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ENEMIES OF LEADER AT
TEMPT TO DISCREDIT IT
BY LYING PROPAGANDA;
- The enemies of the Leader and
. the cause which the Leader has
espoused have begun an insid
ious propaganda against the
_ Leader in an attempt to discredit
it. Afraid to openly oppose the
stand the Leader has taken and
to attempt to openly fight against
right and justice, these rascals
have resorted to insinuation,
whispered aspersions and back
handed lies to weaken its posit
ion and to make the unwary be
lieve that the Leader is a liar and
that its sources of news are liars.
The Leader'publishes here all
the data obtainable in the first
“attempi to discredit the Leader
and its friends by a direct charge.
Rgad the affidavits . below, all
sworn to by those who made them
You know the parties concerned
well enough to know who to be
lieve,
SOMEBODY HAS LIED!!!!
Who has lied we leave to the fair
judgement of our readers. Why
he has lied we leave to our read
er,s imagination. The only cer
tain conclusion that the ILeader
can draw from the following is
THAT THE LEADER HAS
NOT LIED BUT THATeSOME
ONE, OR SOME INTERESTS,
ARE DESPERATELY- IN
TENT ON TRYinG TO MAKE
IT APPEAR THAT THE
LEADER HAS LIED.
(From Fitzgerald Leader of
March 17th, 1921.) :
SAYS STRIKE BREAKERS
CUT TIRES OFF AUTO
Douglas Taxi Man Alleges
““Breakers” He Transported
e Damaged Car.
. A taxi driver from Douglas had
bad luck while in the shops yard
at Fitzgerald. He had delivered.
@n automobiie load of - strike
breakers to the A. B. and A. of
ficials in the shops and while he
was getting his bill okehed he
left his car inside the shops, and
on his return he found that the
strike breakers in the shops had
cut three of his tires entirely
from the car and punctured the
other one.
He passed through Fitzgerald
on three rims and one flat tire on
the way home. He stopped and
reported to Conductor A, M. Bar
rétt and said he knew too much
about the class of men employed
by the A. B. and A. oificials to
again ride them in his car. *
The taxi driver, according to
Mr. Barrett, was paid $l5 for his
trip and estimated the damage to
his tires at $90.00
Turner’s Denial
GEORGIA, Coffee County.
Personally appeared before me
E. D. Turner whe after being du
ly sworn, deposes and swears
that he has seen the article on the
front page of the Fitzgerald
Leader of the date of March 17th,
wherein it is stated that he (Tur
ner) claimed that the men whom
he carried to the shops of the A.
B. and A, railway at Fitzgerald
on the 16th instant, were the ones
who injured and damaged his car.
Deponent swears positively
that he has made no such state
ment; that he has not contended
that the men whom he transpor
ted to Fitzgerald injured his car,
but on the contrary this deponent
swears that his tires were cut by
a bunch of men, apparently out
laws that met him on the road
from Fitzgerald leading from the
A. B, and A. shops; that there
was a gang of ten or fifteen men
with flashlights stoed in the road
and waved this deponent down
with said flashlights, and after
making in%:niry as to where he
and the other men were going,
became énraged, and representegl_“
themselves as being union men
and cursed the parties.in the car
to being “Scabs” and every other
.thin tgat is in the vocabulary of
fioét of this description, and out
laws generally. e
That then and there -part of
gang were behind deponents car
‘and the air befi,n to come out of
the tires; thag he rushed on to the
shops as gtiick as he could and
upon his arrival investigated and
found the tires on the rear of his'
car had:been slashed with:a sharp
instrument to an extent that they
iy e et
s o om _ deponent d‘ d nog see
these union men cut said tires,!
and with- the threats they were
making against this deponent and
the people in the car with him,
together with the fact that the air
came out of the tires while they
were there where this bunch was.
these men are the ones that cut
his tires and the contention made
in the Fitzgerald Leader of the
date above mentioned to the effect
that this deponent stated that the
men who went with him on the
trip were the ones that cut his
tires, is absolutely without foun
dation; as a matter of fact, and
it is a contrary statement of the
-facts, and is done by the Fitz
gerald Leader either by being
misinformed by some other per
son or else a wilful statement of
something that is absolutely un
trul g L g
Deponent further swears that
he did not see Conductor A. M.
