Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-13
Blair Alexander Leads the
Insurgents in Cadiz
Meeting.
TALKS FROM SHOULDER
Text Of the Resolutions In
troduced But Were Not
Adopted.

diz at tobacco meeting was in the
court house last Monday afternoon,
says the Record.
J. B. Alexander offered the reso-
luton over which the meeting wran
gled for two hours.
At times the discussion became
heated. and many speakers were in
terrupted, but all cooled off after it
was over, and the Association was
strengthened as a result.
The resolution was finally referred
to the county executive board for
final settlement, and the meeting
adjourned.
Chairman Wash has called the
county board to meet in Cadiz next
Monday to take action upon the mat
ter.
Following is a copy of the resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Alexander:
Resolved list. That the Trigg Coun-
ty Branch of the Dark Tobacco
Planters Protective Association, as
sembled at its regular meeting place
in tadiz, KY, on the 9Th of Februa.
~, 1909, ask the right to sell Trigg
coanty's 1908 crop of tobacco as a
whole loose, provided we can get a
buyer or buyers who will take it
with that understanding.
I'd. That we heartily endorse the
action of the Executive Board in rat
flying the sales made by other coun-
ties, believing that in so doing they
have restored confidence in the or
ganization and have greatly relieved
the strained condition of the farmers
in those counties.
Srd. Resolved further, That as
evidence of our good faith, we will
pledge ourselves to pay the one per
cent. or more if necessary, TO keep
up the organization and pay the ex-
penses of same.
4th. That no persons tobacco
shall be included in this sale unless
they first sign the three-year pledge
to the organization.
5th. That the following FIVE men
(names to be selected by the meet
ing) be and the same are hereby APP
pointed a committee to look for buy
ers and make such arrangements as
they think best for the organization
and the people.
Mr.. Alexander. after stating that
Chairman Wash denied him hear
ing, set forth his side of the discus
sion in card in the Record, from
which this extract is taken:
Next we stamp with our approx
al the acts of and reassure them of
our faith in the sound judgment
0tbthe Executive Board in ratifying
the sales made in those counties, hon
estly believing they strengthened
the organization and brought speedy
relief to a condition that was not on
ly growing, but had already become
unbearable;and / want to ask if that
condition does not exist in Trigg
county to-day, and if speedy relief is
not necessary to save you and your
neighbor with the merchant who has
furnished you with the necessaries
of life, the doctor who visited you in
times of distress, and the minister
ho points you to paths of rectitude
from absolute ruin? If the answer
to this is not vest YEsl YES! then
let's go along in the same old way
and take up the cross Of holding our
tobacco until Robertson and other
more fortunate counties shall have
sold their 1908 crop. collected the
money, raised the mortgages, paid
all their bills and spent their surplus
in riotnns living. But if the answer
is yes, then let US make change |
and make it first, flor with the large
crop grown.inIl90S. the chances are