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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-19
Charge a TAFT Plot.

But that IS not al. II IS charged
that the defendants in the mandamus
suit wiIfully caused a delay in the
Treparatio nof the ballots for the pur-
nose and with the intent that they
might prevent the Republican voters
from the selection of all candidates.
The attorneys for the petitioners in the
n function caSe-CheSIer I. Long, d.
W MuIvane, d. R. Hite, Fred Dumont
smith and Fred - Starley-are
charged with a conspiracy to block the
machinery surrounding the operation
of the Kansas primary and the SUI
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-01-18

incentive to live right, no fear Of
God, believing death to be the end;
humiliation is no punishment; thus
| would not care what L did. Rus
sell says God is too just to punish in
an eternal hell, (Ghehenna) but
was God unjust to permit His Son to
suffer, that all who will might be
saved?
A reader asks you why the Clover
grade and the least intelligent
people" have the largest families?
You replied: Because they have
more bodily vigor and live more
nearly in state of nature" Very
good sir, SO far as your reply goes,
but that's not the real reason, by
any means; it's because they are not
mingling with society and it's atten-
dant immoralities, where race-suicide
is the rule, and not the exception
The real strength Of the Roman
Catholic Church lies in the fact that
the priests preach against "race-sui-
eide and they are the only ones who
do.
A STUDENT.
Ft. Pierce, Fla.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-01-18
A LETTER TOUCHING TOPICS DIS
CUSSED IN THE JEFF.

Dear Sir: viii you please allow
me space in your Weekly Jeff for
few comments in a general way Oh
several subjects recently appearing
in The JEFF? I won't attempt
detailed reply to any in this, but only
comments in a general way. Hop
ing as a student Of Scripture and
deep thinker and observer. to be the
humble instrument in Gods hands to
start others to thinking and observing
also. One who thinks and observes
closely, cannot but see the trend and
signs of the times. Men shall be
lovers of pleasure. More than low
ers Of God" etc. Applying this
scripture in a general way, I will ask
you and your readers for the exer-
else of as much patience as is con-
sistent. Anent miracle wheat"
How the followers of Mr.. Russell can
consider the awful consequences Of
accepting his mo help doctrine? for
example-can't they see and under
stand, that the belief in such an error
would in most instances lead to
almost universal lawlessness and
crime? of gross immortality and lust,
life liberty and property would be
unsafe, homes broken up and vio-
lated
Suppose did not believe in a
future punishment. would have u
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-01-18
SEE WHAT AN OHIO MAN DOES
AND SAYS!

Dear Sir: On the 9th inst.
mailed you three new subscriptions
Tor your Magazine, enclosing $500
for same. [ see by the last Jeffer-
sonian [ am entitled to three Tari ;
Primers as premiums. l could not
think Of asking for anything as a
premium except your own literature.
You will please mail primers to me,
as | want to place them where I
think they will do the most good.
How 1 wish you lived in the North.
as then there would not be so much
prejudice against you on account Of
your being a Southerner. But keep
on, as they are coming your way.
They used to call you an Anarchist,
but those now in favor of what you
have been teaching for twenty-five
years, are called Progressives. They
may call themselves Progressives,
but l predict they will make no prac-
tical progress in the way Of reform
while still trying to reform the two
old parties. The Republican party
is so divided that "big business" will
see that it is useless to try to elect
Taft again, and they will unite
regardless of party and elect a
''standpat Democrat" and we will
have the same farce carried on
another four years.
Before we get any practical relief,
all such men as yourself, Bryan,
LaFollette, Roosevelt, Clark, Under
wood, Cummins, Wilson, Pinchot and
many others [ could name must lay
aside their little personal differences,
and get together and continue to
work together in new party.
don't care what you call it, SO it is
neither Republican or Democrat.
There is a large majority in favor of
the principles upon which all the
above named leaders can unite who
will vote together just as soon as
they see their leaders together. But
SO long as they keep the organiza
ton of the two old parties, those in
favor of reform will continue to
divide their forces between the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-01-18
HEARTY ENDORSEMENT FROM A
TEXAS FRIEND.

