Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-24
WHAT THE PRESS is SAYING
SOME CURRENT COMMENT ON TIMELY TOPICS


The Constitution wants to get rid
of Holder that it may beat the dis
loyal Mr.. Hardwick," just as 1t
doesn't wish to get rid of Mr.. Dorsey
so that the "disloyal" Mr.. Hoke
Smith can not beat the pestiferous
Mr.. Watson!
A two-man race for the governor
ship is the only way the Constitution
can proceed to stamp out "disloyalty"
in the governorship race, whereas
three-cornered race is the onl y pos
sible way it can stamp out "dlsloy-
atty" in the senatorial race.
The Constitution put Mr.. Dorsey
in as third man in the race for the
senate, by the same process of logic
that it seeks to employ to get Mr..
Holder out of the way as third man
in the governors race.
Now, if you haven't the headache
already from trying to follow the
Constitutions logic in this matter, |
will give you a few more samples,
and maybe you will get one-un-
less you 90 crazy with the heat, in
the meantime.
Now, the Constitution had in Mr..
Watson-accordin to the Cbnsti-
tution's own written and published
words-a perfectly loyal and honora-
BILE candidate for the senate; for, on
the day after the presidential pri-
mary, in which Mr.. Watson had been
subjected to all the charges now lodg-
ed against him, the Constitution new
ertheless of him said this:
"While Mr.. Watson disagreed with
the Democratic administration con-
corning the League of Nations his
voice and pen have been consist
entity arrayed in behalf of every
measure necessary to sustain the ma
tional honor and to support our sol
diers in the war with Germany"
The Constitution might simultan-
eously have observed in the field, in
the person of Mr.. Hoke Smith, per
feet specimen of the "disloya" and
undesirable" candidate-accord9ng
to the Constitutions repeatedly
written and published opinion.
Here, then, was an issue plainly
and Enthusiastically Joined and set up.
Here was a chance for an immediate
and thorough Showdown.
Why, then did the Constitution
gum the cards and inject a second
specimen of the perfectly loyal
brand into the fray, in the person OF
Mr.. Dorsey? No., -,
Wasn't that giving the "disloyal"
one-Hoke-a two-to-one chance to
win? Surely we are not to think that
was the Constitutions objective?
So far as the Constitution was
concerned, why should it not have let
Mr.. Watson with the stamp of its ap-,
proval fresh upon him, and Mr.. Smith
with the stamp of is disapproval fresh
upon him. fight it out?
If, according to the Constitution,
it takes two SUPERFICIAL ones-T.
Watson and H. Dorsey-to beat one
"disloval one"-H. Smith-in the
senatorial race, why should it not fol-
low that two 1oyaP' ones-Holder
and Walker-would be the more
surely beat one "disloyaP one
Hardwick?
Gentle reader, have you that head
ache vet? Well, you can't blame the
Constitution with not trying to give
it to you anyway.
If YOU can make heads or tails
of the Constitutions logic in this
matter, YOU can do more than any
BODY else I have talked to of late
and I have talked to some few, be-
lieve me! =,
To make bad matters worse, Mr..
Dorsey at Fayetteville, said;
''T measure my words as | utter
them. If Watson was loyal to our
country in its hour of strain and
stress, his idea of loyalty and devo-
ton is as far from mine as night from
dav, as the north from the south
pole" =,
The Constitution on April 22,
measuring its words with something
or other, said;
"While Mr.. Watson disagreed with
the Democratic administration con
corning the League of Nations, his
voice and pen have been consistently
arrayed in behalf of every measure
necessary to sustain the national hon
or and to support our soldiers IN the
war with Germany.
Evidently, the Constitution can
add a column of figures more times
with more different results than any
other mathematician that ever was
is or will be-