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ADVERTISEMENT Hardwick's Call To Other Candidates For A Show Down. Demands to Know Where His Opponents Stood When He and Watson Battled Against League Of Nations. Reasserts Position He Took In 1920. Asserting That Georgians Believe As He Believes , Twits Other Aspirants Having Copied His Platform. Atlanta, Oct. 10.—Gov. Tho?. W. Hardwick today came through with a political review of events in 1930, and their bearing on the present senatorial situation, >n which he sizes up the five candidates who are in the race, including himself. In it he calls tbo old support¬ ers of those issues of 1920 back to their standard, and applies direct questions to the several candidates. The letter addressed to the people of the state follows: “To the People of Georgia: “Now that the political jockeying and log-rolling is about over, at Macon and elsewhere, now that the candidates have all made more or less definite announce¬ ments, of their positions and view's, a good deal of smoke lias lilted. Quite a bit of the underbrush has been cleared away. It is noteworthy that in one way or another every single announced candidate has pro¬ claimed his stadlast adherence to the foreign policies George Washington, and his unalterable opposition to ih, i (ja ernp nf Nat inns “1 am glad that they have all finally accepted my views and followed my V lead on this subject, regardless of their former views positions. The position Mr. George and of Mr. Wright, as well as of has been explicitly stated: and since Mr. claims that Senator Watson was his model aud proto type in politics, it is quite apparent that Mr. Boifeuillet, too, must oppose the League of Nations, because neither friend nor toe of Mr. Watson ever doubted his unaltera ble position to it. Likewise, Mr. Cooper states that ne voted for Mr. Watson in the contest of 1920, conse¬ quently it is apparent that Mr. Cooper also opposes the l.eague of Nations, because that was the single issue in the campaign of 1920, and Mr. Watson was unalterably in his opposition to the League of Nations. As to the prohibition question, I regard that as finally settled by constitutional action, and will steadfastly oppose any re-opening of the question or any effort to weaken the present federal law on tMs subject. .Just Throe 1‘oints. “Having gotten the record straight there are just three points to which 1 wish to invite public attention. 1st: The fact that all five of the candidates for the United States Senate stand together in uualerable opposition to the League of Nations and for the foreign policy of Washington plainly and inescapably indicates that the public sentimen of this state has crystalized anil solidified on this subject, just as it lias all over the nation. "in -Georgia, out of the wealth of material and talent available for this high office, not a single candi¬ date can be found who dares to go to the people on any other platform except one, of unalterable opposition to the League of Nations, in any shape, form or fashion. If this situation is not pregnant with solemn warning to those leaders of the the Democratic party in other states and sections who seek to re-open the question, they are incompetent to lead. “i’nd. To-the-many' thousands of honest Georgians, both men and women, who, although in a minority, have strong and conscientious views in favor of a League of Nations, I wish to say, with perfect candor and in pre¬ fect good temper, that although l know they do not igree with me on this question, yet 1 submit that they have no reason tn oppose me in this election, because ot that honest difference of opinion, since they can not vote tor any candidate whose present position about ’this question is different from mine. Consistent in Opposition, “3rd. To the great mass of Georgians, men and women alike, who believe, with all the strength and power of mind, heart anil soul, that the foreign policy of Washington is still right, and who oppose, with un ilterablo firmness, the entry of this country into- any League of Nations, and who are uuwilUng to give a single drop of American blood or a single cent of American money to protect the boundary lines of any country on earth except our own; 1 now wish to speak; My devotion to this cause is no new thing. I made the first speech ever made on American soil in opposi¬ tion to the participation o.f this country in the League of Nations, at Columbus, Ga., on July 4, 1917, within three months after the declaration of war. I made the speech at manifest that time because » saw ,even then a purpose becoming to induce this country te enter such a League. On February 12, 1919, 1 made the second speech ever delivered