The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-28
WHEN HARpwIck COMES.

| paper postage rates. He asserts in his
addresses that Postmaster Burleson
sent him to the task and he won.
| There never was greater false
hood palmed off on Georgians. He did
not secure the passage Of the increase
in newspaper postage There isn't a
man in Georgia who knows Senator
Hardwick's record in Washington for
the past two years but that has al
ready found that he cannot pass any
! thing in the senate or anywhere else
! in Washington. He is one of the most
worthless of public Office holders
known in Washington He has no in
fluence and enjoys nothing but the
steady and unstinted contempt Of all
congress. Talk about passing law!
Re has fought every measure design
ed to assist in the prosecution of the
war until he commands no fellowship
Of the nations law makers. He never
secured the passage of the law which
Postmaster Burleson proposed for
relieving the shortage in postage in
come.
The newspapers in Georgia are not
| fighting Senator Hardwick because
of this They are not fighting him be-
cause he had anything to do with i'm
Iposing part of the war; burden on
the newspapers Most Of them are too
patriotic to do that. They have harder
burdens to bear than the increase in
postage. The tremendously increased
burdens following one after another
in the publicity campaigns for Red
Cross, War Savings Stamps, Liberty
Bonds, Y NJ. c. A. War Work, and
dozens of other things are costing
the newspapers much more than the
light postage increases, The newspa-
per are bearing greater burdens
than a few cents a day on increased
postage and Senator Hardwick knows
it. What he is saying about them is
false, every word of it,
You might travel the country over
from one end to the other and you
will never find more loyal news
paper support than that which has
been given President Wilson and in
congress in Georgia in the great strug-
gle which is now but half begun Their
pride has never been shaken in all the
history of this commonwealth so
shamefully and so disgracefully as it
has been shaken by Senator Hardwick
We bow our heads in shame as we
think of this man walking into the
duties of the late venerable A. c.
Bacon, man who was loved and re-
spected by the whole nation.
Our love of our state, our high aims
for her sons in striking the letters of
German militarism from the civilized
world,-our loyalty, our devotion t.
the freedom of mankind made us cast
our lots with Wilson and the nation
when it went to war.
Senator Hardwick tried to keep us
from sending our soldiers to fight u
tried to keep our young men out of
the aviation corps where they could
fight Germany most effectively. He
tried to keep our government from
operating its rail lines and in a shame
less, constituencies attack on the
floor of the senate said President Will
son was acting only for the capitalistic
interests of the nations and cared
nothing for furthering the cause of
the war by the use of the rail lines.
And with brazen, uplifted brow he
stood up in the senate and opposed
the sedition law which were aimed
the German spies that were setting
fire to our ammunition plants. blowing
up our bridges, destroying factories
and fomenting strikes. He tried to
keep us from passing laws which |
meant death TO this class Of enemy
spies s-
And during this time the German
government through Bernstein was !
spending more than fifty million dol .
lars in America. Bernstein lived in
Washington and Senator Hardwick (,