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PAGE TEN ZETTERJ 1 EPJJM THL PEOPLE 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 JL vty/r J ft 1 Vlßvjul - \ We Commenced Selling' Good Clothing Sixteen Years Ago We improve our Manufacturing facilities with every season’s advent. We can’t possibly see where there’s any room for improving our Clothing. We know there’s no room to improve prices. But they have always been verv reasonable. New Spring Suits for Men r . 50( slo> ’ 512 . 50 , sls , S2O , $25 oys and Children • Suitssl, 50 , $2, $3, $4, $5, $6.50. 8 * $1.50, $2. $2.50, $3, $4, $5, $6.50, $7.50. Everything that’s right in Hats and Furnishings. Mail Orders :-Samples of Suits or Pants will be sent lo any address. But always give size and price goods wanted. THE GLOBE CLOTHING COMPANY 89-91 WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, OA. 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. ■al I v IHi