on the floor of the United States Senate against the Leagu of Nations. Whn I left the Senate, on March 4, 1919, and returned to Georgia to practice law, 1 received invitations from the people ol many counties and communities to address them on the question raised by the proposal that this country should enter the League of Nations. Making the Issue. I accepted many of these invitations, and during the year that followed addressed the people of some fit¬ ly counties in opposition to Lie League. In the mean¬ time and concurrently, the late Senator Watson was conducting a brilliant and masterly attack upon it, week after week, in his Columbia Sentinel and I recall that the Atlanta Georgian also consistently opposed it, and that the late W. W. Osborne, of Savannah, had also contributed a series of brilliant, unanswerable and un¬ answered arguments against it. Mr. Watson and 1 were thrown into leadership on this question, he by his activity with his pen and I by my activity on the stump, in opposition to the proposal. Early in 1920, the Democratic presidential primary was ordered by our State committee. I called a conference of the oppo¬ nents in Georgia of the League of Nations, which met in Atlania. At that meeting it was determined to con¬ test this question in Georgia and as a final outcome Hon. Thomas E. Watson entered, the race as the candi¬ date of those who opposed the League, with or without reservations, while Attorney General Palmer became tne candidate of those who favored it, and Senator Smith the candidate of those who favored it with drastic modi¬ fications and reservations. Supported Mr. Watson. “In that contest I openly and publicly supported Mr. Watson, because he and I were in absolute ment on tbe question at issue, because he opposed the League and opposed it all over, with or without reser¬ vations. My convictions on this subject were so deep and strong that'I gave Mr. Watson my support., in face of the fact that untll«,this Issue became acute we had not been on friendly terms for several years. “At tho crisis we both realized that .when we got down to the bedrock of American fundamentals, wo were In absolute agreement, and a reconciliation waa brought about between us, through the intercession mutual friends. "The presidential preferential primary of 1920 fol¬ lowed, with its well known results*. Mr. Watson ted the poll Id popular vote and he and Mr. Smith together had THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, \ GEORGIA. more than two-thirds of the popular votes and almost two-thirds of tiie convention delegates. In the conven¬ tion, at the request of both Mr. Watson aud Mr. Smith, i Retail as mediator between the two forces and together ?.°. ntrolled th e conv fntion, electing both committeeman and , the delegates to the national con volition in San Francisco by an almost two-thirds The unseating of that delegation in San Francisco aroused the indignation of the state and contributed largely to the subsequent election of Mr, Watson as senator and myself as governor. State's Evidenca. “Since Mr. Dean has now turned state's evidence on his associates, the public can now begin to get some faint glimpse of the volume of intrigue and crafty mis¬ representation that designing politicians of the Dean type employed, from the very day they found they were unable to defeat Mr. Watson and myself as long as we ,eparate us >. an ? t0 create trouble between us. Every weapon ol misrepresentation and *?*}?*£ ^^ P V„ 0n Hl 7f ‘ ri r “ ?“ t 1 plo ’J t r d L ' ^ey * lt0Ut should I have and succeeded with ° ut „ TO in ’ ^ n li 7 *5 T, a aa " d cft f ° Tt engtl ' ? ? iad failed ’ '' as> and v wl n , 1 S0U 1 o1 ro 8 re ° ‘ ,"° ' ,77,^ 7 to n ?f excei t la^ n ! V"* 7 with f f V 1 know , ; ’ ’ ?^ ,ns tn t0 0 L$ my U ,j£fiUt bost !1 « i„ hts regardless of , d result, ° V „ J aCC0VU ‘ - Has Kept the Faith. “To those Georgians who voted with us in 1920, who marched then with the ’two Toms’ to sweeping vic¬ tory, I have this to say: I-have kept the faith with you and with all men. 1 summon you once more to the colors, I raise once move the banner of the olden principles. “Conditions may change, but great principles do not change. The leader may die, but the cause lives. The world today is mouldering with the smoko ana blazing with the fire of threatened and actual wars, everywhere; wars with which we have no direct and immediate concern; and, while l am always willing to exert the friendly offices of this nation at all times ami to the utmost of its influence to promote the blessed doctrine of ’Peace on earth and good will to men,’ I am wholly unwilling to bleed white the youth of the land in foreign wars to- promote the