Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-08-31

.Mr. Talnadge Writes to People
Of Forty-Fifth Senatorial District

trained and versed in discussing the.
issues thar rightfully come mo Sen
atorial Campaign.
The third one of your planks that
| have heard of is that I was afraid
TO risk my chances in Telfair County
alone, and had the Senatorial Commit
tee to have the election all over the
District Fred, let's all have the Sen
atoi ial committee present when we dis
cuss this plank. You know and every
one present knows, that both you and
| requested the committee to limit the
race TO Telfair County. And further
FREQ, you know and every one pres
ent al the mass meeting held in Fitz-
gerald knows that you spoke and L
spoke, and both of us stated that we
had no objection to the committee
changing the rules. Fred, the people
were looking at us and hearing us
then, and they haven't forgotten,
Let's keep the record straight. Watch
out how you tell us countrymen you
are q farmer. We might change the
meaning of your initials to Farmer
a. Smith instead of Frederick A. Smith
Fired, you just farm the farmer.
That's true. Isn't it? Pretty deep
ploughing, when the old farmer had
to give $500 more per ton on the
credit for fertilizer than the cash price,
wasn't it Fred? That kind of plough
ing is what the Bible means, when it
speaks of grinding the face of the
poor.
haven't heard of any other planks
in your platform. The three above
mentioned were injected into it by you.
And they have no earthly business in
Our race, and are straws. They only
demonstrate the old familiar saying
which is as true as the Gospel, amy
drowning man will grab at straws."
l have heard you are begging the
people to just send you to the senate
his time, and you will never offer for
public service again. Shame on you
Farmer Smith. You are yet young
man, AMI should have more ambition
than that? l am just beginning, and
you and all of your different positions.
hackers and straws cannot keep me
down. If you will meet me on the
stump in at least ten places in the
District, send any of your hackers to
take Your place. Some of them are old
and experienced hands at the business.
want to discuss with you, Farmer
Smith, First. Rotation of the Judges
of the Superior Courts in Georgia.
Which l heartily favor.
Second: Having board of directors
to the Commissioners office, composed
of one citizen from each militia district
in Telfair County. This is local
measure, applicable only to Telfair
County, but | heartily favor it.
Third: Free text books for the pub
lie schools of Georgia, and how to get
the money Ter them without raising
the taxes I tell you my plan. Have
sessions of the legislature and senate
to meet only once in four years. This
is the law in Alabama. And it would
save the state of Georgia enough mon
ey to buy text books for all of her
children in the public schools.
Come on Farmer Smith, and let's
go OH 10 the hustings 1t is whole
lot easier to talk to your friends and
neighbors down here at home, than it
is to talk in the Senate The people
of this Senatorial District are entitled
to Senator that can face any man
and any crowd.
I am mailing a copy of this to you
and also to each of the four papers in
our Senatorial district. Answer me
now. And return the courtesy extend
ed to you. Mail me a copy at the
same time you mail the answer to the
papers. l published letter about 3
weeks ago criticizing you for not
standing up for Telfair County to have
a Senator sooner. You have not ans
wered the charge yet. Let's get all of
this under-brush cleared out before
the last days of the campaign. 1t
would not be fair to circulate accusa-
tions and counter accusations then.
Your friend,
EUGENE TALMADGE.
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