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for "you. He is just three months and 13 days old. I do not know but he is going to be a smarter man than you, but if he does not get any high er than you I will be perfectly satis fied. Yours truly, J. F. JONES. HE WAS THE FIRST SUB SCRIBER TO THE DAILY PRESS, THE FIRST POPULIST DAILY PAPER. Spread, Ga., Nov. 18, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir: Please enter the follow ing names to your list for one year, and address all to Spread, Ga.: John P. Gunn, Weekly Jeffersonian, $1; David Denton, Weekly Jefferson ian, $1; J. J. Cato, Weekly Jefferson ian, $1; R. L. Roney, Weekly Jeffer sonian, $1; L. F. McNair, Weekly Jeffersonian, $1; W. E. McNair, weekly and Monthly magazine, $2; Tim F. Hatcher, Monthly magazine, $2. Find my check to cover. Yours truly, A. D. M’DONALD. P. S. —Long live our Watson. May God help yon carry on the good work as fearlessly and heroically in the fu ture as has been done in the past. A. D. M. THANKS, MR. MOORE. Hattiesburg, Miss., Nov. 15, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir: My subscription for your Weekly and monthly expires on De cember 7. Enclosed find check to cover subscription, and also your story of France in 2 volumes, Life of Napoleon and Life of Jefferson, and half-dozen copies of your Weekly containing your speech before the Fanners’ Union, in January, I think. I had a dozen copies, but have given them out. It is a speech that every man who has an interest in the wel fare of the whole people should read, think and then re-read. Yours very truly, B. D. MOORE. Wrightsboro, Tex., Oct. 14, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir: Enclosed find $2.10, for which you will please renew my sub scription to your two Jeffersonians. B. B. CANTLEY. SOME CLOSE QUESTIONS. Fitzgerald, Ga., Nov. 16, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir: Your response of the 14th received. I would make sure that you have in mind, when considering present wild-cat money, the manner of securing these bank certificates, viz.: the banks form a clearing house, then from among themselves make a board of trustees, composed of their bank presidents, then the banks de posit with these trustees securities for certificates, $1.50 of securi ties for every dollar of certifi ficates. Now, then, the banks need all their assets to enable them ro strike a balance. But what becomes of the balance, if the assets are hy pothecated; especially so when they figure certificates as assets? They can not figure both the securities and certificates as assets. If they figure the certificates and not the securities they are 50 cents short. What a game of shuttlecock this must make! This is circulation on a gold basis with a vengeance. Yours respectfully, JOHN B. STEVENS. FROM “THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND.” Mayfield, Ky., Nov. 18, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir: Enclosed find money or der for $2, for which continue send ing the Jeffersonian Weekly and magazine. The long-looked-for has come at last. The Democrats in Kentucky have been snowed under. They lost from 35,000 majority to 17,000 against them —52,000. I send a clipping that states the facts. I hope the legislature will put Beckham out. I had rather have W. O. Bradley, a Republican. It was fun for us old mid-road, long-haired Pops to see the old par ties wool-pulling during the campaign. All we did was to say “Sic ’em Tige.” Kentucky has been a disgrace, po litically, ever since the Music Hall convention that nominated Goebel. Well, you haven’t time to waste on my scribbling. Yours truly, R. F. D. 12. B. J. WESSON. FROM THE OLD NORTH STATE. Newton, N. C., Nov. 15, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. My Dear Sir: Your card of 11th received. I intended to renew for Jeffersonian and magazine. Put it off too long. Sorry that I troubled you to write. Will do better next time. I used to take the People’s Party Paper as Tong as it lived. Have every magazine and Weekly since they be gan, except ones used to convert sin ners around me. I have three brothers. All take both Jefferson ians. Have five boys and two girls, to all of whom I am trying to teach real Democracy. One boy is named James Watson. If I ever have an other to name, it shall be called Thomas Watson. With hopes for great success in your work. ‘G. L. SHUFORD. Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 4, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Mr. Watson: Your letter of 29th ult. received. Since I wrote you about ten days previously, I have been looking over Jas. G. Blaine’s “Twenty Years of Congress,” and in it I see that he unstintingly gives credit to Andrew Johnson for the passage of the Homestead Bill, though he says: “Mr. Johnson was not the first in Congress to advocate the measure.” Mr. Blaine does not say who was the first man in Con gress to advocate it, but, as I wrote you, ex-President J. Q. Adams was. He made one speech for it before Johnson entered Congress in 1843, and that ended his labors on that ques tion. As I view it, you sustain the same relation to the inauguration of rural free delivery that Andrew Johnson did to the Momestead Bill. The late Senator Allen G. Thur man, of Ohio, spoke to me in highest terms of Blaine’s capacity as a his torian. He said his book was writ ten in such a fair, impartial spirit that a European reading it, unfa- WATSON'S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. miliar with American political his tory, would not know to which party Mr. Blaine belonged had he not told it in giving the