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Editor Watson’s Weekly:
I wish to give a few remarks as to
the different political struggles since
eighteen hundred and one.
In the time of Washington there
were two political parties—the Feder
ate and the Anti-Federals. The read
er will consider what was accomplish
ed d” r ing the administrations of the
different political organizations.
In Monroe’s administration the Fed
eral party having been overborne
and conquered in several presidential
campaigns, ceased to maintain itself
as a separate political organization
and melted away, the major portion
of its membership going into the
Democratic party. Then occurred the
era of good feeling.
In 1822 the supporters of John Quin
cy Adams separated from the Demo
cratic.-Republican party and the latter
part of the same year formed what is
known as the Democratic party.
We note that in 1831 there was a
division again and in 1834 it seems,
the Whig party was organized.
In 1840 the Liberal party was form
ed and in 1843 the National American
party .was organized and the Silver
Greys in 1850.
The Democratic party was in pow
er from 1853 till the inauguration of
Lincoln.
And it seems that there will be a
change in nineteen hundred and eight.
They can call it the Populist, Third
party or the Socialist, but there is a
change coming.
Mr. Editor, w r e are proud to see the
farmers and laboring men awakening
to their duty which is invaluable upon
every honest man throughout the land.
Hoping success to the Jeffersonian
and Magazine, I am yours fraternally,
G. O. BUSH.
West Lake, Fla.
“WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE
NIGHT?”
Gainesville, Ga., May 8, 1907.
This day marks the sixty-eighth an
niversary of my life, when in the little
village of Gainesville, 1 first saw the
light of day, when the sun came forth
with his genial rays of our southern
clime to bless the people of our be
loved Georgia, and the entire union of
states in a land which every true
American has been taught and learned
to love and cherish as “the land of the
free and the home of the brave.” My
heart and soul, goes up in gratitude
to the great God the giver of all
blessings that my lot has been cast
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WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
in this highly favored land, under a
government bequeathed to us from our
forefathers, the fundamental princi
ple of which was that the voice of
the freeman, at the ballot box, was
to be the ruling power. The carnage
and devastation of our terrible civil
war has thrown a dark cloud over our
once highly favored land and nation,
but with our abundant resources to
produce wealth, an unprecedented
wave of prosperity has followed in the
wake of this terrible calamity and we
have had a reign of greed, avarice,
and corruption which has corrupted
and well nigh perverted the sacred
right and proper use of the ballot,
but I thank God the dark clouds are
being rifted and the skies are bright
ening and methinks I can see bright
hopes that the banner of peace and
freedom- is to again wave over the
land. But the realization of these
pleasant anticipations is conditional.
We boast of being a Christian nation
and are sending consecrated men and
women to carry the gospel to the
heathen while in the midst of our era
of progress and prosperity there is a
growing tendency toward idolatry.
Righteousness exalteth a nation but
sin is a reproach to any people. So
then to accomplish the happy end
contemplated in this article, let all
Christian people pray and vote that
the righteous may be exalted to civ
il authority. Then the Lord our God
will bless us and the earth will con
tinue to bring forth bountifully.
In conclusion to hasten the happy
time let us subscribe for and read the
papers edited and controlled by men
who are the fearless exponents of the
principles upon which our govern
ment w r as founded. I suggest as two
such the Weekly Jeffersonian, and the
Watson Jeffersonian Magazine, con
trolled and edited by our true and
fearless Watson, who has stood and
still stands in the front rank of dis
tinguished reformers. Some of the
wiseacres have ventured to suggest a
presidential ticket for the great con
test of 1908. Should the year dawn up
on us with a united people, north,
south, east and west, irrespective of
past partisanism I shall venture to say
let it be for president Theodore Roose
velt, the w r orld renowned statesman,
and for vice-president our noble son
of Georgia, Thomas E. Watson, who in
point of ability is second to none. With
best wishes for a united people, I am
your humble fellowcitizen,
57 N. Pryor St. B. H. BROWN.
Manhattan, Kan., May 10, 1907.
