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ZETTEKS T-RO7I THE EEOTLE
HOW ABOUT IT, SENATOR
CAMP?
Watson’s Weekly Jeffersonian:
I notice in The Atlanta Journal,
copied from the Weekly Jeffersonian
of the editorial page, Gov. Smith had
a big job on his hands during the ses- '
sion of the Legislature fighting some
of “The Old Gang.”
I desire to ask you some very im
portant questions through your pa
per, which are as follows:
1. Our Senator, B. F. Camp, .of
the 31st Senatorial district, contend
ed all through his campaign he was
for Hoke Smith and his principles
and was duly elected; his record now
shows he did not stand up to Gov.
Smith on all of the measures. What
ought to be done with Senator
Camp?
2. Senator Camp, during his cam
paign, said from nearly every stump
in the county he would suffer his
right arm cut off before he would ac
cept a free pass or any courtesies or
favors from the railroads under any
circumstances, and before the Legis
lature met he was riding on a pass—
he continued throughout the session
on his pass, gping and returning near
ly once a week to see his family.
What can be done with Senator
Camp?
3. We have charged Senator Camp
through the papers with riding on a
free pass, which we know to be true;
he will not admit nor deny the charge.
What must we do with such Sena
tors ?
4. Suppose the people elect Sen
ators and Representatives through
out Georgia on the reform measure*
and each time betray the confidence .
of the people during Gov. Smith’s
administration, how will the people
get the reform measures on the stat
ute books?
J. A. MCDUFF.
Lavonia, Ga., Aug. 24, 1907.
Note: We are glad to publish
this.
It is high time the people waked
up to the way their representatives
behave after they get to Atlanta.
If Senator Camp has a good ans
wer to these fair questions, let him
send it*right along; we will publish
it
Let other citizens do with their
representatives just what Mr. Mc-
Duff has done with Senator Camp.
Monticello, Ga., Aug. 26, 1907.
Mr. T. E. Watson.
Dear Sir: Will you please tell me
where and what will be the cost of
the consular reports- and statistical
abstract you spoke of in your address
at Beall Springs?
Thanking you for the favor and
hoping to hear from you soon,
I am yours very truly,
T. E. PERRY.
P. S.—l take both the monthly and
weekly Jeffersonian and think them
great papers. T. E. P.
Note: Yet the letter went to
Thomaston, and would never have
reached me at all, had not the Post
Master down there been good enough
to address the envelope correctly.
The books cost nothing. Congress
men have them furnished, upon re
quest.
August 26, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Mr. Watson: On page 737
of the current number of your splen
ded magazine, you say that Lincoln,
and Jefferson ignored the
mandate of the Federal Judiciary.
Will you please cite the instances
for me? My library is not extensive
enough to afford me the information.
I have been invited to speak at the
local labor day celebration and want
to use the matter on that occasion. •
This is soon to become a burning is
sue. • .
A LOUISIANA FRIEND.
ANSWER.
Jefferson ignored the Supreme
Court when it ordered him, the Pres
ident, to appear as a witness in ths
Aaron Burr trial.
Jackson ignored the Supreme Court
when it decided in favor of the Cher
okee Indians against the State of
Georgia.
Lincoln ignored the Supreme Court
when it tried to release on Habeas
Corpus proceedings citizens whom
Uncle Sam thought had been locked
up.
A LETTER.
Editor Ishmaelite, Sparta, Ga.
Dear Sir: The editorial in the
Ishmaelite of the 2nd inst.- entitled
“The People Should Vote,” is a
clear appeal for simple justice. I
had favored prohibition and was glad
the state had gone dry, out this edi
torial has caused me to stop and
think. I do not believe in that per
nicious doctrine, “The end justifies
the means,” and I feel that you are
right in the position you take.
There is another subject that I
have given much thought to that I
would like to see handled editorially
by you, and that is this immigration
movement, which movement appears
to be superseded by other more im
portant-matters just at present, but
which may be renewed to the harm
of the only pure blood of America,
the southern people, at any time.
I wish to say to you that my father
and those who surrendered with him
at Appomattox, did not intend to
surrender ALL when they gave up
their muskets on the battle fields of
Virginia! They did not intend to
surrender their identity, when Lee
surrendered to Grant! It seems to
me that the encouragement of for
eign immigration coupled with the
constant moving of the white people
from the country to the towns and
cities will, sooner or later, bring
about the loss’ of our identity as a
people.
