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MEN IN THE PUBLIC MIND=IN CITY, STATE and NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Metics at the Panama Pacific
* International Exposition
elties at the Panama-Pacific In
;ional Exposition will be the great
vetr held in the history of the
The program which is being
IC. A. STEED
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r. Steed is now finishing his third
i in the office, during which time
has discharged his duties with a
lfulnesss and accuracy that is a
credit to himself and the citizens
tiehmond county. Previous to his
jintment to the office to fill the
spired term of his father, deceased,
had been his father’s assistant
e 1891 in the tax receiver's office.
was born in Columbia county,
rgia, in 1862, moving to Augusta
years later with his parents. After
lad acquired but the rudiments of
education in the public schools and
hmond Academy, not completing
courses in either institution, he
;red the commission business in
city with his father, remaining in
t position until his father was
ted tax receiver. In early' man
d he married Miss Ethel Pickett,
Union Springs, Ala., to whom four
dren have been born.
HON. THOS. W: HARDWICK
CANDIDATE FOR UNITED STATES SENATE
Thomas W. Hardwick was born at Thomasville,
Georgia, December 9th, 1572. He received his pre
liminary education in the common schools of his na
tive state and graduated from Mercer University in
1892 and from the Lumpkin Law School in the fol
lowing year. Most of his young life was spent in
Sandersville, Georgia, and the esteem in which he
was held by the people of Washington County is
shown by his b eing chosen as Prosecuting Attorney
of that count!* when he was but twenty-six years of
age- Later that country elected him for two suc
cessive terms as its representative in the lower
branch of t'he state legislature. Here the brilliant
young Georgian readily took a prominent place. His
forceful character, marked intelligence and courag
eous advocacy of measures for the public weal,
quickly made him a man of note in the political ac
tivities of the stae. So thoroughly had he impressed
himself upon the people and so highly did they re
gard his ability and the wisdom of his judgment as
a legislator, that at the age of only 30 years he was
nominated and elected to represent the Tenth Dis
trict in Congress. Before passing from Mr. Hard
wick’s career as a member of the Georgia Legisla
ture it may not be amiss to advert to his strenuous
effort to eliminate the negro from the politics of hm
native state. To him, more than to any other man,
Georgia owes the amendment to her constitution,
ratified October 7th, 1908, by which the purchasable
negro votes of the state were eliminated from the
electorate, and by which the government of Georgia
was forever committed to its white citizenry. Thus
was undone much of the grave evil inflicted on the
people of the South by the amendment to the Federal
Constitution g/ ving the right of suflrage to out
slaves and their descendants. The time may not be
far distant when this amendment may be repealed,
an end toward which Mr. Hardwick has persistently
and enthusiastically labored throughout all of his
public life in Georgia and in the Congress of the
United States. Our people owe a lasting debt of
gratitude for the present blessing of white supremacy
in Georgia to this distinguished and patriotic states
man.
For twelve years he has with marked ability
represented this, the Tenth Congressional District
in the National House of Representatives. The
District, while represented by great men in the past,
has never had a more efficient, painstaking and tiie
less representative. A profound student of the great
public questions that have !rom time to time pressed
arranged by the exposition officials is
the most gigantic ever attempted by an
exposition, country, association or
SiJVJP* .S h x e total . »»mber of entires
winch will be received and the number
of athletes who will compete will ex
ceed by fay tlie number of entries which
have been received for any international
meeting, not even excpting til famous
Olympiads. The exposition officials pre
dict that tlie number of entires received
will be between eight and ten thousand.
At the convention of tlie Amateur
Athletic Union of the United States,
held in New York City during Novem
ber, 1913, .it was unanimously voted to
award all of its national championships
to the Panama-Pacific International Ex
position. These championships are tlie
blue ribbon events of the athletic world.
International Olympic Committee.
Tlie International Olympic committee,
which controls all modern Olympiads,
recognizes just what the Panama-Pa
cific International Exposition will do
for sport throughout the world and has
conferred upon the expositon the right
to hold tlie modern Pentathlon, which is
tlie first time that it lias been awarded
outside of the Olympic games.
