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ZEZZEAT TROTI THTL 'P'EOTL'E
TWO LETTERS FROM AS FINE A
MAN AS OLD GEORGIA
EVER PRODUCED.
Rockmart. Ga., Oct. 3, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
My Dear Friend: Three months
ago, while making a short speech in
the interest of prohibition, without
a moment’s warning, I was stricken
down with paralysis. Have been
helpless ever since, and discover no
symptoms of speedy recovery. My
condition has been made tolerable
only by the thoughtful kindness of
friends.
Shortly after my affliction, a great
admirer of yours called in, and after
spending an hour in pleasant conver
sation, drew from his pocked a pub
lication and asked “Have you seen a
copy of Tom Watson’s Magazine! I
have brought along one hoping it may
enable you to ‘while away’ pleasantly
a portion nos your enforced confine
ment.” The sequel is told in the en
closed clipping, which T had no idea of
ever seeing in print
Our mutual friend Talley, of Ma
rietta, paid me a visit some weeks
8?o, and volunteered to send me some
nf the back numbers, since I had
become greatly interested in the
“Life and Times of Andrew Jack
son.” The promised back numbers
came duly to hand, and have been
ravenously read. Two days ago I re
ceived the October number marked
“Comp.,” which opened my eyes to
the fact that my quarter of a cen
tury friend, out of the bigness and
goodness of his heart, was contribu
ing to the comfort of an afflictel
old man. For this unexpected, but
highly appreciated evidence of es
teem, I desire to return heartfelt
thanks, and pray that God’s choicest
blessings may be most abundantly
poured cut upon you and yours.
Have read and partially re-read the
October number—“ads and all”
and feel that I can’t well do without
it.
Please find enclosed $2, for whicn
send to my address the Weekly Jet*
fersonian and the Magazine.
My good wife asks to be very kind
ly remembered to Mrs. Watson, to
whom she became greatly attached
during our residence in Washington.
She further desires to have her high
est regards extended to Durdam and
Agnes, whom she can remember only
as “Dream Children.”
I dislike to have trespassed at such
length upon your time, and have done
my best to syncopate, and pray your
indulgence. Your kindness has filled
me so full that I felt as though “T’d
bust” if T didn’t say something. Ex
cuse signature, since my “left-hand
writing” is almost illegible.
Very sincerely yours,
R. W. EVERETT.
Rockmart. Ga.
The inclosure to which friend Ev
erett refers follows. It was a clip
pin? from a newspaper:
Letter From R. W. Everett.
Mv Dear Mr. Simerville:
Please accept the grateful remem
brance of an afflicted old man as
manifested by your thoughtful kind
ness in sending in one of the most
interesting magazines it has even been
my good fortune to read. I have
read every word of it, and have been
pleased, entertained, instructed, edi
fied, and my long acquaintance with
the author justifies the belief that he
is sincere in every declaration. T
have been associated with him in his
home, in the legislator, in Congress
—in the Alliance, in the Cotton As
sociation, in various committee work,
and never do I remember to have
seen the least semblance of duplicity
or unfairness. While many differ
from me in this regard, I have ever
regarded Mr. Watson an honest man.
and as such have ever esteemed him
I have discovered no symptoms of
improvement in my condition. Am
evidently losing strength and weight.
Have no control whatever over the
muscles of my right side.
Providence permitting, T shall start
to a sanitarium tomorrow morning,
and if no relief is found there, I can
only return to my home and “wait
the summons to cross over the river. ’ ’
Oh, how I wish I could be with dur
Sunday school this morning, and I
desire, through you, to ask an inter
est in the prayers of each member
for restoration to health. Should the
Master not see fit to answer this, then
ask that when I arise from my final
earthly sleep, “I may awake in His
likeness.”
Thanking you again for past cour
tesies, I am,
Very sincerely yours,
R. W. EVERETT.
August 11, 1907.
Warthen, Ga., Aug. 3, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Tn reply to your notice
as to how many subscriber? I have
taken for your publications, I win
say that I have only kept up with
• them long enough to see that they
come through all right, hence don’t
know as to number of each, However,
it is a pleasure to take subscribers for
your publications. I have learned
more from them than from all other
sources of information combined.
With gratitude to you for same, I
am, Your friend,
J. S. NORRTS.
Strasburg, Va., Sept. 21, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir* Your June magazine re
ceived and much enjoyed. You are
doing a great work. The great body
of people need just such fearless and
well-informed men as yourself to give
them the facts about matters corpo
rate and political. Let the masses
have the truth pure and unmixed with
error or falsehood, and they will vote
true Jeffersonians into office. Can
yon spare the time to tell me why you
and Mr. Hearst and Mr. Bryan can’t
get together in the next presidential
campaign!
Nothing teems more foolish, more
unpatriotic than for such men to act
nt crust purposes. AH three of you in
full accord as to the very essence of
'democracy, and yet often not in full
accord in the campaign*. This is a
great mystery to the plain people of
the country.
The greatest joy of my life would
be to set you and Mr. Bryan and Mr.
