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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-28

Daily.
Although greatly provoked at the
manner in which this gentleman,
who had so recently become a citi-
zen of Georgia, had SO fagrantly
gone out of his way to assail me, [
remained silent. For fear that the
Farmers Union might be hurt by a
fuss over the matter, I swallowed an
injury which was personal to myself
alone.
But when Bodenhamer stated twice
that he was to be the official repre-
sentative of the farmers at labor
union convention; and when Duck
worth who denounces the ship-sub-
sidy thieves in his paper, went over
to his native State, and in the Gal
weston Farmers Union Convention,
made San enthusiastic speech" in IA
vor of those artfully worded ship
subsidy resolutions, the camel's back
broke.
So long as it was merely ques-
ton of boycotting The Jeffersonian
and republishing an unjust attack on
me, l could, for the sake of the
Farmers Union, keep silent. But
when the crookedness of Bohemian
er and Duckworth threatened damage
to all the farmers, and the betrayal
and ruin of the Union felt that
to remain silent longer would be I'M
just to the farmers themselves.
A man who acted as Bodenhamer
did in the campaign last year, is too
dangerous. He acts on the sly, pur-
, sues secret aims of his own, and
gravely compromises those with
whom he is officially connected
1t was the smooth-tongued Boden-
hamer who persuaded Charley Bar
rett to name c. T. Ladson General
Counsel of the Farmers Union" (See
Ladson's professional ad. in the Union
News of October 20, 1909, page 1O.)
He gets the benefit of the valuable
endorsement of the great Farmers
Union. To select him as official at
torney of all the splendid men who
compose the Union, is the same as
giving him a certificate Of good
character.
He is not the man whose official
connection with the Farmers Union
can do it any good.
He lured certain officials in the
Neal Bank, of Atlanta, into the dis
tant fields of Cuban speculation. He
knew that he was doing wrong, and
seducing officials to betray trust.
He was bound to know that the spec
ulation might be "a failure that the
bank might be wrecked, and thou
sands of innocent men, women and
children beggared
1t happened that way. The specu-
lation did not pan out as expected
The bank failed. And nine thousand
troubled faces were seen that morn
ing, gazing dolefully on the doors of
the Quilted bank.
Is it not shocking thing to mis-
appropriate trust funds? The law
so considers it. Is not the tempter
as bad at heart as his victim2 Wo
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-28
The Farmers Union and Duck
zV0rth, L0ds0m and B0demhumeY


ceived by Hoke's organs lies.
Bodenhamer himself published a
full statement taking all the blame
on himself, and generating me, but
it could not undo the harm that had
already been done. l lost thousands
of votes by it.
At that time he was publishing
my Magazine; but he grew very an
cry because of my refusal to pay for
a lot of them which he could not
show were ever delivered. He had
agreed to take receipt for all copies,
as they were delivered; and our At
lanta office was under instructions to
give such receipts. The lady man
ager declared that she had invaria-
bly, given the receipts, and that the
numbers in dispute had never been
in our office. AS Bodenhamer could
not produce the receipt, nor offer a
bit of evidence to sustain his claim,
I declined payment. Therefore, when
he got the management of Duck
worth's paper, he had it in for me.
Cd Because I refused to give him
the paper that Mr.. Lowry required.
CD Because I had refused to pay
for those alleged Magazines.
Duckworth and I had been on
friendly terms-almost as long as he
had been in Georgia. His paper and
mine had also been friendly.
Bodenhamer changed this. He
gave other papers better clubbing
terms than he gave The Jefferson
ian. He refused to give us the News
at less than seventy-five cents, al
though he clubs it with other papers
at fifty cents and sixty-fve cents In
other words, he shut me out with a
prohibitive rate.
Not content with that, he repub-
lished-or Duckworth did-on the
editorial page of the News, an attack
made on me by the Augusta Herald,
in connection with the Sully ware
house plan. In this attack, the facts
we're not correctly stated, and Duck
worth knew it,
DuckWOrth knew very we'll that
Charley Barrett had come down here,
to my house, to see me in reference
to the Sully plan and to ask me to
go to Atlanta to have an interview
with Sully. I did not know Sully; had
never even seen him. Going to Allan
ia next day, Charley came for me at
the Kimball, took me to Sully's room
in the Piedmont, and I was present
throughout the interview At it's ter
mination, we both told Sully that his
plan, if it was what he claimed it to
be, would be of vast benefit to the
cotton-growers. Sully requested me
to put such an opinion in writing,
and I did so.
Almost any other man would have
gone for" Duckworth about the un-
demanded way in which he used
against me an editorial attack that
another paper had made, and which,
as he knew, did me an injustice.
If Charley Barrett had not asked
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-28


