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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
♦ WARNING! ♦
+ J. L. Braswell is not an au- ♦
♦ thorized agent of The Jeffer- +
sonian Publishing Company. ♦
HE LASHES STOCKKBRIDGE
WITH THE St ORN OF A
GENTLEMAN.
Mr. C. R. Cunningham, Manager Cir
culation, Southern Ruralist, Atlan
ta, Ga.
My Dear Sir: Replying to my
phone message ordering the cancel
lation of my subscription to The
Southern Ruralist, you ask in your
letter of the 14th inst.: “We would
like to know why you wanted it
discontinued, as you have consider
able time coming to you yet? It is
the customm, when one does not
want The Ruralist, to give some oth
er farmer friend advantage of it for
the unexpired time.”
I want you to know’, Mr. Cunning
ham, that 1 hold nothing against you,
and what I herein write is not in
tended to give you the least offense.
I cannot reflect on the inheritance
of generations by allowing a paper
to come to my home that is edited
by a man who is so ungentle as to
write rudely, insultingly to a lady
inquirer, as did your Mr. Stock
bridge in the case of a Texas lady
who sought information as to the
Frank case; and I would offend these
inherited instincts were I to receive
or cause any American gentleman to
receive future copies of a paper edi
ted by this man Stockbridge, after
lie had wantonly, slanderously and
libelously involved the purity of a
little working girl of my adopted
State, in a venal, prostituted attempt
to shield her brutal destroyer.
No. 1 cannot allow The Southern
Ruralist to come to my address, and
although my subscn'ption is not yet
expired. I will not insult the home
of my friend or acquaintance by or
dering such a paper sent to another.
No pane edited by this cruel and
vulger Stockbridge reserves to be
admitted into any sel-respecting
home. Instead of helping to extend
t 1 e circulation of the articles of one
ro low. I would like for every farmer
in Georgia to say to your manage
ment: “We will have no more of
Stockbridge, or any paper he edits.”
Dis citizenship should not be toler
ated.
With due respect for you, I am,
Yours truly.
WALTER T. WARD.
Ga.
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STOP H’S RURALIST, STOCK
BRIDGE.
Tallapoosa, Ga., 11-4-15.
Southern Ruralist.
Atlanta, Ga.
I want you to stop your dirty
sheet, as you ought to know that we
are all for Hon. T. E. Watson, and
will be for him as long as he lives.
I still believe in law and order. I
believe the lynching or Leo. Frank
was the right thing. 1 believe the
men who composed that committee
good upright men. May God bless
each of them. So stop your paper at
once.
Yours to convince you.
L. H. NEW.
e
THE FIRST R. F. D. APPROPRIA
TION.
My Dear Sir: In a new book I
have purchased, entitled “The Stan
dard Dictionary of Facts,” I find a
brief, but seemingly correct biog
raphy of yourself. I note with in
terest the following:
‘While in Congress secured first
appropriation for free delivery of
mails in rural districts that Cong
gress ever passed.”
Very truly yours,
O. LEE CHESNUTT.
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THE JEFFERSONIAN
HERE’S THE HERO WHO LED
THAT REIDSVILLE MOB
IN 1865.
Dear Sir: I have just read in this
weeks Jeffersonian, a letter from
some party entitled “A Georgia Cap
tain’s Mob at Reidsville, N. C., in
1865.”
The facts stated are true, except
we were soldiers returning home
from the surrender of Johnston’s
army instead of from Appomattox.
The time was May and not April as
stated.
I led that mob. I was strolling
around the town, and happened to
pass this Confederate commissary,
where I heard this scoundrel who
was in charge abusing the women
and children who had collected there
to draw their allowance to which
they were entitled. He refused with
oaths to give it to them. Os course
the brute expected to bag these goods
for himself.
I took in the situation and im
mediately went to the Railroad depot
where my comrades were. We had
halted for a rest. I explained matters
to them. We had a few guns and
bayonets among the crowd. A cap
tain was among the crowd. I bor
rowed his coat and sword and
dawned myself as a captain and the
boys fell into line. I marched them
up to this commissary and this man
in charge took with a leaving “in
stanter.” And I invited these hungry
women and children to go in and help
themselves and they sure did this,
to a finish.
Now, after fifty years, it gladdens
my heart to know that my' acts were
approved and appreciated at the
time by those helpless women and
children. I was 20 years old at the
time. I am now 70. I was a self
appointed captain for that special
occasion.
O. J. COTTLE, Ist Sergt.
Co. “H”, 22nd Ga.
Capt. R. A. Turnipseed's Company.
