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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
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CHAS. E. BROWN Editor
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June 20d, 1920, at the post office at
Cordeiy, UJa., under Act of March 3rd,,
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éntitledto the use for republication
of all fiwn atgpatches credited to it
or notpwhorvau credited in this pa
per and Also the local nawu’_yupl'l.sl_lfd-
Fort‘f‘”. Land has given enougn of
his yeih as a school superintendent
to the cj'\.eople of this community for
them 80 remember him in a sub
statial way in the election Wedne.-
day. db was here once in that ca
pacity, @nd did faithful service, ‘e
has lll&'fwise: done M{thful service
for the' sthte of Georgia in a large
way. I:!:é;q’hns a vlslorf of school proz-;
ress i Georgia thpt ogght tobe .2
ried dflfr He has godtd men associat
ed wi [ him—clean, forwardloo<i 2
men who care, g 1: educativy
@l welldre. For tzr :}:duht to/ddy
pur vie solidly for him as a staie
lchoo' perintendent.
© tooxopt iyq‘smem Cl
Brfim'n' campaignérs are going
about!'shis community asserting tin:
Ggne || Talmadge :i:il Catholie—lhe
gandi}fl&#o of the olics—put Hut
by thage who belong to the Catii
licz— Ml Smith and all. Well, heils
bells-~gould you beat that?
‘NoWil let’s not get the iden that
the C@ghnlars are animals that ouglt
1o hd o od and carried alout the
‘épun_ifi.with the circus i_o be exh: it
%d a 3 fvild animals. Good Cathoiie
ére peppie—-just ttke otnoy Lie
'c‘p;'gi i{'fi?qrch fo)ks—red-blooded—
hdve Harts and souls and all thit
You iwnw some of them—and voa.
d,ont ;.Tnt anybody to use politi:s
to. prejudice you against theni-—
honefi now, do you? L
. Well, Gene' Talmadge isn't o
Catholic—wasp’t put out by anv
Catholic =~ sympathizers— hasn't
pledged’a Zatholic anything betause
the Catholics haven't uskeq,hi‘n': Ape -
and eouldn’t run the department of
agricglture o any Catholie* ad/an
tage in Georgin over anvbody els»
it he ever ‘\fl'xdertook it. Gene Tal.
madge is a rlain lightwood kaot
simth’ Georgia® eracker with lots of
sence and courage in his hard head -
made tough and durable by the nard
knocks of life. He went to school
among fus—where # square deal fcr
his fellow was the chief thing o
learn—that he had to learn to pct
about and make his way among
south=Georgians, Now, we have Lim
after graft and corruption in cut
publie affairs of the state. He Img{
made - one otm m‘&t}w@nflp&fil
fights ngnin\s | thid graft apd jcorrvy
tion that Georgia has seen in a quiy
ter of a century, He is plain Gene
Talmadge—an awfully unassuming
plain G‘eorgiq cracker—but he hae
the v«;l:,)asrthnt it has taken to oust
Holder' and Brown.
It is:astounding how he has work
ed upoh those grafters and corrujt
ring ‘rale fellows, He is sweepin.y
Georgia like wild fire. Men of all
statiohs in life are for him—just ask
about it if you doubt this claim,
Don t call Gene Talmadge a Catno
lic—but watch him get that ma
chine==just watch him!
MOVING FOR POWER PLANT
The business men engaged with Dr
Jimmie Ward as chainman in de
sixniqg publicity for the cominzy
power plant campaign over the state
and im=Crisp county had a most pro’-
itable“meeting last night in which
they ‘bériously engaged themselves
in ma}'y fine thoughts of advance
ment ;for the cause,
The striking thing over all the d«
liberations was tie oneness of pur.
pose—wiat can we do best ‘5 makae
that ficwer plant a certainty in tha
shortest possible time? There was no
division .of sentiment. All the mon
were together in that purpose.
And so'it is out over the county.
The cause has many real friends
throughout the state, ‘Here at hom:
the people should be of one mind—-
and willing to get out and work.
Large things were never accomplish
ed without effort., We are now at
the testing time. If we have an op
portunity to grow, we must go to
gether o the task of building that
power plant, We must stay together
till he wheels are turning—then
watch Crisp county grow!
BENNETT-—AND ANOTHER CHIP
A Fulton county grand jury has
acked Governor Walker to remove T.