For the first time America is to have
the Decathlon, one of the classic events
that were the features of the Grecian
and Swedish Olympic games.
The famous Marathon race, which
originated in Greece centuries ago, will
be re-run, with tlie greatest long dis
tance men in tlie world us competitors.
Tlie exposition will bring together, for
the second time in the history of tlie
United States, the strong men of the
world, who will compete in the dumb
bell and weight-lifting contests.
Every city of the United States that
maintains play-ground activities, will
be extended an invitation to send a
team to demonstrate the type of work
being done for the boys of America.
Representation is iMso expected from
every public school Athletic Deague in
the United States.
Irish Sports.
It is planned to devote a week to Irish
sports and pastimes consisting of foot
ball, dancing, burling and athletics.
Swedish gymnastics and athletics will
probably be given a week, and it is ex
pected that Germany will send to the
Exposition a team to give an exhibition
of the German type of gymnastic wo; k.
Arrangements are now being made to
have tlie German Turners exploit their
type of mass work an exhibition drills.
tipecial endeavors are now being made
through the secretary of war to have
assigned to San Francisco for competi
tion during army week detachments
from each and every fort in the United
States. It is planned to have "try
outs" in the different military sections
of tlie country to select the most expert.
The program for army week will be
made up of drills, exhibitions and com
petitions.
During navy week it is planned to ar
range international contests between
the crews of foreign navies and our
own. Just what the final program will
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA.
consist of will depend upon the time of
arrival and mobilization of tlie different
battleships in the harbor.
Y. M. C. A.
The Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion is to be given a week to exploit its
type of work and a week will probably
be devoted to the Boy Scouts' move
ments.
A series of baseball games between
all-staV teams, to be selected by popu
lar vote from the ranks of players in
the National and ‘ American Deagues,
will be played in San Francisco during
1915. If the National Baseball Com
mission approves of same. The expo
sition will back the proposition and for
mally announce the plans when details
are completed.
The Department of Athletics has re
ceived many propositions in relation to
holding professional competitions dur
ing tlie period of the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition and in all
probability many important national and
International professional events will be
held in boxing, wrestling, baseball, tug
of-war and marathon running.
An idea of the magnitude of this un
dertaking may be gained when one
considers the fact that it is proposed to
have activities almost every day during
the period of the exposition, which
opens February 20th and closes Decem
ber 4th,
international Events,
All-around athletics—August sth.
Archery—Dates later.
Baseball—-Dates later
Basketball —Commencing February 22.
Bowling—Dates later.
Boxing—May sth, 6th, 7‘th and Bth.
Canoeing—Pates later.
Crjcket—Dates later. •
Cycling—August 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
Decathlon, (10 events), —August 17th
and ISth.
Dumb-bell and weight-lifting con
tests—August sth and 6th.
Fencing—April 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th
and 30th.
Football—Dates later.
Golf—Dates later.
Gymnastics—March 26th and 27th.
I land-hail —Dates later.
Hockey (field) —Dates later.
Dacrosse —October 4th, sth, 6 th, 7 th,
Bth and 9th.
Marathon race—September 25th.
Pentathlon (5 events)—September 6th.
Pentathlon (modern) —August 24th,
25th, 26th, 27th and 28th.
Relay racing—August 9th.
Roque—Dates later.
Rowing—Dates later.
Swimming—July 19th, 20th, 21st, 22(1,
23rd, and 24t ,h
Shooting—Dates later.
Skating—Dates later.
Tennis —During September.
Track and field thletics —August 6th
and 7th. t
Tug-of-War (Olympic rules) —August
12th.
Walking—August 12th.
Wrestling—April 16th an dl7th.
National Events.
All around Athletics—August sth.
Basketball —Commencing February 22.
Fencing—April 26th, 27th, 28 th, 29th
and 30th.
Gymnastics- March 26th and 27th.
Relay racii T —August 9th.
