The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1918-08-09
CANDIDATE
FOR THE SENATE
SPEAKS HERE
One Hundred Voters Heard
John r. Cooper Speak
Last Monday

IT'S sad story, mates, though
short one, of how the greatest of Grim
inal lawyers of the whole country,
came to Cobb county and delivered
an Grafton to hundred of our "rock-
ribbed" and "unterrified" voters on
last Monday.
We speak advisedly when we say
the greatest" for he told us so him.
self, and lest we forget it he repeated
it in clarion tones at intervals during
his grafton. We are now ready to
admit that he is the most modest and
unassuming candidate we ever heard
talk, not even barring the great and
only patriot, bill Harris, and that is
going some! He laid the blame for it
on the patriot, however, saying that
Harris had "hogged" all the patriot
ism and cornered all the newspapers,
so that he was forced to blow his own
horn" And if there is any virtue he
neglected to claim it has escaped our
attention.
We are speaking of course of the
Grafton last Monday of Hon. John
Randolph Cooper of the state of Ga.
But aside from exploiting his self
esteem, we gathered number of 9th
err statements from his speech. He did
not fail to make it clear that he de-
sires to go to Washington for time at
the public expense, and about that
there can be no doubt.
He thinks the newspaper boys make
up Schley Towards speeches for him.
After you have heard Howard, we
leave that up to you, gentle reader,
and Howard is to be here on August
31st, so you will have fair chance
to pass on his merits and demerits.
Then he takes up Harris, and says
that he is SISSY" and "fat-head"
but admits that Harris can read a
piece very well, if somebody else will
write it for him, and you don't care
what you say.
Harris is hereby invited to bring
his piece along and read it to us. 1t is .
war times and we can stand anything.
Then he thinks Hardwick is out of
Jail only because ne is United States
Senator, and that is also up to you, as
Hardwick recently spoke at AcwOrth,
and we have noticed his name in the
newspapers a couple of times.
+ba hIa TOhr pandolYnb
thinks he has more reputation than
any other man in the country-made
it first in defending old man Rawlins,
he says. They hung old man Rawlins,
of course, but they did not hang his
children!
He says he helped elect Dorsey, but
that Dorsey had never done d. thing
/ for Cooper. But Dorsey may never
get acquainted with all the fellows
who voted for him, there were quite
a few.
Then he thinks he looks like old
Senator Ben Tillman of South Car
DINA, and carries the old mans pic
! ture around with him to prove it, and
there is some external resemblance.
He promised if sent to the United
States Senate, to make such speech
there as was never heard before, and
we believe he would do just that!
No particular enthusiasm was
manifest, but the audience was re-
spectful and cheered several of the
speakers statements most heartily.
Well mates, we said it was a short
story, and it could have been if we
had adopted the report of an old ne
gro who came up the back stairs of
the court room during the speaking
for few minutes. When he came
down the following conversation with
white man was overheard:
"Been to the speaking, Uncle?"
''Yas sir"
"Who was speaking?"
81 don't know sir"
'Well what was he talking about?"
II don't know sir, but he shorely
do recommend hisself highly"
And at that, who can blame him at
all As he says the newspapers are all
for some one else. And there can be
no doubt that he is a good lawyer,
a good business man, and would make
good Senator if elected, for he is
good all round regular fellow" and
we like him.
If ne had been just leetle mite
smarter he might have been able to
run a country newspaper.