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WILLIAM J. HARRIS
Candidate for the
United States Senate
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The Man of the Hour, and Why
William J. Harris was born in Ce
dartown, Polk county, Georgia, Feb
ruary 3, 1868. He was educated in
the common schools of Polk county
and the University of Georgia, teach
ing school during the summer to pro
vide means for his college training.
In 1895, he married Miss Julia Whee
ler, daughter of Gen. Joseph Wheeler,
the distinguished Southern cavalry
leader. Mr. Harris has three brothers
now serving in the United States
Army, Gen. P. C. Harris, Maj. Seals
Harris and Capt. Hunter Harris. Many
young men have been beneficiaries
of Mr. Harris’ aid in obtaining an edu
cation to equip them for life’s work.
Political Service.
As Chairman of the Polk County
Democratic Executive Committee, he
succeeded in establishing the “white
primary,” in 1892.
As private secretary to Senator A.
S. Clay, and under the training of this
distinguished Georgian, Mr. Harris be
gan, in early life, to look after the
interests in Washington of Georgians
from every section.
In 1912 Mr. Harris managed Presi
dent Wilson’s first campaign in Geor
gia; was elected chairman of the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee, and played prominent part in roll
ing up the largest majority Georgia
ever gave a candidate for President.
Legislative Service.
Mp. Harris represented the 38th dis
trict in the state senate in 1911-12, and
there worked and voted for every
measure that would help the farmers
and benefit the taxpayers of the state.
Some of these include:
(1) Mr. Harris introduced and aid
ed in the passage of the bill abolish
ing the unlimited fees of oil inspec
tors, and fixing their maximum salary
at SIOO per month. This law has
saved the state thousands of dollars.
In 1917 alone, it saved the state net,
$182,588.
(2) Mr. Harris introduced and pass
ed the bill requiring lobbyists to reg
ister, thereby eliminating the grafting,
(professional lobbyist, and protecting
legislation.
(3) Mr. Harris advocated the sepa
rate leasing of the W. & A. Railroad
from the other state property in Chat
tanooga, a policy since adopted by the
“Lease Commission.”
(4) Personally, Mr. Harris has al
ways been a consistent prohibitionist,
and has always supported all measures
looking to freeing the state from the
liquor traffic.
National Service.
As director of the United States Cen
sus, to which he was appointed by
President Wilson, officials today say
that Mr. Harris was the most efficient
director since the bureau was estab
lished. The chief “criticism” against
his administration, made by Judge
Hughes, Republican nominee for Presi
dent, was that he appointed so many
Georgia Democrats to positions in the
department.
President Wilson appointed Mr. Har
ris acting secretary of commerce, in
the absence of Secretary Redfield, and
cordially approved his services and ef
ficiency as a temporary member of the
cabinet.
Under Republican rule the Wall
street gamblers- were permitted to keep
down the price of cotton by including
in the census estimate the number of
bales of timers cotton. Mr. Harris had
the linters estimate separated from
the regular cotton reports, which re
duced the estimates and tended to
raise the price of cotton. During Re
publican rule, it was freely charged
that there were “leaks” in cotton esti
mates of the census bureau. Not once
since the administration of Mr. Harris
has there been the slightest suspicion
of a “leak’’ in the census reports.
In the census bureau, Mr. Harris
changed the “age limit,” fixed by the
Republicans, so that Confederate Vet
erans could be given the same oppor
tunities as Union Veterans; and many
old Confederate Soldiers are now hold
ing good places in the department. It
was in keeping with his devotion to
the old soldiers. His father was a
brave Confederate Veteran, and Iris
father-in-law was the gallant “Little
Joe” Wheeler.
Promoted by the President.
Due to Mr. Harris’ efficient adminis
tration of the census bureau, President
Wilson promoted him by appointing
him a member of the federal trade
board. Recognizing his ability, his
colleagues, two years later, elected him
chairman of the board. Resigning to
enter his campaign for United States
senator as the loyal supporter of Pres
ident Wilson in winning the war, as
against the present junior senator from
Georgia, Mr. Harris carried with him
the love, esteem, confidence and best
wishes of his colleagues, the depart
ment heads and the President who had
further expressed his confidence in Mr.
