The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-24
SHALL GEORGIA BE CLASSED AS A.
100 PER CENT LOYAL STATE
AFTER SEPTEMBER 18th?

AFTER SEPTEMBER 18th?
On September 1lth there will be an election of
Scntor for Georgia that will decide concusivey
whether Georgians have whochcartedly forgotten
personal and selfish interests, local and party pre-
Judces, and whether they have lined up to the last
man behind the administration in the prosecution
of the and behind our army of hundreds of
thousands OF American young men who are fight
ing that we may live in peace and safety, and
whose very lives depend on the good judgment OF
their Commander, President Woodrow Wilson.
This editorial is not specifically an attack on
iiardwick because every citizen knows to the last
detail his infamous record. This editorial is in
tended to be read by loyal citizens. by the vast
majority, by those whose votes will not be cast
for Hardwick but may possibly be cast for an
other candidate than the right and thereby
work as great an injury against the good name OF
our state and the safety of our BOYS across the
though it had been tailed in the list of those
for the opponent of the administration the oppon
ent of the Commander-n-Chief OF our Army and
the soldiers who are fighting for u.s. and the man
who has betrayed the people who elected him to
Office
There are four candidates whose public record
up to this time shows them to be loyal 1t is to
the supporters of these several candidates that we
want to talk. The voters who are supporting,
Hardwick, the man, who has opposed the Parcels
Post, worked for bill that as a law will deny to
the American farmer and the American working
man the right to read his magazine and city paper
the Postal Zone LaW-and who has done every
thing III his power to tie the country's hands in
this time of war and make his own state Georgia
liable to the invasion OF foreign army and the ra-
wages of great war on her own soil as on that
OF France and Belgium; to the supporters OF that
man we can say nothing. The mode of reasoning
that enables them to Justify his actions is too in
tricate or the kind Of philosophy that enables them
to stand for it, is too deep for to understand.
We don't know how to argue with that kind of a
. man because we can't possibly get his view point
on the matter.
However, to those who oppose him. and even
by opposing him run great risk of playing into his
hand, we have something to say-not in the way
Of advice, for that would be passed UNDECIDED not
remonstrance, for that would be impairment
but to plead with them to choose the open way and
the reasonable way toward casting their votes for
the support of their knsmen in h ret B,cos
the support of their kinsmen in the trenches
OF the four professedly loyal candidates. Harris
Howard, Shaw, and Cooper. there is only one
whose platform OF loyalty is backed by the recon-
mendation of the Commander in-Chef of our arm
les only one whose brand of loyalty is bottled in
the bond and whose integrity and ability is guar
&ntced by the greatest statesman in the world to
day-Woodrow Wilson
That man is William J. Harris. He is the &C
ccpted presidents choice" When you cast your
vote for him you cast it for the president for the
Commander-n- Chief of our armies for our sol
I r boys and you proclaim to the world that you
appreciate the peace and safety in which you are
l. ng today
Ne have nothing to say personally against
coward, Cooper Shaw. This is the first Sena-
torial election in which the people have cast their
votes in which personalities sink into insignifi-
canoe; it is the election in which the principle
OF loyalty stands paramount. Whether you like
Of the other candidates better than Harris per-