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Vol. 13, No. 43
A FTER all is said and done, the fight be
tween Hughes and lady-like
contest, so far as the two obelisks were con
cerned —depended upon whether or not the
Dutch could again carry Holland.
. The Dutch in this case being the rock
ribbed patriots who are humorously known
as Democrats, and Holland being the Solid
South, the election was duly saved, as per
formula and precedent, although Clark How
ell, our Georgia member of the Imperial
Executive Committee, gave up the ghost, on
1 uesday the Sth, and accepted President
Charles E. Hughes in an editorial which was
real nice.
The fact that Clark afterwards wrote
equally well for Wilson, means nothing in
particular: both pieces had probably been
written and canned before the election.
V hen a Presidential candidate starts out
with more than half the necessary Electoral
votes in his pocket, he is mighty hard to beat;
and that s the advantage of every nominee
who runs on the Democratic ticket.
Now. if you're certain that you ain't mad
with me about anything, and will listen to
some interesting statements, you may learn a
few’ facts not usually published in the South
ern dailies.
In 1912, Wilson received 435 electoral
votes, while Taft and Roosevelt combined got
but 96. Therefore, you will see at a glance
that Wilson won 260 Electoral votes, outside
the Southern States. (I am including Okla
homa, with its 10 votes with the Solid South.)
This time, the Democrats carried 12 States
besides the South, with an electoral vote of
94.
In the election of 1916, the Democratic
party has held the Solid South, with its 175
votes, but has lost 169 votes, outside.
Since 266 Electoral votes are necessary to
elect in the College, Woodrow Wilson owes
the South 175 of those votes, and owes the
balance of the States only 91.
Friends of The Jeffersonians Respond to the Editor,!
I AST week the Editor, in his “Heart to
Heart Talk,” laid before the friends, of
The Jeffersonians a proposition, by which
they might help The Jeffs tide over the pres
ent slump in circulation, and at the same time
receive more than dollar-for-dollar value.
This was the proposition, which still holds
good:
(1) To be entered for 5 years to either the
weekly Jeffersonian, or to the Magazine; or
(2) To be entered 3 years for both the weekly
paper and the monthly magazine; or
(3) To rceive, postpaid, that amount —$5.
in any of the books we publish; or
(4) To enter on our lists, for a year’s sub
scription, to either the paper or the magazine,
names of 5 persons, or
General Notes on the Election and Other National Affairs
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, November 23, 1916
With the 175 votes of the Solid South to
begin with, Wilson contested with Hughes the
remaining 356; and when the battle ended, he
had gained 91 out of the 356.
Even then, 11 of these votes was admittedly
due to the fact that there was, in California,
just such a bitter feud between Republican
and Progressives, as there was in Georgia.
But for this factional row among the anti-
Wilson men, in one State, it is conceded that
even the glorious triumph of the Dutch in
Holland would not have given Wilson a
second term.
So you see, when you boil the facts down,
there was no especial reason why the Dutch
in Holland shoulddiave so laboriously worked
off so many spasms of enthusiasm.
You read a great deal about the West join
ing hands with the South to achieve this
famous victory.
Let us calmly consider which States of the
West “joined” the South.
The Democrats carried Utah: that’s the
Mormons, you know.
The Democrats carried Arizona. New
Mexico, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas,
Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota,
Ohio, Wyoming, and Washington.
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Ne
vada are Roman Catholic; and in another
part of this paper you will see a sample of
the Wilson literature used in those States.
The Democratic managers did not use that
sort of stuff in Protestant States.
In California, the Romanists hold the
balance of power, and they elected Hiram
Johnson to the U. S. Senate, on the same day
they re-elected Wilson to the Presidency.
Dudley Field Malone, the 4th Degree
Knight of Columbus who was made New
York Collector of Customs by Tumulty and
Wilson, spent his time in California, lining
up the Romanist Secret Societies for Wilson.
