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Sanitary Board in his hands, it was
run absoltuoly free and independent
of polities; but I here throw down
the gauntlet to any one who wishes
to take it up and challenge them to
show one single specific act of the
Uve Stock Sanitary Board, or any
member thereof, while acting In his
capacity as a member of said Board,
having any semblance to partisan
ism. The charge thut the Commis
sioner of Agriculture ran the busi
ness of the Board, or any way used
the resources of the Board in the in
terest of any politician is false In
every word and sylable; for Mr.
Blakeslee never made an appoint
ment nor did he ever try to make
one for the Board.
• ' wvv ii v u»i ^rti til.11 a
majority of the members of the Lite
Stock Sanitary Hoard, a» constituted
before the Governor and Attorney
General were placed on it, were Gov
ernor Vardanian's supporters. This
is also false, for before this question
was ever raised by the peanut politi
cians and the partisan press of the
State, In my friendly social inter
course with the members, 1 had di
rect Information from the Individual
members of the Hoard, and while
two of them take absolutely no part
In politics and have made no public
utterances, the true political sympa
thies of the live members are. two
pro-Vardanian and threw* anti-Varda
nian No one whose mind was not
dwarfed by u desire for political
plunder would be likely to raise such
a question; but since it has been
raised, I desire to nail it as another
or those falsehoods, which have been
assidiouBly circulated to be-cloud the
teal issue: Is the Live Stock Sanitary
Hoard and its patronage to be turn
ed over to politicians to be used for
political plunder?
Xow these are the facts and in ad
dition there is the actual record of
two years' work to prove them; but
by way of contrast, let us look at the
record of Govenor Xoel during his
less than two months membership
on thi' Hoard. We have positive
proof that before lie had ever attend
ed a meeting of the Sanitary Hoard
and while the power to appoint all
Inspectors rested in Professor Smith,
by authority of the Hoard, he wrote
letters to several of his recent polit
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specifically, in the counties of Ben
ton, Lowndes and Tippah, where tick
eradication work is being done, ask
ing said political appointees to name
men whom he could have appointed
as Inspectors for the Sanitary Board,
and to show the motive behind this
action, it should be stated that he did
not fail to state In those letters that
the men named should be "friends of
mine" (the Governor). If all these
charges made by a few cheap politi
cians were true, which they are not.
It would not help the tick eradication
work in the least to be run in the
Interest of one political faction in
stead of another. We must insist
that In the future, as during the past
two years of the Sanitary Board’s
existence, it be run absolutely free
A CITY business man who sent his farmer brother a copy
** of “A Southerner in Europe", writes us as follows:
" Please note the enclosed bit, cut out of a
letter from my sister in reference to your book,
and note that my father, now seventy years
old, was much interested in it."
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read It from cover to cover without stopping—a whole day of delight
ful reading.” John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi says: "I read it night
before last and enjoyed it very much." Kx-Governor Aycock, of North
Carolina, aaya: "I read the last chapter of ’A Southerner in turope, the
other night, huvlng for the flrat time found an opportunity to look into
It. Having read the laat chapter. 1 turned back and took the book up
from the beginning, and nearly completed It before laying It down.
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of vital, throbbing facts about the big things all Southerners may
learn as to how Europeans work, live, and are governed.
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from any sort of partisan politics.
Another interesting misrepresenta
tion, made in an interview recently
published in the daily press, is, that
the Governor prevented the Sanitary
Board spending $2,500 a year for a
competent man to manage the affairs
of the Board and supervise the ex
penditure of the $40,000 recently ap
propriated by the Legislature, and
the funds contributed by the various
counties, which are also expended
under the direction of the State San
itary Board, amounting to probably
$40,000 more during the two years,
or $80,000 in all. Here are the facts:
The Board recognizes the necessity
of a competent man to manage the
affairs of the Board, and Professor
Smith, having been notified by the
President of the A. & M. College and
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of Trustees of said A. & M. College
of Truestees of said college, that he
would be removed from membership
on the Sanitary Board, the Board
passed a resolution to elect Professor
Smith as its competent field agent.
The Governor in no sense prevented
this from being done. The Board
did it and the only reason it was not
carried out was because it was found
to be unconstitutional for any man
to serve the State for money through
the action of any Board on which he
had served within one year.
Now, let us turn a little light on
the consistency of the Governor in
claiming that he prevented the em
ployment of a competent man and
saved (?) the State $5,000. On the
very day when the Board sought to
employ Professor Smith, the Gover
nor had one of his political hench
men present under the generally re
ported promise that he, the Gover
nor, would have him elected to th<
position to which the Board electee
Professor Smith. The only differ
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the Governor and that of the Sani
tary Board is that the former is re
ported to have promised to elect i
notoriously incompetent henchmai
to the position to which the Boart
elected the most competent man it
the State, Prof. Archibald Smith.
Again, let us point out another ex
ample of the Governor's Idea as sav
ing money to the State: He refused
to pay Professor Smith, $2,500 s
year to manage the expenditure of
$40,000 a year along lines for which
all admit him to be thoroughly qual
ified, and then, four days later, he
paid him more than $2,500 ($2,250
and free house in Greenville) a year
to manage an expenditure of about
$10,000 a year, along lines for which
all know he has no special fitness.
It may be asked how the Governor
expected to elect this member of the
Legislature to the position of Field
Agent of the Sanitary Board, when
he did not have control of the Board,
in that Professor Smith had not yet
been removed as a member of the
Board. The answer is, that the Gov
ernor did not expect Smith to be on
the Board at that meeting. He had
persuaded the chairman of the Sani
tary Board to postpone a meeting of
the Board from April 19th to April
30th, on the pretext that he could
not attend on the earlier date; and
on April 27th he had the Board of
Trustees of the A. & M. College call
ed together to remove Professor
Smith from the position as Professor
of Animal Husbandry at said College,
which would also remove him Trom
the Sanitary Board. Note these
dates. He had the Sanitary Board
meeting postponed from April 19th
to April 30th and on April 27th he
had the Board of Trustees called to
gether to remove Professor Smith.
Professor Smith was not removed
because the nerve of the Governor’s
henchmen on the Board of Trustees
failed them, when a few facts, new
to them, were given to them. This
Is the only reason that an incompe
v 1 o ; ^3
tent politician was not elected as
field agent of the Sanitary Board at
the first meeting the Governor at
tended. I submit to you, gentlemen,
as business men, if $2,500 a year is
too much to spend for a competent
man to supervise the expenditure of
$80,000 of your money?
The following is a plain statement
of the course which was followed in
removing Professor Smith from the
Live Stock Sanitary Board, in order
to give the Governor control of the
patronage of the Board for personal
political purposes: Early in the ses
sion the Governor sent a message to
the Legislature recommending that
the Live Stock Sanitary Board be in
creased by the addition of six new
members. Why six new members?
Plainly, because there were five al
ready on the Board and it takes six
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