Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-03
HOWARD WILL CARRY
81 COUNTIES, SAYS SMITH
Predicts COngreSSman'S EIeC-
ton to Senate in First
Primary


senate to succeed Thomas w. Hardwick,
Saturday predicted that Mr.. Howard
would carry in the first primary eighty.
two counties with 2O2 county unit votes.
He predicts Mr. Towards election in
the first primary.
Mr.. Smiths statement follows:
That thousands of fair-minded, free
thinking, Embossed Georgia Democrats
are deserving both Harris and Hardwick
each day and rallying to the standard
of William Schley Howard in the race
for the United States senate is patent
to the most casual observer. Two con-
siderations have affected these indepen-
dent voters: First. they want to find
the strongest man IN the race; and, sec
ond, they have studied the records OF
the opposing candidates and have come
TO the conclusion that in Mr.. Howard
they not only have the winning candi-
date but the only candidate in the race
who has a flawless record of legisla-
tive service.
TO Get 2o2 Unit Votes
Mr.. Towards campaign committee
after checking and rechecking written
and oral reports from voters in every
county in Georgia with the greatest
care and in the most conservative way
possible. confidently predict his nomina-
ton on the 18th of September, and with
out the necessity of a second primary.
Mr.. Howard at the lowest calculation,
figuring with MISREPRESENTATION, hav-
ing due regard for the enthusiasm OF
the fighting loyal friends of Mr.. How
ard in the various counties in Georgia,
will surely carry in the first primary
80 counties with 202 county unit votes.
In 6S of these counties. Thomas w.
LIar al ic y
leading opponent.
when Mr.. Howard entered the race
for the United States senate at the sug-
gestion Of thousands of Georgians who
were afraid of the ability of William j.
Harris to properly expose Mr.. Hard
wick's record and to properly defend
the policies of the Democratic party in
the prosecution of the war, in the minds
of many Mr.. Hardwick was the leading
candidate. AS Mr.. Howard has reached
the voters and they have heard him face
to face, he has utterly destroyed the
chances of Mr.. Hardwick and has shown
to the satisfaction of the untrammeled
voters of Georgia that William ]. Har-
ris is unit to represent them in the SEN
ate and is the candidate of a coterie OF
hand-picked reactionary politicians.
"Our friends throughout Georgia are
militant and rejoicing because no longer
the false issue can be successfully
made that our brilliant young candidate
is dividing the loyal vote. 1t has CEN
tered on him.
Opposition Is Desperate
THE desperation of the political firm
of Clark Howell-Ed T. Brown-William J.
Harris, Ltd, aided and abetted by the
partisan newspapers of Georgia that are
trying to cram William ]. Harris down
the threats of the voters of Georgia, is
apparent to the intelligent, Embossed
electorate all over the state. First be-
laboring dr. Toward for not retiring
from the race and failing, they then
commenceds to attack the loyalty of him
self and his supporters. Failing in this
bald faced attempt, they then half-heart-
eddy praised his loyalty and his ability,
but falsely declared to their readers
that the race was between Harris and
Hardwick. Failing in this, they have
now started a weak and puerile attempt
in concert to ignore a fact which is ap
parent to every man in Georgia, that.
Hsrdwick and Harris are both defeated
and that William Schley Howard has
brought this about
Poll Predicted
Their last effort will be a fake poll
to be taken by Dictator Howell and
published in the Constitution somewhere
between September and September 5,
and republished in all the organs that
are part of the political firm of Clark
Howell-Ed T. Brown-William j. Harris,
Ltd. This poll will come in from the
correspondents of the Atlanta Constitu-
ton. who are practically all either edi-
tors or reporters of the partisan news-
papers that have been trying to cram
William j. Harris down the throats of
an intelligent and indignant public.
I'm this poll these political tricksters
will endeavor to show the race between
Harris and Hardwick, but it will fail
OF its purpose because from every
county In the state comes the solid,
comforting information that the people
are on to all the tracks of these politi-
cal tricksters, that they are tired of
bossism and the Misrepresentation os
partisan editors, that they know the
situation and they know that Howard
Is TO be the next United States senator
from this state. They are up to many
scurvy political tricks, these ringsters
are. One of their latest is the circula-
ton of an unsigned circular containing
the false charges first given to the pub
lie by Hub Dean. of Gainesville. This
same Hub Dean met William Schley
Howard with these false and malevo-
lent charges in joint debate at Gaines
willie with the promise of a return en-
gagement in Atlanta. Dean failed to
keep his promise. Political Dictator
Howell, still pretending to be the friend
of william Schley Howard, put this
same Hub Dean in the race. He fell at
the frs. blow Howard hit him.
cit is a significant fact that the first
rIngster in Georgia 10 indorse the Clark
Howell stab in the back was this same
Hub Dean, whose false charges the
Harris people are now circulating all
over Georgia
Fortunately for Mr.. Howard, the
partisan press IF Georgia has so Vi
ciously insulted him and so falsely de-
,icted his chances that all the tricks
and the roarbacks and the rumors and
lies that they may be able to concoct
IA the closing days of the campaign
Will fan before unbelieving eyes, De-
cause the people have Ions, since come
e recognize that these partisan EDITORS
IRE part and parcel of the well known
.oIitical firm of Clark Huwell-Ed L.
Drown William ]. Harris, Ltd