names of all Con gressmen who voted on certain ques tions, and included his own name in the column headed “Republican.” I don’t think your enemies will be able to rob you of the glory of intro ducing rural free delivery. Truth may be obscured by falsehoods, for a time, but eventually it will triumph, unless the arbitrament be by arms, and in that case, as Napoleon said, “the heaviest battalions will win.” I send you by this mail an account of the death of Judge Temple, who authorized me, about a year ago, to give you his testimony that General Jackson was a citizen of Jonesboro before he ever saw Nashville. The same newspaper gives an account of the death of Colonel Moses White, who promised me, weeks ago, that he would send you material on Jackson, but, I suppose, did not. Yours trulv, JNO. B. BROWNLOW. A LETTER FULL OF INTEREST. Grand Prairie, Tex., Nov. 15, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Mr. Watson: I enclose you one of my little books, which I trust you may take time to read. I will place my advertising matter this week. By the 20th the inquiries will begin to come in, 15 to 20 letters per day until the close of the seed sea son. If you desire a copy of these addresses, I will mail them to you from time to time, and make no charge for them. I thought probably you would like to mail sample copies of your paper and magazine to these farmers. If the names are worth anything to you, you are perfectly welcome to them. I have the best cotton known in the South. If you desire to plant a bush el of them on your farm, I will give you a bushel, you pay the express, charges. As I once lived near Athens, and met you there on several occasions, I always feel like I have known you. The last time I heard you speak was at Athens. We were very poor peo ple then. My three brothers and I walked ten miles that day to hear you speak, then ten miles back home that night. My father and mother drove in that day in an old buggy, working a blind horse. We were all Watson people then, and we are Watson people now. At the close of your speech I took you by the hand, and in my great en thusiasm exclaimed that you were the greatest man in our Southland, the Athens Banner next day referring to your speech and the reception your people gave you, said that my com paring you to Toombs, Stephens and Hill was like comparing the humming bird to the great eagle. I thought you great then, Mr. Watson, and I know it now. No lies were too black, no words too harsh in those times for the democratic papers to hurl at you and your followers. They have stolen the greater portion of our platform for campaign purposes only. Ido not mean to try to flatter you, but you, are the onlv man that we have ever had in Congress that ever tried to legislate honestly and sincerely in be half of the common people. You gave us rural delivery, and now old Lon is trying to steal that honor from you. I heard him make a speech at Toccoa at the time that the Alliance began to sweep over Georgia. He told what a good al liance man he was, and closed his speech by telling of the words that he was going to have placed upon his tombstone; how true he was going to be to those great principles of the Alliance. I wish I could remember his words along this line. They were beautiful to listen to. If I were called upon to write his epitaph, I would write just one word, and that word would be “traitor.” Asking your pardon for taking up so much of your time, I beg to re main, Your friend, D. Y. M’KINNEY. P. S. —If you have an extra copy of your Fourth of July speech at Douglasville, long ago, please mail it to me. I had the speech as published in your P. P. Paper at the time, but I have actually worn it out. At one time, years ago, I knew it by heart, word for word. I consider it the greatest democratic speech ever made. It is true that I am not a competent judge, but it sounds good to me. D. Y. M’K. A GOOD EXAMPLE. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir: Enclosed please find P. O. order for $2. Please send maga zine and Weekly to W. H. Walker, Halcyondale, Ga., R. F. D. 1. I am a subscriber to the Weekly, and the time expires on the 29th, so will renew for Weekly and subscribe for magazine. Yours truly, W. H. WALKER. FROM COL. PEEK—ONE OF THE TRUEST OF MEN. Near Conyers, Ga., Nov. 25, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. My dear Sir: Enclosed find check sos $4.60, with exchange, for renewal of your Weekly and magazine; also Jefferson Bible, and Review of Re views. Now, I fully believe you deserve some flowers in this life, as well as after death. I have just returned from Central Alabama, where we have some farming interest, and stopped over in Birmingham and Montgomery, and I find hundreds reading your papers, giving you great credit and praise for your able ar ticles, and the manly way you have of stating facts as they exist. This is not only the situation as I fre quently see and hear it on these trips, but on all others where I go, and it fills my heart to overflowing, knowing as I do, the needs of the hour. You, my dear friend, are do ing for the people and good govern ment more than you can imagine. Your periodicals are read by thou sands who are not subscribers. May God extend your days for many years to come, and may your pen never rest, and when the inevit able comes, as it must come with us all, may he do unto you as he did unto Moses —kiss you to sleep. Then, as you rise beyond your friends who cross be! we you will greet yon with “You have kept the faith, fought the good fight ; enter into eter nal joy,” Tnd v your friend, WM. L. PEEK, r PAGE ELEVEN