The Jones County news., 1915-02-04
BILBO VISITS
LAUREL AGAIN.
Taken il. Hand and Royalty
Entertained by Big and
Rich Corporation.
GIVEN AN AUTOMOBILE RIDE BY
BIG ST0CKH0LDER In THE
OIL MILL TRUST.

We see from that Laurel daily that
Lieut.-Gov Bilbo made flying visit
to that city, that he was the guest of
Mr.. Frank G.. Wisner-member OF the
Eastner-G Gardener corporation and
the biggest stoekholder in the Laurel
Oil Mill Co., who rode Theodore in
his fine automobile. That Laurel pa
per in which that lumber company is
a big stockhoIder, saws Bilbo ssserts
that he will be overwhelmingly nomi-
mated onthe first ballot.
Nothing was said about Theodore
seeing a single farmer or trying to
meet one.
Now, you one-gallus galoots, didn't
we tell YOU the truth when we charged
that Bilbo had gone back on the man
behind the pillow and had alligned
himself with trusts, the money power
and special interests? Now what do
we fnd2 When Bilbo first came to
Laurel he was taken in hand, eulogi-
zed and slobbered over by those cor
poration lawyers, who in 1911 were
denouncing him as bribe-takef and
CRATER and classifying you country
people as a set of idiotic numbskulls
for supporting such reprobate.
Is not this true?
Now, when Bilbo visited Laurel last
Saturday, who was it that sought him
out and rode him around in fine
moter carp
1t was Frank @. Wisner, not only
member of one of the largest corpo-
rations in this ..ion (whose lands
are returned for about onc-.hird of
what the average farmer is assessed
on his little holdings), but this same
F. G. Wisner is the largest individual
stockholder in the Laurel Oil Mill Co.
and corporation that, through a
deal with Ross Collins, Bilbo's close
friend and running mate, was enabled
to buy up the farmers cotton seed at
less than half their real value. And
lobbyist from LAUREL was sent on to
Jackson to work against a bill in the
interest of the people and detrimental
to mills. And that righteous act was
defeated, too.
Now, do you not see where it is to
the interest of corporations and trust
magnates to bury the hatchet with
Bilbo and work for his election as
Governor?
They know by past experience that
they can use and control Bilbo when
: it is to their interest TO do so, but
they can never use Tally, Quin, Reilly
or Stovall.
We are not fighting corporations,
and will defend them against unfair
discrimination or unjust prejudice.
But when we see them taking up and
fawning over man they have so bit
terly denounced in the past, we always
look for ''the niger in wood-pile:'
and we think we have discovered that
hidden coon in the adoption of Bilbo
by those Laurel corporation lawyers
and a financial connection of those
Sons of Plato.
And we see from their organ that
Bilbo expresses the most absolute con-
fidence in his election as Governor,
and says there will be no need of any
second primary.
We would like to ask Theodore, ii
he is SO dead sure of having the hght
whipped, then does he continue to
send ont those begging letters, pite-
ously appealing to farmers and 9TH
ers to send him in money to help hin
out in the campaign? If he has the
fight now whipped why not let those
euileless friends, rooters, tooters anc
coattail.swingers keep their spare
change, and which they badly need
after paying his eight niger pets
$50 per month and ten cents milege.
And were the need of those frantic
efforts to keep his little Journalistic
mouth organ grinding in Jackson.
That Laurel organ did not STATE
whether or not f. @. Wisner dropped
a contribution in his new-found frient
Theodore's hat when he was taking
him on that automobile ride. III
ought to have made a nice contribu
ton to Bilbo and also subscribed fo
the Issue He could give Theodor'
a check for s25 and it wouldn't be tn
clear profit on two tons of cotton seet
that Ross Collins let his oil mill max
out of the poor farmer.
A grapevine telegram ssys the tru'
inwardness of Bilbo's visit to Laure
was to see if some scheme couldn't b
devised to put the Jones. County New
out OF business. Can't be did, Theo
dore. Those corporation lawyers aut
thai Laurel bank controlled by you
friend Wisner's crowd tried tina
game last summer, during our absenc
from the State, but the gang of con
spirators made water-haul.