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W. FRANK JENKINS
OF PUTNAM COUNTY
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beartily endecrsed by the Bars of
every County in his section and
whom those at home “who know
him” trust. sl
; FOUND THE DOG
While cating a winerwurst in
a Los Angeles restaurant a man
bit on a dog license tag number
ed 4413, which solved the prob
lem of what became of Miss Anna
Mcßride’s Scotch terrier, which
had been lost for three weeks.
When he saw it was a dog license
tag he started to clean out the
' place u‘n’d-&)'u police had to quell
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INEFFICIENCY CAUSES LOSS OF
OVER $10,000,000 TO PEOPLE
—F. P. Dobbs
Marietta, Ga.—E. P. Dobbs, state
senater from the 35th district, well
known and successful business man,
and a candidate for the office of comp
troller general, which includes insur
ance commissioner, before the voters of
Georgia in the primary of September
12, has issuved the following direct and
positive Mtatement to the people of
feorgia: ;
To the Public:
Since my announcement for the of
fice of Comptroller General and In
surance Commissioner my mails have
been flooded with complaints from cit
izens who havg_ been robbed, either as
stockholders, certificate holders or as
policy holders by some one of a dozen
different Life or Fire Insurance Com
panies organized in this State and
therefore under the inspeection and
control of the present-incumbent, W.
A, Wright, ;
So numerous and so pitiful did these
complaints become that I caused an
examination of the records of that
office to be made, and I am astounded
at what has been uncovered.
The Results Stagger Belief.
‘Why shouid any Insurance Company
be fraudulently organized, or if legal
ly' formed, be permitied to fraudulent
ly continne business while insolvent,
.to the hurt of our citizens? Which is
insufficient,—the Law or the Official?
Since 1887 the law requires $lOO,-
000 of money to be subscribed in good
faith and actually paid in before the
Company can do an insurance busi
ness. It gives the Insurance Commis
sioner the power to demand all pa
pers, exanmine under oath the officers
ofpthe Company, send expert account
ants to inspect every book and docu
ment and requires, under oath, an
nual reporis. What is wrong with the
Xaw?
Why then should the pecple of Geor
gia be cheated by cheap juggletry,
either through fraudulently omwganized
or fraudulently conducted Insurance
“‘ompanies?
Rut they have been to an extent
negialied in "ile history of any State.
JA}; af, the list of Insurance Com
nanges” that have been either fraudu
»liv organized or f{raudulently al-
Jowed to operate while grossly insolv
<ut, during the jPast ten years of W.
A, Wright’s mapagement.
_ Here It Is.
1. Rome Insurance Co. .$ 600,000.00
2. Cosmopolitan Life. . 667,700.00
3. National Assurance Co. 475,000.00
4. State Mutual Life . . . 1,500,000.00
5 Great Sou. Acc. &
maelity. . .. . o 2EGOOOOO
_ 6. Cherokee Life . . . . 1,300,000:00
7. The Empire Life . . 1,500,000.00
;CHILD TURNS RED AFTER
| SWALLOWING RIBBON
' Marion Holbrook, of Oil City,
Pa., is said to be dying from in
ternal poisoning after swallowing
a piece of ribbon several wecks
ago. Shortly after the little girl
swallowed the ribbon her neck
and breast began to turn red. Her
left arm took on a deep red color
and was affected by paralysis. So
«ar, physicians have peen unable
to give any explanation or offer
any relief tor the child.
MYTEHS OF HISTORY
Among myths that have passed
into history as veritable facts is
the story that George Wasington
never was known to utter an
cath. It is the truth of history
that when Washingion met Gen
eral Charles Lee retrcating before
the British at the battle of Mon
mouth, he flew into a violent pas
ston and bestowed on Lee a volley
of oaths that made the atmos
phere lunid.
Another myth is that Pocahon
tas, the daughter of the Indian
King Powahatan, married Cap
tain John Smith, whose life she
saved., ‘lhis is not tnue. She
married a man named Rolfe, who
took her to England and introduc
ed her at the Court of St. _];nnrs.}
and to the nobility of England, as
his Indian bride. |
THREW A ROSE AND GETS
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
A rose which Mrs. Clarence S.
