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HARDWICK'S FIRST
TALK FOR SENATE
Congressman Thomas W. Hardwick
r ; 3 , t Friday night in Augusta be-
a ,_ hi 5 campaign for the United
:- a te-» t-enate.
j r.-i-eding his campaign speech, Mr.
. r ,Ukk touched briefly on the Mexi-
, cmbroglio, the causes and dcvel-
., UM1 ts of the trouble, etc., praising
eloquent language the stand Uken
• both President Taft aand Presi
dent Wilson.
• If president Taft or President Wil
r , t either,” said the speaker, ‘‘had
gnued Huerta all Europe and all
e world would have followed and
.self-same condition which exists
lav in Mexico would have been re
nted in the South American repub-
. Mr. Wilson was doing the right
* n ot to become precipitate, but
was just as right when he did say
thr time has come when this thing
.;st Stop.
• I hope it will end with the block
ade of a few of the Mexican cities, but,
whatever the result, our people arc
ot the kind of people who will sub
mit :o the name of this country being
a--ailed or to have its honor insulted
by any power on earth, no matter
whether that power be great
all.”
Hardwick spoke for only about
e n nr fifteen minutes on the Mexican
'itaation. He then entered into hit
air.paijin Ulk, which was interesting,
lr.-t from the fact that it informed
nany good citizens present of some of
nc favors Mr. Hardwick, as congress
man, has done for Augusta and for
•h.ch they rightfully should feel
;ratt*fui.
District's Long Support.
In beginning his speech, Mr. Hard
wick referred with deep feeling to the
, va l support that the district had
,'wn him through his many years of
t rvicc, and through some of the most
tated and bitter contests for con
fer that have ever been
aired in Georgia or in the south. He
assured his audience that he could
get the loyalty of his friends
splendid support the district
had always given him; he could only
a that he had done his best to repay
i- friends and the district for their
.r.tidence and loyalty by rendering to
nem most efficient and whole heart-
d service of which he had been cap
able; that he had endeavored to fur-
her and advance their every legiti-
a.eintcrest ami had been unceasing
.. ht< efforts, through all the years of
i> senice to faithfully and energeti-
<ally represent the best interests <pf
the cntiie district, without favor .or
partiality to any section or to any
tia.-s; that in his votes and positions
upon all public questions, while he
night have made mistakes, at least
hr had always voted his honest con
victions on every question and had
ft nd for the right in every instance,
»? best he saw it, relying on the in
telligence and integrity of a superb
nnsrituency, that had never failed to
<in him justice and had never question
ed either his motives or his sincerity.
Four Great Question.
Mr. Hardwick contended that in the
epproaching senatorial campaign
frero are at least four great ques
t ons that the people of Georgia must
vriph and determine; first, the fitness
and qualification of each candidate for
the senate; second, the public record
of each candidate for the senate and
hi* capacity and training for service
ii the senate; third, the services, if
*ny, that have been rendered by each
candidate to the Democratic party;
fourth, the policy that would be pur-
*'ied, the positions that would be as-
s lmrd, and the course that would be
followed by each of the candidates if
fleeted to the senate.
Regard for Opponents.
Discussing these questions in order,
he paid high tribute to the personal
character and qualifications of each of
his opponents, saying that he had a
hurh personal regard for both Gover-
t or Slaton and Mr. Felder; that while
ho >hould not hesitate to make any
attack upon either that the record of
e ther of them might suggest or re-
mi ire, that he regarded them both as
ah!.- and upright gentlemen'and per
sonally worthy of the high office to
they, us well as himself, as-
I *>od.
•Mr. Hardwick insisted that the peo-
!>!<* of Georgia ought to weigh very
carefully the experience that each of
tnn candidates for the senate had had,
" hu h would tend to qualify them for
efficient and forceful discharge of
the duties of the office. He contended
Dint his own experience of twelve
years’ service in the house of repre
sentatives of the United States, his
i”tirnate acquaintance with the men
J' h " are engaged in shaping national - ,.
I* I'islation and his long and careful rests in the established principles of
*‘udy of the questions that are in- democracy,” but insisted that such
of the issue to the people of Georgia
io be voted upon by them, the hun
dreds of speeches that he had made
throughout Georgia in support of the
cause, the bitter state campaigns into
which he had been drawn in order to
accomplish it, and the final success of
the cause by the submission of the
amendment to the people by the leg
islature of 1907 and the triumphant
ratification of the amendment at the
polls in the election of November,
1908, after a battle of nine years to
accomplish it.
Successful Tariff.
