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THE NEWS RECORD
Marshall. N. C, Nov. 1, 1934
Mr. Freeman Asks Mr. Herschel If He ( Mr. Herschel Vis Go-
ing Tip Again Furnish Free School Books
Like Me
FREEMAN H6LDS A 1932 MADISON
nrl IMTV TIMES IN WHICH MR. HER
SCHEL ADVERTISED HIS PRE-ELECTION
BROKEN PROMISES TO THE VOTERS, O
VER HIS OWN SIGNATURE.
FREEMAN ALSO HAS A COPY OF MR.
HERSCHEL'S LAWS IN 1933. THESE LAWS
HAVE AND WILL FORCE EVERY DELIN
QUENT TAX PAYER'S FARM IN MADIMJIN
COUNTY TO BE SOLD FOR TAXES, in order
that SHERIFF GUY can serve the papers AND
DRAW ALL THE FEES IN ADDITION to the
sum of $607.65, the Sheriff has been drawing
.11 1 .sj milaaora Kirlfft
montniy in salary, expciwc, auu
Mr. Herschel's other officers and henchmen, who
ill r.l 1. f lLno.agrn I K. 111)11..
will Deneni largely irom mc j v
00 cost and interest that j?oes wrth the Herschel
FORCED LAND SALES FOR TAXES.
THERE IS POOR OLD JETER, whom
Herschel tried to Legislate a salary of $2400.00 J
annually, or two hundred dollars per montn.
That looked too much like ROTTEN POLITICS.
The Committee put THE "HERSCHEL-JETER
BILL TO SLEEP". But Herschel ought to be a
ble to get it by this time and in addition MAKE
JETER COUNTY MANAGER at a salary of
$5000.00 annually to even up with Jeter.
MR. HERSCHEL, I HAVfcBWUKtML
YOUR BROKEN 1 932 CAMPAIGN
PLEDGES:
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FIRST: Where are the FRLL rutSLiL,
SCHOOL BOOKS you promised in 1932?
SECOND: Why was it that you neglected
to carry out your promise to w3,pe the laws off the
Statute Books (that reduced taxes from $2.20 on
the hundred dollars to $1.55) ?
THIRD i Why did you approve the law un
der vWctff
ed, after promising to repeal themx
lime all consumed in passing Legislation to fat
ten the Sheriff and your other henchmen and de
stroying the homes of widows and orphans?
FOURTH: You said you favored reducing
officers' salaries. WHY DID YOU PROV1UL
frr.lv and all the fees for Sheriff
Vfff W W M.M.M
"GUY"?
FIFTH: Why did you try to RAISE JE
TER'S SALARY TO $2400.00 ANNUALLY?
What, if anything, had JETER DONE FOR
YOU, or what, if anything, DID YOU EXPECT
HIM TO DO? ROTTEN POLITICS
THAT'S ALL.
SIXTH : You climbed high and said you fa
vored tax reduction by State Wide Legislation.
Why was it that you didn't attempt to introduce a
State Wide Measure?
YOU WERE A BIG LEGISLATOR while
msVW all these Dromises in 1932, weren't you,
Mr. Herschel? Were you deliberately fooling
the folks to get Votes, or was it bad judgment on
your part? Doesn't look much like bad judgment
as you were a wheelhorse Legislator when it
came to passing Legislation, that is now allowing
30c only per day to pay for the beans.that are fed
to the poor old folks at the County-Home and al
lows the Sheriff, YOUR GUY, 60c a day on
which to feed the criminals' and in addition pay
for turnkeys, etc. But your "GUY" is one of the
"BIG BOYS" like Charlie t)awes, who had 80
Million Dollars handed to him for his Banking
Institution. -. .iis-- ;
When a Legislator reduces taxes in Madi
son County, it has been customary for you and
your henchmen to jump on and brand him as a
traitor, a rascal and a scounarei, put wnen you
passed your ROTTEN POLITICAL Legislation
for the "mii UU i uiey say, vote listraignu xi
is natural for your officers that you fattened to
stick. THEY OUGHT TO STICK FOR YOU.
DON 9 T S A Y ROTTEN LEGIS
LATION A N Y MORE , M R. HER
SCHEL. " YO U R S W A S T H E
LIMIT."
Your Commissioners only gave Sheriff Bur
nett 40c per day oh which to feed prisoners, but
he was a Democrat-M;hat accounts for it.
SEVENTH i I note that yoH promised the voter to
call a great maas meeting before you proceeded to the 1933
General Assembly in order to find out, the wishes of the taxpay
ers. I am not sure whether you called any or not. If you did,
Mr. Guy and Mr. Jeter and the other officers whom you legislat
ed for must have been your audience.
