Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-09-09
A FEW NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
CHARGE-TO SENATOR
HARDWICK.

i paign for reelection in Americas to-
NOR, W, this city being the only on<
visited by him twice on his tour Of
*he STATE $50
Although lie has spoken in over q
hundred counties, Mr.. Hardwick ha2
used OILY the same sterotyped speech
tn" same one he delivered here, and
the one with which the reading pub
lie is monotonously familiar. 1t is
to be presumed, of course, that he
will have something new to talk about
when he makes us his return date.
Surely he will not repeat the same,
parrot-like flow of language that he
has used all of the summer. In the
I first place, his opponents as well as
his supporters practically know it by
heart. In it he tells what a great
country this is, and how his heart
beats ever so fondly for dear old
Georgia. He brings in the names of
Alexander Stephens and other distin-
guished men of the past, so as to
evoke applause. He pays a tribute
to the gray-haired veterans, some of
whom, of course, are always in the
audience He tells how he-not Con-
gress-raised the pay of the rural
route carriers; and some of them are
always present. He tells how prom
inent he is in the Senate, and how he
single-handed practically directs the
affairs of the postal committee. He
tells about the appropriation bills he
voted for-but forgets to say that they
were passed without a roll-call, He
admits that he voted against the Sc
lective draft, but omits to say that
he continued to fight it even after our
boys were over in France, and also
makes his position WORSE by pro-
claiming that he wanted to hire them
to kill people at 800 a month, in
preference to sending them over as
patriots and liberty boys He ridi-
Cules the other candidates, chiefly w.
J. Harris, and then he launches a
fusilade of rotten epithets at the news
papers, nearly all of which are sup
porting Mr.. Harris. He says they
are all dirty, contemplate liars.
Sometimes he calls them Infamous
hounds" and occasionally he speai-
fies. In Americas, for instance, he
will probably say that The Times-Re-
corder is a low-life journal, insight
fcant. indecent, and unreliable, and
that the editor of it is a Hottentot, an
infidel, crap-shooter, and a chicken
thief. He also says that the newspa-
pers are opposing him because heI
voted for the new zone postal law
glfe which is undoubtedly the most
monstrous piece of mendacity of al
campaign that has been peculiarly
prolific in prevarications and in its
prevaricators. He we'll knows that
this law hardly affects the newspa-
pers, daily and weekly-costing The
Times-Recorder forty-eight cents for
an entire year! Nor WIFE he forget to
tell that he differed with the presi-
dent because the latter wanted to ap-
po1nt some negroes-this, too, in spite
of the fact that he knows President
Wilson has appointed fewer negroes
to, and removed more from office than
any other Democratic president. In
conclusion, he will pay great tribute
to the farmer-that is, if he is speak
irr out in the country.
So that is Senator Hardwicks
speech, and we think it hardly fair
for him to make the same one a sec
ond time in Americas. As long as he
is paying this city the compliment
of giving it his only return visit, he
could be just little bit nicer, and
tell the folks something they haven't
heard. But Senator Hardwick is a
busy man; he hardly has time to
think up subjects for a new speech