Dear Sir: I am great lover of
your jeff. I am anxious to get it
each week as l get SO much infOrma-
ton out of it. I endorse your stand
against the Catholics; I endorse your
stand for a reformation in our poll
tics, as our political machine is rot
ten. AS to the negro problem, 1
thing that they would be the best
missionaries that wta could send to
Africa, as they think they are quail
fed to run a white mans govern
ment. I think they are amply paid
for having been brought here, for
we have educated and civilized them
until they think they are smart
enough to run our government.
This being the case, they ought to
be willing to go back to their own
country and run it and better their
own race. The two races will never
be with good feeling toward each
other. The white man can never be
on footing of equality with the
negro. The negroes color and his
odor are more than white person
can tolerate. If he stays here with
US I do not think he ought to be
allowed to hold any public trust OR
vote.
If the white man brought them
here and educated and made them
so intellectual, I think that white
mans government would still be
good enough for the negro. So [
think the negro ought to be willing
to still let US make his laws.
May God give you health to keep
up the battle for the people. I am
yours to the end.
w. P. HASTINGS.
Henry, Texas.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-01-18
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE

Columbus to his river plantation in
the southwest corner of Stewart
county, portion of which was across
the line in Quitman county. His
overseer brought him to Georgetown
where he spent the night with our
venerable old Judge r. G.. Morris,
in concealment. The next morning
judge Morris met the boat to ascer-
tain whether or not there were any
Federals aboard. Finding none, he
returned for Gen. Toombs, who
boarded the steamer and made his
way to Florida between the high
bluffs Of the quiet, old Chattahoochee
that flows from the Hills of Haber-
sham, through the valleys of Hail.
E. N. KING.
Hatchers, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-01-18
AN INTERESTING ANCEDOTE OF
GEN. ROBERT TOOMBS.

My Dear Mr.. Watson: The JAN
uary Magazine has picture of Robt.
Toombs, the grand old Secessionist
of 1861; also an interesting sketch
of some Of the acts and sayings, by
Mr.. H. w. Cleveland.
We are not sure, but think that
Gen. Toombs undertook to defend
Columbus, Ga, with small force
of home guard against the large
force of well disciplined raiders
under Wilson.
/ 1t is fact that he went from
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-01-18
WHERE rs THE AUTHORITY FOR
THE REMISSION OF SINS?

THE REMISSION OF SINS?
Dear Sir: In a recent article in
The JEFF, you refer to Math. 1919
1918. John 1923 as being the foun-
dation for the faith of the Roman
Catholics. In this article you seem
to admit that the Apostles had power
or authority from God to forgive
sins along with other works We
believe that God gave them unlim-
tied power up to the point of for
giving sins and by careful exami-
nation of Scriptures you may find
it SO. Of all subjects pertaining to
Catholic doctrine, without doubt,
this is most important and I am
grieved at our brethren that they
seem to take SO little interest in it.
For evidence of what Christ did
mean by His message or command,
we might look up the lives of
Apostles as they received this mes
sage or command and Immediately
went out to perform it.
When Jesus was taking His leave
of earth. He gave His disciples His
last message, Mark 1915. 49,,
Luke 24-47, 48, 40. Math. 2S-19.
In acts 1 and 2 we find the disciples
obeying His command, tarrying at
Jerusalem until they were filled with
the Holy Ghost and the first thing
we see is these Holy Ghost-spirit
filled people preaching with power
from on high and the people under
awful conviction (would to God it
was so nowadays) and crying out
'men and brethren what shall we
do" Then Peter said unto them
repent" acts 2:38. See also acts
3:19. Now the question is who
shall they repent toward or to? I
think if we can answer this ques-
ton it ought to settle the matter as
to who shall forgive our sins. God
or Man.
In acts 1922 Peter exhorts Simon
to pray God, etc, in End Tim. 225,
it says: eff God peradventure will
give them repentance, etc.
In 6 Of Math., Jesus teaches His
disciples how to pray and this ought
to convince the most hardened or
confirmed Catholics Our Father
Who Art In Heaven now doesn't
it seem He, Christ, would have said
our father art priest on earth if He
ever meant for us to look to them
for this act? Now l think this is
plain enough as to who we are to
pray to. If we are to repent toward
God and pray to Him, how shall we
know that we are forgiven, shall
priest tell us? l say no. See
Romans SIG, End Cor. 1922, 55.
Ephe 1:13, 4:30. Now [ would be
glad if you would quote these Script
ures and open your columns to
further discussion Of this subject.
Now, Mr.. Watson, as the Catholics
claim of apostolic succession, do
they at all, do the works of Peter,
John, Paul and the rest? I want
you to give this matter the best Of
your thought and invite men who
are capable to give us light on the
subject I have merely written to
start the bail a-rolling; let us hear
from you You are doing a great
work, may God bless and keep you
forever Amen.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-01-18

