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Major C. E. McGregor
Writes a Letter to
the Macom Tel
egraph.
“Lay on McDuff and D d be he
M ho First Cries Hold, Enough.”
To The Macon Telegraph;
The tone, language, and intention
of the editorial entitled “Something
Else;' Again,” in your issue of the
fourth instant, and the one appear
ing on the 18th, entitled “The Jour
nal—T. E. AV. —The Party,” evi
dences to my mind an effort to re
instate John M. Slaton in Georgia
Politics by excommunicating Thomas
E. Watson and his influence at any
cost. In as much as you have
honored me by mentioning me by
name, as one of the fifteen or twenty
thousand “Old Guard” scattered
throughout Georgia who “will win or
lose, sink or swim with Watson,’’ I
claim the right to the use of your
columns, notwithstanding you have
heretofore refused it, in a feeble ef
fort to expose, criticise and refute
your unAmerican effort to instil into
American citizens the Monarchial
doctrine that “The King (Wilson)
can do no wrong,” and that an
American citizen has no rights which
a tyranical democratic administra
tion is bound, by the American Con
stitution to respect. All of which
rights your editor attempts to ridi
cule by sneering allusions to the
Hero-Barons who wrung, by force of
arms, Magna Charta rights from
King John.
The most virulent enemy of T. E.
W., if he has Georgia blood in his
veins will unite in resisting so
usurpatory an act by the Wilson ad
ministration, —an act more heinous
and destructive of liberty than a Re
publican administration, dominated
by the Negro-loving Thad Stevens,
dared sanction in the darkest days of
the reconstruction period, when the
Military Governor of Georgia, at
tempted to force Kirksey and other
Citizens of Columbus to trial in At
lanta when the alleged crime was
committed in Columbus. Even a
military despot in that case recog
nized the doctrine of “Circles of
Villages” which your Alien editor so
flippantly ridicules.
Soon after the execution of the
legally imposed death sentence upon
Leo M. Frank, I suggested to you an
investigation of a rumor current in
Atlanta, nright develop an under
standing or a tentative agreement
entered into by the William R.
Hearst influence representing the
rich Jews, and John M. Slaton, Gover
nor, to secure Slaton the nomination
for Vice-President upon the National
Democratic ticket, if he, the then
Governor, saved the rapist and mur
derer, Leo M. Frank, from the death
penalty then pending. You declined
publishing the suggestion, stating you
had “decided after publishing Judge
Adams’ letter defending Slaton's
commutation act to exclude the
Frank case from your columns,” or
words to that effect, but you didn’t
play fair, for the very next day or
two or three days thereafter your
Atlanta News Bureau teemed with it,
and the unfortunate Frank ease,
now unearthed by Wilson’s adminis
tration to compel a citizen of Geor
gia to surrender his convictions to
his enemies and the righteous defi
ance of that citizen to submit pass
ively to such an unconstitutional de
mand, appears to be the immediate
gravamen of your frenzied editorials.
T cannot say, nor could I prove by
positive testimony, that such an un
derstanding or tentative agreement
existed, but I believe there is suffi
cient circumstantial evidence to war
rant a “true-bill” and that there is
more truth in the said rumor than
was “ere dreamt’ of in your philoso--
phy, Horatio,
THfcJ JEFFERSONIAN
Listen: in violation of his oath, he,
Governor Slaton, invaded the judic
iary department; assumed the right
cf judge to re-hear evidence; em
panelled himself as trial juror to
pass on the guilt of a thrice legally
sentenced criminal; rendered a ver
dict of innocence; then reassuming
the functions ot Governor, he de
clared the judgements of State and
Federal Courts null and void, and in
stead of sustaining his own verdict
of “innocence” by granting Frank his
freedom, he stultified his verdict by
commuting to imprisonment in the
State Farm, from whence Frank’s
friends could liberate him at their
.good pleasure. That the Vigiiantees
got there first and executed the leg
ally imposed death sentence, was no
fault of Slaton. He performed his
part of the contract or agreement
and because Frank’s racial friends
were too slow to prevent the execu
tion, did not act as an estoppel to
the performance of the other side of
the agreement, viz: The nomination
of Slaton on the Democratic National
Ticket. Did Hearst's and Frank’s
friends get busy?
Follow Slaton as he envelopes him
self in winter wraps and flees from
Georgia (where he needed vindica
tion) and makes a bee line for
where? California —the Ancestral
home of the said William R. Hearst,
where Slaton is banqueted b,y
Frank’s friends and toasted as Geor
gia’s great and only Immaculate son.
Into other Western and Eastern states
he journeyed, abusing the juries and
courts of Georgia and posing before
deluded newspaper readers as a great
Georgian who was not afraid to vio
late his oath and defame his State,
when it took all of that to free a
thrice death-sentenced Jew, rapist
and murderer. Thus inviting his de
luded hearers to reciprocate by ele
vating him politically. Where and
when? Not in Georgia, but in the
Democratic Presidential Convention.
Is not that one reason why you
and the Atlanta Journal say “He
(Thomas E. Watson) should not
have the slightest thing to do with
naming the delegates to the Na
tional Convention—and he shall
no<?” How will you prevent him,
unless Reagan and his Slaton com
mitteemen violate the recommenda
tions of the National Democratic
Committee and star-chamber the se
lection of national delegates instead
of having them elected by the peo
ple through the white primary?