STOCKBRIDGE, STOP THIS
Dear Sir: Your recent editorial in
the Southern Ruralist regarding the
Frank case does not by any means
express the sentiment of the better
class of people of this State, and
more especially those of Cobb County.
Your editorial reads as though it
was based on class prejudice, is mis
leading, the statements made by you
in the same in regard to the law in
the case, as well as the facts in the
case, are incorrect.
On account of your stand against
the masses of our good people in this
editorial, more particularly the agri
cultural and laboring classes, I wish
my paper discontinued as of the
present date.
You will oblige me by giving this
your immediate attention.
Yours very truly,
L. A. LAWLER.
TROUBLE AHEAD FOR CINCIN
NATI!
Dear Sir: I am glad there is one
man in your State that is willing to
come to the front and give to the
people the truth as «ie sees it in his
publications without rear or favor.
I wish we had a Watson in every
State in the Union.
Cincinnati is fast filling up with
the Jewish race. Within the next
five years, or less time, the West end
will be entirely settled up by them
and other denominations crowded
out.
This city, is controlled by the Ro
man Catholics; so it is “further
South” for me. Georgia, Florida or
Alabama looks good to me.
I arn sending you two marked
copies of The Sunday Visitor.
Respectfully,
Ohio. C. T. GOLDEN.
HOW IT IS IN WORTH COUNTY.
Dear Sir: I am wrfting you a few
lines that you may know that ninety
per cent of the people in these parts
are with you in your great fight for
the strict enforcement of the law to
all alike, w’ith special privileges to
none.
When I can get one to read your
periodicals in a calm and dispassion
ate manner, with a mind open to
reason, I count on another convert
to Watson and right principles. The
better the people understand you, the
more they are for you; consequently
the wmods are getting full of your
supporters down here. So let the
heathen rage and the ungodly
imagine vain things. Truth is mighty
and w’ill prevail though it be crushed
to earth for a time. I would be
pleased to attend your trial in Au
gusta and w’ill do so if circumstances
will permit, for nothing would please
one more than to witness the dis
play of your logical reasoning in be
half of right, truth and justice, in
the interest of your fellowman and
the country at large. May the great
God of the universe protect and
preserve you for many years to come.
Your friend,
S. F. WHITTEN.
THE APPRECIATED GOOD WISHES
OF A LADY.
Dear Sir: I have long desired to
write to your valuable paper and now
since you have stood for Georgia
rights and the protecting of our girls
I feel like I want to shake your hand.
I am so proud we have one man in
Georgia who is not afraid to publish
the truth. If w 7 e just had a few more
like you, we would have better times.
W. W. RAMSEY. C. W. LEG WEN.
Ramsey & Legwen
COTTON FACTORS
AND DEALERS IN
Wagons and Buggies
835 and 837 Reynolds Street, AUGUSTA, GA.
WARREN WALKER. C. WALKER BEESON.
Walker & Walker
COTTON FACTORS
839 Reynolds Street, AUGUSTA, GA.
CONSIGNMENT SOLICITED.
Cotton Stored in Bonded Warehouse.
S. M. Whitney Co.
Cotton Factors
AUGUSTA, - GEORGIA
Persona! Attention to All Business
Correspondence Invited
When John M. Slaton said all the
good people of Georgia vzas with him,
if he would just reverse it, and say a
all the good people was for T. E.
then he would come nearer having it®
right. But let your enemy makfl
their threats and say what thej®|
please, God takes care of his ovznjß
Hoping that you will live to a ripe®
old age and that your remaining days «
will still be strewn with flowers of 1
success, lam yours respectfully, , 1
MRS. COR?. GOSS. , 1
SAYS WAYNE COUNTY IS WITt/fl
US. 1
Dear Sir: As a subscriber for your
paper, it just fills me clear up to the
brim to read same, and I look and
long for each coming copy. From,
your stand in the Frank case it’
doesn’t seem possible that a man
could gain friends as you have
throughout the entire county. I be
lieve I can honestly say 99 per cent
of the county of Wayne is with you.
Go it, old boy, and show the ras
cals up. I, for one, will ever be by ,
your side. ’
Let us hope the new paper in At
lanta will be as great a success as
the Jeffersonian. I also like your
writing on Foreign Missions, al
though I am a Missionary Baptist.
Yours fpr success,
W. M. MOODY.
Ga. 1
Read Foreign Missions Exposed,
by Thos. E. Watson. Beautifully
printed. Profusely illustrated. Price
80 cents. The Jeffs, Thomson, Ga. «
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