Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-15
Mrs. Longstreet's Plea to Wilson
.BlameS Power Trust as Her Foe.
+ Famous Generals Wild
ow Declares Fight on
Monopoly Inspired
Opposition to Her.

York Times the following letter sci
ting forn her charge that waite
power trust" is responsible for II
effort 10 remove Nor from her positin
as postmaster at Gainesville
President Wilson was swept in
to the White House by a wonder
fuI majority as the Nations pro-
test against the invisible govern
meut.' Millions Of my country
men united with a great leader in
founding a new party. But men
of all political parties believed
that Woodrow Wilson was a
clean, high minded, courageous
American, and that his triumph
was the triumph of a Nations de-
sire that a government Of the peo-
pie, for the people and by the peo-
pie should not perish from The
earth
Exercising authority AS the
chosen tribune of the untrammeI-
ed millions Of the American pco-
pie. cannot believe that one Of
the first and most conspicuous
acts % President Wilson's ad
ministration was 10 disregard
every announced policy bearing
on the recognition OF meritorious
service by striking down wom-
an AZ the bchcst Of q dangerous
water power trust. IL is true that
the political spuilsmen are fight
ing me because my woman's
heart was loyal to the great
American who in the hour of my
bitter woe and broken health and
piuful need had done more for
me than any o,her man in the
world. new birth Of the new
soil" the first American, Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
Blames Georgia Power Co.
But the real hght on me is be
ing made by tho Georgia Railway
n Power Company a water pow
or trust which has established a
monopoly on AN the water power
Of Georgia in hc region of the
states greatest Industrial actiyi-
ties This water power trust
found in Georgia community
which cid not seem To be awake
10 what was going on an over
the world and took advantage Of
the situation go unload o,00o,-
geo wltered stock issue ON the
people with the privilege Of col
lrctns dividends thereon for sew
eral generations This trust IS
operating in direct violation OF
the antitrust Tvs Of the United
states Government.
In the midst of their schemes
these conspirators against the
public veal grabbed Tallulah Fails
which is the property of Georgia,
situated i'm am unrivaled gorge
of our Blue Ridge Mountains
and is the most beautiful naur-
al land mark In the western
world. went before the Legis
lature with an array of law and
of facts which compelled the
passage of a resolution directing
GOV Brown 10 bring suit TO re-
cover Tanulah Falls. Senator
Hoke smith when he was Cover
nor ordered a survey OF the Tai
Iulah Falls property and it was
the evidence developed by this
survey which enabled me TO get
the bin through the Legislature
senator Harris Of Georgia, re
Gently appointed 10 the Census
Bureau. knows that the Georgia
Railway * Power Company
maintained the most powerful
lobby ever assembled i'm the cap
ital of Georgia. to- work against
the resolution empowering the
state authorities 20 bring suit to
recover the States property This
suit Is row pending Ia the courts
of Georgia
The Georgia Railway a Power
Company evidently argues that if
10 can lave me kickcJ out of the
Postal Service of Georgia dis