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PAGE FOUR In every essential particular, my creed tonight is the same that it was twenty years ago. Nobody had to pay me to embrace it; nobody has paid me to remain true to it. To maintain my position through out the bitterness of these eighteen years has not been easy. The tempta tion to surrender and thus escape persecution, proscription and politi cal isolation was very great. The things I have had to bear, a proud man finds difficult to endure. To see old friends turn their backs when you enter a hotel lobby, to avoid meeting you; to lift your hat to ladies and girls on the street and to have your courtesy received with mockery and jeers; to offer your hand to old friends on the cars and have it re fused; to have wagon loads of drunk en negroes sent to your house at night to yell and hoot their insolent taunts, in the hearing of your wife and children; to attempt to address your fellow citizens on the principles of Jeffersonian Democracy, as you understand them, and to be howled down, and owe your life to the in vention of brave friends and sympa thizing policemen; to be so menaced in your own home that a picket of armed men seemed to be absolutely necessary to protect it from murder ous attack —these are the things which try the souls of men, and through these things I am not the only Populist in the Southern States who has had to make his way. I thank the God who made me for the strength that sustained me dur ing those terrible years, and which enabled me to hold the rudder true. I believe that the time has at last come when the people of my State are be ginning to appreciate the helplessness, the hopelessness, the humiliation, of their political position, and that a change is at hand. I believe that the State of Georgia will give me, on the strength and soundness and patriot ism of my position, such support on the 3rd day of November that the electoral vote of Georgia will here after be uncertain. The moment this glorious event is achieved the whole political situation of this republic will be in process of revolution. With Hon. Thos. E. Watson WILL MAKE ADDRESSES AT THE FOLLOWING POINTS: ARLINGTON, GA., October 21. DOUGLASVILLE, GA., October 28.. THOMASVILLE, GA., October 22. FORSYTH, GA., October 29. “ , WAYCROSS, GA., (at night) October 22. LaGRANGE, GA., October 30. LUDOWICI, GA., October 23. MACON, GA. (at night), November 2. LINCOLNTON, GA., October 26. Speaking At All Places Begins At 10 A. M. CRAWFORDVILLE, GA., October 27. A regular schedule of Mr. Watson’s speeches will be printed in the Jef fersonian during the campaign, and every voter in Georgia will be given an opportunity to hear him. the vote of Georgia made uncertain, the Solid South is threatened with a break-up, and with the breaking up of the Solid South will come the dawn of a better, brighter day, not only for Georgia and the South, but for the whole Union. Inspired by this belief, it has been a work of love for me to campaign the State. I have concentrated my efforts within her borders because of my resolution to hew to the line of my own purpose regardless of Taft, regardless of Bryan, regardless of anything except the fixed ambition to do something that will tend to restore the Southern States to the splendid position which they once held in the government of the nation. I shall never be President myself, but I am blazing the trail along which some other Southern man will take his way to the White House. I am marking out the road along which Southern statesmanship will lead the South back to her former power. To the extent that I have made the march this year, I have shortened it for those who will come after me; to the extent to which I have carried the battle line I lessen the struggle for those who shall win the final victory. The prophet dies, but the world lives —can never die —continues its message, encouraging the work of noble men and noble women to the end of time. The color bearer falls, but other hands catch up the flag and bear it on. It will not be mine to enter the harvest field and join in the song of those who reap the grain, but I am sufficiently rewarded by the consciousness that I have sown good seed upon fruitful soil, and I care not who garners the grain so the peo ple get the bread. It may not be mine to see the standard flying in triumph over the intrenchments of special privilege which the masses have stormed and taken, nor hear the glad shout of the unprivileged millions as they enter in to their own; but I am content to feel that my duty has been done as well as I could do it; that I have fought a good fight, and have been in strumental in making the final tri umph certain. ‘Glje 3effarsoniart To see the South throw off the sack cloth of her political desolation, to see her rise to the full height of her strength and independence, to see her take her confident way • toward a brighter future, with the light of hope in her lustrous eyes and the Miriam song of Victory on her imperial lips —has been one of my fondest dreams. To see our country get over the aw ful effects of the Civil War, section al hatred buried, the class legisla tion which came with the war re pealed, the growth of plutocracy checked, the spirit of Justice and Equality restored to our laws and government —Jias been another of my dreams. To help bring these things about is surely a patriotic purpose. The best years of my life have been devoted to it. In spite of all that has befallen me, I am neither defeated nor dis couraged. Believing that the prin ciples for which we Jeffersonians stand mean the salvation of our coun try, I am their soldier, to march and fight at every call of the bugle—this year, and all the years to come. And if every man who in his heart of hearts believes that we are right would have the manhood to vote with us, there would be, throughout the South on the 3rd of November, such an awakening, such an Easter, as war cursed Dixie has not known since our flag went down in the blood, the tears, the heart-break of Appomattox. MISSISSIPPI TICKET. Sample Furnished by Secretary of State to County Commissioners. The ticket to be voted in Missis sippi in the general election will show, in addition to one candidate for Congress, four separate and distinct lists of Presidential electors, but vot ers will not be advised as to which is which and must pick their choice as between Democrats, Republicans, Populists and Socialists, there being no heading or distinguishing marks o 9 ver the four lists, which are as fol lows: OFFICIAL BALLOT, GENERAL ELECTION, NOV. 3, 1908. For Presidential Electors. Vote for Ten. H. H. BROOKS, JR. A. W. SHANDS. a. j. Mclntyre. ROBERT GRESHAM. J. W. HENDERSON. T. C. KIMBROUGH. JESSE D. JONES. J. C. STREET. • J. T. LOWREY. H. B. GRAVES. W. M. DENNY. C. A. STANTON. S. D. CHAMBERLAIN. E. W. DuBOIS. J. W. FRANCIS. J. A. TOLER. L. SHIPMAN. JOHN H. COOie W. F. JOBES. J. E. EVERETT. R. BREWER. J. E. GORE. P. W. FULGHAM. FRANK RAY. W. B. McDOWELL. J. M. CUNNINGHAM. W. D. THOMPSON. W. B. O’NEAL. W. D. PATTERSON. N. A. HOLLINGSWORTH. F. M. PETTY. H. L. GURLEY. C. T. JOHNSON. DAVID KERSCH. W. M. BROADWAY. G. W. PURCELL. C. W. SMITH. Z. T. RIGGS. C. F. MYERS. JAMES LESTER. For Congressman 61ST CONGRESS. Eighth District. Vote For One. J. W. COLLIER.