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■'homson, ,fla., Feb. 21, 1902*
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? HARDWICK.
T6 the People lit the Tenth District:
’£,Sotne weeks ago my opponent,Hon.
!'• W/ Hardwick, published a “rc-
joinder” to my cord of .January ICth,
ftn whicji I announced my candidacy
■for Cougrcftii and took issue with him
♦upon the salient features of bis plat
form-•viz; rotation of Congressmen
•’and tbfe repeal pf the Fourteenth and
'Fifteenth amendments to the Consti-
iutfotypf the United States.
• Mr. Hardwick’s rejoinder, so far
from reyealing a proper appreciation
bf ihe errors into which lie had fallen,
’reiterates his previous statements,
*and assures'the public that ho ‘‘ar-
‘dently believes” iu what hcjadvocates.
‘Sincerity of purpose is an admirable j
•plnTify in a caOnplate,’ but it can
'never make amends for blunders of
jfidgaient where public interests aie
-iuvdlve'd. Tlie more ardently a pub- i
'lie mail believes iu a demonstrable
1 Troy, 'the more earnestly ought the
'people to strive to limit his oppor- 1
tuuities for putting that error into
liarmful practice.
1. In support of his contention
l^hat frequent rotation of Congress
men is necessary to properly safe
guard the beet interests of the people.
r TMr. 'tlardwick'says in his rejoinder;
’‘‘The very words in which I express
ed the gist of that idea arc luken
‘from tlie National Democratic plat
form of 1884,”
Here again lie falls into error, and
,L3ile-Jipie it is an inexcusable one of
plain hut. The words put ip quota
tion marks by him, and to which he
,pow refers, are not to be found in
nnv authorized version of that plat
form.*. The words put in quotation
piavks by him , and to which he now
ex^refers, are not to be found in any
4 authorized version of that platform,
‘jfjie most significant phrase iu the
i r quotation seems to have been sup
plied by (Mr. Hardwick, or imposed
• upon him by some one else.,
JWr. Hardyyiplf’s ijuotntion is,ns
follows: ‘‘It is indispensable for the
praoticable application and cuforce-
mppf. of tjic fireat fundamental prin
ciples of popular government that
there should bp n frequent rotation
Pi ju qfllpe.’t
- ~ ?„ Whatjjtbe platform of 1884 says on
that particular spbjept is as follows:
i‘Jt is indiepenpnble far tho practi
cable application and enforcement of
these fundamental principles that the
Govern ipeut ehopld pot always be
pontrolled by one political party”—a
widely different statement.
Th^ declaration in tho platform is
directed against perpetual control of
{lie Government by one party, on the
poped, B8 the context clearly shows,
of the danger of the growth of abuses
in administration. Mr. Hardwick or
some one disc took the liberty of
striking out the plain words of the
platform, “the Government should
pet always bo controlled by one po
litical party,” and inserting in their
stead these other words; “there
rliould ho a frequent rotation iu
office.’’ Mr. Hardwick then applied
this newly manufactured doctrine to
the pending contest between us, al
though we arc candidates for nomina
tion within the ranks of the same
political party.
This misapplication of the princi
ple is bad enough in itself, but tho
misquotation of the words of worse.
KocJpl
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Digests what yog eat.
1 —eparation oentatns All of
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it gives instant relief and never
cure. It allows you to eat all
you want. The most sensitive
can take it. By its use many
of dyspeptics have been
everything else failed. It
inuation of gas on the stom-
lifJk'i-distreLS after eating,
accessary. Pleasant to take.
oan r i help
but do you good
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•-QPtj.usaK UmcaUiaMn jbtj
(TffTcertninTynot warranted by any
code of ethics with which I am ac
quainted. I refrain from further
comment on this point in view of the
possibility that some designing per
son may have palmed off on Mr.
Hardwick a bo^us copy of that plat
form. • •
One more thought on this rotation
question. If the '’interests of the
people of Georgia were not endanger
ed by the twenty years’ service of
lllouut, the sixteen yenis of Turner,
tlie fourteen years each of Crisp and
LeBter, the twelve years of Living.
stOD, and Ihe ten years each of
Maddox and Tate, it is not very clear
to the avorago man how my reelcc-
tion now, at the close of a third
term, will imperil those interests,
Mr. Hardwick’s ’ theory of rotation
can not be defended on the plea of
public interest. Private desire is at
the bottom of it.
2. In support of his preposterous
scheme of attempting to repeal in
toto the Fourteenth amendment, Mr.
Hardwick, in his rejoihder, bringB
neither authority nor argument, but
only bald reassertion. Fortunately,
however, lie specifies somewhat, and
thereby more clearly exposes his
error. Iloiiow suys that the Thir
teenth amendment, which abolished
slavery, placed the negroes “as far
as life, liberty ', npd property are con
cerned under tlie equal protection of
the laws,”
As a matter of fact, the Thirteenth
amendment had no such scope, and
good lawyers, with tlie exception of
Mr. Hardwick, very generally admit
it. No strict constructionist of the
Southern school over conceded such
scope. Tho Supreme Court has
never gone further tlpm to say that
the abolition of slavery by the Thir
teenth amendment clothed Congress,
by a sort of reflex action, with the
implied power to abolish the ‘ badges
and Incidents” of shivery.
The question then recurs, wlmt are
the ‘‘badges and incidents” of
slavery? Certainly every denial of
the equal protection of the laws is
not a ‘ badge or incident’'of slavery.
For example, in many States during
slavery times, free uegroes were pro
hibited from owning real property.
