The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-04
PAGE EIGHTEEN

debt due on which the heirs had ask
ed the administrator to be indulgent,
a security debt of J. ]. Norris and w.
S. Smith, who signed note; that
Wesley Smith paid his part of that
note. dollar by dollar, as he could,
until the last dollar was discharged.
He showed by records that Ernest
Williams got tired of waiting for
decision and got after the admins
traitor, employing John T. West and
W. B. Collins, to sue me. He show
ed the records of the administrator
report in this and another case in
which the report stated that he had
not fully settled up the estate. This
was in 1898. The report said the adj
ministrator had just recently ascer-
tanned what the total assets of the
estate would be; that there would
be $2,037 for each of the heirs. An
other suit was filed in October, 1894,
in which the report of the admins
TRAITOR said that he had just succeed
ed in collecting everything for the
estate and cited the fact that he had
paid Mrs Jones, one of the heirs, her
full share, and 5000 too much, and
asked judgment against her for that
amount
Records were used in the several
citations until the entire crowd ap-
peared to be fully satisfied that Mr.
Watson had substantiated his claim
that the McCorkle matter was fully
cleared up, even to the extent of
citing the loss of the McCorkle home
in a bad mercantile venture by Mr.
McCorkle in which there was a fail
ure, concluding by saying that 'Mc-
Corkle did like the man he was and
paid his creditors dollar for dollar
but it left him without home"
The Watson of Today and Yesterday.
Mr.. Watson said the accusation
had been made that the Watson of
yesterday could be disputed by quot
ing the Watson Of today, and in this
connection he quoted from his writ
ten and published position of years
ago and brought it up to the present
time to show that he has not changed
in his views. He recited the first
founding of the Jeffersonian Maya
zine in New York, the manner in
which he was railroaded" out of
that, and the appeal that was made
by him to his party in 1901.
why, boys" he said, don't you
know that if I had been willing to
barter my principles for public Office
that there is not thing in the State
of Georgia I could have asked for
that I would not have gotten. There
is nothing in the gift of the Demo-
cratic party in this State that would
have been denied me-"
He said in 1898 he went with Jim
Hogan, who was a candidate for Gov
ernor, and made speeches to educate
the Populists. and did it with his
very soul; that no creed was ever
dearer to him; that he stood by Ho-
gan and the nominees of that ticket
and gave them his earnest support"
AS to Character.
He referred to his character being
assailed, and that recently, and said:
1T would be a tragedy for man
to struggle as long and as hard as
have and not have a character
"a few weeks ago I wrote to
Charlie Goodrich, of the Georgia
Railroad Bank, and told him I want
ed $4,000 and could give such Sc
curity as he might demand. He then
read letter from Mr.. Goodrich,
showing that the matter was left up
to Mr.. Watson to fix up his own Sc
curity. "And that is one of the finest
financial institutions in the South"