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This Is Another Editorial About
a Little Man Named Harris.
(continued from page one.)
There isn't an unbiased Georgian who does
cot- know that Harris owes his office to the
fact that he and Ulm manufactured a dead
ioelccd convention at Macon, and cheated out
©1 his rights, J. J. Brown, the farmer whom
the people had said at the polls they wanted
for tire bohd of the farmers’ Department.
the cit assisted by a Congress
man who had no business at that Convention,
worked the scheme by which the farmers of
Georgia were swindled- out of their -choice.
That Congressman is now a candidate for
the Senate, and it is quite natural that he,
too, should dread the county unit vote, on
which he got into Congress.
Census-taker Harris says—
The public man who thinks he can trifle with
the people of Georgia on this question will forever
t>e damned A deadlock convention will do the
work.”
Because the self-appointed Senator Smith
has trilled with the people of Georgia,
As,*? done it again and again, he is “forever
damned.”
Because William J. Harris, and the Con
gressman who aided him in the tricky work at
Macon, two years ago, did trifle with the peo
ple of Georgia, they are “forever damned.”
Harris further says, “a deadlock conven
tion will do the work.”
An honest deadlock is almost as rare as
hen’s teeth—and sincere politicians.
An honest deadlock, if one should occur,
would be the “tie" of honest men; and under
the majority-rule, there would l>e absolutely
no difficulty in breaking it, with an honest
nomination.
But a deadlock which is the result of
fraudulent votes and a dishonest count, does
“the work'. ' for the tricky clerks and chair
man concerned.
It was that kind of a deadlock that Harris
and Vim brought about at Macon—and if
Harris wants some of the details, he can get
them.
Harris wanted to run for Governor: Smith
wanted him to run: J. Marmalade wanted
him to run: Gunby Jordan and Fuller Calla
way wanted him to run: and the railroads that
seek to devour the IF. & A. railroad wanted
Mm io run.
Nevertheless, when I chime in with all these
respectable elements of our population, and
urge Harris to get in, telling him however,
that we mean to maul h—ll out of him. he
emits raucous roars as if I had sprung a sur
prise on him.
How can he be surprised?
.Didn't he say, himself, that any man who
trifled with the people, and dead-locked a
convention, is “forever damned?”
And didn't he do that very thing at Macon?
Hoots, Toots! even political doctors must
sometimes take their own medicine.
In Alabama, the railroads defeated Comer,
who had enforced against them the reduction
in freight rates which' the Commission had
ordered. Ex-Governor Comer was beaten by
the Holding vote of the big cities, Mobile,
Birmingham, &c.
If Alabama had voted by the conntv unit
system, the country people would not have
been swamped by ward heelers and city bums.
In Missouri, the railroads defeated Folk,
who had prosecuted to conviction the bood
lers of St. Louis. The honest reformer, who
last, week defied Attorney-General Mcßeyn
olds and put Charles ALellen on the stand, to
expose Failroad rottenness, was beaten by
the purchasable vote of the big cities. St.
Louis and Kansas City.
Tn Georgia, the railroads want a governor,
who will not enforce the reduction of freight
THE JEFFERSONIAN
rates, ordered by our Commission, seven years
ago.
The railroads haVG Judge Hines in a
pigeon-hole, so far asVua doing anything is
concerned. Before Hines conid be pigeon
holed, his Boss, Michael Hoke Smith, then
governor, had to be bridled.
The railroads bridled him all right; and he
never lifted a finger to enforce those orders
for freight reductions.
Yet, he had previously used up a whole
term of the legislature, lynching an innocent
official, S. G. McLendon, because McLendon
was of the three Commissioners voting
against Special Favors asked for by several
hardware jobbers of Atlanta.
That petition for Special Favors to the few,
in one city, had already been twice refused by
former Railroad Commissions, and Smith
knew it, for he was the lawyer of the peti
tioners.
The Wall Street corporations whose main
offices are in Atlanta, seek to rule the State
of Georgia; and their first move is to renew
the fight on the county unit plan.
If they can knock that out, they can use the
floating vote of Atlanta, Macon, Augusta
and Savannah to rule the State.
The pretended anti-railroad drivel of Wil
liam Harris, is regular “Stop thief!” subter
fuge.
He is the railroad candidate.
When he and Jack Slaton went into secret
session, to concoct the fight on the county unit
plan, they were carrying out the scheme of
the Self-appointed Senator Smith, who sur
rendered to the railroads in 1910, and dreads
to face the honest country voters whom he
has so thoroughly deceived and betrayed.
The line-up is, Harris-Slaton-Smith; and
he who thinks otherwise, deludes himself. -
If the big cities of Atlanta, Augusta, Macon
and Savannah can get the numerical pre
ponderance the ringsters are after, it would
be easy for the Liquor interests to bring the
barrooms back to Georgia.
