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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-05-14
THIS IS THE REWARD THAT Il,
e. w. LOVES.

Dear Mr.. Watson: My dear old
father has been a subscriber to your
beloved paper for years he has ad-
mired and praised you so much that
feel l must have your paper too.
He said you were worth your weight
hundred times in gold. He is get
ting feeble, but o how he waits and
watches for the Jeff, and the way
you handle the Catholics is just
grand, and may you live many years
to carry on the grand work is the
prayer of father and daughter.
Ala. M. J. S. & A. M. ORR.
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NO: 4. II. W. is FILLING TWO
PULPETS NOW, AND THAT'S
ENOUGH FDES ONE RED
EEEN q EAENEN ngNFaGnN

Dear Mr.. Watson: Let one Of
your readers as we'll as admirers ask
you this question, granting that "the
pen is mightier than the sword" be-
cause it represents moral force. II
you can so fearlessly go to a given
task along chosen lines, suppose that
moral force in it's giant form were
thrown into strictly religious thought
and action, what a force it would be
in this sin cursed land of ours.
You have the spirit that has
characterized the Martyrs Of the
ages, great is your responsibility,
great is the ability, great has been
the growth, but we confidently be-
Iieve there is to be still further de-
velopment. Let's have it.
Yours truly,
Hampton, Ca d. A. NOLAN.
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DOES OIL CONTROL THE WILSON
BRYAN ADMINISTRATION?

Dear Sir: Your editorial on
Does Oil Control the U. S. Army in
Mexico and in Colorado" interests
me great deal, as | have just re-
Gently returned from Mexico, and am
in q position to appreciate the truth
il this matter. On two different
EcasiOns | have seen American blood
flow while trying to defend their
property against hopeless odds Of
the adheTents Of Senior Grape Juices
ally, General villa, but that was part
~ their own fault for not applying
to the British or German consel for
protection in stead Of the American.
Tt does seem that with the multi
tude Of American men in public
service that there would be one not
allied with tho corporations who
would conduct himself in such a
manner that the plain American citi-
zen would feel safe in appealing to
him when in need for assistance, and
know that he is doing the best he
can for YOU, and not for the corpora
ton. Respectfully
4 READER.
p s. 1T is q known fact that 50
per cent of the NeEiCans are Roman
Catholics, and iucrta is allied to the
Catholic church. With all the help
Of the Catholics in this country our
government has been MIXED dry by
the MeXicans With the Protestant
people Of this country between these
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-05-14
BID SENATOR HOG-EYE SMITHS
FOR THE POPISH VOTE.

Dear Mr. Watson: 1 have been
reading your paper for the last
three months and l have at least
found one man who is not afraid Of
the damnable Romish System.
Since / began to read the Jeffer-
sonian l have succeeded in getting
many of my friends to buy it every
week.
There has been a thing in my
mind for a long time that 1 cannot
understand, and l would thank you
if you would explain it in the pages
of your good paper.
Why is it that the Atlanta Journal
in its editorials keep running down
the Protestant people Of Ulster in
Ireland, and trys to conceal the real
cause of the Ulster people trying to
keep from having Home Rule in Ire
land?
1t is not that the people of Ulster
would not welcome Homo Rule, but
they will die to d man before they
VIII submit to the rule Of Rome
The~people Of North Ireland which
is Ulster, fought to gain freedom
from the yoke Of the italian Pope,
who drove them from Scotland and
they settled in Ireland and are pros
Porous and happy and the poverty
stricken. priest ridden part Of South
Catholic ireland wants the Ulster
people to help to keep them up
Is the editor Of the Journal
Catholic, or is it ignorance?
Hoping you will give us some light
on the subject, I am,
Yours very sincerely,
Georgia. AMERICAN.
Comment.
The Atlanta Journal is owned by
Senator Smith, through a dummy.
Smith wants the negro vote and
also the Romanist vote.
Hence, he made no real fight
against Lincoln Johnson, negro, from
his $4,000 job as Recorder Of Deeds
at our National capital: and he made
no real fight on Terrell, the negro,
who was nominated to be the Judge
Of the City Court Of Washington
City.
The Atlanta Journal knows that
what the papists Of Ireland are real
ly after is, to put the whole Of Ire
land under the Italian pope. The
Protestants of Ulster won't stand for
it, and / glory in their SKUNK.
T. e. w.
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE

two fires with their hands tied, your
attempt to wake the people up to
the real state Of affairs is doing
more for them than their legislative
bodies are doing. A READER.
Atlanta, Ga.
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RESOLUTIONS