Boothby, of Detroit, threw at the
feet of the late Mrs. Lizzie Merrill
Palmer when the former was a
little girl, brought a $lO,OOO be
quest, which the widow of form
cr United States Senator Thomas
\W. Palmer left Mrs. Boothby in
her will. The rose episode result
cd in an acquaintance which ri
pened into a warm close friend
ship as the years went by, and
continued until the death of Mrs.
Palmer. \
LANDS FOR SALE—Eleven
S-acre tracts, one half mile from
city limits; well improved. Ap
ply Leader-Enterprise. lmo
8. Atlantic Life . . . . 65,000.00
9. Cotton States Fire . 150,000.00
10. Co-Operative Agency
Cor o =, . . v 3,500,00000
11. American Life & An-
Huity: © soy o 0o 485.000.00
$10,427,700.00
A young, competent, active Insur
ance Cummissioner, mindful of his
trust, would kave saved te the peo
ple of this state .
Every Cent Of This Enormous Sum,
Isn’'t one million dollars a year rath
er a high price to pay for incompe
tency in office?
Each one of the Companies above
named finally drifted, grotesquely in
solvent, into the hands of the Courts,
—that last recipient of stranded
wrecks.
And The People Of This State Paid
: The Price.
Some of these Companies had been
examined and condemned by sub-offi
cials in his office. Others by impar
tial certified public accountants,
But these reports were never acted
upon, never disclosed to the public,
were kept from the official files of the
office and the Companies preyed on—
preyed impartially, greedily, ravenous
ly—preyed widely. Ask your neigh
bors how widely.
Yet these rotten hulks passed the
scrutiny of the present Insurance Com
missioner, W. A. Wright.
Their false reports of solvency car
ried to the people the sanctity of his
official approval.
How is one to estimate either the
magnitude or meaning of this loss?
Meney earned by hard teil, pennies
caved through the years-—all blegsed
with the desire to proteat the }1(:};‘)40 58
dependant ones. What has become ot
the $10,000,000 thus invested? What
have the people of this State to show
for it save bankrupt stock certificates
and more worthless life insurance pol
icies? How many common cheats
and swindlers promoting these Com
panies have been prosecuted—or even
sued? How much have the stockhold
ers and policy holders had repaid
them?
Ask Yourself Or Your Neighbors Who
Invested In One Of Them.
In your own community there is
some one who has suffered by the
most calamitous negligence of the last
decade. Ask him for the facts.
I will, through the daily press, give
to you the details of each of these
fake companies.
Watch for these and see if the time
has not come for a CHANGE IN
THIS OFFICE.
Regpecifully, E. P. DOBBS.
THr LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, MONDAY, =~ve¢®™:- 4 1016
TO FARMERS WHO WOULD
GO TO TOWN AND CITY
MEN WHO WOULD BE
FARMERS
This is written for just two
classes of men: farmers who are
tired of the farm and its hard
work, who believe the job of the
average city man is a snap, and
who are ready Yo sell out and
move to town: and city men who
are yearning for the _freedom
irom worry that they think goes
with farm life, who believe that
tarming is casy, that the sunshine
and the rain come just right, and
that the flowers are always
blooming and the birds are al
ways singing.
To the first of these, to the far
mer who is sick of his job and
would go to town, the best thing
vou can possibly do is to stick to
your knitting. Wages in the
towil may appear large, but the
cost of living is generally larger
still. The city man can barely
furnish his family with actual
necessities on a salary of §lOO a
month or less. Rent is to pay,
light, fuel, milk, vegetables, even
water to drink, have to be paid
for, and usually at prices that are
simply astonishing to the aver
age farmer.
On the other hand, the city man
who would farm too often has
failed to know and properly con
sider the factors that make for
success. He forgets that the sing
ing of the birds and the blooming
of the flowers go unnoticed by
the man who tramps - from day
light till dark behind a balky mule
through a rooty ground. When
boll weevils get the cotton or
drouth gets the corn, the poetry
of farming takes on a decidely
flat flavor.
