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VOLUME XXXIII.
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 13, 1922.
JN UMBER 13.
HHRDWICK CHARGES CHANGE
ON LEAGUE BY OPPONENTS
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick is
sued a statement to the people of
Georgia Tuesday in which he again
outlined his opposition to the League
of Nations and contended that every
one of his four opponents were also
opposing the league. The governor in
quired of each of his opponents as to
their whereabout and their position on
this issue when he and Senator Wat
son were making the fight against it.
Not one of them, the governor declar
ed, made a single statement in oppo
sition to the league or in support of
Mr. Watson in 1920. He also asks
them for whom they voted in 1920.
The statement follows:
“To the People of Georgia:
“Now that the political jockeying
and log-rolling is about over, at Macon
and elsewhere, ' now that the candi
dates have all made more or less def
inite public announcements of their
positions and views, a good deal of
the smoke has lifted. Quite a bit of
the underbrush has been cleared away.
It is noteworthy that in one way or
another every single announced candi
date has proclaimed his steadfast ad
herence to the foreign policies of
George Washington, and his unalter
able opposition to the League of Na
tions.
“Accepted My Views.”
“I am glad that they have all fin
ally accepted my views and followed
my lead on this subject, regardless of
their former views or positions. The
position of Mr. George and of Mr.
Wright, as well as 6f myself, has been
explicitly stated; and since Mr. Boif-
euillet claims that Senator Watson
was his model and prototype in poli
tics, it is quite apparent that Mr.
Boileuillet, too, must oppose the
League of Nations, because neither
friend nor foe of Mr. Watson ever
doubted his unalterable opposition to
it. Likewise, Mr. Cooper also opposes
the League of Nations, because that
was the single issue involved in the
1 '
GOVERNOR THOMAS
campaign, of 1920, and Mr. Watson i senate on March 4, 1919, and returned
was unalterable in his opposition to
the League of Nations. As to the pro-
~ “— — — juvntiuuiis uum me people 01 many
hibition question, I regard that as comities and communities to address
finally settled by constitutional action,
and will steadfastly oppose any re
opening of the question or any effort
to weaken the present federal law on
this subject
to Georgia to practice law, I received
invitations from the people of many
them on the question raised by the
proposal that this country should enter
the League of Nations.
“Others In Fight.
“I accepted many of these invita
“Having gotten the record straight 1 acce P ted man y these mvita ’
there are just three points to which 11 tions - and during the year that follow -
wish to invite public attention. ! ed addressed the people of some fifty
“1st: The fact that all five of the
candidates for the United States sen
ate stand together in unalterable oppo
sition to the League of Nations and
for the foreign policy of Washington
plainly and inescapably indicates mat
the public sentiment of this state has
crystallized and solidified on this sub
ject, just as it has all over the na
tion.
“A Solemn Warning.
“In Georgia, out of the wealth of
material and talent available for this
high office, not a single candidate can
be found who dares to go to the people
on any other platform except one of
unalterable opposition to the League
of Nations, in any shape, form or fash
ion. If this situation is not pregnant
with solemn warning to those leaders
of the Democratic party in other states
and sections who seek to reopen the
question, they are incompetent to lead.
“2. To the many thousands of hon
est Georgians, both men and women,
who, although in a minority, have
strong and conscientious views in fa
vor of a League of Nations, I wish to
say, with perfect candor and in per
fect good temper, that, although I
know they do not agree with me on
this question, yet I submit that they
have no reason to oppose me in this
election, because of that honest dif
ference of opinion, since they cannot
vote for any candidate whose present
position about this question is differ
ent from mine.
“3. To the great mass of Georgians,
men and women alike, who believe,
with all the strength and power of
mind, hgart and soul, that the foreign
policy of Washington is still right, and
who oppose, with unalterable firmness,
the entry of this country into any
League of Nations, and who are un
willing to give a single drop of Ameri
can blood or a single cent of American
money to protect the boundary lines
of any country on earth except our
own, I now wish to speak: My devo
tion to this <Ause is no new thing. I
made the first speech ever made on
American soil in opposition to the par
ticipation of this country in the League
of Nations, at Columbus, Ga., on July
4, 1917, within three months after the
declaration of war. I made the speech
at that time because I saw* even then
a purpose becoming manifest to induce
this country to enter such a league.