'R. Bennett as banking superintend
ent of Georgia as a result of having
proven himself a derelict in his o?-
ficial duties. By his own evidence -~
by his own evidence bhefore that
body-—that hody said he had provml
himzaelf ignorant of the duties which
his office requires that he shoul'l‘
know. The jury should not have stop
ped with Manley-—and merely call
ed Bennett a derelict. It should hove
gotten Bennett, But never mind--
the auger will get him yet if it keeps
boring. We wonder if Mr, Boykin is
still there— still the prosecuting at
torney in Fulton? And we wonder if
he knew he was missing t}!e, ,hi.\"lf
lilfi‘s’i on’ the fronf| pages wof ftac
papers on this deal”
And the next question is whether
Bennett will be placed on the greasy
alu;ds. -‘"Willixthe governor go 'nf'te:-"
him-—and will he get out with a ch:p
on his shoulder £lso? Will he be rin.
ning for governor because someboly
cornered him and threw him oat in
the streets for giving more of his
time to rolitics and the ring rule
line-up than to his official duties?
Will t' viiers of Georgia ever tire
of that sort of politics? Will they
cver leain the difference between
forward-looking men and this type?
, MUnle.u.j we u-e ‘badly mistaken, J,
J. Brown and John Holder are com
ing out of this contest at the foot
‘of the class, Brown is gone—ard
Holder is running third—hardly poe
sible of maintaining a right to en
| ter a run-over primary, And yet Ben
;loti and his lawyers are maintain
ing a whole floor of the Connaliy
building in Atlanta at the expense of
the depositors of the eighty-odd
clozed banks as campaign head
quarters for John Holder—trying to
help Holder for governor, so Holder
will reappoint him as banking super
intendent—and Holder will do it if
he gets a chance, no matter if or
ery grand jury in Georgia demands
his removal from office for derciie
tion of duties. That’s banking undes
political control of Brown Holder &
Company.
Bennett’s Atlanta lawyers who
asked for thousand dollar fees from
cich of the little Abbeville, Pineview
and Rochelle banks—and didn’t med
them—are now out with Atlanta
statements in which they claim that
gv‘gr.r(;)spm ‘hag not turngd 'down
(lhj Mleas for these .pnhearci of fves.
‘H hghé tirned them down—and tlil‘)'
know it. Carl Duvis will be presi
dent of ' the United States beforo
ever he draws that fee—and soo wll
Bennett-—and so will the rest of that
grafting, blood-sucking bunch of
crooks—excuse us, please, we sve
just calling them what they are m
plain language. This is the only
mcthod they have left of covering
up their cffort to plunder the lit
’tle banks without rendering them
a service. This is their means of try
i ing to fool the judges in other couvr:s
of Georgia where the others of (Lo
eighty odd banks are—their effors
to get orders signed that will Tive
them the unconscionuble fees else
where.
| Judee Crum has refused (heir
l fees. We hove the courts elsewhers
) will do the same thing. It would ho
rendering a real service to the de
vositors ¢f these closed banks—an i
to the stockholders—and banking n
Georgin v general. What confi
dences these scoundrels are desirev
ing-——what confidence in, the banks
'ol‘ Georgin they have wiped out of
the minds of the people! To have to
icloso the docrs of a perfectly sol
vent bank in a community like {his
is bad erough, but to have to sir
down with mouth closed and see the
state banking department converted
into a den of thiz kind for thel
rifling and plundering of what be- |
longs to honest, hard-working yeo- ||
ple is too much, We must protest! |
PR 1
BROWN HOLDER & COMPANY
But for our interegt in a cleaning |
out of Georgla's public offices of the
graft and corruption—and prostitu.
tion — not another line of politics
‘would go into these columns untii
after the election. We have no space
for anything like all the political
publicity asked for this issue—but as
long as we have pride in our state
and its chances to go forward, we
must go on fighting, We must choose
that which we think will help and
leave that which will hurt.
No man ought to have to apolo
gize for attacking corruption in the
campalgn which John Holder and J.
