The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-16
RECORDS OF TWO MEN.

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THE Third congressional district has
two men asking to be honored with
the vote of the people for the place
), now held by Congressman Charles r
Il Crisp. Both these men have held pub
lie office long enough for the people
to know fairly wen which is the bet
d ter fitted for the place.
1t is usually the better part to argue
the winning characteristics of the can
didate one is supporting, but the
records of Tom Hudson and Charles
FL R.aCrisp are so widely at variance
that it will take but word to reveal
= the difference in the two men.
Fl In congress Crisp worked like vet
eran for the federal reserve banking
system, the rural crdits law, the bu-
Z, reau of markets and the revision of
the parcels post law so as to enable
z the mails to carry larger packages, the
Is good roads legislation whereby Geor-
gia gets two million dollars to be ex
& pended on her roads, federal licensed
$ warehouse, the creation of the de
= partment of labor
An investigation will show that
Crisp was at all times in accord with
! the most important democratic legis'
iatiye work and was there, up anC
doing for the good of the people. He
has record is congress of which the
people of the Third are proud and he
is going to retain their confidence
their representative principally be
cause he deserves it.
Tom Hudson has right to ash fol
this office. Any qualified citizen has
that right and the simple fact tina
Hudson has asked for the office is not
sufficient cause for how'll nghim down.
But there is a raeson why he should
moi. go to congress. He has been a
public official for the people of Geor-
gia ana has shown himself woefuly
lacking in the very qualifications mos
important
In lQ1n M loci Of oup nj l.
ture Hudson had on the payroff-of his
Office 109 fertilizer inspectors in Geor
gia. In 1911 he had 11S of these in
spectors drawing a salary of $3.50. SO
per month. That same year Hudson,
office went under fire and the Ault
committee composed of eight state
senators and representatives recon
mended that the appointive power o
the commissioner be limited so that
he could employ only forty inspectors
This committee found twelve of Hud
sons fertilizer inspectors in 1910 die
not submit a single sample and five
in the. spring of 1911 did not submit
any samples for analysis. There were
others who submitted very few sam
pies, yet all of them were paid their
fun salaries out of the tax payers mon
ey.
AS representative of the people in
the state senate Hudson opposed the
election of county school commission,
ers by the people. He opposed elect
ing railroad commissioners by the peo-
pie. He opposed the taxing of rail
road franchises. He fought the legis-
lation preventing railroad free passes
With his lis fertilizer inspectors he
permitted 10 per cent of the fertilizers
sold the farmers in 1911 to go out far
below the standard required by law
These are notes made from the pub
lie records of the two men who are
now asking to be sent to congress. The
comparison might be extended fur
Their with the same results. They re
veal a splendid insight into the char
acter of Hudson and Crisp as repre-
sentatives of the people. The records
are plain and any voter can have them
for the asking
The people of the third congression-
al district will not want to drop a good
representative for one who certainly
in the past has not done so we'll. Crisp
has by his work as an honest, conscien-
tious representative deserved the con
fdence which has been placed in him
by the people of this district
1t would be sblunder regrettable
in the extreme to put Tom Hudson