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HOLLY SPRINGS, Aug 1913, 1915
Gentlemen,


| acknowledge the receipt of
your communication Of July ooh ult., act>
ing as commu,ee appointed by the Me-
chanics Association of Marshall County.
'propoundng certain questions in regard
10 my views and opinions touching the
present system of convict labor as at pres
sent pracliced in the penitenliary of our
State.


Entertaining the views now that. | have
always doae heretofore, as one of The mem>
befs OF the Democratic party, acting as the
servant ofthe people in representative ca
pacity that they have the inqaestionable
right to ask and demand the opinions oil
the various candidates upon all questions
of public policy. yield to none with more
pleasure than in giving my views to a
class ofmy fellow citizens so useful, in.elli-
gent and respectable, as the Mechanics oil
our Country.


The position they occupy in the country
can never fail to attract my notice and elic-
il my admiration. and when | contemplate
the great good they have done and are now
doing in the various Improvements in the
arts and sciences, can entertain no other
sentiments. than 70 protect their interests