questing the publication of the fol-
lowing:
Resolved, by Wesley Local Union,
No. 76 (Taylor county, Georgia),
That we are unanimously opposed to
sending representatives to the meet
ings of any organization that will not
seat an actual farmer.
Resolved further, That we ask
our officers, State and national, to
retain legal counsel only whose char
acter is beyond suspicion.
Done in session October 16, 1909
"W. L. COSBY, Pres.
"W. E. BAZEMORE, Sec'y."
Ed. Comment: Mr.. J. E. Boden-
hamer himself told member of The
JeffersOnian staff that he had been
elected, by the Birmingham conven-
ton, delegate to the convention of
Union Labor to be held at Toronto,
Canada He made the statement
twice. 1t was reported to me, as
something that I ought to know.
My friends will remember that Mr..
Bodenhamer secured the election Of
himself as Secretary and Treasurer
of the Populist State Executive Com
mittee for Georgia. They will also
recall that Mr.. Bodenhamer, on his
own motion and without any author
ity from me or Chairman Holloway,
or any one else, went before the
Republican committee, of which the
national banker, R. J. Lowry, is
chairman, and proposed some sort of
deal. Mr.. Lowry, so it was said, de-
manded his credentials, and of
course BOdenhamer could not pro-
duce any. Mr.. Bodenhamer had in
timated to me something of this sort
in my room at the Kimball, and had
virtually put him and the Republi
can who accompanied him, out of
my room. The Republican-once
high in Populist ranks-remarked to
me, "You need not say word. Just
sit here, and let me and Boden-
hamer arrange it."
I replied, "No! You and Boden-
hamer can't even discuss such mat
ter in my presence"
Then they left. Comparing Incl
dents and dates, when the papers got
hold of Bodenhamer's visit to the
Republican committee, it became
clear to my mind that his purpose in
coming to me was to get the creden-
tials which Lowry had demanded,
and which would have opened b.
denhamer's way to the Republican
campaign funds.
The Atlanta Journal got the story
from Grier; discovered also that
had spent the same night at the
Kimball; and they began that cow
ardly and villainous series of edi-
torials in which they accused me of
being a party to what Bodenhamer
had done.
A fouler SANDER was never invent
ed. I was paying my own campaign
expenses, mainly out of my own
pocket, getting comparatively little
aid from any source.
Bodenhamer's attempt on the Re-
Blue-grass blade., 1909-04-18

erroneous before they will even consider
the duty or eXpediency of accepting those
that are more rational. But the time has
come when it is necessary for the leaders
in the Freethought movement, not only to
organize more thoroughly for the purpose
Of carrying on this work. but to give to
the world something in place of theology
and the church.
What we want in the first place, is more
knOwledge-more rational beliefs-a high
er standard of morality and a larger devel-
opment of humanitarianism. With all its
errors Of belief it must be admitted that
the Church is doing much good. Many of
the people are better than their creeds, and
are trying TO follow the Golden Rule Not
only this, but multtudes are deriving much
benefit and consolation from their religion.
We believe that the majority of protesting
Christians are honest in their beliefs and
conscientious in their conduct. All that
this class of people need is to be shown
that 1t is living the good life and doing
good deeds especially to their fellow-be-
ings, that saves them, and that it is not
necessary TO believe contrary to reason in
Blue-grass blade., 1909-04-18
(By j. G. Watkins.)

