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A GLOWING TRIBUTE TO HON. G.
R. HUTCHENS.
Dear Mr. Watson: Please give
me space in your valuable paper to
say a few words in behalf of Hon.
G. R. Hutchens, candidate for U. S.
Senator, Bacon’s term. Will say in
the outset that Mr. Hutchens is a
man after the manner of Hugh M.
Dorsey and Thos. E. Watson, ho is
the poor man’s friend. It doesn't
make any difference how much
money or how poor his client, he is
loyal to his whole duty. That is
the kind of a man to put in office, a
man that has the courage to come
out boldly and tell the people what
he stands for. Thanks to the All
wise for such a man to offer himself
for office. The great trouble with
us common people, especially the
people that work at public works
that move about two or three times
a year, let a good man a laboring
man’s friend come out for office we
will pop our heels together and say,
“yes, that’s the man, we will elect
him overwhelmingly,’’ and when the
time comes to vote we haven't regis
tered. Think of this brother work
ing man, you know these are facts;
and when our man gets beat we cuss
the money power that gets in the
rich man’s friend, and it is our own
fault, because we hadn’t registered
and didn’t vote. This is true, espe
cially around public works. Now
remember the man moving around
can pay his tax and register and
then he can vote just the same as
the man that never moves. Now let’s
get busy, if we haven’t registered to
it now, let’s put this good man in.
Hon. Rufe Hutchens is the poor
man’s friend, for I have tried him,
and I will be at the polls August
19th, and cast my ballot for him.
Will you join me? With best wishes
for the Jeff and its many readers.
I am yours truly,
GA. W. T. HOGAN.
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YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON
JjILLERBEE.
My Dear Tom: It affords me the
greatest of pleasure to write you a
few lines in complimenting you on
the challenge you have made to
Hoke Smith asking him to meet you
in a joint debate. He has failed to
do it and this goes to prove that he
is guilty of everything you have
charged him with, or else it seems he
would have accepted your challenge,
and tried to prove to the world that
your statements were wrongfully
and wilfully untrue. Now as it is he
stands branded and goes down as a
coward.
I can’t see how any fair-minded
man and a true Tom Watson man
can be a Hoke SmMn man, for h&
said and did enough in the Leo
Frank case to brand him with every
true Protestant in this grand old Re
public of ours —leaving off all the
rest of the evils he is guilty of.
I do hope that every Tom Watson
believer and Jeffersonian reader in
the good old State of Georgia will
stop and think for a moment what
Hoke did for us when in 1911 he
disfranchised us all and allowed us
no voice to say who should repre
sent us.
Boys wake up, and open your eyes
On the nineteenth of August, and
where he has a bouquet of flowers on
his picture today, let’s then put a
bouquet of black crepe “on him” sos
THE JEFFERSONIAN
all time to come—not only upon him
but all of his kind.
Hon. Thos. E. Watsofn, you to
whom all credit is due, I can’t see
where you could have said or done
anything more to open the eyes of
the people of this fair land, than you
have already done, but every publi
cation of the Jeff grows better and
better.
Tom, I have been requested to
write you to publish a State-wide
ticket, in this week’s Jeff, showing
all the men you advocate from the
office of U. S. Senate down. I will
assure you I will do all in my power
to roll up the biggest majority vote
for the men you advocate that I pos
sibly can.
Boys here I come with another
club of subscribers. Every Tom
Watson man, get to work. Let’s put
Watson’s men in office by an over
whelming majority.
I will cease writing by wishing
great success to Mr. Watson and his
followers. Yours truly,
Crest, Ga. D. C. ELLERBEE.
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AN INTERESTING* LETTER FROM
LAGRANGE.
Dear Sir: Things are warming up
in this section, and about all one
hears in the hotel lobby is Hoke
Smith, Joe Brown and Tom Watson.
I believe that Joe Brown will carry
every county in the 4th and 7th Dis
tricts, with perhaps one or two ex
ceptions. Hoke Smith’s strength is
in the cities and larger towns, but
Joe Brown is almost solid with the
country people. I met W. J. Har
ris in the hotel at Bremen a few
days ago, and he did not utter ten
words before he began to drag Tom
Watson into the conversation; but
before I got through with him he
was one of the most restless fellows
you ever saw. He wanted to know
■why any man would change, or had
changed from Hoke Smith to Joe
Brown. I told him it was because
the people refused to be deceived
any longer. That Hoke Smith and
his crowd had tried to deceive the
people and that the people had got
ten wise to their tricks and refused
to be deceived any longer. Then he
wanted to know why I thought you
were stronger' with the people now
than ever before. I told him for the
very same reason that Hoke Smith
and his political henchmen had
abused, maligned, and misrepre
sented you in so many ways, that
the people had found out that the
charges were false, and that they re
fused to listen to any more slander
and abuse from these political trai
tors; and that furthermore, we are
going to put such a quietus upon
them on the 19th of August that
they would never be heard from
again.
