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ZETTETLf 7ROSY THE PEOPLE
THIS WILL INTEREST HARVIE
JORDAN.
Baton Rouge, La., Nov. 20, 1906.
Hon. Thus. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Mv Dear Mr. Watson: I have to
thank you for a copy of “The Jeffer
sonian,” containing an article from
your pen on the incident that I re
ported to you as having occurred. in
New Orleans on the day following the 1
adjournment of the first great cot
ton convention and in which Mr. Jor
dan was the chief actor.
At the time Mr. Jordan expressed
the purpose to remove you from the
executive committee there were only
three persons present: viz.: Harvio
Jordan, John M. Parker and myself.
I was present in Mr. Parker's office
on private business when Mr. Jordan
entered on business of the Cotton
Association.
Mr. Parker and Mr. Jordan had
been close competitors for the presi
dency of the association, and while
Mr. Jordan won the presidency, Mr.
Parker had been chosen secretary
treasurer, which office Mr. Parker de
clined to accept—Mr. Jordan’s busi
ness now was to urge Mr. Parker to
serve. In the course of the conver
sation that ensued, Mr. Jordan re
marked that bv some sort of fatuity
his people, the Georgians, bad put
Tom Watson on ilie executive com
mittee, and that it was his purpose
to have him (Watson) removed on his
return home.
Mr. Jordan made no secret of his
intentions, and, as a friend of yours,
I felt it my duty to put you on your
guard, in the hope to retain your in
valuable services in the cause. I
asked Mr. Jordan at the time if he
thought it would be wise to drive
you out of the movement. I had been
very near you and witnessed the mag
ical effect of your great speech at the
convention, as had also Mr. Jordan,
and I knew what a power you -would
be as an organizer, and no one could
have deplcred the loss of your ser
vices to the cause more than I. L
therefore undertook to head off Mr.
Jordan. The result you know.
Your humble servant,
J. T. HOWELL.
HERE’S A GOOD WORKER.
Banning, Ga., Nov. 7, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson. Ga.
Dear £ir: Enclosed find check for
$10.50, for which send Watson’s Jef
fersonian Magazine to the following
addresses: T. E. McWhorter, AV. W.
Williams, D. AV. Brown, L. J. Dale,
F. F. Wynn, W. T. Lurlen, all of
Banning, Ga., R. F. D. No. 1., and
W. F. Wynn, Carrollton, Ga., Mand
rill©, Mill. For premiums, Watson’s
“Life and Times of Thos. Jeffer
son,” and Watson’s “Bethany.”
Please send me some sample copies
of your Weekly and Monthly, also
agents’ outfit. Wishing you success,
I remain,
Yours truly,
ROBERT WYNN.
THE »SON OF AN OLD AND TRUE
FRIEND.
Crawfordville, Nov. 10, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Your letter received.
Contents noted. I will Jo all I can
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
in the interest of your paper and
magazine.
Yours truly,
GARNETT BRAKE.
HE WILL MAKE A FINE
SOLICITOR-GENERAL.
Lawrenceville, Ga., Nov. 11, 1907.
Hon. Thus. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Mv Dear Mr. Watson: Your very
kind letter received, and you do not
know how good I felt to have you
say what you did in 4 hat letter. This
is the first time I have ever been in
politics personally, though for twenty
long years I have spent my energy
and my substance in fighting the bat
tles of the people, without ever stop
ping to think of my own financial in
terest. With many thanks for your
kind and generous offer, of which I
shall avail myself at no distant day,
I am, as ever,
Your friend.
M. D. IRWIN.
THIS PLEASES THE OLD MAN.
Duluth, Ga., Nov. 11, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: I am a subscriber to your
Weekly Jeffersonian, and a great ad
mirer of your paper. Thinking that
I could be of some help to you and
my friends, I thought I would send
you a list of their names, so you could
send them sample copies of your
paper.
Yours respectfully,
W. R. HOOPER.
FROM BLUE GRASS TENNESSEE.
Caney Spring, Nov. 8, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Herewith please find P.
O. order for $2, for renewal to maga
zine for twelve months; also tho
Weekly Jeffersonian.
Yours truly.
R. Z. DARK.
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 16, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: I enclose yon herewith
money order for $2, for which please
renew my subscription to the Week
ly and Monthly Jeffersonians for one
year each. If yon v, ill kindly let me
know the amount it will take to pay
up my subscription to Weekly, even
with the monthly, I will send same.
Yours very truly,
C. V. BRYAN.
1420 Habersham Street.
Palmetto. Ga., Get. 22. 1907.
Hon. Th os. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Enclosed you will find
a postal money order for $2, for which
please send me Watson’s Weekly
Jeffersonian, and Watson’s Jeffer
sonian Magazine one year.
Yours truly,
REESE P* WATKINS.
R. F. D. No. 3.
New Iberia. La., Oct. 20, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson. Ga.