On February 12, 1919, I made the sec
ond speech ever delivered on the floor
of the United States senate against the
League of Nations. When I left the
| counties > in opposition to the league.
In the meantime, and concurrently, the
late Senator Watson was conducting a
brilliant and masterly attack upon it,
week after week, in his Columbia Sen
tinel; and I recall that the Atlanta
Georgian also consistently opposed it,
and that the late W. W. Osborne, of
Savannah, had also contributed a se
ries of brilliant, unanswarable and un
answered arguments against it. Mr
Watson and I were thrown into lead
ership on this question, he by his ac-
ivity with his pen and I by my activ
ity on the stump, in opposition to the
proposal. Early in 1920, the Demo
cratic presidential primary was or
dered by our state committee. I call
ed a conference of the opponents in
Georgia of the league of nations, which
met in Atlanta. At that meeting it
was determined to contest this^ ques
tion in Georgia and as a final outcome
Hon. Thomas E. Watson entered the
race as the candidate of those opposed
to the league, with or without reserva
tions; while Attorney General Palmer
became the candidate of those who
favored it with drastic modifications
and reservations. *•
“In that contest I openly and pub
licly supported Mr. Watson, because
he and I were in absolute agreement
on the question ,at issue, because he
opposed the league and opposed it all
over, Avith or without reservations. My
convictions on th^s subject wer® so
deep and strong that I gave Mr. Wat
son my support, in the face of the fact
that until this , issue became acute we
had not been on friendly terms for
several years.
In Absolute Agreement,
"At this crisis we both realized that
when we got to the bed-rock of Ameri
can fundamentals, we were in abso
lute agreement, and a reconciliation
was brought about between us, thru
the intercession of mutual friends.
The presidential preferential primary
of 1920 followed, with its well-known
results. Mr. Watson led the poll in
popular vote and he and Mr. Smith
together had more than two-thirds of
the popular votes 'and almost two-
Thirds of the convention delegates. In
the convention, at the request of both
Mr. Watson and Mr. Smith, I acted as
the mediator between the two forces,
and together they controlled the con
vention, electing both a national com
mitteeman and the delegates to the
national convention at San Francisco
by a almost two-tliirds vote. The un
seating of that delegation in San Fran
cisco aroused the indignation of the
state and contributed largely to the
subsequent election of Mr. Watson jas
senator, and myself as governor.
“Since Mr. Dean has now turned
state’s evidence on his associates, the
public can now begin to get some faint
glimpses of the volume of intrigue and
crafty misrepresentation that design
ing politicians of the Dean type em
ployed, from the very day they found
they were unable to defeat Mr. Wat
son and myself as long as we stood to
gather, to separate us and to create
trouble between us. Every weapon of
misrepresentation and deception was
employed, without scruple and without
regard to the truth; that they should
have succeeded in any degree, even on
the state issues, in such an effort, in
Mr. Watson’s last days, when his
health and strength had failed, was
and always will be a source of regret
to me. There was no other source
open to me except to be as patient as
I could, in face of and with the full
knowledge of all these intrigues, and
to do my duty according to my best
lights, regardless of results.
“I Have Kept Faith.”
“To those Georgians who voted
with us in 1920, who marched then
with the ‘two Toms’ to sweeping vic
tory, I have this to say: I have kept
the faith with you and with all men.
I summon you once more to the colors.
I raise once more the banner of the
ilden principles. Conditions may
change, but great principles do not
diange. The leader may die, but the
cause lives. The world today is
moldering with the smoke and blaz-
: ng with the fire of threatened and
actual wars, everywhere; wars with
which we have no direct and immedi
ate concern; and, while I am always
willing to exert the friendly offices of
this nation at all times and to ( the
utmost of its influence to promote the
blessed doctrines of “Peace on Earth,
and good will to men,’ I am wholly un
willing to bleed with the youth of the
land in foreign wars, to promote the
interests of the ambitions, or to guar
antee the- boundary lines of foreign
powers.
"Europe Is sleeping over a volcano.
The Near East is on fire and the
flames may spread at any moment If
you send me to the senate, you will
have the absolute guaranty that comes,
not from mere words today, but from
my past conduct and from my record
already made, that I will not vote your
boys, your youngest and bravest and
your best, to the war lords of either
Europe of Asia.
