The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-20
WATSON STILL WAGING WAR.
MORE RED PEPPER RUBBED INTO
BUTLER'S OPTICS.

The Populist Chairman Accused of
shipwrecLing the PopuIIst Party.
Watson Attributes ButIer's Course
I'm the Campaign to Personal Feel
ing Against Him-Refuses to Help
Pull Him Out of the Hole.
Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 19-The Constitution
ing: Tom Watson has been rubbing
more red pepper into the wounds of Sena-
tor Marion Butler In his paper out yes
terday, he publishes his answer to Sena-
tor Butler. and 1t is without any appear
ance of conservatism. In his reply Mr..
Watson says in part: You did not dare
to publish 1t (the first letter. because you
felt its arraignment Of you to be unan-
swerable Mr. Washburns kilograms Ito
which 1 was no party did not control you
then In not publishing the letter any more
than they control you now in suppressing
it. The truth is, senator, you feel your
self to be a deeply guilty man-as, indeed,
you are. Instead of managing this great
campaign in spirit of broad patriotism
and of courageous loyalty to your nominee
and your party, you have allowed your
personal ill-will toward me to divert you
into a tortuous, narrow, Jealous and dis
loyal policy, which has shipwrecked the
peoples party and brought the success of
Mr. Bryan to a crisis of extreme peril.
"'You now plead with me to pun you
out of the hole. I shall do nothing of the
kind. You pecked your way into 1t, and
you must peck your way out
"'Senator, you were selected as chair
man to help me with this campaign. You
were expected to act with me and for
me. You have not done so. You have
acted without me, and you have acted
against me. In nothing have you con-
suited me- At no time have you tod
me of your plans or your purposes.
In all this you may be right, and
may be wrong The committee called off
by you to one side at Chicago has sus-
tained you and censured me. Therefore,
my position is most painful. The Bryan
Sewan committee is against me and the
Bryan-Watson committee is against me.
''I stand alone.
But, senator, l was a populist while
you were still camping with the demo-
erats, and ! have always been middle
of-the-road populist, while you never have
been A tusionist you nave always been,
and you bargain with the republicans Ia
one campaign and with the democrats III
the next. In this campaign you have bar
gained with both republicans and demo-
Gratis.
/" God only knows which bargain you
intend to keep.
AS for me, turn from you and appeal
to the real true-hearted populists. If
have sinned against principle and right in
demanding that our party and its nomi-
nees' and it's creed be respected BY the
democrats who had come to us for help
then l want the party to say so, and / will
bow to its decree.
"'But l do not recognize your right to
put me under the heels of the democratic
trlcksters and bosses, and shall continue
to claim the privilege Of speaking and
writing for the national nominees Of the
populist party
"I do not believe that the time has yet
come when populists will say 1t is treason
to be loyal to the populist ticket. II Is
unnecessary for me to say that my letter
of acceptance must stand just as 1t Is writ
ten. Yours, etc.,
Thomas e. Watson"