The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-22
An Independent Factory
Threatened.
so Mr.. WARE SWEARS
Tobacco Trust, in League With Stand
ard Oil and Morton Trust Com
pany Said TO be United to
Destroy Independent
Companies.

10 the EullOf.-1l lie report lldFlHS
come to us that our enemies are cir
culating a false statement: That The
Ware Kramer Tobacco Company was
organized by Messrs. Boykin & Co.,
wholesale grocers, of Wilson, n. c..
at the instigation of the American
Tobacco Co. for the purpose of kill
ing the Wells-W Whitehead Tobacco Co,
which company the trust had been
trying to kill or buy and had been un-
able to do either, therefore as last
resort requested their friends, Messrs.
Boykin & Co, to organize The Ware
Kramer Tobacco Company with the
view to kill the other independent con-
Germ
This statement is calculated to de-
ceive some people VINO are advised Of
the facts and do our independent fac
tory a great deal of harm. THEREFORE.
we deem it expedient TO advise the
public of the facts in relation to the
organization of the Ware-kramer To-
bacco Co.
The following affidavit Of Mr.. F. D.
Ware gives the facts:
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
County of Wilson.
r. d. Ware, being duly sworn, deposeS
and says:
That he was from the organization
of The Wells Whitehead Tobacco Com
pany in January, 1900, until the Sth
day of September, 1904, the manager
OF said company.
That affiant learned on or about the
18th day of July, 1904, that a con-
trolling interest in the stock of The
Wells Whitehead Tobacco Company
had been sold to parties whose names
the president of The Wells Whitehead
Tobacco Company (who negotiated
and consummated the sale) refused to
disclose. On that date, affiant rendered
his resignation as manager of said
company, which was not accepted,
however, until the Sth day, of Septem-
Der, 1904. That in the meantime the
president of The Wells Whitehead To-
bacco Company, who was retained un-
der the new regime as president, used
his best efforts to induce affiant to
remain manager of the company.
That, after affiant rendered his resig
nation as manager, but before it was
accepted, the president Cf The Wells
Whitehead Tobacco Company stated
to affiant that he had tried hard to
make success as an independent
manufactures. but il was impossible
for an independent concern to succeed
and buck the government" (meaning
thereby The American Tobacco Com
panyD THAT finding it impossible
for an independent factory to live, he
had made terms Cor an agreement)
with the trust whereby The Wells
Whitehead Tobacco Company could
live and make money
Affiant proceeded to take steps to
effect the organization of The Ware
Kramer Tobacco Com pany for the pur-
pose of conducting an Independent
cigarette business because he was con-
vinced that The American Tobacco
Company had secured control of The
Wells Whitehead Tobacco Company.
as it seemed to be their policy to buy
the controlling interest in certain fac
tories which were injuring them, and
afterwards allowing them to run as
independent factories.
AT the first meeting of the stock
holders of The Ware Kramer Tobacco
Company, Mr.. ID. s. Boykin, of the
wholesale grocery firm of Boykin &
Co, was unanimously elected presi-
dent because of his superior business
ability and recognized financial stand
ing.
On about the Sth day Of September,
1904, after the organization of The
Ware Kramer Tobacco Company the
president of The Wells Whitehead To-
bacco Company in a conversation with
affiant relative to the acceptance of
affiantS resignation as manager of
pany and to the organization of The
Ware Kramer Tobacco Company. said
TO affant:
do you know what the Standard
Oil Company is?
Do YOU know what The American
Tobacco Company is?
DO you know what The Morton
Trust Company is?
And you surely do know What The
Wells Whitehead Tobacco Company is
Now these four are one. and will
crush hcli put of YOU and your new
company. If YOU go to China, Japan
or anywhere i'm tho world we will fol-
low You even to the Q tcs of hell and
crush the life out OF your. company.
We will do this by fair means or
foul"
z. ID. WARE
Personally appeared before the un-
of Wilson county, +. d. Ware person
ally known to me- who being first duly
sworn. says that he has read the fore
going affidavit and that the facts there
in set forth are true of his own knowl-
edge.
Done at office in Wilson. " c..
this the 18th day of January. 1905.
J. j.. BARDIN,
Clerk OF the Superior Court OF Will
son county.
Ware. it will he seen that an effort
lis being made by the system" as Law
son calls the trust combination, TO
Continued OH rage Eieht)