Adopted at a Regular Meeting of the
Open Forum, Masonic Temple,
Chicago, H., Sunday, May
g 1914.
Hon. Joseph Daniels,
Secretary of the Navy,
Washington, D C.
Sir:
Whereas, We are informed that
the Army and Navy Union Of Phila-'
delphia, has requested Of you,
through Hon. J. Washington Logue,
permission to hold on Sunday, May
31st, Memorial Day exercises in the
form OF Military Mass at League
Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, and
Whereas, We, as citizens Of this
country are opposed to the granting
Of such permission, because it would
present to the world the appearance
Of another instance Of a union of
Church and State which is contrary
to all American principles and tradi-
tons, but which has become all too
FREQUENT in the Army and Navy, and
even at the seat of the National Gov
eminent itself, and
Whereas, We believe that a con-
tAu1{I1CS VI lnl6 DOI1Cy, Oh TIE part
Of those in the high places OF gov
ernment, Will increase the already
bitter religious antagonisms and lead
inevitably to open strife and blood
shed, and
Whereas, We believe the time has
come to call q halt upon these
manifest attempts to Romantic
America and the American Govern
ment; therefore
Resolved, That we protest against
the granting Of this request to hold
such exercises ia the form Of q
Romish Military Mass on May 31st,
On United States Government prop
erty, at League Island Navy Yard,
Philadelphia, or elsewhere, and
Resolved, That copies Of these
resolutions be sent to Hon Joseph
Daniels, Secretary OF the Navy, at
Washington, D. c., to the Associated
Press, the Chicago City Press, and
the radical free press Of the entire
country.
(Signed)
HULDAH L. POTTER-LOOMIS,
I
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BUT, YOU SEE, I AM ATTORNEY
GENERAL FOR THE HON. O. M.
PEEPUL, AND HE WON'T LET
ME- RESIGN.

Dear Sir: I fspace and time will
permit I desire to call the attention
Of your staff and readers to some
reasons why your great Editor
should make the race for the United
States Senate. In natural ability
and general information, and in all
round scholarship, he stands like
Saul of Tarsus, head and shoulders
above his brethren in the South, and
easily the equal and peer Of any of
the statesmen of the Union.
The national administration could
have forever distinguished itself by
appointing him ambassador to the
Court at Versailles.
He would have completed a trio
Of great Americans at the French
Court, Benjamin Franklin, philOso-
pher and patriot, Thomas Jefferson,
statesman and worldwide humani-
tartan, Thomas e. Watson, lawyer,
historian and refOrmer.
On the floor Of the United States
Senate he would illustrate the best
traditions Of the State in the past,
and the noblest aspirations Of the
future. He easily combines the I'M
Tivalled eloQuence OF Daniel Web
ster, the incisiye logic and vast
learning Of Calhoun, and the glitter
ing magnetic personality of Henry
Clay.
With only one short term of two
years in the National Congress he
made more fame for himself and &C.
complished more for the good of the
people of the entire Union, than any
representative GEORGIA has had in
the Congress since the foundation Of
the Government.
The people should call the Sage of
McDuf1e from his retirement and
place him in the front ranks Of the
Senate where he will have the oppor-
tunity to serve them with that zeal
and ability which has distinguished
him in the past.
Where could We travel in this
country without seeing the rural
mail carried. Where could we so in
the civilized world and not find his
books and papers?
Respectfully,
Georgia. 0. NJ. DUKE.
Comment.
In the meantime, the politicians,
the knights Of Columbus, and Alex
ander Alderman, Esquire, are all in
cohoot to send the Sage Of NcDufffe
to the penitent.ary, for telling the
truth on ROmanist priests and Rot
ten politicians.
Before this paper comes out, T.
e. w. may be indicted again,
7. E. w.
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Watch the label On your paper,
don't let your subscription expire.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-05-14
ANOTHER BAPTIST CHURCH
WAKES UP. THANK TIE
LOE&D!
A Resolution.

