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names were Charles Mason and Jere
miah Dixon; hence the frame. Dur
ing the excited debate in Congress,
in,1820, on the question of excluding
slavery from Missouri, the eccentric'
John Randolph, of Roanoke, Va.,
made use of the phrase, which was
caught up and re-echoed by every
newspaper in the land, an I Ums train
ed its proverbial celebrity.
Homerville, Ga., Aug. 5, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.:
My Dear Sir: In compliance with
your request in Watson’s Weekly
Jeffersonian of August 18th, as one
of the agents for the two Jefferson
ians, I would state that I have been
a subscriber to bosh before either
ever went to press. Not only to them,
but to all other papers you have ever
published. I can’t say how many
subscribers I secured for it. It was
50 or over. I filled out one of the
receipt books and gave many sub
scribers over the number of receipts
in the book, and also several to the
magazine, something like a dozen. 1
could tell exactly but I have mislaid
my stubs. With best wishes for your
future success, I am,
Ever your sincere friend,
W. A. ECORD.
If Tom Watson holds his vigor
of mind and body for ten years there
will be a revolution in the political
sentiment of the South at the end of
that time. There is no man in the
public eye who is doing more to edu
cate the masses along sound political
lines than is Mr. Watson, and the
gist of all his writings and speeches
is simply to get the masses to think
and act for themselves. Wliile the
“plunderbund” class Mr. Watson as
a wild-eyed theorist, anarchist, so
cialist, and other pet names, the
truth of the matter is, he is simply
a commoner of the first water—one
who is not ashamed of his views nor
the company he keeps. While his
language is strong, his thoughts vig
orous, his style at times bordering
on the uncouth, still he strikes at the
rotten places in our policies of gov
ernment like a man who means busi
ness, and is not to be deterred in the
task he has set for himself. Tom
Watson has lived to see many of his
so-called populistic doctrines stolen
by the two great parties, and it
doesn’t require much prophetic vis
ion to predict that his platform will
be adopted in toto within another
decade —Cilfton Mirror, Tenn. (Dem
ocratic).
Mr. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.:
Dear Sir: Your letter comes to
hand this morning. We have received
your order to rearrange your mail
list and have done so. I sent you
three copies of the re-arranged mail
list yesterday by express. We en
close in this a memorandum which
our mailing clerk wrote, simply be
cause it will show you the interest
that they are taking in the matter.
Now about the delay in the recep
tion of the papers. I have the testi
mony of the mailing clerk that your
papers were sent to the post-office, all
of them, on Thursday, and most of
them by about dinner time on Thurs
day. I then went around to the poet
office. The manager, Mr. Fhodes, met
ma very pleasantly and said, “Yes,
the record is that the Jeffersonian was
sent in on Thursday in due time. On
that day we had twenty-five thousand
pounds of second-class matter, and on
Wednesday twenty-six thousand
pounds. And our clerks were late in
getting it assorted. That was an un
usual amount. The Department of
Agriculture gave us in one day 5,700
pounds of extra matter, and it threw
us behind. This is not likely to oc
cur again.”
We will watch for promptness, and
will try to get the first part of your
mail in before dinner. As 1 explain
ed, the rearrangement of the mail-list
will delay mailing some, but we will
make special effort to overcome it.
Sincerelv yours,
CONVERSE & WING PUB. CO.
T. E. C.
Pinson, Tenn., Sept. 17, 1907.
Mr. Thos. E. Watosn, Thomson, Ga.:
Dear Sir: I will give you my idea
on away for the farmers to get 15
cents for their cotton. My way is
this: Where they have a warehouse
to stere all their cotton it it, form
a company, borrow money on this cot
ton and buy all the cotton they can
when the price is below 15 cents,
store cotton, borrow money, and so
on, but quit buying when the price
gets above 15 cts. Would they form a
trust by doing this 1 ? We would like
to hear from you in the Weekly Jef
fersonian, if . you think it worth an
swering.
Yours truly,
C. A. COLLIE.
Aragon, Ga., Sept. 24, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.:
Dear Mr. Watson: Herewith find
yheck for $2.10 to pay for my re
newal of Watson’s Weekly and
Monthly Jeffersonian, 10 cents ex
change. You are doing a great and
noble work. God bless you.