interests of the ambitious, eign or to guarantee the boundary linos of for¬ powers. "Europe is sleeping over a volcano. The near East is on fire and the flames may spread at any mo¬ ment. If you send me to the senate, you will have the absolute guaranty that comes, not from mere words today, but from my past conduct and from my record already made, that T will not vote your boys, your youngest, your bravest and your best to- the war lords of either Europe or Asia. No Foreign Entanglements. “yes, the sentiment of this state as wet] as the entire, nation, is now crystalized and solidified Into un¬ alterable opposition to foreign entanglements, Into wise and firm adherence to the foreign policy of the Great Washington, and 1 congratulate you and all Georgians oday that no candidate for the Senate takes or dares :o take a contrary position. “But, let me ask you, when the mighty battle of 1920 was being fought In Georgia to form and solidify this sentiment., when I stood on the firing line wherever the fight was hottest, one of your two leaders in that treat struggle, fighting then for what 1 stand for now, jersecuted misrepresented—where and villifled, abused and slandered, liialignod okI were then my distinguished opponents? “Where was Judge George? Where was Mr. Hot leuillet? Where was Mr. Wright? ’ In one way or other, they are all no-w proclaiming their present un Iterable opposition t.o the league of nations. “True, Mr. O eorge was ’hen filling wit; . nished credit a w are on Tie supreme court bench of Georgia. True, ordinary po-i.tuil »>:tlvi'.|ws would ■ * been improper on Me j.art while lie held that ,-i but on a great issue of foreign policy, so fundament.i that it went to the very root* of Americanism, so mo men tons that it involved t. very blood and b :>:-■• of future generations, surely a digffifled and forceful ment to help lead aright tin people who honored so highly, would not have boon amiss from George, who now informs us tht he has always op posed the League of Nations, but who in that cam paign, unless I am entirely misinformed, voted or Mitchell Palmer for President, and for Hugh M. Dorsey for Senator. “Surely a simple declaration of his faith at that crucial and critical time, coming from so- high a source, would have been of incalculable benefit to us while a real battle was being fought. When he saw two lone men leading it, with the suport of only one daily news¬ paper in Georgia out of 20, supported by less than a dozen weekly newspapers out of 200, abused and per¬ secuted, fighting hammer and tongs, day and night, ex¬ hausting their vitality to the extent that It finally cost one of them his life, how could Judge George from giving the people just one expression of the deep faith that he now says was in him then? Where then was the eagle of Floyd, the Wright? Where then was the knightly Boifeuillet? “I challenge them all, collectively and separately, to give a single instance of any rutile express!-.a from any one of them while the real battle was being fought, of the steadfast faith that they now proclaim; ol StTSM have boeti worth times thousand many a men; but got no blasts, no, not one! "Since they have copied my platform und my views, I have only one other question to ask them on this paramount arid all-controlling issue, position throughout this stormy period was known to men. What about theirs? Everybody in Georgia and ban been explicitly informed by me how 1 voted . \ I’ihs contests. What about the position of each of these candidates? The public does not know, but Wmfiid'MtSte.toS*. 10 kuov ' Uto -For whom did Mr. George vote in the 1920 [n'fach in o??h these etc campaigns? Lm^aig^rFor^-hom Mr. Cooper has did Ml vote already untarily told us for whom he voted. Next, about >ou. Mr. George? How about you, Mr. ict? llow about you, Mr. Wright? Answer, all once, if you like, but be sure to let the people how you voted, before they vote. THOMAS W. HARDWICK. Atlanta. Ga., Oct. 10, 1922. - The Wo nen of Georgia as Political Factors. (Continued from l’ase Two.) valid, for nearly all her information, an her deductions were always shrewd and well bal¬ anced. The following from the Washington of October 6 will be disappointing to Gcorgians, who hope exception will be made in the unusual case by which Mrs. Felton was ap pointed. / Under the caption of: “SENATOR OR NOT A SENATOR? 