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PAGE TWELVE MOST UNJUST. (Continued from Page Nine.) Fair. Had he given his word, he would have kept it Fair managers who publish unauthorized an nouncements and who then wriggle out of the scrape by saying that “Mr. Watson broke his promise/’ deserve some sort of punishment. n h n 'Editorial Notes. President Roosevelt killed a bear weighing 365 pounds. Louisiana bears, of'that size, should be more careful. ’Most anybody might mistake one for a wild hog. If the President will come down to the Ogee chee Swamp we will promise any reasonable number of “bears” weighing 365. If we Georgians had had any idea that Louis iana bears were no bigger than that, we would have spoken up for the Ogeechee Swamp when the thing was first mentioned. Clark Howell has nominated Bryan for Pres ident, and Hoke Smith has made the plat form. What more could anybody ask? Bryan is irresistible on every day excepting the day of the election. If they keep on fooling with me, I am going out and make a speech on “Education.” Oh, what a nice, peaceable subject Education is! TENNESSEE’S POLITICAL STATUS. Tennessee is far behind themoving procession. All around us there is evolution. There is progress. In Tennessee, however, the rail roads in their fortunate, for them selves, selection of public officials, have plastered us up against the stone wall of inaction. There is nothing doing. We have a governor who, with the indorsement and in the confidence of the Louisville & Nashville railroad, is satisfied to occupy himself in the construction of a political machine to continue him in high place. He has closely associated with him, in methods at least, a railroad com mission which has shared his feeling of antipathy to any noise, any agita tion, which would disturb the rail roads in their happy sense of secur ity and in the autocratic exercise of cheap franchises, unlimited license and the unchecked power of toll gathering without contributing more than a minimum toi the expenses of maintaining the state’s government. We have a governor who, during a long legislative session, never in all his messages and addresses felt called upon to say one word, to legislators as to railroad matters. He did not suggest that in the gen eral plan of rate reduction Tennes see should demand the same rates that her neighboring states were re ceiving. , He did not suggest that in Tennes see the railroads were not paying the taxes that they should be paying. He did not tell his legislators that in Minnesota, the railroads charge 2 cents per mile, give cheapened freight - rates and at the same time pay an nually into the state treasury an hon est contribution from their excess of earnings about $3,500,000. In Ten nessee we have had no sort of rate concessions, and the railroads last year paid in taxes $226,000. WATSON’S WEEKLY JKFFBHSONIAN. Get ready, boys- the old man can’t hold in much longer. • Must speak on Education. Alabama, in the meanwhile, is up and doing. An Extra-session is not “such a foolish thing,” in Alabama. Governor Comer should be keerful. The Atlanta Journal may not approve of the way he is conducting himself. .. * The readers of The Jeffersonian will be glad to learn that J. D. W. is back from Virginia, and will help the old man keep up with the procession. He will take some of the drudgery off my hands, and thus enable me to fix up a real nice speech on Education. n h h Poor Lindsay. Paul Lindsay writes a long card in the Atlanta Constitution trying to squirm out of the nasty deal he made with Lon Livingston concerning that snub of Mr. Watson at the National R. F. D. Convention. Clark Howell gives Lindsay’s card great prominence—so much so, indeed, that it raises a suspicion that Clark, after all, was in the little game. Lindsay’s card is so different from the pri vate letter which he wrote to Mr. Watson that the Jeffersonian will, next week, publish said letter. That’s a difference, don’t you think? And Minnesota, with surely as much area as Tennessee, has a popu lation smaller than our own by some quarter of a million people. The governor did not say that as Minnesota has done, so have been doing Wisconsin, lowa, Illinois. Ne braska, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas; Alabama, Georgia, the two Virginias, N. Carolina. New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Providence knows how many others. He did not suggest that the rail roads should improve their service; that out of their earnings they should put on more cars and should do a lit tle double tracking in the interest of our lives and our commeice. He did not intimate that fir years there had been under assessments for the railroads as compared with the individual, and that were the former corrected, the burden of the latter would be lessened or completely re moved. He did not decry the railroad lob byists who have for more than a gen eration been poisonous pests about the halls of legislation. Instead, the governor has become the acknowledged candidate