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PAGE TEN 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 i*kl IK* 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 9 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.