The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-09
BOUGHT LOYALTY

ed into the county weeklies Of Geor-
gia as a paid advertisement by Hard
wick or Hardwicks friends.
The judge therein claims that Sen
ator Hardwick has slandered- sland-
cred hopelessly and beyond all reason
that the man does not derserve all
that has been said about him, and
even now at this late hour some one
IS willing to spend money for new
spaper space in which to say Hard
wick is loyal.
If that is necessary isn't it an admis-
sion that Hardwick has not been all
that should have been to his state and
his people in the office he now holds?
If he had been loyal, do you suppose
anybody would have forced to pay
for newspaper space to try to tell
Georgians that he is loyal? II isn't the
natural way, to say the least of it.
Everybody takes it for granted. as
most natural thing, that q man in this
high office is iOyai, WHcn he IS.
But Judge A. l.. Miller has been one
of the favored few who have enjoyed
what Senior Hardwick could give out
in the way of patronage He enjoyed
4 remunerative Appointment in South
America Likewise he has son who
serves as assistant United States at
torney under the patronage of Senator
Smith and Hardwick 1t is but natural
that Judge Miller might say Hardwick
is loyal, even if it is not so.
The mistake the judge is making is
in assuming that the people of Geor-
gia are going to believe it. He knows
what shams will be required and how
false are his own paid statements.
Hardwick is the worst of the disloyal
public office holders. in America The
nan Horward who is running solely
with view Of helping Hardwick to
win as he did before in the conven-
ton, is the same stripe, of man.
Two weeks after the Lusitania was
sunk William Schley Howard make
this statement publicly and it was
printed.
Germany can never be whipped
The German nation and the German
people are our friends"
II is this kind of man that IIardwick
would have help him tie up the con
ycntion and under the present pri-
mary law, the NELL bill passed last
year work his way through as he did
N 1914.
Judge Miller is helping Hardwick
to work just this scheme. 1t was all
made up in the political hang out"
of Iloke Smith and it was done to put
HardwicI back in Office
Georgians will see all this before
the contest is over, unless enough of
them rally to the support of William
J Harris to prevent it. Never mind
al out whether Bill Harris asks Will
son about what to do if he is elected
1t can hardly be questioned that it will
he done right, if it is done according
10 the presidents wishes. Harris is a
capable man.
II is your duty to keep Wen up with
his thing A Hardwick man is sharp
enough to tell you that Emmett Shaw
is going to carry your county. 1t is al
ready being done, and with the. sole
purpose Of making Harris lose Crisp
Hardwick never had an easier thing
N all his lie than the picking off of
such delegates as might go to Il state
convention representing Emmett
Shaw.
The thing to do is to nail such
statements as Judge Miller is making
and sending out to the country papers.
The thing to do is to remember that
Howard is out trying to elect Hard
wick The thing most important to re-
member is that your vote Harris will
do more to defeat Hardwick than any
thing else If you are bent on keeping
This "outrageously slaldered" unpat-
riotic man out of the Office he is now
disgracing, dont throw away your
vote ON somebody else Vote for VIII