The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-17
WATSON'S NEWSPAPER WORK.
HE SEES NO IMPROPRIETY IN SELL
ING HIS ARTICLES.


Offers of From 800 to $1,000 to
Write on Lines He Looks Upon as
Improper Rejected - He Denies
That He Refused to Receive the
National Committee of the POpu-
list Party-He Declines to Talk
About the Contents of His Letter
of Acceptance.
Thomson Ca, Oct. 16-Hon. Thomas E.
Watson denies the published reports from
Chicago that he refused to receive the ma
tional committee of the populist party or
expressed any unwillingness to meet
Chairman Butler. He said he declined to
leave his home to meet them in Atlanta,
but when they asked if he would receive
them in Thomson he had promptly replied
in the affirmative. He has received tele-
gram announcing that Committeeman
Reed and Washburn will leave Chicago to-
night for Thomson to confer with him.
Mr.. Watson says the attack on him for
receiving remuneration for newspaper ar
ticles is beneath his public notice. He
makes no conceament in private CONVEX
sation that he received remuneration from
the New York World, the Independent and
other papers for special articles prepared
for them on wall street." "Populism in
the South" etc
He is a newspaper man and while his
nomination for vice president gave a great
er demand for his opinions he did not think
that the nomination made it improper for
him to write articles for the press giving
his political views. If news
papers in the north thought his views
on popuism in the south or on Wall
street valuable enough to pay for their
exclusive publication, where was the i'm
propriety in his furnishing them? At first
the articles sent the World were advance
sheets of his own editorial page in the
peoples party paper, and those subse-
| quently written were in exact accord with
his utteranceS in his speeches and his
own paper. He did not change his views
or write for money, but simply accepted
remuneration as a literary man for lit
erary work, and availed himself of a
! wider field for the dissemination of the
| populist doctrines. He said he had re-
ceived numerous offers from 800 to $1,000
for articles on lines his judgment did not
| approve, and he did not even reply to
| many of them.
About his letter in reply to the letter
of notification, Mr.. Watson says he mail
! ed it to Chairman Butler at Washington
! day before yesterday and it should now
| be in his possession. Mr.. Watson thinks
! that in replying to the committees noti-
| fication he has fulfilled his obligation
in the matter, and that Chairman Butler
and the committee are the ones to decide
whether the letter shall be given to the
! public or not.
He declined to say anything about the
contents of his letter except that it was an
/ Of -s1 of H.
against the policy of Bryan-Sewal fusion.
| A gentleman who saw the letter says it
| fills about twenty typewriter papers
! When the Morning News correspondent
! asked him if it was an enlargement of
the salty telegram sent to Topeka Kans,
! published to-day, he smiled and declined
to say anything further.
Gov. Buchanan of Tennessee arrived
| here to-day at noon from Nashville to see
Mr. Watson and left on the next train an
! hour later. He wore a Bryan-W
button, but Mr.. Watson declined to say
anything on the subject of their interview
His liberated sore throat is nearly well
and his enforced rest has greatly improv-
ed Mr. Watson's general condition.
Atlanta. Ga, Oct. 16.-Ex-Gov. Buch-
anan of Tennessee, passed through here
tonight on his way home, from a visit
to Thomas f. Watson. Gov. Buchanan Is
manager of the populist party in his stale,
The populist executive committee Of Ten
nessee, meets tomorrow night at Nash
vile, to discuss fusion with the demo-
Gratis Gov Buchanan went to see Mr.
Watson to ascertain from him his posi-
ton in regard to retiring from the nation
al ticket. He says that Mr.. Watson told
him he would stick to the end. 1t is possi-
BILE though that when Treasurer Reed re-
turns to Georgia and confers with Mr.
Watson, that he may decide to come down
and leave the populsts free to vote as they
please in the national election. Gov.
Buchanan said that Mr.. Watson seems
to be in good health, and will soon be in
the field again speaking.
Washington, Oct. 19-Populist Chairman
Butler had not received Watsons letter
of acceptance up to 7;SO o'clock tonight,
and said that if it should reach him later
tonight it would not be made public be-
fore tomorrow.
He added that he saw no reason why
Mr.. Watson himself should not make his
letter public.
This suggestion was telegraphed to Mr..
Watson tonight, but he reiterated his
previous statement that the matter rested
now entirely in Mr.. Buffers hands.
FOUR KILLED BY DYNAMITE.