I renew my advice to my friends, in all the
States;
Do not let the Bosses chain you! Stay
free. It is too soon to fasten yourselves far
or against a Presidential candidate.
New forces are at work: new issues are
coining to the front: and one Great Question
is about to overshadow all others.
It is the Roman Catholic question.
It is the eternal issue of Home Rule against
’Rome rule: free speech and press, against
Romanist gags and censors: civil and re
ligious liberty, against the hideous foreign
machine which demands physical and mental
prostration before an Italian impostor who
uses paganism to subdue a Christian civili
zation-
Keep your hands untied.
Keep your minds open.
Despise the Boss and his party lash. Be
your own man.
Shake off the mesmerism of party names.
Remember how the Democratic bosses
helped the cotton gamblers rob you of $400,-
000,000 in 1914, how they increased your
taxes, and how they insultingly broke their
promise as to Rural Credits.
Don’t Mix Your Tillmans.
fYUR vigilant and indefatigable friend,
Hon. Robert L. Rodgers calls my atten
tion to the fact that the Crisp County Camp
of Confederate Veterans got the wrong Till
man by the ear.
It was not Senator Ben Tillman who intro
duced the bill to give United States pensions
to Johnny-Rob Vets, but Congressman John
Tillman, of Arkansas.
He made a fine speech in favor of it, too;
and, really, the proposed law would amount
to nothing more than the repayment to the
South of the large sum of which the Radicals
robbed us, when they forced us to pay the
illegal cotton tax.
