The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-28

urge you. If possible. to be pres
emit at the stockholders meeting next
Tuesday. IF you cannot come in per-
son, 1 ask you to give me your proxy.
Send 1t by mail and have witness
to your signature. To Justify this re-
quest I submit the following:
I have been connected with tn % for
tunes of the Providence company from
the day they first started operations
in Fayette county. l had the honor
TO locate the well that opened up our
gas field. 1 am on friendly terms with
every stakeholder In the company.
have no personal AK to grind. l would
not serve as an officer or director II
unanimously elected. Next to DIR. Grove
/ am the largest stockh older in the
company. ! am simply representing my
own interests in this matter and only
ask you to act with me in the event
you think my interests coincide with
yours.
In performing this duty, as see
It, to myself and to those of whom
hold proxies, I shall not consider
nor shall L be in any way influenced
by, any personal preferences. I shall
have to oppose my life long friend
DR.. G. B. Grove, on several very i'm
in the world than I. We have been
bosom friends for 16 years. We have
often slept in the same bed together
! have shared his last dollar on many
60 occasions and owe him a personal debt
of gratitude which I can never for
get and can only hope partially to
ever repay-and 1t Is largely on his
account and to do him a service that
I am now doing the very unusual thing
for me of going into the public prints.
/ believe that he has been wronged
and slandered most shamefully by ir-
responsible parties. I believe that his
high sense of honor has made him
really supersensitive and caused him
to feel that any action that he would
take toward relinquishing the control
of the Providence Oil and Gas COM
pany might by those who did not know
him be construed as a surrender I'M
der fire. For that reason I have not
even let him know that I purposed
making this personal statement to you
FOR fear that he would object to it.
My own position in the matter is
simply this: I propose to vote for my
own interests on every question, though
where everything else is absolutely
even I expect to vote with DR.. Grove.
I oppose DR.. Grove frankly In the
following particulars and If you agree
with me on these Items or on enough
of them to influence you that way l
ask your proxy:
1. I believe that the present official
organization should be changed Before
doing so, however, 1 believe that a
unanimous vote of thanks ought to
be extended to DR.. Grove and the board
of directors for the work they have
done without money and without price
for the Providence company. If he
will consent to serve am in favor
of electing DR.. Grove president or di-
RECTOR, as he may prefer. These d.
rectors are all my personal friends and
1t is on their account, well as on
account of DR.. Grove, that I wish the
change to be made, provided it be made
In a friendly spirit.
OF course this Is the sentimental
gide The business side of it is this
The scandal monger has been at work
to such an extent that he has pref
udiced some minds against the present
organization because of the fact that
the entire board of directors have al
ways been Dr. Groves close associates
or in the same office with him or &C.
cupying positions under him. OF course
this should not prejudice anyone who
knows them, but it does prejudice those
who don't know them, and in that way