of the most vicious and pernicious railroad system that ever looted and tyran nized and bullied and dominated a state. The newspaper property of the Louisville & Nashville railroad is the governor’s special and most zealous champion for a continuance in power. It is for him because the railroad behind it, appreciating the dainty delicacy of his interference with the railroads’ status want* Mr. Patter son to stay where he is. It wants him to keep down “anti railroad mania.” It wants him to be the purveyor of their messages of assurance to those people who have not been altogether satisfied. It wants him to o. k. their pledges. More than that, it wants him to continue his policy of tilling the courts with politically trained judges select ed from railroad law offices. Up to this time, the governor has had three judicial positions to fill. He appoint ed to the two vacancies on the Court of Civil Appeals two working politi cal railroad attorneys, and to the va cancy on the Supreme bench, to mem bership of our Court of Final Resort, he has commissioned a lawyer who has not yet resigned" bis railroad at torneyship, and who has stated that it is not his intention to resign it. Now, we submit that Tennessee needs to “eyes front,” to “right about. ’ ’ Back in the days of the territo ries and the new Western states, we had instances of judicial degradation similar to that now existing in Ten nessee. But it was a shame then as it is a shame now. We believe thatl in no other state would such appointments as Horace Palmer’s, A. B. Lamb’s and John Hendersm s be tolerated for one week. In New York. Massachusetts or even Pennsylvania, for instance, there would go up protests in condem nation that would overwhelm the gov ernor who had made them. The trouble in Tennessee is that there has not been a free press in the capital city, and the people are not informed of the constantly recurring atrocities. They will learn in time, however, and they will speak at the primaries and in the general election their dis approval. And Tennessee will begin the work of her own regeneration and redemption, even though at the ex pense of a lot of cheap and unworthy politicians in high places.—-Farmers ’ News-Scimitar. The News does not yet join in the chorus of cheers that greets the vic tory, so narrowly won, of John Sharp Williams over Governor Vardaman for United States Senator down in Mississippi. It may be all right, but among the republican press and ora tors and the reactionary democratic Honor Poll. The names given below are those of a few of the staunch friends of the two Jeffersonians. These men help me in building up The circu lation: A. Q. Searles, Casey, Illinois. Mr. Searles sent $12.75 i n one letter, and ha- writes as though he weren’t the least bit ashamed of himself for having been an old Pop. W. S. Hubbard, Carrollton, Ga. Friend Hubbard sent $8.65 in one letter last week. And he isn’t done with it yet. G. L. Gray, Eddyville, Ky. J. W. Biard, Paris, Tex. W. C. Chapman, Crawfordville, Ga. Tom Tankersly, Leathersville, Ga. T. L. Dixon, Gibson, Ga. SPECIAL NOTICE Club propositions, agents’ commissions, and combination offers of the Jeffersonian clubbed with other periodicals, DO NOT APPLY to RENEWALS. We are making some attractive offers to re newing subscribers, however and these will be found elsewhere in this issue. press the Williams enthusiasm is so great that a democratic- democrat may well take another think before he lifts his voice in thanksgiving. Vard aman is one of those husky folk who have carved their own fortune. J grew up in poverty and has achieved his present position by sheer force of ' energy, intellect and honesty. Be cause he conceived the notion that a chief executive of a state held a brief for the whole people he incurred the displeasure of the railroad trust, the school book trust and sundry tax dodging corporations. And these as sisted in downing him. Williams is educated. He has ability a-plenty. And he will, we trust, make good. He can if he will. But the end of Vardaman is not yet. Mark that. The Pennsboro (W. Va.) News. To Our Subscribers (1) To each of you who renews will be sent DIXIELAND Magazine at $1.50 for the two—viz., The Weekly Jefferso nian and Dixieland. (2) The Cosmopolitan Magazine will be sent with the Jeffersonian Weekly for $1.75 for the two. (3) Th© Review of Reviews (regular price $3.00), Success Magazine (reg ular price $1.00) and the Weekly Jef fersonian ($1.00) will be sent TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS, AS WELL AS TO RENEWING SUBSCRIBERS for $3.25. (4) Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine will be sent with Weekly Jeffersonian and Dixieland for $2.50. This applies to Renewals. (5) Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine, the Weekly Jeffersonian, and The Re view of Reviews, all three, for $3.50. This applies to renewals. (6) The Cosmopolitan and the two Jeffersonians for $2.75. This applies to renewals. 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