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The Forsyth County News
VOLUME XXVIII.
TO THE PEOPLE OF
THE NINTH CON
GRESSIONAL DI 5-
TRICT OF GEORGIA:
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-1 am a candidate for the office of
Representative from the Ninth Dis
trict of Georgia in the Seventy-Fifth
Congress of the United States, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic
Party ,in its Primary to be held on
September 9, 1930.
I was privileged to serve this Dis
trict during the last two years of the
Republican Administration under Pre
sident Hoover, and for one year and
'ten months of the present Adminis
tration (two months of that term hav
ing been cut off by the passage of
the Constitutional Amendment elimi
nating the socalied ‘‘Lame Duck Con
gress, which I supported). Thus I had
less than one term in office under a
Democratic Administration, during
which time this District received more
financial benefits from the National
Government 'than in any 25 years of
its previou" history.
Two years ago, in the campaign be
tween me and my present opponent
Jackson County was the deciding fac
tor and would have sent either of us
to Congress. Although I was sick and
unable to conduct an active campaign,
I lost Jackson County by one popular
vote, and accepted that verdict as
conclusive, but my opponent Tiled a
contest in Jackson County, and swore
to its contents, in which he charged
my friends with ignorance, bribery,
drunkenness and fraud. That contest
is now on file in the office of the Se
cretary of Jackson County’s Demo
cratic Committee in Jefferson.
In that campaign of two years ago
my opponent, in order to influence
votes, made hundreds of promises of
jobs and other political favors, many
of which he knew he could not fulfill
and most of which he made no at
tempt to fulfill, and he is going about
over the district now doing the same
thing.
MV OPPONENT ABANDONED THE
PRESIDENT AND BETRAYED THE
PEOPLE
I am advised by those with whom
my opponent has conferred that he is
pitching his campaign upon a plea of
endorsement term and upon the coat
tails of the President. He was un
willing to accord me an endorsement
term under a Democratic Adminis
tration, and I maintain that his record
neither justifies your endorsement, or
his claim of Administration support.
Here are some of his official acts in
Congress:
The Banking Act
On May 9th, 1935, the Administra
tion Banking Act (H. R. 7617) was
before the Congress for passage. It
provided amongst other things:
Ist. For a permanent Federal Insur
ance of Bank Deposits up to $5,000.00.
2nd. For removal of the control of
issuance of currency from the Wall
Street Bankers and Private interests,
and restoring it to the Treasury De
partment in Washington, and
3rd. It took the Federal Reserve
System out from under the control of
the Wail Street Gamblers and Inter
national Bankers and restored it to
the people.
My opponent, your Congressman,
voted against this bill, thereby betray
ing the interests of the masses of the
people into the hands of the big bank
Ing interests, and thereby registering
his opposition to the Federal Insur
ance of your bank deposits. In this
vote he was joined by only one mem
ber from Georgia and 110 from the
entire United States.
Utilities Holding Companies
At the beginning of the 1935 ses
sion, President Roosevelt’s Adminis
tration sponsored a measure to put
out of existence ali useless Public
Utilities Holding Companies, which
for almost half a century have been
robbing the users of electric current,
gas, telephone service and other util
ities service, of millions of dollars in
rates on fic’ticious bond issues and
other fake securities, the money from
the sale of which went into the pock
ets of the promoters of these holding
companies rather than into improve
ment of the service to the consumers.
When this measure came up for vote
in the Congress my opponent, your
Congressman, voted with the power
trusts and other utilities combines
and against the interests of the mass
es of the people, and helped to defeat
Official Organ of Forsyth County and City of Cumming
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON, CHEROKEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES
(City Population 700)
John S. Wood
the measure in the House. The bill
went to the Senate and they put back
into it the provision to eliminate these
parasite holding companies. Then the
Senate launched an investigation in
to the activities of these holding com
panies and power trusts in conducting
a lobby in Washington, and that in
vestigation disclosed that during the
the five months the bill, had been pend
ing before Congress the power trusts
and utilities combines had spent mil
lions of dollars in Washington lobby
ing against this Administration mea
sure. They had been handing around
money in newspaper packages and
cigar boxes, and had been lavishly
entertaining the members of Congress
who would accept their hospitality.
