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Updated: June 16, 2025
"It's one thing to encourage enterprise in this state it's another thing to be everlastingly paying rake-offs to local promoters who grab a franchise when we're not looking and then hold us up. I don't want to hurt the Danburg men. But my stockholders expect certain things of me and it's about time men in this state understand that we propose to control the water question.
"Seventeen, Colonel Dodd. Five for real business; twelve of them are sponges." "The five?" "Chief Engineer Snell of the Consolidated, Dr. Dohl of the State Board of Health, the three promoters of the Danburg Village Water system." "Send in Snell." Engineer Snell did not sit in the presence of his president, nor did the president ask him to sit. "Briggs tells me the Danburg men are here."
Colonel Symonds Dodd feared the Honorable Archer Converse. It was hinted that the Danburg case would involve charges of conspiracy with intent to restrain independents, and would be used to show up what the opponents of the Consolidated insisted was general iniquity in finance and politics. Colonel Dodd outwardly was not intimidated. He sent no flag of truce. He decided to intrench and fight.
Toombs, in response to an invitation, wrote a conservative letter to his constituents in Danburg, Wilkes County, Ga. It bore date of December 13, 1860. The General Assembly of Georgia had unanimously passed a resolution calling for a State convention to meet on January 16, 1861. Mr. Toombs took the ground that separation, sooner or later, was inevitable.
My report to Stone & Adams showed that the Danburg plan of levels is faulty, that their unions are not up to contract, that their station and pumps are inefficient for the demands. So Stone & Adams had to tell 'em that their bonds were turned down." "Do you know whether they have tried another banking-house yet?" "I don't believe they have had time, Colonel." "But such fellows always do try.
Danburg is going to choke you if you try to swallow it. We are only countrymen, and we know it. You have always done all the bossing and threatening in this state up to now. But I tell you, Colonel Dodd, there comes a time when the rabbit will spit in the bulldog's eye. If we three go out of this room in the same spirit in which we came into it something will drop in this state.
There is only one proposition I can make to you and that's strictly in the line of my business. If you are tied up financially are at the end of your resources and must have help I'll give you my aid in getting the Consolidated to take over the Danburg plant at a fair valuation." "Is that the best word you've got for us?" "I have made you an honorable business proposition."
If we're peddling typhoid fever in spite of what our analyses tell us, then we'll go ahead, of course, and clean up." Colonel Dodd was willing to acknowledge that much to himself, surveying his countenance in the mirror. "But we'll continue to run our own business," he added. Then he sat down again in his chair and pushed a button. "Briggs," he directed, "send in those three men from Danburg."
For one thing, those three men from Danburg had brought suit against both Stone & Adams and the Consolidated Water Company and had engaged as counsel no less a personage than the Honorable Archer Converse, the state's most eminent corporation lawyer, a man of such high ideals and such scrupulous conception of legal responsibility that he had never been willing to accept a retainer from the great System which dominated state affairs.
He cursed when he remembered the interview with the Danburg triumvirate. "Under ordinary circumstances I would buy them off in the usual way," he informed Judge Warren.
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