Barrett and does not know that
there is any such man living and
have never.had a conversation
with him or any other person, as
stated in the second paragraph of
the article contained in the Fitz
gerald Leader that “Deponent
knew too much about the class of
men employed by the A. B. and A.
Railway to again ride them in his
car.” ,
That if Mr. Barrett made this
statement it was done without
any statement of this deponent to
him at all, and a statement, if
he made, which the Fitzgerald
Leader claims he did, in the sec
ond paragraph of said article, did
it kowing it was absolutely false.
Deponent further swears that
Mr. Crosby, agent of the A. B.
and A. Railway. at Douglas, Ga.,
paid him £lO.OO for this trip and
that he wnas not been pait ary
amount for his tires, and @ "~
never made any statement .o
Barrett with reference to whai he
got from this trip or damage to
the car, and his statement as al
leged in the last paragraph of arti
cle in the Fitzgerald Leader of
March 17th, is totally false and
is absolutely without foundation.
Signed E. D. Turner.
Sworn and Subscribed before
me this 18th day of March 1921
E. L. Tanner, Notary Public,
State of Georgia.
| Barrett’s Affidavit
‘GEORGIA, Ben Hill County.
~ Personally came betore me A.
‘M. Barrett, who after being duly
'sworn, deposes and swears that
‘on March 16th, 1921, a taxi driver
'whom he did not know but whom
‘he since that time has reason to
‘belieye is one E. D. Turner, of
Douglas, dip\‘mte to depdnent,
in the presetice of others, that the
tires of his automobile had been
cut while his automobile was in
the premises of the A. B. anJ A.
railway shops and did, further
state to deponent that he helieved
said tires to have been cut by
strike breakers whom said . D.
Turner had transported inte said
premises.
Deponent further swears that
said E. D. Turner did state to
him, in the presence of third par
ties, that “he knew 1o much about
the class of men employed by the
A. B. and A. railway to again ride
them in his car,” or words to that
effect the purpose and substance
of which were quoted by the Fitz
ge;ald Leader, issue of March 17,
1421,
Deponent further swears that
if said E. D. Turuer Jdid at any
timé subsequent to March 16th,
1921, deny that he made this state
ment hereinbefore mentioned, or
did question the veracity of de
ponent in quoting him as he was
quoted in the Fitzgerald Leader,
that ‘'said E. D. Turner made
such denial knowing that such de
nial was absolutely false.
(Signed) A. M. Barrett.
« Sworn and subscribed before
me this 21st day of March, 1921,
Cathrine Blum, ¢
Notary Public, State of Georgia.
Supporting Testimony
GEORGIA, Ben Hill County:
_Personally appeared before me
T. M. Bradshaw who after being
duly sworn, deposes and swears
that ‘on March 16th he heard a
man whose name at that time he
did not know but whom he has
since had reason o believe is E.
D. Tuarner- of Douglas, Ga., a
taxi cab driver, tell third parties
that tires on his, said Turner’s
automobile had been cut while
said automobile was in the prem
ises of the Atlanta Birmingham
and Atlantic railway shops.
