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E. J. REAGAN, THE HOKE SMITH
BOSS, WAS A “BOLTER”
IN 1896!
Dear Sir: There is being so much
said and written at this time con
cerning the Progressive party by so
many, notably among these being
Judge Reagan, Chairman of the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee, that I also would like to have
a word.
Judge Reagan has been busy writ
ing cards to the public press all over
the State. In these cards he warns
all Democrats to be on the lookout
for aP bolters, so that they may be
debarred from participating in fu
ture primaries. Now, what I want
to know is, was Judge Reagan will
ing for that rule to be applied in
1896, when he was also a bolter?
Did he not bolt the Bryan ticket?
Os course he did. Judge Reagan
didn’t bark then. It was largely
through his influence in spliting the
Democratic vote in a strong Demo
cratic county, that enabled McKinley
to come within 4 votes of carrying the
county, and there are many who be
lieve today that McKinley did carry
the county. But it came to pass
that after this time Judge Rea
gan’s eyes became fastened on the
judgeship and he could not get them
off. The judge was elected by the
legislature at that time and so the
judge’s record came up before the
legislative committee. Mr. Jim
Brown, now of the Newnan Herald
and Advertiser was trying to pull
the judge through at .that time, he
representing Henry County in the
legislature. Mr. Brown told a friend
of mine that it was the hardest fight
be ever had. The only excuse that
Reagan had was, that he voted for
a better Democrat than Bryan was,
that he (Bryan) was too Populistic,
that Palmer and Buckner were the
only Democrats. z
Now we see the Democrats adopt
ing practically every plank in the
Populist platform. But the funny
part of it is, Judge Reagan has swal
lowed Bryan, Hoke, Wilson, et. al.,
and is clamoring for more. Ah, it’s
a shame that Hamiltonian Democrats
be allowed to ride into office on
Jeffersonian principles, and then de
sert them. Yet when the best Dem
ocrats of Georgia protest against the
wrongs that are being heaped upon
them, we see our Democratic chair
man making an ass of himself in
criticising them. Yet I believe after
cool reasoning on Judge Reagan’s
part, that he will come to the con
clusion, as the public has done, that
he is in a mell of a hess.
Yours truly,
Ga. E. B. DANIEL.
P. S. If these facts are questioned
I will give authority that can’t be
denied. E. B. D.
WHAT A TRAVELLING MAN HAS
REALIZED.
Dear Sir: When will Protestants
get their eyes open to the actual
facts and realize what Rome is do
ing in this land? . If things are not
fast tending toward Catholic rule in
this country we are seriously mis
taken. The shrewd, cunning, under
handed work of the Jesuit is seen in
almost every direction. The Roman
Catholic church sways politics, fur
nishes the great majority of ail the
employes of the governmental de
partments at Washington; including
THE JEFFERSONIAN
the government printing office; con
trols many of the leading newspa
pers; has a throttling hand on the
. general news service, so that scarcely
a line of news derogatory to that
church can be published; runs the
police force of all our large cities;
furnishes the vast majority of all
the brewers, distillers, saloonkeep
ers, gamblers, and inmates of penal
institutions; controls many of the
school boards of our main cities, and
has driven the Bible out of nine
States; has a majority of chaplains
in the army and navy, also the pris
ons of our land and possess a strong
army of well drilled, secret society
men ready to do the pope’s bidding
at a moments notice.
And yet Protestants sleep on!
What an awakening there will be
some of these days vrhen it will be
too late.
A CHICAGO TRAVELING SALES
MAN.
FROM THE EDITOR OF “THE
ANTI CLERICAL WHIP,”
LANCASTER, PENN.
Dear Sir: William Hogan, Ex
priest, says: “It is a strange cir
cumstance, but nevertheless true,
that Americans have no difficulties
with any foreigners among them ex
cept the Roman Catholics. There
are various denominations of for
eigners in the United States, but all
others enjoy the blessings of liberty
quietly and thankfully. Papists
alone are dissatisfied; they alone re
fuse to hear to reason, and seem in
clined to govern by force. No Pro
testant priest in the United States
has ever been known to be controlled
in the discharge of his duty by a
foreign potentate. None of them
were ver known to haraugue their
flocks and march them through
American cities, with banners bear
ing the treasonable motto: “AMERI
CANS SHAN’T RULE US!” Popish
bishops and papists alone have dared
to do this. I have always been, and,
I trust, I am now the advocate of
peace; but I will confess, that I am
at a loss to know whether there is
to be found in any code of political,
or even in moral, ethics, a single pas
sage that can justify Americans in
permitting this outrage upon their
laws and upon their national charac
ter. It may be a salutary inconsis
tency, a laudable apostasy, on the
part of Americans, to permit this in
sult to their country and to the
memory of their noble and patriotic
ancestors; but their ancestors, who
now sleep in their graves, were they
living and saw this Popish Flag,
with this Popish Motto, paraded by
foreign Papists over their graves, I
will only say, the insult should never
be repeated,—there would be none
left to bear the standard. I do not
believe that from the days of Cain
to the days of Bishop Hughes, of
New York, there has ever been wit
nessed so insolent, or so inflated a
condensation of treason, as was con
tained in that solitary Popish motto:
“AMERICANS SHAN’T RULE US!”