Distant pastures always ap
pear greenest, and it is a human
failing to want what the other
fcllow has. At a distance we see
only the good things, the hard
‘and disagreeable appearing only
with intimate association. Of
course if a farmer is absolutely
certain that he can better his con
dition by goin¥ to town, if he is
sure that he is doing the best
thing by himself, his = wife and
‘chil(lrcn, if he feels sure he will
make moré money, increased ex
penses considered, find friends as
cood and work as useful, and that
his children in the town will be as
strong, clean, moral, healthy, hap
py, industrious men and women
as if kept in a country home, then
let him go.
Likewise to the town man who
would farm; the farm is a place
for hard work, and even at that
the average farm is yielding a low
return on the investment. If you
are determined to farm, ask your
self if you mind getting up at four
and five o’clock in the morning;
if you can spend the night doc
toring a sick horse or cow, smil
ing the while; if you keep your
temper serenc while the roots in
the new ground are flying back
and barking your shins, and the
plow handles are digging you in
the ribs; if you can look on while
drouth and flood, bug and worm
take your crops, your head
“bloody but unbowed.” If you
can do all these and a few hund
red others like them, then pos
sibly you have the “makings” of
a farmer in you.
I LEND FARMERS MONEY
S and 10 years Dbest
terms . J e E . TURNER’
Exchange National Bank.
A RETWISTED NURSERY
; RHYME
There was an old woman who
lived in a shoe,
Who had so many children she
didn’t know what to do;
So she learned them to sing, and
to dancé and be funny,
‘nd now they're in vaudeville,
earning big money,
Mr. ' v!—lfi TlT‘—_L‘T\_']—] -known
railroad man of Fitzgerald, spent
vesterday and part of today here.
—Albany Herald.
Casper Hide & Skin Co.
228-229 EAST PINE STREET.
WANTED TO BUY-OW
Clothes, pants, shirts, coats,
sheets, quilts, old cotton sacks,
burlap bags. Phone 306 and have
our dray come get your stuff. Al
so buying hides, scrap iron, metal
and rubber.
What Hon. J.T. Royal, Former Schley County
Representative Says About Tom Hudson
Ellaville, Ga., Aug. 15, 1916.
Hon. T. G. Hudson,
Americus, Ga.,
Dear Tom:
I am writing to assure you that
all of your friends in Schley
county are heartily in sympathy
with you relative to your present
sickness, and to doubly assure
you that vour cause in this coun
ty is being zealously guarded dur
ing vour illness.
Touching the various unscru
pulous issues that have been in
jected into the campaign by vour
opponent and his friends, [ feel
that it wouid not be out of place
for me in my feeble way to give
you my ideas of just how the peo
ple of your old home county are
receiving Mr. Crisp's unthought
of tirades on your past conduct
and record.
In the first place, the voters of
Schley county are too intelligent
to give consideration to a charge
based upon a legislative vote con
scientiously cast eighteen years
ago, even if such vote might not
be in accord with present-day
opinion. The people of Schley
county are not secking a Cong
ressman who displays no greater
ability than to plant his claims
for election on the questionable
mistake of his opponent, claimed
by him to have been made near
ly a quarter of a century ago.
Such .demogoguery, would dis
qualify President Wilson for the
humble office of Coroner. Be
sides, it is an casy matter for any
of us to look back and grow wise,
but it is not the man who can
only see things in the past that
we need in Congress, it is the man
that, to some extent, can see into
the future: and judging the fu
ture by the past, we feel that you
are the man to produce results
along this line. I'l’S RESULTS
BROUGHT CLOSE TO OUR
DOOR, that the people of Schley
county want; they have since be
come tired of the “back tracker,”
who comes around every two
years, JUST BEFORE ELEC
TION TIME, and offers them
nothing more than a list of MI
GHTY DEEDS the administra
tion has accomplished through
his direct influence, when in fact,
SUCH MIGHTY DEEDS are so
foreign to local needs and imme
diate interests that they absolute
ly fail to appease the appetite or
quench the thirst. ,
All manner of ugly things have
been circulated against you in
Schley, coming direct from Mr.
Crisp and his followers.