Swimming July 19tli, 20th, 21st, 22nd,
23rd and 24th.
Ten-miie run—August 12th.
Seven-mile walk.
for solution, he has never been too engrossed in
their study or too much engaged in the broad activi
ties of his high office, to neglect the appeal of the
smallest community or of the humblest citizen of
Georgia, having an interest to be protected or a
cause to be pleaded in Congress or in any of the
great departments of our government. There are
thousands in this District and throughout Georgia
who have thus been the beneficiaries of the zeal, the
industry, the intelligence and the influence of our
present Congressman.
The record of Mr. Hardwick in Congress has
been one. not only of efficiency and influence, but
one of constant growth. He is the Chairman of the
Committee on Coinage, and is one of the five Demo
crats, constituting the majority of the Committee on
Rules, the most important committee of the house-
As a result of a popular demand for an investigation
into the operations of the sugar trust, Mr. Hardwick
was appointed chairman of a committee charged
with said investigation. Its work was thorough and
extensive and its voluminous report, prepared by its
distinguished chairman, is a complete expose of the
subtle and nefarious practices of this great monop
oly. When the sugar schedule of the new tariff bill
was reached in the discussion of that bill in the
house, Mr. Hardwick took charge of the discussion
in behalf of the Democrats and as a result of his
thorough investigation into the question, the demand
for a marked reduction in the tariff on sugar was
so forcibly put as to overcome the objections of the
Republican stand-patters, the beet sugar interests
and the opposition of the Louisiana Democratic del
egation. Your sugar is cheap now, and you owe no
small debt of gratitude to the Congressman from the
Tenth District lor this economic blessing.
He stands today in the forefront of the leaders
of his party in the National House of Representa
tives and is an active and important factor in the
discussion of every important measure.
While he does not yield unquestioning deference
to the views and policies of President Wilson, he is
yet in substantial accord with the president and is
regarded as one of the leaders of the administration
forces in Congress. In the late discussion of the
repeal of the panama Tolls’ Exemption law. lie and
Judge Adamson of Georgia, led to victory the sup
porters of President Wilson against the combined in
fluence of Speaker Clark and many of the big Demo
cratic leaders of the house. This discussion brought
him prominently before the people of the nation and
elicited for him the unstinted praise and commenda
tion of President Wilson.
Hon. Sam F. Garlington, One of Richmond
County’s Efficient Legislators
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Hon. Sam. F. Garlington, senior mem
ber of the law firm of Garlington & Co
zart, is one of the able and efficient
members of the Richmond county dele
gation in the general assembly. In fact,
it is almost a custom to return Mr. Gar
Track and field athletics—August 6th
and 7th.
Tug-of-war (Olympic rules)—August
12th.
Water polo (Soccer) —July 19th, 20th,
21st. 22nd, 23rd and 24th.
Wrestling—April 16th and 17th.
Panama-Pacific International Exposi
tion Inter-collegiate Championships—■
August 13th and 14th.
Mr. Hardwick while concerned with the welfare
of all classes of our people, has ever been peculiarly
the friend of organized labor. Mr. H. O. Teat, the
Legislative Representative of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Firemen and Enginemen, in a recent article
cited the following instances of the service rendered
by Mr. Hardwick to the laboring people of the coun
try. He was a leading supporter of the Employers’
Liability Act of 1908, and of the bill to limit the
hours of continuous service for railroad men and tel
egraphers, one of the best laws ever enacted by
Congress. To Mr, Hardwick, more than to any other
man, tue railroad men of this country are indebted
lor the defeat of the iniquitous so-called working
men’s Compensation Bill.
This bill would have undone all the good effects of
the Employers’ Liability act, lor it fixed a scale of com
pensat.on so ridiculously small and attended with so
many re3trictiv e conditions, as to practically put the
employes at the mercy of the railroad companies in
every case of injury. Mr. Hardwick's service as an
arbitrator in the firemans strike on the Georgia
Railroad, where he acted as the representative of
the firemen, is so recent as to need no comment.