This investigating committee, headed
by Sen. Black of Alabama, sought to
bring before it for questioning the
heads of these gigantic holding com
panies. Some of them hid out and had
to be trailed over most of the civiliz
ed world. One, Mr. Hopson, head of
the Associated Gas and Electric Com-
pany, concealed/ .himself from this
committees’ officers for months. Fin
ally they brought him before them
and he testified that during the three
years of the depth of this depression
his company did not pay its stock
holders a dime in dividends, but that
during this same period he and the
members of his family drew’ in sal
aries approximately Fourteen Millions
of Dollars.
Finally after ail this rottenness, cor
ruption and graft had been exposed,
the measure was again brought be
fore the House for another vote on
Ist day of August, 1935, and my op
ponent, your Congressman, evidently
didn’t have the courage to vote again
with these plunderers of the people
for he is recorded as being absent on
that vote. (Page 12766 Congressional
Record, 1935).
PILGIARISM
My opponent is a member of the
committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads. When the Appropriations Com
mittee prepared the Post Office Ap
propriation Bill for this fiscal year,
they transferred Three Hundred Thou
sand Dollars from the F'oreign mails
to Rural Free Delivery mails, and re
ported the bill on the floor of Con
gress.
It was up for passage on February
6th 1936. My opponent, your Congress
man, seeking to take credit for the
Committee’s action in thus enlarging
the activities of the Rural Mail "Ser
vice rushed into the press of the Dis
trict (see weekly papers of February
14th, 1936) with a statement headed
“Congressman Whelchel asks an in
crease of not less than $300,000.00 In
the annual appropriation - Tor the Ru
ral Free Delivery System.”
He also made a statement on the
floor of Congress to the effect that he
had intended to do just what the
Committee had done (See Constitu
tional Record, page 1670, February Gtb
CUMMING GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1930.
1936). ThinKT.ig that perhaps he hail
exerciser some activity about it I
sent for a copy of the hearings held
by the Committee on this particular
bill, and although the hearings em
braced 490 pages of printed matter,
there is not one word in it uttered
by your Congressman, and so far as
these hearings disclose he did not
even appear before the Committee in
sional Record). Your Congressman
When the Agricultural Bills (5.3780)
was before the House on February 21,
1936, Congressman Tarver of Georgia,
offered an amendment seeking to give
direction to the Secretary of Agricul
ture in the interests of tenants and
share-croppers. (Page 2611 Congres
the preparation of the hill,
made a statement on the floor of Con
gress that day, stating that he had
prepared an amendment along this
line which he had intended to intro
duce and read into the Record what
he contended was the amendment he
had prepared (See page 2612 Congres
sional Record), a copiparison of the
amendments he claimed to have pre
pared and read into the Record will
disclose that it is an exact copy ol
the amendment presented by Con
gressman Tarver.
HE SOUGHT TO DISFRANCHISE
FIVE COUNTIES OF HIS DISTRICT
During the last days of the session
just ended there was pending in the
Congress a hill by Congressman Rams
peck, of Atlanta, to create an addi
tional F’ederal Judgeship" for the
Northern District of Georgia.
On June 2nd. 1936, (Congressional
Record, page 8922) my opponent,
your Congressman, introduced an
amendment to this bill providing that
the President should select the Judge
from either the Rome, Newnan or
Gainesville Divisions of this District,
thus seeking to eliminate from con
sideration any person living in the
Atlanta Division. There are five Coun
ties in this Congressional District
‘Which are in the Atlanta Division,
viz; Gwinnett, Cherokee, Pickens,
Gilmer, and Fannin. If this amend
ment he introduced and sponsored on
the floor had passed and the bill thus
become law, every person now living
in these five counties comprising al
most one-third of the District he is
supposed to represent, and every un
born person to the end of the world,
would be disfranchised from holding
this office under this hill.
