Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-15
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lacerated a soul as ever throbbed in any
human being. Ignored by my running
mate: betrayed by my notional chairman,
who refused to even notify me of my
nomination, pursued by storms of villifi.
cation, wherever 1 went repulsed by the
Bryan managers In Georgia, who denied
me any recognition whatever on the
Bryan electoral ticket, / came home and
took nv bed, in utter exhaustion and de-
spair. So Infatuated were my local
friends at Bryans treatment of me, that
McDuffie county went for Mckinley.
= "Of course, every one of the q electors
who voted for me, voted for Bryan, too.
AS TO Jim SMITH
"Bfl. bye-gone associations have won
derful influence on me: and we were
friends in the old days on the northern
circuit and before you had soiled your
manhood with close affiliation with Jim
Smith, the convict king. When your first
letter came a glance showed that the
task of answering would be disagreeable.
1 let one Issue of my paper go by, post
poning the unpleasant task. as 1t is hui
man nature to do. But when the next
weeks paper was being made up, / felt
that your letter must have a reply; and
I then fished 1t out of the pile on the
table and read II, carefully. When the
line was reached, in which you brand
ed my statements as mean, malicious
lies. I turned to my secretary and die
tated the reply.
''In the meantime you had got the i'm
preston that my failure to promptly pub
fish your letter was due to fear. You
commented on the matter in Washing
ton: and said you intended to send
COPY of your fear-inspiring epistle to The
Atlanta Journal
my reply to you was already In our
Atlanta office: and when I heard of your
Washington clustering. a copy was fur
nished the Constitution. Thus your mis-
take, as to your former friend, caused
the daily and tri-weekly Constitution, as
we'll as the weekly Jeffersonian to carry
throughout the country simultaneously
an article which could not have done you
any good.
ut seems to be a law of fate that or
false step leads to another; you will find
that your second letter is as much of a
mistake as your first.
NOT wATSON'S RECORD.
I'D Your acrimonious arraignment OF
me, for having been a Populist, will turn
against you every old Pop who has been
keeping you in clover. They may not be
as intellectual and accomplished as you,
Bill, but their hard common sense will
tell them that so much bad-tempered VI
tuperation of me, was not legitimately a
part of your defense of your public rec
ord Their mother wit will teach them
that you do notify proving me to be
murderer, a thief, traitor. scoundrel
generally-establish your right to an
other term in congress.
IF your political crime, last spring,
aided the Republicans to put this in
famous law on us, you are gone, Bill
no matter how black you may paint
Watson's record. The record of Watson
is not the issue which your district is
empaneled to try. 1t is your record. Bill.
Not upon what Watson has done or may
do depends your fate, Mr.. Mudslinger.
Every tub must rest on its own bottom
in these congressional races; and none of
these newspaper clipping members can
expect to win another term by so easy
trick as the concerted abuse of Wat
son. +.E
"(9 You inquire the reason why did
not speak sooner of how Rucker kept
himself in Office by using your father-
in-law as screen Didn't know the
facts, Bill-or you'd have heard my war
whoop long ago. .. gst
II had thought ii rather strange that
none of our congressman made f1ght
on >Rucker. similar to those which Till
man made on DR.. Crum. But it was not
until a few days previous to the writing
of the little editorial which aroused your
ire that a negro man, of Atlanta, wrote
me- and told me your secret.
1.-The moment l learned how that cum
ming coon. Rucler, had used your father
in-law, all these years, to keep himselr
at the head of the revenue service IN
Georgia, I determined to attack you, Bill
And. after reading your scathing de-
nunciation of me, the people will unoer-
stand why our senators and representa-
lives made no fight on that cunning coon.
..They knew what was in Bill Howard
iust as I did, and they did not want TO
enrage that rattlesnake.
"Bill. YOU did not tell the truth about
Rucker He holds his office at the pleas
ure of the president, and could nave oeen
removed any time during the last 10
wears. why didn't you have wnite
placed, Bill? The question is talr one
answer 1t.
LET EN- COME"
"Cs) You virtually announce that me
whole Georgia delegation has combined
10 make war upon the red-headed lnsur-
gent. All right; let 'em come. 1t VIII
not be any very glorious feat against the
entire collection.
go bv all means, ON with the dance.
n is about time that 1t was breaking
loose in Georgia. again. anyway.
40 Where do 1 get my campaign
funds?
"Out of the McDuffie bank. where
keep and retain, and occasionally replen-
ish a nice little bank account.
where do you get yours, Bill?
Ever fingered any of Jim Smiths coin
Expect to get the benefit of some of Il
this year?
you'll need 1t, Bill. and you can have
as much of 1t as you demand.
why do / say that?
I'm the first place, there is persls-
tent rumor that there is political part
nershfp composed of Jim Smith, Hamp
McWhorter and your virtuous self. Con-
seouently, and on general principles and
according to law and immemorable Gus
tom your worthy partner will come
across
I'm the second place, you made some
notable speeches for him when he ran
for governor in eight counties-two OF
which he carried by greatly increasing
per capita circulation therein.
SHIELDED IN PEONAGE"
Thirdly. your powerful pull with the
Republican administration shielded him
In the peonage business. used. to hear
that you and Hampy, when you were
solicitor and Hampy was judge, used ia
run the court up there in the interest
of Jim Smiths convict farm. That
may have been the time when Jim and
Hampy were earning honest pennies by