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VOLUME L—• Number 12.
Government As It Is
Our government is normally run by
three departments—the executive, the
jliiciary and the legislative Is other
woods, the president, the supreme ■
eawrt judges and the congress. In ac
tive pru'tiee, the thing is run by the
congress and the president When
there is a weak congress and a strong
president. the president runs it; and
when there in a weak president and a
strong bouse and senate, the house
and senate run things
At present, the average ability
of the senators and congressmen is
none too high, while in the president's
chair aits one of tbs strongest men
of all time
Aha, m time of war, a strong prest.
dent “takes charge We are in a war.
and the president has 'taken charge.” >
There has been nothing like it in the
history of the country
It h important. therefore, that the^
people of Georgia have as many sena
tors as possible whose relations with
the president are cordial It is well
known that Senator Hardwick is out
of favor with President Wibon.
Ami tidnge XU not be improved by
the otoetian of Wm. Schley Reward.
Me han NtieappsißtadT the president.
&» msfefamt han eaid so m writ
®ng. To elect him is simply to swap
Hardwick for another
xCandidly, we think that the presi
dent would like to see George Wash
ington Thomas Jefferson Tanlac Bar
ria elected. It is an amazing thing
that it is so, considering the relative
size of the two men There are two
explanations for it: First, it is said
that the president, like numerous other
great men, likes to surround him
self with mediocrities, being himself
capable of running the work* and
knowing that the two-by-fours will
hot interfere. A second explanation
is found in the fact that men do not
get too big to be moved by flattery,
and Tanlac Harris has reduced boot
licking to an exact science.
We modestly suggest that the presi
dent was not disappointed at our en
try into the race, and that we are not
handicapped by any promise not to
run, made to the president. It might
disappoint him to read of our beating
Harris, and surprise him wme, but
he could not say that it was not done
fairly
And, by the way, and in all serious
ness, when the president entertains a
quiet longing to see Harris in the sen
ate, it is evidence that he couldn’t
ever have heard him make one of
his assaults withintent to make a
public speech Did any of you ever
hear him, men and brethren? They
say that, over at Madison, last week
when he spoke to that tremendous
crowd and great popular up-rising,
consisting of sixty five folks, all told,
and when he was in the midst of his
taphnabkia of haw he egma to tell the
P^Mle «f Georgia not to buy coal toot
year, aftd vMa hi forgot Ms apoeeh,
and ba^n to wobble on his orbit he
ttamimm thfßnr and yelled, “George
THE DEFENDER
Washington could not speak—Thomas
Jefferson could not speak —1 can’t
speak You don’t have to have a speak
er in the senate nohow * Ard it would
certainly appear so, if the people of
Georgia sent him there
It may not be too cruel to suggest
that even such “lords of language as
Daniel Webster and Ben Hill might
find it hard to do Harris job of speak
ing when it comes to explaining his
icoai orders, and his placing Hardwick
in the U. S. senate
Our old granddaddy was just a plain
old-fashioned farmer, 'and he need to
■ say that “if a man knows anything he*
I can toil it. He may not use a model
for grammar, and his choice of words
may not be elegant, but he can let
you know what he is driving at, and
he can keep you awake while he is
at it.” Now, hones, folks—you who
have not heard him try—Hams can’t
even recollect his piece I know you
may think this is a campaign lie,
hatched in this hot weather; but it is
the everlasting facts Go to hear him
-~T beg you to go to hear him—and
then ask yourself the question, what
knid of a condition Georgia has come
to, when in these most tremendous
Whea to the history of the human race/
’several people can be found who will
i seriously suggest that we clothe this
man in the togs of Ben. H. Hill and
iJames McPherson Berrien?
ISN’T IT STRANGE?
Isn't it strange that we won’t carry
but one county in the whole state
against Harris when we carried six
against Chas. R Crisp in one-twelfth
iof the state The Macon News stat
ed this thing “In all friendliness.”;
Whose friend is the News? Since
when were they Shaw's friend ? They
are building up their advertising with
Dannenburg with this kind of write
ups. A whole page was pasted in
their window last week Their Jew
advertising will pick up and their
Catholic subscriptions as well. The
are next door to the Telegraph. Won
der if it is only a child of the Tele
graph ? Nobody eve*- saw them lie in
the same bed and under the same cover
before.
They arc both for William J. Har
ris. The man who “daddied Hardwick
at the Macon convention.” The man
’ who froze helpless old women and ba
bies in Macon with good advice about
. coal last winter. Hand in hand. Rome,
Jerusalem and the Daily Press. The
politician who has their support has j
: to reduce boot licking to an exact sci
ence. Bill Harris claims 125 counties.
More than Dorsey carried. The proof
lof it is, I guess, that you hear many
more shouting for Harris than you
did for Dorsey. Why is Bill putting
out fifteen or twenty speakers ? Why
more speaker? than there are counties
that are not for him? Sir’
FORT GAINES, GA^ JULY 1. 1918.
