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ZETTERJ TROTI THE PEOPLE
A MISTAKE CORRECTED.
Labor Snubbed Gompers.
President Gompers, of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, addressed
an audience of forty-two persons at
the Park Theatre in Kokomo, Ind.
The failure of the meeting was due
to the fact that the local unions re
fused to recognize him or go to hear
the speech.
360 East Erie St., Chicago, 111.,
August 7, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: I am a subscriber to
your papers, and as such I take the
liberty of addressing you anent the
enclosed clipping, taken from the
last issue of the Weekly. I cannot
believe you inserted the same as it
appears, believing that some subor
dinate must have been responsible.
It shows too woeful an endeavor to
ferret out the truth, or too great
carelessness in the selection of the
source of information. I am a news
paper proofreader, and had occasion
to handle this very story when it was
inserted as news in the Chicago Tri
bune. At that time the garbled,
mis-called “edited” condition of the
copy, plainly changed to give a di
rectly opposite effect to that intend
ed as taken over the wire by the tel
egrapher, was a surprise even to me,
who know pretty well the propensi
ties of the said paper. From the
form the story takes in your paper,
it is evident you got the gist thereof
from some paper as zealous in mis
representation of such matters as the
Tribune. The original copy stated
that, owing to difficulties between the
local street car company and its em
ployes, the unionists of the town,
rather than pratronize the trams, re
mained at home on this occasion.
The situation as such was made clear
to Mr. Gompers, who acquiesced in
it. It is not a question of the ethics
of the boycott of the street ear com
pany; it is simply a call for truthful
presentation of facts, and their caus
es. I am, sir,
Respectfullv vours,
F. L. CLARK.
Mt. Vernon, So. Dak., July 13,1907.
Mr. Thomas E. Watson, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: You will probablv be
interested to know of the sad death
of Mr. John M. Pease. He met
death in a cyclone that demolished
the building on his fine farm three
miles northeast of here.
His wife and nine children were
saved. Mr. Pease was a great politi
cal worker, always striving for the
betteiment of his fellow-man. He
was an admirer of you and your mag
azine.
Respectfully yours,
PERRY STROMBECK.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
My Dear Sir: Your favor of the
7th has just been received. I also
received the books a few days ago,
in good condition, and I am very
much pleased with them. lam sorry
to have put you to the trouble of
making inquiry for them, and the
delay must be due to express com
pany’s neglect. A little later I will
send list of subscriptions in payment
for “Napoleon” and “Bethany.”
I shall be pleased at any time to do
all I can to increase the circulation
of your splendid magazine. Thank
ing you, I remain,
Yours very truly,
FELIX E. ALLEY.
Adairsville, Ga., July 22, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Friend: I will not attempt
to pass eulogies upon you in your
manly attempts to better the condi
tions of our people. Your unceasing
energy and zeal for the establish
ment of the principles of equity and
truth at the expense of the party
popularity, only to be rewarded by
the sneers and frowns of a misguided
public, yet amid it all the light is
breaking ;the people are revolution
izing, and your work will be crowned
with glorious results. Tn it you have
had my sympathy and my co-opera
tion, though feeble, and now with
hope I can look forward to the com
ing victory and feel that I took some
humble part in the battle.
Don’t be weary in well doing; your
fight has always been for the right,
and he that had “All power” will
see that your labors are all crown
ed with success, and may he give yoa
wisdom to direct and patience to
wait for the rich reward always in
store for those who are loval to prin
ciples that uplift humanity, and are
at the same time honoring to God.
Your work is beginning to be ap
preciated, and the time is not far
distant when it will be an honor to
have it known that we were identi
fied with you in the great fieht for
“equal rights to all and special priv
ileges to none.”
With best wishes for the success
of both of your publications, for
which I would delight to work and
aid were it not that my age and in
firmities (73 years), forbids: but I
can read and draw strength and com
fort from them. Thanks for “Hoke,
the legislature, prohibition and all
prospective disfranchisement.”