1t should be the aim of Freethinkers and
of all who believe in the right of private
judgment and liberty of expression to be
educational and constructive, as well as
iconoclastic.
1t is the province of Freethought not
only to demolish error, but to build up and
foster truth. 1t is not charitable nor be-
neficent to break peoples false images
and to show the fasty of their beliefs,
unless we give them others that are truer
and better.
1t has often been charged against Free
thought that it seeks to destroy established
beliefs and institutions, but gives nothing
that is better adapted to the needs of the
world in the place of them. This is not
strictly true, though in the past the efforts
of Freethought have been mostly directed
to assailing errors of belief This has been
necessary and is still necessary, for people
must be convinced that their beliefs are
Blue-grass blade., 1909-04-18
Blue GRASS BLADE

have heard foul lies iakal
enough lion this Robert
lngersol had brothers love for all the human race
ngersol The girl shrank white faced wide
with horror.
The turned biting his lip back harsh word,
not for her. but for the supersons that enchaned her.
"Wat!" she gasped; Il tell
They did it," girl solemny They killed Ingersoll
"Who?'
The Prayer Circle They will kill you They praying at
this moment the girl shuddered for ngeros
Sometimes in the midst of deepest grief sudden rres
BILE laughter. Those whom
puzzled ashamed those
danger sometimes learn cultivate the laugh
prize it as of the best gifts of the gods
Gerard Thocrot threw back his head and laughed His whole
with until cuched
the support.
Il beg pardon he gasped Deicias white slowly
crimsoned. 1T kind
do think the
They've told you God is love, haven't they?'
well how could of
beck call of his earh-mortals whims?"
thought you believe a
Il don't. I'm merely pointing their inconsistency"
They don't know Ingersol good man." Delca said
exenuaon. Wont you in and tell them?"
"They won't isten But he vaued the the
with Deicia An author seldom resist empta-
ton human nature available test
vengul AS the ladies from their they
startled by those accusing
answered." said Thomcroft,
gerso dead"
God!" echoed the Circle.
Thank Cod" cried Mrs. Wilder
Blue-grass blade., 1909-04-18

order to be moral and upright in life that
there is no virtue in mere forms and cere-
monies, and that good conduct is more i'm
portant than accuracy of theological be-
lief or membership in a church.
| believe there are thousands of good
people in the churches who do not believe
IN the creeds nor in many of the theolog-
ical dogmas Of the Church.-but they want
to belong to someth ng, TO be in fellowship
with others who seem to be trying to do
right and so they remain in the Church
because there Is no other organized in
stitution with which they can identify
themselves. Many would join the Unfair
ians, but Unitarian churches are not found
everywhere. Many would identify them
selves with Liberal or Freethought soci-
cites, but these societies are found only in
the cities or larger centers of population,
and are not available for skeptical church
members nor for avowed Freethnkers and
nCn-church goers in the country and small
towns.
II is to be hoped that in the future there
will be local Liberal societies established
all over the country just as the churches
now are.
Kanawha Falls, W. Va.
Blue-grass blade., 1909-04-18

Mother" cried Dela her voice shaken by strange,
anger You cruel-crue"
"Delca said her strnly, who has answered
prayer"
don't believe it." Deicia. I'D believe there is
God"
The Circle aghast Her mother
stepped forward, commandngly.
Jelca rCom" she said Mr. Thorncroft, leave
deliberately seeking lead daughter
astray. You have poisoned her innocent mind
He hasn't conadicted Del cia, fatty He said word
about religion till today and went out of speak to him.
o. admit running after him. Miss mpudence-'
The minister's wife beside herself with the
meek gentle Doca had talked back to her before
MAIDEN said Gerard Thorncrot sterny you shall not insult
daughter in presence"
Then leave house, ordered to do I'll talk as |
please daughter"
The girl hnk mother and turned Thorncroft with
appeal the long hidden in his
heart. spoke suddenly from his lips:
Ieca he said, you have under this
You mine?"
Seducer" sheked Mrs Wilder You dare insult daughter
openly?"
Il dare daughter openly" said Thomcrot. "Are
eighteen yet Deicia?"
Yes"
Then
slipped hand trustfuly, and turned
"B unequay yoked together with unboiev RS her
mother shreked after warnng. IF dsorey plain
command how the damnation of hel?'
81 dent said Deica serenely, IF he don't"
The Circle who ud Kill herets the
TIE sunlight fell
blue linen
wedding she partly
they it the instructive utter
confidence of child in tt mothers
Rater Tenn
Blue-grass blade., 1909-04-18
NEED OF ORGANIZATION

What Freethinkeis Mrst Do If They E
jc.. 20 the Theolooca
Church.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10
"Lucky" Baldwin Is Dead.

