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This Old Confederate Soldier’s Let
ter Was Too Hot For Howell
Editor of The Constitution.
IN your issue of May 9th, I see
I a letter from the Hon. Thom
as E. Watson to William J.
- A Harris, and Harris’ reply to
Watson. You may wonder
what that has to do with my writ
ing this letter to you. Let me ex
plain. What was in Watson’s letter
I know not. But the gentleman sent
me one. He shore did, under Frank
of the Government—postage in ad
vance you see. From the reading of
the letter," one with any perceptive
faculties could plainly see, that it
was a lame and labored effort to
mislead and boost himself for things
which he had not done or achieved.
Did he confine himself to the duties
of Census Enumerator, the duties
of his office, giving you all the statis
tical facts which he might have
gathered for future reference? He
did not. What was the purport and
contents of that Now, Con
stitution, don’t you faint, when I re
veal them to you, or else we might
be called upon to pass or sit in judg
ment upon the truth or falsity of
the charges of Watson’s Humbugism.
Shall I pronounce it? Refunding of
the entire bonded system to reduce
interest, as Thomas Jefferson said,
“Robbing the people upon a grand
scale.” What well posted and in
telligent financier that does not
know that refunding mortgages the
present as well as future posterity?
It gives enslavement a lingering ex
istence. It is a method of building
■up social castes by compelling a
large part of the people to pay trib
ute to the few. Why not levy a
direct Tax so that the people can
see the injustice of it and arise
and beat it back? There never has
been a time or period, from the foun
dation of the Republic, up to the
present time, no excuse or necessity
for the issuing or creation of 1a single
Bond, either National, State, County
or Municipal; and every one which
has been issued, has been issued
with and for the express purpose of
robbing and enslaving the people.
Note you, bonded and bondage are
from the same derivation; conse
quently when the people are under
a bonded debt, (and a robbing Tariff
besides) they are in financial bond
age or slavery. There is no slavery
so insidious as that of financial
slavery, none which reduces the peo
ple to such depths of degradation
and none to which they submit with
such complacency; for their chains
under the guise of freedom are un
seen, and their clanking is drowned
tamid the boastful din of “our liber
ties.”
Constitution, do tell me, is Mr.
Harris in this working under the im
pulses of dishonest degeneracy, or
at the dictates of Wall Street co
horts, or at the dictation of his Lord
and Master, Hog-it-all, Goliath,
Usurper Smith?
There is a great deal of ground
which I would be glad to cover in
this letter, but I realize that I will
not be able to do it, hence I will
have to condense as much as I can.
Friend Megaphone Harris of Goliath
Smith alludes to the Booker Wash
ington incident between Watson and
Wilson. He is the first one I have
known to deny it, and I have seen
no disproval of it by any one else.
As long as we are upon the negro
subject—what about Wilson’s nomi
nation or appointment of the negro
Robert H. Terrell las Municipal
Judge for the District of Columbia,
and your Boss failing to oppose or
fight his confirmation? Why is it
that your Boss is letting that negro
Johnson remain unmolested in that
fat Four Thousand Dollar office, in
the Government Service at Washing
ton? Why is the negro paper in
Atlanta supporting him for re-elec
tion? Now, Baldy, or as some call
you Mr. Fatty Harris, you have cer
tainly undertaken a stupendous and
THE JEFFERSONIAN’
difficult task, when you think all of
the people of the United States are
such stupendous ignoramuses, that
you can palm off on them, that
Woodrow Wilson is a saint and an
honest man. That the laying bare of
his true record would be abuse or
slander. Know you not, with the
exception of his position on the Re
peal of the Panama Tolls question,
and that is not exactly straight, for
he has let Grape Juice Bryan agree
to throw away $25,000,000 on the
purchase of Colombia, and by Eng
land’s consent, grant her free tolls.
See the point, Baldy? Trying to
court favor with one and serving
another. Instead of assigning the
grand and real reason for it, the
breaking up of a base Railroad Ship
ping Subsidy, he was prating about
national honor, with old perfidious
and monarchal England, when he
and Grape Juice Bryan have got it
up their sleeves in favor of the Wall
Street masters, so that they can run
their vessels under the flag of Colom
bia, free and exempt from compe
tition. The balance of his record
is a base betrayal of the people.
Would to God that I had time and
space, and an audience to lay it bare
and write it up, confining myself to
the Congressional Record. You need
not be so solicitous about keeping
it smuggled and hid from the people,
the very thing upon which you won
your victory, in your base betrayal
of it will lead you to defeat. You
assert that Tom Watson has abused
well nigh everybody, and particu
larly in the Tenth District, that is
false. He abuses nobody. He as
serts nothing but truths and facts
and fights, which he ought to, their
crimes and iniquities. He has not
lashed them one-twentieth enough in
that hell hole of Augusta, where
such criminals as Dan Forgarty, an
Irish Roman Catholic traitor, can
do his criminal devilment, and Boy
kin Wright, who is one of yours and
your Boss’s chums, can run rough
shod defying our election laws, even
to the stupendous fraud of manu
facturing twenty odd hundred young
twenty-one year old negro voters, in
a few hours time.
