The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14

leaders have brought the country to its present
terrible condition-the Democrats themselves de-
plore the fact that, during all these years they
have not had the benefit of the devoted service
which / gave the common people in the term
that was allowed me-
(2) That / destroyed the Farmers Alliance.
Every organization society party
church, is broken up from within. Outsiders
not do it. Having never joined the Alliance, it
never in my power to rupture it. That was
done on the inside Livingston and Macune
formed wheel within wheel to control their
order. Gideons Band, it's Livingston
was head of it. A member who came to hate
both Livingston and Macune gave copy of
the ritual. The oath which the mmebers took
was, word for word, the Indianapolis instruction
which carried out
[ took oath, but obeyed, matter of
fidelity to campaign pledges. Livingston SOL
EMMY sworn to obey, and violated the oath.
The results are, that Livingston has held his
Office for twenty years, while am defending my
self from charges which imply that am the vilest
living:
What killed the Alliance? The suspicious con-
corning Gideons Band; the failure of the Ex-
changes-the Georgia Exchange alone losing the
farmers $4,000; some suspicious dealings be-
tween Livingston and certain corporation agents.
and the sell-out of Macune and Livingston to Pat
Calhoun. So far Georgia was concerned, the
Alliance never kicked after that.
CD That L juguated Harvie Jordan's South
eIm Cotton Association
At the instance of Green county and McDufie
I went to New Orleans, in 1905, when cotton
cents, and headed for lower level.
rendered my services to Jordan and Pope Brown
to help whip General Catchings, and others, who
wanted to be President of the Convention Har-
vie worked the rabbit foot on the situation, and
did not need me at all. In the Convention Har-
vie manipulating deity, the men in control were
giving unnecessarily big hunks of cold shout
der Not being ravenously fond of the diet, and
being rather overdosed on the typewriter speech
of bankers and brokers, went to the matinee,
to hear Tannhauser. While there, a tall bped
invaded the and called Justify for ''Tom
WATSON I pretended not to hear. But some
pointed out, and the lengthy intruder asked
me outside. He had been sent to invite me to
address the Convention that night The general
of the farmers there had noticed how was
being treated and resented it, Hence the invi-
tation.
That night, I spoke thirty-five minutes to the
Convention Next morning the Georgia delega-
ton demanded that I be put the Executive
Committee. It had to be done. But after most
of had come home, Harvie asked, by
man who stood next to one of the biggest cotton
gamblers in America:
GLOW came that fellow Watson to get the
Executive Committee?" Harvie replied:
ooh, it was one of those things that could not
be foreseen or prevented but I'll get him off pref
ty after get back to Georgia."
A Louisiana friend of mine wrote me of this,
and warned me to watch out. Sure enough, there
began to appear in the papers, from time to time,
letters urging me to resign. The point made was
that people would say that I meant to take the
Cotton Association into politics. and that would
injure the Association.
The thing got to be embarrassing. My resig-
nation rendered to Harvie, and he straight
way accepted the same. There is doubt that
he inspired the letters Had no reason to lose
confidence in him? When he and Joe Hoadley,
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