The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-05-25
Mr.. c. w. Bland Expresses His
Opinion of MIR. Watson

[ have ben a reader of your Jeffersonian
for some time and | find that you are the most
inconsistent man l have ever read after for time
l thought you was the real thing. but after
watching mpartialy your attitude towards diff
ferent men, and Legislation l have come to the
conclusion that it is all promted out of desire
to rule or ruin or Tor gold
In the current issue of your paper YOU want us to
send Guyt McLendon to the U S Senate but you
never give us any record Of his, only that he has
ben smart man. you never mention that he was
fired out of office for betraying the principles that
he stood for to get the office. Have you ever con-
denied him for this betrayed? I think not. Why?
because HOke Smith fired him and you hated
Hoke Smith with all your being. and since Guyt
wants to be Senator you shout he is the man be-
cause you think it would lower the level of Hoke
Smith to run after him that he had fired
out of office
Although several subjects you express my
sentiments exactly one is the foreign mission
question and another is the Catholic 1Ierichary
you have got the brain alright and if you would
use it right you would do lots of good. | think
the only supporters you have are those that want
you to boost them for office or are too ignor-
ant to look over the scum of your selfish writings
yours truly c. w. BLAND.
IT Mr.. Bland will continue to read The
e)ETFERsoN1AN, he may change his mind again;
and get back to his former opinion that Mr.
Watson is 'the real thing'-that he is lust
what he claims to be.
Every word of the editorial on McLendon
is true. But [ did not ask anyone to vote for
him. Having assured my friends that he is
an ideal man for the place, [ left them to
make up their own minds about it, Judge
Covlngton is good man for the place, too
and so are Pleas Stovall, Seab Wright Judge
Perry, and Murphy Gambler.
AS to McLendon's record, he made one of
the best Railroad Commissioners that ever
enforced the law against public-service cor
odp
that the free pass evil was abolished, and re-
ductlOns IN freight rates ordered
He was brutally lynched because he refused
to give special favors to certain Atlanta clients
OIL Hoke Smith. McLendon's decision was in
line with two previous decisions which the
Railroad Commission had made on the same
ISSUE Because he could not control Joe
Brown and get decision giving special rates
to his clients, was the reason of Smith hatred
of Brown.
McLendon had not "betrayed" any prin-
clples. He simply resisted SMITHS efforts to
use the Commission en- has Zoa0 BUSINESS; and
Smith wanted revenge.
He occupied practically the whole of the
Legislature with his ungrateful and malignant
fight on the white haired man in the roller
chair.
~ 1t [ were after "gold," I would ac-
cept some of the big fees that are offered me
almost every week.
AS to the Rule-or-Ruin suggestion, the fact
that am simply asking that The People shall
be given a chance to decide who shall be their
Senator would seem to be conclusive evidence
that [ want the majority to rule have no
candidate for Senator My fight is for the
principles of popular self-government. Let
the people rule-not dozen lawyers sitting
behind closed doors, in Hoke Smiths office
If Mr.. Bland prefers to be bossed by hand
full of town and city lawyers, that's his priv