Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-15
WATSON REPLIES TO HOW AN
BY HURLING NEW CHARGE

"Ah, you pussy-footed worker behind
the scenes No wonder your colleagues
were afraid to offend you by attacking
the negro who kept your father-in-law
in the clover field!
"You imported your brotherin-law from At
lanta into your district and gave him the
position of. secretary TO yourself. didn't you,
Bill? How much has he cost the country
Why didn't you give that good Job 10 some am
bilious Young man. of your own districtI The
district to fill a place that belongs TO your
district?
Alabama youth to be his secretary, wouldn't
Georgia set up howl? Certainly. But your
spurning of your own district and going to an
other for secretary Is just as much of af
front to your constituents.
THE 1908 NOMINATION.
"(5) You ask why I accepted the nomination
of the populists in 1908, which nomination, as
you do not to know. made at regu-
lar national convention held in ST. Louis"
Mr. Watson then reviews certain events lead
ing up to HIS candidacy for the presidency in
1908. and the reasons for it. He says the con-
duct of Mr.. Bryan in touring the country on
''Belmont's special" was shortsighted and
elected the Republican ticket in 1904.
On the subject Of his active canvass of Geor-
ga, he says:
AT the time l decided to make an active
canvass, confined chiefly to Georgia, there were
two controlling reasons
"u) 1t had become evident to my mind
that. with slender resources and lack Of organ
ization. the I concentrated. the better.
"(2l Bryans social equality record (Which
had recently learned) and the way in which
the south had been treated at the Denver con-
venton-wherc the Georgia delegation had been
outrageously insulted, the name of General Lee
Missed and booted down, and both places on the
ticket given to the west-caused me to hope TO
carry Georgia.
cat The time my speech OF acceptance was
made, my home state with me. A grander
political meeting has seldom been held than
that which opened the campaign, at the Ponce
dc Leon springs.
But there had been no deal between me
and Joe Brown; and when Yancey Carter was
duped, by Hoke Smith, into running for gov
ernor, some of Browns managers became
necessarily frightened; and these kept nagging
at Brown until he said, Bryan
That the end of Hoke Smiths interest
in Carter. AS a pawn, he had been played;
and as a quid that has been exhausted, he
thrown away. more thoroughly char
acteristic thing was never done by the man who
cid it.
when Prown said Bryan my following of
Brown men disappeared; and my campaign came
Had been able to carry Georgia, the re-
suit would have electrified the nation. 1t
would have put the politicians on notice. that
the south was no longer thing.
sure things never count In the calculations
OF those who make states and platforms The
uncertain quantities are the ones that receive
the profound attention of party leaders. As
long as the south is certain to 60 Democratic,
as long as she is obliged to vote for the Demo
cratic ticket, whether she wishes to do or
not, she will continue to be the footmat on
winch Otnef sections wipe their feet.
This situation may suit the Bill Howards
put 1t is source Of modification to those
who remember how different was the south's
proud position before the civil war.
She wasn't then the unloseable asset of
either political party. For her imperial favors,
Wing and Democrat had TO contend She
for whose free hand the rival suitors paid their
court.
THE NEGRO CHARGES.
Portunity to win the gratitude of the Republi-
Doyle negro delegation, and color line speeches.
These will not serve you Bill. The people can
eensure sou for everything which you resur-
rect, without seeing that my record entities
you 10 another chance to save Cannonism from
overthrow The people may bes convinced that
Watson is evil bird without coming to .Ae
conclusion that you ought TO have another op-
portunity to win the grateitude of the Kepubll-
can administration as its savior.
Away with your so0hstry about the rules
Bill. Cannon understands reese rules, DOZEN {
hef Old Joe knows wat You drscrrion was
worth. doesn't he? Last November told
his Kansas City audience ,.at 1t would have
been impossible for the Republicans in con
gress to have redeemed the very first pleuge
in their national PLATFORM had not 20 Demo
rules He said that If the Democrats had re-
manned united they and the insurgent Kepubli-
cans would have had control of the house.
What was that very first republican pledge,
Bill? Wasn't 1t to revise the tariff. You
know it was. You are no spring chicken. Bill.
You knew what your vote would be worth to
NAN
Brantley. So did Fitzgerald, of New York city.
II know You Of old. Bill Howard. You are
are a man Of cold crafty calculation; and you
60 down the corridor, behinl tn scenes, by pref
erence, With the soft step OF cat
CHARGES IAN UNDERSTANDING"
"Bnl, If were a betting man, I'd stake
| $4,000 to $1,000 the proposition that, before
you committed that awful crime against your
| you TO be taken care of. IL your con-
stituents treated you as you deserved. | have
not a particle of doubt on my mind that you
| and Livingston and Brantley are to have fat
federal jobs If you lose your seats in congress.
Edwards and Gordon Lee were probably over
persuaded by you older men, and seduced by
promises of some other kind.
but Livingston, the ranking Democrat on the
: appropriations committee was too old at this
| over to the Republicans meant. He had been
! promised something good, you may be sure
| and what do you expect, Bill7
| "You are the ranking Democrat on the foreign
"Hum! Hoots toots! You went to school In
| South America, think you once told me; and
you were fond OF that part of the world How
would Minister to Brazil suit you, William
I Or to Chile, or Peru? -
THE votes of those % Democratic deserters
were so prodgiously valuable TO the corporations
which grow dropsical with loot under our
abominable tariff laws that you need not doupt
single instant that each ths one each Sr of
Judases of the common people has got' OF VIII
| get. his silver. ,,
''MY
Under the foregoing heading Mr. Watson taxes
nm each of the specific charges made against MIN
by Congressman Howard, denying or Interpreting
them -. 49,
ty" to which he replies that he owed MS
election to congress to the Alliance platform ana
the Alliance vote, and that his clear duty was
10 '.stand by the Alliance principles he says
nine counties out of eleven In his district IN,
dorsed his course in this respect ana Woulu
do II again today.
To the charge that he destroyed the Farmers
Alliance" Mr. Watson replies that organizations
are broken I'D from Within and that the death
of the Alliance was really caused by Gideon
Band" a wheel within a wheel. The response
bility he puts upon Congressman Livingston Ma
cune and others
THE COTTON ASSOCIATION.
THAT | jugulated Harvie Jordans Cotton as
ISOLATION" is the way Mr.. Watson quotes an
other of Congressman Towards charges. This
he denies, and explains the method by whlen
the Cotton association came to Its downfall.
"Harvie. like Livingston" Mr.. Watson says
KILLED his noble organization from the INSIDE
And the men and who put somewhere
Harvies Cotton Journal would probably like TO
know how he and Richard Cheatham spent that
amount of money, in four years, publishing
weekly paper.
Il loaned the wreck (from which the nimble
Harvie had jumped just few days oefore), the
| sum Of 1900 last May; and have had to pay
off balances due the plant TO the extent or
several thousands of dollars, ana there are other
demands outstanding"
| AS TO THE FARMERS UNION.
Mr.. Watson also makes emphatic denial OF the