Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-06


| speech.
Us that fair?" he asked the crowd,
and the crowd yelled back mo"
"Oh, there's the Howard advertise
ment in it" exclaimed Mr. Porter
They'll take your dough and then hit
| you under the chin"
Mr. Porter further pointed out that
| while the "Turbine-Herald" was calling
on the voters to repudiate Hardwick
that th2y were not attacking Hardwick
nor giving space to Mr.. Howards capa-
| BILE expose of HardwiclI's record, but
or the contrary, had an article on the
FRONT page headed Harris Advocates
Getting Ready to Reply to Howard In
This District"
why, in the name of common sense,
have they abandoned their fight on
Hardwick and opened their guns on
Iioward?'' asked Mr.. Porter III tell
you why. Because they know Howard
is the man they've got to beat.
Only Two Men Running
There are only two men running for
the senate in this state who have rec
ords,7 said Mr.. Porter. "One man is
| Thomas w. Hardwick and you all know
what his record is. The other lis Will
Dam Schley Howard and his record S
spotless, unblemished, in his support OF
pie We know that what his record in
the past has been 50 will it be in the
future. We know that if need be, he
will storm the very gates of hell to
crush autocracy, and we know that the
next senator from Georgia will be VIII
liam Schley Howard, the man who
stands before you tonight"
Prolonged applause greeted Mr.. How
ard as he rose to speak He told them
that he was making the one hundred
and forty-first speech of his campaign
because that was the only way he could
get the truth to the people. He de-
clared that if Hardwick, by some I'M
fortunate, accident is elected TO the
senate, it will be the fault of the Harris
newspapers of Georgia, which have tried
to tie The people of Georgia to a limb
and dreuch them with man they will
not be drenched with No man, he
said, had been more thoroughly misrep-
resented and maligned by the newspa-
pers of the state than had he, while no
man had proved more fully than Will
liam j. Harris his unfitness to hold OF
fee by his baby talk speeches around
the state.
He reviewed his own record in full.
how he has supported every measure OF
the presidents for the speedy and sue
cessful prosecution of the war, now
he has differed with the president on
but two measures and both of these be
fore the war, one the immigration bill
and the other the canal tolls bills.
Here Mr.. Howard turned the atten-
ton of his hearers to the record or
Thomas w. Hardwick, devoting to 1t
nearly an hour of his address. lie
showed where Hardwick had opposed
practically every vital war measure, the
selective service act, the food control
bill that throttled the prohteers' the
railroad control bill, the fuel controI
hill and last, the sedition bill, aimed at
the German spies and Hun propaganda
that was seeping through America.
Hardwick and the Farmers
AS at Adairsville and at Calhoun
earlier In the day he showed where
Senator Hardwick has voted continually
against the interest Of the farmers ne
showed that by his record in peace
times alone Senator Hardwick did not
deserve % be returned to the senate.
He pointed out where Hardwick opposed
the parcels post and the nitrates bill
and other measures for the benefit OF
the farmers, even going so far as TO
make a speech in the senate in Whlcn ne
declared that the farmers remind me
of a nest of hooking birds, always holu-
ing their mouths open waiting 1or me
government to drop something IN them-
Throughout this part of his address
Mr.. Howard was interrupted by ire
uuent applause.
~I'ye saved the other candidate In TINS
race for desert, because L always take
something light for desert" said Mr..
Howard, while the crowd lausheu'
Now. if you'll show me one thing that
William ]. Harxis has done for his coun-
trv or his president since this war be-
gan. III go out and bring you before
DAYLIGHT a spring pullet with tuIly-
developed set of jaw teeth
with every reference bringing laugh
ter. he recited Mr.. Harris venture with
the Georgia Fire Insurance company
He pointed out that the federal trade
commission, of which Mr.. Harris was
member. had been declared by the Unit
ed States chamber of commerce, com
posed of the leading business or
the country, to have demonstrated MOTH
ing but it's gross incompetence ever
since it was organized. He paid his re-
spects to "Pompadour Bill BurWell ana
the gang with him that are running TOT
the senate by proxy.
He also mentioned the name or EdI'
tor Mccartney as ''hammer-headed III
tie intellectual weakling and a social
butterfly. CIaTh HOWELL hS ChSSi
tied as "a discredited political trickster.
Taking the recent election in Mlssls-
sippi. Mr. Howard showed where the
records of Pat Harrison, the successful
candidate for the senate against James
K Vardaman, was identical with his
own, the two voting the same on every
measure in congress, whereas the record
of Vardaman was almost Identical with
that of Senator Hardwick.
What happened in Mississippi ne
asked Congressman Harrison came
home to be greeted by the praise OF the
press Of his state for his loyal work
The people of Mississippi took him In
their arms and they gave him the re-
ward of his labors in presenting him
with the highest Office it was in their
power to bestow.
'sAnd what happened in Georgia!
When I was petitioned by more than e.
900 Georgfans to make the race simply
and solely because it was their opinion
that I was the only man to beat HARD
wick. / came home to be villthed and
outraged by the entire daily press OF the
state, wit hone exception, and by 80 per
cent of the weekly press of the state
Yet they could not find single flaw In
my record, and / challenge JACK NC
CARNEY or any other Mccartney TO
search my record with fine tooth COMB
and point in criticism TO one single SOL
itary vote 1 cast or voice l raised
At the close of Mr.. Howarus speech,