The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
CENSUS SUPERVISORS
President Taft Confirms List Of
$50 Appointments.
PATRONAGE DIVIDED south
In Nine Southern States Supervisors
Will Be Divided Between Repuli-
publicAns and Democrat.

Beverly, Mass.--At an extended
conference with Secretary Nagel OF
the department of commerce and la.
Dor, Postmaster General Hitchcock
and q. d. Durand director of the
census, President Taft approved the
appointment OF 800 supervisors of the
thirteenth census. The list had been
prepared at Washington for the pres
ident and the qualifications Of every
man inquired into.
There has been marked discomfort
among some southern republicans
over the decision Of the president to
divide the census patronage in the
states of tho solid south"
When 1t is considered that each
census supervisor will have tremsn-
dous force Of enumerators under him,
the census patronage may be readily
realized.
The states where the supervisors
are divided equally between the dem
oerats and republicans are Virginia,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala.
bama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisia-
ma and Texas.
Director Durand said that he hoped
to have the supervisors actively at
work by the middle of October. Pres
ident Taft, it is said, laid down the
rules, especially in states where q di-
vision has been made between dem
ocrats and republicans, that super
visors shall not be active partisans,
and that no attempt should be made
to build up political machines out Of
the census patronage.
The far southern appointments an.
nounced are as follows:
Florida, first district, Henry w.
Bishop, republican,; second district,
Lesuer- Galden, republican; third dis
trict, Thomas David White, democrat.
Alabama, first district, Lawrence w.
Loclxlin, democrat; fourth district,
George w. Parson, democrat; fifth
district, William P. Cobb, democrat;
sixth district, Simeon T. Wright, re-
publican; seventh district, James j.
Curtis, republican; eighth district,
Thomas P. Wood, republican; ninth
district, John T. McEniry, republican.
Tennessee, first district, Samuel
Thompson: second district, Alfred
Jefferson Agee; third district, John H.
Farley; fourth district, Reese @. Lii
lard; fifth district, John B. Strong;
sixth district, Harry A. Luck; seventh
district, Marion Richardson; eighth
district, Sidney E. Murray; ninth dis
trict, Vincent Atkins Biggs; tenth dis
trict, John William Farley, Memphis.
Georgia-First District, Francis Xa-
vier; second Eugene Leigh Rainey;
third, George Ernest Hickey; fifth,
Alonzo M. Brand; sixth, Charles Aker-
man; seventh, Louis Hanley Craw-
ford; eighth Willis Beauregard Adj
ans; ninth, 7. R. Allen; tenth, Jo-
seph N. Lee; eleventh, Alexander P.
Perham, Sr.
Louisiana-First district, John A.
Wogan; second, Walter Y. Kemper;
third, Raymond Thurston Clark;
fouth, George T. Reilly;i fifth, Chas.
Henry Trousdale; sixth, Grin Medicus
Grisham.
Mississippi-F district, Samuel
D. Chamberlain; third, William A.
Shelby. fourth, James N. Landrum;
sikh, Nathan A. Bodice eighth, Jas.
b. YelIowly.
North Carolina--First district, Jo-
siah G. Meelins, ST.; second, Jas. M.
Newborn; third, Fl. Frank Brown;
fourth, William Claudius Pearson:
sixth, irwin B. Tucker; seventh, A.
Turner Grant, Jr.; ninth, j. Yates
KILN.
South Carolina First district, viii
liam ]. Storen; second George Water
house; third, William Walker Rus
sell; fifth Robert Leroy Douglas.