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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
JUDGE G. IL HITCHENS NOT
AFRAID TO SHOW HIS
COLO IIS!
Dear Mr. Watson: I desire, sir,
to thank yon for your kind reference
to my platform and to my candidacy
for U. S. Senate in your issue of
Thursday, 28th inst. You make
mention of that part of my plat
form which refers to some of the
fundamental principles on which our
government, is founded. I do not
think it was out of place to refer
to these things, and it is refreshing
and I think wise for our people oc
casionally to give a little thought
along this line.
Our Constitution declares that
freedom of speech and of the press
t and that includes your press) shall
rot. be abridged. Another thing is
that matters of Church and State
shall ever remain separate and dis
tinct, and our government must not
be subservient to any sectarian or
ganization. I have the utmost re
spect for the Christian religion. I
was baptized many years ago in the
o’ i Chattahoochee river, and am of
li-e Protestant faith, yet J would not
h-ivp our government as a govern
r> in. declare itself even in favor of
the church to which I belong.
Neither would I have our govern
ment pursue you or any other edi
tor who saw proper to comment upon
the discipline or any part thereof of
ihe church to which 1 have attached
my membership.
Another right guaranteed by this
fundamental law is that of trial by
jury. In these latter days, I am
soi .y io say, this right has been as
sailed, even in the good old State of
<Por.‘ir, wherein one of the most
important cases ever tried in our
courts has been passed upon by a
jury, the verdict affirmed by the trial
ju-lgp and his approval affirmed by
the Supreme Court of the State: and
after this, we have the sublime
spectacle of unscrupulous detectives
coming into our very midst declar
ing trial by jury to be a farce, im
peaching the integrity of our juris
prudence, and with brazen affron
tary, seek to nullify our laws. ?,loney
can buy detectives and other things,
but there are lots of people not on
the market, end I join with you in
expressing confidence to believe that
hereafter, as heretofore, these funda
mental principles will not be forgot
ten, and our law will be administered
for the protoci ion of the poor and
otherwise defenceless, excent for the
iningf iiy of our law, the same as for
tho rich. .
With kindest regards, 1 am,
Yours truly.
G. R. HUTCHENS’:
A BOUQUET FROM THE LAND OF
FLOWIIRS.
Dear Sir: Let me congratulate
you on your recent victory for Jus
tice, Right, Lav.- and Order. Almost
single handed and unaided only by
the prayers of (be common people
and the approval of your conscience
and help of God you have won one
of the neatest \ ictorics ever won in
Georgia. If 1 wore Slaton. Arnold
& Co., and Burns and tai! the great
preachers and daily papers, in fact,
all those that took rides with big
money to defeat justice, 1 say, if I
were them 1 never could raise my
up. and look any honest man or
woiurn, not even a donkey in tho
f e, unLl 1 got down in sack-cloth
and asli°h and asked God and my
fellow man W forgive mo for the
part I had taken in the Frank case.
My God, what is Georgia coining to
an.j how when men can be shot down
on the streets of a town like Augus
ta and nothing done about it? And
yet this dastardly crime committed
by Frank is worse than the killing
Cf Christie, Dome and Baker, for the
THE JEFFERSONIAN
intent of the murderer was more
hellish, and for no cause whatever.
I thank God that we have one man
that can’t be bought with money or
what money will buy. All honor to
Thomas E. Watson, the greatest
friend of the poor and lowly Also
the rich, if the rich will walk the
straight and narrow path, but woe
be unto him who wanders from the
right and falls across the path of
T. E. W. Mr. Watson I think your
editorials on the Frank case the most
masterful and logical of anything I
ever read, and if you will give us
your editorials and the history of
the Leo Frank case in pamphlet form
I will give a dollar for one of them
and promise to sell all of them I can
at whatever price you put on them.
I have a dollar ready for one of them
for 1 want to keep it. Hoping for
you and family a long and happy
life, I will close by saying that what
ever comes I am your true and loyal
friend.
Fla. G. B. WOODALL.
BARREN FIG-TREE: NOTHING IN
HIM BI T CONCEIT.
Dear Sir: I went to Dublin yes
terday to hear Tom Hardwick speak,
and will say I was very much sur
prised. I judge him from the speech
he made, and take him to be an
empty blank. He never told us that
if he was elected he would do any
thing or not do anything, he said we
could judge him by his 12 years in
Congress. He said he had been a
Democrat all his life and. always
fought for the cause, and after so
long they had won the House and
Senate and President, and he be
lieved in low tariff and bad saved
the people several millions of dol
lars by passing this bill Now let’s
see. I am a farmer, run .10 plows
and have to buy plows and plow fix
tures and they cost as much as they
did 2 or 3 years ago. I go then to
buy sho%s and ready made clothing,
and the merchants tell us they ore
much higher than they were a few
years ago. There is only one item
I can see that is lower, that, is sugar,
it is about ’4O cents per 100 cheaper,
and if the tariff has benefited any
thing except sugar 1 can’t see where
in it has. We farmers would like to
have a man in the Senate that would
look after our interests as well as
Big Corporations interests. If these
big concerns can borrow money at 4
or 5 per cent per annum, why can’t
we do tho same? Now some of them
toll us that they already have fixed
for us to get money cheap. Now Mr.
Watson, 1 wish you would explain if
you ca.n, what help will that big
bank in Atlanta do us common peo
ple? Mr. Hardwick we can judge
by his past record of 12 years
in Congress, what he will do in the
future. So I will close, yours truly,
Georgia. C. G. POWELL.
ANOTHER GOOD Oi D FRIEND’S
ENDORSEMENT.