twins" while the Interests haE-
ing no politics, will continue to hold
the balance of power and throw it to
the one that stands for their inter-
ests, be hte Democrat or Republican.
These are a few opinions of your
friend and admirer, an Ohio Clodhop-
per.
G.. N. PULSE.
Hillsboro, Ohio.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-01-18
AS TO LAND MONOPOLY AND
PROGRESSIVE LAND TAX.

Dear Sir: Just few words
regarding your reply to A. N. Wright
on land monopoly and having refer
ence to a progressive land tax; which
I suppose is intended in the prem
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-07-12
Ssattle's Golden Potlatoh Will Be
Free to All.

S0attloS 1oldon FotlatCn VIII %
Free to All.
No feature of the Potlatch which
Seattle will give the northwest In July
of this year will cost any one, except
Seattle, a nickel. Every show, every
spectacle, is to be absolutely free of
admission. The word 'potlatch" means
gift, and Seattle announces that II
purposes to prove that its annual cele-
bratlon is rightly named by making
the whole show as free as water.
Last years Potlatch was pronounced
the biggest kind of success, but If
the promises of the management are
kept this years show will outdlstance
it In every department
During the week the Potlatch is on
there will be several of the bigger
travelling shows in town, among them
the Sells Floto circus and the 101
Ranch show. To these, of course, adj
mission will be charged, for the Pot
latch has nothing whatever to do with
them, but for out and out Potlatch
features no one will be able to spend
a cent
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-07-12
MERCHANTS DAY" WILL BE
BIGGEST PART OF POTLATCH
Seattle Planning Monster Welcome For
Business Men.

From Seattle's point of view the Sec
ond day Of the coming Potlatch will be
one of the most important and prolific
of the most lasting good. Tuesday,
July 16, will be known as merchants
day. On that day the business men Of
the northwest will be the honored
guests of Seattle's merchants and man.
ufacturers. With their families they
will be taken on automobile tours of
the city and the boulevard system.
steamboat excursions on Lake Wash
lngton, the men entertained at big
smoker" at Leschi park and the wo-
men and children ut the circus. There
will also be great big clambake on
the shores of Lake Washington, at
which all of them may eat as much of
clans and beef and other barbecued
dainties as they may find room for.
The whole town will Guido itself in
the effort to entertain the visiting mer
chants. Merchants day of the first
Potlatch taught Seattle great big les
son. 1t taught its business men that
1t was not only good business, but that
II was high time for them to establish
personal acquaintance and friendship
with the states merchants, to whom
they expected to sell their goods. The
outside business men came in In
droves, had good time, met the men
they had been paying their good mon
ey to, and there has been a vastly bet
ter feeling ever since.
This year Seattle is going to do the
same thing, but on much bigger
scale, and 1t will do the same thing
at every Potlatch to come hereafter.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-07-12
THE ALASKAN PAGEANT.
To Be Biggest Feature of Seattle's
Golden Potlatch.


The Alaskan pageant is to be the big
gest single feature, in so far as pageant
ry is concerned, of this years Potatch
at Seattle. The Alaskan pageant is to
be financed and produced by the Till
kums of Elttaes, a big secret order
which has been organized for the pur-
pose of boosting Seattle's annual cele-
bration and helping to make 1t annu-
ally bigger and better show.
The Tilikums feature will be pro
duced on Wednesday, July H. 1t will
begin with the arrival of the Potlatch
Tyee on the gold ship Portland and the
members of the ryee's Indian court,
all of them bearing their totems and
correctly depicting the old time tribal
hfe of the Alaskan Indian.
The Portland will come to anchor
out in Elliott bay and the big chief
will be brought up to the docks, with
the members of his court, on an i'm.
mense barge beautifully and pictur-
esquely decorated At the dock he
will then be greeted by the Potlatch
queen and her court, and he will then
lead the Alaskan pageant through the
streets Of the city. The pageant will
consist Of dozens Of strange floats and
beautiful scenes and pictures. 1t will
be different from any other street pag-
cant ever produced and will be pro
duced on such magnificent scale thai
$4,000 will not cover the cost of the
floats alone Ii is estimated that the
parade will be close uion one mile and
a half in length,
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-07-12

