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

place the business Office of the Jeffs will
be when the public demand to know the
truth, through you, the only exclusive
medium OF truth, about Livingston, and
Bartlett and Brantley, and Howard, and
Hardwick, and Lee, and Edwards. Sub
scribe for the Jeffs, boys! They will tell
you how to vote. The editor of the Jeffs
will give you his own exclusive informa-
ton about boilers and commonplace con-
gressmen.
Yes, new brooms' is the slogan at thu
business Office Of the Jeffs. We are quite
prepared to believe, Mr.. Watson, that
your enterprise will net you quite a neat
sum, but in the aggregate not SO much
probably as the surplus after paying your
expenses of the national handicap in the
years 1886 and 1904.
1T is indeed genius that makes author
ship pay, journalism pay, politics pay,
and calls the profits patriotism!
ABOUT JUDGE LAWSON.
THE charge OF desertion of the Demo-
cratic party, betrayal of it TO New Eng
land, falls fiippantly from your lips, and
for local point you add that Judge Law
son would have suffered his right arm cut
OF before he would have deserted the
Democracy This statement is perhaps
the one unblemished truth in all that you
have written about men. No man OK
character who knows Judge Lawson per-
sonally or from reputation would ever
suspect that any act of his long and dis
tinguished life could be otherwise than
loyal and honorable and to have lived so
long and to have served his people and
country in so many ways with such dis
tinction, with reputation Frightening as
his life lengthens is the supreme test Of
an honorable and useful man, and 1
heartily join in your tribute to him. But
has this always been your sincere opinion
of Judge Lawson's character?
You are, of course, aware that YOUR
CHEAPEST TRICK IN CONTROVER-
SY is TO PRAISE ONE MAN AS A
.FULCRUM ON WHICH TO TURN
YOUR DSPRAISE OF ANOTHER.
hope you are sincere in this opinion OF
the judge as q man incapable Of wrong.
mo leader ever had a more devoted
following; hey took defeat as inspira-
ton to renewed effort. They learned from
II a new devotion to your cause and fol-
lowed you through the campaigns from
1892 to 1896 with dauntless courage. Then
came visions OF a wider arena, the fatal
dream of leading your party quadrennial-
ly as an ally of the Republicans, the
greatest political foe of the Democratic
party, the party that had given you po-
ntlcal DlrIn, tne party you nao IoTsWOrn
in one brief year. How have you ex-
planned to the old guard of the Peoples
party your abandonment of them to their
fate when your own ambition could no
longer profit by their suffrage?
when gallant John West made the
race for congress in 1896, what aid and
comfort did he get from you? And loyal
Jim Hogan, OF Lincoln, when candidate
for governor? How many speeches did
you make for Jim, how much of time
and ink or money did you contribute?
Did your hatred of Livingston run you
from Georgia to Kansas for the plan Of
dividing the alliance?
Wreck and ruin marks your pathway.
What political party with which you
ever acted, gained any enduring strength
from your conduct or counsel?
what organization devoted to its ma
teriaI uplift that you have not shattered
with suspicion and dissension? What man
OF men trusting your honor, while giving
you their service. have you not DETAINED
on the first assertion of their independ-
ence? Contemptuous and intolerant OF