Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15
ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE PEOPLE or GEORGIA.:
am a candidate for the United States
Senate 10 succeed 4. ". HardwicA am
10 defeat w J. Harris.
In a letter 10 Clark Howell. President
Wilson asked. the people OF Georgia =
vote for Harris In a telegram 10
". !. harris President wilson assureu
the people Of Georgia that the govern
rueug would not interfere with our coz
ton and upon this political and moral
contract the people OF Georgia nominal =
ed W. J. Harris Tor L = senator wei
knowing that he was a weak man indeed
for this high office. and was not the
choice Of the people, but the fiasco OF
the President
We mad faith IN President Wilson's
promise TO protect cotton planter
against the spInnerS and speculation al
the north anu OF foreign countries, put
IN three days after Harris was nom
mated on this issue. President Wilson on
the 18th day OF September issued an
order directing the War industries
Board to look into the Gotten situation,
stabilize grades and distribution. ami
II necessary in the opinion OF this IN
friendly board OF YANKEES TO the south,
10 fix the price OF cotton and place u
under government control.
Cotton dropped from 80 cents TO p
cents per pound; millions were lost
10 Us and thousands OF people have been
Ssnkrupted. sacrificed and ruined Inc
political and moral contract made with
Harris and President Wilson at the sep
TENDER primary has been broken and rs
free 10 act and vote as they please ~
the November election for a United
States Senator. II the President hal
kept faith with US on this promise all
the people in Georgia would be glad 20
carry out their part OF the contract but
as the president did not keep his prom
Use he made in that telegram to Harris,
all the people OF Georgia viii be disloysl
70 themselves and their section II they
do not resent il and elect an indepSnd-
ent senator. and hight this unjust ana
outrageous move on the part OF the
administration to sacrifice the product
OF our land labor 70 foreign trade ana
unfEiendly interest.
/. 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, un 1,a lI 9Ii,
and will not fool them again on the
[irst Tuesday ia November.
Mr.. Wilson is q great president he
is a powerful man and the best scholar
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, ne
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
ment and against our interests. II
President Wilson has not made an
other political promise with the powers
10 be TO sacrifice our cotton for polit-
zeal preference in doubtful sections for
the November election and cares for
the interest OF the people Of Georgia AMI
his party as faithfully as a slave could
serve his master FOR fifty-threc years.
why don't nc settle .his cotton question
and keep his promise IN that Harris
telegram: He could do il in one day
and save us millions of dollars and
veZstiOn OF spirit
tration IS against the cotton market
The farmers Of the south are being
made philanthropists 81 10 finance the
cotton seed oil mills and other great in
one reason for this-we have been solid
Tor one party until We have no political
standing in national affairs. Shall we
keep our heads in the same woke?
II 50. we deserve no better
No farmer in Georgia has been able
to sell A ton OF cotton seed since the
from the gins hack to the farmers piled
in heaps and are rotting By the thou
nations against the farmer at the most
critical time in the history Of our being,
and the protest OF Democratic senators
seems to be OF no avail
The Macon telegraph and some other
newspapers in Georgia that either know
or care nothing OF these conditions. have
continually advocated the price fixing
OF cotton. but after I made my an
uouncemenE on this, issue. John w Ben
nett, Of Wsycross. in preparing Little
Niilie's' speech OF acceptance az the
Macon convention had Little Willie"
to say for the frst time that he was
opposed 20 government price fixing on
cotton John Bennett is brilliant
Georgian but ne took all the thunder
out OF the Macon Telegraph when he
made Little Willie" say this last
Thursday: but he did not say that he
opposed the government stabilizing cot
ton as instructed by President Wilson
in the oficial United states bulletin OF
Don't you know Harris will not op-
pose anything the president favors2
Don't you know that stsbilizing cotton
Don't you know that every agency
and committee appointed by this ad-
ministration in connection with the cot
ton and cotton seed IS being used 20 de-
Lress the price,
You know and all the administration
knows that IL IS the common talk and
5aiIy statement in the hotels and cor
rfdors at Washington. in the cotton eN-
change OF New York and New Orleans
and with purchasing agents of foreign
cents tire Government will take control
IT Z ard TX a price Don't YOU Know
that the committee appointed by the
administration 20 control. and that IS
co ntroIline cotton is made up OF cotton
mill men. cotton seed oil men, and cot
ton exchange and commission gamblers?
If you don't know this. get the official
United States bulletin issued September
cath. You will see this IS true. Washing
ton is fun OF foreign agents. New Eng
land spinners and Wall street gamblers
doing all in their powers 10 make the
administration take charge Of this and
the next cror Of cotton. and incredi-
bic as IL now seems. there are some
newspapers and paid agencies right here
in Georgia advocating the same dirty
deal: and. / want TO tell you in no
uncertain terms. that unless the south
ern people assert themselves in the most
Vigorous terms IL will be done.
And when this is done we viii be at
the mercy Of the spinners and foreign
agents Just as we arc now at the mer-
s.y of the cotton seed mills. Cotton seed
IS congested and depressed now; cotton
viii be depressed and congcsted then.
You can raise no money on seed now;
YOU could raise no money on cotton
then You have TO wait on seed mills
now: YOU would have 20 wait on cot
ton mills then. Southern banks can
rot advance money on seed now; they
could not advance money on cotton then.
II you had ore hundred tons of seed
today and had to pay one thousand dol
lars debt you would have to wait until