The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-08-06


| will not follow his example and
indulge in vituperation or handy
epithets, as | regard that as being
without the sphere Of clean politics.
Throughout the course of the
campaign [ have studiously avoided
indulging in personalities, and have
refrained from "Mudslinging," but
l cannot permit these mis-statements
Of fact which he has published to go
unanswered | believe my duty to
myself and the 10th District demand
that these mis-statements be cor
rected.
Statement Reaffirmed.
l. | have said in my speeches
that Mr.. Vinson had denounced the
plan Of land banks and rural credits
as advocated by me as impractical
and unconstitutional. l reaff1rm the
statement that Mr.. Vinson at Bar
tow in Jefferson County and also at
ToomsborO, in Wilkinson County,
and at other places in his public
speeches did say, that the rural
banks advocated by A. w. Evans
was unconstitutional and could not
be carried out and that if estab-
lished these banks could not loan
money to the farmers on the security
of their land as it was unconstitu-
tiOnal. I made these statements af-
ter having been SO informed by citi-
zens of these counties in whom [
have the highest confidence and who
are men of high character.
[ append hereto affidaVitS of GER
tain Of these responsible gentlemen
who testify under oath that Mr.. Vim
son did make the very statement
with which | credited him. A read
ing Of these affidavits will convince
all fair minded men that l did not
misrepresent his position, but
quoted him accurately and fairly,
and when he deliberately charges in
the public prints that | made this
statement deliberately and mali
ciously and it is a distortion of the
facts and a perVersiOn of the TRUTH"
it convicts him (Mr. Vinson) of do
ing the very thing which he charges
against me and the falsity of his
charge against me is apparent. In
my WarrentOn speech, as every one
who was present will testify, I said
he had made these statements on
previous occasions, but that at
Edgehill on the day before he had
come out in favor of a system of
rural credits while still asserting
the uncOnstitutiOnality of the prOpo-
sitiOn of the government loaning
money through land banks to farm
ers. He was present at Edgehill and
heard me charge him with having
made the statement of the position
he took at Barlow, in the presence
of Hon. B. F. Walker, Judge of the
TOOmbs Circuit, who was on the
stand, and the large audience there
assembled. He remained absolutely
silent and entered no denial, but
now seeks by misrepresentation to
escape the effect of his own failure
to declare for this great principle,
when he realizes how disastrous it
is to his candidacy.
AS to Bucket Shops.
2. Mr.. Vinson says that I as
serted the bucket-shop law was
passed during my term Of service in
the Georgia Legislature and charges
that | tried to deceive the people by
this statement, when he knew what
I did say was, that while q member
of that body of 1902-03-04, | con-
tended for the passage Of the bill
prohibiting bucket shops or
gambling in agricultural products
The facts are these: In 1903, DR..
j. r. Brock, a member from Dade
County, introduced bill seeking to-
stop this Dernicious practice in Geor-