Hearst in full harmony in the next
canvass. If you pull not together,
• -r— —
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
bogus democracy or republicanism is
sure to win again.
Yours truly,
R. E. BORDEN.
P. S.—Would write more but know
you haven’t time to read it.
Note. —Mr. Watson has said, all
along, that he was willing.
Osceola, Neb., Oct. 1, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson. Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir and Friend: Your postal
of September 23rd was received in
due time, and I will later submit to
you a list of names in Nebraska. Just
at present I am very busy managing
two papers, and in the midst of the
campaign Will send the list just as
soon as possible, and will keep your
request in mind.
The Populist party is not dead here
by a long ways. We have a ticket
with forty-four counties in this state
so far as reported, with over 350 can
didates for local offices on county
tickets. In many instances these can
didates have been nominated by the
Democrats, in fact, in most cases.
But it is generally recognized that a
large per cent of those elected this
fall would not see success at the end
were it not for a Populist organiza
tion in the state. Os course, many
of our friends do not believe this,
but it is true, and those who have
taken the trouble to study conditions
realize it the best. Brother Tibbles
is doing a good work, and should re
ceive encouragement.
With kindest regards, I remain,
Yours trulv,
E. A. WALRATH.
*
Scribner, Neb., Oct. 3, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson:
Thanks for your card, which I did
not expect. A new idea struck me
when I received it, and I carried it
out, for which I hope you will not
sue me for damages, or breach of —
well, of some kind. I enclosed that
card in an envelope and sent it to the
Hon. W. J. B. I always feel “dee
lighted” when I can occasionally
poke fun at that honorable gentle
man in the ribs, so to speak.
But —joking aside—l am firmly
convinced that important political his
tory will be made between now and
the next presidential election. The
main factors in that history will un
doubtedly be you, W. J. 8., and a
number of others I might mention.
The unhappy experiment and result
less mistake of 1896-1900, and 1904,
must not be repeated if the people
are to be really benefited. Indeed, if
T owned untold millions, I would be
willing (under present political con
ditions) to wager every dollar upon
the proposition that the Democratic
party (nor any other party, for that
matter) will be “it” next year. The
people must positively get together,
practically solid, otherwise there is
no hope. The G. O. P., that is, the
trusts and corporations with T. R.,
the most polished but greatest fraud
that ever disgraced the presidential
chair, as the saving hero (!), will
come out on top—as usual, victorious.
I fear, of course, that it will be
an almost herculean job to pry, push,
pull, or coax the Hon. W. J. B. away
from his useless fanatic infatuation
for the regenerated (!) “dimmicratic
party. ’ ’ But the effort must ba made,
and I think you, if any one can do
it. If you are successful 1 dn not
hesitate to say, half the battle is
won. God grant it.
Yours faithfully and sincerely for
the cause of the people.
FRANK T. WALTHER.
Morrows Station, Ga.,
September 23, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Brother and Friend: 1 thought
as I have never seen a piece in your
magazine from here I would try and
write you one. I am one of your
first subscribers to your Jeffersonian
Magazine, and so was a subscriber to
your New York magazine, which Col
onel Mann stole from you and swin
dled us boys out of our money. lam
a middle-of-the-road Populist, and
expect to die in the faith. I never
expect to say we were wrong. I
have no compromise to make with
either of the old parties. I have no
more respect for them now than I had
fifteen or sixteen years ago, when
they were swindling us old boys out
of every office in this state that we
elected. I have every reason to hate
the Democratic Party worse, for they
did their rascality here at home, and
it was a fight unfair. Ido not mean
the honest voters, for I know many a
man as good at heart voted with the
Democratic ticket and party as any
of us Populists ewer possessed. Yet
I do despise the ring leaders till this
day. I want the opportunity to vote
for Tom Watson for President of the
United States in 1908. I voted for
you in 1904. lam no Bryan man. A
man that can’t stand flatfooted on a
platform four years at a time is not
the man to lead a reform movement.
Well, in conclusion, you may put
me down for life as your subscriber,
if I can get the money to pay for it.
Though I am poor and hard run and
afflicted, my mother has been an in
valid for nearly five years, and this
years I have made nothing, for it took
all my time in the house to wait on
her..
J. D. L. WAGGONER.
Lewisburg, Tenn., Sept. 30, 1907.
Mr. Watson:
I want to say that I enjoy reading
your magazine, and Weekly Jeffer
sonian more than any publication that
comes to me. Every copy is filed away
for safe keeping, and 1 would hot
part with them for many times their
cost. You may put me down as one
of your lifetime subscribers and well
wishers. How any one that believes
in Jeffersonian democracy can be
without your magazine and Weekly
is more than I can understand. I
wish I was an orator, 1 would cer
tainly spread the Populist gospel all
over this land and country. There
is no one more anxious than I am to
do something for the cause, and I
suppose no one less able. I know the
doctrine and can talk it privately,
but am too timid to try to make a
speech before a crowd. Please tell
me how to overcome this timidity.
Please send me the simplest mean
ing possible of the Initiative and Ref
erendum.
Yours in the cause,
RUFUS L. COMPTON.
R. F. D. 6.