The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-07-15


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and securing options on it throughout
NEARLY all IF the counties in the Bar
ley belt and got voting proxies in an
ticipation of a possible ruling of the
Court, so that the very conditions at
tempted to be provided against in the
charter of the Company have developed
las was anticipated, and it is now a
question as 20 whether the control shall
be given to tae enemies of the growers
or shall be retained by the growers
Receivers Suits.
Beginning in the year 1909 and end
ing on the first day of July, 1913, aside
from the four suits filed in the Federal
Courts attacking the legality of the
BurIey Tobacco Society, there have been
seven suits filed against the Society or
the Company praying for receivers
either for the, Society and the prop
erty under its control or for the Bur-
ley Tobacco Company, and each suit
seeking the dissolution Of the organi-
zation.
The suit which has recently been de-
cided by the Court Of Appeals was
brought mainly for the appointment OF
a receiver for the Company and for
it's dissolution and this suit is still
pending in the Kenton Circuit Court.
On the first day of July two, suits
were drought in the Fayette Circuit
Court asking for receivers for the
1906 and 1907, pools.j These two suits
were Instituted by the same attorneys
a suit an n
ty. There is also pending in the Ken
ton Circuit Court another suit brought
by these same attorneys seeking to
hold the members of the District Board
and of the 1909 pool and the Directors
of the Burley Tobacco Company indi-
vidually responsible for all of the bust
ness transacted by the Burley Tobacco
Company on the ground that they had
no authority to represent the Com
pany. This suit involves about 2,00O,-
900. 90.
would Destroy the POOL
Judging from these various suits, and
the connection between them. and those
who represent the plaintiffs in those
suits and their association with the
enemies of the growers, 1t appears
clear to the Board that there Is con-
certed and well planned movement on
foot to dissolve the Burleys Tobacco
Company and destroy the Burley To-
bacco Society and the whole pool
movement
At a meeting of those who are OPP
posed to the present management or
the Burley ToDacco Company held in
Lexington, June &c, there was set on
foot an organization whose purpose is
to get proxies of the stockholders OF
the Burley Tobacco Company with a
view to controlling the Company and
bringing about it's dissolution. The
committee selected in that meeting to
control and vote those proxies is COM
posed of the following persons:' ]. L..
Vest, a lawyer of Walton, KY, who
controls $12 worth Of stock from his
1909 pooled tobacco, who is the at
torney that has brought the suit for
the dissolution of the Company in the
Kenton Circuit Court and the suit in
the Kenton Circuit Court attempting
to hold the District Board individually
liable, for all of the Investments made
by this Company, on the technical
ground that they were not duly elected
as Directors of the Company, who is
also the attorney who on July 1, 1913,
instituted the two suits for receivers
Of the 1906 and 1907 pools in the Fay
cite Circuit Court; J. w. Glover, Chair
man of the Committee, who has been
a buyer for the r. j. Reynolds Tobacco
Company for the last two years and
who has been actively canvassing the
Burley belt either in buying stock or
securing proxies; Mark Hendricks of
Fleming Count, who helped make the
purchase for the Louisville Tobacco
Warehouse Company in 1910 that de-
stroyed the pool of that year; Lee Nc
Graw of Scott County, who absolutely
refused to sell any Of his tobacco last
year in houses controlled by the Bur-
ley Tobacco Company, and Bowen
Henry of Franklin County.
Advice AS To Proxies.
From the previous attitude of these
men toward the Burley movement and
particularly the Burley Tobacco Com
pany, the growers can judge for them
selves as to the wisdom of placing the
Company in their control The District
Board of the Burley Tobacco Society at
this meeting recommends to the poolers
and growers of tobacco who are inter
ested in protecting their organization
from the enemies Of the movement that
they place their proxies in the hands
! of committees which they may select
! in the several counties and that they
choose these committees with care and
place on them true and tried men who
have the best interests of the Burley
Tobacco Society and the Burley To-
| bacco Company at heart and let these
men so selected a committee in
each county represent the stockholders
in the stockholders election to be held
in October, 1913.
Unless the friends of the pool thus
protect themselves all of the labor and
| sacrifice that has entered into the
creation of the Burley Tobacco Society
and the Burley Tobacco Company for
the protection of the grower against
the Trust will be laid waste.
District Board of the Burley Tobacco
| sOciety and the Rurley Tobacco Conn.