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ZETTERJ FKOM JHL PEOPLE.
Sylvester, Ga., June 28, 1907.
Hon. T. E. Watson.
Dear Sir: Will you please be so
kind as to send your book 11 Beth
any” to Mrs. J. 11. Parrish, and
trust me for a few days to get up
the four subscribers? I have the
promise of two of them and as soon
as I can get the chance from my
farm work I think it will be but lit
tle trouble to get the other two.
My wife has been an invalid for
two years or will be next August if
she lives. She can only walk with
her crutch. Sits all day in her rock
er only when she has an occasion to
stir and my little girl, myself or
someone else has to help her. She
very often says to me, “Papa, when
are you going to get the four sub
scribers so I can have Bethany to
read?”
She is a dear lover of good books.
Also of the Hon. T. E. Watson. Our
dear little girl says she thinks of
Hon. T. E. W. every time she goes
out to our mail box.
Yours truly in the cause of re
form, ' J. 11. PARRISH.
Answer:
My Dear Friend: It will give me
pleasure to have the book forwarded
from New York to Mrs. Panish. I
trust that she will enjoy the read
ing of it. Please ask her to accept
it with my compliments, as an ex
pression of sympathy with her in her
severe affliction. I hope your little
girl will write me a letter some time.
With kindest regards, Yours truly,
T. E. W?
Oxford, Ga., July 1, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson.
Ga.
Dear Sir: We intend to have a
big meeting of our Farmers’ Union
about the last of July or first of
August, and could you come and ad
dress them on the day of our meet
ing? Some of the members may
have written to you.
We will be very proud to have you
come. We will pay your expenses
to and fro, if you will come. Will
either have the meeting at Coving
ton or Salem Camp Ground.
I wish you would put in your next
magazine how many law 7 s the pop
ulists have drafted or put in our
platform, that the old parties have
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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 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 goods wanted.
THE GLOBE CLOTHING COMPANY
89-91 WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, GA.
put into effect, both state and Na
tional.
I wish you G d speed in all your
calls. I hope you will be crown.d
with laurels in life, if not, I know
you will when you pass from this
earth. The flowers are often re
served for the dead, but I hope your
path may be strewn with flowers
while in life.
Hoping that you will be with us
at our meeting, I am, yours most
respectfully,
W. A. ELLINGTON.
Meridian, Miss., June 27, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson,. Thomson,
Ga.
Dear Sir: Will you please mail
to me “Watson’s Magazine” (back
number) containing article, with re
ply to Booker T. Washington, on
his assertions made upon the prog
ress and advance of the negro race
during the last forty years.
Will you kindly give me in brief
your best judgments upon the ef
fects and influences of the 15th
amendment, relative to the country?
Also, the grievances of the South.
Especially where the negro popula
tion outnumbers the whites, as in
Mississippi, 270,000. Here the white
man’s money pays for the education
al qualifications that will ultimately
encourage the negro’s imaginations
for political power and trouble.
A keen foresighted suggestion
dropped along the advance line of
attack upon the approaching issue
will aid materially.
Without doubt, the 15th Amend
ment was forced upon the countrv
at a time when prejudice ruled and
conditions were misunderstood. 1
am preparing an article for publica
tion in the “Northumberland Coun
ty Democrat,” Sunbury, Pa. (my
native home). The democracy of
the state will soon be in the midst
of a hot fight over their support of
Berry, the state treasurer, and
against the Gang, and the state Cap
itol graft.
Having been an old Federal sol
dier, although a Democrat, and an
adopted citizen of Mississippi . for
more than twelve years, I shall re
fer’ very forcibly to the fact that
Senator Cochran’s (Democrat) bill
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WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
providing for a local pension for
Pennsylvania soldiers, was passed by
both houses, and vetoed by a Re
publican governor (Stewart). Wi h
this outline, I want an article upon
the 15th Amendment issue that will
ring with sentiments and truths th a 1
cannot be misunderstood.
Any assistance you can render to
me will be kindly appreciated.
With best wishes, I am, very truly,
LEMUEL SHIPMAN.
Adel, Georgia, June 26, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson,
Georgia.
My dear Mr. Watson: Why is it
that Georgia school teachers cannot
get their money this year?
I know that the state is behind
with the school fund and that Geor
gia teachers are never paid for all
their w T ork the same year that they
do it, but they are usually paid
about forty or fifty per cent of their
salary. This year they have received
but twenty per cent except in coun
ties where the county Boards of Ed
ucation have borrowed the money to
pay them.
Mr. Merritt, State School Commis
sioner, stated to the county commis
sioners, when they were assembled
in their recent annual convention
that he could not get the money—
that the State Treasurer had in
formed him that he had paid all he
could, w’hich w’as only enough to
pay for one month’s work.
The county commissioners cannot
get the money, of course, until it is
paid to them by the state commis
sioners. So the teachers are com
pelled to do without the money un
less the county Boards of Education
borrow it, and, in that case, the in
terest on the money borrowed will
be deducted from the state funds
when they are received and the
teachers will be the ultimate losers.
It seems that nobody knows what
has become of the money since it
was paid to the state treasurer last
winter, and if there has ever been
any explanation given as to why the
money has not been sent out to the
teachers I haven’t seen it.
I wish you would find out, please,
where the trouble is, and if there is
any reasonable excuse for the way
the teachers have been and are being
treated, tell us what it is. If not,
if somebody has been dishonestly
withholding the money that they
might use it until they dared keep
it no longer and enrich themselves
at the expense of the teachers —an
ill used set at the best—l wish you
would find out who it is and give
them a few knocks.
_ If you will do this, Mr. Watson,
I am sure that you will have the
heartfelt thanks of a whole army of
poverty-stricken Georgia school
teachers.
Thanking you in advance for the
favor I am asking and assuring you
of my sincere appreciation of you
and your publications and your splen
did service to humanity, I am, yours
very cordially, S. T. P.
Buchanan, Ga., June 30, 1907.
Hon. T. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
My Dear Sir: Your favor of the
28th received. Thank you for the
information. I will certainly do all
I can to get subscribers for your
magazine and paper. I will be very
busy in my crop for the next few
days, but when I get through, will
devote most of my time for you.
You are the only Editor I know of
I hat I can conscientiously work for.
I am with you, and have been since
I was old enough to understand you.
Yours very truly,
J. C. M’BRAYER.
The Weekly Jeffersonian, Atlanta,
Ga.
Gentlemen:
Could you inform me where I can
get the book entitled “The Letters
and Addresses of Thomas Jeffer
son,” and oblige.
Yours respectfully,
THOMAS E. CAREY,
Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana.
P. S. —Enclosed please find stamped
envelope for reply. T. E. C.
Answer: We don’t think there is
such a book. Jefferson made no
speeches. “Jefferson, his Life and
Writings,” by S. E. Forman, is prob
ably the work you have in mind.
Bowen-Merrill & Co., Indianapolis,
are the publishers. Any book-seller
will order it for you. ’ T. E. W.
Thomson, Ga., June 22, 1907.