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But that is all past now, and we sinipiy re fer to it because some narrow-minded bigots who run absurd little newspapers have been criticising Governor Smith for appointing Hines. We venture to say that nine-tenths of the genuine Democrats are glad that the State is * at length to have in her service so good an officer. •i n at Mr. Bryan in 1892. Elsewhere will be found an extract taken from Mr. Bryan’s paper, The Commoner. Our readers will note the letter of Governor Boyd, informing Mr. Bryan that the National Democratic Committee desired the Nebraska Democrats to vote for General James B. Weaver. They will also notice the article published in the N. Y. World, and-Mr. Bryan's comment thereon. The Weaver named in the instructions to Mr. Bryan is our gallant old Populist stand ard bearer who was rotten-egged in Macon Ga., that same year, 1892, and who found At lanta seething with excitement that he called off his meeting, for fear there would be a bloody riot. That is New York’s method of manipulating party machinery. That was the New Yorl way in 1892; and the same Wall Street crowd adopted the same tactics when they bought the nomination for Parker in 1904. And Mr. Bryan’s defense of himself for bow ing his regal head to Wall Street in 1892, is much more satisfactory than .any that he will ever be able to make for his submission in 1904. •tn n Trouble Tor Alabama. Are not our good friends of The Farmers’ Union Guide making a serious mistake in or ganizing the ffegroes? It seems so to us. Farmers’ Union meetings are secret meet ings: DO WE WANT TO STRENGTHEN THE SECRET ORGANIZATION AGAINST THE WHITES, WHICH THE NEGROES ALREADY HAVE? Instead of encouraging the negroes to or ganize another Secret Order, we had better be breaking up some that threaten us now. Those who have studied the situation realize that much of the trouble we have with negro labor comes from behind the closed doors of their Secret Societies. Why make it possible for negro leaders to get in their devilish work, through the popular form of Farmers* Unions? Who wants these negroes organized, anyway? Who is it that started any such dangerous movement? Why is Alabama the only state where “negro organ izers” are advertised for? And why is the Guide the only paper which seenls to be mak ing a specialty of this risky business? We ask the questions in good faith. We would like to hear the Guide’s side of it. We believe that the men who are publishing the Guide are true-hearted men, and we do not mean to do them any injustice. At the same time, we think they are making a huge mis take. Let the negroes get the full benefit of all the improved conditions which the Farm ers’ Union will bring about, but don’t organ ize them. H «t * The Independence League. ’I That’s a funny name to give to a concern that belongs —body, boots and breeches —to W. R. Hearst. If you want to enlist under Mr. Hearst, for better or for worse, until Death do us part, run right along and join the Independence League. Pf all Leagues, it is the least Independent. WATSON’S WKBKLY JEFFBRSONIAN. Dishonest Announcements. Is it right to advertise a speaker who is known to have declined the invitation? Is it not a species of dishonesty to do so? Evidently, such an advertisement of “an attraction,” is intended to attract. If people are drawn to a certain place by the advertise ment of a certain attraction—when those who do the advertising know that the goods can not be delivered—how can such conduct be defended? I have suffered much from this kind of treat ment. People who go to these places because of these advertisements, do not always know that the announcement of my expected pres ence was unauthorized; therefore when some explanation is made that “Mr. Watson has dis appointed us,” the crowd may get the idea that Mr. Watson is not a man .of his word, la this way, I have been made to suffer, un justly. Time and again this summer I have been advertised to speak by ptop.le who had my letters and telegrams of declination. Thus, I have been made to appear to break engage ments, throughout the country, from South Carolina to Texas. The truth is, I have been so hard at work on the two Jeffersonians that only two invitations could be accepted—both of them coming from these whom i could not afford to from the tountry people of McDuffie county, and the other from my friend, Major McGregor. Both of these appointments were kept. If there ever was a positive promise, made by me to speak at a certain time and place, that was not redeemed, it has escaped my rec ollection. Do not pay the slightest attention to any advertisement of my appointments, unless you see it in the Jeffersonian. it at ar Absurd Jones and 'Ridiculous Pritchard. These two Federal Judges are bringing the Judiciary into contempt. They may know a good deal about decisions, but they know nothing of jurisprudence. Os historic origins and the larger principles of law, they are as ignorant as a pair of mules. They confuse Security of Title with the Right to Net Profits, forgetting that the Law safe guards the one, without taking the least no tice of the other. They evade and violate the nth Amend ment •to the Constitution by saying that a Railroad company does not sue a state when by Injunction it restrains Governor, Attorney- General, Corporation Commission, and all oth er officials of the State Government from car rying on the state administration. Such absurd judges as Jones of Alabama, and such ridiculous corporation lawyers as Pritchard, are but hastening the day when the people will put an end to the private owner ship of Public