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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. Good Clothes News for Men We’s just received a line of fall suitings from one of the foremost houses in the country, styles that will make every clas sy fellow’s mouth water with an appetite to order a new suit right offthe reel. And, say, the fashion plates are great. Now, to prove we’re not over estimating the merit of out woolens, we welcome your in spection. Price range— sls 00 to S4O OO Swagger Silk Neckvtfear Quality Neckwear that ap peals to men of taste. The styles and colors are perfect beauties SI.OO, $1.25 values 85a See window. Stylish Neck wear Unusually good-looking, in the wide-open end Btyles; both light and dark colors’, 75c value 500 “Faultless” Night Shirts Made of soft cambric, neatly trimmed; extra size; well made; SI.OO value.. 600 INITIAL BELTS All leather, with oxidized and gilt buckles; any size; 75c value 50< See window. Geo.H.Baldowski 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, HAS A CURE FOR PELLAGRA Parrle Nicholas, Laurel, Miss., writes: "Seems to me If I had not obtained your remedy when I did I would not have lived much longer. I am glad you discovered this wonder ful remedy that will cure Pellagra. When I fc<-g .n taking Baughn’s Falla, gra Remedy my weight was 80 odd pounds; now It la 60 odd. I would like to have this published and sent to sufferers of Pellagra.” This Is published at her request. If you suffer from Pellagra or know of any who suffers from Pellagra It Is your duty to consult the resource ful Baughn, who has fought and con quered the dreaded malady right In the Pellagra Belt of Alabama. The symptoms—hands red like sun bum, skin peeling off; sore mouth, the lips throat and tongue a flaming red; with much mucuous and chok ing; Indigestion and nausea; either diarrhea or constipation There Is hope If you have Pellagra you can be cured by Baughn § Pella gra Remedy Get big free book on Pellagra. Address American Com pounding Co., Box 2012, Jasper, Ua., remembering money refunded In any cats where the remedy falls to cure. 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- fHE AUGUSTA HtKALD. AUGUS I A, GA. Pioneer and Still the Leader of all Light-Weight Sixes The 1915 Model at the New Profit-Sharing Price r | 'HE Chandler still leads—not on promises but on performances. The new 1 1915 price is an instance of its leadership. Such a price—sls9s—seems im possible but it’s true, and the car is an even better car than the 1914 Chandler, which brought the most excellent service to purchasers all over America Come see the Chandler. Come ride in it. Come drive it, if you drive. Come get acquainted with the marvelous Chandler motor. We are glad to let this car speak for itself, Weighs 2885 Kuna 16 miles 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? \AJV7) / I^^ SO GOOD There are no radical changes in the 1915 model. There couldn’t be, for the Chandler last year was distinguished by high-class features—such as Bosch mag neto, imported annular bearings, genuine imported silent chains for driving motor shafts, separate unit electric start ing and lighting system, cast aluminum motor base, etc., etc—but all through the 1915 model are refinements and improvements. 930 ELLIS ST CHANDLER MOTOR CAR COMPANY, CLEVELAND, OHIO There are many ways to acquire thirst- f There's hut one best way to quench it- i/ Chero-Cola— |[^ Cools Refreshes Stimulates IN ICED BOTTLES / ANYWHERE. 3C LOOK FOR THE LABEL Bottled by CHERO-COLA BOTTLING CO. fj R AUGUSTA, GA. SPETH GARAGE AND SALES CO. 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. ?wtt & Jar i Jr NINE