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miMY,, JULY 18.
Mr. Hardwick’s Reply to Governor
Slaton’s Card of Sunday
IS xiis card of last Sunday, Mr. Sla
ton made a touching though unneces
sary defense of working people, such
as clerks, from my savage assaults.
This appeals to my sense of humor.
I h*te not had a very easy time in
life and I expect I have far more sym
pathy for the working people of Geor
gia and am in much closer touch
with them than Mr. Slaton ever has
been or ever can be. The ‘hirelings’
to whom I referred were the political
henchmen of Mr. Slaton, who seem to
have been employed to make silly at
tacks on me, for which their employer
escapes responsibility.
Mr, Slaton's deep solicitude in be
half of the party, the state and the
county, over my absence from Wash
ington just at this juncture, is equally
touching, and almost equally disin
terested. No doubt he prefers that
I should be in Washington or almost
anywhere else except in Georgia just
now r . Let me re-assure him one one
point. lam neglecting no duty I owe
at Washington in order to prosecuta
this campaign. In the early stages of
the early campaign, w'hile the house
was jn general debate, under an order
fixing a day certain for voting on the
anti-trust bills, I came to Georgia
and began the active and regular
prosecution of my canvass. When
the time fixed for voting on these
bills arived, I suspended my can
vass, returned to Washington and
helped pass the bills. Now, while the
house is marking time, awatling
Plant Turnips and
Sweet Potatoes
TURNIPS—
White Flat Dutch, Purple Top
Strap Leaf, Mammoth Purple Top
Globe, Cow Horn, White Norfolk,
Porr.meranean White Globe, White
Egg, Yellow Aberdeen, Amber
Globe, Grey Stone, Seven Top,
Southern Prize, Purple Top, Yel
low Ruta Baga, White Russian
Rutaßaga, Plant two pounds to
the acre, July through fall. One
pound 40c, postpaid; F. O. B. Au
gusta five at 35c, 15 to 25 pounds
at 30c.
SWEET POTATO DRAWS—
All kinds; 1,000 at $1.75; 3,000 at
$1.65; 5,000 at $1.50.
N. LWillet Seed Go.
AUGUSTA.
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JUNIOR.
226 Jackson Bt. Phone 2443.
senate action on these bills, which
constitute the lust part of the legis
lative program of the party for the
present session, I am here in Georgia
meeting and speaking to the Demo
crats of Georgia. Whenever my par
ty or my constituency needs my ser
vice in Washington, whether in ihe
house or in committee, I will be
tiiere. •
In this connection, let me inquire of
Mr. Slaton how the state of Georgia,
with its legislature in session, man
aged to stagger along without ship
wreck in absence of its great gov
ernor on last Monday while he fas
making a political address to the
voters of Bartow County, or on last
Wednesday while he was making a
speech to the editors of the weekly
newspapers at Commerce, Ga.? Also,
how can he find time to get away
from the capitol w'ith the legislature
in session, to make political ad
dresses alone, and still find no time
for the joint discussion that his con
duct and cards invited?
Mr, Slaton, one of the chief oppo
nents of President Wilson, seems
greatly worried over the character of
ihe supoprt I have given the presi
dent of my choice and the adminis
tration of my party, especially in ref
erence to the currencv bill. Let Mr.
Slaton forget it. I will never be a
“me-too” stateman, and blindly agree
to everything that anybody, even my
closest friends, suggests. I am not
built that way. I have a mind and
conscience of my own and I follow
them both. So 1 shall when . go to
the senate. I like to agree with my
friends, and do, when I think they are
-fight. I never do when I think they
are wrong. Close as has been my
friendship Tor President Wilson, and
deep as is my admiration for tnat
great man, I do not suppose I will
ever agree with him or anybody else
about everything that comes along,
and as earnestly and generally as I
may support him and his administra
tion, I shall never hesitate to stand
for what I think is right, according
to my best lights. Georgia ought to
expect that of her senators.
In regard to the currency bill, I
will say that while in hearty sympa
thy with the purposes It sought to
accomplish, there were many provis
ions in the bill, especially as it pass
ed the house, that I did not like, and
that I earnestly sought to change in
the caucus of my party associates.
Many things were changed in that
caucus. When the work of the cau
cus was done and the bill written in,
accordance with the will of a ma
jority. of course, as a good democrat,
1 abided the result and supported the
bill. I am too good a democrat to
bolt a caucus or primary in which I
participate, even when the result is
not exactly to my liking.
On December 20th, 1913, when the
Senate Amendments were reported to
the house, I advocated the'adoption
of these amendments because I
thought the bill, as amended by the
senate, was a vast improvement over
the bill as passed by the house. On
that occasion, I said:
"In the first place, we fought with
might and main, those of us who
came from the agricultural and rural
sections ot this country, Both from
the South and the West, for more
liberal treatment of our agricultural
paper. And what was the most we
could get from the unwilling manage
ment in our own party in a democrat
ic caucus and in a democratic house?
