The Louisiana populist., 1895-08-09

come to the front and defend their
leaders until they shall have had a
fair impartial trial before the pub
lie. / am sure that these accused
parties will meet M. +. Machen
and all his friends on the stump,
so that all people may hear and
understand, if they do not do it,
| will promise you that / then will
help you to denounce them. / did
not intend to open a fight against
M. +. Machen until / saw these
bitter charges. Now if Mr.. Ma
chen's hands was perfectly clean
then it would not look so terribly
bad. Friends, you must remem-
ber, and most especially such men
as O. II. Harper, ii. G. Nixon,
c. l.. Purvis and others, who was
members of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Winn parish Farmers
Union Association, that / was pres
ident of. employed M. f. Machen
as an attorney for the association,
and gave him one hundred and
fifty dollars per year, and when
the Natchitoches Bank brought suit
against the Association, that he led
us to believe that we had a very
bad suit on hand, and was one of
the causes of my speaking'to X. +.
Milling & Roberts, and he then,
while we were in trouble, wanted
me, as president, to pay him two
hundred dollars extra. Milling &
Roberts wanted $3.50 each, making
seven hundred in all, and he ad-
vised me that it was best to employ
Milling & Roberts at $500, and no
doubt we would have employed
them at that Board meeting, had
not j. II. Crawford come to the
meeting and raised objection to
the Board employing any counsel
at that time, and further stated
that he could get Mr.. G. V. Por-
ter of Natchitoches for less than
one third the amount, and we, the
Board of Directors postponed en-
ploying any counsel until we could
see further, but had an understand
ing that in case we saw that we
needed their help, we were to let
them know, and meet them on a
Wednesday, before the court con-
vened on Monday, and before
that time came, j. II. Crawford,
myself, S. M. Barr and Thomas
Drewitt, employed G. V. Porter,
who took the case for less than one
third, and it made Machen mad,
and he was the first man to make
out an account against the .Asso-
citation for his services in the above
mentioned suit, claiming that he
was employed at a salary of two
hundred dollars, and an additional
$3.50 as his part of the per cent
that was recovered as damages,
and then put it into the hands of
one of the bitterest enemies that
the Association had; and suit was
at once brought, which has caused
the poor stockholders more trou-
bic, and is the whole cause of all
the trouble now. He did not only
sue for the 5000, but brought suit
for $3.50. Now friends, before
you pass sentence on such men as
HI. l.. Brian, b. w. Bailey and j.
II. Crawford and others, who
think it best to make the next
State fight IN nonpartisan fight
in order to try TO get their votes
counted, you must remember that
Machen Is a candidate for District
Judge, and don't think that he can
be elected unless he is nominated
by the Populist party. This is
why he is so bent on having nomi-
nations, and be and his friends are
doing all in their power to force
all populists to vote for him (Ma-
chin) if it burst the whole popu-
list party wide open.
Now my friends, l did not in
tend exposing NJ. f. Machen un-
til he and his followers made such
charges against Hon. H. L. Brian,
b. w. Bailey and j. H. Crawford.
When think what hard battle
we have had to fight, and well do
we know that Machen was as he
thought, on the popular side in
the last fight, and the stand that
he took against the Association,
and then to look where those par
ties stand whom these charges are
made against, it almost makes my
blood boil. While Machen was
charging enormous Attorney fees,
H. l.. Brian, b. w. Bailey and