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Richmond county grand jury should
indict the whole bunch for murder.
The Governor, who illegally sent the
troops, is as guilty as the officers
who issued the orders, and more
guilty than the soldiers who fired
the shots that killed these Georgians
in cold blood.
I have always thought that Joe
Brown was owned and controlled by
the corporations, but I never
thought that he would go to such
extremes in protesting his corpora
tion owmers as to try to crush labor
unions with the bayonets and cause
innocent blood to be shed.
Assuring you of my best wishes,
I am, Very truly,
C. H. STEWART.
McDonald, Ga.
MORE ON THE WEAK-KNEED
RELIGIOUS PAPERS.
To The Jeffersonian: The cow
ardly secular press of this State, and
many of the so-called religious
weeklies refuse to publish articles
giving any facts about the political
history of any. politician if it so hap
pens that the person in question is
a Roman Catholic. Therefore, our
only recourse to post the country
people is through the readers of
journals like yours.
Below are some facts that our
country readers in Tennessee
should know.
It is claimed that upon the assem
bling of the Tennessee Legislature,
which convenes in January, 1513,
that the term of United States Sena
tor Newell Sanders, who was ap
pointed by Gov: Hooper to fill out
the term ©f Senator Bob Taylor,
expires, and that one of the first
duties of the legislature will be to
elect a United States Senator to fill
out the short term or ta serve until
March 4th, 1913. New, here is the
secret the people should know,_
which shows the cunning ways of
the Roman Catholic clergy of the
State. There is a dose fight for
Governor on in the State. The rum
ridden Roman Catholic Church
wants to elect McMillan, but in
©rder to held a whip hand over
McMillan and the Managers of his
campaign, who are supposed to be
Protestants, they caused these man
agers to get other politicians to pre
sent a petition amoag a number ©f
citizens around, who have innocent
ly and unthoughtedly signed it, ask
ing one M. T. Bryan to announce as
a candidate for the U. S. Senate for
the short term. After hesitation
and much ado and a great hurrah,
Bryan has announced. What the
people should know, and the object
of this article is t® inform them,
that this is the HL T. Bryan ©f
Nashville, who is a leading Roman
Catholic, who takes a loading part
in all the Roman Catholic celebra
tions and Knights of Calumbus af
fairs. He is the same Bryan whom
this political church tried to trade
in and get him elected ia 1910 to
the. Supreme Court of the State.
However, the people got wise and he
was defeated by forty-four thousand
majority.
Let the people beware. All the
gang wants is to get one little hold
of power. When they do, decent
people and honest politicians can
take a back seat. A lawyer who is
a supposed Protestant and a prob
able candidate for Governor tw©
years hence, was induced to get up
and head the potitian to induce
Bryan to run. Ho wants and is no
doubt promised th© solid Roman
Catholic vote two years hence.
Respectfully,
J. C.
Nashville, Tenn.
The Life and Times of Thomas
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THE JEFFERSONIAN
A LETTER TO THE MAYOR OF
AUGUSTA, GA.
We have, in_-pubiic and in private,
heard of your repeated request, es
pecially to leaders of the labor or
ganizations, that law and order be
upheld above everything else during
1&i« present labor trouble. Notwith
standing the facts that almost your
very first official act was of such na
ture that would incense the people
at large, and the citizens of Greater
Augusta, if the greatest majority of
them were law-abiding, to uphold
evorything else but the law.
Was this subject of law and order
considered very essential, when your
honored and worthy Chief of Police
tasued an order for the benefit of a
single individual, the power and the
privilodge of purchasing any quanity
©f fire-arms to be placed in the hands
of undesirable non-residents of Au
gusta?
Now, another idea, Mr. Mayor.
We know full well that in your offi
cial capacity it is your authority to
call upon the good people of Au
gusta for law and order, and it is in
your hands and power to demand of
any one person or corporation the
©•©cation of any nuisance that does
in any manner incite the public at
large to disregard the law.
If, as leaders of organized or un
organized working people, we were
to excite the public to the degree
that it has tolerated within the past
few weeks or so, law and order
would be brought down upon us in
such a manner that we could not be
placed behind the bars quick enough
in order to bring peace and harmony
to the community.
Mr. Mayor, in all of your requests
for civic pride to reign supreme, you
and your councilmen have not gone
down on record as endeavoring to
ramove th© cause of this violent vio
lation of the law.
Lawlessness is regarded by orga
nized labor as a very, very undesira
ble asset in bringing about peace and
harmony in any dispute.
Now, Mr. Mayor, let me ask you
f®r the benefit of the public at large,
and ©specially for the labor organi
sations in Augusta: if there is no
law upon the statute of Augusta in
which the Street Railway Corpora
tion can be enjoined in continuing
t© still run the cars with such labor
as is now employed by them. And
the corporation endeavoring every
day t® impress the idea that they are
Augusta, not the citizens who
were the builders and makers of Au
gusta.
Now Mr. Mayor, call your council
together, give the people of Augus
ta, who presented you with the hon
or of the office, some understanding
that you are determined to rule Au
gusta; that you are elected
Mayor, and that with the co-opera
tion of tlia people you do intend to
bo Mayor, not allowing a mere indi
vidual representative of a corpora
tion to say, “I am the supreme ruler
of Augusta, I’m Augusta.”
