Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-09-07
HUDSON REPLIES TO CRISP'S
CAMPAIGN LETTER

To the Voters of the Third Congress
iCnal District: On the last lap of the
Congressional campaign, my opponent,
Mr.. Crisp, comes forward with a cir
cular which he is mailing out to every
voter in the district, and in which he
gives to the people a re-hash of the
various charges that he has made
against me in all of his speeches
throughout the district. This being his
ULTIMATUM, and, by the way, the
only campaign document that he has
seen fit to attach his signature to, the
public must presume that MIR. Crisp
bases his claim for election on the
grounds therein contained.
Before going into discussion of this
circular, deem it my duty,
as we'll as my good pleas
ure, to say to the people that
Mr.. Crisp has greatly modified his
charges, circularized over his own
signature, when compared with his
previous utterances. For instance, he
absolutely abandons his previous
charge, that during the last year Of
my administration as Commissioner Of
Agriculture l squandered $4,000 of
the states money. This unusual and
unthought of occusation was properly
met and refuted in the address 1 issued
to the people, in pamphlet form, some
few weeks ago. In this address /
cited the records of the Agricultural
Department, giving the pages and the
calculations therein incorporated; 1
also incorporated the investigating
Committees report, which Mr.. Crisp so
strenuously calls attention to, and ali
o. which uncontradictorially shows
that Mr.. Crisp was in error, and had
very unjustly held me up before the
people. To my reply, in this connec-
ton Mr.. Crisp has made no response,
hence, one must judge that silence, IN
his part, is an admission of guilt; how
ever, the people will have TO be the
judge.
Referring to Mr.. Crisp's Circular.
Mr.. Crisp, touching my legislative re
cord, heads his circular as follows:
Attitude Towards Corporations" In
all fairness, 1 appeal to an intelligent
citizenry, and. ask if this DOES NOT
SMACK OF A CHEAP, TIME-WORN
ARTICLE or demagogery. To cry-out,
Corporations in order to arouse pre-
iudice in the minds of the masses
against these institutions, has been
the tactics resorted to by CHEAP POL
ITICIANS for the past thirty years.
The public has become so thoroughly
gorged on this "BAMBOOZLE" until
it is actually sickening to the humblest
farmer in the Third Congressional dis
trict. Every man in the district knows
that l have never been connected with
any corporation in any shape, man
ner or form in my life, except as
guano salesman; never owned dol
lars worth of stock in corporation
in my life, and l have no fear that my
opponent will convince the people that
I was the "hireling" of the corpora
tions while serving my little county,
as best could, in the Georgia legisla-
ture fourteen years ago. l have fully
and correctly stated my vote on these
questions in my previous address. In
this same address, l gave my honest
reasons why l voted for local option,
and why | voted against the election
CT certain officers by popular vote,
These matters were before the people
more than fourteen years ago, and the
leading thinkers of Georgia concurred
in my vote and opinion touching these
questions at that time, to the extent
that these measures were all defeated
I can now call to mind at least four OF
Georgias present representatives in
congress who entertained this same
opinion and voted as l did on these
questions. AS to Local Option, / care
Lot to say further than 10 call the
peoples attention to the fact, that so
late as 1906, a certain candidate for
Governor carried 1870 counties, local
option being one of the planks in his
platform. Shouldn't this be suff1clent'
Mr.. Crisp, to make your political
post-mortem liquor thunder" sound
downright amusing?
Another reason assigned in Mi.
Crisp's circular why / should not be