The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-05-26


patronlze the Southern Cuztivotor, or some
other responsible and respectable agricultural
journal, Duchooorth Immediately called doa0n
these lecturers, and commanded them to dis
continue the acicbed practice of taking sub
scra6ers to a1y other paper, excepting has oqon.
1t was the purpose of the spider to victim
lie the various candidates in office. To some
he would sell his support. In every campaign
he expected to have his favorites and these
favor1tes were expected to come across with
the cash. For instance, see qUhat steazthv sZv-
ness he has been er'deovorirog to help out the
deserte7S a0hO q0ent over to the Repu6zicnns a.
gear ago and aided the Republicans IN quitting
up the cost of Nvirog by passing the meac tariff
I0a0: O6serve the cunning eoith a0hich he IS
a''dao0teng that the farmers Of the First DIS
tract Of Georgia should cote for that maasera-
bic little hmobug and traitor, Charles Ed
yards.
Loudly procaiming that the Farmers
Union must stay out of politics, and violently
denouncing every "outsider" who advises the
farmers to vote in their own interests-just
as men of every other class do-Duckqo0rth
IS anslqeuating from aceeh to q0eek that the
farmers Union should go into politics, but
should fozzow HIM, and cote for the men
Uhomo He designates.
In his last issue, there is an editorial under
the headline "You Will Be Notified" With
the whine of professional hypocrite, Duck
worth states that, Con May 9Th, the State
Executive Committee found it necessary to
take some official steps q0Hich 'aOas very u1a-
pleasant to then1". 1t is queer thing, by the
way, that the two men who boss the Farmers
Union Of Georgia, (Duckworth and Lee,O are
utterly incapable of writing single letter or
editorial that does not give them away as
utterly illlterate, ignorant shams
But to proceed from this editorial:
"By some means or another, some reference
to this action on their part got into one of the
Atlanta papers"
The hypocrisy Of his statement is nauseat-
ing in the extreme. John Lee himself gave
that statement to the Atlanta Journal, and he
used the word 'bribery" as against the victim
OF his malice, whereas the Executive Commit
tee had made use of no such offensive term.
The literal truth IS, that q certain lecturer
q0h0 refused to go doa0n and lick John Lees
shoes last gear, has 6eeu the object of his
mo01ev0Ient persecution ever since; and that,
at last through the lawless conduct of one of
John Lees agents and spies, private letter
addressed to this independent lecturer qOas
opened, and John was at once notified by this
spy that the lecturer IN question had been
Pod q small sum Of money by Congressman
Edwards to prepare him mailing list, routed
By post-o6fnes for the First Congressional
District, The lecturer in question made no
denial whatever of the facts. The moment he
was asked about it, he told everything con-
nected with it. That he qOas innocent of 17a-
te1't50n0t qorong- doing as absolutely apparent
to aray unbiased mind. The transaction was
legitimate, for the lecturer did not bind him.
self to cote for or o0orb for the Congressman
IN question. He simply took pay for his time
and his labor IN preparing mailing list that