BE It resolved, that we; the mam-
bers OF Laneburg Baptist church, do
hereby protest against the Roman
Catholic Hierarchy because Of it's
combined efforts to suppress free
dom of speech and press, which is
warranted to us by the U. S. Consti-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

a region that is rich in interesting seen
cry and historic associations.
In the first place, one will notice that
the name is Oxon run and not Oxen run.
Many old maps and documents and let
tiers give it as Oxen. but they are wrong.
About the middle of the seventeenth CEN
tury royal patent of lands was made to
John Addison, an Englishman of distln-
guished connections and of considerable
influence himself. The grant extended
from Piscataway creek, which is the
broad and shoal tributary entering the
Potomac river on the south side OF Fort
Washington, to the Eastern branch OF
the Potomac. The boundary of this grant
on the west was, of course, the Potomac
river. How far eastward it extended the
writer does not know, but living In
Washington today are Il number or the
descendants of this John Addison, ana
the family has preserved many or the
documents relating to this large grant
!, i:
John Addison built himself fine house
on the hills of the southerly side of the
mouth of Oxon run and opposite where
almost century later the town of Alex
andria came into being. Addison had
been a prominent Oxford man, and into
the new world he brought his pride of
and veneration for alma mater. He was
proud of being an OXonian, and he want
cd all his friends and others in the new
world to know it. He called his great
house OXon Hall. 1t WAS sometimes call
ed Oxon Manor-that is. the house and
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the lands attached to it. Very many big
houses and estates in Maryland and Vir-
GINA were called ''rnanors." The own
ers of these houses and lands did not
have, of course. immortal rights and
privileges, according to the English &C
ceptance of that word. but it was an
early form of courtesy in the new world
to speak of the big place as manor.
Through the Addison grant two long
streams OF rather large volume at times
ran down broad and beautiful valleys.
The southerly of these streams for time
out of mind has been called Hensons
branch or Broad creek, the far inland
and narrow stretches of the creek being
HensonS branch and the name Broad
creek being given it where 1t enters the
Potomac river 1t is the creek which you
see just after passing the high, wooded
bluff on which Fort Foote stands.
North of Broad creek another stream
wanders from the highlands of Prince
Georges county down to the great river
through picturesque vale broad in some
parts and narrow in others. Being the
stream nearest to Oxon Hall it came to
be called Oxon run.
This branch has its source in a num-
Der of Spring branches in the uplands
Of Prince Georges county, near the ham
let of Oakland. trifie over three miles
southeast from Benning and a mile south
of the southeast line of the District 1t
winds through a fertile country that has
been under cultivation for something
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leads by the Hebrew cemetery and the
National Guard rifle range
The Jenkins tract was part of a larger
tract called riches Venture. Efforts
We're made long ago to find out something
of this land, but the only information OBJ
tanned was that the records, which were
at Marlborough, had been destroys by
fire at the court house.
Another holder of large parcel of land
In the Oxon Run valley was Philip Evans,
whose house stood on what is now the ri
he range of the National Guard of the
District of Columbia and the foundation
of which and the broken tombstones in
the Evans burial plot were recently I'M
covered while sundry improvements at
the range were under way
Oxon valley within the District has
numerous ravines. wide and abrupt which
lead into it both from the southerly ridge
and the ridge which separates the valley
of the run from that of the Eastern
branch. 1t was this broken ridge which
gave great concern to federal military en-
gineers in the civil war period and which
called for that line of earth forts, bat
teries and rife trenches laid down on the
old maps and mentioned in numberless Of
fetal reports as the line of defenses
along the Eastern branch"
The earth forts were Mahon and Chap
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Ian on the hills above Benning bridge. and
along the line of high ground roughly
paralleling the District boundary were
Forts Meigs, Dupont, Davis, Wagner,
Ricketts,, Snyder, Carroll and Greble. On
a part of this highland nearest to the
Navy Yard and the Capitol was built
Fort Stanton. The washed and eroded
parapets and bitches of some of these
civil war Notifications are traceable today
and periodically attempts are made to-
ward arousing public sentiment favorable
to the preservation of these historic ruins.
II you would visit the valley of Oxon
run and enjoy the fine vistaS which may
be had from the valleys rim it mi hit be
good plan to start at the rambling settle
ment of Good Hope and follow the Hamil-
ton road to its intersection with the Gies-
boro road at Congress Heights and
then travel southerly along that road to
Bald Eagle hill. the tip and terminus OF
all that high rough and rugged land
which rises back of the Eastern branch
and falls again into the Oxon Run valley.
Should you want to descend into the val
ley numerous roads will beckon to you.
The Walker road, the Wheeler road and
the Livingston road will carry You over
the run and into the wooded and pictur-
esque country beyond. The Wheeler road
especially will take you into one OF the
widest and most primitive bits of country
adjacent to Washington. crossing as 1T
does, south Of Oxoh run, a valley which,
SO far as The Star man could learn. is
variously called the valley of Barnabas
branch and of Barnaby branch. On the
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Tact.

