Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Notes

Italics and bold face texts have been transcribed between
_underscores_ and =equal signs=, respectively. Small capitals have
been replaced with ALL CAPITALS.

More Transcriber’s Notes may be found at the end of this text.

Watson’s
Jeffersonian
Magazine

THOS. E. WATSON
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
ATLANTA, GEORGIA]

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OF INDIANAPOLIS
ARTHUR JORDAN, President,

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=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 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.

THOS. E. WATSON,
Editor and Proprietor.

VOL. I. JANUARY, 1907 NO. 1

CONTENTS.

THE BODY-SNATCHERS. Frontispiece. _A. K. Taylor_