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PAGE TEN ZETTEEJ FROM THE PEOPLE Simsboro, La., Sept. 1, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.: Dear Sir: I enclose herewith the names and addresses of four subscrib ers to your weekly Jeffersonian, with the necessary funds for same. I have sent in a good many names already, but have been sending them through the Missouri World office, and I heartily wish I could send , ten times as many as I have sent, for I feel when I obtain a subscriber to either one of your publications, that I have done a work that will be a blessing to my friend and country, and I want to congratulate you, to gether with the other few who have been true to the cause of human rights and justice in the dark days of the past, on the seeming near ap proach of complete success and vic tory and vindication. Yours is a heritage that your children will be proud of after you have gone to your reward, and though you have beer, misrepresented and slandered and vil ified and abused and perhaps by some misunderstood, yet you can now thank God and take courage, for the light of truth and justice is begin ning to dawn; right will in the end triumph and our beloved country will yet be redeemed from the clutches of plutocratic greed. So press on and falter not in the great work, and I will do what little I can here in Louisiana to hold up your arms and strengthen you in your noble efforts, and may the Lord of hosts be with you and continue to give you both wis dom and courage, is the prayer of one who admires Tom Watson, and has been in hearty accord and sym pathy with him from our first ac quaintance through the press, over twenty years ago. I see a letter in last week’s issue of the Jeffersonian from my old army friend and comrade, S. J. Whatley. I had lost sight of him. God bless him in his old age. We will meet on the great campground when all things are made new. And now, if you should take time to read my scribbling at all, just cast it aside with the thought that there is one more who appreciates my la bor of love fcr common people. Yours for liberty and justice, N. J. BELTON. Decoy, Texas, August 17, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.: Dear Unseen Friend and Brother in Reform: I notice that you request all those that are working with you to wiite you. I have not sent in any sub scribers, as I am old and afflicted with pains in my legs, and can not get around to solicit subscribers. I distribute your literature among the people, and request them to subscribe. Quite a number have promised me to do so. I have been reading your literature for the past fifteen years, and I find that you never wabble on the spindle. You are the only man that is writ ing to the public that is advocating true, unadulterated democracy. T be lieve that the principles of pure dem ocracy, like Christianity, originated in God, for the Bible, as I under stand it, teaches • democracy from Genesis to Revelation. Christ’s life WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. have pure democracy without pure and teaching while on earth was dem. ocratic. I believe that we can not Christianity, nor pure Christianity without pure democracy. My prayer to God is to speed that day when the principles that you are advocating will be enacted into law, and will be the ruling power of this and all na tions. May God’s most choice bless ings rest an dabide with you to aid you in your noble work for the rights of all the people. I am standing immovable upon the principles advocated by the People’s Party. I believe them to be pure, unadulterated democracy.' I am with you and for you. I had rather see you president than any other man liv ing, but there is too much corruption in this nation to elect a pure, true patriot. There have been frauds enough perpetrated in this nation since the civil war to swamp three monarchies. No other form of govern ment but a republican form of gov ernment could have stayed in exist ence. For fear that I weary you, I will close. With best wishes for your suc cess in this life, and the life to come, I am as ever an advocate of equal rights to all, and special privileges to none. ; ’“j | Yours very respectfully, WM. A. SKILLEM. Longtown, Miss., August 1, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.: Dear Sir: You will please find en closed fifteen cents in stamps, for which send me a copy of your August Jeffersonian magazine. I desire to express to you my gratitude for the kind and true things that you have said concerning our governor, and I sincerely hope that you will have the pleasure of seeing him numbered as a member of the United States Senate. I am, Yours very truly, CHAS. L. ROGERS. I have read a great deal after Mr. Watson. In fact, I have kept pretty well up with him since he started the People’s Party paper in Atlanta, of Mr. Wesley’s writings from the years ago. I have also read much time he was at Oxford College, Eng land, till his life’s work was finished, and what Mr. Wesley was to the re ligious world in his day, Mr. Watson is to the political world in his day. Mr. Wesley had to contend with alt kinds of opposition from the upper classes, even in his own church, from whom he had a right to expect faith fulness and earnest corporation. Many of the ministers of his own de nomination- locked the doors of their churches against him, and turned their backs on him, sometimes incit ing and leading the infuriated rab ble in their mad efforts to mob him. He was forced to preach in the fields and the streets of the cities in many places, which he did in the rain and the sunshine, in the heat and the cold. The common people heard him gladly, and sometimes he preached to as many as twenty thousand at one time. He had a divine mission to execute, and