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John Temple Graves on Watson in 1896
From a staunch supporter and loyal
comrade, W. M. Formby, we received
the other day a yellow, tattered rem
nant of a copy of the People’s Trib
une, a weekly paper published at
Prescott, Ark., by J. O. A. Bush—one
of the best leaders of the Populist
movement.
In this torn and discolored frag
ment of the newspaper that died, along
with so many others, as the result of
the Fusion deal of 1896, we find entire
the statement given by John Temple
Graves:
Why He Supports Watson.
John Temple Graves, of Georgia,
tne most eloquent man in the south
east since the death of Henry Grady,
is supporting Hon. Thos. E. Watson,
and advocates his endorsement by the
Democratic party of the south. Mr.
Graves gives the following reasons
why he is supporting Mr. Watson:
“I support Watson because he is a
southerner, a Georgian, who has won
his way to fame and enduring honor
through tiie thorniest environment
that ever compasses a public life in
Georgia, and because his nomination
represents the first organized politi
cal courage that has dared to do nat
ional honor to a southern man since
the civil revolution. His nomina
tion exemplifies the last gasp of sec
tionalism, and the first full breath of
actual equality and fellowship that
the south has drawn in the new re
public of today.
“I support Watson because I feel
that the Democratic party is bound in
honor to support him—bound by the
contract solemn and honorable, im
plied in the presence and attitude of
Jones and Bland at the Populist con
vention at St. Louis.
‘ I support Watson because he rep
resents a party that in its members
and in its concurrence here, furnishes
to the Democratic party its best and
only hope of victory. One million
eight hundred thousand voters is a
fair exchange for this inferior honor
to a superior man —a fair price for
the Democratic party to pay for the
ransom of its principles.
“We have no votes to spare. We
cannot win against the money power
without the Populists, and we know
it. If we win at all, we win by the
aid of this magnificent reenforce
ment and I believe that for this
mighty help, the Democratic party is
bound in honor to an act of recipro
cal generosity.
“I support Watson because he rep
resents a party that has educated
our Democratic party to a due con
sideration for the welfare of the.com
mon people; I say it fearlessly, and
it can not be denied, that the reform
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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 very reasonable.
New Spring Suits for Mens7.so, $lO, $12.50, sls, S2O, $25.
Boys’ and Children’s Suitssl.so, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6.50.
Men’s Pants $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 to any address. But always give
size and price goods wanted.
THE GLOBE CLOTHING COMPANY
89-91 WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, GA.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN
for which the masses have been clam
oring for years—whether it be silver
or labor, or income tax, or popular
rights, or resistance to the govern
ment by injunction—had never been
written in a Democratic platform, un
til the Populist Party, 1,800,000 strong,
thundered in the ears of Democratic
leaders the announcement that a
mighty multitude demanded these re
forms, and among the men who have
molded, through storm and struggle,
the party that has educated ours to
popular liberty, Tom Watson, of
Georgia, stands easily at the first and
foremost of them all.
“I am favor of paying this tuition
fee in full.
“I support Watson because Sewall
does not represent the platform on
which he stands. Unheard of and un
heralded, picked up by chance and ac
cident in the apathy and haste that
marked the closing hour of the con
vention, he is out of touch with his
platform on almost as many points
as he touches it. By the record he is
at variance with his platform as a
national banker. He is on record in
opposition to its tariff views. He
was advocating a gold standard Dem
ocrat for governor three months ago.
He is in opposition to his platform in
the bounties which come to him from
her ships. I believe that his very
party is indifferent to him, and I am
sure that Bryan, his commander-in
chief, has written his explicit con
demnation in the public statement
that a candidate ought to stand above
suspicion on every plank of the plat
form which supports him.
“I support Watson because I have
good reason to believe that three
fourths of the people of Georgia, with
out regard to party, would prefer him
to Sewall and would vote for him if
they were as free as he.” —Southern
Mercury.
A MOTHER’S LOVE,
(From Woman’s Work.)
Os all thy gifts by nature given,
Or sent by heaven to bless —
That prize for which we have not
striven
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Yet prize it none the less —
A mother’s love! That heaven-sent gift
Which lives when all else dies,
Upon a gentle breast to lift
The prodigal who sighs.
