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that, in your own state of Nebraska, you do business as a Populist, and that you have no Democratic party there that amounts to a hill pf beans. Why, then, do you talk of a united, har monious Democratic Party? Your wishing for it, isn’t going to make it. Even in the banquet room where you spoke, a majority of those city gentlemen who sat there and clapped their hands are at heart, in favor of every policy of the Republican Party. And we can never have a real, potent Dem ocratic Party until you cast out the Republi cans. This, Mr. Bryan cannot do. There fore, the Democratic Party stands for every thing, anything, and NOTHING. * * R The Gobernor's Triend. Last year the Democratic Party made Law ton Miller, of Macon, Chairman of its Exec utive Committee. Perhaps that is one reason why we are not getting the reforms that were promised. With Lawton Miller for Commander-in- Chief and the Atlanta Journal for official organ, the administration which stands pledged to certain reforms is heavily handicapped. • The Atlanta Journal appears to have been a reformer for campaign purposes only. It has since opposed the reduction in pas senger fares which the Farmers’ Union leaders fought for and obtained. It defends the greed of the manufacturers and jobbers who have pocketed the savings in freight rates. It now supports that monstrous and profli gate demand of the National Bankers that they be allowed to issue doubtful paper money, WHICH THE GOVERNMENT SHALL REDEEM, IF THEY DON’T. The pet banks demanded that the Govern ment turn over to them all the Import Duties collected at the Custom Houses. These Im port Duties amount to about one million dol lars a day. The Government yielded to the demand. The pets demanded that the Government al low them the Constant use, without interest, - of one hundred and fifty million dollars of the people’s money. The Government yielded to the demand. The pets now go further, and demand the privilege of issuing their notes as money, on any so# of collateral which they can persuade the Secretary to accept. If the collateral turns out to be bad, or if, for any cause, the pets should fail to pay their notes, THE GOOD MONEY OF THE PEOPLE SHALL BE TAKEN OUT OF THE TREASURY TO PAY THE BANKERS’ DISHONORED NOTES! f And the Atlanta Journal says, in effect, that the Government should yield to this monstrous proposition. Evidently, the Journal exhausted its reform ardor in the campaign of last summer. Ever since the day of the election, it has been con spicuous for its policy of “throwing off” the allies who helped to win the fight, and for its insidious efforts to side-track substantial re forms. As to Lawton Miller, he appears to be as good a Republican as J. F. Hanson and J. P. Morgan could want. Ably, earnestly, suc cessfully, this Chairman of the Democratic Ex ecutive Committee has aided the non-residenf corporations to escape justice. The Comptroll er-General —noble and fearless officer that he is! —has been doing everything in his power to compel these marauding corporations to pay their honest share of the taxes. This would be a relief to the common people who are groan ing under the load of eve Y-increasing taxation. But each time tha k t he makes the effort to bring these dishonest taxdodgers to justice, Comp troller-General Wright gets a knock-out. For some reason or other, it seems to be WATSON’S* WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. the unwritten law of Georgia, that a Macon man must be *named as Umpire. Macon is where Maj. J. F. Hanson lives. Macon is where the Central Railroad and the Southern Railroad have their greatest in fluence. Macon is where the lawyer of the Southern Railroad is Secretary of the Company which publishes the only morning paper. Macon is the very place to which the state should not go for its Umpire. But it always goes to Macon for its Umpire hence the Comptroller-General is never able to make the tax-dodgers come across. No wonder Governor Smith is making speeches on “education.” In the whole range of possible topics, there is not a subject that is nicer and more peacea ble than education. P If I were Governor and were hampered by such friends as Chairman Miller and the At lanta Journal, I guess I would speak on “Edu cation,” too. One never knows. R R R ‘ The Insolent Milton Smith. Milton Smith is the name of the satrap who rules a Southern Province for his Majesty, Au gust Belmont—New York thief-millionaire and American agent for those international robbers, the Rothschilds. Even in ancient times, the satrap was often haughtier than his master —just as many a Captain in the army put on more airs than Lee or Grant. Even so, it chances that Belmont’s man, Mil ton Smith, is much more superciliously offen sive to the Province over which he is ruler than Belmont is to his larger realm. A few years ago, the poor little Railroad Commission of Tennessee politely requested the great Milton Smith to come before that modest tribunal and answer certain questions of a strictly