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WATCH THE PEOPLE WHEEL IN
TO LINE FOR JOE BROWN.
Dear Sir: Although I am not a
Subscriber I read the Jeffersonian
with great interest and profit each
week. It is hardly possible for two
persons to agree on each and every
subject, but there are two doctrines
of yours which I most heartily en
dorse: the evils of the Roman Cath
olic church, and the evil of Hoke
Smith.
The Roman Catholic church,
founded on the superstition and ig
norant selfishness of medieval times,
seeks power and wealth with the
same unscrupulous stealth that
marked the evils of the days before
Magna Charta. As you say, could
the good Catholics—of whom there
are many—but know of the lust and
greed which marks the lives of the
priests, they would turn from their
church as from a thing accursed.
Teach it to them, Bro. Watson, and
all pow’er to your pen.
And for the sake of our great
State show the great Hokus in his
true light. Able? Yes, he is able.
But Joe Brown has one quality which
Hoke Smith lost long ago and which
is worth more to the people of Geor
gia than all the ability of Benedict
Arnold or Captain Kidd —HONESTY.
How long will it be before the peo
ple of this State demand a stand on
the issue of Truth and Falsity?
When that question is fairly pre
sented Georgia will be through with
Hoke Smith and his breed.
I have only lived in Georgia a year.
I have no axe to grind. But I can
see Straight Dealing lined up
against Crookedness in this campaign
and I am for Joe Brown against the
Big Crook. And if the Angel Gabriel
should back Hoke I would refuse to
vote with him and for one reason I
could show him the editorial for
Leo Frank published in Smiths’ pa
per, The Atlanta Journal. That
alone is reason enough.
Gt. YOUNG MAN.
WM. VARNEY OF NEW JERSEY IS
PERHAPS A TWIN-BROTHER
OF JOHN MORRIS OF
MOBILE.
Dear Sir: Wonder who this "Var
ney’’ is who wrote enclosed letter
and libelous description of Guardians
of Liberty meeting. Can’t locate
him, not in telephone nor in city
directory. A local reputable physi
cian who himself was on the plat
form gave me the copy disgusted, as
well as I am, over the misstatements.
Seated on the platform were as far
as I know, besides said physician
and myself a number of clergymen
of this city and from outside, some
veterans, who came to shake hands
again with General Miles who was
one of the speakers. I’d be inter
ested to hear Varney name the
‘‘crooks.’’ The house was packed
with an orderly, sympathetic audi
ence. There may have been some
‘‘blacklegs’’ and some Varney’s in
the crowd. It would be very hard to
keep William or others out, if they
presented a ticket and remained or
derly. I cannot fathom W. Varney’s
meaning when he says the Supreme
Court was denounced by the chair
man. This letter must have been
composed by a Jesuit, or the writer
had a meeting in mind which was not
held under the auspices of the Guar
dians of Liberty. That’s all that I
can make of it. But it’s hard on
the local good men in the G. of L.
Court.
Patriotically yours,
New Jersey. X.
WHO IS DR. H. R. SLACK, ANY
WAY?
Dear Sir: Was indeed delighted
to read in your paper today, the edi
torial, in which you made such a fool
of the little man in LaGrange, who
signs his name as Dr. H. R. Slack.
I didn’t think there was as big a
fool as him in the State which we
call ours. But I guess he realizes
now how little he really is. I had
never heard of him before, but I was
talking to a man from LaGrange to
day, and asked him who he was, and
THE JEFFERSONIAN
he told me that he was a boy who
came from Louisiana, and began
working in a little drug store there
known as the Bradfield Drug Co.
He afterwards married Bradfield’s
daughter. Said he tried to practice
medicine there, but didn’t do much,
and opened up a small sanitarium,
but it soon closed up, and-the build
ing was used for a boarding house.
The people of Georgia know how
to look on letters from such people
as this man Slack, but they do de
light in the way you tell them who
they really are.
Ga. A STRONG ADMIRER.
WHY DOES HOKE SMITH ALLOW
THIS ROMAN CATHOLIC TO
15OSS TIIE AT L A NT A
POST-OFFICE.
Dear Sir: Have just read with
pleasure your article in The Jefferso
nian on I. G. Hart, Supt. of mails in
the Atlanta P. 0.. I happen to work
under this Catholic and I want to tell
you that every man in the office de
tests him. Hoke Smith promised the
P. O. boys that he would be removed
as soon as a Democratic postmaster
was appointed, but when the time
came and Schley Howard was doing
his best to have him removed, Hoke
Smith refused to help him. Smith
w’anted the Catholic vote.