He called attention to the long and
finally successful battle that he had
waged in congress for the cause of
free sugar; a battle extending through
about five year* and culminating in
success in the tariff bill recently pass
ed by the Democratic party. He ad
verted to the fact that he had origin
ally taken up this cause single-handed
when it had no other advocate in eith
er house of congress and had finally
pressed it to successful conclusion. He
contended that after the victory had
been won for free sugar that the fight
for free wool y/M thereby strength
ened and finally won and that the
general effect of these great victories
was to strengthen the • cause of the
low tariff men and of the tariff re
formers and bore splendid fruit in
the rates and schedules of the Un-
derwood-Simmons tariff bill which was
the best tariff measure that the coun
try had had since the Walker tariff
of 1846.
Mr. Hardwick contended also that
he had assisted in making a vigor
ous firht in the democratic caucus
of the house of representatives for
more liberal treatment of agricultural
paper in the new banking system es
tablished by the currency bill; that
this fight in the house had borne fruit
in the senate and that because of it
the length of short term agricultural
loans had been increased from ninety
days to six months and of long time
paper secured by land from one year
to five years; he contended on the
more recent issue of the Panama ca
nal tolls, still pending in the senate,
that the position of President Wilson
was right; that the exemption of our
coastwise vessels from the payment
of the tolls was contrary both to tho
letter and spirit of our treaties with
Great Britain, and was, besides the
boldest and baldest of subsidies, the
granting of a special privilege or sub
sidy out of the treasuiy of the United
States to a class of our citizens.
Opponents’ Records.
He paid his respects to the other
candidates, enquiring what was Gover
nor Slaton’s record, what Mr. Felder’s,
and what could either of them offer
or show to the people of Georgia that
illustrated either their position in re
gard to any national issue or anything
trtcy had accomplished in respect to
thfe great issues and questions with
which the senate of the United States
is dealinz and must deal. He referred
to Governor Slaton’s announcement
published in the state press on Sun-
da* f last and said that it was a com
bination of meaningless platitudes
hat committed himself to nothing,
opposed nothing and simply sought to
state in the most general and indefi
nite terms a few catch-penny issues
with which he hopes to attract votes
in the coming primary He paid his
respects in no unceitain terms to Mr.
Slaton’s declaration "as senator I shall
be unalterably opposed to needless ex
travagancies for the gratification of
the whims of small minorities.” Mr.
Hardwick said that the fair inference
from Governor Slaton’s language was
that if by chance Mr. Slaton should
become senator he would favor need
less extravagancies if cither a major
ity or a strong minority should de
mand them, that he had been puzzling
his brain to know what Mr. Slaton’s
declaration meant but supposed it
must mean that Mr. Slaton would fa
vor any needless extravacancies tflat
he thought was popular for the mo
ment or that t/er a strong and power
ful minority should demand. He con
gratulated Governor Slaton on the
fact that he was a native Georgian,
“educated in her schools, brought up
in sympathy with her people, her in
terests aa-i aspirations,” and said he
supnosed that probably the same thing
was true about Mr. Felder and him
self. He congratulated the governor
on his strong stand for the doctrine
of state’s rights and assured him not
only of his sympathy with the gover
nor’s declarations but of the fact that
through a record of long and tryin?
service he had actually practiced w.hal
the governor so glibly preaches. He
congratulated the governor on his de
viation to the effect that ‘my creed
finished. As Mr. Hardwick recalled ISOUTH AMERICAN PRESIDENTS WHO
it, Mr. Slaton's first occupancy of the
office of governor had been fbr alxty
days during the recess of tfie legisla
ture while the people of Georgia were
choosing a successor to Governor
Hoke Smith, and his principal, if not
only accomplishment during the afore
said first occupancy of the office had
been the signing of salary checks for
himself and the other state house of
ficers, that if any other accomplish
ments signalizfd and commemorated
Governor Slaton’s aforesaid first term,
it had escaped the attention and no
tice of Mr. Hardwick. As to his sec
ond occupancy of the office and the
completion of his “program,” Mr.
Hardwick commented that If Gover
nor Slaton’s program’ could be com
pleted by the August primary, it was
demonstration complete that, he had
had no piogram, because the only
achievement of any importance of hi?
administration had been to pass the
new tax law, which was so construct
ed as to justify the suspicion that the
real object of its enactment was to
enable the legislature to spend more
money than it otherwise could under
the constitutional limit of five mills
upon taxation, and to grant more lib
eral appropriations of all sorts, with
out appearing to raise the tax rate.
Felder’s Secord.
As to Mr. Felder’s' record, Mr.
Hardwick said that he knew but lit
tle of it, except thta he readily con
ceded from all that he had obsetved
and heard, that Mr. Felder had made
a most successful legislator in the
Georgia legislature and a most com
petent and faithful attorney-general.
