Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-15
A PRUSSIAN PLOT.


Usher of song books and little sec
ular magazine, seems nightly inter
ested in trying to get William j
Harris out of the race for the United
States Senate.
We sometimes wonder who is the
actuating influence, who furnishes the
motive power, for Mr. Upshaw in this
highly ridiculous and very futile en-
deavor.
While protesting all the time that
he desires above all things the defeat
of the junior senator who has dis
graced Georgia by his disloyalty Up
show nevertheless spends most of his
time endeavoring to secure some rec
ognition from Mr.. Harris and in seek
ing to stir up feeling against the one
man who at this time is the only
logical candidate for the Senate.
A Lilliputian, unassisted, laboring
to shove great CULVER out of the road
were no more preposterous than Up
tshaws persistent pantomine.
In letter to the editor of The
Times Recorder Mr.. .Upshaw INDUCES
in exceeding verbosity in an attempt
to show that he should receive more
consideration as an alleged candidate
for the Senate. The very fact that
Mr. Upshaw levels his entire battery
at Mr.. Harris, when he is not fling
ing mud wildly in other directions,
shows conclusively that he thinks Mr..
Harris is the strongest man in the
campaign.
That is the only conclusion of Mr..
Jpshaw's with which we agree 1t is
the one redeeming feature of his
elaborate epistle.
Mr.. Upshaw does not suggest a pref
erential primary more absurd
proposition was never made!-with
Shaw, or Cooper. or the present junior
senator, or with anybody else. No;
he wants one with W. J. Harris, and
so eager is he for the combat that
he proposes for Mr. Harris to choose
the duelling grounds. Then, of
course, if Mr. Harris were to assent
to any such silly affair, the forces
supporting the disloyal JUNIOR senator
would concentrate in that district and
by giving their support to Upshaw
they would eliminate the one man they
want most desperately out of this
race.
The Upshaw scheme is apparent on
its fact, and only Mr.. Upshaw's polit-
ical density makes it obscure to him
Or has he perceived its purpose? Who
first suggested it to him, anyway?
Which one of the professional Atlanta
= cliticians, who are flattering Mr.. Up
shaw by giving him notice, and who
positively do not want Mr.. Harris to
be the next senator, which one of
them, we ask, slipped the idea into
Mr.. Upshaw' head? Or was it that
paid publicity promoter who sends out
stuff for Mr.. Upshaw so
regularly-in the same mail. and
on the same sheet, that he
sends out similar publicity for other
candidates?
Mr. Upshaw is probably a success
i'll song book publisher. Maybe he is
a great religious weekly editor Doubt
less he has future before him on the
temperance lecture platform. Pos
sibly he can be of untold service for
tie churches and the schools by his
public speaking. But none of that
Qualities him for the United States
Senate Certain it is that he will
never advance very far in the political
arena until he develops more perspi-
Guilty, sufficient at least for him tC
detect German plot in the so-called
preferential primary" idea that some
Prussian politician has planted in his
fertile brain. and that he is assidu.
ously cultivating with war garden en-
thusiasm.
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