The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-13
WATSON HAS A WORD.
TOM TALKS OF HIS PLAN IND BATS
HE'LL KEEP UP THE FIGHT,
And that He Will Make a Contest Against
Mr.. Black-He Repeats His Fairy Stories
of Intimidation the Last Campaign.

| Washington, december lU.-CSpeCIal)- -
! Tom Watson has not had an opportunity
yet to air himself aud his views on the floor
| of the house but it is not his wont to delay
| very long.
| He will probably be heard next week.
! Yesterday a correspondent of western
| paper Interviewed him on the subject OF his
| future plans and this is what he got
| NO" said Congressman Watson, in an
| swer to an inquiry from the correspondent,
Il have not the slightest objection to tell
ing my future programme. There is as
| see no possibility of doing anything in
third party matters at this session, and so
far as 1 am concerned, when the session is
over shall return home to Georgia am,
| as you know, q large farmer, keeping thirty
plows going besides renting several farms to
others My own special effort is toward
cotton raising. l shall not however, give
any particular attention to farm business,
| NV thoughts and my work will be entirely
! in the third party movement. l own, as you
| may know. Il paper at Atlanta, Ga. This
| is a weekly now but hope III time TO make
! il \ daily, 1t is devoted to third party in
terests and is the principal! organ or the
| third party in the state. My personal at
| tcntion shall be given to editing and conduct
| ing this paper. l shall also III an possible
~ lone as | live. The fight shall so on
until the famer interests in Georgia and
the people who now make UP the 1niru up parry rcn
| th"'n now. nor~did they get them in the re-
| cnot nlrctjous We have as mat
! t,"s stnn1 fairly and sQuareiy a
f,II half OF the vote of Georgia,
but the democrats have the macnii9 ol, ,,,'+,
| Tho have all the small town and county
nnicss 40 ~ we'll as the state Offices. This
1i,, o,,r way. makes the machine, The
| d",oncrats ,sa this machine to stitile us
mud crush out the expression or OUT opinl1
ION; ION mis- is the way we are defeated, ana
this is the way we were defeated. but we
viii keep at it. At the next stay anu
| county elections III .'2nuai5' ~. Mc et,to md
| nominees Tor ever! O'i'' -, fnr nvnrv
we will make i'7 matter how
| one OF them. ~" AND iusic-
great. no matter, now s .ili.d Marty candi-
nifcant there "lH ee . t,;,.p nsrty viii do
date IN the neH ;tliu W.. - Sect them. If
! everything IN their po"el ~ tan 60 much
we win one or IL We , Min then to gain
gain we will go on trF,,,s viii ,ii' make this
more a. a., ec oS,r az We will make that
the starting point ,o Tor l lHr, that neither
one thing you ca RESI- VI, tbe fighf
nor my pT"PIi ro VIII his thin third party fight shall
a. ;on; !, s ,,ao re 'l' until the people
| struggling 10Y shal .; ,rr'a'o 1"''
| nance and just htaII"S
His lnvitationS'
81 have received an invitation to be
| +ha p,rionul recruiting officer OF this new
aIjjancc organization. But this would take
! me- away from Georgia and | declined it.
| / do not want to spread myself out or d-
vida nv efforts by attempting to cover too
| r r.oo a. +orritorv I believe [ can do more
slo ci fa q no thr1 ,1aty by concentrating my
| efforts in Georgia
| II shall. as said before. conduct this pa
pcr and Shall do anything and everything
| else in the state of Georgia to promote ana
| further the third party movement. THIS
shall be my main business. l. of course,
| vii loo,, aftcr my farms besides.
~, VIII Contest, but
"As TO nv recent exptle ;:.ve this
As !" i''y ,.+oS mar / was the honest
| to say: Ano" tHat ,h' yntnrs Of NV
choice OF Tue niaJV .,, - i mcra not for the
| district. Know 'i1a 'l i. ~ n.ou,t h,yp
FRAUDS that neic WI ,,,ni.a q t;ohr for M,
been retuf'ieG, s1, '.,I,'.r.ss ihe house
| sat IN the httF-thitu tGIie p ,n1.a INV
may dispose as 1t set,S ~ ~. n,,,co,,s
| opinioh 10 cApi % a. IVA To- sn, i that
! OF the coii'eo1, ~ ~, - nitb nv hest Of
| Will mtle IL anu HIM ~ WIN -'
Aotx INV ..o +rr;,, f., tnach everybody that
| we are trEiis ~ tJ"CA nrfoct r;oht
| .nos -" hdn~d and perfect right
| 10 pc W. want 10 teach this to the
n,,cr,1 voters a. well as the white We
oo, +hn tIst in tEa south to ever invite the
| colore1 man to our meetings. You VIII,
| 81 course know that the most abhorenU
| - a
| ci i.1 9onvoi;tv between the races. But l do
ri, ca, h rgH,s nor do my people believe that any
r not ronditi0n will arise from giving the
n nao,, his fullest political rights. We real
| i've the wide gulf between political and So
! cial matters. We bring 20 Colo!eu ihan ~
omr meetings and try 10 teach him that he
not only has the right to vote. but to inform
Himself fully as to the matters and ques-
lions in hand that he might dispose OF his
| holIot properly. We try to encourage him
f. -u,ak. and to think aud to fight
! Ks to- the recent treatment which third
| marty people have received il the state OF
| T;orpia the half has not been told.
| Tho stories of OutraSes perpetrateo
| against General Weaver ana MIS-. Lass
| rot bann holf rehcarsed They were rot
t,, ogged hootoJ at howled down and all
| tehtsseeu' III xnra studied ont and prac-
softS or i1is.n,S Tbis vas moi, done by the
tlced Ill advance. MS We 49, ~ Iooa
| hoodlum element either we nave no h9ou
| Inn element in Georgia Welch would care