Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-23
SENATOR HARRISON
ASSA|LS HARVEY IN
SPEECH To SENATE

WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator
Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi,
charged today in the senate that the
appointment of George Harvey by
President Harding as ambassador to
Great Britain was reward for his
efforts" to discredit the Wilson ad-
ministration.
Senator Harrison said Ambassador
Harvey had no equal as creator
of prejudice and a stirrer Of strife"
The Mississippi senator denounced
Mr.: Harvey's criticisms Of President
Wilson, declaring his pursuit of
Wilson through his journals and
otherwise are only comparable to
Millions hell hounds that were sta
toned at the gates of the Internal
regions"
vindictive, self-annointed, intolerant
political accident"
Senator Harriso nsaid he feared
Colonel Harvey's arrival in London
would cause Great Britain and other
nations to believe that he Will use
whatever influence he may possess
and the power of his position in at
tempts to destroy the League of
Nations"
Says He Is Unsuited
Recalling that his attempt to OBJ
tain the consideration of Colonel
Harvey's nomination in open session
of the senate had been blocked, Sen
ator Harrison said the nomination
was "of such peculiar making and
such potential import that the coun-
try has a right to know the under
lying facts that prompted the nomi-
nation and the influence that brought
about it's confirmation"
Few men in the history of jour
nalism," he said, have possessed to
more remarkable degree, qualities
Of genius for violent expression.
nor JCfi
through fair or foul means to en-
ploy cogent phrases intended to ap-
peal to prejudice and to arouse ma
tired and resentment. He is re
markable man in that his whole life
has been one of inconsistency and
vacillation. He never remained true
to any purpose, loyal to any. friend,
or steadfast to any conviction. he
is welded to no principle and bouno
by no conscience. He is writer
of the most cunning and dangerous
species and a past master in foment-
ing trouble and aggravating delicate
situations. He has been constant IN
only one thing and that to attain
high place in the councils of pollti-
cal ledaers and to realize 10 me 5
ambition, political preferment. IneFe
is not a renowned statesman OF TINS
generation who has not been praised
and abused, glorified and maligned.
elevated and debaSed, eulog1Zed ana
cussed at one time or another by
George Harvey-the violence or mild
ness of his expressions being con
trolled by the eXigencies of the mo-
ment and his temperamental cond1-
ton. There never was such an un-
suited and unfit individual in all the
history of mankind by training, tenn
permanent and environment to take
up the important duties as our rep
resentative at the court OF st. James
as Colonel Harvey"
Attacks on Wilson
Referring to Mr.. HarveyS attacks
on Mr.. Wilson, Senator Harrison
said:
preston and judicious arguments to
oppose the views of this man and his
policies as president of the United
States, he went farther than the un-
fairest partisan would go and placed
his fight almost on personal grounds.
Not content in heaping personal
|abuse upon the president when IN
health he pursued him with his sour
rilous attacks to his sick bed and
there nisrepresented his ailment, try
ing to. create in the public mind the
impression that the president had
lost his mind.
But he was not satisfied with this
unfair means, this disreputable con-
duct that no reputable Journalist
would have employed, he did that
which no individual can condone and
for which only his. friends can apol.
ogize. He tried to draw the fire OF
indignation and condemnation upon
the wife of the sick president.
Through the application of his pen
he entered the sacred precincts OF
home to misrepresent the wife of the
resident. 1 care not how low jour-
nalist may stoo or how debased he
may become, he will never reach that
oint of infamy that is due one who,
in order to satisfy his ersonal hat
red, attacks constantly the minis
trations of a devoted wife. You may
scan the columns Of every newspaper,
you may turn the covers of every
periodical published in America and
I doubt # you will find another that
in all those heated controversies be-
tween men and parties dragged in
the name of Mrs. Wilson. This crown
of thorns and thistles that will prick
the memory of this man. goes to him
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