The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-09-06
HON. CHAS R. CRISP'S ELECTION
ASSURED BY A GREAT MAJORITY

Hon. Chas. R. Crisp, without a
doubt, will be nominated to sue
coed himself as Congressman
from this District by a very large
popular majority, He will cetain-
ly carry twelve of the fifteen
counties with probability of car
/. rylng every county in the District
with the possible exception OF
one, and his majority in seven of
the counties will be very large
and overwhelming.
Mr.. Hudson and his friends
have failed utterly to becloud the
issues of the campaign by sing
ing the Swan song" and howllng
MUD SINGING" when they
themselves injected mud i'll the
clean waters in an effort to de
tract attention from Mr. Hud-
sons public record, and we sub
nit that the public record of CIV
cry public official belongs to tho
public and should be barred to the
public by men in Office themselv-
es; and most certainty, should not
be withheld from the public.
Mr.. Crisp has shown no dlspo-
sition whatever, to touch upon
Mr.. Hudson's private life or re
fleet upon him in the least per-
Sonally. 1t is only fair to the peo-
ple that the Official Acts OF every
candidate for office should be dis
cussed, and nothing more has Mr..
Crisp discussed about Mr.. Hud-
son than his Official Acts and we
cannot understand how Mr.. Hud-
son should object to this if he has
been fair to the people he repres-
ented. On the other hand if that
record had been what it should
be, Mr.. Hudson would have in
xited a close investigation OF
same About the first evidence
that was brought to our attention
that irrevelent things were being
injected in this campaign was
long before Mr. Crisp left Wash
ington, when Mr.. Hudson was
making a personal canvass
making slight remarks of Mr.
Crisp's honored and beloved ia
Their who had passed away many
years ago. His effort to belittlt
Mr. Crisp, stating that he hao
done nothing but send ''Garder
Seed, his efforts to try to disrupt
friends and neighbors where Pos
Office appointments had beer
made by Mr.. Crisp willing to dc
rs in an effort to gain thereby
~ he first real mud came in this
tar9 ,tign when Mr.. Hudson, I'm
der his signature, sent out a six
teen page pamphlet purporting to
be an address by him, but this ad
dress was delivered through the
mails and not from the stump anC
it was a flimsy effort to muddy
the waters instead of an answer OF
explanation of his Acts as a Pub
Tic Official which it, evidently
was supposed to do. Next came
John I. Royal, of Schley County
an Ex-Representative and from
Mr.. Hudson's home town with
about three columns trying to de-
fend Mr.. Hudson's record as Com
missioner of Agriculture, but in
reality vicious attack on Mr.
Crisp, striking so low beneath the
belt as to take Mr.. Crisp to task
for being sick when it was neces-
sary to go West on account of his
health which had become impair
ed III the discharge of his. duties
in Washington climate ably rep
resenting his people.
NOW VIC ldhC hlldl w DIS CldlS =
ed and published against Mr..
Hudson at the time when the in
vestigation of his conduct was
fresh, and so far as we have seen,
was not denied by Mr.. Hudson.
when the Ault investigation
was proposed. All the power of
Mr.. Hudson and his friends was
eXerted to prevent the investiga-
ton.
1t is not disputed that the De-
partment had become the poll
zeal machine of rotten politi-
clans, that he appointed inspect
oors made up reports and took no
samples, that Hudson made no eff
fort to protect tn farmers,
THAT THE WHOLE DE-
PARTMENT WAS AN EX-
PENSIVE SHAM OPERATED
For THE PLACE HUNTERS
nd the Rule or Ruin '~>political