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Congressman Hardwick Declares McClure and
Hutchens “Cheap Adventurers ” Who Have
Bolted Democratic Primary
To the Democrats o£ Georgia:
At the August primary Senator
Hoke Smith was nominated by you for
the long term senatorship by an over
whelming majority of all the votes
cast.
In this same primary Governor
Slaton, Mr. Felder, Mr. Hutchens, Mr.
Cooper and myself were candidates for
the nomination for the short term
senatorship. No one of us having re
ceived a majority of the delegate vote
(or the popular vote for that matter)
under the rules prescribed by the state
committee, the contest for the nomi
nation was thrown into our state con
vention, and I was nominated by that
convention by a final vote of 233
against 135 for Mr. Slaton and 4 for
Mr. Hutchens.
Common honesty and fair-dealing
among men would require that this
should have been the end of the po
litical contest on both Senator Smith
and myself since we both, Indisputably
the nominees of the democratic party
in this state as the result of a contest
conducted under rules so liberal that
the right of participation in the pri
mary has been granted to and exercis
ed by practically every which voter in
this state. Certainly it should have
been the end of contest among all
honest men who participated in the
primary, whether the candidates of
their choice had been nominated, or
not, otherwise what folly to conduct
a primary—otherwise what induce
ment is there for the honest voter who
Intends to abide the result, whether
to his liking or not, to enter a pri
mary—otherwise we cannot maintain
a democratic party in Georgia at all.
Since the nominations, made in the
manner prescribed by the highest au
thorities in our party in Georgia, Sen
ator Smith and myself are confronted
with opposition from gentlemen who
style themselves “Bull Moose” nomi
nees, although they were named as
such by neither primary nor conven
tion but by a handful of discredited
and unsuccessful politicians who had
first named themselves as members
of a so-called State Committee of the
so-called “Progressive” party. Still,
however ludicrous these nominations
or the manner in which they were
made might be, if the so-called nomi
nees of this “party" were real and
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honest "Progressives,” who had not
participated in the recent primaries
of the democratic party and were not
therefore in honor bound to support
its nominees, the democratic party
would have no cause for complaint.
But what are the facts in this mat
ter?
Mr. McClure who opposes Senator
Smith participated in the primary of
August 19th, voting ballot number 80,
at Precinct A, of the Ninth Ward in
Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Hutchens who op
poses me in the election, not only
voted in the democratic primary, but
also figured in it and in the conven
tion as an unsuccessful candidate for
the democratic nomination for the
senate.
How, then, stands the records?
These men, McClure and Hutchens,
who advertise themselves as standing
for “honest politics" are nothing on
earth except cheap adventurers, who
bolt a primary in which they both
participated—one as a voter, the other
as both voter and candidate, in vio
lation of the rules of honest and fair
dealing, they break the contract that
they made when they participated in
the primaries and undertake to knife
the primary of whose generous rules
and forbearing practices of the past
they have taken such shameless ad
vantage. If this be the “honest pol
itics” for which these gentlemen stand,
then, in my judgment, they deserve
and will receive a stinging rebuke on
Tuesday next, from the democratc of
Georgia, who are really honest and
who believe in the honest fulfillment
of contracts and obligations in politics
as well as in business.
But these gentlemen in the litera
ture they have distributed through
the state, undertake to justify their
own dishonest conduct by an attack
on the nomination of’ both Senator
Smith and myself. In behalf of Mr.
McClure it is contended that Senator
Smith deceived the farmers of Geor
gia by promising them 12 cents cot
ton. This statement is a plain, un
varnished falsehood and no one knows
it better than the men who publish it,
Watson in his Jeffersonian and Mc-
Clure in his "Progressive.” In reply
to their naked assertions, unsupport
ed by proof of any kind, that Senator
Smith ever made such a promise, let
me quote briefly ‘‘from his statement
of October 29, 1914:
“It is hardly necessary for me to
say that the statement that l promised
you 12-cent cotton it utterly false. It
w’oulil have beeu childish in me to
make a promise of that kind, because
you know that I had no power to con
trol the price of cotton, and it would
have been absurd for me to assume
such a control. If I had the power to
control it, you would certainly be re
ceiving 12 cents for your cotton now.”
The assertion that Senator Smith
made such a promise is hardly com
plimentary to the intelligence of the
senator or of the people of Georgia.
No such promise was made. Senator
Smith has too much intelligence and
too high an opinion of the intelli
gence of the Georgia farmer to prom
ise an obviously impossible thing. *
He did soy in his campaign for the
nomination that he believed there
would be $150,000,000 of additional
currency in the nine southern cotton
growing states with which to aid the
farmers in carrying over their sur
plus cotton. That he believed it, and
earnestly worked to accomplish it. not
even his most bitter foe can truthfully
deny. That fully that much additional
currency has already been and will
be in the near future provided in
these states, through deposits of the
government funds, through the emer
gency currency issued under the
Vreeland-Aldrich bill, no well inform
ed man can deny. Senator Smith can
not be responsible for the failure of
the legislation to do even more than
this. No man can deny that he used
every effort and exerted every power
of his splendid intellect to accom
plish more. Is It his fault, if he was
unable to induce senators from sec
tions that do not produce cotton to
accept and vote for his measure? Is
it his fault that his colleague from
Georgia, Mr. West, who was appoint
ed by Governor Slaton, opposed it
and voted against it?
