For Grady Lafayette Evers, 38, pious, T-total Baptist storekeeper of Dadeville and candidate for tax collector of Tallapoosa County, Ala. the morning of March 23, 1938, was exciting. A candidate for Governor of Alabama was to speak in Dadeville, and Storekeeper Evers had thought of a way to advance his own candidacy. He ordered for distribution to the crowd 2,500 booklets of paper matches from Advance Match & Printing Corp. in Chicago. On each booklet he ordered printed:
G. L. EVERS candidate for TAX COLLECTOR.
I will greatly appreciate your vote and support.
HONEST...
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