Not content wUh all of these wile
iniquities, as Attorney for the Elec
tric and Railway Company, he can
murder up three poor defenseless
creatures for no just cause under the
sun, snatching them from their
families, and hurl them into eternity
without a moment’s warning; and
then turn them scot-free by a per
jured drum head court martial. To
day, there in that hell hole, your co-
Roman Catholic, assassinating con
spirators are not only persecuting,
but planning to hem and head 'him
off, cripple and hamper him in de
fense of the truth and right, leading
us back to the Dark Ages. Be it
said to Watson’s praise, that he and
that grand old Roman, Judge Thur
man of Ohio, are the only two men,
who have truly and inflexibly rep
resented the people in Congress,
since the surrender of Lee at Appo
mattox, up to the present time.
Senator Beck of Kentucky was a
good man, giving us some good sta
tistics of your corporate monied rob
bery through the national debt.
Now lastly, that Macon Convention,
Baldy, I sure wish I could have been
there. There is nothing in the his
tory of so-called Democracy in Geor
gia blacker than the doings of that
convention in saddling Jim Price as
Commissioner of Agriculture upon
the people and against ' their ex
pressed will and wishes. A repeti
tion of traitorous, treacherous,
Grape Juice Bryan at the Baltimore
Convention. Still, Baldy, in your
answer to Watson you checked up
and confessed that you were parti
ceps criminis to that iniquity. Must
I be charitable enough to say, how
ever bitter that, “An honest confes
sion is good for the soul?’’
Now, to the point, let’s analyze
as well as we can in this brief arti
cle. The man that says that J. J.
Brown was in any way connected,
or took any stock, or had tany agents
of the so-called Fertilizer Trust
working for him is a base and per
fidious liar. Smoke that in your
pipe. Who was it in the main that
played the treacherous part, of
Grape Juice Bryan of the Baltimore
Convention at the Macon Conven
tion? It was one Blalock, a corpo
rate banker, the father and daddy
of all trusts. But for him and his
ilk, a trust could never be born or
know any existence. Disowning
and denying his own child and pro
geny upon the floor of the conven
tion. It ought to have been an in
sult to the farmers of Georgia for
such a perfidious creature as Bla
lock to have presented his filthy car
cass to them to have been voted for
—let alone Jim Price. Great God!
Just think of it, this corporate bank
er, booted and spurred astride of
their backs, riding them for all they
were worth, and presenting himself
to them to let him fasten the shack
els tighter. This is the creature,
now rewarded by his Hog-it-all mas
ter, by appointment in the Revenue
Service, who like the thief cries out
to the honest man as he passes by,
“Stop thief,” in order to divert atten
tion from himself in order to get in
his deadly work.
A little more lecturing, Baldy, and
I have done for this time. What in
the mischief does your infamous
committee, mean, under the dicta
tion of your Master, Hog-it-all
Smith, in assuming to yourselves
povrers and jurisdiction to which you
are not entitled and do not possess,
either equitably, legally or consti
tutionally? That committee was
never created for any such purposes
as you and your Boss are prostitut
ing it to. Really it is nothing but a
thing of system of convenience, ar
ranged for set dates for primary,
appoint managers, etc., but never to
assume the elective franchise and
vote for the people. Hence yours
and your Boss’s Macon usurpation,
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was dishonest and illegal. Your
Boss started this under Rube Arn
old, of Leo Frank fame, and good
Lord, Reuben out-Herod, Herod.
Trampling the people under his feet
like they were dogs, as long as he
saw they would bear it, and when
he saw their wrath kindling he had
to vacate, which brought you in un
der duress. Baldy, I do think that
you and your Hog-it-all Boss, and
John Marmalade Slaton, through his
Secretary Ulm, ought to have been
satisfied in your first effort, to de
stroy the county unit system, and
thereby disfranchise the smaller
counties. B-ut not so through the
persistency of your Boss you had to
feel and try again, but you found it
no go. Thank God for such men as
Bob Toombs, who with his Patrick
Henry prophetic ken was mainly in
strumental in grafting into our Con
stitution, this grand principle. One
day the old Roman was walking to
and fro through the convention Hall
with his hat upon rne side of his
head over one eye, and the other
one bare; when some one approach
ing him, made inquiry, “General,
what does all this mean?” To which
he replied, “I have one eye shaded,
the other one. open and bare a-look
ing for dam rascals.”
Baldy, Fatty or W. J. Harris, and
your usurping Hog-it-all Boss, for
the present adieu. By God’s help
and his grace sustaining us, we will
try and meet you at Philipi.
Respectfully, a’n old Confederate,
seventy-two years old, who battled
for four long years to regain our
lost liberties which our fore-fathers
transmitted to us, and of which we
have been despoiled and robbed.
A. L. NANCE, M. D.
Gainesville, Ga.
STRIKING LECTURES
ON THE BURNING TOPIC OF THE DAY:
"The Roman Catholic Hierarchy and
Its Menace to America,”
by an ex-Gatho(ic.
BOOK YOUR DATE NOW. NO AGENCIES.
Address JOHN S. BYRNE, Carnesville, Ga.
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