Methinks were some of our fathers
to rise from their graves and view
the conditions that might result, that
thev would turn back with a sicklv
smile crying, The. victory of the
North has indeed been won! A na
tion, a pure and noble people, have
indeed been wiped from the face of
the earth!
It is sad, but true, that when our
people move to towns they too often
change their manners and customs.
FRANK M. TUFTS,
Son of a deceased Confederate Vet
‘eran, Mitchell, Ga., R. F. D. 3.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
Conway, Ark., Aug. 24, 1907.
Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson.
Ga.
Dear Friend Tom: I am just in
receipt of your letter enclosing card
for your publications, which will run
as you direct in the Tribune. But
I wish to say that same will not cost
you one cent.
Here I wish to say that your card
of some four weeks ago, requesting
special mention of your papers i"
club offer, I received and turned ovei
to my manager, with instructions to
comply, and I never had noticed that
same had failed to appear. lam sor
ry of this, but I have so much on iny
hands, I have to allow some one el*"
the principal management of the
Tribune, hence the mistakes.
I wish you success.
BEN. L. GRIFFIN.
Note: All right, Ben. My ‘idea
was that your Tribune was such a
good paper that I was determined to
pay my way in, if I couldn’t get in
any other way.
The Jeffersonian means to get be
fore the people somehow or other, and
when our brother quill-drivers seem
reluctant to club with me, I write
out a little advertisement, and send
a little cheque.
BEN L. GRIFFIN.
•
I am not fretting any to hurt—
but sometimes it seems to me that re
form editors might be more liberal
in their attitude toward me, when
they remember my losses in New York
and my long term of service in their
ranks.
They might, at least, let their
readers know that I established a new
magazine, and went right ahead with
the reform work.
DeFrance and Mann took mailing
list and all —consequently I have had
no way to even let my old readers
know that the Jeffersonian Magazine
was in existence.
Thousands of those readers do not
know my side of that smash-up; and
don’t know of the weekly paper and
monthly magazine which we publish
in Atlanta, When Watson’s Jeffer
sonian Magazine is listed along with
dozens of others in a Clubbing list,
that tells the people nothing. Such
a mention neither identifies me, nor
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What was needed was a separate,
conspicuous mention .which would
identify me and my publications.
I thank my friend, Ben Griffin, for
his willingness to give me such a no
tice. T. E. W.
Loraine, Tex., Aug. 23, 1907.
Hon. T. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear friend Watson: I am taking
advantage of your offer to agents
and send you herewith express money
order for s—,$ —, for (wo subscriptions
to your magazine.
Andrew Smith, Loraine, Texas.
W. S. Crumpton, Loraine, Texas.
I take much pride in trying to cir
culate your magazine and paper here,
but this being a new country not
much interest is taken in politics or
anything else, save how to make a
dollar, but ’will try to send you others
later.
With best wishes, vour friend,
R. H. WATLINGTON.
P. S.—The little namesake is in
fine health and takes pride in callin'*
himself “Tom Watson, of Georgv.”
R. H. W.
Note: Glad to hear from the lit
tle Texas namesake. When the Jef
fersonians, weekly and monthlv.
reach 100.000 in circulation, each, I
am going to charter a train and take
all the Tom Watsons for an excur
sion into Yellowstone Park, and will
have a gronp-pieture taken, so that
posterity mav see what sort of fish
were in the seine.
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Sioux Falls, S. D.. July 17. 1907.
Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson,
Ga.
Dear Mr. Watson: Herein please
find mv first and editorial pages,
thouffh I will say that the warm
weather and heaw work outside hin
der me in mv editorial work, which
is not in the quiet of an office, but
amid the clash of printing machin
ery.
It is with sorrow that I inform you
that our dear friend, the Hon. John
M. Pease, of Mt. Vernon, S. D., was
killed in a cyclone that passed over
this state last Saturday about 7 p.
m., the only victim of the storm which
swept through a large portion of the
state. It is sad, very sad. He got
his wife and part of the family into
a cyclone cellar, and went out toward
a grove where two or three of the
older boys had taken refuge, when the
storm came upon him, and he was
found dead after it passed over him.
Difficulties are thickening. Demo
crats have made, in my judgment, a
mistake. Yours truly,
J. A. ROSS.