11 PUZZLE BEFORE MRS. FELTON, The Star says: “Senator or not a senator? That question still confronted Mrs. William Felton of Geor¬ gia today and still continued to stir the dust in the Senate archives as it has not been stirred in a decade, Out of the dust the searchers discovered . . , , . , . , un( evidently Witli - ttKicVy Hil OKI iHW pnsjsuMi ill some such emergency as the present one in ! ' and , which , ■ , provides • , that ,,, . i i the ol C lew, pay a j senator chosen for an uiiexpired term shall be gin the day of election or appointment.” Qualification Assumed. The law apparently assumes that a senator in either ease subsequently will qualify by tak Gift the oath of office in the Senate Chamber. At the present time there seems to be no way that Mrs. Felton can possibly take that office. She can only be a senator at best until the ! election of November 7, and there is not even the remotest possibility of a Senate session being held prior to that time. The pay of the senator chosen November 7 will begin “the day of election,” and there¬ fore the pay of the appointed senator must cease that day. Another question arises as to the right of the disbursing officer of the Senate to pay a senator who has never taken the oath of office. Mrs. Felton could only take the oath of office while the Senate is in session, for technically the Senate reserves the right to judge its own members when they are present¬ ed at the bar. Franking Privileges in Doubt. The question also has arisen as to whether or not Mrs. Felton, in her present state oi 1 £ senatorhood,” has the right to the franking privilege to send matter through the mails free of charge, and whether she has the right to de¬ mand at this time an office in the Senate office building, with its Roman baths and various other manly comforts. The entire situation presents a puzzle the like of which Washington has not known foi years. It was said here today that regardless ol what the Senate records may or may not show as to her service, Mrs. Felton will go down in history al least as a “symbolic senator”, he itig the first of her sex ever to be actual! named to that body, with credentials made on in due form and forwarded to Washington Ip the governo,r of the State.” But the milk in the eocoanut is this: At this time, the State of Georgia is ii need of more things than at any time since th Civil W8T. ID spi /X f the ban’ sfa • j ment L -. 07* —* Iren nee 1 schoo j. L ni j • - ; her 5 -p-LLiM ; ■ .i -0 nui'-li j •! I-S l.’iiitl too i.iiu’l; r-’.i.-int in | 5 Mrs Fi lion lias blitzed the way; if we ;. , be worth) ,, 1 „ olloWPl’S „ 01 ... IlCl’ Uc must . StU.’ . qrpl uiutcvsland. i We must, not tie ourselves to any polib | chm who “plays tht game,” and who will cor i-iil votes with empty honors. 1 We must ask: Is this the man who will d i .IS lie promises? Has llO done SO m the past, is his political record one that we can not only understand, but one that we will not have t stand in doubt of? And when we have put MOD 111 office wl,“ Cdn ~ Sltlna ctiincl tlilc " ul& acla ncid test wo wc wui will do DO longer loruer L, in the attitude of beggars, asking for political tecogciuon, vr-pormiflon and amt tllC urn Pl’ODer piupn resuect for our oui j sentiments AMu VOlCC* 1 We will be women, hound to clean the i , all . , po litiral . stable , of it? tricky . horses, 11),akin: -j* “ ; ™ «*» .*» h > •*« •’**«»»!. w tt. State’s rehabilitation—and mi- Will then lit longer be made ashamed of tin- landing of our State, . in . 11 .S votes in the United State.'; Sena' :n tile House of L wresentahv is, nor m th wo legislative brandies of the State itself. Now that ■ the ladies of tbe political clubs rowing among themselves, the candidate expect the votes of the newly -franchised I t0 CUt 90 ILUt ' h ^ f Ved "OK? Returning Masons declare “Cuba will nev¬ er go dry.” Which will be good news to the wets, and a reduction in transportation rates is all that is needed to make eve"ything de . lightfully simple for the man-with a-thirst. U Hj a j or C L McGrem or f en sion Commissioner. (By Alice Lc Lytic.) v\ lien the Chief was su;V line tli stages of his final illness, a new>papoi man ca hed on ilie phone, to ask how Senator Wat son regarded the selection of Major C.. E. M-> of Warrenton, tor the position of I’cn s ’ ou Commissioner for Georgia. The Chief’s answer was, emphatic: “Say I am dead for it. Mac ought to have it, and I hope my friends will see that lie gets it.” In newspaper parlance this was reduced to the cold fact that the election of Major Mc¬ Gregor would, “be perfectly agreeable” to Sen¬ ator Watson. Aside from the close, friendlv personal relations which tiie Chief and Major McGregor had borne, the office should be given on this, the Major’s record, taken from “Con¬ federate Military History”: “In his youth Major McGregor was a printer, s occupation he left in 1SG l to enter the Confederate States' service as first sergeant of the Macon Guards, commanded by Capt, Lucius Lamar, (at a later period Colonel of the