Utilities. « at at Notice to Exchanges. All weekly papers exchanging with either one of the Watson publications are requested to change the address from Atlanta to Thom son. n H it THE TROUBLE WITH THE TELEGRAPH. It’s very amusing to read the Macon Telegraph these days. From time to time in good humor and temper we trust, The Herald has called attention'to its editorial discussions, for instance the famous “Sword in Each Hand,” editorial of the Telegraph in which it stated that inasmuch as there was no longer a democratic paper published in Atlanta the Telegraph was prepared to lay down the pen for the sword and continue the fight for democracy in Geor gia. As we remarked at the time, doesn’t such a prop osition have a jarring sound in Georgia democracy? We had *a recent primary in Georgia politics and the Telegraph was about all that was left to one side of the contention as to the Georgia democracy’s plat- form, purposes and candidiates. The state democrat ic convention met in Macon, the people all over the state attended that love feast of the people and the convention and platform of the democratic party in Georgia took on new life and held out the hope that the old party in Georgia was at last going to enact into law, put on the statute books and make a part of party life and loyalty, the reforms that the people of Georgia have been demanding for years and which in the primary they had declared so overwhelming ly for, in the candidacy of Hoke Smith, as almost to amount to a revolution in Georgia. And yet claiming to be a loyal democrat, which it is not, the Telegraph has continuously since the primary, since the convention, since the party plat form and pledges, since the meeting of the state leg islature, whose members were elected as democrats — with all these lights and fafets before it, done all that it could to make democracy in Georgia ineffective, has done all that it could to block the will of the people as expressed in the primary and in the state convention and in the platform and pledges of the party. The Herald does not object to the opposition of the Telegraph in things democratic. But let’s make it an honest, open, staightforward fight, one that the Telegraph made for instance for sound money within the party lines. But the Telegraph seems to be unable to handle democratic doctrine these days unless it is attacking some one. Its foolish idea of building up the party, is to run everybody out of the party that doesn’t agree with the Telegraph. Take for instance the very pertinent query of wheth er the Jeffersonian democracy of Mr. Thos. E. Wat son suits the people of Georgia better than the brand that the uses, has used for many years. Personally we have no hesitation in speaking for ourselves, we prefer the Jeffersonian brand, most of the democrats of Georgia seem also to prefer it. At any rate they—the democrats of Georgia—largely co-operated with Mr. Watson, Mr. Smith and Mr. Hardwick, The Herald, the Journal, a host of others, at the polls • in the recent pri mary. There never was such an overwhelming victory in Georgia as the movement within the democratic party which resulted in the election of Hoke Smith, the last state convention and the Macon platiorm. Not for a moment do we doubt the Telegraph’s democracy but it does seem fair to say that with the exception of the Telegraph itself no other democrats in the state seem to care largely for it just at present. It must really be hard work pushing that particular article on the people of Georgia at this particular season and we imagine that it is going to be harder still for the future. If the Telegraph wishes to continue to play the role of mentor, school teacher and common scold in the democratic party in Georgia, it ought at least to have the common school requirement for the job. It is teaching just now without the new text books. For the Telegraph to talk to the democratic hosts of Georgia, to try to teach the democratic children it ought at least to acquaint itself with and be loyal to party principles and pledges ,as declared by the people of the state and formulated into party plat forms and purposes. The Telegraph thinks doubtless its position is a safe and sane and sound one as far as a democracy in Georgia is concerned. In reality there is nothing in common between the Telegraph and the democracy in Georgia. The Telegraph itself admits this in one breath and in the next declares it will fight for the de mocracy with a crowd, etc. The Telegraph is in acrid opposition to everything that stands for democracy in Georgia . It glories in its ability to scold and berate and yet the old Telegraph still sticks to a name that means nothing to it, as far as party strength and loyalty and adherence is concerned. Surely a curious contrast and an amusing spectacle. The Telegraph claims to be the only democratic daily in Georgia and yet there is no more persistent, active, vicious opponent to the party platform, the party pledges and its party leaders who are trying to make effective the promises of the party to the people. If the Telegraph will only cease claiming to be democratic, its articles and editorials against everything democratic in the state, will lose none of their effectiveness and it will have more time to wield the sword against democracy, because it will need less time to keep its mask on straight while it claims to be fighting for democracy. —Augusta Herald. ■t at r WELL DONE, THE GOVERNOR. No one thing that Governor Smith has done up to this point in his administration gives The Georgian greater satisfaction than the tender of the special (Continued on Page Twelve.) PAGE NINE