~ Deponent further swears that
‘the man whom he now has rea
son to believa is E. %,,‘Tumer of
‘Douglas, remarked further that
“it had cost him, about $9O worth
of tires to make $l5 from the rail
‘toad,” or words to that effect,
__ Deporient’ further swears that
if at ah&' time subsequent- t
March 16th, 1921, ‘he (Turner)
denied that he had stated that
said tires on said automobile
THE FITZGERALD LEADER TUESDAY, MARCH 22nd. 1621,
In The Listening Post
© »acrs, pioumes & moTion
Solicitor Boykin of the Criminal
Court of Atlanta, says that some mem
bers of the Police Commission, as well
as the Detective. Department has been
in league with the biggest set of
crooks that ever operated together in
the world. Now one of the hardest
things in the world to prove is that an
officer of the law is farming out devil
ment to a few favorites, and still every
sane man knows that it is going on in
some places smaller than Atlanta. You
can never make me believe that the
Game Warden of Ben Hill County did
not know of the dove shooting which
took place all over this county during,
the month of February, which is in
direct violation of the National law.
I supposed that he reasoned that be
ing a Federal law.the Federal author
ities should look after the matter, and
probably they will as they looked after
a crowd at Fort Valley last August,
As I have said before, until we can
get officers that will see that the law,
Federal, State and City is respected,
all the Civic Leagues and excitment
over the who shall be the next mayor
and aldermen will amount ~tolnotlxg.
Mr. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce
under ‘the Harding Administration, is
said to be working out the details of
a proposition looking to the gradual
merging of all railroads into one great
system. At first the roads will be un
der Federal control very much after
the manner of the war-time manage
ment, which will_in turn finally term
inate in the Government Ownership.
It is assumed that it will have the in
lorsement of President Harding, and
nefore Mr. Harding’s terin expires we
may see lots of things happen in the
transportation world, L
The last raise in wages of the rail
road employees went into effect May
Ist, 1920. The railway executives got
together and in substance told the In
terstate Commerce Commission that
in order to meet this increase in oper
ating cost it would be necessary to
have in increase in freight and passen
ger rates.. Practically the amount ask
ed for was given. Now we are told
that the wages must be decreased, but
no intimation of a decrease in rates,
Most assuredly it is time for us to
have railroad men at the head of our
transportation system instead of fi
nanciers.
were cut while said autdmobile
was.lin the Atlanta Birmingham
and Atlantic railway shops, said
Turner made such denial know
ing that such denial was in it
self a false and unirue statement.
(Signed) Tom Bradshaw.
\Sworn to and subscribed before
‘me this 22nd day of March, 1921.
‘Catherine Blum, Notary Public,
State of Georgia.
RAILROADS CANNOT BE
JUNKED—This gection. of
Georgia need have no fear of. los
ing the service of the Atlanta,
Birmingham & Atlantic Railway
permanently or for any great
length of time. The declaration
of Col. Bugg that the road might
be junked was made probably
for “moral effect” but it can go
no farther. 5
In spite of a great many things
that have happened, law 'is still
based largely on justice and the
United States really has law, al
though recently many people
have been led to wonder whether
law amounted to anything or not.
The Transportation Act is still
held to be valid and under that
act, railroad corporations are
bound to fulfill the contracts they
make with the public, with you
and me, when they accept a fran
chise to build tracks and operate
trains.
The provisions of the Trans
portation Act of Congress which
insure this section against the
“junking” of the Atlanta Bir.-‘
‘mingham and Atlantic railroad
follow: ; |
(18} After ninety days this para
graph takes effect no carrier by rail
‘road subject to this Act shall under-.
‘take the extension of its line of rail
road, orthe construction of a new
line of rajlroad, or shall acquire or
operate any line of railroad, or exten
sion thereof, or shall engage in trans
portation under this Act over or by
means of such additional or extended
line of railroad, unless and until there
shall" first havé been obtained from
the Commission a, certificate that the
!present‘ or future public convenience
and necessity require or will require
‘the construction, or operation, or
c(mstmfig and operation, of such
additional or extended line of rail
road, and no carrjer by railroad 'sub
ject to this Act shall abandon all or
any portion of a line of railroads, or
the operation thereof, unless and un
til there. shall first have ~been_ob
tained from the Commission a certifi
cate that the present or future public/
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA 1
OPEN TRADE |
I see from the news columns of the
daily newspapers that England has
perfected all arrangements for resum
ing trade with Russia. In this country
we are told that we can not trade
with Russia, because it has no gov
ernment that we can recognize as be
ing reliable.’ Many and conflicting
stories come out of Russia by way of
the censored press just as it used to
come by way of George Creel when
we were making that League of Na
tions at Paris, England sent a cém
mittee including two laboring men to
investigate the conditions over there,
and the result is stated above. Leave
it to fohn Bull to get the trade of the
world, when we have to wait on the
moticn of Morgan and his associates.
