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in making a recommendation I have been able to 

 follow their advice. Am I not right in saying that 

 the Federal office-holders whom I have appointed 

 throughout your State are, as a body, men and 

 women of a high order of efficiency and integrity? 

 If you know of any Federal office-holder in Georgia 

 of whom this is not true pray let me know at once. 

 I will welcome testimony from you or from any 

 other reputable citizen which will tend to show that 

 a given public officer is unworthy; and, most em- 

 phatically, short will be the shrift of any one whose 

 lack of worth is proven. Incidentally I may men- 

 tion that a large percentage of the incumbents of 

 Federal offices in Georgia under me are, as I un- 

 derstand it, of your own political faith. But they 

 are supported by me in every way as long as they 

 continue to render good and faithful service to 

 the public. 



This is true of your own State; and by applying 

 to Mr. Thomas Nelson Page of Virginia, to Gen- 

 eral Basil Duke of Kentucky, to Mr. George Craw- 

 ford of Tennessee, to Mr. John Mcllhenny of 

 Louisiana, to Judge Jones of Alabama, and Mr. 

 Edgar L. Wilson of Mississippi, all of them Demo- 

 crats and all of them men of the highest standing 

 in their respective communities, you will find that 

 what I have done in Georgia stands not as the ex- 

 ception but as the rule for what I have done through- 

 out the South. I have good reason to believe that 

 my appointees in the different States mentioned 

 and as the sum of the parts is the whole, necessarily 