EIGHTH: I note. you talked about a Representative
taking advantage of the taxpayers, (and reducing their taxes).
In this connection I want to quote one of your sentences as fol
lows: "It is my honest conviction that a man who betrays the
confidence of his fellow men who select him to represent them
in any law-making body is as vile a traitor as any man who be
trays his Country or has Flag." That is mighty fine talk, Mr.
Sprinkle, but what of your vile and VICIOUS RECORD. ALL IN
BEHALF OF JETER AND GUY and the Tax Collectors?
What of your broken promises and your rotten politics ? In
1932 you were telling the taxpayers "that their burdens had al
ready reached the unendurable", when IN FACT THE TAX
RATE UNDER DEMOCRATIC LSGISLATION WAS FAR BE
LOW WHAT IT HAD EVER BEEN DURING YOUR LIFE OR
MINE EITHER, and yet ypu were poking jokes at the delin
quent taxpayers about doing something for them to stop their
Somes from being placed on the block and being sold for taxes,
but you approved closing out homes, so your henchmen could
get the spoils.
Mr. Herschel, did you have it in your head, when you
wrote those hot promises in 1932, in order to catch votes, that j
you were going to Raleigh and vote for Legislation to immedL I
ately put every delinquent taxpayer's home on the block for
sale, and at that time did you intend to pass Legislation to give
the Sheriff mileage, expense, and salary in the sum of $607.65,
and in addition thereto, Mr. Sprinkle, did you intend for the
Sheriff to serve the final summons on the delinquent taxpayers
and draw all the fees for said service, in order that the homes
of delinquent taxpayers might change hands? In other words,
into the hands of your fat officers, simply on their paving the
tax and cost? That is what you did. YOU CANNOT DENY
IT. Your laws are in the acts of the last General Assembly,
and the suits have been started and will be to the tune of about
three thousand, and your henchmen will profit from the calam
ities of the delinquent taxpayers in the sum of about $18,000.00.
After your broken promises and after vour laws to
MAKE THE POOR AND DISTRESSED POORER AND THE
BIG BOYS RICHER, I just want to ask you if YOUR OPINION
AS TO A TRAITOR HAS UNDERGONE A CHANGE SINCE
YOUR LAWS WERE ENACTED ? f refer particularly to your
remarks which I quoted above. IF YOUR OPINION IS UN
CHANGED ABOUT A TRAITOR YOU OUGHT TO WITH
DRAW FROM THE RACE.
I call upon you and every taxpayer in Madison Coun-i
tyto read your campaign pledges of 1932, land thenTead . your.
Jt OFF fu VAtfl writ w ' Inuct . M9ew t s tnr.1
I vw HMva. ju U1C Uklicr 1IBUU, JfUU LU111CU JUlr tu uc a
FRIEND OF THE OFFICERS and A VILE and VICIOUS EN
EMY OF THE DELINQUENT TAXPA YERS. Your signed ar
ticle in 1932 and your ldwB in 1933absoluteIy prove my con
tentions. )
What promises are you making the taxpayers this
year? Are you going to give them free school books again?
Are you going to reduce taxes and property again by State
Wide Legislation? After you did NOT even ATTEMPT TO
INTRODUCE A STATE WIDE BILL. The fact of the matter
is, YOU ARE NOW DENYING RESPONSIBILITY OF STATE
WIDE MEASURES AND FOR PUBLIC LOCAL MEASURES.
Bro. Sprinkle, you surely have got your promises to the POOR
UNFORTUNATE TAXPAYERS and YOUR LEGISLATION
FOR THE OFFICERS MIXED UP. In 1932 you spoke of such
as irauorism ! '
Our County is largely Republican and of course vou
expected the boys to believe what you told them and made your
campaign largely on the laws that had stopped bonds and re
duced taxes in Madison County and evidently THEY BELIEV
ED YOU,. EVEN THO THEIR TAXES HAD BEEN REDUCED.
They voted for you and you certainly did give the delinquent
taxpayers a pain, for the benefit of GUY, JETER, AND OTHER
OFFICERS.
Now, Mr. Herschel, L want to further look into your
Legislative acts and promises and your last week's article m the
News-Record, IN WHICH YOU PLEAD GUILTY. In last
week's article you hid behind STATE WIDE LEGISLATION
AND DENIED ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL THE FARMS
OF THE DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS OF MADISON COUN
TY BEING FINALLY ADVERTISED FOR TAXES UNDER
YOUR LAWS. Two years ago you. were telling the people that
you were going to give them relief by State Wide Legislation.
