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Gobemor Smith 9 s Interbielv.
I am confident that no one who will read
Governor Smith’s Interview, which appears
in another column, will find fault with it.
The Governor spoke some time ago, when
there was a money stringency which was be
ing severely felt. He distinctly stated that
while the Georgia crop would be large, if not
injured by the hot, dry winds, the cotton crop,
as a whole, would be short, and that the
farmers ought to receive the highest price
they had ever received for their cotton.
Efforts were being made to get the money
necessary to the moving of the crops, and Gov
ernor Smith’s purpose was to make it easier for
Southern business men to get the money, from
the financial centres, by showing that in a short
while Georgia would have a large amount of
cotton available.
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"Sabe In His Ohm Country.”
The Hon. John Lawson Burnett of Gadsden,
Ala., has for several terms represented the
Seventh District in Congress. He is a Dem
ocrat.
The month of August, 1907, found Mr. Bur
nett traveling in Europe. From London, Eng
land, under date of August 20, the Alabama
Congressman wrote a letter to the Editor of
the Gadsden Daily Times-News.
After telling of Hamburg, Bremen, Rotter
dam, The Hague, and Antwerp, Mr. Burnett
proceeds as follows:
“From Antwerp we went to Brussels, the
beautiful capital of Belgium, where we stayed
a couple of days. Near here, the battle of
Waterloo, which sealed the destiny of Napo
leon, was fought. This brings up another
school boy speech that I used to recite:
“ ‘There was a sound of revelry by night,
And Belgium’s capital was gathered there,’ etc.
“This was the ball which was going on at
Brussels when the battle began which sent
Napoleon an exile to St. Helena, and changed
the whole history of Europe. We visited the
celebrated battle-field. A magnificent harvest
of wheat was being gathered in the very fields
which were watered by the best blood of Eu
rope. The English have erected an immense
monument there, capped by a large figure of,
the British lion. This is ascended by 226
steps. You know lam fat and short winded,
and I started up, having no idea of going to
the top. But the scene was so inspiring, and
the air so exhilarating that I kept on till I got
to the top. As I stood there and gazed over
the ground which once resounded to the tramp
of the greatest armies that Europe ever saw, I
could but join in the question asked by Tom
Watson of Georgia, ‘What would have hap
pened if Napoleon had won?’
“By the way, that reminds me that I went
into a book store in Paris the other day, and
asked for the best history of Napoleon which
they had in English, and they handed me Tom
Watson’s. I was rather proud of this com
pliment to our distinguished southern author,
for, although I do not agree with Mr. Watson
in some things, I regard him as one of the
best writers in America. But this is another
digression. I picked up a few gravels from
Waterloo because I had just received a letter
from a young lady in my district, asking me
to bring her a pebble from the ocean or some
other little souvenir of my trip to Europe. So
I thought she might appreciate one of these.
“From Brussels we went to Paris, the most
immoral city in the world. Here I will leave
you till next week. Your friend,
“JOHN L. BURNETT ”
When Mr f JMatson was in Chillicothe in
WATs6n’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
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1904, a lay Delegate to the Baptist Convention,
which was in session there (Mr. Stephens of
Columbia, Mo.) related to Mr. Watson prac
tically the same incident as happening to him,
in 1904, that Mr. Burnett relates to the Gads
den paper as happening to him in 1907.
So it would appear that for three years at
least Brentano’s has been handing out, in
Paris, the Watson Napoleon as the best.
When it is remembered that Brentano’s is
one of the great international book houses with
establishments in New York, London and
Paris, the fact that it hands out the Watson
Napoleon when the customer asks for “the
best,” is sufficient to remind one of a certain
passage in Scripture. x
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Unjust to Mr. Bryan.
The great Western Editor, Henry Watter
son, continues to bemoan the carryings on of
certain Democratic brethren who do not see
things as he sees them.
For instance:
“That a wild reaction should transfer this
party aften ten years of groveling adulation of
Mr. Cleveland and inevitable misadventure
under his leadership to ten years of equally
groveling adulation of Mr. Bryan and as ine
vitable misadventure under his leadership,
would seem to be little short of a destiny; and
yet, during these twenty years, because the
Courier-Journal steadfastly refused to join in
either adulation, but pointed out, as occasion
required, the faulty leadership which was
from time to time bringing discredit and ruin
upon the party—in each instance the result
vindicating its sincerity and its prescience—the
Cleveland zealots and the Bryan zealots as
cribed to it every manner of unworthy mo
tive, and denounced it as a traitor to Democ
racy.
