The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-07-23
HARDW|CK FIRED
SECOND GUN IN
!. HIS CAMP PA|GN
Reached Brunswick Yesterday
Morning, Visited Townsend
and Delivers Address. M,
LANDS ON SENATOR
THOMAS E. WATSON


the ku KIux KIan and Invisible
Government and Promised to
Samp 1t .out.-Makes Appeal
tor Strict Law Enforcement.
Declaring that Senator Thomas E.
Watson must attend to his own bust
ness and leave the office of govern
or of Georgia alone, as long as he is
in the executive chair, protesting
against the ku Klux Khan and invis-
ible government in Georgia and threat
ening to stamp it out when it trans
gressed the law, if lit takes every sol,
oier in Georgia to do it." Governor
Thomas w. Hardwick made the second
speech of his gubernatorial campaign,
in this city last night.
Because of the fact that it was not
known that the Governor was to be in
the city until yesterday morning, there
was not as large a crowd at the city
hall to hear him, as there would have
been. He was enroute to meet an ap.
pointment in Mcintosh county and his
local friesds insisted that he make a
talk here. He consented and under
the auspices of the Hardwick club
spoke for some forty minutes.
The meeting was presided over by
Hon. N. Emanuel, president of the
Glynn County Hardwick club and the
Governor was introduced by Judge ID
w. Krauss. In that dynamic fashion
OF his, he entered at once into a dis
cussion of the issues in the impend
ing campaign. He explained his act in
: discounting the rentals of the West
ern & Atlantic railroad in order that
the debts Of the state be paid and that
Georgia veterans may get their pen.
sion money. He advocated an improv-
ed fiscal system in the state and ex-
planned how the state was losing reve-
nues for the lack of such system.
Warming up to his subject, the Gov
ernor estered into a rather vigorous
defense Of law and order and protest
ed bitterly against violation of the law
by the Ku Kiux Klan. He said there
was not room enough in the state for
invisible government; government
that usurped the powers of the courts
and in masks inflicted punishment that
ought to be handed out by juries. He
proposed to stamp it out he said. if it
took every soldier in the state to do
the job. Speaking of the strikes, he
told his auditors that every man has
a right to quit his job, if he wants to,
, but it was wrong for any man or any
set of men to resort to force to prevent
others fro fntaking up the jobs that
had been turned down!
Governor Hardwick brought down
the house, when he declared my
friends, there would have been no .op.
position to me in this race, had l list
ened to the dictatfon of Senator Thorn
as E. Watson. He wanted sto run his
job in the Senate and the one in At
lanta, too" said the Governors "and
would have none of it." He then pro.
ceeded to declare his independence of
Watson and other would-be bosses. 81
know no master, no boss" said the
Governor, aexcept the God I serve, the
woman l love and the constituents
whose commission l hold" h2,
Governor Hardwick explained his
position on the movement in the legis
lature to repeal the state tax equaliza-
tion laws and objected to the idea of
doing away with revenue laws without
substituting something squally as good
or better. & n
He promised lthe1people to continue
to try and give the state, of Georgia a
clean, business-like administration
wherein the greatest economy would
be used and pointed out that the pres
ent legislature had already decreased
appropriations by almost million and
a half dollars.
The Governor was kind to his op
ponent and only referred to him one
time and that was to show that Sena
tor Watson, now behind his candidacy
two years ago referred to him as "sor
ry Cliff Walker" He was sure, he
said, that Georgia would re-elect him
and predicted that he would sweep
the state in the coming primary.
, The audience was an enthusiastic
one and the speech was liberally pune
tuated with applause. Because he had
to catch train at s:15 he cut the talk
short, but it made a decided hit with
those who heard it.