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SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1914
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one of his stepping stones to Con
gress. How far has he proceeded
■during his twelve years, in repealing
them? How many times has he ob
tained favorable, or other, reports
from committee? Has he ever got
the question to a vote? Is it natural
to expect that he would be more suc
cessful in the Senate?
Mr. Felder —junior member of t he
firm—urges poverty as a prime qual
ification. I believe that from poverty
have proceeded the best and noblest
of the world. It is a good school, as
I know from long experience.
But is poverty any reason, of itself,
why Mr. Felder should be sent to the
Senate? I marvel that any self-re
specting Georgian would make a
draft on sympathy in appealing to
the voters of his native state for
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this s«gh office.
Every dollar I possess came from
the practice of the profession which
Mr. Felder and I follow. Before en
tering college I earned by my own
labor the money with which to pay
my way.
If I can meet the legitimate ex
penses of a campaign, while nothing
in my favor, does not argue against
my fitness for Congressional service.,
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As To The Question of Residence
The firm of Hardwick and Felder
urges against me the accident of resi
dence. They say Atlanta should not
have two Senators. I reply that neith
er Atlanta, nor Sandersville, nor Ma
con, should have even one Senator,
Georgia should have them both.
The appeal of these gentlemen to
the logic of “geography” would imply
that, if elected, Mr. Hardwick would
consider himself not a Senator from
Georgia but a Senator from Washing
ton county, and likewise Mr. Felder
w r ould not feel that he should repre
sent all the State but only that part
from which he hails.
I advance no such narrow doctrine.
If they can point to acts of mine as
legislator, speaker of the house, or
president of the State Senate, where
by I have ever shown undue partial
ity to Atlanta as against the state,
they might have ground for the ob
jection made. But they can show no
such act. It is pleasing to reflect that
each time I was elected presiding of
ficer, my strongest support came
from the small counties because they
knew they could get a square deal
from me.
As Governor the bulk of my ap
pointees, including a United States
Senator, two judges of the Court of
Appeals and an Attorney Genera 1 ,
came from South Georgia.
While a legislator, ten of the eleven
new counties were created from South
Georgia with the, immense increase of
political power to the section. I fav
ored the development of the entire
State without regard to locality.
The State of Georgia and her schod
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children are to-day millions of dollars
poorer zecause of th e“geographical
patriotism” of Messrs. Hardwick &
Felder.
Mr. Felder led, with Mr. Hardwick
as lieutenant, the filibuster which es
tablished the old Union depot in At
lanta—property of the State as the
lasting monument to ruinous and nar
row' prejudices. The majority of the
members of the house, anxious that
the state’s property be improved and
thereby increased in value, were anx
ious to accept on terms that would
have protected the State against ex
pense or loss improvements worth
millions and which would have given
the State a permanent monopoly of
terminal facilities. Those improve
ments went elsewhere, thanks to the
sectional prejudice of these two gen
tlemen.
And when the road is re-leased four j
years hence, the practical result of
their fight will be made manifest by
the loss of revenue that will be caus
ed by the crippling and well-nigh de
struction of the State road’s terminal
facilities iii Atlanta. They probably
helped Atlanta but they did great in
justice to the State.
Discusses The Primary Rules.
They attack me on the score of the
rules adopted by the State Commit
tee. They cannot produce one com
mitteeman of whom I asked personal
favor or political advantage. The
rules, in truth, give tremendous ad
vantage to my opponents. The com
mittee is not “my” committee and I
would not have insulted its member
ship by attempting to direct it. To
those who consulted me, I gave the
opinion that the committee was bound
to follow the unit rule in accordance
with the platform on which I was
elected Governor.
But they exclaim that someone else
fougnt the unit rule. Os that I know
nothing. No one was authorized to
act for me and none did act for me.
I could as easily charge Mr. Hardwick
with double dealing because his chief
political lieutenant and former cam
paign manager fought for the unit
rule as adopted, which rule Mr. Hard
wick, backed by Mr. Felder’s newspa
per organ, is now' denouncing.
The Unit rule served Mr. Hardwick
well when it enabled him to displace
Hen. Wm. B. Fleming, who had a
large majority of the popular vote.
Heretofore he has been loyal to the
ladder upon which he rose, for his
district committee has regularly re
enacted the rule to govern tenth dis
trict primaries.
I agree with them that the present
rules are not ,perfect. Nothing human
is. The application of the unit rule
should be such as to prevent the pos
sibility of conventions, rather than
the voters, determining nomination.
This can best be done by having sec
ond primaries.
Defends The Tax Act.
In sheer desperation my opponents
have tried to discredit my advocacy
of the tax act passed by tne preset t
legislature.
