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PAGE TEN 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 It is what you want and need 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 SAY OF OTHER EDITORS Take our word for it. After reading this num ber, you will want each issue hereafter. Sub scription price $1.50 a year; single copies 15 cents each. The Jeffersonian Magazine 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.