The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-04
The Howard Club at Athens, Ga, is
Publishing False Statements

statement: Con the 18th day of February,
1910, Mr.. Tribble did have a long conversa-
ton with Mr.. Watson at his home in Thorn
son between the hours of II and - o'clock;
that the conversation was over the telephone,
and that Mr.. Tribble called up Mr.. Watson
himself and discussed his campaign with
him."
While it is utterly absurd to bring any such
charge as this against Mr.. Tribble, it is essen
TALLY false. The attempt to re-elect Pussy
foot Bill by convicting his opponent of hav-
ing had a conversation with me over the tele-
phone is one of the most ridiculous things
that ever heard Of
They don't deny that Bill was monstrous-
ly unnatural son. They can't disprove the
statement that he has kept an insolent coon
in office over the heads Of white people, in
order that his wife's old father might have
the glorious privilege of working for mig
ger. They don't dispute the charge that he
has impaired his mental faculties by the i'm
moderate use of fre-water, for they them
selves we're ashamed to see that he had forgot
ten all about the campaign of 1896. He was
actually silly enough to come all the way from
Washington to Athens to make speech in
support of the contention that l. being an
American, couldn't write good books about
France. Any well-read college-boy could have
told him that the best histories of Greece and
Rome were written, not by Greeks and Ro-
mans, but by Englishmen, Frenchmen, and
Germans: that the best political history Of
the United States written by DR.. Gold
win Smith, of Canada: that the two best
books on American institutions were compos-
ed by de Tocqueville, a Frenchman, and
Bryce, Briton: that the best history of Eng
lish literature is that of Tame, the French
man: that the best history Of the medieval
period in Germany was the work of Scotch
man: and that Mr.. Jefferson himself declared
that the history of the Revolutionary War,
written in Italian by Botta, the Italian, is in
dispensable to the student who desires thor
ough knowledge of that period of our history.
Neither can the Howard Club of Athens
offer any other explanation of his desertion to
old Joe Cannon, on the 10Th of March, 1909,
than that he sold himself and his people to
the worst element of the Republican Party
for mess of political pottage.
Nevertheless, he must be returned to Con-
gress, because his opponent committed the
dreadful crime of having talk with Mr.
Watson over the telephone AS matter of
fact, the gentleman, who is stranger to me,
and who never wrote me a line in his life, SO
far as I remember, called me up from Athens
and said he wanted to thank me for using my
influence to keep j. j. Brown from entering
the race He was told by me that [ deserved
no thanks upon that sub ject, for tried my
best to get J. j. to jump in. That was all.
I wouldn't know Mr.. Tribble, were [ to
meet him. He has never talked over his cam
paign with me by telephone or otherwise If
he has ever sent The JEFFERsoNIAN to any
body or bought single copy of it, [ don't
know it. Those Athens gentlemen probably
overestimate my unpopularity when they try
to politically kill man by accusing him of
talking to me over the telephone