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

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In Schley county the farmers don't
have to look to any source for lntor-
nation with reference to guano in
spection, other than to remember
how generally their guano was In
spected while you were commissioner.
| am farmer, as you know, and use
quite little bit of guano each year,
and | can safely say that so far as
know not one sack of fertilizer that
has gone on my farm since your re-
tirement from the commissioners Of
flee has ever been inspected. To the
best of my recollection, there might
have been two or three inspectors In
Schley county, on perhaps as many
occasions, during the past three
years. This would look like the farm
er is not getting what he is due, es-
pecially so when Ellaville is rather
large guano market, made so by rea-
son of having a large guano manu-
featuring plant.
understand Mr.. Crisp, in connec-
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 VERY MAD because
YOU saw fit to arrange the order OF
your guano inspector appointments
so that the farmer himself should fall
heir to the greater portion OF the
money expended along this line. Is
it possible that Mr.. Crisp has become
so greedy over the spoils of public
office that it irritates his refined ma
ture to learn that any portion of the
same had 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 burdens easier. He
has only been able to acquire jurls-
diction of the dispensing of two po-
sitions since his advent into congress,
touching affairs in Schley county;
one postoffice appointment, the 9TH
er statistical agent to count the cot
ton our farmers made, and in both
of these instances his town friends
we're selected to fill the place. The
last mentioned position, that of "cot-
ton 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
SchIey if he is of the opinion that
they are mad with you about being
able and willing to give them these
Jobs while you were commissioner.
In fact, this new QUEER ORDER OF
THINGS was a revolution to us all
we had never received anything that
we could so completely realize from
public official before, and sorrow
fully we bemoan the fact that we
have received nothing since your re-
tirement from public office. That's
why we are going to put you in con-
gress-WORDS ARE EMPTY, RE
SUITS COUNT.
l have written you at length be-
cause / 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 to 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 well. If he were
some of the few followers he has in
this county would desert him, his
present campaign manager included,
for ne, i'll all reality, is your friend.
We all know your IMPLICIT HON
ESTY OF PURPOSE; we know that
you never refused call in your
whole life, in office or out Of office,
when the interest of friend or some
one else's friend was hanging in the
balance; we know that CHARITY,
THE SWEETEST VIRTUE RE-
CORDED IN HOLY WRIT, has ever
received bounteous extended hand
when knocking at your door; we
know that you have on numbers of
occasions gone down into your own
pocket and liberated the hayward son
from prison walls in order that the
old, broken-hearted mother might re-
ioice at the return of her child. In
fact it is commonly known and con-
coded that when any of us in Schley
county want anything done that we
can't do ourselves we always call on
Tom Hudson, and results follow, and
that's the thing that counts after all.
| Indeed, it would be a burdensome
j task to convince the people of Schley