The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-07-07

brother of the Farmers Union of
America, to write you a detailed let
ter, to some extent, of the anticipated
wrongs and CRAFTS of you and others
at Union City. and wish you to pub
lish it in the Farmers Union News
for the satisfaction of the brethren
who are not satisfied in this State
and other States, and hoping you will
answer my questions, which nothing
short Of the answers will quiet the
minds of the dissatisfied brethren of
the Farmers Union. Now, [ know
whereof [ am speaking, as I am as
true Union man as lives and have
been member in good standing for
number of years, and have been in
several county meetings and club
meetings recently. My dear Brother
Lee, have had several personal let
ters from you and / found no fault
from the tenor of the letters, but
when you were first appointed, or
elected, President of this State of
Georgia in lieu of President Duck
worth I had my fears, as Duckworth
at that time stood high in my estima-
ton; that made me watch you very
closely, and later on | became we'll
satisfied with your movements-bu
still later on, by watching closely
after the officials of Union City, be-
came dissatisfied with the combina-
ton of officials at Union City and
have been forced to have my doubts
as to the genuineness of the officials
at that city, and forced to the opinion
that there was a combination of
grafters. Hence, we should make a
DirriT Il +I0
information I can reach there are
thousands of genuine good brethren
of the Union that, in this feeling, are
blighted in the State of Georgia, and
in many other States. Therefore, if
there is no way to make satisfac-
tory Investigation, don't your great
intelligence, when you take into con-
sideratiOn what is the best for the
Unions prosperity, lead you to think
it would be the best policy for the
prosperity of the Farmers Union for
you and others of that city to resign
and let us have a new set of officers?
And if you are genuinely interested
in the cause of the Farmers Union
Of America, you will not only agree
to this proposition, but you will glad
ly do it. If you, or any one else are
only interested for the fat that is in
it, or the honor thereof, you have no
business in it. I am proud to be a
private, or a lay member, of the
greatest organization in America.
Our county meeting, on the last first
Saturday, universally agreed that
there should be a new set of officers
in Union City-and it would take
that to make peace, harmony and
prosperity in our UniOn-and I learn
of other adjoining counties passing
the same resolutions. But let me
ask you and others at Union City
few questions for the consideration
of the Union peOple-which are no
secret or clOsed-doOr questions what
ever-and I am ready any day to an
swer any such questions, and on oath
if necessary to make satisfaction to
a doubling people. First, we will
commence at DuckwOrth, although he
has resigned like a man,-but yet he
has plant that is making the music
for the State of Georgia in the in
terest Of the Farmers Union-and
should his motive be for the money
that is in it for DuckwOrth he is in
the wrong pew, and should be cast
out from the sheep that he may dwell
with his own. Now let's see if
Brother Duckworth will answer some
questions, with an affidavit, for the
satisfaction of thousands of his broth