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THE ATLANTIAN
September, 1922
VOTE FOR
C. S. Robert
FOR
Chief of Construction
For forty-one years a resident of this county.
For 18 consecutive years County Surveyor of
Fulton County.
For past 6 years engaged in City Construction
Department.
Have never been charged with incompetence
or with lack of fidelity to the work entrusted to
me.
My platform: A dollar’s worth of good work
for each dollar the city spends in the Construc
tion Department.
Your Vote and Influence
Will Be Appreciated
sonally endorsed candidate for govern
or, Carmi Thompson, received 172,500
votes. From the same precincts Mr.
Thompson’s opponents received 243,-
153, divided between eight candidates.
In other words, by a combined ma
jority of 70,653 the Republican voters
of Ohio expressed a preference for a
candidate other than President Hard
ing’s personally endorsed candidate for
governor.
There was only one way in which
Ohio Republicans could have effec
tively endorsed the Harding adminis
tration and that was by giving Mr.
Harding’s candidate for governor a
clear majority over all of his competi
tors. This they not only failed to do,
but they gave a substantial combined
majority against him.
If this be endorsement, President
Harding may make the most of it.
LET “PAT DO IT”
510 Courtland St.
Coming Events.
(Extract from editorial in Boston
Transcript, Aug. 12, 1922.)
Nothing is to be gained by ignoring
the fact that the failure of the Ad
ministration in the current crisis is
bound to have a bad effect upon the
Republican campaign in the State
which holds the right of the line in
this election year—the State of the
Vice President and the Secretary of
War, the State also of the leader of
the Senate and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives. . . . Those
who believe, however, that the party
in power of which he (President Hard
ing) is the titular leader deserves an
immediate rebuke by reason of its
failure either to keep its campaign
pledges or to meet the challenge of the
hour, must either possess their souls
in patience for another two years or
make the Republican candidates in
the battle ground States like Massa
chusetts and Ohio the unwilling and
to a large extent the undeserved ve
hicles of the expression of the pre
vailing popular disgust.
. . . Presumably Vice President
Coolidge, .Secretary Weeks, Senator
Lodge and Speaker Gillett have failed
to defend the Administration for the
very good reason that they can find
no defense for its failure. And when
they attempt on the stump in the com
ing campaign to deal with the dawd
ling at Washington days and weeks
and months, what is there for them
to say?
Four Republican Isms.
Newberryism.
Daughertyism.
Nat Goldsteinism.
Reactionism.
Mr. Pomp (to applicant for butler’s
vacancy): Have you had any expe
rience ?
Applicant: I have, sir. For three
years I was butler to the Great Fea
ture Film Company.—London Mail.
Industrial Prosperity Prom
ised; Industrial Idle
ness Given.
Some million and a half American
workers are at present on strike. They
are losing $50,000,000 a week in
wages and the country is deprived of
the fruits of their labor, the value of
which is beyond the possibility of ex
pression in terms of dollars and cents.
The textile workers, who produce
clothing, the coal miners who supply
fuel, the railway shop men, who main
tain the instrumentalities of transpor
tation, and the trolley men who are
necessary to quick and convenient
transit in two cities—these are the
larger groups of operatives who have
quit their part in the nation’s industry
as a protest against the reduction of
their wages.
Without attempting to assess or
place the responsibility for the seri
ous interruptions to production and
transportation, it is nevertheless fair
to point out that two years ago the
Republican candidates and their sup
porters promised the American work
ers a golden age of prosperity and a
practical insurance against unemploy
ment and lower wages if they would
only vote the Republican ticket.
There were to be reforms in the
government, an expert management
of public affairs, a tariff that would
uphold wages for those in industry
and guarantee higher prices for those
in agriculture. In this buzz and hum
of industry every one was to be as
busy and blithe as a bee gathering
honey against the coming of winter.
And, of course, this prosperity was to
be of the famous Republican brand,
warranted to last a lifetime.
If any of the 3,000,000 unemployed
through inability to find work and the
1,500,000 on strike against lower pay
were lured by these Republican pic
tures of dawning prosperity into vot
ing for Mr. Harding and his Repub
lican Congress they must be sadly un
deceived by this time. If the farmer
was misled by these promises of bet
ter prices for his products, which
since 1920 declines billions in value,
he must share the worker’s disappoint
ment and dissatisfaction.
Not only has the Republican admin
istration failed to bring a new and
greater prosperity; not only has it
failed to continue the prosperous con
ditions which prevailed when it came
into power, but has actually turned
the. country’s previous prosperity into
an industrial panic.
Harding’s Double-Back-Ac-
tion “Endorsement”
in Ohio.
President Harding’s official mouth
piece in Washington, the Washington
Post, publishes the ncttrly complete
returns from Ohio under the following
headline: "Landslide in Ohio Endorses
Harding.”
Let us see what kind of an endorse
ment Ohio gives Mr. Harding. From
7,180 precincts, the President’s per-
A. L. CURTIS
DRUGS
35 W. MITCHELL STREET
Atlanta, Georgia
37 Years in Business
27 Years at My Present Stand
He Serves Best Who Serves Most
My Motto Has Always Been
“THE BEST”
A. L. CURTIS
DRUGS
35 W. Mitchell Street Atlanta, Georgia