The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-12
MIR WATSON AND HIS TEARS.

The New York World has the follow
ing special:
Augusta, Ga, Oct 9.--Tom Watson
has practically abandoned all hope of
being returned to Congress. In the State
election last week he was the issue in
this district. 1t was test vote in his
Congressional race When the news that
the district had gone Democratic by
| 300 votes reached him he cried like a
child, and said the thing he most re-
GREETED was the bitterness which had
been aroused against him among his old
friends.
In his own home town-Thomson-all
his lifelong friends voted against him,
and because of his teachings of race
equality to the negroes. many of his old
friends decline to receive him ut their
homes or to associate with him. His ad-
mirers now are only among the Ignorant
classes of whites and the blacks
Though he realizes that he must be
defeated. he has determined to make n
last bold stroke for the negro vote, and
will tomorrow begin another active can
vass of the district, speaking principally
TO the negroes.
That Mr. Watson was very bitterly
disappointed at the utter collapse in
Georgia of the viciou' movement that he
was leading is highly probable but, for
the credit of mankind, it is to be hoped
that an individual who has succeeded in
forcing himself into as much of the public
gaze as he occupied had too much manli-
ness to perform the baby act and shed
tears over his defeat Mr.. Watson need
not be surprised that his old friends and
acouaintances feel bitterly towards him
in view of the course that he has pur-
sued. The elements through which he
was steering his course ire not political.
They are social The very existence Of
the white race depends upon their union
whilst they are confronted in politics by
q solid aud massed baud of negroes
They must adhere together or make UP
their minds to seeing their civilization
eclipsed, their property the prey Of pill
forers and marauders, their fresides pol
lifted ard whatever generates self-re-
spect stricken down. We repeat this is
10 matter of politics. 1t is a question of
social existence. The white people I'M
derstand perfectly that the selfish adven-
turer, who, for his own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
would insidiously persuade part Of
their number TO leave the common fold
on any pretext whatever, is driving the
q tcring wedge into their social organi-
cations which will rive il asunder and
turn them over TO chaos unless they
speedily and decisively arrest the hand
that aims the blow. Understanding this
they intend by the penalties they inflict
won the offender, to warn him that he
is trifing with what they hold most
sacred and dear in his evil course, and
they intend that the delinquent shall
know when he embarks on such course
he does it at his own proper peril.
Mr.. Watson might, therefore, very rea-
sonably have expected that in pursuing
the course in politics which he mapped
out to himself he was estranging all his
old friends and associates, and he might
have known he was going to arouse very
bitter feelings in their bosoms towards
himself. He should have thought of all
this in advance, and thus have saved him
self the humiliation of a baby's part, all
| the tears of which can never wash out