“Yes, the sentiment of this state, as
well as the entire nation, is now cry
stallized and solidified into unalter
able opposition to foreign entangle
ments, into wise and firm adherence
to the foreign policy of the great Wash
ington, and I congratulate you and all
Georgia today that no candidate for
the senate takes or dares to take a
contrary position.
“Where Were They.”
“But let me ask you, when the
mighty battle of 1920 wds. being fought
in G’eorgia to form and solidify this
sentiment, when I stood on the firing
line wherever the fight was the hot-
Mrs. Lee Boykin of Brooks, dies sud-
rv uci luc xxgiiL wa» LlltJ I1UL-
test, one of your two leaders in that denly Monday morning at the home
great struggle, fighting then for what
I stand for now, persecuted and villi-
fied, abused and slandered, maligned
and misrepresented—where were then
my distinguished opponents. Where
was Judge George? Where was Mr.
Boifeuillet? Where was Mr. Wright?
In one way or another, they are all
now proclaiming their present unalter
able opposition to the League of Na
tions. True, Mr. George was then fill
ing with distinguished credit a place
on the supreme court bench of Geor
gia. True, ordinary political activities
would have been improper on his part
while he held that position; but on
a gresft issue of foreign policy, so fun
damental that it went to the very
roots of Americanism, so momentous
that it involved the very blood and
bone of future generations, surely a
dignified and forceful statement to
help lead aright the people who had
honored him so highly, would not
have been amiss from Judge George,
who now informs us that he has al
ways opposed the League of Nations,
but who in that campaign, unless I am
entirely misguided, voted for Mitchell
Palmer for president, and for Hugh
M. Dorsey for senator. Surely a sim
ple declaration of his faith at that
crucial and critical time,"coming from
so high a source, would have been
of incalculable benefit to us while the
real battle was being fought. When
he saw two lone men leading it, with
the support of only one daily news
paper in Georgia out of twenty, sup
ported by less than a dozen weekly
newspapers out of 200, abused and per
secuted, fighting ha'ininiS 1 ' and tongs,
day arid night, exhausting their vital
ity to the extent that it finally 'cost
one of them his life, how could Judge
George refrain from giving the people
just one expression of the deep faith
that he now says was in him then?
Where then was the Eagle of Floyd,
the brilliant Wright? Whqre then was
the knightly Boifeuillet? I challenge
them all, collectively and separately,
to give a single instance of any public
expression from any one of them while
the real battle was being fought, of the
steadfast faith that they now pro
claim; of their stalwart opposition to
from the splendid bugle of any one
of them would have been worth many (i(iii
times a thousand men; but we got no
blasts, no, not one!
“Copied^ My Platform."
“Since they have copied mj 1
plat-
PROMINENT WOMAN
OF BROOKS DIES
SUDDENLY.
of her sister in Griffin. Mrs. Boykin
liad been ill for some time but had
improved and was thought to be rapid
ly recovering when death suddenly
came.
Mrs. Boykin was ' prominent in
church activities and social life, be
ing a leading club member and her
death was a shock to all.
She dearly loved her church and
the Baptist people of Brooks have
lost one of their best helpers and the
community has lost a kind and sym
pathetic friend, one who was never so
cumbered with her own affairs but
that she was always ready to share
others sorrows and -cares.
While but in her twenties, Mrs. Boy
kin possessed a wonderful charm of
holding her friends, and her greatest
joy was in entertaining them in her
home, where she seemed always at
her best. She loved the pure and the
good and manifested her love in deeds
of kindness.
Loving friends are tenderly speak
ing words of sympathy and condolence
to her husband, mother, and others of
the family, but her bright, Christian
character has been so beautifully lived
that while we bow in sorrow and
mourn at her going, we can but trust
in Him who doeth all things well, and
who never made a mistake. He will
teach us how to be courageous and
brave in our bereavement.
Services were held at the Baptist
Church, where former pastors spoke
of her beautiful life and from where
loving hands tenderly carried her' to
her resting place in the village ceme
tery where a last benediction was pro
nounced and where floral emblems
now mark the Tomb of an unselfish
life returned to' the Master who gave
it.