Harris by the following additional ap
pointments:
(1) Appointed by the President as
member of the price fixing committee
of the war industries board, to fix
prices for army supplies. When New
England manufacturers endeavored to
fix the price of cotton, Mr. Harris op
posed them most vigorously. He also
brought charges against the “bagging
trust’’ which is now facing trial.
(2) The President named the sec
retary of agriculture, Mr. Hoover and
Mr. Harris a committee of three to in
vestigate the advisability of the gov
ernment taking over the meat packing
houses. The President’s confidence
was further expressed when Mr. Har
ris resigned, by the request that he
name his own successor, and Mr. Har
ris named Hon. Victor Murdoch.
The Confidence of Mr. Wilson.
Further indicative of the confidence
of President Wilson in Mr. Harris, is
the following conclusion of the Presi
dent’s letter accepting his resignation
from the federal trade commission to
run for the United States senate:
“May I not say how warmly I have
appreciated the way in which you have
performed the difficult and often deli
cate duties assigned to you in the
trade commission? I am sure that
I am expressing the general feeling
when I express my regret at youi
withdrawal.
“Cordially and sincerely yours,
“WOODROW WILSON.
“Hon. William J. Harris,
“Federal Trade Commission.”
Mr. Harris’ Qualifications.
Mr. Harris is in close touch with
conditions at the national capitol. His
relations with the administration are
intimate. He has the confidence and
esteem of the President and depart
ment heads. Through these relations
he is in better position to represent
Georgia in the United States senate —
her people, her commercial, financial
and agricultural interests and to ren
der effective aid and service to Geor
gia soldier and sailor boys, fighting
for Americanism and Democracy,—
than probably any other Georgian now
in the public eye. Mr. Harris’ elec
tion will mean that the good name
of Georgia will be redeemed from the
charge of disloyalty and “kaiserism”
with which it has been stained 'ay the
misrepresentation of the recent past.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONQUGH. GEORGIA
PRESIDENT SAYS
PRUSSIAN RULERS
FEAR OWN PEOPLE
Wilson Declares U. S. Will Not
Consider Peace Until Foe
Is Crusher!.
SPEAKS AT MOUNT VERNON
Executive in Independence Day Ad
dress at Mount Vernon Asserts
Kaiser Has Rousea Forces
Which He Knew Little Of
and Which When
Roused Can Never
Be Crushed to
Earth.
Mount Vernon, July 4.—That George
Washington and his associates spoke
and acted, not for a clasx, but for a peo
ple and that it has been left for us to
see to it that it shall be understood that
they spoke and acted, not for a single
people only, but for all mankind and
were planning that men of every class
should be free and America a place to
which men Qtit of every nation might
resort who wished to share with them
the rights and privileges of free men,
was the gist of a speech delivered by
Pre:ji(l'ent Wilson at Washington’s
tomb today.
In the course of his address the pres
ident asserted that in the present world
struggle the peoples of the world find
themselves confronted by a selfish
group of nations who speak no com
mon purpose but only selfish ambitions
of their own and by which none can
profit but themselves and whose people
are fuel in their hands.
Text of Address.
The text of the president’s speech
follows:
“Gentlemen of the Diplomatic Corps
and My Fellow Citizens: lam happy
to draw apart with you to this quiet
place of old counsel in order to speak
a little of the meaning of this day of
our nation's independence. The place
seems very still and remote. It is as
serene and untouched by the hurry of
the world as it was in those great days
long ago when General .Washington
was here and held leisurely conference
with the men who were to be associ
ated with him in the creation of a na
tion. From the gentle slopes they
looked out upon the world and saw it
whole, saw it with the light of the fu
ture upon it, saw it with modern eyes
that turned away from a past which
men of liberated spirits could no longer
endure, it Is for that reason that we
cannot feel, even here, in the immedi
ate presence of this sacred trnnb, that
this is a place of death. It was a
place of achievement. A great promise
that was meant for all mankind was
here given plan and reality. The as
sociations by which we are here sur
rounded are the inspiring associations
of that noble death which is only a
glorious consummation. From this
green hillside we also ought to be able
to see with comprehending eyes the
world that lies about us and should
conceive anew the purposes that must
set men free.
