Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
Atlanta Post Of Legion
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| Ednlondson's career, from his alleged
| Indictment on the charge of carrying
concealed weapons to his latest
| stump speeches against the American
| Legion; and an attack on William
| Randolph Hearst as the avowed sup
porter of Watson and Hardwick-
| these were the four outstanding fea-
| lures of a meeting of Atlanta post,
| No. /, of the American Legion, at
| Taft hall Monday night.
Taft hall was packed to the doors.
Every seat was filled, and about a
| hundred were standing. Besides
members of the Legion, there were
several ladies present and many men,
old and young, not members Of the
Legion. That the entire, audience
was heart and soul with the Legion
in it's fight was proven, first, by
| the storms Of cheers that greeted
every speaker, second, by a standing
vote on a resolution in which not
| person arose when the mos" were
| called for.
Trammell Scott, presiding, opened
the meeting by reading the principles
and objects of the American Legion
The first speaker was Harry Alex
ander, lawyer and Legionaire, who
discussed Hardwick's record in re-
ply to the challenge of J. K. Jor-
| Legionaire.
Mr.. Alexander, stating that his in
| formation came from the Congress
sional Record, declared Hardwick
voted against every measure that
was introduced in the senate to win
| the war: Cd in 1915 against the ship
purchase bill through which Amerl-
can troops were to get transports; CD
| in June, 1916, against the bill for a
nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals by
| which gunpowder and explosives
would be supplied American arms
Hardwick basing his objections on
the ground that the bill would allow
| the government to sell surplus nj
trates to the farmers of the south;
| (3) against the selective service law,
without which, said Mr.. Alexander,
| the American army would not nave
been raised until last April at the
coming in; (4) against the food con-
troll bill: 60 against the fuel con-
troll bill; Cos against the railroad
control bill to keep the transporta-
ton system Of the country from
breaking down and to speed up troop
finance corporation bill; (Sl against
the bill charging powers of the fed
eral reserve banks so as to prevent
a financial breakdown in the midst
Of the war; go against the espion-
afe act, which, said Mr.. Alex
|
drels who would have burned every
munitions factory in the country and
notified a German submarine OF the
| departure of every transport, and
the other scoundrels who would have
excited instruction against the
draft law; Mr.. Hardwick's objections
was that, under the bill, man might
give false information against his
neighbor and it would have caused
trouble in the neighborhood!
Deafening applause greeted the END
of Mr.. Alexander's, speech. Tram
NELL Scott then introduced William
A. Sirmon. AS he came to the front
| of the platform, there were cries of
EAT 'em up, 'Swellhead! referring
| to Thomas E. Watson's choice of a
nickname for the boy who stu bears
| the marks of German machine-gun
bullets.
Watson Blamed for Desertions :. .
Mr.. Strmon announced he could
| speak only few minutes, as he must
catch train to Moultrie, where
| Hardwick is to speak Tuesday. He
scored Watson, declaring among
other things, that records at
Camp Gordon cited hundred cases
| of desertion during the war where
the deserter's only plea was, TON
Watson said l didn't have to 60
and I thought Tom Watson knew"
Nobody knows how many thou
promise to defend deserters," said
Mr.. Sirmon.
"And yet, the other day at Warm
Springs, he denied in his speech that
ne he ever received o cent mt continued
the audience was a little hard of hear
ing. He thought Watson was apollo
giving for, having taken the money,
| SO he jumped to his feet and yelled,
That's all right, Tom, We can keep
the $40 %; ! give We? Some give away
The next speaker Tramme1l Scott
introduced as "a man I will cite for
conspicuous gallantry in the face of
the enemy-the common enemy-last
Wednesday at GAINESVILLE, Ga, U. S.
A.-Curtis Barrett!'
.Thunderous applause greeted the
young man who rose in his place on
| the platform. The applause stopped
as he neared the, edge of the plat
to. tumult. and continued for two
minutes before he could begin to
| speak.
Barrett Speaks
Mr.. Barrett called no names in his
| speech, which was plea for Amer
1canism. and a defense of the Legion
as a 100 per cent organization of OK
service men, privates and officers
alike. He made it plain that, in in
dorsing the Legion's fight, he in
| dorsed, too, the proposition that the
Legion supported no candidate, but
simply opposed tow candidates. The
man who doesn't stand by the state
OF Georgia today, he asserted, is as
great a Stacker as the man who de-
serted in the war.
| Mr.. Barrett was followed by Basil
Stockbr1dge, who read the resolution,
bonds at par value. plus accrued in
terest, and then to donate them either
to Watson's or Hardwicks campaign
FUND, If any of his charges against
the American Legion were proved be-
| preme court.
81 Speaking to the resolution, Mr.
Stockbridge said he was reliably in
| formed by a citizen of the Tenth dis
{ wet. neighbor of Watson's, that
bonds, but that eve have no desire
to bubble with him over the price,
| Our country's security is worth to
US 1OO cents on the dollar. We de-
sire to destroy the last vestige of
| argument ne has that he contributed
a single shred toward winning the
| war" -~
49,, who Kaiser Counted On
| During the war there were GER
tain creatures in America upon whom
kalser Wilhelm counted" continued
| Mr.. Stockbridge. "He counted on
them then, and he will count on them
| again If he is ever restored to power.
| And, by the looks of things now,
| that's the way events are trending.
| one of those upon whom Kaiser VIII
helm counted was smooth, Shiny in
d1v1dual by the name of William
| Randolph Hearst. He carried on his
lnsidious propaganda for Germany
until we went into the war, and then
he made his individual peace with the
| United States government, thereby
wi inc hi h Il A
Legion was in it's incipiency, Mr.
| Hearst was kind enough to have his
editorial writer's in Atlanta give the
Legion some very f1attering notices
| We were deceived; I, myself, was de.
ceived!- But in the last forty-eight
hours, they have felt our darts SO
| keenly, that we have finally smoked
| EN- out! Three consecutive DAYS