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MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 677

later that he had dropped the idea for a better money-making
plan, And that is the companion Mrs. Hirsch chose.

But she says that Forrest Adair led her into all this. That
is part of her game. One had to pretend to be caught and
one had to be the catcher. In some senses this plot is slick,
but in others it is a terrible botch and does not do credit to
Mrs. Hirsch’s brain, but sometimes the size of the money in-
volved clouds the brain. She was determined to get at Cand-
ler, She tried to get William three times. I hate to talk to
good men of these things in the presence of good men and
women, but I have got to because it is here. Did ever a good
woman fall so easily as she saya she did for Mr. Candlerf
‘Why, according to her own statement she phoned Mr. Cand-
ler and went to see him even after she says he made advances
and demonstrations to her, and she kept on coming. What
would beeome of the world were all women like that woman?
Childless—running with Cook—ealling on men twice her age
—yet she saya she had a good and confiding husband. If do-
ings like that are allowed in Georgia I am ashamed of living
in it. It is common for men te brag of their relations with
women, but I never heard of 8 woman doing this before.

‘Why, if you believe Candler waa guilty of the charge this
woman makes, still if they plotted to extort money that is
blackmail, But I don’t have the remotest idea that Mr.
Candler ever touched her save to shanke hands. There are
some who will believe anything about 4 prominent man. Mr.
Candler knew this when he brought these people into court,
but he braved it all and deserves the thanks of the nation, as
hundreds of men—plenty of them innocent—yield to black-
mailers rather than face publicity. You may say what you
please about Mr. Candler, but it doesn’t move him one hair’a
breadth.

I want to give you some reasons why this charge against
Mr. Candler is unreasonable, although it makes no difference
in law whether the charge is true or not. I cannot cast half
as bad a statement on Mrs. Hirsch as she has cast upon.
herself. In the days of the ancient Hebrews under their law

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