The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-03
WATS0N'S LONELY CAKE WALK
HIS DISGUST so GREAT THAT HE
MAY RENOUNCE POPULIsM,

He May Also Formally Decline to
Accept the Nomination of the st.
Louis COnventiOn-He Would Like
TO be RevenGed on Chairman But
Ter and other Leaders Who Have
Thwnrted Him, But WIZ Probably
Have 10 BE Content with Making
His Political Exit In the Role of Il
Martyr.
Atlanta, Ga. Oct 2-The trouble be-
tween Hon. Thomas e. Watson. the pop
ulist candidate for Vice President, ana
the managers of his party together with
his growing disgust at the manner in
which he has been treated by the popu-
lists in the campaign. is strongly en-
phasized by the utterances of his news
paper, which made its appearance to-day
Mr.. Watson, as stated last night, refused
to discuss the situation by word of mouth,
but his paper evidently voices his sentl-
ments.
He is very much discouraged. He looks
like man wearing a great burden of sor-
row-a pathetic picture in current politics
and those who know him well say they
look for a dramatic finale In the midst
of all the talk of his retirement being
INDUCED in at this time on account of
the manner In which he has been belitted
and ignored by his party where local
offices were in the balance one of the in
teresting reports here to-day is that MIR.
Watson contemplates not only refusal
to accept formally tho nomination OF the
ST. Louis convention, but that he will af-
ter the state election next week also re-
nounce the popullsts party itself. This Is
based upon the idea that he is too badly
hurt by the treatment he has received to
forgive his unfaithful followers and CO.
adjuatprs.
Before adopting this course, however he
would probably try the game of driving
out Chairman Butler and the others who
have led the rank and file away from him,
but this would be rather a hopeless fight
and the suggestion that he will renounce
his party If he renounces his candidacy is
made as the only course that will afford
him the only fitting medium of political
exit
1t is confidently expected that something
viii surely happen In the Watson camp at
the close of the state campaign. While he
is sorroWful yet he is resentful, and II he
cannot conquer the recalcitrant leaders
who are selling him out he will probably
do the martyr act already intimated as
shown by the following expressions of his
paper to-day: "Mr. Watson's position has
been humiliating and embarrassing, and
he has been compelled to submit TO policies
he did not approve"
attempts have been made to show that
Mr. Watson favored fusion in the state
of Indiana. This Is not correct Mr.. Wat
son took the position at the beginning of
the campaign that no populist could con-
sistently vote for a single Sewall elector
any more than he could vote for a Hobart
elector. He filed with Chairman Butler a
written protest against Mr.. Buffers fu-
sion policy Mr.. Butler has ignored Mr..
Watson's protest and some steadily for
ward on his own line"
"Mr. Watson's position Is now what 1t
was when the Georgia state convention
met. He Is for a straight middle-of-the-
road ticket. In no other way can the
democratic managers be forced to abide
by the St. Louis contract"
"Our national chairman, Hon. Marion
Butler, has arranged a fusion In North
Carolina, by which the populists get the
small end of the bargain, as usual. Dem
ocrats get five electors. Republicans get
five and the silver party democratic side
show, get one"
Another editorial paragraph is as fol-
lows Mr.. Arthur Sewall puts the gold
clause in all his contracts, and thus lays
the silver campaign open to the assault
of the republicans. He appears TO be at
heart as much of a McKinleyite on the
money question, as he Is on the tariff,
railroad and national bank questions. Yet
this Is the sort of a man fusion compels
populists to vote for"