As to Mr. Felder’s position about na
tional questions, his knowledge of
them or his views about them, he was
absolutely in the dark so far because
Mr. Felder had no record in reference
to these matters and in his published
announcement for the senate had
merely stated that he was a candidate
for the senate because of the laudiblc
ambition that he had attained in that
direction ever since he had graduated
from college. Mr. Hurdwick insisted
that if this alone were platform
enough to entitle a man to be elected
to the United States senate that there
were probably thousands and hundreds
of thousands of Georgians who had
equal claims with Mr. Felder in that
regard. Mr. Hardwick insisted that
the people of Georgia ought not to be
stow the very highest office in their
gift, the honorable and powerful posi
tion of United States senator, to any
man in the state simply and solely be
cause he had a worthy ambition to
hold it or because he was a nice gen
tleman, or because he had many per
sonal friends; that this great office
was one of the priceless possessions of
the people of Georgia and it ought to
be given to whoever could adminis
ter it most efficiently and would most
truly reflect and represent in the sen
ate of the United States the 'Grishes
and desires and interests of the people
s the best interests
party and of our
•. Hardwick insist-
l congress through
Tore the people of
for their approval
he had explained
in detail and with
-ij- •• '• ~-
Pbfe'ffeveir
" WISH TO SETTLE MEXICAN TROUBLE
MANY PULLMANS
TO BE IN ATLANTA!
These are the presidents of the ! the spirit of our acceptance. But
three most powerful countries of Huerta and all he represents must go
South America, who, through their
ministers and ambassadors at Wash
ington, have offered to mediate fe-
tween the United States and Mexico.
The offer was tentatively accepted
by the President through Secretary of
State Bryan. #
The acceptance brought forth many
different views in Washington. Rep
resentative Flood, Democrat, chair
man of the foreign affairs commit
tee of th ehouse, had this to say:
“This offer does not change our
policy of aggression in the slightest.
If Huerta, realizing that he is facing
defeat, wants to aerept this offer,
it will be glad news to us. But if the
reports of Americans held as host
ages are true, then the situation has
changed, and we are bound by only
the Issue directly to the people of
Georgia, and to stump the state from
the mountains to the sea, and from
river to river in the prosecution of his
campaign. ^ ,. .
and the Mexican people must coma
Into their own.’
But Senator Bristow, Republican
and near-Progressive, of Kansas, hps
other views:
“Astounding is the mildest word I
can think of to express my opinion of
the president's action in agreeing to
to arbitrate our differencaa with Mex
ico.
“Hbw can the United States arbi
trate with a bandit whom we do not
recognize to be. anything more or lex#
than a murderer? How can those
three nations use their influence be
tween a government and something
which that government doe3 not rec
ognize as anything but an Individual ?
It is the most absurd, tl
Ten Thousand Shriners to
in Cars Parked in Atlanta
Yards.
Sleep
(Special to Tho Horald.)
Atlanta April 30.—Over 600 Pull
man cars, in which between 8,000 i
10,000 Shriners will sleep, will bsl
parked in Atlanta during the trig
Shrine convention. A great many of
the parties will hare diners too, and
consequently will lire aboard the
trains while in Atlanta.
These big Pullman colonies will be
one of the interesting features of the
Shrine week. Soma of the out-of-town
crowds are planning entertainments
aboard the cars.
The Southern Mailway wltt park 160
ears at the corner of North avenue
and .Marietta street, and about 80S is
the yards at the Terminal station. .
The Seaboard will park at the A. B.
* A. Terminal on Hunter street, and
will also park on the tracks near. In
man yards. The A. & W. P. and the
Central, will both park at the Terminal
and also on the L. £ N. Tracks back
on the old depot.
While the city will be filled to over
flowing, all arrangements are going
satisfactorily forward and It is be
lieved that the pfobldm of housing and
foSdirtr- over 30,000 guests will all bs
worked out smooth as .clock-work.
permit Chili, Argentina, and Brazil sible situation that I ever heard of.
‘LUCILLE LOVE’ ACTOR
IS KILLED BY LIONS
Los Angeles, April 30.—Profound
sorrow exists among the army of pho
to-play actors and actresses of the
“movie” world over the death of Dr.
F. Kirby, one of the country’s best
known and oldest animal trainers, who
died here from wounds received in a
battle with lions. Dr. Kirby, one cf
the most fearless of tamers, fought
*y
to withstand the blows that left his
body mangled and almost lifeless.
Photo-players from all sections of
the country arrived here after the
news had spread broadcast.
Dr. Kirby played one of the many
daring, dangerous and spectacular
roles in the great serial creation of
the Universal^ players, “Lucille Love,
i the Ltiri of mystery," a sensation of
the movies ,now current on screens in
all states. In the instillment Dr.
Kirby appeared 1n the rele of a hero ,
protecting beautiful Grace Cunard |
(Lucille Love) from the attack of <
bloodthirsty lions.