Tmlv and sincerelv,
S. J. WHATLEY.
Pembroke, Ga., August 20, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Replying to your favor
attached, I was born near Thomson
and lived in that vicinty for about
seventeen years. My father was Sam
Carter, a former section foreman on
the railroad at that place. He has
just died; sample marked copy of the
Enterprise goes to you by this mail,
showing his burial to have taken
place last week. Father was always
a great admirer of you and you
doubtless recall the fact that you and
h® were members of the same Bap
tist church at Thomson. About a
couple of weeks before his- death—
even while he was quite ill—he dis
cussed your future and seemed to
take great delight in predicting that
you would yet be made president of
the United States, going in on the
reformed or true democracy as he
called it. He was, to say the least,
loyal to you all his life. I was for
some time schoolmate with your
brother Forrest at the Boneville
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
school. My brother Brad, the one
that worked at the depot in Thom
son quite a while, is in business at
this place. He, like the balance of
us, is a staunch admirer of your
work. We have exchanged with your
publications and sent some subscrib
ers, clubbing with them ever since
you started in New York. Our ex
change list is very large and we read
a small portion of it, but certainly
always go over yours carefully. I
do the so-called editorial work of
my little sheet. The editorial refer
red to was a feeble effort of my own
and you must excuse the poor word
ing when you recall the fact that I
never had even the benefits of a mea
ger education, and have to go it blind
folded. lam in other lines and mere
ly get out my little sheet as a side
issue, but on account of having suc
ceeded in building two banks, an
eight thousand dollar school house,
cotton warehouse, some good roads,
etc., all by simply keeping after the
citizens through the columns of my
sheet, feel naturally attached to it,
and would not part with it easily.
If you will excuse the length and
rambling nature of this letter, will
close by saying, you have any num
ber of admirers in this part of the
state, and if you could see your way
clear to attend some of our gatherings
here, you would not have cause to
regret it. Thanking you kindly for
the sentiment expressed in your let-
Watsons Magazine
FOR SEPTEMBER IS OUT
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CONTENTS.
GOV. HOKE SMITH, OF GEORGlA—Frontispiece.
EDITORIALSThomas E. Watson 819
Illustrated by Gordon Nye.
“Orthodox Socialism”—The Farmers Union
and the Ocala Platform—Under the Trucks
—ln the Circulation Department.
A SURVEY OF THE WORLD 840
ANN BOYD—A Serial Story Will N. Harben 849
THEOCRITUS—A Poem Mary Chapin Smith 859
WITH EYES THAT SEE Edith Tatum 860
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANDREW JACKSON
VAI1 _ O • Thos - E. Watson 870
YOUTH William J. Hanna 879
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS J. Luther Kimbler 881
oT™ H- Garrett 886
THE ROSE Amelia Wofford 895
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT 9 02
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE 90ft
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THOMSON, GA. '
ter, and hoping I may have a chance
tp visit my boyhood home soon, and
with very best wishes, I am,
Sincerely yours,
M. ED. CARTER.
P. S. —I well remember the Hawes-
Stovall campaign, and although a
seventeen-year-old boy at the time,
was quite a politician. M. E. C.
Note —This response was made to
the letter below, which Mr. Watson
wrote upon seeing in Mr. Carter’s
paper the editorial which we copied
into the Jeffersonian. So many of
our readers will be interested in this
letter that we take the liberty of
publishing it.
Mr. S. M. Carter, father of our cor
respondent, was a worthy man, an
industrious, honest, law-abiding cit
izen. There are many of his old
friends still living in McDuffie coun
ty who will regret to learn that he is
dead. He was one of the members
of a Bible class which Mr. Watson
taught some twenty-six years ago.
J. Pierpont Morgan offers to give
back a railroad if any man dares to
reflect on the manner in which he got
it. We do not know about this par
ticular road, but if Morgan will get
Rockefeller and a few of his other
friends to give us back the earth, it
will be esteemed a favor. There are
times when we need it.