Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-31
HARDW|CK SCORES
WALKERS TACTICS

tween 600 and 500 Forsyth county
citizens heard Governor Hardwick
here Monday afternoon. Perhaps the
feature of his address was his refer
ence to the alleged effort Of his op.
ponent, Clifford Walker, "to capitalize
on the report that there was a row
on between Senator Thomas E. Wat
son and myself"
The governor charged that "Mr.
Walker is appealing to the Watson
men for their support on the claim
that he is Mr.. Watson's candidate,
while to the anti-Watson men he de-
clares they should not blame him
for accepting whatever advantage he
might get out of Mr.. Watson's sup
port, and that they need not be
apprehensive for Mr.. Watson will
never have any strings on him."
I'm some quarters" said the gov
ernor, "a desperate effort is being
made to. make it appear that there
is a hair-pulllng match on between
Senator Watson and myself. Did l
jump on Watson? He has said some
things against me. I'm not afraid
of Watson. It's UP to him. I've
sought no row with him; 1 have
dealt fairly with him. All want is
for him to be United States senator
and attend to his job and not try
to be governor, too. That's a fair
proposition, isn't it?
az understand that certain polite
ians who are neither my friends nor
Senator Watson's friends nave
whispered in his ear that 1 have
gone into some sort of combine with
Hoke Smith for the purpose of elect
ing him and me to the United States
senate. There has been no such COM
bination. There is no such purpose,
nothing like it in the back part OF
my head. And I read a few days ago
where Senator Smith was quoted as
saying he had no intention of again
entering politics.
81 have never yet taken orders
IL Jill oily pOoo CAAN l. KILL NV 0OAA0
to begin now"
Governor Hardwick asserted that
the only evidence available that Mr..
Walker is Mr.: Watson's candidate
was the claim which he alleged has
been made by Mr.. Walker in his eff
forts to lineup the Watson support
erS.
Senator Watson has not said So"
declared the governor, and knowing
him as I do I am inclined to be-
lieve that if he was going to put out
candidate against me he would
have selected a stronger man than
Cliff.
However, I am making the race
myself, not as anybody's candidate
or as anybody's deputy"
The governor stated that when he
took office the state had a deficit of
100000. 1.-THE OK was in the ditch,'
he said. ''It was a Georgia OK and
a Georgia ditch" and it was rot up
to me to Nhire and fuss about how
he got into the ditch. 1t was up
to me 70 get him out. Confederate
pensions were lorg past due, and the
school teachers were behind on fne;r
salaries. The states credit was suf-
fering, something had to be done. In
this emergency we discounted the
Western and Atlantic rental for
period of five years, at an interest
rate of 593 per cent, which, in those
times, was considered by every one
as a very low rate. The contract for
discounting the warrants was let.
upon competitive bids, and after the
matter had been widely advertised.
ITO replace the loss of the w. &;
A. rental money to the treasury dur
ing the fIVe-year period we enacted
the law prescribing a one-cent-a-gal-
lon tax on gasoline. This tax brings
in about 81 100000 a year, approx
mately tw;ce as much as is received
from the rental of the w. & A."
Governor Hardwick said he had
inaugurated "pay as you co. pro-
gram for the state. He charged
that MI. Walker was favoring the
repeal Of the tax equalization law,
and was against ally new tax laws
notwithstanding he is advocating
new appropriations which would al
most double the states expenses.
HE wants to add millions in new
appropriations while repailing the
tax laws" said the governor. That
is impossible; if you make appropria-
tons you will have to tax the leo
pie in order to raise money with
which to pay them"
The governor said Mr.. Walker
had "about-faced" on all of the posi-
tions he. took two years ago. "He
is now for everything he opposed
then, and now opposes everything he
stood for them" declared the COVER
nor.
Colonel o. T. Whelchel, we'll
known attorney, introduced the gov.