The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-05-19
PAGE FOURTEEN
The Unjust Reflections Which The
Honorable z. ". HardwiCk
Casts Upon the Motives
of Mr.. Watson
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of Mr.. Watson
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Governor that he had to come home, fOrsake
the duty which he was paid to perform, and
to take upon himself duties which did not
belong to his position. He aOas the only one
of oar Representatives an National Councils
a0ho publicly qUent upon record as hGving no
Georgia to settle the gu6ernat0riaz question,
IN his ABSENCE
AS Mr.. Hardwick chose to take upon him
self burden which his office did not impose,
could he not haze made speeches for Hon.
H0ke Smith qUith0ut attacking Watson? In
what way was it necessary to lug Watson's
name into the Hardwick speeches? Judge
Hines went on the stump for Hoke Smith,
but he didn't feel it incumbent upon him to
ridicule his friend Watson, or to cast asper-
sions upon Watson's motives. Seaborn Wright
took the stump for Hoke Smith, but he did
not find it necessary to ridicule and abuse his
friend Watson. Various other friends of
Watson differed from him in the campaign
of 1908, but none of them publicly expressed
a doubt as to his honesty in refusing to sup
port Smith the second time
Wig qUas 1t that Hardo0ich q0as the only
man q0h0 felt 1t necessary to rid5cuZe and e5c-
cOri0te Watson? None of the other speakers
e0ere on such terms of intimacy a0ith Watson,
as a0aS Congressman HardaUich None of
them had been so often W0ts0n's guest None
of them had so frequently broken the Watson
bread and slept beneath the Watson roof
None Of them had so frequently enjoyed the
h0spataz5taes Of the Watson home.
Yet Hardwick, and Hardwick alone, in the
advocacy Of Hoke Smith, chose deliberately
to make speeches in Macon, Valdosta, Glib
son, Wrens and Dublin, chacb he must haze
kroOaom aoouzd make painful reading IN the
domestic circle Of his friend Watson.
WHAT DPDTOT DTD III
HAVE? Watson hadn't qUritten, or said,
thing against him. On his last visit to Thorn
son, he had been the recipient of the hospi-
tallties Of the Watson residence; and friend
ly correspondence had been kept up between
the two gentlemen down to the very time
when Hardwick left Washington to make
those speeches. What right did he haze to
make disparQgjmg remarks either IN public
or pT'5VGte against q man qOh0 had done him
so maa11y kindnesSes, and had been so largely
has political 6e11ef0ctOr?
Didn't Watson have the right to select his
own man for Governor? Didn't Watson
have as much right to decline to support
Smith as Hardwick had to support him?
Isn't Watson as free man as Hardwick?
Did the mere fact that Watson declined to
continue to be an ally of Hardwick and
Smith Justify Hardwick in his sarcastic and
bitter references to "The sage of McDufie"?
Was there no malice In his face and on his
tongue whem, IN Macon, he addressed that
cr0a0d and made those illusions to 'z7he sage
Of NcDuf;e"? Upon e0hat ground did he
make the destinations that q corrupt motive
had put Watson IN the same camp qoith Pero-
dZet0n, L0yzess and Clark H0aOezz? UPON
WHAT SCINTTLLA OF EVIDENCE
DARED He TO MAKE Any SUCH H.
LUSIONS TO WATSON? Did he not
know that it was mere accident of political