Dear Sir: I am one of the Old
Guard, one who has always been a
subscriber Io your papers, and will
always be as long ns you will advo
cate the same political principles. My
subscription to your magazine and
to your Weekly Jeffersonian ends on
one of the first days of February
next. Nothing pleases the people as
well, and excites more their admira
tion for you than to see you uncover
the trust rascalities and the corpora
tion thieves. Now, fire at them with
your biggest guns, relegate them into
their last entrenchment, compel them
to capitulate unconditionally and the
greatest victory of the age will be
yours. With the best wishes for your
happiness arid complete success, I am,
Sincerely yours,
H. E. DeBLANC.
Louisville, Ga., Nov. 6, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
My Dear Sir: Enclosed you will
find check on Louisville Bank for $2,
for which you will send me your mag
azine and paper.
Yours truly,
T. IT. CULPEPPER.
ANOTHER LITTLE GIRL.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Will you please do me a
little favor? We are going to celebrate
Washington's birthday at our school,
and Professor Smith has asked mo to
read an essay, subject, “Washing
ton’s Monument,” including a full
description of the monument. I have -
such great confidence in your ability
I want you to please write one for
me and mail to me at once, and oblige,
Respectfully,
I. S. W.
P. S. —I am a little girl fourteen
years old. I. S. AV.
Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 2G, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. AVatson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Brother: It is with great
pleasure that I am permitted to drop
you a few lines one? more. I have
been very feeble since you last heard
from me. Am nearing my seventy
seventh mile-post, and am afflicted
with kidney and bladder trouble,
whirii worries me a great deal.
I am so sorry that I can not take
a hand in the great fight that is going
on now between labor and capital.
The battle will be a hard one; they
will die hard, but I do hope the fight
will be fought to a finish. We are
getting them waked up now, and if ’
we only had the right kind of a man
as president', or if we only had Old
Hickory Jackson we could do some
thing, but such men as he are not
born every day.
Roosevelt wants to be “all things
to all men.” He would like td be
with ihe common people, but he is
afraid of insulting the crowd that
furnishes the campaign boodle; that
is where the trouble comes in with
him. He would like to, but he is
afraid to.
AV. J. Bryaii is the same way. He
says be is steering his course in be
tween the conservatives and the radi
cals, and he thinks maybe he can get
there by that route, but he never
will. He is neither flesh nor fowl.
AVe bad the honor of his presence
the other day in Charlotte. The old
“me, too” Democrats made a great
fuss over him. Some of them told me
they did wish I could have hoard him.
I told them I had heard him once, i
and that was enough for me. I told
then: he changed his p<lilies too often
for me. The answer was that a smart
man should change when he found
he was wrong. I told them ho ought
to have brought Parker along with
him on his Southern trip, and made
speeches alternately.
I thought at one time that Hearst
was going to be the coming man for
the people, but he, too, has “drop
pad his candy,” so to speak. Trust
and justice have a hard road to trav
el these times.
I would be very glad indeed if you
can find the time to drop me a few
lines, and to tell me what you think
of the situation as to the next presi
dent. It would do me so much good
to get a letter from you.
Hoping you will excuse all mis
takes, I am,
Your friend,
J. P. ALEXANDER.
PROM DISTANT OREGON.
McCoy, Oregon, Oct. 12, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. AA r atson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Enclosed find money or
der for $1.50, for which please send
me your magazine for one year.
Yours respectfully,
T. B. SEARS.
FROM THE FAR NORTHWEST.
Parkman. AVyo', Oct. 15, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. AVatson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Enclosed please find ex
press money order for $2 to pay for
Tho AA r eekly Jeffersonian one year
(from October 11, 1907, to October
11, 1908) and Watson’s Jeffersonian
Magazine another year (I have for
gotten from what date). With best
wishes, I beg to remain,
Yours fraternally, _
' D. A. DILT7.
ONE A7IEW OF THE PANIC.
“The stock gamblers and specula
tors started banks, and banks got the
people to deposit money in them.
They used this money until out of
every SIOO of deposits there was only,
according to statistics, $8.62 on hand.
They helped to buy watered stacks
and fraudulent trust issues. The in
evitable panic came.
“Ihe United States loaned the
.people’s money to help the vampires.
The banks issued clearing house cer«
tificafes and refused to pay out more
than SSO on checks.
“And what would a man do who
wanted his money to use for cash,
where the clearing house things were
no good?
And what do the fellows mean?
Is it trying to force the country’ to
let more of the money making power
out to the banks at the next con
gress? AA T atch it and see the trick.
‘•Another steal is in prospect.
“CITIZEN.”
(And a wide-awake citizen he is.
Pity he isn’t editor of a few of our
city dailies.)
Clem, Ga., Nov. 7, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. AVatson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: I have before me a
lengthy letter from Hon. T. P. Ryn
der, of Erie, Pa. t He, with many
others of the Old Guard, is very
anxious to know what wo Georgia
Populists arc going to do about main
taining our organization.
Therefore, with your permission, I
would ask for space in your valuable