J. Brown are conducting to retain
their power of domination in Geor
gia—and we want to make it clear
that we mean dominaticn. Not in this
campaign was it true, but we have
acen 1 1 Brown., when his hide was
not on the rack, go into a county and
fight it out over the election of a
member of the legislature—to make
sure ‘be had somebody there upon
whom he could depend for ebsolute
coxipl‘ul,. And yet his oil inspecting
waqt'c 9\' public mnd';y for'”control of
Georgla is not a drop) iyt the ‘bicket
compared to that John Holder has
d?rie i the past three years to make
himgelf governor.
Everything that the state highway
department fius dorne wrong is no
body’s fault but Whispering John’s.
I He dug his own political grave when‘
| he FIXED THAT BY LAW. He did
THAT when he slipped the notorious
Midnight Bill through the closing
I minutes of a legislative session—the
bill that madé the Board supreme
I over everything, every petty detail,
and then delegated the Board’s full
autherity to Whispering John when
ever the Board itsclf was not in ses.
i sion.
; Has anybody ever heard whatl
Whispering John did with that $5OO
he drew from highway department
r'x‘x.xlylvs, for that midnight qccasion. ,
~ “On August 161922, Mr. Holder
l cailed me over thephone and directed
me to issue a check tar $2OO and get
same cashed n‘i'ld deliver the cash
to him at the capitol,” swore 11. .
Spahr in his affidavit taken by the
special auditor. Mr. Spahr was sec
retary - treasurer of the highway
. board at the time. “1 cashed same
I and personally delivered to Mr, Hold
l cr the $500.”
: What became of the $4OO currency
delivered to Whispering John irom
| state highway funds on August &,
1923, when the legislature was in ses.
sion?
What became of the $6OO delivered
to him on August 14, 1923?
These a fir\de '_;;l:lA »Q‘u‘l,urs o( Jrvec‘orvd.*
Mr, Sl);lw*ma}&;i@?‘@@ta]u"z |
What _became of the $1,500 trans.
ferred to Whisporing John in two
cheeks -on Atigust' 13, 1924, “for use
in conmection with the legislature” at
his dircetion, "'1 .
How much read did this money
build for Georgia? : :
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These are questions we have a right
to ask-—John Holder s asking tor '
high office. We want to know. In.
stead of disposing of these things to
show himself an honest man, he has
gone around the state promising rondi
mileage and carrying a chip on his|
shoulder for Clifft Walker hecause'
Walker mildly did to him what u!
man with firmness would have donel
long before Clifft Walker did it.
That underling in the state hlgh-‘
way department who was convicted
of padding the payrolls under John|
Holder's regime went 1o the pen for|
it. John Holder went about the stntel
with his chip hun}.ih? vindication. He
wag caught with the public money
out in the wrong place and had to!
put it back. The other fellow was]
not allowed to “put.” He was made{
to do time in stripes. Now John Hold
er wants to he mede governor be.
cause somebody caused an audit to
be made of his accounts when he
wag not expecting it — and caught
him—with the goods.
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The voters of Georgia have an op-|
pertunity in either of the other two
upstanding Georgians asking for' the '
office to lift the state out of all mis‘
subversion of the 'state’s best public
interests to the maintenance of such'
‘corrupt government. We have an op
portunity to put the state banking
department into hands that will pro
tect the public from thieves uml!
giafters, We have a chance to name i
a governor who will appoint a high- l
way head who will render faithful
service and give an accounting of
his stewardship in the miles of paving
we will get—in the atrict business
‘administration of the immense sums
of money pouring into that di:pan.(
‘men; out of the pockets of the tax‘
ipayers of Georgia. Dr. Hurdmanl
will give us a faithful administration,
lllewfll take us out of peanut politics.”
k And to show that it isn’t a pcrsonal
matter with us—that we arc inter.
!ested in the state’s welfare and not
the person—~QGeorge Carswell is a
big enough man to do the same
l things.
PREACHER TO RESIGN
LOUISVILLE, Ky.. September 2—-
Rev. W. C. Lovett, D. D, pastor of
tke Louisville Methodist church for
the last year, will resign pasteral
work at the cnd of the present con
fercnce ycar in November and will
pass onto the superannuate list of
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(he ministers of the South Georgia
conference Mr. Lovett had been acr
tive in tan work of the church and
the winistry for the last 50 years
ond more. At one time he was editor
of the VWesleyan Christian Advocate
He will make his homee in Atlanta
o ter lenving Louisville this Fall, as
vo did when editor of the Advocaté,