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HOOD-PRATT BASKET PICNIC
On Farm of Wm. H. Wallace
To the Democratic Tax-payers of Jackson County:
We are passing through the most trying epoch in the history of our county.
A gang of
free-booters, who have robbed the tax-payers for over a decade are in the saddle. Their cor-
rupt methods are without a parallel in the history of our state. They have eclipsed the reign of
public plunder that obtained in our state just after the Civil War. They take the people's money
and debauch our elections. In secret caucuses they pick our candidates for our offices, in whose
selection the honest voters of the county have had no voice. Those placed in charge of the pub-
lic revenues obey the mandate of the corrupt masters who have made them and the work of rap-
acity mis-appropriation and embezzlement goes on. Conditions have at last become intolerable.
For more than a year I have constantly suggested that the tax-payers of Jackson County
ought to organize and put an end to this shame to our reputation and civilization to say noth-
ing of the tremendous and increasing burden of taxation being placed upon our people, but so
far nothing has been done.
On my own responsibility and initiative, therefore I hereby donate my farm, lying about
mid-way between Lee's Summit and Blue Springs to the tax-payers of Jackson County both in
city and country to be used by them on Saturday, July 26, 1924, for the purpose of holding a
county and city wide BASKET PICNIC, that we may consult together organize and fight to the
end the enemies of honest government in our midst. All who know my farm are agreed that no
cooler nor more beautiful place can be found anywhere than the 150 acre woodland pasture, just
south of my house. All are invited to attend, especially the noble women of our county.
I have given much attention to County matters for a number of years, especially during the
tenure of the present County court, and I shall answer the outrageously false claims now being
made as to what has been done for the county by this Court. I shall use facts and names and shall
tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I
expect
to
procure
some
of
the
best
speakers, women and men, in city and county.
Mrs. Henry L.Ess, R. L. Hood, Judge Pratt, Judge E. W. Hayes, Judge John I. Williamson,
Ex-Supreme Judge, Attorney L. T. Dryden, and others will speak.
Wm. H. Wallace
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