The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-09-07
THE .yEFFERSONIAN

quite a little bit Of guano each year,
and can safely say, that SO far as I
know, not one sack of fertilizer that
has gone on my farm since your re-
tirement from the Commissioner
office has ever been inspected. To
the. best of my recollection, there
might have been two or three in
spectors in Schley County, on per-
haps as many occasions, during the
past three years. This would look
like the farmer is not getting his due,
especially so, when Ellaville is a
rather large guano market, made so
by reason Of having "a. large guano
manufacturing plant.
l understand Mr.. Crisp, in eonnec-
ton with this, is criticising you, all
over the district for appointing so
many inspectors without attempting
to show that it was not necessary. He
seems to be MAD because you saw fit
to arrange the order, of your guano
inspectors appointments SO that the
farmer, himself, should fall heir to
the greater portion Of the money ex-
pended along this line. Is it possible
that Mr.. Crisp has become so greedy
over the spells of public office that
it initiates his refined nature to
learn that any portion of the same
has fallen into the path of the poor,
old, forever "HUMBUGGED" farmer.
You should ask Mr.. Crisp how many
dollars he has ever thrown in their
way, in order to make life sweeter
and their burden easier. He has
only been able to acquire jurisdiction
Of the dispensing of two positions
since his advent into Congress, touch
ing affairs in Schley County; one a
post office appointment; the other a
statistical agent to count the cotton
our farmers make. and in both of
these instances his town friends were
selected to fill the places. The last
mentioned position, that, of "cotton
counter" fell into the hands of his
present Campaign Manager, who is a
merchant and also Tax Receiver Of
the county. None Of us, however,
have ever criticised him for these ap-
pointments.
Mr.. Crisp misjudges the farmers of
Schley, if he is of the opinion that
they are mad with YOU about being
able and willing to give them those
jobs while you were Commissioner.
In fact this new ORDER OF THINGS
were as a revolution to us all; we
had never received anything that we
could SO completely realize from a
public official before, and sorrow
fully we bemourns the fact that we
have received nothing since your re-
tirement from public life.
That's why We are going. to put
you in Congress WORDS. ARE
EMPTY, RESULTS COUNT.
l have written you at'length, be-.
cause 1 wanted you to more fully re
alize than ever before, just what /,
and hundreds Of other friends here
think of you, and the methods by
which Mr.. Crisp is seeking your
downfall
Mr. Crisp wouldn't dare come to
Ellaville. and make his usual TRADE
on your reputation and character,
that he is spouting all over the dis
trict wherever he thinks the people
don't know you so we'll. If he were
to, some of the few followers he has
in this county would desert him, his
present campaign manager included,
for he, in all reality, is your friend.
We all know your IMPLICIT
HONESTY OF PURPOSE; we know
that you never refused a call in your
whole life, in office or out of office,
when the interest of a friend, or any
one else's friend, was hanging in the
balance: we know that CHARITY