There is said to have been a.new
crop of Millionaires, money made dur
ing the war from all kinds®of graft
and high financing put up on poor
Uncle Sam. These one-dollar-a-year
patriots were a prolific bunch, and for
the next 100 years or longer we will be
paying their bills.
Most of us have finished paying our
taxes for 1920, Federal, State, County
and City, to say nothing of Street and
dog taxes. You doubtless realize that
taxes are now getting to be embar
rassing, and in a few years many
men will wonder why they cannot
meet their bills. K Look at your tax
receipts and you will find that taxes
are eating up your business while you
sleep. If a man hasn’t any money of
his own, he wants to get some office
where he can spend yours; and just
that kind of a duck usually gets in.
If you don’t believe they can spend it,
take a look at the State Highway Com
mission. We had a few good roads,
for an example, between here and
Ocilla. These are the ones the Com
mission is tearing up and building
over at enormous expense, and with
maxerial that has always been ques
tionable as to durability. This is only
an example, you see it everywhere.
The war started the world to spending,
without regard to value received, and
the time is not far distant when the
great producing class of this country
will force to the wall,
convenience and necessity permit of
such abandonment.
“(19) The appljcation for and is
suance of any certificate ~ shall be
under such rules and regulations as
to hearings and other matters as the
Commission may from time to time
prescribe, and the provisions of this
Act shall apply to all such proceed
ings. Upon receipt of any applica
‘tion for such certificate the Commis
sion shall cause notice thereof to be
given to and a copy filed with the
governor of each State in which such
additional or extended line of rail
road is proposed to be constructed or
operated, or all or any portion of a
line of railroad, or the operation
thereof, is proposed to be abandoned,
with the right to be heard as herein
after .provided with respect to the
%hearing of complaints or.the issuance
of securities; and said notice shall‘
‘also be published for three consecy
tive weeks in some newspaper of gen
eral circulation in each county in or
through which said line of railroad
is constructed or operates.
“(20) The Commission shall have
the power to issue such' certificate as
prayed for, pr to refuse to issue it, or
to issue it for a portion or portions
of a line of railroad, or extension
thereof, described in the application,
or for the partial exercise only of
such right or privilege, ‘and may
attach to the issuance of the certifi
cate such terms and conditions as in
its judgment the public’ convenience
and necessity may ‘require, From
and after issuanee of such certificate
and not before, the carrier by rail
road may, without securing approval
‘other than such cértificate, comply
‘with the terms and conditions con
tained in or attached to the issuance
‘of such certificate and proceed with
‘the construction, operation, or aband
!onmeut covered thereby. Any con
struction, operation, or abandonment
contrary to the provisions of - this
| .
‘paragraph or of paragraphs (18) or
(19) of this section may be enjoined
iby any court of competent jurisdic
tion at the suit of the United étates
‘the Commission, any commission’ or
regulating body of the State or States
affected, or any party in interest; and
any carrier which, or any director,
officer, receiver,. operating trustee,
lessee, agent, or person, acting for
or employed by such carrier, who
knowingly authorizes, consents to, or
permits any violatich of the provi
sions of this paragraph or of para
graph (18) of this section, shall upon
conviction thereof be punished by a
fine of not more than $5OOO qr by
imprisonment - for not- more than
three. years, or doth. . .~~~ "
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