And if Americans were not a peo
ple of singular forbearance, they
would have levelled with the ground
every Popish church, and put to the
sword every Popish bishop and priest
in the country.”
Banish or hang these traitors!
Yours truly,
EZRA J. WEAVER.
“Twenty million human beings
murdered, tortured, or proscribed;
innumerable families plunged into
misery and despair; commerce
ruined, fields untilled, a frightful de
pravation of morals; so many evils
and tears, so much blood, were
counted as nothing.” “The House
of Hapsbiirg,” in Watson’s Magazine
for December.
MONEY IS SCARCE, 'BUT SHE
NEEDS THE JEFF.
Dear Sir: I see our subscription
is out and must hasten to renew, for
I don’t want to miss a single copy.
I have learned, and continue to learn
so much from “that dirty sheet” that
has sold for more per copy than any
other paper I ever heard of. Money
is awful scarce, but I dont believe I
could do without The Jeffersonian if
it cost 5 times as much as it does.
It is worth its weight in gold, so is
its editor, and many more times his
weight.
Well, Mr. Watson, the huge hum
bug Smith, bugged his way into office
for six more years by some more of
his cunning and deceitful falsehoods
which he has so often betrayed those
who are fool enough to be fooled
time and again. And there is a host
of such men in Georgia. They can’t
see an inch ahead. It is a wonder
to me that you are still standing so
faithfully by them as their best
friend, after having been walked
over by them so often. But I do
hope yet, even long before six more
years they will believe you and see
such men as Smith, Wilson and Bry
an in their true colors. I wouldn’t
have voted for Hoke Smith if it had
taken a good office away from me
or left me penniless. No a thousand
times no. I am so tired and dis
gusted at weak kneed business
among voters and preachers and all
men that ought to stand true to prin
ciples of good order. This is one
thing that makes you the great man
you are, you stand true to what you
believe is right. Thank God for you
and men of your type. Thank him
again and again that he still spares
you to help us poor people. O, I do
wish the people would read after you
an dsee that God has called you to
do the work you are doing and help
them to follow on to a better day,
instead of looking back to Egypt
and the old Pharaohs with their pot
tage, etc. It’s of no use to encour
age you to fight on for blind men.
I know you will, for you are tried
and true. I guess before they get
Hoke Smith off their hands he will
become such a stench that they won’t
have to have you or some one else
to tell them over and over what he
is. I hope they will get so full of
his deceitfulness that they will spew
him out. He will show what he is
yet and then these men that are
wafter about by every puff of his
Don’t you want to know just how much the Demo
cratic party is to blame for the present near-panic ?
Don’t you want to know just how far from the old Jef
fersonian Democracy the Democratic party of today is ?
Don’t you want to be posted in a clear, concise man
ner, as to the promises and the pledges on which Demo
cratic Administrations have gone into office ?
Then read the Chapters on:
Party Principles, What They afire and How They
Have Changed.
The Greenback Movement.
Modern Systems of Legalized Thievery.
History of the Legal Tender.
off Chapter For the Special Benefit of the Farmer.'
In the
Political and Economic Handbook
By THOS. E. WATSON
Price Fifty Cents, Postpaid.
THE JEFFERSONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
THOMSON, GEORGIA
lies will remember ’what you told
them, when all is too late.
I have learned so much about the
school book trust and the Parcels
Post from your recent editorials.
Sometimes I cry and again I laugh.
I had often wondered why the coun
try was cut up into zones in the Par
cels Post system. Never dreaming
that it was another one of the tricks
in faVor of the hoggish Express Com
panies.
My husband sends you a dollar to
renew, we want to keep up with The
Mexican movement, also the troubles
in the orient, and we know you can
tell us better than any other man in
the U. S. I am not, nor never have
been so anxious about your prosecu
tion, for I don’t believe they will
ever do anything with it. In the first
place they can’t, for they have no
ground on which to work and besides
you are more than a match for the
whole squad. I don’t expect any
thing if ever you are tried only for
you to run them all back into their
holes. I hope the good Lord will
spare you to help Mr. Dorsey put a
noose around Leo Frank’s neck be-
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