They report here that you have
“took up” with the Catholics. Of
course, this needs no denial on
your part; you have grown stron
ger by cause of this dirty, filthy,
little stinking unfounded and un
scrupulous act. Every body in
Schley knows that your church
membership is, and has been for
years, with the congregation of
the Andrew Chapel Church, in
this county, which can be verified
by reference to your Pastor, Rev.
S. A. Hearn, of Ellaville, Ga.
Mr. Crisp, I am reliably inform
cd, has seen fit to attack your
record as Commissioner of Agri
culture, charging that you were
incfficient and squandered large
sums of moncy by reason of your
inefficiency; this he rants at
length upon in a LOUD AND
DRAMATIC TONE, cries “IN
VESTIGATION OF YOUR
DEPARTMENT.” Now, I was
in the legislature at the time this
investigation was hatched up
against you, and every member
of that Legislature knew then,
and know now, that the whole
thing was hatched-up by Jack
Slaton to head you off from run
ning for Governor. You and your
iriends, myself included, invited
the investigation and insisted that
it be made at once; so that the
report of the Committee could be
made back to the then present
session ; but no! this wouldn’t fit
the plan according to the setting
of the political table;” the matter
just had to be deferred until after
JACK could be clected Govern
or: so the committee was given
their instructions to, at least, in
vestigate twelve months, and file
their report at the next session.
A dirtier piece of political history
was never recorded UNDER
THE DOME OF OUR CAPI
TOL.
Well, the investigation was
made4by an expert accountant
who was employed by YOUR
ENEMIES, and after he had
gone over the whole thing, the
only seemingly defect in your six
}_\'cars record, was that, a few
short term inspectors had failed
to turn in any samples during
their term of service ; but was this
an unusual co-incident? Surely
not, for it was shown that some
of the men were sick, and you
wouldn’t have FIRED A SICK
FELLOW, even to have saved
YOUR OWN JOB. It seems
that | have heard of some Con
gressman drawing their pay while
being on the sick list, and the
people of the 3rd district didn't
kick-up one bit about it, but in
stead, when the time came around
for re-clection, this same sick
Congressman, isaued his “PLAT
FORM OF AFFLICTIONS” and
mailed it out to the voters from
some point away out West, ask
ing them to give him another
trial, The }IC(IPI()’ ot of the
goodness of their hearts, aroused
by that sympathy which may al
ways be found among good peo
ple, granted the favor, and Mr.
Crisp 1s still drawing the same
salary. Congressman don’t sit on
the job all the time any way ;
they take recesses for months at
the time and the pay goes right
on. A guano inspector is not
expected to take samples every
day, anymore than a sheriff is ex
pected to make an arrest cvery
day when there has been no war
rant placed in his hands. No
man, not even Mr. Crisp, can tell
when a car of guano will hit a
given point; it's lable to turn up
most any old time, and in justice
to the farmer, the inspector
should be on the ground.
Not one cent of shortage was
shown, neither was there any in
timation of dishonesty or ineffi
ciency on your part; but, to the
contrary, this report will show
‘that during your entire adminis
tration the efficiency of the de
partment increased yearly, while
the expenses connected with the
same decreased yearly. If the
farmers of the Third District
could have the report of the audi
tor in this matter before them,
they could then learn, in no un
certain terms, all about your cffi
ciency in the department, the
progress and protection that your
administrati>n - made possible.
This report, coming from enc
mies, show due dilligence on your
part, by having guano inspectors
at all times stationed at logical
places throughout the state, that
the commercial value of all ferti
lizers greatly increased in Geor
gia under your administration ; it
further shows, and in so many
words says, “that due to the ac
tivity of your department by rea
son of a strict and universal sys
tem of guano inspection through
out the State, that the manufac
turers of commercial fertilizers,
in order to be sure and come up
to the requirements of the law,
has even gone further and given
the farmers more than the law re
quired.” |
In Schley county the farmers
don’t have te look to any source
for information with reference to
guano inspection, other than to
remember how generally their gu
ano was inspected while you were
commissioner. | am a farmer, as
you know, and use quite a little
bit of guano cach year, and T can
safely say, that so far as T know
not one sack of fertilizer that has
gone on my farm since your re
tirement from the Commission
er’s office has ever heen inspected,
To the best of my rccollection,
there might have been two or
three inspectors in Schley county
on perhaps as many occasions,
during the past three years. This
would look like the especially so,
when Ellaville is a rather Jarge
guano market, made so by rea
son of having a large guano man
ufacturing plant.