Remove the strike-breakers from
the ears, let the road cease to oper
ate them. Keep, if you want to the
Martial law over us, and we guaran
tee you, from now on and after the
trouble is settled also, that the en
tire citizenship will commend your
actions, and also you will not have
to make another single request for
Jaw and order.
(Signed) J. W. LUQUIRE,
Secretary L. U., 283.
Augusta, Ga.
THE FIRST TO RESPOND.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson.
Dear Sir: Some time ago some
one in your Jeffersonian suggested
that if all your subscribers would
Make a little effort they could get
several of their neighbors to take
your Jeff, so I decided I would try
it. I have asked five and out of five
I got four to take your paper three
months, and am sure that they will
continue to take it. I shall see if I
can’t get others to take it. This
plan will work; ask your friends to
try it. If you can get your paper
in the homes of the people you will
bring things to pass. lam with you
and have been since the nineties.
lam sending you $1 in stamps
for the following subscribers: C. Y.
Roberts, R. 6, Macon, Ga.; J. A.
Woodham, J. A. Henderson, C. W.
Bragg, Gray, Ga.
Respectfully,
J. H. C. ETHERIDGE.
AN INTERESTING LBTTER FROM
A DEAB OLD FRIEND.
Dear Brother Tom: I am not
well this morning, but can’t refrain
from penciling you a short Missive
after reading yours and Sanssy’s
tilt upon the Soldiers’ Home ques
tion. Myself and Steve Merritt, our
then Alliance member t© the Legis
lature, fought it to the bitter end,
as one of Henry Grady’s political
vagaries, and being seized upon by
old perfidious Atlanta, to build her
self up at the expense of the old
Confederate soldier. Could I have
had time to have written up a par
tial history of Crampton Gaps or
Souths rnoustaina fight or battle it
would have given you some valuable
information in regard to the charac
ters of H. W. Bell and Tom Winn
as soldiers, showing you that they
are two of the last men in theifrorld
who ought ta be placed in the posi
tions in which they are now, guar
dians for the true old Confederate
Veterans.
I have a letter which I wrote Bell,
but which I have never mailed to
him, asking me to support John
Holder, in which I roasted him
heavily in the support of the Sol
diers’ Home. If I was not so indis
posed I certainly would try to at
tend that committee meeting on the
16th, and if things are like I think
they are, would take a delight in
showing up Tip Harrison, Tom
Winn, H. W. Bell and probably
Sa ussy a little also.
Yau tell Major McGregor to learn
of Tom Winn if h© was at Cramp
ton’s Gap and participated in th©
fight; if he was, I have got him
under the head of cowardice. Ask
Bell if ho belonged to the 18th
Georgia Regiment, was in Cobb’s
Brigade, was also in Crampton Gap
engagement; if so we have him un
der the same head. As to Tip Har
rison, ho was captain ©f sharpshoot
ers—it always required a half cow
ard to constitute a sharpshooter—-
hence he’s always seeking easy p©si*
tions.
Gan. Evans, Bill Hemphill, died
begging me to write up a hiotory ©f
that fight; today, J©hn O. Madell
and C.- W. Motos are begging ao to
do the same thing, and send to Th®
Jeffersonian. I have, for certain
reasons, deferred it a little too long
on account of strength and recollec
tion.
I would write you something from
the mouth ©f the old war horse,
Gen. James Longstreet, to me ia
person, which you no doubt would
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wonder at and enjoy, but as I am
not well we will save the best for
the last. Yours affectionately,
A. L. NANCE, M. D.
Gainesville, Ga.
Longer terms for the country
schools, the Torrens system of regis
tering land titles, larger appropria
tions for public health work, better
child labor laws, some advanced
good roads legislation, a longer step
towards compulsory education—
these are things to which the Legis
latures in most Southern States
should give attention at their com
ing sessions. If you are interested
ia these things and wish to help
your State get them, you should tell
your member of the Legislature so
before he gets your vote. Make up
your mind, too, that you will not
stop at this, but when the Legisla
ture meets, send him a postal card
every two or three weeks to let him
know that you still have your eye
on him. Many and many a time a
member of Congress or a member
of the Legislature would really like
to serve the people but they do noth
ing to stiffen his backbone. In oth
er words, they fail to make them
selves heard, while the representa
tives of the trusts and special inter
ests are forever after him, bringing
all sorts of conceivable pressure to
bear upon him. Let your member
of the Legislature or your Congress
man know that you are ready to ap
plaud him, ready to back him up
when he advocates progressive meas
ures. By doing this any voter can
increase his civic power for good, a
hundredfold.—Progressive Farmer.
To kill poison ivy plants, dissolve
sodium arsenate in water in the
proportion of two pounds to tea gal
lons. The Bulletin of the State
Board of Agriculture, Massachu
setts, recommends that the water be
hot. This solution will kill grass,
but will not injure any tree on
which the ivy may be growing.
Poured on the planta, the sodium
arsenate will kill them, but the
blackened brush should not be left
standing.
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