You affect to have great fear and
horror of the Georgia negro at the
polls in a general election, but you
have no adverse criticism of a Demo
cratic Administration which puts a
Georgia negro in charge of a Gov
ernmental department in Washing
ton City and makes him the boss
over the white women employed
therein. Nor did you inform your
Georgia readers of that damnable
fact.
The Democratic President Wood
row Wilson appointed a negro the
Judge of the City Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, whose duty it is
to mete out punishment to white
men and white women convicted in
said court, and a Democratic Senate
allowed confirmation of that gross
Presidential insult to the entire
South.
Watson’s speech in the State Cap
itol in 1904 put the negro out of
Georgia’s politics. The Democratic
President, Woodrow Wilson, put
black heels upon white necks in the
District of Columbia in 1914. Yet
you damn Watson and praise Wilson.
Why?
Is it because Watson, instead of
passively awaiting political assassi
nation, exposed the secret effort of
Slaton, the Jews, and other political
and religious enemies, to have Wil
son’ supposed Democratic Adminis
tration clandestinely secure indi
cations against him in several
States outside of Georgia, spring
them upon him so soon as the Ex
ecutive Committee of Georgia an
nounce tho date of the Presidential
primary and paralyze his influence?
It has that look.
Indict him for what? For pub
lishing the questions Catholic priests
put to men and women in the con
fessional? No. He has been twice
indicted for that. On his first trial
Judge Foster dismissed the indict
ment on the demurrer; the second
time the Grand Jury refused to in
dict; the third time the Republican
Postmaster-General requested the
District Solicitor to let -it alone, but
Akerman, the Republican Solicitor,
with the aid of one of Georgia’s Sen
ators, influenced the Grand Jury
into acquiesence. Watson appeared
in his own defense before Judge
Lambdin in December last and a
mistrial resulted —the jury standing
for acquittal ten, guilty two.
Indict him outside of Georgia, tor
what? For libel? No." For trea
son? No. For slander? No. But
for defending Georgia against Sla
ton's treachery and outside slander,
by publishing extracts from the sala
cious evidence which convicted Leo
M. Frank of the vilest crime and
murder ever committed in eGorgia.
Where did Watson get the evi
dence from? From Volume 141 of
Georgia s Supreme Court Reports.
Does said volume circulate through
Uncle Sam’s mail? It certainly does,
and it has the approval and copy
right of Uncle Sam stamped upon its
cover.
You say that “the people of Geor
gia arn’t ready to follow another
Aaron Burr or a Benedict Arnold.”
I fully agree with you, and if Mr.
Hearst, the rich Jews, and Tack
Slaton’s newspapers dare give pub
lic notice of his candidacy for any
office in the gift of Georgians and
submit it to a white primary, 95 per
cent, of the votes cast will link the
name of Jack Slaton with that of
Aaron Burr and Benedict Arnold.
C. E. MCGREGOR.
February 19, 19 IG.
SOME QUEER FACTS ABOUT THE
WATSON TRIAL.
Dear Sir; 1 have just finished
reading Watson’s Magazine for Janu
ary and The Jeffersonian of the 20th
instant, and there are some matters
about which T want to write you in
connection with the recent trial at
Augusta.
The man named as W, R. Brannan:
Is W. B. Brannen, of Georgetown,
Georgia, a post office inspector now
stationed at Chattanooga, Tennessee.
I understand that Brannon claims
his subscription to The Jeffersonian
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was bona fide, but I have never been
able to change my opinion that ho
subscribed in order to wake himself
a witness for the Government.
I do not know who were the two
jurors that held out for conviction
but I am satisfied that one was P. S.
North.
Do you know why? This same
Phil North has been trying or more
than a year to be made ami tant
postmaster at Augusta. The politi
cians "tTfere for him. hut ho stc.od
about 25th on the list, cf elLab'ms,
so the position was left vacant, and
1 understand that today Augusta has
no assistant postmaster. What is
more natural than that if North could
bring about your conviction, or at
least show his good ( 7 ) intentions
by preventing acquittal, tho post
office department, or tre Romanists,
would reward l)im?
A. J. Knight, the inspector’ that
“worked up” the case has ic-eived
his reward by being put in eharg? of
this reorganization of rural delivery
routes.
Mr. Watson, you know the rural
free delivery service. Having been
the cause of its establishment, can
you not now prevent its demoraliza
tion? I do not know how much
knowledge Postmaster General Bur
leson has of the candidates which he
is changing and the new and intol
erable conditions which be is foisting
on the rural public. Sometimes I
think he is being misled by his fourth
assistant Blackslee, or by Knight and
others. Knight and his inspector as
sistants make their “investigations”
and the department orders the
changes on his recommendation. hi
Hie la-t s’x months they have utterly
destroyed work that has taken years
to build up and perfect. If vou want
to do something for the country peo
ple. put a s*op to this.
With best wishes, I am,
Yours very truly,
S. T. SAMUEL.
Wh en writing to advertisers, please
mention The Jeffersonian.
Position Wanted.
Have about five years experience as
hardware clerk, am willing to start with
reasonable salary. Can give good
reference.
1 can give Mr. S. S. Brown of Rochelle,
as reference.
J. M. WINN,
Holton, Ga.
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