Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-31
"A Far and Practical Test for,
The Senatorial Candidates

The Senatorial Candidates
TT is plain that the drive on Senator Smith
is crumbling down to those bitter expo
i nents of revenge who have always hated
him and always will, who acknowledge notn-
inc to his credit, and who intend to harass
him as long as he continues in public lie.
It is also plain that the peoples unpreJu-
diced common sense is forming that conclu-
sion which was inevitable from the Deghnlns
of this campaign, the conclusion stated IN
such exact language by the Americas Times
Recorder-that .the demonstrated ability OF
Senator Smith to serve his people Is an as
set too valuable to be sacrificed to faction
ISM"
Never before in American history have
problems of such stupendous magnitude pre-
sented themselves to the Congress of the Un1s
ed States AS the war was fought upon
scale unapproached in history, so the prob
lens arising out of the war are without par
allel.
In the next six years the Congress will
be called on to solve the problem OF the
relations between capital and labor; the
problem of railroad transportation, which is
given merely temporary and experimental
status by the transportation act returning the
roads to private operation with guarantee
of earnings to cover two years; the problem
Of enlarging our merchant marine and ex-
tending our trade in foreign markets; the
problem of increasing farm production; the
problem of reducing the cost of living; the
problem of paying our huge war debt and cut
ting government costs to tighten taxation;
the problem Of establishing peace in the
world and preventing future wars
In the light of these facts, what sort OF
men do we need In the Senate? Do we need
ability? Do we need experience? Do We
need influence? Do we owe our country as
well as ourselves the obligation of contribut-
ing our best fitted men to the solution OF
these stupendous problems which involve the
progress or decline of the American republic?
Not only from the standpoint of the Ma
ton 8 interests, which have great weight with
all good citizens, but more especially from
the standpoint OF Georgia's interests and the
interests of the South, are the people con-
fronted with solemn responsibility in MAX
ing their choice of Senator on the eighth
Of September
1t is deplorable fact that Republican
hostility toward the South is at high tide
One OF the principal causes Of Republican
rancor against President Wilson and the
Democratic administration is the prominen,
part played by Southern men in Congress and
the Presidents cabinet
Suppose the Republicans, in the mex,
twelve months. launch systematic effort to
deprive the South of the many substantial
benefits which it deserved and has obtained
from Democratic legislation? Which one OF
the candidates for the Senate will have the
greatest strength to resist such an effort
Will it be Governor Dorsey or Mr.. Watson
or Senator Smith?
Suppose the Republicans attempt to re-
organize the Federal Reserve system and take
away from the South those thtse great res
ervOirs of financial credit-in Dallas Allan
"a and Richmond-which have tided us over
period Of unprecedented depression ano
which will insure us in the future, If LEFT
alone, against agricultural impoverishment
and commercial stagnation? Which one OF
the candidates for the Senate will have the
greatest strength to resist such an effort?
Will it be Governor Dorsey or Mr.. Watson
or Senator Smith?
Suppose the Republicans undertake legis-
lation adverse to the interests of Southern
cotton growers, whom they constantly char
acterize as "profiteers" because the growers
insist upon reasonable margin above the
cost OF producing their staple? Which one
OF the candidates for the Senate will have the
greatest strength to resist such an effort
viii it be Governor Dorsey, or Mr. Watson
or Senator Smith?
Suppose the Republicans press the pend.
Ing resolution by Senator Moses, Of New
Hampshire, a confirmed South hater, to sin.
vest1gate" the question Of negro suffrage in
the South? (This resolution being intend
ed as the basis of an effort to reduce the
representation of Southern states in the Ma
ional House, Which one of the candidates
Tor the Senate will have the greatest strength
10 resist such an effort? Will it be Gov.
ernor Dorsey, or Mr.. Watson, or Senator
Smith?
In this connection it ought to be remarked
that Senator Smith, as chairman of a sub
committee of the judiciary committee, te
which was referred the Moses resolution, has
held it blocked since the day of its introduc.
ton.
Were the farmers of Georgia, or the mer.
chants of Georgia, or the bankers of Georgia
or the manufacturers of Georgia, called on
to employ the services Of a man to represent
them in Washington in matters affecting
their vital interests, which taken in the ag
gregate are the interests of the State anG
were they restricted to choice among these
three, which one would they choose? Would
it be Governor Dorsey. or Mr.. Watson, OF
Senator Smith?
These are some questions which the men Of
Georgia are asking themselves as they con.
template the political situation. The apswe,
is plain end irresistible.
The drive on Senator Smith is crumblns
down to the opponents Of revenge who have
always hated him and always will, who &C
knowledge nothing to his credit, who Intend
to harass him as long as he continues in pub
lie life. fwho would sacrifice the interests