Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-15
UPSON COUNTY
, GRAND JURORS
FLAY GOVERNOR
Denounce Charges AS
Untrue Citizens Com
mend Judge Searcy

THOMASTON. May 14.-Severe
criticism of the pamphlet issued by
Governor Dorsey relative to alleged
peonage condition in Upson county
was contained in presentments re-
turned for the May term of the Up
son superior court.
The charges were declared false,
and the reply to the charges made
by Judge William E. H. Searcy, Jr.,
was approved.
That 'these secret bucket-letter
attacks on Georgia, her people and
officers, must STOP" is the sentiment
j contained in message telegraphed
to Governor Dorsey by Judge W. E.
H. Searcy of this circuit, superior
court, from his home at Griffin fol-
lowing the receipt by him of the
s. governors reply to his open letter to
4 the governor denouncing the publ
3 cation of the latter's pamphlet and
declaring the allegations in a case
applying to Upson county are false.
Judge Searcy's message brings out
clearly an issue of veracity between
q himself and the informants of the
governor, the judge, who denied the
charges in his previous statement,
declaring the statements "either are
true or cowardly contemptibble lies" J"
j and demanding the names of the in
formants.
Searcy Comes Back.
His telegram follows:
Before answering your letter to
me, again indicting your state and
its courts and people, I demand as
matter of right to saw nothing of
/ fair play and justice, the names of
vour investigator and of the four cit
izens who stated committee wait
ed on me and obtained a promise of
chaingang sentence from me in ad-
vance of trial and OF those whom
you say stated the trial Of White
was a fake and traversty on JUS
tice
"Secret bucket-letter attacks on
Georgia, her neOple and Officers
4 must stop. Either these things are
4 true q" are contemutible. roWardly
lies. Those interested and the pno-
. are entitled to the facts and the
Witnesses. Let pe F"va thom.
"WN. f. Fl. SEARCY. .H.-
"Judge Superior Court"
That the neonle of IIpson countv
d are strongly behind Judge Searrv in
his defense of the county is indicat-
ed by the fact that Rev Lincoln Nc
= Connell, noted evangelist and lyceum
lecturer. and more than fifty other
citizens of this city Friday address
ed a letter to Judge Searcy, in which
4 they express their thanks and con
gratulations for the manner in which
the iurist answered the alleged
"strange hurtful ISLANDERS circulated
about our county by Hugh M. Dor
sey, the governor"
Commend Judge.
The letter. which was written by
Y Rev. Mr.. Mcconnell and endorsed by
many citizensS in part as follows:
"Thomaston. Upson County, Ga.
"May 18th, 1921.
"Hon. VIM. E. H. Searcy,
Griffin, Ga.
"My Dear Judge: Out of heart,
full of admiration and gratitude, al.
low me to thank and congratulate
YOU for the splendid manner in which
YOU have answered and refuted the
Strange and hurtful ISLANDERS circu,
lated about our county by Mr.. Hugh
& M. Dorsey, the governor.
a at was with surprise that soor
deepened into amazement, that
read in the northern press that oul
governor was giving out statements
as to conditions in Georgia that, il
& true, Justly entitled Georgia to be
classed with 'Barbarous Mexico OF
# Bolshevik Russia.
when these statements continued
to come, and finally bloomed into
booklet by the governor containing
over on hundred eases Of outrage
and crime by all classes of people II
our state, my amazement deepenec
into Indignation that such. charges
not even proven, should find counte
nance, much support and circulation
by the man who should know the ex
aggerated misrepresentation the!
contained, as well as the very serious
damage such charges, supported b!
him, must do the reputation of oul
state.
II have wondered much what coulC