The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-09

fabrication of falsehoods, that | shouldn't be
surprised at any time when one OF my old
friends may be taken behind closed doors, and
effectually doped. Of course, where friend OF
mine is so untrue to me as to 90 behind closed
doors and listen to the slanderous tongues of
my enemies, and to make up his mind against
me, without giving me the chance to be heard,
[ cannot believe that the friendship to me was
of the right sort. No manly man goes back
on his friends without giving them chance
to explain and to defend themselves from
their assallants.
Now, as to what this man says about Bar
rett: That's something new, entirely. Bar
rett himself was at my house on his return
trip from Washington City, accompanied by
Hon F. D. Wimberly. In fact, Barrett has
been in close counsel with me for three years.
I not only urged him to dc everything that
he is doing at Washington City, but scolded
him roundly for not going further and de-
handing some reform as to the tariff and as
to the Trusts. Brother Wimberly will tell
you SO.
I most earnestly advised Barrett to take
this further step, and urged him to keep his
Legislative Committee in Washington all the
time that Congress was in session. He told
me that they didn't have thejmoney to do this.
Nv Immediate reply was, II will lend you the
money, and trust to the honor of the Farm
ers' Union to repay me-" Hon. A. G. Shu-
ford. of Newton, North Carolina, as we'll as
Mr.. Wimberly, knows this to be fact. | not
only did not refuse to help Barrett at Wash
ington. but have been backing him up with
all nv power, and offered to finance the light
if he would keep it up. II John Lee told the
gentleman to whom you refer that [ refused
to help him at Washington, it is the biggest
falsehood that Lee himself has yet told.
Inasmuch as you have given me something
new, important, specific, am going to set up
with John Lee upon that particular Islander,
and compel him to face Charley Barrett on 1T.
1t is not true that Barrett ever asked me to
let up on John Lee Just before attacking
Ladson, on account of his bank record, and
his unwarranted telegram to Samuel Com
pers. committing the Farmers Union to the
defiance of the Courts, [ wrote to Barrett
telling him what was going to do, and tell
ING him to 'hands-off'; that it meant no at
tack on the Union at all, but simply meant
war upon a bank-wrecking lawyer, who was
about to get the Union into as bad scrape
as he led the Neal Bank into.
7 came within an ace Of writing the same
kind of letter to John Lee, telling him to let
me and Ladson fight it out The reason why
no such letter was written to Lee was that he
had been at my house just short time before,
and we had made compact to work together,
and to consult one another, and j chm had
told me, in my own house, that he would run
down and consult with me from time to time,
whenever he was in doubt. Having faith in
the man, I did not for one moment suspect
that he would rush to the defence of Ladson,
and take Ladson's side of the case against
me without asking me for the authority upon
which I made my charge. Before [ dreamed
that the President of the Georgia Union