The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13
MORE HOT SHOT FROM tom
HOKE AND GUT ARE TARGETS
FOR WATSON'S UNEER-
ING AIM.

n secret conference WIN Dig Bugs
of Southern Railroad Admitted
Hoke's Boast of Having Taken
Watson's Followers Away From
Him. A Conundrum for Guyt.
Tom Watson in The JeffercOnian.
The Jeffersonian innocently in
quired whether there had been a
= secret conference between Guyt Nc
Lendon and Governor Smith, on the
one side, and the big bugs of the
Southern railroad On the other We
had barely finished the question be-
fore Guyt comes starting back with
the queerest denial that ever went on
record The denial, closely read, is
an admission that such a conference
was had at the time and place stat
ed. Guyt rejects the word secret"
but inasmuch as the conference was
held in his private room, in the no.
tel, its privacy was sufficient to be
secret, for the fact of the meeting
escaped all the reporters. People
who have been wrought up to the
point of frenzy by being told, in
stump speeches, that the railroads
were chasing Hoke Smith with
cleavers, bush-hooks, pitchforks,
meat axes and things will be i'm
mensely relieved when they learn
how chummy and comfortable are
the governors relations with the big
1tarr TNff he =,
Callers at the executive office in
Atlanta are blandly informed by the
negro doorkeeper that the governor
is out of town. BY a lucky chance
the high officials OF the Southern
railroad happen in Atlanta on the
same day when the governor hap
pens to be there. This is fortunate
for all concerned! How would it
do to swap around, for a changer
let the niger make the excuses at
those railroad conferences, and let
us have the governor at the eXecu-
tive Office. Ride and tie you
know. Let us have more of the gov
ernor and the Southern railroad
more of the niger.
Now that Governor Smith feels
it necessary to stump Atlanta, ward
by ward, We gues3 he wishes that
while he was kicking somebody out
of the railroad commission he had
kicked ODE Stevens instead of Joe
Brown. It's an awful thing to kick
the wrong man. In fact, among the
men who indulge in the luxury of
L ~ u,
thought it was well understood that
the first requisite to success was to
know who to kick.
No matter how this gubernatorial
rucus may end there is one thing
that we will stake our pet mule on
and that is that Hoke will be Nigh
ty careful who he kicks the next
time.
AS to the disfranchiseme nt plank,
let nobody worry about that The
men who originated it will take care
of it.
Neither of the candidates now
running had anything to do with
formulating that issue, and neither
can, in honor, lift finger against
it, And when both say that they are
in favor of 1t we are as ready to be-
lieve one as the other Hoke Smith
and Joe Brown both rank as gentle
men, and when both take the pledge
to the Acknowledgement plank that
issue goes out of the campaign.
A little bird brought us this:
We've taken WatSon's followers
away from him, and now We'll bury
him and get rid of him
Did certain Govern II say that
to a certain Rape Circular politician,
named Joe Sid Turner?
If so. we beg to remind them that
Mr.. Watson has no followers" and
never has had any. The principles
for which he has stood since 1889,
through all kinds of weather, have
had followers" and still have fol
lowers
Here's cOnundrum:
If Guyt McLendon is so ready tC
publish to the world the interesting
things he has learned as Chairman
of the Railroad Commission why
was it impossible for us to get 6
list of those fellows who had beer
ridipu around IN fraa OaCCac2