The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
IN THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA

I am candidate for the United
states Senate to succeed T. w Hard
wick and to defeat w. J. Harris
In a letter to Clark Howell, Presi-
dent Wilson asked the people of Geor-
gia to vote for Harris. In telegram
to W. J. Harris, President Wilson as-
sured the people of Georgia that the
our cotton and upon this political and
moral contract the people of Georgia
nominated w. ]. Harris for U. s.
Senator, we'll knowing that he was a
weak man indeed for this high office,
and was not the choice of the people,
but the f1asco Of the President.
We had faith in President Wilson's
against the spinners and speculation
of the North and of foreign coun-
tries, but in three days after Harris
was nominated on this issue, Presf-
dent Wilson on the 14th day of Sep
TENDER issued an order directing the
War Industries Board to look into the
cotton situation, stabilize grades and
distribution, and if necessary in, the
opinion of this unfriendly board OK
Yankees to the South, to fix the price
of cotton and place it under Govern
ment control.
Cotton dropped from 80 cents to %
cents per pound; millions were lost
to us and thousands of people have
been bankrupted, sacrificed and ruin
ed The political and moral contract
made with Harris and President Will
son at the September primary has
been broken and is void, and the peO-
pie of Georgia are now free to act
and vote as they please in the NOvem-
Der election for a United States Sen
ator. If the President had kept faith
With US on this promise all the peo-
pie in Georgia would be glad to carry
out their part of the contract, but as
Use he made in that telegram to Har-
ris, all the people Of Georgia will be
d1sloya1 to themselves and their sec
ton II they do not resent ii and elect
an independent Senator and fight
this unjust and outrageous move on
the part of the Administration to sac
rifice the product of our land labor to
l, for one, will oppose it with all
the strength of my soul and being.
The farmers Of Georgia are with me
and the lOud-mouth politicians, I'M
sorupulous newspapers and powers
to be can not and will not fool them
again on the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der.
Mr.. Wilson is a great president, he
Is powerful man and the best sChOl-
ar that has lived since the days of
John the Baptist He holds the reins
OF the Government as no other man
has ever held them. When he pops
the whip the wheels turn or the
traces break, and we are with him
whole soul and body in the winning
OF the war: but, he knows nothing of
the cotton conditions in the South.
He should not hurt us now if he
could not help us in 1914, and has no
right to dictate the local politics of
Georgia against our judgment and
against our interests. II President
Wilson has not made another politi-
cal promise with the powers to be to
sacrifice our cotton for political pref
erence in doubtful sections for the
November election, and cares for the
interest OF the people of Georgia and
the South who have served him and
his party as faithfully as a slave
could serve his master for fifty-three
years, why don't he settle this cotton
question and keep his promise in that
harris telegram? He could do it in
one day and save us millions of dol
lars and vexation of spirit.
All the world knows this Admins
ration is against the cotton market.
The farmers of the South are being
made philanthropists of to finance
me cotton seed oil mills and other
great interests unfriendly to US.
lhere. is but one reason for this-we
cave been solid for one party until
We have no political standing in ma.
Honal affairs. Shall we keep our
heads in the same yoke? If so, we
deserve no better
NO farmer in Georgia has been able
70 sell a ton of cotton seed since the
september primary. They are scat
Tered from the gins back to the farm
eers, piled in heaps and are rotting by
q IN Of,
Just determinations against the farm
81 az the most critical time in the !
history of our being and the protest
~ democratic Senators seems to be
OF no avail
The Macon Telegraph and some
oH Iher newspapers in Georgia that
ether know or care nothing of these
conditions, have continually advocat.
90 the price fixing of cotton, but after
! made my announcement on this is
sUs, John W. Bennett, Of Waycross,
~ preparing Little Willie's" speech
" acceptance at the Macon conven-
ION ION had Little Willie" to say for
me arst time that he was opposed to
GSovernment price fixing on cotton.
Sonn Bennett is a brilliant Georgian,
put he took all the thunder out OF
ne Macon Telegraph when he made
sAttle Willie" say this last Thurs
Ssy put he did not say that he OBJ
posed the Government stabilizing cot
SOn as Instructed by President Wilson
n ehe Official y. s.. Bulletin of Sen
temDer 24th.
Don't you know Harris will not op-
po@e anything the President favors?
Loaf you know that statilizing
OOSSon means cheap cotton?
Ont you know that every agency
~ ~ committee appointed by this Adj
Saszsration in connection with the
20 oepress the price? ~