THEODORE z. SHONTS, president OF
the marlborough Rapid Transit
Company. was congratulated at a lunch
con in New York on the success of the
life-saving device recently installed In
the company's trucking department
Yes" said Mr.. Shonts, the device is
perfect. 1t is impossible for our trucks
to kill any one now. This fender and
wheel guard device lets you down as
easily, if you get in its way, as the tact
full miner let down the widow.
"A miner once got killed, you know,
and a tactful associate was delegated to
break the news to the widow.
so the tactful fellow called at her
house and said:
with your golden hair. blue eyes and
pink and white complexion, ma am. you'd
break every heart in town if you wore
widows weeds.
1.-The young woman laughed and blushed
for pleasure.
"'Oh go on she said.
And you are a widow. too, said the
tactful miner, quickly, Selling his chance.
Bills head and legs and arms was just
blown off in an explosion. But. by crinus.
mean, amt you goin' to look good In
black, thought
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Fock Ereek Park does to the western,
ard which would help 10 round out the
great park system of the National Capt.
tai However, there only seems to be q
lul, for a great many people are inter
ested in this plan of charging the park
area of Washington, and their interest is
Just as active and they are just as in
tent upon the successful issue of the
proposition as when. last summer they
were giving wide publicity to their views.
Though the population of the District be-
You'd the Eastern branch has grown
steadily and satisfactorily and though
there is well settled suburban region
in Maryland over the southeastern border
of the District, it is probably true that
the Oxon run country is unknown TO Il
majority of Washington people. Vet il is
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siye ride to me-a ride that led me, al
most without warning, into the inter
minable forests of Virginia, into my
baptism of fire.
Upon arrival at the scene of the firing
I had a difficult task. Shells were
dropping close beside us fairly frequently,
and we were exposing ourselves unneces-
sariIy. After an inward struggle forced
myself to call the Russians attention to
our danger, at the risk of appearing a
coward, and urged upon him that we
withdraw somewhat to one side, from
where We could see what was going on
quite as well; In later days l became
well aware that more courage is often
needed to get out Of the way Of danger
when others are looking than to expose
ones self to it.
Soon it became apparent that no serious
fighting was to take place. At dusk the
firing ceased.
Rosencranz was fine soldierly figure
dark, with an honest face and Of nature
that won ones confidence. He said he
was related to the Swedish royal family.
After I had known him for a while he
gave me the very curious piece of news
that he was In position to fmpart to
me, In an English translation, the con-
tents of letters to me from home which
1 had been awaiting for long time and
supposed to have gone astray. These let
ters hand been turned over to him for
translation, with the headings and sigma
lures cut off. From the conversations
which he had had with me it gradually
dawned on him that l, and no other, was
the person for whom the letters were in
tended. 1 never received the originals
Next day Gen. Hooker returned from
his excursion to Washington, and / pre-
scented myself before him with my pass.
He received me very kindly, and assigned
a tent for my special use. From that
time on he showed his friendliness to-
ward me by asking me to take whisky
with him every time he saw me- He was.
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in fact, far more a genial topper than an
army commander to be taken seriously,
yet he ranked with the best trained mill
tary men who had gone through West
Point. AS he failed to win any success
for long time, he incurred the disfavor
of the government. His removal from
the command aroused no regret any
where.
quarters. This became especially APP
parent in the number of drinks offered
to me- it being the general custom for
men to invite acquaintance into their
tents to partake of one I must confess
that l rarely got past a tent safely
Among the more important officers
whom I met was Gen. Butterfie,d chief
of the general staff, whom l have already
mentioned. When he was Postmaster
General he had organized the first post
delivery system for San Francisco. and