Have you heard anything about
Hoke Smith securing offices in New
York for the practice of law after
the people retire him from the Sen
ate?
Hope you will make some speeches
over the State, as the people every
where are anxious to hear you.
Success to the Jeffs, they are be
ing more widely read than ever be
fore.
I wish Hoke Smith would accept
your challenge. It would remind me
of David and Goliath. Hoke Smith
has defied the rank and file of the
people of Georgia, and I reckon Joe
Brown will be the David in this case
to make him bite the political dust.
Our forces are quiet, we are not
claiming the whole earth. In fact,
we do not want everything in sight
like the other crowd. All we want,
(and that is already assured,) is
enough votes to elect Joe Brown,
Rufe Hutchens and Dr. Hardman.
Yours truly,
Ga. . S. G. WOODALL.
“FIGHT ON, MR. WATSON! THE
DAY IS DAWNING.”
My Dear Mr. Watson: As I wrote
you a few days ago, I am located at
the University of Chicago for the
summer. I am writing to tell you
of a lecture, which is one of a se
ries of lectures on “The Rise of the
Sin Idea in the World.” This se
ries is given by Mr. Mathews, the
Dean of the Divinity School, one of
the strongest men here. This parti
cular lecture was on “The Eivl In
fluence of the Priesthood.” Os
course, I can not tell you all of the
discourse; but he concluded it with
this significant statement, “That the
Priesthood reduced everything to the
realm of religion, seized religion and
then attached hell to it. That one
could not be born without being in
danger of hell; he could not be edu
cated except in the priestly school;
he could not be married except by
the priest; he could not die in safety
without the blessing of the priest;
he could not be dead with any as
surance of heaven without the prayer
of the priest; and that prayer cost
money; that the priesthood was one
of the greatest systems of graft the
world ever saw; and for that reason
the priests were intolerant of any
thing or anybody antagonistic in
any way to the system.” I
wish you would take the above state
ment or a text and write an edito
rial on it; for this man made it so
impressive here, and I feel that you
can to your readers.
Fight on, Mr. Watson, fight on, the
day is dawning. The light is break
ing forth.
I am most cordially your friend,
L. R. HOGAN.
(Comment.)
The writer of the above is the
gifted son of Hon. James R. Hogan,
of Lincoln County, Georgia.
His stay in the North has taught
him the need to the country of the
work I have been doing under so
many discouragements. T. E. W.
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JUDGE N. E. HARRIS NOT TOO
OLD FOR GOVERNOR.
This is not an extract, nor Jeffer
sonian suggestion. I do my own
thinking when matters come before
me, and an impression is made in
volving future interests. Judge N.
E. Harris has born the burden and
heat of the day, and justly deserves
what he asks at your hands. He has
proved faithful in adversity as well
as prosperity, in war and in peace,
in Radical and Carpetbagism;
watched the farm in early days;
climbed the rugged hill of science* in
adversity; criticised the technicali
ties of the taw, and his wisdom has
been an active factor in the execu
tive and legislative department of
the State, so as to familiarise him
with its workings, and has not any
unworthy view, or new fangled tax
ideas, increasing officers and increas
ing the burden on the common tax
payer.
The old advalorum system with
one officer covered the whole ground;
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tax is continually increasing and offi
cers in proportion—hence a turn
back to the blue back speller and the
old land marks, where wealth can be
taxed as well as poverty.
Judge Harris presents at sixty
eight a robust, well balanced frame
of mental and physical composition,
and a man in office not to die therein
but let others live in it some.
His age is not in the least ob
jectionable with those who will take
the least of two evils, and render
honor to whom honor is due. N. E.
Harris stood firm at his post of duty
when cannon roared, and small arms
glittered; has stood in the place that
tried men’s souls.
At a tender age went and brave
ly faced the invading enemy of the
Lost Cause, with such heroes as Gor
don, Longstreet, Jackson and Lee,
and others whose brave bodies ran
with the purest American blood,
survived by widows, sons and grand
sons, all of whom will remember “N.
E. Harris” on their tickets on the
19th of August. For we cannot fail
to see in Judge Harris peculiar fit
ness. He is conspicuous in the rap
idly thinning ranks of those who
wore the gray. He would be a
■worthy successor to the long list of
gallant Confederate veterans who
have been honored with the office of
Governor.
While he is a veteran, he is still
in the splendid strength of manhood,
with the fire of youth of mind and
body.
Mentally, morally and physically,
he is a splendid figure of Southern
manhood. Loyal to the old South,
yet with his face long turned to
wards the rising sun, he has illus
trated his State by progressive citi
zenship. As a member of the
General Assembly of Georgia, he was
easily a leader. Attesting his far
seeing statesmanship, he was au
thor of the act establishing the
Technological School, which is, and
always will be, a living monument
to him.
Many deserving Georgia boys who
have drunk deep at that fount of
useful life and now fitted for the big
things of life, rise to call him
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