BROKEN PLEDGES
In his campaign two years ago, my
opponent stated from every stump
where he spoke that he would have
the government pay taxes to the Coun
ties where there are Government
owned lands. He made these promises
with full knowledge that it could not
be done under the Constitution and
he waited 14 months after his term
began and then introduced a bill on
the subject which he made no request
to be considered even by a Committee
In that same campaign two years
Bus Will Carry Load
1 o Athens August 13.
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We have made arrangements with
Mr. C. A. Bagwell to carry a load of
Forsyth county people to Athens on
August 13, at 50c per person round
trip.
t
The program for that day appears
in this issue of the news. We hope
that a great maty will attend at least
one day. Please note that there is a
program for men and one for women.
Those desiring to go with Mr. Bag
well should let us know in advance if
possible. The bus will leave Cumming
at 8:00 o’clock or soon after.
MEN'S PRO/GRAM
Thursday, August 13—Livestock
9:00-11:30 A. M.—Workstock in Geor
gia—Dr. Milton P. Jarnagin, Head
Animal Husbandry Department,
College of Agriculture.
Horses and Mules in Georgia—Dr. W.
G. Lee, Macon, Ga.
Our Experiences with Mares as Work
stock—W. C. Britt, Snellville, Ga.,
and Burl F. Hall, Kensington Ga.
Picture—The Horse in Action (A
talking picture made by the Horse
and Mule Association of America)
11:30 A. M—General Assembly.
2:30 P. M—College Farm,
Mare and Colt Show—2o mares and
colts.
a. Best mare and horse colt.
b. Best mare and mare colt.
c. Best teams of mares.
Discussion of Types of Mares—L.
M. Sheffer, M. P. Jarnagin, and W.
G. Lee.
Demonstration—3-4-5-0 horse hitch.
WOMEN’S PROGRAM
Thursday, August 13
8:30 A. M—Singing School.
9:00-11:30 A. M Annual Meeting
State Home Demonstration Council
-—Mrs. Wiley Williams, President,
presiding.
Following reports, business and the
President’s address, the main ad
dress will be given by Dr. Hafmon
W. Caldwell, President, University
of Georgia.
11:30-12:30—General Assembly with
men to hear Mrs. Cully Cobb, Wash
ington, D. C., discuss Conversation.
2:00 P. M—Concluding meeting of the
State Home Demonstration Council
4:00-6:00 P. M Annual Reception
and Tea, Memorial Hall, honoring
delegates to Farm and Home Week.
7:15 P. M Vesper Service.
8:00 P. M—Singing School.
8:30 P. M—Annual Style Show.
OTTO MILLS, County Agent.
TRUSTEE ELECTION
There is to be a trustee election at
Sharon School for Sharon Saturday
August 15 1936. The trustees to hold
the election. By order of the Board
of Education.
J. B. DRISKELL, Supt.
ago he wrote into his announcement,
•and stated in every speech he made
that he favored the collection of our
foreign debts, when he knew that it
could not be done short of war, and
during this entire term he lias made
no attempt to carry out this pledge
to the people.
The foregoing is but a portion of
the record he has made.
In this campaign, it has come to
my attention that my opponent is
seeking to prejudice the voters
against me by whispering and having
whispered in certain sections that I
am in some mysterious way affiliated
with some candidate for some oilii
office, and in other sections that 1
am affiliated with another candidate.
The truth is that I am affiliated with
no candidate or clique. I have never
made a political trade, or worn any
man’s political collar, and if you hon
or me with this high office, I will go
into it unhampered by any influence
! other than the dictates of my own
! conscience, and shall be free to re
present the people of this District
fairly, impartially and with such en
ergy and ability as 1 possess, and I
! pledge you that I will not betray you
into the hands of the power trusts or
Wall Street Bankers, nor will I fake
any midnight shooting affairs two
nights before election'in order to in
fluence votes in my behalf.