In the 1933 Legislature you were like Peter when they Crucified
Christ YOU STOOD AFAR OFF FROM THE TAXPAYERS
AND WARMED YOUR HANDS BY THE FIRES OF SHERIFF
GUY AND JETER AND OTHERS,; and NEVER KNEW THE
TAXPAYERS! You didn't even call the taxpayers to Raleigh,
but MR. GUY WAS WITH YOU and your ARRAY OF ATTOR
NEYS. Two' weeks ago I ask you if the County paid your At
torneys? If not, who did pay them? Think of your promises
two years ago. Think of the condition you have placed the
taxpayers in, .including widows, orphans, under ypur oppressive
Legislation for Mr. Guy, to serve the last notice on delinquent
taxpayers, to take from them the title to their homes, and at
A.1 A ? 3 AMABV .1 m mm .m -
me same lime araw tbUf.bo montniy ana all the fees and mile-
age. , xou as a Republican and on the ticket, in 1932, YOUR
PROMISES WORKED WELL. If the taxpayers of Madison
County want to vote for a man just because he is a Republican
to destroy them like you did and elect you again, IT IS NO
MATTER WHAT i YOU DO FOR THEM. Who of the delin
quent taxpayers thought, from Mr. Herschel's promises, to en-
aci isiate wide legislation in 1933, that he would come back
home and deny responsibility for ALL STATE. WIDE LEGIS
LATION; WHATSOEVER ? Everyone knows Mr. Herschel's
laws in the 1933 Legislation were against the taxpayers and
plainly in favor of the officers AND HIS HENCHMEN. Mn
Herschel, you know what was said about a rich man, a camel
and the eye of a needle, and you know what the rich man re
quested after he reached his final destination. . Now you are
pleading and begging the taxpayers you oppressed, TO ' DIP
TIMS TIPS OF THEIR FINGERS IN WATER AND COQW
iuuttcfiuw wuHUjiKMuat vuiis, so you can go back to
THIS PAGE IS POLITICAL ADVE RTfStNG FOR F.v E. FREEMAN
Raleigh and IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE TRAITOR THE
VOTES ONCE MORE.
. It looks like you have got the Sheriffs salary high e
nough, but there is Jeter to be taken care of, and others of your
henchmen that want more County Tax moneys. , ,
Then there are the notes in the banks fofmoney hor
rowed on uncollected taxes' and theTmon'ey collected and spent
rnAdf ni!8?, BIG B0YS expect you TO AGAIN VAU,
PtSLF!?, ILLEGAL ACTS OF THE COUNTY COMMIS
SSSdP9ER EG 'TO ISSUE AN
2ER ,NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH O F
rt.c111JWH1CHTOPAY OFF THOSE NOTES AND
urflCEKS, and current expenses. , You and your Commission
ers are smart. They got by the State Law and the County Law
to stop bonds, but the Banks are innocent purchasers of those
illegal notes and the taxes have been collected since, and it will
be necessary for you to recite in the nreamblo nf vr Riii that
the County Commissioners have been zealous and very saving
in borrowing money on uncollected taxes and pray the Legisla
ture to VALIDATE THEIR ILLEGAL ACTS AGAIN.
Mr. Sprinkle, you and your crowd need the Sinking
iMind so you can dip into them again just like the records show
that your crowd have done to pay the officers.
Mr. Herschel, everybody knows that you and your of
ficers and BIG BOYS are mad as a bulldog because the Sinking
Funds are safe and in the County Treasury and protected by
Government bonds and cannot be spent to pay off the officers,
h red help, etc. Tax Pavers, look the fpllnwo nvor thai- oira
chomping the bits and waving the red flag. Vote for Mr. Her
schel in the Republican ticket and see if you with your taxes
have not helped in past vears-TO FATTEN TTTF!M Mr Her.
scnei, irom the array of Legal advisers you had in Raleigh, and
from the mixed multitude of henchmen vou had nn hanH r am I
inci ted to ask you if you were NOT TRYING TO PLAY AS A
UEiJviutivA 1 ; In 1932 it appeared that Mr. Sorinkle was iro
ing to examine personally every taxp-'er in the County and
prescribe for him, but it looks like from his Legislation that he
oniy examined the Sheriff, Register of Deeds and the officers
ana prescribed for them, and he also prescribed for the delin.
quent taxpayers, and about three thousand of them are feeling
me enects oi tne Sprinkle Legislation under the guise of being
a Republican and GOING TO ADMINISTER TO THE NEEDS
Uf ltlK TAAfAYEKS. !
