The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-06-14

orators open up on me at Geergetow
and Owenton. Every fair-minded ma
| will conc..de me the right of self de
Tense. Single handed | am fighting
dozen paid orators and powerful Coun
! ty Boards of the Buriey Society witt
its dozens of hired men. | am doini
what think is right and best for tn,
tobacco grower and / accept tn,
challenge of the Burley Society in THU
Congressional race for a fight to tn,
| finish.
! In what county of the fifty-fOu1
| represented by the board denouncins
me has 20 per cent. of the 1910 croI
been pooled or can be pooled under the
present contratc? The farmers in all OF
them are demanding the change in the
contrat as | am demanding it and will
not sign until it is changed. If the
contract is so fair why has it not been
| signed?
Last year our head officers told US
there would be no pool unless Is per
cent. of the tobacco was pledged.
They violated this pledge. They told
us the pricing charges would not be
over Is cents per hundred. They viz
lated that pledge and made the charge
81 per hundred. They told US that
there would be no insurance. They
violated that pledge and made US pay
2 per cent. They told us they would
sell our tobacco in winter order. They
violated that pledge.
They told US that the storage would
be Is cents per hogshead per month.
They violated that pledge and made it
25 cents. They told us that the 10 per
cent clause in the 1909 contract would
finance every poor grower. They viO-
lated that pledge and the banks have
had to carry the growers. They told
ev cry member of the Society of Equity
that if he pooled his tobacco through
his County Union the 81 solicitors fee
per hogshead would be returned to
him. They violated that pledge.
They have violated enough pledges
to pile the charges up to 81 cents per
pound on the tobacco as compared with
winter order price. In the face of
these broken pledges they call me a
demagogue because | call them to
account before the bar of the highest
judgment. | have not violated my
pledges to the tobacco growers. They
have been my friends and the only rea-
because | am doing what my judgme MT
teaches me is pest for the tobacco
growers.
1T is passing strange that some of
our head officials cannot get enough
money TO lend the poor grower. hut
that they can always find enough
money TO buy up his certificate at the
central office if he will discount it
heavy enough to suit their greed.
lhey charge me with desire to
start rival pool. There is absolutely
no foundation tor the charge. | have
not had meeting of the State Board
of the Society Of Equity since last jan
uary. The Society of Equity has in
no way interferred with the 1910 pool
campaign OF the Burley Society.
They have had clean field and have
failed to pool because. the people re.
member the broken promises of last
year. The farmer this year wants to
see printed in the contract what they
promise. then they might sign, bu,
not before.
In no way shape or form have
interfered with the 1910 pooling cam
paign. The failure belongs TO Mr.
Lebus and his candidate and not tt
me. Last year this same board which
now denounces me appealed to me tt
! help them out of their dire straights
in the 1909 ca npaign. At the same
time l went into conference with them
at Winchester they admitted to me
that they had pooled only about thirty
/ thousand acres of tobacco.
AFTER thev had agreed to make
certain changes in the bylaws to pro.
tect the toDaccO growers / went tt
work to help pool the crop. In ninety
days the pool was run up to over one
hundred Thousand acres. The promises
they made TO me were broken; the poo
was declared ON and the outrageous
charges are now piled on the shoulders
of the pOolers. who sweat and groar
while their officials draw fat salaries
and prosper.
''Why do not our officials make us a
statement of the expenses of our owr
organization? For four years M
grower has ever known what has be-
come of his money. No account has
ever been rendered. The tobacco was
sold at II cents per pound by our offici-
ais and the farmer settled with on a
basis of from IL cents up. If the
grower happened to be one of our high
priced officials the price was consider
ably up, if am correctly informed. /
submit this comparison.
1.-The men who drew cheese resolu
tions of criticism are all drawing fat
salaries. / have never drawn a salary.
| was paid So, 500 for expenses for
three years. My worthy opponent was
paid 81, $40. Ii the Burley Board con-
sidered it salary then they figured |
was worth much more to the cause
than my opponent. When they passed
judgment on us one year ago they
thought | was the better man. They
think SO now, because they agree to
pull him oft of his race if / will but
support their contract and gold brick
the farmer as they and he are trying
10 do.
1T is true that have affiliated
with the Burley Society and it is
further true that | am now affiliated
with the Burnley Society to the extent
of having in its possession every
pound of tobacco | controlled last
year-falss reports to the contrary
notwithstanding.
''The issue today is clear and well
drawn. The hurley Society demands
that the farmer pool his tobacco and
leave it to the officials of that society