I am proud of my part in that leg
islation. It is not perfect. But it
comes nearer lifting the burdens of
taxes from the poor man’s shoulders,
where it has chiefly rested, and plac
ing it on the backs of those able to
stand it, than any legislation recently
passed in Georgia. As with any busi
ness change, time must be given it,
a moderate interval, for full results.
If you do not begin sometime you will
never redeem Georgia.
No man desires to impose taxes, but
no honest man doubts their necessity'
or that they should be justly impos
ed. f
While the application of this new
tax law at first caused isolated in-j
stances of injustice, it will compel
hundreds to pay the taxes they have
heretofore evaded, and will decrease
the burdens of thousands of others
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who have been paying more than their
share.
If for the sake of temporary polit
ical advantage, my opponents are
willing to have this enormously rich
state, this traditionally honorable
state, placed in the attitude of a
pauper, brought to the brink of re
pudiation, they are welcome to prac
tice the deception thus involved.
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I do not fear that the people o f
Georgia will countenance such a men
ace. A menace it is, for if we had not
put the state’s finances on a stable
basis, teachers soon would have gone
without any pay, Confederate veterans
would have died while waiting for
their pensions., the educational and
elee.vmosynary institutions would
have been paralyzed and the refund
ing of the bonded debt would have
been impossible.
When the crisis came, as it certain
ly would have come as the result of
tremendous deficit, the men of prop
erty would have suffered from confis
catory legislation born of hysteria.
I urged economy as much as the
payment of debt and this law will in-
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form the public of the purposes for
which their money is ppent, and will
fortify the economical legislator by
the approval of his constituents. In
1915 and possibly this year, the tax
1 rate will be reduced below the five
mills limitation, and woe to him who
' appropriates extravagantly on the one
side and cuts the revenue on the other.
Mr. Hardwick’s record as a member
of the Legislature proves his attacks
on the tax equalisation act to demand
much explanation.
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In 1899, as a member of a special
committee he urged the adoption of
an act on which the present law is an
improvement. (See House Journal
! 1899, Page 112.)
His bill did not pass, but, being r.
member of the succeeding legislature
he joined with others in re-introduc
ing his equalization bill, and unsuc
cessfully urged its passage. (See
House Journal 1900, Page 300.)
As To Not Resigning.
As a climax to the campaign of in
consistencies, consistent in nothing
but joint attacks upon me, the people
are told I should have resigned as
Governor.
Mr. Felder holds up his act of res
ignation as a great patriotic move.
Vet he fails to see anything improper
in his running-mate's deserting the
halls of Congress on the eve of threat
ened war, to pursue a campaign a
thousand miles away. Could any se
verer commentary be offered upon Mr.
Hardwick’s boasted influence in Con
gress than he himself has afforded in
his assumption that all his duties to
the country and the president may be
performed at a juncture so critical as
the present by the simple expedient
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of “pairing” his vote?
Nor does Mr. Hardwick find aujsffit
to censure in Mr. Felder’s 1 deserting
the office of Attorney General for per
sonal ambition’s sake at a tin\e when
important litigation of the State, his
client, rendered his experience in that
office most necessary. Why did Mr.
Felder abandon the people just when
the Supreme Court of the United
States refused to grant his motion ..o
enjoin the Ducktown Copper' Com
pany, a Tennessee corporation, from
damaging the property ofc Georgians
by showering it with destructive
acide? Was it because the case should
have occupied most of his time until
September? And thus he left hi 3
client to the mercies of an attorn-y
they could not select, and who must o?
necessity have been unacquainted with
the litigation.
Messrs. Hardwick and Felder pro
nounce eulogies upon Senator Hoke
Smith and President Wilson. Did Sen
ator Smith resign even after being
chosen? Did either Mr. Hardwick or
Mr. Felder criticise him for not re
signing? Did not President Wilson re
main Governor until the day before his
inauguration? Did or does either Mr.
Felder or Mr. Hardwick criticise him
for so doing?
Let me repeat that I regard public
office as a sacred contract between
the official and the people electing
him to be abrogated only by mutual
consent. ‘ t *
I have never criticised any one any
where or at any time for submitting
PAGE SEVEN
to the people his candidacy Dor an
office.
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Upon the counts above I deem It hj
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privilege to consult with the people J
Georgia as to whether I should reprl
sent them In the Senate, at the begin
ning of an American epoch requirh/
not verbose expressions of devout?
to the public welfare, hot trained £ag
islatlve experience and productiveness
My pledge and my platform earrrprrs.
my twenty years of service of dear
gia.
On the rock of service X stand. %
course in the future Is smderwrfttee
not by vote-catching promises xnd'sp
portunist patriotism, but by my warn
in the past
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