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The Congressional Race
Congressman C. R. Crisp left his
post of duty in \\'ashington,!
where congress is still in session,
and came home to defend his seat
and the record he has made f:.n";
foar vears in congress, but seems
o have devoted his main efforts
to an attack on ‘s opponent,
Hon. Thomas (. Hudson.
Mr. Hudson has gone along for
months with his own campaign
without-a word of attack or abuse
oi his opponent and fellowtowns
man, Congressman Crisp. Sud
denlyv Mr. Crisp arrives home and
the newspapers are flooded with
news items of how he is “attack
ing” Mr. Hudson.
Just before Mr. Crisp got home,
as ilf 1t was all planned to fit, one
Billy Parker, or some such name,
put out a little poison against Mr.
Hudson, not accusing him direct
1y but insuinuating that Mr. Hud
son had the sympathy of the
Catholics, when Mr. Hudson and
Mr. Crisp are both members of
the same religious denomination
and neither in sympathy with the
catholics—but how mean the lit
tle stab at Mr. Hudson.
Mr. Crisp next arrives home
and opens fire with his guns—on
Mr. Hudson. We read but little
of what he claims to have done in
Congress but plenty of news
items telling of his “attack” on
Hudson. His guns seem loaded
with almost nothing but “mud,”
and he fires them directly into
Mr. Hudson’s face—both barrels.
It looks like a “pretty kettle of
fish” that he has to resort to the
mud-slinging racket to hold his
high position as our congressman
from the third district.
The main thing Mr. Crisp
seems to be trying to prove
against Mr. Hudson is his charge
that Mr. Hudson was “incompe
tent” as State Commissioner of
Agriculture, and, therefore, by
inference at least, is “incompe
tent” to succeed Mr. Crisp in con
gress. Mr. Hudson’s friends
claim that he increased the efh
ciency of the oftice three hundrea
per cent with less than one hund
red per cent increase in cost, and
took more fertilizer samples for
the farmers than any previous
commissioner of agriculture ever
took—but Mr. Crisp argues that
he is “incompetent” just the same
and flings his “mud” right on.
Myr. Crisp and Mr. Hudson live
in the same city—Americus. The
writer happens to know a num
ber of prominent citizens in Am
ercius for years and can vouch
for the truth of the statement that
the people of that city have as
high regard and as much confi
«lence in the honesty and inte
grity of Mr. Hudson as they have
in the honesty and integrity of
Mr. Crisp. He may not have as
«listinguished father as Mr. Crisp
to give him a start in prominence,
but Mr. Hudson has dug out his
«own prominence in life by hard
licks m tilling the soil and the
loyalty of his friends.
Mr. Crisp and Mr. Hudson,
living in the same city—Americus
—they have evidently known
«ach other for years. Mr. Crisp
is a tawyer; Mr. Hudson is a far
mer. Mr. Crisp was judge of the
<ity court while Mr. Hudson was
state commissioner of agricul
ture. Living in the same city
and both so prominent, of course
they knew cach other; and, be
sides, Mr. Hudson calls Mr. Crisp
“Charlie,” and Mr. Crisp writes
Mr. Hudson as “Dear Tom.”
“Dear Tom,” wrote “Charke”
in March, 1912—just as “Dear
Tom™ was closing out several
successful years as state commis
sioner of agriculture and think
ing of running for governor—
“ Dear Tom :—Our mutual friend,
Mr. Lewis, called on me this
morning and advised me that you
sent me a message through him to
the effect tha tyou were for me for
<ongress and stood ready to do
anything in the world you couldl
for me.”
“I hasten to reply,” continues
“Charlie” to his “Dear Tom,” “to
«express my profound thanks and
:assure you that I am for
you for GOVERNOR and 1
stand ready to do all in my- power
for you, and have so written
iriends since your announcement.
“It is hardly necessary for .me
1o say,” in this same letter from
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“Charlie” to his “Dear Tom,” that
while T thought you would be a
candidate against me, that I nev
er said one unkind word about
you, but always said you werc my
friend.”
Just four years later now and
Mr. Hudson dares to run for con
gress. He proceeds to make a
clean race, with nothng unclean
said against “Charlie,” so far as
the prints or hearsay reveal. In
other words, Mr. Hudson had a
desire to run for congess and give
GGeorgia at least two farmers in
congress; he proceeds in a clean
way for months, as stated, and
we hear nothing said against Mr.
Crisp—not even an attack against
the congressman’s record nor lack
of record,
And so it remained for the man
im office, Congressiman Crisp, to
begin the mud-slinging campaign.
Some folks say it is an act of
weakness to depend upon the in
competency of your opponent
rather than the strength of your
own record—but Mr. Crisp seems
to think it best to belittle his
“friend” and fellowtownsman of
four years ago, that he then pro
posed to support for governor of
the entire state, but now attacks
as incompetent to represent a few
counties in Congress.
Mr. Crisp was evidently inex
cusably ignorant of Mr. Hudson’s
true worth four years ago, or he
is deliberately undertaking to
misrepresent him now. For, it
was “Dear Tom” then “for gov
ernor,” while it is anything else
now but “Dear Tom ;” and, so, in
this way “Charlie’s” friend of
four years ago—Mr. Hudson—
who protected the farmers with
more fertilizer samples and analy
sis than any other state commis
sioner of agriculture, suddenly
becomes “incompetent” in the
estimation of “Charlie”—since
“Dear Tom” happens to offer for
the seat in Congress occupied for
four long years by “Charlie,” and
who ought to have made a record
—considering he’s a “Parliamen
tarian”—to stand flat-footed on
his record, sintead of starting the
mud-slinging against his “Dear
Tom” he thought big enough for
Governor four years ago.
~ Mcanwhile Mr. Hudson has
been sick and in bed at his home
fin Americus. While his opponent
‘was unable to sit up, Congress
‘man Crisp has continued his at
tacks against Mr. Hudson. Two
years ago, Mr. Crisp lost a year
in congress, out west for his
health, and the argument was
used that it would be real cruel
to oppose a sick man; and so Mr.
Crisp was elected again—endors
ed if you please—without opposi
tion, and given two more years to
inake a record to stand on.
Usnally the mud-slinging starts
with the man out of ‘office and
wanting to oust the mah in offi-
Icc: and the man in office prefers
to stand on his record, if he has
;;my. and avoid mud-slinging, but,
‘in this case, the congressman, Mr.
Crisp, in office for four years and
should have a record to stand on,
starts the mud-slinging against
the “Dear Tom” he would have
supported four years ago for gov
ernor of all Georgia, as now unfit
to take his place and represent a
few counties in congress.
It really looks strange that Mr.
Crisp saw proper to pursue this
course of mud-slinging and of
making an attack on his opponent
and continuing it during the ill
ness of Mr. Hudson, rather than
assuming the higher plane of
campaign by depending upon his
record in congress, if in fact he
has made a record sufficiently
strong to stand upon.
Let the reader draw his own
conclusions of the whole matter.
These seem to be the facts of Mr.
Crisp’s own making, let the read
er reason it out. If the mud-sling
ing had not started this artcile
would not have been written.
However, serious doubt is ex
pressed if Mr. Crisp has gained by
starting his attacks; and, in
truth, he may have become some
what besmeared with the reflex
action of his own mud-slinging,
instead of ruining the chances of
his opponent, for election to con
gress, as he probably intended.—
The Cordele Sentinel.
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THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE'AND PRESS. FRIDAY. AUGUST 23, 1915
NOTICE |
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at their regular meeting held on
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Board of County Commissioners.
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