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PAGE TWO Greensboro Editor F layed By Hardwick Hardwick Declares Statements m Editorial Are ‘Wilful and Malicious Falsehoods .(Continued From Page One) and the appointment came to me unsolicited directly from the late President Harding, who appointed me as a demociVt to fill a place on a bi-partisan board that had been fillled ever since the creation of that board by another democrat, Senator Thomas, of Colorado. No conduct or action of that board while I was a member or prior here to, was ever challenged or criti cised in any way by any investigat ing committee of congress. So much tor misstatement No. 1. 2. The editorial states that at the convention of 1912 I said I was a ‘progressive democrat.” That is misstatement No. 2. Neither n 1912 nor at any other time have I ever labeled myself as progressive dem ocrat, although I have always thought and still think that all real progress must be along the line of adhering to fundamental principles and doctrines, and that no true pro gress can be achieved in any other way. 3 The editorial states that I told the klan that “I would like to join yOur order after my term as gov ernor expires.” That statement is both literally and substantially false I did decline to join the klan while I was governor, but I never express ed a purpose nor entertained a de sire to join it at any time. The statement has aready been branded by me as false and neither Mr. Wil liams nor Mr. Harris can make a falsehood anything except a false hood by repeating it. 4 The editorial states that I ‘ made the dedication speech of the imperial palace.” That statement is untrue. The fact is that I did make a short address on American ism on the occasion when a resi dence was presented to Colonel Simmons by some of his admirers and friends. 1 had no objection to making this address because, at the time, so far as any information that I then had disclosed, the soi called klan was merely a secret so ciety and had not developed into a political organization and had not undertaken to regulate the conduct of citizens outside of the law and outside of the courts. When these developments came about a year la ter I diil not hesitate for a moment tb take issue with the klan organ isation with respect, to them and to warn the klan that it nius unmask and must keep within the law. I did not hesitate for one moment to tike this course, although I fully believed when I did take it that it would defeat me for re-election as governor of Georgia. 6. The editorial states that I ‘‘practically announced as a candi date for the United States senate in an address before the Twenty one club of Atlanta, a secret poli tical society formed to tight the Ku Klux Klan..” The above statement is untrue in substance at least. It is true that some few weeks ago I did make aq address to a number of gentlemen who were said to belong to what is said to be called the Twenty-one, clpb. What the Tenty-one club is I did not know then and 1 do not know now. At the time 1 made the address I had no earthly idea of becoming a candidate for the senate iand hoped I would not be a candi date for any office. The address referred to was made in üblic and not in any secret session and in that very address I condemned al) secret political societies an took ex exactly the same position towards them all that I have always held and now maintain. Favor* arcel Post. 6. The editorial states that I vot ed against the parcel post. That is untrue. I voted for it. I did, how ever, vote against the unreasonable increase of the weight limit up to ESO pounds because I did not be lieve the government ought to go into the business of a general car rier of freight through the post office department. 7. The editorial states that I Kapreß* Tour Thoughts with CHEAFFER'C V, LIFETIME V/ Pens and Pencils Thos. L. Bell voted for the sugar trust. That statement is deliberately and wil fully false. The records show that for years 1 led the fight for fre<( sugar, in the interest of the con sumer and the housewife and against the bitter opposition of the so-called sugar trust, the American Sugar Refining company. 8. The editorial states that I was ‘‘a friend of the corporations” and a ‘‘tool of the corporations.” This is a deliberate and wilful misstatement During my entire public service 1 have always been fair and just to corporations and individuals alike. I have never been either friendly to corporations or hostile to them. I have always tried to be fair to them and just to them and have never taken a position of casting a vote except in the public interest and in the public interest alone. 9. The editorial states that I said I was against war. It then pro ceeds to inquire if I was against war why was it that I voted for the war with Germany. The answer to so silly a question is both simple old tobacco Secret re-d iscovered ~ 1 ©7O • Z~.