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copy in all instances.
The opinion still prevails that the
Senatorial race is a “mule race.”
This is the open season forfreak
legislation and freak legislators.
Prof. Snyder said June would be a
■wet month. Have a heart, professor.
By reading the papers one decides
that both Howard and Harris will be
elected.
Last year people waited for cheap
er coal. Now they want to know if
they are to get any at all.
Why not have a primary for the
elimination of useless candidates for
the United States senate?
Congress has voted $12,000,000,-
000 to support the army for the next
year. But the kaiser at the end of a
rope will be cheap at any price.
To our way of thinking it is not
necessary for the food administratonr
to pass a regulation reducing the con
sumption of beef. The price has
done that.
From all indications tax returns
will show a good increase this year.
But if the legislature plays true to
form it will find a way to spend all
the money in sight.
The campaign for War Savings
Stamps is not over. You can buy
these securities any time between now
and the first of January. There
should be a stamp in every home. Is
there one in yours?
The great packers and millers have
been making enormous profits out of
the war. While the rest of us knew
this all along congress has just found
it out. The profiteer should be shot,
just like a German spy.
The United States is not to have
war time prohibition, because some
of the organized laborers, we are
told, do better work with a little beer
to drink. Funny how union labor,
railroad men and shipbuilders, can
get what they want, ain’t it?
If the Georgia legislature would
pass the appropriation bill—the most
important thing to be done—and cut
out so many petty, trivial, local bills
the work could be gotten over with
in ten days and the people of the
state saved thousands of dolars.
The War Savings Stamp Rally on
June 28 was for the purpose of sub
scribing the entire amount in one
day. In case of failure to subccribe
the full quota the campaign will be
Eushed until the funds are i nsighl.
f you have not already subscribed
you still have an opportunity to do
80.
When onfce the idea soaks in that
the individual’s business is not as im
portant as the government’s business
—which is the winning of the war—
then there will be a spontaneous re
sponse to every appeal. No body has
sacrificed enough to hurt yet. People
are spending money for pleasure just
as they have always spent it.
Messrs. Howard and Dean seem to
have had a mudslinging battle royal
in their joint debate in Gainesville
Saturday. If the people of Georgia
are to be treated to such affairs as
this, it would be a good idea to have
no more joint debates. The office of
United States senator is a high and
honorable one and the candidates
should conduct themselves on a high
plane.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY .VisiS
TOO MANY LOCAL BILLS
That the Georgia legislature is af
flicted with too many entn local
matters, questions that have been or
ought to be settled by ythe people
concerned, has long been apparent.
That a movement is on foot to elimi
nate this waste of time on the part
of the general assembly will be _of
wide interest over the state. Writing
in the Atlanta Constitution. James
A. Holloman, The Constitution’s po
litical writer, has the following to
say along this line: '
“It is very much to be hoped that the
memebrs of this assembly vuill not
burden tne calendars with local bills.
“It is a matter of record that three
fourths of the bills introduced are
usually matters of purely local char
acter, many of which questions in
volved could be adjusted in the re
spective home counties under exist
ing laws. If I recall correctly, there
are approximately 1,000 pages in the
acts of 1917, and, without counting
them, I’ll wager a hat that 750 of
those pages are devoted exclusively
to local measures.
“Of course, local matters must have
attention. Those matters are of just
as much concern to the local people
interested as the loyal democrats of
Georgia, regardless of location, are
concerned this minute in the dangers
of minority rule under the Neil pri
mary law, but—
“ This legislature should pass some
satisfactory general law under which
local authorities can regulate their
own local matters.
This will eliminate this burdening
the legislature (low nwith purely local
legislation, viith a necessary rush at
the close on important general bills
that is both dangerous and ineffect
ive.”
This presents the matter clearly.
The taxpayer's of Georgia have to pay
a pretty sum to gratify the ambition
of some members who are concerned
most of all, not with the prosperity of
the state, but the gratification of some
pet schemes. Legislating me nin and
out of office, changing terms of offic
ers, incorporating villages, etc., etc.,
are matters that ought to be left with
the people most concerned. In fact,
many men go to the legislature with
the one purpose in view of passing
“spite” legislation, that is, legislating
some man into office or out of office.