Is he to be blamed because he could
not pass the legislation in question,
although even his foes must concede
that he made every effort to do so
and presented it with a power and
pressed it with a persevering courage
that have been rarely equaled in the
history of American politics? Is he
to be convicted of a breach of faith
with his constituents simply because
success did not crown his splendid ef
forts in their behalf? If so, we need
a new' definition of “good faith” and
of “honesty” in politics. If so, then
the people of Georgia had really bet
ter turn to McClure and Hutchens, the
new’ exponents of “good faith” in this
state, article one of whose faith seems
to be tsiat it is perfectly honest to bolt
primaries in which they participate if
they are not nominated themselves or
if the result is not to their liking.
In like manner, the entire delegation
from Georgia indeed from all the cot
ton states, in the house, including my
self, ought to be blamed and dismiss
ed from office because we did not
have ami could not secure enough
votes to pass the amendment for th<i
relief of the cotton growers offered
by myself, although we all supported
It vigorously and worked for It earn
estly. To go one step further, we
ought to he condemned and turned
out of office, according to Watson and
McClure and Hutchens, In order to put
in our places representatives of the
Hull Moose party that cast fourteen
out of the fifteen votes It has in the
house against the measure to relieve
the cotton growers. The entire argu
ment is as shallow and dishonest and
ir.sincere as the candidates of the
bolters, Messrs, McClure and Hutch
ens.
Hut it is contended In behalf of Mr.
Hutchens’ candidacies that he ought
to be elected as a protest against my
nomination by the Macon convention.
In the first place, let me say that
the assaults made on the Macon con
vention are utterly groundless. That
convention simply elected the officers
and nominated the candidates for
whom a majority of Its delegates
voted. What else was to have been
of it? Should It have elect
ed the officers and nominated the
candidates for whom a minority of
the delegates voted? Again, only two
delegates were unseated In contests
made by me. These were the dele
gates from Warren County that had
been carried by me- in (he primary.
These delegates were appointed by the
son of a man who is both my political
and personal enemy. This man him
self was named by his son as one of
the delegates. The first act of these
delegates was to attend the Slaton
caucus at the Macon convention, at
which caucus one of them made a
speech. No delegates from any county
that Slaton or Hutchens carri»d was
unseated by that convention, not one.
And yet the statement has been made,
with utter disregard of the truth, that
such was done.
If the county unit plan, and the con
vention that is a necessary part of Its
paraphernalia. Is the subject matter
of complaint, then let me, as a matter
of simply justice to myself, remind
you that I was the only one of the
five candidates to earnestly urge the
ballot box plan of nomination, as
against the county unit and conven
tion system. My public and repeated
protests were uncermoneously thrown
aside by a state committee of which
my leading opponent was In full and
open control, and I was forced to sub
mit my candidacy under rules that 1
objected to and that were forced on
me by his committee.
Further, on that committee the
loudest-mouthed exponent of the
county unit and convention system,
the man who insisted on preserving It
In all Its beauty and on applying it
to the senatorial contest, was my
present "bolting" opponent, Mr.
Hutchens, who, in the primary first
bolted his promise to support Gov
ernor Slaton because, as he alleged,
Governor Slaton has secretly tried to
"murder” the county unit and con
vention system and now, solely lie-
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cause he w r as not successful as a. can
didate In the convention, bolts my
nomination because it was made under I
the very plan he aided in forcing on
mo.
The contention that Georgia’s dele
gation in the senate and house must
be weak and without influence be
cause it did not succeed with the cot
ton legislation is unjust and untrue..
If that contention be sound, then in
like manner, the senators and repre- |
sentatives from every Southern state I
are weak and uninfluential, because I
they shared both the fight and the I
defeat with us.
The integrity of the democratic
party of Georgia must and will be vin
dicated. Stinging rebuke for men
who are dishonest enough to partici
pate in our primaries, and then be
cause they did not get what they want
bolt the party and oppose its nominees
in the general election must and will
be administered.
I call on every true democrat in
Georgia to aid next Tuesday in ad
ministering this rebuke. In the fu
ture, we will provide ample protec
tion for the integrity of the party by
excluding from its primaries thosa
who do not hesitate to bolt them.
These men. like the frogs in the pond,
make a world of noise, hut they are
far less dangerous to the democratic
party out of it than they are inside
of it. Very respectfully,
THOS. W. HARDWICK.
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