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Baxley, Ga., May 27, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: I have just read your ed
torial, “Proportional Representation,”
suggesting this populist principle to
the two old parties; and think the
suggestion an excellent one. If car
ried into practice by them, as sug
gested by you, the tendency would be
to form a new alignment of parties,
make each platform more homogeneous
in its parts, make the line of demarka
tion between Jefferonian and Hamil
tonian principles of government more
distinct, and, therefore, separate the
wheat from the chaff, the sheep from
the goats. To be more literal, it
would tend to drive the Cleveland and
Parker element of the Democratic par
ty to the Republican party, where they
justly belong, and the reform element
of the Republican party, who believe
in the principles of .Jefferson, to the
party that embodies these principles
in its platform.
These ambiguous and heterogeneous
national party platforms are the rock
upon which the ship of reform is
usually stranded, and the progress of
rbform retarded. The equivocal prom
ises in the old party platforms serve
to keep many voters in adherence to
their respective parties, who would
•otherwise affiliate with some true re
form party. This influence helped to
kill the Greenback party, and is to
day impeding the progress of the Pop
ulist party. I think proportional rep
resentation would, in a measure, cor
rect these evils.
There is another great hindrance to
the progress of reform: “Party spirit.”
I think party spirit is the greatest of
all the hindrances to the reform
movement. Therefore, any word
spoken or sentence published that has
a tendency to break down party spirit
should be hailed as in the interest of
reform.
I want to express to you once more
my congratulations upon your con
tinued brilliant success with your two
publications, The Jeffersonian Weekly,
and The Jeffersonian Magazine.
Very truly yours,
H. C. NEWTON.
Blythe, Ga., May 17, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
My Dear Sir: Yours 14th inst. to
hand, contents noted pursuant instruc
tions Richmond County Farmers*
Union. I sent you Dr. J. P. H.
Brown’s address before that body. “I
hardly expected more than the, best
parts of it given space in The Jeffer
sonian, if it was mentioned at all.”
Allow me to thank you for space
given this, as I know the old time Al
liancemen and Pops will more than
Letters Trom the People.
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 Suits,sl.so, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6.50.
Men’s Pantssl.so, $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 go^ 8 wanted.
THE GLOBE CLOTHING COMPANY
89-91 WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, GA.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
appreciate your generosity. Your
work in our behalf is inspiring the
boys as nothing else could do. Suc
cess to you and your undertakings,
Yours very respectfully,
E. B. HOLLEY,
Sec’y Richmond Co. F E. & C. U. of A.
R. F. D. No. 1.
Dallas, Ga., May 29, 1907.
To Watson’s Weekly Jeffersonian:
We, the members of Flint Ridge
local, No. 213, of the Farmers Educa
tional and Cooperative Union of Amer
ica, have adopted the following reso
lutions:
Resolved, first, That we do earnestly
protest against foreign immigration;
second, that we furnish a copy of
these resolutions to our representa
tive, congressmen and to our govern
or-elect, Honorable Hoke Smith, and
also to as many as three newspapers,
viz., The Atlanta Constitution, Union
News and the Watson Weekly Jeffer
sonian. Be it also
Resolved, That we deem it a stub to
our prosperity, our civilization and es
pecially to the laboring class of our
American citizens.
(Signed.)
Y. C McMICHEN.
I. C. FRASIER,
A. J. McMICHEN,
Committee.
June 1, 1907.
We, the members of the Farmers’
Union at Cross Roads, Franklin coun
ty, Georgia, by unanimous vote, do
condemn any donation by the State of
Georgia for the purpose of immigra
tion, and ask our governor, state sen
ator and representative to use their
influence against it.
T. H. MOSS,
President.
B. M. BURROUGHS,
Vice-President.
W. J.HOLLAND,
Secretary-Treasurer.
J. T. GABLE,
Conductor.
D. L. BREWER,
Doorkeeper.
MY PLATFORM.
By Grover Bloodworth.
’Tis not for riches nor for fame that
I would crave,
Nor a life of luxury here on earth;
But a conscience pure and clean to
have:
A life of honest worth.