neither men nor devils could stop him, and to-day, while he is speaking to about thirty million, of all races of people, those who op posed him are dead and forgotten, save some whose names were placed in the books he has written. We believe Mr. Watson has a mis sion to fulfill in righting the wrongs of an oppressed nation of people in the political world. May we not say he was raised up and set apart for this very purpose? We believe it, else he would have given up in dis couragement long ago. Who have been his greatest oppos ers in his reform work? We find them among those in authority in church and State, while the common people have heard him gladly as they did Mr. Wesley in his day. And like Mr. Wesley, after his work is done, his name and his memory shall be perpetuated and go down the years to come, while those who have re tarded his efforts to bless his people and save them from oppression shall be dead and forgotten, save some whose names he may write in the books he shall leave behind him. May his days be prolonged till his work shall be completed. B. F. LEE. Louisville, Ga., Sept 12, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.: Dear Mr. Watson: I have been thinking every week since my return from Atlanta that 1 would write about a matter which the people ought to know. I mean write to you so that you could handle it editorially if you see fit. I believe every mem ber of the House has his record 11 straight” on the anti-pass bill. Every member voted for an anti-pass bill, and yet it is a fact that a ma jority of them did not want any anti pass legislation, and proceeded in a manner to keep their “records straight,” and at the same time pre vent any anti-pass bill from passing. The people should know who they were, and it can be found out. The Atlanta Constitution made it appeal’ that the passage of the Hall anti-r bill in the House was a victory for Joe Hall. It was not. Probably Hall controlled a dozen members for his bill, but no more. Those who voted for the Hall bill voted for it because they did not want any pass bill to pass, that is the large majority of them did. They knew that the Sen ate would not accept the Hall bill; they knew that if they voted for the committee substitute we would have an anti-pass law; they did not want that. The scheme was “vote for the Hall bill, the Senate will not accept it; they will offer a substi tute, and if it gets back here we will then take the position that we can’t be inconsistent. We voted for the Hall bill and will not accept the Senate substitute. We must be con sistent.” And they were. They were consist ent in their efforts to prevent anti pass legislation. What they antici pated happened. The Senate passed the Felder-Born substitute, which was similar to the committee substi tute which they killed in the House, but it never got back to the House. It was the purpose of these fellows who were working this trick to try and keep their records straight, and when the bill comes up next summer they meant to amend by making the bill effective January 1, 1908. They would then vote for any bill with this amendment, as their terms of office would expire before that time. Such public servants ought to be ex posed. I know that was the cause of no anti-pass legislation this summer. It is easy to get the names of these fellows. On the passage of the sub stitute offered by the committee, we called for the ayes and nays. The House Journal will show who killed that substitute. The large majority of those fellows are responsible for no anti-pass law. Some few of them voted against this substitute on ac count of being under personal obliga tions to Joe Hall. Excuse this lengthy letter.. It may be the facts are given you too late to be of use, but your editorials call ing to task such fellows do a great deal of good, and the people appre ciate them. With high personal re gards, and best wishes, I am, Very truly yours, MEMBER LEGISLATURE. Dallas, Texas, Aug. 28, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.: Dear Brother: I rejoice exceeding ly with Seab Wright and others over the passage of the anti-barroom bill. I read with interest your review of Bishop Candler’s article, and take your view of it. As you will remem ber, I spoke in Georgia for the anti barroom bill eleven years ago. I have never been a populist. I am a prohibitionist, and an independent. I never saw the day I would not co operate with any set of honest men on a sound platform to defeat the liquor traffic, and I think that is the real nonpartisan attitude for every prohibitionist. Very cordially yours, J. B. GAMBRELL. Rochelle, Ga., Sept. 2, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.: Dear Mr. Watson: As you request, I write to say I’ve sent in some eight or ten subscribers to your magazine, and it is sent to others here who were subscribers to the New York maga zine. After filling the unexpired time of the old with the new, the subscribers promised to pay; so the magazine was continued. I hope they will pay all arrears and more, soon. Several have moved off whom I can’t see. I might give you a list of the subscribers, if desired. Some are at Pitts. I’m the only one here, that I know of, taking your paper. We all like your writings, and, in fact, we think the magazine has no equal. I, and many others, were tickled at Clark Howell’s editorial in which he acknowledged you had whipped the fight. It is amusing to see how the old parties are falling in line with popu list principles—dressing their planks and claiming them as their own floor ing. Allow me to say you are doing “great good,” and we are with you. The hard licks you are hitting are proving effective. Continue the blows; don’t spare the rod. Our hearts are with vou, and so is God. Truly yours, W. C. CARTER.