Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-07-22
TALMADCE SAYS FARMERS
ARE BEING ROBBED

stencil in the nostrils OF the decent
people of the State.
~ have undertaken this Herculean
task. and I shall accomplish it.
"The office of the Commissioner OF
Agriculture, created to serve the peo-
ME has become their political mas
ter. Created to aid the farmers IL
has heconae a corrupt and criminal
agency that rubs them OF the fruits
of their. toll.
Through the manipulation OF D. j.
prown this office has been changed
into . political machine, organized
for graft and for controlling, through
its army of employees, spending mil
lion dollars each year, the politics OF
the State.
Georgia must be freed from the
c.yr,;nt influences of this machine.
Cline and again the effort has
been made by the State to cast on
this hateful yoke fashioned by }. }.
Brown.
eve failed because we were not
orpauized. and the machine was, and
It's rule could not then be broken.
"This machine has been blot on
Georgia's fair name for years. 1t has
cost us millions in men and money.
at has given Georgia abroad the
name of being political state. Many
of her own sons have left in disgust,
and many more retired from public
life.
"This hated, vile thing, called }. ).
Browns, machine, must be broken 1t
must be dismantled.
Laws Add to Power
at has grown up under speclai
laws, passed from time to time UNI
willingly by the Legislature. These
laws have added office after office,
power after power, to the Commas
sioner of Agriculture, until he has
been made the most powerful and
most dangerous man in the State.
81. H. Mills was in the Legislature
when many of these laws were
passed. At the same time he was on
the payroll of J. J. Brown. Other
members of the Legislature were on
the payroll, or else had kinsmen and
close friends who were.
1.-THE machine must be dismantled
by going before the Legislature and
repeating these laws. The Depart
ment of Agriculture must be stripped
of all of its political patronage.
"This has been attempted before,
but J. j. Brown was there around the
Legislature and through well or
ganized lobby defeated every attempt
at reform.
1.-The man who succeeds }. }.
Brown must make the fight before
the Legislature to dismantle this ma
chine.
"If elected | will make that fight,
and l will win it.
'In this fight now being waged, we
have never heard J, J. Brown person.
ally. It is we'll known among those |
who know him best that he is far
from being a mental giant. He has
lust enough cunning to employ men
who have brains, and to put into eff
feet his political creed, that jobs and
patronage is the price of office.
= at is well known that Lem B. jack
son has always furnished the brains
for the Department of Agriculture.
Brown parcelled out the jobs.
81 do not need to indict the office
of the Commissioner of Agriculture.
"For years the people of Georgia
have been convinced that there was
something rotten there in Denmark.
"These conspirators who have cor
rupted and played State, through
this office. have quarrelled over a d.
vision of the spoils, and each has
given evidence sufficient to convict
them all in any court. of justice.
"The State of Georgia is the indig-
nant prosecutor. and injured party,
and J. ]. Brown, Lem B. Jackson,
Fred BRIGGS and J. H. Mills are the
defendants, wrongdoers.
A Cloud of Witnesses
''They are charged with many high
crimes and misdemeanors. The
proof? We could produce cloud of
witnesses, but we are relieved of this
trouble-they admit their guilt
Lem jackson, Bridges and j. H.
Mills all say that Brown is corrupt, a
traitor, an enemy of the. State and
should not be allowed to hold office.
Most people will agree with them.
Brown recriminates by saying
that Lem Jackson, Bridges and J. H.
Mills are so lacking in honesty and
character that they can not be loyal
even to leader in a common cause,
and he brands them as traitors. He
names Lem jackson as his Brutus,
Bridges as Benedict Arnold and his
devoted, quondem friend, Jim Mills,
as Judas Iscariot. Think of it. They
all may be right. Let US clean out
this Augean Stable.
Now is the time to strike. Stone
wall jackson in his Valley Campaign
whipped a half dozen armies of the
enemy by striking them while they