The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-14
CAPTAIN ROBSON FAILED ID SPEAK Tick Eradication Has Him
 Up a Tree ADOPT RESOLUTIONS Anti Crowd Advises People To Break Laws-Consider Hobson all Pow erful-The Captain Avoids
 Frame-Up

livingston. Ala, June 13.-(SpeciaI)- From the viewpoint of a man standing
 on the ground, it looks as If his con
 stituents have Captain Hobson of the Sixth up a ltree. crowd assembled
 here Monday. June F, to hear Captain Hobson speak on tick eradication, and
 the captain was missing. The captains friends say they advised him not to come, for 1t was a political frame-up to
 enbarass him.
 In spite of Hobsons absence. the meet
 ing was called in the court house by Chairman Phillip Willingham. It was evident from the start that the crowd was much smaller than heretofore and that many were there for curiosity and fun It was no surprise that Captain
 Hobson was censured, for these people
 think he can do anything. It was inti-
 mated in their resolution that although l Senators Bankhead and Johnson could do
 nothing Captain Hobson had only to command the authorities and his will would be done.
 | It was indeed surprise. however. to
 the conservative element of the county that the committee, most of whom are
 men held in high esteem, should come so
 near to anarchy as to advise their neigh
 bors to disobey the law. "
 The following resolution was read by
 John A. Rogers of Gainesville and was
 enough to vote Livingston, Ala, June P, 1911. "State of Alabama,
 Sumter County.
 Tn April of this year Secretary Wilson
 of the Department of Agriculture, Wash
 ington, D. C., in the presence of John
 A. Rogers of Sumter county, United
 States Senators Joseph F. Johnston and
 John H. Bankhead of Alabama, ordered
 Dr. Melvin, chief of the Bureau of An
 mal Industry to take the tick inspectors out of Sumter county. This order IS
 being held up. It is done at the request
 of R. r. Hobson, member of Congress
 from the Sixth district. He pretends that
 he had the order held up to give him
 time to find out the wishes of the ma
 iority of the people of Sumter county.
 as to whether they wanted the work of tick eradication carried on. Captain Hobson made an appointment to meet the people of Sumter county in
 Livingston, in May. to discuss with them the question of tick eradication. He did not fill this appointment, giving as his
 reason for not meeting them that he had
 been advised by both sides that it would be best for him not to do so We do
 not believe that any man who is opposed to tick eradication gave him any such advice. If so, why did he make a sec
 ond appointment to meet the people in
 Livingston on the 18th of June? He has failed to fill this appointment. It ap- pears that he Is being controlled alto gether by the very small minority of those in Sumter county who favor tick eradication, and that he wholly dsre- gards the wishes of the large majority who want this work stopped In view of this fact and the further fact that Cap- tain Hobson, who Is in position to do so, has refused to give you the asked for relief, your committee appointed by you to get the tick inspectors removed. give you for your information and gud
 ance the following, towit: Do not bring cattle into Sumter county from another
 state; do not ship cattle out of Sumter county into another state: do not resist any cattle inspectors, federal or local,
 with violence: treat them all with cour- tesy; do not obey any orders given you | by them unless it suits you to do so. If you are reported for disobeying orders of the tick inspectors. arrested and car ried before justice of the peace or the county court, demand jury trial. This will carry your case over to the circutt court of Sumter county. If you are un
 able to make bond or to pay a lawyers fee. apply to this committee, who will
 make bond for you and furnish you a lawyer free of charge to you to fight your case through the courts. We do not believe, after a thorough investigation.
 that any man can be convicted who fol- lows this advice.
 Signed:
 PHILLIP lwILLINGHAM, Chairman. JOHN A. ROt-ERS. U. w. M'CARTY. U. T. SHELBY.
 IS. c. WARD.
 "A. P. SCARBOROUGH" This report was unanimously adopted. One of the most amusing incidents connected with the tick war is the rumor that the opposition to eradication was to have a mass meeting early in I July to nominate officers for the next spring elections. But the candidates wouldn't wait; they nominated them selves. There is bunch out for every office, and the opposition will have little l to do with the coming elections. l
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