The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-10-19
VATSON'S INFAMY.
nEPrH OF DEMAGoGY REACH
A LO ED by HIM.
n,. desperation He Loses all Sense OF
ID I li' and Coarsely Abuses southern
SII Pennle.

In NJ and Coarsely Abuses southern
People.
the Macon Telegraph.
From +arday the Telegraph printed Con
1on Watson's statement OF the in
'S4'.'of tbe Weaver meeting at Macon,
cla gl' .I,Ir,r a careful Investigation, and
l Innied ,hat it was true. IL IS not d
u p:Ibt matter thai a man so prominent III
S.,11Iic lie as Mr.. Watson should stooP
puuDI5nder of individuals and OF a great
Io,'nunity in his otfice-seeklng frenzy;
cow I;n the same letter from which we
pu uo+ -a Yesterday, Mr.. Watson is guilty
quo o,,.n more infamous conduct
o. ~ ~ eminent upon the statement which
hove already printed is as follows;
W. ,.lDemocrats! No holiness OF denial
16ieId YOU from the contempt OF all
Ct GU men! Your heelers did just
nT Gat yon encouraged them to do. In
G,'' vour tardy repentance. You de-
VA" on 9lbody. All men know that you
CO. soIrv simp because you see that
az a., shameful methods of campaign are
irinoino condemnation to your cause.
mPeoDle's party mem Remember that
80, nour wives ars not safe from DEM
0a+ic insult and assault. Remember
Q tI,+ for tbe first time in the history of
. .il,' ranublic presidential candidate has
lam Ino = driven from the hustings, and his
wife has found no protection IN her sex
won, tbe brutal attacks OF southern
rivalry as represented by bourbon
democracy. They call us the rag tag OF
+bo scum of creation. Thank God, we
20 never vet dreamed we could win our
- ,,@ in public favor by insulting women
and striking them in the face with eggs.
ut is the dudes and politicians OF the
oitias who silence our argument with
idinfic howlings. and who drive ladies
fro,n the audlenc~ by SCATTERING them
TbeTe is not a city in Georgia which
does not hold it's prosperity by virtue Of
the country trade.
sl4entlemen. do you wish it understood
that the country people are not wanted
in your cities? Do you wish us to under
Stand that our wives and daughters are
~ he insulted and rotten egged when
tbey attend political meetings in your
cities?
500 YOU wish US to understand that
Won do not wan our trade and that we
must carry il somewhere elese?
"If SO. Lell us. We ae getting tired
of these outrages.
Every time your speakers come out
into the country they are treated with
respect,
Every time ours speak n cities they
are hooted, insulted and assaulted.
I'm vain do yol try to pack it off on
soDe small boy and one egg. The Dem
ocratic newspapers and the Democratic
bosses are resp nsible for this state OF
things.
Let them beware that they do not
carry it too far."
We think no man in American politics
has touched lower depths of demagogy
than Mr.. Watson does in this. In his
desperation he must have lost all sense Of
shame. Weaver himself, in his coarse
abuse of Southern rebels, has not been
more insulting and unfair than this ma
tive Georgian Mr.. Watson is familiar
with the scene and knows that the pres
ence of Mrs. Weaver, seated at the back
of the broad balcony of the Hotel La
ni3r. was probably not known to a single
person Of the crowd gathered i'll the
street far below. She would not have
the balcony lighted by two or three oil
lamps, she could not have been seen.
Yet Mr.. Watson is base enough to say
that this lady was deliberately struck III
the face--not by the single roWdy who
threw the egg, but by the Democrats OF
Georgia.
The worst follows in his warning to
the third party men, that ''their wives
are not safe from Democratic insult and
assault Mr. Watson knows that the
men against whose insults and assaults
he warns his followers in behalf of their
wives are great majority OF the intel
lgent, virtuous people Of Georgia-the
men who give the state its character and
have made it's history. They are the
men from whom only four years ago he
accepted high office, and whose political
principles he defended upon the hastings.
They are the men with whom he has as
ISOLATED all his lie, whose friendship
IN de his business career successful one
and whose votes gave him the Office he
now holds But he does not hesitate to
say Of these men now, to serve politi-
cal purpose, that they will "lnsult and
assault the wives of men who may TO-
low him into the third party. And the
purpose of it all is to bring about hatred
between people who live in the cities and
those who live in the county. 1t is
''the dudes and politicians of the cities
who will insult and assault the farmers
wives. In every way possible he sug-
9ests that the city people and the coun-
try people are necessarily separate and
hostile.
There is no reason to believe tina the
White men who have heretofore followed
Mr.. Watson have parted with the love OF
tair play, the pride in tie race and state,
Tie love OF decency and the contempt Tor
low demagogy which were their inheri-
lance. Ii they have not, they must turn
back from following him. They cannot
continue in possession while Scknowl-