100000 a year out of the pockets
of the people, that much being made
+ out of the letter postage and lost on
the newspaper postage. Senator
Hardwick sought to raise the newspa-
per rate and Immediately howl went
up against it and they turned against
him. They were simply grafters, he
said, all of them.
Caution was given the farmer
element on the control bill now pend
ing, which Senator Hardwick says he
will fight to the last ditch, as he did
the wheat price bill and all other
food control.
The voter Of the cities and the
towns, he sCjd, are the people OF the
state who believe in 'toe-kissing and
! bowling to one man bossism," but in
the country districts they "are indie
pendent, hberty-loving, free-thinking
AncI leans. ~. is there" he said,
they say the dover OF Tom Hard
vicE's strength hes, ard that's the
. -easo on.