Second. —You say I am in favor of
the present rural credit law, and that
I base my right to re-election on that
issue. In this you are very much
mistaken. The trouble with your
understanding my record is the fact
you refuse to investigate it and as
certain the facts. Instead of per
sonally investigating my record you
employed a stranger to the people of
this district to make a record of mo
and paid him S9O for same, which
record you know, as well as does that
man Carpenter who compiled it for
you in Washington, is not a Correct
record.
Your campaign manager, Boozer
Payne, stated in an open letter to the
Scimitar, a newspaper in Abbeville,
South Carolina, May 12, 1916, that
he secured the record from one Car
penter in Washington “solely for my
THE JEFFERSONIAN
friend Mr. Brown, candidate for Con
gress,” a copy of which letter I have
in my possession. There has been no
controversy over the fact that you
paid Carpenter SSO for same. That
is also admitted in writing, which I
have in my possession. *
You are now circulating a list of
bills introduced by me, and you tell
the people in this pretended record
that none of these bills passed. You
state that bills separately and say of
each, “not passed.” For the purpose
of showing the published misrepre
sentation of the facts, I will expose
this record by showing your errors
on nine out of the first eighteen you
published in this record and say “not
passed.”
The bills for the election of Sena
tors by the people, Parcel Post, 801 l
Weevil, Marine Corps or Plucking
Board, are all general legislation.