It is a bad practice and should be
stopped. A man worthy to be sent to
the legislature should occupy his time
with things more worth while or re
sign and come home. Let the people
concerned settle their own affairs, and
stop burdening the general assembly
with purely local legislation.
PUT LIQUOR SELLERS TO WORK
Judges of our courts can render a
distinct public service by putting con
victed lipuor sellers to work on the
roads. This will help enforce the law
and at the same time will be in line
with the government’s “work or fight”
policy.
Asa rule the man who deals in
liquor is not a working man. If he
were a working man he would be too
busy to deal in liquor. The most of
those engaged in the illegal vihiskey
traffic are non-producers. Conse
quently when they are tried and con
victed i nthe courts they can be given
straight sentences on the roads with
out the labor supply suffering. The
man who makes it his business to
manufacture or peddle liquor, consid
ering present prices, does not have to
work. He can well afford to pay a
fine every few months.
The traffic in liquor in Georgia will
be stopped and stopped only when
persons convicted of this crime are
put to work building roads. No sys
tem of fines will ever eliminate the
practice.
Georgia is a so-called “bone dry”
state, but the liquor traffic is bad
enough. It is bad in the country
counties and worse in the large cities.
The people, a ra rule, want liqour
stamped out and the guilty punished.
Most of all, they wiant the idlers pet
to work. The man who loafs around
now, producing nothing, making his
living out of the whiskey business
ought to be drafted into one of of
the callings—the army or the chain
Rang.
BLESSING IN DISGUISE
Monticello News)
The Jackson Progress-Argus her
alds the fact that Mr. B. Weevil has
made his appearance on Butts county
soil. According to- that paper it is
the first scare of the season. No one
should fear the weevil pest. All the
damage it vu : ll do will be to make the
farmer change his methods of farm
ing. When the weevil appeared in
South Georgia the people thought
they were ruined completely. But
not so. Today they are making more
money than ever before. The boll
weevil’s mission into that part of the
state was to teach the farmers that
they could plant something else be
side cotton. A trip into South Georgia
by any farmer would be time well
spent just to see how the planters
have risen above Mr. B. Weevil. Vel
vet beans, peanuts, fruits, cattle,
hogs and various non-boll weevil
crops are flourishing on every farm.
While cotton is a great crop for the
farmers in this section of the state
and one which it seems that they can
ill afford not to grow, when the boll
weevil comes here to stay, if he ever
does, North Georgia farmers will find
other profitable crops which they can
raise in lieu of king cotton. Neces
sity, we are told, is the mother of
invention, and when our farmers
have to do a thing they will do it all
right.
Over 3,000 women are at work in
in the production of gas masks at the
Long Island gas-defease plant.
CREDIT SYSTEM DOOMED
One result of the war, which is
changing so many time honored cus
toms, will be the elimination of the
credit system. The old time credit
system is now in its death agonies
and soon will be a thing of the past.
Business will be safer under the
new order. There will be fewer risks
and consequently fewer losses. Cash
business means a saving to the con
sumer. The individual or corporation
doing a credit business must charge
more for his goods to make up for
possible losses. When everybody is
required to pay cash, goods can be
bought cheaper, many items of ex
pense being cut out through a strict
application of business rules.
Many large concerns are already
putting their business on a cash basis.
Heretofore where they have allowed
30 to 60 days, with a discount for
cash payment, goods are now being
billed “cash and no discount.”
The newspapers will be benefitted
wonderfully by a cash system. In the
old days a newspaper would send the
paper broadcast to its readers, scat
tered from Yukon to Haiti, and scores
and scores of these readers never
paid. The man who reads a paper
now must pay for it. Paper stocks
and materials of all kinds are too
high to do a credit business. Scatter
ing several hundred or thousand is
sues throughout the country—on
c edit—while the publisher himself
must pay cash cash for his paper, la
bor and materials, shows poor judg
ment and the practice will soon be a
thing of the past.
THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS
The only thing that counts in the
election of a senator to represent
Georgia is the selection of a man of
ability and a man who is loyal and
patriotic. There has been a feeling
all along that entirely too many can
didates were in the field. Several of
these gentlemen should withdraw,
and the people should center on the
strongest, ablest, best qualified can
didate and thus insure, beyond ques
tion, the defeat of Thomas W. Hard
wick. Hardwick does not represent
the sentiments of the loyal people of
Georgia.