Los ANGELES, March 1.-Elias j.
Baldwin, the famous plunger turfman,
known throughout this country and
Europe as "Lucky' Baldwin, died to.
day at his residence in Arcadia on the
Baldwin ranch, Is miles from Los
Angeles. He vas 81 years old when
the end came, after an illness OF
weeks. He passed quietly away,
surrounded by his family and friends,
after having been unconscious most OF
the night.
No man identified with horse breed
ing and the racing of throughbreds
was more widely known throughout
the country than Baldwin. Even the
weight of his 81 years did not suffice
to diminish his interest in matters
pertaining to the turf, and while
horses bred by his trainers were
winning races IN distant tracks, the
owner of the vast estate near Los
Angeles lived the luxurious life of an
old Spanish don, with an army of en-
ployes and retainers, with one of the
few great tracks of the country almost
at his door and with towns and settle.
ments Transforming the appearance
of the great domain that has become
one of the show places of southern
California.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10
VETOED BY GOVERNOR,
Local Option Measure Will Not Go
Into Effect.

Into Effect.
HELENA, March 1.-Governor Nor.
ris today returned to the senate with
out his approval senate bill SO, which
amends the present local option law
so as to make cities separate from
the country districts in voting on the
local option question. In his message
stating the reason for his action the
governor says the proposed amend.
ment is no a good one, and that un.
der the present law, owing to the
larger vote, the city can decide the
question OF local option for the coun.
try, but the country cannot control
the city.
In the house today house bill 16O,
the bill which increases corporate
powers in the state, introduced by
Ward of Cascade, and house bill 80,
called the antitrust measure, intro.
duced by Shoemaker, were recon.
mended for concurrence in the senate
amendments. The bills were AFTER
ward placed at the head of the list for
third reading by the steering commit.
tee.
This afternoon two hours was spent
on senate bill Is, relating to the for
nation of irrigation districts, and
after scores of amendments had been
adopted, the bill was recommended for
concurrence.
The committee on appropriations
introduced the bill today for the
maintenance of the state institutions.
For 1909 S692, 800 is appropriated and
for 1910 the sum of s761, $50 is pro.
vided. The total amount of money
appropriated by the legislature am.
cunts to 1882, $40. ~, provided all
the bills become laws.
The committee on appropriations
killed nearly twenty bills today, and
cut the life out of many others. The
bill for a Montana exhibit at the
Seattle fair as amended carries an
appropriation of $500, instead of $780,.
600 as originally framed.
Bogart's resolution requesting the
state board of equalization to raise
the railroad valuation SO per cent over
last year was killed, but the house
recommended for passage the bill i'm
posinga license tax on sleeping car
companies.
Senate amendments to the fish and
game bill were concurred in, the prin-
cipal one being the allowing of bird
shooting during August. This does
not apply to ducks, the season for
which has been extended.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10
ROARING Muscles,

"If a writer wrote Of roaring mus,
cles, you would laugh at him. Joints
crack, the stomach thunders, but mus
cles, you would say, don't oar. That
Is your mistake. They do"
The speaker, a physician, put his
finger in his ear.
II hear a muscle roaring now" said
he. "Try it. and you, too, will hear the
sound. And to prove that it is the
sound of a muscle, put a plug Of wood
in your ear instead, and You will hear
nothing.
CONTRACTED muscles give out a roar.
ing sound. Relaxed muscles are 81
lent. This fact Is of use in diagnos.
ing certain diseases. The stethoscope
makes the muscular roars audible, and
those strange voices proclaim the pres.
enc Of such diseases as tetanus, men.
nights or strychnine poisoning, while
silence on the muscles part is, so tC
speak, a sullen admission Of the pres,
ence in their midst Of atrophy, degen'
Grafton, paralysis."-Buffalo Express.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10


