Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-05
CAMPAIGN FORCES
CLAIM VICTORY FOR
BOTH CANDIDATES
Continued from Page y

strikers to trdZZle. whispering
Cliff, the invisible candidate.
Hardwick on the Stump
Governor Hardwick is on the
stump every day. He is meeting
the voters face to face. He looks
them in the eye and tells them what
he stands for, what he hopes to ac-
complish. Whispering Cliff. He
grasps the hand of voter, looks on
the ground and says he is glad to
meet the voter. He whispers he is
against Watson, if the man is
against Watson. If the voter is a
Watson man, Whispering Cliff is
Watson's candidate.
Governor Hardwick tells every
body where he stands on any and
every question. Whispering Cliff
ducks the issue. He first tries to
find out where the voter stands and
then attempts to agree with the vot-
er. He won't speak; he won't write.
He is really the invisible candidate.
Whispering Cliff is endeavoring to
gumSEoe his Way to the governors
chair. It has never been done in
Georgia and Will not be done this
time. I predicted at the outset of
this campaign Walker would not
carry twenty counties. [ am sure
now he won't get even that many.
There has never been any doubt as
to the final outcome, but during the
past few days the tide has turned
against Whispering Cliff, and I don't
believe he will get fifteen counties.
It will be a landslide for HardWick."
MIR. Gast0n's Statement
Tho CT a bx nv,
ton was as follows:
THE people have known all along
that the governors blatant and
boasting statements that he is for
law enforcement and believes in law
and order means exactly nothing so
far as the political campaign is con-
cerned. They have resented the in
situation that Mr.. Walker and his
friends do not stand for the enforce
ment of the laws. The campaign the
governor is making along this line
would naturally cause us to expect
that every policeman one passes
shall Immediately mount a cracker
box and loudly proclaim that he be-
l.eves all who violate the law on his
beat and in his presence should be
arrested. No account is given as to
how the laws have been observed and
enforced during the governors ad
ministration. We would naturally
expect any governor to stand for,
and demand respect for the law
and a rigid enforcement thereof.
Every act of Mr. Walkers private
and public life shows that his friends
are correct in their statements that
law enforcement and law observance
have had no truer champion than he
has always been. The plain truth of
the matter is that the governor has
been trying to muddy the waters and
draw attention from the real tissues,
such as the income double tax
scheme, the deplorable financial con-
dition of the state, the large amount
paid the Citizens and Southern bank
in the discounting of future income
of the state, the large attorneys fees
in connection Herewith, the heavy
special taxes imposed on retail drug
gists and others in business, the veto
of the pension bill by which a large
sum available to old class pensioners
was diverted to institutions for the
furtherance of his political ends,
last minute statute urged and put
over by him and his friends to give
the governor and chairman of the
highway department complete politi-
cal control of that department by
having authority to employ and dis
miss all engineers and employees,
converting it into a political machine,
the free school books for the primary
grades in schools, his broken prom.
Uses and other matters about which
the people want to hear from him.
The governor has ceased to loudly
proclaim from the stump that those
who differed from him are without
character or intelligence" but has
not had the courage to apologize for
this czarlike statement.
blaming Legislature"
"On the contrary he is now lay
ing the failures of his administra-
ton and the failure to use the new
broom to members of the house and
senate and seeking to escape respOn-
sibility in that way.
"Since the very beginning of this
campaign, reports began to come
from every section of Georgia that
The reports increased from day to
day. 1t soon became evident that
thousands of honest old Reubens and
their wives had been keeping in
closer touch with public affairs than
some politicians realized. They had
carefully and periodically studied
size situation. They had weighed
the governor in the balance and he
had been found wanting
There is no longer any doubt as
to what the result will be. Campaign
statements cannot be heard above
the loud demand of the. people for
Clifford Walkers election. 1t is
heard in practically every county in
and women gathered together and
wherever they may be, whether in
hotels, on trains. in barber shops,
restaurants, at the old-fashioned
country Dicnics and barbecues, on
court grounds, around the benches
of cross roads stores, at neighbour
hood meetings and where women
gather in clubs and at neighbors'
homes, it is now we'll understood and
confidently stated that Clifford Wal
ker will be the next governor of
Georgia. Not only so, but his ma
jority will be such as to surprise the
wisest old political prophets. 1t will
be such a majority as has rarely
been received by any candidate in
any state.
eve have conducted quiet and,