Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14
VOTE FOR GEORGIA,
HARDW|CK' PLEA


!, in the city auditorium Monday eve
ming and brought to an end his
speaking campaign for reelection
"The states case is closed.
make you one appeal-don't vote for
Hardwick and don't vote for Walker
but vote for Georgia"
At the outset of his speech the
governor had announced: st am 60
ing to make you such an argument
as I would address to the supreme
court of the United States if I had
this case before that tribunal.
will give you a straightforward
manly account of my stewardship,
and will discuss the issues Of this
campaign in plain language and in
a direct way"
The governor spoke to one of the
largest, if not the largest. audience
that ever listened to q candidate for
governor in this city. 1t was esti-
mated that between fifteen hundred
and two thousand Floyd county cit
liens heard him, and many of his
hearers were women. The Lindale
brass band supplied the music for
the occasion.
John M. Graham, president Of the
National City Bank Of Rome, pre-
sided. and the governor was intro
duced by Claude H. Porter, former
solicitor general Of the Rome circuit,
former city court solicitor and sew
eral times a member Of the legisla-
ture from this county.
Reception Committee
The reception committee which re-
ceived the governor and looked after
his meeting was a very large one
composed Of hundreds of leading
Floyd county citizens. Among those
on the committee were: Mayor e.
E. Lindsey, Judge Moses Wright, OF
the Rome circuit; John M. Berry.
manufacturer; J. w. Russell, former
member Of the legislature; Barry
Wright, prominent attorney, former
representative from this county, and
during the World war a lieutenant
colonel with the American expedi'
tionary forces in France; Henry
Crews, railroad engineer; G. S. Reese,
justice of the peace; w. c. Atkinson,
city commissioner; G. o. Walden,
merchant; Bob Tippen, merchant;
Isaac May, capitalist; G.. B. Haw'
kins, wholesale merchant; w. W..
Burns, merchant and city commas
sioner; DIR. L. F. Mccoy, city com.
missioner; +. L. Forster, manurac-
turer; Judge Harry Johnson, ordi.
nary of Floyd county; L. y. Hol-
brook, manufacturer; R. II. Gag
gett and T. e. Edwards, OF the
Rome News; j. v. Kyle, farmer ana
Justice of the peace; Paul Marion,
farmer: A. C. Fincher, farmer; ..
r. Ellis, farmer; B. Terhune, farm
err: Everett Holsenback, farmer; Ju'
liam Montgomery; farmer; ]. IL.
Camp. farmer. Colonel H. P. Melkle'
ham, manufacturer; Mrs. Annie
Freeman Johnson; Mrs. M. s. La
nier. Mrs. w. j. Shaw, Miss Helen
Marshall, Mrs. Thomas Colgate, Mrs.
T. Lindsey Johnson, Miss Annie Har-
din and many others.
Lunch With Mrs. FELTON,
Monday morning Governor Hard
wick spoke at Gainesville to an
audience that packed the Barlow
county courthouse, and seated on
the front row was Mrs. w. II. Eel
ton. the noted and beloved writer,
who lunched with the governor after
his speech, and who is one OF MS
strongest supporters. In the after
noon. the governor spoke in the big
Masonic hall at Acworth, Cobb coun-
ty. to several hundred hearers. In
all three counties-Cobb, Barlow
and Floyd-the governors leaders
were outspoken in their confident
prediction that he would carry these
counties by big majorities.
In his three addresses Monday,
lust as in all his previous speeches.,
the governor took a strong and I'M
compromising stand for law ana
order. He declared that the princi-
pal forces arrayed against him were
the radical elements Of the Ku klux
Khan, who oppose his stand against
outrages by masked mobs; the ire
sponsible and radical elements OF
union labor, who are bitter against
him because he complied with the
official requests of the mayor OF
Waycross and the sheriff of Ware
county for troops to aid them in en-
forcing, law and order during the
railroad strike; and the holders OF
useless and unnecessary offices in
the state government which he has
sought to abolish and which he hopes
to abolish during his next term.
The Hardwick Opposition
$50, you ,see," declared the COVER
nor, "the radical and irresponsible
elements in the Ku Klux Khan and
in union labor, coupled with those
who fill offices that are sinecures,
make up a large part Of the opposi-
ton to my reelection. The principal
issues in this campaign are law and
order and a businesslike administra.
ton of the states affairs"
The governor told Of how at the
beginning of his administration he
found that the state was "broke and
worse than broke" He said: "I was
handed a $3,000,000 bag to hold, and
the bag was open at both ends. BY
discounting the Western and Allan
tic railroad rental notes, we manag-
ed to pay off the deficit which in
the main consisted Of obligations
which the state owed to it's Confed-
crate veterans and it's school teach.
ers. Nobody had any other plan of
raising the money, and this plan
passed the legislature with only e
handful of dissenting votes.
State Within Income
was NeleIIllIlSu " put lHe SIoIe
on a pay-as-it-went basis and to this
end we reduced the annual appro.
priations a million dollars, and we
effected economies wherever we
could, so that now the state is liv'
ing within it's income,
'I vetoed the new class pension
bill appropriating a million and a
quarter dollars year, because the
legislature would not provide any
revenue with which to pay these ap
preparations. I was not willing tC
be party to a fraud and deception
of these old veterans and their
widows, for, If had approved the
bill they would not have received
one penny as there were no funds
available to pay them. The effect