’Tis not for glory in this life that I
would yearn—
A glory fleeting, vain and short;
But the peace of soul that comes to
one
From living as he ought.
'Tis not for power that I would wish,
nor success,
Alone, in everything undertaken;
But to feel that I have done my best,
.And a faith in God unshaken.
’Tis not for worldly honors that I
would long, and
A life to fruitless pleasures given;
But a life of service to God and man,
And a future home in heaven.
RAILWAY RATES AS AN ISSUE.
(Washington Herald.)
Mr. Bryan continues to differenti
ate his position respecting railroad
legislation from that of Mr. Roose
velt in away which is very suggestive
of the part the question of railway
rates will play in future presidential
campaigns. The president, it will be
remembered, indicated pretty plainly
in his Indianapolis speech that rate
reductions might be found inconsist
ent with the demand for better trans
portation facilities, which he regard
ed as the “great need of the hour.”
“Ample, safe, and rapid transportation
facilities,” he said, “are even more
necessary than cheap transportation.”
Mr. Bryan, on the other hand, when
asked at Richmond on Saturday
whether he agreed with the contention
that the people need better railroad
facilities more than they do lower
rates, replied, according to the Times-
Dispatch reporter, with a snap:
“Why should they not have both?
Why should the railroads exact ex
tortionate rates as a compensation for
the equipment which they are in duty
bound to furnish? If they are public
carriers they ought to be prepared to
do the business which the public re
quires of them. If there is not suffi
cient equipment, it would seem that
the people are offering more business
than the railroads can attend to, and
there is a suspicion that money has
gone into dividends which ought to
have gone into equipment.”
Mr. Bryan went on to say that al
though a number of the states had
reduced passenger rates to 2 cents a
mile, the interstate rate remained 3
cents, and expressed the belief that
“congress should pass a law compell
ing the railroads to sell through tick
ets for a sum not greater than the
sum of the local rates.” Thus he
plants himself squarely on the issue
of railway rate reduction, both as
to passenger and freight fares, deem
ing both quite compatible with that
enormous expenditure in construction
and equipment which railroad men
consider imperatively necessary if
transportation facilities are to keep
pace with the rapidly advancing re
quirements of internal commerce.
Analogies between the railway rate
issue and the tariff issue will imme
diately occur to every one. Both in
volve immense vested interests; both
are economic in character; both af
fect the constant though varying de
gree of antagonism between buyer and
seller, between producer and consum
er. In the one case, as in the other,
the issue is bound to disturb business
more or less until it is settled, and to
raise the cry that the best thing to
do is to let well enough alone. It is
clear enough, however, that Mr. Bryan
cannot be ranked with the standpat
ters on either the tariff or the rail
road rate questions.
HIGHLAND MARY.
Ye banks, and braes, and streams
around
The Castle o’ Montgomery,
Green be your woods, and fair your
flowers,
Your waters never drumlie!
There simmer first unfauld her robes,
And there the langest tarry;
For there I took the last fareweel
O’ my sweet Highland Mary.
How sweetly bloom’d the gay green
birk,
How rich the hawthorn’s blossom,
As, underneath their fragrant shade,
I clasp'd her to my bosom!
The golden hours, on angel wings,
Flew o’er me and my dearie;
For dear to me as light and life
Was my sweet Highland Mary!
Wi’ mony a row, and lock’d embrace,
Our parting was fu’ tender;
And, pledging aft to meet again,
We tore oursels asunder;
But, oh, fell death’s untimely frost,
That nipp’d my flower sae early!
Now green’s the sod and cauld’s the
clay,
That wraps my Highland Mary!
Oh, pale, pale now, those rosy lips
I aft ha’e kiss’d sae fondly!
And closed for aye the sparkling
glance
That dwalt on me sae kindly!
And moldering now in silent dust,
That heart that lo’ed me dearly;
But still within my bosom’s core
Shall live my Highland Mary!
—Robert Burns.
Why the deuce should Mayor Mc-
Clellan veto the mayoralty recount
bill? Is he afraid of the result, so
far as he is concerned, or doesn’t he
want to avail himself of a fine chance
to deprive Mr. Hearst of his profita
ble role of a martyr?
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