The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-05-11
AN OHIO MAN WHO EDITS A
GEORGIA PAPER.
WaycrOss, Ga, April "a. 1911.

WdycfOSS, Ca, April "a, 1911.
Dear Mr.. Watson: l am sending
you a clipping from the Waycross
Journal, paper published here with
quite local circulation, and is edit
ed by man from Ohio who is also
follower of Hoke Smith of the Seely
type. Several times he has through
the columns of his paper ATTEMPTED
to annihilate you with a mighty
sWoop Of his pen, and takes great
pains to inform the unfortunate
readers Of the Journal that you are
bod bad man who has in the past
advocated social equality of the ne
groes and whites. At times he ap-
pears greatly troubled and fears
that you will disturb the harmony
and welfare of the State by ripping
its government up by the roots and
hanging it across a barbed wire fence
in close cOmpaniOnship with the
hides Of HypOCritical Seely and Hum
bug HOke.
Being a pillar in the church and
filled to overlooking with the grace
of God one would naturally expect
him to practice his attitudes by pray
ing for you or by kindly argument
persuade you that you were wrong
if he thought you were, instead of
so UNANIMOUSLY denOuncing you and
also bribing himself into contempt
with intelligent people. 1t has not
yet become public as to who tells
Williams how and when to say these
things, but we who know him best
and hate him most, know that it
does not originate in his brain for
he hasn't sufficient of that to origi-
nate anything. We would esteem it
a great favor and the granting of a
long felt want if some one would
take a shot at him and abate the
insuffering nuisance
With best wishes for your health
and prosperity. Yours most sincerely.
A WAYCROSS FRIEND.
Comment:
One of the editors who gave his
support to one of the Congressional
deserters in the campaign of last
year is naturally no friend of mine
The malice with which the Waycross
Journal attacks me is not inspired so
much by what l said about the Col
lege on Wheels, as it was by what [
said last year about Bill Brantley
and his supporters. PompOUS Will
serters who went over to old Joe Can
non and saved him from overthrow.
Incidentally that vote which the de-
serters gave to the Republican ma
chine made possible the passage Of
this new Tariff which makes every
body pay so much more for the nee
essaries and comforts of life.
My information is that Pompous
William owns a fertilizer plant at
Blackshear. This may have been the
reason why POmpous Bill voted to
put Potash on the free list, which, of
course, meant that it would be cheap.
At the same time the Pompous One
voted against free lumber which
would have given us building materi-
ais at prices much more reasonable
than those which the Lumber Trust
is enabled by their high duty to exact
from us. In voting for himself Mr.
Brantley was a free trader and a
Democrat. In voting for the people he
was a stand patter and a friend of the
Trust. The fact that the Ohio man,
who is running the WaycrOss Jour
nal, finds SO much virtue in such
votes as these and SO much to admire
in the men who cast them, is a suf-
ficient explanation of his animosity to
me.
Referring to what | had to say
about the College on Wheels, the Ohio
man becomes quite violent and as
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