Malone is given credit in the Democratic
papers of the North for the narrow margin
by which Wilson carried California, and
(5) To be moved up .1 year, on the subscrip
tion list of either the weekly or the monthly, and
get the balance—s4. —i;i any of our books and
pamphlets; or
(<>) To be moved up I year on both the weekly
and the monthly, and get the balance—s3. —in
any of our books and pamphlets.
This is not asking something fori nothing: it is
a bid for your co-operation, with value received
to you.
The responses came promptly, and the fol
lowing have taken advantage of some of the
propositions:
John Q. Cheely, Agricola, Ga.; S. S. Brinson,
Sylvania, Ga.; E. E. Lundy, Wilmington, N.
F. H. Lawson, Kissimmee, Fla.; W. Thos. Wood
ward, Lewis, Ga.; J. D. Duncan, Moultrie*, Ga.;
thereby won a second term.
So you can imagine how vast will be the
sway of the Jesuits, the A. (). Hibernians, the
K. of C. and the Irish Cardinals during the
next 4 years.
Less than 90 Electoral votes will make a
Democratic President, when the South's quota
is added.
If the Democratic party contained a real
constructive Statesman, and born leader, can
you not see what a wonderful work he could
do for us in Congress?
The Northern Democrats are the tail of the
dog, but the dog lets the tail do all the
wagging and steering.
A Southern statesman, who knew how to
lead, and who possessed the genius of con
structive legislation, could so utilize the
South's 175 Electoral votes as to govern the
country.
But we have no Statesman, no strong
leader: we have office-holders, cuckoos, par
rots, supers, and fillers. The Northern tail
says to the dog, “Come along, and let's run
backwards!" and the obedient animal back
tracks to the stale old class-legislation which
has dry-rotted every nation that has let the
Plutocrats dictate it.
Fhe South holds more than one-half the
controlling interest in the Democratic party
—and lets the minority stockholders boss the
organization.
The South has more than 20,000.000 people
who, politically speaking, have no more power
for self-help, nationally, than so many sheep
and goats.
And we turn out, with wild enthusiasm, to
celebrate, jubilate, intoxicate, and prevari
cate, every time another chance comes round
for the Northern tail to wag the Southern
dog.
That the Democrats have made no decisive
gains in the West, is demonstrated by their
failure to carry Indiana, Illinois, lowa,
(continued on PAGE SEVEN.)
R. W. Bailey, Memphis, Tenn.; Eugene W. Able,
aSaluda, S. C.; Thos. O. Christian, Mac'on, Ga.;
R. C. Norman, Washington, Ga.; J. T. Storm,
Union, S. C.; C. E. McGregor, Warrenton, Ga.;
' R. E. L. Wilson, Quitman, Ga.; E. L. Stephens,
Wrightsville, Ga.; T. M. Woodham, New Brookton,
Ala.; Dr. J. H. Hall, Norman Park, Ga.; Bob Pick
ens, Pickens, S. C.; John W. Bell, Bethlehem, Ga.;
L. Y. Allgood, Rockmart, Ga.; Robt. Young, Chi
cago, 111.; C. N. Pulse, Hillsboro, ().; G. M. Stem
bridge, Milledgeville, Ga.; A. A. Watson, E. Liver
pool, 0.; Rev. John C. Barr, Now Orleans, La.;
Dr. R. F. Ingram, Atlanta, Ga.; T. F. Rogers, Mos
cow, Tenn.; J. T. Beverly. Sr., Omega, Ga.; W. A.
D. Nelson, McDonough, Ga.; J. L. Shepherd, Ash
burn, Ga.: Jake B. Dunton, Birds Nest, Va.;
Stacy Daniel, New York, N. Y.; T. L. Wilbanks,
Oslor'iold, Ga.; E. B. Lippins, Chicago, III.; J. T.
Duncan, Moultrie, Ga.; Thos. H. Coates, Brooklyn.
N. Y.
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