Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-07
THE KAISER'S FRIEND.

handle the situation and leave the
citizens of Georgia to favor the
cause of Germany"
This was the rejoinder of Senator
Poindexter to the junior senator from
Georgia, after the latter had spoken
against the bill designed to punish
disloyal utterances.
This was the humiliating reflection
cast upon the state of Georgia in the
United States Senate as the result of
the misrepresentation of the junior
senator.
This is the way the state of Georgia
is pilloried before the nation, held I'D
to shame and contumely and the
scorn of the country, because a TOM
tit politician continues to betray and
outrage the trust reposed in him
OF course, the junior senator does
not want law that will punish the
disloyalists. Friend of the copper
heads that he is, he wants no law, no
matter how urgently needed, that is
calculated to clamp down on his sedi-
tious supporters.
For that matter, he well knows that
the law, if passed is likely to reac'l
out and get him among the first.
There are not so very many follow
ers of the junior senator in the state,
not as many as even some of his OPP
ponents believe They are divided into
three classes-those who are for him
because of their ignorance, those who
are for him because of their prejudice
"agin the government" and those who
are for him for purely personal rea-
sons
The punior senator is continuing to
lay the foundation of his campaign,
namely. that he has devoted his ser
vices in the Senate to the protection
of the first two classes whom ne pro
fesses, and will continue to pretend
are the real, representative citizens Of
Georgia. He will return to the state
for his cmpaign an declare, with
great bombast and loud protestations
of his own loyalty, that for their sake
he has fought and bled His campaign
argument has long been anticipated.
No one will contend that~the JUNO
senator from Georgia is out-and-out
a pro-German. No one will assert that
he is on the payroll of the Kaiser. al
though in consideration of the service
he has rendered the imperial Prussian
governemnt he is undoubtedly entitled
to a liberal compensation. No one
will charge that the junior senator is
at heart anxious for his native country
to go down in defeat before the mon
strous Huns.
That is not the case at all.
The whole trouble Is this: The Jun
Tor senator's mind is so STEPPED in pre-
JUDGE and politics that his judgment
has become jaundiced and warped. He
permitted his antipathy for the presi-
! dent-an enmity that should have been
shelved when the war crisis came upon
usJhe permitted that to dethrone his
sound reason. In his desperate efforts
futile as they were frantic-to en-
barrass the president, he jumped at
every tangent, and fioundered about 50
completely and miserably, that ne en-
tirely lost his bearings.
He also made a bad political guess.
Already "in bad" at home as well as
in Washington, he made a bold plav
for reinstatement in public favor
when he opposed CONSUMPTION, believ
/
ing that the draft would be distinctly
unpopular and calculated to boost lis
political strength, Moreover he ex-
hibited none of those qualities 81
craftsmanship, vision and depth oil
thought which ordinarily would have
demonstrated to his own satisfaction
the immensely of our task in enterine
the war and the really critical trend o.
the times.
And SO he persists in this political
perversion. Lost to all sense of