Ninety days. The senate lias given
us six months. Why then do we hes
itate? We'fought on long-time paper
for a year, and finally we got It, alter
much labor and travail. The senate
gives us five years on our long term
loans. Why then do we wait? How
will a representative from one of the
Southern or Western states be able
to defend his vote before his people
at home when he votes to oppose this
bill with the senate amendments?"
Doss Mr. Slaton take issue witn me
as to this fight I made in the demo
cratic caucus and house? Would he
have opposed these concessions, for
which I struggled, to agricultural pa
per and to loans on land and real
estate?
What of the parcels post and the
issue on that question that Mr. Sla
ton thinks he raises with me?
In the spring oT 1909 a number of
representatives of the Farmers’ Union
held a conference with a number of
Southern and Western members of
congress. At that conference 1 was
present by invitation. I suggested
that we fight for a rural parcels post
—one confined to the rural houtes.
The express companies gave service
to every part of the country except
to its rural sections, though their
rates were much too high. No private
agency could be devised to serve,
generally, the rural sections of tre
country. While the express rates,
along the railroads, were too high,
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still, ample and complete power had
been given to the Interstae Commerce
Commission to regulate those rates
an(i reduce them, to a reasonable
basis. This had been given in 1906,
in the Hepburn Railroad Rate Bill.
The commission had not exercised
the power, but was preparing and
promising to do so. Prompt and ef
fectual action in this regard could
protect the people who lived in the
cities and towns, but the people who
lived in rural sections could get no
such service, unless the government
gave it to them, through the rural
route system. After some discus
soins, this was, I think, generally ac
cepted and in accordance with it. I
first tried to get an amendment con
sidered in the house in connection
with the postotfice appropriation bill
to try an experimental parcels post,
on the rural routes, just as we had
established, in the beginning, an ex
perimental rural free delivery system.
The amendment I offered was ruled
out, on a technical point of order,
under the rules. I followed it up by
introducing a bill to the same effect
which 1 pressed and argued at length
before the apostofflce committee of
the house on April 22nd, 1909. The
republican party then in control of
the house and its committees denied
us even this experimental jural par
cels post. Nothing was done in the
matter until after the democrats had
carried the house and assumed its
control. During the consideration of
the postofTice appropriation bill in
1912. Mr. Henry, of Texas, from the
committee on rules, reported a spe
cial rule whereby the consideration
of the parcel post question was al
lowed. I closed the debate for the
committee on rules, (Congressional
Record, Vol. 48, part 5, page'soo3),
defending the rule against republican
assault, and arguing its adoption.
The house adopted it, and as a result,
on April 30th, 1912, it voted upon a
proposition offered by Mr. Moon, of
Tenessee, providing a parcels system
confined to the rural routes of the
country, and with a weight limit of
11 pounds. This was exactly in ac
cordance with the suggestion I had
made to the conference I have refer
red to and precisely what I had stood
for in the heated congressional cam
paign ot 1910 in the Tenth District of
Georgia. The Moon proposition also
provided a commission to study the
subject of a general parcels post,
throughout the country.
Subsequently, under legislation en
acted in 1913 we have established the
present parcels post system, dividing
the country into eight zones and fix
ing the postage on parcels according
to the distance transported, with a
weight limit of 50 pounds on local
business, not to lie carried more than
one hundred and fifty miles, and with
a weight limit of twenty pounds on
all packages to be transported nvire
than one hundred and fifty miles.
Such is the presnt law. As is true
in most cases, it was the result of
compromise between extreme and
conflicting view’s.
It will be observed that the weight
limit on all packages that are trans
ported over ona hundred and fifty
miles Is twenty pounds and the post
age is based strictly on the weight
of the package and the distance it is
to travel.
Frankly, this was a greater ven
ture upon the business of transport
ing Treight for hire than I wanted to
see this government make, but it was
so much more reasonable and moder
ate a proposition than many submit
ted that I made no special effort to
defeat it, and since its establishment,
have made no effort to repeal It. I
have no plan or purpose to attempt
Its repeal If elected to the senate, be
cause I am willing to accept It as a
compromise for fear that we may go
further and do worse. T shall, how
ever, oppose any extension of the
system beyond its present limits for
the following reasons:
1. We have already given the far
mers the rural route parcels post
service that they are entitled to and
that will give them this service that
they can obtain in no other way.
2. Because I am a sound democrat
and believe that the one and only
business in which the government
ought to engage is the business of
governing. 1 am opposed, on prinol
pie, to the government's engaging in
the dry goods business, the grocery
business, or even the business of car
rying freight for hire.
3. If the government embarks on a
large scale, in the business of trans
porting freight for hire, in connection
with the mails, it will be certain to
impede, obstruct and delay prompt
carriage and delivery of the mails—
the result will be that we will finally
"get our mail by freight., and our
freight by mail.”
