Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-16

Felton'S communication IN full follt
"To Editor Times-Recorder, Amer
icus, Ga.
This letter with enclosure is
sent you for publication, Will you
grant my appeal to serve a much
injured Confederate widow?
This senator could have had no
personal grievance against her,
but he obeyed orders and
using his senatorial prerogative &c
dispIace all persons displeasing to
himself, he went into secret SEES
sion, where the woman couldn't
go, nor any personal friend en-
ter, and then and there said Che
things that put her out, ana
where he is sheltered from dam
ages, etc. 1t is preposterous that
any woman of decent character
should have to undergo such an
ordeal. If Their is any patriotism
left in the veterans of the civil
war, or any realization of their
duty in the u. d. G. women
they will rebuke slanderer for
this deed Mrs. w. H. FELTON,.
'Cartersville, Ga, Aug IA"
The enclosure, headed Senator
Harris. His Cruel Treatment of the
Widow Of Lieut.. Gen. Longstreet, 80
is as follows:
president Warren G. Harding
appointed Mrs. Longstreet to the
Gainesville, Ga, post office by
executive order in 1922. BY a
conspiracy formed between Con-
gresham Tom Bell, Mr.. H. H.
Dean and w. J. Harris, she was
defrauded Of the office, and it
was given to a newspaper man,
who uses his paper to boost his
trio Of politicians.
"W. j. Harris went before the
Senate P. 0. Committee and pro-
cured her defeat. If the old Con-
federate Veterans and the U. D.
c. women of Georgia are fully in
formed of this conduct, l do not
think one, OF them could be in
duced to cast a vote for him
again. A republican President,
Mr.. Harding gave her the position
and a Democratic Senator rob
bed her of it.
Il hold a letter from President
Harding telling of her appoint
ment, and also telegram from
Mrs. Longstreet, in December,
1922, telling of Harris and his
bitter fight on her. Occupying
an elevation, this man lowered
himself to discredit the widow of
the most trusted General in Genl.
Lees Command, the night before
Appomattox.
"She begged this man to al
low her the office. Her widowed
mother in a sanatarium not ex-
pected to live, and she was abso-
lutely without means. She hum
bled herself to beg him to allow
her to get food and shelter for
both her mother and herself by
the office.
What did this Great Caesar do
when this Confederate widow
knelt before him in poverty and
distress? He went before the P
o. Committee, she not present,
and said things concerning her to
those Senators claiming she was
distasteful to him (and perhaps
he said more distasteful to So
cicty) until he put her out 4
Republican President gave her
the place and w. J. Harris in a
secret session put her out of it.
Are Southern men and women to
adopt this persecution and after
wards vote for Harris?
Mr., Hollins Randolph, the
Chairman of the Stone Mountain
Memorial, is keeping the figure of
General Longstreet from the out
side military group, and unless
the people of Georgia wake up,
that indignity will be perpetual
ed. Having wronged the widow,
Who has no money to buy place
on the outside of Stone Noun
tain, this political group of Har-
ris, Randolph and Bell, will do
their utmost to discredit the name
of Longstreet everywhere.
This poyerty-stricken widow
of a great Georgia General has
right to six feet of soil n Gaines
vile Cemetery, where her noble
husband lies buried. Death can
now only relieve her of the agony
and pain of this political perse-