Mr. Herschel, you askd me about the tax collector.
That Is exactly what I thought you would do ! HE IS YOUR
TAX COLLECTOR. You are the last man that served in the
General Assembly. You said you were gomg to repeal the law
unaer wnicn fle was elected, and abolish him with State Wide
Legislation, but it appears that it took all your time to take care
of Sheriff Guy and Jeter and the other officers, and take away
from the farmers their homes by your corrupt Legislation : then
come back home and RUN AGAIN and ASK THEM TO VOTE
FOR YOU, SO THAT YOU CAN GO DOWN AND JOY YOUR
SELF; There it is again your asking me "about taking away
the liberties of the County Commissioners. YOU DID IT.
YOTi WERE THE LAST'MAN IN THE LEGISLATURE. AND I
LOOK FOR YpiPTQ DpNTHAT BEFORE THIS BUSINESS
ISWERITH,"becusy6tf Wadtfall tinti & fafcpromiseB in
i33z, ano DroKetnem. jnow you are DENYING ALL KE
SPONSIBIUTy: WHATSOEVER. Mr. Herschl, from your
premises and -from yo'ur Legislation it appears to me that you
are a BAD ACTOR IN A SMALL COUNTY, bat you didn't
make your promises stick in 1932. In 1938 you passed Legis
lation to fatten the officers and take farms away from hundred's
of those good Republicans who believed you and voted for you.
Mr. Herschel, you said you were in DEEP SYMPA
THY with the taxpayers. I believe you made a DETERMINED
EFFORT a few years ago TO VOTE A BIG BOND ISSUE, ON
MADISON COUNTY, to be paid by the taxpayers. DIDN'T
YOU?
Mr. Herschel, you mustn't get sore about the promises
you.made in 1932, and the corrupt Legislation you passed in
1933. YOU DID IT. It is just a matter of shoving the facts
up to you, so you can think them over and MAKE MORE
PROMISES and DENY WHAT YOU REALLY DID, and try to
scandalize democratic laws passed in 1931 THAT - DIDi RE
DUCE TAXES. When Democratic laws gave the lowest tax
rate IN THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, you fought the
Larder to get in the ASSEMBLY and put out to your vicious
henchmen mileage, expense, and big salaries. THE BEST
THING you could put out now IS TO TELL THAT GUY, JE
TER AND OTHERS OF THE BIG BOYS HAD KIDNAPPED
you and would not let you carry but your promises. And in
making additional promises won't you please tell the voters
that you want to take the Sinking Fund out of the bonded
Treasurers, where they are protected, with Government bonds 1
deposited? Won't you tell the voters that you want to take j
THE MUZZLE OFF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS so that!
they can again RAID THE SINKING FUND and take another
eleven thousand dollars with which TO PAY THE SALARIES
AND OTHER CURRENT EXPENSES? You favor that right
along, don't you? i
I note that you ask me about how I favor Madison
County beuig represented in the' General Assembly. It appear8
that if you are there AND GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES TO
ASK THE LORD TO HELP YOU RAISE FUNDS FOR THE
OFFICERS, that you don't, want anybody from Madison Coun
ty TO BE PRESENT. That sounds fishy to me and here are my
i- . t. t i - a - i . l ;
scuk 'iueiiis; u i am eieciea I am extending you an invuauon
to visit the General Assembly and bring all your friends and
my friends and your enemies and mine, and all the women and
children and STAY THERE ALL THE TIME THE SESSION
LASTS, as you will be welcome, each and every one of you. in
my house, lr I AM A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE. If I attempt
to pass any such Legislation as you passed FOR THE BIG
BOYS, I WANT YOU TO LYNCH ME AND BURY ME FACE
DOWNWARD, QUICK.
"You ask me ' how I am going, to manage, tax fores
closure laws." If you had asked me that when you were in the
Legislature and had acted upon my advice, most of the farms in
Madison County would not today be advertised FOR SALE
FOR THE TAXES. HERE IS THE WAY TO DO IT. : Stay ex
ecution FOR A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS OR FOR AS LONG
AS THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO FEED AND CLOTHE MHv
UONS OF PERSONS WHO ARE ABSOLUTELY UNABLE TO
PAY THEIR TAXES. It is no ul in taking the farms ,away
from the farmers and letting the County hold them and do
without the taxes and there is no use in. letting the County, UN
DER. YOUR LAW, sell these delinquentiaxpayecs' farms and
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