The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-21
I WATSON GRILLS
SANTA CLAUS MANN
PAYS RESPECTS TO TOWN TOPICS
MAN IN MAGAZINE.
Georgta Statesman Legally Worked
and Comes Out in New Publication
Showing Up the Colonel as a Grand
Old Rascal
New York Globe.

New York Globe. a. ~
Iom Watson is out with new mag
azine. I.
It is called Watsop's Jeffersonian
Magazine.
There IS another publication bearing.
the popullst leaders, name. Tt is Tom
Watson's Magazine, but it has nothing
of Tom Watson's but his name.
What is the name without the mans
asks the Georgia statesman in the fore
word OF his new publication, in which
ne relates the Hugly dream Of his
New York experience.
The ogre of Watson IS bad dream was
Colonel Mann Of Town Topics fame,
and the way Watson handles him in the
forleword makes interesting reading.
The substance of Mr.. Watson 8 story
Is that after getting him into the mag
az!ne venture with his name as the
chief asset, Colonel Mann, with one
@. @: de France, fred him out and
seized the property. But the spirit Of
It he'd with Watson, as Watson himself
declares, and nothing but the corpse
Or the magazine remains in their pos
session. s.s.
It was while he was pondering
New York newspaper at a large s salary 9
that Mr.. Watson first met Colonel
Mann. Here is his description Of the
colonel on that interesting occasion:
:. While in this uncertain state Of
mind, Colonel Mann burst in upon me
at my hotel in all the glory and pom
poslty OF white whiskers, white hair,
W1ne,colored face, spotted waistcoat,
gold-headed cane, baywindow belly,
eyes that looked like hard boiled eggs
and voice thick with high living and
constant use. =
AS may have remarked before, he
looked just like a picture taken out Of
chlld,s colOred picture book.
While he talked to me 1 sat there
Trying to make up my mind as to which
ne resembled most, an ideaIzed Dor
trayal or Santa Claus or Of John Bull
or OF John Barleycorn. I finally de-
c1ded that he would do for composite
photograph of all three.
TINS ny-looking old chap I had
never heard Of before. His Town Ton
les l had never seen-didn It know Of
its EXISTENCE - s = =. :.
MT. watson says that after the maya
zine was started Colonel Mann made
several propositions that caused him.
TO smell rat and size up the colonel
as "a grand old rascal But he stuck
10 the magazine because his word was
publicly pledged.
NJ. Watson says that his salary of
$oOO month was not paid, but that he
was wiling to go on working for moth
would not stand for the insertion in Il
Of advertisements of Colonel Mann s.
various publications So he quit. Then:
Colonel Mann rushed into court. pot
Judgment against the magazine for
$6O,OOO, and sold it at sheriff's sale to
himself. 4 - = =. 0'io ~
HE actually had the sheriff to sell
my name, and was ass enough to buy it.
But he didn't buy me, along Win
the name, and he didn It buy the spirit
OF the magazine when he bought the
desks, the the iron safe, and the trade
Further he says:
- wonder if those New York ras.
Gals really thought that would ouietiy
st s down an dtwiddle my thumbs while
they were making off with Watson -
Magazine? Il wonder if it never an
tered into those heads, which were bent
together to plot and to scheme, that the
consequence of their pretty little game
might q jbeSa revolt of Watson and his
friends, Tzr,5=., - CIV :, 80 .
.sUnless I am greatly mistaken. the
subscribers to Watson's Magazine are
MT: Watson 8 friends, and they are 90
ing to stand by him. We shall see. -
On the whole, Mr.. Watson thinks his
experience with Colonel Mann has. done
him good. He explains as follows:
They have put into me, once more.
that intensity Of energy and purpose
which otherwise might never have been
mine again. What the spur is to the
thoro6red, what the bugle call is to the
cavalier, the recent attempts of nv
enemies to compass my ruin has. been
to me. b.
"By the living God! Here is no
thought of surrender, no weakness Of
doubt or hesitation, but a resolution,
fixed as hardened steel, to march on
What! Be gutter now9 Falter
or flicker now? Lower the flag and
stack arms, now?
Rather, would I die''
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