AUSTRALIAN BAL
LOT SYSTEM TO BE
USED IN PRIMARY
Atlanta, Ga., October 12.—The Aus
tralian ballot system will be used in
some counties on the senatorial pri
mary, October 17, as it was in the
the League of Nations. A blast then ?T lma "L‘? Septe J “S er '
from the sotenhi.t heel, of ... * oc ?® n « 10 satlc politicians and they
predict that before many more elec
tions all counties will put it in opera-
It must not be forgotten, political
observers point out, that the Austral
ian ballot was one old-time Populist
form and embraced my views, I have “ f T * \ Populist
only one other question to ask of them “ 7
on this paramount and all-controlling Democrats and Republicans m
=vL„7 , r l t,,ro "r:, ,m! ssMTJksr""
stormy period was known of all men.
What about theirs? Everybody in
Georgia knows and has been explicitly
informed by me how I voted in these
contests. What about the position of
each one of these candidates? The
aublic does not know, but it is entitled
to know, and lit is entitled to know
before the election and not after the
election. For whom did Mr. George
vote in the presiedntial primary of
1920? For whom did he vote in the
1920 senatorial campaign? For whom
’id Mr. Boifeuillet vote in -each of
these campaigns? For whom did Mr.
Two successive grand jury recom
mendations are required to put the
Australian ballot system in operation.
Then, when a sufficient number of
counties have adopted it, many poli
ticians claim, the law should be
amended so as to make it mandatory
on the minority of counties, in order
that the state, it is claimed, by, a
reasonable, gradual process soon may
have a fclean, dignified, safe, uniform
ballot system which will permit, to
quote on politician, “dee?nt men and
women to go to the polls without fear
of the frequent nuisances and indecen
cies* which have been experienced un
Wrights vote in these campaigns? Mr
v T\ a T "i " s
tor whom he voted. Next, how about'
you, Mr. George? How about you, Mr.
Boifeuillet? Ho wabout you, Mr.
Wright? Answer, all at once, if you
like, but be sure to let the people
know how you voted, before they vote.
“THOMAS W. HARDWICK.
"Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 10, 1922.”
Relieving Mother** Mind.
Wendell had long, yellcw curls and
hi* parents decided It was time for a
major operation for their removal. So
father took the lad to the barber’s,
mother watching them out of sight,
with moist eyes. At length the two
returned and mother vainly tried to
keep back the tears at the thought of
the loss of her baby. Wendell went to
her in a solicitous manner, under
standing that her crying was for him.
He threw bis arms about her neck and
said, solicitously: “There, mother^'
don’t cry. It didn’t hurt a bit.”
SECRETARY TO SEN.
WATSON RENAMED.
Hatred an Evil Thing.
Hate is the most destructive thing
In the world. It poisons all the springs
>f beauty and truth and hope in a
nan’s life, and leaves him lost and
lonely, disinherited in a lovely world,
ft does not harm to the one hated, all
ts bitterness and rancor tilling up the
mart that lmrliors It. Hate is suicide.
•Exchange.
Washington, D. C„ October 10.
Miss Sarah Orr, of Dublin, Ga„ who
served as secretary to the late Sen
ator Thomas E. Watson, was off!
daily notified Tuesday ,by Senator
Curtis, of Kansas, the Republican
“whip” that she had been appointed
secretary of Mrs. W. H. Felton, Geor
gia’s new senator.
Senator Felton has been assigned
the rooms in the Senate office build
ing formerly accupted by Senator Wat
son and will be granted all sena’orial
privileges until her successd? Is elect
ed.
Senator Harris, of Georgia, an
nounced Tuesday that when the Sen
ate reconvenes he would introduce a
bill appropriating $7.500—the annual
salary of a senator—for Senator Wat
son’s widow, and a resolution provid
ing formerly occupied by Senator Wat
son funeral expenses from the con
tingent fund of the Senate. This
would include the reimbursemeri* of
rMs. Alice Louise Lytle, manager of
The Columbia Sentinel, who personal
ly paid for a private car to transport
Senator Watson's body to Thomson,
Ga.
NOTICE
I will be at the following places for the pur
pose of collecting state and county taxes for
the year 1922:
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
Fayetteville
21
15
6
Woolsey
23
16
7
Brooks
24
17
8
Star’s Mill
25
17
9
Shakerag
26
20
11
Stop
27
21
12
Hopeful
28
22
-13
Blackrock
30
23
14
Kenwood —
31
24
15
Aberdeen
16
Tyrone
17
Fayetteville
19-20
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