The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-08-10
COMMITTEES FINDINGS
Two Officers Condemned is Result Of
Cotton ASSOCIATION Investigation
at AtIaGta.

al AtldGia.
The committee of the Southern Cot.
ton Association, which met in Atlanta
to Investigate charges against officers
Of the association, made its findings
Thursday and submitted it to Presi.
dent Harvie Jordan, who will lay it
before the executive committee at tho
national association at an early a day
as possible.
The finding of the special commit.
tee strongly condemns the act of Sec
rotary Richard Cheatham in speculat-
ing, even if it was for another per-
son, as Mr.. Cheatham commended.
1t also states that it can find no
reasonable excuse for Mr.. Cheatham
using the word secretary" in signing
individual checks, as he did when
making payments to the bucket shops
This, it Is stated, meets with the
strongest condemnation by the COM
mittee.
The same findings are made in refer
ence to A. A. Fairchild, manager of
the publicity bureau, who admitted
that he owned stock in bucket shop.
The committee makes no recommen.
dation, believing that simple find
ing was all that was within it's power.
By far the spiciest part of the whole
investigation was developed when
star witness Holland Curran was
called upon to TESTIFY before the com
mittee. Curran is boollkeeper for R
Siedenburg, who had a brokerage Of
flee n Atlanta.
When told to tell all he knew that
could help the investigation, Mr.. Cur.
ran said:
4 will do so with Cheatham's con.
sent"
Mr.. Cheatham jumped up from his
chair and shaking his finger at the
witness he exclaimed angrily:
You are just here for trick. This
thing has been tried on me before,
and | am tired of it. You are just
trying to play at the wrong game, do
you understand"
Mr.. Curran flushed up angrily, and
said:
Then I take Mr.. Cheatham's ST
lence as consent and will tell all
:now"
Il haven't given my consent" said
Cheatham.
Mr.. Curran proceeded to tell what
he claimed he knew, and it was that
Mr. Cheatham had bought cotton III
lures three times at his Office.
He came to the office" stated the
witness, and said he wanted to open
an account. He did so, and in few
days we asked in what name to put
the account, and he said: Oh Mike
will do Mike who?' he was asked,
and he said Jones was a good name,
and so the account now stands on
our books as Mike Jones. l did not
intend to testify in this case until
read the editorials Mr.. Cheatham
had written about the men in my
business, calling them low down
knew he was low down himself if he
said we were, for he has been deal
ing in double-faced manner. 1 don't
let people throw mud at me without
throwing some myself"
DR.. J. NJ Crawford took the stand
He said he was a stockholder in the
Piedmont exchange and he was al
ways positive that Mr.. Cheatham own.
ed stock, although he had never said
50 directly.
One of the most interesting state
ments made by Dr. Crawford, and
which caused some amusement, was
"Mr. Cheatham told me one day that
his association and paper were one Of
the greatest drawing cards of the
age, and that only that morning he
had received a pile of orders from
the farmers"
The witness said he thought the
secretary was acting in a double-faced
manner and ought to be exposed.
PRORATlNG ROCKEFELLER CASH.