Yours for results,
T. A. DOLAN.
A VETERAN TELLS OF LEE.
(Continued From Page Three.)
name for it 1 My mouth watered.
But General Lee, after we entered
Maryland, issuqd orders to shoot
any one caught committing a depre
dation of any kind. The apples look
ed so tempting, and I was so hungry,
1 decided that if I had to starve, or
be shot, I would choose the latter,
and I jumped the fence. I quickly
filled my haversack and pockets.
Seeing a new oil cloth knapsack
some one had thrown away, I decided
I wanted to make me a new haver
sack—not that I had any special use
for it, but it just happened to strike
my fancy. Seating myself under an
apple tree, I went to work, keeping
one eye on the brigade to see whether
they moved or not. A few min
utes later, I heard in my rear the
sound of a horse’s feet approaching.
On looking around I discovered, to
my horror, General Lee within ten
feet of me, seated on Traveler, with
a guard of six men from my regi
ment. Jumping to my feet, I brought
my rifle to the carry, and saluted
him with my left forearm across my
breast. But there I caught the
worst tongue lushing I ever had. Ho
called me everything but a soldier
and a gentleman I never knew be
fore there were so many cutting
words in the English language, while
his piercing black eyes seemed to
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
penetrate my flesh. He had me so
badly scared that I have never been
able to remember but three of the epi
thets he applied to me: “straggler,”
‘‘ thief” and “coward. ’ ’ Straggler
I was,- being out of ranks; a thief —
my haversack and pockets filled with
apples plroved that; a coward —he
had me scared to death. So he must
have been correct in all three. After
he had exhausted his vocabulary of
cutting words, he asked what com
mand I belonged to. I told him An
derson’s brigade. He then told the
guard to arrest me and carry me to
General Anderson and tell him to
put me out in front. There was a
sick, barefooted soldier on the other
side of the tree, and the General
turned his horse to him. I never
heard a poor devil beg like he did.
His antics attracted the general to
him, and seeing my opportunity, I de
cided I had pressing business some
where else, and it only took a few
bounds to place me beyond the fence
and back tn my regiment.
Unless memory deserts me, I will
never forget General Lee and the ap
ple orchard.
W. H. ANDREWS.
Sugar Valley, Ga.
CLEVELAND’S MAYORALTY
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Theodore E. Burton is to be the
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Cleveland in the attempt to defeat
Tom L. Johnson. The republicans
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in the Cleveland corporation limits.
Mr. Burton was elected last fall to
succeed himself in Congress, where
he has held high place, but appar
ently he is willing to sacrifice his na
tional legislative career, for a while
at least, in the attempt to solve in
his own way the traction problem
which has been worrying his fellow
townsmen for some years.
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Please mention this paper.
Congress Mr. Burton announced that
in the next Congress he would not be
found in the chief chair in the room
of the committee on rivers and har
bors. It is just possible that he had
an inkling of the mayoralty matter,
and wanted to give ambitious ones
an opportunity to whisper pleas in
the ear of Mr. Cannon, for the river
and harbor berth is not one to be de
spised by any of the office-holding
patriots.
In Congress Mr. Burton has been
known as the scholar in politics. Or
dinarily this suggests the scholar
rather than the politician, but the
Cleveland man knows politics and
reads men as he knows and reads
books. Unquestionably he is sincere
in his statement of the conditions on
which will depend his taking the ma
yoralty nomination which has been
offered him, but also unquestionably
one of the conditions given embodies
the shrewdest political wisdom.
The republicans have been told by
Mr. Burton that he will accept the
nomination “provided that the plat
form of the party and those, who are
to be its candidates will clearly show
the absence of any alliance or affilia
tion with any public service corpora
tion, street railway or other, and
that the problem of the relations of
the municipality to these companies
can, under my leadership, be settled
by the officials elected, with supreme
regard for the interests of the peo
ple. ’ ’
It will be hard for Mr. Johnson
*o frame a better platform than this.
Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft have
given a world of encouragement to
Mr. Burton in his candidaev. Nei
ther the President nor the secretary
would be pained to witness the po- •
litical downfall of Mr. Johnson. The
present mayor, however, has shown
that he is fairly sure-footed. Cleve
land has an interesting and some
what spectacular campaign in pros
pect.—Chicago Post.
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