I understand Mr, Crisp, in con
nection with this, is criticising
you, all over the district for ap
peinting so many inspectors with
out attempting to show that it
was not necessary. He seems to
be MAD because you saw fit to
arrange the order of your guano
inspectors appointments so that
the farmer, himself, should fall
heir to the greater portion of the
moncy expended along this line.
[t is possible that Mr. Crisp has
become so greedy over the spoils
of public offige that it irritates his
refined nature to learn that any
portion of the same has fallen into
the path of the poor, old, forever
“HUMBUGGED” farmer. You
should ask Mr. Crisp how marty
dollars he has ever thrown in
their way, in order to make life
sweeter and their burden easier.
He has only bheen able to acquire
jurisdiction of the dispensing of
two positions since his advent in
to Congress, touching affairs in
Schley county; one a post oftice
appointment ; the other a statisti
cal agent to count the cotton our
farmers make, and in both of
these instances his town friends
were selected to fill the places.
The Tast mentioned position, that
of “cotton counter,” fell into the
hands of his present campaign
manager, who is a merchant and
also Tax Receiver of the county.
None of us, however, have ever
criticised him for these appoint
ments,
Mr. Crisp misjudges the farm
ers of Schley, if he is of the opin
ion that they are mad with you
about being able and willing to
give them those jobs while you
were Commissioner. In fact this
new ORDER OF THINGS were
as a revolution to us all; we had
never received anything that we
could so completely realize from
a public office before, and sorrow
fully we bemourn the fact that we
have received nothing since your
retirement from public life.
That’s why we are going to put
you in Congress—\WOßDS ARE
EMPTY, RESULTS-COUNT.
I have written you at length be
cause | wanted you to more fully
realize than ever before, just
what I, and hundreds of other
friends here think of you, and the
methods by which Mr. Crisp is
seeking your downfall.
Mr. Crisp wouldn't dare come
to Ellaville, and make his usual
tirade on your reputation and
character, like he is spouting all
over the district wherever he
thinks the people don’t know you
so well. If he were to, some of
the few followers he has in this
county would desert him, his
present campaign manager in
cluded, for he, in all reality, is
your friend. ,
We all know your IMPLICIT
HONESTY OF PURPOSE; we
know. that you never refused a
call in your witale life, in office
or out of office, wh.}n tie interest
of a friend, or anyone efse’s
friend, was hanging in the bal
ance; we know that CHARITY,
THE SWEETEST A VIRTUE
KECORDED IN HOLY WRIT,
has ever received a bounteous
extended hand when knocking at
your door; we know that you
have on number of occasions gone
dowrt in your pocketbook and own
Ihdrated the wayward son from
priseit w.lls, in order that the
old, broken-hearted mother
might rejoice at the return of the
child. In fact it is commonly
known and conceded that, wn
any of us in Schley county want
anything done that we can’t do
ourselves, we always call on Tom
Hudson, and results follow, and
that’s the thing that counts, after
all
Indeed, it would be a burden
some task to convince the people
of Schley, that Tom Hudson is a
bad man, and one that the people
could not trust.
Vihat 1 have written comes di
rect from the heart, and will re
ceive the sanction of our entire
citizenry, At
You have my unqualified per
nassion to use this letter in any
way you may see fit. This is one
race, above all, in which I have no
secrets to conceal,
With best wishes for your
speedy recovery and trusting that
vour majority may exceed even
your expectations, I beg to re
main,
Your friend,
J. T. RO¥AE.
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I WRITE FIRE INSUR=-
ANCE
ln old, strong compa
nies, I don't - riRE
young companies. i
J. E. TURNER, at
Exchange National Bank
W. RAINE
222 EAST PINE STREET gl
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