“It is significant—significant of their
ow n character and purpose and of the
influences they were setting afoot —
that Washington and his associates,
like the barons at Runnymede, spoke
and acted, not for a class, but for a
people. It has been left for us to see
to it that it shall be understood that
they spoke and acted, not for a single
people only, but for all mankind. They
were thinking, not of themselves and
of the material interests which cen
tered in the little groups of landhold
ers and merchants and men of affairs
with whom they were accustomed to
act, in Virginia and the colonies to the
north and south of her, but of a people
which wished to be done with classes
and special interests and the author
ity of men whom they had not them
selves chosen to rule over them. They
entertained no private purpose, de
sired no peculiar privilege.
Sought Freedom for All Men.
“They were consciously planning
that men of every class should be free
and America a place to which men out
of every nation might resort who
wished to share with them the rights
and privileges of free men. And we
take our cue from them —do we not?
We intend what they intended. We
here in America believe our participa
tion in this present war to be only the
fruitage of what they planted. Our
case differs from theirs only in this,
that it is our inestimable privilege to
concert with men out of every nation
what shall make not only the liberties
of America secure but the liberties of
every other people as well. We are
happy in the thought that we are per
mitted to do what they would have
done had they been in oar place.
There must now be settled oqce for all
what was settled for America in the
great age upon whose inspiration we
draw today. This is surely a fitting
place from which calmly to look out
upon our task, that we may fortify our
spirits for its accomplishment. And
this is the appropriate pluce from
which to avow, alike to the friends
who look on and to the friends with
whom we have the happiness to he as
sociated In action, the faith and pur
pose with which we act.
“This, then, Is our conception of the
great struggle in which wo are en
gaged. The plot Is written plain upon
every scene and every act of the su
preme tragedy. On the one hand stand
the peoples of the world —not only the
peoples actually engaged, but many
others also who suffer under mastery
but cannot act; peoples of many races
and In every part of the world —the
people of stricken Russia still, among
the rest, though they are for the mo
ment unorganized and helpless. Op
posed to them, masters of many arm
ies, stand an Isolated, friendless group
of governments who speak no common
purpose but only selfish ambitions of
their own by which none can profit
but themselves, and whose peoples
are fuel in their hands; governments
which fear their people and yet are
for the time their sovereign lords, mak
ing every choice for them and dispos
ing of their lives and fortunes as they
will, as well as of the lives and for
tunes of every people who fall under
their power governments clothed
with the strange trappings and the
primitive authority of an age that is
altogether alien and hostile to our
own. The past and the present are in
deadly grapple and the peoples of the
world are being done to death between
them.
Settlement Must Be Final.
“There can be but one issue. The
settlement must be final. There can
be no compromise. No halfway de
cision would be tolerable. No half
way decision is conceivable. These
are the ends for which the associated
peoples of the world are fighting and
which must be conceded them before
there can be peace: 1. The destruction
of every arbitrary power anywhere
that can separately, secretly and of its
single choice disturb the peace of the
world; or, if it cannot be presently de
stroyed, at the least Its reduction to
virtual impotence.
“2. The settlement of every question,
whether of territory, of sovereignty, of
economic arrangement, or of political
relationship, upon the basis of the free
acceptance of that settlement by the
people Immediately concerned, nnd not
upon the basis of the material interest
or advantage of any other nation or
people which may desire a different
settlement for the sake of its own ex
terior influence or mastery.
“3. The consent of all nations to be
governed in their conduct towards
each other by the same principles of
honor and of respect for the common
law of civilized society that govern
the individual citizens of all modern
states in their relations with one an
other; to the end that all promises and
covenants may be sacredly observed, no
private plots or conspiracies hatched,
no selfish injuries wrought with impun
ity, and a mutual trust established
upon the handsome foundation of a
mutual respect for right.
“4. The establishment of an organi
zation of peace which shall make it
certain that the combined power of
free nations will check every invasion
of right and serve to make peace and
justice the more secure by affording a
definite tribunal of opinion to which
all must submit and by which every
international readjustment that cannot
be amicably agreed upon by the peo
ples directly concerned shall be sanc
tioned.
U. S. Can Never Be Crushed.
“These great objects can be put into
a single sentence. What we seek Is
the reign of law, based upon the con
sent of the governed and sustained by
the organized opinion of mankind.
“These great ends cannot be
achieved by debating and seeking to
reconcile and accommodate what
statesmen may wish, with their proj
ects for balances of power and of na
tional opportunity. They can be
reached only by the determination of
what the thinking people of the world
desire with their longing hope for
justice and for social freedom and op
portunity.
