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12 We Must Qet Together. Somehow, somewhere all those who believe that existing 1 conditions are wrong, and that there must be a change for the better, will sink their differences upon personal and minor matters, and come to some common ground of essential principle upon which all can stand. Can Mr. Walsh, with his Indepen dence League, find this common ground ? Possibly. Could Mr. Forrest, with his Jeffer sonian Clubs, do it? Perhaps. Would a conference of such men as Bryan, Hearst, Folk, La Follette, Tillman and Watson accomplish it? Hardly. The movement which will succeed in uniting all the radicals must come from below, not from above. Tn some way the masses must be roused, organized and harmonized. So far back as November 29, 1904, Hon. C. H. Ellington, of McDuffie county, Ga. wrote for publication in one of the Atlanta papers an article which itself suggests a plan. This manuscript was never forwarded to Atlanta, but when its author showed it to me recently, the idea occurred to me of submitting it to our readers and of inviting brief letters from them, giving their opinions of the plan of union suggested. Let Jeffersonians Unite. Mr. Editor: I was very much in hopes that Mr. Watson, Mr. Bryan and Mr. Hearst, the three greatest living exponents of Jeffersonian Democracy in this country, would be able to join forces in one mighty effort to overthrow the classes and wrest the government out of their hands and reorganize a people’s government. But it seems that they cannot do so, that as able as they are the task is too great for them. What a pity! How strange three great master minds, whose po litical creed is practically the same, believe in the same things, hate the same things, want the same things, and not least in their fitness for lead ership, the great American people be lieve in them; believe in their abil ity, their honesty, their sincerity, and yet they will not harmonize. What a mighty trio of giants! What an invincible army—people’s army— they could organize if they only would. Their differences are mere matters of method, of detail of how to do what they all agree should he done. And in the name of the business in terests and the toiling millions of this country, in the name of human ity I appeal to them to reconcile their differences and unite their forces in a war of the masses against the class es. But if they will not arise to the re sponsibilities of the hour, then let the people act and T make this suggestion that the Jeffersonian Democrats of the United States, regardless of past party affiliations, name a day in the summer of 1905 in every congression al district in the United States by counties, when a great white non-par tisan Jeffersonian primary will be held for the election of one loyal and able Jeffersonian Democrat in each congressional district and two from each state. Said elected representa tive Jeffersonian Democrats to meet in national convention in some central place for the purpose of uniting in one grand fighting army this great force, which is now divided, this con vention to determine the best meth od of reinstating a people’s govern ment by the people and for the peo ple. If this convention in its wis dom think best to raise the Jefferson ian flag over a reorganized Democrat ic party, well and good; if the con vention think best to organize a new party, well and good. Let every Jef fersonian soldier follow the flag in loyal devotion to the principles of government he believes in. Let Watson and Bryan and Hearst go to that convention and there advo cate their views as to the best meth ods, and then let the convention de cide which is best by a majority vote. Now, Mr. Editor, we all know that we can never win so long as we are divided and I offer this as one way in which we can get together, if we are true followers of the immortal Jefferson. I hope you will publish this letter ard comment on it editorially. Yours in the fight for a government of the people. C. H. Ellington. Thomson, Ga., Nov. 29, 1904. MH* A DAY OF RECKONING. Broxton. Ga., Jan. 1, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir: You’ll find enclosed the price for two of your magazines, and the price for one of your Weekly Jeffersonians. T long to see your two periodicals cover the Union like the dew that falls from the blue canopy of heaven. Every man that toils, every man that labors, every man that believes in justice—let him be king or peasant —should follow your banner of jus tice. I am glad to see you spring away from the jackal and the lion and may your work continue as long as men believe in justice. But Town Topics, may its big-bellied editor, and his dean co-worker of a bonny honkadory soon fall like li Lucifer, never to rise again.” If T know myself, there is one sweet and noble day T long to see— that day is the day when young men will devote themselves to the study of justice, the rights of men, the rights of labor, and capital, and pur ity of government. If they do, noble Sire, this nation shall live. If they refuse, it must fall. May God spare yon, and protect you and yours, until vour doctrine shall be universal. Your friend, Henry Clay Ellis. Broxton, Ga. H H FRATERNAL COURTESIES. Commonwealth “Castle,” Cal., Napa County. Hon. Thos E. Watson, Editor Wat son’s Jeffersonian Magazine, At lanta, Ga. My dear “Tom”: Please excuse the familiarity, but you seem so dear to me since the regular receipt weekly of your Jeffer sonian, for it rejoices me so much to know that one so much abler than myself is doing that which I have vainly tried to do on a small scale— THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. show up the evil of the bond bood lers National Bank graft—the most diabolical, devilish design the devil ever devised to destroy the liberty of a people. No wonder that the Mann “mogul” and the “De France” “di-dapper duck,” made you “walk the plank,” for you had just begun, in the New York son,” to make old “Rothy” sea sick, and they couldn’t stand it— and so sought to strangle your “still small voice crying in the wilderness,” but they simply gave you more pow er—and “God knows” it is need ed. And now comes the REAL “Wat son’s” Magazine—a regular “trip hammer,” to the “sledgehammer” of the Jeffersonian, and it is with the greatest pleasure of anything ever done by me in my life-:—next to “popping the question” to my wife —to send you almost the last dollar and a half I have on hand to pay one year in advance for the real, ONLY and Simon pure Watson Mag zine. Truly trials bring out the “stuff” that is in a “feller,” as polishing makes tfiie diamonds brighter, and your “diamonds” are more brilliant than ever it seems to me—beyond all “carats” to register their value! In the days of the people’s party you loomed up a great figure, to me, in the cause of the people, but now you are a Colossus^—Hearst is a “has been”—as you say Ihmsen was his undoing—that was a great vivi section of Hearst, and he goes into eclipse, with me! To me, Sir, you are the hope of this nation. You hold the flag, and seem able to do so—and being the natural leader all should recognize you as such, and “get busy” at for the great battle of 1908, with your self as the standard bearer, that is, if the Trusts will permfit another election—which is in doubt, with me —the way they are planning to down union labor; the natural, and (by their convention work) one political ally of the people’s party, which un ited can win, and for fear of this union, the destruction of labor union ism is planned, and to Col. Mann, through “clear case” bribery of its National Secretary (De France) plutocracy planned paralyzing peo ple’s party. The latter trick has failed, thanks to “Tom” Watson, the “Coeur de Leon” and “Peter” combined of the greatest crusade in the world’s history—crusade against the money trust,, mother "of ALL trusts. But the struggle against union ism goes on. The Supreme Court of United States has a*»ain in the in terest of the money power reversed itself in the case of the Colorado miners—and they are to be hanged —and a trumped up pretext of war with Japan is to be used to mass sol diers in the West to prevent an “up rising” of “outlaws” similar to those being massacred in the Phil ippines occasionally, to make “shoul der straps for murderers. Bah! it is sickening, Mr. Roosevelt! As before written in this letter, Hearst is a “has been,” with the people. He “shied his castor,” set his lance and lost—and as you so clearly show, should have—his tak ing on the tactics suggested by Ihm sen shows a “streak” in him it is well the people found out before he Davison and Fargo COTTON FACTORS AUGUSTA, GA. 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