-. revived for Wellman’s Granger famous old ’ ’ Secret IJI iKII Tm a popular seller . in 32 states—a u , i||iy K quarter-million smokers , .ill 1 • J.L .■•<’ '‘Ml ■ ** - HsWai' •* new richness * rom an old-time process * y Made for pipes - cut for pipes -packed sensibly to save money TVTOW it can be toid. Three years ago we There’s no other method like it, nor any 1 decided to revive a famous old secret other tobacco like Granger. method of mellowing tobacco—" Wellman’s And not only differently mellowed,but cut Method”, it was called. differently—cut for pipes. 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Better yet—get fl| gives it a new taste, richer aud milder. out your pipe! * » ' Granger Rough Cut A Pointer on TobaC^ > burn ,, the I 1 \ ‘ "■-- U v -...u and obvious I have never said that I was against war under any circum stances or for peace at any price. When Germany fired upon the American flag and murdered Amer ican citizens upon the high seas this country could not, in either honor or safety, avoid a declaration of war against her and I unhesitatingly voted for that declaration. Mr. J. C. Williams, who is the edi tor of the Greensboro Herald-Jour nal, is not in my opinion, the real author of this editorial attack on. me. If he were I could excuse the most of it on the ground of dense ignorance, and would probably al low it to go unnoticed because it is made up of so many old, silly and long since exploded misrepresenta tions of myself that I could afford to ignore it and trust to the mem( ory and information of the public to supply the obvious answers to these unmerited assaults . It must be remembered, however, that Mr. Williams is the father of the private secretary of Mr. Harris and it is worthy of note that copies of this editorial are being sent out for pub lication to the weekly newspapers of Georgia from the headquarters of Mr. Harris and under the frank of Mr. Harris in plain violation of the postal laws. Consequently, while THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ' the voice is the voice of Jacob, the i nand is that of Esau and ) feel that Mr. Harris is the real author of difl so-called editorial attack. I regret to see that Mr Harris is , unable to muster up sufficient cour- , age for a real debate with me face to face, where no ‘board of advis- i ors” cart write his cards or put 1 words into his mouth. Since he is unwilling to meet in that character of debate, I do not propose to ali 1 low him to ‘bushwhack” me from i behind the coat-tails of Jim Wil liams. If Mr. Harris himself really believes for a moment that I was a , friend to the corporations and a tool : of the corporations and voted for the sugar trust and against the par- j cel post, all prior to 1914, let me ( inquire how was it that he, ‘honest I messenger boy" that he is, support- ; ed me actively for the senate in 1914 against Governor Slaton and : Mr. Felder? Mr. Harris himself i knows full well that both the inc- : sinuations and accusations i~ the ■ Williams editorial are untrue. Now let me ask Mr. Harris the following questions: i 1 How do you stand on the klan? 1 Are you for it, against it, on thu • fence or still “sick?”' 2. How do you stand on the Bur- sum bill, for the increase of all pen sions except those of tne German war? Are you for it, against, or still “absent?” 3. Do you really believe that only the rich pay federal tax? Do you not know that in the end the poor man nearly always foots the bill in rents, clothing, food and for every thing? 4 Did you know when the repub lican tariff bill was being, passed that the necessary ingredients of calcium arsenate were being heav ily taxed? If you did why did you not at least try to stop it?. If you did not know it, what business have you got in the senate anyway? 5 How do you now stand on the proposed twentieth amendment to the constitution, regulating and pro hibiting child labor? Are you for it, against it, or still “sick?” 6. When did you get the Ford agency at Barnesville? Under what circumstances? How many Ford agencies in Georgia are you now in terested in, either directly or indi rectly? At the time you got the Ford agency at Barnesville was the senate then investigating the New berry case concerning the senatorial election in Michigan in which New r berry and Ford had been oppon ents? At the time you were Repre- senting Ford at Barnesville or else- 1 where in Georgia as his agent was the Ford proposition to take over Muscle Shoals from the government pending in the congress or not? Do i you regard it as playing up, fairly. ■ and squarely, even to the role of i an ‘honest messenger boy” to be accepting business favors, worth, thousands of dollars, from men who ■ have special interests before the congress or who are asking specicl favors from that body? T. W. HARDWICK. 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