Hon. T. E. Watson.
Dear Sir —I have been w’atching the
2-cent passenger rate that is raising
such a stir up here, and can’t see but
what the railroads have, as usual,
come out on top. The Kansas legis
lature adopted the 2-cent-a-mile pas
senger rate, but w T hat good does it do
the common people? We have to pay
$lO for a 500-mile book, and to travel
in the state to get the 2-cent rate.
And now the railroads will put up
freight rates, and, as I have said,
come out on top every time. There
is but one remedy: Complete and ab
solute government ownership. I
would be pleased to have you state
in the Weekly Jeffersonian your views
in regard to the matter; also, to state
the best authority on railroad mat
ters —Laribee or Parsons. I see by
the last report of the railroad commis
sioners that railroad slaughters are
on the increase.
Yours truly,
S. A. BLACK.
The attention of our readers is call
ed to the advertisement of Malsby
Shipp & Co., to be found on another
page. We are w r ell acquainted with
this concern and know their business
dealings to be perfectly fair. There
fore we have no hesitancy in asking
our readers to note their ad. and to
consult them before buying a Buggy.
We are acquainted with each member
of this concern and know them to be
men of high character and integrity.
And they are among the best business
men of Atlanta. Their phenomenal
business and the great volume of
trade they enjoy is a guarantee of
their every effort to do all in their
power for their customers.
AN OPEN LETTER.
To the President of the United States.
Dear Sir and Fellow Citizen of the
Great American Republic: As both
my paternal and maternal grandfath
ers were soldiers of the Revolutionary
war, and my grand daddy, Butler, re
ceived a British bullet in his leg at
the battle of the Cowpens, I do not
deem it presumptuous to address you
a few lines bearing upon a subject of
most vital importance to all the peo
ple of the republic at the present time,
and that reaches down into the womb
of time and lays its heavy, remorse-
less hand upon generations yet un
born. I have reference to the finan
cial system fastened upon the country
during the Civil war, together with
the legislation, to bolster and perpetu
ate forever the same, by which the
wealth producers have been robbed of
billions of dollars without receiving
one single benefit. It seems clear, in
the light of recent events, that it is
the purpose of your administration to
increase the power of the banks so as
to put all other business interests
completely in their hands and at their
mercy.
I see it stated that fifty million of
the 4 per cent bonds, due July 1, 1907,
are to be refunded, while, at the same
time, the banks have, free of interest,
one hundred and seventy million of
the people’s money. Will you kindly
tell us common taxpayers why we
should pay interest to the banks on
fifty million, while, at the same time,
we are forced to furnish them, free,
one hundred and seventy million? Do
you, Mr. President, think this a
“square deal?” I can assure you that
the people of this section have been
looking to you as the great champion
of their interests and rights against
the encroachments of the predatory
trusts and corporations; but when you
turn the mighty power of the Treas
ury Department over to the money
trust, the greatest, most subtle and
far-reaching of the brood of trusts, we
begin to feel that we have no friend
at court. It has alw r ays been a custom
to give the little, weak ox the long
end of the yoke I was raised on the
farm, and in my boyhood it was the
usual custom to yoke a small young
ox with a large well-broke one; out
we always gave the little fellow the
long end of the yoke. To my mind,
Mr. President, this great government
of ours has, for the past forty years,
been giving the big, fat ox (bankers)
about all the advantage in the “pull,”
while us little fellows have had a
hard time, and now there is no hope
of the burden being equalized, or a
“square deal” given unless you turn
about-face.
Yours for a “square deal,”
OLIVER S. JONES.
LITTLE, BUT OH, MY!
(The Milwaukee Sentinel.)
By the way, now that we have seen
Gen. Kuroki, we are convinced of the
error of that war time report that he
was a Pole in disguise.
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