I am trying to see as many of the
voters as possible in order that I may
personally solicit your vote and in
fluence in this race, but lest I fail to
see you permit me to here assure you
that should you accord me this high
honor I shall seek to reward your
confidence and trust by unremitting
toil and effort in your behalf.
Sincerely yours,
JOHN S. WOOD
(County Population 11,000)
Speaker Rivers Flays
Redwine over WSB.
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Atlania. Ga.. Aug. 1, Speaker E. I).
Rivers of the house of representatives
launched what he said was the first
major offensive of his gubernatorial
campaign Monday night, when he
charged Senator Charles D. Redwine,
the Talmadge candidate for governor
with "biting the hand that led him"
and called upon Redwine and his as
sociates to point to one constructive
piece of legislation accomplished dur
ing their service in the general as
sembly.
The speaker of the house told a
radio audience that Redwine, in 1933,
borrowed a large sum from the lit
construction Finance Corporation to
aid his ”ank of Fayetteville and since
that time "has aided and abeted Gov
■ernor Talmadge in every Talmadge
effort to ruin President Roosevelt and
the national democratic administra
tion.”
“Redwine though President Roose
velt and the New Deal angels sent
down from heaven when they helped
him put his bank on its feet in 1933,”
the speaker declared, “lie doesn’t
think so now because the president
wants to aid the poor people and to
give an old age pension to those who
have spent their lives in toil but who
are not able to get anything from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
The banker candidate of the governor
is strangely silent about the RFC but
in his speeches lie tells the people of
Georgia that stands for everything
Talmadge stands for and that the
Talmadge regime in Georgia will go
on uninterrupted if he is elected.”
Asking direct questions of Redwine
and his campaign manager, Repre
sentative J. Wesley Culpepper, of Fay
ette County, Speaker Rivers demand
ed that they tell the people of Geor
gia what thy have to \ow for the
service they have performed in the
general assembly.
“Redwine and Culpepper have been
in the senate and house of represen
tatives of Georgia off and on for
more than 20 years,” the Lakeland
candidate asserted. “I call on them
here nd now to tell the people of Geor
gia one constructive service they have
performed either for their county or
state.”
“These two men are too busy up
holding the hand of Governor Tai
madge as it attempts ’to destroy the
work of the only President who has
remember that Georgia is part of
the nation,” he went on. “They won’t
tell you but I will. They have done
exactly nothing. Ail they ever get for
their service in the general assembly
was personal gain. The state has re
ceived nothing and poor old Fayette
county, lying in one of the richest
section of Georgia has received noth
ing.
“Look at the state payroll today.
On it you find It. I). Murphy, Redwine
protege and Culpepper kinsman, draw
ing down SSOOO a year as an assistant
attorney ,general. On it you find Cul
pepper's daughter and other kinfo-ik!
and kinsmen of the Redwine family
too numerous to mention.
“Down at Forsyth, Mr. Robert T.
Persons, the head of the bank there,
is telling folks that some years ago
Redwine made a loan for his bank
from the Persons bank. He tells you
that along about the middle of the
year Banker Redwine showed up to
pay S3OOO on his obligations and that
he, Mr. Persons, was surprised to
know that Redwine had any money at
that time of year. Mr. Persons will
tell you that Redwine told him that
he made the money up around the
capitol in Atlanta with Gene and lob
bying for various companies. So that’s
what Talmadge has picked out for
his successor, a lobbyist who brazenly
admits that he makes his money up
around the capitol lobbying with
Gene.”
Speaker Rivers further asserted
that he had been reliably informed
that Redwine is engaged in the high
way contracting business and that
he has had a large slice of the mil
lions of dollars in federal highway
money expended over Georgia.
