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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
ROOM FOR YOUNGER MEN IN
G. OF L.
Dear Sir: Sorry to see General
Sickles drop out of the Guardians of
Liberty, but guess the old man has
reached his second childhood, there
fore the hole left by his disappear
ance will not be so hard to till, so
that a lot of us little fellows can
come in and close the breach, and to
that end you may put me down as
an applicant for admission into the
order. It may be that a branch
could be organized here in our little
town. We have very few Roman
Catholics in this county and town,
but just across the river is Cumber
land, Md., which is almost wholly
dominated by them, and your Maga
zine ought to do a thriving business
there. A friend told me only last
week that he had tried at two news
stands to get Tue Jeff, but neither
of them kept it on sale, but one
promised to order, and in a day or
two informed him that the News
Agency did not handle it.
I ate* feel quite sure that a live
boy could sell a goodly number at
Green Spring, W. Va., the point
where our railroad intersects with
the B. & O. If I can be of any
service in getting you established
there, command me.
Truly your friend and admirer,
J. W. SHULL.
Romney, W. Va.
ARE EITHER OF THE OTHER
CAN MB ATES BACKWARD IN
THEIR FAVORS TO THE
HIERARCHY?
Dear Sir: As my mother, Mrs. C.
H. Prest, Sr., has been a subscriber
to year publications, Watson’s
Magazine and The Jeffersonian, for
several years, ana as we are all very
much interested in the fi°rht yon are
making against the “hormones,” the
Renran Catholic outfit, I am taking
the liberty to request you to give to
yenr readers, through the columns
of yonr publications, your reasons
why nnne, sensible, liberty-loving
penpin (Demeerats) should snppnrt
Weedrrw Wilson for President, in
fate nf the fact that, as Governor of
New Jesaey, he employs a Jesuit sec
retary, awi otherwise caters to the
so-called chnrch? Also, why is it
that “an old fashioned Charles
Fox-Themes Jefferson Democrat,”
cannot advance any further in
radteelbrm” and vote for the brain
iest man in the race, and the finest
orator new living, since that brainy
man and orator is being opposed at
every step by the very Hierarchy
you have been fighting, and no
prioat er oardina.l of that Hierarchy
was present to deliver the invocation
at tiro oowrewtion which nominated
him ferr President, whereas, tn the
cases of the Democratic and Repub
lican conventions a priest officiated
in ouo and a cardinal in the other?
My father, four of my brothers,
and the writer, have voted the
Democratic ticket all our lives, but
we are members of the Protestant
League (four of us), and of the
Guardians of Liberty, and expect to
cast our ballots for '’the brainiest
man in the race, and the finest ora
tor now living,” at the November
election; and there are others.
Very truly yours,
C. H. PREST, JR.
Please favor me with a reply in
your next issue. C. H. P. Jr.
AN INTERESTING REMINISCENCE
Dear Sir: I have just received
your Magazine for October, and I
noticed the article in regard to
Richard Reals. Before the John
Brown raid, I resided in lowa, near
where Brown and his men were in
training. 1' met them every Sunday
while they were there, and became
acquainted with Reals and the rest
THE JEFFERSONIAN
of his men; and even dined with
Brown before he left on the raid. 1
learned his whole scheme, and if
you would like to publish it in the
Magazine, I will write it up for you.
I can give facts, personally known
by myself and not obtained else
where. Very truly yours,
M. MAJOR TABER.
Los Angeles, Cal.
DEMOCRACY AND PARTYTSM.
Dear Mr. Watson: As it has been
a long time since I have trespassed
upon your columns, I beg space for
a few brief remarks through your
Jeffersonian on the above topic.
For a long time, in this country,
we have had two standards of
democracy. One is a strict adher
ence to pure Democratic principles,
and the other is party loyalty or
partyism regardless of principles. I
know of a truth that you and many
other patriots have been contending
for pure democracy for twenty-five
years, while, at the same time your
democracy has been quest&eaed by
these who boaet on party loyalty
and yet vote against pure dem
ocracy. In the University Eneyele
pedia, page 1338, democracy is thws
defined: “That form of government
in which the sovereign power is in
the hands of the people collectively,
and is exercised by them either
directly or indirectly through elected
representatives or delegates.” Have
we got this form of democracy in
State or nation? Every informed
man knows we have net. Was one
of our Railroad ConrHuesieners so
elected? Verily net.
On October 2nd the people of
Georgia were called on th rough the
referendum to make part of our
State CoMStitntfoa —the highest law
in Georgia; yet while yon and others
for 2f> years were clamoring for this
principle of pure democraoy, were
being opposed, and are still being
opposed by many who beest of their
democracy, but who are as far from
pure democracy as the East fs from
the West.