Hence, suph prohibition could not be
the badge of slaveiy, because it no
toriously attached to persons who
were pot slaves. Other examples
could eusily be given. .<•
Moreover, it is a matter of history
recited by the Supreme Court that
some of the SoutheVr’ Stales, acting
no doiibt upop the advice of eminent
: outhern luwyers, did actually pass
laws after tho acceptance of the
Thirteenth amendment, “wjilch im
posed upon tho colored race onerous
disabilities and burdeiis, and curtail
ed their rights in thp pursuit of life,
liberty and property.-’ The legal
light to do this was openly avowed
in tlie face pf t)io Tbjrtecplh amend
ment. It was then that tho Four
teenth Amendment was adopted for
tho yery purpose iu part of doing
what Mr. ilaujwiek erroneously sup
poses had alpeudy hepn done by the
Thirteenth amendment.
But negroes arc not the only bene
ficiaries by the Fouriepnth amend
ment. It applies alike to all persons
of whatever race. Time . and again
whito men have invoked its protec
tion in defense of their rights, and
to-day vast property interests are
safely guiivdcd by its provisions.
Why should any] man, white or black,
desiro in this dawn of the new cen*
lury to blot out of existence this
specific guaranty of Federal eiliacu-
ship, which in the words of a distin
guished Southern Democrat and
jurist, “was first created by section
1 of the Fourteenth amendment”?
Whatever form of Federal citizenship
existed prior to that time, existed by
implication of law, and was BCcoud-
nry to Slate citizenship. By the
first secliou of this amendment, Fed
eral citizenship is made primary,and
is protected by the lull power of the
power of tlie Government ^not only
on every sen and in every foreign
land, hut ou every foot of soil in our
own laud.
The intense opposition of Demo
crats iu the years immediately fol
lowing the war to tho adoption of
the Fourteenth amendment was based
largely ou the obuoxious provisions
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of section 2 (never yet enforced)aiul
section 3 (now obsolete), mid on the
fear that the Supreme Court might
so construe section 1 as to practi
cal iy enforce, through the Federal
Courts, social equality between tlie
races. But when the Supreme Court
in 1883 rendered its famous decision
in the Civil Rights cases tnd declar
ed void sections 1 and 2 of tlie Civil
Rights Act of 1875, aa they applied
to tlie several States, that’ fear was
removed, and section 1 of the Four-
teenth amendment, aa now Construed,
is a btoad, wise and irrepealnble
guaranty of rights to every person,
white as well as black, jn the United
States.
The disputed right of oecession
having been settled adversely by the
arbitrament of war, and slavery huv-
mg been abolished by constitutional
enactment, tlie provisions of the first
section of tlie Fourteenth amend
ment, dejjhing Federal citizenship
and assuring to all persons the equal
protection of tlie laws, resulted as a
natural political evolution and can
never be reversed.
This same Southern Democrat and ■
jurist just quoted has said further:
“From a purely scientific point of
view, the Constitution of the United
States never readied its logical com
pletion until after the adoption of
the Fourteenth amendment/’
Another able jurist of the highest
station solemnly declared that this|
amendment rises “to the dignity of
a new Magna Clmrta.”
And yet this is the amendment!
which Mr. Hardwick so flippantly—I
had.nlmost said ignorantly—promises
to undertake to repeal. The more
he writes about it, the more evident
it becomes that he has no adequate
comprcliensjon of the subject. Jn the
forum of national legislation his
proposition would be laughed to
scorn. In the field of national popu
lar politics, hia voice would be like
the wail of an infant in the path of a
storm.
Mr. Hardwick is irrevocably com
mitted to thiB folly. He cannot re
treat from it if he would, and it
seems that he would not if he could.
But if he should bo elected he would
have one advantage over his consti
tuents. His seat in Congress would
be some compensation to him for the
ridicule his plajJormjwould inevitably
bring upon him, But where would
tho people of thUj famous old district
find solnce for the lamentable dis-
tinctism of having endoised such un
mitigated nonsense?
The new Congressman plight enjoy
tho notoriety of being a ‘‘repealer”
and a “rotator," but the jiober men
of the district could not take much
pride in that notoriety.
[ know of two men who Have
promised to try to repeal the Fifteen
th amendment, and caph one private
ly admits tlie utter futility of the
effort, but Mr. Hardwick is the only
person of uiy acquaintance rash
enough to include tho Fourteenth
amendment along with tho Fifteenth
in his promise of repeal.
Let po oue bo depeived into be]
lieving that there is any issue of race
supremacy involved iu this contest
between Mr. Hardwick and myself.
I am now and always 4 a Ye been, and
always will be, in favor of white
supremacy. I will do my part, as
best I can, to maintain it within the
bounds of justice and reason and
common sense. But I cannot join a
Don Quixote in a ludicrous assault
upon the impregnable battlements of
the great first section of the Four
teenth amendment. Qfc
If so irrational a proposition as
thot advocated by Mr. Haul wick
could obtain general support among
our people, that fact of itself would
impair the present security of white
supremacy by depriving us of the
sympathetic co-operation and the
helpful ooulldenceof sensible men in
other sections of our common
country. Very respectfully,
NVM. H. FLEMING.
Washington, D. Feb. 12, 1902.
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George B, Homfltoa having- in proper form
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Whereas, James Arrington. Administrator
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tils petition,duly film} and entered on record,
that lie has fully administered John A.
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This I*, therefore, to cite all person* con
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if any thoy can, why said Administrator
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tha‘ tlie estate of F. M, Hobbs be discharged
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on record, that he has liilly administered
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This is, therefore, to cit^s all persons con
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