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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
UVALDA CITIZENS ENDORSE
T. E. W.
This is to certify that we, the un
dersigned do endorse Tom Watson,
the Jeffersonian and pure principals:
W. H. Kelly, L. C. Adams, J. B.
Conner, O. A. Gray, R. W. Kelley,
H. E. Kelley, C. M. Jeams, S. A. Dil
lon, J. M. Avant, M. A. Peterson,
J. O. Snow, J. R. Merritt, H. B. Mc-
Natt, 11. A. Johnson, A. F. Bland, Al
bert Morris, W. C. Cellars, J. W.
Gay, A. L. McCumbers, K. H. Ben
nett, 11. E. Downie, J. G. Morris, L.
C. Adams, Ira Anderson, J. W. Cal
houn, J. J. Moses, W. C. Langford,
W. T. Harris, J. M. Braddy, D. Q.
Coleman, J. C. Byrd, E. L. Carpen
ter, J. D. McDaniel, Homer Sharpe,
M. P. Mosley, J. M. Craft, L. E.
Race well, J. F. Mills, W. P. Sharpe,
C. A. Cody, G. S. Baggott, W. S.
Kelley, T. A. Kelley, W. S. Partin,
H. A. Neesmith, J. R. Gray, Lamar
Kelley, J. C. Dixon, N. A. Downie,
C. R. Baggott, D. R. Sharpe, J. T.
Conner, R. B. Braddy, A. J. Huggins,
G. C. Stanford, W. H. Denton, A. A,
George, J. W. Adams, J. F. Sharpe,
S. W. Faricloth, J. W. Green, W. A.
Conner, E. Dixon, Lamar Jones, G.
W. McGehee, D. C. Sharpe, R. L.
Currie, E. Conner, J. W. Ward, W. A.
Hughes, S. A. Matthews, M. T. Mc-
Allister, W. B. Langford, C. P. Davis ;
J. A. Clements, W. T. Hindricks,
R. S. Boyd, M. S. Conner, J. P.
Moses, H. A. Moses.
The above endorsers were secured
in about three hours canvas in
Uvalda, Ga. Ninety-five percent sign
ed that had opportunity.
W. H. KELLEY.
September, 1915.
THE NOBLE OHIO POPULIST
GREENBACKER HERO HAS
PASSED AWAY.
Dear Sir: When I wrote to you
last spring of father’s failing health,
you asked me to let you know of his
future condition. On the 7th I re
ceived a telegram saying at 9 o’clock
father passed peacefully away.”
This has ended the life of one of
the bravest, most self-sacrificing
patriots that the cause of reform has
ever known in this country. He and
his family knew what it was to suf
fer financial privations and social
ostracism for principal’s sake.
He knew the sting of having his
most devoted political friends and
followers turn aside rather than
meet him, and to see them lend a
willing ear to those who would ma
line and abuse him. because he had
left the dear old party, or rather, as
he expressed it, because the Demo
cratic Party left him when its lead
ers nominated the arch political
trixter and corruptionest Sam Tilden
and turned down the Ohio idea.
From the days of his earliest man
hood till his physical strength failed
him, he was always ready with
tongue and pen to espouse the cause
of weak against their oppressors. It
used to be said that if Farmer Seitz
would keep quiet and attend to his
“garden sass” there would be no re
form party in Ohio. Could his ene
mies have paid him a greater com
pliment?
During the eight years he ser"ed
the people as representative and
state senator, he was termed the
“watch dog” of the treasury, and as
a result gained the unending hatred
and opposition of that class of leg
islators who looked upon the pub
lic’s money as a legitimate source
of private gain. During the three
cornered campaign in 1891, when
McKinley, Campbell and Seitzmore
were candidates for governor, and
THE JEFFERSONIAN
the victorious Populists from the
West were speaking, to tens of thou
sands cheering Buckeyes every day,
and the old parties were afraid Ohio
might be a second Kansas, the Demo
crats sent one of their most promi
nent judges to father, and offered, if
they were successful, to make him
United States Senator, if he would
withdraw in their favor.
He told Judge S., who had been
his personal friend for years, that it
was for principal and not for office
that he was fighting. He was al
ways opposed to fusion with the old
parties, and was afraid it would lead
where it did, to this dissolution of
the People’s Party and the turning
back of the cause of reform for many
years.
If I am not mistaken he made
the motion at the St. Louis conven
tion to nominate you for vice-presi
dent before the convention made the
great blunder of endorsing Bryan,
the greatest enemy of reform the
present generation has produced.