“How queer all this seems! How inexplica
ble ! Nothing could be more transparent than
the crafty selfishness of Mr. Cleveland’s char
acter and proceeding, and nothing more ob
vious than Mr. Bryan’s character and proceed
ing; each of them working relentlessly his in
terest and his will upon the party, giving noth
ing and getting everything; the first, two terms
in the White House, to leave the party almost
in total shipwreck, the second, his own en
richment directly out of his candidacy and his
leadership, neither willing to make the smallest
sacrifice of self for the common good; is it not
wonderful ?”
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Os course, it is wonderful, Marse Henry.
But there is one thing you overlook.
After Cleveland had allowed Gorman bf
Maryland to turn the Wilson Tariff bill into
a Sugar Trust, Oil Trust and Steel Trust Par
adise, there wasn’t any Democratic party left,
to speak of. Bryan couldn’t hurt it, because
it was as dead as a door nail. Speaker Crisp
and others realized this. Bryan himself re
alized it.
Before he left Washington, at the close of
his second Congressional term, Mr. Bryan de
clared his intention of going home, and leading
a new political movement. He did not commit
himself to the Populist Party, but he did
that the Democratic Party was doomed, and
that he intended to start a new movement in
the West.
To keep Bryan in the party ranks, and to
head the Populists off, Mr. Crisp and a few
others conceived the plan of having the Presi
dential nomination given to the brilliant young
Nebraskan, first by the Democrats and
then by the Populists.
The plan succeeded, and Bryan scooped the
Populists. Instead of doing the Democratic
Party any damage, Mr. Bryan carried into it
at least 1,500,000 Populist voters. In other
words, the Democratic party owes to Mr. Bry
an the revitalizing of the organization which
Cleveland had wrecked, and the destruction
of the People’s party which was a menace to
the organized Democracy.
However much cause of complaint the re
formers may have against Bryan, the organiz
ed Democracy has none.
In 1896, he lent his powerful aid to the deep
laid scheme which disrupted the Populist party
and in 1904, he surrendered the convictions of
eight years as a sacrifice to “Party Regularity.”
No, indeed, Bryan isn’t a bad Democrat;
he’s a good one.
Before Parker was stamped at St. Louis,
Bryan hired halls to tell how unfit Parker was:
after Parker was stamped at St. Louis, Bryan
chartered a train to rush through the country
to tell how fit Parker was.
That kind of Democrat isn’t a bad Demo
crat; he’s a good one. He swears by the
stamp.
What more do you want?
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Nolo Look Here!
Certain parties have shown a disposition to
impose upon the old man, on this 50c business,
and his dander is getting up.
Enough of a thing, is enough. During the
dull summer months when money was scarce,
the old man put on aSO cent rate—but he plain-,
ly stated that this special rate would cease
with August.
In spite of this, however, certain parties have
continued to take out half the money they
get on subscriptions. Some have even taken
out half of the $2.00 combination offer, when
the old man had said that the agent could only
claim cents on that $2.00 offer.
Now, there is reason in all things and there
is no sense in working one’s self to death and
rushing into bankruptcy besides.
Every man of common intelligence knows
that a paper like The Jeffersonian cannot be
published for one cent a copy. As to giving,
the Magazine and the paper both for SI.OO, as
some of our agents think we ought—that’s
mere tomfoolery. They know it can’t be done!
Now, look here!—this paper has fixed its
price, not with an eye to profit, but with the
intention of making a living. Mr. Watson
doesn’t want a cent for the work he is doing,
and never expects a dollar for it--but he does
not think the people for whom he is working
want him to lose his money as well as his
labor.
Those newspapers which have no special
contract with us, and which cannot send us
75c as per our regular clubbing rate, are re
quested to cut out the Jeffersonian from their
list. •
Those agents and club-raisers who cannot
work with us on the terms published by us,
are requested to quit.
Those friends and comrades who are so un
reasonable as to think that Mr. Watson should
work for nothing and lose thousands of dol
lars, besides, are not the friends and comrades
he cares to have.
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ET TU, BRUTE!
Tom Watson has ever been the Macon Telegraph’s
pet aversion. Since Tom Watson has been in the
limelight as an advocate of reform The Telegraph
has never found greater pleasure than when it
could give him a whack. And many whacks it has
given him, all of them hard ones, some of them
cruel, and not all of them above the belt.
Nothing that Tom Watson did ever met The Tel
egraph’s approval. Everything that he did was
promptly condemned. Hence it is bound to attract
attention when suddenly our dear contemporary
tracks right after Mr. Watson, steps precisely in the
footprints he has made, and feels called to condemn
what he condemned fifteen years ago, and almost in
his identical words.
It will be remembered that when Mr. Watson
served in congress he found occasion to condemn
the extravagance of the senators. An indulgent gov
ernment allowed them an expense account, a privi-
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