Lester Burgess, son OF E. N. Bur
CESS yesterday was showing on the
streets a full grown live rattlesnake
that he captured on rattlesnake hill.
For long time it was thought that
there were no snakes of this species in
that district, but of late number Of
people have reported seeing rattle
snakes on the hill Children have
been allowed to play in this vicinity,
but as there seems to be plenty of the
venomous reptiles on the hill it might
be we'll to keep them away from this
district
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-07-12
ELKS TO ATTEND THE
POTLATCH IN FORCE
Portland Will Send $4,000 to Seattle
Convention.

1t is estimated that there will be co.
900 Elks in attendance on the grand
lodge of the B. P o. E., which this
year takes place In the city Of Port
land during the week beginning July
8. Portland, after its usual fashion,
is spending money lavishly-as If 1t
didn't have anything else to do-to
make the session one that will be re-
membered.
Portland Is also cooperating with
Seattle and Tacoma to send all Of the
delegates to those two cities when the
grand lodge shall adjourn Tacoma is
planning a big special celebration In
their honor, making use of Its mag
nificent stadium, and Seattle has made
the first day of its Golden Potlatch
"Elks day." 1t is expected that the
two cities will entertain not less than
$4,000 of the delegates.
The grand lodge will adjourn on July
10, and fifty special trains will take
the delegates from Portland to the
northern cities. The Potlatch opens
July 10, on Monday. On the Saturday
previous the Tacoma celebration Will
take place. Seattle will spend upward
Of $4,000 on Elks' day alone, besides
making use of all the spectacular fea-
lures 1t has arranged for its Potlatch
week.
Washington delegates to the Elks'
grand lodge should buy Potlatch rail-
way tickets instead Of grand lodge
tickets, for the reason that they can
be had at the same rate and allow a
longer return period. Under the grand
lodge ticket the Washington delegate
would not have time to see all Of the
Potlatch but under the Potlatch ticket
he will have time for the grand lodge
and the Potlatch also.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-07-12
SEATTLE POTLATCH To
Be BEST EVER HELD
Expect $4,000 EIkS at the
Great Celebration.

Seattle's Golden Potlatch this year
will begin ON Monday, July 10, and
come to a riotous windup with carni-
val night, Saturday, July 20, and there
will be something doing" every min
ute of the six full days that will be
given over to the show.
The first and second days will be
among the biggest of the week. Mon
day, July 10. has been turned over to
the Elks for a big celebration of their
own, and on Tuesday, July 10, the Pot
latch management and the business
men of Seattle will give all of their
time and $4,000 in money to the enter
tainment of the business men of the
northwest. Last year the most impor
tant day of all the big show proved to
be that on which the merchants of the
northwest were entertained as the es-
pecial guests of the city. So success
full was the whole day in cementing
relations between the business men of
Seattle and the business men of the
other cities of the state that this year
extraordinary effort will be made to
make that feature of the Potlatch one
of the most brilliant.
The national grand lodge of Elks
takes place In Portland the week be-
fore the Potlatch opens. Portland has
prepared great big time for the Bills,
one of the biggest any city of the west
ever gave to anybody, and after Port
land has done It's full duty In that
line she is going to send her guests on
to Seattle for the first day of Seattle's
show. Portland estimates that she will
entertain not fewer than 10000 men,
bers of the order. The grand lodge
will break up on Friday, July 10, and
there will be fifty railroad trains wait
ing to take the visitors to Tacoma,
which on the next day will have a
special entertainment waiting for the
delegates and their families. The next
day, Sunday, they will go on over to
Seattle, where on Monday they will
open the Potlatch with such fun as
only good Elks know how to make.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-07-12
THE P0TLATCH BUG"
A GREAT FAVORITE
Is the Emblem Of SedttIe'S
Golden Festival