When I think of that band of
self-sacrificing, patriotic men and
women, who devoted their substance
and lives to the cause of humanity,
and that the venerable sire, who has
just finished his life’s work, is one
of the last of their number and that
the people are seemingly as blind as
to the injustices practiced upon them.
I am lead to exclaim: O Lord, how
long will the people endure!
Will the day ever come when
equality and justice will reign, when
political prejudice and religious sup
erstition will cease to dominate the
destinies of man kind.
The nearest I ever heard him ex
press a desire to live his life over,
was last spring. One night we were
talking of the great work you are
doing for humanity, when he said:
“If I were young again, realizing my
ability to explain and convince, I
would devote my whole life to man
kind,” this was just a few days be
fore he was 86 years old.
He died looking to Mr. Watson,
more than any other man to carry
on the reform work which he and
his co-oworkers started nearly forty
years ago.
He is gone from among the chil
dren of men, but the acts of kind
ness and the words of wisdom that
he scattered along life’s pathway
will live in their hearts till they,
too, pass over that great divide that
separates the here from the here
after; the known from the unknown,
the mortal from the immortal. It is
of such souls as his that the king
dom of heaven is composed. From
his unworthy son, and your sincere
friend,
O. K. SEITZ.
THE OLD LADY’S SUSPICIONS
WERE CONFIRMED.
My Friend Tom: Here is a clip
ping from the Atlanta Georgian on
missions. Put in the Jeff.—J. W.
Lord.
A clergyman tells a story of a fel
low pastor who had waxed eloquent
in the interest of foreign missions
one Sunday and was surprised, on
entering a village shop during the
week, to be greeted with marked
coldness by the old dame who kept
it.
On asking the cause, the good wo
man produced a quarter from a
drawer, and throwing it down before
him, said:
“I marked that coin and put it in
the plate last Sunday, and here it
is back in my shop. I knowed well
them poor Africans never got the
money.’*
A GEORGIA LADY’S LETTER.
Dear Sir: Please allow me to ex
press my approval and appreciation
of your noble fight for the South and
the working people, (termed by
Slaton as Riff-raff and Scums). It
is unfortunate that we haven’t more
men to defend us and our state, men
that wouldn’t be bought and bluffed
or sell their honor for a few dollars,
as some of our men of influence have
done.
Slaton should be made to spend
his honey-moon and the remainder
of his life in foreign countries.
Wishing you happiness and success
in every undertaking,
A GEORGIA LADY.
THESE NEW SUBS ARE FROM
STAUNCH AMERICANS.
Dear Sir: Please find money
order for $ll.OO to cover list of
twenty-two names herewith.
These are all new, not renewals,
and many of them the most refined,
SHEATS’ STOCK TONIC
IS the medicine for your fattening hogs. It will cleanse their system, make
* them eat more and fatten quicker. Five to six doses of this wonderful
medicine for each hog is all you need. It will positively produce quick re
sults. If hogs fail to eat they fail to fatten. If it will not make a hoggish hog
out of your hog in ten days we’ll return your money. About f of a pound is
all you get for a fifty cent money order delivered anywhere in U. S.
It is all medicine and it does the work, what more do you want? It is an .
HONEST remedy at a reasonable price, what more can we offer?
SHEATS’ STOCK TONIC CO. - Winder, Ga.
W. W. RAMSEY. c. W. LEGWEN.
Ramsey & Leg wen
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AND DEALERS IN
Wagons and Buggies
835 and 837 Reynolds Street, AUGUSTA, GA.
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Walker & Walker
COTTON FACTORS
839 Reynolds Street, AUGUSTA, GA.
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cultivated and able men of our town.
They are of that class of men who
put Christianity in the Church, pat
riotism in politics and righteousness
in every department of life.
Tom Watson, the one man un
afraid; the Jeffersonian, the one
paper unsensored are fast favorites
here.
Send on the “Jeff” imbued with
all the individualities of Tom Watson.
Load it with Watson thoughts,
paint it in Watson colors and fill it
with Watson truths, then will pa
triots grow bold, papal plotters faint
and Jewish gold lose its value.
Watson’s defense of the South, his
manly efforts to uphold our courts,
and his love of right, truth and
justice are fast coming to the front.
The Jeff” has proved its loyalty
to constitutional authority and the
virtue of its womanhood and now
Alabama says “me too.”
Respectfully,
C. H. COLE.