That there will be an elimination of
candidates before the primary, now
seems assured. Many people have not
decided on the man they vuill support.
They are in a receptive mood, watch
ing developments, waiting to see the
candidate who has the best chances
of winning.
So far The Progress-Argus has
committed itself to no candidate. It
is for the man who can beat Hard
wick. The paper had hoped all along
that some really strong man would
enter the race. But it seems the peo
ple must make a selection from the
candidates available.
The Augusta Chronicle, one of the
most conservative and at the same
time ably edited papers in Georgia,
calls upon William Schley Howard to
withdraw from the race. It cites the
fact that the past record of Mr. How
ard, as brought to light during the
campaign, unfits him to represent
Georgia in the senate. Whether Mr.
Howard will heed this appeal is, of
course, unknown at the present.
The people of Georgia are patriotic.
They are, at present, open minded.
They are trying to learn about the
various candidates They want to
elect the man best fitted, by charac
ter, ability and loyalty to the comihon
country, to represent them in the up
per branch of congress. The election
this year is to be no steam roller af
fair. There will be no back alley
methods. The people, by their bal
lots, instead of a crowd of scheming
politicians, will select their senator.
That some highly important devel
opments in the senatorial campaign
will take place a little later is now
confidently expected.
STRONG OLD MAN
75 YEARS YOONG
Says ZIRON Iron Tonic Made Him Feel
Better, Eat Better and Sleep Better.
O. D. Blount, Tarrytown, Ga., writes:
“lam seventy-five years old, yet I have
been pretty strong until about a year ago.
I did not feel so well, I had a worn, tired
feeling, my body ached and I was not
myself. I would chill easily,—my blood
seemed thin, my flesh flabby and skin
not clear. 1 didn’t rest well and my ap
petite was poor. I heard of Ziron, how
it was helping others and it seemed to be
what I needed, too. I soon saw after I
began taking it that it was helping me.
I felt better in every way. I ate better,
1 slept better. I took three bottles and
|t helped me. I am glad to recommend
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\bur Blood Needs
Schley Howard’s Own Letters
Show Howard Brought the
President Into the Sena
torial Race
Found the President for Harris—Promised ths
President Not to Run—Broke His Promise
and Approved a False Newspaper Report of
His Self-Sought Interview With the President
About the middle of April Congress
man Wm. Schley Howard sought an in
terview with President Wilson to talk
over the matter of his entering the
race for Senator from Georgia. In
that interview, sought by Mr. Howard,
the President stated that his choice of
a candidate for that race was Hon.
Wm. J. Harris, and he hoped that the
loyal vote against Senator Hardwick
would nt>t be divided.
Thereupon Mr. Howard voluntarily
promised the President that he would
not run, but would support Mr. Harris
because he was the President’s choice.
A few days later Mr. Howard broke
his promise to the President and be
came a candidate. Nobody could ex
press the President’s feelings at Mr.
Howard’s conduct as the President did
in his pointed two line letter of April
12th, saying only:
“Your letter just received disap
points me very seriously indeed and I
very much regret it.”
President’s Choice For Harris
A little while later the Washington
correspondent of the Atlanta Constitu
tion sent an article to his paper about
that interview, and, instead of stating
therein that the President expressed
his choice for Hon. Wm. J. Harris as
the candidate for Senator in Georgia,
stated that the President said he would
be neutral as between any two loyal
candidates against Thos. W. Hard
wick. Nobody but the President and
Mr. Howard could have known what
took place in the conference between
them, as no one else was present. Mr.
Howard saw the article sent out by
the newspaper correspondent, and
made no attempt to correct the false
version of the interview. He approved
it as “the God’s truth.” The Presi
dent also saw the newspaper article,
and on April 20th he wrote Mr. Howard
to the effect that he, Mr. Howard,
knew the version of the interview con
veyed by the article was false, and in
very emphatic terms the President
asked Mr. Howard whether or not he
intended to correct the false impres
sions left among the people of Geor
gia by the article appearing in the
Constitution. In reply to the Presi
dent Mr. Howard admitted that the
president’s letter “very greatly dis
tressed him,” admitted that the news
paper article conveyed a false account
of the President’s attitude and admit
ted that he and his friends knew that
the President "thought Mr. Harris
should make the race against the Jun
ior senator from Georgia in preference
to any one else.”
