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Honor 'Roll.
These are helping me extend the influence
and usefulness of the two Jeffersonians:
John C. Neville, West Union, S. C.
Oliver S. Jones, Prescott, Ark.
H. L. Howard, Sylvania, Ga.
C. C. Benefield, Mud Creek, Miss.
Sid S. Bond, Jackson, Miss.
Perry F. Bloodworth, Perry, Fla.
B. H. Brown, Gainesville, Ga.
J. J. Brown, Bowman, Ga.
S. D. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.
(To be Continued.)
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The "Old. Reliable” Again.
Another wreck on The Georgia Railroad!
This time it was freight train, at the Oconee.
It happened Saturday night, as before. In
deed, it would seem that Col Scott’s road
finds Saturday night to be a peculiarly bad
night for safe and sane procedure.
That so many smash-ups should happen on
the Old Reliable and so few lives have been
lost is mere nigger luck. It cannot be so al
ways. Sooner or later there will be a tragedy
on this ill-conditioned, badly managed road
that will horrify the entire country.
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Editorial Notes.
Last year, Mr. Hearst’s Independence
League formed a co-partnership with the cof
ruptest elements of the New York Democracy.
This year, it has formed a co-partnership with
the Republicans. For a right young thing, Mr.
Hearst’s Independence League is wonderfully
well up in some of the old, old tricks.
Henry aWtterson, the great Western Demo
crat, says that the old parties are dead. “Party
lines have ceased to exist. We must have a new
party.”
This is refreshing talk. The last time The
Jeffersonian quoted from Brother Watterson
he was telling the country what mean men the
Republicans were, and how easy it would be
to get everything iri a heavenly condition by
electing Democrats to office. That was what
caused me to faint.
Trips to Europe have curious effects. The
Editor of the Atlanta Journal took one, and it
seems to have cured him of the fever which
came on him, suddenly, last summer. Last
summer, while the sudden fever was on, the
Journal hotly demanded many reforms. Is not
demanding any now. Not only is it reasonably
satisfied with things in general, but it is quiet
ly and earnestly preparing a soft place for
Governor Smith to fall on, when a small man,
by the name of Newman, says from the Fed
eral bench, that Governor Smith must not act
as Governor UNLESS HE, NEWMAN,
GIVES CONSENT.
Alas, these trips to Europe!
Inasmuch as the time has come when frost
may be expected any night, hadn’t some vigi
lant Democrat better bring the Macon Plat
form into the house? Os all political pot
plants, the Macon Platform is the most deli
cate ; and it would be gross negligence to leave
the tender thing out doors, any longer.
If State-Chairman Lawton Miller has noth
ing further to do for that resourceful Repub
lican, Mai. J. F. Hanson—in the way of screen
ing the Yankee Corporations from just taxa
tion—the Jeffersonian urges him to lose no
time in housing his pot-plant—“ The Macon
Platform.”
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I Mr. Hearst’s Independence League rode the
(Democratic horse last year, and is now learn
ing to ride the Republican horse. Shall we see
this expert performer riding both horses at
once, next year? Possibly.
If I were William J. Nebraska, I should be
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
keeping a sharp eye on this new method of
doing things. It’s going to play h—ll with
somebody’s cabbages.
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Teddy the Great is in the Louisiana cane
brakes loaded for bear. But as all roads led to
Rome, so even this bear hunt leads to the
Third Term. ’ .
Fairbanks’ cocktails have done for him what
“Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion” did for
Blaine; and as for Taft, my idea is that he is
at his old job of keeping the lid on for Roose
velt.
The people want the Third Term, because
the President has lent such immense prestige
to the prosecution of big rascals; and the big
rascals want him because thev are afraid that
if they make a change they’ll get something
worse.
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At the recent cotton conference in Atlanta,
did any of the Spinners come out strong for
cents cotton?
Yet that’s what we Growers mean to have.
The raw cotton is surelv worth $75 per bale,
when the 3.000 yards of calico which the Spin
ner makes out of it sells for $2lO.
Including the as the cost of the raw cot
ton. the manufacture of the stanle into 3,000
yards of calico onlv costs about sll7.
Now. if the Spinner can find a market for
his calico at such a price as will give him
s2io on each bale of cotton why cannot he
co-onerate with us, in fixing the price of raw
cotton at 13c?
And the co-operation is easv. He is the
buver; let him pay us 15c per pound, and be
done with it.
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The Railroads are making the largest net
profits ever known to railroading, vet thev are
swearing to “Confiscatory” falsehoods, from
one end of the country to the other, and are
spending monev like water on high-priced
lawvers, editors, lobbvists. Press Agents, and
“Special Counsel”: the effort being to prevent
the public from having anything to do with
these public utilities.
Senator John Spooner, of Wisconsin, has
been imported into Georgia to help Mai. J. R.