During the last several weeks the
"Potlatch Bug has come to be one of
the most familiar and at the same time
most amusing faces in the northwest.
The "Potlatch Bug is the emblem of
Seattle's Golden Potlatch, which this
year takes place from July 10 to July
20. 1t was discovered by w. II.
Potlatch, on an Alaskan totem and i'm
mediately adopted as a member of the
Potlatch family. The bug" is hid
eous little party, but he has served
wonderfully well to pin the Potlatch
idea in the minds of those who have
become "inoculated"
In fact, so popular has he become
that the Iillkums of Elttaes, secret
order, has been organized, and per-
sons of no less dignity than Governor
Hay and the mayors of various cities
have been initiated into the fraternity
and now bow to the Bug" which Is
its genius The Tilikums have organ
lied an Initiation team" which goes
from one city to another throughout
the northwest solely for the purpose Of
making Bugs" of prominent citizens
everywhere. Portland has already
been visited and thoroughly infected,
even uncle" George Hutchin, the
genial manager and director of Port
lands beautiful rose festival, having
succumbed and planted platonic kiss
on the Bugs" beetling brow In public.
The Golden Potlatch Is solely for
fun, so the Potlatch people don't mind
bit getting out in public and acting
like a lot of overgrown schoolboys
with its emblem, the Bug" AS a
matter of fact, these visits to different
parts of the state and the whole souled
fun which attends on them have gone a
great way toward dispelling the idea
that Seattle didn't know how to have
fun when 1t wanted to.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-07-12

On that part Of the line in front OF
Atlanta occupied by the Twentieth
corps the pickets often entered into an
agreement not to fire for anywhere
from half an hour to three hours. The
picket lines were so close together that
a Yankee whisper could be heard by
the Johnnies. The show Of head or
any part Of a body meant a shot and
usually a wound or death. When the
pickets became so weary from sittb
In the cramped picket pits that life
was an almost unbearable burden a
truce was called for. If the call came
from the Confederates 1t was In this
way or the way very similar to this
"Yanks, how do you alls feelr'
Like Satan or worse. These picket
pits give us the cramps"
"That's our fix too. Suppose we stop
the killing for an hour or so while we
stretch our limbs and get rested"
Mighty glad to make such a con
tract"
"Al right We VIII let up three min
utes from now and give you three min
utes to get back into your pits before
the shooting begins"
at Is a bargain.
Then these brave men climbed out OF
the pits, Strengthened their legs, stretch
ed their arms and talked to each other
on as friendly terms as so many farm
ers who had met ut line fence might
be expected to do
BY and by the man who led in max
Ing the contract stepped out from his
associates and said:
I'm sorry Yanks, but the time is
up. Hunt your holes and watch out"
When the boys were safe In their
graves, as the picket pits were often
called and as they sometimes proved, a
Yank called back. I'VE are fixed, John
MES; let her silver"
And they "slivered." both Sides
New York Telegram.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-07-12
Advertised Letters

The following letters remain I'M
called for at the Leavenworth post
office July 8, 1912:
Bergstron Chas, Baker A. j., Evans
D. W., Franklin C. W., Gilbert Frank,
Pierce c. E., Reicker Edith Mrs,
Wood A. E.
]. c. Davis, postmaster.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-07-12
VOICE And LEADER
OF THE WORLD

AS long ago as the last half of
~ the eighteenth century it
was the press that nodded
public opinion. The famous "Let-
ters of Junius" started the wave
that finally resulted in widespread
ing reforms in England. The
"Rights of Man" and other pam
phlets had a prodigious circulation
and exerted an immeasurab!e in
duence toward the same ends.
A little book, Common Sense"
set the colonies on fire for indie
pendence, and the printing of Pat
rick Henry's and Samuel Adams
speeches, of Franklin's and other
papers and of Thomas Paine's
"Crisis" was a powerful aid in the
American Revolution.
1t was the writings of Voltaire
and Rousseau and the news of our
own war for independence that
brought on the revolution in
France. "UTncle Toms Cabin," "
which was first published in a
newspaper, had tremendous infu-
ence in freeing the slave.
IN THE PRESENT DAY AN
ALERT, VIGOROUS AND coURA.
GEoUS PRESS WILL BE FOUND
BEHIND EVERY POLITICAL up
RISING. EVERY ADVANCE MOVE
MENT.
WHO CAN MEASURE THE
POW Err OF A GREELEY? At
one period the London Times
swayed the diplomacy of Europe.
The American newspapers and
magazines are largely responsible
for the present transformation of
political thought in the United
States.
The press, which was a power
$50 years ago, has become all po-
tent today. 1T is THE VOICE
AND LEADER OF THE
WORLD. Only by following it
can one keep abreast of the move
ments of our own time.
TAKE THIS NEWSPAPER.