The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1916-08-10

| letter he asked them to look after
his interests and help him, and
every rural carrier of the district
knows that he requested them In
this letter to violate the law wifully
and openly and shamelessly, and
particularly Sections 742-744 of
the Postal Laws of the United
States, which forblds them to take
any part In politics whatever. so
far as helping campaigns is con-
cerned. If you will examine these
sections of the Postal Laws, or If
you will ask any honest rural
carrier, he will tell you that Mr..
Quin asked the rural carriers, as l
have said above, deliberately and
wiIfully to violate the law to assist
him la his campaign.
Again, Mr.. Quin virtually admits
that he had been manipulating the
Civil Service examinations against
the boys who took them, and In
favor of his favorites, and he was
unfair enough to quote from Mr..
Cooper's letter only bare extract,
when he knows very well If he
would publish the whole letter that
1t would have stated Just exactly
what Cooper asserted in his afi-
davit, that / have heretofore
published, and demonstrates the
most unfair and unjust manouvers
by him so as to defeat the boys
who took the highest mark In
favor of his favorites. l quote
from Quiu's letter to Cooper of
April 22, 1916: "Politics has
nothing to do in naming Rural
Carriers. Of course. I would new
er recommend any one who Is not
my friend. l dare him to deny
he wrote this letter. What he
states Is untrue, that George
Cooper Is a son of a wealthy mer-
chant In Fayette. On the contra
ry, his father Is man of moderate
means, with small store of not
over $3.50 or 5000 worth of stock,
and owns farm that this boy at
tends to and manages, and 1t is
true. as Mr. Quin must know, that
George Cooper was and is farm
er.
As to all the other charges made
by Mr.. Quin against me, they con-
sist simply in the tact that l had
been lawyer OF sufficient promi-
nence to be employed by the ILL
nois Central Railroad Company,
but every lawyer In this district
knows that I bring suits against
all the other railroads in the state,
and that ! make $Ioo. 90 out of the
other railroads in the state against
whom 1 bring suits where / make
$500 out of the Illinois Central
Railroad, so 1t Is. that 1 sue rail-
roads and defend railroads, and
am reliably informed that before
Mr.. Quln went to Congress he was
the Attorney of the Cumberland
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, so If being employed by one
railroad In the state In small way
debars me, his employment by the
Cumberland Telephone and Tele.
graph Company ought to debar
him. You know me we'll enough,
fellow citizens, to know that If
am elected to Congress that I will
sever at once all connections with
all railroads and that l will be true
and loyal TO the masses of the
people who elect me as against
railroads and everybody else, and
In testimony of that I offer nv
whole record for As years. In
every instance In which / have
been tried 1 have been found true
to the people.
am not surprised that Mr..
Claude Kitchin or even Mr.. Champ
Clark for whom Percy voted for
Speaker and Floor Manager should
certify to the good character of
Percy as a Democrat, because
Congress up there is ordinarily a
close corporation. They all stand
In together. and 1t is a well known
fact that Mr.. Kitchin and Mr..
Clark were not In sympathy with
the President In his program of
preparedness, and they ought not
TO dictate to you how you shall
vote. See The Issue of Aug. 3rd
on Chamn Clark,s endorsemenf.