The postmaster is a deacon in the
First Baptist church, but he has
taken Hart to his bosom and lets him
run the P. O. All he has to say is,
that a man is incompetent and out
he goes without a ghost of a show
ing. Quite a number of the boys got
it in the neck that way because they
complained. Why this brother-in
law of ex-Postmaster General Gran
field should be kept here at three
thousand dollars a year salary is
more than I can fathom. Hope you
will make the public acquainted with
the facts for the Atlanta press is
muzzled. To sign my name would
be the loss of my job.
Ga. A POPULIST.
FROM ONE OF THE PLAIN PEO
PLE.
Dear Mr. Watson: I have been
reading your paper with so much
interest that I want to write you
and express my gratitude. A few
years ago I didn’t think that the
fight you was making would ever
concern us so much as it does, but
the fight is on and it is up to the
Protestants to save their blood
bought liberties. We see the things
you have been prophesying are
coming to pass, which makes us have
more faith in you as a God send to
the Nation. I find in reading after
you in all matters that you are al
ways right-side up and your decisions
according to truth and justice. I
heartily commend you for the bold
stand you are taking against the
abominable and corrupt mob called
Roman Catholics. Also politics and
the great evils under the form and
guise of religion. I agree with you
in all important matters upon which
you have been treating, and I am
truly glad that God has given us
such a man as T. E. W. for a national
leader, one that has the ability, one
that has the ambition and the cour
age to defend the truth and to ex
pose all evil and corrupt practices
wherever he finds it, and do it in
the face of the combined forces of
the dark world. With such a one
for a leader I don’t see why the
Protestants of America should not
win unless they have failed to repent
in sack cloth and ashes. Fighting
against the Catholic mob is a fight
of faith, and will require loyalty to
our country and to our God and His
Commandments. Let every patriotic
citizen of America take an active part
in this grand fight. Let the words of
the poet ring in our ears and reach
our hearts. "Sure I must fight if I
would reign, increase my courage
Lord.”
Let us realize that it is not Mr.
Watson’s fight alone, but ours as
well, for there is no sect or mob
however cruel and degrading
they may be in their practice that
will prove more detrimental to the
peace and prosperity of the Nation
than will the Roman Catholics. For
to be a Catholic means to oppose
God’s power, to oppose His plan, of
redemption and salvation, to oppose
His Divine Word which teaches the
way of truth in holiness. In fact,
to oppose everything that is Godly
in this world. It also means to op
pose a free and independent govern
ment, free speech, free press, free
privilege to worship God under our
own vine and fig tree. Can you, my
brethren stand and see the power of
the Cross cease in this Nation? Will
you stand and see the church of
Jesus Christ bought by His own
precious blood go down in everlast
ing defeat and the candle stick re
moved? In fact, can you stand and
see the glorious light of the world
blown out to your children and hid
from this nation forever, behind the
lowering clouds of Roman Catholi
cism? No, answers every Watson
man. No, I will give my blood fox*
the freedom that Christ and our fore
fathers bought for us with their
blood. After all this has been done
for us and we have been permitted
to worship God unmolested and to
bask in the light and liberty of
God’s dear Son. The man that in the
face of these facts that will refuse
to give his voice against corrupt
Rome, is not a true citizen and pat
riot of America.
I glory in the man that will openly
defend the truth and publicily ex
pose the great evils so common
among men today. One great evil is
the love of money, the root of all
evil, and so many men are afflicted
with this disease so bad that they
want to sell their fellow citizens,
their country, their freedom. Some
say that every man has his price. If
he does Mr. Watson’s price is so high
the Roman Catholic’s can’t reach it.
1. Why is it that there are more
preachers in the world today than
ever before and yet the world is
growing worse?
2. If they can convert the Catho
lic in the heathen lands, why can't
they convert them in America?
Being a Baptist preacher myself, I
ask these questions. Now let us all
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Let us help Brother Watson and pray
lor him while he is doing so much
for us, for he is lighting the good
fight of faith, and when his course
is finished his name will go down
in history as the greatest patriot the
South has ever produced.
Truly yours,
Ga. REV. J. G. SOUTHER.
“Around that grief-bo wee woman,
I threw the weeds of widowhood—
but I paid for the chance to do it;
and they who took my money knew
that I would do it.”
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THE JEFFS, Thomson, Ga.
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