The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1908-01-08
MR.. EVER|TT SPEAKS
On Matter Affecting Him
self and A. S. of E.
DEFENDS HIMSELF AND VIEWS
Says He Has Been MiSrepre-
Sented and Makes a
Strong Reply.
indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 80, 1907.


Mr.. Frank L. Felix, Publisher and
Proprietor Hartford Herald, Hartford,
Ky. Dear Sir:-I have before me a
copy of youl paper dated Dec. 18th.
In this paper is an article entitled
"Everitt to Rule or Ruin
That article is a mass of misrepre-
centationG | will comment on them,
thu ugh, and | am going to ask you to
give as great publicity to my denial,
in the way of retraction, as you have
given to their article.
1t is printed as follows:
1T became apparent that President
Everitt was disposed to exercise an
arbitrary rule over other officials and
in fact the whole society to the ex-
tent that any who would not readily
yield to his opinion and ideas, wheth-
err they were convinced that it was
right TO yield or not"
/ refused to go with Secretary Tubbs
and directors Drayton, Scott and Sharp
in the Observation-Disclosures
ship schemes of-Equity Exchanges
which they were determined to pro-
mote at the expenses of the socie-
ty. told them that they would be
failures and all the money put into
them would he lost to the society. My
predictions have come absolutely
true. l am proud of my opposition in
this respect. II had done 9TH
erwise l would want to be called a
traitor to the society.
l am also proud of my demands for
the removal ofDirecor Reorganization,
Chas. A. Speer, for which the board
of directors were called in March,
1907. Also, every true member of the
society will commend me for calling
the board again in July, primarily for
the same purpose, Chas A. Speer's
record as a director of organization
is sufficient condemnation for him
and justification of my acts. Natur-
ally, he will attempt to throw the
responsibility on me after he failed
to make good, but as matter of
fact, | had no control over him and
repeatedly he has stated that he
was working entirely under the di-
rection of the Board of Directors.
His own ltters, as have been publish
ed in Up-To-Date Farming, are con-
elusive evidence that l did not have
and could not have any control what
ever over his department.
The Published statemnets that full
hearing and investigation was had
of the charges made by various Off
GERS against other officers is false.
tried to bring this about but was
baked in every attempt and finally
Mr.. Sharp brought in the harmony re-
solution which Tubbs, Drayton and
Sharp and Scott, a majority Of the
board. passed. The incident that you
referred to that | shook hands with
Speer is correct, and after the meeting
| did sincerely try to cooperate with
Speer and Tubbs for the upbuilding
of the society. However, it was i'm
possible. Recently l have printed let
tiers of theirs in Up-To-Date Farming
that will convince every person who
reads them that it was not their in
tention to carry out the spirit of
that resolution. On the contrary, from
the time of the second board meet
ing until the convention they devoted
practically all of their time preparing
for the convention and to prevent
the special committee that l called
for investigating matters from report
ing. l had right to call such
committee and the call was to "in-
vestigate the conduct of the head
quarters since the 1906 NationalCon-
vention."
] called this committee because l
had called the board of directors two
different times to do practically the
same thing and they refused. / then
called this committee to make thorough
with the view of making
a report to the convention. | called
the board of directors so they could
be there to defend themselves, where
defense was necessary, and so that
no unjust advantage could be taken
of them. ask now, If anything was
irregular about this. This committee
was made ur of representatives from
each State and there were four call
ed from the State of Kentucky.
did not intend to show any Partially
except a Partially that would have