Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-09-30
HARDMAN FLAYED BY
HOLDER FORCES; CLAIMS
OF HOLDER EMPHASIZED

AClAHt8, E&.--JOun ~. I1OIUeT !
headquarters at the Kimball House
issued the following statement Sat
urday in connection with Holders
campaign for governor against DR..
IL. G. Hardman, Of Commerce:
/ with, the field narrowed to two
candidates, public questions and
political alignments finally have
taken their proper place in the guber-
material campaign. Developments of
the week have served to demonstrate
fine efutility ofs.asse,npting sto xevaie
issues, deceive the people and OBJ
scure selfish political motives.
1.-THE joining Of the issues and
alignments, as represented on the one
hand by John N. Holder and on the
other by DR.. L. G. Hartman has Of
fered the people an opportunity to
weigh and consider the characters,
personalities, public records and cam
didacies of the two men.
"That the people have embraced
this opportunity and are turning in
increasing numbers to the support of
Mr.. Holder is convincingly demon
strated by ovations he is receiving on
his stumping tour and b ythe en-
thusiastic reports received at head
quarters by letter, telegraph, tele-
phone and personal calls. In the long
years that the Kimball House has
been the hub of Georgia politics no
campaign headquarters has ever pre-
scented more active appearance or
harbored more confident atmos-
phere.
Four Causes Given
Reasoning from cause to effect,
considered in the light Of tirst-hand
reports, it is apparent that four out
standing factors account for the fore
Swallowed nomination of Mr.. Holder
at the primary Of October s, as fol.
lows:
tN~ ellis popular plurality of more
| than 1000 votes in the first primary,
despite the united opposition and
slanderous attacks of DR.. Hardman,
George H. Carswell and J. O. Wood
ellis splendid victory in Jackson
county, which is the home, also, Of
DR.. Hartman.
ellis recognition by the people as
the anti-bond candidate.
ellis unequivocal stand with refer
ence to reforms in the state banking
department, and the removal OF
Superintendent T. r. Bennet.
1.-THE official consolidation and tab.
ulation of the votes of the primary
of September 9Th, as announced by
Mrs. Bessie Anderson, secretary of
the state democratic executive COM
mittee, gave to the people convincing
proof that Mr.. Holder was the lead
ing candidate in the preliminary
skirmish by over 1000 votes, this de-
spite futile attempts Of the opposition
to make it appear that DR.. Hartman
led in that contest.
Carried jackson County
"These same official returns show
ed, also, that Mr.. Holder carried
Jackson county, the home of both
himself and DR.. Hartman, by a ma
jority of 189 votes, and that he re-
ceived almost three times as many
votes in DR.. Hardman's own town of
Commerce as DR.. Hartman received
in Mr.. Holders home town of Jeffer-
son.
"The efforts of DIR. Hartman, in
his campaign speeches, to explain
away his defeat in his home county
have proved a boomerang. His init
nation of irregularities at the Jeffer-
son precinct polls has been repudiat-
ed by D. T. white, one of the cleo
ton managers and a Hardman man. .
with respect to the bond issue,
the developments of the week have
served to show that DR.. Hartman,
within short space of time, has
been all things to all men on this is
sue. He has declared himself both
for and against the issuance of bonds,
all the while contending, however,
that bonds are not really an issue in
this campaign"