Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-16
HOWARD DECLARES
HE Is IN SENATE
RACE TO FINISH

CONTINUED from Page -
Iaski, Johnson, Monroe, Dougherty,
Jones, Houston, Mitchell, Spalding and
! Putnam.
On arriving here Congressman Howard
found a number of kilograms from va
| rjous sections of the state, urging him
to continue in the race and assuring
him that his friends were more err
! thusiaStic in their support than at any
| time before.
Mr.. Towards Speech
Congressman Howard, after thanking
Colonel Feagin for his generous intro
duction, and thanking the audience for
coming out to hear him, spoke of the
tender sentiments in his heart for the
city of Macon.
out yonder in Rose Hill cemetery"
said he, sleeps all that is mortal of
my father. Mulberry Street Methodist
church in this city was built under the
pastOrate of my grandfather. Here in
this city my late first cousin, the Hon.
Augustus o. Bacon, was honored many
! times by an affectiOnate community
mo man in public life in Georgia
since the Civil war has been more cruel
ly and brutally mistreated by some
newspapers than | have been. They have
viliied, abused and misrepresented me.
And finally l have been bludgeoned in
an effort to drive me out of the sena-
torial race But this is nothing new to
me. Take the Macon Telegraph 1t is a
pity that wonderful city like Macon
should be afflicted with the crowd of
journalistic partisans who are operatin;
that newspaper. applause and cheers
| One of the speakers preceding me has
said that George Long, the editor of
| the Telegraph, is Canadian Stacker. I
do not know as to that-but l do know
this, that when he went to make appli-
cation for naturalization papers, and
they asked him whether he was willing
to return to the land of his nativity
(Canada), and enter the military service
thereof, he answered NO. And / am in
formed that he is right now in the city
of Washington trying to escape the
military service of Canada under our
treaty with that country.
II voted for law in congress to
throw around the boys in training camps
an iron band of moral protection, be-
cause l believed, as all men believed
in congress, that the mothers and fathers
Of this nation were entitled to have
their precious sons safeguarded from
debauchery and disease. And when the
federal authorities began cleaning up
the cesspools of vice in this city, this
Macon Telegraph editorially ook the
side of the Macon vice district and
espoused the continuance of this menace
to the health and good morals of the
men in training al Camp Wheeler
ct hope some day you will have a
decent morning newspaper in Macon
edited by journalist of honor and self
respect l have never fought a man
from ambush, and | have never fought
unfairly, and | do not object and have
no right to object to the editorial op-
position of any paper that treats me
fairly. L want to take this occasion fl,
this city to thank the Macon News,
which has opposed my candidacy in
high-toned and honorable way befitting
the lest traditions of southern journal,
ism. The only trouble with you boys
(walking over to point in front of Mr.
Simmons and Mr.. Bayne, and looking
down at them with a beaming SMILEY is
that you are trying to blow life into
political mummy when you espouse the
cause of William j. Harris"
The audience responded with a hearty
laugh in which Mr.. Simmons and Mr.
Bayne Joined unreservedly
Yesterday morning at sunrise 1 wa"
the next Junior senator from Georgia
and tonight I am 10000 votes stronger
than I was then. (Applause) The
people of Georgia wear their hearts
where any honest man can find them.
And they know that my record is above
rcproach I occupy the unique anc
happy position as can( ate of having
public record which even my bitterest
enemy has never been able to criticise
in the slightest particular. One of my
former opponents spent several hundred
dollars having the congressional in
formation bureau examine my record in
congress with a magnifying glass from
alpha to omega. and he never found
thing which he could criticise. Then he
attempted an attack on my private char
acter, and / met him once in joint de-
bate in his home town, ard he went out
of the senatorial race. If the two Ma
con newspapers will bring their weak
lings here to this auditorium, to meet
me face to face l will take one hour
and give him the balance of time in
which to reply. and he won't carry
single militia district in Ribb county.
Harris has waited until I made 100
speeches attacking the record of
Thomas w. Hardwick, making the only
formidable attack that has been made
on the Junior senator, while he was
running around the state giving the peo-
pie a lot of baby talk. and now when
I have got Hardwick beaten. and when
the people are turning away from Har-
ris by the hundreds on account of his
manifest intellectual incompetence and
manifest political Weakness he tries
to Stay me with a letter from the
president
"One of the tests of loyalty is to
save that great man from designing
and crooked politicians. My retirement
at this time from the senatorial race
would underwrite the election of Thomas
w. Hardwick. (Applause) I know that
to be a fact, because | have heard from
hundreds of men throughout the state,
and there isn't a man in this audience
who does not know / am telling the
truth"
Here Congressman Howard paused and
drew a deep breath, seeming to gather
his strength for supreme effort. Then
tc the audience he made this request:
BE patient with me toni&ht. my
friends. if l seem lengthy and tedious.
This is a very important night fo~ ne.
l am talking here tonight not only 10
Won. but the people of Georgia. CGive it
RI 'eu RiU' shouted several men in