The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-04
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Graymont, Ca, July 20, 1910.
Mr.. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir:-I thought after reading
your answer" that / would drop
you another line or two" as you sug-
gest. No, / had no such idea that
you would be afraid to publish my
letter. Like the Rome Tribune-Her-
aid about your lips being sealed, if
you should become afraid of anything
at all it would be a miracle. 1t was
not an Edwards trick as you say,
for Mr.. Edwards knew nothing of
the matter whatever. I am confident
he will be surprised when he finds
that I have written you. 1t was all
for the sake of fairness, as l have
told you, your insinuations to the
contrary Notwithstanding. You go
on and ask the question if l have
been Giles man heretofore just as
it you question my veracity. | sup
pose you want me to furnish you with
affidavits to that effect, for it seems
that you are not willing to take the
word of any man that seems to differ
with you.
1t appears that when man wants
fair play, and that fairness does not
suit your position exactly, why he
then becomes liar, hypOcrite and
vagabond. Now, you take the posi-
ton that because Mr. Edwards did
not get a telegram or telephone mes
sage at Stillmore, it was altogether
impossible for him to have heard
from his wife, therefore it was all
fixed up lie, and Mr.. Edwards did not
receive such news, neither was his
wife sick This is the weakest posi-
ton and the poorest reasoning I ever
heard from great big mind and
storehouse Of knowledge. You ask
how he got the word, to which we
might reply that it was none of your
business, and stop right there, but
we will ask you question: Does it
make the fact lie, because he did
not get the message at Stillmore by
telegraph or telephone?
l don't know where your informa-
ton came from, neither do | care, 1t
is enough for me to know that it is
a lie.
You call attention to nay use of
the word "tirade", and suggest that
Mr.. Edwards ought to send me a book
of synonyms.
| am not in school under you nor
Mr.. Edwards, and when I get ready
to supply my library with book of
synonyms l think have enough spare
change to go into the market and
buy, and / will not bother to ask you
nor Mr.. Edwards either about it,
You proceed to rehearse all of your
other charges in your answer. /
know nothing about those things,
neither can you draw me out and try
to get me to answer you on them. /
don't do as you do, talk and write
something l know nothing about. |
only answered you on the Stillmore
affair, about which profess to know,
and l did say that if all your other
charges were as basely false as this
one. Mr. Edwards ought to have
skinned you, and I stick to it.
You ask me what I think of Mr..
Edwards trying to bride a certain
editor, about which you have been
RELIABLY informed. l will just an
swer your question by asking you
one: I am RELIABLY informed" that
Enoch Giles contracted with Thos. e.
Watson for ten thousand copies of
The Jeffersonian at five cents a copy,
making $500, in which Watson was
to reveal some things against Ed
wards that were to be very damag-
ing. Now, ask, what do you think
of Tc trina that vOu hauc