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Title: Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine

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$1.50 Per Year
JANUARY, 1907
15 Cents Per Copy

Watson’s

Jeffersonian
Magazine

THOS. E. WATSON

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR

ATLANTA, GEORGIA

T H E

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O F I N D I A N A P O L I S

A R T H U R J O R D A N , P r e s i d e n t,

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law for the protection of the Insured ever enacted in this or any other
country.

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Twenty-Seventh Session.
Opened September 4th, 1906.

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The McDuffie Bank

A STATE BANK OF LOANS AND DISCOUNTS.

Thomson, Ga.

H. T. CLARY,

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A Request.

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AN EARNEST REQUEST

Made to All Editors Who Believe in Fair Play.

Gentlemen:

By as foul a deal as was ever made, “Watson’s Magazine,” of New

York, has been taken out of my hands.

The written Contract, upon which I relied, has been shamelessly set

aside.

A man whom I selected as my personal representative, and placed in

the office at a fine salary, which has always been paid, betrayed me.

He and Col. Mann formed a new company, seized the Magazine

under legal forms, and are now running it for themselves.

Col. Mann of Town Topics is Editor-in-Chief.
C. Q. DeFrance is Associate Editor and Business Manager.
They have flooded the country with a lying circular letter, intended

to deceive the people as to the cause of my withdrawal.

Col. Mann’s name is not even mentioned in this circular.
Almost every statement made about me in that circular is a base,

malicious falsehood. They are simply trying to hide their own guilt in a
cloud of slanderous fabrications.

In the November number of “Watson’s Magazine” appeared an

article with the title of “Explanatory.” It should have been labelled
“Defamatory.”

It reeks with venom and lies. Col. Mann wrote part of it, and

DeFrance wrote the balance.

These publications of theirs do me the rankest injustice.
I have no mailing list of the magazine which bears my name,

and never had one.

Consequently, I am at present powerless to reach the

subscribers and readers of “Watson’s Magazine.” I have no way of

Vol. I.
JANUARY, 1907
No. 1

letting them know the real state of the case.

On account of this very serious disadvantage, I make this

appeal to you:

Pray, inform your readers that I am now publishing the genuine

Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine in Atlanta, Ga., of which this is the
first number.

And that in the “Foreword” of this number is given a full history of

my connection with the New York Magazine, together with my
reasons for quitting.

In the interest of Fair Play, I beg that you do me this favor.
It is one which, under similar circumstances you would not ask of

me in vain.

THOS. E. WATSON.

Watson’s

Jeffersonian Magazine.

T H O S . E . WAT S O N,

Editor and Proprietor.

CONTENTS.

THE BODY-SNATCHERS. Frontispiece.
A. K. Taylor

FOREWORD.
Thos. E. Watson
3

Illustrated by W. Gordon Nye.

EDITORIALS.
Thos. E. Watson
29

Illustrated by W. Gordon Nye and A. K. Taylor.

The New Year—Mr. Bryan and Mr. Watson.—
Socialism at War With Love of Home and
Country—National Finance Run Mad—As to
Hearst—Ornamental
Flag-Poles—Eastern

Insurance Companies—Abraham Lincoln’s Silly
Biographers—Shoot, Luke, or Give Up the Gun
—The Dismissal of those Negro Troops—The
Proposed Ship Subsidy—An Appeal to Patriotism
—Love Licks—After All, It Depends Upon Who
Owns the Ox.

YOU OLD CONFEDS. Poem.
William E. Fowler
50

From The Confederate Veteran.

A SURVEY OF THE WORLD.
Charles J. Bayne
51

Illustrated with Portraits and Cartoons.

ANN BOYD. Serial Story.
Will N. Harben
73

Illustrated by W. Gordon Nye.