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Tlhc jjcffcrsonian
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THOMSON. GA.. APRIL 27, 1916.
Let Us be Fair and Just to
School - Superintendent,
Sheats, oS Florida.
Q EVER AL weeks ago, we re-published a
letter which had appeared in The Flor
ida Record, Jacksonville, in which J. E. Mc-
Ree, Agent of the American Book Company—
a $17,000,000 Trust that battens on the school
children of the South—advocated the re-elec
tion of the present State Superintendent, Mr.
AV. N. Sheats.
This Alcßee individual is supposed to be a
resident of Georgia, since his office is in
Atlanta, and his meddlesome letter purports
to have been written from there.
The Jeffersonian naturally considered it a
most pernicious practice for the Agent of this
Northern Trust to be apparently attempting
to retire one candidate from the race, and to
promote the election of another.
AVhat business of Mcßee’s was it, to put
his oar in?
lie wrote on the official letter-head of his
unconscionable Trust, and therefore his letter
seemed to speak for him as the Agent of this
blood-sucking corporation.
Assuming from its publication in a Florida
paper, that the letter was there by authority,
I had the right to make legitimate comments
upon it, and did so.
The unavoidable inference derived from the
letter itself was. that the Agent of the Trust
■—not a voter in Florida —was interesting
himself to get Dr. Kelley out of the race, in
order that Mr. Sheats should have no op
position.
Being a non-resident of Florida, the action
of Mcßee in writing the letter suggested the
idea that he could not have been personally
interested in the contest between Kelley and
Sheats.
Excluding the personal, what was left ?
Nothing but his official capacity as Agent
of the Trust.
So it looked to me, and from that point of
view my comments were made.
However, it is possible that the Mcßee let
ter was a ruse, a political trick.
It may have been a cunning subterfuge,
meant to injure Sheats and aid Kelley.
By virtue of his office, any well-seasoned
Agent of a Northern Trust is an adept in all
the ways and cross-ways of the game.
Documentary evidence has been furnished
me tending to prove that Mr. Sheats has been
exactly on our- own line, in reference to free
books for our State schools, and that Dr.
Kelley has not been.
It would not be proper for me to pass
judgement on this issue which, in its present
shape, is the business of Florida, and not of
outsiders.
I must say this much, voluntarily and un
reservedly. that if the editorial in The Jef
fersonian was unjust to Mr. Sheats, I sin
cerely regret it.
From the evidence which has been pro
duced, I am satisfied that Mr. Sheats is not
the tool of the Trusty iuis not been, and will
not be.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
The biographical data respecting him shows
the following:
He is a Methodist, educated at Emory College,
shared the honors of the class of 1873 with the
late Dr. C. E. Dowman. Was in college with
Bishop Warren Candler and Judge Palmer, now
counsel for the Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany in Atlanta. In addition to this, he is a
Mason of some twenty-five years’ standing.
There is not a man in the United States sounder
upon the proposition of keeping the public schools
free of sectarianism and religious discussion, out
of which grow prejudices either for or against any
church, than W. N. Sheats.
He took occasion recently to report to the Gov
ernor of Florida the fact that a couple of denomi
national schools (Catholic) were receiving as
sistance from the County Board of St. Johns, Fla.,
and requested that the Governor take action at
once. Naturally, this made enemies for him, but
he has at all times performed his duty, as he saw
it, fearlessly and honestly.
What’s the Matter with Florida?
/I \ A Miami School Board seeks to thrust
V*J a Roman Catholic teacher into the
public school at Fort Lauderdale, and I ort
Lauderdale rejects her; whereupon the sup
posed Protestant papers —nearly all of them,
bitterly denounce the “bigotry ’ of the
Protestants of Fort Lauderdale.
That's queer, isn't it ?
No Catholic child is allowed to attend serv
ice in a Protestant church, or to become a
pupil in a public school.
If the Protestant churches and schools are
unfit for the Catholic children, why do the
priests take such infinite pains to plant their
teachers in these “godless ' schools ?
AVhy do the priests roar so furiously when
the Protestants feed them out of their own
spoon ?
Not a single Protestant teacher was ever
employed in any Romanist school or college,
but tens of thousands of Romanists are
teaching in Protestant schools and colleges.
It's a one-sided affair, as you can see. and
the advantage is all in favor of the foreign
church, as usual.
If our public schools are so damnable, as
the Italian pope recently declared them to
be, the Romanist teachers should stay out of
them —or else let the Romanist children
come, too.
(2) The Democratic Executive Committee
adopts a ride for voting which virtually de
clares that no secret society having a religious
principle, shall vote, unless it be Roman
Catholic.
In other words, this wonderful committee
undertook to purge every voter of his re
ligion, excepting the Romanist voter.
This Bryan-Farris medicine proved too
strong for the average stomach, and the
Bryan-Farris doctors had to call in the
prescription.
Who wrote that marvelous Resolution
which practically put the political ban upon
every church, excepting the one that is ruled
from Rome?
A Romanist priest wrote it.
His name is “Father" Charles of the St.
Leo College.
Who presented that priest-written docu
ment to the Democratic Executive Com
mittee?
Sturkie, the member from Pasco County,
where the pope's colony, governed entirely
by the priests, is a little State within the
larger State of Florida.
How came the Bryan-Farris faction to
bow to the dictation of.“ Father" Charles?
How came they to back track, if they had
done right in bowing to Father Charles, the
Knights of Columbus, and the Hibernians?
(3) Thomas E. Pierce of Pasco County
was a candidate for Fax Assessor of that
county, in the primary coming, this year,
and his declared purpose was to assess for
taxation the large land holdings of the
Roman priests.
7 He promised that he would, if elected, put
those lands on the tax books and keep them
there.
Pierce also denounced the swindling opera
tions of the priests who had robbed a widow,
whose home is in the North, of 240 acres of
land, by obtaining a fraudulent deed from
one of the heirs of the lady's husband.
Pierce knew of'the fraud perpetrated on
this non-resident widow, and knew that the
dishonest priests had refused her any redress;
and he declared that the people should put
a stop to such things.
Pierce was shot from ambush, AND
RILLED.
Tax exemptions, and land frauds, and
estate grabbing are dear to the souls of these
Roman priests who smile so sweetly, talk so
fairly, write so virtuously—and act so
diabolically. . .
I am informed that Sturkie is the Sheriff
of Pasco County.
It is said that the assassin who shot Pierce
is generally known, and that Sturkie is afraid ,
to arrest him.
It is said that this assassin boasts that
he has enough money and influence to pre
vent the Grand Jury from finding a True
Bill against him.
Thomas E. Pierce was a 32nd degree Mason,
and therefore doubly obnoxious to the priests.
Under the law of their foreign church, his
assassination was a praiseworthy act.
Evidently, Pierce fell a victim to the
foreign law.
Now let us see what the Grand Jury of
Pasco County; will do, when court-week rolls
around.
Let us see whether the law of Florida
rules those priest-ridden colonists, or whether
the law of the pope does it.
THE BLOOD OF TOM PIERCE CRIES
ALOUD FOR VENGEANCE. AGAINST
Ills COWARDLY ASSASSIN!
Twenty candidates for every county office
in Fulton is about the average for the whole
State of Georgia, and the pot is still a-bilin’.
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