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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 CAMPAIGN. Theodore E. Burton is to be the republican candidate for mayor of Cleveland in the attempt to defeat Tom L. Johnson. The republicans rould not have found a stronger can didate personally and politically with 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. Near the end of the last session of Phinizy & Co. 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It is worth its weight in gold to any family and should be kept In the Home at all times. Price 25 and 50 cents per bottle. Send for literature. BUSH’S SPECIFIC CO., Winder, Ga. W. H. SWEATS, Secretary and Treasurer. 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. PAGE ELEVEN