The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-06
1nE RAITIESBURG NEWS


that wrote the article had been dis
charged and that the depraved woman
would be shown up.
Story of BlackmaiI.
Mr.. Seely follows with affidavits
from the late Police Commissioners
Amos Fox, the late Police Chief A..
B. Connally, Police officer w. e.
Foute, Constable J. B. Langley and
Justice of the Peace R. S. Waters, all
stating that "the woman in the case"
was an abandoned woman, who had
boosted she had brought case to get
money and that it made no difference
how 1t was decided she would con-
tinue to talk until money was paid to
her. The charges were brought in
August, 1879, by one Francis Vande-
liver against Hoke Smith and were dis
missed by Justice Waters, who, under
oath in 1882 said he never had seen
such an outrageous effort to black
mail"
Roast For Watson.
Mr.. Seely concludes the publication
of the affidavits with this comment:
After reading this additional evil
dence of the villainy of Mr.. Watson,
it does not take great stretch of the
imagination to permit one to see that
sex is about the only difference be-
tween the woman who attempted to
assassinate character in 1882 and the
man who seems to be trying to live by
it in 1910; and if Thomas e. Watson
does not stand damned and branded
in the eyes of the decent people of
Georgia, it must be because those who
have read these proofs either believe
the Georgian is dishonest or that 1t
has been deceived and we assure you
| the latter is not the case. You can
Judge for yourself as to our honesty.
Snaps And Bites.
Continuing, Mr.. Seely adds:
Like a hydrophobic animal, though,
he is swapping and biting at nearly
everything nowadays, and immediate
ly he turns his fangs to The Geor-
gian and me.
His lies are so petty that they are
pitiful; but in order that the public
may know the extent of Mr.. Watson 8
condition, it is best that we go into
detail little.
In the first paragraph of the first
page of his first issue after The Geor-
CLANS statements, he launches into a
harangue about his having written me
letter from Congressman Living
ston.
In his letter, after making list Of
most unprintable statements about
Congressman Livingston, he said:
Wont you talk with Howard (Wil-
liam Schley) and let him lay his
proofs before you? They will amaze
you. OF course, they do not surprise
me, for know him of old"
| Calls For Evidence.
Mr.. Seely wrote Watson, saying he
would print any evidence Watson
would produce or that Howard had
Then Mr.. Seely adds:
| Mr.. Watson did not supply any evil
dence in response to this, but I saw
Mr. Howard, as requested, who
promptly said he did not have any
proof, and that he would not like to
run that kind of a campaign, even il
he had. So this may prove another
slight disappointment to Mr.. Watson:
but these are the facts, since he opens
the way for them.
Personal Letters.
Referring to Watson's charge thai
Seely had published a letter marked
personal" Seely calls his attention t.
a letter received by Watson a shor
time ago from A. NJ. Walker, of At
lanta, marked Private and Personal
and Strictly Confidential" which
Watson published in an attack on an
other mans character.
Calls Him Migrate.
Referring to Watsons slurs and tina
he (Seely) could not be seen say,