The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-04-27
PAGE TWELVE
From An Old Pop, Who Has Gone
AStray
AStray

ASHT6y
Dear Sir: Have you gone crazy, why do you
make such unwarranted attacks on the Western
Federation officers you do in The jeff of the
End? There is not one particle of truth in that
statement, that the evidence ample to convict
but that the jury overaWed by the Socialists
and that it was plain that the Reds were seeking
chance for outbreak. When the real truth is
there was no evidence whatever against them and
it proven that they were good Christian men
of families, and instead of the Socialists 1ntm1-
dating anyone, the Socialist girl stenographer had
to call the sheriff to protect her in her rights IN
the court and the jury so badly in
Inundated that the foreman took Haywood in his
arms and shed tears his shoulder. My, Wasn't
that intimidation for you!
admire your writings several topics, but
Socialism and the Federation officers you ap-
pear to be very ignorant. / have been reading up
on Socialism more or less ever since that damnabe
fusion deal in go and I have never found where
any leader any part Of Socialist doctrine ad-
vocated or had a tendency to break up the family
or home.
Dear Tom after following you as long as l did
in the Populist party, hate to see you make such
mistakes you once in awhile do. OF course,
among people who read up on both sides OF
subject before they form conclusion your breaks
will have little effect But take it among people,
like you say the Georgians are, where you say
100000 can't read or write, and no Socialist
papers being read amongst them and they are
very likely to be misled by your paper. [ expect
that you will give me h, but was Democrat
before you born, but am too Democratic to
herd with the party now and too loyal to it's
principles to return to the mire in my old days.
P. B. SHARP.
midroad Populist, to T. E. Watson one-time
Populist leader
Orienta Okla.
ANSWER.
It depresses me to read letter like the
foregoing.
The writer is perfectly honest, and believes
every word he SAYS. He scouts the idea that
Harry Orchard told the truth on Hayward,
Meyer and Pettibone. He can't credit the
story of the conspiracy against Stunenberg.
The foreman Of the jury shed tears; and,
therefore, Hayward was innocent.
Who had the motive to murder Stunen-
berg? Who had threatened to do it! What
reason did Orchard have for confessing his
share in the assassination? How can any
BODY account for the corroborating circum-
stances? Why was it that no clue led to
anyone, excepting the Socialist chiefs Of the
Federation?
Did not the same Socialist element in the
Union blow up General Otis publishing
plant in Los Angeles? Did not Hayward
make such incendiary speeches, in New Jer-
sey, that his own people thought best to
silence him?
That Stunenberg's murder was the revenge
taken for his own harsh conduct toward the
Federation, no sane mind can doubt. And
the inhuman General Bell was so afraid that
he would get dose of the same medicine
that he hastily took sides with the accused
Socialists.
AS to my political creed, there has been no
change. The same editorials that published
twenty four years ago, fit our columns today.
In fact, when [ am short on "copy," our
resourceful Managing Editor, Mrs. Lyle,
hunts up something, that [ wrote, when there