legitimate kind. Did the great Milton Smith respond? Not at all. He did not even reply to the letter. Railroad monarchs do not even have to ob serve the proprieties which are respected by gentlemen. But the great Milton Smith went further in his lordly arrogance. Offended at the un precedented impudence of a Tennessee official in bearding Belmont’s Railroad, the great Mil ton Smith exerted his “pull,” and those inquis itive Commissioners went out of office. New Railroad Commissioners for the State of Tennessee were named by the great Milton Smith, and these Commissioners have known better than to cross the great Milton Smith. Tennessee wallows in the shame of complete submission to the corporation which has de bauched her public men and plundered her common people. This man Milton Smith is the fellow who is now bucking against the tireless and fearless Governor of Alabama. This man Milton Smith is the fellow who is filling the columns of the Atlanta Constitu tion with vindictive assaults on Governor Co mer, and with lying statements in favor of the L. & N. Railroad. If I were Clark Howell, I would go to plow ing for a living before I would sell space in my paper to such men as Theodore Price and Milton Smith. Goebel of Kentucky was making a fight against this same L. & N. Railroad. Goebel got elected Governor, and was murdered. There has always been an impenetrable mys tery about the assassination of Goebel, and there is a wide-spread suspicion that the L. & N. Railroad was back of it. Governor Comer of Alabama is taking his life in his hands, in fighting this unscrupulous combination Os Northern capital. And if I were Clark Howell, Milton Smith should not be permitted to proetitute my paper to his vile purposes. Look This Way, Mr. Uposebelt. Now that your able Secretary of the Treas ury has deposited $25,000,000 of our surplus money with Wall street to relieve the money stringency produced by gamblers in watered stock, can’t you induce your appointee to put a few millions of our money into the banks of the south to relieve the pressure which Wall street speculators are now exerting to force the warehoused cotton of the south upon a panicked market? The act of Congress under which he made the deposit in Wall street, says he “shall dis tribute the deposits herein provided for as far as practicable equally between the different states and sections.” The prosperity of the United States is more dependent upon the cotton crop than upon the gambling checks of Wall street. The greater the price of cotton the more gold it brings from Europe to America. The smaller the price the less gold America gets. The more gold America gets the richer and stronger we grow. The eastern bankers are reported as noti fying their southern correspondents to with hold loans on cotton stored in warehouses. If this is adhered to millions of bales of cotton might be forced upon a “broke” market, which means ruin to thousands of laboring farmers. The spinners of the world have taken no orders for goods at less than 15 to 20 cents ba sis for cotton. But the speculator for the present is between the producer and the spinner. If the specula tor in conjunction with the eastern banks can force the cotton farmer to market his cotton, the farmer loses and the speculator wins. Which side will you choose, Mr. President? If that of the farmer, instruct your Secretary to “distribute” $25,000,000 of our money among the southern banks. C. E. McG. R R R Things Habe Changed. A few years ago, the Tennessee R. R. Com mission politely requested certain Railroad Presidents to appear before that body to an swer some fair questions. Nothing doing. One high and mighty satrap made no re sponse. Another sent word that the Commis sioners knew where his office was and that if they wanted to see him they could come across. Pleasant, wasn’t it? 4 Another vice-roy was so offended at the tem erity of the Commission in having the audaci ty to summon him that he actually whirled in and had t'he Commissioners put out of of fice. > Glorious, don’t you se? Well, there were a few men in each state who couldn’t be silenced, nor driven away. These courageous and indomitable fighters have kept on, in spite of corporation abuse and popular indifference, until things have changed. Even in Tennessee wiiere public men have been the most weak-kneed, or cowardly, or corrupt —even in Tennessee, there are signs of better times. In the other Southern states, Railroad bosses no longer send word to Railroad Commission ers “to come round to the Captain’s office.” No, indeed. R R R • Most Unjust. The following paragraph appeared in our esteemed neighbor The North Georgia Citizen: “Tom Watson feels very keenly the slight in not being invited to the Rural Free Deliv ery convention in Atlanta. There are a great many up here who feel the slight he gave the county fair in not coming to make the speech he had promised to.” Brother Shope, unintentionally, does Mr. Watson great injustice. He did not promise to speak at the Dalton (Continued on Page Twelve.) • ■ • - *• ' PAGE NINE