Hanson, Col. Thos. K. Scott and J. P. Morgan
bulldoze Governor Hnke Smith. Snooner is
also a Republican. Thus we have the pretty
spectacle of four big Republicans trving to
bulldoze the Governor of a Democratic State.
And the queerest feature of the case is that
the Atlanta Journal seems to be preparing “a
lav-flown” for the Governor.
Wouldn’t it be a sight to astonish the world
if Governor Smith allowed a Federal Judge to
degrade the sovereigntv of our great state of
who«e divnitv. whose rights, and whose power
pnvr. SMTTH TS TRUSTEE. REPRE
SENTATIVE AND DEFENDER?
The Jeffersonian has no doubt whatever that
Governor Smith’s patriotism and courage will,
if put4o the test, give these corporation hire
lings a lesson that will not onlv have a salutary
effect in Georgia but throughout the I T nion.
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Let every Farmers’ Union paper begin the
agitation to have cotton goods put on the Free
List.
The price of Cotton thread and cloth is con
trolled by a Trust. This Trust forces prices
up. thus limiting the quantity of cotton goods
which the people can buy. The more the con
sumption of cotton goods is limited, the smaller
is the demand for raw cotton. The smaller
the demand for raw cotton, the lower the price.
Friends, can’t you see it?
What’s to be done?
Get after your Congressmen. Pass Resolu
tions and publish them.
Write to Senators and Representatives and
require an expression of opinioa.
If the Congressmen come Into line with you,
support them. If they ignore or defy you,
vote them out.
Never stop until your Congressmen come
into line with the people.
Haven’t we let the Corporations run Con
gress long enough?
Shall we never assert the right of the peo
ple to have Congress represent them?
The remedv is in your own hands.
For heaven’s sake get busy on a plan that
will bring relief"to you, and harm to no legit
imate business.
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Watson and the R. T. T). Serbice.
Writes a Card on the Claims as Between Him and
Livingston.
Editor Constitution: x
Will you please allow me space to make a prop
osition?
Congressman L. F. Livingston appears to have been
posing before the national convention of the rural
free delivery convention as the father of that great
educational institution.
Congressman Livingston Is a candidate for re-elee
tlon In the Atlanta district, consequently It Is of the
utmost Importance to him to prove. If he can. that he
.obtained the first appropriation for the rural free
delivery service. It would help him Immensely with
the country people If his district If he can even show
that he secured the passage of a bill or resolution
or amendment In favor of the rural free delivery
system.
Now without any offensive language and with no
reference to Mr. Livingston In any other matter
of record, T propose to give him a splendid opportuni
ty to win thousands of votes.
I propose the creation of a board of referees, com
posed of Hon. Clark Howell. Hon. John Temple
Graves and Rev. Dr. J. W. Lee, to whom shall be
submitted the evidence . This' evidence Is already
on record, approved and published by authority of
the congress of .the United States. It will not re
quire more than half an hour to set the vexed ques
tion at rest. A copy of the Congressional Record
can be found In the Carnegie Library or In some other
library In Atlanta. If not, Congerssman Livingston
can produce his set. If he will not, I will produce
my set.
This official record, published by the government
Is the highest and best evidence.
The material portion will demonstrate that Mr.
Livingston made one feeble attempt to Introduce an
amendment In favor of free delivery of mail to coun
try people, got ruled out on a point of order and
gave up the effort altogether. He got no approprla
tlon, for his amendment did not even get far enough
to be voted on. When the chairman knocked the
amendment out on a point of order, he knocked Mr.
Livingston out, too.
The Congressional Record will show that an May
28, 1892, I was making a fight on the floor of the
house for the rural free delivery system. There was
a running debate In which I ran the gauntlet com
posed of such men as Tom Reed, Caruth, of Ken
tucky; Fithian, of Illinois; Lou, of California; Enloe,
of Tennessee, and Hopkins, of Illinois.
After doing the best I could, appealing to congress
to extend the country people the advantages of the
free delivery of mails—then confined to the cities and
incorporated towns —I lost the day. Congress did
nothing for the country folks that session.
Then we all came home and the fierce battle of
1892 ensued. Congressman Livingston was re-elected.
Congressman Watson was counted out. We went
back to Washington for the short session. Mr. Liv
ingston appeared to have lost Interest In the dear
country people . He was safe for two more years.
Hence he did not renew the attempt to start up the
rural free delivery.
On the contrary, I took up the fight again. On the
17th day of February, 1898,1 again offered the amend
ment, which had failed In May, 1892. Again there
was a running debate on the floor of the house. Once
the amendment was voted down, but by perseverance,
I secured another vote, and that time the amend
ment carried.
This was the very first time congress endorsed
the present rural free delivery system. The money
voted for the experiment In rural free delivery was
the very first appropriation ever made by the gov
ernment for the present rural free delivery system.
That was the acorn. Underneath the far-reaching
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