The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-04-22
FINE LETTER FROM GEORGIAN,
NOW IN TEXAS.

FINE LETTER. FROM NEEO1IO1AN,
NOW IN TEXAS.
Dear Sir: In renewing my sub
scription for The Jeffs, I beg you to
indulge me in few words personal
to myself. l am a native Georgian.
l was born in Wilks County, and
reared in Ebert County l refused
to cast my first vote in 1896, because
your name did not appear on the
presidential ticket with Bryan.
heard you speak at Elberton, and one
sentence in your speech made an
everlasting impression on my young
mind, towit: That we did not think
for ourselves, but used our heads
as peg to hang our hats on.
| have ever been your friend and
admirer and have never abandoned
your fortunes. | have been reader
of The Jeff many years, and have
deeply imbibed your political prin-
ciples. Your noble fight for the COM
mon herd and your exposure Of the
designs of Rome has endeared you
to my heart.
It was Lincoln, believe, who said,
that God must have loved the COM
mon people, because He made so
many Of them, and believe he raises
up and inspires more Ike you to
espOuse their cause and lead them.
We we're led to believe that when the
Democratic party came into power,
with Woodrow Wilson as President,
that better policies would prevail,
and the common people would have
their day in court. But it seems that
the same old crowd runs the Govern
ment in the interest of the classes.
They made fair promises to get our
votes, but, alas, what failure in
performance!
We were grossly Disseminated
against in the tariff bill, and the cur
rency bill, and outraged and scorned
when we appealed for help to save
something out of our cotton crop.
Mr.. Watson, your statement, that
this administration, which refused to
aid US and turned deaf ear to our
appeals last fall, actually furnished
cheap money to the speculator to buy
our cotton at cents and then in
sured it and helped him to get it
20-cent market, is unbelievable.
Certainly must be some mistake
about this matter. Certainly no adj
ministration could be so reckless
S1Au IISdCIISAOuS To tH0 great pOuy Ok
Democratic farmers Of the South.
We have been as loyal to party as
the needle to the pole. We have
voted the ticket at every recurring
election with the regularity of the
seasons, with the hope of lettering
our condition when it came into pow
er, and then when we rejoiced that
the fruitiOn of our hopes was at
hand to be thus scorned and be-
trayed, say it is unbelievable. But
you are not given to reckless state
ments, and we have confidence in
your integrity, and when the next
campaign opens up and the spell
binders come around, we will have
some questions to ask them, and
there will be a reckoning at the polls.
There will he lots of party collars
stripped from necks that have worn
tn EN- for generations I recently read
a letter from our Representative, the
Hon. Martin Dies, in response to a
letter from one of his constituents,
in which he said he could not support
us in our appel - help, because to
loan money to the farmer <=as Social
tstic, and he had vowed to hit the
head of that monster wherever it ap-
peared, and then we thought of the
SIS, 100000 placed in favored banks,
oh fhn IN