"Of course such a charge as this I
cannot substantiate, for the very rea
son that the hooks of the highway de
partment carniot be investigated by
anyone save Talmadge henchmen,” he
asserted. “I wish I could tell you
about this and a lot of other things
I hear. But the doors are locked to me
and my friends. I can only say that
he is a most frequent visitor at the
state highway department. And he
coudn’t be there in the interest of the
NUMBER THIRTY 1 WO
W. B. Pirkle Announces
For Representative
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1 TO THE VOTERS AND CITIZENS
| OF FORSYTH COUNTY:
1 hereby announce my candidacy
I for representative o! Forsyth County,
subject to the rules of the Democratic
Primary to be held September 9, 1936.
I was horn and reared in Forsyth
County, f attended and completed the
schools of this county. Since 1 have
always lived among you, I feel that
you know me; and I realize your prole
lems. I have the Interests of Forsyth
County people at heart.
I deeply appreciate the favors
shown me ia the past, and I sincerely
trust that 1 may have your support
again. 1 shall never forget the whole
hearted and loyal support you gave
me four years ago when I made the
race for Superintendent of Schools.
I belong to no faction, political or
otherwise, arid if elected to this im
portant and honorable position it
shall be my aim to represent the
people with understanding and justice
to all alike. 1 shall become familiar
with the laws before they are passed
so that I may vote to your interest.
1 have no selfish motive in asking
for this position, neither am I obli
gated to be for or against any other
candidate who may he seeking some
other office.
I favor economy in government. I
believe the legislative is tin* most im
portant branch, since it regulates the
greatest burdens of the taxpayers;
therefore I pledge much care and
consideration to the work of this de
partment. 1 believe Georgia has ade
quate taxes to support the state if
properly cared for and wisely spent
nml I shall oppose increased taxes.
I believe tlie present tax hUTden
should be more evenly distributed.
I feel that Forsyth County’s Lawful
interests has been shamefully abused
and neglected, and if, l be your re
presentative I shiill advocate and de
mand a fair allotment of the State’s
resources to Forsyth County l,y way
ol paved and state controlled roads,
the Veteran's Bureau, health depart
merit, schools etc.
H I am honored by your selecting
me to this office, I promise to repre
sent you faithfully, impartially, eco
nomically and courteously in HU ch a
manner to merit your approval.
I respectfully solicit your support.
11 (BROUGHTON) BIRKLIO
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Supporters of Rivers To
Speak Over WSB at
7:15 Friday Night
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. r> -Judge C. E.
Sutton, prominent citizen of Wash
ington, in Wilkes County, will deliver
an address over station WSB in At
lanta at 7:15 Eastern Standard Time
Friday night, along with Mrs. Virgin
ia I ’ol hi 11 Price, Democratic National
Committeewoman from Georgia, it
was announced here at the Rivers
For Governor Headquarters today.
Judge Sutton is from the home
county of Judge Blanton Koratori, the
candidate of the Weltner-Fortson con
vention, and seconded Judge Fort soil's
nomination at that convention.
Mrs. Price recently editorially en
dorsed the candidacy of Speaker Riv
ers, citing the Speaker of the House
as the most fitted candidate in the
race whose "record shows him to he
sincerely interested in the Welfare
of all Georgians.”
roads in his county because it doesn’t
have any.”
"1 intend to talk some more about
Banker Redwine as this campaign
progresses,” Speaker Rivers declared.
I want the people to have the benefit
ol ali the know ledge I can glean about
this eandidate. I told you sometime
ago that I would say nothing but kind
things against the two other candi
date for governor but I feel that i
would be failing in my duty as a citi
zen of the state of Georgia if I went
through this campaign without letting
the people know the kind of a man
1 almadge is trying to Fun down their
throats as his candidate for governor.
The address of Speaker Rivers was
delivered before a meeting of his
friends and supporters on the roof of
the Ansley Hotel and broadcast thru
Radio Station WSB.
Following the address, Speaker
Rivers left for Vidalia, where today
he speaks at ceremonies marking the
opening of the tobacco season in that
section.