The death of the trainer, met while
carrying out the dictates of his pro
fession. showed that Dr. Kirby was as
great a trainer of lions as 'reputed,
but that he was overpowered by too
great numbers. Dr. Kirbv was most
popular in all the cities where he had
appeared and was the hero of many of
the recent photo-nlav productions, of
which Lucille in the lions’ den was to
have been his greatest pride.
Trade In Athens.
of Gcoi
of the
great i
ed that
many 3
Gcorgii
or disa
and wo
circumstantiality and definiteness his
positior
on ever
gressiv
point w
don th«
ment b;
nopoly
that he
ian doci
and ro
was op
ties ani
and bcl
tercsts i
ed equa
iiblic question and
e that he’was pro-
e but not to the
prepared to mban
iy*tem of govern-
itjon of public mo-
private monopoly;
the old Jefferson*
vidunl opportunity
nditions; that he
idies and gratitui-
ileges of all kinds
II men and all in
is should be treat
rtially both in the
ation out of the
nd in the enact-
matter
commoi
ment of laws.
Slaton's “Program.'
Mr. Hardwick said th%t- he realized
full well, and himself urzed, that
above all other consideration, the fit
ness, experience and capacity of thu
questions
Solved in national legislation now
Tending or likely to be proposed gave
rim a right to at least suggest that
J ' far as experience and training for
representation of the state of
Georgia in the senate of the United
• **‘tes is concerned, he has had con
querable advantage over Mr. Slaton
J 'd Mr. Felder, neither of whom have
rnd the long and invaluable training
f iat long continued service in the
pngre*. of the United States give*
l'' a member of either house in that
body.
White Supremacy.
He referred briefly to the fact that
, 4 1899 while a member of the Iegis-
fatiire of Georgia from Washington
county m nd twenty-seven years of age,
? e had begufi in the Georgia legisla
te the movement to amend the con-
^'tution of the state of Georgia so
' to disfranchise the negro and in-
hit « supremacy in Georgia for
time and under all circumstances.
He recounted the details of the nine-
V ‘»r bottle that he hod waged for thU
ause in Georgia, the repeated at-
'"mpu, the first of which had been de-
.7 b y, 1 vote 10 overwhelming
.“t “ut three votes had been emit in
raver of it ,te secure the submission
generalization as this was puerile and
hardly complimentary to the intelli
gence of the people of Georgia. What
does Governor Slaton mean, exclaimed
Mr. Hardwick, by "the established
principles of democracy?" There are
many men who differ materialy and
vitally as to what aie the established
principles of democracy. There are
many schools of thought both in
Washington and throughout the coun-
trv on this very subject and we knew
just as much about the governor’s po
sition on this matter before he pub-
lishtd his platform as we know now.
He said this was- especially true in
view of the fact that in one and the
same paragraph of his announcement
Mr. Slaton had pro-laimed himself
both a believer it. progress *nd at
same time intimated mat ne was ultra
conservative. He said the governor’s
platform was constructed in a worder-
various
should
people
was rei
that uni
satisfiei
sented
for the senate
weighed by the
>efore the verdict
insisted however
Ic of Gorgia were
y of Atlanta pre-
es for the senate
who towered head and shoulders above
all the others, who were pre-eminent
ly fit, who had the advantage in abil
ity, in experience, in training and in
capacity for service, that both United
States senators from Georgia should
not be elected from Fulton county and
the city of Atlanta. He said thai
n some respects,
he failed to ap-
such existed any-
ial timber grew
in Macon or ally
f one locality in
needed that Sen-
stinguished serv-
tic party, to the
1 to the country
osed election, but
while hi
the Atli
predate
where,
only in
other ci
Georgia
ator Hoi
ices to
state of
entitled
he did not believe* that Governor Sla-
second occupancy of th. office of r®»-
ton's r<
training
qualities
any pre-
senator,
Slaton’s
exceptio
Lialificationa, his
nee or any other
isessed gave him
n for the office of
wtrary, Governor
t no earnest or
i) the senate be
cause his administrations in Georgia
had been barren of results and his
^“program” had amounted to nothing;
that he did not believe that the people
of Georgia, having elected Mr. Slaton
to be governor for two years, were
going to permit him to quit the job
before his work was half finished in
order to get another office, and that
he was confident from advices that he
was receiving from every part of
Georgia, that on the 19th day of Au
gust, when the verdict was rendered,
it would be found that the people ot
Georgia had not elected two United
States senators from the city of At
lanta. He expressed himself as full
ful manner *nd that it wu intended to
be operated like the oM man’z fuh
trap, that if. to catch the guilelesi
voters both coming and roing, it be
ing open at both ends. He said that
Governor Slaton called attention with
considerable unction, in the matter of
records to the fact that he was in the of bop. »nd full of courage, confident
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