The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-30
PAGE TWELVE
About Calico Charley and Some
BOught-Up Editors
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE NINE)

this paper qoiU shoao that began to denounce
Edocards, Just as I did Livingston, H0waad,
and the other DeSerters, last gear, soon after
ttey qUent 0rer to the Republicans, and gave
old Joe Cannon the rules which enabled him
to tyrannize over the House, pack the COM
mittees, and railroad the Payne Aldrich Tariff
Bill on to the Statute Book. | did not kn0aU,
at the time, qOh0 qc0uzd be the opponent Of
any one Of these Dese9ters. AS a matter of
principle and of patriotic duty, [ called on
the people to punish them / did not know
that Sam Tribbe would run against Pussy
foot Bill. If / ever saw Tribble, [ do not
remember it. He never sent me letter or
telegram; and conversation which he start
ed with me over the long distance telephone
Che being in Athens and | in Thomson) was
broken off by me- He was under the impress
sion that I was keeping J. j. Brown out of
the race, when, as a matter of fact, [ had been
doing my best to get him to run against How
ard.
In the Atlanta District, / had no idea who
would run against Livingston. Schley How
ard came out without any consultation with
me- If ever I had seen the young man, | do
not recall the fact Please remember that |
have been saying in THE JEFFERsoNIAN that
Tom Bell and Judge Brantley ought to have
opposition, and vet no candidate has an
nounced Therefore you can see how disin-
terested [ am in describing the crime which
they have committed against their constitu-
ents. AS soon as those big committee appoint
ments qOe4e qiUen to Edq0a7dS, as q partial re-
aca4d for has betrayal of the South, / pointed
ont that he had not received them on his mer-
its, but as q p09ti01 payment for his treason.
# Er0ch Giles had been so much as men,
toned at this time, do not hnOac 1t. We
were not acquainted with each other. No
communications had passed between us. |
did not even vouch for him until Judge
Twiggs wrote me, saying that he was all
right, and requesting that | should say some
thing favorable to him..
Inasmuch as the exposure of Edwards con-
duct IN Washington was he pful to Enoch
Giles, he used extra copies of The JEFFER-
soNIAN as legitimate campaign literature. He
buys them, as you can buy them, at the regu-
lar price. It is voluntary, not compulsory.
If he nerer paid us q cent, the fight on Ed
ac0rds aoOuzd be kept up just the same. No
one has paid me q copper for my opposition
to Br0ntzey, and do not even hn0o0 that a
ri0az candidate qOW announce. IF one does,
he can have extra copies of The JEFFERSON
IAN at our usual rates.
1t happens IN every campaign that some
candidate sees the benefit that can be derived
by HIM by circulating extra copies of some
paper. The Atlanta Constitution, the Jour-
nal, the Georgian, the Macon Telegraph, the
Savannah Press, the Augusta Chronicle, etc,
do not sell their opinions. The editors write
what they think; and of course the candidate
to whom papers opinion is favorable, sees
the advantage Of circulating extra copies Of
that particular number. You will find from
the expense accounts of Hoke Smith and Joe
Brown that they both resorted to this method
of circulating campaign literature Joe