Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-12
TOM WATSON FLAYED BY WILLIAM M. HOWARD

CRATIC PARTY AND ENTHRONE IN
POWER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
"Why have you never in exchange for
your help in electing Republican candi-
dates for president over Democrats stip-
ulated i'm the contract that your people
should be freed from the indignity now
so revolving to you, and always so to
/ them, of having negroes hold office In
Georgia at least?
AN ADDED STIMULANT.
There are thousands of men in Geor-.
gia who believe that you have made your
several races for the presidency for the
purpose of defeating the Democratic
, candidate. because of your implacable
hatred of the Democratic party; and
there are thousands of Georgians who
believe, to this congenial labor of hate,
you had the added stimulant of Republi-
can GOLD AS A REWARD FOR YOUR
BASE BETRAYAL OF THE WHITE
PEOPLE of the south to the domination
of a political party which by war and
tho semblance of law had ATTEMPTED
TO MAKE THEIR FORMER SLAVES
! THEIR POLITICAL EQUALS.
why did you accept these nomina-
tons, Mr.. Watson? Why did you undergo
the labor and pain of electioneering with
twelve millions of people in As states,
with constantly diminishing popularity
and rapidly disintegrating organization"
/ The Republican party raises a campaign
fund for the benefit of its party suffi-
| cient to defray all the expenses of a cam
| paign, none of the expenses falls on the
candidate. The Democratic party raises
campaign fund, sometimes by dollar
subscriptions, but none of the expense is
paid by the party's candidate. How are
your campaign expenses met, Mr.. Wat
SOM
You favor campaign expense accounts
being made public, so does Bryan, so does
Taft. Have you ever published yours?
You are a careful accountant. You keep
close watch on what congressman get
and tell them Cme) how I could best
spend il. and ask me questions about
other matters of probable expenditure
that you do not quite know about
man having such an inquisitive mind,
and always speaking II so freely in the
public interest, who favors publicity for
everybody's business, surely knows to
! the last cent what each campaign of his
own has cost. where he got the money to
defray the expenses of it, what his time
lost from business was worth and who
paid for ii, etc, etc. You should not
leave such matters to speculation.
ct should think that impertinent sug-
gestions about what you could or DID
GET PER DAY OR PER SPEECH OR
PER STATE OR PER ELECTORAL
Il
MINDED, PURE-HEARTED, RED
HAIRED, THIN-sKINNED. sYMPA-
THETIC PERFERVID, RIP-SNORT-
ING CAMPAIGN ORATOR LIKE YOUR
SELF.
wATSON's NEGRO RECORD
This is not all of your record you
wish the people of Georgia to forget Do
you deceive yourself into the belief that
by this outcry against the negro in Of
FTbnrnSnn SDaprh of AnpIIEt
1902, has been forgotten? That specimen
of unprovoked treason against the peace
of the people when YOU DECLARED
THAT YOU STOOD FOR wIPING OUT
THE COLOR LINE IN POLITICS, that
THE NEGRO SHOULD ENJOY ALL
THE POLITICAL RIGHTS CLAIMED
BY THE WHITE MAN.
do you recall the appeal you made
through the Arena to the negroes of the
country to join you, that you had the
only party that was their proper abiding
place. that YOU WOULD IGNORE COL
OR IN MAN IN ORDER TO SECURE
FOR HIM EQUALITY IN LAW, and
! equal right to education and equal right
to vote, the exercise of all his rights
based on his manhood and the fact that
lie. was A CITIZEN, UNPREJUDICED
BY HIS COLOR?
cit was you who left the chair as pre-
siding office of your state IS convention
in Atlanta TO SECOND THE NoMINA-
TON OF EPHRIAM WHITE AS A
MEMBER OF THE STATE ExECU-
TIVE COMMITTEE from the state at
large, SAYING. THAT THIS NEGRO
WAS AS FIT FOR THIS OFFICIAL
POSITION AS ANY MAN OF ANY
PARTY.
"It was you who procured the appoint
ment of negroes as members of your
congressional conventions and congress
sional executive committees. 1T WAS
YOU who hired negroes to make speech
es in your campaigns and WHO BACK
| ED THE NEGRO PREACHER. DOYLE,
| TO ADDRESS THE PEOPLE OF YOUR
| OWN TOWN AND WHOSE LANGUAGE
| so OUTRAGED THE WHITE PEOPLE
THAT YOU WERE COMPELLED TO
SUMMON YOUR FRIENDS TO PRO
TECT HIM FROM THE INDIGNANT
WRATH OF YOUR NEIGHBORS.
"Tt was YOU WHO TOOK OATH in
your own contested election case THAT
YOU WERE PLEDGED TO WIPE OUT
: THE COLOR LINE IN POLITICS and
secure for the negro rights which the
Democrats denied him and which the
Republicans in the south were too weak
to enforce.
"It was YOUR FRIENDS who applied
for and SECURED FROM A FEDERAL
JUDGE the appointment of FEDERAL
MARSHALS AND SUPERVISORS TO
SUPERINTEND THE COMPRESSION
Al, ELECTIONS IN RICHMOND AND
WILKINSON COUNTIES.
'IT WAS YOU who OBJECTED IN
CONGRESS TO THE PRINTING OF AN
EXTRA EDITION OF THE FORCE
BILL, INTENDED TO INFORM THE
WHITE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH OF
THE LAST EFFORT OF THE REPUB-
LICAN PARTY TO CONTROL OUR
ELECTIONS BY FEDERAL BAYON-
ETS.
You who were born and reared IN
Georgia and nurtured in the traditions
and sentiments of a slave-owning class,
inheriting the instincts of your race and
class, and suffering your own person
| the consequence of that terrible struggle
| for political and racial supremacy fore.
| 81 llrnr tha annth nv the hatred Of ThaE