Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
Rev. A. G. Carter Protests
Appointment of Vest
In Letter to Senator Simmons Rev. A.
G. Carter Asks That He do What
He can to Save U.s."
MR.. SAUNDERS WRITES NEWS

MR.. SAUNDERS WRITES NEWS
The following from the Greens
boro Daily News of March 22
relative to the appointment 0
the postmaster at Rosemary wi
be of interest.
W shington, March 2l-Wha
probably is one of the most caus
tic letters ever submitted in
postoffice appointment was made
public here today by Senator F
VI. Simmons in connection will
the effort to defeat the confrma
tion of John L. Vest as postmas.
ter at Rosemary, N. C.
The communication is from the
Rev. A. G. Carter, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Rose.
mary, who declares that it is a
shame" that Mr.. Vest has been
nominated. He expressed doubt
that Is patrons of the Office want
Mr.. Vest to serve them and
alleges that sentiment is strongly
in favor of D. P. Wike, a former
service man.
The Rosemary pastor asserts
that the nominee, Mr.. Vest, IS
useless to the community" The
choice of the Republican organi-
zation for the office the pastor
says, spends his Sundays going
over the community taking pic
lures and is seldom, if ever, in a
church or doing anything for the
morals of the neighborhood.
Senator Simmons as we'll as
representative Claude Kitchin |
vas declared today to be aroused
ver the Rosemary appointment
nd determined to fight confr.
nation in every possible way. 1t
J alleged that Mr.. Vest is not
satisfactorily identified with the
usiness and civic life of the CON-
unity, except as "an itinerant
.uit tree and hose peddler, and
lat he has been nominated over
lifelong Republican and ex.ser-
ce man, Mr.. Wike.
Rev. A. G. Carter says that he
a Republican but is protesting
Senator Simmons as one inter-
ted in the welfare of the COM
unity and not in politics. The I
tier from the Rosemary minis t
r is an unusual document and /
vigorous one. As made public !
! Senator Simmons, the letter
ith heading and text reads as {
lows: c
Rosemary Baptist church, n
~. A. G. Carter, pastor, Rose a
ary, N. g., March 10th, 1922. :, :,
Senator F. M. Simmons, .
ashington. D. c. s
my Dear Sir: t
II am sure you have received e
,ht much mail from this section ;,
the state already in regard to n
e postohice at Ros emary, but
want to say in this last appeal, II
it seems that something will y
done soon, that if you can =, =
ssibly save US from what seems h,
be a shame please do go. 1t CT
,eyond reason to think of a p'
N who has meant so little to a :,
immunity in every way as p
i. Vest has could get a position m
,r a young man who has stood II
everything uplifting, who c!
we'd in the war, and who made ),
highest grade of any one in ra ,
examination. DC
1t is true that voted a Re- Sc
olican ticket and have always 10
,e so, but | think | am not W. W.
ting from a political stand V
Mt | am thinking of the well R,
g of the community. Si
ir. Wike has proven to all par le'
concerned that the people of y. ~
, community want him to iar M
We them, and | would not be ri,
wrong to say that Mr.. Vest tn
Id not get Is people who are "a u
,gnized as good citizens to say sn sn'
Y wanted him in the Office. In
| have been here five years let
have never heard of Mr..
t being in a church or having ~: me
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