These Tell The Story
The statements of Mr. Howard and
the President speak for themselves:
"Committee on Appropriations,
“House of Representatives,
"Washington, D. C.,
“April, 1918.
“My Dear Mr. President:
“You may recall that I stated to
you that if you wished it, I would
not become a candidate for the sen
ate, but would do all I could to help
elect the candidate whom you select
ed to carry our cause to the people
of Georgia. This is written with the
hope that you will permit me to with
draw this promise to you.
"With great respect, I am,
"Faithfully your friend,
“WM. SCHLEY HOWARD.”
“The White House,
“Washington,
“April 12, 1918.
"My Dear Mr. Howard:
“Your letter just received disap
points me very seriously indeed, and
I very much regret it.
“Sincerely yours,
“WOODROW WILSON.
“To Hon. William S. Howard,
“House of Representatives.”
“The White House,
“Washington,
“20 April, 1918.
"My Dear Sir:
“My attention has been called to a
recent communication by Mr. Hollo
man to the Atlanta Constitution con
cerning our recent conversation at
the Executive Office in the interview
which you sought with me. Mr. Hol-
Monthly magazines to be sent to
soldiers and sailors should not be
more than two months old, according
loman, of course, had no direct knowl
edge of that conversation and his ver.
sion of it conveys a very false im.
pression, no doubt unintentionally on
his part, but the impression it con
veys is so false that I write to a$K
whether or not it is your intention
yourself to correct that impression. ,
“Very truly yours,
“WOODROW WILSON.
“To Hon. William Schley Howard,
“Plouse of Representatives.”
A Change In The Tone
(Note the change from “My Dear
Mr. Howard” to “My Dear Sir,” and
from “Sincerely yours” to “Very truly
yours.”)
“Committee on Appropriations,
“House of Representatives,
“Washington, D. C.,
“April 23, 1318.
"My Dear Mr. President:
“Your note of the 20th instant, hand
ed me last evening at my home whej'
I am now confined by illness, vi
greatly distresses me.
“After you were gracious enough *
receive me for an interview in the
Executive Office, I confided exactly
what I understood your position to be
to three of my intimate political and
personal friends for the sole purpose
of counseling with them as to whether
or not I should further pursue my
candidacy for the United States sen
ate.
“I have never expressed, directly or
indirectly, anything to my friends but
that you thought Mr. Harris should
make the race against the junior sena
tor from Georgia in the approaching
primary in preference to any one else.
"I recognize, however, that Mr. Hol
loman’s article may convey a differ
ent impression as to your attitude in
reference to Mr. Harris’ candidacy.
“I am, dear Mr. President, with
great respect,
“Faithfully yours,
“WM. SCHLEY HOWARD.
“To the President,
“The White House.”
Promised Not To Run
It is clear from these letters that
Congressman Howard sought out our
honored President, brought him into
the Georgia senatorial situation, found
the President strongly favored Hon.
Wm. J. Harris, voluntarily gave his
solemn promise that he would hot he
a candidate, and broke that promise
as soon as it was given. It is also
clear that he deliberately let a false
account of his Interview with the Pres
ident, published in a prominent Geor
gia paper, go uncorrected until a cor
rection was demanded of him by the
President himself; in the face of the
fact that the newspaper’s false infor
mation must have come from Mr. How
ard himself. It is also clear that the
President did not thrust himself into
the Georgia senatorial situation. It
is also clear that when the President
was brought in by Mr. Howard there
was no doubt as to where the President
stood.
Read these letters which passed be
tween Mr. Howard and President Wil
son, and then ask yourself the ques
tion: "Can I vote for such a man for
Senator?" If Congressman Howard
broke his promise voluntarily given to
the President and tried to deceive the
people of Georgia as to what trans
pired in his self-sought interview with
the President, will not the people fear
he would deceive them again? At
lealft the people of Georgia want a
man as their senator whom the Presi
dent can trust At least they want a
senator whose word and pledge, once
given, are never broken.
Mr. Howard had a perfect right to
run for senator without consulting the
President. But he did consult the
President. He found the President
for Hon. Wm. J. Harris, because the
President had long tried Mr. Harris
and never found him wanting. Mr.
Howard still has a right to run lor
senator. But he can’t claim to b*
running on the friendship or the con
fidence or the respect of our Com
mander-In-Chief.
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