Regiment.) Going with his company to Savannah they were mustered into the Second Geor¬ gia Regiment, volunteers, for twelve months service, and did service oil Tybee Island. His company tiring it coast duty enlisted for three years or the war, was detached from the Second Georgia, and ordered to Rich¬ mond, Va., where they were mustered in as Co. C of the Eighth Regiment Georgia Infantry, under the com¬ mand of Col. Francis S. Bartow, and sent to Gen. Jos. E. Johnson's command in the Shenandoah Valley. Major McGregor participated in the battle of First Ma¬ nassas, July 21st, 1801, where his regiment was par¬ ticularly distinguished; in the battle of Dam No. 1 on the Peninsular and in the seven days battle before Rich¬ mond in June. 1802, and with this liis connection with he Eighth Regiment ended, he being promoted to first ieutenant in the regular army and detailed for duty is drillmaster at Camp of Instruction. In this capaci y he rendered valuable service in Georgia, adjutant of he Post at Macon and drillmaster at the Camp of In itruction. In 1864 he aided in the organization of .everttl companes of the Fifth Ga. Reserves, of which ho /as commissioned Major. In this rank he took part in he Atlanta campaign, around Lovejoy station, also 1 iu he repulse of the Federal attack on Macon, and was n the trenches around Savannah when that city was teleaguered by Sherman's army. Thence retreating into lie Carotinas, with Hardee’s troops he took part. In the attles of Rivers’ Bridge on the Salkahatchie river, also '.versboro and Bentonvllle and was identified with the rmy of Tennessee in its last days, finally surrendering it Greensboro, N. C., April 26th, 1865. He was par icularly distinguished for gallantry at the battle ol lentouville, N. C., and recommended by his command lg officer for promotion to Colonel. Major McGregor lade his home at. Macon a short time after the war and hen removed to Augusta, and from thence to Warrenton ■ here he published and edited the Georgia Clipper, vhich at that time was one of the few Democratic pa >evs that defied reconstruction legislation and gallantly efp.tided Jeffersonian Democracy. He conducted this ournal from 1S69 to 187 4. Since then he has been ngaged quite successfully in farming in Warren Coun y. He is an ardent advocate of Prohibition, his county eing the first in Georgia to enact, prohibitory legisla on against the liquor traffic. He is an active membor f Hardee Camp United Confederate Veterans and an ule-do-camp on the staff of Gen. Clement A. Evans ommanding the Georgia Division. Major McGregor as married in 1 872 to Mary Lou Roberts and has a in, L. D. McGregor an attorney at Warrenton, amt .roe- daughters.” (ADVERTISEMENT.) !:n W. dirk As.n u, c s For Pension C >m. s ioner. ' ; :o V ;-!e cf Gcorpla: 1 nit: in £ ii ; andldacy for the office of Coin¬ in': -1 ; . .on. subject to the Democratic pri co to vith every- hope that the . ;... <ii • o rrs of Georg! 1 . represented -• by iq-avo mpr. and her noMe wo-inon will ac¬ yl t! eir gem-roue ciKlorsement to oaa now filling this Ji.e as the Governor's app'intee, mid *v.io gave four •ans service to his stat- and 10 the cause for wblc.lt we me inherited a love in common. t was named by the Governor to fill the uiiexpired i:vm of my lamented friend, Judge John W. Lindsey ■•ceased, subject to election by the people. Upon accepting this appointment I named as my ssistant, Mr. Benjamin M. Blackburn, of Atlanta, re o-gnized for his office ability, loyalty to friends, and ■pleniiit) devotion to cherished sentiment. In my service to the Confederacy l had the honor 0 be an aide, with the rank of first lieutenant on the naff of Geu. Thos. R. R. Cobb, and erf Gen. Wili am M. prow ne who wag aide to President Jefferson Daw. n all thfpo relations I did my duty to my superior of Icers, to my (.ociradr'i, and for ihc cause which wo eople of the South revere. Since the war between tt.‘> dates, I have Interested myself la all movements ...-king to the bapp’lness and amelioration of the boys ha core the gray. I inherited reverence for this . 1 - 1 . Lorn a mother, who during life represented the * apt 1st Ghurch 0 ? August n a: vice president of tbo /idles' Memorial As ociation My Ulni lu the busmen world. i ir« O f 'k’UU riff cf llif Bo? of Ajj fa A r ■ ‘ fr«♦' '{Kicuin bijLUkf am vms city and county. 1 vc- pert uily “oiicit your support, and in event of ection I promise service of mind and heart to the entrusted business of the people. Your;, since rely. JOHN W CLARK. ■zr. SBmmmmm m TOFRIE DS OF THE LATY. SENATOR IHOMAS E. WATSON. To IbMcwho dcnli-c PIidLumou ot Grave .nil Funeral Procasnlon write V. A. McFccly, .lr., Pbntoarapher. 721 Cve Street. Aupuefa, fie.