His dissenting opinion in that matter was a powerful
argument for the correctness of tile contentions of
the striking firemen. Tested by his record, no man
more deserves the iriendship of the people who labor
for a living than Thomas W r . Hardwick.
While Mr. Hardwick has been devoted to the in
terests of his entire district, he has been especially ser
viceable to the City of Augusta. During his service in
congress he has secured appropriations totaling near
ly a million and a half dollars for the improvement
near Augusta, of the navigation of Savannah river, for
the levee protection at Augusta and for the con
struction of New Post Office in this city. An ap
propriation of two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars was lirst secured for the post otfice hut the
people of Augusta insisting on a marble building,
an additional appropriation of seventy-iive thousand
was needed. The task was a difficult one, but
throwing his influence and energy behind the de
mand, Mr. Hardwick was successful in securing an
appropriation for the additional amount. When this
handsome $325,000,000 structure is completed, it will
lie a monument to the serviceability, influence and
ef.iciency of our present able Congressman.
Mr. Hardwick is now seeking the support of our
people in his candidacy for the U. S. Senate. Is he
not entitled to it? We know him and he knows us
and our needs. With splendid native ability his
twelve years' training in Congress fit him splendid
ly for the discharge of the duties of a senator. He
knows the work, the men with whom he is to work,
and the details of congressional procedure. He is
a trained parliamentarian, a forceful speaker, a ready
delmtor, a graduate from the Congressional School
of the study of public questions. He knows < eorgia,
her people and her wants. Is he not splendidly lif
ted to be an efficient and forceful senator? Vote
for him.
ilngton to tlie legislature. In addition to
his legislative duties, Mr. Garlington
takes u keen interest in all city affairs
and is always to be found with tlie pro
gressive movements that mean a better
and bigger Augustq.
Public Schools Athletic League and
Int er-schol'iStic Championships July
15th to 29th.
United States "Soccer” football—Sept.
t3th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th.
American rugby—Dates later.
Boxing—April 22nd. 23rd and 24th.
SWmiming—July 2nd and 3rd.
Track and field athletics—Sept. 9th.
Wrestling—March 29th.
DRAGONFLIES,
BEES INBERLIB
Swarm Around Business
Sections of German Capital.
Fire Department Called Out.
Berlin. —During the last few weeks
Berlin has been invaded repeatedly
by swarms of bees and dragon-flies.
The latter are harmless creatures but
the bees have made their presence felt
on the exposed parts of many an un
offending citizen. Indeed so persistent
were the little pests that the Brigade
has been called out on several occas
ions to clear them away.
The first swarm took possession of
the entrance hall of a large store,
which had to be closed. The police
fussed about but the bees cared noth
ing for the minions of the law and
order and a detachment of firemen
with hose pipes was requisitioned. The
w'ater jets finally won the fight but
the , store was closed for about two
hours.
On another occasion a swarm of
bees settled on a horse and dray in
the busy Zittel Market. The horse and
driver were badly stung and the horse
bolted. Yet another army of winged
buzzers took complete possession of a
tram car. The passengers scattered
right and left, and after the fire hose
had cleared the car it nad to be sent
back to the car barns.
In two other cases the fire brigade
known as the maid of all work” by the
people—was requisitioned. In the
center Berlin’s busiest part, Potsdam
Platz, a huge swarm settled and held
up the traffic for thirty minutes, and
another small army took up its po
sition around the portico of the Cen
tral Station and did not budge until
the hose had done its deadly work.
THE VERY WORST.
The ugliest sight
That ever was seen
7s a sun-burned neck
That won’t look clean.
—Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
The ugliest sight
Of which I wot
Is a fat man’s jowls
When he is hot.
—Columbia State.
Tbe ugliest sight
I’ve seen as yet,
Is a six-plunk suit
By a shower wet.
—Exchange.
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THOS. W. HARDWICK
Candidate United States Senate
“AUGUSTA IN 1914”
Paul T. Chancs
One of the Most
Prominent
Younger
Members
of the
Augusta Bar