“I can fancy that the air of this
place carries the accents of such prin
ciples with a prouder kindness. Here
where started forces which the great
nation against which they w-ere pri
marily directed at first regarded as a
revolt against Its authority but which
has long since seen to have been a
step in the liberation of its own peo
ple as well as of the people of the
United States —and I stand here now
to speak, speak proudly and with con
fident hope —of the spread of this re
volt, this liberation to the great state
of the world itself. The blinded rul
ers of Prussia have aroused forces they
knew little of —forces which, once
aroused, can never be crushed to earth
again—for they have at their heart an
inspiration and a purpose which are
deathless and of the very stuff of tri
umph.”
100 K AT CHILD’S
TONGUE IF SICK,
CROSS, FEVERISH
HURRY, MOTHER! REMOVE POI.
SONS FROM LITtLE STOMACH,
LIVER, BOWELS.
GIVE CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIGS
AT ONCE IF BILIOUS OR
CONSTIPATED,
Look at the tongue, mother I If
coated, it is a sure sign that your lit
tle one’s stomach, liver and bowels
needs a gentle, thorough cleansing at
once.
When peevish, cross, listless, pale,
doesn’t sleep, doesn’t eat or act natu
rally, or Is feverish, stomach sour,
breath bad; has stomach-ache, sore
throat, diarrhoea, full of cold, give a
teaspoonful of “California Syrup of
Figs,” and in a few hours all the foul,
constipated waste, undigested food
and sour bile gently moves out of the
little bowels without griping, and you
have a well, playful child again.
You needn’t coax sick children to
take this harmless “fruit laxative;”
they love its delicious taste, and it
always makes them feel splendid.
Ask your druggist for a bottle of
“California Syrup of Figs,” which has
directions for babies, children of all
ages and for grown-ups plainly on the
bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold
here. To be sure you get the genuine,
ask to see that it is made by the “Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Company.” Refuse
any other kind with contempt.—Adv.
Health makes wealth for some, hut
not for the physician and the under
taker.
Granulated Eyelids, Sties, Inflamed Eyea
relieved over night by Roman Eye Balsam.
One trial proves Its merit. Adv.
Earth’s total land area Is placed at
88,123,171,200 acres, of which forests
cover 8,097,319,827 acres.
KIDNEY TROUBLE NOT
EASILY RECOGNIZED
Applicants for Insurance Often
Rejected
An examining physician for one of the
prominent life insurance companies, in an
interview of the subject, made the as
tonishing statement that one reason why
so many applicants for insurance arc re
jected is because kidney trouble is so com
mon to the American people, and the large
majority of those whose applications are
declined do not even suspect that they
have the disease.
Judging from reports from druggists
who are constantly in direct touch with
the public, there is one preparation that
has been very successful in overcoming
these conditions. The mild and healing
influence of Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root is
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d</wu itaii/iC'i. x i/ Dbduun ior
its remarkable record of success.
We find that Swamp-Root is strictly
an herbal compound and we would ad
vise our readers who feel in need of such a
remedy to give it a trial. It is on sale
at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes,
medium and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.—Adv.
Charity Is a cloak that covers a mul
titude of amateur theatrical perform
ances.
Baby’s Second Summer
GROVB’B BABY BOWEL MB DICIN'H will correc*
the Stomach and Bowel Troubles and It Is abso
lutely harmlesa Can bn given to Infants wltb
perfect safety. See directions on the bottle.
Missouri employs 7,641 men, hoys
and women in automobile establish
ments.
FRECKLES
Now Is the Time to Get Rid of These Ugly Spots
There’s do longer the slightest need of feeling
■shamed of your freckles, as Othlne—double
strength—ls guaranteed to remove these homely
■pots.
Simply get an ounce of Othlne—double
strength—from your druggist, and apply a little
of It night and morning and you should soon see
that even the worst freckles have begun to dis
appear. while the lighter ones have vanished en
tirely. It 13 seldom that more than one ounce
Is needed to completely clear the skin and gala
a beautiful clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double strength Othlne,
as this Is sold under guarantee of money back
If It falls to remove freckles.—Adv.
Few fingers are burned !n heaping
coals of fire on an enemy’s head.