Dear Sir: Mr. A. W. Evans spoke
at Bartow last Saturday afternoon
to a good crowd. Hifgave us a good
talk. He camo out for American
principles forcibly. He made a good
impression on the crowd. H? will
carry my district by a good majority
and 1 think he will carry Jefferson
county.
I am sorry that they got another
bill against you, for you have done
more in showing up the Frank case.
Prof. F. A. Brinson and others say it
is a disgrace that they got the bill,
for you are the only man- that had
the backbone to show up the light
on W. J. Burns and his agencies. I
hope you may live to see all you ad
vocate made into laws. I hope to
Gou that you will come out on top
:u your fight against the Roman
Catholics, Your friend,
Georgia. SAM B. TARVER.
A KENTUCKY READER NOTES
REVIVAL OF “SAME OLD
CHARGE.’’
Dear Sir: 'Read in yesterday’s
Times Star that the old charge had
been refiled, obscene matter mail
transit against you. Coming simul
taneously with the Menace $50,000
suit it looks like Rome is determined
to worry and put you both to all
expense and annoyance she can.
The worst feature is Peter’s pence
supplied by America and used to per
secute those who attack and expose
her imposture. May I urge you to
bring a counter suit, forbidding
transit through the mails of Debs
and Liguori’s theology, wherein this
indecency is found and quoted from,
also forbidding the use of all such
obscene and lascivious questions pro
pounded, whether in Latin or any
other language in these United
States and dependencies, and that
all religious preachers, no matte?
what church affiliated with, or office
they hold, shall be held amendable
to all laws on the same plane of
equity as any other citizen. No dis
tinction nor exclusion from impar
tial operation in all courts of law.
I believe under this claim no jury
would convict you and not the holy
priests who propound such questions.
Neither exempt those books, no mat
ter where published or whose im
print they bear from transit, and
you only remail what has already
passed through the mails and only
reproduce the objectionable passa
ges in such. You cannot have one
set of laws for the hierarchy and
■another for the laity. Wishing you
success my friend, and a victory once
for all over our common enemy, Ro
manism. Respectfully vours,
Ky. R. W. MATTHEWS.
HEARD T. E. W. SPEAK AT KITE
IN 1893.
Dear Sir: We get a few Jeffs
down here every week, and I want
to say that I believe the better class
of people in our little town will bear
me out Tn saying that we heartily
endorse every word you have writ
ten about the Frank case, Roman
Catholicism, etc.. We wait every
week almost impatiently for our
Jeff’s, as they are our medium by
which we can gain any information
at all concerning the Frank case. At
first we had a few doubting Thom
ase’s, but now we all seem to boos
one accord, believing that Frank is
the guilty party, and no fouler mur
der has ever been recorded in the
annals of history. Nly desire is that
you be spared many years to point
out those things of interest to us
that no one else will dare speak of.
Twenty-one-years ago this July,
although a small boy, in the little
town of Kite, Ga., Johnson county,
amid the lofty pines of the Carr
Oldsfield, thronged with a few thous
and people, I hoard a little red
headed Georgian make a speech of
which he admonished the people to
unite and hold fast to the true prin
ciples of Jeffersonian Democracy.
From then until now’ 1 have ad
mired Mr. Watson and sympathised
with him in his struggles and perse
cutions that have crossed his path
in trying to steer the people in the
right direction, and warning them
of the danger just ahead of them.
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When writing to advertisers, please mention The Jeffersonian.
My heartfelt love and gratitude
always goes out to those that have
backbone enough to let the world
know of the corruptness therein, and
may your- sweetest repose be when
your writings have covered our .be
nighted Southland as the waters that
cover the sea. Yours truly,
Georgia. A SUBSCRIBER.
FROM ONE OF THE “PLAIN PEO
PLE.”
Dear Sir: As I am a constant
reader of The Jeffersonian, and since
I have never attempted to write, I
desire to say now I am very much
interested in most of the issues
which you discuss. The call is to
us, the “common people.’’ Let us
prove our faith by our works. In
shouldering bravely the cause of
“Equal Rights” to all and special
privileges to none, lending voice and
influence to the promotion of that
justice which is the foundation of
the cause; taking our stand with
those who believe in a square deal
for every man, woman and child.
Every man has left behind him
influences which will never be ex
hausted; the great sphere in v hich
you act with the common people of
a great Nation will repeat itself,
spreading benedictions over the
length and breadth of the land. The
seed you have sown in life will!
spring up in harvests of blessings.
The great lessons you are teaching
will last. I believe the cause of the
common people is just and pure.
Your friend,
Ga. J. W. PURDY.
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ANOTHER WATSON BOY.
Dear Mr. Watson: I am a new
subscriber to your Jeffersonian.
Have only received a few copies. I
think it one t of the finest papers in
print. I scarcely realize how a true
citizen can do without it, as what
you have to say about the Frank
case, sounds so true to the people.
You are gaining friends in this part
of the country. I don’t think it
will be long before the Jeff will be
a welcome visitor to nearly every
home, for I hear the voices of many
just woke up, hollowing, “Hurrah
for T. E. W.” From aT. E. W. boy
from start to finish.
Ga. W. N. WORSHAM.
YES: THE CATHOLICS AT FIRST
PRACTISEI) IMMERSION.
Dear Sir: 'Will you please tell me
through the columns of your Weekly
Jeffersonian whether tho Catholics
formerly baptised by immersion or
not? I am satisfied you are quali
fied to answer this question.
Ga. JAS. M. ROSIER.
MAIR BRAIDING
Ladies, I will make you a
THREE-STEM BRAID
from combings for only
One Dollar. All work
guaranteed, or money
refunded.
Remember my address,
MRS. k P. GROSS, Glenn, Ga.