the talent for organization which he had
then displayed had caused him to be
looked upon as the best man for the i'm
portant military position which he held
when l met him.
In planning operations, he attached
special significance to knowledge of the
probable weather conditions, and for this
reason he became especially fond of an
excellent aneroid barometer of mine
which l had obtained from London and
paid good money for.
X
Gen. Butterfield saw this instrument
in my tent, borrowed it from me, and
then found it impossible to separate him
self from it. Longer and longer he would
keep 1t each time he borrowed it, until at
last he failed to return it at all. When 1
was about to leave the army requested
him to return it again and again, and be-
came finally so pressing that compelled
him to go into his tent to fetch it out.
After waiting outside long time, fol-
lowed him into the tent It was empty.
With my barometer in his hand he had
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crawled under the canvas and dis
appeared.
Col. Dickinson. the quartermaster gen.
eral. was an earnest likable West Point
hearted, able officer, of whom l saw
great deal. Another pleasant companion
was Capt. Dahlgren, son of the Confed-
crate Admiral Dahlgren-an instance Of
father serving the south and a son the
north. I saw him later at Newport, to
which place he was brought severely
wounded. Not long after that he was
again in the saddle and was killed at
the head Of his cavalry.
Besides these I met many other pleas
ant and efficient officers. Among them
little was said about the army's opera
tons, but all had personal experiences to
tell, and witty little stories and anec-
camp. One of these ran as follows:
Two spies had been captured on the
banks of the Rappahannock. One was
Yankee, the other a German. They were
condemned to be hanged to the branch
of tree protruding out over the river,
since such a death would save their ex-
ecutioners the trouble of burying them,
it being merely necessary to saw away
the branch and let the two bodies drop
into the water.
The Yankees turn came first. In his
pockets he still had a So bill and he
pressed this into the hangman's hand
with the whispered words: For Gods
sake, take a bad roper
The hangman did so. AS soon as the
Yankee was strung up the rotten rope
broke, the condemned man fell into the
water and, as he was good swimmer, he
managed to reach the opposite bank,
which was occupied by his comrades,
the enemy.
But the German. when he saw what
mad happened, turned to the hangman
and begged him to use a strong rope.
II can't SWIM" he explained.
One day I rode over to Fairfax Court
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LULL seems to
have come upon
the m O V g m e n t
which would turn
the valley Of Oxon
run into Il park
a peoples play and
rest ground which
would bear the
same relation TO
the eastern sec
ton of the District
of Columbia that
a.. .z,A - -,
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Join in the mirth and thus deprive the
incident of serious consequences.
One day the news reached headquar-
ters that Gen. Lee was marching by his
left flank in a. northwest direction The
Army of the Potomac received orders
to follow this movement along the inner
line, so that it might always keep be-
tween the enemy and Washington-which
meant, also, between the enemy and
Philadelphia and New York.
On one of the marches that now fol-
lowed those who had been stationed
at headquarters had to ford O a river
about 300 PAGES WIDE For the in
fantry and artillery a bridge made of
felled trees was built, but We horse
men were compelled to ride right through
the water, which was SO deep that our
horses had to swim in spots. ! mention
this only because such a little thing was
considered quite in the ordinary course
of events-even the commander-in-chief
swan across that river
After stiff march we arrived next
afternoon at Fairfax Court House, where
we learned that the enemy was already
at Manassas gap, to the northwest and
that instructions were to be given to
Sen. Pleasonton of the cavalry, who
was about twenty miles away. at Aide.
to undertake a reconnaissance in force
in order to obtain more exact informa-
ton concerning the Confederates. The
officer to whom the transmission of this
command to Pleasonton was intrusted re-
ceived as escort a squad of cavalry
under another officer. 1 asked permits
sion to accompany them and it was
granted.