While the enemies of pure dem
ocracy in the Wilson and Taft oamps
are eritiejuliig Gel. Roosevelt >er
contending so strongly for this
principle, It dees me good to hear
him tell them that if the people
have sense enough to make a Gen
stttntion, they merely have sense
enough to knew what they meant in
making it. Is it not a ■treng® com
cident in American polities to see
men vl.s bear the name Democrat
fighting Democratic prmetplee, and
men. who do not beer the nasne ©on
tending earnestly for them?
The troth of the whofa matter is,
the Progreesiv® Party, with lbs dec
laration of prlwetples, is a thousand
times nearer pure democracy than
the leading peTitlelaiss who wewr the
label. lam glad I can vote the
Progressive ticket and vote my prin
ciples. J. J. HOLLOWAY.
AN AUGUSTA READER ENDORSES
EDITORIALS.
Dear Sir: I have been reading
your publications since the strike
here in Augusta, and I must say that
I admire the way you speak your
mind about the sad and awful kill
ing of the three men. I wish to
ask a favor of you—that in your
weekly paper you bring out strongly
how three thousand dollars’ reward
was offered “at once” for the mur
derers of two strikebreakers, and
how the three men who were shot
by the soldiers were declared to be
in fault by their actions. I have
only lately started to reading your
paper, so I can’t sign myself as
“Reader,” but will sign as a future
reader. Yours very truly,
H. JOHNSON HARLOW.
Augqsta, Ga.
A LETTER WHICH MOTHERS
MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN.
My Dear Mr. Watson: In reading
a book of essays (Women and the
Alphabet), by T. W. Higginson, I
came across the following, of which
I thought you might make use for
the purpose of quotation, or to fill
up an odd corner. It occurs on page
207, under the title, “Society:”
“An able newspaper writer,
quoted with apparent approval by
the ‘Boston Daily Advertiser,’
praises the supposed foreign method
for the ‘habit of dependence and
deference’ that it produces; and
because it gives to a young man a
wife whose ‘habit of deference is
established.’ But it must be remem
bered that, where this theory is es
tablished, the habit of deference is
logically carried much farther than
mere conjugal convenience would
take it. Its natural outcome is th®
authority of the priest, not of the
husband. That domination of the
women of France by the priesthood
which forms even now the chief
peril of the Republic—which is the
strength of legitimism and imperial
ism and all other conspiracies
against the liberty of the French
people—is thd only visible and in
evitable result of this dangerous
docility.”
This paragraph might cause some
metier who contemplates sending a
daughter to a convent scheol for the
sake of the “accomplishments” to be
therein obtained, to pause before
putting her unwise intentions into
effect. Yours truly,
JOHN D. EDWARDS.
R. 31 Baden, St. Louis, Mo.
A PROHIBITIONIST ASKS WHY
WE DON’T SUPPORT HIS
TICKET.
Dear Sir: lam a prohibitionist.
I see you are still clinging to the
Democratic Party. Why do you do
that? It is a Roman Catholic and a
whiskey party. Why not vote the
Prohibition ticket? It is not con
trolled by the Roman Catholics.
The “Clean Politics” admits anti-
Roman Catholic ads. I conclude you
exchange with that paper. Southern
people vote the Democratic ticket
because of the negro question. The
prohibition party is not a negro
party. That is the coming progres
sive party, and it will not be con
trolled by Roman Catholics. Come
out for the best party in the United
States.
LA FAYETTE NORRIS.
THE SIGNS OF THY TIMES.
When we call to mind the ante
bellum days of our forefathers,
when confidence was a pure untar
nished virtue cultivated among the
ehiMren of men, that now seems to
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be numbered with the things of the
past; in business there was remorse
of conscience, one's word was as
valuable as a bond, and a great
deal less trouble.
It was common among neighbors
then, if one was so unfortunate as
to lose his horse or mule in the
farming season, to tender him the
means to supply the use of one free
of usury to the end of the season.
Is it so today? No, that business
emerged into speculation, corpora
tions, and destruction of the com
mon white laborer, the bone and
sinew of the wealth of proud
America. The people are becoming
alarmed at the situation of our Gov
ernment, the scales are beginning to
fall from the eyes of the hood
winked.
JERE HWARD.
Statesboro, Ga.
A READER EXPRESSES HIS
VIEWS.
Dear Sir: I wish to extend to you
my hearty congratulations on your
able and timely arttefa in The Jef
fersonian of Oct. 3rd under the
caption, “Murder by Official Au
thority in Georgia.” I think this
can be classed as the Brown era in
the history es our greet State; and
I fear it will be many summers be
fore the stigma and disgrace will
wear off. I think, too, that the
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