Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-03
Large Crowd Cheers Con-
gresham as He ASSaiIS the
Records of Opponents in
Campaign For u, S, Senate

MARIETTA, Ga, Aug. 31.--Speaking
this afternoon to a courthouse full of
Cobb county citizens. Congressman Will
liam Schley' Howard closed another big
week with another big rally OF the sort
that have been getting very common
in the last three weeks of his wonderful
campaign for the United States senate.
Regarding the Harris record as fed
eral trade commissioner, Congressman
Howard described with highly humorous
effect the advice given out in the sum-
mer of 1917, by Mr.. Harris, for the peo-
pie not to buy coal at 1915 a ton, but
to postpone their purchases until ne
forced the mine owners to bring down
the price.
Seriously speaking, my friends" he
said, when the laughter had subsidized,
any man who did not know, by the most
superficial investigation, that there was
an enormous over-consumption of coal
and a very large under-production of
coal, and that this condition would in
evitably produce an increase in price,
has got so little sense that l could put
all his brains in a mustard seed and
have as much room as bat in meet
ing house"
Uproarious applause and laughter
greeted this thrust at the former chair
man of the federal trade commission.
his Newspaper Critics
And yet, my friends" continued Mr..
Howard "a crowd of little hammer
headed newspaper editors, filling their
columns with Harris advertisements paid
for by Edward N. Hurley, a Chicago
millionaire whose tremendous concern
in our election of a United States sem
ator has never been explained to the
people IF Georgia, and never will be ex-
planned because Mr. Harris dHres not
attempt to make an explanation-a
crowd OF little editors are trying to tie
the peoples heads to limb like a sick
horse and drench them with this little
puerile weakling, and because the PEG
pie refuse to swallow such a dose of
medicine, these editors are denouncing
everybody who votes against Harris as
a pro-German and traitor.
They say a vote for Howard is a
vote against the president. Now, let's
analyze that proposition. Everyone
knows that the president has no init
mate personal knowledge of the political
situation in Georgia. Everyone knows
that he is obliged to take his advice and
get his information through secondhand
sources. And everybody knows that on
this occasion he took his advice from
Clark Howell and Ed T. Brown, who
are a great deal better known by the
people of Georgia than they are by the
great president of the United States.
(Applause.)
who is Clark Howell? thoroughly
discredited political trickster who ran
for governor with every newspaper in
the state with two exceptions, vigorous
ly supporting him, and who carried less
than half a dozen counties. daughter
and applause)
Raps Colonel Brown
"Who is Colonel Ed T. Brown?
corporation lawyer whom l have had
marked for twenty-five years with
lower crop in the left ear and an upper
bit in the right. Uproarious laugh
teri When / was clerk in the Geor
gia house of representative, Ed t.
Brown was slipping in and out of the
state capitol. putting the knife into
legislation in the interest of the people.
When I went to the legislature from
DeKalb county and introduced bill to
make the railroads and other pubic
utility corporations pay taxes on their
franchises, there he was again, fighting
that bill and working for the corpora
tions His hole in the capitol is as SICK
as the place where an old barn rat slps
in and out of farmers corn crib. Cloud
laughter and applause.) Go to the city
there in his old familiar role, living In
a princely suite in an expensive hotel'
keeping open house for all and sundry
who desire to partake of his stimulating
hospitality slipping in and out OF the
capitol building, representing those in
terests whose attorneys never appear
in the courts, but rely on influence
rather than argument
"These my friends. are the Pontlus
Pilates Of Georgia politics before whom
I was arraigned by the mob Of ringsters
because they realized the utter collapse
Of their weakling candidate who could
never be elected unless the track was
cleared. (Strong applause.)
The 1916 Election Returns
''What did Clark Howell do when the
election returns began to come over the
wires on the night of November 4, 1915?
At that dark moment for the democratic
party, when it looked as If Charles q.
Hughes had been elected president, when
other Democrats were in mourning In
sack cloth and ashes because 1T looked
as if the American people had turned
down the great president who had steer
ed this nation through the fog of war