The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-25
WATSON TO
SEEK VOTES
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE EI.
PECTS TO MAKE HIS CAM
PAiGNs ON DEBATABLE
GROUND.
REPUBLICANS ARE CIRCULATING
PoPULISTS SPEECH OF Ac-
CEPTANcE AS Literal
TURE APPROVED,
BY THEN.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-It has bccn
announced thai Thomas Z. Watson, Of
Georgia, the Populist candidate for
President, will make his campaign
chiefly if lot entirely in debatable
Roosevelt or Judge Parker shall be
elected President.
Mr.. Watson will evote his energies
chiefly to attacking the Democratic
party on the ground given in his speech
of acceptance-that it is easier to at
tack an open foe than it is ITO teal the
mask from the face of a hidden emery.
Mr.. Watson's speech of acceptance
is already being sent broadcast through
the State as a Republican campaign
document. His campaign in New York
will be under the direction of Melvin
G.. Palliser and the other anti-PaIker
men who succeeded in getting William
j.. Bryan to make a speech attacking
Judge Parker in his own State before
The ST. Louis convention. These men,
several of whom nave worked for each
of the two great parties in former
wears, are plentifully supplied with
money from some mysterious source.
The Populists AVE no organization in
this State. They ran no candidate for
Governor in 1892 and never have cut
any figure in New York politics.
This year the Republicans are pre-
dieting that the Populists will poll a
great vote in New York. They expect
that a large number of the admirers of
Bryan will support Watson, and that
nv this .naonc tho parl-or 1ro+o will Io
materially reduced. The Populist par
ty has disappeared in the West, where
it rose to prominence in 1892, and Mr..
Watson will try the experiment of
seeking to revive it in the East, and
especially in the pivotal States.
1t was not thought worth while to
run the Populist ticket in New York
State four years ago, when the State
was overwhelmingly for Mckinley.
The efforts of the Populist
were confined to the doubtful States of
the West. Mr.. Watson was then the
candidate for Vice President. He hest
tated long before taking the ncmina-
ton, but finally arguments were pre-
sented to him that caused him to ac-
In the same he hcsitat-
eu ILLS year. IL was necessary Tor
him to come to this city in order 10
give the matter full consideration be
he definitely decided to run.
There was little surprise among the
well informed when Mr.. Watson d.
rected that the ceremony of norifca.
ton should take place here. despite
the fact that so far as is known there
is not a Populist within a hundred
miles of City Hall. His speech in Coop
er Union was a bitter arraignment of
Democratic party and it's candi
dates, and he referred to the Republi.
can party only to express his admira-
ton for and confidence in it's canGi-
for President. The speech was
ooked upon as an exceedingly valuable
aid to the Republican campaign.
Mr. Watson is a wealthy man in mis-
State. He owns several plauta-
ions and was regarded as the leading
criminal lawyer in the State before he
.ook up politics. 1t will be necessary
o place the Populist ticket in nomina-
by petition, but Mr.. Watscu's
riends have no doubt about their abil-
ty to obtain the three thousand sigma
ureS necessary.