his ancestors were vermonters. His
father. Hiram Smith, was one Of In
diana's pioneers. He sent his son to
the public schools and later to Asbury
college, nov called De Paw universi-
ty. From it in later years Major
Smith received the honorary degree
Of IL. D. He vas not quite nineteen
when the civil war broke out, but he
enlisted at once in the Union army
and served until the end Of the war,
being in the armies of the Potomac,
Ohio and Cumberland and rising to
the rank of major in the Sixth Indiana
cavalry. His war record was a gal
liant one and included some stirring
episodes. AT one time he was wound
ed and taken prisoner. After confine-
ment in a Confederate prison at Au-
gusta, Ga, he was exchanged and re-
Joined his regiment.
After the war Major Smith engaged
for a time in cotton planting in Mis-
sissippi, but the call to WELD his tai
ents in the field of journalism proved
a compelling one, and his career in the
newspaper world was begun as editor
Of the Terre Haute Qnd.) Mail. He
subsequently acquired the Terre Haute
Express, but removed it to Chicago
continuing its publication as the Chi
cago Express. 1t was in 1882 that he
established the American Press AS.
ISOLATION, and during the rest Of his
life he remained it's president and gen
eral manager, giving it his active inter
est and thoughtful care. Although this
association constitutes a notable monu.
nent to Major Smith, it is quite posi-
BILE that in years to come he will be
best remembered as a philosophi(
thinker and as the author Of works
bearing upon human character and
destiny. Among these are "a Shor1
View Of Great Questions" "The Com
ing Democracy" "Eternalism," "Bal
ace" and Agreement Between Science
and Religion" He was a great love-
of nature, as was shown in the sur
roundings Of his home at Dobbs Ferry
N. Y, and on his farm at Amawalk
N. T., where some Of the finest speci
mems of arboriculture are to be found.
Major Smith was of most dignide<
bearing and kindly manners, and hi
geniality made friends of all who en-
joyed his acquaintance. He married
in 1881 Miss Evelyn V. Brady, and sh'
and two daughters and a son surviv,
him.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10
N D OF VELOCITY.
A Piece Of Thin Cardboard Will Cut
Through Wood.

Through Wood.
Velocity has a great deal to do
with one substances ability to break
through another, and 1t is remarkable
what can be accomplished by a COM
p%aratively soft substance against a
much harder when the former is
given enough velocity. A bullet made
Of a tallow candle would smash fiat II
fred against a board from a toy gun,
but when shot from an army rifle It
will 60 right through the board. A
stream Of water has been known to
have such swiftness of movement that
a sword was broken in two when a
strong man tried to cut it through.
Cyclones have been known to drive
such frail projectiles as straws we'll
into a tree.
An interesting experiment showing
what a soft substance can do may be
performed by attaching a bristol
board disk to the motor Of an electric
fan and setting it to revolving at the
fans usual rate. If a piece of wood,
such as a lead pencil, for example, be
carefully applied to the edge of the
revolving disk, the wood will very
readily be cut through. OF course If
the disk were to revolve slowly the
wood would soon blunt it's edge.-Path-
finder.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10
MAJOR ORLANDO JAY SMITH.

Late Author Journalist Who Founded
American Press Association.
In the historic Sleepy Hollow ceme-
terry, a the spot where the dust Of
Washington Irving reposes. the body
Of Major Orlando Jay Smith, editor,
author and founder of the American
Press Association, was recently laid to
rest. Thus in death, as in life, it
seemed that he was in the midst of
associations such as he loved. His
tory and philosophy and the facts un-
DERIVING the motives of human prog
ress were subjects that appealed espe-
cially to his interest and engaged his
study even amid the duties Of a busy
journalistic career.
Major Smith was born June II, 1912,
on a farm near Terre Haute, Ind, and
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years. No man who takes the trouble
to recall the conditions of u life
sever years ago, or the attitude of our
people toward two or three great,
fundamental problems of government,
can forget that we have travelled q
long way in the meantime.
1t is no wonder that the mass OF
people are fond of Mr.. Roosevelt, for
they recognize that in this struggle
for simple righteousness in business
aft airs he has been the champion of
the common man. 1t was % many
years ago that there was grave dis
satisfaction among the people because
of the encro achment of great corpor.
ations upon their liberties. This dis.
satisfaction twice organized itself
around Mr.. Bryan. Several times, in
it's violent forms, it threatened to
take a serious socialistic turn. There
vas danger of q temper of desperation
and an imminent danger of something
like fierce class divisions. The les
SEEMING of these perils Is q measure of
the success of the movement which
Roosevelt championed. The big
stick and the square deal are not
mere phrases. he has brought a
broader area Of our life into the range
of commercial integrity and fairness.
He has postponed, If he has not pre-.
vented. the rise of something like
socialism in our political life.
In bringing this result about he has
made mistakes. The big stick has
been used at times and in places and
In ways where its use did more harm
than good. But these are mistakes
of judgment and not of purpose. The
square deal is now again a living
part of the peoples creed, and Am
public opinion has q new cour.
age in its constant struggle against
privilege.