Purchased votes, repeaters, and stuffed bal
lot-boxes in those 4 cities, worked on the Boy
kin Ndright scale of the Nineties, could flood
every dry county in this State with whiskey.
With a Federal Commission in one pocket
and a Federal salary in the other, Mr. Wil
liam Harris comes down to Georgia, from
Washington City, to tell us what his Big Boss
wants us to do.
We Georgi ans are not peculiarly fond of
taking orders from the Federal Government
concerning our own business. If the Wash
ington Big Bosses will mind their own affairs
in Colorado, Mexico, in the Attorney-Gener
al's office and at Panama, we Georgia crackers
will try to tote our own skillet.
If the Self-appointed Senator Smith thinks
he can continue to skulk behind such dummies
as this little Mr. Harris, he will soon realize
the folly of the attempt.
And when this new candidate, fresh from
the pottery of Self-appointed Senator Smith,
has no better judgwentf, than to tell the peo
ple that, if he is elected, lie means to be the
Governor of a faction, and not of all the State
the spectacle he makes of himself reflects no
credit on the Smith pottery.
Even so small a personage as Harris ought
to know that the platform of antiAV atson,
is too small a platform to carry such a large
number of would-be political passengers into
the Pullman car.
True, the platform is said to lie made for
no other purpose than to get in on: but when
Michael 11. Smith, J. M. Slaton, AV. J. Harris,
11. Ulm, 11. M. Stanley and Jim Price all
want to stand on it, at the same time, there is
every chance that somebody will get crowded
o/T instead of getting in. I merely throw out
this suggestion, Your Honor!
AVilliam Jingle Harris wound up his
Cedartown speech thus:
"The longer I live the more fully I realise that
life is too short for bitter feeling or anything
except high endeavor.”
That’s what you may call a fine conclu
sion: and I’ll bet it was’loudly applauded. I
feel encouraged to believe that if Baldy Har
ris continues to live long enough to become
Governor of Georgia, a few of the AVatson
ites may hope to escape the Harrisonian
wrath.
Os course, most of my friends may die
before Baldy becomes Governor, but that’s
neither here nor there. If he keeps on mel
lowing, as he grows older, he’ll be soft enough
to pardon all the AA r atsonites, by the time
Smith and Slaton make him Governor.
In the meantime, I suggest to little Baldy
liar ris that unless the Hon. Redfield at once
accepts his resignation as Census Taker,
nobody.will doubt that his pretended resig
nation was a fluke, arranged by Senator
Goliath Smith, the Honorable Fed field, and
the. alleged candidate for Governor.
The’ fact that Harris wants to get the
credit of having resigned a $6,000 job, when
he is still holding the office and. drawing the
salary, shows the same brand of honesty that
arranged the false “tie” at the Macon Con
vention.
That is just the type of man to pretend
that AVatson wants to serve the railroads,
when Hines, Smith, Slaton, Harris, et al.
have already given the railroads what they
demanded. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if
Harris, in his next speech, were to accuse me
of wanting to purloin the Gulf of Mexico.
So, no more at present from this neck of
the woods.
“Ths Keystone American."
A NOTIIER patriotic paper has started in
with us to fight the traitors who want to
deliver this country into the control of 29
Italians who rule the Italian papacy and the
Italian church.
The name of the new champion of Ameri
can Independence is, The Keystone American,
of Pittsburg, Penn.
It is a splendid addition to our battery.
“The 4th Degree of the
Knights of Columbus."
TO meet the bluff and the falsehoods of
those Americans who have foresworn
loyal principles, and have become oath-bound
subjects of a foreign power, I have carefully
prepared the above-named pamphlet.
The men who take that oath are traitors
to our government,'and spies in our camp.
They are armed and drilled, as military
men, and kept in readiness to use their steel
swords, and their up-to-date rifles against
their fellow citizens.
Get my pamphlet, and study the facts for
yourselves.
This question of Popery is the most import
ant question now facing the people of
America.
Popery, in Its Relation to Civil
and Religious Liberty.
THERE has been such a demand for the
* February AA T atson’s Magazine, in which a
full reply was made to Cardinal Gibbons’
amazingly false sermon, that we have put the
article in booklet form.
The reader can easily verify every state
ment made by Mr. AVatson, in answering Car
dinal Gibbons, provided the reader is* suffi
ciently interested to consult the standard
authorities.
We will send the booklet at 10 cents a copy,
prepaid; 10 copies for 75 cents; 100 copies
for $6.00. , -
THE JEFFERSONIAN PUB. CO.
Thomson, Ga.