4. If the government Is to embark,
on a large scale, in the business of
transporting freight for hire, whether
at a profit or at a loss, the Inevitable
result of the enterprise will be that
it must acquire and operate the agen
cies of transportatllon. In other
words, It must take over and operate
the railroads of the country. The gov
ernment ownership and operation of
tre railroads is, to my mind, fraught
with so much peril both to our gov
ernment and our country that I can
not contemplate the possibility with
complacency, or acquiesce In any
steps that leads to that result.
5. If the government establtsnes a
parcels post system with - large
freight limit, say of ona hundred
pounds, or even of two hundred and
fifty pounds as some of Its most
rabid and radical proponents urge,
then the Inevitable and unescapable
tendency will be to concentrate the
mercantile business of the country in
a few large cities In the hands of a
few great mall order houses—a Urge
class of our citizens will he deprived
both of their means and opportunity
to earn a livelihood, without compen
satory results to the general public
that would Justify such a radical and
reckless upsetting of the business
conditions of our state and country.
For all of these ressons. while I do
not propose a destruction of the pres
ent parcels post, with Is twenty
pound limit on all except local busi
ness, I certainly do oppose any fur
ther extension of the system.
T suspect that Mr. BUton has stum
bled head foremost into a far bigger
Issue than he antloipated. His cards,
so far, do not Indicate a very pro
found or accurate knowledge of the
merits of the questions. I hslleve his
purpose was to seek votes at my ex
pense by attempting to excite the
prejudices of one class of our citi
zens, against me. If I do him Injus
tlee, however, and be really wishes to
take serious Issue with me on either
my views and position In this matter
1 am reparel to give battle In that
event, since I hafe stated my own po
rtion and views, snd accurately let
m • ask him a few questions.
1. Does Mr. Slaton favor any jx-
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r | 'HE Chandler still leads—not on promises but on performances. The new
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tension of the presnt parcels post
system?
2. If so, to what weight limit on
parcels that travel over 150 miles?
Would he go 250 pounds, to 100
pounds, to 50 pounds, or where?
3. Does Mr. Slaton favor the zone
system, or the flat rato system?
Would he assess Ihe postage not only
according to weight of the package
but also according to the distance it
is to travel, or would he assess ac
cording to weight a flat rate regard
less of distance, just as two cents
will carry a letter a thousand miles
and the same two cents is required to
carry It a mile?
4. Does Mr. Slaton, In his new
born progressive zeal favor the gov
ernment ownership and opeartlon of
railroads?
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5 In what campaign, national or
state, did Mr. Slaton ever champion
the cause of progress or reform, or
ever support a progressive candidate,
unless it wore after nomination?
6. Was hiH tax act born of ills re
cently developed love of the farpjer?
Was It for that reason, when he
Changed the farmers’ system of tax
returns from the voluntary system to
the assessment, plan, that he left, the
corporations who return to State Re
ceiver Wright, on the old basis of
voluntary returns? Did he put the
new system on the farmer and leave
it off these corvoratlons because he
loved the farmer more and the corpo
rations less?
7. Is he trying to cuddle and be
fuddle the farmer on this parcels post
matter to make up to him for the In
And there is a ten per cent increase
in power.
The pure stream-line body, sweeping
in unbroken lines from the bow of
the tonneau to the deep Mayo radiator,
makes the Chandler the last word in
motor car beauty.
The 1915 price marks the willingness
of the Chandler manufacturers to divide
their prosperity with their purchasers.
jury he has done him with the tax
law, or docs he really love the far
mer more and the merchant less? O r
is his one true love the mall order
house?
THOR. W HARDWICK.
July 17. 1914.
BRAVERY.
I would never marry a man who Is
a coward.
About how hrave would he have to
be to meet your approval?
Well, he’d have to have courage
enoubh to—er -propose.
SOME HOT.
Wot cher doin’ Eddie?
• >h, I’m Just moppln’ awav an’ en
vytn’ the dangers an’ hardships of
them Arctic explorers!
PHONE 2137
A SYMMETRICAL LANDSCAPE.
A traveler in England was being
jhowii river fin estate by the owner, who
was u crank on Inndscape gardening.
They came to a small greenhouse with a
young boy locked up In it., Th* visitor
Inquired th. reason and his host replied
that lie hail caught the boy stealing
flower* from the grounds end had lock
ed him uri for punishment.
Ooltig a little further they earns to an
other greentiouea. tha counterpart of the
first rind similarly sltuatsd on the other
ede of the grounds, and thte also con
tained a small boy.
"What!” exclaimed the visitor, ’’h*»
this hoy too been stealing flowers?"
“Oh. no," replied his host, "that Is my
little eon.’’
"Then why, asked th# puzzled caller,
"have you locked hlrn In here?"
"Why, for the sake of symmetry," an
ewered th# host.—Every body's.
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& Jar i Jr
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