The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-23


Dear Sir: l am writing to assure
YOU that all of your friends in Schley
county are heartily in sympathy with
YOU relative to your present sick
ness. and to doubly assure you that
your cause in this county is being
zealously guarded during your i'll
ness.
Touching the various INSCRIPTIONS
issues that have been injected into
the campaign by your opponent and
his cohorts, l feel that it would not
be out of place for me in my feeble
way to give you my idea of just how
the people of your home county are
receiving Mr.. Crisp's unthought-of
TRADES on your past conduct and rec
ord.
In the first place, the voters of
Schley county are too intelligent to
give consideration to charge based
upon legislative vote conscientious
ly cast eighteen years ago, even II
such vote might not be in accord with
present-day opinion. The people OF
Schley county are not seeking a con-
gresham who displays no greater
ability than to plant his claims for
election on the questionable mistakes
of his opponent, claimed by him to
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century ago. Such demagoguery
would disqualify President Wilson
for the humble office of coroner. Be-
sides, it is an easy matter for any
one of US to look back and grow wise,
but it is not the man who can only
see things in the past that we need
in congress; it is the man that to
some extent can see in the future;
and judging the future by the past,
we feel that you are the man to pro-
duce results along this line. It's re-
suits brought close to our door that
the people of Schley county want;
they have long since become tired of
the "back tracker" who comes
around every two years, just before
election time, and offers them moth
ing more than a list of mighty deeds
the administration had accomplished
through his direct influence, when, in
fact, such mighty deeds are so for
eign to local needs and immediate
interest that they absolutely fail to
appease the appetite or quench the
thirst.
All manner of ugly things have
been circulated against you in Schley
coming direct from Mr.. Crisp and his
followers.
They report that you have "took
up" with the Catholics. Of course,
this needed no denial on your part;
you have grown stronger because of
this dirty, filthy, little sinking, I'M
founded and INSCRIPTIONS act. Ev-
erybody in Schley knows that your
church membership is, and has been
for years, with the congregation of
the Andrew Chappell church, in this
county, which can be verified by ref
erence to your pastor, Rev. S. A.
Hearn, of Ellaville, Ga.
Mr.. Crisp, I am reliably informed,
has seen fit to attack your record as
Commissioner of Agriculture, charg-
ing that you were inefficient and
squandered large sums of money by
reason of your ineficiency; this ne
Grants" at length upon, and in loud
and dramatic tones cries, 'investiga-
ton of your department" Now, l
was in the legislature at the time this
investigation was Matched up against
you, and every member of that legis-
lature knew then, and know now,
that the whole thing was Matched up
by Jack Slaton to head you off from
running for governor. You and
your friends, myself included, invited
the investigation, and insisted that it
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of the committee could be made back
to the then present session; but no!
this wouldn't fit the plan according to
the Setting of the political table; ;"
the matter just had to be deferred
until after Jack could be elected gov
ernor, so the committee was given
their instructions to, at least, investi-
gate twelve months, and file their re-
port at the next session. A dirtier
piece of political history was never
recorded under the dome of our CAPT.
toll.
Well, the investigation was made
by an expert accountant who was
employed by your enemies, and after
he had gone over the whole thing the
only seemingly defect in your six
years record was that few inspect
ors had failed to turn in any samples
during their term of service; but was
this an unusual co-incident? Surely
not, for it was shown that some of
the men were sick, and you wouldn't
have "FIRED" A SICK FELLOW,
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