—Harriet Palmer Crabbe.
Where open fireplaces are in use, the
bricks of the hearth should be imbed
ded in cement, and should not rest on
wood. Each hearth should have a fine
wire shield to prevent sparks flying
to rugs and carpets.
Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson,
Ga.:
Dear Sir: —Re your editorial on
railroad murders.
One of the causes of such accidents
is the employment of boys as teleg
raphers. A printer must serve an ap
prenticeship of three years before
working at the trade, an engineer must
first have served as a fireman for a
number of years before he is placed in
charge of a train but a telegrapher
having as much responsibility as any
one person in the operation of a train
is put in charge of a tower after a
few months’ practice in a telegraph
school, when he really has no idea
of railroad telegraphy. No telegraph
school ever accepted money except un
der false pretenses and no one should
be allowed to work in a tower‘unless
he has learned the business on a rail
road.
Every telegraph school is a swindle.
These statements are facts known to
all telegraphers and not mere opin
ions. Very truly yours,
OSCAR HIRSCH.
483 Amsterdam Ave., New York.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir —T believe in “Government
Ownership of Railroads” because of
the unfair treatment I have received
at the hands of the railroad compa
nies, and many other shippers and
receivers of freight get about the
same treatment I get. I find many
other people who favor public owner
ship but I find little or no literature
on this subject in the hands of these
people. Mr. Bryan does not seem to
be a “shouting brother” about the mat
ter and there appears to be no man
in public life except yourself strongly
advocating the enactment of this
measure into law. For this reason I
would like to read an article from you
on this subject in your monthly maga
zine. T say the monthly magazine be
cause I take it for granted that that
publication finds its way into more
homes that deal with the railroads
than the weekly paper.
The great trouble about advancing
this great measure into favor with the
people is because little or no litera
ture falls into the hands of these who
deal with railroads. Nearly all the
merchants and manufacturers only
read the daily papers and none of
these favor public ownership. The
business man submits because he feels
his inability to cope with the great
corporation alone, and as nobody is
leading the fight for fair treatment
we make the best of bad conditions
we can. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.
Letters Trom the People.
Montgomery, Ala., May 20, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir —You are entirely welcome
to the letter regarding Tuskegee.
At the time my father was writing
his “Brothers’ War,” I was in the in
surance office of Mr. H. C. Stockdell, of
Atlanta, and discussed most of the
work on the race situation while it
was in preparation for the press. My
father impressed on me that he want
ed a report on Tuskegee if I should
ever chance to visit it, and the letter
is the result of my hour’s visit to the
institute.
I commenced traveling in the fall of
1905, beginning my road work as in
spector for the Phenix of Brooklyn.
My territory consisted of the north
ern half of Georgia, and numerous
buggy trips between the various towns
gave me ample opportunity to see the
excellent manner in which the white
farmers of that section were improv
ing their holdings by intelligent cul
tivation. On coming to Alabama last
May for my present companies, I was
immediately struck with the difference
between North Georgia cultivation
and the manner in which the rich
lands of the Black Belt were allowed
to go only half tilled and tended, and
found that negro labor was at the
bottom of the trouble. The black
lands from Eufaula to the Mississippi
line produce less per acre than the
hilly uplands of Clark and Madison
counties in Georgia. These black
lands are naturally far richer, but un
der the lazy work of the negro the
cotton never reaches the high devel
opment that it attains under the cul
tivation of the Georgia white farmers.
From all I can gather, this black land
country was almost depopulated of
whites during the Reconstruction,
and the present state is the result of
that period. I have often thought of
carrying a kodak with me in order
that I might photograph this striking
evidence of the worthlessness of ne
gro labor beside that of the white
man. The broad, well banked cotton
rows, which one sees in the northern
end of Georgia, are missing, and the
country is a mute testimonial to the
negro’s laziness.
It is my intention to revisit Tuske
gee during the summer, and I will
gladly forward you any additional
information I may gather.
With personal regards, I am,
Yours very truly,
PRENTISS B. REED.
Liquid stove polish of the kind sold
by fakirs is always dangerous. Furni
ture polish should be used with great
care and all cloths used in the rubbing
should be burned away from the house.