Just As Well
Just as well be straight and plain
about the whole political situation.
Just as well teH why things are as they
are. Just as well tell why the daily
press will ignore us when we speak to
a thousand people while they put on
the front naze the speech of Bill Har
ris or Howard when they speak to
from fifty to one hundred. The dailies
are mad because Emmett Shaw, with
tongue and pen took their hide for
standing by toa: criminal who mur-;
dered that helpless working girt They
showed their wrath by refusing to print
Shaw’s name as chairman of the Dor-
• sey caucus at Macon at the conven
tion. By refusing to print his nax?'
at a member of the platform commit
tee who drafted the present Demo- i
cratic platform for Georgia By re
fusing to print his name only as Ern
est or Everett as a member of the
State Democratic Committe from the
state at large Do you got that fair
mioded people of Georgia? They all
bowed down to pomp, power, pull and
plunder and to the Hass Finance com
mittee and hate me !>ecause I woaM
not speak Jess than the truth with the
pen or from the platform while the
bieacheif bones of innocent orphan
girlhood ocretamed from the tomb at
Marietta. The big Jews would not
like it either, were they to give me any
note worth while. They might not ad
vertise so liberally. Then, there are the
Romanists who would be displeased.
These two powers vote as a unit.
They will subscribe to finance commit
tees or campaign funds. They are a
power commercially. They will stand
solidly together while the average
| Protestant :s asleep and is liable to
float any way. They are for immigra.
, tion They don't care how many come
for ninety per cent or better come with
The War Debt
It may be necessary to spend fifty
billions of dollars Lefave this war is
। over. Interest on bonds will have to
be paid. A sinking fund for ultimate
retirement will ha’.e to be provided^
i Row does your,, senatorial candidates
Sly Howard and Sb- k Harr:s propose
to meet this war debt. A senator is ’
elected for six y^ars. Six years from
next March. If that huge war debt is
j buckled to the little business and on
[the back of toil, woe unto us. Neither
of the other candidates have said one
word about how it should b* ^a»d. Em
mett Shaw advocates paying it gradu
ally by levying a graduated income and
inheritance tax. Within forty or fifty
years it could be paid and the average
business and the humbler man unhurt.
Should statesmen not deal with these
vital public questions’
Better get ■on the job, Mr. Voter.
You are a citisen This country will
6e the home of your babies and jrreM
ßTandbabfes A million babies a y4»r'
FMFTY CENTS A TEAR
the “Devine right doctrine” instilled in
them Emmett Sh? v a Democrat,
a Protectant and a pgyiotie citizen
advocating the law. One mterpreta
t’c: and one anplicauon for every man
jalike. If a Tew standsAbr that, he is
a good citizen. If a Roman s can’t
stand for that, he is opposea to the
sentimert of our constitution. If you
vote tor Emmett Shaw you can know
that no member of the Hass Finance
committee voted for him. They will
not forget the open support of Hugh
Dorsey. If you vote for Emmett Shaw
you caa know that no Romanist voted
with you for Shaw. The finance com-
i mittee will split over Harris and How
ard unless Dorsey’s frigid Harris gets
thAm all The Roman st vote will prob
ably dev»de between Mr. TumaMyU.
friends Hawis and Howard wrlese they
could vote seMdly for the ranger of
the two to defeat Emmett Shaw. If
you want to establish a daily paper
dictatorship in Georgia vote against
Shaw. If you are not awake to the dan
gers of Romanism your children may
pay the price of your sleep. If you want
a weak, compromising senator with
out convictions who will bow down to
power. Shaw is not ypur man.
Future gen-ratidßg know I*^
pne man stood single handed and adone q
and made a fight against, foreign tot- ;
migration. Against Romanism anc "
combined power. Future GeorgiaM
shall know that one man stood for
constitution Fer Democracy and Pr^
testantism and was not afraid. The f
daily press represents the organtoad
and powerful You and yours, Mr. .
Reader, most likely represent unor
ganized weakness. Think it over and
be a man. Do your duty. We will
win.
are being born in America. The man
hood of today must shape their destiny.
William J. Harns is turning out
speakers by the dozen. Why does he
do it ? He claims already all but five
. counties in South Georgia and two
thirds of North Georgia. Why all the
speakers ? Is he afraid his guess hl
as I id on the number of counties he
will carry as it was on the quantity
and price of the coal supply he made
last winter? If Bill has all the coun
ties safe as he claims why all the
speakers ? Why burden Georgia in
the midst of these extraordinary times
with so many platform persuaders?
Why ask the people who are produc
ing food supply to stop the mule and
lay down the hoe and come and hear
of the merits and sterling worth of
this slacker for forty yciHi? This job*
quitting patriot? This Macon con
vention pa pg of Tom Hardwick. Why?
Coat tail William is beat Bill begins
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